From a bug report, this turned out to be caused by a fix
I implemented for #H1749 three and a half years ago. Kicking a hidden
monster's location would bring the monster out of hiding but lacked a
newsym(), so if there was 'I' displayed there it stayed displayed as 'I'
even while subsequent messages referred to the unhidden monster.
No fixes entry.
A post-3.4.3 change made the contents of thrown (or dropped while
levitating) containers subject to breakage, but it had sequence issues.
When something was thrown from outside a shop (or from its doorway or
entry spot) and arrived inside, the shopkeeper was taking possession too
soon, charging the hero for any broken contents, and then going ballistic
(summoning kops and attacking) because the hero was outside the shop while
owing money. We need to break contents before shk claims ownership, which
turned out to be trickier than it sounds since it has to occur after any
item-hits-floor message if such feedback is given.
Also, clear the container's contents-known flag when contents break.
Conceivably it should stay set when there is only one item, since hearing
something break could only be that item, but this resets container->cknown
unconditionally if anything inside breaks.
Reported last December by <email deleted>, attempting to kick
a peaceful monster then declining to attack at the confirmation prompt
uses no time, as expected, but does wake up nearby monsters and scuff an
engraving at the hero's location.
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 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.
Rename ``kickobj'' to ``kickedobj'' so that the tense matches that
of ``thrownobj''. Also, move their declarations to decl.h and their
definitions to decl.c since usage has spread from dokick.c/dothrow.c to
various files and is about to expand to another one.
From a bug report, getting "your
clumsy kick does no damage" when attempting to kick the location of a
concealed mimic or hidden monster didn't bring the target out of hiding.
Some post-3.4.3 code to clean up thrown or kicked objects which were
in transit at the end of a game didn't work correctly for kicked objects,
leading to an "obj not free" panic if you kicked an object at some point
and didn't kick anything else before the game was over. Unlike thrownobj,
kickobj wasn't being cleared after use.
Redo the $WIZKIT overflow handling from a few days ago. Instead of
having two migration codes which both mean "with the hero", combine them
and add a mask flag to control scattering at the destination to be able to
get the alternate behavior.
Wizard mode's $WIZKIT can specify an unlimited number of items to
add to starting inventory and they'd be put there without regard to the
number of slots in use, potentially resulting in an arbitrary number of
'#' slot items. Cap at 52 slots, same as when picking up, and put any
excess items at the hero's feet. It's slightly tricky because the level
hasn't been created yet at the time the wizkit gets processed.
From a 7.5 year old news posting (with a reply by Kevin Hugo speaking
on behalf of slash'em...): when a monster "nimbly jumps to evade" hero's
kick, it can pass through walls and grid bugs can jump off their grid.
Likewise when a joust or staggering blow knocks a monster back, it could
move grid bugs diagonally. This fixes both cases.
Offhand I can't think of any other non-standard movement situations
which might need similar handling, but it wouldn't surprise me if there
are some. Leashed movement is close but I don't think maybe_mnexto helps.
From a bug report, getting the "you kick at
empty space" result doesn't use any turns but can have side-effects like
waking up monsters and negatively exercising hero's stats. It should take
a turn even though nothing gets kicked.
From a bug report, kicking unpaid
food in a shop at a tameable monster resulting in taming the monster
without charging for the used-up food. This forces kicked objects that
are owned by shops to be put on the shop bill and flagged as unpaid, which
is normally reserved for carried items but makes kicked ones behave like
thrown ones. (If they land inside the shop without breaking, they're
removed from the bill.) So kicking food to make a pet now results in the
item being moved from the shop's unpaid bill to its used-up bill, same as
for thrown food. Although the latter kept billing consistent, it lacked
shop billing feedback; this fixes that too.
After the apply-wielded-pie-to-blind-self (quite a while back) and
quivered-candle-burns-out (a week or two ago) bugs where object deletion
left dangling worn-object pointers, add a general check to try to catch
such things at the time of deletion. Also, clear thrownobj and kickobj
pointers at the time corresponding object is deleted. (This doesn't add
any checks for them becoming null during process of throwing or kicking,
where I'm not sure that the possibility of missile going away is being
adequately tracked).
While looking into the ``NH343 bug - tamed a dog in a shop by kicking
food without being charged'' report (it's reproducible with current code),
I spotted a problem with some post-3.4.3 code. Ancient compilers can't
handle initializers on auto arrays; this was probably meant to be static in
the first place.
