General Fixes and Modified Features

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prevent an extraneous selection prompt when a role with only a single

possible gender, race, or align is specified

be consistent with the use of twice and thrice in end of game reports

use "kill" vs "destroy" more consistently

looting bag of tricks on the floor doesn't then prompt for direction

suppress "the" in "you kill the poor Fido"

iron bars added to the Dark One's prison

shouldn't be able to #loot without hands

level compiler can specify cockatrice nests, leprechaun halls, antholes

fix level compiler to allow specifying golems via '\'' in MONSTER directives

fix bug where excalibur blasted lawful non-Knights

unification of the strings "he"/"him"/"his"

conflict caused vanishing vault guards to be killed with player getting

credit/blame (also dmonsfree warning for double removal from map)

monsters' conflict resistance check was unintentionally being affected by

character's experience level

stone-to-flesh was accessing freed memory, passing bad map coordinates

to newsym that might be harmless but could trigger a crash

prevent spurious "placing steed on map?" impossibles during save/restore

prevent real "placing steed on map?" impossibility [sic] when creating bones

dropping secondary or quivered weapon to lighten load in order to crawl

out of water left the item flagged as still worn

if #adjust combined two or more of main weapon, alternate weapon, and quiver

the resulting stack would be flagged as worn in multiple slots and

eventually trigger "Setworn: mask = ##." impossibility

remove curse operated on secondary weapon even though it wasn't wielded

update conduct immediately when eating corpses (character killed by eating

poisonous corpse as first meal was described as "strict vegan")

fix problem with amulets of change when polymorphed into succubus/incubus

YAFM for pit fiends/pit vipers and pits should require seeing the monster

woodchucks, cockatrices, and vampire bats should eat

specifying a non-numeric value for amount when donating to temple priest or

bribing demon prince produced random result

mastodons can tear through webs

praying on wrong deity's altar cursed holy water but ignored uncursed water

polymorphed player's gaze now works properly as a pyrolisk

fix "You drop the Wizard of Yendor's corpse into Wizard of Yendor's interior."

make sure status line gets updated when turning-into-slime state changes

when eating green slime, don't reset slime countdown if already infected

stop current activity when you noticed you're turning into slime

message given when displacing an unnamed pet into a polymorph trapped referred

to it by its new monster type rather than by what you displaced

player killed by ghoul turns into one in the bones file

slings are not made of wood

for post-amnesia deja vu messages, use "seems" rather than "looks" when blind

avoid encumberance messages during startup attribute adjusting

even a wumpus cannot escape the pits in Sokoban

when a steed dies in a shop, don't charge for the saddle

shopkeeper did not charge for use of an unpaid camera

shopkeeper did not charge for items burned by breaking a wand of fire

shopkeeper should charge when you transmute a potion

shk notices if you use a grappling hook to remove an item from the shop

adjust robbed shopkeeper's feedback when he or she plunders hero's corpse

avoid giving away which monsters are saddled while hallucinating

when polymorphed into a herbivorous monster, you should prefer vegan "corpses"

when polymorphed into a hider, stop hiding after picking up the last object

at a location

throwing a wielded, returning weapon should not disable twoweapon mode

monster should not wield cockatrice corpse without gloves on

sharks have thick skin

better message when killed by drinking a potion of sickness from a sink

telepathically detected monsters will be described by name if they try

to attack praying character

taking cockatrice from or putting it into a container should stone you

if you are unprotected

don't fall into pits (or other traps) twice when dismounting

fix two weapon combat bonus/penalty to avoid "weapon_hit_bonus: bad skill 2"

unicorns were at a disadvantage on a noteleport level

missing a cockatrice when polymorphed into a weapon-using monster but

fighting hand-to-hand would stone the player

eliminate ghoul creation abuse when engraving on a headstone

loss of levitation due to a sink will result in touching a wielded cockatrice

corpse, just like falling down stairs while burdened

falling into a sink when constitution is greater than 20 won't raise hit points

stinking cloud should not affect migrating monsters, causes dmonsfree error

only display message about monster using a weapon against another monster

if you can see the monster

don't count artifact amulets (wizard's quest artifact) twice in final score

prevent pets from picking up Rider corpses

when polymorphed into a centaur, don't keep kicking monsters after they die

when throwing at a monster that you see with infravision, don't say "it"

avoid "the arrow misses the mimic" which left the mimic concealed

#sit while water walking over a submerged object should sit on the water's

surface rather than on that unreachable object

suppress extra "the" when printing the names of certain mplayers

do not try to engulf green slimes (same as for cockatrices)

