From the newsgroup:
> Apparent bug or weird-seeming feature:
> If you try to mount a horse that is already in a pit,
> you get the message "You lead the poor <foo> into a pit!"
I checked into fixing this properly (you mount the steed and
then shared its trapped status without actively retriggering the
trap in the process), but the trap code is too convoluted to do
that cleanly. So this "fix" just makes mounting attempts fail if
the steed is trapped.
(This diff is mostly whitespace cleanup.)
Fixing some iron ball/teleds stuff:
-- If the player can pass through walls, ignore all checks for walls, or else
things will behave weirdly.
-- Instead of using the kludge "if the distance is >2 it must be a teleport",
pass a parameter indicating whether they crawled or teleported onto the new
space. This fixes a special case, where the player moved one space and the
ball didn't move, but the chain moved through solid rock. This is acceptable
if teleporting and unacceptable if dragging.
This also required some rearrangement of teleds() so that u.ux,u.uy
are set after placing the ball, not before. I'm still not sure the pit
filling line is in the right place; anyone know?
-- add some comments so I can look at the code in a month and still know what
I did.
Most of this patch is just adding the new parameter.
Add absent prototypes to some core routines.
Also add some port function() to function(void) in some win32 routines.
Also updates the Borland C Makefile for win32.
Patch from <Someone> to the list on 10/01/2001. The changes cause riding a steed
into water to result in a dismount, and, if the steed can't survive in
water, the death of the steed, with the usual pet-death penalties.
nethack.rankin