Attempting to read a cursed spellbook fails with a nasty effect. But
a non-cursed book can become cursed while being read (malignant aura
after Wizard has been killed). Assuming no interruption for other
reasons, the read would finish, the spell be learned, and then the
nasty effect would be given. This changes things so that if the book
being read becomes cursed and the hero notices (book's bknown flag is
set), the read-in-progress will be interrupted. Resuming will take
the attempting-to-read-a-cursed-book path. Unfortunately, if the
hero doesn't notice, the old behavior still applies. Maybe the new
behavior should happen even if bknown isn't set (but then player
won't be told why the interruption occurred).
Globs on the floor used different criteria (anything goes) than globs
in inventory (mostly requiring same ownership when in shops and same
curse/bless state--other stuff generally isn't applicable) when
deciding whether two globs should merge. That was okay as long as
the globs on the floor were from being left behind when a pudding or
ooze was killed, but not if the player had picked some up, dipped
them in holy or unholy water, and dropped them again. This changes
things so that globs on the floor use the same criteria as globs in
inventory when deciding whether to coallesce.
Also, my earlier fix was modifying globs in the mergeable() test (to
make bknown and rknown match) rather than during actual merge, which
would be a problem if the merger didn't take place for some reason.
Instead of just using 'random' as the default choice if the user hits
<return> when picking role, race, gender, or alignment, flag it as
pre-selected in the menu so that it can be seen to be the default.
Someday somebody is going to have to fix up the interaction between
PICK_ONE menu and pre-selected choice....
This is more robust than the previous hack. The issue of whether to
use it in other places is still unexplored. Ultimately it's the user's
fault if overzealous message suppression hides something important.
[For an eerie game, try 'MSGTYPE=hide .'.]
Rename the option for adding coordinates to autodescribe feedback for
the '/' and ';' commands from 'getpos_coord' to 'whatis_coord', after
the '/' command that uses it instead of after the internal routine
that implements it. The 'whatis' name was only in dat/hh as far as I
could find, so this changes it to 'what-is' and also updates dat/help
and the Guidebook to mention the name too.
Add a 'screen' choice to the option to show coordinates as row,column
rather than x,y or compass direction(s). Revise the /m, /M, /o, /O
operations of 'what-is' to honor the whatis_coord option (mostly; a
value of 'none' gets overridden by 'map' to force coordinates).
Also, update the description of the functionality of the '/' command
in the Guidebook. The .mn version is tested, the .tex one isn't.
There have been several comments on IRC how the Wizard is a very
light sleeper now; aggravate cast by monsters makes him wake up
and come out of the tower. So, lets limit aggravate to either
outside or inside of the tower, depending on which side the player is.
Original bug report:
> When killing something that's carrying a potion, or death-drops a potion,
> or stands on top of a potion, with a force bolt or a wand of striking,
> "you hear something shatter" or "a potion of foo shatters" but the corpse
> is inverse as if it's (still) a pile.
Unfortunately the newsym() checks for already existing glyph, and
the gbuf doesn't distinguish between object piles and single items,
so newsym doesn't mark the location for update.
This is a dirty hack to force the newsym to update the glyph.
The glyph buffering should be revisited in a future version.
Allow 'msgtype=show' for messages that nethack uses Norep() for.
I don't know whether anyone will ever want to do that, but if felt
strange to have two different message suppression mechanisms that
were completely disconnected from each other.
For a user with no msgtype filter, there'll be no difference in
behavior.
Fix several warnings. Accept ASCII RUBOUT (aka DELETE) in addition
to backspace. [Should use erase_char (and add support for kill_char)
but that means pushing get_count() into the interface code.] Guard
against user causing the count to wrap if someone ever adds a call to
get_count() which doesn't specifying a maximum value.
This happens when levelporting to the first Sokoban level in wizard mode
before visiting the level, causing the branch stairs to not appear until
the space it is in comes in sight of the player.
The issue was that levels flagged premapped would cause the special
level coder to call sokoban_detect() before fixup_special() had a chance
to place the branch stairs properly.
