Unangband 0.6.4 released

**thorgot** · April 5, 2010, 05:10

It's a good thing I couldn't find a USB keyboard to start a new game yesterday!

Thanks.

**ekolis** · April 6, 2010, 15:35

Cool

One issue with Un that has irked me for a while, though...

Why is it that when I die, I don't get to see the last messages on the screen? I get taken instead directly to the tombstone screen, and if I want to see what killed me, I have to pick the "recent messages" option on the death menu... Surely there should be a "more" prompt immediately after death, as in V and all other variants? I think I do have easy_more turned on, but if there is a "more" prompt, it seems to be eaten by easy_more...

**baddog73** · April 7, 2010, 05:28

"Was biasing stairs in wrong direction."

Does this mean it's now easier to find your way out of the dungeon? Used to be that on the way up, there's usually only 1 stair up, and many down.

**Arralen** · April 7, 2010, 14:28

What about savegame compatiblity vs. pre4?

Please don't tell me I have to start from scratch again.

**baddog73** · April 8, 2010, 00:45

Erm, most of us die often enough not to have to worry about savegame compatibility!

**Ashkir** · April 8, 2010, 13:35

Having load of fun with Un 0.6.4 at the moment, thanks very much for a great variant but I have a question that has been bugging me from previous builds of this too. Apologies if this has been addressed before.

I have just killed an Arch Wood Elf and it appears there is no difference in experience awarded to killing the bog standard version. Are the titles purely for flavour?? This goes for many creatures including types of Orcs, Gnomes, Dwarves, Mages, Warriors, Paladins etc.... etc.....

Just seemed wierd running into an Arch type creature on DL 26 and on killing it being told I've killed loads of these before ( standard creature tenplate ), they are usually found on DL7 and is worth 5 exp to me???!!??

In all other variants I've played, the different titles indicated different strengths of the creatures and the rewards have reflected that.

**andrewdoull** · April 9, 2010, 12:51

ekolis: Will do. The gravestone is more descriptive of what killed you than many variants - if that helps any.

arralen: I always provide the ability to load previous versions - even between prereleases. Anything else is a bug.

Ashkir: The monster powers 'should' be scaled up correctly to match the power curve of the current level. I suspect this doesn't work at the moment. Experience isn't yet scaled to match however.

Andrew

**baddog73** · April 10, 2010, 18:04

Bug: Backstab style in character choices missing description.

Bug?: With new game and new 0.6.4, I'm just not seeing any lanterns anywhere up to Bree. Not in stores, dungeons, anyplace.

-Crap: Currently stuck in Bree for lack of a light. Update: went to Rivendell on the off-chance of finding a light, and lo-and behold there's a lantern at Elrond's house and 3 for sale at the wizard's store. Maybe this was just bad luck and I'm whining about nothing...

Bug?: "Deep water under ice" causes lantern to snuff.

-Quaffed a potion of augmentation and received only temporary effects, no permanent stat increases?

Is there an explanation somewhere for what exactly the "proficiencies" in the char menu mean? I.e. I birth with "very good" bow skills, and as I level up to 20, I get to "excellent." Then after another 4 levels, I am now "superb," which I assume is better than "excellent" but I'm not really sure. It would be very interesting to see what numbers drive these descriptions.

Sorry for the long post - I keep adding notes to it as I go rather than re-posting all the time:
Anyway, would like your thoughts on some feature requests:
- What if when you have auto-pickup like items under the condition that you already have so many of that item so that picking up a whole stack of like items (e.g. arrows) puts you over 99, why not pick up as many as would make 99? I mean, it already has to do the calculation anyway to find out if you *can* pick up the items without overflow, so... easy?
- Allowing auto-eat-when-travel of more types of food items, not just food rations. Especially, or at least, elven bread.
- Extend the equipment or inventory lists to the right more if you play with a large window? Some descriptions are long enough to cut off more important info, like weapon and armor plusses - stuff I frequently have to check in case of damage. Small but annoying to have to go "I", "/", "a" to check weapon instead of just "e". Currently as a thief the only part of the descriptions I can see is the gold value. Alternatively possibly shorten "worth 10040 gold pieces" or place it after the (+x,+y)?
- Some breeders are worth a lot of exp and encourage farming. I pretty much do the hokey-pokey and throw a little party when I encounter giant mayflies early on as it's a pretty easy quick lvl 25 if you farm.

**DocFreud** · April 13, 2010, 13:44

Possible bug

I really love this variant...
Thanks for the good job ...

