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62 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
copperwater 3d4ba4d666 Avoid calling rn2(0) when the first room(s) have frequency 0
This probably won't happen in practice, but it is a good safeguard
if this ever does happen (it happened for me in debugging when I wished
to have no "regular" rooms and only generate themed rooms).
2020-09-29 17:30:11 +03:00
copperwater 999222a8a4 Add minimum difficulty cutoffs to two themed rooms
This sets the minimum level depth of "Spider nest" to 10, somewhat above
the difficulty of an individual giant spider, because a whole room full
of them is a tougher challenge. Note that this isn't the only possible
fix to this problem; another solution would be to alter the special case
in mktrap that hardcodes a giant spider to generate with each web to
produce cave spiders if giant spiders would be too tough. Even then, a
lower difficulty cutoff is probably still warranted for this room, since
a large number of cave spiders might be too tough for level 1 or 2.

This also sets the minimum level depth of "Boulder room" to 4, based on
the fact that individual rolling boulder traps normally can't appear
until level 2, and having a bunch of them in one place which may be
required to reach the downstairs could be problematic.

This doesn't do anything to address the "Mausoleum" room problem, in
which a master or arch-lich can generate and immediately warp out and
attack the player. Even with a high difficulty threshold, it won't fix
the problem of these liches generating out of their normal difficulty
and Gehennom constraints.

Other potential candidates for difficulty thresholds:
 - "Trap room": This room might be perilous on the first few levels,
   especially if the level generates with it blocking the way to the
   downstairs.
 - "Massacre": Doesn't have any particular hazards, but might be
   interesting if it only generated at deeper levels.
2020-09-29 17:30:11 +03:00
copperwater c5b5a869d7 Enable themed rooms to be constrained by level difficulty
The system of themed rooms currently makes it so that any themed room
can potentially generate anywhere a themed room can be placed. This is
problematic in the long run, since it makes it difficult to design new
rooms that are an appropriate amount of challenge at all levels of the
dungeon. (A few themed rooms already have this problem: a hero starting
out on level 1 probably won't live very long when the neighboring room
is full of giant spiders, or an arch-lich has generated in a mausoleum
nearby).

This commit adds optional "mindiff" and "maxdiff" properties for
themerooms defined as tables and exposes level_difficulty() to Lua. A
themeroom whose mindiff exceeds the current level difficulty, or whose
maxdiff is lower than the current level difficulty, is prevented from
being selected.

Because the set of rooms eligible to generate on a given level is no
longer fixed, the total frequency of all the rooms can't be computed
once per game when the file is first parsed, as it was before. In place
of this, the themerooms_generate() function now uses a reservoir
sampling algorithm to choose a room from among the eligible rooms,
weighted by frequency.
2020-09-29 17:30:11 +03:00
copperwater 9bb515f196 Prevent any type of terrain overwrite from replacing stairs/ladders
Consider the following scenario: There's a level where there's a zone of
des.replace_terrain() between the stairs and some other objective, and
the terrain is something non-walkable like trees. There's a chance that
the path is entirely blocked off by random replace_terrain, so you
make the level set terrain to '.' along a randline (or normal line, or
whatever) between the randomly placed stairs and the other side of the
replace_terrain zone. The problem: this overwrote the stairs with a '.'
as well.

This can be worked around in the lua file by first picking the desired
location of the stairs, then setting the terrain that overlaps with the
stairs, then doing des.stair() after that, but this is awkward and hard
to read.

So this makes it impossible for anything calling SET_TYPLIT (only called
in sp_lev.c) to overwrite stairs. I can't really think of a situation
where a level designer would want to define stairs, then maybe overwrite
them.
2020-09-28 20:00:12 +03:00
copperwater 06d1b3353e Fix: randomly generated vaults weren't being filled
This also caused the unexpected "You hear someone searching" message on
a level with an unlooted vault.
2020-09-28 20:00:12 +03:00
copperwater cf4f35ea41 Fix: irregular rooms' walls were not part of the room
This was leading to problems with special themed rooms which were
irregular. Walls of ordinary rooms count as part of the room, and
irregular rooms should be no different.

This also makes doors on the room edge be considered as part of the
room, which affected special room entry messages and filling.

