4.0.2 Bugs

[PowerWyrm]

Another bug! Actually, it's in 4.0.3 - should we start a new thread?

Assertion failed, file: obj-pile.c, line: 134, expression: pile_contains(*pile,obj)

Walked across a Potion of Dragon Breath. Quaffed it from the floor. Breathed frost at nearby baddies, close enough that the potion was within the damage radius. The Potion of Dragon Breath shatters! Game crashed with assertion failed. My guess would be that the game tried to remove the potion both when it shattered and when it was consumed, the second action causing the crash because the item in question had already been removed.

I thought this was fixed ages ago. But yeah in the latest code, the potion is wiped by its own effect, and since the effect itself returns TRUE, the code tries to remove it again.

[Timo Pietilä]

Confirmed, and correct guess.

New thread? I guess if someone feels strongly enough about that it will happen

Now that 4.0.3 is out new thread could be good thing to have. At least we would know that it affects the current "stable" version.

[Rowan]

This is a tiny detail in 4.0.2 but may exist in 4.0.3 also. Messages are almost always in present tense, except for rare examples, e.g.

Your Rounded Pebble (1d2) (+0, +0) hit the Green naga.

This is the first time I've noticed a tense-agreement issue, but I'll keep an eye out for other instances.

[AnonymousHero]

This is a tiny detail in 4.0.2 but may exist in 4.0.3 also. Messages are almost always in present tense, except for rare examples, e.g.

Your Rounded Pebble (1d2) (+0, +0) hit the Green naga.

This is the first time I've noticed a tense-agreement issue, but I'll keep an eye out for other instances.

I think it's actually a pluralization issue.

[Derakon]

I think it's actually a pluralization issue.

I assume the change should be "hit" -> "hits", which is a tense issue. It could be a pluralization issue if you had the ability to hit the naga with multiple pebbles (in which case it should say "Your Rounded Pebbles etc.") but players can't fire more than one projectile at a time.

[Rowan]

I assume the change should be "hit" -> "hits", which is a tense issue. It could be a pluralization issue if you had the ability to hit the naga with multiple pebbles (in which case it should say "Your Rounded Pebbles etc.") but players can't fire more than one projectile at a time.

Well I meant it as a tense issue, but ... yeaah... let's make it a pluralization issue and allow multiple projectile firing. That's a better fix.

[Nick]

I assume the change should be "hit" -> "hits", which is a tense issue.

I'd argue it's in fact a conjugation issue ("you hit" vs "the pebble hits"), but that's probably not important.

[tumbleweed]

angband-win-4.0.2-39-g65ff127

Does the device skill damage bonus not apply to Activations?

At least there's no such information in the item descriptions.

Also Activation damage info is not highlighted in green there.

Now that 4.0.3 is out new thread could be good thing to have. At least we would know that it affects the current "stable" version.

Speaking of 4.0.3, the latest nightly listed on http://rephial.org/nightlies is 4.0.2-39-g65ff127 rather than 4.0.3-4-gcfc8b55 for some reason - no 4.0.3 nightlies are listed on that page, just the stable, though the nightlies are present in http://buildbot.rephial.org/builds/master/ directory. What's up with that?

[AnonymousHero]

I assume the change should be "hit" -> "hits", which is a tense issue. It could be a pluralization issue if you had the ability to hit the naga with multiple pebbles (in which case it should say "Your Rounded Pebbles etc.") but players can't fire more than one projectile at a time.

Uhm, I meant, "your $SINGULAR_NOUN hits the $FOO" is correct, but it may be that the game doesn't recognize that $SINGULAR_NOUN is in fact a singular noun. Hence a pluralization issue.

(... but whatever.)

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Nick, this is just a request for two small adjustments to the Ego Ignore menu.

1. Currently some of the Ego ignore items are "Missile Weapons of ... (Accuracy, Power, Extra Might, Extra Shots)". Could we separate these into the missile weapon types - Bows, Crossbows, Slings? It would be helpful for Rangers who might be interested in the bow variety, but wish to ignore some or all of types in the other two categories.

2. Currently some of the Ego ignore items are "Dragon Scale Mail of..." Could we also have an ignore for the Dragon Scale Mail types? Like being able to ignore all but Power Dragon Scale Mail, for example.

[bio_hazard]

This is 4.0.0 so mostly likely this has been fixed ( I did a quick search but didn't notice).

~ Monster Knowledge omits many known uniques that I've met and killed. They do appear as killed on the character dump.

[Nick]

angband-win-4.0.2-39-g65ff127

Does the device skill damage bonus not apply to Activations?

At least there's no such information in the item descriptions.

Also Activation damage info is not highlighted in green there.

The bonus does apply, but activations are described separately from other effects because they get a special description that's in the file activation.txt. Other item effects are put together from individual components listed in object.txt, and so their damage can be treated separately in the description.

Speaking of 4.0.3, the latest nightly listed on http://rephial.org/nightlies is 4.0.2-39-g65ff127 rather than 4.0.3-4-gcfc8b55 for some reason - no 4.0.3 nightlies are listed on that page, just the stable, though the nightlies are present in http://buildbot.rephial.org/builds/master/ directory. What's up with that?

Those other things that you took for 4.0.3 nightlies were actually the latest builds of the cone breath and knowledge feature branches. Currently the autobuilder page only shows builds of the master branch, of which there weren't any post 4.0.3 when you looked (there is one now).

[tumbleweed]

I see, thanks!

[tumbleweed]

I just had the following situation:

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Curiously, the wall behind the door was not visible before opening the door - despite !Enlightenment

[Nick]

Curiously, the wall behind the door was not visible before opening the door - despite !Enlightenment

Enlightenment checks everything that doesn't look like a wall, and maps every non-floor next to those. So your door was presumably a secret door (which looks like a wall) when you quaffed the potion, so the wall behind the door didn't get mapped.