a frozen (possibly sleeping) monster cannot be grateful unless it wakes up.
From a bug report. The pit case can only happen if mfrozen is
non-zero, but other traps may leave msleeping set as well.
<Someone> reported this during 3.4.0 beta. If you are blind and levitating,
unseen monsters are shown as "I", just like when not levitating, but they
are never erased after they move, unlike not levitating. Display this
case correctly as well.
Reported to the mailing list on 5/23. To fix this, u.usteed cannot simply
be unset earlier, so I put a check for this special case into enlightenment().
<email deleted>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:03 PM
Subject: Beta 1 comments
> The description of Y monsters will be updated in the Guidebook
> 'monsters' option list to match mon_explain[], I assume? (Yes, yes,
> documentation :-)
<email deleted>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:03 PM
Subject: Beta 1 comments
>A minor thing, but it'd be nice if the "trapped" now in lookat()
>had a defsyms[trap_to_defsym(tt)].explanation to tell you _how_
>the monster's trapped.
<email deleted>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:03 PM
Subject: Beta 1 comments
> Headstone writing still uses the adjective "weird" when engraving with
> a wand of digging.
<email deleted>
Subject: Beta 1 comments
> Is "You swing your axe through thin air" the right message to give
> when you try to use it to chop through a statue or boulder? Relatedly,
> this line in dig() looks as if it needs updating to the new dig_typ
> indices:
> Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
> <email deleted> on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 at 21:04:54
> After alt-Q or F)ile, Q)uitting, it is still possible to F)ile, S)ave your
> game. By doing this after you are shown your inventory [fully identified] and
> attributes (It must be done before the last "Do you want to view your %1"
> dialog is answered--usually conduct), which means you can know what you are
> holding-- although it won't be officially identified. But you can use it to
> avoid putting on, say, an amulet of strangulation by mistake.
Based on a report from <Someone>, avoid calling rn2(ml) when ml == 0.
Since level 0 monster always fail in their spells, just skip the whole
loop looking for a good spell.
The NOCWD_ASSUMPTIONS conditional code allows readonly
parts of NetHack to be separated from areas that require write-access.
This allows the recent panic log needed a prefix.
Make all the quest nemesis monsters resist stoning so their death messages
make sense. Some already did resist. Stoning seems like such a trivial
way to overcome a quest nemesis anyway. If it were to be allowed, multiple
death messages would be needed in the quests.
I'm surprised that no one has noticed this one yet. When
wielding two weapons, naming either of them caused two-weapon
combat mode to stop (unless the weapon already had another name
which was long enough to be overwritten by the new name without
allocating a replacement object).
From the newsgroup: creating Sting via naming didn't produce
intrinsic warning (orc detection) if it was already wielded at the
time. (Un- and re-wielding it sufficed as a workaround.)
Reported to the mailing list. If you set your monster symbol options, and
use ';' and select a known invisible monster by screen, a crash would occur
accessing a null pointer.
Reported directly to the list. If you are not the wizard and start nethack
on the command line with the -D flag (or -X), the game reports that you're
entering discover mode but does not actually do it. The flags.explore in
the save file overwrote the new value. Save the flag while reading flags
if discover mode was requested.
Add an optional paniclog file, controlled by a new PANICLOG macro that can
be used to log all panic and impossible messages. Helpful when people
forget to send, or didn't see, the message.
In item-selection menus, as you know one can press "=" to select all
rings, say. This doesn't work if the letters run out before you get to
the rings, however (because there are so many items).
Menu code did not check group accelerators on items without assigned letters
(if the letters run out). Fixed.
Moves the remaining platform-specific options
to their own section of the Guidebook and documents
the "video:autodetect" option required for tiles on MSDOS.
"Force the mount to succeed?" doesn't necessarily do so;
it's worse than useless to suppress the message which indicates
why a mount attempt is failing when a failure occurs.
when investigating the report of death due to falling off steed leaving
"you were riding" in the final attributes. (This doesn't fix that bug.)
Dismounting calls teleds() to put the character on the map and teleds()
does various iron ball manipulations, but during level change the ball
is removed from the map and those manipulations won't work as intended.
As per <Someone>:
> I had a game today where I was polymorphed (by a sink) into a mimic, and
> #monster-ed (hid). The symbol on the map for me was ]. Then, I polymorphed
> again, this time into a kobold lord -- but the symbol remained ]. This
> seems wrong.
Handle this similar to the polyman code.
longtime bug in damageum, if hero is poly'd to something with fire damage,
and hits a paper or straw golem, mondead will get called twice for the
monster. Fix this, by working like AD_CURS does no clay golem. Also, make
sure no scrolls, et al, get dropped by disallowing a corpse.
Fix the reported bug of being double-billed for a bag of
holding destroyed if #loot is used to put a wand of cancellation
into it while it's on a shop floor. (The bug report neglected
to mention a second aspect of the situation: you wouldn't get
billed for the wand if you used an unpaid one to trigger this.)
There's a check in doloot that's supposed to disallow looting nearby
monsters if you loot a container at the current location. But, it only
worked if you looted the last container. Make the behavior consistent.
The worn bits, et al, were not all cleared when the shopkeeper grabbed your
pack. This currently affects only alternate (non-twoweap) and quivered
objects. This could lead to a panic or a crash.
[I've lost the #Rxxx number for this bug report....]
When attacking a non-stone golem with a cockatrice corpse,
suppress the redundant "<monster> turns to stone" message which
preceeded the "<monster> solidifies. It's now a stone golem."
messages.
From the newsgroup: using #chat to talk to a "meditating"
monster like quest nemesis or Medusa could elicilit responses
without waking it up (at least if you moved fast enough enough
to probe it before it got its next turn).