trunk and branch:
Do not limit role selection list by race/gender/alignment. The default.nh
selection will still be honored but the list itself will include every
possible role.
Some interface tweaks for main trunk:
- improved calculation of the size of the menu window
- made auto-arrange windows on/off option (it was reset automatically
which was unintuitive and in some cases annoying, IMO)
Fix the reported bug of problems after casting stone-to-flesh spell
on self while wielding a statue. Pointers for worn items weren't kept in
sync and various potential symptoms could occur (most easily visible one
being that ')' falsely reported the no longer existing statue as still
wielded; report stated that one crash was observed). This bug predates
3.4.2 and was probably present ever since stone-to-flesh got introduced.
It makes sense that if you cannot normally move to a location containing a
boulder, dismounting there should be avoided if possible. It seems
that it should be possible to land there if there's no other choice.
Perhaps doing so should result in damage, but that's not in this patch.
<Someone> pointed out the inappropriate appearance of the 3.4.2 message when
fog clouds have you engulfed if you happen to be polymorphed into an aquatic
creature. It does seem that a fog cloud should not cause added damage to
amphibious creatures, which includes breathless (but non-flaming) monsters.
I also thought another message was more appropriate for flaming creatures
(see on_fire()), and added a special case for that.
gulpum was missing symmetric code and I added it there too.
While wearing the Eyes of the Overworld, one could use a hook or pole thru
walls. The bug report thought they should work past a boulder, but I
disagree, given a pole or hook's rigid nature, and did not special case that.
couldsee() is not affected by the Eyes, so use that after checking cansee().
Some changes for standard C platforms, to avoid declaring errno explictly.
Such platforms should declare errno in errno.h, which is already included
in the files in question.
Nethack's manes are based on AD&D manes which are in turn based on the
manes of Roman legend. They are supposed to be spirits of the dead.
To that end, added them to the nonliving() macro. The biggest behavioral
change is that death spells no longer effect them, which does technically
make them a bit tougher but also makes sense. Also, they're so wimpy, it's
hard to believe anyone would use a death/disintegration on them anyway.
The choice was to avoid one of the two sellobj() calls in in_container.
Since I liked the message ordering "put gold into... credit" better than
"credit... put gold into", the code now avoids the 1st sellobj call for coins.
<Someone> wrote:
>> You're equally unlikely to be wishing for spellbooks by colour,
>> but I note that 'grey' for 'gray' only works for dragonscale and
>> stones, not the spellbook description.
>>
> I've just noticed that the fix for this only works for 'grey
> spellbook', not 'grey spell book'; 'spell book' works for wishing
> in other contexts, so it probably ought to here :-)
> Would it be possible to make autodig also dig downward
> when I press '>' while wielding an pick-axe? When digging for gold,
> after casting detect objects, this would be convenient for getting
> to buried gold and gems.
> [<Someone>]
> When I enter a desacrated temple, sometimes an enormous ghost
> appears next to me:
> You have an eerie feeling... An enormous ghost appears next to
> you!
> You are frightened to death, and unable to move.
> You regain your composure. When I don't have telepathy, and don a
> blindfold first, I get the same messages:
> You are now wearing a blindfold. You can't see any more.
> You have an eerie feeling... An enormous ghost appears next to
> you!
> You are frightened to death, and unable to move.
> You regain your composure. Why does the ghost scare me if I
> cannot even see it? How do I notice it appear?
> [<Someone>]
<email deleted> wrote:
> If more monsters fall through a trap door than can fit on the
> level below, when you go down the stairs, you get the following
> message:
> "Program in disorder - perhaps you'd better #quit.
> rloc(): couldn't relocate monster"
> This message seems to appear once for every monster-too-many that
> fell through the hole. I originally found this while
> intentionally completely filling a level with black puddings
> (there was a trap door I didn't know about). I also confirmed it
> in a wiz-mode test using gremlins and water.
[confirmed: moveloop -> deferred_goto -> goto_level ->
losedogs -> mon_arrive -> rloc -> impossible]
This patch:
- causes rloc() to return TRUE if successful,
or FALSE if it wasn't.
