Playtesting has shown that there is too much permafood in the game
at present: in the late-game the only food-related problem is how
much to carry in order to avoid burdening yourself. In the early
game, food could previously have been a problem prior to
Minetown/Sokoban (thus the recent commit to add a guaranteed ration
in the upper dungeons), but past that point, there is easily enough
food generated on the ground. Additionally, the recent commits to
make healing sources more available in the early game reduce the
amount of time that needs to be spent waiting to heal, thus
further reducing food requirements.
The main purposes of food as a mechanic are to given an incentive
to press onwards and to discourage grinding. However, if monsters
are deathdropping non-corpse permafood, then beyond the very
early game, grinding actually generates more food than it uses up,
so the nutrition mechanic doesn't do its job properly.
Playtesting (including a full ascension!) has shown that there is
still plenty of food available even without deathdrops available
(my test game had 8 spare non-deathdrop food rations upon reaching
the Castle, at which point nutrition is no longer an issue due to
the Castle food stores and the huge numbers of C- and K-rations
dropped by the soldiers). I will address the potential problems
this causes for vegetarian Monks in a future commit.
Various places checking for whether a monster was on the map based on
mstate flags were inconsistent about which ones they checked (and then
place_monster() was additionally inconsistent with all of them about
which bits were cleared when placing a monster onto the map). I think
some places were also more convoluted than is now necessary because they
date back to mstate being an alias for mspare1, which it shared with
migflags before those became two separate dedicated fields (MSTATE_MASK
also dates back to this and is no longer used, so I removed it).
I tried to go through all the MON_foo mstate bits, understand when/why
they are set, and make the various functions I noticed more consistent
(with each other, and with my understanding of how the bits work) about
how they are treated. I don't know for a fact that I understood
everything right -- some diagnostic bits that aren't used for much of
anything, like MON_OBLITERATE, had me mystified until I read the 5ee78c5
commit message -- but this patch hasn't caused any new problems (sanity
check or otherwise) with the fuzzer in my testing so far. All the same,
it could probably use review by someone who has a good sense of what the
mstate bits mean.
Change 852f8e4 by requiring a minimum impact before a buried zombie
nearby will be disturbed: light, but still excluding things like
scrolls, if it's a violent impact (dropped while levitating, thrown, or
kicked), and fairly heavy if the hero is just placing the item on the
ground normally.
Moving the call out of flooreffects meant it no longer applied to
pushing boulders around, so have moverock disturb nearby zombies. I
additionally had wake_nearby do the same thing.
Finally, I renamed check_buried_zombies (which doesn't really reflect
what it does) to disturb_buried_zombies.
Reported by a hardfought user, a ceiling_hider monster hid on the
Astral level, triggering a sanity check warning that gets repeated
each move until the hider comes out of hiding. Normally sanity_check
can only be set in wizard mode, but hardfought must force it on for
to-be-3.7.
I was able to reproduce it before this fix and unable to do so
afterward, but there is a random factor involved hence no guarantees.
I think that lack of ceiling for Astral is recent, but this could
have happened on other levels which lack a ceiling. I didn't try to
figure out whether it might happen with 3.6.x, just put the fixes
entry in the "exposed by git" (found in code not yet released, that
is) section.
If you killed a second high priest (either two on Astral or first in
the Sanctum and another on Astral) the livelog/#chronicle message
would report "killed high priest of Foo (2nd time)" even though the
first was the high priest of Bar, or even just "killed high priest
(2nd time)" if second kill happened when not adjacent.
High priests pass the 'unique monster' test (even though they aren't
actually unique--there will be four of them) so get logged for killing
such. Always report "killed high priest of Foo" and only do so if the
specific high priest[ess] monster hasn't been revived and re-killed.
Logging deaths of unique monsters normally reports the 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
5th, 10th, and various later instances. If you were to kill Moloch's
high priest and all three on Astral, the last one wouldn't be logged
because 4th instance gets skipped. This forces each one to be treated
as the 1st (provided that the mrevived flag is clear), so for logging
purposes it will now behave as if there are 4 distinct high priests.