All irregular rooms' walls getting marked as SHARED instead of their own
room is probably a latent bug in upstream NetHack, but will prevent
future issues for when/if themed rooms that involve special
rooms/subrooms get added.
2020-09-28 20:00:12 +03:00
copperwater b67092b2a0 Fix: stairs could generate in themed rooms if others were available
This is a simple && vs || bug. The clear intention of the code is that
stairs aren't supposed to generate in themed rooms unless there is no
other choice.

Fixes #348
2020-09-28 20:00:12 +03:00
copperwater 8ae51f94e1 You can reread a spellbook to refresh your memory at any time
Aimed at fixing the problem where the player knows they're going to
forget a spell in a few thousand turns, so they go back and get the
book... only to find out that they "know it quite well already", and
need to wait an indeterminate amount of time until they are on the verge
of forgetting it (< 2000 turns) before the book will let them read it
again.

This commit simply removes that 2000 turn limit, so the player can fully
restore their memory at any time with the spellbook. Naturally, this
still consumes a read charge, so the book won't ultimately last as long
if you keep rereading it early.

If you do have more than 2000 turns left, the game will prompt you to
confirm that you do want to refresh your memory anyway. As before,
rereading with fewer turns will not prompt.
2020-09-28 18:25:06 +03:00
copperwater 78d46b3a76 Fix: missing filled flags in various levels
This is an omission in the filled/prefilled unification. The default for
filled on regions now being 0 meant that regions that had previously had
no need for any fill declaration at all (regions' prefilled defaulted to
0 before this, the effect being to fill them) now failed to get filled.

The rule of thumb is that all des.regions with a type for which filled
is meaningful (e.g. special rooms) should declare the fill status. I
added it to a bunch of temples even though this doesn't really seem to
affect anything there (the priest and altar come with the altar
definition). I assigned temples filled=1 and filled=2 loosely based on
if there is ever being some other generation that would put other
furniture or items in a temple, but the distinction should not affect
anything right now.

Cases fixed where non-temple regions weren't getting filled:
- Barracks, a graveyard, and shops in Tou-goal
- The beehive in the Wizard's Tower
2020-09-28 07:44:42 +03:00
copperwater 3d03a472f6 Stock all special rooms at the end of level creation
This unifies the two separate special-room-stocking code paths, one in
the standard dungeon generator and one in the special level generator
(neither of which reacted to themed rooms, which is the reason for this
commit) into the end of makelevel(), placing the special room stocking
as the very last step of level creation.

Under the new system, when a regular or special level decides to create
a special room, it sets that room's rtype, but the room is not stocked
until later. It already worked this way for special levels, so the main
difference here is in the normal level generation, where the mkroom
family of functions identifies and marks a room as a special room, but
stops short of filling it. (I suppose perhaps the mkroom, mkzoo, mkshop
family of functions would be better off changing their names to
"pickroom" and so on.)

This also restructures makelevel() itself a bit, but the only real
change is that the paths that call makemaz don't return immediately
afterward; they continue to the special room stocking code. Also, this
code was lifted from fill_special_rooms, which is now not used
anywhere, so it has been deleted.

I don't really like how fill_ordinary_room is in mklev.c and
fill_special_room is in sp_lev.c; they seem like they'd be better off in
mkroom.c, but in the interest of not making unnecessary code changes,
I'll just recommend it.
2020-09-27 18:54:15 +03:00
copperwater a35cbf3816 Move Orcus shopkeeper removal from fixup_special into stock_room
The plan is to unify special room filling code and cause special rooms
to be filled as the very last stage of level creation. Since this will
occur after fixup_special, it was necessary to address the one remaining
piece of code in there that affects special room filling. (The Medusa
code remaining in there doesn't have to do with special rooms.)
2020-09-27 18:54:15 +03:00
copperwater 5d73b2be08 Adjust rooms in Medusa levels to account for player monster statues
There is code in fixup_special for stocking Medusa's lair with statues
of players from the leaderboard. It makes two assumptions: that there
will always be at least one room defined on Medusa's level, and that
the statues should be placed in the first room defined. In the process
of removing prefilled, some of these rooms suddenly became non-rooms,
and this caused problems. This commit ensures that the regions for
turning into rooms to hold the statues are present and come first.

