Angband 4.0beta status

[MattB]

Playing randarts and just found the star which activated for scare monster. Is this intended behaviour? I thought the activations for lights were sacrosanct?

[Nick]

Aha, I've pinned it down! I'm playing the Windows version, and it turns out that lore.txt is only being created/updated if you exit the game 'manually' using the ^X command or in-game Enter menu, but NOT if you exit using the standard Windows interface (i.e. by choosing File > Exit from the menu or clicking the X in the right-hand corner of the window).

I do not believe that possibility would have occurred to me for some time - good job.

[Nick]

Was the " Sauron and artifacts only appearing once unless “reset” by closing and reopening" bug ever addressed?

No it wasn't, thank you.

The macro thing - the 5 makes sense to me now. I'll go back and have a look at why 3.5.1 doesn't have the problem.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Angband 4.0 dev 280b6ee

Several crashes when attacking mimics, with weapons or with magic. Strike at a mimic scroll with a weapon or aim an orb of destruction or magic missile at one and CRASH.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Angband 4.0 dev 280b6ee

@ just ran into a trap on the trap detection line. It appears that 4.0 is one square short of 3.5.1 in its trap detection radius (failing to detect a trap that is on the trap detection line), that or one square short in its "stop" for running when getting to the trap detection line.

3.5.1 detected traps up to and including the trap detection line.

I might have expected to run into a trap just past the trap detection line due to the "run past" bug, but this is the first time @ has run into an unidentified trap literally on the line.

[MattB]

Angband 4.0 dev 280b6ee

Several crashes when attacking mimics, with weapons or with magic. Strike at a mimic scroll with a weapon or aim an orb of destruction or magic missile at one and CRASH.

I had this too last night (playing last but one update).

[Nick]

Was the " Sauron and artifacts only appearing once unless “reset” by closing and reopening" bug ever addressed?

This has in fact opened a can of worms. There is a whole bunch of housekeeping stuff to do with monsters that should be done on changing levels, and isn't. I will update when I have it all sorted - but that will take a while.

Good news is that that update will also fix the Windows monster memory bug.

[fizzix]

This has in fact opened a can of worms. There is a whole bunch of housekeeping stuff to do with monsters that should be done on changing levels, and isn't. I will update when I have it all sorted - but that will take a while.

Good news is that that update will also fix the Windows monster memory bug.

Might it conceivably also speed up stats gen?

[Derakon]

Might it conceivably also speed up stats gen?

And while we're at it, I'd like a pony...

[tumbleweed]

Regarding the mimic crashes, I'll shamelessly use this opportunity to once again advertise the two saves I provided for investigating the mimic issue, one when entering the level, the other right in front of the mimic. Just in case Nick missed them.

Click me.

[Nick]

Attached savefile contains Sind. Switch between body armours and AC display is not updated correctly. Save and reload and always ok.

I can't repeat this - the AC switches between 115 and 182 exactly as expected for me, both in Windows and Linux.

[Nick]

Update 5052b03 fixes:

• Monster memory being forgotten when exiting Windows port via the file menu (still happens if you just close the window with the 'X' in the corner - don't do that)
• Uniques (notably Sauron and Morgoth) not reappearing until a save and reload
• All mimic crashes! (I hope)
• Rings swapping hands on save and reload

Note that this update breaks savefiles - that was necessary both for the ring fix and the mimic fix. The uniques not reappearing fix will also fix a few other things - I don't know if anyone noticed, but after having played for a while without quitting and reloading, breeders probably stopped being generated. I'm amazed that this error was causing so little trouble.

[nppangband]

Here is a typo I just noticed. Fortunately savefile compatibility is not involved:

In the graf-shb.prf file, it says in various places:

"Graphics are sourced from flavor entries in flvr-dvg.prf"

should be "flvr-shb"

[maboleth]

I'm more than happy to be back and thrilled to see that V4.0 will soon be released!! Well done guys, I'd test beta myself!

Cheers!

[Nomad]

• Monster memory being forgotten when exiting Windows port via the file menu (still happens if you just close the window with the 'X' in the corner - don't do that)

Something's gone slightly wrong with the exit procedure here, I'm afraid. When you exit with ^X you get the message "Saving game... done. Press Return (or Escape)". Now when you exit through the Windows file menu, you only get the "Saving game... done" part and have to hit a key before the "Press Return (or Escape)" message appears and you can proceed with exiting. (On the plus side, the lore.txt file does now update!)