Reported last December by <email deleted>, attempting to move
into a peaceful monster's position and then declining to attack at the
confirmation prompt uses no time, as expected, but does burn nutrition
the same as if you carried out the attack. A player could abuse that to
make room to eat an intrinisic-conferring corpse before it rots away.
This fixes that, and also makes attacking a monster via applying a polearm
and via kicking burn the same extra nutrition as ordinary attack. I didn't
add it for attacking via throwing.
He/she also reported that kicking at a peaceful monster and declining
to attack at the prompt wakes up nearby monsters even though no actual kick
ultimately takes place. I can confirm that, but this does not fix it.
From a bug report, using a magic whistle when
you're mounted and standing on a trap location would cause your steed to
trigger the trap even though it didn't move. Since it is already at the
same place as you, make steed be unaffected by magic whistle so that trap
complications can be avoided.
From a bug report, you could crawl
out of water to avoid drowning by moving diagonally into an intact doorway
even though regular movement won't allow that. (Second version of Medusa's
level has a door adjacent to water.) You could also escape diagonally when
polymorphed into a grid bug.
who thinks these should be upgraded to keep an entry on a single page: look
at the footnote code in the original nroff docs, the tmac.n display code,
and then use ev 2 anyway - as long as there are no footnotes on a page with
PL, you might get away with it.)
^F on Plane of Water didn't show the magic portal to Astral. I spent
a lot of time looking at differences between current code and 3.4.3 to figure
out what had changed, then finally tried it on 3.4.3 and discovered that it
didn't work back then either. ^F marks all floor and ceiling traps as seen
and explicitly maps them, but Water has level.flags.hero_memory clear, making
the mapped trap disappear when it isn't in line of sight.
When fixing this, I changed magic mapping so that it shows furniture
(stairs, altars, fountains, &c) in preference to traps or objects, and known
traps in preference to objects, so hidden things can be spotted. (Once
they're in line of sight, the precedence reverses to normal, showing objects
on top of traps on top of floor.)
On 12/04/2012 12:44 PM, <Someone> wrote:
> The message displayed was: "The floating eye's gaze is reflected by your
> armor". Although I realize that my silver dragon scale mail is embedded in
> my skin (as per my inventory), I still think that it's now my skin that
> reflects the gaze, not my (temporarily non-existent) armor.
This was done using the CVS log listings to preserve
the chronological order that patches were distributed,
rather than just cut and paste from one to the other.
This marks the abandonment of updates for fixes34.4.
Add 'o' to "i a v g c" disclosure set, to display final dungeon
overview at end of game. It lists all levels visited rather than just
those that #overview considers to be interesting, but it doesn't reveal
any undiscovered aspects of those levels except for the presence of bones.
(I think revealing shops and altars and such would be worthwhile, but the
data for that isn't handy at the time.) If the game ends due to death,
the bones section of the current level will have "you, <reason you died>"
(before any real bones entries for that level). That occurs before bones
file creation so it doesn't give away whether bones are being saved.
end.c includes some unrelated lint cleanup.
Guidebook.{mn,tex} updates the section for autopickup_exceptions as
well as for disclose. It had some odd looking indentation due to various
explicit paragraph breaks. I took "experimental" out of its description
since it was moved out of the experimental section of config.h long ago.
The revised Guidebook.tex is untested.
From a bug report, the message "Boing!" is given if wand of striking
or spell of force bolt is aimed at magic resistant hero by self or by
monster, or at magic resistant monster by another monster, but it was
omitted when aimed at magic resistant monster by the hero. The shield
effect animation for resistance is given in all the cases.
From a bug report, if part of a stack in a monster's inventory gets
destroyed (examples given were from Fire Brand burning scrolls or Frost
Brand freezing potions, but other code calls destroy_mitem() too), the
message handled singular vs plural for the desruction part ("catches
fire and burns" vs "catch fire and burn") but always used plural when
formatting the object stack being affected. Now say "One of <the mon's
foo>" or "Some of <the mon's foo>" as appropriate when part of a stack
is being destroyed. (destroy_item() for the hero paid more attention
and handled this issue correctly.)
