Current master post 4.2.0

[Nick]

New builds are now up on the nightlies page and angband.live (source is here). Changes are:

• Proper fix for Leap into Battle
• Make exploding chests explode
• Add special menu for throwing items, brought up by the throw command
• Made shots and pebbles throwing items
• Complete rewrite of the pathfinding algorithm to increase efficiency, make it robust against crashes, and make running to a particular spot actually work properly again
• Fix earthquake bug introduced by me when merging David's blackguard changes
• Tidy up symbol query code a bit, possibly fixing mrfy's crash bug
• Inscription =g5 (also works for other numbers) now limits pickup to a total of 5 in the player's inventory (thanks backwardsEric)

Testing encouraged, especially for the pathfinding, and also to see whether throwing shots and pebbles is OP.

[DavidMedley]

Thanks nick!!!

EDIT: I tried to all caps that, but the system de-capped it!

[mrfy]

Well, it's really a food indicator, but that makes the hint too long; I was thinking of bar as in progress bar. How does "The food indicator at the bottom of the screen shows how well fed you are." sound?

That sounds better. It's still amusing to me that the shopkeepers often break the 4th (5th?) wall in talking to the player about the game.

[mrfy]

OK, the problem doesn't happen for me. It could possibly be an issue with your lore.txt file, but that seems unlikely.

More likely is that some of the code in the symbol query function is dubious; I'm going to rewrite that a bit and we'll see if the next update fixes the problem.

I'm still seeing the crash with the updated version. Let me know how I can help.

[Nick]

I'm still seeing the crash with the updated version. Let me know how I can help.

I'm, frankly, baffled. I guess you could give me your lore.txt file too, who knows, maybe there's something weird there. What OS are you using?

[DavidMedley]

Also, big thanks to backwardsEric! He's doing a ton of great work that probably doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

[mrfy]

I'm, frankly, baffled. I guess you could give me your lore.txt file too, who knows, maybe there's something weird there. What OS are you using?

OSX. Yeah still happening, load savefile, hit '/', 'E', 'y', 'right-arrow'. Game crashes.

savefile again:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2iqxso7zipek5vs/mrfy?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hbqt9bvbbbw6qi/randart_0ff02d87.txt?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajgv3fs2rxm0zfo/lore.txt?dl=0

Copy of the crashlog:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0eiocpl967xatoy/crashlog.txt?dl=0

[mrfy]

Changes are:

• Make exploding chests explode

I can confirm that they really do explode and destroy their contents.

[Nick]

OSX. Yeah still happening, load savefile, hit '/', 'E', 'y', 'right-arrow'. Game crashes.

savefile again:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2iqxso7zipek5vs/mrfy?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hbqt9bvbbbw6qi/randart_0ff02d87.txt?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajgv3fs2rxm0zfo/lore.txt?dl=0

Copy of the crashlog:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0eiocpl967...shlog.txt?dl=0

Thank you, found it. The immediate cause is a missing line in monster.txt, but probably something needs to be done to make sure missing that line doesn't cause crashes.

[mrfy]

Thank you, found it. The immediate cause is a missing line in monster.txt, but probably something needs to be done to make sure missing that line doesn't cause crashes.

Great Earth Elemental is missing the # of hit-points?

[Nick]

Great Earth Elemental is missing the # of hit-points?

No, spell frequency.

I noticed it is recorded as 0 hp too - that looks a bit silly, I guess, but it happens because they can't actually be generated, only shapechanged into.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Just bought some plain old Iron Shots at the store, and they don't combine with the plain iron shots picked up from the dungeon floor. Nothing unknown about them. No difference in their damage. But they are taking up two slots in the quiver instead of only one. A new bug introduced by recent quiver changes?

[Nick]

Just bought some plain old Iron Shots at the store, and they don't combine with the plain iron shots picked up from the dungeon floor. Nothing unknown about them. No difference in their damage. But they are taking up two slots in the quiver instead of only one. A new bug introduced by recent quiver changes?

Yes and no, or rather no and yes. Not a bug, but was introduced by shots and pebbles now getting the THROWING flag. So newly created shots (with THROWING) will not stack with ones created before the change (without THROWING). Once you get rid of all your old shots, the problem will be gone.

Kind of like Apple getting rid of the headphone jack

[DavidMedley]

Interesting:

Narthanc
Average damage/round: 25.3 vs. creatures not resistant to fire, and 19.4 vs. others.
Average thrown damage: 43.9 vs. creatures not resistant to fire, and 14.6 vs. others.

Why is the fire brand so great when throwing?

[wobbly]

That looks like it's tripling all bonuses instead of just the damage dice. Don't know if it's intended.