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danielclow
71d7b1e587 Update LaTeX guidebook to use 2e documentclass
This is essentially the minimum required to start modernizing the LaTeX
code for the guidebook. Because this breaks the way that underscores
and straight single quotation marks were implemented, this also replaces
those with textunderscore and textsinglequote.
2026-01-03 20:57:31 +08:00
Pasi Kallinen
5b22feb795 Reduce the effect of luck on to-hit
Luck has a massive effect on the to-hit chance; maximum luck alone
(which almost everyone has past the midpoint of the game) gives
10 points to to-hit, so accounts for 50% chance alone, excluding all
other effects.

Multiple variants do something similar to this, so it is well tested.
This version comes from xNetHack by copperwater <aosdict@gmail.com>,
and allows the +1 or -1 luck adjustments of early game, such as full moon,
to have an effect.
2025-12-31 12:47:20 +02:00
Pasi Kallinen
0dac2b5fa0 TTY: add support for the palette config option
For now, terminal colors are not reset back when exiting NetHack.
Depends on CHANGE_COLOR compile-time option.
2025-12-30 19:26:07 +02:00
Pasi Kallinen
6707d3bfba Safe armor enchantment limits
The safe armor enchantment limit is lowered by one, if the armor
is innately magical.  This takes off 3-7 points of AC from
a typical ascension kit, but should not really have any effect
for early game.

Also clean up the relevant code a bit.
2025-12-27 18:24:26 +02:00
PatR
5bda026acb fix issue #1455 - fully thrown quiver stack won't
autoquiver when picked back up

Issue reported by ars3niy:  empty quiver used to be refilled when
picking a thrown item or stack up.  Bug introduced by a previous fix
(commit 593a93d254) dealing with the
post-3.6 obj->how_lost field.

As with the last time I dealt with this, there was a lot of trial
and error involved.  This fixes the quiver issue without bringing
the earlier problem back.  This time the problem was that how_lost
got cleared before it was used to check whether an item being picked
up had been thrown.

Dropping part of a stack and throwing another part of the same stack
may behave oddly if a monster picks both up.  I am not going to try
to figure that out.

Fixes #1466
2025-12-24 22:11:16 -08:00
PatR
aae7778d66 github issue #1472 - elven monster bow bonus
Issue reported by Tomsod: monster elves were intended to get a small
bonus to to-hit and damage when shooting arrows with bows, but the
check for that tested the arrows for skill P_BOW which never matches.
It should be -P_BOW.

[Pretty minor: +1 to-hit for any bow, another +1 to-hit if elven bow;
+1 damage for elven arrow; against hero and against other monsters.]

Fixes #1472
2025-12-23 23:28:58 -08:00
PatR
45766db520 pull request #1471 - winter wolf cub
Pull request by umbire:  the list of monsters which had lycanthrope
forms includes winter wolf but was missing winter wolf cub.  Affects
cannibalism check when hero is a werewolf and eats a winter wolf cub
corpse.

One-line fix entered manually rather than using the git commit.

Fixes #1471
2025-12-23 23:13:08 -08:00
Alex Smith
9828a05bbb Don't treat low monster-form HP while polymorphed as a major trouble
Running low on HP in monster form isn't the same sort of critical
problem that running low on HP while not polymorphed is, because the
character changes back when the monster form HP runs out rather than
dying. (Indeed, running out of HP in monster form is often
intentional.)

The exception is when wearing unchanging (which implies both that the
monster form is intentional and that running out of monster HP would
be fatal), so low monster-form HP is treated as a major trouble in
that case.