From a bug report, if reading a cursed scroll of genocide created only
one monster it would give the plural message "Sent in some <monsters>."
Now it will say "Sent in a(n) <monster>." in such case. (The grammar is
accurate even if you can't see what happened; that situation is unusual
enough that I'm not going to worry about giving information away.)
Something I've had in mind for a long time: make it harder to acquire
dozens of potions of full healing and thereby (8 * dozens) of extra hit
points. When dipping a stack of more than 2 potions into another potion
other than water, first split the stack so that 2 to 9 potions are dipped
rather than all of them. Alchemy still works but it will take more dips
(hence need more resources) to convert large amounts. Dipping into water
isn't affected, nor is dipping non-potions.
Also fix a bug where dipping a stack--now perhaps a subset stack after
splitting--which triggered an explosion was only using up one of the dipped
potions (plus the one being dipped into) instead of the whole stack.
From a bug report, sitting while
swallowed gave "you are sitting on air," and the intended message "there are
no seats in here" was never reached. Move the latter so that it works, and
add a new one when you try to sit while a grabber is holding on to you.
Also add theft vs donning fixes entry which was left out two days ago.
The wizard mode sequence
load bones? y, unlink bones? y, die, save bones? y
works, but
load bones? y, unlink bones? n, die, save bones? y, replace old bones? y
fails if/when external compression is in use. The file gets uncompressed
before being opened to check its existence, then immediately closed, and
re-compressed, changing the file's name, before the deletion attempt takes
place. Then delete_bonesfile() can't find it via the uncompressed name
and the bones saving code reports "cannot unlink old bones".
The code involved doesn't seem to have changed since the current cvs
repository was set up, so this bug has gone unnoticed for a long time.
There's no reason this fix shouldn't go into the branch too, other than the
fact that I don't have that checked out on this machine. If someone wants
to apply it there, be my guest (and move the fixes entry to fixes34.4).
Quite a long time ago, the developer/administrator of the 'hearse'
bones respository asked to have bones files augmented so that they could
be correlated with logfile entries. He was forced to approximate it by
comparing file date+time with logfile date, which won't work well if there
are multiple deaths at roughly the same time, or perhaps even on the same
day. This adds character name plus role, race, gender, alignment, the
cause of death, and date plus time of death to the bones file when it is
saved, and reads that data in when a bones file is loaded, then retains
it as part of that level for the remainder of the game. Dying on a level
that was loaded from bones will chain the new dead hero info to whatever
was there from the previous one(s). It's written as fixed length strings
padded with spaces before writing the map and its messy details, making
it easy to spot with a simple file browsing tool rather than requiring
something which can interpret nethack level files. This may need to be
tweaked if players start shelling out of nethack to see whether the
checkpoint file for a newly entered level contains bones info, but at the
moment I'm not going to worry about that.
TODO: I wanted the bones and topten date to match, so am obtaining
the current date+time in done() and passing it to both of those and also
to outrip(). Hence the latter now has an additional argument. So far only
genl_outrip() and hup_outrip() in src and the three outrips in win/chain
have been taught about that; interfaces that supply their own outrip()
need to be updated and probably won't compile right now. Also, code for
formatting the cause of death has been moved from topten() into a separate
routine so that the new bones code can share it. genl_outrip() now calls
it too; the various other outrip() routines should be changed to call it
instead of continuing to duplicate that core code. (I probably should
have made topten.c's killed_by_prefix[] be static in order to force that,
but haven't done so.)
TODO too: there ought to be some way of viewing the data for a loaded
bones file from within nethack. I'll probably add something to the dungeon
overview code to treat it as an implicit annotation, as least in wizard mode.
