New Official Site

[Nick]

Angband now has a new official home at http://angband.github.io/angband/. It will probably look quite familiar...

Please let me know if there are any problems with it.

[tangar]

cool I've posted this news at some discord channels and reddit.

maybe add redirect from https://rephial.org/ to new website?

[Estragon]

The "User manual & strategy guide" link serves a 404 error

[Selkie]

cool I've posted this news at some discord channels and reddit.

maybe add redirect from https://rephial.org/ to new website?

I can't see anything at r/Angband, where did you post it

[tangar]

I can't see anything at r/Angband, where did you post it

https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/

[Nick]

The "User manual & strategy guide" link serves a 404 error

Ah, thank you - fixed now.

[Selkie]

https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/

To be fair, r/Angband is almost dead and very slow moving. I still check in (and see some of the guys from here on there from time to time)

[Nick]

To be fair, r/Angband is almost dead and very slow moving. I still check in (and see some of the guys from here on there from time to time)

Yeah, Sky drops in from time to time to tell everyone they should be playing 4.1.3

[Pete Mack]

The player's guide is seriously out of date. I wrote the first part for circa 3.2, when flasks of oil were 3d4 fire branded. (They again do mucho damage, but the reasons are different.) Also, it suggests starting with 2 cure potions, which is too few. Etc.

[Nick]

The player's guide is seriously out of date. I wrote the first part for circa 3.2, when flasks of oil were 3d4 fire branded. (They again do mucho damage, but the reasons are different.) Also, it suggests starting with 2 cure potions, which is too few. Etc.

All I've done to it is remove bits that are blatantly wrong. If anyone wants to rewrite or write a new one, please do.

[Pete Mack]

FAQ is messed up.
XTERM_256 is seruously unlikely to be necessary.
Backtick for ESC is also obsolete, and mentions \ instead of `
Keymap description makes no sense and is wrong. I have no idea what

=m8<enter><enter>

is supposed to actually do, and in any case <> has been replaced by [].
Development plans mention trac

Etc etc etc

[Nick]

FAQ is messed up.
XTERM_256 is seruously unlikely to be necessary.
Backtick for ESC is also obsolete, and mentions \ instead of `
Keymap description makes no sense and is wrong. I have no idea what

=m8<enter><enter>

is supposed to actually do, and in any case <> has been replaced by [].
Development plans mention trac

Etc etc etc

Spoken like a volunteer

Seriously, thanks for that. The help files basically only get a mention when there's something wrong with them (has anyone ever seen a post saying how useful they found the help?), so I take silence as a sign they're all good. If anyone does want to smarten up any of the help, that would be great, but it's not really the sexy part of development.

[Pete Mack]

Exploring the dungeon
* List of features without mentioning knowledge menu or graphics.
* "your character must survive many horrible and challenging encounters to find the treasure lying about and take it safely back to the town to sell". Not by default, and in any case the vast majority of useful items don't originate in the Black Market. (A whole lot come from Alchemist's, but those are generally affordable.)
* "$ you sense an item of wondrous power!”
The last message indicates an artifact is present and is only possible if the preserve option is disabled. >>>With preserve option enabled, an artifact guarantees item level feeling of at least, 5--though the reverse is not true.<<<

[Nick]

These help issues fixed now.

Keymap description makes no sense and is wrong. I have no idea what

=m8<enter><enter>

is supposed to actually do, and in any case <> has been replaced by [].

This was meant to describe the keypresses the player needs to do (= for the options menu, etc), but it was wrong and just more confusing, so I have cut it.

[Sky]

Yeah, Sky drops in from time to time to tell everyone they should be playing 4.1.3

hey that's not true, i just point out that 4.2 still has shallow-depth lifedraining passwall invisible breeders, Nick.

shallow-depth, invisible, life-draining passwall mobs Nick.
When you can't teleport, resist or recover life-draining, or see invisible.
And they breed. THEY BREED, NICK.