My "kicking off edge of map" patch on 2007/01/27 had a typo/braino
which caused messages--including death reason--which intended to say
"kicking <an object>" end up using "kicking something weird" instead.
<email deleted> on Monday, January 29, 2007:
>Hero is able to kick a pile of gold (say, 100) and have the entire pile move at
>once in the same direction; very easy to avoid gold on traps. Kicking gold
>should probably scatter the pieces in multiple directions or at least not be
>quite so easy.
From a bug report: if you
were at one of the map edges and kicked away from map center while blind,
you'd get impossible("show_glyph: bad pos ..."). That was due to calling
feel_location() for the out of bounds location, which occurred after the
kick code had made use of invalid data so other problems might occur too.
Now you kick "nothing" as if it was something (hence possibly wounding
your leg, taking some damage, potentially dying). I didn't want to try to
classify the surrounding terrain as rock or air or whatever, and the thing
being kicked only shows up if the kick is fatal.
From the newsgroup: you weren't charged anything if you broke the
lock of a box or chest which was owned by a shop. Force the hero to pay
for the damaged container; any contents remain owned by the shop and don't
affect the cost of the forced purchase. This existing entry in fixes35.0
is adequate to cover the fix:
various actions--such as enchanting--performed on an unpaid shop object
either force the hero to buy the item (when its value is lowered) or
increase the current bill (when its value is raised)
Noticed while tracking down the "you die..." situation. Duplicating
instapetrify()'s resistance checks is useful here, but there's no need to
also duplicate its death handling.
Some code I recently added was misusing count_unpaid() and would
traverse some or all of inventory instead of just container's contents
when looking for unpaid items. Add mew routine `is_unpaid(obj)' to do
what I was intending to do with count_unpaid().
The recent fix for "breaking glass wand in tool shop" looked suspect,
adding a call to costly_alteration after an existing call to stolen_value.
Either one or the other ought to suffice. (For items on the floor,
costly_alteration() calls stolen_value(); for items in inventory, or just
released from inventory and not placed on floor yet, costly_alteration()
adds a usage fee to the shop bill but doesn't annoy the shopkeeper into
adding surcharges to prices or summoning the kops if already hostile.)
In 3.4.3, stolen_value() wasn't smart enough to charge for an out-of-
shk's-field item (like a wand in a tool shop) taken from a shop container,
and that's the problem the user was reporting. But the post-3.4.3 code was
changed to handle that by checking billable() instead of saleable(); this
bug should have been gone. Unfortunately, billable() treats items already
on the bill as not interesting--from the perspective of adding things to
the bill--so the change accidentally resulted in stolen_value() no longer
handling objects which are marked unpaid, triggering the same symptom for
a different reason. (Other events besides the breakage of thrown objects
suffered from the bug's new incarnation since various places deliberately
call stolen_value() for unpaid objects.) This updates stolen_value() and
stolen_container() to account for the behavior of billable(). And a few
calls to subfrombill() go away since stolen_value() now takes care of that.
Note: The CVS repository was tagged with NETHACK_PRE_MEXTRA
prior to application of this patch to allow easy withdrawal if necessary.
Adds a new mextra structure type that has a set
of pointers to various types of monster structures
including:
mname, egd, epri, eshk, emin, edog
Replaces the mextra bits in the monst structure
with a single pointer called mtmp->mextra of type
(struct mextra *).
The pointer can be null if there are no additional
structures attached. The mextra structure is not
adjacent to the monst structure.
Reduces the in-memory footprint of the monst that
has no other structures attached, at the cost
of adding 6 extra long ints per monster to
the save file
The new mextra structure has the mextra fields
independent of each other, not overlapping as was
the case with previous NetHack versions.
This patch doesn't do anything to capitalize on
that difference however.
Consolidates vault.h, epri.h, eshk.h, emin.h and edog.h
into mextra.h
Adds a macro for checking for whether a monster has
a name:
has_name(monst)
This fixes the magic trap panic
expels() -> spoteffects() -> dotrap() ->
domagictrap() -> tamedog()
because the monst no longer varies in size so no
replacement is required.
