Back in Nov'04, <Someone> pointed out that even with only 5%
chance for dropping a horn upon the death of a unicorn which has been
revived from corpse, it's still possible to produce a nearly unlimited
number of them for polypile fodder. This bumps the chance for a horn up
to 50%, but flags the horn as coming from a revived corpse and makes such
horns be treated by polymoprh as if they're non-magic (which practically
guarantees that they'll poly into mundane tools instead of magic ones).
Someone in the newsgroup complained about zapping probing at a large
box dropped by a quantum mechanic and being told that it was empty rather
than that it held a corpse or live cat. This sidesteps the issue by
reporting "the box seems empty" instead of "the box is empty", and not
setting its contents-known flag. (That message is the main difference
between probing and the assorted other methods of observation [telepathy
and monster detection and possibly Warning for live cat, object detection
and food detection for dead cat's corpse] which might be expected to
trigger the cat's fate but don't.) This also makes probing of self and
of monsters set the contents-known and locking-known flags for containers
in inventory, same as is done for probing which hits objects. (Display of
container contents still only occurs for loose objects, not in inventory.)
Part of "multi-shot throwing proposal" last January. Unfortunately
some of the bits that I had implemented back then have vanished, so I'm
doing it over from scratch. There were three main parts:
1) allow multi-shot volley throwing for all stackable weapons (affects
knives, javelins, spears, and boomerangs; other weapons either don't
stack or are already multi-shot);
2) make worm teeth and crysknives be stackable like ordinary knives;
3) merge spear and javelin skills, so that allocating skill points to
their use becomes more attractive and they might get used more.
This patch only does #3.
Since the monk skill set shrinks by more than any of the other roles,
I bumped max skill for escape spells (haste self, invisibility, jumping,
levitation, and teleport away) from basic to skilled; that's the only
skill adjustment included here. For the couple of roles had different
max values for spear and javelin skill; this keeps the higher of the two.
This patch by <email deleted> was released
when 3.4.1 was current and has been incorporated into slash'em. It is
extremely useful while using ranged weapons. When both autopickup and
pickup_thrown are enabled, walking across previously thrown objects will
pick them up even if they don't match the current pickup_types list.
[See cvs log for patchlevel.h for longer description.]
It seemed inappropriate to allocate and tack on an oextra
structure just to mark it as unmergable, and the oextra
struct itself wouldn't be released until a save/restore took
place.
This uses one of the freed up oattached bits to prevent the merge.
move oattached and oname and other things that vary
the size of the obj structure into a separate
non-adjacent oextra structure, similar to what has
already been done for mextra. The obj structure
itself becomes a fixed size.
New macros:
#define ONAME(o) ((o)->oextra->oname)
#define OMID(o) ((o)->oextra->omid)
#define OMONST(o) ((o)->oextra->omonst)
#define OLONG(o) ((o)->oextra->olong)
#define OMAILCMD(o) ((o)->oextra->omailcmd)
#define has_oname(o) ((o)->oextra && ONAME(o))
#define has_omid(o) ((o)->oextra && OMID(o))
#define has_omonst(o) ((o)->oextra && OMONST(o))
#define has_olong(o) ((o)->oextra && OLONG(o))
#define has_omailcmd(o) ((o)->oextra && OMAILCMD(o))
changed macros:
has_name(mon) becomes has_mname(mon) to correspond.
The CVS repository was tagged with
NETHACK_PRE_OEXTRA
before commiting these, and
tagged with
NETHACK_POST_OEXTRA
immediately after. The diff
between those two tags is this oextra patch.
The associated mail daemon changes to use an oextra
structure instead of a hidden command located in the
name after the terminating NUL, have not been tried
or tested.
- restore intended behaviour of kill_genocided_monsters().
It has been incorrect since the chameleon overhaul in June 2004.
- eliminate CHAM_ORDINARY and use NON_PM instead.
[Attention: This patch increments EDITLEVEL in patchlevel.h, rendering all
previous save and bones files obsolete.]
Here's the first cut at the two recommended flags lknown and cknown.
I've attempted to stay close to Pat's recommendations:
"Containers ought to have two new flags: lknown for lock status known,
and cknown for contents known (ie, `secret'). Formatted box and chest
descriptions should include locked/unlocked/broken when that is known
and empty/nonempty (or something like "holds N items") when contents
are known. The contents indicator would also apply to nonlockable
containers."
I probably overlooked a place where a flag should be adjusted, but this
should give us a good starting point.
I wasn't sure what to do with the case of the auditory feedback for
magical locking "Click" and "Clunk". The question that came to my mind
was: Should those reveal the locked or unlocked status of a box?
I suppose if you knew the type of wand you were zapping or the spell
you were casting, you could argue that they should.
In the end, I opted for setting lknown right off the zap/cast effect
for anyone playing a Wizard role, and not setting it for anyone else,
thus advancing class differentiation a little bit too.
I haven't checked the cknown results under all flags.menu_style options
at this point, only MENU_FULL.
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.
A while back, I noticed that there was a custom use of the obj->recharged
flag in mkobj.c for tracking corpses on ice. It's much more obvious for
those of us that don't have the entire source base memorized to follow the
usual convention of adding a #define to obj.h. That's what this change does.
<Someone> wrote: "Also, hobbits can't wear armour,
at least, you can't wear armour when polymorphed into a hobbit, even
though hobbits do tend to be carrying elven mithril-coats.
It's tempting to suggest adding an explicit exception in
sliparm() for elven mithril just to keep the Tolkienness."
- added a general routine for adding race-based /object
combination exceptions.
- hobbits can wear elven mithril-coats
If you stepped on an unknown rolling boulder trap, and that rolling boulder
hit a monster and killed it, you would be called a killer. This makes
playing a pacifism conduct game rather difficult.
- track boulders from unknown rolling boulder traps, and don't charge/credit
hero if they kill monsters. This is done by temporarily setting otrapped on
such boulders.
- boulders from known traps are still charged/credited to the hero
- fix a couple places in ohitmon where is_poisonable wasn't checked along
with opoisoned.
The Kop Kaptain's rubber hose shatters from the force of your blow!
Rubber hoses are an individual exception that would need to be dealt
with explicitly, since the PLASTIC they're made of is floppy rather
than rigid as for other PLASTIC items.
-Rename is_greystone() to is_graystone() since I've
had one complaint about my choice of spelling for
the macro already.
-Change the recent "#rub touchstone" code to use
the macro which pre-existed under the other spelling
and was already used in the very same "if" statement
with that spelling in invent.c. :-)
magic while wearing dragon scales/scale mail were being turned
into random monsters instead of into dragons.
Also
Two items from <Someone>'s list.
Files patched:
include/obj.h
src/mon.c, muse.c, worn.c, zap.c
