Changes in FrogComposband 7.1.salmiak:
* Added new dungeons and randomized which dungeons actually appear
* Added new objects, ego types, artifacts, item curses, terrain
features and random artifact names
* Added new monsters (including the reintroduction of the Greater Cyber
Wyrm Angel Daemon Lich as an exclusively postgame monster)
* Added new player-monster race (Mummy) based on Maledicts from Pos-R
* Moved to a 32-color palette and changed the colors of many monsters
-- NOTES: If your platform does not support more than 16 colors, or
FrogComposband's coloring code for your platform is faulty, compile
with --disable-xtra-colours to retain use of 16 colors only. If your
platform does support more than 16 colors but you wish to stick to 16
(from nostalgic reasons or for greater contrast between colors), load
user-lim.prf (typing &4 in-game does this automatically) or otherwise
modify the colors with the '&' command
-- Special thanks to Oneiron for helping me debug the 32-color palette
* Town services could enchant multiple weapons for the price of one;
this has been fixed (thanks to Thraalbee for reporting)
* Directions were given for Heaven and Hell even if the player had not
won; this has been fixed (thanks to Marty and ster for reporting)
* Fixed bug when Teleport Level was used after completing Crystal Quest
(thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed bug when stairs were taken just when recall kicked in (thanks
to wobbly and bostock for reporting)
* Fixed bug with hand grenade explosions sometimes causing a "player"
fake monster to temporarily appear (thanks to wobbly for reporting)
* Fixed bug with multi-effect monster blows sometimes killing an
opponent repeatedly (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed bug with autotargeting the mount for hasting and healing
(thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed bug with devices in wilderness rooms generating with no effect
(thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed bug with standard artifacts disappearing from the floor if they
had been carried there from another level (thanks to bostock for
reporting)
* Fixed bug with Ninjas continuing to attack if Kawarimi was triggered
mid-turn (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Timed monster statuses were not processed in the overworld; this has
been fixed (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed old bug with statue stacking (thanks to kt for reporting)
* Fixed infinite loop on junk autoget when always_pickup was on and the
Easy Destroyer was not on (thanks to DavidMedley for reporting)
* Fixed crash when the object list subwindow was on and an item with
specific properties was equipped from the floor (thanks to caruso for
reporting)
* A potion of Restore Mana thrown from the floor could cause a phantom
copy of itself to explode; this has been fixed
* Bumping into mountains while confused consumed no time; this has been
fixed (thanks to Hugo for reporting)
* Fixed weirdness on player beholders with mutational innate attacks
(thanks to Karkaroth for reporting)
* Fixed annoying and inconsistent handling of erratic movement on
mounts (thanks to budswell for reporting)
* Fixed bug with newly acquired locked mutations not affecting
regeneration properly (thanks to ster for reporting)
* Fixed bug with insurance and player-elemental item destruction
* Fixed bug with inappropriate handling of insured items left behind on
a level the player subsequently returned to
* Fixed crash on shop shuffle if too many items had been reserved
* Fixed ancient bugs with the wilderness terrain-selection algorithm,
and adjusted some numbers that had been optimized for the buggy version
* Fixed various types of weirdness with Bunshin; it is now generally
less useful against auras, but more useful in a number of other
situations where it previously did not apply
* Fixed minor bug with innate attack damage calculations
* Fixed weirdness with charmed clones
* Fixed yet another loophole to anti-scumming item/gold drop limits
* Fixed incorrect pluralization of some quiver egos
* Fixed weirdness with door placement in cavern areas
* Fixed occasional weirdness with stair placement after quest
completion
* Multiple items could be reserved for the price of one; this has been
fixed
* Turncounts in character dumps now properly account for midnight
starts (this does not apply retroactively)
* Changed the power of confusion effects, they should now at least
resemble the claimed powers
* Fixed issue with the powers of Slow Monster bolt spells (thanks to
Saru for reporting)
* Allowed Samurai to view damage averages for Kendo attack techniques
(thanks to ster for suggesting)
* Renamed weak Beam of Light to "Moonbeam" to more clearly distinguish
it from strong Beam of Light (thanks to bostock for suggesting)
* Slightly relaxed capture-balling requirements for hostile monsters to
prevent some low-HP monsters from being captureable at all (thanks to
caruso for bringing this up)
* Added option (on by default) to limit quantity prompts in shops to
the highest amount that is both available and affordable (thanks to
caruso for suggesting)
* Added option (off by default) to indicate unknown item flavors in
shops (thanks to caruso for suggesting)
* Added option (off by default) to display the nominal energy cost of
the most recent action (thanks to Bucephalus for suggesting)
* Added option (on by default) to extend the unknown attribute
indicator '?' to cover random dragon resistances (thanks to bostock for
bringing this up)
* Combined the empty_levels option with the ironman_empty_levels option
* Allowed using Home/End and 7/1 to immediately move to the beginning
or end of a long home or museum inventory (thanks to Melum for
suggesting)
* Renamed the "Cause Wounds" monster spells/auras to various types of
"Curse", making it less unintuitive that most of them can curse the
equipment
* Changed the Patient personality to be more the opposite of Hasty; it
now has slightly better stats and skills than before, but gives a speed
penalty
* Potions of New Life now shuffle Split personalities (thanks to Aav
for suggesting)
* Improved the object list and monster list UI (thanks to kt and
bostock for suggestions)
- allowed customizing the lists' width
- allowed looping between the first and last entry with Up/Down arrows
- the object list now displays visible stairs if no objects are visible
* Allowed scrolling long monster descriptions while targeting
* Allowed the Gloves of the Master Tonberry to generate for Tonberries
* Allowed pets to recall with player from slightly further away
* Average rings, amulets and Feanorian Lamps are now identified on
pseudo-ID
* Buffed Dwarven body armour again, it now has much more potential
upside
* A number of additional uniques, most notably Mandor, now resist
confusion
* Player quylthulgs can now (usually) summon around a target location
starting at CL 20, regardless of which options they use
* Changed the special Bloodrip player-cutting mechanic; it is now less
severe but happens more often, and happens in melee rather than at
random times (thanks to bostock, ster and MITZE for feedback)
* Changed hallucination to make it more difficult to figure out which
monsters are real
* Automatic combining of pack ammo with quiver ammo now happens even if
the ammo is unsuitable for the current shooter
* Tweaked the confusion-resistance message for already confused
monsters (thanks to Bucephalus for suggesting)
* Tweaked Rune-Knight mana gain formula
* Slightly tweaked the effects of Easy-Spell/Dec-Mana on spell fail
rates
* Re-allowed the use of Destruction in Witch Wood as a reduced-power
special effect
* Tweaked the XP values of many monsters
* Dungeon entrance guardians are no longer vulnerable to genocide
* Life ratings are now displayed by default on a scale of 0 to 76,
rather than on a percentage scale of 87% to 117%; this is purely a
display change, intended both to permit greater accuracy and to
distinguish them even more clearly from the unrelated racial and
CON/equipment-based HP multipliers
* Trap warnings now reveal the trap
* The Mogaminator is now applied to items on shop-ID and museum-ID
* The in-game high score list now adjusts scores for options and
accomplishments (this does not apply retroactively)
* Race change attempts disallowed by competition mode now trigger the
Baby Foul Curse instead (also, the Baby Foul Curse is now more evil)
* Pass-wall monsters and players are no longer slowed by trees
* Nerfed humans (instead of the second demigod talent at CL 40, they
now receive a primary-stat-dependent weakness at CL 35)
* Allowed the recall interface to give a multi-column dungeon list
* Changed innate attack damage display to show the damage for each
effect separately instead of combining it with the damage from the
first effect
* Further reduced energy randomness, it is now more strictly limited at
higher speeds
* Replaced the hidden ability of some Mage-type classes to recover mana
twice as fast with a public "Mana Recovery" object flag. Also,
effective HP regen and effective SP regen are now displayed separately
on the character sheet for transparency
* Destruction no longer always works on summoned monsters, except in
instant-coffee mode. It still always works on "nice" summons (i.e. most
high-level monsters the turn after they appear), and summoned monsters
never gain destruction immunity
* Allowed monsters to resist disintegration
* Allowed two-handed wielding of baseball bats
* Additional monster health bar coloring:
- temporary slowness is indicated with dark grey stars (lowest
priority)
- temporary haste is indicated with violet brackets
- a high monster power (above 133.3%) is indicated with dark blue
brackets
* Wilderness level display in the immediate vicinity of a dungeon
entrance now indicates which dungeon it is, e.g. "Wilderness (Angband):
L1" instead of just "Wilderness: L1"
* Allowed Beorning Rage-Mages to use Rage in bear form (thanks to
clouded for suggesting)
* The 'U'/'O' power selection menu now displays the stats involved in
determining fail rates
* Further improved and updated the help
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.1.liquorice:
* Added a new player race (Igor)
* Added a new personality (Split)
* Re-implemented the Blue-Mage class
* Updated the in-game help
* Game speed is now selected from the race/class menu rather than as a
birth option. Added instant-coffee mode (ultra-accelerated game); note
that this mode is much harder than normal coffee-break mode, and not
recommended for players new to the game
* Added many new random artifact names; also, random artifact weapons
now sometimes pull their names from sub-lists specific to the type of
weapon, and the game tries to keep repetition of artifact names to a
minimum
* Quylthulgs crashed on game start in thrall mode; this has been fixed
(thanks to meltdown for reporting)
* No warning was given on escaping downstairs from a quest level
(possible for some Disciples); this has been fixed (thanks to OmniNegro
for reporting)
* Burdening was not checked properly after eating food; this has been
fixed
* The option to never apply the Mogaminator also turned off the easy
auto-destroyer; this has been fixed
* Fixed typos in outlying makefiles that caused problems if "make
install" was used to install the game (thanks to isnok and Kreutzer for
reporting)
* It was possible to get nexus-warped to closed dungeons with
ironman_downward on; this has been fixed
* Projectiles did not lose the "Worn" tag on being placed in the
quiver; this has been fixed
* The slowing immunity of player inertia hounds and Hermes demigods did
not apply to incremental slowing; this has been fixed (thanks to ster
and Marty for reporting)
* Arrow keys could not be used for Mogaminator or option menu
navigation on angband.live; this has been fixed
* Quests were not properly flagged as completed on Troika disciples if
killing a monster caused the patron to dispel the remaining monsters;
this has been fixed (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed an exploit that allowed selecting any dragon realm on any
dragon except Steel Dragon (thanks to OmniNegro for reporting)
* Fixed visual glitch when reforge details were shown immediately after
requesting a quest (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed infinite loop when a player Ring with no mount tried to use
autoget (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Casting spells on a Possessor, Gray-Mage or Skillmaster did not
trigger Fragile fatigue; this has been fixed (thanks to ster for
reporting the problem on Gray-Mages)
* Filthy Rags could not get Hold Life; this has been fixed (thanks to
Aav for reporting)
* The "repeat" command did not work properly on Magic-Eaters if
absorbed items had been inscribed; this has been fixed
* Magic-Eaters could only use floor devices if they also had pack
devices of the same type; this has been fixed
* Fixed conflict between Magic-Eater item labels and menu commands
* Fixed inappropriate body types on some recently added monsters
(thanks to clouded for reporting)
* Innate attacks could trigger the Monster Confusion scroll but not the
Touch of Confusion hex spell; this has been fixed (thanks to clouded
for reporting)
* Fixed display weirdness in situations with opposite non-resist flags
present
* Fixed bug in tracking the origins of items reforged by Craft dragons
* Player Undead Beholders were vulnerable to life drain; this has been
fixed
* Fixed bug in display of device power bonuses on a player Filthy Rag
(thanks to Aav for reporting)
* Fixed bug with Repeat Last Command on rings when the player cancelled
the first spell prompt (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Running only checked for confusion on the first step; this has been
fixed (thanks to Hugo for reporting)
* Fixed remaining one-in-a-million loophole that could cause double
stat gain rewards (thanks to Hugo for reporting)
* Fixed malformatted failure message for the Trouble at Home quest
(thanks to Hugo for reporting)
* Equipment slots were not recalculated after a permanent race change;
this has been fixed (thanks to clouded for reporting)
* Monster list subwindows did not update properly after monster
polymorph or evolution; this has been fixed
* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Mass Identify to consume an
inappropriate amount of charges
* Fixed problems with the online_macros option
* Fixed weirdness with birth menu visuals on some non-Windows
installations
* Fixed misleading "You have gained the power of X" messages when a
ring absorbed an activation not actually available to rings
* Fixed misleading Psion spell/power descriptions
* Polearm Weaponmasters can now only trip opponents on successful hits
(as was already claimed by the description)
* Blood-Knights and Blood-Mages can no longer use magic while
polymorphed into bloodless nonliving creatures, fixing some weirdness
(thanks to ster for pointing this out)
* Plugged an exploit that allowed killing the Resurrection Machine
easily by using pets or friendly monsters (thanks to Aav and ster for
discovering)
* Increased the maximum number of distinct object inscriptions or
random artifact names allowed; also, an emergency name is now used if
the limit is exceeded (thanks to MITZE for triggering the limit...)