Showing it in normal play once a level is sufficiently discovered would be
useful, but I'm not sure what criteria should control that. Neither ghost
nor grave is guaranteed to be present, particularly for levels that were
saved as bones, loaded into a subsequent game, then became new bones when
the second hero died there, which can occur an arbitrary number of times.
From the newsgroup: if someone adds too many new special levels, dlb
creation during install will give a warning but still exit with success,
and the subsequent installation won't know that the excess files need to be
placed in the playground separately. The result is that some files will
be missing when nethack tries to access them. The newsgroup thread states
that slash'em increased dlb's default limit of 200 files to 300, and the
unnethack variant increased it to 250 and also changed the overflow message
into an error that causes 'make' to quit. (The thread was initiated by
someone working on his own, not affiliated with either variant, who asked
for help figuring out why nethack couldn't find files at the end of the
alphabet. My answer didn't help much; I thought he was working with
separate files rather than with a DLB container.)
I started to go with the too-many-files-is-an-error fix, but instead
went the GNU route ("no arbitrary limits") and made the number of allowed
files become dynamic. It starts at 200 and expands by increments of 40
when necessary.
This is the code I built trying to figure out the large window size issue.
It completely compiles out if not needed (see -DWINCHAIN in hints/macos10.7)
and except for one call during setup has zero overhead if compiled in and
not used. See window.doc for more info.
Defs for UNUSED parms. I know this has been controversial, so use is isolated
to the chain code and windows.c (where it shouldn't be intrusive and saves about
50 warnings).
Hints file for 10.7, but the build process still needs to be migrated from
the branch.
From a bug report, if you used the apply command while
not carrying anything applicable except for unknown potion, you would get
"you don't have anything to apply" if that potion wasn't oil but an
inventory selection prompt (with '*' as the default since you wouldn't
have anything considered to be a likely candidate) if that potion was oil,
giving away information.
This fix makes carrying any unknown potion yield the inventory
selection result, unless oil is already discovered and hero can see that
the unknown potion isn't oil.
Conditional on H2344_BROKEN which can be disabled at the top of the file if
necessary. This appears to handle all the cases I was able to reproduce from
Pat's list, with the caveat that msg_window=f fails on very wide windows on
Mac OSX Lion with the default terminal emulation. When the emulation is set
to ANSI, it works (the failure mode is the output from a simple putchar() loop
across the contents of history called up from ^P wraps at about the middle
of the window).
Provide a mechanism for cleanly moving between tentative window system
selections during startup. Now, before a second (or later) system is selected,
the first will be notified that it is losing control. See window.doc.
From the newsgroup: casting spell of drain life at Stormbringer
(or Excalibur or Staff of Aesculapius) would reduce its enchantment just
like any other weapon. Drain resistance should protect against that even
when not actively wielded.
Change the post-3.4.3 extended command "#terrain" so that it can be
used in normal play rather than just in wizard mode. It's inspired by
a command in 'crawl' that lets you view the bare map without monsters,
objects, and traps so that you can see the floor at locations which have
been covered up by those things.
normal play
redraw map to show the known portion of it without displaying
monsters, objects, or traps; after player responds to --More--, the
map returns to normal.
explore mode
put up a menu so player can choose between the known portion of
the map as above or the full map. If the level isn't fully explored
then the latter provides information to the player that he hasn't
earned yet, but the _hero_ doesn't learn anything and after --More--
the map reverts to what it showed before. (In other words, unlike
with magic mapping, the unknown portion doesn't become known.)
wizard mode
put up a menu so player can choose among four alternatives: the
two above, the text representation of the map's internal levl[][].typ
codes, or a legend explaining those codes. (Originally, I wanted to
be able to toggle back and forth between these last two, but looking
at one and dismissing it, then reissuing #terrain to look at the
other is much simpler to implement and is good enough.)
My #terrain patch had a typo on the command line and was going
to include doc/fixes35.0 as the log text for a half-dozen files. I
aborted the commit but most of them had already made it into the cvs
repository. This reverts those changes so that the entire patch can
be re-comitted with the right log text. Ugh...
