Angband 4.2.0

[wobbly]

Dark ritual is book 1 for blackguards

[Derakon]

Managed to shield bash a yellow worm mass. As a result the worm mass is stunned and looks confused I wonder what that would look like?

Worm masses should probably be immune to confusion, because they're basically perma-confused anyway.

[spara]

I mean angband 3.0.x and earlier vs angband 3.2(?) and later.

Ok. So with the current version, "getting faster" means: "faster for a longer time".

[Pete Mack]

I mean angband 3.0.x and earlier vs angband 3.2(?) and later.

[spara]

@spara
Depends on the variant. In old variants, SHRIEK just added 10 to speed, so yes. In newer variants, it adds to a haste counter, just like the one for the player.

By variant you mean different creatures? The one in question was the shieking mushroom, which is an old monster, so I assume the creatures just keep on getting faster. Except of course, if nothing has changed, it does not really mean much after speed ~30.

Another question. My blackguard has finally reached level 8 and is granted one spell. From which book? @ has "In to the Shadows", but cannot learn anything from it. Is there some intelligence boundary or something in action here?

[Pete Mack]

@spara
Depends on the variant. In old variants, SHRIEK just added 10 to speed, so yes. In newer variants, it adds to a haste counter, just like the one for the player.

[spara]

A couple of questions about the shriekers.

1. They seem to haste themselves by shrieking. Is that the way it should be?

2. Judging by the messages they seem to haste to infinity, since the subjects look "even faster" over and over again. Is it so? Are they getting faster every time the shrieker shrieks?

[spara]

Managed to shield bash a yellow worm mass. As a result the worm mass is stunned and looks confused I wonder what that would look like?

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I think that counts as a bug.

I also think it should slightly increase the @'s height.

[Nick]

Why does a draught of the Ents provide no nourishment?

I think that counts as a bug.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Why does a draught of the Ents provide no nourishment?

[Nick]

I'm a 25 level mage, but I cant figure out what this spell does. Broader question, is their a listing of what all of the spells do?

Mana channel makes casting a spell only take half as long (technically half as much energy). If you hit '?' on the spell screen you'll get a description of the spell you're currently looking at.

[u235operator]

What does mana channel do?

I'm a 25 level mage, but I cant figure out what this spell does. Broader question, is their a listing of what all of the spells do?

[olivertheorem]

I haven't played a whole lot on 4.2.0, but I rather like the new hunger representation. I too was caught off guard the first time I got slowed by eating, but thankfully in my case I was in town at the time. I don't think this is such a bad thing, as Angband has a fair number of things that you don't know until it bites you once.

I like the increased number of different foods too. It feels much more like foraging than just finding random stuff, even though it actually is finding random stuff. :P

[Nick]

In a fight with a blue ooze, my blackguard got a shield bash in. The following log says that the ooze is stunned and right after that it says the ooze is unaffected. The question is, unaffected from what? Can shield bash do something on top of stunning or something? The character is a lvl 6 beginning character that has absolutely nothing special on him.
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Shield bashing can also confuse, but I think the 'unaffected' message is a bit confusing.