Is this a bug?

[Seany C]

Is that any clearer? This is why people are telling you not to fight floating eyes by standing next to them. By all means chuck rocks at them or fire arrows at them, but don't stand next to them. It's really not difficult.

Simple(ish) solution: buy a sling and a bunch of rounded pebbles/iron shots - once you see an eye,'f'ire these from a minimum of 2 squares away until the eye is one big dead mush of conjuctivitis. At the risk of sounding spoily, once you get into double figures for CL, you should have a spell that can do damage from a distance so you won't need to use the sling/pebble method.

Also, as someone said earlier, once your AC is above 15 or so, you'd be quite unlucky to get 'hit' (i.e. "gazed at") by the eye before you splat it with your mace/whip/blunt object of choice...

[Big Al]

You shouldn't run into them, because the running code should always stop you as soon as a monster comes into view. The only possible issue is if you are using the run_cut_corners option, which is unwise because you can step round a corner and be right next to a monster.

New in 3.0.9 is torches have radius-2 light if they have over 2500(or is it 3000?) fuel, so always try to keep torches fueled up at least that much - that way, you'll see the monsters before you're right next to them.

[Magnate]

New in 3.0.9 is torches have radius-2 light if they have over 2500(or is it 3000?) fuel, so always try to keep torches fueled up at least that much - that way, you'll see the monsters before you're right next to them.

Thanks for the reminder - I'd forgotten that you could also run into them if your light source is only radius 1, even without run_cut_corners on. But I don't think I've ever played with a light source of radius 1, so I neglected to mention it!

CC