Use a new flush_screen(-1) call to toggle 3rd screen update in goto_level.
This keeps the 3rd screen state unchanged, no matter what happens at higher
levels, ensures the map window cursor stays on the hero, ensures the
hero's showrace colors remains bright white, and so on.
<Someone> suggested and I agree (mostly, if you're a Monk poly'd to a
strict carnivore, I think it should still smell delicious):
> "You smell the odor of meat." (if herbivorous)
> "You smell a delicious smell." (otherwise)
> I think that if your character is a monk or still veg(itari)an, you should
> also get the first message. Even if you're not intentionally vegitarian,
> the first message is still appropriate.
Reported a really long time ago (June 2001) by <Someone>:
- stand on the upstairs and engrave Elbereth with a /oFire
- create Demogorgon and e.g. a tame dragon
- cause conflict
- Dragon will kill Demogorgon and Demogorgon will never ever attack Dragon.
All monsters could still attack Demogorgon without response via fightm().
Modified fightm() to include a bit of code in m_move and dog_move, allowing
response to an attack. Testing this in action, Demogorgon still usually
did things detrimental to the player, mostly summoning nasty monsters.
<email deleted> wrote:
- When polymorphed into a quantum mechanic, it is possible to jump in
the water on a no teleport level and instinctively teleport.
- When an engulfing monster is teleported away on a no teleport level
when the hero is polymorphed into a quantum mechanic, there is no
message displayed like "You are no longer engulfed!" because
u_teleport_mon is passed FALSE for give feedback. But maybe this is
for a good reason...
>Hemmed in by one invisible wererat?
><Someone>: Should I feel hemmed in if I can see that a wererat summons
>zero rats? Can the invisible wererat hem me in all by itself? And
>even if it had summoned anything, wouldn't a different message had
>been clearer (for isntance, "Rats appear around you!"); after all,
>I could see *what* was hemming me in.
>I agree that the current messages (and even the ones aspired to by the
>comment) are non-ideal.
<Someone>'s suggested set-up:
Seen summoner, seen help : "The wererat summons help!"
Seen summoner, unseen help: "The wererat summons help! You feel hemmed in."
Seen summoner, no help: "The wererat summons help! But none comes."
Unseen summoner, seen help: "(A rat appears|Rats appear) from
nowhere!"
Unseen summoner, unseen help: "You feel hemmed in."
Unseen summoner, no help: No message.
Barbarians start with either a two-handed sword and an ordinary axe
or a battle-axe and a short sword. The latter combination was the only
one among all the roles where the player couldn't enhance skills for
starting weapons to expert. Fix that by allowing barbarians to become
expert in short swords; reduce potential capability with pick-axe/mattock
from expert down to skilled to compensate for the increase.
This also addresses an earlier complaint that monks are no better in
martial arts than samurai even though the latter have lots of choices for
good weapon skills. Reduce the martial arts limit on samurai from grand
master to just master; likewise with bare-handed combat for barbarians
and cavemen. In this case there didn't seem to be any need to bump the
limit on anything else as compensation.
I still think non-rogues shouldn't be allowed to become expert in
daggers (which means that ranger and valkyrie starting gear would need
to change slightly) due to how powerful throwing them is, but I haven't
included that change here.
For the skills which have lower upper limits than before, existing
characters who have #enhanced their skills high enough with the previous
code will retain their higher-than-max skill ranking with the new code.
Characters who have exercised enough to advance to the old max but
haven't done so yet will be limited to the new max.
To reproduce: disable lit_corridor, enter a corridor, read a scroll of
light, then read a cursed scroll of light. The corridor won't darken again.
A test of flags.lit_corridor in newsym was at fault. I'm guessing this was
never noticed because lit_corridor is on by default on Windows and the
default lit and unlit corridor symbols are the same on most other platforms.
Cutting a shopkeeper poly'd as a long worm would generate strange messages
and could result in a crash. cutworm didn't deal with all the intricacies
of duplicating a monster. Fixed by changing cutworm() to use clone_mon()
to do most of its dirty work. It seems to me that without this change,
cutting a tame long worm could also have similar bad effects.
Other side effects of this change:
- clone_mon now takes x,y coordinates, 0,0 results in previous behavior
- clone_mon no longer always makes cloned monsters tame/peaceful if player
caused the clone, using the same formula previously in cutworm. Someone
else may wish to tweak this for gremlins.
- clone_mon will christen the new mon with the old shopkeeper's name, even
though clones are never shopkeepers (game can't handle 2 for a shop)
- cutworm can now be called during conflict or pet combat, although I
added no such calls (yet)
Incorporate a slightly modified version of a patch submitted by <Someone> back in June. The basic problem, which I noticed again this past
weekend, is that pets with a high apport value can still try to get to
objects when there's no path to the object. The patch extends the
can_reach_food function to be used for any object, renaming it to
can_reach_location, and adds a could_reach_item function for doing point
checks. This also removes any chance of a pet dragon, for example, eating
something underwater.