In the process of writing this commit, I discovered a bug: the statue
stocking code for medusa in fixup_special naively chooses the spot at
which to place its final statue by selecting independent x and y
coordinates with somex and somey. This is responsible for a statue
occasionally being embedded in a wall or in iron bars on medusa-2 and
medusa-4: the rooms defined to receive statues are irregular, and some
of the possible coordinates happen to be walls, bars, and water.

The proper fix here is to add lua functionality so that the level
designer can specify that they want a leaderboard corpse or statue, and
remove the medusa special case from fixup_special, but that's rather
out of scope for what I'm doing here.
2020-09-27 18:54:15 +03:00
copperwater f8ff58ed7e Fill special rooms recursively rather than only at top level
The fill_special_rooms function was only stocking two types of rooms:
top-level rooms in g.rooms, and their immediate subrooms. If there were
a special room 2 or more levels down, it would not get filled. (No
special levels currently define such a special room, so this bug is
latent.)

To address this, I changed fill_special_rooms to iterate only through
the top level rooms, and fill_special_room to recurse through all of its
subrooms (if any) before filling itself.
2020-09-27 18:54:15 +03:00
copperwater 0fef8fce9f Unify all special level filling options
The existing system was a confusing mess of competing names (filled,
needfill, prefilled, etc) that had varying semantics, with prefilled
being the worst offender as it meant at least three different things in
various contexts. This commit unifies everything in the code under
"needfill", and everything in Lua under "filled", which defaults to 0
everywhere.

This also removes the second argument to fill_special_room; that
function now just checks the needfill of the room it's passed. As
before, a filled == 2 value is used for a special room to indicate that
the room should set the appropriate level flag, but shouldn't actually
be stocked with anything (for instance, King Arthur's throne room); the
difference is that this now comes directly from the lua script instead
of being manipulated within sp_lev.c.

The prefilled argument had one use case that is occasionally used in the
level files: if the level designer had specified an ordinary region with
prefilled = 1, it would become a room to control monster arrivals on a
level -- monsters that arrive within the bounds of a room are supposed
to stay there.
However, not all of the places where the comments indicated this was
being used were using it correctly; I tested this by letting a few
monsters fall through the knox portal (they're supposed to be
constrained to the entry room) and waiting a hundred turns, then going
through the portal; they were not constrained to the room and had
"wandered" through its walls.
Instead of trying to maintain this special case, I have added an
optional "arrival_room" boolean argument to des.region, which forces it
to create a room for the purposes of constraining monster arrival.

I have gone through and replaced occurrences of prefilled in lua files
with the appropriate filled option (or arrival, as needed). In some
cases, that resulted in questionable regions such as a filled ordinary
area in a non-themeroom (I just dropped the filled=1), or an area which
didn't do anything, not even lighting (which I deleted).
2020-09-27 18:54:15 +03:00
copperwater f57588cef1 Make fill_special_room avoid themed rooms
No code in this function would actually do anything if it were called on
a themed room, but since it is pretty clearly intended for the "regular"
special rooms, it's probably best to explicitly avoid themed rooms as
well.
2020-09-27 18:54:14 +03:00
copperwater 0b2b0965a8 Allow themed room subrooms to be filled
I noticed that any subrooms created within a themed room were bare -
they never had any monsters, objects, traps, or anything really,
regardless of whether filled = 1 was set on them. As a result, they're
pretty boring.

It turns out that the code in makelevel() responsible for stocking
ordinary rooms with stuff only looped through g.rooms, and completely
ignored subrooms. (Subrooms would not get stocked with items by virtue
of being part of the larger room; I tested this by dialing the item
generation in rooms way up, and none of those items ever got placed in a
subroom.)

To fix this, I've extracted the code that populates an ordinary room
into its own function, fill_ordinary_room, and made it recurse into its
own subrooms. (I also renamed fill_rooms and fill_room to include the
word "special" in their names, because they only deal with special
rooms.) Note that since special rooms follow a separate codepath, an
ordinary subroom of a special room won't get stocked; perhaps these
functions should be unified in the future.

The fill_ordinary_room code is pretty much a verbatim cut and paste from
makelevel, so there is not currently any consideration for the size of
the subroom or the fact that it is a subroom with respect to how many
monsters, traps, objects, etc get placed.

