Preparation for 4.1 release

[Sky]

Honestly, i do like the new rune system, but ...

Not having scrolls of identify is painful. And hacing staves, wands and potions still unidentified at CL50, DL80 is really irritating.

Maybe we can have $identify work on one rune OR item? For non-rune gear? Im tired of having to quaff !contemplation.

[Gwarl]

I've made my thoughts known with regard to status effects, but one thing which particularly bugs me is staves of slow/confuse having 4-5 charges and wands of the same having 2-4.

I'd also like to request that DSM gets a 45 degree arc - currently in most circumstances you just get a beam and it's pretty underwhelming, making early DSMs less attractive.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

This sounds odd. Did it turn out to be cursed?

Negative. Just a regular old Amulet of Resist Acid.

[Derakon]

Im tired of having to quaff !contemplation.

Maybe you should play more holy casters.

Or be a warrior and be sick of both contemplation and intellect!

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Let me know if I've missed anything.

What about notification of taking damage from newly created lava underfoot? Currently, when, for example, a Greater Balrog breathes fire and creates lava under @'s feet, there is no notice that the lava is even there unless @ steps off the spot or "looks" at the spot, other than taking damage which player might assume was coming from blows rather than from something underfoot. Maybe a message about damage from burning lava is appropriate if @ is not immune?

While thinking about lava, I notice monsters can breathe or cast frost and turn lava into rubble, but @ frost balls, bolts, or breaths do not do the same. Is that an intentional disparity?

[Nick]

What about notification of taking damage from newly created lava underfoot? Currently, when, for example, a Greater Balrog breathes fire and creates lava under @'s feet, there is no notice that the lava is even there unless @ steps off the spot or "looks" at the spot, other than taking damage which player might assume was coming from blows rather than from something underfoot. Maybe a message about damage from burning lava is appropriate if @ is not immune?

Yeah, thanks - I also need to check the player actually continues to take damage.

While thinking about lava, I notice monsters can breathe or cast frost and turn lava into rubble, but @ frost balls, bolts, or breaths do not do the same. Is that an intentional disparity?

It's just based on power of breath, with some randomness.

[Pete Mack]

Also, bolts never affect the floor, only balls and breaths.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Still some basic pathing issues. See the following. @ was on a RoP in a small anti-summoning closet fighting Gothmog. The balrog broke the RoP and created lava. @ phase doored out. Gothmog pursued into the vacated square, but is now "trapped" behind his own lava. @ is just outside in the corridor, but Gothie won't come out to find @ unless @ moves up into line of sight.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Why are mithril shod boots heavier than iron shod boots? Doesn't make any sense to me.

"Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim." - Gandalf the Grey explaining mithril to the Company while passing through Khazad-dûm.

[kandrc]

Slowness curse fails to ID by use.

[Nick]

Still some basic pathing issues. See the following. @ was on a RoP in a small anti-summoning closet fighting Gothmog. The balrog broke the RoP and created lava. @ phase doored out. Gothmog pursued into the vacated square, but is now "trapped" behind his own lava. @ is just outside in the corridor, but Gothie won't come out to find @ unless @ moves up into line of sight.
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Thanks, fixed in development now; also message on taking lava damage (and player does in fact take lava damage if they keep standing on it - I notice no-one reported that one).

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Thanks, fixed in development now; also message on taking lava damage (and player does in fact take lava damage if they keep standing on it - I notice no-one reported that one).

Thanks, Nick. I was never sure if @ was taking lava damage or blow damage and tried not to stand around on it to find out.

[Nick]

Some related oddities - you no longer seem to get the warning messages to tell you when the light level is running low, and instead of the "your light has gone out" message when it completely runs out, you get "Your Wooden Torch has recharged."

Was it, or had it ever been, cursed?

[Nick]

New builds up on the nightlies page, with the following changes:

• Healers now excluded from warrior pits
• Devices no longer get the {tried} label from a failed use
• Monsters with fire immunity can walk, and pathfind, through lava
• Lava gives the player a message when it is damaging them
• Lava actually damages the player every turn they're standing in it
• The show_damage option shows damage for throwing
• Artifact lanterns no longer claim to refill other lanterns
• Saving and reloading no longer shows extra info about distant items
• Inspecting un-wielded items no longer leaks info about unknown runes (like extra blows)

I've also attempted a fix for the bogus "roll beneath your feet" message, but I'm not sure if it will be successful as that is hard to reproduce.

[Nomad]

Was it, or had it ever been, cursed?

No. Ordinary bog standard Wooden Torches. Happens pretty frequently. Although, weirdly, sometimes it doesn't, and I still can't figure out what's different about those particular torches. It might be that it's only dungeon-found ones rather than inherited/town-bought? (Though I'd swear I have had it happen with the torch I start the game with sometimes.)

I can't seem to reproduce it by just taking a town-bought torch into the dungeon and resting for 5000 turns, unfortunately.