Hero poly'd into xorn can wear jumping boots or cast jump spell, so
some target destinations which were excluded by '$' (to show valid
destinations during getpos) shouldn't have been. Doubly so if
wearing the Eyes of the Overworld where xorn'd hero can jump through
walls rather than just into them.
This attempts to deal with diagonal moves vs open doorways sanely,
including allowing knight's move jumps in or out of them when
appropriate.
Also, need to check isok(x,y) before cansee(x,y) instead of after.
From November, 2014, player thought eating a scroll labeled YUM YUM
while polymorphed ought to give a special message.
While implementing it, I noticed that if a g.cube managed to get on
to a spot containing a scroll of scare monster, it would eat that
along with everything else.
Orcs are innately poison resistant, so orcish wizard's random ring
shouldn't be poison resistance. Presumeably an orc who is bright
enough to become a wizard is not so dumb as to bring a useless ring
with him/her into the dungeon....
Make wishing for an artifact and not getting it because it already
exists break never-wished-for-artifact conduct. The wish was made
even if the result wasn't what the player wanted.
You kill poor goblin.
"poor" implies a pet; pet has a name; "the" is omitted for named
creature; hallucination suppresses name, so "the" needs to be
reinstated.
You kill the poor goblin.
Make it be cannabalism for a were<foo> to eat a <foo> corpse.
Let werejackals summon foxes and coyotes in addition to jackals,
and werewolves summon wargs in addition to wolves and winter wolves.
Reported by me ;-} during beta testing last Fall, engulfers have a
tendency to re-engulf the hero immediately after expelling him/her.
Use mspec_used (set when expelling rather than engulfing) to make
them wait a turn or two. Initially that made the too-soon engulf
attacks always miss, so this changes too-soon engulf to a touch or
claw attack instead. Some tuning in damage or message may be needed.
Reported directly to devteam in late December, when blind and
lacking gloves, you could safely locate cockatrice corpses on the
floor by using 'm' prefix to move without pickup followed by 'e'
and then answering no when ask whether to eat a cockatrice corpse.
When underwater and an attempt to move onto adjacent land fails
because the destination is a wall or solid rock or closed door,
report that there's an obstacle instead of just silently failing
to make the move.
If the user has 'mention_walls' option set, give feedback for
failing to move diagonally into or out of a doorway instead of
just silently not moving.
Having 'mention_walls' set could yield "you cannot pass through
the bars" when travel was testing (not moving) for a path past
iron bars, and when it happened it tended to be delivered a whole
bunch of times.
Config file handling remembers the name of the last config file
read in order for options processing to use it in messages, but
it was also reused as default config file name if user-supplied
config file name failed access() test. So the SYSCF file became
the default user config file after it was used. The config file
handling was a real mess.
This patch fixes it for Unix but there is a lot of scope for
typos in the changes for other platforms. Testing is needed.
...when alignment was toggled by helm of opposite alignment. The
touch/retouch code is quite convoluted, but I think this simple
change is the right fix.
Add fixes36.1 for '&' command's support of altmeta option.
Short command help lacked an entry for '&' command.
Wizard mode help omitted #vanquished and some other obscure commands.
Restore the ability to look up a single space by 'name'.
I thought mungspaces("<all spaces>") kept one space, but it doesn't.
It's a lucky accident that unnaming monsters and objects still works.
There may be other places which intend to give a special meaning to
a single space that don't still work....
This is the Pet ranged attack -patch by Darshan Shaligram,
with the spellcaster parts removed to keep it simpler.
Pets will now throw, spit and breathe at other monsters.
Change most instances of detection to offer the player a chance to
move the cursor around on the map so that the getpos() autodescribe
feature can explain things that might go away as soon as the
current detection completes. The few instances that don't offer
such a chance are the ones where everything which has been revealed
will still be there once the action finishes (such as regular magic
mapping and blessed/persistent monster detection).
There were quite a lot of inconsistencies in things like handling
for detection while swallowed or underwater. I didn't keep track
of them to distinguish between 3.6.0, current dev code, or my patch
in progess. They should be much more consistent now but without a
comprehensive fixes36.1 entry.
