Non-vampire shapeshifters were changing shape a lot; often you
could have a chameleon turning into a different monster each turn.
Now monster shape changing is actually their "special" power,
and it takes 3-12 turns until they can do it again.
Blessed potion of see invisible was guaranteed to give see invisible
intrinsic, making it far too easy to acquire. It now has 1/10 chance
of giving it permanently, somewhat similarly to potion of invisibility.
The outer edge of a random dungeon level can have undiggable
walls. Phaseable monsters, such as earth elementals, could
hide deep inside that boundary. Turn the walls beyond the
first layer of non-diggable walls also non-phaseable.
Acolytes grow up to priests, apprentices to wizards, but they
did not cast spells after they grew up. Give the monster priests
and wizards the same spellcasting attack as all the other
priest and wizard -type monsters.
This lack of magical ability goes back at least to 3.3.1;
I didn't bother checking back further.
Use the 'm' Prefix to make wizwish show the history menu.
Also entries wished via WIZKIT are added to the history.
While debugging, I often need to wish the same thing multiple
times, and typing or pasting it with mouse is annoying...
Add a new parameter to des.monster, m_lev_adj, which is a level
adjustment for the monster. This only applies to the monster's
level, so basically only affects the spellcasting, it does not
change the monster's hit die or inventory.
Change one of the shamans in Orctown to be 3 levels higher.
Change 'v' from #versionshort to #chronicle.
Change 'V' from #history to #versionshort.
History can still be accessed either directly with the extended command,
or via the help menu.
Versionshort now accepts the m-prefix, and then shows the longer version.
Normally energy regen is 1d2 or 1d3, so wearing the amulet increases
that to 1d4 or 1d5. The only way to get energy regeneration is via
The Eye of the Aethiopica, so you cannot have both at the same time.
Allows the user to configure a key binding to toggle any boolean
option, for example:
BIND=':toggle(price_quotes)
BIND=v:toggle(autodig)
The option must be settable in-game.
The old code had two main problems: a) it was very difficult for
unspoiled players to figure out how it worked (because donating too
much got you a bad result, and the exact amount you needed depended
on magic numbers that weren't stated in game, and because you had to
hide your visible gold to get a good result); b) for players who
knew the mechanics, it was somewhat exploitable and also somewhat
tedious to make use of (due to needing to hide visible gold before
donating).
This change preserves the spirit of the previous code whilst making
things more transparent for new players and less tedious for existing
players: the donation amounts for the various effects are still
roughly the same (but randomized), but the amounts you need to donate
for clairvoyance and for protection are explicitly stated (and as
before, the alignment reset is done by donating an unnecessarily
large amount and isn't explicitly stated as an option). If you have
a lot of visible gold, you still need to donate a sizeable proportion
of it to get a useful effect, but now you get a larger reward to
compensate for the larger donation (to the extent that doing this
gives comparable results to doing it as a series of small donations,
removing the incentive to hide your gold before donating).
There's also something here for those players who like to squeeze
every last point of optimality out of a game: the "obvious" donation
strategy gives decent results, but players who are really willing to
dig into the mechanics may be able to find a way to get slightly
better results on average (which if I've balanced this correctly,
will lead to a very long and complicated spoiler).
One other change is that this is now based on your peak rather than
current level, to fix an exploit in which the character was drained
down to level 1 to donate a very large amount of gold (improving by
20 AC points) and then immediately restored back to the previous
experience level using a blessed potion of restore ablity.
This breaks save compatibility, but is being pushed together with
other save-breaking changes to avoid the need for multiple bumps to
EDITLEVEL.
It takes time for an early-game monster to acclimatize itself to the
power of an attack wand: in much the same way as a nervous human may
quite possibly miss with their first attempt to use a gun in combat,
an early-game monster will always miss on its first use of an attack
wand (but from then on will understand how they work and get over
their nerves, and will hit as normal).
