This patch, based on code sent to us by <Someone> well over a year ago, addresses
bugs recently resurfaced. Namely, that lava does not generally do anything
to monsters or objects that land in java. Newly renamed minliquid() handles
both water and lava, and new fire_damage() is used similar to water_damage().
Players wielding a lance while riding will "joust" monsters
they attack.
Note that monsters don't get pushed into inaccessable tiles such
as walls, doors, iron bars, water, or lava; they stay at the edge.
Further refinements are possible for these cases.
so that it will not be included in the diff between
the versions.
Also note that the -ko option in effect for that file
causes it to leave the value at whatever is
checked in from now on.
One from <Someone>'s list: there's no particular reason for
the High Priest of Moloch in the temple on the sanctum level in
Gehennom to have his identity concealed when he's detected from
a distance. I also changed the concealment of the Astral Plane
to stop when you're adjacent to the priest, since #chat--among
other things, such as simply entering the temple--provides other
means of identifying which temple it is once you're there.
Files patched:
include/extern.h
src/do_name.c, pager.c
This patch adds several new levels from <Someone>'s Gnomish
Mines patch, after devteam revision.
The ordering of levels in mines.des has also been cleaned up.
A number of players have complained that Sokoban can be rendered
unsolvable without "creative nethacking" when monsters zap wands of
digging. This patch prevents monsters from selecting wands of
digging in Sokoban.
Note that we can't simply make Sokoban HARDFLOOR, as that causes
problems with the hole generation code.
When potions of full healing got added, they included the
ability to restore lost experience levels when blessed ones are
quaffed. This patch throttles them so that when multiple levels
have been lost, drinking multiple potions can only restore half
of those levels. Also, it prevents them from fixing any level
loss which occurs if you polymorph into a "new man" (or woman
or dwarf, &c, where you can gain or lose up to 2 levels).
This also makes the "golden glow" prayer result be at least
as good as blessed full healing by restoring a lost level instead
of giving 5 extra hit points when you have any recoverable lost
levels pending.
And tangentially related: gaining a level while polymorphed
now gives your current monster form an extra hit die in addition
to the latent boost your normal human/whatever form gets.
Files patched:
src/exper.c, polyself.c, potion.c, pray.c
This adds <Someone>'s lens patch.
This is probably it for me adding in any more user-contributed patches for
3.3.2 (except maybe coin flipping; does anyone object to it?)
--Ken A.
Reported to the list 1/5/2001 by <Someone>.
I put stop_occupation calls in all the gaze cases where they were needed.
You might still die, but you'll only get attacked once before you stop waiting.
Patch from <Someone> to the list on 10/01/2001. The changes cause riding a steed
into water to result in a dismount, and, if the steed can't survive in
water, the death of the steed, with the usual pet-death penalties.
This adds the BUC-patch, except that it includes four separate choices for
blessed/cursed/uncursed/unknown. The patch only applies to full menu styles.
--Ken A
(Incidentally, I have a suggestion: when deciding what's the first line for
purposes of mailing out messages, use the first nonblank line...)
time. I think it's because the modern data.base contains so many quotes that
have nothing to do with Nethack that nobody tries to use data.base to figure
out how to handle monsters any more.
Summary of spell changes:
-- wimpiness of 'default' spell fixed by doing half damage for magic resistance
instead of 1 damage, and using half monster level instead of 1/3. It may
still need tweaking, but is much better than before.
-- 'default' spell for cleric monsters is now the wounds spell, by analogy with
wizard monsters.
-- added clerical lightning strike, flame strike, gush of water
-- all spells should now say the monster is casting a spell, and all spells
should have messages. (Side effect: monsters speeding up by other means
also give a message saying so).
-- casting undirected spells is not affected by whether the monster knows
where you are. Monsters that are attacking your displaced image, that are
several squares away, or that are peaceful can use undirected spells.
-- messages should correctly say whether the spell is undirected (a monster
was always casting at thin air or pointing at you and cursing, without checking
to see if the spell wouldn't require pointing)
-- Monsters which are attacking your displaced image, etc. use up mspec_used.
If they are casting an undirected spell, the spell still works.
-- Monsters which are not attacking can cast spells that don't attack.
-- If a monster didn't have ranged spellcasting ability (which most don't),
it would print a curse message from buzzmu() every round it was at range,
creating a useless stream of constant curse messages
I still haven't made spellcasters "smarter" in the sense of noticing whether
you have reflection, fire resistance, etc. That opens a big can of worms
because it would mean giving monsters a memory.
Known bug: the higher level a monster is, the more spells it has; since it
chooses a noncombat spell by randomly picking a spell and casting if it
happens to be noncombat, the higher level the monster is the greater the
chance of getting nothing.
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
auto_credit flag; that's what sell_response is for).
follow-up comment from Pat:
This introduces behavior that I consider to be buggy.
You need something separate from sell_response, otherwise if
you answer (a)ll when the shopkeeper still has money you end
up selling everything for credit without being asked when he
runs out of cash in the middle of the transation. Avoiding
that is the reason for the old behavior in the first place.
