botl.c - unused argument in #if STATUS_HILITES code.
mkmaze.c - "clang version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)", or whatever version
of gcc it's based on, warns that ''#define register /*empty*/''
hides a keyword. '-Wkeyword-macro' isn't mentioned in the recent gcc
manual I checked, but it is being enabled by specifying '-pedantic'
(rather than -Wall or -W) to the preprocessor. It could be turned
off via '-Wno-keyword-macro' but this removes all mkmaze.c's register
references instead. (Sean wanted that, and this might be why....)
"Your pair of speed boots glow silver for a moment." should be
"Your pair of speed boots glows silver for a moment.". The fix
reverses a post-3.6.0 change to is_plural(). Also, add new
pair_of() to test for object formatted as "pair of Bars". For verb
usage, that's definitely singular, but for pronoun usage, sometimes
plural seems better (although it might actually be incorrect).
I fixed up the formatting of a block comment in obj.h, but it is
still a candidate for tab cleanup.
This is from the pull request for the assertion failure fix. It
did not mention how to reproduce the assertion failure, just added
casts to a bunch of isspace/isprint/tolower calls that didn't already
have such.
I removed an obsolete change for win/tty/topl.c and changed the
win/win32/mswproc.c code to avoid using an expression with side-effects
(*colorstring++) in calls to tolower() in case someone overrides that
with a macro which evaluates its argument more than once as some pre-
ANSI ones used to do. Not tested, might have typos....
sys/wince/*.c still needs similar casts.
for digesting a swallowed critter. The "you kill <critter>" message
was left implicit, but if hero gained a level, that made "welcome
to level N+1" look like it was issued out of sequence because it's
immediate and the "you totally digest <critter>" is delayed. Giving
the you-kill-it message explicitly makes things be more verbose but
avoids having the new-level message seem out of order.
and vs digestion. minstapetrify() was previously changed to
explicitly revert a shape-shifted vampire back to vampire form
when it was turned to stone. This does the same for monstone().
It also causes shape-shifted vampires to revert to vampire form
immediately when swallowed, so subsequent death via digestion or
engulfing damage doesn't have to deal with reverting changed shape.
I'm not convinced this is the right fix for either stoning or
being digested. Unlike with ordinary damage, where multiple hits
are usually needed to kill a vampire after it reverts to 'V' form,
here the vampire will be killed by the next successful stoning or
digestion attack in one hit. It ought to least try to flee.
There was no code in ohitmon() (for object thrown or launched at a
monster by someone or something other than the hero) to handle an egg
hitting a monster. Cockatrice egg is monsters' preferred missile,
but if one hit a monster instead of hero it just did minimal damage
without any chance of the side-effect that makes it be preferred.
Requested by one of the beta testers 13 months ago... when a visible
monster becomes invisible and vanishes, mark its map location with
the remembered, unseen monster glyph. (When the player zaps a
monster with a wand of make invisible, that only happens if the wand
type is known. I'm not sure that's right but didn't alter it....)
The request suggested also doing it for a monster who disappears by
teleporting away, but I haven't attempted to implement that.
When scroll of light is read while confused and summons a yellow or
black light, if it didn't have a user-supplied type name then user
would be asked to supply one even if scroll of light was identified.
Let effect()'s caller handle docall().
The #tip command tries to reduce verbosity by formatting drop messages
with just the object name instead of with full sentences, yielding
Objects spill out: obj1, obj2, obj3, ..., objN.
where the trailing comma or period is included with each successive
object. If an intervening message occurs, such "25 zorkmids are
added to your credit", the rest of the objects will no longer be
extending the original sentence and end up looking silly.
Objects spill out: obj1, obj2,--More--
25 zorkmids are added to your credit. obj3, ..., objN.
This fix causes the post-interruption messages to revert to verbose
format.
Objects spill out: obj1, obj2,--More--
25 zorkmids are added to your credit.--More--
obj3 drops to the floor.--More--
...
objN drops to the floor.