This is a balance change based on observed results from tournaments:
guarding against deaths to early-game attack wands requires an
unusually cautious playstyle which isn't much fun (and might not
always be possible even for the best players), so it is quite common
for them to be the cause of random deaths that it wasn't worth trying
to avoid. Although trying to dodge a monster who found an attack wand
is fun, you only actually get that fun if something makes you aware
of the danger: the monster missing with the wand is a clear way to
demonstrate the danger and let the player know that now is the right
time to take precautions.
This change could theoretically have broken saves, but probably
doesn't due to there having been a spare bit in struct monst. Just
in case, it is being pushed together with other save-breaking changes
to avoid the need for multiple bumps to EDITLEVEL.
A wand of stasis prevents teleportation (even in some cases where
it would normally not be prevented, e.g. the hero teleporting a
monster, or covetous monsters teleporting). This is intended to
provide an alternative tactic against covetous monsters (and their
AI has been adjusted to handle being under a stasis effect), but
might also be useful in other situations. It does not prevent
teleportation of objects, only the hero / monsters, and does not
at present prevent level teleportation (although I'm not sure about
this and it might well change in the future).
This breaks save compatibility, but is being pushed together with
other save-breaking changes to avoid the need for multiple bumps to
EDITLEVEL.
In previous versions of NetHack, this wasn't a problem because
teleport traps didn't *generate* on such levels, but more recent
changes have made this situation possible (e.g. a demon lord
migrates to a Gehennom filler level that already had a teleport
trap on it).
This change causes a "wrenching sensation", like stepping onto a
teleport trap with magic resistance does.
These are displayed in discoveries, and a new 'price_quotes' option
allows them to be displayed for un-IDed objects in other contexts
too (the idea is that you turn on the option while identifying
objects and off for general play).
Invalidates existing save files.
Instead of outright destroying the armor, the spell will instead
first erode the armor. The spell hits 2-4 times, so if it hits
the same armor 4 times, it will get destroyed. This does not
hit erodeproof armor.
Also change the scroll of destroy armor, so that blessed one will
destroy a cursed armor, if hero is only wearing that.
Give experience to the hero if opening Shroedinger's Box reveals a cat
corpse rather than releasing a live cat.
It feels a bit odd to assess a bonus rather than a penalty.
Pull request from greg-kennedy: when a characteristic is repaired via
restore ability, set exercise and abuse for that characteristic to 0.
Closes#1403
In wizard mode, I used ^W to wish for the Amulet of Yendor and was
immediately prompted for another wish. It was baffling and took a
while to figure out. Give a message before initiating the wish.
Styled as anatomy knowledge, a healer attacking a monster in melee
with a knife gets +1 damage per 6 dead monsters of that type,
capped at +3 damage.
Handwaving away the fact we're not keeping track who actually
killed the monsters...
Idea from aosdict.
Reported via contact form but misclassified as spam. Applyin a magic
has a chance to teleport the hero to be adjacent to a pet rather than
vice versa, but it could do so even on no-teleport levels.
Based on the principle that there should always be at least two
solutions to any given problem, this allows monster-slowing magic
to be an effective solution to fast low-monMR monsters (in
particular home-plane air elementals, who after recent commits
could reasonably be dealt with using good AC, but I want a second
good option to be available, in addition to the existing mediocre
options). This helps to make playing with bad AC (for whatever
reason) more viable.
This is one of the fairest instadeaths in the game (it gives
multiple warnings and there are reliable ways to escape it), but
is also where most of the threat of purple worms comes from. It
was also pretty much nonfunctional: the previously used formula set
the timer to somewhere around 50 turns (for a typical character in
Gehennom, which is where purple worms are normally encountered).
This new formula (which affects only purple worms, as the only
monster that engulfs and digests) is based on the same inputs, but
produces much smaller numbers, meaning that the instadeath is
relevant sometimes. A typical character at purple worm depth will
be able to kill faster than the timer if they focus on the purple
worm and put some damage on it before they get engulfed, but it is
much closer if the purple worm gets the first hit in (possibly
requiring the use of escape items, but the common wand of digging
works).