When changing levels, the state of rndmonst() is reset, causing the monster
choices to be recalculated. However, the frequency counts for initial
uncommon() monsters were never cleared. Thus, if the first non-extinct
monster were a hell monster, and you returned to the main dungeon, the hell
monster will remain in the list and could be selected.
From Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack :
> <email deleted>
> Subject: question for windows tty users
>
> I am trying to hunt down a bug, and want to know if I have
> encountered another one of those bizarre "features" that only
> occur on my computer (I seem to get a lot of them).
>
> I can reproduce this bug, or whatever it is, in the official
> Windows binary like this: Start the tty version of NetHack by
> double clicking on the program. You won't see the bug if you
> start it from the command line. When the game asks, "Who are
> you?" press ^C. NetHack will respond with "^C abort. Hit
> <Enter> to end," and then it hangs. Pressing Enter does
> nothing, and the program does not end.
>
> Can anybody else reproduce this behaviour? Thanks in advance.
>
> -- <Someone>
Calling rehumanize directly when u.mh > 0 doesn't consider Unchanging
(perhaps it should?). But, it's probably better to call losehp anyway.
Also, part of a buglist item: .5PD didn't affect rust trap damage on iron golem
I wrote to the devteam early last week:
> Given my understanding of travel, it's supposed to be somewhat intelligent,
> and "convenient", and should, therefore avoid walking into water, lava,
> traps, or other things that distant movement would avoid, even if you're
> right next it. Unless... the travel destination is the "bad" location
> next to you when the travel starts.
To that end...
- add a context (iflags in 3.4.3 to maintain savefile compat) flag to
differenciate the first travel step from later steps, to allow the
detection of the final sentence, above.
- several changes to set/reset the travel1 flag as needed
- add code to findtravelpath to treat the first step specially if it's
the only step, allowing forced travel into a "bad" location
- correct the "don't travel over traps" code, which was getting confused
because hero's starting location was being avoided
- add code to avoid traveling into water and lava, duplicating
checks used for non-travel running
- fix some strange "guess" travel behavior: avoid zigzag paths when there's
a more direct path (even though the number of moves is the same)
- trunk change adds a new DISP_ALL tmp_at type, and uses it in some debug
code for travel, debug changes not added to the 3.4.3 branch
This hack simply causes ^C to be ignored completely by the gnome interface.
Gnome really cannot handle interrupts, and the window port interface does
not currently provide a way for the gnome interface to just quit. Allowing
the gnome interface to prompt would require a complete overhall to the the
way window ports work.
<Someone> wrote:
- If I set the 'boulder' option, shouldn't I be able to give the
symbol I define for them at the crystal ball "object or
monster symbol" prompt and have it work?
- Could ']' be added as a synonym for 'm', as with genocide?
- set boulder symbol to '3'; use '/' or ';' to examine a
boulder. Result is "unknown creature causing you disquiet
co-located with a boulder" even though there's no warning
glyph '3' there.
Another buglist entry.
<Someone> wrote:
- There appears to be no way to detect ghosts-and-shades; the
space key just "Never mind"s. (Not that they'd be particularly
visible on the resulting screen under ASCII, unless you've
changed the 'monsters' option.)
Allow space; display results in inverse using detected_mon_to_glyph()
<Someone> wrote:
- You currently appear to be able to specify '~' and have it try
to detect monsters (though it won't detect any long worms)
Show the entire worm when specifying either '~' or 'w' now.
> over the water, then polymorphed into a non-flying creature
> leaves you standing on the water (you can kill the creature
> too and you're still on the water when you shouldn't be).
> - When floating from levitation over water and being held and
> removing levitation, you will fall into the water and drown or
> crawl back onto land. If you crawl back onto land you're no
> longer being held.
> The first situation seems to be a bug, the second a possible
> exploit. Both situations don't seem very correct, if you're
> being held it seems you should not fall into the water/lava
> until you are no longer being held. [patch contributed] It
> will keep the hero held up on over the water until released if
> his size is smaller than or equal to the size of the monster
> holding him. [<email deleted>, patch
> supplied]
>
A recent patch ensured that you ended up in the water when
polymorphed.
This patch is less ambitious than <Someone>'s
contribution, where he actually had the monster hold you up.
Perhaps that can be tackled for the trunk later.
Use fqname buffer 1 for restoring the save file (just like save does when
creating it) so the value won't change out from under the code in unixmain.
- Also moved a tty-specific hack in docompress_file that was causing
the 'y' response to the "keep the save file" prompt to be echoed twice.
<email deleted> wrote:
> Non-weapon iron items don't appear to rust if #dipped in a fountain.
Fixed. If something does get rusted, its a 50/50 chance whether other
fountain effects take place on the item afterwards.
fix by <Someone>, updated by <Someone> on r.g.r.n.
changes the colours of the windows tty port so that blue and
bright blue, and cyan and bright cyan are distinguishable. The chief
benefit of this is that floating eyes no longer look like shocking
spheres.
