> The new ^V wizmode menu is nice, but it is rather misleading; most of
> the levels it lists are "you can't get there from here". Would it be
> possible either to make it only list levels that can be reached
> directly, or alternatively to allow you to reach the ones you
> ordinarily couldn't (maybe by forcefully changing u.uz.dnum to yoink
> you into the right branch, and even summarily issuing you with an
> Amulet if you ask to teleport to the endgame).[...]; being able to bamf
> quickly to Minetown from DL 1, for example, would be damn useful in > testing stuff.
Allow fairly free roaming of the dungeon via the wizard mode teleport menu.
triggered from newsgroup post:
> ""For you , esteemed lady; only 10 for this large shield." k - a
> large shield (unpaid, 10 zorkmids).
> To what level do you want to teleport? 0
> Go to Nowhere. Are you sure? [ynq] (q) y
> You scream in agony as your body begins to warp... You cease to
> exist.
> Die? [yn] (n) y
> Bayburt comes and takes all your possessions."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> How? He teleported to Nowhere?
Leave no doubt that your possessions did not go with you...
Allow migrated objects to break on arrival. Added code to obj_delivery to
cause this, along with a flag to keep breakage from occurring. The new
flag isn't used yet, because all the current object migration involve
objects that were moving/dropping. To help make this change, rloco now
returns whether the object was placed or not, so caller can know if an obj
pointer is still valid or not.
Making the breakage messages for MIGR_NEAR_PLAYER objects show up after the
new level is displayed required some effort (rather than while the old level
was still displayed, which was confusing), due to the needs of goto_level.
- obj_delivery now has 2 passes, one for before player arrives, another after,
allowing the two cases to be treated differently
- goto_level calls obj_delivery twice (run_timers is not called twice,
since the run required before the level is displayed will have already run
any timers on migrating object)
- kill_genocided_monsters now kills eggs on the migrating_objs list too
Reported a while back, a (stonable) hiding monster will hide at a location
containing only a cockatrice corpse. While it would be interesting to
allow monsters to try, and stone themselves as a result, I chose the
simpler fix which is to not have monsters hide in such situations. I found
the hiding code was duplicated in several places, so I moved it into a new
hideunder() function that works for both the hero and monsters.
Introduce a new set of functions to manage delayed killers in the trunk, used
in addressing the various reports of delayed killer confusion. Since existing
delayed killers are related to player properties, the delayed killers are
keyed by uprop indexes. I did this to avoid adding yet another set of
similar identifiers.
- the new delayed_killer() is used for stoning, sliming, sickness, and
delayed self-genocide while polymorphed. Some other timed events don't
use it (and didn't use the old delayed_killer variable) because they
use a fixed message when the timeout occurs.
- A new data structure, struct kinfo, is used to track both delayed and
immediate killers. This encapsulates all the info involved with
identifying a killer. The structure contains a buffer, which subsumes the
old killer_buf and several other buffers that didn't/couldn't use killer_buf.
- the killer list is saved and restored as part of the game state.
- the special case of usick_cause was removed and a delayed killer list
entry is now used in its place
- common code dealing with (un)sliming is moved to a new make_slimed function
- attempted to update all make dependencies for new end.c -> lev.h
dependency, sorry if I messed any up
Pat Rankin wrote:
> collect them all into some new struct and
> save that separately rather than jamming more non-option stuff
> into struct flags.
This patch:
- collects all context/tracking related fields from flags
into a new structure called "context."
It also adds the following to the new structure:
- stethoscope turn support
- victual support
- tin support
<email deleted> wrote:
> If more monsters fall through a trap door than can fit on the
> level below, when you go down the stairs, you get the following
> message:
> "Program in disorder - perhaps you'd better #quit.
> rloc(): couldn't relocate monster"
> This message seems to appear once for every monster-too-many that
> fell through the hole. I originally found this while
> intentionally completely filling a level with black puddings
> (there was a trap door I didn't know about). I also confirmed it
> in a wiz-mode test using gremlins and water.
[confirmed: moveloop -> deferred_goto -> goto_level ->
losedogs -> mon_arrive -> rloc -> impossible]
This patch:
- causes rloc() to return TRUE if successful,
or FALSE if it wasn't.
