The lava river will now draw another river, until a certain
amount of map locations have been turned into lava, so you don't
get a teensy "river" made out of 2 lava pools.
Add a lua selection method to count the number of locations
in the selection.
The Gehennom changes broke the vibrating square, allowing hero to go
down into the Sanctum via stairs without performing the invocation.
Fix this by making the hellfill lua check for invocation level, and
placing down the vibrating square trap, instead of stairs.
Allow setting a per-level "temperature": hot, cold, or temperate
via special level flags. Currently it only affects some messages
in Gehennom, but it could be expanded to ice melting, water freezing,
or monster generation, for example.
Invalidates saves and bones.
Instead of just plain old boring mazes, spice up Gehennom by
occasionally adding lava, iron bars, or even mines-style levels
(with lava, of course).
Of the fixed Gehennom levels, only Asmodeus' lair has been changed
to add some random lava pools.
Also some lua fixes and changes:
- Fixed a selection negation bounding box being wrong.
- Fixed a selection negated and ORed returning wrong results.
- des.map now returns a selection of the map grids it touched.
- When using des.map contents-function the commands following the
map are not relative to it.
Also includes support by paxed for polearm targeting using the
frame color.
Also renames USE_TILES to TILES_IN_GLYPHMAP which is a more
accurate description.
Not all window interfaces have full support for the color framing
of the background square yet.
MS-DOS needs further work (to bring it to both VESA and VGA, with
and without tiles.
Windows GUI is missing support.
X11 and Qt have been started, but may require further refinement.
Allow the preferred sort order for the vanquished monsters list to
be specified in the run-time config file
|OPTIONS=sortvanquished:X
where X is t, d, a, c, n, or z. It can also be set to 'A' or 'C'
but those aren't documented and aren't offered as choices when
setting the value interactively, which can be done via 'm O' or by
using 'm #vanquished'.
Guidebook.mn has been updated but Guidebook.tex is lagging again.
Move the mention of viewing usage info via 'nethack --usage | more'
to the end, where it should remain visible if text has scrolled off
the top of the screen (which is nearly certain since it ended up
being much longer than originally intended).
Also, rephrase the text at the start about restore vs new game since
the previous description said "in all cases" which isn't applicable
for 'nethack --scores' or --version or --showpaths or --usage.
Move 'nethack --usage' to last so that 'nethack --scores' is first
among the non-playing command variants since -s is of more interest.
For 'nethack --scores', move -v before the other options since it
has to be next after -s|--scores to be processed correctly. Also,
avoid using "present" twice in the same sentence.
Instead of using a compile-time macro to suppress inclusion of the
menu entry to show UNIX command-line usage in the help menu, use a
sysconf setting instead.
Default is HIDEUSAGE=0, to include the entry for command-line usage.
Set HIDEUSAGE=1 to exclude that. Does not affect 'nethack --usage'
if player actually has access to the command-line.
Write up a description of how the command line works on UNIX and put
that in new file dat/usagehlp. Add support for
|nethack --usage | --help | -? | ?
to display it and exit.
Also add a menu entry for nethack's help command to show it during
play. That can be suppressed by uncommenting new '#define HIDE_USAGE'
in config.h since it won't be useful on servers that don't give
players access to command lines.
New genl_display_file() just writes to stdout. opt_usage(), which
calls it, might need some suid/sgid handling to make sure the output
is done as the player rather than as nethack.
doc/nethack.6 is already out of date again.
Make the existing '#vanquished' command be available during regular
play, with M-V bound to it. 'm #vanquished' or 'm M-V' brings up
the sorting menu that you get when answering 'a' rather than 'y' at
the end-of-game "disclose vanquished creatures?" prompt.
The original #vanquished came from slash'em, where it was available
in normal play. When added to nethack, it was put in as wizard-mode-
only. I added the sorting capability several years ago.
The chosen sort is remembered and re-used if not reset but only for
the remainder of the current session. It probably ought of become
a run-time option so be settable in advance and across sessions but
I haven't done that.
Shorten the name of the recently added debug command that validates
monster difficulty values. 'wizcheckmdifficulty' was 19 characters
long, the next longest is 14 ('wiztelekinesis'). The extra width
messed up the Qt interface's extended command selection dialog when
wizard mode commands are included. It sizes the button for every
command to fit the longest name; the increase in size from 14 to 19
made the button grid become too big for the screen.
Add monsters' base difficulty level to the #wizmondiff output.
Add #wizmondiff and #wizdispmacros to 'wizhelp'.
Add a stack of 2 tins of spinach near the leader on the monk quest
start level and another stack of 2 blessed tins of spinach at a
random spot on the monk quest locate level, to compensate for the
inability to gain strength from giant corpses if they adhere to
vegan or vegetarian conduct. paxed supplied the 'tinplace' magic.
