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First NetHack Ascension by an LLM

An LLM-driven agent named CodexDelver completed the first known ascension of NetHack, finishing the game on 2026-09-21 at 16:04:42 after starting on 2026-09-09 at 10:27:04, according to the posted game log. The character, a lawful female dwarven Valkyrie, ran on Unix NetHack version 3.6.7-1, last built Sat May 23 11:43:56 2026 on the hardfought branch. The run marks a milestone for AI agents playing long-horizon, complex video games.

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Unix NetHack Version 3.6.7-1 post-release - last build Sat May 23 11:43:56 2026 (8b4a575d7e9df6eacf187bfed899886b4b79e5f6,branch:hardfought).

Game began 2026-09-09 10:27:04, ended 2026-09-21 16:04:42.

CodexDelver, lawful female dwarven Valkyrie

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  [CodexDelver the Swashbuckler  ] St:18/10 Dx:17 Co:20 In:11 Wi:16 Ch:12 Lawful S:859373      
  Astral Plane $:0 HP:35(200) Pw:42(42) AC:-9 Xp:19/2575582 T:37140

Latest messages: #

The high priestess intones:

"Pilgrim, you enter a sacred place!"

Maud the Lama drinks a potion of gain level!

Maud the Lama seems more experienced.

Maud the Lama turns to flee.

Maud the Lama drinks a potion of invisibility!

Maud the Lama's body takes on a strange transparency.

The Angel of Loki zaps you with a magic missile!

The magic missile whizzes by you!

"Verily, thy corpse could not smell worse!"

You hear a chugging sound.

Maud the invisible Lama wields an axe!

The axe welds itself to Maud the invisible Lama's hand!

You hear a chugging sound.

You hear some noises in the distance.

The Angel of Odin zaps a wand of striking!

Boing!

The wand misses Maud the invisible Lama.

The Angel of Loki zaps you with a magic missile!

The magic missile misses Maud the invisible Lama.

The magic missile whizzes by you!

The magic missile hits the high priestess of Tyr!

What do you want to remove? [uCQ or ?*]

You were wearing an uncursed ring of levitation (on left hand).

You float gently to the floor.

The renegade Angel of Tyr zaps you with a magic missile!

The magic missile hits the Angel of Loki.

The magic missile hits you!

The missiles bounce off!

The magic missile hits the high priestess of Tyr!

The nurse turns to flee.

The renegade Angel of Tyr zaps you with a magic missile!

The magic missile misses the Angel of Loki.

The magic missile hits you!

The missiles bounce off!

The magic missile bounces!

There is a high altar to Tyr (lawful) here.

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What do you want to sacrifice? [P or ?*]

You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Tyr...

An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance...

The voice of Tyr rings out: "Mortal, thou hast done well!"

"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!"

You ascend to the status of Demigoddess...

Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] (y)

Do you want to see your attributes? [ynq] (y)

Do you want an account of creatures vanquished? [ynaq] (y)

Do you want a list of species genocided and extinct? [ynq] (y)

Do you want to see your conduct? [ynq] (y)

Do you want to see the dungeon overview? [ynq] (y)

Inventory: #

Amulets ('"')

E - an uncursed amulet of life saving

Q - an uncursed amulet of life saving (being worn)

X - an uncursed amulet of reflection

Weapons (')')

a - the blessed rustproof +6 Excalibur (weapon in hand)

Armor ('[')

r - an uncursed thoroughly burnt +0 elven leather helm (being worn)

J - a blessed thoroughly burnt +3 pair of leather gloves (being worn)

y - a blessed fireproof +0 pair of speed boots (being worn)

c - an uncursed thoroughly burnt +3 small shield (being worn)

z - an uncursed thoroughly burnt +0 cloak of displacement (being worn)

l - an uncursed +0 Hawaiian shirt (being worn)

o - a blessed +3 gray dragon scale mail (being worn)

Comestibles ('%')

v - an uncursed C-ration

F - a cursed lizard corpse

Scrolls ('?')

