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Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: Sparks from statue-axing
> First, the message given when your axe-handle vibrates is a little
> ambiguous; I'd be explicit and include the name of obj.
>
> More seriously, potions of oil catching light from the sparks are a) a
> great idea, but b) slightly broken. They catch light fine, but
> snuffing them produces a "del_light_source: not found"
> impossible(). (This probably means the same applies to being lit by
> fire_damage(), but that's rare enough this hasn't been caught before.)
>
> (Also, a)pplying a potion of oil to light one identifies its object
> type, so lighting one by this means probably ought to as well. And
> oughtn't it to be charged for if you don't own it, as light_cocktail()
> does?)
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Subject: Beta 1 comments
> Is "You swing your axe through thin air" the right message to give
> when you try to use it to chop through a statue or boulder? Relatedly,
> this line in dig() looks as if it needs updating to the new dig_typ
> indices:
Refinement of the digging code:
* Picks should not chop down trees, but axes should.
* Picks should break walls, rock, statues, and boulders; axes shouldn't.
* Either picks or axes should chop down doors.
Can't push boulders through iron bars; traps can't roll such through either;
likewise for objects thrown by monsters.
Thrown objects susceptible to breaking might do so when they hit iron bars.
Assorted monsters can pass through iron bars; ditto for polymorphed character.
Attempting to dig iron bars will wake nearby monsters instead of yielding
"you swing your pick-axe through thin air".
Autodig won't accept iron bars as candidate location.
The autodig code still requires lots of interaction, because of all the
digging messages. Make these messages behave more like boulder pushing
messages, where they only display if the previous move wasn't a push.
