Provide more control over message handling for monsters' use
of equipment. This fixes the statue revival problem (inappropriate
feedback when monster puts on speed boots) mentioned in the earlier
"intrinsics of dead monsters" patch.
> I'm working on a Nethack port, and one of the header files a
> library uses has a structure with a member named "red". Since
> includes/decl.h #defines red to something, this totally loses.
>
> Attached is a patch which fixes the color defines.
Fix part of the buglist entry regarding hitting and mhurtle. Flag if
mhurtle already killed the monster, and don't call killed again in this case.
One of the new checks for this already_killed flag is just futureproofing.
A monster hit by Stormbringer could take less damage to current
HP than it took to max HP if attacker had sufficient penalties, so
end up being healthier than its new maximum. This only applies to
attacks by the player; attacks by monsters don't include the sorts of
modifiers that can trigger it.
From a bug report,
August 12, 2002 at 11:37:10
When I am polymorphed into a purple worm (didn't check other forms)
and bite a green slime I turn to stone (not slime).
Fixes 2 bugs:
1) an impossible() could occur if you applied a lance against a long worm
because the code uses thitmonst to do the hitting, but didn't set bhitpos,
which is required before calling thitmonst.
Add the missing assignment.
2) applying a lance would never mark a knight as a caitiff. Added a new
check_caitiff function and called it from the 2 existing checks and in
the lance code.
I saw no straight-forward way to insert the message earlier in the
sequence, so... I reasoned that you might not yet have a good grasp and
not be able to continue holding the object when reverting form. So, I made
this into a drop case and made the drop message a rare past tense message.
Past tense is still OK for the other drop cases.
While testing this, I noticed you'd keep stealing even after reverting
form. Added code to stop this. Finally, there was a missing MON_NOWEP
call in the stealing code, added it.
Reported that player polymorphed into an exploding monster does not explode
when attacking thin air. Also noticed that if player is Unchanging, they
wouldn't die after exploding in the existing code. Set u.mh = -1 to ensure
they won't still be around after exploding.
longtime bug in damageum, if hero is poly'd to something with fire damage,
and hits a paper or straw golem, mondead will get called twice for the
monster. Fix this, by working like AD_CURS does no clay golem. Also, make
sure no scrolls, et al, get dropped by disallowing a corpse.
Add a param to newcham() to let it print "The oldmon turns into a newmon!"
rather than always printing this externally. Should ensure a good ordering
of the messages. Also put some special name handling in one place and
catch a couple cases where "saddled" was printed, resulting in funny messages.
- From a bug report, there are ways to, for example, steal items
from Medusa without waking her, by clever use of Conflict.
Avoid this by removing STRAT_WAITFORU when such an attack succeeds
- it was theoretically possible to use a similar approach to steal from a
STRAT_WAITFORU monster without it noticing while polymorphed and very fast,
so bulletproof this case as well. Simpler because failed attacks wake too.
- It was possible for hmon_hitmon to call mhurtle to move a monster into a
hole or other trap, causing it to migrate. Then, hmon_hitmon would
subtract hp, and could mark the monster as dead. Later, dmonsfree would
notice the monster wasn't on the level anymore, causing the impossible.
Avoid the problem by just not hurtling the monster if it's going to die.
It's possible it will get lifesaved after not hurtling. Technically, if it
does die, the corpse should be hurtled, but won't be.
- treat jousting similarly
- if you're polymorphed into an eel, you were able to drown things like xorns
- also, fix the tombstone message when an eel drowns you, it was basing the
message on your location, not the eel's location
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.
Strengthen Death by making his "drains your life force"
result take away some max HPs to augment the ordinary damage
it does. The chance for that effect is reduced from 80% to
75% though. Weaken Famine, Pestilence, and Demogorgon by
preventing them from hitting with both of their disease or
hunger attacks on the same turn. When their first attack
hits, the second now gets treated as a stun attack, but if
the first one misses then the second is unchanged and yields
another chance to deliver the disease or hunger effect.
Generally modify the AD_DGST damage type so that:
- players and pets get no AD_DGST nutrition from G_NOCORPSE monsters
- undead no longer convey any nutrition, to either monsters or you-as-monster
I decided on this based on the age typically assigned to undead corpses.
- digestion conveys 50% or normal nutrition, and takes 25% the time to eat.
- all AD_DGST attacks are now subject to gas spore explosions, including player
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.