trying to eat the brains of a green slime is now properly handled for players

monsters touching cockatrices check boots for feet and nothing for tentacles

if being petrified, don't disable messages from further petrify attacks

trap detection would generally not find trapped doors

avoid spurious done eating message after choking and vomiting

attribute distribution for several player types did not add up

monsters shouldn't try to eat green slime as a cure for stoning

lighting of arboreal levels should not be stopped by trees

need to recalculate visible locations immediately when monster blinds player

monsters shouldn't see through walls because player wears Eyes of the Overworld

when pricing glass the same as valuable gems, be sure to use gems of same color

nymph stealing armor from a fainted player should wake the player

ensure status line updates when you stop running when time is shown

repairing a trap in a shop doorway must replace the broken door or wall as well

sleeping steed cannot climb stairs/ladders

can't change levels when mounted on a steed which is carrying the Amulet

more artifacts granted by a deity are rustproof

monster name feedback when using the m movement prefix allowed player to

distinguish between peaceful and hostile monsters while hallucinating

scrolls should not fade when hitting rust monsters, only from rust traps

blank scrolls should not fade even from rust traps

can't eat or #offer food off the floor under circumstances other than

encumbrance where you couldn't have picked it up off the floor first

ensure correct message after passive freeze attack by gelatinous cube

avoid buffer overwrite when several weapons slip from your hands at once

prevent portal placement on Ranger quest from stranding player in left margin

avoid crash when a trouble gets fixed before you finish praying

sensed hidden monsters should fight back when attacked

mindless monsters won't be grateful after unsuccessful #untrap attempts

turning affects your religious conduct, even if your god does not help you

rolling boulder trap's boulder will knock another one that it collides

with into motion in its place

make it harder to abuse detect monster and confusion spells

prevent D[a from producing odd message sequence in (c)ombination mode

avoid messages like "the silver bell" after being drained by mind flayer

after polymorph, actually drop both weapons when a message says this happened

curb unicorn horn creation abuse by limiting the chance of a unicorn

leaving one if it has been revived

accept -p and -r options with nethack -s, as documented

avoid printing "spellbook of" Book of the Dead in list of discoveries

eating non-food items made of leather or other animal parts now violates

vegan/vegetarian conduct

use correct skill when throwing something while in twoweapon mode

secondary weapon can rust when hitting a rustmonster in twoweapon mode

extra healing spell cures monster's blindness

add missing quest message for throwing the quest artifact to the Monk leader

pits, arrow and dart traps, webs, polymorph traps and sleeping gas

traps can affect the steed

allow game restoration while polymorphed and your race is genocided

ensure that crysknives revert to worm teeth, even in containers

do not print gas spore's name if you cannot see a gas spore explosion

cursed two-handed weapons now keep you from changing body armor

trapped pets cannot follow you to another level

no corpse when unchanging hero dies while polymorphed into a G_NOCORPSE monster

A-removing armour under cursed stuff no longer fails silently

grease protects gloves from contact poison on books

items picked up from an abandoned shop sometimes wouldn't merge with other

compatible items in inventory ("no charge" bit wasn't being cleared)

prevent cut-off death message by increasing DTHSZ

check to not control teleports when unconscious should now work properly

if armor the hero is donning is stolen or seduced off, attributes

can be left permanently mis-adjusted

ensure a message is printed in all non-obvious cases where a monster flees

a fleeing monster that is holding you always results in a "get released" message

ensure a monster flees for at least one "turn"

explosion type can now be one of dark, noxious, muddy, wet, magical,

fiery, or frosty

flying (jumping or throwing recoil) over some traps (magic portals, fire traps)

will now trigger the trap

displacement does not work through walls

you can't trip and fall or trip over rocks while riding

reduce the chances of a monkey successfully stealing armor you are wearing

monkeys can't steal cursed items that you're unable to remove or attached

iron ball or items too heavy for them to carry

trapped doors are not always detected after returning to a previous level

trap detection sometimes showed non-trap locations to be traps

eucalyptus was never chosen in random tree fruits due to an off-by-one bug

allow knights to pursue and attack thieving monkeys without alignment penalty

gaining levitation while over on sink causes an immediate fall

quest leader should avoid leaving the quest start level voluntarily

blind Medusa cannot gaze

prevent dipping attached iron ball or embedded dragon scales into a potion

of polymorph from confusing the game about what items are in use

should not be able to cut down trees on Ranger quest start level

arrow traps are not currently intended to shoot poisoned arrows

fall off the horse if you mimic a pile of gold while riding

martial attacks will not remove monsters from traps and will cause

monsters to set off traps they land on while reeling/staggering

prevent topten from using alloc after alloc failure

Nazgul and erinyes are nopoly to ensure their numbers are never exceeded

"player-@" randomly selects a race and "player -@" randomly selects

everything that is not specified

prevent spurious "quest portal already gone" when you use an artifact to

return to the quest after being previously expelled

prevent limbless shopkeepers from "leaping" and "grabbing" your backpack

by changing the messages that you get

prevent panic when riding while punished and falling down the stairs

armor class shouldn't wrap from very negative to very positive

searching should only credit you with finding an undetected monster if

you couldn't sense it or spot it already

monsters should not generally lose invisibility when polymorphing

monster must have eyes or breathe to be affected by potion vapors

stop dungeon file open failure from causing vision-related crash

wishing for {statue,figurine,corpse} of long worm tail yields long worm instead

chatting to an arbitrary shopkeeper (not a petrified one) who was created

via statue animation produced strange results

Yeenoghu's confusion attack is not a touch of death

an eating steed should not be able to go up or down stairs, etc.