Not all of the extended commands worked in the gnome interface because
'#' just caused the next character to be treated as a meta character (this
was a hack I added a while back when none of the extended commands worked).
Resolved by finally adding an extended command menu to the gnome interface.
- updated some formatting so I could read the code
- fixed startup player selection menus so accelerators work
- added necessary calls to make sure selected menu item is visible
- also removed some dead code
The tty menu code wasn't totally reentrant, causing it to free memory
that wasn't on the heap if you had your inventory displayed, ^C then
ask to see the inventory again. Solved this by converting the buffer used
by process_menu_window to be heap-allocated. If the Quit code could return at
this point, this would still be very bad, but since it doesn't, this is OK.
Internals of gnome_yn_function should treat key inputs as 'int' until
returning them, to avoid truncating and not sign extending as needed on
platforms where char is unsigned.
Add a menu item for Quiver. While testing this, found the Quit menu
item still said that you quit using shift-q, so I updated that too.
Trunk change includes some other exit related fixes that don't apply to
the 3.4.3 branch.
Too much code was being shared between the extended command window
and the popup dialogs for player selection, causing an uninitialized
variable to be referenced, often resulting in a core dump.
<email deleted> wrote:
> [...] Vlad happened to be generated with a /WoDig and tried to
> make an escape hole during his last few moves. Shouldn't he
> know, that the floor in his own tower is undigable? So he lost
> valuable time with a pretty senseless action...
<Someone> suggested that a dragon, lacking hands, shouldn't be able to
throw things. Dragons can pick things up, and it seems they can throw
things the same way. However, it does seem that a notake() monster, which
cannot pick things up, shouldn't be able to throw things either.
When moving the code to bill for tins before eating them (to charge for
them at the pre-eating hunger status), several cases were able to bypass
billing. Moved the bill checking code to a new costly_tin() subroutine so
it could be called in all the necessary places.
> Not all objects say "Splash!" when they fall in the
> water. When levitating/flying and dropping things they
> don't, but when polymorphing and forced to drop items
> they do. [<email deleted>]
when floating over the water, things dropped always
make some sort of sound. Also fix up some messages
when Underwater that previously said things like
"feel what is lying on the water" by adjusting
surface() in that situation to return "bottom."
While looking into this, I noticed that if you
are polymorphed into a Flyer and you then polymorph
back into your normal form, you don't end up in
the water until you move, so this attempts to
correct that too.
There was a great deal of inconsistency in
different menus on how headings were displayed.
This allows the user to select what they like best.
I was motivated to do this, because I wasn't satisfied
with the appearance of ATR_INVERSE in the menus
on win32tty, and several of them specified it.
<Someone> suggested that nagas should eat. This seems reasonable.
I made all but the black omnivores. The black are similar to the AD&D
spirit naga, which are listed as carnivores, while AD&D's other nagas are
omnivores, so I took the same approach.
Change the code involved to use a new #define for the field, like other
overloaded uses of corpsenm. Also remove one check for this field from
potion.c: there are no blessed potions from sinks.
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".
If you try to put a saddle on a cockatrice, you turn to stone,
even if wearing gloves. This seemed inconsistent with other cases,
and I couldn't think of a reason why you'd touch the cockatrice with
another body part, so I added the uarmg test.
trunk and branch:
Do not limit role selection list by race/gender/alignment. The default.nh
selection will still be honored but the list itself will include every
possible role.
Some interface tweaks for main trunk:
- improved calculation of the size of the menu window
- made auto-arrange windows on/off option (it was reset automatically
which was unintuitive and in some cases annoying, IMO)
Fix the reported bug of problems after casting stone-to-flesh spell
on self while wielding a statue. Pointers for worn items weren't kept in
sync and various potential symptoms could occur (most easily visible one
being that ')' falsely reported the no longer existing statue as still
wielded; report stated that one crash was observed). This bug predates
3.4.2 and was probably present ever since stone-to-flesh got introduced.
It makes sense that if you cannot normally move to a location containing a
boulder, dismounting there should be avoided if possible. It seems
that it should be possible to land there if there's no other choice.
Perhaps doing so should result in damage, but that's not in this patch.
<Someone> pointed out the inappropriate appearance of the 3.4.2 message when
fog clouds have you engulfed if you happen to be polymorphed into an aquatic
creature. It does seem that a fog cloud should not cause added damage to
amphibious creatures, which includes breathless (but non-flaming) monsters.
I also thought another message was more appropriate for flaming creatures
(see on_fire()), and added a special case for that.
gulpum was missing symmetric code and I added it there too.
While wearing the Eyes of the Overworld, one could use a hook or pole thru
walls. The bug report thought they should work past a boulder, but I
disagree, given a pole or hook's rigid nature, and did not special case that.
couldsee() is not affected by the Eyes, so use that after checking cansee().
