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<email deleted>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:01 AM
Subject: Bug in 3.4.0: spellbook fading
> Dip a spellbook in a fountain:
> "The spellbook fadefades."
>
> In get_wet (potion.c), otense is used, which returns "fades",
> redundantly, as a suffix to "fade".
Document the way to decline a wish or genocide, and allow both
actions to accept both "none" and "nothing" so that players don't
have to remember which response goes with which prompt.
The shop billing code assumes that food marked partly eaten
is worthless, but the eating code was changed to make sure that any
eating attempt will never leave food marked as not partly eaten.
The end result is that non-corpse food which is consumed in a
single byte can be eaten off shop floors for free, and if eaten
from inventory--so already on shop bill--the "Ix" display of used
up goods lists the item as partly eaten (with right price though).
This fix makes single-byte food be handled the same as other
food: the first byte taken causes the food to be auto-purchased
immediately instead of waiting until it's used up to add it to the
shopping bill.
Fix one of the problems From a bug report: Mjollnir is only
giving the intended feedback when it is thrown. Against ordinary
monsters the problem isn't too bad--you get a lightning message
without the preceding hit message--but against resistant ones there
is no message at all when you hit hand-to-hand. (There is a similar
bug for artifacts which add magic missile damage, but since no such
artifacts exist that isn't much of a problem. :-)
> <email deleted>
> Oops! [...]
> Suddenly, the dungeon collapses.
> place_object: obj not free
>
> The crash is reproducible in wizmode by wishing for a landmine, arming it and
> pushing a wished-for boulder onto it.
- remove a strange \! in the section for Blind users
- update the wording in the subsequent paragraph to be consistent with
the wording in the preceeding IBMgraphics paragraph
- various commands were missing from various help files
- fix a few inconsistencies between similar help files
- M-2 doesn't do #twoweapon when number_pad is enabled
- M-? usually displays #? help info
- weasel-word the reason the screen shown in the Guidebook looks little like
several windowports
- document the playersuffix syntax in the nethack.6 man page
- splash_screen (boolean for whether to display splash screen at startup)
- player_selection:dialog|prompts
Also moves the font and window manipulation stuff in defaults.nh
further down the file, so that a tty users doesn't have to wade
through it all to find the character adjustment samples.
- candles, et al, light via catch_lit
- non-weapons can be damaged
- only flammable items can be damaged, previously SILVER objects, for example,
would get a message, but add_erosion_words wouldn't display a damage word
- can't track burnt food, put this in the "seems" case too
- PLASTIC items are is_flammable, which is appropriate for all current uses
- paper gets destroyed (special artifacts excepted by earlier check)
- a cursed potion now spills even if not dipping weapons
- charge for damaging unpaid objects this way
- still very hard to destroy PYEC this way
> Greetings! <Someone> suggested I report this bug to you:
> in 3.3.1, riding a horse while blind, I ate a bad carrot (to
> unblind myself) and got the message, "Blecch! Rotten food! The
> world spins and you slap against the floor." Upon regaining
> consciousness, I found I was still safely mounted on my steed,
> raising the question of what part of me could have "slapped
> against the floor." I thought I would have fallen off my
> horse, or at least have slumped against it. <Someone> said in his
> reply to me on rgrn: "Looks like Yet Another message that
> fails to take riding into account; should be easy enough for
> the DevTeam to fix, though, since it's one that's already
> being modified for levitation and the like." Hope this helps.
> Thanks very much! <email deleted>
>
Add option windowcolors to control foreground/background
color of menu, message, status, and text windows.
(foreground color is the text color).
The value of the colors is window port specific, the
core code handles the storing of the strings only.
Most NetHack players have picked up on the fact that you can
easily distinguish between a fake amulet and the real thing
simply by trying to put it into a container. That's too easy.
The message was adjusted too, to make it seem less
like the objects have their own special will to resist, something
that a hunk of plastic is unlikely to have.
This fixes beta bug 3020. It was hard to notice because the presence of a
monster in the room stops your occupation anyway, so it wasn't triggered unless
you were blind.
Fix a minor cloning problem; clones didn't retain the monster's name or
tameness. (The name *was* retained if you were cloned.) I also added a
minor change in wizard mode to display a few tameness fields of a dog.
From the newsgroup: some of the fake player monsters on the
astral level were unable to use artifacts that they were created
with due to alignment mismatch. Rather than try to adjust the
artifact creation of only select matching items, this patch lets
them handle artifacts when alignments differ (more or less like
the player; monsters don't occasionally get blasted though).
This also restores chaotic monsters with the ability to use
Stormbringer; I'm not sure how long that has been broken. It also
gives lawful ones the ability to use Excalibur.
Change the prompts for P and R commands to use "put on" instead
of "wear" and "remove" instead of "take off", respectively; W and T
commands aren't affected. There is no change in game play.
<Someone>'s message said this was committed, but the cvs repository
didn't reflect his changes.
> Subject: patch: #rub touchstone
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:33:27 -0800
> <email deleted>
>
> Implement <Someone>'s suggestion.
>
> - allow the #rub command to apply to gray stones
> - update various doc & help files to reflect the change
>
> Committed to CVS.
From the newsgroup: when an undead monster got killed by a wand
or spell of undead turning, if it left a corpse that corpse would be
hit by the same zap and was immediately revived. This fix uses the
flag bits that were added to prevent objects that are dropped by a
polymorphed monster from being hit by the same polymorph zap.
This also fixes a post-3.3.1 bug that produced "the <undead>
turns to flee" even when that monster had been killed by the turning
attack. 3.3.1 had the same bogus fleeing effect but didn't give any
message so it was unnoticeable.