G - an uncursed scroll of mail

Rings ('=')

x - an uncursed ring of conflict

C - an uncursed ring of free action (on right hand)

u - an uncursed ring of levitation

Wands ('/')

m - an uncursed wand of cancellation (0:1)

H - an uncursed wand of death (1:4)

h - an uncursed wand of death (1:0)

L - an uncursed wand of death (0:0)

j - an uncursed wand of digging (0:0)

n - an uncursed wand of digging (0:0)

M - an uncursed wand of digging (0:0)

N - an uncursed wand of fire (0:1)

d - an uncursed wand of lightning (0:7)

b - an uncursed wand of secret door detection (0:0)

S - an uncursed wand of teleportation (0:3)

s - an uncursed wand of teleportation (0:0)

A - an uncursed wand of teleportation (0:0)

Tools ('(')

p - a blessed bag of holding containing 56 items

q - an uncursed blindfold

U - a blessed oil lamp (lit)

w - the blessed Orb of Fate (2:4)

B - a cursed +0 pick-axe

D - an uncursed skeleton key

R - an uncursed stethoscope

T - a blessed +0 unicorn horn

Gems/Stones ('*')

Z - an uncursed luckstone

Contents of the bag of holding:

  • 1026 gold pieces
  • an uncursed amulet versus poison
  • the uncursed +4 Grayswandir
  • an uncursed +0 mummy wrapping
  • an uncursed candy bar
  • 2 uncursed fortune cookies
  • 2 uncursed pancakes
  • 2 uncursed lichen corpses
  • an uncursed lizard corpse
  • 2 uncursed scrolls of blank paper
  • an uncursed scroll of blank paper
  • an uncursed scroll of earth
  • an uncursed scroll of fire
  • an uncursed scroll of taming
  • an uncursed scroll of teleportation
  • an uncursed potion of gain level
  • an uncursed ring of aggravate monster
  • an uncursed ring of polymorph
  • an uncursed ring of polymorph control
  • an uncursed ring of stealth
  • an uncursed ring of teleport control
  • an uncursed wand of cold (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of cold (0:0)
  • a cursed wand of cold (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of create monster (0:13)
  • an uncursed wand of death (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of digging (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of digging (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of fire (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of light (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of light (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of light (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of lightning (0:2)
  • an uncursed wand of locking (0:4)
  • an uncursed wand of magic missile (0:6)
  • an uncursed wand of magic missile (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of make invisible (0:5)
  • an uncursed wand of sleep (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of sleep (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of sleep (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of speed monster (0:1)
  • an uncursed wand of striking (0:7)
  • an uncursed wand of striking (0:5)
  • an uncursed wand of striking (0:0)
  • an uncursed wand of teleportation (0:0)
  • an uncursed sack containing 9 items
  • an uncursed magic harp (0:8)
  • a blessed magic marker (1:3)
  • a blessed magic marker (1:1)
  • a blessed oil lamp
  • an uncursed oil lamp
  • an uncursed tin whistle
  • an uncursed amber stone
  • 4 uncursed aquamarine stones
  • an uncursed garnet stone
  • an uncursed jasper stone

Contents of the sack:

  • 1727 gold pieces
  • an uncursed amulet of ESP
  • an uncursed scroll of amnesia
  • an uncursed scroll of create monster
  • an uncursed potion of blindness
  • 2 uncursed potions of object detection
  • a blessed potion of restore ability
  • an uncursed ring of conflict
  • an uncursed ring of teleport control

CodexDelver the Valkyrie's attributes: #

Background:

  • You were a Swashbuckler, a level 19 dwarven Valkyrie.
  • You were lawful, on a mission for Tyr
  • who was opposed by Odin (neutral) and Loki (chaotic).
  • You were in the endgame, on the Astral Plane.
  • You entered the dungeon 37140 turns ago.
  • You had 2575582 experience points, 2544418 more were needed for level 20.
  • Your score was 859373 before end-of-game adjustments.

