Angband 4.0beta status

[Nick]

In town, I can ignore an item, pick up another item, and the ignored item is still in the pack.

If this behaviour is happening in your home, then that is expected. If it's happening in the town outside your home and shops, that's not expected.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Only on shops. Nick explained it up thread somewhere. It requires a trigger to activate the ignoring process, such as picking up an item, dropping an item or hitting K twice.

I guess my point was that the triggering process doesn't seem to be happening in the town, but does immediately when in the dungeon. In town, I can ignore an item, pick up another item, and the ignored item is still in the pack. In the dungeon, when I ignore an item, it is dropped right away.

[Carnivean]

Maybe I'm imagining it, but it seems to me that items "ignored" while in town take a long time to be dropped from the pack, whilst items "ignored" in the dungeon drop right away.

Only on shops. Nick explained it up thread somewhere. It requires a trigger to activate the ignoring process, such as picking up an item, dropping an item or hitting K twice.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Maybe I'm imagining it, but it seems to me that items "ignored" while in town take a long time to be dropped from the pack, whilst items "ignored" in the dungeon drop right away.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Just googled it - that film sounds awesome!

It's a cult classic.

[Nick]

Just a dumb question, but I've been wondering. Why is it that in 4.0 the town stairs are always in the exact same spot on the Northern edge of town? In 3.5.1 the town stairs was random in its location.

The idea is that the town is at the base of Thangorodrim, and the staircase is the gate of Angband - hence also all the lava and rubble and randomly placed shops.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Just a dumb question, but I've been wondering. Why is it that in 4.0 the town stairs are always in the exact same spot on the Northern edge of town? In 3.5.1 the town stairs was random in its location.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Angband 4.0 dev 99051b4

@ has wielded an unidentified Tortoiseshell Amulet, but when attempting to identify it, is informed, "You have nothing to identify." Samuelson.zip

EDIT: NEVERMIND. It was me being an idiot. In the heat of battle, the item got dropped and I hadn't noticed. So, duh, of course there was nothing to identify.

[sandtrap]

- The Adventures of Bukaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

A great roll for John Lithgow, it is awesome

[MattB]

- The Adventures of Bukaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Just googled it - that film sounds awesome!

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Release Real Soon Now.

"Where are we going?" asked the leader.

"Planet Ten!" yelled the throng.

"When are we going?" asked the leader.

"Real soon!" cried the throng.

"Laugh while you can, monkey boys!"

- The Adventures of Bukaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

[Nick]

Update 99051b4 fixes:

• Directory creation problems in OS X
• The AC/Speed update bug - yes, really! Once found (after myshkin noticed the crucial connection to -more- prompts), it was a one line fix...
• PowerWyrm's latest
• A new help file for how to modify the game

Release Real Soon Now.

[AnonymousHero]

Most of the time I was jumping to level 98 (No Sauron, Morgoth for instadeath). And I am looking only at artifacts that can be differentiated by the listing of items (]) which includes star, arkenstone, special rings and special amulets. After a time none is generated any more.

OK, fair enough. It's just that your "transcript" said 1-127, so I was forced to "qualify" .

[Nomad]

The recent nightlies seem to be suffering from intermittent slowdown again/still: repeat actions like searching and resting are sometimes instant, other times take a perceptible length of time to complete. (I don't know if it's maybe related to efforts to reduce the flicker with the tiles or something like that?)

Note that some artifacts (including the Phial have a max depth of 100.) I'm not sure the game actually respects that setting or not, but it could be an explanation for the "missing" Phial on very deep levels.

Most of the time I was jumping to level 98 (No Sauron, Morgoth for instadeath). And I am looking only at artifacts that can be differentiated by the listing of items (]) which includes star, arkenstone, special rings and special amulets. After a time none is generated any more.