Fix from Dynahack by Tung Nguyen.
ck_server_admin_msg() is only available for '#if (UNIX && MAIL)' but
moveloop() tried to call it unconditionally. Call if from the UNIX
edition of ckmailstatus() instead.
It's occasionally important for public servers to notify
all the players. Sending a mail is not reliable, as not everyone
wants to break conduct, or have mail on.
This adds a compile-time defined filename, which NetHack
will monitor. The contents of the file are in the same
format as SIMPLE_MAIL: "sender:message" on one line.
Changes to be committed:
modified: doc/fixes36.1
modified: include/extern.h
modified: src/mon.c
Fixes H4148 (bz246) and H4150 (bz248)
comments:
I wielded a c-corpse against a shapeshifting vampire bat (checked with a
stethoscope, it said "shapeshifter".) The bat turned to stone and spawned a
vampire. I hit the vampire and it also turned to stone, so I had two statues
from one monster (vampire bat and vampire.) Not sure if this is a bug or a
feature...
comments:
Engulfed by a fog cloud that was actually a Vampire,
and got the message: "You break out of the vampire!"
In light of the recent 'bad options' feedback issue where \r messed
up message display, try to to make newline handling be more consistent.
I'm sure there are lots of places that still handle \n manually, but
it's a start.
Duplicate of another recent report as far as drain resistance from
Excalibur/Stormbringer/Staff of Aesculapius not being shown by
enlightenment goes, but this one mentioned that it also wasn't being
shown for lycanthropy. Being inflicted by that does confers level-
drain resistance. were_change() wasn't calling set_uasmon() since
it isn't changing youmonst.data, but set_uasmon() is were intrinsics
conferred by creature form are set up. So call it when changing
were-form. Direct access to u.ulycn wasn't calling it either, so add
a new routine to assign the value to that instead doing so directly.
Some people are confused by the boulder -option, and
SYMBOLS=S_boulder, so allow defining symbols with
OPTION-lines in addition to the SYMBOLS.
So these are the same thing:
SYMBOLS=S_boulder:0
OPTIONS=S_boulder:0
Avoid the possibility of a user-supplied name interfering with killer
reason truncation. A monster named ", while" that killed the hero
would result in "killed by <mon-type> called " being displayed on the
tombstone after stripping while-helpless reason to shorten the text.
Shorten a function name in sp_lev.c that exceeded 31 characters.
That's a limit imposed by the VMS linker and the compiler complains
that it will be truncated.
Make all sp_lev.c functions which aren't listed in extern.h be static
and give all of them a declaration at the top of the file. I reordered
the ones already declared there in the same order as they occur in the
source, so the diff is quite a bit bigger than the actual changes.
(Once the one with the long name became static, the length of its name
no longer mattered, but I've shortened it anyway.)
Indent a couple of #pragma directives. Some pre-ANSI compiler didn't
like '#' in column 1 followed by something it didn't understand, even
when that occurred in a conditional block which was in the midst of
being excluded. (util/*_comp.y recently reminded me of that. files.c
should get a fix like this too.)
Mark panic() as never returning so that code analysis might be able
to do a smarter job. It required splitting done() into two routines
since the first part really can return (but not if PANICKED was the
reason it got called). done() is now much shorter and ends with a
call to new really_done(), and panic() skips done()'s might-return
part by calling really_done() directly.
Noticed in passing: the "report error to <list of SYSCF WIZARDS>"
code calls a routine which uses alloc(), which won't work very well
if the reason for panic was because malloc() ran out of memory.
When reading a novel, select a random passage which hasn't been shown
already. Once you've run through all the passages, it resets to get
them all again (with new random order that might happen to the be same
order if there aren't many passages). Switching to a different novel--
even another copy of the same one--will cause the previous passage
selection to be discarded and restarted from scratch if the prior book
is read again. Passage tracking for the most recently read novel is
kept across save and restore. (That means I needed to bump EDITLEVEL,
so it will need to be reset to 0 again before release.)
The memory leak (monst->mextra->edog, monst->mextra->mname,
monst->mextra for some monster were not released) I noticed recently
was due to recording a pet's full monster attributes with its corpse.