- adds code to mon_arrive() in dog.c to deal with
the failed rloc()
- allows the x,y parameters to mkcorpstat() to
be 0,0 in order to trigger random placement of the
corpse on the level
- if you define DEBUG_MIGRATING_MONS when you build cmd.c
then you'll have a debug-mode command #migratemons to
store the number of random monsters that you specify
on the migrating monsters chain.
A recent report noted that if you are invisible, teleport into a shop,
steal something, teleport out, and then return, the shopkeeper will become
pacified. This is because the pacification code occurred even if the
shopkeeper already knew your name, as long as the "Welcome" message had not
yet occurred. Implement <Someone>'s proposed fix: Before pacifying, either
the visitct must be zero (as per old code) or the customer name must
already be known. And, of course, the customer name must differ from the
current setting. This skips the pacification code in those situations
where the shopkeeper learned your name but was not happy about it (which is
what visitct > 0 implies, at least initially).
This also deals with an older bug report where you attack a shopkeeper
while outside the shop and then later enter the shop while the shopkeeper
is in it. hot_pursuit() sets the customer name, and the new check avoids
pacifying the shopkeeper for the same reason as noted above.
rewrote the message so it doesn't talk about his body dissolving into gas,
since there's a possibility that he'll leave a corpse. It now doesn't
mention a body at all, so it's not so bad when he doesn't leave a corpse
either. The contents are completely changed, and I think it's more in line
with the sort of thing you'd expect from Master Kaen.
Described in the newsgroup a while back and recently reported: if
you had reflection and were invisible and had esp and were blind, Medusa
would turn herself to stone by looking at you. When you're invisible,
she shouldn't be able to see your source of reflection so shouldn't be
affected by the gaze; that's how things work when you aren't blind but
the relevant code was being skipped when you are.
Now esp is irrelevant for this and she'll see her reflected gaze
only when she can see you, regardless of whether you see it happen.
remove_rooms() was trying to be clever and truncate the maximum room bounds
in partially overlapping rooms. In the process, it would truncate the
bounds of L shaped rooms incorrectly, leaving some locations outside the
bounds with the roomno field set. Since the maximum bounds really do not
have to actually match the largest extent of the room in the case of
irregular rooms, it was easiest to just remove the code that was performing
the incorrect truncation. Due to the way remove_room() is coded, this
could result in shopkeeper messages (or, less likely, priest messages,
although that has not been reported yet) occuring for locations to the
right (or the upper/lower right corner) of the MAP on the Bustling Town level.
<Someone> submitted the following bug report:
> An object and a pit are occupying the same square. I try to kick
> the object out of the square, but "You can't kick something
> that's in a pit!"
>
> I step into the square and escape the pit, but I can pick up the
> object, so maybe it's not in the pit after all.
>
This patch does *not* address this part of the bug report:
> If it's in the pit and it's a cockatrice corpse, should I die
> from landing on it when I fall into the pit?
Bones loading was only checking to see if a
monster was marked extinct, it wasn't adding
up the born count of a species in the current
game with the number of that species on the
bones level being loaded. That made it possible
to exceed the correct number of nazgul and
erinys via bones.
This adds a common routine called propagate()
that makemon() and restmonchn(ghostly) share,
for incrementing the born count and checking for
extinction, etc.
When a bones level is loaded, restmonchn()
will flag an illegal monster (duplicated unique,
or too many of a species) by setting the
individual monster's mhpmax to the cookie
value DEFUNCT_MONSTER. Before getbones() finishes
loading the bones level, it will purge those
monsters from the chain.
correct the region where the down stairs can be placed so they don't show up
in a cut off cave. If/when the level generator is improved to avoid generating
such caves, the down stairs region could potentially be changed back.
> The bug involved using the initalign (and related) indexes into
> the array of alignments as indexes into the respective combo box,
> and these are (apparently) not equivalent. To fix, the combo box
> is queried one by one for the item with the index that produces
> that proper alignment value, and then uses that index found. I
> did not find an API that does this in one step, but this only
> happens once, at dialog initialization.
<Someone> forwarded from rgrn that a monster using Stormbringer would
lose hp when hitting the player. The sign of the "gain" was reversed due
to subtracting the difference in the wrong order.
