Bugs and complaints on current master

[Nick]

Cue someone starting the game in this situation, reading their Phase Door scroll, and landing in another nearby isolated "lava closet".

I think the bigger problem is that they then have to try to phase back to the stairs unless they want to live and die in town.

This will get fixed soonish, but for now I'm enjoying the stories

[AnonymousHero]

Had my shortest game ever today- I began on the edge of town, with a vein of lava cutting me off from everything else. No way to get anywhere so I just had to try to move through it and find out how much damage lava does. Enough to kill a first level half-orc paladin in one turn, it seems.

I think this is probably a bug- maybe the starting position should be able to pathfind to the stairs? This is in a new build of master branch, updated today.

This somewhat reminds of Nightmare mode in Entroband. (It wasn't quite that ridiculous, but close.)

[Thraalbee]

Squelch issue

I have a savefile where a squelched cursed item reappears every time I save the game. When I step on it, it goes away. Checked with non-ignoring and it is clearly the case. Another item in the vicinity does not have this quirk, that item is not cursed though.

[Nick]

I have a savefile where a squelched cursed item reappears every time I save the game. When I step on it, it goes away. Checked with non-ignoring and it is clearly the case. Another item in the vicinity does not have this quirk, that item is not cursed though.

OK, that confirms what others are reporting, that curses currently aren't playing nicely with runes.

It's probably not worth giving me the savefile, as I have mostly rewritten curses (and am similarly rewriting brands and slays, by the way) in development. Once all that gets into the nightlies this bug may be fixed - but I'm sure there will be others

[bio_hazard]

Dumb question, but why not exclude all lava from town now? The purpose in 4.0 was as window dressing that served as a prelude to figuring out how to put it in the dungeon.

[Derakon]

Dumb question, but why not exclude all lava from town now? The purpose in 4.0 was as window dressing that served as a prelude to figuring out how to put it in the dungeon.

It's still nice thematically.

But we could enforce that lava always have at least one adjacent wall tile, which (in combination with the positioning of the stores well away from the town border) would prevent it from being placed in a way that could isolate part of the town from the rest.

[Patashu]

It's still nice thematically.

But we could enforce that lava always have at least one adjacent wall tile, which (in combination with the positioning of the stores well away from the town border) would prevent it from being placed in a way that could isolate part of the town from the rest.

You'll probably notice that such a restriction doesn't prevent the situation in the screenshot.

[Pete Mack]

I suspect what is happening is the algorithm is either creating a staircase on lava, or creating one in a wall that is adjacent to lava. It should not use lava at all in the floor creation routine.

It's still nice thematically.

But we could enforce that lava always have at least one adjacent wall tile, which (in combination with the positioning of the stores well away from the town border) would prevent it from being placed in a way that could isolate part of the town from the rest.

[Derakon]

You'll probably notice that such a restriction doesn't prevent the situation in the screenshot.

So it doesn't. Oops.

[Carnivean]

I think the bigger problem is that they then have to try to phase back to the stairs unless they want to live and die in town.

WOR takes you down to dlvl 1 if you haven't been there, doesn't it? If it takes you to the town from the town, that'd be disappointing.

[spara]

A Wand of Door Destruction has been IDd by use and now the description says: "When aimed, it creates a line which may affect terrain and/or items." Which is true of course, but a bit on the vague side. Is this deliberate? Is the wand somehow not fully IDd yet?

[Nick]

A Wand of Door Destruction has been IDd by use and now the description says: "When aimed, it creates a line which may affect terrain and/or items." Which is true of course, but a bit on the vague side. Is this deliberate? Is the wand somehow not fully IDd yet?

That's somewhere between bug and just really bad description. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Thraalbee]

I used the mage detection spell. When I checked the list of items in the dungeon I saw that there were three =Speed <+10>. Picked up two of them later to verify the +10. The pval should not be visible by mage detection, should it? As a side note, 3x =Speed+10 at 4050' is uncommon but probably just a fluke.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I used the mage detection spell. When I checked the list of items in the dungeon I saw that there were three =Speed <+10>. Picked up two of them later to verify the +10. The pval should not be visible by mage detection, should it? As a side note, 3x =Speed+10 at 4050' is uncommon but probably just a fluke.

I've noticed this happens with runeid when @ has encountered the specific pval previously. So, in your example, a =Speed +9 would not show up (unless previously encountered), but your @ must have previously encountered a +10 =Speed. Maybe a bug, but maybe intentional.

[Thraalbee]

I had seen other item types with +10 but RoS only +9.