Noticed while looking at the magic mapping code: u.uinwater is
cleared during mapping and detection so that map updating isn't suppressed
due to underwater vision restrictions, and it was possible for a hangup
save to take place before that state field was reset. After restore, the
hero would end up standing on water, then fall in on the next turn. This
saves it in struct `u' rather than in a local variable, so that the stored
value is accessible during restore.
The u.uburied flag was being ignored, but presumeably it would also
impose severe vision restrictions if it ever gets implemented, so it is
now saved, temporarily cleared, and restored along with u.uinwater during
monster/object/gold/trap detection and magic mapping.
From a bug report, he was running blind while wielding scissors--
I mean Excalibur--and stopped for no apparent reason. The autosearch
capability conferred by that artifact (also by ring of searching, or for
some roles or races once they reach a particular level) had found a secret
door and changed it into a normal door, but since he couldn't see at the
time his map display wasn't updated to show that. This makes the map show
such things even if blind, and also gives a message that the search found
something.
From a bug report, dropping and selling a container that had some things owned
by the hero and some already owned by the shop, you could get "You sold
some items inside <a container> for N gold piecess." Shop handing for
containers has been changed significantly since 3.4.3, but the typo
"pieces" that then optionally gets plural "s" appended was still there.
While testing the trivial fix, I noticed suboptional feedback in the
prompt about selling. For a container owned by the shop, it said "items"
even when there was just one hero owned item inside. Fortunately this
potentinal can of worns only seemed to have one tiny weeny worm in it....
The revised version of count_buc() that I've had laying around for
a while is also included.
The fixes entry is for "piecess", not escaped/captured/exterminated
worms, and goes into fixes34.4 despite this patch being labeled "trunk
only". Separate patch for trunk to follow.
From a bug report, flashing yourself
with a camera while in gremlin form blinded as with any other form, but
didn't inflict any damage the way that flashing a monster gremlin does.
This fixes that, and also makes light from wand/scroll/spell that hits
you-as-gremlin or monster gremlins do 1d5 damage too. It happens even
if the target is already in a lit spot, but doesn't continue afterwards:
simply being in a lit spot doesn't cause any damage, nor does lamp light.
From a bug report. The first report complained about levitation
allowing you to move through water on the Plane of Water, something that's
come up in the newsgroup lots of times (mostly about how levitation is
the best way to get around, only occasionally wondering why it works:
water walking doesn't work there because there's no surface, so where are
you levitating such that you're kept dry?) The second report complained
about being told you were floating up if you put on a ring of levitation
while stuck inside a wall (perhaps after being stranded when polymorph
into xorn form ended).
This implements intrinsic blocking for levitation and also for
flying. Being inside solid rock (or closed door) anywhere and being in
water on the Plane of Water are the things that do it for levitation;
those two and levitating are what do it for flying. Entering such
terrain turns off ability to float/fly, and leaving there turns it back
on; starting levitation blocks flight, ending it unblocks (levitation
has always overridden flying's ability to reach the floor). Being able
to phase through rock doesn't prevent levitation and flight from being
blocked while in rock; you aren't floating or flying in that situation.
Fix several obscure bugs that can happen when a guard leads someone
out of a vault:
1) non-pit traps created in the temporary corridor would persist inside
solid rock after the corridor was removed (pits dug by the hero were
explicitly removed but several other trap types are possible);
2) lighting the corridor with scroll/wand/spell left the affected spots
flagged as lit after they reverted to rock; tunneling through that
area, either by digging or by teleporting back to the vault and having
another guard appear, unearthed lit corridor there;
3) if you became encased in solid rock because you were in the temporary
corridor when it was removed (which will happen if the guard is killed
while you're in his corridor), you were only told so if you saw part of
it revert to rock; when blind, you simply found yourself unable to move;
4) dragging an iron ball in the temporary corridor could result in part
of that corridor becoming permanent if the guard was killed; in 3.4.3,
it would only occur if the cause of death took away all the guard's
hit points (which happens for most but not all deaths); in development
code after my recent patch, that would be every cause of death.