- adds code to mon_arrive() in dog.c to deal with
the failed rloc()
- allows the x,y parameters to mkcorpstat() to
be 0,0 in order to trigger random placement of the
corpse on the level
- if you define DEBUG_MIGRATING_MONS when you build cmd.c
then you'll have a debug-mode command #migratemons to
store the number of random monsters that you specify
on the migrating monsters chain.
- Guidebook typo
- wizard mode prompt
[...]
> 2/3) In Guidebook* the lines subkeyval (Win32 tty NetHackonly).
> May be used to alter the value of should read subkeyval (Win32
> tty NetHack only). May be used to alter the value of
>
> 3/3) I miss a hint for the new wizmode feature levelteleport by
> menu. Neither wizhelp nor the dialog tell you about it. Maybe if
> (++trycnt == 2) Strcat(qbuf, " [type a number or ?]"); in
> teleport.c:589 could provide a hint.
>
> <Someone>
From newsgroup discussion: prevent monsters from level teleporting
to Moloch's Sanctum level unless the invocation ritual has already made it
accessible (same restriction player's character already has). Otherwise a
monster could pick up one of the invocation items and effectively take it
into limbo, making it become impossible for the player to reach that level.
From the newsgroup: prevent monsters from level teleporting out of
the quest into the main dungeon. The player can't do that and monsters
weren't supposed to be able to, but from time to time the quest nemesis
has seemingly vanished after reading a cursed scroll of teleportation.
His disappearance was due to ending up on a random level between the
quest entrance and the top of the dungeon.
This also fixes an obscure bug that I noticed while trying to
reproduce that problem: uncontrolled level teleports by the player in
the quest had 80% or thereabouts chance of ending up on the quest home
level. All 12-15 main dungeon levels above quest entrance were included
in the random range of 1 thru current+3, then any choice which tried to
pick one of those was converted to quest level 1. (Monster destination
wasn't getting that adjustment.)
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.
>More worrying is the fact that applying a figurine over water lets
>the monster wait until its next move before it drowns (giving
>you time to teleport it to safety, or whatever) [...]
>Should there be a minliquid() check as part of make_familiar()?
Applying at the water location next to you was easy. But
applying it at your own location (triggering BY_YOU) could
end up placing the figurine at the far side of the level if
there was lots of water.
Correcting that required the ability to pass a flag from
make_familiar to makemon() telling it to not rule out
water locations as good positions. The flag had to
be passed on down to goodpos() and enexto().
The bulk of this patch is just adding an additional
argument to goodpos() in all of the callers.
teleds now needs to handle the case where an uncarried ball starts out
inactive, but becomes active as a result of teleporting out of a monster
while engulfed.
Fix the reported problem of getting impossible warnings for unpaid
inventory items during final disclosure if you level teleport out of
the dungeon while holding shop goods. The fix makes you trigger a shop
robbery first; that required a minor end of game change to prevent the
shopkeeper from seeming to tag along (shk would take your possessions
as if you'd died on the shop level).
Being Stunned now disallows teleport control. Confusion may affect ability
to control level teleports, but only after asking for the destination.
Made confused level teleport failures based on luck too.
Incorporate a fix from <Someone> that resets the timestamp on
stinking clouds left in bones files. This does allow the cloud's ttl to
restart. Extended it to reset the player_inside flag.
Then noticed that the only placed that called in_out_region was domove().
Added calls when changing levels (which causes player_inside to be set
correctly if the cloud covers the location where the player starts on the
bones level), teleporting, and inside hurtle_step. There are still other
places that fail to call in_out_region, which others may choose to tackle.
I split out the remaining stinking cloud bug reported in the same e-mail
into a separate betabug. That one probably cannot be addressed without
changing the level file format to track the creator.
when investigating the report of death due to falling off steed leaving
"you were riding" in the final attributes. (This doesn't fix that bug.)
Dismounting calls teleds() to put the character on the map and teleds()
does various iron ball manipulations, but during level change the ball
is removed from the map and those manipulations won't work as intended.
This fixes a long worm display bug. The bug wasn't really in the worm code, it
was in goodpos(). goodpos() could place worm segments on top of one another.
If you split a worm when the tail was located on top of the head, the tail
would be removed from the screen, making the head seem to vanish.
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.
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.
- watch messages if you can't see the watch now start "You hear"
- unseen spellcaster messages are shown as "Something", to remove
some silly message pairs.
- unseen spellcaster that casts at itself causes no message
- recalc vision before spoteffects messsages, to avoid invalid "It"