* Mysterious messages about monsters who are nowhere to be seen should
now happen less often
* Vampiric drain can no longer exceed the HP of the monster being
drained
* Nerfed player Hydras a mite (slightly lowered to-hit bonuses and life
rating modifier)
* Added "melee challenge" and "no-melee challenge" options (i.e.
"monsters can only be damaged by the player's melee" and "monsters
cannot be damaged by the player's melee")
* Added new option to leave on the floor all items marked for
destruction by the Mogaminator (even if always_pickup is on)
* Added new option (on by default) to ignore all identified items while
travelling
* Added an option to change the order in which rewards for wanted
corpses are given from the default (reward depends on unique's position
on list of wanted uniques) to being based on the number of wanted
uniques turned in
* The autopick entry "items" (aka "pick up all items") is now ignored
for the purposes of the object list command's Wanted Objects section
(in every other case the entry still works normally). This allows
picking up all items with always_pickup off (which may be desirable to
e.g. not override Mogaminator autodestruction) without cluttering the
Wanted Objects list
* Added Tetsubo and Baseball Bat as favored weapons for Club
weaponmasters (thanks to Aav for suggesting this)
* Walking speed modifiers like Fleet of Foot, Craven bonus, Limp
mutation etc. no longer apply to riding (thanks to Aav for bringing
this up)
* Prevented sleepscumming the coffee-break Black Market (thanks to
clouded for bringing this up)
* Pet kills now give accelerated XP in coffee-break mode (thanks to
clouded for bringing this up)
* The 'Restore life' Hex spell now restores life points in addition to
stats and experience (thanks to clouded for suggesting)
* Kutars' Expand Horizontally is now a level-independent +35 AC, and
can stack with other temporary AC buffs (thanks to Bucephalus for
suggesting)
* Completely changed Reaping on Polearm-speciality Weaponmasters; it is
now a vampiric effect instead of granting wraithform, and can no longer
be exploited to easily kill high-AC enemies such as the Metal Babble
* Polearm Weaponmasters' special automatic attacks against monsters
moving to adjacent squares no longer work if the player is blind or
confused
* Player Mariliths are allowed to use shields again (although they are
icky and penalize melee quite heavily)
* Deprecated monster races are now omitted from spoiler files
* Possessor ball spells fired in compass directions no longer uselessly
overshoot everybody
* Disallowed riding monsters with a parent monster (eliminating the
evil gotcha mechanic of a mount disappearing when its parent
disappeared)
* Stat default allocations are now re-initialized for Quick Start
characters if the old class is not retained
* Allowed throwing ammo from the quiver
* Reduced resist randomness somewhat, especially with multiple levels
of resistance
* Draugluin now resists confusion
* Trying to use a Scroll of Artifact Creation on an inappropriate
target no longer consumes the scroll
* Buffed wands of heal monster
* Nerfed Warlocks and Weaponmasters a bit
* Nerfed Clear Mind slightly
* Potions of Clarity no longer generate in town shops
* Allowed using an item from a stack as a reforge target
* Allowed using the 'J' and '(' keys in targeting mode to set a target
for travelling; if we weren't aiming a spell, device or projectile,
this automatically begins a new travel (thanks to Melum for suggesting)
* Added options to display known future race/class spells or powers in
lists (inspired by Oposband and requested by players)
* Adapted the Omarax rework from new PosChengband (thanks to ster for
this suggestion)
* Improved generation of tailored items to disallow icky egos (such as
encumbering gloves on a mage-type)
* The speed indicator is now displayed in red if the player is both
hasted and slowed in equal amounts (thanks to bostock for suggesting)
* Monster lore now automatically displays all monsters known to be
undead as being immune to nether
* Tweaked spell proficiency gain to discourage repeatedly casting
useless spells in safe nooks for proficiency
* Inscribed devices absorbed by a Magic-Eater now retain their
inscriptions; also, if an inscribed device is replaced, the old
device's inscription can be easily copied to the new device
* Restore Mana no longer recharges devices absorbed by a Magic-Eater
* Water, lava and nukage pools now muffle the earth-shaking steps of
player Cyberdemons
* Rescaled skill discriptions in race/class/personality tables (the
general rule now is that average skills are described as "fair", and
differences should be clear without being too exaggerated)
* Psionic timed effects now disturb rest and travelling on running out
if the disturb_state option is on (the same way other timed effects
already did)
* Allowed Psions to cancel Dimension Door and Psionic Travel without
spending a turn
* Werewolves and other shapeshifters can now use the "take off" command
on satchel items
* The roguelike movement keys 'j' and 'k' can now be used for movement
in the monster and object lists (thanks to bostock for suggesting)
* Improved handling of numbers and Roman numerals in player names
- numerals are now automatically bumped by 1 on quick-start if possible
- the game now looks for pref files of characters with lower numerals
if no pref files are present for the current incarnation
* Improved Mogaminator functionality
- look for pickpref-[classname].prf, or pickpref-[racename].prf on
monsters (thanks to grodrigues for suggesting this)
- look for pickpref-UserDefault.prf (local default pickprefs)
- allowed Save As of current preferences (thanks to grodrigues and
OmniNegro for suggesting this)
- inscribe pack objects when Mogaminator is first activated (at birth
if Mogaminator is active from the beginning)
- apply the improved handling of numbers and Roman numerals in player
names
* Pressing '!' in the help now always returns to the help main page
* Allowed highlighting pets and friendly monsters in monster lists (on
by default; thanks to bostock for suggesting)
* Improved pet/friendly monster AI
- pets no longer bump into the player so often
- fixed friendly fire from bolts
- fixed friendly fire from Saruman's psycho-spears
- pets now pathfind more aggressively and intelligently if a target
monster has been specified
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.1.chocolate:
* Added a new player class (Disciples; which are essentially three
classes rolled in one, because the three subclasses don't have much in
common)
* Made quest lines less predictable (many quests now have an
alternative version that can take the place of the original; some of
the substitutes are simply different versions of the same basic quest,
but most are connected only through similar rewards and themes, and a
few are completely unrelated)
* Added two new player races (Tomte and Beorning), one new player
monster race (Pumpkin) and three new personalities (Fragile, Sneaky and
Noble; thanks to emulord for suggesting Noble)
* Added many new random artifact names; also, random body armour,
shield, glove, boot, cloak and helm artifacts now sometimes pull their
names from a sub-list specific to their slot
* Added/re-added several options related to level generation
- option to modify the level size algorithm (can take any of 13 values,
from "always tiny" to "always huge", allowing all players to pick their
preferred level size and to experiment)
- option to have all rooms generate as vaults (greater vaults unless
one of the two smallest level size options is used)
- option to increase monster density on small levels to match the
density in old versions of PosChengband
- option to allow small levels even in dungeons with the "big" flag
(with the exception of Arena)
- option to sometimes reshape levels with an extreme width-to-height
ratio
* Added "thrall mode" option (player starts on level 90, with a few
extra items to make survival possible; inspired by FAangband and other
variants with similar options)
* Some key consumables are now guaranteed to generate in shops at birth
* Plugged holes in input flushing after casting/device failures
* Orc shamans crashed on casting attempts due to a missing magic
descriptor (a rage-mage hack I added shortly before the 7.1.toffee
release made this bug a lot more serious); this has been fixed (thanks
to aban for reporting)
* Monsters seen through fuzzy telepathy still appeared as "Monster" on
the tombstone; this has been fixed
* Level feelings did not work properly with munchkin pseudo-ID; this
has been fixed
* Fixed an old PosChengband bug that allowed non-Burglary rogues to
learn the Burglary realm during the game (thanks to Tiltorax for
reporting)
* Bowmasters' Readied Shot caused strange and undesirable results when
triggered by an exploding monster; this has been fixed (thanks to Aav
for reporting)
* Questors were not marked correctly in a random quest for chameleons;
this has hopefully been fixed
* Archaeologists sometimes inappropriately received the "You feel you
are leaving something special behind" message (thanks to Draghmar for
reporting)
* Deaths from unusual sources like traps and exploding mirrors were not
listed correctly (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Spell points were sometimes temporarily displayed incorrectly after a
spell was cancelled; this should be fixed now (thanks to bostock for
prompting)
* If a unique monster's clone was killed in the Monster Arena, the
unique itself was erroneously marked dead; this has been fixed (thanks
to the player who reported this - unfortunately I've forgotten who it
was)
* With a quest for non-unique monsters, summoning a pet of the target
species counted as a kill towards the quest's goal; this has been fixed
(thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Some monster spells were inappropriately inaccessible on Possessors
because they required mana but the monster's pseudo-class had no mana;
this has been fixed (thanks to clouded for reporting)
* For players who had permanently race-polymorphed, the character sheet
sometimes listed inaccurate previous races; this has been fixed (thanks
to MITZE and Thraalbee for reporting)
* Fixed a bug reported by Hugo (picking up items only sometimes
consumed time) by making picking up items never consume time
* Directions could be given for collapsed dungeon entrances; this has
been fixed (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Artifact Feanorian Lamps were described as giving light with radius
3, but actually had radius 2; fixed by buffing the actual radius