During save and restore, obj->oextra->omonst was being treated as a
full-fledged monster so worked as intended, but when freed, omonst
was treated as a black box and its mextra details weren't handled.
This should address the issue that the problem patch to display_pickinv()
was trying to deal with: releasing the inventory window before exiting
the program so Pasi's memory checker doesn't think it's a memory leak.
Not related, but in the same file:
The older qsort comparison routines are tagged with CFDECLSPEC to deal
with some C vs C++ interaction issue. I added that to the relatively
recently added 'sortloot' qsort compare callback.
I also changed worn_wield_only(), although it isn't actually called.
(display_minventory() has provisions to call it, but both of the latter's
callers pass in MINV_ALL so allow_all() gets used instead.)
Move this small utility routine to hacklib.c where other such things
live and where it's feasible to find them if you need the functionality
elsewhere.
Replace the code that Dean objected to with something a little bit more
robust. It doesn't rely on the two stacks being adjacent or having the
same inventory letter. It is still vulnerable to having another
splitobj() occur between the offending split and its attempted unsplit,
or to either of the two halves of a split being extracted from their
object chain. As before, failure to unsplit only results in the two
halves of the split remaining separate stacks, not anything more drastic
like the panic() that prompted all this.
Simplification of hallucinated currency names got mixed in with this
patch. I haven't bothered separating it back out.
Whoever reset PATCHLEVEL to 0 jumped the gun. This patch increments it
since change to the 'context' structure breaks save file compatibility,
so it will need to undergo another reset before release.
Flesh out wet towels a bit:
1) wielding a wet towel--or a dry one which becomes wet--won't give a
"you begin bashing with your wet towel" message when attacking;
2) if a formerly wet towel dries out completely while wielded, *do* give
"you begin bashing with your towel" on the next attack;
3) successfully hitting with a wet towel no longer always loses wetness;
4) water damage to dry towel always confers at least 1 point of wetness;
5) taking fire damage (via burnarmor() which is used for most types of
fire damage) has a chance to partially or fully dry a wet towel
(regardless of whether it's wielded at the time; applies to monsters
as well as hero; each towel being carried is checked until one is
affected, then any others escape drying.
Not done:
-) attacking with a wielded wet towel perhaps ought to be treated as a
weapon attack using whip skill rather than an augmented arbitrary-
junk-by-weight attack;
-) throwing a wet towel should probably ignore wetness--it's just a wet
piece of cloth when not finishing with a whip snap; right now, it
loses a point of wetness when thrown and usually--#3 above--another
point if it hits...;
-) hitting burning creatures is no different than hitting anything else;
-) likewise for hitting wet creatures.
Implement the suggestion that applying a non-cursed unicorn horn can
cure deafness like other similar troubles. Also, applying a cursed one
can cause deafness, although I made the chance be half of what it is
for the other troubles since they tend to be more significant.
This is entry #2 on the bugzilla list, but I haven't figured out how to
update that yet.
Allow one item to be taken out of a pile, and leave framework in place
for partial splits so that all monsters will take up to their capacity,
rather than leaving the whole pile if it's too big to take all at once.
Changes to be committed:
modified: include/context.h
modified: include/extern.h
modified: src/files.c
modified: src/invent.c
modified: src/sounds.c
modified: src/spell.c
Add a couple more tribute easter eggs.
- can lead to a remark by Death if you happen to have a pratchett book on
your person, as suggested by M. Stephenson (fat chance you will, or
think to #chat if you do, but it could be a tournament novelty or something
obscure to strive for).
- can draw some additional Death quotes from the tribute file. (There's two
in there right now. If anyone wants to add or suggest some more, please go
ahead. The Death quotes are at the end of the tribute file. One-liners
only please or the code will only pull the last line.
Three fixes, the first leading to the need to fix the second, and that
fix making dealing with the third be straightforward.
First, make the furthest level reached in any given branch be considered
interesting by #overview, even if no interesting features have been
encountered. This will result in listing Gnomish Mines and their first
level when someone goes down the stairs and immediately back up. It will
also produce a reminder of how far you've been--in each branch--after
retreating for any reason, without the need to manually add an annotation.