Blessed clairvoyance (divination spells at skilled or expert) now
shows monsters as well as terrain. I first had it like that for
any clairvoyance, but having getpos/autodescribe kick in every 15
or 30 turns once you have the amulet--or pay the appropriate amount
to a temple preist--was nearly unplayable. When it only follows an
explicit spell cast it is not intrusive.
Hero was poly'd into a hider monster and was swallowed by something.
Attempting to hide via '#monster' gave "You can't hide while you're
being held." It correctly blocked hiding due to u.ustuck but the
feedback ignored the possibility of u.ustuck+u.uswallow.
...by thrown potion. The reported case was a shopkeeper killed by
system shock from thrown potion of polymorph, but any death (acid,
burning oil explosion, water against iron golem, holy water against
undead, demon, or werecritter) to any peaceful monster could cause
similar result.
When confused gold detection finds a door trap or a chest trap, it
puts a bear trap glyph/tile on the map at that location. (They
disappear once they're within sight.) Those should be given their
own glyphs so that they can have their own tiles, but this doesn't
do that. What it does do is describe such fake bear traps as
"trapped door" or "trapped chest" when examined with far-look.
The '^' command--if used while blind so that '^' hasn't disappeared
yet--needs to catch up: it says "I can't see a trap there" when the
adjacent '^' is a fake bear trap.
While testing something I noticed that moving the cursor to visible '^'
by typing '^' while getpos was asking me to pick a location, it didn't
always cycle through all visible traps. The most straightforward
culprit was after trap detection (via confused gold detection, not ^F)
had found a trap door or level teleporter in a closet that itself was
a secret corridor spot. But it turned out to be any location that
hadn't been seen yet. This is a substantial overhaul of the relevant
code and so far works for all the cases I've tried, but there are
bound to be cases I haven't tried yet and those may or may not work
correctly.
There's also a bunch of formatting cleanup, and some simplification of
the m/M/o/O/d/D/x/X handling.
When travel fails to reach its destination, it remembers the target
spot to use as default next time. But that spot is only meaningful
on the current level. Discard last travel destination when moving
to a different level.
Also, discard unlocking context when changing level unless the
context is for a container being brought along (after having been
picked up since you can't unlock a carried box). Previously, a
door pointer on the new level could happen to match the last one
being unlocked on the old level.
Discard trap setting context when changing level even if the trap
object is brought along.
Somehow the code for applying a touchstone got inserted in between
two sections of code for applying a trap (ages ago; probably since
touchstone was first introduced however many versions back), so
clean that up.
Reported almost exactly one year ago by a beta tester proofreading
the Guidebook, the number_pad setting to support the German keyboard
which swaps the Y and Z keys is for a keyboard that is used in other
places too. The report mentioned France and Belgium; Wikipedia's
"keyboard layout" entry mentions "Germany, Austria, Switzerland and
other parts of Central Europe". This changes references to "German
keyboard" (there were only a couple) into "QWERTZ keyboard".
While looking for things in core which might conceivably trigger the
Windows ctype assertion failure (haven't found any yet), I noticed
that help_dir() was still treating ^O as a wizard mode-only command.
Also, documentation about that command was never brought up to date.
I wish this change to ^O hadn't been done. #overview already has
a meta/alt M-O shortcut and overloading wizard mode commands makes
documentation more complicated since wizard mode stuff traditionally
has been left unmentioned.
When a stack of N corpses is hit by wand or spell of undead turning,
1 revives and N-1 remain corpses. If owned by a shop, a fee for
using up all N corpses was charged and if carried at the time, the
extra N-1 became owned by the player but if on the floor, they
remained owned by the shop. Feedback was schitzophrenic as to
whether the whole stack was involved:
One of the <foo> corpses glows irridescently.
You owe <shk> X zormids for them.
Split the stack so that revival explicitly operates on only 1 corpse.
It's done after the revival side of things has already succeeded or
given up, so the split will never need to be undone.
Zapping wand of undead turning at self while inside a shop and
carrying a corpse caused the shopkeeper to claim a use-up fee for
the corpse regardless of whether it was owned by the shop.