Basics:

  • You had 35 out of 200 hit points.
  • You had all 42 energy points (spell power).
  • Your armor class was -9.
  • Your wallet was empty.
  • Autopickup was off.

Final Characteristics:

  • Your strength was 18/10 (limit:18/100).
  • Your dexterity was 17 (limit:20).
  • Your constitution was 20 (limit:20).
  • Your intelligence was 11 (limit:16).
  • Your wisdom was 16 (limit:16).
  • Your charisma was 12 (limit:16).

Final Status:

  • You were unencumbered.
  • You were wielding a long sword.
  • You had expert skill with long sword.

Final Attributes:

  • You were the Hand of Elbereth.
  • You were piously aligned.
  • You were magic-protected.
  • You were fire resistant.
  • You were cold resistant.
  • You were sleep resistant.
  • You were disintegration-resistant.
  • You were shock resistant.
  • You were poison resistant.
  • You were level-drain resistant.
  • You saw invisible.
  • You were telepathic.
  • You were warned.
  • You had automatic searching.
  • You had infravision.
  • You were invisible to others.
  • You were displaced.
  • You were stealthy.
  • You were warded.
  • You took half physical damage.
  • You took half spell damage.
  • You were very fast.
  • You had free action.
  • Your life would have been saved.
  • You were extremely lucky.
  • You had extra luck.
  • Good luck did not time out for you.
  • You survived.

Vanquished creatures: #

  • Asmodeus
    
  • Geryon
    
  • Orcus
    
  • Yeenoghu
    
  • Juiblex
    
  • the Wizard of Yendor (7 times)
  • Pestilence
    
  • Vlad the Impaler
    
  • an arch-lich
  • a high priest
  • a mastodon
  • Medusa
    
  • 4 krakens
  • 5 iron golems
  • 3 storm giants
  • a glass golem
  • 5 purple worms
  • 2 silver dragons
  • 4 red dragons
  • 5 white dragons
  • an orange dragon
  • a black dragon
  • 2 blue dragons
  • 4 green dragons
  • a yellow dragon
  • 11 minotaurs
  • a jabberwock
  • Lord Surtur
    