Don't use "slither" for movement action when observing an aquatic
monster go into hiding underwater. Use "dive" instead.
Shark, pirahna, and jellyfish had been flagged M1_SLITHY but aren't
anymore. Giant eel and electric eel are still M1_SLITHY and kraken
wasn't and still isn't.
There may be some odd cases that used to use slither and it went by
unnoticed where now use of the default verb might become noticeable.
I saw this in the YANI archive, and I think it's fairly interesting.
Doppelgangers are known for commiting identity theft, but in NetHack
they function as just another shapeshifter. This commit makes them
a bit more interesting, I think.
Original YANI by aosdict and Andrio.
Pull request #1005 introduced some code that needed minor reformatting.
This goes beyond that, splitting the livelog/#chronicle handling and
the vampire unshifting code out of mondead() into separate routines.
The livelog phrasing for death of a unique monster always assumed that
the hero was directly responsible:
"killed|destroyed <unique mon|shk+details> (Nth time)."
If it dies while monsters are moving, switch to:
"<unique mon|shk+details> has been killed|destroyed (Nth time)."
It isn't phrased as if the hero is responsible if the monster dies due
to passive counter-attack against poly'd hero but that isn't blatantly
wrong and doesn't seem worth worrying about.
The livelog message includes the shopkeeper's shop type, since the
livelog for stealing also mentions the shop type.
Only the first kill per shopkeeper is logged.
Noticed when testing erodeproof Mitre of Holiness: the cloud of
stinking gas released by Nalzok when he died ending up killing my pet
and my hero got blamed for that. Don't blame--or credit--the hero for
monsters affected by the gas cloud when a dying nemesis produces such.
Reported by Umbire: if a statue of a hider-under was activated by
a statue trap, it would hide underneath its own statue. Also, the
hero saw a snake hide under unseen submerged kelp.
Both of those things were exposed by new "you see <monster> hide"
message rather than caused by it. It also led to the [re-]discovery
that an existing monster hiding under a statue that was a not-yet-
triggered trap prevented the trap from producing a monster.
This redoes yesterday's can't-hide-under-statue change: hiders can
hide under statues again, but they can't hide under anything at trap
locations. [Pits containing one or more objects are an exception,
although it seems silly that a hero is prevented from falling into
one by the presence of a tiny creepy-crawly hiding under a ring or
dart in there.] So, hider-underers won't be able to interfere with
statue traps by being present at the trap location. [Trappers and
lurkers-above probably need a similar restriction; I didn't look.
They avoid trap spots rather than get lured to such by objects.]
It also prevents newly created hider-underers from becoming hidden
as part of the their creation (except when that creation is part
of level creation) whether their creation uses up an object (statue
activation, egg hatching) or there are simply other items present.
That will prevent statue of a hider producing a monster that hides
under the activated statue (which was happening due to the sequence
create monster, transfer any statue contents to monster inventory,
destroy statue).
The can't-hide-under-statues code has been repurposed to prevent
hiding under gold pieces unless there are at least 10 (arbitrary
threshold) of those or they're in a pile with some other object(s).
Sea monsters hide in water regardless of the presence of objects.
Prevent other swimmers from hiding under objects at water locations.
Such creatures don't have gills and shouldn't be able to stay
submerged in hiding for an arbitrary length of time. [No exception
is made for non-breathers. The overlap between swimmers and hider-
underers is limited to small snakes, even though it is feasible for
a creature wearing an amulet of magical breathing to polymorph into
one. Heros don't spend enough time underwater to worry about snakes
hiding under kelp or thrown junk.]
Lastly, alter the "suddenly, you notice a <monster>" message if
monster-vs-monster activity causes one you've just seen going into
hiding comes back out again without any intervening messages. [I'm
not sure whether something similar is needed for the "Wait. There's
something there" message in the you-vs-monster case.]
