That #H number isn't a typo. This finally fixes--at least improves--
something reported eight years ago. The monster types chosen by
mkclass() could be way off in some circumstances. Cited example was
repeated same-race sacrifice by chaotic hero on dungeon level 20; it
produced about twice as many incubi as succubi even though they're
the same as far as difficulty goes. (No changes in the intervening
years had any discernable effect; that was still reproducible.)
The report also mentioned that ndemon() threw away the result from
mkclass() and retried quite often and suggested that mkclass() be
taught to filter by alignment when caller cared about that.
This seems to even things out, although it also made harder monsters
chosen more often. A test program generated these numbers when
picking a chaotic demon 10000 times (level 1 hero on dungeon level 20,
so not realistic; actually probably level 0 hero since the program
didn't initialize struct u.) Third column is the number of times the
monster type was chosen with the old mkclass(), fourth is same for
the new one.
mkclass() calls 27315 10000
286 succubus 2800 3309
288 incubus 5552 3262
291 marilith 973 780
292 vrock 477 1617
293 hezrou 150 626
294 bone devil 46 247
295 ice devil 2 107
296 nalfeshnee 0 23
297 pit fiend 0 15
298 sandestin 0 4
299 balrog 0 10
Note that vrock has generation frequency 2 and marilith only 1, so
getting twice as many vrocks as mariliths should be expected.
I temporarily changed ndemon() to ask for lawful demons instead of
chaotic ones and got this.
mkclass() calls 15762 10000
287 horned devil 3197 3375
289 erinys 4991 3339
290 barbed devil 1812 3286
I also ran it for dragons with any alignment (so the outcome was
never thrown away; 10000 calls were needed for 10000 picks) instead
of demons of specific alignment and am suspicious of the outcome.
mkclass() calls 10000 10000
140 baby yellow dragon 1124 0
141 gray dragon 1096 1096
142 silver dragon 1073 1099
143 red dragon 1061 1126
144 white dragon 1077 1128
145 orange dragon 1141 1118
146 black dragon 1154 1049
147 blue dragon 1137 1123
148 green dragon 1137 1154
149 yellow dragon 0 1107
There may be a flaw in the test program. Or else old mkclass() was
not very good at picking dragons.
We still don't know whether this will be of any help against
disconnected processes that hog the CPU instead of exiting, but I
don't think it imposes significant overhead on ones which aren't
disconnected. Install it before it suffers from more bit rot.
Stop pretending that long and int are the same size when picking status
highlight rule for gold or time or experience-points.
Also, K&R compilation might lack <limits.h>, so let XXXconf.h define the
necessary macro(s) (currently just LONG_MAX) so that it can be skipped.
More on clearing pickup_types so that autopickup reverts to picking up
evertyhing: for menustyle:Full and Partial, add a menu entry for 'all
classes' as an alternative to unselecting every class already set.
Also, Full and Partial had no way to include venom. Now it's a choice
when in wizard mode. There's still no way--other than switching to
Traditional or Combination--during normal play (where venom objects can
exist if they were wished for in wizard mode and then left in bones).
"Placing monster over another?" warning was triggered for vault guard
by an earlier change which made m_detach() stop removing monsters at
<0,*> from level.monsters[][]. So one guard would replace another at
<0,0> for however many guards were created, and memory for all but
the last one would be lost.
This involved a lot of flailing about and the patch includes various
things would could have been discarded. One or two extended monster
sanity checks are included, plus a couple of debugpline()'s for
tracking guard movement.
When clairvoyance revealed an underwater object and the player wasn't
being given a chance to browse for some other reason, the map didn't
get refreshed and the object stayed displayed with the water hidden
under it. Force a chance to browse when revealing underwater objects
despite that being intrusive when clairvoyance kicks in while walking
around.
Jumping or teleporting while levitating in xorn form wouldn't toggle
blocking of levitation when moving from open spots to wall/stone and
unblocking of same when moving the opposite way.
This handles those cases but there are no doubt others. The only
other one I checked was when failed #untrap moves hero onto trap.
That case works correctly--at least after this fix is in place.
Noticed while working on it: change of terrain didn't always update
the status line. When levitation became blocked, it still said Lev
and when unblocked, didn't say that. Next status update got status
condition back in sync.
Some code added for 3.6.1 tries to find the longest matching prefix
when comparing a user-supplied with previously set up fruit names.
It does so by temporarily replacing space with NUL then passing that
to makesingular(). After already having named a fruit (resulting in
something to try to compare with), attempting to assign a name
beginning with two or more spaces would yield an impossible "singular
of null?" warning.
After the warning, the name minus its leading spaces got successfully
assigned. I'm not sure why a single leading space didn't trigger it
too, nor where the leading (and trailing, if any) spaces are going
away when the name is assigned.
