Part I: it's possible to use two-weapon combat while wielding a
lance (which seems odd to me); the second weapon would hit even if the
the first delivered a lance jousting blow that knocked the target away.
Part II: always getting the joust knockback effect when hitting
with a lance while mounted was too powerful; implement a suggestion
from the newsgroup that it be a random chance based on skill level.
Related: it's now possible to break your lance when hitting; when
adding that, I noticed that it was theoretically possible (didn't try
to reproduce) for a shattered boomerang or mirror to yield the stagger
bonus sometimes given for unarmed attacks.
<Someone> reported several incorrect death messages
1) "petrified by deliberately gazing at Medusa's hideous countenance" is
too long and won't fit on the tombstone. I reworded it, which also better
reflects that Medusa's gaze is really an active attack.
2) "killed by war hammer named Mjollnir" for partly identified Mjollnir now
says "killed by a war hammer named Mjollnir".
3) "using a magical horn on himself" was missing the "killed by" prefix
4) there were supposedly cases the the a/an article was missing after being
killed by a monster. I didn't see where this was occuring (eg AoLS resets
killer_format before it returns), but now done_in_by always resets
killer_format, which should address any such cases.
Prompted by a message to the list from <Someone> which noted that your
strength controls the traps effect, not the steed's strength, although the
messages say otherwise. Changed this case to use mintrap to determine what
happens.
teleds now needs to handle the case where an uncarried ball starts out
inactive, but becomes active as a result of teleporting out of a monster
while engulfed.
Soft "helmets" don't protect against falling rocks, but did protect against
piercers. Update the checks so only hard (metallic) helmets provide this
protection. The same report quibbled about using the word "helmet" for
soft head coverings. This patch does not address that quibble.
Fix the reported problem of getting impossible warnings for unpaid
inventory items during final disclosure if you level teleport out of
the dungeon while holding shop goods. The fix makes you trigger a shop
robbery first; that required a minor end of game change to prevent the
shopkeeper from seeming to tag along (shk would take your possessions
as if you'd died on the shop level).
Put in the missing parentheses that <Someone> reported; I don't know
how much that's going to impact experience calculations. Also, update
some related code that didn't reflect the increase in default speed
from 10 to 12 back in 3.3.0.
use get_adjacent_loc() rather than getdir() directly for some things where
you want to ensure valid adjacent coordinates are returned
<email deleted> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I've noticed that the loot adjacent spot code doesn't have any
>>> isok(x,y) test, so will risk crashing if used at the edge of
>>> the screen (whether deliberately, or accidentally due to being
>>> confused or stunned when picking the direction).
>> Would this not be a problem elsewhere, such as use_leash() too?
> Yes, that looks like the same risk. getdir() doesn't validate
> that the <u.ux+u.dx, u.uy,u.dy> is safe and neither does m_at(),
> so their callers need to.
>
> I did manage to provoke a crash with #loot on the plane of earth,
> although an accidental case would be a lot less likely to happen.
Reported to the list. Player breaks a wand of digging causing the
shopkeeper to fall. This didn't clear unpaid items. For now, this can
only occur due to player action, so added a call to make_angry_shk to
handle this situation.
If you level teleported while on a sleeping steed, a panic and possibly a
crash would occur. I believe the same would occur by digging a hole. This
was due to keepdogs avoiding keeping sleeping pets. In these cases, it
seems there's no reason for the sleeping steed to _not_ accompany you.
Since other ways of changing level (eg stairs) don't allow this, just added
a check to keepdogs to allow the steed to go with you.
From the newsgroup: explosions handle their own shield effect
display for resisting monsters and it was ignoring user's negation
of the sparkle option to suppress shield effect.
Forwarded from the newsgroup: when a monster gets hit by wand or
spell of polymorph, any armor that fell off was protected from being
hit by that same zap, but a dropped weapon wasn't. Nor was the whole
dropped inventory in the case where the monster is killed by system
shock rather than transformed. Protect its entire inventory.
Being Stunned now disallows teleport control. Confusion may affect ability
to control level teleports, but only after asking for the destination.
Made confused level teleport failures based on luck too.
However, they could ride. Marilith is similar, but since it's MZ_LARGE,
that check disallowed riding. Added a check for slithy(), like
canwearobj() already has.
From the newsgroup: temples attended by high priests on the Astral
Plane (also in Moloch's Sanctum, although that one doesn't really matter)
give a different entry greeting than usual in order to conceal the altar's
alignment, but they were including the patron deity in the priest name
given as presenter of the message ("The high priest of Offler intones:").
From the newsgroup: traps created on the location of dug out vault
walls would be left in place when/if the vault guard repaired the walls.
Since known traps get precedence over walls when drawing the map, this
produced a display oddity in addition to the topological one.
It also appears that monsters in affected spots wouldn't be handled
correctly if they happened to be in a direct horizontal or vertical line
with the guard. I don't know whether that matches any of the assorted
unresolved old vault bugs.
This eliminates a chunk of redundant code by merging two loops.
Pulled out the code that handles reading spellbooks while confused into a
new function that can be called from learn() to handle the timed onset of
confusion starting while you're reading.
When Angels were introduced, they were always lawful. Somewhere along the
line, non-lawful angels were added, but is_lminion and uses of it was never
updated to address this change. Among other things, this resulted in
non-lawful angels delivering messages via #chat that are only appropriate
for lawful angels. That is addressed simply by changing the definition of
is_lminion, which must take a struct monst, not a permonst, to return valid
results. Also, non-lawful angels should summon appropriate monsters, not
lawful minions.