I'm not sure whether other things such as stair selection will ever
select themed room subrooms, or whether they too only look at g.rooms.
2020-09-27 18:54:14 +03:00
copperwater 3e0c0f6f0f Fix the "stuck pets" bug (github issue #329)
This commit is intended to fix the bug where a pet will get fixated on
an unmoving monster and stop moving itself. I described the cause in the
github issue; the gist is that the pet AI chooses the unmoving monster
as its ranged target, doesn't do anything when it calls mattackm
(because it doesn't have ranged attacks), then returns a value
indicating it didn't move and can't take further actions.

I initially implemented a fix that refactored mattackm to distinguish
between "attacker missed" and "attacker did nothing", which the pet AI
could then use to determine whether the pet could continue doing things.
But then I realized that if mattackm is called with non-adjacent
monsters, a return of MM_MISS more or less unambiguously indicates that
the attacker did nothing (because the ranged functions it calls like
breamm don't actually check to see whether the target was hit, just
whether the monster initiated the attack.) So, this only really needed
to check whether mattackm returned with MM_MISS.

I also found a probable bug in mattackm, in that the thrwmm call isn't
treated the same as breamm or spitmm. In the latter two, mattackm
returns MM_HIT even though it doesn't check whether the ranged attack
actually hit its target. But there was no logic doing the same for
thrwmm, so this commit also adds that. (Otherwise, a pet could possibly
use a ranged weapon attack and then get to keep moving on its turn.)
2020-09-27 18:14:49 +03:00
copperwater 922321b251 Add instructions to zero mextra struct pointer in mextra documentation
It doesn't mention anywhere that newmextra() is responsible for
initializing struct mextra with null pointers to the various
sub-structs. So, when one follows the instructions and doesn't know or
remember to do this, they'll get segfaults when something tries to read
the uninitialized pointer to their new struct.
2020-07-30 23:07:30 -04:00
copperwater 14b4515927 Candle light radius is now square root, not logarithmic
After some discussion with Alex Smith, it seems like a good change for
both gameplay and realism that candles' light radius should decay
quadratically instead of exponentially. Now a light radius of 4 from
candles can be accomplished by burning 9 candles, and players who find a
lot of candles might even be able to get up to 5 (16 candles) or 6 (25
candles).

The main impetus for this change is that with the existing formula, the
more candles -> more light mechanic was more or less useless outside of
wizard mode, because you needed 49 candles to do better than a lamp.
2020-04-25 19:17:21 +03:00
copperwater a9eb81e0c7 Change logic for immobilized displacement, fixing a bug
The bug was that you could easily displace peaceful sleeping monsters.
The source of this was that there was no check for sleeping in the
attack() function that checks for immobilization.

As well as adding the sleeping check, this logic is modified so that it
makes more sense: if a monster is immobilized at all (sleeping, frozen,
or mcanmove = 0) it always "doesn't seem to move!" You can't randomly
displace it anyway 1/6 of the time.

Sessile monsters who are otherwise not immobilized don't move 5/6 of the
time, but can be displaced with the other 1/6.
2020-04-15 08:46:47 +03:00
copperwater 6134c6f165 Pet displacement improvements
Pets can no longer be displaced out of a trap, because that was
inconsistent with peaceful monsters refusing to be displaced out of a
trap. The untaming-via-displacement-out-of-trap code is removed.

Pets also now have a better survival instinct: they follow the code for
peaceful displacement into a bad position, and refuse to swap places.
This means it's no longer possible to accidentally kill a pet by
levitating/walking over water and displacing it.
2020-04-15 08:46:47 +03:00
copperwater 92b9db7630 Shopkeepers are immune to peaceful displacement as well 2020-04-15 08:46:47 +03:00
copperwater 5a1bbb4d16 Fix: rn2(0) when trying to displace peaceful out of trap
A side effect of making is_safepet() count peacefuls. Now checks
directly for a trapped, peaceful monster and says "they can't move out
of the trap"; this is inconsistent with pet behavior, and pet behavior
should probably be changed to be in line with it (ie they can't be
displaced out of a trap at all.)

