From a beta tester six years ago: specifying 'scores:own' resulted
in an option setting of 'scores:3 top/2 around/own' when player
wanted 'scores:0 top/0 around/own'. Change it so that when fewer
than all three fields are given new values, the others are reset
rather than having their old values merge with new settings.
Also, 'scores:none' can be used to get 'scores:0 top/0 around/!own'
to skip the scores at the end without skipping notification of
whether the ending game's score made it into the top N list.
Options parsing accepts '!scores' and then ignores the negation.
Changing the optlist flags for 'scores' to allow negation resulted
in a complaint about missing value; I gave up instead of pursuing
that. 'scores:none' should suffice.
Setting 'scores:!top/own' or 'scores:!around/own' would behave as
'scores:1 top/!own' or 'scores:1 around/!own', respectively.
'scores:!top/!around/own' behaved as 'scores:1 top/1 around/own'
(note affect of two prior negations on final field compared to
single negation in the earlier two variations). This fixes those.
Prayer reward can already uncurse a cursed saddle because hero is
stuck on it. Allow scroll/spell of remove curse to do so too.
The original riding implementation in slash'em operated with the
saddle in hero's inventory rather than in the steed's, so it would
have handled this without any extra effort. Presumeably that was
overlooked when incorporating riding into nethack changed it to
have saddle be part of the steed's inventory instead of hero's.
When swallowed and blind, the swallowing monster is described
accurately, but being held rather than swallowed describes the
monster as "it". That's normal, but the status feedback section
of ^X output lists
|You are held by it.
which looks pretty weird. Change that to be
|You are held by an unseen creature.
Zapping wand of opening or spell of knock at engulfer while swallowed
would make the engulfer expel the hero; this change makes zapping
other holders release their hold. Zapping self now achieves the same
effect, as does breaking a non-empty wand of opening. When poly'd
hero is holding a monster rather than being held, that monster will
be released.
Engulfers can't re-engulf for 1 or 2 turns after releasing the hero
in order to prevent hero from being immediately re-engulfed. Impose
the same limitation on other holders.
From newsgroup discussion where slash'em changes have revealed a
latent nethack bug: prevent placing level teleporters in single-
level branches. The Knox level doesn't have any level teleporters
(or random traps) but wizard mode wishing could create them there.
They wouldn't do anything because the only possible destination
would be the same level. Pushing a boulder onto one used to trigger
an infinite loop (and still does in slash'em, which has other
single-level branches besides Ft.Ludios) trying to relocate it.
Boulder pushing was changed 15 years ago to prevent the infinite
loop and to avoid giving "the boulder disappears" message when a
level teleporter failed, but rolling boulder traversal lacked that
same change--it wasn't vulnerable to looping but could give an
inaccurate message claiming that the boulder disappeared when it
actually didn't. Fixing this is a bit late; rolling boulder trap
creation was recently changed to not choose a path that rolls over
teleportation or level tele traps any more.
When Qt's extended command selection dialog is set for all commands
or all normal mode commands, it displays the "#wait" command as
"wait (rest)". Picking by mouse is straightforward; the extra text
on the button has no effect. Picking by typing "#wa" will choose it;
there aren't any other choices matching that so the player never gets
as far as typing 'i'. This change allows the player to type "#rest"
as an alternate way to choose it. "#re" matches some other stuff
and the choice is left pending, adding 's' makes it unique but not
explicitly chosen (so still possible to back up), then adding 't'
chooses it. The core never knows the difference.
Simplify extended command selection under Qt by allowing the
autocomplete subset be one of the choices for its [filter]. That's
the same subset as X11 uses, where #q is unambiguous for #quit
instead of competing with #quaff and #quiver.
Unlike under X11, the player can use [filter] to switch to the full
command set and get access to a few commands which have no useable
key and aren't flagged to autocomplete. (Mostly obscure wizard mode
commands but #exploremode is in that situation.)
In normal and explore modes, the [filter] button just toggles between
two sets of commands (all normal mode commands vs autocomplete normal
mode commands). In wizard mode there are four choices and you might
need to click on [filter] up to three times to step through to the
target one among four sets (all commands, all normal mode commands,
autocomplete commands for both normal and wizard, full subset of just
the wizard mode commands).
