Angband 4.0beta status

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Angband 4.0 dev a05a05c

The Slowing bug is back. @ picked up a heavy lance and was Slow (-2). @ drops the lance and [i]nventory screen shows he has (5.3 lb remaining), but is still Slow (-2).

EDIT: Exiting and reopening savefile clears the Slow indicator. Sounds like there's a serious problem here if monsters, artifacts, and status require an exit and reopen to reset them.

[MadeOfBees]

This is entirely offtopic, but as long as I can get

You hit it, You hit it, It dies.

Im AOK with a new version.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

There's something odd about Gloves of Free Action purchased from the Armory.

When ignoring the item the choices were: a) This item only, b) All gloves of Free Action, and c) All non-artifact gloves.

Since when are Free Action gloves {splendid} in that they would merit a non-artifact ignore setting? They certainly aren't {splendid} when found on the dungeon floor and wielded.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Rings switching hands on exit and reopen. I've been noticing this for several beta versions, but haven't reported it because I thought I must be crazy and had just swapped them on accident while trying on unknown flavored rings. But I am now certain. The rings ARE changing hands from left to right, or vice-versa. This has to be one of the most mysterious bugs I've come across.

[tumbleweed]

Got an assertion failure trying to open a small wooden chest that was really a monster.

File: obj-pile.c

Line: 134
Expression: pile_contains(*pile, obj)

Line: 143
Expression: obj->prev != NULL

Line: 139
Expression: prev == NULL

Reproducible here by loading the attached save, then walking south-west to the next room and trying to 'o'pen the chest.

[tumbleweed]

And another assertion failure:

1. Save a game with graphical tiles
2. Exit Angband
3. Remove lib/xtra/graf/graphics.txt
4. Start Angband
5. Load the saved game
6. Watch Angband crash and burn

File: ui-prefs.c
Line: 1196

Expression: mode

Crashes with access violation after ignoring the assertion failure message.

[tumbleweed]

There's some FOV rendering oddity going on in non-1x1 text modes that I can't quite describe. See attachment.

Also note: again no equipment displayed between gold and strength on the left, just like in non-1x1 graphical modes.

(funny how I had to save this as huge jpeg rather than tiny gif or png due to silly constraints set in the forum software)

[tumbleweed]

angband-win-v4.0beta-227-ga05a05c

Inconsistent behavior: When doing something that normally prevents a change of the textual/graphical display mode (looking, browsing the inventory, whatever), most of what's in menu Options->Graphics-> is disabled, except for menu Options->Graphics->Tile Multiplier-> and, in there, the 16x16 entry.

(Clicking on it results in a "You may not do this right now" warning)

[tumbleweed]

angband-win-v4.0beta-227-ga05a05c

I noticed that @ can tell an item affects e.g. wisdom before even picking it up and figuring out it has an {ego}, is this behavior expected? (I'm afraid I'm not completely up to speed on the whole ID topic)

[MattB]

There's a tileset bug that still persists, but isn't on the tracker.

In Shockbolt's tiles, when you have a monster that is 'taller' than one tile (e.g. giants), it leaves behind images of its head everywhere it goes (on the floor, in walls etc.) until something else walks over, or happens to, the tile in question.

[MattB]

A very minor one here.

I have WoRecall scrolls autoinscribed with {@r9 !k} and I just hit <r><9> and got the rather amusing message:

"Really read 17 scrolls of Word of Recall? <y/n>"

(For completeness sake, I should clarify that hitting <y> only actually read one of them.)

[tumbleweed]

There's a tileset bug that still persists, but isn't on the tracker.

In Shockbolt's tiles, when you have a monster that is 'taller' than one tile (e.g. giants), it leaves behind images of its head everywhere it goes (on the floor, in walls etc.) until something else walks over, or happens to, the tile in question.

And if there's a column of double-height enemies and you 'l'ook at them one by one from bottom to top, the top part of the monsters you've already looked at (i.e. south of the cursor) is not redrawn properly.

[tumbleweed]

angband-win-v4.0beta-227-ga05a05c

Wearing a ring of damage and carrying another of the exact same kind, I equipped a ring of digging from the floor.

To my surprise, rather than combining the two rings of damage in the same inventory slot (as both are (+0,+9), @ discarded the unequipped one. I'm just glad nobody was around to breathe lightning.

Shouldn't the game try to store items in the inventory, before dropping them?

[tumbleweed]

And on a more general note, how would you feel about changing e.g.

the Pair of Leather Boots of Wormtongue (-1,-1) [2,+11] <+2, +3>

into

the Pair of Leather Boots of Wormtongue (-1, -1) [2, +11] <+2, +3>

or

the Pair of Leather Boots of Wormtongue (-1,-1) [2,+11] <+2,+3>

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Mimic Chests - information leak. Perhaps it is intentional, but when a Rogue uses the Detect Objects spell, it reveals chests (of course) but the text for mimic chests is GREY colored on the Object subwindow while the text for regular chests is colored white as for every other object (except artifacts in purple and unidentified flavors in red).