#4 could also yield "dmonsfree: <N+1> removed doesn't match <N> pending"
warning in 3.4.3 when the fmon list was scanned and a guard at <0,0> with
no hit points was found but hadn't passed through to the end of mondead()
and m_detach(). The previous patch fixed that, I think/hope. Most guard
deaths won't trigger that; grddead() moves the guard to <0,0> but then
removes the temp corridor on its second try, returns true, and mondead()
finishes normally.
Tested on the unix port; I've updated as many other ports as I can figure
out but they're not tested. See window.doc for info on the changed banner
lines. Also adds the ability to override the generic "Unix" port - used now to get
"MacOSX" into the version line instead of "Unix" (so we don't scare people who don't
know what's going on).
From the newsgroup: after killing a vault guard on a level where
every object had been removed or was held by the hero, object detection
gave feedback about finding something but was unable to show anything.
It was finding the dead guard's inventory at <0,0>, a part of the map
which never gets shown. A dying guard is sent to that location instead
of being killed and deleted, because the data for his temporary corridor
to/from the vault is kept in the egd structure attached to him. That's
somewhat obscure but works; dying guards just need to drop inventory
before being transfered there rather than after.
Depending upon how they're killed, it's possible that the umpteen
places in the code that loop over fmon might have been processing them
as if still in play. This sets their mhp to 0 so such loops will ignore
them, and teaches dmonsfree() not to release them. Once the temporary
corridor has been removed, their isgd flag is cleared and they become
ordinary dead monsters and get deleted from the fmon list the next time
it's purged.
This also lets you throw gold to/at the guard when he tells you to
drop it. He already would catch it, but now he won't treat the throw as
an attack. Any gold he carries will eventually disappear when he does,
so dropping it remains a better option for the player.
While testing something, I noticed that I could eat a tin (off the
floor) while polymorphed into a bat. The code to check whether the hero
could open a tin was testing for limbs, so winged critters passed. Now
it requires hands instead of limbs, and also that the current form be big
enough to be capable of wielding something (even though you don't need to
be wielding anything to open a tin).
This means that a hero poly'd into a dog or cat will no longer be
able to serve him-/herself dinner from a tin....
Show the 'v' output (full version number plus build date-time) as
the first line of '#version' output (build time configuration settings).
It isn't simple to do that when generating dat/options (there's some
port-specific tweaking going), so do it at run-time by processing that
file one line at a time instead of passing it through a pager routine.
This also inserts an "About NetHack" entry as the first choice in
the menu for '?', the way that most Windows programs have interactive
help organized. Picking that gives the same output as using #version.
'make depend' manually updated for Unix and VMS (add dlb.h to version.*).
Using the two Windows binaries, starting a game with the tty
interface (nethack.exe) and saving, then restoring and finishing with
the win32 interface (nethackW.exe) would display the topten output as a
series of popup windows displaying one line at a time. The win32 binary
forces the toptenwin option to 1, but when restoring a saved game that
would get overridden by data from the save file and could end up 0.
This change keeps the toptenwin option out of save files, like color
and other display-oriented features that might not be applicable when
restoring on something with different capabilities. Separate binaries
for alternate interfaces aren't quite the same situation, but close enough.
The toptenwin option can still be toggled interactively with 'O', but the
new value will disappear if you save rather than finish. Setting it once
via config file or environment variable is the preferred way to go if you
want to override the default behavior.
Both trunk and branch get iflags.toptenwin added. For the trunk,
flags.toptenwin is simply deleted and patchlevel.h's EDITLEVEL is bumped.
For the branch, flags.toptenwin is renamed and becomes unused, while
EDITLEVEL is left alone. Leaving a dummy field in the old toptenwin slot
of struct flags preserves save file compatability with 3.4.3.