Extend the capabilities of corpse_xname() so that various callers can
be simplified. It can how handle an article prefix, effectively turning it
into corpse_doname() (not quite; still need doname() to see a count when
quantity is more than one, or to see bless/curse state). It can also handle
inclusion of adjectives like "partly eaten" or "bite-covered". For unique
monsters those come out in the form
the Chromatic Dragon's partly eaten corpse
instead of the old
partly eaten Chromatic Dragon corpse
[so wishing probably needs to be taught about potentially finding a monster
name before assorted adjectives such as blessed; also, name_to_mon() needs
to learn how to cope with the possessive suffix].
A sizeable chunk of this patch deals with consolidating some of the
redundant "petrified by a cockatrice corpse" handling. It may be possible
to consolidate all remaining instances together since they're quite similar,
but I didn't think about that until just now and I want to get this patch
over with.
A couple of items pointed out by <Someone>: the killer reason
when hit by mis-return of thrown Mjollnir would vary depending upon whether
it was fully identified, unlike several other death-by-missile cases which
force the object to be described as if fully ID'd. Also, the killer reason
when death is caused by kicking an object would give way too much detail
about the object if it was ID'd. Fix both by switching to killer_xname().
Now "killed by a war hammer named Mjollnir" becomes "killed by Mjollnir"
(same as when already ID'd), and "killed by kicking 5 cursed poisoned -1
orcish arrows" becomes "killed by kicking orcish arrows" whether ID'd or not.
[Trunk only] question? Should being hit by returning Mjollnir really
be receiving half-physical-damage reduction when hero has that attribute?
It ignores the fact that Mjollnir is also dishing out lightning damage.
Are other artifact hits ignoring such things too?
I think being asleep or unconscious ought to override vision the way
that being blinded does, but that's a more ambitious change than I care to
tackle. This replaces You("see ...") with You_see("..."), comparable to
You_hear(). It catches the reported door case and several variations of
light sources burning out while on the floor rather than in inventory, but
it probably misses some other cases. zap_over_floor() in particular is
highly suspect.
From a bug report. <Someone> as slashem-Bugs-883643 on 1/24/2004. To avoid
using the possibly invalid object pointer after calling bhit(), changed as
suggested to add another level of indirection allowing bhit to null the
object pointer before returning. Callers that are affected update their
object pointers after bhit returns.
[Attention: This patch increments EDITLEVEL in patchlevel.h, rendering all
previous save and bones files obsolete.]
Here's the first cut at the two recommended flags lknown and cknown.
I've attempted to stay close to Pat's recommendations:
"Containers ought to have two new flags: lknown for lock status known,
and cknown for contents known (ie, `secret'). Formatted box and chest
descriptions should include locked/unlocked/broken when that is known
and empty/nonempty (or something like "holds N items") when contents
are known. The contents indicator would also apply to nonlockable
containers."
I probably overlooked a place where a flag should be adjusted, but this
should give us a good starting point.
I wasn't sure what to do with the case of the auditory feedback for
magical locking "Click" and "Clunk". The question that came to my mind
was: Should those reveal the locked or unlocked status of a box?
I suppose if you knew the type of wand you were zapping or the spell
you were casting, you could argue that they should.
In the end, I opted for setting lknown right off the zap/cast effect
for anyone playing a Wizard role, and not setting it for anyone else,
thus advancing class differentiation a little bit too.
I haven't checked the cknown results under all flags.menu_style options
at this point, only MENU_FULL.
User reported the following incorrect feedback:
You drop Medusa's corpse. corpse falls down the stairs.
and apparently thought that the problem was a glitch in the middle of the
sentence; the actual problem is that the second sentence lacks its start.
This fix isn't perfect. You'll now get
Medusa's corpse falls down the stairs.
for the second sentence, but
The Oracle corpse falls down the stairs.
when dealing with a unique monster who doesn't have a personal name.
Either form seems acceptable to me, but mixing them appears inconsistent.
Probably all the uses of corpse_xname() (and its callers back up the
chain cxname(), aobjnam(), yobjnam()) need to be reviewed for usage. I
don't have the energy for that.
- can shift into fog clouds, vampire bats, and vampire lords into wolves
- after being "killed" in shifted form, they transform back rather than get
destroyed, and you must take them on in vampire form to defeat them
- can deliberately shift into fog clouds to pass under closed doors
>If you hit a cockatrice with a weapon that immediately breaks
>(like a potion, mirror, or cockatrice egg) you get stoned,
Add a parameter to passive() to make it possible to pass
additional information that indicates that the weapon was
there at the start of the turn, but destroyed during the turn.
