I have recently started playing Nethack (ie. an hour ago) and I know just about nothing more than Elbereth and commands. I have looked everywhere for the command to go down stairs to the next level but all I find is >
and when I press that I am told
There is a staircase down here.
This is not much help. It's not that I can't find the stairways, (I know about secret passages), I just can't get down them!
Best Answer
The right command to go down stairs is
>
, normally accessed as Shift+..However, in your case the keyboard layout Nethack is using does not currently correspond to what you actually see on your keyboard. You will need to adjust the layout using the options stored in
defaults.nh
or specifically on the command line.My version of
defaults.nh
has a number of keyboard handling options: