VoxHack v0.9.0 (alpha)

Also on itch.io: https://mreveryday.itch.io/voxhack

What's new in v0.9.0

• Levels fade in only once they're drawn. After stairs, a trap door or a level teleport the screen stays black until the level around you has arrived and been drawn, and it arrives much faster: usually a fraction of a second, with no holes when it fades in.
• Zapped wands fire at once. A ray you zap flies straight away even if you stand still (it used to hang until you moved), with a flash where it leaves your hand.
• Q uses your monster ability while you're polymorphed: breathe, spit, gaze, hide, spin a web, summon help... The left side of the screen says what it will do ("Q Breathe"). Without one, Q still invokes what you wield.
• Melee works while polymorphed. Every claw and bite of your form now lands where it should; before, often only the first attack (or none) happened. The second hit of two-weapon fighting and martial arts no longer goes missing either.
• The pause menu has the Achievements and NetHack Options buttons (moved from the inventory and the Options screen), and its buttons fit their labels.
• The big map shows which way you face: an arrow beside you turns as you do. Options > Map icons > "Where they are" draws you and the monsters at your exact positions instead of on the grid.
• The Astral Plane is just its rooms, without the rock around them.
• Fixed: "Program in disorder!" after a vault guard led you out.
• Achievements: the conducts are listed under Ascensions.

Your achievements are kept outside the game folder (in %APPDATA%\NetHackVoxel), so they carry over to new versions by themselves.

See CHANGELOG.md for everything since v0.1.0.

Install

1. Download VoxHack-v0.9.0-alpha-windows.zip below (Windows 10/11, 64-bit).
2. Unpack it anywhere (not inside Program Files).
3. Run Create Play Shortcut.bat, or Launchers\Play VoxHack.bat.

Updating from an earlier version: unpack the new zip into a new folder, then copy your game (engine\worlds\nethack) and your settings (engine\minetest.conf) over from the old one.

Controls

WASD + mouse to move and look · Left click: attack · Shift + left click: fire · Right click: act on what you point at (hold for a wheel; hold Shift, Ctrl, Alt or E for other wheel options) · 1-5: Fire, Kick, Zap, Spell, Eat · Space: wait (hold: jump) · F: pick up · X: search · I: inventory · Z: map · T: NetHack command line · Q: monster ability / invoke · F2: NetHackWiki · F3: NetHack's commands · Esc > Help: all the keys

Source

The full source is this repository, with the modified NetHack and Luanti as submodules (MrEveryDay98/NetHack and MrEveryDay98/luanti, branch nhv). VoxHack is based on NetHack and is not an official NetHack release; it's under the NetHack General Public License. SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) is Sebastian Macke's C port, which carries no licence (see CREDITS.md). Wiki pages shown in the game are from NetHackWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0. See CREDITS.md for every part and its licence.