When examining a buried object (after detection has revealed it),
suppress setting of its dknown bit when hero is adjacent. [That
couldn't actually happen, because the glyph on the map that we're
trying to examine would be replaced by one for whatever is on the
surface when sighted hero moved next to it, and an earlier clause
in the same test prevents blinded hero from getting to this point.]
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.
Some groundwork for detection enhancements.
you.h - just formatting
flag.h - add iflags.save_uswallow so that u.uswallow manipulation ...
save.c - ... can be undone if a hangup save occurs
Make the '^' command catch up with far-look as far as identifying
trapped doors and trapped chests revealed by confused gold detect.
You need to be blinded when approaching the '^', otherwise as soon
as you can see a door or chest or whatever else is there the fake
bear trap will be removed from the map.
rnd_otyp_by_namedesc() had an off by one error when choosing which
matching item to return, making it impossible to successfully wish
for the Amulet of Yendor, always yielding the plastic imitation.
n == 2, maxprob == 2
prob = rn2(maxprob); => 0 or 1
i = 0; while (i < n - 1 && (prob -= ... + 1) > 0) i++;
always exited the loop on the first test of the condition because
subtracting 1 from 0 or 1 never yielded a result greater than 0.
It's still suboptimal: "amulet of yendor" should find an exact match
and should never return "cheap plastic imitation of amulet of yendor"
from the partial match.
I think biasing the choice among multiple candidates based on their
generation probabilities only makes sense when all the candidates are
within the same class. If scroll of light occurred in 5% of scrolls
and spellbook of light occurred in 10% of spellbooks (both percentages
pulled out of thin air), having "light" get a 2 out 3 chance to be a
spellbook doesn't seem right because scrolls are four times more
likely than spellbooks (in most of the dungeon; books aren't randomly
generated at all on the rogue level or in Gehennom).
...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.
Add MG_BW_LAVA to mapglyph() instead of hijacking MG_DETECT. Used
to display lava in inverse video if color is disabled and lava is
using the same display character as water (which is the default).
(The use_inverse option must be enabled for tty to honor it. X11's
text mode doesn't care. Win32 does care but probably shouldn't--it's
not a case like tty where the hardware might not support it.)
This implements both MG_DETECT and MG_BW_LAVA for X11, but only if
the program is built with TEXTCOLOR enabled. Those should work even
when color is not supported, but I suspect that configuration is
unlikely to ever be used so didn't want to spend the time to figure
out how to do it. (The relevant data is overloaded on the color
data, so not available when TEXTCOLOR is disabled.)
The win32 revision is untested.
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.
If the recently added release routine ever gets called twice for
some reason, don't free already freed memory, or worse, was freed
here and then allocated for something else which is still in use.
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.
A few things which might conceivably pass negative values to ctype
routines. Some are post-3.6.0. None of them explain the sporadic
Windows assertion failure.
Using tolower() without verifying the argument isupper() should be
completely safe when tolower() is a function but might not be when
it's a macro. (Likewise for toupper() without islower().) NetHack's
lowc() function is always safe, at least for ASCII.
I've hunted for other instances where monster hit points were set
to zero or less without calling the routine that kills off the
monster (see recent mon_unslime() vs zhitm()) and didn't find any
for mhp subtraction. I haven't checked for direct assignment yet.
For a while I thought I'd found several cases where a monster was
intended to be killed but got left with positive hit points, but
it turned out that lifesaved_monster(), of all places, was setting
them to zero. I've moved that to its callers so that it isn't so
well hidden. And changed several ''if ((mon->mhp -= dmg) <= 0)''
into separate subtraction and 'if' just so the mhp manipulation is
a bit more visible.
I think the only actual change here is the message for monster
being killed by lava, where glass golems now melt instead of burn.
Change description of area outside of the swallow animation from
"interior of a monster" to "unreconnoitered". For the animation
characters themselves, don't suppress the list of other screen
features which use the same character ('/' for wand and so on).
Add a data.base entry for "unreconnoitered" in case someone tries
to use it to look up an unfamiliar term.
They aren't walls.
Noticed while working on a potential change for far-look while
swallowed, zap beams have a bogus description of "wall" that
showed up when looking at '/' and '\\'. I'm guessing that vbeam
and hbeam were cloned from actual wall symbols and then lslant
and rslant got cloned from them. There doesn't seem to be any
other reason for the description, which is both wrong and applies
to symbols which aren't on the screen at a time when the player
can use far-look to examine them. It's been this way since the
creation of the second cvs repository used to start the current
git one; I didn't attempt to go back any farther than that.