Fix by removing all leading and trailing spaces from a new fruit name,
and combine consecutive internal spaces to one, before any other
manipulations. (This can result in names that used to work as-is now
being simplified a bit--when consecutive internal spaces have been
given--but that shouldn't be a problem.)
Also, don't complain about "missing parameter for 'fruit:'" if user
hits <return> when prompted for fruit name by 'O'. An empty fruit
name at that stage is just a no-op.
After consultation with the original committer, this
is being pulled out, possibly revisited later. There was
originally meant to be a follow-up piece to this that he
never had a chance to integrate for various reasons.
add MM_NOGRP makemon() flag as a means of suppressing groups of monsters in
a couple places that warrant it when a specific monster type isn't
specified on the call to makemon()
In the 'special options' section at the end of 'O's menu, change the
spelling for the menucolors entry to "menu colors" so that it isn't
spelled exactly the same as the 'menucolors' boolean option. Only
affects what the player sees when reading that menu.
If player uses 'O' to add any menu colors and 'menucolors' boolean is
Off at the time, give a reminder to toggle it to On in order to have
those menu colorings become active. (Adding hilite_status entries has
a similar reminder for 'statushilites' if done while that is 0.)
With options along the line of
OPTIONS=statushilites:4
HILITE_STATUS=gold/always/yellow
gold started out unhighlighted (unhighlit?). I didn't try to figure
out why, just changed things to force a full status update when gold
requires internal changes (different \G encoding or different glyph)
which is something that happens when session first enters moveloop().
Inventory traversal can be disrupted when items being traversed are
able to change inventory. I've lost track of how many times this
sort of thing has been discovered.
Report claimed that boiled potion of polymorph caused transformation
which resulted in dropped weapon and dropped or destroyed worn armor.
That was evidently a guess; potionbreathe() for that potion only
abuses constitution. The traceback showed 'you_were()' was involved.
Boiled potion of unholy water triggers human-to-beast transformation
of hero inflicted with lycanthropy, yielding similar situation.
I didn't notice anything unusual when reproducing this but inventory
was definitely vulnerable. My 'one line' fixes entries are steadily
getting to be more verbose; I may have to go back to 'fix bug'. :-}
Report suggested that if hero is turning into green slime, genociding
green slime should cure it. I went another direction: if life-saved
while dying due to turning into green slime, you survive polymorphed
into green slime form. If green slimes have been genocided (probably
after becoming infected with slime or hero wouldn't have faced any
slimes to cause infection, but that could be from eating a glob of
green slime created prior to genocide, or from #wizintrinsic), you'll
immediately die again, this time from genocide.
When deciding whether to discard interrupted lock/unlock context while
changing levels, maybe_reset_pick() checks whether xlock.box is being
carried. But it was doing so after the old level had been saved and
memory for non-carried container there had been freed.
That led to a couple of other issues. context.travelcc was using -1
for 'no cached value', but the fields of travelcc have type 'xchar' and
shouldn't be given negative values. 0 should be fine for 'no cache'.
Failed partial restore which occurred after old game's context had been
loaded would begin a new game with old game's stale context. Restoring
goes out of its way to avoid that for 'flags' but didn't for 'context'.
hmon() can destroy the weapon being used, and known_hitum() would
still pass the pointer to the freed object to cutworm(). Remember the
relevant weapon attribute before using and maybe freeing the object,
then pass that attribute instead of the whole weapon. Also pass
'more-likely-to-cut' for axes in addition to blades.
thimonst() behaved similarly, although due to much different code
paths none of the objects that might get to hmon() were then passed to
cutworm(), so it wasn't vulnerable. But pass 'more-likely-to-cut'
for axes instead of for blades when thrown.
Change the command list to always include #shell and #suspend so that
a user's preferred key bindings can span platforms without worrying
about whether those exist or not. They're still effectively no-ops
when compiled out.
'#?' suppresses them from the list of displayed commands. Interface-
specific extended command handling may want to check new extcmd.flag
value CMD_NOT_AVAILABLE to do the same, but failing to do so shouldn't
pose a problem. They behave sanely if executed when not supported.
Replace recent "(light blue aura)" with
"(flickering light blue)" if there are 1..4 orcs,
"(glimmering light blue)" if 5..12, or
"(gleaming light blue)" if there are 13 or more, and move its place
in the formatted name.
_3.6.1_: Sting (weapon in hand) (glowing light blue)
_recent: Sting (weapon in hand) (light blue aura)
_now___: Sting (weapon in hand, flickering light blue)
The thresholds for intensity may need to be tweaked. The start
message has been changed from "glows" to "flickers/glimmers/gleams"
and is given when the intensity changes (up or down) as well as when
first glowing. Stop message will usually be "stops flickering" but
some form of mass kill (genocide for sure, maybe explosion, probably
not wand zap) might result in stopping directly from higher intensity.