  • 7 baluchitheria
  • 2 Angels
  • 5 stone golems
  • an Olog-hai
  • 2 Nazgul
  • 7 pit fiends
  • a sandestin
  • 5 hell hounds
  • 5 titanotheres
  • 2 trappers
  • a disenchanter
  • 25 vampire lords
  • 2 skeletons
  • 11 aligned priests
  • a captain
  • 4 shades
  • 2 liches
  • 2 clay golems
  • 6 nurses
  • 4 ice devils
  • 3 nalfeshnees
  • a frost giant
  • 4 ettins
  • a golden naga
  • 15 vampires
  • 9 lieutenants
  • 21 ghosts
  • a winged gargoyle
  • a mind flayer
  • 3 giant mimics
  • 6 long worms
  • 5 zruties
  • 28 fire giants
  • 6 ogre kings
  • 3 ice trolls
  • 4 rock trolls
  • 8 umber hulks
  • 8 flesh golems
  • 3 Elvenkings
  • 2 doppelgangers
  • 2 hezrous
  • 5 bone devils
  • 5 large mimics
  • a wumpus
  • 6 fire vortices
  • 13 stalkers
  • 4 air elementals
  • 9 fire elementals
  • 10 earth elementals
  • 5 water elementals
  • 12 hill giants
  • a black naga
  • 7 xorns
  • 10 giant zombies
  • 14 elf-lords
  • 8 sergeants
  • 4 barbed devils
  • 11 vrocks
  • 9 salamanders
  • 17 wargs
  • 2 winter wolves
  • 4 hell hound pups
  • 7 small mimics
  • 2 glass piercers
  • 7 warhorses
  • 7 steam vortices
  • 5 xans
  • 6 ettin mummies
  • 3 ogre lords
  • 5 quantum mechanics
  • 8 trolls
  • a sasquatch
  • 5 wood golems
  • 2 erinyes
  • 4 mariliths
  • 5 sharks
  • an electric eel
  • 8 gelatinous cubes
  • 6 pyrolisks
  • 4 large dogs
  • 2 freezing spheres
  • 2 flaming spheres
  • 8 shocking spheres
  • 3 large cats
  • 5 tigers
  • 3 gargoyles
  • 2 dwarf kings
  • 6 ochre jellies
  • 5 leocrottas
  • 4 energy vortices
  • a mountain centaur
  • a stone giant
  • 4 elf mummies
  • a human mummy
  • 3 red nagas
  • a green slime
  • a python
  • 10 pit vipers
  • 5 cobras
  • 32 wraiths
  • 6 carnivorous apes
  • 13 ettin zombies
  • 3 leather golems
  • 11 Grey-elves
  • 46 soldiers
  • 2 watchmen
  • 2 succubi
  • 4 horned devils
  • an incubus
  • 5 chameleons
  • 18 giant beetles
  • 4 quivering blobs
  • 11 cockatrices
  • 15 wolves
  • 6 winter wolf cubs
  • a lynx
  • 4 panthers
  • 6 gremlins
  • 12 leprechauns
  • 2 iron piercers
  • 4 mumakil
  • 16 giant spiders
  • 4 scorpions
  • 5 horses
  • 2 ice vortices
  • 2 black lights
  • 6 vampire bats
  • 3 forest centaurs
  • 4 orc mummies
  • 2 dwarf mummies
  • 8 ogres
  • 4 brown puddings
  • 9 rust monsters
  • 9 owlbears
  • 5 yetis
  • 4 gold golems
  • a werewolf
  • 12 Green-elves
  • 3 piranha
  • 12 giant eels
  • 11 lizards
  • 7 chickatrices
  • a dingo
  • a dog
  • 5 jaguars
  • 3 blue jellies
  • a gray unicorn
  • 2 black unicorns
  • 6 dust vortices
  • 34 ravens
  • 4 plains centaurs
  • 2 gnome mummies
  • 5 snakes
  • 6 water moccasins
  • 6 apes
  • 17 human zombies
  • 2 rope golems
  • 7 Woodland-elves
  • 12 soldier ants
  • 45 fire ants
  • 4 bugbears
  • 2 imps
  • a quasit
  • 5 wood nymphs
  • 6 water nymphs
  • 5 mountain nymphs
  • 20 Mordor orcs
  • an Uruk-hai
  • 2 orc shamans
  • 3 rock piercers
  • 6 rock moles
  • 4 ponies
  • 2 fog clouds
  • 10 yellow lights
  • 5 violet fungi
  • 7 gnome lords
  • a kobold mummy
  • a red naga hatchling
  • a golden naga hatchling
  • a guardian naga hatchling
  • 4 gray oozes
  • a barrow wight
  • 14 elf zombies
  • 11 ghouls
  • 2 straw golems
  • a paper golem
  • 2 jellyfish
  • 2 baby crocodiles
  • 19 giant ants
  • 9 floating eyes
  • 3 kittens
  • 4 dwarves
  • 6 homunculi
  • 5 kobold lords
  • a kobold shaman
  • 17 hill orcs
  • 3 rothes
  • 3 rabid rats
  • 2 centipedes
  • a giant bat
  • a monkey
  • 10 orc zombies
  • 6 dwarf zombies
  • 2 werejackals
  • 7 iguanas
  • 25 killer bees
  • 2 acid blobs
  • 6 coyotes
  • 4 gas spores
  • 5 hobbits
  • 15 manes
  • a large kobold
  • 2 hobgoblins
  • 8 giant rats
  • a cave spider
  • 2 yellow molds
  • 23 gnomes
  • 7 garter snakes
  • 7 gnome zombies
  • 6 geckos
  • 2 jackals
  • 2 foxes
  • 4 kobolds
  • 4 goblins
  • 3 grid bugs
  • 2 bats
  • 4 lichens
  • 10 kobold zombies
  • 9 newts
1481 creatures vanquished.

