Competition 131

**buzzkill** · November 11, 2012, 00:39

I just updated www.mediafire.com/buzzkill with the a fix for FA131 32x32 tile problems. It seems the the tileset (included in distro) was a little out of date, and the maintainer also made prf changes against an out of date prf. All legacy items/monsters/features seem OK now, though there may a few new 'things' that aren't accounted for (which should display as ASCII). I believe this also welcomes the 'new' canine and feline tiles to FA. Comments welcome.

EDIT: AS ALWAYS, THERE ARE MANY VERSIONS OF THE TILESET AVAILABLE (BECAUSE IT'S ALSO MY BACKUP REPO).
EDIT: BE SURE TO GRAB THE ONE WITH THE MOST RECENT DATE.

**Fendell Orcbane** · November 11, 2012, 05:53

How do I use the buzzkill tiles on a mac? I can't seem to find where I need to dump them.

**Nick** · November 11, 2012, 07:25

Originally posted by Fendell Orcbane

How do I use the buzzkill tiles on a mac? I can't seem to find where I need to dump them.

Control-click on the FAangband icon, and choose 'Show package contents'. Then go to Resources and then lib; the .prf file needs to be called graf-dvg.prf, and go into the pref folder, and the 32x32.png file needs to go both directly in Resources, and in lib/xtra/graf.

**Seany C** · November 12, 2012, 01:15

Hurrah - happily, the savefile appears to work OK (initially, at least) with v1.3.0 too.
Nick - are there any game-breaking errors in 1.3.0, necessitating an upgrade to 1.3.1? (not found any yet, while getting to DL80 or so with another character)

**Mikko Lehtinen** · November 12, 2012, 01:57

Hey, we're at the same version number.

Comp 131, version 1.3.1, there's some number magic there.

**Nick** · November 12, 2012, 06:57

Originally posted by Seany C

Nick - are there any game-breaking errors in 1.3.0, necessitating an upgrade to 1.3.1? (not found any yet, while getting to DL80 or so with another character)

Not really; the bugfix list is here.

**buzzkill** · November 15, 2012, 02:16

Originally posted by buzzkill

I just updated www.mediafire.com/buzzkill with the a fix for FA131 32x32 tile problems. It seems the the tileset (included in distro) was a little out of date, and the maintainer also made prf changes against an out of date prf. All legacy items/monsters/features seem OK now, though there may a few new 'things' that aren't accounted for (which should display as ASCII). I believe this also welcomes the 'new' canine and feline tiles to FA. Comments welcome.

EDIT: AS ALWAYS, THERE ARE MANY VERSIONS OF THE TILESET AVAILABLE (BECAUSE IT'S ALSO MY BACKUP REPO).
EDIT: BE SURE TO GRAB THE ONE WITH THE MOST RECENT DATE.

And again. Another update. This one fixes some mis-mapped traps. Changes made to FA131 prf file only.

**buzzkill** · November 16, 2012, 01:42

In the shopping dialog, when buying ammo, the quantity you have on hand is displayed incorrectly, as zero. I assume this happens because the ammo in the quiver isn't recognized as being there.

Also when viewing an item in inventory I see... "Bought in a store in %s Level %d".

EDIT: and creeping coins are detected by detect life.

**Fendell Orcbane** · November 16, 2012, 02:13

So I got killed in part because I got paralyzed and when I got out of it I didn't get my turn...I just got a " You are too afraid to attack." Then I got paralyzed again and killed by the an air hound *head desk* I feel like I should have at least gotten a chance to do something. Is that a bug? Because it seems like one. Normally if you can't do one thing you get a chance to do another

**buzzkill** · November 16, 2012, 02:28

Originally posted by Fendell Orcbane

So I got killed in part because I got paralyzed and when I got out of it I didn't get my turn...I just got a " You are too afraid to attack." Then I got paralyzed again and killed by the an air hound *head desk* I feel like I should have at least gotten a chance to do something. Is that a bug? Because it seems like one. Normally if you can't do one thing you get a chance to do another

No, this is WAD (for fear) in most variants. It is an exception to the norm though. I hate when it happens too. It usually takes me a few turns to figure out what's going on. Like hey, why won't this guy die... he just picking me apart and I'm not even making a dent. Ohhhh.

**Fendell Orcbane** · November 16, 2012, 08:56

Originally posted by buzzkill

No, this is WAD (for fear) in most variants. It is an exception to the norm though. I hate when it happens too. It usually takes me a few turns to figure out what's going on. Like hey, why won't this guy die... he just picking me apart and I'm not even making a dent. Ohhhh.

Hmm, but the paralyization wore off for a round and I had an action. I tried to hit the homuclos...however you spell it, then I got the "you are too afraid to attack". But I never got to do something else. It seems like I should have had an action.

**Nick** · November 16, 2012, 09:57

Originally posted by Fendell Orcbane

Hmm, but the paralyization wore off for a round and I had an action. I tried to hit the homuclos...however you spell it, then I got the "you are too afraid to attack". But I never got to do something else. It seems like I should have had an action.

It is the standard way of handling it, and I can think of at least one reason. Imagine you had no See Invisible, and were made afraid by a ghost. You try to move, but get the "There is something scary in the way" message; this tells you where the ghost is, and you can use a ranged attack on it.

I'm not sure if there is a similar problem with visible monsters.

**Nick** · November 16, 2012, 10:04

Originally posted by buzzkill

In the shopping dialog, when buying ammo, the quantity you have on hand is displayed incorrectly, as zero. I assume this happens because the ammo in the quiver isn't recognized as being there.

I guess. I'll check.

Also when viewing an item in inventory I see... "Bought in a store in %s Level %d".

Yes, embarrassing. Fixed in development.

EDIT: and creeping coins are detected by detect life.

WAD - they're alive. FA doesn't have the V or NPP mimic thing - one area where it is arguably behind...

**Derakon** · November 16, 2012, 16:17

Trying to make an illegal move should cost energy for another reason: otherwise, when fighting ghosts in corridors, you just walk into every wall and either automatically hit the ghost or narrow it down to a 50/50 shot of where it is.