The #twoweapon command was flagged as autocomplete back when using
an extended command was the only way to execute it. Take that off
since simple 'X' suffices. Do the same for wizard mode commands
that can be invoked with control characters. Probably ought to do
the same for #overview too but this change doesn't.
I started to add the autocomplete flag for #exploremode but that
would require an extra letter for #enhance so I decided not to.
There are some wizard mode commands that can't be executed under
X11 because they aren't flagged to autocomplete and its extended
command selection widget only offers autocomplete commands as
choices. I haven't attempted to change that.
Always require paranoid confirmation for #panic rather than just
when it has been enabled for #quit.
For Qt, always render text windows with fixed width font instead
of switching from proportional to fixed when the text contains
any line(s) with four consecutive spaces. That was really meant
for menu lines without selector letters which want to be lined
up under or over ones with such, and wasn't a very good heuristic
for text windows.
Most of the text files for the '?' command happen to have such
lines so are already being shown with fixed-width font. data.base
entries were hit or miss; most have attribution lines indented by
four or more spaces but some don't, so display was inconsistent:
some were shown with fixed-width font and some with proportional.
Pull request fixed two genetic engineer problems:
1) lack of "you hit <foo>" message when you were poly'd into one;
2) lack of shield effect animation ('sparkle') when a genetic
engineer hit magic resistant hero.
That opened a can o' worms.
3) hero lacking see invisible, poly'd into genetic engineer, and
turning target into an invisible stalker got no feedback about
the target vanishing.
A genetic engineer attacking a monster would polymorph it turn
after turn.
4) put back the teleport capability I removed when bringing it over
from slash'em;
5) have genetic engineer teleport away after polymorphing someone.
The various mhitm_ad_XXXX() routines used g.vis to have caller
decide visibility, but hmonas() for poly'd hero didn't set that so
some messages--not just attack induced polymorph--were based on
visibility of earlier monster vs monster activity.
6) have hmonas() set up g.vis even though it doesn't use that.
There may have been one or two other minor fixes before I managed
to force the lid back onto the can.
Fixes#485
When travel destination is one step away the code stops probing
for a path and reverts to normal movement, but it wasn't handling
the case where the one step was an impossible diagonal except for
hero being a grid bug. If the situation was a diagonal that's
too narrow to squeeze through, travel would end and regular move
would fail.
I've rejected the suggested fix and done it differently, without
attempting to figure out why the change to end_running() would
have been wrong. Clearly it was code that called end_running()
which needed to be fixed.
The test case was
..x|.
..|@.
.....
while carrying enough that directly moving from '@' to 'x' will
not be allowed. '@' would move one step south west and then stop
because findtravelpath() had ended travel due to single step move.
A similar case is
###
|x-#-
|0@.|
where 'x' is a doorway with intact open door and '0' is a boulder.
Prior to this fix, player would get "a boulder blocks the way" and
not move. After, '@' will move northeast then northwest then west
to get into orthogonal position and finally south into the doorway.
Even though it definitely fixes both mentioned test cases, I won't
be surprised if this results in regressions for other situations.
Fixes#487
Requesting a lookup of "arc ranks" or "wizard ranks" will show a
list of the rank titles and the experience levels that use them
for the specified role. Looking up a specific rank title such
as "curator" works for many of them, but some such as "wizard"
already match existing entries and continue to do so. There is
just a bare list of the titles with the levels they apply to, no
attempt at flavor text.
Also, add a lookup key for "novel" and "paperback book" which
have been yielding the "no match" result. It lists all 41 of
the Discworld titles. Again, just a bare list, no added flavor.
These all look ok on tty, curses, Qt (which watches for any line
containing four consecutive spaces while collecting the text to
be displayed and switches to fixed-width font if it is sees that),
and X11 (which specifies fixed-width font for popup text windows
in default NetHack.ad file). It might not look good on Windows
GUI if that is using a proportional font.
Change how menu choice 'A' (auto-select everything) works. It will
now auto-select all things that match any other choices (object
class(es) or BUCX state(s) or possibly unpaid status). So it still
skips the second menu of specific objects. And it still picks all
objects when it is the only choice or if player uses '.' to select
it along with all the rest of the first menu's possibilities.
