<Someone> reported the longstanding behavior that when dragging, the chain
does not always remain directly between the player and the ball. This occurs
when the player zigzags. Added a check to the simple drag code to try to
keep the chain directly between the player and the ball. But, don't do this
if the player is walking thru rock or if it would move the chain into rock.
- [fixed in trunk] iron-ball-pulling yourself out of a bear trap
- [fixed in trunk] Hitting your foot with a bullwhip
- [fixed in trunk] Hooking yourself with a grappling hook
- [fixed in trunk] Being thwacked by an iron ball chained to you
- [fixed in trunk] A crystal ball exploding on being applied
- [fixed in trunk] Hitting yourself with your pick-axe
- [fixed in trunk] Molten lava (entering or being splashed)
- [fixed in trunk] Getting squished in a pit under a boulder
- [fixed in trunk] Kicking something that makes you go "Ouch!"
This patch introduces a change to yname() and Yname2() that avoids the
possessive "your" for the hero's normal, fully identified artifacts.
Quest artifacts still get the possessive, as do all other objects and all
objects not in the hero's possession. shk_your()/Shk_Your() are used in
many places with a specific, generalized name for the object, so I didn't
introduce the artifact behavior there, although I did change them to append
a space, which simplified some other code. Through added use of yname(),
there may be some places that used to just say "corpse" that will now be more
descriptive via yname()'s use of cxname(). I'm sure <Someone> will point
out any such places that are too onerous, although nothing obviously is.
I took the opportunity to inspect many uses of "your" and even Your(). Two
new functions are also introduced, yobjnam() and Yobjnam2(), which work
like aobjnam() and yname() combined, because I found that many uses of
aobjnam() were preceeded by "your" and I couldn't generally provide the
desired behavior for artifacts (or future artifacts) without a combined
function. In some cases, this change allowed better sharing of code.
rust_dmg() still takes a string as input which is sometimes initialized
from xname() and often prepends "your" to it. Currently, this isn't a
problem since there currently are no normal, armor artifacts. If/when any
are introduced, rust_dmg() will need to be addressed.
The patch is for the trunk only. A lot of research was required and I
didn't feel the upside was there for repeating it in the 3.4.3 branch.
Prevent burying a ball from ending your punishment.
When you bury the ball, internally NetHack Punishment
ceases, but a new trap type of TT_BURIEDBALL immediately
kicks in (acting similar to TT_INFLOOR in some ways).
You can eventually work the ball free (or teleport, etc.),
but that will just return you back to normal Punishment.
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> comments: When dieing from an iron ball landing on your head, the death is
> listed as: "Crunched in the head by an iron ball"
> However no other deaths start with a capital letter.
Fixing some iron ball/teleds stuff:
-- If the player can pass through walls, ignore all checks for walls, or else
things will behave weirdly.
-- Instead of using the kludge "if the distance is >2 it must be a teleport",
pass a parameter indicating whether they crawled or teleported onto the new
space. This fixes a special case, where the player moved one space and the
ball didn't move, but the chain moved through solid rock. This is acceptable
if teleporting and unacceptable if dragging.
This also required some rearrangement of teleds() so that u.ux,u.uy
are set after placing the ball, not before. I'm still not sure the pit
filling line is in the right place; anyone know?
-- add some comments so I can look at the code in a month and still know what
I did.
Most of this patch is just adding the new parameter.
statement that could be followed by ';' anywhere. However, with the goto
there, my compiler complains every time it's used:
"ball.c", line 402: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 434: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 442: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 449: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 452: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 457: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 479: warning: statement not reached
"ball.c", line 498: warning: statement not reached
None of the current uses care about an excess statement, but is there a
way to satisfy both desires?
Well, this proved rather annoying. Problems included:
-- the solid rock problem that was noticed
-- teleporting to a spot two spaces away but on the other side of solid rock
could also leave the chain in solid rock
-- in one place I said chainx instead of ballx, which could cause problems with
teleporting
-- the teleport code moved the player before moving the ball, violating the
assumption that the player hasn't been moved yet (which only caused problems
after I added the solid rock fix).
Ball movement still isn't quite right, though the cases are really rare. I
may fix them later.
