Hacking Hacknet (Tips and Tricks)

Here are some tips and tricks for your hacknet experience. This guide will only invoke ingame mechanics.

Scp & rm are mv on steroids

In hacknet, you have the ingame command mv, in fact mv is better named rename, why because it can only rename files, it cannot move them to another folder

scp is made to copy files from a distant server to the local one, it copy the file in the correct folder by default, but it can do more.

Firstly you can connect to your own node so it's easier to do local copy since your remote server is your local server.

You would mainly use scp like that :

/sys/> scp x-server.sys

Here it copies the x-server.sys to your /sys folder, because hacknet know that this file goes here.

You can specify a folder to have your file copied in this one instead of the default one

/sys/> scp x-server.sys /home/misc

You can also specify a new name for the default target folder

/home/misc/> scp Teal.sys x-server.sys

Or even specifying the complete path

/sys/> scp x-server.sys /home/misc/Teal.sys

When copying, if a file with the same name exist, it will get a numerical indice. So if you simply want to switch themes manually, you need to remove the file before copying :

/> cd /sys
/sys/> rm x-server.sys
/sys/> cd /home/misc
/home/misc/> scp Teal.sys x-server.sys
/home/misc/> reboot -i

Changing themes is a configuration, not an os upgrade

I know there is a tool that permit to update themes on the fly, but if you wnat to change theme early in the game, then you should take in consideration that your environement is reconfigured when you reconfigure it. NO need to reboot it each time.

So do your modifications and go in the options panel, then apply the configuration.

Sorting files

Sorting files is really easy, in fact you only need to move a file to it's current location and it goes down in the list.

/home/misc/> mv Teal.sys Teal.sys

Creating and editing files

Firstly one thing you need is to create a file. The easier way is to have a file that have strictly the number of lines you need or less. then copy it and replace it's content.

An easier way is to force hacknet to create an empty file then to add content inside.

/home/> mv Notes.txt Backup.txt
/home/> addNote
/home/> mv Notes.txt Themes.txt
/home/> mv Backup.txt Notes.txt
/home/> append Themes.txt "== Introduction"

One thing to know is that addNote don"t permit to add new lines by default, so an easy way is to append lines to your Notes.txt. having multiple notes takes more space and ram that new lines.

[PandorasMask]

awwwww :/
But thanks ^^ Maybe I'll try it sometimes

[Thaui]

To create directories, you need to manipulate save files

[PandorasMask]

Is it possible to create directories in Hacknet? Like with mkdir or something like that?

[Trobby]

But to make sure that it won't rename it to .. or misc.

[Thaui]

In that way the leading slash is not needed, it's a shame hacknet don't support diferendiation between absolute ans relative paths.

[Trobby]

Maybe your copy of hacknet is not functioning at all. Go in the directory of sys and execute it again.

[Trobby]

mv cannot move stuff?
think again idiot
mv x-server.sys /../home/misc/