diff --git a/win/tty/wintty.c b/win/tty/wintty.c
index 32dc6b3c5..0ad6d2aa6 100644
--- a/win/tty/wintty.c
+++ b/win/tty/wintty.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6	wintty.c	$NHDT-Date: 1506908980 2017/10/02 01:49:40 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.140 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6	wintty.c	$NHDT-Date: 1520825319 2018/03/12 03:28:39 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.142 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) David Cohrs, 1991                                */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
 
@@ -2365,7 +2365,13 @@ register int x, y; /* not xchar: perhaps xchar is unsigned and
         }
         debugpline4("bad curs positioning win %d %s (%d,%d)", window, s, x,
                     y);
-        return;
+        /* This return statement caused a functional difference between DEBUG and
+           non-DEBUG operation, so it is being commented out. It caused tty_curs()
+           to fail to move the cursor to the location it needed to be if the x,y
+           range checks failed, leaving the next piece of output to be displayed
+           at whatever random location the cursor happened to be at prior. */
+
+        /* return; */
     }
 #endif
     x += cw->offx;