Angband 4.0beta status

[Nick]

Update 27fb6d5 fixes

• Pack overflowing when an unwielded item should stack
• Black door bug, take 2
• Bug with mana not refreshing properly when the player is so encumbered they have no mana
• Recharge time display - there were two bugs here, one resulting in zero values which was new, and one which, I just realise as I type, was not a bug and I've broken it. Will have to fix that.
• Ingwe's edit file fixes

There won't be any updates for a few days, but please keep reporting any bugs as you find them. I believe also that debo is going to start a 4.0beta competition fairly soon - some sort of ranger, so the melee, spells and archery all get a work out.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

....I believe also that debo is going to start a 4.0beta competition fairly soon - some sort of ranger, so the melee, spells and archery all get a work out.

That being the case, I hope you will give serious consideration to changing the quiver labels back to 0-9 as in 3.5.1 and to [ESC] from individual item in quiver returning to quiver menu (as it does for Inventory or Equipment menus.)

It is a pain to repeatedly have to return to the quiver to examine and compare the next item of ammunition to decide what to drop and for the inscriptions for firing not to match up with the quiver labels. Let's see, "e", yeah that's "5", so "f" is "6" ....

[Ingwe Ingweron]

....Ingwe's edit file fixes....

One more. In Activation.txt, DRAGON_LAW is sound/shards. “/“ should be an “or” in description to be consistent with other dragon mail descriptions.

[Nick]

Really no updates for a few days now.

Update 7c315aa fixes:

• Bad activation display times in last update
• Introduces new command '|' which views the quiver directly

So now you can examine the quiver directly (same as 'e' for equipment and 'i' for inventory), and looking at something then hitting ESC takes you back to the quiver. Also that last works for the equipment, which it wasn't before.

Quiver labels 0-9 will have to wait a bit - that will be a bit trickier.

[Thraalbee]

Mage spell "Teleport other" presents under Info as "dam 100".
"Rad 100" or "Radius 100" would be correct iirc.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Angband 4.0 dev 7c315aa

It's too bad we have to wait a few days for an update, because there's a significant but unknown crash bug!

Upload the save file and take one step to the right - CRASH!

I've no idea why. Given the recent fix to the mimic leaks, possibly the mimic crash is rearing its ugly head again? Tester.zip

[tumbleweed]

Angband 4.0 dev 7c315aa
It's too bad we have to wait a few days for an update, because there's a significant but unknown crash bug!

Upload the save file and take one step to the right - CRASH!

Uh... not here. Did you test this with a freshly unpacked Angband?

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Uh... not here. Did you test this with a freshly unpacked Angband?

Forgot to mention, this is on OSX. That seems to have made quite a difference in the past. And, yes, this is with the most recent download from the nightlies.

[Nomad]

• Black door bug, take 2

Yep, seems to be all fixed now!

• Introduces new command '|' which views the quiver directly

This is handy, thanks. Seems like it would be a good idea to make the command to switch to the quiver from equipment/inventory '|' instead of '.' as well, now, for consistency.

Incidentally, I just noticed while I was checking if this had been changed that the inventory header is too long for the 24x80 window size now - it's over 80 characters, so it's truncated at:

(Inventory) Burden 47.0 lb (60.9 lb remaining). Select Item:  (Inven: a-i, / for

When the full message if you expand the window is quite a bit longer:

(Inventory) Burden 47.0 lb (60.9 lb remaining). Select Item:  (Inven: a-i, / for
 Equip, . for Quiver, - for floor, ESC)

It's quite difficult to cut all that down to 80 characters, but how's this?

(Inv) Burden 47.0 lb (60.9 lb free). (Inv a-i, Equip /, Quiver ., Floor -, ESC)

[Darin]

Angband 4.0 dev 7c315aa

It's too bad we have to wait a few days for an update, because there's a significant but unknown crash bug!

Upload the save file and take one step to the right - CRASH!

I've no idea why. Given the recent fix to the mimic leaks, possibly the mimic crash is rearing its ugly head again? [ATTACH]1252[/ATTACH]

I was able to reproduce this on OS X. Download the saved file, unpack and open it, and move in either direction and crash.

Darin

[Nick]

Definitely no more updates for a few days now (I'm away from my dev machine from about 10 minutes from now).

Update 78905dd (which should be up fairly soon) fixes the latest crash - it was from mimicked objects being crushed by another monster. That savefile should work fine now.

[Tarrasque]

Hi, I've lurked on here and rgra for several years. I had a reply that got lost but I don't feel like retyping it so I'll be short.

Regarding the personal pronoun used to refer to the player character, if it must be neuter and not any other and can't be selected or typed in, then (from best to worst IMO):
"they" (has been grammatical for hundreds of years) > avoid the words > call the player "The Ugly Idiot" > "it".

I don't care if I have to be a he, she or xir, but I'm not an inanimate object.

edit: would this thread be the place to put a suggestion about changing something about running?

[Ingwe Ingweron]

....Regarding the personal pronoun used to refer to the player character,....

I just use @.

[Nick]

Regarding the personal pronoun used to refer to the player character, if it must be neuter and not any other and can't be selected or typed in, then (from best to worst IMO):
"they" (has been grammatical for hundreds of years) > avoid the words > call the player "The Ugly Idiot" > "it".

I don't care if I have to be a he, she or xir, but I'm not an inanimate object.

I'm inclined to agree. The thing is, it doesn't really come up in Vanilla, because the player is only ever referred to as "you". The case which PowerWyrm mentioned was in his multiplayer variant - so it's his problem

would this thread be the place to put a suggestion about changing something about running?

Certainly.

[MattB]

Really no updates for a few days now.

Update 7c315aa fixes:

• Bad activation display times in last update
• Introduces new command '|' which views the quiver directly

So now you can examine the quiver directly (same as 'e' for equipment and 'i' for inventory), and looking at something then hitting ESC takes you back to the quiver. Also that last works for the equipment, which it wasn't before.

Quiver labels 0-9 will have to wait a bit - that will be a bit trickier.

Sorry, just had a crash on the above build.

I exited the home and had the ol' obj-pile assertion thingummyjig.

I had just picked up a load of stuff in my inventory that was ignored, so I guess I insta-dropped a load of stuff on the square directly outside the home.