Fixes#1062
Unlike ground clutter, statues are typically in pretty tight contact
with the ground; statue traps are sometimes proclaimed as "monsters
posing as statues".
Add a new debugging option, 'montelecontrol', that allows a wizard-
mode player to choose a teleporting monster's destination. If player
picks a bad spot, confirmation will be requested. If accepted, the
spot will be used even though the consequences could be bad; that's
on the player. If rejected, the destination will be assigned as if
no control had been attempted rather than try again.
The fuzzer isn't allowed to override a bad spot if it tries to pick
one. That would probably trigger a sanity_check warning; the fuzzer
causes impossible warnings to behave as if panic, so accepting a bad
spot would just be fuzzer suicide. It is allowed to randomly set the
option and maybe--though extremely unlikely--randomly pick a valid
controlled destination.
If an monster hides under and object or under water while in view,
say so.
Also, the sanity check for a hidden eel wasn't consistent with the
hiding criteria for it. An eel can't hide on the Plane of Water even
when it's in the water rather than in an air bubble.
for monsters that haven't died, when being removed from play to keep
them out of bones.
Reported by copperwater: if the quest nemesis was present on a level
being saved as bones, it was removed from the map to keep it out of
the bones level but the quest feedback for nemesis death was given
in the process. Would happen for blessed genocide of "*" too. (It
didn't happen for #wizmakemap and I'm not sure why.)
This was an unintended side-effect of moving some common stuff from
mondead() and mongone() into m_detach(). The quest feedback isn't
actually common to both. Instead of moving that back, pass a flag
that m_detach() can use to determine which routine called it.
Fixes#1029
Report says that Wizard of Yendor posing as some other monster
triggers a sanity_check warning if on the migrating_mons list and
hero has Protection_from_shape_changers attribute. My attmpts to
reproduce that failed, but this updates the mon_sanity checking to
explicitly allow a monster posing as another monster to be on the
migrating monsters list.
This also adds checks for whether a monster on the fmon list has
MON_MIGRATING or MON_LIMBO or MON_DETACH bits set in monst->mstate
and whether a monster on the migrating_mons list has MON_DETACH set
or both MON_MIGRATING and MON_LIMBO clear. I won't be surprised if
these new checks trigger sanity complaints.
When a monster being attacked was knocked back into a level
teleport trap, the attacker could still hit the defender.
If the second hit then killed the defender, this could result
in dmonsfree warning.
Heroes recognized unseen same-race monsters by voice, but it yielded
an unexpected result if the monster was unique. Change it so that
hero will recognize any type of monster by its voice if that monster
has been seen and limit unseen same-race ones to non-unique monsters.
Treats shopkeepers as unique since they have distinct names.
This adds a new flag to struct monst in order to track whether each
specific monster has ever been seen or sensed.
... if the boulder is in a position they want to move to.
Shopkeepers, priests, and the quest leader can break one boulder
and then need to take several turns before being able to break
another. Riders can break a boulder every turn.
... unless explicitly specified to generate at a specific point or
within a specific area. But if they are permitted to generate anywhere
on the level, and it contains water, they always end up in the water. I
noticed this when trying to explicitly specify ghouls to generate
anywhere on a level with a minimal amount of water.
This was due to the definition of "amphibious" being conflated with
"breathless", such that all breathless monsters counted as amphibious.
There are plenty of breathless monsters in the game that decidedly don't
normally inhabit water, such as undead, but they would pass the
amphibious() check in pm_to_humidity and thus the game decides that they
must generate in wet terrain if there is any available.
This fix takes the approach of changing amphibious() so that it no
longer checks the M1_BREATHLESS flag and only considers M1_AMPHIBIOUS,
then updating the places where amphibious() and Amphibious are used
accordingly. I also added a new macro cant_drown() which wraps up
swimming, amphibiousness, and breathlessness because these three things
are frequently checked together in the context of whether something
should drown.