Not mentioned in the report: casting stone-to-flesh as self while
carrying a figurine or statue behaved similarly.
Several people seem to be confused about config file and what to
put in it. Perhaps this'll help a bit. The options are mostly
in alphabetical order, except where it makes sense to group
them together.
Also add fixes36.1 to the Files
Fix a typo in the text for encumbrance in the Status section.
Fix a typo in Guidebook.mn for non-fatal status condtions that
resulted in bold font for the entire Stun/Conf/Hallu line.
For Guidebook.ps, force
Status
Hunger:
onto two lines instead of being bunched up together on one line.
(For Guidebook.txt, it's already two lines.)
For both Guidebook.txt and Guidebook.ps, force some extra vertical
separation between the set of one-letter commands and the set of
extended commands, between the set of extended commands and the
set of Meta-key commands, and between the set of Meta-key commands
and the extra one-letter commands available when number_pad is on.
I don't know whether Guidebook.tex's output would look better with
something similar.
When --More-- was written to leftmost column of line 2 while the
hero was swallowed, after player acknowledged it and the top line
was cleared, the cursor ended up in the wrong place. I still
don't understand what in the world is going on here, but adding
'flush_screen(0)' after 'swallowed(1)' in docorner() makes the
problem go away. Why is the behavior different when --More-- is
in the first column than when it's anywhere else?
After that fix, I commented the whole thing out. The swallowed
optimization is just not significant enough to justify peeking at
core internals.
Core bit: prior to those two changes, I tried inserting 'bot()'
into swallowed(). It moved the mis-positioned cursor from the
end of the second status line to on the map just right of the
bottom right corner of the swallowed display. That didn't fix
anything, but I've left it in place. bot() to update status is
needed following cls(); now it happens before redrawing the map
instead of at some point after.
For OPTIONS=role:Valk,race:!human,align:!lawful (where first+second
contradicts third or vice versa), you'd get
Shall I pick your Dwarven Valkyrie's for you?
where the what-to-pick field names are empty. Now, align:!lawful
gets overridden, producing
Shall I pick your Dwarven Valkyrie's alignment for you?
and then you'll end up lawful regardless of whether you answer yes
or no. That may be suboptimal but does emphasize that the original
alignment constraint couldn't be honored. (Things just fell out
that way and I haven't tried to make it behave any other way.)
While testing the fix, I noticed that OPTIONS=role:Valk,race:random
prompted
Shall I pick your Valkyrie's race and alignment for you?
instead of honoring 'race:random' without asking, so I've tried to
fix that too.
Role selection has become insanely complex, so one or the other of
these fixes has probably broken some other permuation of partial
specification. Both of the changes here have been done in the core
without touching any interface-specific role selection code.
Reported directly to devteam, zapping wand of undead turning at a
shopkeeper's corpse would cause a crash. 'Traits' to fully recreate
the shk were attached to the corpse, but the temporary monster
created on the map intended to be relaced by the shk didn't have any
eshk struct, and the sequence replmon() -> replshk() -> inhishop()
attempted to access mtmp->mextra->eshk when trying to reattach the
shk to his/her shop. No other mextra structs involve pointer fixups,
so pets, priests, vault guards don't need extra handling.
I tested four cases. #1 and #3 had no shop bill at the time; I'm not
sure about #2. These all worked.
1) shk killed inside shop, resurrected there;
2) killed outside shop on the shop level, resurrected there;
3) killed inside his shop, corpse carried to different level before
being resurrected;
4) killed and resurrected on different level from shop after hero
stole something (teleported out of shop with unpaid item)--shk
left shop to chase hero and followed him/her up some stairs.
Implement the suggestion that a monster killing itself with acid
to avoid turning to stone or with fire to avoid turning into green
slime not break pacifist conduct even if the player caused the
"turning into" situation that triggered the accidental suicide.
