Any sort of iron footwear now protects from traps, and polymorph
traps change one sort of iron footwear into a different sort of
iron footwear (removing any incentive to try to farm them, because
you will see both options very quickly).
When playtesting NetHack heavily, I observed that most of the time
it wasn't placing much strain on my wrists, but Sokoban was an
exception: travel, farmove, etc. can normally be used to avoid the
need to spam keys, but they don't work while pushing a boulder, and
the boulders often need to be pushed along precise routes, so you
have to tap out every movement. This becomes particularly straining
when pushing in the last few boulders, as you have to push them a
long way along the goal corridor.
This commit adds rolling boulder traps to Sokoban that will
automatically roll boulders along the goal corridor, meaning that
you don't have to push them there manually. This considerably
reduces the number of keystrokes needed to solve Sokoban, without
making any significant change to the difficulty of the levels.
Some of the designs had to change slightly in order to make room
for them, but not in a way that meaningfully changes the solution.
Rolling boulder traps now react to having boulders pushed onto them;
the boulder will roll until reaching the trap's launch spot
(resetting the trap if the boulder was removed), or until it hits a
wall otherwise.
Because they can now be reset, they aren't removed when stepping on
them with a misplaced boulder (although no boulder moves unless
there's one on the appropriate spot).
When wand of stasis is zapped multiple times, keep the longest duration
rather than replace duration with each zap.
When current level is under the effect of a wand of stasis, have the
wizard-mode command #timeout say so.
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.
Have the impossible message indicate whether the pointed-to
edog struct itself is still intact (not overwritten somewhere,
such as misuse of a stale or bad pointer) versus the apport field
itself being assigned an out-of-whack value some place.
Because some optlist entries were ignored in the early pass,
some non OPTIONS= lines in the config file were having issues
due to those options not being set.
Extend what is being disregarded in the early config file pass
to include other config file statements.
remove the safeproc pseudo-windowport routines from
almost a decade ago.
A very early pass is made through the config file,
seeking out just the interface-related OPTIONS=windowport
and OPTIONS=soundlib and ignoring all other options in the
config file during that early pass, so the windowport
can be activated without the NetHack core initialization
in place that some of the other rcfile OPTIONS require.
Bundles the existing rcfile processing code into rcfile().
New functions to control which rcfile options will be
disregarded in the early config file pass, and which will be
processed:
set_all_options_disregarded();
set_all_options_heeded();
disregard_this_option(opt_xx);
heed_this_option(opt_xx);
Windows calls rcfile_interface_options(), which is
a bundling of a series of function calls to achieve
the desired result.
void
rcfile_interface_options(void)
{
allopt_array_init();
set_all_options_disregarded();
heed_this_option(opt_windowtype);
heed_this_option(opt_soundlib);
rcfile();
set_all_options_heeded();
disregard_this_option(opt_windowtype);
disregard_this_option(opt_soundlib);
}
remove the safeproc pseudo-windowport routines from
almost a decade ago.
A very early pass is made through the config file,
seeking out just the interface-related OPTIONS=windowport
and OPTIONS=soundlib and ignoring all other options in the
config file during that early pass, so the windowport
can be activated without the NetHack core initialization
in place that some of the other rcfile OPTIONS require.
Bundles the existing rcfile processing code into rcfile().
New functions to control which rcfile options will be
disregarded in the early config file pass, and which will be
processed:
set_all_options_disregarded();
set_all_options_heeded();
disregard_this_option(opt_xx);
heed_this_option(opt_xx);
Windows calls rcfile_interface_options(), which is
a bundling of a series of function calls to achieve
the desired result.
void
rcfile_interface_options(void)
{
allopt_array_init();
set_all_options_disregarded();
heed_this_option(opt_windowtype);
heed_this_option(opt_soundlib);
rcfile();
set_all_options_heeded();
disregard_this_option(opt_windowtype);
disregard_this_option(opt_soundlib);
}
Unix and Windows had diverged significantly for command line
options handling.
This:
1. uses the the Unix processing as a baseline.
2. consolidates the code in earlyarg.c, where it can
be a common copy to be shared.
3. start converting the Windows command line argument
processing to the Unix code that now resides in earlyarg.c.
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.
Undead monsters created by the level creation routine do not grudge
other (zombifiable) monsters created during the level creation.
This of course doesn't prevent the grudge happening with monsters
created during gameplay.
Invalidates saves and bones.
Instead of using two separate functions with switch-cases for
wizard and clerical spell lists, define the spell lists
as arrays and use a single function to pick a spell
from the lists.
Adds levels to the monster spells, using the switch-case values,
with some minor fudging.
Give a little experience when releasing live housecat from Schroedinger's
Box, similar to recent change giving experience when opening the Box
produces a dead cat.
This defines the cut-off how many characters of the player's name
is shown in the bottom status line.
Also increase the limit from 10 characters to 16.
When access to the quest isn't available yet, describe the stairs down
as "blocked staircase down" instead of the usual "staircase down".
Applies to mimics posing as stairs too.
Does not apply to the stairs when standing on them and using lookhere.
I was going to use "locked staircase down" but that would imply that a
key or unlocking magic could be applicable.