Places where amphibious() or Amphibious did NOT have an extra
breathless() or Breathless check added on, and thus where behavior has
been changed:
- The pm_to_humidity function (to fix the bug).
- Player vs water in goodpos; it didn't seem like being polymorphed into
a breathless non-amphibious monster should make it fair game to
randomly teleport into water even though it's technically safe.
- Awarding extra experience when killing an eel. (So the hero will get
the extra experience if they are polymorphed into a breathless
non-amphibious monster and don't have magical breathing. Very much an
edge case.)
More towards not being able to swallow or hold an non-solid creature.
When engulfed, expel hero if the new form is unsolid or too big.
Give a message if hero is being held (rather than engulfed) and has
to be released.
Adding a call to expels() required some code reordering because it
calls spoteffects().
Give the hint about using '#monster' at the very end of polymon().
Something I noticed while looking over the recent report about hug
attacks. If a monster carrying one or more boulders (picked up while
in giant form) polymorphs into a non-giant, it will drop them. If
that happens while it's trapped, it could be killed. newcham() would
use a stale pointer to continue traversing its inventory after it was
dead and its possessions had been dropped.
I managed to get a chameleon-as-giant carrying boulders and some other
stuff trapped in a bear trap and then transform, but the few attempts
I made never killed off its next form so I wasn't able to induce a
crash to verify that a problem would actually occur.
Making the zeroing out of memory used by an object that is about to
be freed unconditional, and do the same for monsters. Should never
matter aside from an undetectable amount of extra overhead.
Consolidate a couple of makemon() calls. I thought that this would
end up being clearer but it isn't actually much of an improvement.
Should be no change in behavior.
A monster may be unhidden if it's caught in a trap, but maybe_unhide_at
was checking mtmp->mtrapped across the board, which wouldn't work for
the hero. Use u.utrap instead under those circumstances. Also refactor
a bit so it shouldn't need the repeated guards against mtmp being null.
maybe_unhide_at tried to handle both a monster and hero, but
hero being hidden is in u.uundetected flag, and the code was
only checking the monster mundetected field.
The code should probably be changed, either to change all uses
of the u.uundetected to gy.youmonster.mundetected, or perhaps
use a macro ... but these changes are all too big for me
to tackle for now.
sound_verbal(char *text, int32_t gender, int32_t tone, int32_t vol,
int32_t moreinfo);
-- NetHack will call this function when it wants to pass text of
spoken language by a character or creature within the game.
-- text is a transcript of what has been spoken.
-- gender indicates MALE or FEMALE sounding voice.
-- tone indicates the tone of the voice.
-- vol is the volume (1% - 100%) for the sound.
-- moreinfo is used to provide additional information to the soundlib.
-- there may be some accessibility uses for this function.
It may be useful for accessibility purposes too.
A preliminary implementation has been attempted for macsound to test
the interface on macOS. No tinkering of the voices has been done.
Use of the test implementation requires the following at build time with make.
WANT_SPEECH=1
That needs to be included on the make command line to enable the test code,
otherwise just the interface update is compiled in.
I don't know for certain when AVSpeechSynthesizer went into macOS, but older versions
likely don't support it, and would just leave off the WANT_SPEECH=1.
If built with WANT_SPEECH=1, the 'voices' NetHack option needs to be enabled.
It was a bit strange, when I first started up the test, to hear Asidonhopo,
the shopkeeper, talking to me as I entered his shop and interacted with him.
Add "walls of lava", basically lava which blocks vision and
require a bit more than just levitation or flight to move through.
No levels use this yet, as testing isn't thorough enough.
sanity_check feedback which occurred after using locking magic to
set off a bear trap at the location of a monster hiding under an
object.
Trivial bit: a recent change made stunning via knockback only occur
when not already stunned but was still adding the current stun time
to the new stun time even though current stun is now always zero.
Several formatting bits included.
