<email deleted> on Sunday, August 18, 2002 at 15:28:18
> comments: player is blind, and not hallucinating (initially). On #loot:
>
> You trigger a trap!
> A cloud of ultraviolet gas billows from the large box.
> You stagger and get dizzy...
From a bug report, a rolling boulder
trap could report that the boulder had fallen into the pit with you
and then let it keep rolling. flooreffects() only returns true
when it uses up the object being manipulated but it doesn't use up
boulders that hit pits which hold monsters or the hero. Its caller
needs to handle the cases where the boulder ends up sharing the pit
with a monster.
makedefs has been listing TIMED_DELAY as one of the options which
affects save file contents even though that hasn't been the case for
a long time. Unfortunately, simply fixing that by itself would break
save file compatibility for anyone who has been building with it set.
This workaround prevents the fix from doing that. And now folks can
rebuild after toggling TIMED_DELAY without unnecessarily invalidating
save and bones files.
From a bug report,
August 12, 2002 at 11:37:10
When I am polymorphed into a purple worm (didn't check other forms)
and bite a green slime I turn to stone (not slime).
Clear the uundetected status during level changes in case
the character was hiding under something immediately prior to the
change. Don't set hidden status at the destination even when
there's something to hide under--it'll take a turn to hide again.
Fix the case <Someone> saw, where forcefighting an undetected monster
would still leave it undetected, resulting in an odd message sequence unless
you kept forcefighting on the next turns. This also left the monster at a
disadvantage, since it wouldn't fight back. Added a check to wakeup() for this
case, cutting off the possibilities and allowing the monster to fight back.
- Changed a cancelled chat direction to abort the chat -- it seemed odd
that the old behavior would sometimes take time, sometimes not, depending
on the previous direction.
- Documented the current spelleffects behavior of re-using the last
direction after a cancelled getdir() & added a message.
I saw no secret doors in any of the towns, but in 340 (fixed in 341),
guards would patrol the entire level, so they might complain about secret
doors elsewhere. Fix the check for future use. Also, I noticed trees, eg
on minetn-6, weren't checked at all. Now they are.
I implemented this before seeing <Someone>'s forwarded report.
It makes guards come to vaults when you can't see them, but does
have one odd side-effect: if the vault has boulders in the way
then you might not be able to follow the guard out. (Usually you
can alternately search and step in order to successfully follow
him out when unable to see.)
The wishing code intended to make a wish for "blue glass" yield
a "worthless piece of blue glass" (and similarly for other specific
colors) but it didn't work right. Also, wishing for "looking glass"
tripped up on that same code and didn't work either. (Several other
permutations for worthless gems such as "worthless blue glass" and
"piece of glass" already do work.)
Found on the newsgroup: someone pointed out that you don't get a message
when you eat a ring of increase damage. They thought it was intentional--
it's not.
Fix some inconsistencies in armor handling. The 'T' command
wouldn't let you take off a suit or shirt if you were wielding a
cursed two-handed weapon, which makes sense; however, the 'A'
command neglected to impose the same restriction. Also, the 'W'
command had some code intended to prevent you from donning a suit
or shirt while wielding such a cursed weapon, but it didn't work.
This patch fixes the 'A' command's checks for whether an
item can be removed and it makes the 'T' and 'R' commands use the
same code as 'A' instead of maintaining multiple sets of checks.
It also fixes the trivial 'W' problem and attempts to prevent the
sequence of 1) get interrupted while removing a set of equipment
including suit and/or shirt; 2) wield a cursed two-handed weapon
or have already wielded one become cursed; 3) resume removing
armor via 'A' but I haven't tried to trigger that situation to
confirm the bug or this fix.
From a bug report. Removing levitation boots while hovering over
a magic portal causes the portal to be delayed since it takes time to
remove the boots. This causes the portal to be taken via unmul in allmain.
At that point, the will activation message display but you won't teleport
until you type something. Handle the delayed goto after unmul completes.
Provide some command assistance for newbies, but
suppress it with !cmdassist in the config file.
If someone misinterprets the Guidebook ^D, ^T
type command notation, this will pop up some
further information to possibly assist them and
explain the notation.
