I haven't been active in the past decade, but here's a small patch. Main

branch only.  This adds a check when setting a new fruit so that if no fruits
have been created since the last time the option has been set, the current
fruit is overwritten.  Result: the user cannot repeatedly set the fruit
option and overflow the maximum fruit number.

include/extern.h

@@ -1610,7 +1610,7 @@ E int NDECL(doset);
 E int NDECL(dotogglepickup);
 E void NDECL(option_help);
 E void FDECL(next_opt, (winid,const char *));
-E int FDECL(fruitadd, (char *));
+E int FDECL(fruitadd, (char *,struct fruit *));
 E int FDECL(choose_classes_menu, (const char *,int,BOOLEAN_P,char *,char *));
 E void FDECL(add_menu_cmd_alias, (CHAR_P, CHAR_P));
 E char FDECL(map_menu_cmd, (CHAR_P));

include/flag.h

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct flag {
 	char	 end_disclose[NUM_DISCLOSURE_OPTIONS + 1];  /* disclose various info
 								upon exit */
 	char	 menu_style;	/* User interface style setting */
+	boolean  made_fruit; /* don't easily let the user overflow the number of fruits */
 
 	/* KMH, role patch -- Variables used during startup.
 	 *