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You can find [[The Wiki Rule|the main wiki]] [https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page here]; the old Usenet group (which is now a part of Google Groups) is located [https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.roguelike.nethack here] for your perusal, with a mirror located at [https://bilious.alt.org/rgrn/ the NetHack Patch Database] on bilious.alt.org. A dedicated NetHack [[Reddit]] can be found [https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/ here], and [[IRC]] chatrooms for discussing the game itself can be found on Libera.chat at #nethack and #hardfought. A scoreboard for tracking playthroughs can be found [https://nethackscoreboard.org/ here] on its own dedicated site.
Naturally, the NetHack General Public License means that there are multiple [[:Category:NetHack variants|variants]] (the community term for [[Game Mod|forks and mods]]) of the game, each with their own relatively unique flavoring, such as [[SLASH'EM]]
As stated above (and quoted by Christopher Wellons in [https://nullprogram.com/blog/2008/09/17/ his blog post "Play NetHack"] on nullprogram.com), NetHack's rather archaic graphics belie the amount of gameplay depth it truly holds. That said, if ASCII intimidates you or you have a different preference, you can always try [https://web.archive.org/web/20100912021936/http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture Vulture], an isometric GUI that more or less takes the original and spits out detailed graphics, sounds, and all around allows for an easier experience when learning how to play. The official site is down, but [https://github.com/dembobbys/vultures there] [https://github.com/HackTechDev/Vulture4Nethack are] [https://github.com/DanielT/Vulture forks]; Vulture has builds for vanilla NetHack, SLASH'EM and UnNethack. Additionally, the NetHack Wiki has a list of other [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Tileset alternate graphical tilesets].
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