Vulture for NetHack news & patch notes

Finally! A long time coming ...

NetHack 3.6.6

The underlying game engine, for NetHack, has been updated to the most recent version of NetHack bringing Vulture back up to date with the most recent underlying NetHack game engine. NetHack 3.4.3 has been left playable, if there are those of you that prefer the older engine, and of course if you have the Slash'EM DLC then Slash'EM 0.0.7E7F2 is there as well. All engines, including the newer NetHack 3.6.6 will benefit from several updates to Vulture itself mainly around stability with all known causes of crashes now (hopefully) removed and a thing of the past. Important notes: In order to make this project easier to maintain in the future, a few file structures have been altered and moved around. If you want to continue playing NetHack 3.4.3 or Slash'EM 0.0.7E7F2 games with your existing bones and/or savegames you will need to move those bones and savegame files into the new location under "Variants" within the Vulture for NetHack game installation folder. Also, if you have some saves or bones files from the previous NetHack 3.6.0 beta these should, for the most part, be compatible with NetHack 3.6.6 and there's a good chance you could continue where you left off.

NetHack 3.6.0 is now available to play. Also, there are some changes to NetHack 3.4.3 as well as Slash'EM - most significant being the change of the way the map looks (when pressing TAB) and the complete removal of the intro video which was far too loud for most people and annoying to watch each time you start a new game. Please note regarding NetHack 3.6.0: This is still a BETA and there might still be issues we did not detect during testing. If you find any issues at all, with NetHack 3.6.0, please let us know on the NetHack 3.6.0 Forum Thread so we can try resolve as fast as possible. Enjoy playing and Happy Holidays to everyone!