Second, #overview was suppressing the range of level numbers for Sokoban
because the author realized that the values were wrong. The record of
the furthest level reached was incorrect for builds-up branches, always
sticking with the deepest level even though it was the entrance. The
overview patch neglected to do the same suppression for Vlad's Tower and
the level range ("36 to 38" or similar) there was wrong. This fixes the
furthest level reached problem and also fixes #overview's level range
handling for builds-up branches.
Third and last, a long-standing issue which I don't think has ever been
formally reported: the level difficulty calculation used for monster
creation treated the upper (harder to get to) levels of builds-up branches
as if they were easier since they're closer to the surface as the gopher
burrows. So sokoban generated easier monsters on its final level than on
the ones leading up to that. Make depth for difficulty purposes account
for descent to the entrance and then ascent to the level of interest.
There was a distressing amount of trial and error involved. The dungeon
layout structures are not exactly easy to work with, and I never managed
to get builds_up() based on branch data to work correctly. Basing it on
dungeon data works as intended provided the branch has more than one
level, but it will yield incorrect result if we ever add a single-level
branch reached via stairs up rather than stairs down.
Honor things like OPTIONS:role=!tourist and NETHACKOPTIONS='race=!orc'
when performing interactive role selection. I don't think it was
completely correct when players let the program choose, but it must
have been close enough because we haven't gotten any complaints.
The post-3.4.3 interactive selection was ignoring options-base filtering
entirely and did get complaints for the pre-beta.
Role selection has a ton of code which bloats the program without doing
anything useful for actual game play. It ought to be split off into a
separate front end.
Changes to be committed:
modified: include/botl.h
modified: include/extern.h
modified: include/wintty.h
modified: src/botl.c
modified: src/options.c
modified: src/windows.c
modified: win/tty/wintty.c
get the tty versions started
Changes to be committed:
modified: include/extern.h
modified: src/botl.c
modified: src/options.c
modified: src/windows.c
defer notification of the window port until after
proper initialization. Options are processed very
early in 3.6.0
Add "(glowing light blue)" to the formatted object description when
Sting or Orcrist is glowing due to presence of orcs or "(glowing red)"
if Grimtooth is glowing due to elves. Use "(glowing)" if blind;
assumes that some aspect of the glow (perhaps warmth or vibration) can
be noticed via touch.
Make enlightenment's "you are warned about <monster class> because of
<artifact>" catch up with Orcrist and Grimtooth. It was attributing
Orcrist's warning against orcs to Sting, and Grimtooth's warning was
against "something" rather than elves.
The glow color is now a new field in artilist[], so the biggest part
of this patch is adding an extra value to each artifact's definition.
Implement Boudewijn's suggestion that #name be extended to allow naming
something of the floor. I'm sure he wants this so that he can avoid
picking up gray stones, but it's something I started to implement years
ago (probably at an earlier suggestion from him...) and then forgot all
about.
This changes the #name menu to be
m - a monster
i - a particular object in inventory
o - the type of an object in inventory
f - the type of an object upon the floor
d - the type of an object on discoveries list
a - record an annotation for the current level
What do you want to name?
with the i and o choices omitted when inventory is empty. If the
'lootabc' option is set it will use a through f instead, but then the
last three entries change letters when inventory is empty. 'y' and 'n'
are still accelerators (effectively hidden choices) for the i and o
entries, corresponding to the answers for the 3.4.3 and earlier "name
an individual object?" prompt.
The floor choice asks you to pick a location. If you pick yourself,
then the top object of the pile underneath you is targetted. Otherwise,
the target must be an object glyph, and the object must have its dknown
bit set, so have previously been seen up close or revealed via blessed
potion of object detection. To make it be more useful, targetting an
object on an adjacent square will set the dknown bit. (Just the top
object if there is a pile there.) There's no cockatrice corpse touch
check since you aren't actually touching anything, just looking.
The setting of dknown bit for an adjacent object has been extended to
the '/' and ';' commands for examining things on the screen as well.
It's only done for adjacent spots you actively select, not all 8 spots
around you.