(thanks to MITZE for reporting)
* Quickwalking characters with a low poison counter could walk
indefinitely without incurring any poison damage; this has been fixed
(thanks to Oneiron for reporting)
* Game-initial pets for Cavalry and Beastmasters were not placed
properly due to outdated assumptions in the code; this has been fixed
(thanks to Mitternatch for reporting)
* Fixed several crashes/infinite loops with Berserkers getting
stat-drained (thanks to SethaWetha and Marty for reporting)
* Travelling ignored confusion; this has been fixed (thanks to bostock
for reporting)
* Autoget could get stuck in a loop trying to destroy artifacts; this
has been fixed (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed duplication of displayed dragon realm stat modifiers during
character creation (thanks to TauzentBlitz for reporting)
* Alchemists who died with a heroism buff on could have that buff carry
over to their next incarnation; this has been fixed (thanks to
Wolpertinger for reporting)
* It was possible to die with positive HP if the player was
posthumously cured by a chaos patron; this can no longer happen (thanks
to Hugo for reporting)
* Recall dungeons were improperly initialized at birth, allowing
no-wilderness characters to recall to Warrens in some circumstances;
this has been fixed (thanks to Hugo for prompting me to discover this
bug)
* Hex auras and Bard songs processed immediately on entering a new
level, allowing players to hurt following monsters repeatedly with no
retaliation; this has been fixed (thanks to Gwarl for reporting)
* Some unusual situations (at least in Labyrinth) caused the game to
plot travel routes through undiscovered secret doors; this has been
fixed
* Entrance guardians were not marked dead if killed by other monsters
(including pets); this has been fixed
* Item curse memory was not wiped for some unusual methods of
uncursing, causing non-existent curses to be displayed on inspection;
this has been fixed
* Character dumps through the high score list had weird turncount
indicators; this has been fixed (though not retroactively, so the
weirdness will persist for retired characters)
* Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed characters with chaos patrons to
select more than one stat-up on reaching a level divisible by five
* Fixed missing burden checks after destroying items or equipping ammo
straight from the floor
* If multiple chests were piled on the same square, only one of them
was accessible to the "disarm" and "open" commands; this has been fixed
* Hopefully fixed bug with Politicians sometimes randomly crashing at
game start (I'm not 100% sure about this; if it still happens, please
report)
* Tweaked Nibelungs (they now have different bonuses, slightly lower
life rating and melee, and a lower XP modifier)
* Skillmasters are no longer allowed to pick the Weapon Versatility
demigod talent (they received no benefits from it anyway, so this just
protects them from picking a useless talent)
* Werewolf psions can no longer change shape with Graft Weapon active
(thanks to MITZE for suggesting). Also, using Graft Weapon requires an
actual weapon
* Doppelganger shape changes no longer reset visuals (thanks to clouded
for suggesting this)
* Mimics and Possessors no longer get permanently gender-swapped by
temporarily mimicking/possessing a monster of the opposite sex (thanks
to Oneiron for suggesting this)
* Pets and friendly monsters no longer receive XP for killing other
pets or friendly monsters
* Various class-specific attacks that cancel if an empty square is
attacked now always consume time if the player is blind (preventing the
player from attacking each square in turn until he finds one with a
monster in it)
* Being immune to charge draining now also protects from food draining
* Characters who die during the postgame no longer lose their Winner
status
* Nerfed recharging somewhat
- Staves of Restore Mana can no longer be recharged with spells or
devices
- Blood-Mage damage from recharging spells now ignores invulnerability
- Failed attempts to recharge a device from SP/HP now empty the target
device completely
* Politicians' probing/background check now also displays the
probability of successfully charming a monster with the current buffs
active
* Reduced Hezrou and Barbazu group sizes a bit
* Slightly buffed player Filthy Rags
* Added new command (H in the regular keyset, ^E in the roguelike
keyset) for travelling to the nearest unidentified wanted item
* The game now allows easy switching of ring fingers, and automatically
suggests doing so if it detects a combat/weaponmastery ring and a
non-combat ring being equipped the wrong way around. The easy switch
can be triggered either from the automatic prompt or by pressing 'W'
(regular keyset only), and costs no time
* Potions of Restoring now also restore life levels
* Tweaked Duelists a bit
- the damage numbers on the character sheet are now more indicative
- very weak monsters are no longer automatically challenged
- retaliating against a monster no longer automatically challenges
- slightly reduced top-end damage from Greater Wounding
- Phase Charge is now slightly more expensive
- removed the Nemesis effect
- the weight limit formula is now more permissive in the early game and
less permissive in the late game
* Finishing Heaven is now a bit more interesting (adapted from
Frogspawn) (thanks to ster for testplaying and feedback)
* Tweaked Rune-Knights a bit
* Improved travel routing in areas with deep water and/or lava
* Increased the tunnelling bonus on shovels and picks
* Added a text display option to show device power in inventories if
known (copied from Composband)
* Added a disturbance option to alert when a wanted unique is killed
(thanks to Bucephalus for suggesting)
* Added a disturbance option (on by default) to alert when the poison
counter is dangerously high (thanks to ster for suggesting)
* Equipping an item with Auto-Identify now identifies all unidentified
items in your inventory (including itself)
* Allowed inscribing an item with '!1' to notify when it has 1 charge,
and '!!1' to notify when it's either fully recharged or has 1 charge
(thanks to wobbly for suggesting)
* Allowed use-ID'ing fear vulnerability on equipment (thanks to wobbly
for suggesting)
* Reserving cheap objects is no longer hideously expensive
* Tunnelling attempts are no longer automatically repeated if the
attempt is completely futile
* Opening doors no longer disturbs travelling
* Updated the in-game FAQ
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.1.toffee:
* Random ring and amulet artifacts can now generate occasionally
* Added a new building in Anambar offering banking and insurance
services
* Dungeon entrances are now easier to locate
* Added two new playable monster races (Orc, Filthy Rag)
[Special thanks to everyone who helped me play-test filthy rags! They
are still a bit beta though because I don't really know what rag
endgame is like. Also, everybody should get a fair warning that they
are... not very strong, at least not in the early game]
* Added one new playable normal race (Boit)
* Added new objects, ego types, artifacts and monsters
* Added new random artifact names
* Multiple player auras of the same type can now stack for extra damage
* Enabled sticky labels for race/class/mutation powers (permanently
attaching a power to one letter, similarly to what @ inscriptions do
for items)
* Updated the list of Arena opponents (spectral tyrannosaurus, mummy
king and great unclean one added; greater balrog appears much later in
accordance with its high native depth). Also tweaked the rewards
dropped by top-end opponents
* Made damage reduction from resistances somewhat less random
* Changed how cut damage works. The total amount of damage remains the
same, but it is suffered more evenly (e.g. instead of taking 100 damage
one turn and 0 damage the turn after, the player will take 50 damage on
both turns); and unlucky "instableeding" with no opportunity to cure
the cut first can no longer happen
* Changed orc colours to make uniques, warlords and sappers stand out
more
* Weaponsmiths can now improve equipped items without having to unequip
them
* Nappa the Saiyan resists confusion now
* Many high-level demons now resist nether
* Polyphemus can now clear his head (some people seemed to be under the
impression that he already had this ability, convincing me that he
ought to)
* Leprechaun fanatics now do bomb damage (adapted from Frogspawn),
which can be resisted through rShard and rSound, instead of
unresistable raw damage
* Increased the chance of deep Angband levels being small (and reduced
their average size when they do generate as small)
* Destruction no longer works in Witch Wood (because it's outdoors)
* Confusion now takes priority over stunning for monster health-bar
colouring
* Tweaked item valuation a bit
- some devices, notably Staves of Healing and Staves of Destruction,
are worth more now
- tweaked pval valuation, for most pvals the change is minimal, but
items with pvals of 1 and 2 are worth a bit more now
- auras are worth a bit more now that they can stack
- off-weapon vampirism brands had no score value; this has been fixed
- off-amulet anti-magic no longer has a negative effect on the item's
value
- valuation of activations now accounts for timeout length
- fixed some weirdness with valuation of vulnerabilities
* Fixed an old PosChengband bug that sometimes caused artifacts to be
permanently lost with no chance to ever find them at all (thanks to
bostock for reporting)
* Fixed a bug with ESP Living not use-IDing properly
* Fixed a loophole to anti-scumming item/gold drop limits
* Fixed generation of standarts from chests (previously, standart
generation depended on the level at which the chest was opened, while
generation of all other chest objects depended on the level of the
chest itself)
* Ammo breakage chances are now displayed correctly for snipers
browsing a sniping shot (thanks to TauzentBlitz for reporting)
* Fixed some weirdness with throwing calculations (thanks to
TauzentBlitz for reporting)
* Fixed a number of closely related information leaks with unidentified
scrolls and potions (thanks to mewmew for reporting)
* Some high-level monsters were missing the FORCE_SLEEP flag, allowing
them to immediately cast spells or breathe on the player when summoned;
this has been fixed
* Fixed a bug with scrolling in the object list while using the S
toggle
* Fixed a number of minor issues with the town of Thalos (item
recharging services were advertised but no longer truly available; two
