From: "Ken Arromdee" :
> My point is that you should be allowed to take vengeance on thieving
> nymphs too. The reasoning "a real knight wouldn't kill a nymph for stealing"
> doesn't make sense because the things a real knight would do instead (like
> arresting) aren't part of the game.
This is a compromise. This doesn't allow vengeance when you were
told "you gladly hand over ...", but does for most other cases, and for
leprechauns.
Can't push boulders through iron bars; traps can't roll such through either;
likewise for objects thrown by monsters.
Thrown objects susceptible to breaking might do so when they hit iron bars.
Assorted monsters can pass through iron bars; ditto for polymorphed character.
Attempting to dig iron bars will wake nearby monsters instead of yielding
"you swing your pick-axe through thin air".
Autodig won't accept iron bars as candidate location.
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> Since Priests' knowledge of the buc-status of an object only
> kicks in when the name is being looked at for the first time,
> they get an "X" option when taking items out of a newly-looted
> container, but B, U, and C thereafter; could their ability be
> pre-applied to the container's contents when constructing the
> menu, to avoid this anomaly?
>
moveloop() sets a flag when a were/poly change should occur, but it
delays this change if the hero is Unchanging or cannot be interrupted (e.g.
praying). However, by the time the change can be applied, the reason
may no longer be valid. Reset the change indicator when this is the case.
Avoids possible strange polymorphs and were crashes.
Implement a fix for the problem From a bug report:
if the destination position on the Plane of Fire has a randomly
placed trap on it, you'd get an impossibility warning of "couldn't
place lregion type 5" (and then arrive successfully at the target
spot anyway). As his investigation indicated, the code to remove
such traps wasn't being reached because the `bad_location' check
yields true for trapped spots.
This throttles insect creation through monster spell casting. Especially
insects. It was creating m_lev worth of insects--for a 25th level priest,
that means every batch of insects was size 25!
I also lowered the range for nasties creation for similar reasons.
Add "travel" boolean option to enable/disable travel command.
Add "mouse_support" wincap option to enable/disable mouse.
- When running the win32 tty version full-screen, some people
complained about the square mouse cursor.
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the cursor?
<email deleted> <email deleted>
Followup-To:
On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 00:20:06 <email deleted> wrote:
> Ok, let me be more specific: when playing the windows non-GUI version, is
> there a way to get rid of the large rectangular white cursor?
>
> <email deleted> wrote in message
> <email deleted>
>> Can you get rid of the cursor in the windows version? I really hate that
>> thing.
>>
<email deleted>
>Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
>Subject: Disabling Mouse Input
>
>I purchased an older P120 laptop to be able to play Nethack at the hotel.
>I find that I rest my thumbs on the mouse touch pad all too often and my
>@ moves unexpectedly at times. I took a peruse through defaults.nh, but
>came up empty.
>
>Anyone know if mouse input can be disabled?
>
>MRSisson
- the "Burdened" message could disappear from the status line if it was
updated partway thru in_container, clearing the bot flags. Re-order
message so it comes after add_to_container, as in 3.3.1.
- It was possible for hmon_hitmon to call mhurtle to move a monster into a
hole or other trap, causing it to migrate. Then, hmon_hitmon would
subtract hp, and could mark the monster as dead. Later, dmonsfree would
notice the monster wasn't on the level anymore, causing the impossible.
Avoid the problem by just not hurtling the monster if it's going to die.
It's possible it will get lifesaved after not hurtling. Technically, if it
does die, the corpse should be hurtled, but won't be.
- treat jousting similarly
- if you're polymorphed into an eel, you were able to drown things like xorns
- also, fix the tombstone message when an eel drowns you, it was basing the
message on your location, not the eel's location
- the response field of the pop-up dialog was getting smaller by a few
pixels each time it was used. This was because the width calculation
was effectively stripping off the margins (4 pixels total) each time.
Don't do that.
Replace "feature_toggle" implementation with an easier-to-understand
boolean option called "lootabc".
Provide "showrace", an option to display the hero by race glyph rather
than by role glyph.
Document the above.
Remove some obsolete Mac options.
If you stepped on an unknown rolling boulder trap, and that rolling boulder
hit a monster and killed it, you would be called a killer. This makes
playing a pacifism conduct game rather difficult.
- track boulders from unknown rolling boulder traps, and don't charge/credit
hero if they kill monsters. This is done by temporarily setting otrapped on
such boulders.
- boulders from known traps are still charged/credited to the hero
- fix a couple places in ohitmon where is_poisonable wasn't checked along
with opoisoned.
Monster centaurs can't wear boots, and characters who polymorph
into centaurs have their boots pushed off, but there was nothing to
prevent such characters from putting those boots right back on.
Make a change suggested by <Someone> to have the Wizard
enter harassment mode when you perform the invocation, in case
you manage to obtain the Book of the Dead without killing him.
Instead of just initiating that periodic effect, behave as if
you have actually killed him (which also affects random monster
generation frequency, prayer timeout, and shopkeeper salutations).
Allow the special level and dungeon compilers to handle input
files which have CR+LF delimited lines. Apparently Cygwin doesn't
convert MSDOS style line ends into newlines the way stdio should
do for text I/O. The resulting unexpected CR characters result in
syntax errors.
And explicitly using '\n' on both the lex and yacc sides of
MAP processing allows removal of the old NEWLINE hack for Mac MPW.
It won't matter what numeric value that character escape sequence
has internally.
- if a mimic mimics a boulder (top sokoban) or a door atop
a closed door the closed door didn't block your vision after
the mimic is sensed.
- also, make mondied consistent with xkilled WRT corpses on inaccessible
locations: no corpse
Well, this proved rather annoying. Problems included:
-- the solid rock problem that was noticed
-- teleporting to a spot two spaces away but on the other side of solid rock
could also leave the chain in solid rock
-- in one place I said chainx instead of ballx, which could cause problems with
teleporting
-- the teleport code moved the player before moving the ball, violating the
assumption that the player hasn't been moved yet (which only caused problems
after I added the solid rock fix).
Ball movement still isn't quite right, though the cases are really rare. I
may fix them later.
Fix the reported problem of incorrect conditional logic
making it impossible to bump into closed doors when moving while
impaired for the #if STEED configuration.
- report: twoweapon mode, eat fried food, get messages like:
Your sword slips from your hands.
Your sword also slips from your hands.
- the fix tracks the kind of the 1st weapon, and adds "other" to the 2nd
message if necessary
- change the way the tile sizes are calculated, based on the image size,
so non-square tiles can once again be supported.
- fix Gnome port so it can actually display non-square tiles, several
height/width uses were backwards
- update Install.X11 to note the number of tiles per row in the XPM image
- this was a betabug I think, but not recorded as such
- if you kicked a throne, any GEM_CLASS item could be generated, including rocks
- changes behavior to be consistent with gems from fountains
Format multiple bad wizkit items a little better. It will scroll off the screen
if there are more than a screen of bad items, but that's probably not too
likely.
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<email deleted>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:01 AM
Subject: Bug in 3.4.0: spellbook fading
> Dip a spellbook in a fountain:
> "The spellbook fadefades."
>
> In get_wet (potion.c), otense is used, which returns "fades",
> redundantly, as a suffix to "fade".