Fix an item from <Someone>'s list: invoking or applying an
artifact might blast you; if it evades your grasp, the intended
action won't take place but will still use up a turn.
This reclassifies dragon scale mail as magic and leaves dragon
scales as non-magic. Changing the latter would make it be easier
to obtain magic armor via polymorph; just kill some dragons and toss
their scales on the pile. Unfortunately the logic used suggests that
unicorn horns ought to be non-magic too, but I left them as magic.
(Making them become non-magic would actually be a good idea as far
as balancing polypiling goes, but it's awfully hard to justify when
they produce should a wide-ranging magical effect when applied.)
Provide user control over screen updating for multi-step movement
(run via shift, control, &c and also travel). [See cvs history for
fixes34.1 for more details.]
<Someone>'s submittal of his `showrun' option has goaded
me to finally finish something I tried to implement some time back.
This adds a new run-time option called "runmode" which gives the
user control over how much screen udpating takes place during run
and travel movement. It has four settings:
teleport - update the map after movement has finished (this is
the old behavior and also <Someone>'s !showrun behavior);
run - update the map periodically (this is the new default);
it uses (`moves' mod 7) to control the updating; it may
need to have its own counter so that the updates are
sync'd with the start of current movement rather than
with `moves', but perhaps that won't matter;
walk - update the map after each step (this is the behavior
when <Someone>'s showrun is enabled);
crawl - like walk, but with a longer delay after each step.
This option won't work well on configurations where delay_output()
doesn't produce a pause of reasonable duration, but I don't think
there's much we can do about that.
The option setting ought to be stored in struct flags so that
it's maintained across save/restore cycles, but I put it into the
iflags structure with the other new options so that it won't cause
3.4.0 save files to be invalidated.
I can't test the changes to Guidebook.mn; the corresponding
changes to Guidebook.tex process ok and don't show any obvious
glitches when viewed with xdvi.
"It was hidden under a green mold corpse! It bites!"
Never seen corpse from a never seen monster can be
revealed by the hider.
-problem is that the corpse of the monster is
always created with dknown set to 1 when make_corpse() finishes,
even in the case where you never knew what it was while alive.
can't just blind yourself with a cream pie in your inventory
directly by applying it or by throwing it.
On 27 Jul 2002 14:11:06 GMT, <Someone> wrote:
> <email deleted> wrote:
>> <email deleted> (<Someone>) hypothesised:
>>
>> [cream pie]
>>> So I a)pply the pie. What I want to do is to hit MYSELF in the
>>> face with the pie, thereby blinding me and giving me T-P for
>>> just a few turns.
>>
>> Not a bad TTDTDTO ("Thing The DevTeam Didn't Think Of," which is
>> subtly different to a YANI, and not a bug; sorry, I seem to be
>> on a neologismathon today.)
> I tried throwing a cream pie upwards, hoping it would blind me,
> but no luck:
>
> "A cream pie hits the ceiling. What a mess!"
>
Kicking a monster as a monk or samurai or while wearing kicking
boots might make it "reel from the blow" and be knocked back a step.
If that knock back put it into a trap which killed it, the kicking
code would kill it an extra time, then the player would get a warning
about dmonsfree finding the wrong number of dead monsters.
[ I didn't keep a copy of the message which reported this
so don't have any reference number for it. ]
If you used '/' to look at multiple items one after another,
then looking at floor or other item represented by the same '.' as
venom could result in subsequent things being falsely categorized as
possibly venom. The subsequent items needed to have less than two
possible descriptions, and the triggering item needed to be a plain
dot rather than the graphic dot used for floor with IBMgraphics and
DECgraphics.
Don't suppress hallucination on/off messages when blind.
This fixes the case where you might be observing hallucinatory
monsters via telepathy yet not be told that perception was back
to normal when hallucination timed out. It does not fix the
case where temporary hallucination times out while the effect is
being blocked (in which case successful application of a unicorn
horn yields no feedback), nor the hypothetical cases where timed
hallucination starts or ends while also hallucinating for some
other reason (which could happen via polymorph someday if a
monster which is always hallucinating--the way that bats are
always stunned--ever gets introduced).
