Missing books in the bookstore (4.2.0)

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  • PDocre
    Rookie
    • Nov 2019
    • 3

    Missing books in the bookstore (4.2.0)

    Hi! I haven't played Angband for a long time, and I'm puzzled by some things in the current game. Overall I'm quite impressed with the changes!

    My first issue is, as a Dwarf Priest, the bookstore only appears to sell the first two spellbooks. Overall the contents seem quite static, but not entirely fixed. My poor Snarf is level 28 and still only has the first two books! I've even town scummed for them. This can't be normal!

    A 30000 book did appear in the black market, but I was a few thousand short >.<

    I do see books of higher prices (400 and 1600) appear for the other disciplines, and slight variation in the stock (though I have not yet started keeping exact track of how.)

    So I guess my first question is, what gives? Does the bookstore not sell the second pair of Divine spellbooks? Am I just supremely unlucky? Or perhaps something more sinister and bug-shaped is afoot?
  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9647

    #2
    It varies among the realms - only the first two divine and nature books are town books, whereas for the arcane and shadow realms it's the first three.
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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    • PDocre
      Rookie
      • Nov 2019
      • 3

      #3
      Alright, that explains a lot Thanks!

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      • DavidMedley
        Veteran
        • Oct 2019
        • 1004

        #4
        Originally posted by Nick
        It varies among the realms - only the first two divine and nature books are town books, whereas for the arcane and shadow realms it's the first three.
        Not disagreeing, but I have wondered: Why?

        It seems easier to find better dungeon books than it was 15 years ago, happily.
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        • Ingwe Ingweron
          Veteran
          • Jan 2009
          • 2129

          #5
          Originally posted by DavidMedley
          It seems easier to find better dungeon books than it was 15 years ago, happily.
          Depends on the RNG gods. Sometimes they're everywhere, sometimes that final book just never seems to show up.
          “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
          ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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          • PDocre
            Rookie
            • Nov 2019
            • 3

            #6
            Maybe if the higher level books only start showing up in the bookstore at higher levels, or when you've reached a certain depth, it would avoid the frustration of never seeing one in a game.

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