buildings offered the same services, and a Thieves' Guild was specified
but had no location; it has now taken over one of the redundant
buildings)
* Fixed an infinite loop with Berserkers getting brain-smashed (thanks
to floatRand for reporting)
* The Bard invulnerability song "Fingolfin's Challenge" did not consume
an extra turn when the invulnerability ended; this has been fixed
(thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed a bug with friendly fire from ancient dragons (thanks to
TauzentBlitz and Benly for reporting)
* It was still possible for nexus effects to teleport the player out of
a dungeon quest level; this has been fixed (thanks to Oneiron for
reporting)
* Player Rings could potentially conquer a single dungeon multiple
times; this has been fixed (thanks to Oneiron for reporting)
* Rage-Mages received a class bonus to spell capacity but were missing
the corresponding flag; this has been fixed (thanks to MITZE for
reporting)
* Fixed further travelling-related infinite or unintendedly lengthy
loops (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed weird message when a named pet evolved (thanks to vertigo for
reporting)
* Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed summoning multiple copies of the
real unique in the Cloning Pits if enough of the clones were killed
first (thanks to Philip for reporting)
* Fixed a bug with Endless Quiver behavior when combined with harps or
guns (thanks to wobbly for reporting)
* The curse status indicator was not updated properly after Mundanity;
this has been fixed
* Reforging consumed game time but did not check if midnight had
passed; this has been fixed
* Being stunned sometimes made devices easier to use; this has been
fixed
* Some menus, in particular the option UI and the demigod talent
selection UI, no longer work quite as badly in cases where the number
of options exceeds the number of available lines. Also fixed a minor
cursor placement issue on the autodestroyer options page
* Travel resumption sometimes produced strange results in the
wilderness; this has been fixed
* Hex High-Mages lost the spelling indicator on entering the Arena but
did not actually stop spelling; this has been fixed
* Potions of Salt Water did not cure poison despite promising to; this
has been fixed
* Stair Creation spells could create normal stairs in all-shafts
dungeons and in coffee-break mode; this has been fixed
* Insta-kill attacks (e.g. poison needle hits) could have their damage
reduced if the player was stunned; this has been fixed
* Fixed weirdness with telekinesis prevention (the code only checked if
there was already an object in the target square; it didn't check for
traps, stairs, deep lava or even walls)
* Fixed broken flavoring on the Hand of Vecna
* Updated outdated makefiles that were causing problems for some Linux
users (thanks to introsp3ctive for reporting this problem)
* Player breaths aimed in a direction rather than at a specific point
will no longer stop at the first monster hit
* Amberites can no longer embed themselves in rock with their own death
curses (allowing this sometimes resulted in strange or undesired
behavior, including non-generation of wanted corpses)
* Spell-browsing UI now supports slightly longer spell descriptions
* Prevented ego diamond edges from generating with extra-high pvals
* Deep puddles and shallow puddles now count as mimics for the
easy_mimics option (thanks to bostock for suggesting this)
* Cancelling a Ring spell during the targetting phase no longer
consumes a turn (thanks to clouded for suggesting this)
* The automatic attack on Polearm weaponmasters no longer triggers on
pets or friendly monsters (thanks to Aav for suggesting this)
* The Hard Leather Boots of Feanor are now rarer
* All stairs in the Graveyard dungeon are now shafts
* Renamed the Mountain dungeon to Eyrie; all stairs there are now
shafts
* Monster polymorph race selection now accounts for the terrain (e.g.
if a monster is within a wall, it will try to polymorph into another
wall-passing monster, as was already the case for chameleons)
* Slightly tweaked coffee-break mode's XP-gain and loot-generation
bonuses
* In coffee-break mode, all late-game level guardians will now appear
on either odd levels or even levels
* The Battlefield reward is now a rune sword instead of a scythe of
slicing (copied from Composband). Also, sword weaponmasters can now use
rune swords
* The Restoration town service now restores life points and experience
in addition to stats (copied from Composband)
* Allowed Chaos-Warriors and Chaotic characters to choose their patron
at character creation (copied from Composband)
* Buffed dwarven body armour (inspired by Composband)
* Chaos patrons will no longer attempt (and fail) to curse the player's
equipment if the player is a Death-Sword, a Filthy Rag or a Ring; they
will hit the player with the Baby Foul Curse instead
* Haste Monster and Heal Monster are no longer reflectable (thanks to
MITZE for suggesting this)
* Tweaked Rage-Mages (thanks to MITZE for suggestions)
- Rage-Mages can no longer gain SP from Clarity/Great Clarity/Restore
Mana
- Rage-Mages can now use their skills through anti-magic shields
- Rage-Mage spell letters are now fixed, allowing better macro use
- Substituted "Dispel Curse" for "Summon Commando Team"
* Confirmation is now always requested for alchemizing an inscribed
item, even if it has no value, and wanted corpses cannot be alchemized
at all (thanks to Draghmar for bringing this up). Also fixed an issue
with cancelling requests to alchemize parts of stacks
* Duelist Isolation now fully respects teleportation immunity (thanks
to bostock for bringing this up)
* Most population-specific charming effects now report if a monster is
immune, similarly to what the generic charming effect already did
(thanks to vertigo for noting this)
* Tweaked disappearance of pets at low health (thanks to vertigo for
feedback)
* Some race/class/mutation powers will now be available even if the
player is confused or trembling in fear (e.g. the 'Stop Singing'
ability on Bards)
* Rings and Death-Swords now automatically *id* all items they absorb
(so the player isn't left checking the essence sheet to see what was
absorbed)
* Player Demons and Balrogs now take some extra damage from Holy Fire
* Player Angels and Archons now take some extra damage from Hell Fire
* Made player Xorns a little more fragile
* Nerfed monk melee a bit
* Nerfed tourists slightly
* Buffed the Necklace of the Dwarves
* Buffed the Infernal Deal demigod talent to make it more competitive
in the late game (inspired by Composband)
* Added a new demigod talent (Strong Mind) that provides immunity to
mana draining
* The Craft spell "Walk through Wall" was replaced with
"Simplification" (which mundanifies an item)
* Autodestroy now ignores mundanified items
* Mundanity no longer works on ego items with a 99% discount
* Updated player Tanar'ri (thanks to MITZE for the central idea)
- the early forms, especially death quasit, are a bit more fragile now
- mariliths can no longer wear shields, but get a bonus to
dual-wielding
- reduced the XP modifier
* Updated player vortices, especially the final form (aether vortex).
Aether vortices now have lower speed and melee damage than before, but
can choose one of three possible vortex powers (one giving increased
melee damage, one giving increased speed, and one allowing them to
control which element they breathe). Also fixed bugs with flags on some
vortex forms, removed the 1-in-66 chance of random movement, gave
plasma and disintegration vortices invisible "resists" to their
respective elements, and reduced off-weapon +At from +0.50 blows/unit
to +0.25 blows/unit
* Tweaked Kawarimi a bit (increased the chance of a blink-type effect
compared to a long-distance teleport)
* Blood-Knight extra blows are now more gradual
* The healing penalty on Blood-Knights and Blood-Mages now applies to
vampirism
* Special-cased the weapon stat display for Poison Needles
* Tweaked the skill description scale (earning most of the medium
rankings takes a bit more now, and Superb no longer covers such a large
range)
* Spawning Pits is now displayed as danger level 80 (with no effect on
anything in the quest, which remains unchanged)
* Eating a Mushroom of Hallucination now sets mana to zero (unless
resisted), in addition to inducing hallucinations
* The "icky" autopicker keyword should now work for Weaponmasters
* Tweaked visibility of the Es and Dm flags to be more in line with the
actual availability of easy-spell and dec-mana to the player
* Monsters are now always assumed visible for player death purposes (so
they should show up as "Killed by Yibb-Tstll, the Patient One" instead
of "Killed by the Monster", even if not visible)
* Added a new help file listing basic tips and common mistakes to avoid
* Added an option (on by default) to show explanatory statistics before
proceeding with a reforge
* Updated some outdated and misleading spell and item descriptions
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.0.cloudberry:
* Improved support for play on the angband.live online server (unwanted
auto-running on keyboards with no Num Lock, which has been a perennial
problem for angband.live newcomers, can now be very easily disabled;
and the game attempts to detect this problem automatically and help the
player solve it)
* Plugged a loophole that allowed Amberite blood curses to still be
deadlier than intended after the earlier nerf in 7.0.nougat (thanks to
Gwarl for being unlucky enough to discover this)
* Ranged weapons now have their own list of random artifact names,
separate from that of melee weapons
* Completely redesigned player Water Elementals based on Nivim's ideas
(thanks also to wobbly for the feedback on old water elementals)
* Added some new monsters and artifacts
* Added mimic/possessor data for most of the monsters that lacked it
* Djinnis now resist fire
* Several additional monsters now either resist confusion or can shake
it off rapidly. (Notably, Fenris, Maeglin, Eol and Jurt now resist
confusion, and the bird uniques can shake it off rapidly; but the bird
uniques' HP was slightly reduced to compensate)
* The two main types of confusion attack (GF_CONFUSION and GF_OLD_CONF)
now both give monsters a save against the effects; previously, only
GF_OLD_CONF gave monsters a save
* The Vault is now described as a level 35 quest, instead of level 30.
(This change has no effect on how dangerous the quest actually is; it
is intended simply to give the player a more accurate idea of its
danger level. The change does have minor effects on object generation
within the quest.)
