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Shroedinger's dead cat

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Give experience to the hero if opening Shroedinger's Box reveals a cat
corpse rather than releasing a live cat.

It feels a bit odd to assess a bonus rather than a penalty.
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2026-03-12 13:12:42 -07:00
parent 7cff1696b7
commit c30eea477d
2 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions
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doc/fixes3-7-0.txt
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@@ -1581,6 +1581,7 @@ the "bustling town" minetown has more peacefuls
healers may get tiny damage increase when attacking with knives
allow rogues to also backstab sleeping or paralyzed monsters
rogues cannot backstab monsters that have no backside
give experience if opening Schroedinger's Box causes death of the cat inside
Fixes to 3.7.0-x General Problems Exposed Via git Repository

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src/pickup.c
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* NetHack 3.7 pickup.c $NHDT-Date: 1720074481 2024/07/04 06:28:01 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.374 $ */
/* NetHack 3.7 pickup.c $NHDT-Date: 1773373633 2026/03/12 19:47:13 $ $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.7 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.386 $ */
/* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
/*-Copyright (c) Robert Patrick Rankin, 2012. */
/* NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. */
@@ -2860,6 +2860,9 @@ observe_quantum_cat(struct obj *box, boolean makecat, boolean givemsg)
}
} else {
box->spe = 0; /* now an ordinary box (with a cat corpse inside) */
if (givemsg)
pline_The("%s inside the box is dead!",
Hallucination ? rndmonnam((char *) 0) : "housecat");
if (deadcat) {
/* set_corpsenm() will start the rot timer that was removed
when makemon() created SchroedingersBox; start it from
@@ -2867,10 +2870,14 @@ observe_quantum_cat(struct obj *box, boolean makecat, boolean givemsg)
deadcat->age = svm.moves;
set_corpsenm(deadcat, PM_HOUSECAT);
deadcat = oname(deadcat, sc, ONAME_NO_FLAGS);
if (!svc.context.mon_moving) {
/* give experience points for the death of the cat since
that has been finalized by the hero opening the box */
more_experienced(20, 10); /* 20:current exp; 10:score bonus */
newexplevel();
}
}
if (givemsg)
pline_The("%s inside the box is dead!",
Hallucination ? rndmonnam((char *) 0) : "housecat");
}
nhUse(deadcat);
return;