We used to have the contents of chests and large boxes be immune to
water damage, oilskin sacks immune unless the sack was cursed, other
containers be vulnerable. Some reddit discussion about ice boxes in
unnethack indicates that they are treated like oilskin sacks, which
makes sense. This adds that to nethack and also makes chests and
large boxes behave similarly. So it's now: nothing is immune even
when cursed (except statues); oilskin sacks, ice boxes, and other
boxes are immune to water damage unless cursed; all other containers
vulnerable even when not cursed.
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| Old New
|immune all statues, statues
| the time chests, large boxes
|
|immune when BU, oilskin sacks oilskin sacks,
| vulnerable if C ice boxes,
| chests, large boxes
|
|vulnerable ordinary sacks, ordinary sacks,
| all the time bags of holding, bags of holding
| ice boxes
|
I suspect that the old ice box classification might have been an
accident caused by the Is_box() predicate yielding False for it.
The changes won't make much difference to actual play. Chests and
large boxes are rarely carried and never start out cursed, ice boxes
even more so, and sacks/bags haven't been changed. However, players
might intentionally curse a container to keep strong pets from
picking it up, or be carrying a box because they haven't found a bag
yet and then muck about with fountains or thrones and get it cursed.
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