Along the way I discovered a serious bug: zhitm() applies damage
to target monster but leaves it to caller to finish killing off
that monster when damage is fatal, but muse_unslime() called it
without checking whether the monster should die. For fire breath
that shouldn't matter since all fire breathers are immune to fire
damage, but when support for wands of fire and fire horns was
added later it just cloned the fire breath code and neglected to
check for fatal damage. The result was that a monster with 0 HP
would be left on the map, then impossible "dmonsfree: 1 removed
doesn't match 0 pending" would be given when taking it off fmon
list, but a stale monster symbol (presumably level.monsters[][]
pointer too) was left on the map which eventually led to monsndx
panic or arbitrary crash.
Replace "dark part of a room" with something more sensible when
examining the map while underwater where water/lava/ice within the
3x3 grid centered on the hero is all that can be seen. Adjacent
non-water, non-lava, non-ice spots are now described as "land".
(Note: this stuff doesn't apply on the Plane of Water where being
underwater gets handled differently.) Spots outside that 3x3 grid
are now described as "unreconnoitered", which sounds a bit odd but
I couldn't come up with anything better. "Not visible" is accurate
when the hero can see but needs adjusting when he can't, bringing
us right back to the current conundrum. I suppose "not accessible"
might be viable but nitpickers would consider it to be inaccurate
if hero has teleport capability. (There are a couple of references
to "unknown" from earlier versions of this revision. I think
"a ghost or unexplored or unknown or land or air (land)" is the only
place left where the player might see it, and it seems reasonable
there, although perhaps it ought to be changed to "unreconnoitered".)
Also fix farlook while swallowed and blind, where blindness was
overriding swallower Id even though it doesn't do so for mon_nam()
and things which use that like combat feedback.
View the regular map, as originally intended, when using #terrain
while underwater. Doing so means you can't see an underwater object
underneath an adjacent critter by viewing map+traps+objs (without
monsters), but being able to see the level map instead of just the
8 adjacent squares is more valuable.
When underwater, map adjacent lava as lava rather than as "not water".
The Valkyrie quest has lava adjacent to water and the hero ought to
be able recognize it while immersed so she doesn't try to climb out
of water directly into lava.
When the color option is disabled and lava uses the same symbol as
pool or as water (which is the case for default ascii, DECgraphics,
and IBMgraphics), apply the detected-monster display effect to lava.
For tty, this will draw it in inverse video if the use_inverse
option is enabled. (Assumes non-tty will nearly always be using
color so not care.) Creating a separate mapglyph special attribute
for B&W lava instead of overloading MG_DETECT ought to be done but
I didn't want to modify any interface code.
Requested during beta-testing however long ago: want a way to
look at specific map locations while #terrain is showing them
without monsters and/or objects and/or traps being displayed in
the way. The post-3.6.0 autodescribe feature for getpos() made
this pretty easy to achieve, although the lookat() aspect felt
more like trail-and-error than careful design.
Instead of putting up a --More-- prompt, ask the player to pick
a location with the cursor. Moving the cursor gives the terse
description for every location traversed. Actually picking a
spot just ends #terrain and goes back to normal play.
Discovered while working on an enhancement to #terrain....
Various detect magic (objects, food, &c) performed while underwater
temporarily removes the hero from the water in order to have access
to the regular map. In 3.4.3, a hangup save during the detection
would leave the hero standing on top of the water. 3.6.0 added a
flag to track should-be-underwater so that during a hangup save the
hero could be put back in when going into the save file. It also
added #terrain, another situation that uses the remove-from-water
hack while manipulating the map.
The flag wasn't being cleared after use, only during save, so normal
play without a hangup left it pending until next regular save. The
result being that after restore, the hero would be considered to be
underwater again regardless of current location, and the map display
would be limited to a view of the adjacent spots as if underwater.
Then, any move--even using '.' to rest--would notice that the
'underwater' hero was not at a water location and put things back to
normal, with feedback of "you are on solid land again." So to the
player, this would seem like a pair of map display and nonsequitor
message issues, not the internal logic one it actually is.
Being polymorphed into a creature capable of eating metal objects
was treated as if the hero didn't/couldn't eat. Treat it the same
as being able to eat ordinary food instead.
