glyph of warding bug?

[fizzix]

playing r1823 came across a glyph of warding on the ground. I'm a level 15 priest so I certainly didn't cast it...All monsters were too far away so I couldn't test to see if it worked but I made a save file.

[Magnate]

Interesting - maybe somebody included random glyph placement in dungeon generation ...

[Marble Dice]

How eerie! You couldn't have read a scroll without realizing it, could you?

[fizzix]

How eerie! You couldn't have read a scroll without realizing it, could you?

Well, unless I got a rune of protection scroll (way OoD) and it happened to create the glyph somewhere far away in the dungeon. But that would just change the nature of the bug. You guys want the bug savefile?

[Marble Dice]

Sure, post it up.

[fizzix]

Had to wait to get home from work, I uploaded the savefile here (although maybe there's a better way to do it?)

no laughing at my pathetic attempt at ironman please.

edit: in the savefile, I'm standing on the glyph.

[Philip]

There is a simple way of dealing with this. Redefine it as a feature.

[Marble Dice]

I can't find any answer through source analysis. FEAT_GLYPH is only set from one function, which is only called from the priest spell, the mage spell, and the effect. No other calls to cave_set_feat seem to have logic errors that could lead to accidentally setting a glyph instead of e.g. a trap.

My best guess is spontaneous single byte corruption of the current dungeon level from the savefile on game load. Now you'll tell me you didn't load the game on this level I'm sure.

[fizzix]

I can't find any answer through source analysis. FEAT_GLYPH is only set from one function, which is only called from the priest spell, the mage spell, and the effect. No other calls to cave_set_feat seem to have logic errors that could lead to accidentally setting a glyph instead of e.g. a trap.

My best guess is spontaneous single byte corruption of the current dungeon level from the savefile on game load. Now you'll tell me you didn't load the game on this level I'm sure.

I don't think I did. It's possible though...we'll see if anyone else reports finding one.

[fph]

There is a simple way of dealing with this. Redefine it as a feature.

You mean a feature as in "it's not a bug, it's a feature" or as in "the terrain feature FEAT_GLYPH"?

If it is in the first meaning, I too wouldn't mind finding an occasional glyph of warding in the dungeon -- it would create a lot of tactical options and definitely make the game funnier for me.

[Marble Dice]

If it is in the first meaning, I too wouldn't mind finding an occasional glyph of warding in the dungeon -- it would create a lot of tactical options and definitely make the game funnier for me.

You know what could be really cool? Special room types that included glyphs, stuff like this:

#############
#...........#
#.####+####.#
#.#;..;..;#.#
#.#########.#
#...........#
#.###...###.#
#.+;#...#;+.#
#.###...###.#
#...........#
#############

#################
######.....######
######.....######
###.....#.....###
###..#.....#..###
#...............#
#...#...;...#...#
#...............#
###..#.....#..###
###.....#.....###
######.....######
######.....######
#################

[Derakon]

You could add glyphs as a possible element in vaults, too. Though it seems to me they'd be liable to break pretty quickly in such an environment.