Attacking with a polearm while mounted behaves differently than
while on foot, so make mounting and dismounting when wielding one adjust
weapon status accordingly. Don't give a bashing message on first attack
if you mount with a polearm already wielded; do give one on your next
hand-to-hand attack if you just dismounted with one wielded.
Override confusion and hallucination when revealing the map with
<ctrl/F> in wizard mode. This also renames the `#poly' extended command
to `#polyself' and adds several one-line comments.
Incorporate a fix from <Someone> that resets the timestamp on
stinking clouds left in bones files. This does allow the cloud's ttl to
restart. Extended it to reset the player_inside flag.
Then noticed that the only placed that called in_out_region was domove().
Added calls when changing levels (which causes player_inside to be set
correctly if the cloud covers the location where the player starts on the
bones level), teleporting, and inside hurtle_step. There are still other
places that fail to call in_out_region, which others may choose to tackle.
I split out the remaining stinking cloud bug reported in the same e-mail
into a separate betabug. That one probably cannot be addressed without
changing the level file format to track the creator.
Given no objections to Pat's suggestion, putting back in the change to make
the newest debug commands consistent with the others, removing the space
from the former and the underscore from the latter.
<Someone> reported that after pushing a boulder into a pool location which
contained a fire trap on the bottom, that the trap wasn't destroyed. Added
missing delfloortrap call.
E-mail report from <Someone>. "sound" option wasn't document. I also
noticed that the SOUND and SOUNDDIR config file entries were incorrectly
named in lower case, and documented as "options", which they aren't.
The Guidebook calls SOUND an entry later on, so call them that earlier as well.
E-mail report from <Someone>. Don't display the "intones:" prefix when
!soundok since the message suffix won't be displayed in this case due to
a check within verbalize().
<Someone> reported that a Titan summoning nasty monsters via a spell
resulted in various monsters being placed on locations containing boulders.
nasty() was using the summoning monster's type to decide where to place the
summoned monsters. Note that this could theoretically also cause
inappropriate monsters to be placed in water, lava, walls, et al.
Rearranged the code to pick the monster type first.
Fix the reported bug of an unskilled rider who is unable to pick
items off the floor while mounted still being able to dip into water.
There might be other actions which need similar checking; this one only
handles the dip into pool/moat case.
<Someone> reported that killing yourself by picking your current
monster class as the target of a blessed scroll of genocide while
polymorphed and wearing an amulet of unchanging would result in
"killed by genocide" rather than "killed by a scroll of genocide".
That wasn't the only problem here; it also ended the game right away,
before genociding the rest of the class of monsters; that could affect
the contents of a resulting bones level.
Also, the 3.3.0 race/class split resulted in getting the message
"you feel dead inside" twice if you were a human or elf character who
genocides '@' while polymorphed into some non-@ form.
If the character was invisible without being able to see invisible,
his location on the map showed any object there or underlying topology
instead of the hero even when monsters could be seen with infravision,
ESP, or sustained monster detection. The ESP case required an amulet
or helm or quest artifact to be noticeable because being blind overrides
being unable to see invisible, so the more common form of telepathy
didn't exhibit this behavior.
Implement <Someone>'s suggestion for addressing <Someone>'s
complaint about the inadequate feedback given when dipping a unicorn
horn into a potion to convert it into water. (Mainly, if the potion
has already been given a name, you won't be prompted to give it one
when dipping transforms it; if that was the last one you had, getting
"The potion clears." isn't sufficient to let you keep track of what
type of potion was cleared. You still have to keep track of such
stuff yourself, but now you'll get "The swirly potion clears." so you
at least don't have to start remembering or recording the type prior
to dipping.)
The hallucination handling isn't very useful; the description is
given will full accuracy by the immediately following inventory update.
Make touchstones more convenient to use after they're identified
by only listing unknown gems as likely candidates. This doesn't prevent
other stuff from being rubbed on them, just alters the prompt string and
the subset of inventory shown for '?'.
Removing a ring of protection/strength/constitution/charisma
which has been made unknown by amnesia might reveal what it is due
to status line changes, so relearn it when that happens. This also
consolidates the three characteristic enhancing types into one case.
Implement's <Someone>'s suggestion that the currently wielded
weapon be included among the list of inventory candidates for the
wield command. It affects the list of letters shown in the prompt
and the subset inventory displayed if you respond with '?'; it doesn't
change how wielding works or what item you can pick to wield.
Do the same thing for quivering: include any currently quivered
item among the choices. Also include the secondary weapon as a choice
if you're not actively two-weaponing.
Add <Someone>'s patch that enables using the apply command
on eucalyptus leaves to produce a whistle effect. Blessed leaves
behave like magic whistles; I added a chance for the blessing to be
used up in the process.
The invent.c diff is almost all reformatting.
Add <Someone>'s "eye of newt" patch, which confers energy
when eating a newt corpse. Consumed energy is restored by up to 3
points, and if that takes the character past max energy there's a
chance to boost the latter by 1 point. I introduced randomization
so that level 1 characters can't just kill and eat all the newts on
the first couple of levels to unconditionally boost their initial
mana (22% chance per newt to increase max energy now instead of his
original 100% chance).
Fix the reported problem of applying a figurine while swallowed
and getting a message about setting the figuring on the ground. Rather
than coming with special messages, just prevent it would activating if
you're swallowed at the time.
Also prevent figurines from creating the 4th erinys or 10th Nazgul.
I'm not sure whether to bother doing similar handling for stone-to-flesh
cast on statues.
