Public SSH service

Illithid

Illithid hosts the Floating Eye NetHack terminal service. Use nethack as the username and floatingeye.net as the public SSH hostname.

$ ssh nethack@floatingeye.net
Floating eye
Host floatingeye.net
Access SSH terminal
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Public service

Floating Eye NetHack SSH Service

dgamelaunch / SSH terminal

floatingeye.net

Public Floating Eye NetHack terminal login service, hosted on Illithid.

To play, open a terminal or SSH client and connect with ssh nethack@floatingeye.net. Some browsers do not know how to open SSH links, so use the command directly if the link does nothing.

NetHack

NetHack High Scores

Static record / September 12, 2026

Illithid high scores

All 93 entries retained by the production NetHack score file when the list was captured. This is a historical record, not a live leaderboard or a complete log of every game played.

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GitHub repositories

Service integration

Illithid

The service repository for coordinating dgamelaunch, game versions, releases, migration safety, and verification.

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C / branch: floatingeye

Floating Eye NetHack

The NetHack 3.7 source branch currently used by the public Floating Eye server.

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C / server infrastructure

dgamelaunch

The account, menu, game-launch, and session software behind the public SSH service.

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GitHub organization

Floating Eye Software

The GitHub organization for Illithid and other public Floating Eye Software repositories.

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