Also refactor the code here a bit: a bunch of different if statements
have the exact same resetting code and steed resetting code in them.
Change this to a boolean flag and put the resetting code in one place
checked by that flag.
2020-04-15 08:46:47 +03:00
copperwater 21351fc13c More peaceful monsters that can't be displaced: priests, Oracle
Shouldn't be able to displace priests since that could theoretically
eventually force them out of their temple, which would probably cause
problems. The Oracle doesn't usually move anyway, but seems like she
should "not want to swap places" in any circumstance.
2020-04-15 08:46:47 +03:00
copperwater 2ee09b9210 Player can now displace peaceful monsters
Changes domove() code to allow displacing peaceful monsters.
Specifically, is_safepet() now returns true if the monster is peaceful.
Peacefuls are slightly pickier than pets about whether they consent to
being displaced: they will not displace if a goodpos() check fails for
the displaced space, or if there is a trap on the displaced space, or if
they are your quest leader. is_safepet should probably be renamed to
something else.

In the process of doing this, some other changes were made: the code now
checks whether the player and monster should be swapping places at all
first (previously it ran some code for displacing pets out of traps
first, which was a little weird if the displacement didn't actually
happen.)

In the original commit for this, I needed to guard the spoteffects()
call made in domove with a clause testing whether the player actually
moved; it was previously possible to fail to displace a monster and then
re-trigger a trap on the space you were still standing on. However, the
devteam has apparently put in an if (u.umoved) clause in the same place
and serving the same purpose.
2020-04-15 08:46:47 +03:00
copperwater 18d19c902b Allow specifying a montype on figurines in lua files
This was already allowed for the other montype-compatible objects like
statues, corpses, eggs and tins. I don't see a reason why figurines
shouldn't be part of this group; perhaps it was an oversight.
2020-04-15 06:47:58 +03:00
copperwater 35a2f6e3ed Convert math.random percentage computations into percent() 2020-04-06 19:48:28 +03:00
copperwater c4bb3c904f Implement dice and percent as global lua functions
Intended to simplify many of the math.random calls currently in use, and
make them more semantic and thus more readable.

The dice function d() takes either a two-argument form which is the same
as in the C source (number of dice, faces per die) or a one-argument
form that rolls a single die.

The percent(N) function returns true N% of the time.
2020-04-06 19:43:56 +03:00
copperwater 0befdbfd02 Re-implement gradient selections
Uncomments and makes available selection.gradient in Lua. (The backend C
code for this still existed, it just wasn't used.)

The only valid way to specify a gradient is with a table. I considered
adding non-table versions, but decided that there are too many
independent variables that can be optional. A non-table version, without
named parameters, would be confusing to read, especially since most of
the arguments are ints.

Also adds an impossible in the (possibly unreachable) case that
selection_do_gradient gets called with a bad gradient type.
2020-04-06 18:54:39 +03:00
copperwater 407f65aa8a Print out Lua error message when encountering an error
Rather than spitting out an error code number that is not particularly
useful. The string contains the line number and the nature of the error,
which is much more useful for debugging or reporting an issue.
2020-04-06 18:50:29 +03:00
copperwater 4b7f34f5f8 Refactor mongets to return the object it creates
The impetus for this was to avoid ugly constructions such as the one
below (none of which currently appear in vanilla NetHack):

mongets(mtmp, LONG_SWORD);
struct obj* sword = m_carrying(mtmp, LONG_SWORD);
if (sword)
  /* do thing to sword */

Most cases where mongets is used discard the returned value (which used
to be the created object's spe); the only places that do use it are the
series of statements that give various human monsters armor and prevent
them from getting too much armor. These statements included hardcoded
constants representing the base AC of the armor, which would have caused
discrepancies if armor's base AC were ever changed.

With mongets now returning a pointer to the created object, it can just
be passed into ARM_BONUS instead, which covers both the base AC and the
enchantment. (It will also cover erosion, if anyone ever decides that
armor should rarely generate as pre-eroded).