This change won't help anyone who picks 'A' without really meaning
to. (Maybe add a paranoid_confirm setting to for full-menu-A?)
Affects container apply/#loot and Drop-multiple. The invent.c part
is just formatting.
Change Trollsbane versus troll corpse revival: instead of revival
failing if Trollsbane is wielded at time of revival attempt, mark
the corpse no-revive if killed by Trollsbane (whether by the hero
or a monster).
If a no-revive corpse is within view when time to revive occurs,
give "the troll corpse twitches feebly" even when the hero isn't
responsible. That used to only apply if the hero zapped the
corpse with undead turning, which would have become inoperative
because now being zapped by undead turning clears the no-revive
flag and revives as normal. In other words, undead turning magic
overrides killed-by-Trollsbane or non-ice troll having been in an
ice box.
Report states that the dungeon overview menu doesn't honor the
'menu_headings' option. However, dungeon overview is not a menu.
Despite that, switch its hardcoded use of bold and inverse to use
the option value instead. It doesn't really need two different
highlights and this allows user to control which video attribute
gets used. If someone wants different highlighting for overview
than for menus, they're out of luck.
Fixes#481
Report raises two issues:
1) if you perform magic mapping while engulfed (or underwater) the
map got updated and player could view it with cursor+autodescribe,
but when done viewing it did not switch back to the limited engulfed
(or underwater) display.
2) when picking a teleport destination while engulfed/underwater you
have to pick the spot while seeing only the limited view of the map
that is shown while engulfed/underwater.
This fixes#1. I'm inclined to classify #2 as traditional behavior
and am not going to try to figure out a fix for it.
Fixes#483
Homemade tin would yield a flat 50 points of nutrition even when
made from a corpse that provides less than 50 points. Take the
minimum of the two amounts instead of always 50.
Fixes#478
Statues on Medusa's level are supposed to be from petrified creatures
rather than somebody's artwork, so creatures that can't be turned to
stone aren't eligible. However, creatures who change form when hit
with stoning damage (foo golems to stone golem) were being allowed.
Also, statues in cockatrice nest rooms are supposed to be from former
characters and take their names from the high scores file. But when
'record' is empty, the statue would be of a random creature instead
of being changed into a player character, so both not the latter and
possibly something that can't be petrified.
I've taken the Medusa part as-is but did the cockatrice nest part
differently. It rejected statues of non-stonable creatures in case
the named character attempt failed. I've changed things so that when
a named player character can't be created, it will use an unnamed one
instead of random creature. The issue of maybe ending up with a non-
stonable form goes away because all player characters are vulnerable.
Fixes#479
Player's pet killed a troll with Trollsbane and the corpse later
revived. He assumed that killing a troll with Trollsbane is what
prevents troll corpse revival but that is inhibited by the hero
be wielding Trollsbane at the time revival is attempted.
Having killed-by-Trollsbane be the reason for blocking revival
would be much better but looks like a lot of work for something
which was supposed to be a one-line enhancement to an under-used
artifact. This extends revival inhibition to having anyone on
the level be wielding Trollsbane rather than just the hero.
Not a proper fix but I think it's better than nothing.
Closes#475
when wearing an amulet. Wearing any amulet while having the
Protected attribute was conferring an amulet of guarding's +2 MC
bonus. Mattered when Protected via worn ring(s) of protection or
wearing Mitre of Holiness or wielding Tsurugi of Muramasa for
hero, or the latter two or being a high priest[ess] for monsters.
(Being Proteced via cloak of protection already yields maximum MC,
or via amulet of guarding yields intended result.)
The fixes37.0 entry oversimplifies.
Fixes#477
A polymorphed hero who exploded when attacking thin air would use a
radius based on experience level rather than the fixed radius that
the monster form itself used. When exploding at a monster it didn't
wake other monsters at all.
Fixes#465
I accidentally toggled the 'altmeta' option On and got this
non sequitur result when trying to toggle it back Off:
|The altmeta option may not both have a value and be negated.
When wights were given a cold attack back in January, their
difficulty rating wasn't re-evaluated. The dummy monstr.c
produced by 'makedefs -m' puts it at 8 rather than previous 7.