It still "quivers" if hero is blind when there are orcs on the level,
but no name augmentation shows in inventory for that situation;
describing it as "(weapon in hand, quivering)" would be too silly.
Also, the quiver or glow intermediate message if blindness is toggled
while Sting is active only worked for make_blinded(), not for putting
on and taking off a blindfold. Now fixed. I think becoming blind due
to polymorphing into an eyeless form is still not handled, but there
are no eyeless creatures capable of wielding weapons so that can wait.
Polymorphing from eyeless to sighted is handled but moot for Sting.
Text popups on OSX could be dismissed with <space> or <return> or
<esc> if user's X resources had 'NetHack*autofocus' set to True, but
for the default of False they ignored all keystrokes even if you
clicked inside the popup window to set focus explicitly. Clicking
on the Close Window button of the popup's title bar was the only way
to get the popup to go away. Fix suggested by Pasi.
By creating a spot of lava, filling up the whole level, and creating
a lurker above, I managed to trigger the impossible "Dismount: can't
place former steed on map" that was added earlier today. I also was
told that my god was displeased even though the engulfer's attack was
responsible. This addresses both situations. I can't trigger that
impossible any more, and only voluntary dismount blames the hero if
it's killed because there's nowhere to place it. Hero is still blamed
for any dismount that kills the steed while flying or levitating over
dangerous terrain--hero took steed into jeopardy.
Noticed whlie testing the steed-in-pit fix. The EXTRA_SANITY_CHECKS
for remove_monster() are being tripped if riding hero has steed killed
out from under him because the steed is not on the map. This started
out simple but got a bit complicated. It seems to be sufficient but
I'm not very confident about it.
Being engulfed while mounted gave "placing monster over another?" due
to a change made along with EXTRA_SANITY_CHECKS but not conditional on
it. (The change was to issue a warning about an actual problem which
was previously undiagnosed.) I think bumping the engulfer off the map
in favor of the former steed only worked because some u.uswallow code
eventually used the hero's location to put the engulfer back. I didn't
pursue that to try to figure what really happened, just prevent it.
The DISMOUNT_BONES handling was being executed even if the steed was
dead. DISMOUNT_BONES only happens if the hero is dead. Since I don't
know whether it's possible for dead hero and dead steed to happen at
the same time, move it inside the steed-not-dead block just in case.
Fixes#164
No message was shown when riding a steed into a pit or spiked pit.
Setup for the message was done, but post-3.4.3 insertion of else-if
into the previous if/else/endif cut off its delivery.
Applying a non-wielded cursed pick-axe first wielded it, then dug,
but it didn't report "pick-axe is welded to your hand". (Attempting
to drop it or wield something else did report that, after the fact.)
The same thing happened if you used a pole-arm rather than pick-axe.
Stinking cloud placed near water or poison gas breathed across it
would affect and potentially kill underwater monsters. Most swimmers
are on the surface and should be affected, but eels and other fish
shouldn't be.
This also changes minliquid() to not treat flying and levitating as
ways to survive water when on the Plane of Water.
I think goodpos() needs to be taught about that Plane (where many ways
of existing at a water location don't apply). This doesn't do that.
Fix lev_comp's variable argument usage by changing it to make
add_opvars() expect an int rather than a long when given the "i"
indicator, and add "l" for really passing a long. The ints are
conveted to longs when setting up the interpreter. I think I changed
just about all the integer opvars to int, although there is one use
of "l" in lev_main.c just to make sure it works. There could be
arguments that really do need to be 'long'; if so, the add_opvars()
calls for them will have to have its indicator string updated and
possibly add or remove some casts.
There's a lot of reformatting included but it's not consistent about
tab replacement. Some of the changes are due to renaming long-named
'variable_definitions' to 'vardefs' to shorten a bunch of lines.
Updated sys/share/*_yacc.c will be checked in separately. The ones
currently in the repository won't work with patched lev_main.c due to
that renamed variable.
Under some circumstances, when all the marauding orcs belonging to the
horde operating within the gnomish mines had been provided with their
spoils and placed appropriately, there could still be some pillaged stuff
left-over on the migrating obj chain. Orcs created by regular monster
generation elsewhere would then be susceptable to receiving that stuff
until it was used up. That part is fine, except that the orcs were then
being named as part of the same horde operating within the mines. Now
they will no longer be named as part of the Gnomish Mines horde.
Mythos: There's a good chance that these particular orcs received the
stolen goods from the Gnomish Mines horde.
Fixes#161
Report states that scattering objects might leave a 'pile' glyph when
no longer appropriate. I didn't try to reproduce that, just took it
on faith. The fix tried to be too efficient and might have missed
fixing the display if breaks() or ohitmon() destroyed the objects
being scattered and left 'total' at 0.