The overall algorithm is not changed by this; human monsters should
receive armor with the same probabilities as before.
2020-04-05 21:08:34 +03:00
copperwater a9dd7a5a46 Don't interrupt tin opening if being slimed and tin is chameleon
Another SliceHack feature. It's possible for you to eat the chameleon
tin and turn into a fiery monster that burns off the slime in its
natural form, either extremely luckily at random or if you have
polymorph control.
2020-04-05 16:10:33 +03:00
copperwater 1b945bf60a Blessed teleport scrolls now give a single controlled teleport
This buffs the blessed effect of the teleport scroll by providing the
reader control over their destination even if they lack teleport
control. This seems like it makes the blessed/uncursed distinction
actually meaningful, rather than mostly pointless.
2020-04-05 16:08:22 +03:00
copperwater f54485b913 Pets will not eat shapeshifter corpses except in extreme circumstances
Ported from SpliceHack, and generalized to all shapeshifters (Splice
only implemented it for chameleons). It's very aggravating when your
powerful but hungry pet chows down on a shapeshifter before you can stop
them and then turns into something much more useless, so this aims to
prevent that.

The extreme circumstances under which a pet will eat a shapeshifter are:
  1. The pet is starving, and prefers polymorph to starvation
  2. The pet's tameness is 1

The reasoning behind the second condition is that if you mistreat your
pet almost to the point of untaming it, it might want to take a chance
on turning into something that might get some more respect from you.
Practically, whenever this happens, this will result in the player now
owning a newly polymorphed and *still* nearly feral pet.
2020-04-05 16:01:39 +03:00
copperwater 30ad8eed84 Make demon lords hostile if wielding Demonbane as well as Excalibur
This makes a lot of sense. Why would they hate one artifact sword so
much and not really care about the one that is especially designed to
kill their type personally?
2020-04-05 15:42:38 +03:00
copperwater e13b1833cc Scroll of remove curse becomes learned when items' curses are removed
The scroll of remove curse is trivially identified by checking inventory
after reading it to see whether anything became uncursed. This leads to
annoying tactics like remembering which scroll you just read so you can
go call it "remove curse" on the discoveries list.

This simply autoidentifies it when an item that was known to be cursed
has its curse removed.
2020-04-05 15:40:21 +03:00
copperwater da3afd39d2 Deliberate level teleporter activation ignores magic resistance
This is aimed at providing a little quality of life in the form of not
having to divest yourself of your sources of magic resistance before
using a level teleporter. The player is already able to use regular
teleport traps while Antimagic; there's no reason why it should be
different for level teleporters.

This ultimately comes from "Stevie-O's level teleporter jump patch", by
way of SliceHack. I simplified it a bit: deliberately jumping onto the
trap always takes time even if it fails to levelport you (which would
only happen with level teleporters in the End Game, which don't exist).
2020-04-05 15:34:20 +03:00
copperwater 63d3d7b688 You may survive food poisoning with a Con/100 chance
Another feature from SliceHack. Randomly averting an instadeath might
seem a little too generous, but the only time you get food poisoning is
if you're a new player who hasn't learned about tainted corpses yet or
if you just did something stupid. So, be a little nicer in those
scenarios.

If you survive, your Con silently decreases by 1. Hey, it's better than
dying.
2020-04-05 15:15:30 +03:00
copperwater 4129706a4c Potions of hallucination can give enlightenment
This is also from SliceHack, but with the odds of enlightenment toned
down a bit, to 4/9 for a blessed potion and 1/6 for an uncursed potion
(SliceHack had it at 50% blessed, 20% cursed, and strangely, 0%
uncursed). It gives a much-needed use to one of the potions that's
commonly blanked or discarded.
2020-04-05 15:06:43 +03:00
copperwater 9e29b516de Remove Sokoban luck penalties for things you can't cheat with
Jumping, Newton's 3rd Law hurtling, and throwing an iron ball:
attempting to do any of these in such a way that you would diagonally
pass between boulders/walls causes the Luck penalty. However, none of
these actually get you through the diagonal gap, thus they can't be used
to cheat and the penalty doesn't make sense.
2020-01-06 01:00:29 +01:00
copperwater 02731cb996 Always print a message when the hero level teleports
For much the same reason as the horizontal teleport message: various
forms of level teleportation produce no message indication at all that
you just ended up somewhere else.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 6cbf8ccef4 Always print a message when the hero teleports
It's useful to get a message as indication you suddenly moved somewhere.
For instance, MSGTYPE=stop can be used on this to avoid bumbling in the
wrong direction after a spontaneous uncontrolled teleport.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater d9c7a7b13c Teach non-mindless monsters about the Castle trapdoors
This feature is originally from SliceHack, but the original code
directly edited the monmove code, whereas I thought it was cleaner to
use the existing mtrapseen code. Thus, this commit just marks trapdoors
as "seen" for all non-mindless monsters generated in the Castle level
(the same way all monsters in Sokoban are marked aware of pits and
holes).