Use the grave accent (back tick) character as the keystroke for a
new command which prompts for an object class and then shows a subset of
the discovered objects list covering just the selected class. Similar
to the 'I' variant of 'i' for viewing inventory, and mainly useful once
the '\' discoveries list has grown long.
Revert a change from five weeks ago which added M1_NOHANDS to the
jabberwock definition. The jabberwock illustration from Lewis Carroll's
_Through_the_Looking_Glass_ depicts one with its forelegs held like arms
and the forefeet look like clutching hands. Enormous hands, but
nethack's one-size-fits-all object model means they can manipulate things
just like anybody else's hands.
Something I've had in mind for a long time and finally gotten around
to implementing: when you fill in the last pit or hole of a sokoban level,
it's considered to be completed so luck penalties for unsokobanish things
(breaking a boulder, dropping everything and squeezing onto a boulder's
spot, reading a scroll of earth) stop being assessed and most Sokoban-
specific movement restrictions (against pushing boulders diagonally,
squeezing diagonally between boulders, floating over a pit or hole without
falling in, digging of new holes by monsters) are lifted. Teleporting,
level teleporting, and phasing through walls are still prohibited when in
the sokoban branch of the dungeon. (Keeping the non-phasing one in place
prevents taking a shortcut to the final prize in order to bypass the
treasure zoo monsters.)
This adds level.flags.sokoban_rules, defines Sokoban macro to access
it, and replaces most In_sokoban(&u.uz) tests to check it instead. It
gets set when a sokoban level is pre-mapped at the end of level creation,
and if it is set then whenever a trap is deleted, the flag gets cleared
if there are no more pits or holes present on the level.
This might fix the following buglist entry
|Teleporting while using tiles may place you one tile beyond the edge of
|the display screen, and place the crosshair on empty space.
Various bits of code, including teleport, are assigning directly to
u.ux,u.uy instead of calling u_on_newpos(). It wouldn't be an issue for
small tiles where the whole map fits on the screen, but it probably is for
bigger ones where clipping is in operation. Using u_on_newpos() adjusts
the clipped map right away but changing u.ux,u.uy directly won't do so
until control returns to moveloop() and it eventually calls cliparound().
Usually the hero's position only changes by one column and/or row, hence
stays within the clipping margin, but that's not the case for teleport
nor for hurtling (throwing recoil while levitating, &c).
Perhaps all the places that assign u.ux,uy should call u_on_newpos()
instead? Most--all?--of them aren't updating u.usteed->mx,my, but I
guess that monster's coordinates don't matter since it isn't placed on
the map.
Allow wishing for a "potion of detect objects" to generate a
"potion of object detection", or for a "spellbook of monster detection"
to generate a "spellbook of detect monsters".
To get a spellbook you'll need to explicitly specify "spellbook"
even when using a name that's unique to books: asking for "detect food"
will yield a "scroll of food detection" rather than "spellbook of detect
food" because it finds potions and scrolls first. [That's nothing new
for the case where a spellbook and potion or scroll have the same name,
only new behavior for "detect X" vs "X detection" matches.]
Wishing for "detect food" used to yield a random food item rather
than a "spellbook of detect food". That's fixed now, although as
mentioned above it will actually produce a "scroll of food detection".
Fix one of the issues noticed while investigating the report of a
shopkeeper sighing when a hero died without owing anything. If the death
takes place outside of any shop on a level with multiple shopkeepers, the
first one in the fmon list would be the one who had access to the dying
hero's inventory, even if nothing was owed to that one and something was
owed to another shopkeeper. Now the one who is owed gets first chance to
take the hero's possessions.
When dying inside a shop, the keeper of that shop takes control of
the possessions regardless of whether he or anyone else is owed anything.
That hasn't changed, except that if the hero is simutaneoulsy inside
multiple shops (within a wall spot shared by two or more shops) and owes
money to one of them, the one who is owed will take his inventory even if
the other shk is found first.
This doesn't include any changes to feedback given when the hero dies
in the presence of shopkeepers.
