<Someone> wrote: "Also, hobbits can't wear armour,
at least, you can't wear armour when polymorphed into a hobbit, even
though hobbits do tend to be carrying elven mithril-coats.
It's tempting to suggest adding an explicit exception in
sliparm() for elven mithril just to keep the Tolkienness."
- added a general routine for adding race-based /object
combination exceptions.
- hobbits can wear elven mithril-coats
Forwarded from the newsgroup: when a monster gets hit by wand or
spell of polymorph, any armor that fell off was protected from being
hit by that same zap, but a dropped weapon wasn't. Nor was the whole
dropped inventory in the case where the monster is killed by system
shock rather than transformed. Protect its entire inventory.
Provide more control over message handling for monsters' use
of equipment. This fixes the statue revival problem (inappropriate
feedback when monster puts on speed boots) mentioned in the earlier
"intrinsics of dead monsters" patch.
Someone posted in the newsgroup about using stone-to-flesh
to reanimate a petrified pet and having it come back to life with
boosted speed intact. When the character gets petrified, stripping
speed is one of the first things which happens, so now do that for
monsters too. I decided not to make monsters who have normal speed
become slow; there isn't any analogous case for the player.
Possible bug: while testing this, I zapped a wand of probing
at a hill orc which had just eaten a lizard corpse to save itself
from stoning. The feedback said "eating" but the orc immediately
hit and killed me as if it wasn't affected by any movement delay.
Make wands of speed or slow monster known if their effect
on monsters is observed; likewise for speed boots. Also, avoid
giving odd "the bat is moving faster" when seeing a bat created
in gehennom and inaccurate "the monster is moving slower" when
a monster puts on speed boots.
Summary of spell changes:
-- wimpiness of 'default' spell fixed by doing half damage for magic resistance
instead of 1 damage, and using half monster level instead of 1/3. It may
still need tweaking, but is much better than before.
-- 'default' spell for cleric monsters is now the wounds spell, by analogy with
wizard monsters.
-- added clerical lightning strike, flame strike, gush of water
-- all spells should now say the monster is casting a spell, and all spells
should have messages. (Side effect: monsters speeding up by other means
also give a message saying so).
-- casting undirected spells is not affected by whether the monster knows
where you are. Monsters that are attacking your displaced image, that are
several squares away, or that are peaceful can use undirected spells.
-- messages should correctly say whether the spell is undirected (a monster
was always casting at thin air or pointing at you and cursing, without checking
to see if the spell wouldn't require pointing)
-- Monsters which are attacking your displaced image, etc. use up mspec_used.
If they are casting an undirected spell, the spell still works.
-- Monsters which are not attacking can cast spells that don't attack.
-- If a monster didn't have ranged spellcasting ability (which most don't),
it would print a curse message from buzzmu() every round it was at range,
creating a useless stream of constant curse messages
I still haven't made spellcasters "smarter" in the sense of noticing whether
you have reflection, fire resistance, etc. That opens a big can of worms
because it would mean giving monsters a memory.
Known bug: the higher level a monster is, the more spells it has; since it
chooses a noncombat spell by randomly picking a spell and casting if it
happens to be noncombat, the higher level the monster is the greater the
chance of getting nothing.
magic while wearing dragon scales/scale mail were being turned
into random monsters instead of into dragons.
Also
Two items from <Someone>'s list.
Files patched:
include/obj.h
src/mon.c, muse.c, worn.c, zap.c