Anyway, I've 'noticed' strange description on object I picked up.
On my first or second play, I picked up a ring of slow digestion.
Problem, it's been identified as I picked it up and it was inscribed with '(tried)' label...
But I'm sure I've never identified one before...
I has happened for several rings later on...
Is it normal ?

**baddog73** · April 14, 2010, 05:04

Did you put it on by any chance?

Never done it with rings, but if you read a scroll or zap a wand and the effect created doesn't cause you to learn what type it is, the game labels it {tried}.

**DocFreud** · April 14, 2010, 08:22

No, I think it get identified when I picked it up and it was labeled (tried) in the inventory even before I put it on...
On the first time playing the first character, that's why I was surprised...

I'm under Win XP-SP2, Even if the games are ran in different directories, is it possible that temp files mess up with other version's one, like Vanilla for example ?

Also, there is a lack of description on the 'sneaking' mode, I think it going along with the 'Backstab' option which is also lacking description... Where can I find info about those ?

**andrewdoull** · April 27, 2010, 11:24

Originally posted by DocFreud

No, I think it get identified when I picked it up and it was labeled (tried) in the inventory even before I put it on...
On the first time playing the first character, that's why I was surprised...

I'm under Win XP-SP2, Even if the games are ran in different directories, is it possible that temp files mess up with other version's one, like Vanilla for example ?

No. It'll be a bug in the code somewhere.

Also, there is a lack of description on the 'sneaking' mode, I think it going along with the 'Backstab' option which is also lacking description... Where can I find info about those ?

At the moment, the change logs, and the source code. Slowly to migrate into the help files. To get to sneak mode use 'S' or '#' (roguelike) - it will only affect monsters within 4 grids of you in line of sight, so its not worth using all the time.

Andrew

**d_m** · May 4, 2010, 01:51

I'm building UnAngband head on linux and for some reason it's not compiling maid-x11.c. At least, I think that's what's going on. My Autotools-fu is not necessarily good enough to figure out why that's happening. Here's my actions:

Code:

./bootstrap
./configure --prefix ~/angband/unsandbox
make

The error I get is:

Code:

gcc  -g -O2 -fno-strength-reduce  -Wall -Wextra -Wformat=0 -Wlogical-op -Wredundant-decls 
-Wnested-externs -std=gnu99   -o unangband z-util.o z-virt.o z-form.o z-rand.o z-term.o variable.o tables.o
util.o cave.o object1.o object2.o monster1.o monster2.o xtra1.o xtra2.o spells1.o spells2.o melee1.o
melee2.o save.o files.o info.o cmd1.o cmd2.o cmd3.o cmd4.o cmd5.o cmd6.o store.o birth.o load.o
option.o wizard1.o wizard2.o main-cap.o main-gcu.o main-x11.o main-xaw.o main.o main-win.o main-xpj.o
main-vcs.o main-gtk.o generate.o dungeon.o init1.o init2.o randart.o borgdumb.o  -lSM -lICE -lX11 
-lncurses
main-x11.o: In function `Term_xtra_x11_react':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2079: undefined reference to `create_pixel'
main-x11.o: In function `init_x11':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2548: undefined reference to `smoothRescaling'
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2623: undefined reference to `create_pixel'
main-x11.o: In function `term_data_init':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2340: undefined reference to `get_default_font'
main-x11.o: In function `init_x11':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2566: undefined reference to `smoothRescaling'
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2732: undefined reference to `ReadBMP'
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-x11.c:2768: undefined reference to `ResizeImage'
main-xpj.o: In function `Term_xtra_xpj_react':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:1758: undefined reference to `create_pixel'
main-xpj.o: In function `init_xpj':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:3233: undefined reference to `smoothRescaling'
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:3281: undefined reference to `create_pixel'
main-xpj.o: In function `term_data_init':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:3010: undefined reference to `get_default_font'
main-xpj.o: In function `init_xpj':
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:3349: undefined reference to `ReadBMP'
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:3382: undefined reference to `ResizeImage'
/home/erik/proj/unangband/src/main-xpj.c:3602: undefined reference to `ResizeImage'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [unangband] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erik/proj/unangband/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I started trying to manually compile maid-x11.c, main-x11.c, etc. but ran out of time/patience and didn't get it working. Any advice?

(edited to fix long lines)

**Nick** · May 4, 2010, 03:14

Looks to me like maid-x11.c is missing from a makefile somewhere.

Unangband 0.6.4 released

Unangband 0.6.4 released

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