This change prevents these Castle monsters from moving onto trapdoors
97.5% of the time. (A determined player can still patiently sit and wait
for everyone in the castle to plunge like lemmings into the trapdoors,
but it will now take 40 times as long.) Also unlike SliceHack, this only
excludes mindless monsters - not all non-humanoids. There are plenty of
intelligent non-humanoid monsters generated right next to the trapdoors,
after all.

This is aimed at better flavor (the inhabitants of the castle should
know about the traps in their own area) and better scenery in the Valley
(doesn't seem as much of a valley of the dead if there are hordes of
soldiers milling around down there).

I considered sticking an in_mklev condition onto this if statement, so
that monsters spawned into the Castle after its creation will fall down
the trapdoors, but ultimately decided against it.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 43d06a4911 Default shk sell prompt to N
It can get annoying when you accidentally sell something you didn't mean
to by hitting space or enter at this prompt.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater f87e42e682 Underwater fire scroll causes vaporization regardless of confusion
This is originally from the variant SliceHack. Rationale: there's still
fire being summoned, so it should vaporize some water.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 2d8b72be9d Better reporting directions for impossible()
Rather than just informing the player that saving and reloading might
fix the problem, they are now encouraged to report the problem to the
value of DEVTEAM_EMAIL. If the sysconf specifies SUPPORT, that is also
presented as an option.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 598563dac3 Add a default message for chatting to gnomes
Message is a reference to The Silver Chair. Most of the other races had
their own messages already, but gnomes would just default to discussing
dungeon exploration, which doesn't make that much sense most of the
times when you would be chatting to them in their own mines.

The quotation is edited from the source to reflect the dungeon
environment, but the sentiment is actually pretty spot-on given the
average player's win ratio.

Note: this doesn't interfere with the South Park gnome speech added to
3.6 a while ago; that only occurs when hallucinating and this only
occurs when not hallucinating.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 6b389c385d Call potion bottles by nonsensical names if hallucinating
From SliceHack. Note that this refers to the description of the physical
bottle; it's a substitute for "phial", "carafe", "flask", etc. such as
are seen when a potion crashes on someone's head. They don't obscure the
randomized appearance or actual potion identity.

The SliceHack version evidently went through several revisions; just
take the current one.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater c578b9537a Neutral sacrifices disappear in a cloud of smoke
The general idea here came from SpliceHack -- give each alignment a
unique effect in what happens to its sacrifices -- but the "puff of
smoke" in Splice seemed too small.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 2b670a82e4 Give player message informing them they can use #enhance
Triggers when you feel more confident in your skills. This is to address
a problem I have heard about several times from newer players: unless
you pay close attention to the guidebook, nothing in the game actually
indicates that you can level up your abilities and how to do it.

Experienced players don't need this message, of course; they can hide it
via MSGTYPE if they really hate it, but I additionally added a clause
that prevents this message from being displayed more than once per game
session. (It didn't seem important enough to make a save field for.)
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater a8a321423d Suppress "Unknown command" messages in the dumplog.
Backported from TNNT. Only affects dumplog pline history, not any other
form of pline history.

