So TNNT 2019 has kicked off, and we’re almost done with day two as of this post. I get to wait until now to make this post because I lost power and internet to the house for almost 24 hours just a few hours after the tournament started. Of course :-) We’re all good now. Have fun everyone and good luck! Be sure to pop into #tnnt on freenode.net IRC if you have any issues, want to see real time livelogging of game events, or just to chat with other players. See ya there.

Well damn… made it to 19 years. Awesome :-) Happy 19th birthday Hardfought! It’ll be 20 years before we know it. Just crazy.

Other news – The November NetHack Tournament for 2019 is good to go and will kick off November 1st at midnight UTC. Be sure to visit the ‘Tournaments’ link under the NetHack menu for access to the TNNT page. New trophies and achievements this year, as well as some new custom content. Better scoring methods, less ‘scummable’ trophies, team limits, bug fixes, and so on. Public beta is currently open, so feel free to try out the new code, and please report any bugs you may find (we’ve found and fixed a few already).

Before I forget, and I should have posted about this a long time ago – JunetHack 2019 finished with player ‘Luxidream’ basically winning everything. Something like 40% of all ascensions were by him. Just… wow. Good going Luxidream!

Alright, that’s it for now. Will post again soon announcing the TNNT kick-off.

A special new variant post today, as this is my own variant. Been working on this since October 2018, finally felt it was ready for mass consumption two days ago. So many hours pouring over the code, testing things, tweaking, etc… I can’t count. EvilHack has been available for public play since Last month, but it was very much in the alpha stage. Fair amount of play-testing was done by the Hardfought NetHack community here, which helped immensely in finding and resolving bugs. A huge thanks to everyone who played and provided feedback.

Ok, so you’re interested in giving EvilHack a shot? Great! Understand going in that it was designed from the beginning to be difficult and challenging, significantly more so than vanilla NetHack. A bit more info regarding EvilHack can be found at this reddit post – https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/br2u6c/evilhack_official_release/ – and soon much more info will make its way to the NetHackWiki here – https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/EvilHack

If you give EvilHack a try, please feel free to let me know how it went, what you liked or didn’t like, etc. Have fun and good luck!

In other news: NetHack 3.6.2 was officially released less than two weeks ago. And the JunetHack 2019 variant tournament is fast approaching go time, sign-up starts on May 27th. EvilHack will be a part of this tournament this year. That’s all for now, will post again soon regarding JunetHack.