Genocided or extinct species:

  • liches
  • demiliches
  • master liches
  • arch-liches
  • erinyes (extinct)
4 species genocided.1 species extinct.

Voluntary challenges: #

  • You read items or engraved 75 times.
  • You engraved Elbereth 21 times.
  • You genocided 4 types of monsters.
  • You never polymorphed an object.
  • You used 8 wishes.
  • You did not wish for any artifacts.

The Elemental Planes:

   Astral Plane: <- You are here.      A temple.   Plane of Water:   Plane of Fire:   Plane of Air:   Plane of Earth:

The Dungeons of Doom: levels 1 to 28

   Level 1:      One way stairs up to The Elemental Planes.   Level 2:      A grave.   Level 3:      A general store, a fountain.      Stairs down to The Gnomish Mines.   Level 4:      A general store.   Level 5:      A fountain.   Level 6:   Level 7:      Final resting place for         Jamiro-Val-Hum-Fem-Law, killed by a giant spider.   Level 8:      A general store, a fountain.   Level 9:      Oracle of Delphi.   Level 10:      Stairs up to Sokoban, level 9.   Level 11:      A fountain.   Level 12:      An armor shop, a sink.   Level 13:      A fountain.   Level 14:      An altar to Tyr.   Level 15:      Portal to The Quest.   Level 16:      Some fountains.   Level 17:      A fountain.      Final resting place for         114514-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law, killed by a death ray, while helpless.   Level 18:      A primitive area.   Level 19:      Some fountains, a grave.   Level 20:      A fountain.   Level 21:      A sink.   Level 22:   Level 23:      Final resting place for         deathdruid-Arc-Dwa-Mal-Law, fell into a pit of iron spikes.   Level 24:   Level 25:      A fountain.   Level 26:      A fountain.   Level 27:      Many trees.   Level 28:      A throne, a fountain.      The castle (play notes "CBADD" to open or close drawbridge).      Connection to Gehennom.

Gehennom: levels 29 to 52

   Level 29:      A temple, many graves.      Valley of the Dead.   Level 30:   Level 31:   Level 32:   Level 33:   Level 34:      A fountain.   Level 35:   Level 36:   Level 37:   Level 38:   Level 39:   Level 40:      An altar.   Level 41:      Stairs up to Vlad's Tower, level 40.   Level 42:   Level 43:   Level 44:      A grave.      Final resting place for         Jamiro-Val-Hum-Fem-Law, killed by a touch of death.   Level 45:   Level 46:   Level 47:   Level 48:   Level 49:   Level 50:   Level 51:   Level 52:      A temple, many graves.      Moloch's Sanctum.

The Gnomish Mines: levels 4 to 12

   Level 4:   Level 5:   Level 6:      Many shops, a temple, some fountains, some trees.   Level 7:   Level 8:   Level 9:   Level 10:   Level 11:   Level 12:

The Quest: levels 1 to 5

   Level 1:      A fountain.      Completed quest for the Norn.   Level 2:   Level 3:   Level 4:   Level 5:

Sokoban: levels 9 up to 6

   Level 6:      Solved.   Level 7:      Solved.   Level 8:      Solved.   Level 9:      Solved.

Vlad's Tower: levels 40 up to 38

   Level 38:      A throne.   Level 39:   Level 40:

Farvel CodexDelver the Demigoddess...

You went to your reward with 1766446 points,

Excalibur (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)

Grayswandir (worth 8000 zorkmids and 20000 points)

The Orb of Fate (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)

   4 aquamarine stones (worth 6000 zorkmids),

   1 amber stone (worth 1000 zorkmids),

   1 garnet stone (worth 700 zorkmids),

   1 jasper stone (worth 500 zorkmids),

   2 amulets of life saving (worth 300 zorkmids),

   1 amulet of ESP (worth 150 zorkmids),

   1 amulet versus poison (worth 150 zorkmids),

   1 amulet of reflection (worth 150 zorkmids),

and 2753 pieces of gold, after 37140 moves.

You were level 19 with a maximum of 200 hit points when you ascended.

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