The impetus for this is to avoid dumplogs full of "Unknown command foo."
messages which don't provide any value for people reading the file. In
many cases, these messages crowd out the actual message history, making
it hard to reconstruct what happened.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater f044576309 Remove "iron hook" unidentified description
It's confusing and served no purpose; a spoiled player knew what it is,
an unspoiled player might think it was a hook-hand or something. Now
they all show up as grappling hook.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 77281e7194 Choir chanting, bathing in darkness before Moloch snuffs out your life
Inspired by a Dudley's Dungeon strip. No gameplay change, just flavor.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater c59387d9aa Show "You feel very comfortable here" message when crowned 2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 40d6dbaa96 Applying a candelabrum with no candles gives a tip
"This candelabrum has no candles. To attach candles, apply them instead
of the candelabrum."
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater ce617ba798 Replace awful "You feel cold" message for freezing a door you can't see
That message implied something to do with an effect happening to the
hero that causes them to feel cold, such as taking cold damage.
Change it to "You hear a deep cracking sound" instead.
2020-01-04 22:54:14 +01:00
copperwater 277dcc05b5 Port the autounlock feature, hallucinatory trap names from UnNetHack
This adds a boolean option, autounlock, defaulting to true. When this is
set to TRUE, messages stating that some door or container is locked are
automatically followed by a prompt asking if you would like to unlock
it, if you are carrying an unlocking tool (key, lock pick, or credit
card).

Architecturally, this extends the pick_lock function to take three
additional arguments (door coordinates or a box on the ground you are
autounlocking).

The code that selects an unlocking tool will always look first for a
skeleton key, then a lock pick, then a credit card. Since curses, rust,
and other attributes don't really have an effect on the viability of the
unlocking device, it didn't seem to warrant making a more complex
function for that.

Add hallucinatory trap names

This adds many funny, realistic, and nonsensical traps to the game, to
be shown when the player is hallucinating.

Architecturally, the biggest change is merging the what_trap macro and
the "defsyms[trap_to_defsym(ttyp)].explanation" pattern into a single
function "trapname", which returns the name of the trap, handling the
hallucination case. There is also a second parameter used for overriding
hallucination in the occasional cases where the actual trap name should
always be returned.

In addition, the what_trap and random_trap macros are now obsolete and
not used anywhere, so they are removed.

reinstate anti-rng abuse bit on hallucination

updates to hallucinatory trap names and fixes37.0 entry
2019-12-19 18:52:23 -05:00
copperwater 4a3d5f95d9 Allow teleportation onto the Vibrating Square
It's a minor annoyance when you forget you can't do this in vanilla and
then get relocated somewhere random on the level. Since it's not a
harmful "trap", just allow the adventurer to teleport directly onto it.
2019-12-08 19:57:35 +01:00
copperwater 9b0d78d265 Port the autounlock feature from UnNetHack
This adds a boolean option, autounlock, defaulting to true. When this is
set to TRUE, messages stating that some door or container is locked are
automatically followed by a prompt asking if you would like to unlock
it, if you are carrying an unlocking tool (key, lock pick, or credit
card).

Architecturally, this extends the pick_lock function to take three
additional arguments (door coordinates or a box on the ground you are
autounlocking).

Because this adds a new field to struct flag, this is not a
save-compatible change. I have not adjusted EDITLEVEL or
VERSION_COMPATIBILITY, though.

The code that selects an unlocking tool will always look first for a
skeleton key, then a lock pick, then a credit card. Since curses, rust,
and other attributes don't really have an effect on the viability of the
unlocking device, it didn't seem to warrant making a more complex
function for that.
2019-09-30 21:32:11 -04:00
copperwater 31ea7c1f62 Add hallucinatory trap names
This adds many funny, realistic, and nonsensical traps to the game, to
be shown when the player is hallucinating.

Architecturally, the biggest change is merging the what_trap macro and
the "defsyms[trap_to_defsym(ttyp)].explanation" pattern into a single
function "trapname", which returns the name of the trap, handling the
hallucination case. There is also a second parameter used for overriding
hallucination in the occasional cases where the actual trap name should
always be returned.

In addition, the what_trap and random_trap macros are now obsolete and
not used anywhere, so they are removed.
2019-01-06 00:56:05 -05:00
copperwater 2b127ee453 Fix resurfacing of "foxen" pluralization bug
Inadvertently reintroduced in f9f1236. It was just the conditional
that was bad: due to resolving the possible buffer underflow when
comparing to "muskox", the pluralizer now only adds -es when the length
of the string is greater than 5. So for "box" and "fox" the pluralizer
will never add the -es ending, since they are greater than 5.

This commit checks for "does not end in muskox" correctly.
2018-12-09 09:51:47 -05:00
copperwater bab350f355 Fix "would flyif you weren't levitating" - missing space 2018-09-25 23:14:45 -04:00