The interrupting message still follows the comma of the partial
sentence, but I don't see any sane way to fix that other than to
abandon the terse format altogether, and doing that makes #tip way
too verbose when the container has a lot of items in it. But #tip
inside shops now does that, since there will always be buy/not-
interested feedback interrupting the terse format in that situation.
For other situations, a full sentence message might end up following
a partial sentence list of dropped items.
There was a more significant bug. Dropping a hero-owned container
with gold in it onto shop floor sold the gold to shk, giving hero
credit. Subsequent #tip gave the hero credit for that same gold
when it spilled out. addtobill(obj) relies on obj->ox,oy to
determine whether events are taking place in a shop, and #tip was
relying on placement onto floor to set those, too late for shop
billing. The fix yields suboptimal results: you're given credit
when you drop the container, then during #tip when you spill the
contents, credit for the gold is removed, then new credit for it
is given. That's down to shop insanity, not tipping behavior.
I considered several potential interactions for orcs with elven
armor (and elves with orcish armor), such as longer wear/unwear
delay, reduced AC, or reduced magic cancellation/negation. None
of them seemed worth doing. In the end I just went with lembas
wafer tweaks: new message when orc hero eats one, reduced nutrition
for that combination, different new message when elf hero eats one,
and increased nutrition for this combination. Also, less increased
nutrition when a dwarf hero eats a cram ration.
I'm not particularly happy with either of the new messages, and
changing nutrition on the fly may lead to bugs.
Flying monsters that want to pick up items tend to get stuck above
kelp fronds, particularly on the Medusa level. They're allowed to
move to the water location, but can't reach an underwater item so
end up doing nothing.
Previous fix was 'me' to eat from inventory without checking current
location for edible items. The report describing the need for that
also mentioned that you could #loot while blind and without gloves
and not touch any objects except for the container you pick to loot.
This adds a corpse touch check, plus `m#loot' to skip floor containers
and go directly to using #loot for adjacent saddled creature. That,
as well as the open command, will reveal adjacent container in some
circumstances but I'm going to pretend that that doesn't matter.
doloot() has turned into spaghetti. We should probably add #unsaddle
or something of the sort and return #loot to container-access only.
Accept the 'm' prefix for eat, offer, and apply.
Allows 'me' to eat from inventory without checking for floor food.
Primarily for use after blind character used 'm<dir>' to move
somewhere without touching a suspected cockatrice corpse there.
'm#offer' and 'ma<let>' accomplish similar floor-object-skipping
when offering a sacrifice or applying a tinning-kit. (All three
commands share floorfood() to pick the item to use.)
Report suggested replacing pick-from-floor followed by pick-from-
invent with use of slash'em-style pick-from-invent with explicit
pick-from-floor choice in list of inventory letters "[abc or ,]"
(slash'em used period for 'here'; I've always liked comma better
since the action is to pick an item rather than a location). I
implemented that for nethack a long time ago, but it was mixed in
with other stuff that wasn't ready for prime time and vanished
when I lost access to the VMS system I used to use).
Using 'm' prefix to skip part of a multi-part operation is a lot
simpler to implement but doesn't include an in-game reminder that
it is available.
Revised Guidebook.mn is tested, Guidebook.tex is not.
Mark an unused function argument as UNUSED. Also, hurtle_step is
the recoil from throwing or kicking while levitating, which isn't
related to the recently added spellcasting line-of-sight check, so
rename spell_hurtle_step to spell_aim_step.
My old monkey patch was a bit more extensive than Pasi's, although
it didn't originally include letting apes be tameable with bananas.
No sense in throwing it away:
1) Make monkeys and apes be omnivores instead of carnivores.
2) Make bananas be preferred food for herbivore/omnivore subset
of Y-class, so excludes carniverous ape, owlbear, and yeti.
[Sasquatch remain omnivorous but aren't tameable with bananas.]