* Swapped the wilderness-mode rewards of Crow's Nest and Orc Camp
* Fixed minor issues with the descriptions for potions of Clarity and
Great Clarity
* Swapping equipment at home (or in a shop) with a full inventory no
longer throws the player out of the building with an erroneous pack
overflow warning
* The dates of quest failures were not recorded properly; this has been
fixed
* Attempting to summon monsters on a Possessor caused the game to
crash; this has been fixed (thanks to bostock for reporting)
* Fixed a display bug in the character sheet when a monster with a long
name was being possessed or mimicked
* Humanoid corpses are no longer auto-destroyed while a player demon is
temporarily polymorphed into a non-demon (thanks to Mocht for
reporting)
* Player traps can no longer roll the Trap Door effect on the bottom
level of a dungeon (thanks to bostock for suggesting this)
* Nerfed harp randarts, and slightly reduced the power of all harp
artifacts for non-bards
* Added partial inscription support for devices absorbed by
Magic-Eaters
* Added an option to disallow permanent changes to the player's race
(intended mostly for use in future competitions)
* Added an option to start with empty item lore even when the game is
based on a dead character's savefile
* Improved samurai (added browsing support in the spell UI and imported
some attack flavor messages from Composband, and reduced the life
rating a bit)
* Player jellies eating a stack of objects works properly now
* The Old Man Willow quest now counts as completed when Old Man Willow
is killed (copied from Composband)
* Helmets of Knowledge and Dragon Armor of Lore now give auto-identify
instead of auto-pseudo-identify
* The Phial of Galadriel now gives rDark and +5 to searching
* Improved warning message when Crafting has a chance to fail
* Reduced XP gain from player summons (to discourage spamming staves of
summoning for XP)
* Clipped the extremes of the random energy function
* It is now possible to use the 'J' key (the '(' key in the roguelike
keyset) to resume travelling to the same target after being disturbed
mid-travel
* Modified the message when a monster hurts itself (thanks to murphy
for reporting this problem)
* In some unusual circumstances, the Zombified Serpent of Chaos could
be generated without the normal Serpent of Chaos having been killed
first; this has been fixed
* The "Bless Weapon" power, which previously had a 1 in 3 chance of
successfully blessing a strong weapon and a 2 in 3 chance of
disenchanting it, will now always succeed except in the case of some
fundamentally unholy items (thanks to wobbly and bostock for their
feedback)
* Werewolves could change from wolf to human while stalking and still
stalk; this has been fixed (thanks to wobbly for reporting)
* Weaponsmiths can no longer remove shop discounts from items (thanks
to CyclopsSlayer for bringing this up)
* Fixed several issues with shieldmasters (thanks to Fnord for
reporting)
* Fixed a minor issue with the description of use-IDed *Sharp* weapons
* Toned down death-swords' speed gain a bit (thanks to Nivim for
suggesting)
* Rebalanced player-monster golems (thanks to Bucephalus for the
feedback)
* Using autoget with no melee attacks sometimes caused the game to get
stuck and crash; this has been fixed (thanks to bostock for the report)
* Bumping into an invisible monster with no melee attacks now costs a
bit of time, though less than a full turn (thanks to vertigo for
suggesting this)
* Lists of stolen objects carried by monsters were not loaded properly,
causing such objects to fall into a limbo; this has been fixed
* Fixed two bugs with monster packs (their most notable effect was that
dungeon entrance guardians were sometimes not properly marked as
killed)
* Artifacts absorbed by Death-Swords and Rings are now marked as found
even if not identified
* For the purposes of Weaponsmith and Death-Sword item absorption, all
objects with a Kill flag are now considered to also have the
corresponding Slay flag (thanks to Prandar for bringing this up)
* Sense Living, once acquired, was never turned off (thanks to wobbly
for reporting)
* Monsters from Egyptian mythology now have their own monster-knowledge
group (thanks to Mocht for suggesting this)
* A device having no charges left now takes priority over other
possible problems (like failing to use the device or being too scared
to use it) (thanks to Mocht for suggesting this)
* Potions of Blood are now automatically identified (thanks to Mocht
for suggesting this)
* The character sheet's equipment flags table now has lines for
Stunning and Life Rating (thanks to Mocht for suggesting the latter)
* Improved interaction of manual pickup with auto-pickup
* The presence of other chests or doors/traps in adjacent squares no
longer makes it impossible to open/disarm a chest the player's standing
on
* Redundant object flag inscriptions (like "Li;-Li") should no longer
appear. Also, made sure such flags have no effect on the object's value
* Item valuation ignored magic resistance; this has been fixed
* Alchemists no longer receive special Hero/Berserk bonuses from any
source other than potions
* Fixed bugs with some Rage-Mage spells (thanks to Aver for reporting)
* Fixed the Throw Object wild talent (thanks to budswell for reporting)
* Added Ighalli's effective_speed option from V (show speeds as energy
multipliers, except in the character sheet)
* Added new class-specific rewards and tweaked some existing ones to
make them more appropriate (thanks to Mocht and CyclopsSlayer for
reporting issues)
* The Mogaminator now supports the "more charges than" item descriptor
(e.g. "staves more charges than 15:cure wounds#@uu!sdk" picks up staves
of cure wounds with at least 16 charges, and inscribes them with
@uu!sdk)
* The Mogaminator now supports loading other characters' preference
files (including pickpref.prf, the default preference file)
* Pets take a bit longer to feel neglected now
* Nerfed a number of races and classes slightly (priest, time-lord,
jelly, steel dragon, bronze draconian, shieldmaster, mindcrafter, monk,
possibly others that I forget)
* Verification is now requested for any attempt to genocide nagas (or
xorns for users of the roguelike keyset)
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.0.nougat:
* Added two new races (Einheri and Werewolf). Einherjar are very
powerful but only receive partial benefits from magical healing.
Werewolves can (big surprise) assume either human or wolf shape, with
both shapes having their strengths and weaknesses (thanks to murphy and
CyclopsSlayer for their pre-release werewolf feedback)
* Slowing is no longer a purely binary status (either no slowing or -10
to speed); while the binary slowing still exists, some forms of slowing
are now incremental and can take any value between no slowing and -10.
The two forms of slowing partially add together, so a player (or
monster) afflicted with both forms can be slowed by up to -12 in total
(thanks to Derakon for this idea)
* Shuffled some of the buildings in Anambar to reduce travel distances
(the shroomery/black market building and the archery guild building
switched places; the library is now in the formerly empty building
southwest of the main square, the beastmaster is now where the library
was, and the former beastmaster building is now empty)
* Added more Egyptian gods, and a new dungeon they now inhabit. Added a
new birth option (single_pantheon) to play with only one of the two
pantheons currently in the game (Greek or Egyptian); selecting this
option will remove the other pantheon, and its associated dungeon, from
the game
* Added new monsters and artifacts
* Added one new demigod power (Inspired Smithing, which improves
reforge results) and several new mutations (adapted from Frogspawn)
* Coffee-break mode's modified level size algorithm is now always used
in the Angband dungeon (except in the case of games with
ironman_downward on and coffee_break off). Generally, this means
smaller levels in the early game
* Beginner mode now uses the coffee_break option
* Friendly monsters no longer trigger the Eldritch Horror sanity-blast
* Replaced potions of resist electricity with potions of vigor, which
cure all temporary slowing effects (both binary and incremental) plus
stunning. (Potions of life now also cure all temporary slowing effects,
and potions of healing and *healing* and rods of angelic healing reduce
incremental slowing by 1)
* Fixed a bug that allowed alchemists to receive special benefits from
some potions just by inspecting them (thanks to TauzentBlitz for
reporting this)
* A list of allied uniques is now shown in the character sheet for
classes who can permanently befriend a monster (currently, just
politicians)
* The player's life rating (if known) is now shown in the character
sheet (at the bottom of the Statistics section)
* Tweaked item valuation again (items with high-pval weaponmastery are
now worth more)
* Coffee-break mode's max reforge power bonus (accelerated reforging)
is now permanently reduced if the character fails any of the random
Angband quests
* Buffed the Fell Sorcery and One with Magic demigod powers. The effect
of Fell Sorcery on spell power was doubled. One with Magic now
successfully resists dispelling and anti-magic 77% of the time instead
of the old 50%, unless the player is mimicking or in wraithform (the
mimicking restriction does not apply to doppelgangers)
* Added a new scroll (Scroll of Inventory Protection). Unlike other
sources of temporary inventory protection (which only reduce the
chances of item damage), the scrolls provide complete protection
* Improved item parsing. It is now possible to specify an ego device,
as well as to specify a pile size, and specified devices are no longer
necessarily generated at the lowest level supported by the effect. Some
of the quest device rewards are now ego
* Fixed a bug that caused the Identify spell to not work properly for
Ring player-monsters (thanks to TauzentBlitz for reporting this). Also
changed the default point allocation for Rings per TauzentBlitz's
suggestion
* The show_discovery and always_dump_origins options are now on by
default due to their popularity
* An item's weight is now displayed when the item is examined (thanks
to Mocht for reminding me of this)
* The proficiency screen didn't display proper statistics for player
death scythes; this has been fixed (thanks to Nivim for reporting this)
* "Cursed" status was not updated properly if the curse was broken by
an enchantment; this has been fixed
* Monsters can no longer tele-level the player out of dungeon quest
levels (in the case of fixed quests this caused an automatic quest
failure, which was highly annoying and somewhat unfair) (thanks to
Bucephalus for bringing this up)
* Item quests could become uncompletable for Death-Swords and
Weaponsmiths if they absorbed the item without picking it up first;
this has been fixed (thanks to Prandar for reporting this)
* Some *vorpal* weapons had misleading inscriptions due to lacking the
VORPAL flag; this has been fixed (thanks to Nivim for reporting this)
* Monsters with long (2-square) melee were not able to use it
diagonally; this has been fixed
* Shield weaponmasters were not allowed to use mithril shields; this
has been fixed (thanks to Bucephalus for reporting this)
* One of the Trump Shuffle effects ("picture of a strange monster")
didn't work properly due to an old bug (thanks to bostock for reporting
this)
* Coffee-break mode inappropriately created normal down stairs instead
of a shaft to connect random dungeon quests on consecutive levels; this
has been fixed
* Improved valuation of unidentified items, and fixed a longstanding
bug that allowed unidentified good, awful and average items to receive
a value bonus intended only for artifacts
* Failed attempts to close a door while confused now take some time
(although less than a full turn)
* Improved support for Adam Bolt's tiles by copying things from
ZAngband
* Disease attacks can now cause temporary unwellness
* Explosions can now have multiple effects (e.g. Internet Exploders now
slow the player a bit in addition to the time damage)
* The location of permanent features (like stairs or permanent walls)
is no longer forgotten by the player after earthquakes or destruction
* Tweaked the Mauler class. Their Close In spell can now be cancelled
during targetting without HP or energy loss (thanks to Mocht for that
suggestion), but their melee power, archery skills and life rating were
reduced a bit. (Don't worry - they still do silly damage with the right
weapons...)
