Bugs and issues in 4.1.0

[Muscleguy]

Cannot ID something i'm standing on.

What the hell happened to the ability to identify something the character is standing on? My Dunedain Ranger is standing on a mithril wand with a pack chock full. I have three scrolls of identify.

In EVERY SINGLE previous version of Angband I have ever played (I'm 52, so you can imagine) you can ID stuff you are standing on. To be frank I'm a bit surprised you cannot iD something on any grid adjacent to the character.

But no, now I can only ID it when it is buried in the bottom of my pack along with books of magic, scrolls and potions galore, a soft leather armour of resist acid, my old good mace (just found a better maul) and TWO quivers chock full of picked up good arrows (arrows of slay animal! on level 15!).

Does not compute, does not compute, does not compute.

Mac Angband 4.1.0-dirty

Addendum, now having picked the wand up i still cannot ID it. I read a scroll of identify with the wand in my pack and it tells me I have nothing to identify. I don't even know how many charges it has. WTF?

[Sky]

i hope you have saved the borked installation folder? i'd like to see that.

[Estie]

I dont see that happening; im currently running with a 5X longbow.

I have made a few randart sets and while there are reasonable amounts of launchers, not a single one has picked up multiplier. I assume you are playing 4.1.0 ?

It is possible that there is an issue with my installation; my sets used to be ridiculous, with about 80% cursed artifacts, 80% of weapons having +2 attacks and all major slays, 80% of armours having multiple off weapon slays and brands.

I downloaded anew from rephial and re-installed and the first 3 randart sets I created for test purposes dont display this bizarre behaviour (though no launchers have multiplier, and no heavy xbow launchers exist).

Since I seem to recall you having contradiced most of my observations in the recent past, I get the suspicion that we somehow play different games. The weird change in randart looks would suggest that my game is not working as intended.

Can you post a dump of your toon with that x5 launcher ?

[Estie]

I don't quite see the point of runes in 4.1. but I have found a text error. I'm running a Dunedain Ranger and it reports I have the rune of hold constitution because I have an object. This is incorrect. I have no such object, instead I hold constitution because I'm a Dunedain. It's a Race bonus.

The main point of runes is to get rid of the necessity to identify every wearable item in the lategame.

I dont know what "it" refers to, but in the table you access from the character menu it should indicate exactly what has and has not the property of sustain constitution (at least once you have identified it); if youre Dunadan, there should be a check in the @ column which lists intrinsic properties.

[Muscleguy]

Rune error

I don't quite see the point of runes in 4.1. but I have found a text error. I'm running a Dunedain Ranger and it reports I have the rune of hold constitution because I have an object. This is incorrect. I have no such object, instead I hold constitution because I'm a Dunedain. It's a Race bonus.

[Muscleguy]

Highlight too close

I've had this issue for several versions. Mac version, latest 4.1.0. If I give a command such as T, w, r etc the first item on the list is highlighted, but the highlight box is too close to the letter and it is often more a matter of intuition or memory rather than being able to read the letter in question. This pertains particularly to g vs q, a vs o, m vs n.

Or is it just a matter of using the wrong font?

In these modern times is not a block highlight more de rigeur?

Still getting to grips with 4.1. too many bloody traps not noticed by a Dunedain Ranger. I've bought a pick, not so much to go mining for gold as to use to mine around traps as my Disarm ability is still only 40%.

Still just spent my hard earned on a Ring of Searching +3. Onward and Downward!

[Sky]

I dont see that happening; im currently running with a 5X longbow.

[Estie]

Randart launchers seem to be unable to pick up increased multiplier; I suppose thats not intentional ?

[wv_wxman]

OK, fixed randart file attached - everything should work now. There was a bug where a randart could be told to appear at a negative dungeon level...

Thanks, worked like a charm! Too bad the poor girl died soon after...

[Pondlife]

I think you have just been getting lucky

I've seen this a couple of times in my latest game. I thought I was just getting lucky (well, not that lucky really as I'm playing a mage).

[Nick]

Started a new 4.1 game today and saved it with ctrl-X. Tried to restart it a bit later and I get the error message "Parse error in randart line 2389 column 3." Looked at randart.txt and my untrained eyes didn't see anything wrong. Any way this save file can be saved? This one has been lucky with HP rolls so far and I'd kinda like to keep it. The save file and randart.txt are in the attached zip.

OK, fixed randart file attached - everything should work now. There was a bug where a randart could be told to appear at a negative dungeon level...

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Think maybe it was called out before, but potions of dexterity seem to drop in pairs. I don't hate this but maybe not by intent?

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I think you have just been getting lucky

[wv_wxman]

Started a new 4.1 game today and saved it with ctrl-X. Tried to restart it a bit later and I get the error message "Parse error in randart line 2389 column 3." Looked at randart.txt and my untrained eyes didn't see anything wrong. Any way this save file can be saved? This one has been lucky with HP rolls so far and I'd kinda like to keep it. The save file and randart.txt are in the attached zip.

[petvan]

Think maybe it was called out before, but potions of dexterity seem to drop in pairs. I don't hate this but maybe not by intent?

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[Qyx]

(cursed) tag disappears when item sold to shop

Maybe a bug? The (cursed) tag disappeared on an item sold to the shop. I bought it back and it reacquired the tag. The item didn't lose the curse, just the tag in the shop display.