3) While updating befriend_with_food(), make horses be affected
only by food they might eat, not by meat and corpses and tins.
So they'll be somewhat harder to cope with for characters not
strong enough to kill them. [Dogs and cats are unchanged.]
Not included (not even implemented...):
0) Allow archeologists to choose monkey for starting pet.
[The one in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" didn't actually belong
to Indiana Jones but spent a lot of time accompanying him.]
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.
Fireball and cone of cold could target detected monsters
through a wall when cast at skilled or higher. This allowed
eg. targeting the Wiz from outside his tower.
Use walk_path to determine the actual location where the
spell will hit, so trying to cast through a wall will
make the explosion happen at the nearest empty space.
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.
The character attributes (^X) description of alignment includes
information about whether the alignment is different from what it
started out as, and is used in a verbose sentence which names the
entire three-deity pantheon. Someone thought
You were chaotic, temporarily on a mission for Foo
who was opposed by Bar (lawful) and Quux (neutral).
was in need to better phrasing. It looks straightforward to me
(the temporary aspect indicates that a helm of opposite alignment
was causing 'chaotic'). I was going to mark it "won't fix" until
I noticed that you could also get
You were lawful, now on a mission for Bar
(when permanent, one-time alignment change was causing 'lawful').
The first one is changed for the present tense:
You are chaotic, currently on a mission for Foo
and stays the same for end-of-game disclosure past tense. I
considered using "formerly"--as best past tense of "currently"--
but it could be confused as a reference to the original alignment
rather than the alignment in place when the game ended.
The second is unchanged for present tense:
You are lawful, now on a mission for Bar
For past tense, it's changed to:
You were lawful, belatedly on a mission for Bar
Past tense of "now" should be "then", but if used it that message
it would sound absurdly stilted. "Belatedly" is meant to suggest
that if you intended to be on a mission for Bar, you should have
started out as lawful. (It's beside the point that some roles or
races couldn't start out at as lawful.)
Both of these changes leave something to be desired, but I'm
going to mark the bz entry closed.
...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.
The if/elif/else/endif interpretor for '&' command data was too
simplistic. It would allow multiple else clauses, elif clauses
after an else clause, and worst of all, accept a should-be-rejected
conditional block if an else or elif which evaluated true followed
an elif which evaluated false which in turn followed an earlier
true clause. (dat/cmdhelp trigger any of those bugs.)
Implement a rudimentary if/elif/else/endif interpretor and use
conditionals in dat/cmdhelp to describe what command each keystroke
currently invokes, so that there isn't a lot of "(debug mode only)"
and "(if number_pad is off)" cluttering the feedback that the user
sees. (The conditionals add quite a bit of clutter to the raw data
but users don't see that. number_pad produces a lot of conditional
commands: basic letters vs digits, 'g' vs 'G' for '5', phone
keypad vs normal layout of digits, and QWERTZ keyboard swap between
y/Y/^Y/M-y/M-Y/M-^Y and z/Z/^Z/M-z/M-Z/M-^Z.)
The interpretor understands
'&#' for comment,
'&? option' for 'if' (also '&? !option'
or '&? option=value[,value2,...]'
or '&? !option=value[,value2,...]'),
'&: option' for 'elif' (with argument variations same as 'if';
any number of instances for each 'if'),
'&:' for 'else' (also '&: #comment';
0 or 1 instance for a given 'if'), and
'&.' for 'endif' (also '&. #comment'; required for each 'if').
The option handling is a bit of a mess, with no generality for
which options to deal with and only a comma separated list of
integer values for the '=value' part. number_pad is the only
supported option that has a value; the few others (wizard/debug,
rest_on_space, #if SHELL, #if SUSPEND) are booleans.
An attempt to simplify handling of missiles which stop at hero's
location (either hit or reached end of range) would have resulted
in missiles that hit the hero not being put on the map. I had
realized this earlier but for some reason didn't get around to
dealing with it before the previous commit.
