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On behalf of the devteam, I bring to you the long-awaited Version 4.0.0 of Angband. You can find it at rephial.org/.
As outlined when the beta came out, there are some changes to how things work; here are the main ones:
An outline of the code changes is on the release page.
Since the beta version has been out for three months, and there are no gameplay changes, this release is in some ways not a big deal. It does mean a couple of things, though:
I'll finish with a list of contributors to this version - incomplete since it's impossible to capture all the influence from the community.
Code contribution:
Beta testing:
As outlined when the beta came out, there are some changes to how things work; here are the main ones:
- Savefile compatibility from 3.5 is broken, more thoroughly than you could imagine. Don't try to load a 3.x character.
- Genders have been removed, but the player history is editable so you can write your own backstory.
- Monster memory is no longer in the savefile, but in a file called "lore.txt" in the user directory (\lib\user on Windows, ~/Documents/Angband on OSX, ~/.angband/Angband on Linux). Putting a copy of monster.txt, renamed to lore.txt, in the user directory will give full monster memory.
- There is much more game info in the text data files (now in lib/gamedata - there has been a re-organisation of lib/), and for the most part it should be changeable without breaking the game (or mostly even your savefile). If you want to change an edit file, putting an amended copy in your user directory will make the game load that instead of the regular one.
- In particular, there is a new edit file called constants.txt which contains many formerly hard-coded values - dungeon and town level dimensions, store and home inventory size, view and spell ranges just to name a few.
An outline of the code changes is on the release page.
Since the beta version has been out for three months, and there are no gameplay changes, this release is in some ways not a big deal. It does mean a couple of things, though:
- This is just the start of the 4.0 series, and the fun is really about to start.
- This has been a massive community effort. Seriously, thanks to all of you. Congratulate yourselves.
I'll finish with a list of contributors to this version - incomplete since it's impossible to capture all the influence from the community.
Code contribution:
- ajps
- AnonymousHero
- elly
- d_m
- fizzix
- Jagath Samarabandu
- Jose Antonio Dura
- LostTemplar
- magnate
- Michel Carroll
- molybdenum
- myshkin
- Nick
- Nomad
- noz
- PowerWyrm
- Rydelfox
- takkaria
- Timothy Collett
Beta testing:
- Ingwe Ingweron
- Nomad
- MattB
- Thraalbeast
- tumbleweed
- AndyHK
- Rhonwyn
- Jungle_Boy
- Darin
- StMicah
- debo
- pen
- topazg
- wobbly
- DeusIrae
- Timo Pietilä
- ranger jeff
- passer_by
- Runaway1956
- mrrstark
- Estie
- shreesh
- elliptic
- Gorbad
- letslaugh
- ShadowTechnology
- bryan.g.hutchinson
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