Autopickup and squelched items

[fph]

I normally play with pickup_inven=yes. Let's say I have 10 spellbooks [Magic for Beginners], and I decide to drop 6 of them because they're too heavy. I drop them, I squelch them (selecting "ignore only this item"), and they disappear, fine. However, when I walk over these invisible squelched spellbooks, they get auto-picked up and I have again 10 in my inventory.

Is this intended, or is it an unwanted interaction of the code for the two options? Is there any use case that suggests keeping the behaviour as it is?

[UglySquirrell]

Have you tried inscribing. !k!d!v on you're stack of 4 spellbooks, and then setting "magic for beginners " or whatever they are to squelch in the autosquelching page?

[fizzix]

Have you tried inscribing. !k!d!v on you're stack of 4 spellbooks, and then setting "magic for beginners " or whatever they are to squelch in the autosquelching page?

This is the best current solution, but it's not ideal from a gameplay perspective to make players jump through hoops to get these simple desired outcomes.

[artes]

Squelching all books of the same type would create another problem when the books still in inventory are burned up by Fire hounds.

There's a ticket about adding an inscription "Max=" to limit the number of items that can be picket up. Just saying.

[Shockbolt]

I used to play Angband a lot before and never saw this as a problem. If your inv is filled up with too much of an item, just go to a corner of a room and drop off the excess items and move along?

[UglySquirrell]

I used to play Angband a lot before and never saw this as a problem. If your inv is filled up with too much of an item, just go to a corner of a room and drop off the excess items and move along?

Not really a problem, more of a hassle. Especially in no selling or ironman games where by later levels you're picking up lots of dungeon spellbooks when you only ever want one.