Current master post 4.2.0

[DavidMedley]

Game just keeps getting better all the time. Among a hundred things, the latest changes to the monster recall really clarify monster speed and melee damage. Keep up the good work Nick and everyone else!

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Is there any reason for id by use of mushrooms to go wonky recently? @ just ate a "waxy mushroom", hallucinated wildly, felt drugged, resistant to fire, resistant to cold, and very good, and now sees some Mushrooms of Emergency in a stack on the floor. BUT, when inspecting the mushrooms in question, the only data given other than its name is, "It can be eaten."

[Cuboideb]

I created a Necro and tried Miasma for the first time at clvl 10. My character got confused, hallucinated and the clvl dropped to 1. I think its a bit too much. At that stage the only attack spell is nether bolt, until disenchant at clvl 16.

Also, the anti-teleport curse is silent. It should display a message when reading ?phase.

[Nick]

Is there any reason for id by use of mushrooms to go wonky recently? @ just ate a "waxy mushroom", hallucinated wildly, felt drugged, resistant to fire, resistant to cold, and very good, and now sees some Mushrooms of Emergency in a stack on the floor. BUT, when inspecting the mushrooms in question, the only data given other than its name is, "It can be eaten."

Hm, I'll have a look.

I created a Necro and tried Miasma for the first time at clvl 10. My character got confused, hallucinated and the clvl dropped to 1. I think its a bit too much. At that stage the only attack spell is nether bolt, until disenchant at clvl 16.

Typically the character doesn't encounter chaos that early - that does seem a lot. It is a pretty effective killer, though, and I do like the idea compared to poison. Thoughts?

Also, the anti-teleport curse is silent. It should display a message when reading ?phase.

Yes, it should, and I'm surprised it didn't. Will check.

[Cuboideb]

The confusion and hallucination can be a trade-off. The experience drain is the biggest problem I think. It causes a massive drop in HP and SP.

I really like chaos for a necro, it's more thematic than inertia or force. Can we have some kind of soft-chaos ?

[Nick]

The confusion and hallucination can be a trade-off. The experience drain is the biggest problem I think. It causes a massive drop in HP and SP.

I really like chaos for a necro, it's more thematic than inertia or force. Can we have some kind of soft-chaos ?

So life-drain mostly works by having a fixed percentage (2%) drain, plus a bit more. For nether, that bit more is 200 XP; for chaos, it's currently 5000.

My plan is to do away with the bit more for chaos, but raise the drain percentage to 3%.

[Nick]

Also, the anti-teleport curse is silent. It should display a message when reading ?phase.

Tested, and all seems to be working. If unaware of the curse (or the no-teleport rune) the player gets the messages "You have learned the rune of teleportation ban. Your <item> prevents you teleporting. You have learned the rune of anti-teleportation curse. Teleportation forbidden!"; if aware, it's just "Teleportation forbidden!".

[Sphara]

What´s with the Lantern of Shadows again? I thought it was custom made for necromancers.
I found one very early as a Dunadan Necromancer and it gave <+1> stealth and a big light radius, screwing my spells.

Played on angband.live (nightly).

[fph]

Unfortunately lanterns still emit light. Would it make sense to have a command to empty lanterns (the opposite of F)? As a necromancer, I can see myself using certain empty ego lanterns just for the resistances and/or stealth bonuses, but I'd have to rest to drain them out.

[Sphara]

Unfortunately lanterns still emit light. Would it make sense to have a command to empty lanterns (the opposite of F)? As a necromancer, I can see myself using certain empty ego lanterns just for the resistances and/or stealth bonuses, but I'd have to rest to drain them out.

Thanks fph!
I completely forgot I needed to empty it. Too bad I committed a suicide on that character who found the Lantern

[Nick]

Lantern of Shadows should have -4 to light, which overpowers the light. I'll have to check what they're doing.

EDIT: OK, so everyone's right. Lantern of Shadows can do two things:

1. It has fuel, gives +3 light, but then -4 because that's the ego property, for -1 light or
2. It's out of fuel, in which case it has no light effect, so 0 light

All makes sense, really

[Adam]

Unfortunately lanterns still emit light. Would it make sense to have a command to empty lanterns (the opposite of F)? As a necromancer, I can see myself using certain empty ego lanterns just for the resistances and/or stealth bonuses, but I'd have to rest to drain them out.

You can carry around that ego lantern and fuel another lantern with it if you find one. Not as good as an empty command, but still better than resting if turn count matters.

[Cuboideb]

Tested, and all seems to be working. if aware, it's just "Teleportation forbidden!".

Thanks! I missed that

[DavidMedley]

Unfortunately lanterns still emit light. Would it make sense to have a command to empty lanterns (the opposite of F)? As a necromancer, I can see myself using certain empty ego lanterns just for the resistances and/or stealth bonuses, but I'd have to rest to drain them out.

You can fuel a lantern with itself to empty it. This may be a bug. You might have to use the i or e command to get there rather than F.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

You can fuel a lantern with itself to empty it. This may be a bug. You might have to use the i or e command to get there rather than F.

Didn't know you could do that. After how many years? Still learning new things about the game.

Makes sense you could dump oil out of the lamp.