Also fix a case hidden by a comment.
Fixes:
$ nroff -ww -z -man doc/*.[67]
troff:doc/nethack.6:68: warning: escape character ignored before '@'
troff:doc/nethack.6:292: warning: escape character ignored before '@'
This feature was no longer fulfilling its intended purpose: the
issue is that when players are aware of it, instead of creating
interesting stories, it becomes a resource the player can rely on.
Alternative mitigation for some "unfair" early-game deaths has been
added (such as the warning shot for early-game attack wands and the
ability of iron shoes to protect against certain early traps), and
the warning shot in particular can create interesting gameplay
moments and stories of its own, especially when saving grace is
*not* present (discovering that a monster has a wand of fire and
can oneshot you is an interesting emergency situation, but less
scary if you know that its first attempt to oneshot you will fail).
The feature was also proving quite hard to code correctly, because
there are numerous cases that it "obviously" shouldn't affect
(most notably beheading due to Vorpal Blade, but also things like
purple worm digestion) which would need to be special-cased, and
because there are grey areas like wand zap bounces (which might or
might not be an intentional attempt by the player to hit themself
with the bounce) and damage from traps. Removing it saves the need
to work out, for every new damage source, whether and when saving
grace should interact with it.
Breaks save compatibility.
Version and history commands. Plus a quarter-assed description of the
versinfo option. ('mO' can update and possibly provide enough into to
make sense of it.)
\#history was already revised but the new description was inaccurate.
Guidebook.tex is untested.
In earlier versions of NetHack, wands of digging generated fairly
often, allowing players to do a large amount of digging through the
maze walls in Gehennom and giving them a chance of an early escape
item.
In the current version, the need for both of these things has been
reduced: supply chests give a supply of early escape items
(including wands of digging), and Gehennom is no longer mostly made
of mazes with diggable walls. As such, there is no longer a reason
to generate wands of digging in such large numbers, even though it
was correct in the past.
This commit modifies some of the generation probabilities for wands
of digging in order to make them less abundant, in order to work
better with the code changes since the previous version.
Dungeoneers list updates
Ingo Paschke provided Amiga updates to get the port working
for the release to follow 3.6.7. He used the gcc-15.2 branch
of bebbo's Amiga toolchain on Linux.
G. Branden Robinson contributed several updates and suggestions to
help ensure that the *roff documentation production remains viable.
Issue reported by BartekCupial: segfault occurred and was tracked to
behavior of a rolling boulder trap. Suggested fix was included, but it
assumes that the destination spot is valid so is suspect.
A comment pointed out that the path is validated when a rolling boulder
trap is created so the segfault should be impossible. I didn't find an
explanation but am adding a fix based on the one in the issue report.
Closes#1490
G. Branden Robinson