4 tins of spinach aren't nearly enough to get to 18/100, but by
uncursing the first pair, if necessary, and waiting until strength
is at least 18, they can be eaten to add 4..40 (average 22) points
of exceptional strength. (Players choosing either of those conducts
for other roles or foodless for any role are on their own as far as
boosting Str goes, same as before.)
The special level loader needed to be modified to handle tins of
spinach. It now accepts "spinach" as a fake monster type for an
object of type "tin". Also added support for empty tins since it
involved the same code, and use of fake monster type "empty" with
object type "egg" to be able to create generic (unhatchable) eggs.
(Wishing for "egg" produces those by default but it also accepts
explicit "empty egg" by coincidence.)
The Tourist locate and goal levels have 2 shops each, and also have
various traps randomly placed on the level. Unfortunately, this does not
account for placing them in the shops, so it was possible to wind up
with a magic trap or falling rock trap or whatever inside the shop,
which the shopkeeper would not clean up.
This commit makes selections that exclude the shop areas, and picks the
traps from those selections, keeping the shop floors trap-free as their
customers expect.
Add two new themeroom functions that are called when generating
the level: pre_themerooms_generate and post_themerooms_generate,
calles before and after themerooms_generate.
Allow the buried treasure -themeroom to put down an engraving
anywhere on the level, hinting at the location of the treasure.
des.object contents function now gets the generated object passed
to it as a parameter.
Previously, the tetris-shaped rooms were always either
normal rooms, or turned into shops or other special rooms
in NetHack core. Now, the themed room lua code first picks
the themed room (which can be a themed or shaped), and some
of those will then pick a random filling (eg. ice floor,
traps, corpses, 3 altars).
Adds a new lua binding to create a selection picking locations
in current room.
The content-function in special level regions now get passed
the room data as a parameter.
Wizard-mode command to cast any spell without checks that would
prevent casting, and with no energy use.
Mainly to allow the fuzzer to exercise the spell code paths.
Perennial problem: since Bustling Town consists of a fixed map which was
shorter than the moveable area overlaid onto a cavern fill, sometimes
the cavern fill made spaces above or below the walled edges of the town,
which then got cut off when the town was placed. Since one of the valid
ways to generate a way out of an inaccessible space is to create a door
connecting it to an accessible space, this meant rooms in Minetown,
including shops, could get a second door leading into that tiny space.
And if it was a shop, the shopkeeper could not block exit from the
second door.
This fixes that issue by expanding the map vertically so that it will
overwrite the whole cavern fill in the town area of the map segment
where it might create cut-off spaces like this. (Not the whole area -
since we now have the 'x' mapchar to leave existing terrain in place,
areas adjoining open space where inaccessible pockets won't get
created can retain any existing fill to keep the town from being exactly
the same every time).
This is a large iteration on a previous implementation of making
nh.getmap() parse its coordinates as relative to the last defined map or
room rather than absolute to the entire level. Now, everything in the
nh.* and obj.* functions interprets coords as relative rather than
absolute. (By default; if no map or room has been defined, or if the lua
code is executing after level creation is done, they will interpret the
coordinates as absolute).
The general motivation is basically the same - routines that use
absolute coordinates are difficult to use in level creation routines,
because then the designer has to remember to convert the relative
coordinate to an absolute one (and that was impossible before
nh.abscoord was added, particularly in themed rooms). And once
nh.getmap() takes relative coordinates, it would be very strange to have
all the other functions (setting timers, burying objects, etc) remain
with absolute ones.
In a couple places, code is changed to account for coordinates that are
relative to a *room* (which uses g.coder->croom->[lx,ly] as an offset,
instead of relative to a *map*, which uses [xstart,ystart].
Specifically, selection.iterate did not account for this, and without
this the ice themed room timer was not being started in the proper
place.
All tests are updated to respect the new behavior. Most of the modified
functions are not actually used anywhere in level files; the one
exception is starting a timer in a themed room, and that has been
adjusted.
Documentation updated as well to clarify when various things are tossing
around relative and absolute coordinates, both in comments and in
lua.adoc.
After I added '#migratemons' I realized that lots of other, mostly
obscure, wizard mode commands were missing. Some of the descriptions
are vague because I'm not sure what several of them actually do.
Make #migratemons command be unconditional. The show existing
ones part is now always present. Compile-time DEBUG_MIGRATING_MONS
controls whether the create N new migrators part is available.
Fix creating new ones from the Castle level. It knew how to find
the next level (Valley) but wouldn't send monsters there because of
its Is_botlevel() check.
Incorporate the diff from entrez describing the travel_debug wizard
mode option and removing obsolete M prefix from the Guidebook. That
missed a reference to it in the description of '_'.
I put M back in case someone who has used it with earlier versions
tries to use it and gets a no-such-command complaint so goes looking
for it.
Also, make the mention of ^X at the end of the discussion of status
stand out a bit. The indentation of its paragraph made it line up
with the preceding text instead of making it be distinct from that.
The TeX changes are untested and given the amount of punctuation
characters used, it will be surprising if they all have been quoted
properly.