Inspired by <https://nethack-yanis.github.io/yanis/4724.html>.
2025-12-21 10:44:50 +00:00
Pasi Kallinen
758528f094 Grimtooth and Sunsword invoke can be paid with magic power
If the invoke timeout hasn't run out, the effect will take 25 pw,
the same as a lvl 5 spell.
If hero doesn't have that much, then the invoke fails.
2025-12-14 12:00:30 +02:00
PatR
842c595dcf Guidebook.mn fix
Fix the font manipulation bug that Keni pointed out.  The \fP that
is next-to-last could be eliminated but I've left it, at least for
now.
2025-12-11 21:37:57 -08:00
PatR
bc13a42ce3 fix issue #1469 - glitches with type-naming
Issue reported by ars3niy:  assigning names to types of objects,
or clearing such, did not update persistent inventory window.  Also,
the sequence
  assign-a-name,
  name-as-' '-to-unname,
  assign-a-name again,
  unname again
would result in impossible: "named object not in disco".

This fixes the impossibility.  The fix for #1470 has already taken
care of the presistent inventory issue.

Fixes #1469
2025-12-09 17:24:33 -08:00
nhmall
80cb9d03ce updated Guidebook.txt 2025-12-06 08:48:48 -05:00
nhmall
9321316634 Guidebook date stamp to match most recent change 2025-12-05 20:00:14 -05:00
Alex Smith
02ce11a7c6 Move some chronicle-related fixes entries to the correct section 2025-12-03 23:19:58 +00:00
Alex Smith
621d21ebb9 Archeologists can decipher scroll labels
Prior to this commit, Archeologists had an incredibly difficult
start, worse than was intended. This is intended to make it a bit
easier (whilst making the role more different from other roles) via
allowing them to identify scroll types earlier in the game than the
other roles are able to (they do it using a knowledge of ancient
languages that lets them read scroll labels that other roles
couldn't).
2025-12-03 21:35:17 +00:00
Alex Smith
a0ccb4b0cb Show spells and skills in the dumplog
These are often an important part of a character's build. There's
no purpose in listing them in disclose because the player generally
already knows what spells and skills they had and doesn't need them
identified, but they're useful when looking at someone else's game
or reminiscing over a past game.
2025-12-02 19:19:18 +00:00
Alex Smith
29df69d542 Writing on an unidentified scroll of blank paper identifies paper
The character doesn't know that an unlabeled scroll is blank until
they look at the inside of the scroll, but that could be done
either by reading or by writing.
2025-12-02 18:14:40 +00:00
Alex Smith
656f58b099 A basic version of starting character rerolling
This adds a "reroll" option that lets players reroll their
character's attributes and starting inventory. Although I generally
think doing this makes the game worse, a) some players are going to
do it regardless and b) if a player is going for a challenge game,
rather than to win, it may be required. So in the absence of an
option like this, players repeatedly start and quit games instead,
creating a large number of junk logfile entries and generally
causing problems for other players on the same shared machine
(because repeatedly reloading the game is very CPU-intensive).

This should in theory be windowport-agnostic (although in practice
it may not be). Tested on tty, X11 and curses; on tty and X11 it
works fine (although X11 treats the change in attributes as
something that needs a status highlight), on curses it is slightly
jankier in terms of what other windows are drawn in the background
(but still plays correctly and I suspect this is a pre-existing
bug).

To form a complete implementation, we will need to consider the
following:

- Should there be a delay on a) starting the game and/or b)
  rerolling? If so, what should it be (maybe configurable via
  sysconf?)

- Should we take more steps to discourage players from rerolling?
  It would be bad if players see the option exists and turn it on
  just because it exists, or (worse) treat it as condoning the
  particular style of play.

- Should we take steps to detect that players are rerolling
  manually and a) tell them to use the option instead, b) tell them
  that this is not an intended way to play (and may make the game
  less enjoyable and/or prevent them getting the practice they need
  to eventually win)?

Breaks save and bones files.
2025-11-30 06:49:14 +00:00
PatR
94e5f7b861 part of issue #1463: // vs lootabc
Issue reported by ashleyharvey in a comment to issue #1463:  with the
'lootabc' option set, using the '/' command wouldn't accept a second
slash to look at things on the map (nor a question mark to type in
text to look up).

Not a bug since '//' is not documented as the way to look at the map
and '/a' works for lootabc, but '//' is useful so add support for it.