During level change, when a monster from mydogs (monsters accompaying
hero, usually pets) couldn't be placed because the level was full, it
was set to migrate to that level (in order to get another chance to
arrive if hero left and returned). The code sequence
mon_arrive()-> mnexto()-> m_into_limbo()-> migrate_to_level()-> relmon()
tried to remove the monster from the map, but it wasn't necessarily on
the map (depending upon whether it couldn't arrive at all, or arrived
at the hero's spot and couldn't be moved out of the hero's way). The
EXTRA_SANITY_CHECKS for remove_monster() issued impossible "no monster
to remove". relmon() now checks whether monster is already off the map.
While investigating that, I discovered that pets set to re-migrate
to the same level to try again on hero's next visit didn't work at all.
migrating_mons gets processed after mydogs so moving something from
the latter to the former after arrival failure just resulted in
immediate second failure when the more general list was handled during
the hero's current arrival. And failure to arrive from migrating_mons
would kill the monster instead of scheduling another attempt.
The sanest fix for that turned out to be to have all monsters who
can't arrive be put back on the migrating_mons list to try again upon
hero's next visit. Pets still fail twice but are no longer discarded
during the second time, and now do arrive when hero leaves and comes
back provided he or she has opened up some space before leaving. If
there's still no space on the next visit, monsters who can't arrive
then are scheduled to try again on the visit after that.
Recent fix for invalid corpses becomes moot. Monsters aren't killed
during arrival failure so there are no resulting corpses to deal with.
Attempting to untrap an adjacent location failed if you had escaped a
pit, claiming that you couldn't reach. You can't reach the bottom of
the pit if you're not in it, but you should be able to reach adjacent
spots normally.
If hero was carrying Schroedinger's Box at end of game, disclosing
inventory converted it into an ordinary box. That interferred with
subsequent disclosure when writing DUMPLOG, which saw an empty box
if inventory had been shown or the special box with newly-determined
contents if not. I tried a couple of ways to fix it and decided
that redoing it was better in the long run.
Schroedinger's box is still flagged with box->spe = 1, but instead
of having that affect the box's weight, now there is always a cat
corpse in the box. When opened, that will already be in place for
a dead cat or be discarded for a live one, but the weight will be
standard for container+contents and when box->cknown is set it will
always be "containing 1 item" (which might turn out to be a monster).
Some temporary code fixes up old save/bones files to stay compatible.
TODO: food detection used to skip Schroedinger's Box; now it will
always find a corpse, so some fixup like the ridiculous probing code
is needed.
Migrating monster attempting to arrive on a level which is already
full of monsters gets killed off. It was leaving a corpse without
regard for whether it was a type of of monster which should never
leave corpses.
I'd prefer that it be put back on the migrating_mons list rather
than be killed off, but this just suppresses impossible corpses.
When paying for shop door or wall damage, if the entire amount was
covered by shop credit then impossible "zero payment in money2mon"
would occur as the shop code tried to transfer 0 zorkmids from hero
to shopkeeper after using credit to pay.
New-ish files 'engrave', 'epitaph', and 'bogusmon' added for 3.6.0
were not handled by playground setup. NetHack runs without them so
limited testing didn't notice.
Add 'makedefs -s' to build them and include them in installed files.
Also, remove 'makedefs -m' and obsolete monstr.c.
a stale gold symbol could be displayed on the status line following a switch
to a new symset, as observed and reported for Windows RogueEpyx symset.
An update is required for gold in the status line for a change to
any of the following:
context.rndencode value
the encoded glyph value for COIN_CLASS
the gold amount
Vampires tend to take vampire bat form and stay that way, unless/until
there's a closed door they want to pass in which case they change to
fog cloud form. Those shifted forms are weak, so pet vampires tend
not to attack other monsters, and if they don't take damage, they
won't change to vampire form. So, when comparing relative strength of
self and foe while deciding whether to attack another monster, treat
their own strength in weak form as if in vampire form, making them be
more aggressive.
Hostile vampires shouldn't need any comparable change. They don't use
relative strengths when deciding whether to attack something.
Fixes#159
The nurse monster definition is flagged to be able to convery poison
resistance when a corpse or tin is eaten, but the post-corpse code
for nurse healed HP and cured blindness then skipped the intrinsic
handling.
and over the hero. 3.6.0's clairvoyance tried to show things in
a non-standard sequence, which was intentional but had unintended
side-effects like the disappearing monsters complained about in the
report. To make it work as intended would have required --More--
whenever it kicked in, which is much too intrusive when it happens
every N turns rather than when explicitly casting the spell.
Redo it substantially, and give preference to monsters over objects,
objects over traps, and traps over underlying terrain like normal
vision-based display does. It now detects all monsters within its
bounding box but shows ones which aren't directly in view as
"unseen monster" unless via spell cast at skilled or expert, or at
basic when also having intrinsic clairvoyance.