Hopefully this brings purple worms closer to their intended threat
level: previously they were somewhat more nonthreatening than they
should have been.
The previous commit caused air elementals to become almost totally
nonthreatening in the endgame (even the buffed ones on the Plane of
Air). This commit fixes that (whilst still leaving them somewhat
weaker than they were before against characters with good AC), by
doubling the damage of home-plane air elementals.
The damage of the other home-plane elementals was doubled too,
because they were mostly nonthreatening previously. On Fire, this
has no real effect as almost any character would be fire-resistant
by this point. On Earth, it makes the elementals more of a threat,
when they previously weren't.
However, it made Water too difficult (albeit more fun, because it
became important to avoid letting water elementals swam you). As
such, water elementals are made slightly slower to compensate.
(My own playtesting indicates that 6 is slightly too fast, but 4 is
too slow, so I'm hoping that 5 is the correct value.)
Players of both 3.4.3 and 3.7 have observed for a long time that
air elementals are disproportionately dangerous compared to other
endgame threats. (In particular, playtester feedback from 3.7 was
that the Plane of Air was much more dangerous than it should be,
with playtesters treating it similarly to Astral with respect to
the use of high-quality escape items.)
It turns out that this was because damage from air elementals while
engulfed was entirely ignoring AC, meaning that regardless of your
stats, you would be taking around 16.5 damage per turn while
engulfed (half physical damage helped, but nothing else did).
This commit purely fixes the bug, but does not balance around it,
which means that it causes the endgame air elementals to become
almost entirely nonthreatening. In a future commit, I plan to
balance around this change.
Pull request from entrez: reading an engraving added a terminal period
after the quoted text even when that text already ended in one.
That should be conditional like it already is (post-3.6) for T-shirts.
Fixes#1476
They still have their other current effects (aggravating monsters
and granting temporary invisibility). This is mostly meant as a way
of counteracting the "turn permanently invisible" effect of magic
traps, for players who would rather their characters remained
visible.
Thanks to paxed for helping with this commit.
This commit is intended to achieve two things: a) making Vlad's
throne a little less dangerous, b) making polymorph traps less
dangerous for players who don't have magic resistance. (At present,
uncontrolled polymorph is too dangerous in the late game for most
players to consider risking it, so they take care to avoid things
that have even a small chance of it, cutting out a lot of potential
strategies. Toning down polymorphs should make them happen more
often by increasing the chance that players will be willing to go
without precautions.)
Body armor is still destroyed (with the existing exception of
dragon armor), in order to mostly preserve the balance effect of
polymorph traps in the early game.
This is primarily intended to help new players understand the
mechanics (the "wield the launcher, throw the arrow" sequence may
be unfamiliar to newer players), so the message is worded to
indicate the correct way to use the ammo.
Dragon corpses are capable of rotting, so it's plausible that the
skin of a dead dragon might also be possible to rot.
This is unlikely to come up in actual play at present (unless
wishing for rotten DSM, it can only end up rotting as a consequence
of brown pudding attacks): the primary motivation is to open up new
possibilities for armor-damaging attacks, which in current NetHack
aren't very relevant in the late game because everyone is wearing
dragon scale mail.
After discussing with paxed, I decided that instead of reducing the
safe enchantment limit for magical armor, it is instead better to
make the scrolls less effective on it. So this commit restores the
previous rules for the safely-enchant-from level and changes the
effectiveness of the scrolls to compensate.
Non-elven magical armor now only gets +1 from blessed scrolls of
enchant armor when enchanted from +3, coming to a total of +4. But
scrolls of enchant armor are now more effective on nonmagical and
elven and previously unenchanted armor, giving more of an incentive
to use them in the early game.
Cursed and uncursed scrolls of enchant armor are now also more
powerful than they were (but less powerful than blessed scrolls),
hopefully making it a more interesting decision as to whether to use
scrolls of enchant armor even if you don't have the means to bless
them.
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.