The '/' menu already uses 'y' and 'n' as unshown synonyms for looking
at the map and for looking up words.  Those now only work for the
'!lootabc' setting since lootabc can't assign multiple group
accelerators to the relevant choices.  Many of the other !lootabc
choice letters now work as unshown synonyms for lootabc choices, but
not all.  Feeding 'i' and 'e' to the menu as group accelerators would
interfere with using them as ordinary abc choices (at least for tty).
2025-11-28 15:13:01 -08:00
Alex Smith
b08fbef739 Followup to erinyes changes / offering while impaired
The important part of the "don't offer while impaired" change was to
prevent offering while confused.  However, it was also extended to
other status conditions: stunning seems fine, but hallucination was
problematic (both because it makes a large number of messages
inaccessible, and because hallucination is more of a long-term status
effect than the other two and players may sometimes choose to play
with it for a large portion of the game).  So make the change trigger
only on stunning and confusion, not hallucination.

This also updates the changelog for the change, because while
connected to the erinys changes, it's technically separate and is
relevant even in games where erinyes are never summoned.
2025-11-27 23:14:17 +00:00
Alex Smith
8c29b20010 Accurately track which items have been discovered, even if not #named
This fixes a couple of bugs: a long-standing bug in which writing a
scroll by label could fail even if you've already seen a scroll with
that label (due to the game not tracking whether or not you've seen a
scroll if it doesn't have a name); and a somewhat newer bug in which
spellbooks auto-identified by Wizard knowledge were marked as having
been encountered (rather than as known but not encountered).

Breaks save file compatibility, but not bones files.
2025-11-25 22:42:38 +00:00
Alex Smith
10a5e67478 Some types of shopkeeper start with a scroll of charging
This is partially for the pun, and partially because the "wish for
scrolls of charging to identify them" strategy has been nerfed in
previous commits and this offers an opportunity to discover what
scrolls of charging are without randomly encountering one.
2025-11-25 22:19:24 +00:00
PatR
7b5d7d7ae6 fix issue #1462 - objects embedded in trees
Issue reported by chappg:  on arboreal levels, when an object was
located at a stone location treated as a tree location, examining
the object would report it as embedded in stone.

The Ranger quest has arboreal levels where STONE becomes TREE, and
items that would become embedded in stone will be in trees instead.
(Sometimes kicking a tree would drop fruit onto an adjacent tree,
effectively embedding it.  For testing, it's easier just to poly
into a xorn, walk onto the tree spot, and drop something.)  The item
description code for farlook and quicklook wasn't checking for that.

The fix also corrects another bug:  an item located at a normal tree
location would just be described as itself with no mention of the
tree at all.  Attempting to walk onto it would report the terrain
and not let you move there (assuming not in xorn form), like trying
to walk into a wall.

Fixes #1462
2025-11-24 12:37:08 -08:00
Alex Smith
fce66245ca Don't attempt to cache encumber_msg result
There was only one point in the code at which this caching was
being done, and it was incorrect: it's possible for the result of
near_capacity to change during a monster turn because monster
actions can change either inventory weight or carry capacity.

The bug was particularly relevant in cases where a character
polymorphed into a slow weak monster gets attacked by a monster
that moves at normal speed: due to the polyform being slow, the
normal-speed monster gets in a lot of attacks and causes a
rehumanization, but due to the polyform being weak, it was
burdened at the start of the monster turn, and so when that
penalty is (due to the bug) applied to the next turn it can
mean that the character misses the next turn too, and may end up
dying as a result.
2025-11-24 02:07:23 +00:00
PatR
93f8e5b3b3 fix #S14702 - travel to covered vibrating square
Targeting '~' when vibrating square has been discovered would report
"Can't find dungeon feature '~'" if it was covered by an object or a
monster.