* Made psions a little less overpowered
* Slightly lowered weaponsmiths' life rating
* Tweaked repeated targetting a bit. A new target is now always
requested if the old target was the player's mount, and also if the
player targetted himself and has moved since. Not cancelling the old
targets in these cases sometimes caused unexpected behavior, especially
with the use_old_target option on (thanks to FlauterFiddle for bringing
this up)
* The Enchant Weapon and Enchant Armor object selection menus no longer
allow futile attempts to enchant items with the NO_ENCHANT flag (thanks
to murphy for suggesting this)
* Vortex player-monsters now have a race boss (Wiruin)
* Slightly reduced the power of melee slays and brands
(Gwarl's weapon die buff in ComPosband effectively made slays and
brands more powerful than they used to be, since their power depends on
dice; so for most weapons, the power of slays and brands now is fairly
similar to what it was in PosChengband before Gwarl's weapon buff)
* Fixed a number of bugs with melee slays and brands. (Most notably,
Slay *Living* didn't work properly [it had the same effect as normal
Slay Living])
* In some unusual cases, a single monster could be counted as a kill
for quest completion purposes more than once. In general, any player
strong enough to take "advantage" of this was better off just
curbstomping the quest the normal way, but the loopholes have been
plugged anyway
* Attempts to revive a quest target monster will now always fail
* Oremorj the Cyberdemon Lord now has fewer hitpoints, but can
sometimes recover from confusion speedily
* Elder storm giants now resist confusion
* Sleeping in the inn or reforging an item now resets all timed flags
* Nerfed the Sorcery Realm's Mass Stasis spell, which now has much
lower power and shorter duration if effective (it's still one of the
best spells in that realm...) Some other stasis/paralysing effects also
have shorter duration now
* The Confusing Lights spell is now slightly weaker (staves of
Confusing Lights are not affected by this change)
* Teleport Level and Word of Recall now request confirmation if the
player is about to recall/teleport out of a quest that cannot be
retaken
* Retaking level 99 or 100 in coffee-break mode now slightly increases
the Serpent's mpower
* Body armour of Celestial Protection sometimes has additional buffs
now, especially at high levels
* The "You have no artifacts to reforge" error message now displays the
reforge power limit (thanks to bostock for suggesting this)
* Plugged wobbly's Black Market potion reserving exploit
* Androids can now use the Eat command (in addition to the old Quaff
command) to consume a flask of oil (thanks to Mocht and bostock for
suggesting this)
* Made selling caps in key shops (armoury and weapon shop) friendlier
to the player, and removed some duplication in the shopkeeper list
* Slightly reduced the cost of reforging in coffee-break mode to
compensate for the more limited money supply
* Monsters summoned by Amberite blood curses now appear with more
energy needed, and therefore won't insta-kill the player unless the
player is paralyzed or has low speed
* The Enchantment spell (available to mariliths and dragons, and as an
activation on the hammer of Hephaestus) now applies the usual 99%
discount to enchanted non-ego items (thanks to Bucephalus for
suggesting this)
* Ultra-powerful items from normally low-weight slots whose score
exceeds the reforge power cap of their native slot (e.g. Nenya or
Vilya) can now have the power cap of the destination slot applied to
them if reforged into a higher-weight slot
* Added a new disturbance option ("Run past buried treasure"; on by
default)
* Experience from a monster kill is now reduced if 100 or more monsters
of that race have been killed. (Copied from Frogspawn; replaces the
previous exp reduction formula that only applied to breeders and kicked
in after 400 kills)
* The Mogaminator now accepts "icky" as an adjective (so "!icky" means
"destroy all icky items", and "!nameless icky weapons" means "destroy
all icky melee weapons that aren't ego or artifact"). The Mogaminator
defines icky items as either weapons that trigger icky wield, or gloves
that trigger encumbrance. It is possible that the "icky" keyword
doesn't work correctly for some classes yet; any such reports will be
appreciated (thanks to BobZero for this suggestion)
* Added an option to deactivate the Mogaminator (thanks to BobZero for
this suggestion)
* It is now possible to inscribe a weapon with !? to request
confirmation of melee attacks, preventing accidental melee (this may be
desirable for pure magic users, or in the case of temporarily wielded
objects like shovels). The inscription may also include a monster level
(e.g. !?45 asks the player to confirm attacks against monsters of level
45 or above, but not against monsters of level 44 or below). Once an
attack against a monster has been confirmed, all further attacks
against that monster are automatically assumed to be acceptable.
Consecutive attacks against monsters of the same race are also assumed
to be intentional; for example, if the player confirms an attack
against an olog, all further attacks against ologs will be
automatically confirmed until the player attacks a monster who is not
an olog. Only the player's primary weapon is checked for the !?
inscription (thanks to BobZero for this suggestion)
* A -more- prompt is now given to alert the player whenever a device or
any inscribed item in the player's inventory is stolen or destroyed.
These warnings can be turned off in the disturbance options
(thanks to kt for this suggestion)
* Implemented some of bostock's suggested alchemist improvements:
- Alchemists can now use the same infusion repeatedly with the 'n'
command
- The Break Down and Create Infusion operations quantity prompts now
default to the whole stack
- Infusions of Booze now warn the player on attempts to use them
- Potions with special super-effects for alchemists now have different
descriptions when inspected by an alchemist
- An infusion-browsing function existed but could not be accessed
in-game
* Alchemist infusions are now only almost weightless, not totally
weightless (they weigh 0.05 lbs each, one-tenth of a potion's weight)
* Requesting a new quest with the previous quest's reward waiting
outside no longer results in the permanent loss of the previous reward.
(Note that it is *only* quest rewards that aren't lost - any other
objects you may have left waiting outside will still be lost.)
* Added more random ring artifact names
* Updated some of the help files
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.0.mango:
* Introduced three new personalities (Chaotic, Mundane and Unlucky) and
restored the removed Lazy and Munchkin personalities. (Thanks to MITZE
for suggesting the Chaotic personality and helping me devise it)
* Adapted the Alchemist class from PosChengband-R
* Adapted the Politician class from Frogspawn
* Restored the special Lazy artifacts (with some tweaks)
* Improved wilderness design (borders between different types of
terrain are now less ugly - say goodbye to rectangular oceans)
* Adapted PosChengband-R's coffee-break mode (optional accelerated
game) [faster exp gain and loot, no wilderness, forced descent but
recall allowed] [it is currently possible to do DL99 and/or DL100
repeatedly]
* The Craven personality now gives vulnerability to fear, but also a
moderate quick walk (thanks to MITZE for this suggestion)
* Toned down chaos patron punishments - they happen less often now, and
are less insta-killy (it should now be impossible for a punishment to
insta-kill a fully healthy player outright, although they can still
kill a player who was already hurt, and TY_CURSE is still a possibility
at high levels)
* Spellcasting monsters can now use spells in response to being hurt by
the player, even if the player is not in their line of sight or within
range of their splash attacks. This makes it harder to kill drujs or
quylthulgs safely by abusing line of sight (adapted from Frogspawn)
* Tweaked randart creation (bows are now more likely to have
slays/brands or a miscellaneous attribute; instead of
disproportionately generating randart armors with to-AC of exactly +20
or weapons with to-hit/dam of exactly +25,+25, the bonuses are now
somewhat more random)
* Tweaked item valuation (some resists are now worth a bit more, others
are now worth a bit less, and items with many high resists are worth a
bit more in general. Also, off-weapon slays were not properly valued,
while off-weapon brands are now somewhat less valuable)
* Made the Crow's Nest quest saner; it would previously give either
heaps of good objects or very few good objects, now it's guaranteed to
have a moderate amount of them
* Made the Orc Camp and Tidy the Laboratory quests more compact
* Prevented the player from getting quite so many level-ups from Shadow
Fairies and Tidy the Laboratory
* Added some new class-specific quest rewards (no, not for Sand Pit)
* The default reward for Orc Camp is now a staff of enlightenment
* Uniques and monster groups should no longer generate in Trouble at
Home
* Due to an oversight, being poly_selfed with no_scrambling on could
have extremely bad, potentially lethal consequences; this has been
fixed
* The names and descriptions of random (or reforged) artifacts based on
a standard artifact with the FULL_NAME flag will no longer be mangled
* Fixed an old bug that sometimes caused staves of cure wounds to
appear as staves of healing (or vice versa) in the character sheet's
Statistics section
* Fixed some serious bugs in the old code intended to prevent pets from
killing the player with friendly fire. (Also, this code now applies to
friendly monsters as well as pets; this is only fair, given what
happens when the player's spells cause collateral damage to friendly
monsters... Monsters with the "stupid" flag are an exception to this.)
* Fixed an old bug that caused quest monsters with escorts to not be
correctly marked as questors, making them not reappear if destructed
* Fixed a bug that caused ninja-lawyers to be encumbered by any armor
at all, effectively lowering their max SP (thanks to OmniNegro for
reporting this)
* Fixed an old bug with rings and death-swords absorbing stacks of
identical items (thanks to OmniNegro for reporting this)
* Fixed an old bug with teleporting mounts (thanks to TauzentBlitz for
reporting this)
* Fixed an old bug that caused attacks by beholders on other monsters
to be treated as attacks by the player (resulting in bizarre messages
and damage, giving the player free experience, and allowing beholders
to kill uniques). Also fixed a similar but unrelated bug that sometimes
caused the message "You invoke Anti-Magic" to appear when a monster
invoked it
* Fixed an old bug that caused listed skeleton rewards and actual
skeleton rewards to be out of sync (thanks to the person who reported
this bug. Unfortunately I forgot to note who it was)
* Fixed a minor bug with doppelgangers (they could gain a demigod power
if they levelled up in barbarian or dunadan form, but could only access
those powers normally in human or demigod form). Doppelganger
barbarians and dunedain no longer receive demigod powers on level-up
* Fixed two old issues with possessors receiving monster lore on
possessing a corpse. The first issue was that if the player never saw
the monster alive, it would not count as seen, and would be ignored by
the knowledge menu. (All possessed monsters are now marked as seen.)
