This adds <Someone>'s lens patch.
This is probably it for me adding in any more user-contributed patches for
3.3.2 (except maybe coin flipping; does anyone object to it?)
--Ken A.
Testing the Astral Plane showed that the summon insects spell was a little
ridiculous with the new monster spellcasting routines. You can easily
have enough priests within range of you that insects are summoned almost every
round. I've made this saner by halving the frequency of the spell. The player
will still probably encounter summoned insects a lot more than before.
Reported to the list 1/5/2001 by <Someone>.
I put stop_occupation calls in all the gaze cases where they were needed.
You might still die, but you'll only get attacked once before you stop waiting.
Patch from <Someone> to the list on 10/01/2001. The changes cause riding a steed
into water to result in a dismount, and, if the steed can't survive in
water, the death of the steed, with the usual pet-death penalties.
This adds the BUC-patch, except that it includes four separate choices for
blessed/cursed/uncursed/unknown. The patch only applies to full menu styles.
--Ken A
(Incidentally, I have a suggestion: when deciding what's the first line for
purposes of mailing out messages, use the first nonblank line...)
to make that field unconditional, otherwise
NetHack won't compile without TEXTCOLOR defined.
Also provides at least an interim solution for the has_color()
problem that Warwick pointed out.
Lastly, Archeologists know touchstones.
Summary of spell changes:
-- wimpiness of 'default' spell fixed by doing half damage for magic resistance
instead of 1 damage, and using half monster level instead of 1/3. It may
still need tweaking, but is much better than before.
-- 'default' spell for cleric monsters is now the wounds spell, by analogy with
wizard monsters.
-- added clerical lightning strike, flame strike, gush of water
-- all spells should now say the monster is casting a spell, and all spells
should have messages. (Side effect: monsters speeding up by other means
also give a message saying so).
-- casting undirected spells is not affected by whether the monster knows
where you are. Monsters that are attacking your displaced image, that are
several squares away, or that are peaceful can use undirected spells.
-- messages should correctly say whether the spell is undirected (a monster
was always casting at thin air or pointing at you and cursing, without checking
to see if the spell wouldn't require pointing)
-- Monsters which are attacking your displaced image, etc. use up mspec_used.
If they are casting an undirected spell, the spell still works.
-- Monsters which are not attacking can cast spells that don't attack.
-- If a monster didn't have ranged spellcasting ability (which most don't),
it would print a curse message from buzzmu() every round it was at range,
creating a useless stream of constant curse messages
I still haven't made spellcasters "smarter" in the sense of noticing whether
you have reflection, fire resistance, etc. That opens a big can of worms
because it would mean giving monsters a memory.
Known bug: the higher level a monster is, the more spells it has; since it
chooses a noncombat spell by randomly picking a spell and casting if it
happens to be noncombat, the higher level the monster is the greater the
chance of getting nothing.
magic while wearing dragon scales/scale mail were being turned
into random monsters instead of into dragons.
Also
Two items from <Someone>'s list.
Files patched:
include/obj.h
src/mon.c, muse.c, worn.c, zap.c
Ken:
Fix an error in my fix for compression error messages.
No Makefile.src change should be necessary because files.c depends on hack.h,
which "depends" on wintty.h (actually ifdef USE_TRAMPOLI, but the Makefile
doesn't know that).
auto_credit flag; that's what sell_response is for).
follow-up comment from Pat:
This introduces behavior that I consider to be buggy.
You need something separate from sell_response, otherwise if
you answer (a)ll when the shopkeeper still has money you end
up selling everything for credit without being asked when he
runs out of cash in the middle of the transation. Avoiding
that is the reason for the old behavior in the first place.
warwick