That's normal behavior for a trap but the vibrating square is only
one of those for display purposes.
2025-11-20 15:02:54 -08:00
PatR
9b1bb1150e fix issue #1458 - inappropriate verbal messages
Issue reported by chappg:  succubi could produce "it's on the house"
(quoted verbal message) when hero is deaf.  The mail daemon could
produce a variety of verbal message when hero is deaf.

The succubus/incubus one is easy to fix.  The mail daemon ones are
untested and a couple haven't been given non-verbal alternatives.

Fixes #1458
2025-11-09 12:58:19 -08:00
PatR
0524ff482b fix #S14678 - livelog of bribery when hallucinat
If hallucinating hero bribes a demon lord, report its true identity for
livelog/#chronicle.  Unlike with the similar change for genocide, this
does give away information if the player checks #chronicle.

Again, the report via the web contact form was misclassified as spam.
2025-11-09 06:33:19 -08:00
PatR
f7e12d2801 do-again vs yn_function()
This fixes the impossible from yn_function() for ^A after Z.  One
call to yn_function stored the spell letter for do-again and then
another call was unintentionally using that when getting a y/n
response for askchain() while using menustyle:Traditional [when
spell was identify and eligible objects needed confirmation about
whether to be ID'd].

Fixing that seemed to break #pray so the paranoid_confirm routine
has been changed to not rely on canned input, even for queries where
the player hasn't specified that confirmation be required.

Behavior of ^A might be different in unexpected ways, but it wasn't
working correctly before.
2025-11-08 18:38:55 -08:00
nhmall
d5658018ac alternative to display_inventory for window-port
Several window ports that support perm_invent were
using a call back to the core display_inventory()
function.

While calling from the window port back to core functions
is arguably not ideal in the first place, it was recently
brought to light that code NetHack-3.7 code changes to
display_inventory() actually caused it to stop repopulating
the perm_invent window as intended under certain circumstances.

For now, provide an alternative function, repopulate_perminvent(),
that hopefullshould still work the way it did previously.

There will likely be some additional changes after this to
further improve things, at some point.

For now though, this
Resolves #1454
2025-11-08 14:26:07 -05:00
PatR
3113387371 fix #S14667 - livelog of genocide when hallucinating
Uncursed genocide while hallucinating deliberately reports hero's
role to the player as the affected target, but it was also showing
that for livelog and #chronicle.

Making the true target be visible for #chronicle gives away a little
information but that should be inconsequential in this siutation
since the player specifies the target.

Not sure why this report got misclassified as spam.
2025-11-07 13:03:46 -08:00
Alex Smith
82edcca402 Improve messages for oilskin sack protection versus water
The existing messages made sense for brief dips into water, but
didn't make sense when using an oilskin sack for an extended
period underwater (and also assumed that the player was able to
see the sack). This commit changes the message to make sense
(and to be less spamy) if the hero enters water and remains there,
and prevents oilskin sacks self-IDing if the hero is blind and
thus can't see the water.
2025-11-07 18:21:21 +00:00
Alex Smith
db8e76ffd1 Changelog entry for 0-damage nonweapon changes 2025-11-01 16:11:22 +00:00
nhw_cron
7ab563ffc9 This is cron-daily v1-Apr-1-2024. 005manpages updated: mn.txt 2025-10-25 07:46:55 -04:00
nhkeni
987e3d93e0 Fix a typo going back to B news 2.11; 1986 (or earlier) according to tmac.n 2025-10-24 16:34:35 -04:00
nhw_cron
62e4a0bc91 This is cron-daily v1-Apr-1-2024. 005guidebook updated: doc/Guidebook.txt 2025-10-24 12:29:44 -04:00
nhmall
3c8628f549 correct a few typos 2025-10-24 12:27:05 -04:00
nhmall
3eed021a39 date stamp update 2025-10-24 12:01:37 -04:00
nhmall
dbe5ebfa94 Guidebook typo
doc/Guidebook.mn:2928:54 - Unknown word (situtaion) fix: (situation)
2025-10-24 11:46:10 -04:00
nhmall
42a08f1a86 typo fixes in fixes3-7-0.txt
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:218:11 - Unknown word (redundate) fix: (redundant)
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:533:23 - Unknown word (adjustmens) fix: (adjustments)
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:718:2 - Unknown word (uniforn) fix: (uniform)
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:1240:57 - Unknown word (attibute) fix: (attribute)
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:1858:43 - Unknown word (foced) fix: (forced)
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:1948:7 - Unknown word (thorougnly) fix: (thoroughly)
doc/fixes3-7-0.txt:2072:8 - Unknown word (interferring) fix:(interfering)
2025-10-24 11:24:48 -04:00
nhmall
98b526eb15 sync NetHack-3.6/doc/fixes36.7 -> NetHack-3.7/doc/fixes3-6-7.txt 2025-10-14 11:52:46 -04:00
PatR
34d0e956ed fix issue #1453 - throwing crackable object upward
Issue reported by NullCGT:  throwing a crackable item against the
ceiling would cause it to vanish if it became [more] cracked but not
yet fully shattered.