The second issue was that deprecated monsters were sometimes
inappropriately generated (this should no longer happen), and they were
also ignored by the knowledge menu. (Thanks to robinhood for reporting
this)
* It is no longer possible to get unlimited hits against a monster by
letting it stair-follow the player repeatedly (thanks to Gwarl for
reporting this exploit)
* The use_old_target option no longer allows the player to ignore
confusion while targetting (thanks to bostock for reporting this
exploit)
* Plugged an old exploit that allowed weaponsmiths to permanently
remove slaying penalties from heavy body armor, cloaks of the bat etc.
by adding a token amount of Slaying essence to the item and then
removing that (there are some very specific circumstances in which this
exploit can still work, but the advantage gained should be minuscule
compared to before)
* Monsters not currently visible are now always displayed as white in
the monster health bar, unless enhanced telepathy is used. This
prevents the health bar from accidentally revealing a monster's
identity (thanks to vertigo for reminding me of this)
* High-level adversaries in the Thalos Arena no longer drop gold
(thanks to Mocht for pointing out that they did)
* Standard artifacts received as quest rewards were not marked as
"found", which caused the artifact counter in the character sheet to
not notice them, though the bug did not allow them to be actually
generated repeatedly (thanks to Mocht for reporting this)
* Fixed a minor bug that caused the message "You have found something!"
to sometimes be displayed on rubble clearing even if nothing was
actually found (thanks to Mocht for reporting this). Also, tweaked item
generation in rubble (previously, items could only be found in
low-level rubble. Now there's a small chance of finding items in
high-level rubble too, but spamming for rubble items is harder)
* It is now possible to use the 'J' key to auto-travel to an
object-list or monster-list entry. (This was already possible with the
'`' key, but that option doesn't give full compatibility with
non-English keyboards)
* Level 10 of Icky Cave is now guaranteed to be small or smallish
* All staircases generated in the Battlefield dungeon will now be
shafts
* Tourists can now sell photographs for loose change at the
Journalists' Guild in Anambar
* Improved gray-mages' spell UI
* Improved weapon proficiency display (it is now possible to see the
class-specific proficiency caps for each weapon in-game, and to view
the player's current proficiency as a percentage of either full mastery
or the class-specific cap)
* Characters with levitation are no longer unable to deliberately jump
into trap doors
* Scrolls will now ask for confirmation if reading them would have no
effect (e.g. Teleport Level or Genocide inside a quest)
* Scrolls of Crafting now cancel outright if reading them is guaranteed
to not have an effect (however, in cases where reading them might have
an effect but doesn't, they still get used up like before)
* Nazguls are now immune to polymorphing
* Made wands of tsunami slightly less overpowered
* The weapon shop now stocks projectiles and quivers more often during
the very early game (thanks to CyclopsSlayer for bringing up the
annoyance of not having any ammo)
* Slightly nerfed the Death realm's Nether Storm spell
* "Empty" barbarian talismans with nothing on them should no longer
generate
* Monsters now cast spells slightly more intelligently (thanks to Mocht
for suggesting that they be able to learn about anti-teleportation)
* Skillmasters no longer get Vampirism True cheaper than other classes
* Races with more HP than spectres now have their racial HP reduced to
that of the spectre while in wraithform
* All items in an object prompt are now guaranteed to have a slot label
(previously, conflicts caused by an inscribed item overriding another
object's slot label could cause objects to not have slot labels)
* All carried items now recharge fully while the player waits for a
reforge. (This is only fair, since sleeping in the inn has this effect,
even on short naps that consume less game time than a reforge does)
* Limited the number of active monster traps (or glyphs of warding) the
player can concurrently have on a single level to 11, to discourage the
very tedious but effective approach of filling large chunks of the
level with traps before taking on a strong foe, and to encourage
careful trap placement when more moderate versions of this approach are
used. Rogues are exempt from this limit (because rogues). Primary-realm
Life casters are exempt in the special case of glyphs of warding, so
they can still freely use the Warding True spell
* Identical quivers will now stack in inventories
* Harps can generate for non-bards again
* Weapons of Gondolin now appear slightly earlier and sometimes have
random buffs
* Improved the show_discovery option (in particular, a reforged object
is now recorded as discovered at the time of reforging, instead of
inheriting the base object's discovery date; it is also displayed as
"received" rather than "picked up" or "identified")
* The daily wanted monster is now updated at midnight even if the
player's sleeping in the inn (thanks to MITZE for suggesting this)
* Fixed various typos (don't worry! There are still plenty left)
* The display_percentages option (which was a bit of an easy-mode) has
been combined with the wizard mode's "show damage/hit" features into a
new easy_damage birth option. (7.0.peppermint characters with
display_percentages on will have easy_damage turned on if they upgrade
to 7.0.mango)
* Tweaked weapon proficiency slightly (characters who previously
started at Unskilled (-20) with a weapon will now start at Unskilled
(-10), unless Unskilled (-20) is their maximum proficiency for that
weapon). This has minimal effects on the game's balance or difficulty,
but reduces proficiency-grinding tedium a bit
* Axemasters can now master hatchets (however, some of their melee
bonuses still don't apply to hatchets, only to larger axes)
* Unidentified ammo is now automatically placed in the quiver if it is
known to combine with ammo already in the quiver
* Pet uniques now have a chance of turning hostile if damaged by the
player (this does not apply to the player's current mount)
* Monsters summoned by friendly monsters will now usually also be
friendly (except in the case of stupid summoners, e.g. quylthulgs)
* Tweaked pet summoning (pets are now less likely to summon uniques,
especially strong uniques)
* Friendly monsters now have a chance to turn hostile if their parent
monster (group leader or summoner) was friendly and turns hostile
* Mana is now lost slightly faster if the player's pet upkeep factor is
too high; and if the upkeep is totally excessive, pets may feel
neglected and either dismiss themselves or turn hostile. (Thanks to
vertigo for his feedback on pet upkeep)
* Fixed a bizarre issue with mana loss (the hungrier the player was,
the slower mana was lost; if the player was fainting from hunger, no
mana was lost at all)
* It is now possible to use capture balls on pet uniques and Nazguls
* Added more talk lines for friendly monsters
* Nerfed summoning staves in response to feedback from players. Staves
of Summon Hounds, Ants and Hydras now have a meaningful chance (1/3 to
1/4) of summoning hostile monsters (note that summon hydras summons
hostile reptiles rather than hostile hydras). Staves of Summon Monsters
have a lower (1/10) hostility chance, but cannot summon non-hostile
summoners
* Player-aligned (or player-summoned) monsters no longer receive XP for
killing other player-summoned monsters (plugging an exploit mentioned
by wobbly)
* Added more random artifact names (mostly for lamps and amulets)
* Added a random player name generator (based on Vanilla's random
artifact name generator). The generator mostly suggests
Tolkienian-sounding names, but sometimes offers a Latin-sounding name
instead
* Changed hitpoint warning default from 30% to 50%
* Cancelling a throw during the targetting phase no longer costs a turn
* The object list now displays all town buildings, not just shops
(partly copied from Composband 7.1.alpha). There is also a new option
to display stairs in the object list (useful if you want to dive and
can map the nearby area easily). This option can be speedily toggled in
the object list itself by pressing S
* The highscore list and the hidden oook data now give the maximum
level attained by a character, rather than current level
* Improved oook compatibility for character names with apostrophes
(thanks to pav for helping with this)
* Introduced options to display equipment origins in the character dump
(on as a default for winners and dead characters, off as a default for
living non-winners)
* Random quest rewards can no longer be cursed (unless the game fails
to generate a reward that isn't cursed)
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.0.peppermint:
* Totally revamped the no-wilderness town, and fixed quest descriptions
so they're accurate with both wilderness and no wilderness
* Introduced a V-like system for tracking and describing object origins
(e.g. "Dropped by the Variant Maintainer on level 19 of Orc Cave.").
This system can be turned off (or expanded further) in the text display
options
* Added back the no_selling birth option. In no_selling mode, selling
items is disabled but gold drops are increased to compensate. The
intention is that selling players and non-selling players will
accumulate gold at roughly the same pace, but since this was calibrated
based on my own games, it may not hold for players with different
playstyles. No_selling mode does not have any effect on gold drops in
the wilderness
* Added a new option (easy_mimics) for players who really hate mimics,
cloakers, death swords, wall monsters etc. and want to reglyph them.
Turning on easy_mimics makes these monsters use the 'x' glyph instead
of their normal glyph (the monsters will retain their normal color,
unless that's pitch black, in which case it's changed to a slightly
less black black). It also makes monsters with the ATTR_CLEAR flag
possible to see. (Note that easy_mimics does not affect tree monsters
or weird fumes, which can be recognized through their color, nor does
it affect creeping coins or death scythes)
* Made easy_id stronger (it now *identifies* all items on walkover)
* It is now possible to request a new quest immediately after receiving
the reward for the old one, without the need to exit and re-enter the
building
* Added a never_forget birth option for the ellipos types, which
essentially protects the player from amnesia and also gives ellipos's
easy labyrinth
* Added two new birth options (no_chris and no_scrambling) that prevent
dungeon teleports and stat scrambling, respectively. (Both cause
different bad things to happen instead; they are not intended as
easy-mode, but as options for players who find chrissing and/or stat
scrambling unfun and think the game would be better if those effects
didn't exist.)
* Added new monsters and tweaked existing ones
* Adapted some changes to artifacts that Gwarl made for ComPosband
7.0.4
* Added a new quest in Zul that enables teleporting between Zul and
other towns if successfully completed
[A fair warning about this quest. It's not *that* hard if you have
great stealth, but if you have poor stealth - or worse, aggravation -
things can get... entertaining. This is true of most quests of course,
but particularly true here. Doing it with both aggravation and low
speed is not recommended, and Sexy characters should treat it as an
endgame quest and approach it with extreme caution.]