Being fainted or unconscious from other than sleep both ran
metabolism at full rate, unlike being asleep which skips per-turn
consumption 9 times out of 10 (but retains periodic ring/amulet
and hunger/regeneration/conflict consumption). Switch to 'Unaware'
to handle sleep, unconsciousness other than sleep, and fainted
from lack of food as one metabolic condition. Being paralyzed
isn't included but maybe should be.
Changing how metabolism operates when fainted changes the amount
of time until starvation occurs, so I adjusted that by an arbitrary
amount. It will probably need tuning. As things stand, you'll
still faint umpteen times before starving, bringing about lots of
frustration since the player can't do much during that time.
Put in Ron Vaniwaarden's fix for crash occuring if player quits
right after choosing a character and declines to disclose anything.
Just a guess, but deleting the never-viewed inventory window might
be the cause. (3.4.3 didn't delete it.)
There's a small amount of reformatting, but cleaning that up
manually is a monumental task.
When you're swallowed, an angry god trying to zap you will kill
the engulfer and hero gets credit (experience) and blame (possible
loss of luck and/or alignment if engulfer is peaceful or tame) for
the act. But hero didn't actually kill the critter, so don't
increment the kill counter that monitors pacifism.
I think there are other circumstances where hero gets credit and/or
blame for something he or she didn't directly do, but offhand I
can't think of them. They might warrant similar treatment.
Tidying of xkilled() triggered by malformed block comment which is
actually a hybrid of an end of line comment (the boulder one, not
the 'dest' parameter one)....
The report that parse_config_line() could overflow its buffer
when passed a long value from parse_config_file() was already
fixed for 3.6.1, but longer config lines mean that later stages
of option parsing need to be aware of the possibility of lines
longer than BUFSZ. This fixes the three special options which
deal with regular expressions. Autopickup exceptions, message
types, and menu coloring all could exceed BUFSZ when formatting
a value to put in the menu for 'list' or 'remove' of existing
entries. Menu colors could overflow by an arbitrary amount,
message types by up to 13 bytes, and autopickup exceptions by
just 1 byte.
Both tty and X11 seem to cope with long menu entries (wider
than can be displayed but not exceeding BUFSZ) by truncating.
For menu colorings, that hides the color and highlight attribute
since those are placed after the regexp.
Menu line truncation for tty was straightforward, just chopped
a big chunk off the end of the long string. For X11, it did
that too, taking off a lot less but ending up with much of the
menu hidden off the left edge of the screen. Dragging it into
view showed that the width fit the whole screen (or possibly
fit the width of the map, which was also as wide as the screen).
So the initial position is being miscalculated.
Reported directly to devteam 7-Jan-2016, two issues with cursed
potion of levitation:
1) the go-up-stairs effect for cursed potion still let you choose
not to escape the dungeon if it occurred on level 1 stairs. I've
left that as-is; perhaps there's a gate across the entrance.
2) both the go-up-stairs and bonk-head-on-ceiling effects were
skipped if the hero was already levitating. I don't know whether
that was intentional but there was no comment explaining why, so
I've changed it to happen regardless of whether already levitating.
In the process, I changed the head-bonk case to do more damage when
a helmet is worn:
old: no helmet 1..10 hp, any helmet 1 hp damage;
new: no helmet 1..10 hp, soft hat 1..6 hp, hard helmet 1..3 hp.
Also, not in the report: when you aren't already levitating you
get the "you float up" message, but for cursed potion there was
never any corresponding "you float down" message because you ended
up not levitating. Now you'll levitate for 1 turn and float down
on the next, landing in a trap if one is present.
'Your <single-potion> boils and explodes.'
'One of your <stack-of-potions> boils and explodes.'
'Some of your <stack-of-potions> boil and explode.'
'All of your <stack-of-potions> boil and explode.'
The last variation had an extra space in the message prefix....
In addition to removing the excess space, this adds
'Both of your <stack-of-potions> boil and explode.'
to be used for the (All == 2) case.
The bug and fix also apply to stacks of potions 'freezing and
shattering' and to stacks of scrolls 'catching fire and burning'.