If you kick something while in the air (i.e. on the Air level or while
in a bubble on the water level), 1) greased objects were treated specially
and 2) messages were given about the object sliding.
- add checks for kicking in the air, and always increased distance a bit
(I didn't add any checks to deal with the transition from air to water or
visa versa)
- don't set the flag that causes the "slides" message in these cases either
Change pit behavior to always mark a non-flying poly'd player as trapped in
a pit, even when Passes_walls is set. This allows players polymorphed into
xorns to descend into pits and pick things up. In this case, any attempt
to move out of the pit now takes a turn but always succeeds. Also fixed
a related bug (w/o ID) that a player could become trapped as if in a pit
when leaving xorn form because u.utrap wasn't checked, and simplified the
code since the extra Passes_walls checks are no longer needed. Also
updated code in sit.c that duplicated uteetering_at_seen_pit.
There was no feedback when gold was thrown or kicked at monsters
who weren't interested in catching it. Now it'll give the same "<obj>
misses <monster>" message as other thrown or kicked items objects which
don't hit.
- [fixed in trunk] iron-ball-pulling yourself out of a bear trap
- [fixed in trunk] Hitting your foot with a bullwhip
- [fixed in trunk] Hooking yourself with a grappling hook
- [fixed in trunk] Being thwacked by an iron ball chained to you
- [fixed in trunk] A crystal ball exploding on being applied
- [fixed in trunk] Hitting yourself with your pick-axe
- [fixed in trunk] Molten lava (entering or being splashed)
- [fixed in trunk] Getting squished in a pit under a boulder
- [fixed in trunk] Kicking something that makes you go "Ouch!"
Allow migrated objects to break on arrival. Added code to obj_delivery to
cause this, along with a flag to keep breakage from occurring. The new
flag isn't used yet, because all the current object migration involve
objects that were moving/dropping. To help make this change, rloco now
returns whether the object was placed or not, so caller can know if an obj
pointer is still valid or not.
Making the breakage messages for MIGR_NEAR_PLAYER objects show up after the
new level is displayed required some effort (rather than while the old level
was still displayed, which was confusing), due to the needs of goto_level.
- obj_delivery now has 2 passes, one for before player arrives, another after,
allowing the two cases to be treated differently
- goto_level calls obj_delivery twice (run_timers is not called twice,
since the run required before the level is displayed will have already run
any timers on migrating object)
- kill_genocided_monsters now kills eggs on the migrating_objs list too
There was some unreachable code in dokick related to drawbridges. Since I
liked the current "Ouch!" behavior, I moved the drawbridge test inside the
IS_STWALL code but made sure to update the maploc so kickstr would return
the right thing. Since there may be more than one drawbridge (perhaps it
should test for Valkyrie?) changed the kickstr prefix for drawbridge to "a".
Introduce a new set of functions to manage delayed killers in the trunk, used
in addressing the various reports of delayed killer confusion. Since existing
delayed killers are related to player properties, the delayed killers are
keyed by uprop indexes. I did this to avoid adding yet another set of
similar identifiers.
- the new delayed_killer() is used for stoning, sliming, sickness, and
delayed self-genocide while polymorphed. Some other timed events don't
use it (and didn't use the old delayed_killer variable) because they
use a fixed message when the timeout occurs.
- A new data structure, struct kinfo, is used to track both delayed and
immediate killers. This encapsulates all the info involved with
identifying a killer. The structure contains a buffer, which subsumes the
old killer_buf and several other buffers that didn't/couldn't use killer_buf.
- the killer list is saved and restored as part of the game state.
- the special case of usick_cause was removed and a delayed killer list
entry is now used in its place
- common code dealing with (un)sliming is moved to a new make_slimed function
- attempted to update all make dependencies for new end.c -> lev.h
dependency, sorry if I messed any up
+ Separate the two uses of flags.soundok.
+ Player-settable option is now called "acoustics".
+ Deafness is now handled as a full-fledged attribute.
+ Check for deafness in You_hear(), rather than caller.
+ Check for deafness in caller, rather than verbalize(),
because gods can speak to characters in spite of deafness.
+ Since changes are being made to prop.h, reorder it to the
same order as youprop.h and enlightenment.
There are still some extraneous checks and missing checks
for deafness, which will be followed up in a future patch.
Because of the size of this patch and its savefile incompatibilities,
it is only being applied to the trunk code. Portions of this patch
were written by Michael Allison.