I tried to follow the directions for the cron generated update
but the first step yielded
fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.
so I just diff'd the cron-NetHack-3.7 branch's Guidebook.txt
and the NetHack-3.7 one, applied that diff as a patch to my
copy of NetHack-3.7, and am committing it as an ordinary change.
Passage 10: single quote at start of paragraph should be a double.
Passage 14: second instance of "megalomaniac" was misspelled.
Add a couple of comments about some deliberately misspelled words.
Adopt a feature mentioned in the xNetHack release announcement.
If you use the fire ('f') command when wielding a throw-and-return
weapon while your quiver is empty and the 'autoquiver' option is
Off, throw the wielded weapon instead of prompting to fill the
quiver. It will usually return and be re-wielded, so be ready to
fire again.
Implemented from scratch.
Guidebook.tex already uses mixed case for "Special Thanks"
but it put Dungeoneers into a new section--one on par with
Credits--rather than have that be a continuation of the
Special Thanks subsection. Split the difference: make
Dungeoneers be a second subsection of Credits in both.
Apply visibility fixups for monsters triggering door trap
explosions or digging through doors similar to the monster-opens-
door-handling from a couple of days. Again, the issue is that
hero/player can see a closed door in situations where they can't
see an open one, and messages about the door being opened or
destroyed need to take that into account when seeing a closed
door go away.
Not as thoroughly tested as monster just opening closed door.
It was possible to wish for a secret door, if done at a wall or
door location, but not for a regular door. Add that. (Dig
followed by locking magic possibly followed by open or by kick
could cover most of the details without wish support, but there
wasn't any way to force a closed or locked door to be trapped.)
The wish request can include "trapped" (or "untrapped", the
default) and/or one of the 5 door states: "locked", "closed",
"open", "broken", or "doorless" (default is "closed"). If more
than one state is specified, the last one in the wish text
overrides others. If trapped is specified with open or broken or
doorless, it will be ignored.
Allow "looted" when wishing for a fountain, sink, throne, or tree.
For the ones with multiple loot tracking bits, it sets them all.
Explicitly reject a wish for a wall rather than claiming nothing
of that description exists.
Formatting: wrap various wide lines.
Report from roughly two and half years ago was about "<monster>
opens the door" without displaying <monster>.
Monster movement first decides whether a monster can pass closed
door. If so, the monster is placed at the door spot, a message
is given about that movement (unlock, open, smash down, &c), and
finally the map is updated.
Changing the sequence to update the map before issuing the door
message was not sufficient to fix this. In the corridor plus
closed door plus lit room map fragment shown here, when 'O' moved
to '+', you would see it there if the hero is at '1' or '2', but
not if at '3', '4', or '5'; open door was shown instead. But the
message described 'O' accurately rather than as "it" for all those
hero locations.
: -----
: #O+1...
: |2...
: |3...
: |4...
: |5...
: -----
For 3,4,5 the #vision command shows the closed door as 3 before
the O move, but blank (0) after. In other words, the closed door
is within line of sight but once opened, the doorway spot isn't.
It makes sense that the closed door behaves like a wall but I'm
not sure whether the behavior for an open door's breach does too.
I had an awful workaround that successfully displayed the monster,
but it wouldn't show the same thing if the door was already open,
so I've changed the situation to yield "You see a door open."
For !force_invmenu when attempting a command that needs an object,
if inventory is completely empty
What do you want to <foo>? [*]
will report "Never mind" and stop asking if player presses return
or report "Not carrying anything" and reprompt if player types '*'.
But for force_invmenu, it would report
Not carrying anything. Never mind.
without any reprompting in between the two messages. Just skip
the second message in that situation.
Perhaps the first case should avoid reprompting too but I haven't
gone that far.
Incorporate the changes from pull request #467, which itself
incorporates a fix for issue #441. Allows hands/self to be an
acceptable but hidden choice (don't think any command actually
needs this). When 'force_invent' option is on, show all the
acceptable but usually hidden choices if no ordinary candidates
are available instead of having an empty menu. Also, omit
force_invent's "* - (list everything)" extra menu entry if the
menu already contains everything.
Cleans up a couple of whitespace issues too. I changed at least
one more and added a couple of comments. I'm not sure about the
comment change that I made in hack.h; the original said "foo is
identical to foo" but the revision might not be accurate.