Fixes #1453
2025-10-13 23:02:56 -07:00
nhw_cron
9f6d1d17dd This is cron-daily v1-Apr-1-2024. 005guidebook updated: doc/Guidebook.txt 2025-10-05 22:35:49 -04:00
nhmall
60e2598d81 SYMBOLS=S_ghost:
Resolves #1448
2025-10-05 22:10:34 -04:00
PatR
edd11009e9 issue #1447 - physical damage when polymorphed
Isssue reported by Tomsod:  hero-as-target section of mhitm_ad_phys()
was not handling hero's Half_physical_damage attribute.

The issue was about cloning a pet from hero who is poly'd into a
pudding but it was more general than that.  Half_physical_damage was
ignored for any hit by a monster-wielded weapon against poly'd hero.

It took a while to convince myself that Half_physical_damage wasn't
aleady being applied elsewhere but it doesn't seem to be.

Fixes #1447
2025-09-25 09:59:15 -07:00
PatR
d0b79912ed support 'nethack --nethackrc=~/File'
Substitute $HOME/File if command line specifies --nethackrc=~/File
to avoid "Access to ~/File denied (2)".

Only implemented for opening run-time config file on Unix.  Works for
NETHACKOPTIONS=@~/File too; the normally optional at-sign is required
since the tilde won't match a slash to distinguish file versus options.

Only supports "~/" file path prefix, not "~user/".
2025-09-22 14:47:54 -07:00
PatR
e4f0d1a3e2 fix #4341 - jousting while trapped 2025-09-01 13:35:05 -07:00
nhmall
6fade4b184 don't split pudding that got jousted into a hole 2025-09-01 10:34:38 -04:00
George Huebner
91f973d454 config.nh: fix example MENUCOLOR regex
Matching literal parentheses requires escaping them with `\`
2025-08-27 12:24:56 -07:00
PatR
407a2e0ea8 fix issue #1436 - object_from_map() vs Hallu
Issue reported by janne-hmp:  examining an object on the map while
halluicinating might operate on an object whose name is Null since the
random object could be one that holds an extra description for item
shuffling at game start.  Attempting to format the object led to a
crash.

I wasn't able to reproduce the crash, possibly because MacOS produces
the string "(null)" for sprintf("%s",NULL) instead of dereferencing
the Null pointer.

Perhaps random object selection for display should reject the extra
description objects in some classes.  This susbstitutes a different
object if examining the map encounters one of those.

Fixes #1436
2025-08-10 12:45:29 -07:00
PatR
695c6ef3ac fix issue #1434 - engulfed gas spore explosion
Issue reported by Umbire:  a gas spore that got swallowed and killed
didn't die but exploded anyway, with the explosion affecting the map
instead of being contained in the swallower.

There was code to handle that but it wasn't being executed.  This fix
feels unclean but seems to work.

I couldn't reproduce the survival of the gas spore but since that
isn't wanted I won't worry about it.

Fixes #1434
2025-08-05 13:30:17 -07:00