* Rings and Death Swords are no longer limited to 1x free action or see
invisible
* Fixed a bug in Thalos that made the library inaccessible in late game
* Fixed a bug with lawyer *identify* (it cost zero mana and allowed the
player to also do normal identify on a different item)
* Fixed a bug that caused items in the home display to be sometimes
shown with a value of zero
* Fixed an old bug that caused some timed effects to be decreased on
game load, allowing the player to cure fear by saving and loading
repeatedly. (Something similar may still happen with other things, the
code needs closer scrutiny)
* Fixed an old PosChengband bug that allowed hidden information about
immunities to leak to the player through the character sheet
* Fixed an old PosChengband bug that sometimes caused the game to crash
on mangy leper attacks due to division by zero (thanks to Hugo for
spotting and reporting it)
* Fixed an ancient bug that made quests uncompletable if one of the
target monsters evolved or got polymorphed (this should now be
impossible), and tweaked monster evolution code (all of which is now in
time_lord.c, instead of being needlessly duplicated)
* Fixed a problem with using the '-' key to select a floor item in the
inscription menu
* Fixed an old bug that caused the game to crash with quest_unique off
if too many target monsters were killed in a random Angband quest
* Fixed an old bug that allowed skeletons to double their food pile by
eating from it
* Fixed an old bug that caused the wilderness to not generate properly
(potentially causing crashes) if the player saved and loaded the game
inside the arena
* Fixed a minor bug with using an unidentified device of detect traps,
which didn't mark grids as trap-detected even in cases where the
effect's obviousness meant there was no need to avoid spoiling (thanks
to nikheizen for reporting this)
* Plugged a number of old loopholes that allowed doppelgangers to
retain their demigod powers in forms other than Human and Demigod
(thanks to murphy for reporting this)
* Plugged an old information leak when uppercase keys were used in the
object prompt (thanks to murphy for reporting this as well)
* Objects thrown at a wall now land on the last square before the wall,
rather than attempting to land on the wall itself and ending up placed
on a random square adjacent to it (potentially creating the impression
of an object flying through a wall - thanks to bostock for reminding me
of this)
* Destroying high-level law books now gives XP where appropriate
(thanks to bostock for this too)
* Slightly lowered the max power of ultra-strong deep dungeon randarts
* Slightly changed how the reforge cap is calculated to compensate for
it now being easier to acquire fame (due to the increased number of
quests). The cap now increases slightly slower in the fame range 128 to
223 (early late game), with no effect on either midgame reforging or
very-late-game reforging. Essentially, the idea behind this change is
to keep midgame reforging viable and keep late game reforging strong,
but still make it somewhat harder to reach the late game reforge power
* Removed rogues' class life rating bonus
* Mine and Heaven now have bottom guardians
* Made the black aura worse
* Amulets of anti-summoning can no longer be generated on a shuffle
* Snotlings and doppelgangers can no longer shuffle for mushrooms
* Added a new deep cloak ego
* Added new artifacts
* Added more race-specific rewards for unusual races
* Made the Death realm's Vampirism True spell considerably more
expensive
* Nerfed the Law realm's Expert Trap spell
* Made lawyer melee slightly weaker
* Improved savefile compatibility when new uniques are added
* Reduced the number of non-town monsters, and especially monster
groups, that appear in areas near towns
* Some early random Angband quests have a 20% chance to generate a
bonus reward (to compensate for an earlier change by Chris in
PosChengband that affected these quests negatively)
* Made melee attacks slightly more likely to break a glyph of warding
* The Hideout entrance, while still in Outpost, has been moved south;
and the player now starts the game on the Warrens entrance, not the
Hideout one. [Copied from ComPosband 7.1.0a]
* Imported new random artifact names from ComPosband 7.1.0a
* Potions of cure critical wounds no longer cure poison [they were
never intended to in ComPosband, and it was weird that they did when
potions of healing did not]
* Tweaked the walls of Crystal Castle
[Copied from ComPosband 7.0.4]
* Introduced a new flag that gives confused monsters a chance to shake
their confusion off super-fast before they move. (Currently, no monster
actually has this flag, apart from Utgard-Loke)
* Monsters should no longer generate on top of enclosed 1x1 dark pits
* Made the Temple more likely to stock potions of cure serious wounds
during the early game
* Corrected a minor issue with fear message grammar after a throw
attack
* Improved the oook data in HTML character dumps (it now gives max exp
rather than cur exp, and also gives the player's true race rather than
a race they were temporarily polymorphed into or mimicking)
* Moved the Volcano, Dragon Slayer and Demon Slayer quests much deeper
* Updated the in-game FAQ
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Changes in FrogComposband 7.0.strawberry (compared to ComPosband
7.0.3):
* Rebalanced artifact reforging. The goal was to prevent silly-powerful
items while still allowing very strong items (so a character can
reasonably expect to use reforged items in the endgame and final
fights). The importance of fame in reforging was reduced slightly to
make early/mid-game reforging more appealing, though realistically
reforging will likely remain mostly a late-game thing. Slot weights
were also adjusted slightly, with effects on both reforging and randart
creation. The hard cap of 90000 on the source artifact's power was
removed, although stronger artifacts will still be treated as if they
had a power of 90000, or even less for less weighty slots. This
prevents situations in which a very strong item is effectively worse
than a weaker item because it doesn't fit the player's needs directly
and cannot ever be reforged. Reforging is now also slightly cheaper
* Rebalanced shop shuffling. The cheap shuffling introduced in
ComPosband allowed characters to acquire silly piles of extremely
powerful consumables very easily, as long as they found a dungeon shop
and had enough money. The cheap shuffling has been retained, but many
of the most powerful items (like !Healing, !*Healing*, !Life, stat
potions, ?Genocide, ?MassGenocide and !NewLife) can no longer be
generated on a shuffle. Also, Black Market shuffling is more expensive
now
* Moved Thalos, and added a new town (Anambar) where Thalos used to be.
Prettied up the Thalos map (and edited t_pref to include additional
terrain types). Mt. Olympus is now slightly more accessible since
Thalos is closer to it than any town was before (originally, I moved
Thalos even closer to Mt. Olympus, but then I decided I didn't hate you
players enough). There's an option to allow teleporting to Thalos as
soon as any two other towns (including Outpost) have been visited
(because I decided I didn't want you players to hate me either...!)
* Fixed an old PosChengband bug where quest seeds were lost on
save/load, meaning players who exited the game after requesting a quest
would receive a seed of 0 for that quest and consequently always get
the first item from a list of supposedly random rewards
* Fixed another old PosChengband bug whereby uniques seen through fuzzy
telepathy would sometimes acquire a stray "the" in front of their name
(e.g. "The Gertrude dies.")
* Fixed an old bug with file handling on Windows
* Fixed several minor old bugs related to weapon slays (chaos weapons
were getting massive extra damage against good monsters from the
KILL_EVIL flag instead of the KILL_GOOD flag; the displayed damage for
a KILL_HUMAN missile didn't match the actual damage; in the character
sheet, the *Human* slay's statistics were displayed for weapons with
KILL_LIVING rather than weapons with KILL_HUMAN)
* Updated the rumor list and silly name list
* Added a new realm (Law) and two new classes (Lawyer and Ninja-Lawyer)
* Added new monsters (and restored the deleted Egyptian gods)
* Added a few artifacts (and brought back the GHB's T-shirt)
* Added new random artifact names
* Added new quests (I actually feel like there may be too many
early-game quests now; feedback on the number of quests, and quests
[whether new or old] that players like or don't like, would be
particularly welcome; of course, there is no need to attempt to do
every quest in the game at depth)
* In ComPosband, if a quest level was buggy and didn't generate
properly, the game would crash and the player would be forced to fail
it on resuming play. In FrogComposband, while the game will still
crash, the player can continue normally on resumption and can retake
the quest after it has been fixed. This should make life easier for
both developers and test-players
* Gave eldraks a significant buff, they are now stronger than ettins
(consequently, swapped ettin and eldrak in the troll evolution
sequence; however, player trolls still evolve into ettins rather than
eldraks)
* A small number of monsters can now initiate melee attacks from 2
squares away. (Fair's fair - player samurai, dragons and archaeologists
with whips can do this!) Currently the only monsters with this ability
are large dinosaurs, novice archaeologists, balrogs, samurai, Godzilla
and Jormungand. (Jormungand, who was a soft guardian for its depth,
also received a number of other buffs; most notably, it now has the
CAN_SWIM flag instead of the AQUATIC flag.)
* Made ninjas slightly less outrageous by nerfing Bunshin (which now
gives a 1-in-3 chance of evading attacks, not 1-in-2) and Swap Position
(which now requires perfectly clear line of sight) and changing their
weight limit equation. The Swap Position nerf also affects the relevant
mutation and wild talent (the weight limit change does not affect other
classes with a weight limit, apart from ninja-lawyers)
* Restored the option of playing without virtues
* Fixed some typos here and there. (I know this will offend some
people! But they can take solace in that there are still plenty left.)
* Buffed Lucifer and made him dungeon boss of Hell
* The name of Sultan the Midget was reverted back to Snafu the Midget
(because of the one-Sultan rule - there's a sultan in Thalos)
* Players are now less likely to be ambushed by dangerous high-level
sea monsters in coastal towns
* Added some alternatives for non-English keyboards to support play on
angband.live: Y and Z for [ and {, Ctrl+Y for Ctrl+W, Ctrl+E for @ and
Ctrl+O for ]
* Made free action stronger because Chris's system was somewhat
confusing and unpopular, though the change here is not as big as what
Gwarl did in ComPosband 7.0.4. 1 source of free action works the same
in FrogComposband as in ComPosband 7.0.3 (and the last versions of
PosChengband). 2 sources are slightly stronger in FrogComposband (and
give total paralysis immunity against low-level monsters), and 3
sources give total immunity against all monsters, except in special
cases like ty_curse
* Changed how cur SP is calculated after a change to max SP
* Restored the old non-fuzzy telepathy as an option. Chris's fuzzy
telepathy is still the default
* Added an option (off by default) to force a -more- prompt on
device/spell fails
* Attempts to charm a monster with the hidden NOPET flag now give the
message "X is immune", rather than "X resists"; the NOPET flag is
unpopular enough without it making players guess whether the monster
has it or not. (It's also now slightly harder for monsters to acquire
the NOPET flag.)
* Commented out the Windows pref file (font-win.prf). Windows users
will notice this as a change to the default appearance of walls and
mountains
* Various minor tweaks and code improvements
Changes copied or adapted from ComPosband 7.0.4:
* Added Gwarl's new quests and adopted some of his changes to existing
quests
* The entrance to Hideout is now in Outpost, and the entrance to Icky
Cave is now in Thalos
* Adapted the new acid floor
* Magic shop now sells offensive wands
* Moved Tidal Cave
* Battlefield's entrance guardian is now a black wraith instead of a
grave wight
* Visual change to the appearance of Crystal Castle's glass floor
* Added Gwarl's buff to non-specialist riding
* Tweaked the depth and rarity of a number of items, especially dragon
scale mails (but not quite to the same extent as in ComPosband 7.0.4)
* Tweaked a number of monsters
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For ancient history, see [a].