Instead of just "while helpless", the death reason will tell
more explicitly why the player was helpless. For example:
"while frozen by a monster's gaze"
My dog bit an acid blob and triggered a crash, caught by SYSCF panictrace
but yielding confusing information. The backtrace included a call from
'rustm()+N' that turned out to be passivemm(), which was deferencing a
null pointer since no weapon was involved.
Restore the variant phrasing used when more than one stack of potions of
acid explode while being inflicted with water damage. First message:
"a potion explodes" or "some potions explode"; second and subsequent
messages: "another potion explodes" or "more potions explode". This
trivial feature stopped working when erosion handling was overhauled and
old water_damage was split into current water_damage_chain+water_damage.
Augment the message so that vague "potion" is only used when the object's
dknown flag isn't set (ie, object hasn't been seen yet). Use "<color>
potion" or "potion of acid" otherwise, depending upon whether such potions
have been fully discovered.
This finally eliminates all direct increases of `oeroded` and `oeroded2`
and moves them all to go via `erode_obj()`. They are still manipulated
directly in a few places, but not to erode objects.
This now merges the `fire_damage()` function to a common codepath, used
for items on lava and burning oil, but fire needs more work. There is
still a duplication between `destroy_item()` and `fire_damage()`; the
two codepaths should eventually be merged in some manner so that there
is only one codepath to say "an object was affected by fire". This path
might require some parameters, such as whether the fire will just erode
objects or burn them outright, but that can happen another day.
This now ensures that dipping into water works like other sources of
water damage. There is a potentially significant gameplay change here:
dipping a container into uncursed water will wet all its contents. If
this is a problem, then we should add another parameter to water_damage
which will suppress this behaviour for dipping.
This change has two parts.
First, the Book of the Dead now has a special message in lava. This was
originally added by Steve Melenchuk (aka Grunt) as a precaution against the Book
burning up. While I'm pretty sure that the Book can't burn up in the current
codepath, the message is a nice touch and it doesn't help to add a safety check.
Second, always print the inventory destruction messages. The reason for this is
fairly subtle, but relates to the timing. By not printing the messages when
dying, the visible effect to the player is that if they have lifesaving, the
items burn up before they die, but if they do not, they burn up after they
die---the fact that they do burn up is visible in the dump or bonesfile.
This avoids a player being left standing on lava if their boots are burned up and
they survive the damage.
This change is originally due to Steve Melenchuk, fixed up by Derrick Sund.
This finally eliminates all direct increases of `oeroded` and `oeroded2`
and moves them all to go via `erode_obj()`. They are still manipulated
directly in a few places, but not to erode objects.
This now merges the `fire_damage()` function to a common codepath, used
for items on lava and burning oil, but fire needs more work. There is
still a duplication between `destroy_item()` and `fire_damage()`; the
two codepaths should eventually be merged in some manner so that there
is only one codepath to say "an object was affected by fire". This path
might require some parameters, such as whether the fire will just erode
objects or burn them outright, but that can happen another day.
This now ensures that dipping into water works like other sources of
water damage. There is a potentially significant gameplay change here:
dipping a container into uncursed water will wet all its contents. If
this is a problem, then we should add another parameter to water_damage
which will suppress this behaviour for dipping.
This change has two parts.
First, the Book of the Dead now has a special message in lava. This was
originally added by Steve Melenchuk (aka Grunt) as a precaution against the Book
burning up. While I'm pretty sure that the Book can't burn up in the current
codepath, the message is a nice touch and it doesn't help to add a safety check.
Second, always print the inventory destruction messages. The reason for this is
fairly subtle, but relates to the timing. By not printing the messages when
dying, the visible effect to the player is that if they have lifesaving, the
items burn up before they die, but if they do not, they burn up after they
die---the fact that they do burn up is visible in the dump or bonesfile.
This avoids a player being left standing on lava if their boots are burned up and
they survive the damage.
This change is originally due to Steve Melenchuk, fixed up by Derrick Sund.
In the newsgroup recently, someone mentioned that when polymorphed into
a flying monster, he couldn't retrieve items out of pits, even with the '>'
command. I thought that we had fixed that, but the fix apparently only
covered walk-through-wall creatures (xorns and earth elementals), not flyers
and ceiling clingers. Now those can also deliberately enter pits via '>'.
The fixes entry is in the new features section in order to be next to
the xorn one. '>' at pit locations is new, but it handles something which
was missing so feels more like a bug fix than a new feature to me....
[Keni, the bug page entry C343-12 about '>' (for xorns?) is general enough
to cover this fix, so we don't need to add a new one for flyers.]
I noticed an unrelated fixes35.0 entry mentioning '>' which was duplicated;
this removes one of the copies.
From a bug report, you could crawl
out of water to avoid drowning by moving diagonally into an intact doorway
even though regular movement won't allow that. (Second version of Medusa's
level has a door adjacent to water.) You could also escape diagonally when
polymorphed into a grid bug.
