Hitting a monster with a wielded potion of paralysis or sleep
was practically useless, because it almost always also hit you.
Negate the chance and make it depend on your dex.
Add a #saveoptions extended command, to allow saving configuration
settings from within the game. This is still highly experimental,
and gives plenty of warnings before asking to overwrite the file.
Lack of option saving is one of the biggest complaints new players
have, so this should help with it. More experienced players with
highly customized config file should not use this feature, as it
completely rewrites the file, removing all comments and non-config
lines.
Make the default options menu only show the most important
options, split into categories. The full, traditional menu
can be accessed by using the m-prefix.
Make potions of healing and extra healing more useful in the early
game, by upping the average amount of health restored.
Make amulet of life saving restore between 60 and 170 health,
depending on constitution. Previously life saving was the best way
to heal back up to full, even if you had thousands of hp.
Fix a case where a monster knocked back another monster into a trap,
and the trap either killed or migrated the monster, then the actual
damage dealing later could try to detach the already detached monster.
If the monster migrated, the monster is gone before the damage from
the hit is dealt to the monster.
Demon lords and princes have a chance to resist the effect.
Demons in quest when nemesis is alive have a very high chance
of resisting.
When invoked in Gehennom, teleports the demons within the same
level.
Add macros to convert AD_foo, WAN_foo, and SPE_foo to relative values
for passing to BZ_U_foo and BZ_M_foo macros.
Change some return values in monster spellcasting function from
magic numbers to MM_MISS or MM_HIT.
Make buzzmu consider hero resistances - previously the
monster with innate zapping ray (Angels and Asmodeus) would
just keep doing that attack, but they will now just curse if
it saw the hero resist the attack.
When a monster at least two sizes larger hits another one,
there's a chance the smaller defender will be knocked back.
This applies also to hero, attacking when polymorphed to
a large monster, or defending from a large monster.
Most of the monsters that can knock back are giants and dragons.
Idea and some of the code from EvilHack.
... unless there's some other form that would override the choice,
such as a worn dragon armor, lycanthropy, or vampirism.
The polymorph will be in effect for 10-24 turns.
Long swords are overused, and Knights already start with a long sword.
No other roles start with a spear. Lawful Valks shouldn't have an easy
way to get Excalibur.
There's also historical precedence for valkyries with spears, see eg.
Wagner's Ring Cycle.
This makes Valks early game damage slightly lower, although dwarven spear
does the same damage to small monsters as long sword, and there should be
plenty of chances to get one from the mines. Spears can also be thrown.
This change has been done in several variants, eg. xNetHack and Fourk.
My changes were too drastic, so reduce the drain and damage so it
matches all the other traps. Now the anti-magic trap will always
ding your max energy a bit, in addition to the physical damage done
if wearing magic resistance.
Make the trap routine claim the trap killed the monster even
though it was drowning that did it, otherwise callers cannot
rely on the trap routine return value.
When a monster with innate teleporting stepped on a fire trap on ice,
the ice melted and the monster teleported away before falling
into the pool. If the monster's new location had a trap, the code
tried to access the deleted fire trap.
Add some basic functions to iterate through the monster list,
ignoring dead monsters. Mainly just to allow splitting up code
into discrete functions.
Not quite happy with the get_iter_mons_xy - should probably have
a pointer to iterator data struct, which gets passed through instead,
but this works for now.
When you're swallowed and throw a missile that kills the swallower,
the thrown missile is picked up by the swallower before death.
This caused a panic when you threw a potion, which was first picked up
by the swallower, which upon death dropped the potion on the floor,
but then throw code was trying to destroy the potion ...
Instead of hardcoding the lava terrain change in core, if the stairs
are created in a fixed location, force the terrain to room floor first.
Move the surrounding lava changing to room floor to the Val-goal lua
file.
While testing the new mouse action menus, it was quite annoying
to try and hit some shorter entries. Make all the selectable entries
the same maximum length, and with text left justified.
Allow selecting an item from inventory and show a menu of actions
applicable for that particular item. Some of the entries might
be slightly spoilerish (eg. it'll reveal that you can read T-shirts),
but the improved usability for new players is more than worth it.
Generally known as "item actions", this was first implemented
in AceHack by Alex Smith.
My fixes to the travel stuck oscillation did not fix all of them,
and I've even seen a 3-step loop - which my fixes cannot detect.
I guess there could be arbitrary-sized loops too.
To definitely fix this, keep track of all the map locations travel
has moved the hero through, and if it tries to go on a location already
used, stop travel and give the unsure -message.
Pasi Kallinen