Fixes#467Fixes#441
Previous update added one change to Guidebook.tex which was omitted
from Guidebook.mn, so catch up.
Don't try to list the interfaces or ports which support each menu
command key. Just have a generic "not every command is implemented
by every interface" instead.
Flesh out the one sentence menu_search description.
Update an example which shows changing menu_first_page to '{' now
that '{' has a default use for something else (menu_shift_left).
Since 'menu_first_page:^' is the opposite of 'menu_last_page:|' and
'\' shares the same key as '|' with opposite shift state, switch
the example to 'menu_first_page:\'.
Interaction with persistent inventory window was documented for
the '|' key a week ago but nothing was specified for '#perminv'.
menu_shift_left and menu_shift_right for X11 are now explicitly
for the perm_invent menu only.
The pull request that fixed a couple of instances where it was
possible to have multiple entries for gold in inventory indirectly
pointed out that the error checking was clumsy. If you executed
the #adjust command while having two '$' items in inventory, you
were told twice that you had multiple stacks of gold in inventory.
Change how that's handled so that the warning appears at most once
for any given #adjust command. Also avoids having #adjust's use
of getobj() re-scan entire invent for every item in invent.
Also, if player did manage to get two or more '$' entries, #adjust
would allow moving any but the last to a letter entry. Once in a
letter, further #adjust with count specified could split the letter
gold entries into even more gold entries. Now, if the player picks
gold as the #adjust 'from' item (which is only possible when there
are wrong letter gold entries or multiple ones or both) then #adjust
will now force 'to' slot to be '$' (without asking player to pick).
Lastly, the inventory check for multiple and/or wrong slot gold is
now performed by wizard mode sanity_check() in addition to #adjust.
Add some missing monster types for the recent male/female/neuter
name split. "vampire lady" was missing but getting false hit on
"*lady, offler" entry for Discworld's Lady Luck, aka The Lady,
goddess, god. "{dwarf,gnome,kobold} lady" got the corresponding
"{dwarf,gnome,kobold}" entry but "ogre lady" got "Lady Luck"; all
wildcard matches that are affected by their ordering in the file.
The pull request adopted yesterday added "battle axe" but it was
missing a hyphen so didn't match. I've fixed that and moved it
from the generic "weapon" entry to the more specific "axe" one.
I accidentally omitted the addition of "luckstone" but since the
luck quote is about bad luck, having it match that would be too
misleading for novice players so am now intentionally omitting it.
Improves the consistency of quote citations. Mostly by adding
missing commas but there are a handful or more substantial
corrections.
Pull request changed one "G.K. Chesterton" to "G. K. Chesterton"
but I went the other way. There are roughly 60 citations with
two or three initials, and about 50 omit the space, only 10-ish
included it. I changed those to match the rest. It's slightly
less visual clutter when reading an entry.
Also adds some new keys that previously had no entry to now match
some existing entries.
I added various comments and also inserted a few blank lines to
separate paragraphs but made no attempt to be thorough about that.
Fixes#472
for invalid 'O' values when option error messages are issued after
theme rooms have left iflags.in_lua set. The pull request just
turned the flag off but lua code turns back on and off after that
for other dungeon levels. nhlua probably shouldn't be sharing the
same error routine as options processing, or at least it should
toggle the flag on and off at need instead of pretending that it
can be global.
Fixes#471
Assigning a partial stack of gold to quiver (Qnn$) resulted in
an extra '$' slot in inventory, one for the unquivered part and
another for the quivered part.
Throwing a non-quivered partial stack of gold at self (tnn$.)
also resulted in an extra '$' slot after throwing at self was
rejected.
For the first case, reject the quiver-subset-of-gold attempt.
For both cases, recombine the two stacks back to original amount.
Fixes#469
If a monster read a scroll of earth and got killed in the process,
there would be an "dealloc_obj: obj not free" panic when trying to
use up the scroll. It was dropped to the ground with any other
possessions and no longer in the monster's inventory at the time
m_useup() was called. Use up the scroll before performing its
effects.
The patch does something similar for potion of polymorph, but if
newcham() can kill the monster then there are other problems
besides trying to use up the potion. I kept that in anyway.
Fixes#468