you don't feel "great" when recovering with a unicorn horn but Slimed; also,

make the same check for potions that make you feel "great"

avoid panic during player-as-demon demon summoning when no demon is available

change "Ouch! You bump into a door" message when riding

prevent voluntary dismount of steed from passing you through walls in

tight spots

prevent throwing boulders, boxes, and chests and medium-to-large

corpses and statues through iron bars

only living eggs which touch cockatrices get turned to stone

since monsters already refuse to zap empty wands, they shouldn't pick them up

after praying, try to give a spellbook for which the player is not restricted

after #dipping your weapon in hand or quiver into a potion of polymorph,

leave it where it was

message from rust trap states "robe" instead of "cloak" when applicable

gas spore explosions were affecting your human hitpoints even if you were

polyd and consequently you did not rehumanize

prevent "You attack empty water" when attacking a spot on land while

underwater

prevent spurious "But you aren't drowning. You touch bottom." message when

removing an amulet of magical breathing as an amphibious creature

fix message given when a monster tries to disarm your multiple welded daggers

with a bullwhip

camera flash no longer stops at invisible monster

monsters inside a stinking cloud should be blinded, just like the hero is

vault guard shouldn't initiate conversation with you when you're hidden

adult wolves are not small but lynxes are small

turn off vision during a save operation to prevent impossible() from

triggering a crash

rolling boulder trap's boulder susceptible to land mines and teleport traps

polymorphing below level 1 should kill player (needed to fix max-HP abuse)

prevent "obj not free" panic when shopkeeper cannot get to a thrown pick-axe

give feedback if Sokoban prevents polymorphed player from passing through walls

eliminate Wounded_legs enlightenment message when riding since it refers to

the steed's legs, not the hero's

adjust the fumbling pick-axe message to reflect that the steed's

legs got damaged, not the hero's

quaffing a noncursed potion of speed no longer heals the steed's wounded legs

prevent mounting of steed when you have Wounded_legs to prevent abuse;

dismount does an unconditional healing of Wounded_legs during the

Wounded_legs context switch

wounded legs on a steed doesn't count as a prayer trouble

wounded legs on a steed doesn't abuse dexterity

make wounded legs gained by falling off a steed consistent (dexterity loss)

land mines while mounted should hurt the steed

self-genocide while sitting on a throne should not refer to scroll of genocide

eating dogfood or fixing a squeaky board conveys experience but didn't

check for gaining a new level

demon bribes are 4x larger than they should be for co-aligned players

specific monster warning no longer reveals the true monster name when you

use the '/' command while hallucinating

start_corpse_timeout() now takes corpse age into consideration rather than

always assuming a fresh corpse, thus fixing potential icebox abuse

player on an immediate diagonal from a monster reading a scroll of earth

should be affected, just like monsters in similar locations

objects that fall from monster's minvent as a result of monster polymorph

are not polymorphed, consistent with items that remain in minvent

quaffing a potion of gain ability while wearing ring of sustain ability

displayed no message and identified the potion

monsters still with WAITFORU strategy should not follow up/downstairs

messages should reflect the fact that the Eyes of the Overworld mask the

effects of blindness

Amulet of life saving should save you from sickness that will kick in this turn

player should stop waiting when a monster uses a polearm from a distance

avoid stone-to-flesh blood pooling message when zapping ice and not stone

when polymorphed into a silent creature, do not "pronounce" scroll formula

ensure hilite turns off immediately when pet stops being tame

hitting with a polearm counts as hitting with a weapon for conduct

traps detected while blind and levitating were not displayed

when a mind flayer uses its mind attack, it should wake the victim

shapechangers restored from disk would no longer change shape

allow "tame" prefix when using the wizmode C-g command to create new monster(s)

display a more appropriate name for a high priestess when using ;/ commands

change "The water elemental is on fire" to "The water elemental is boiling"

blind, cancelled or nonseen invisible Medusa cannot gaze at other monsters

fix impossible when spinning web on falling rock, rolling boulder and fire traps

rust monsters can only eat items made of rustable material

wands of fire are no longer flammable no matter what material they are

displacing you pet into a trap which kills it affects killer conduct

pets can now be displaced in untended shops

only show lit walls if, like doors, the position next to them is lit too

charge for an unpaid weapon used for engraving

shopkeeper should charge for unpaid balls and used candles in containers

when swallowed you could drop or throw a cockatrice corpse into a

monster's stomach without stoning it despite the guaranteed hit

steed would often not respond to an attack, even if you didn't move that turn

after stepping in a polymorph trap, a monster may pick up the wrong items

breaking an unpaid wand of teleportation wouldn't result in the proper charge

next_shkp() was used inconsistently, potentially triggering an endless loop

chaotic wizards usually get a spellbook when crowned, just like neutral ones

monk quest: fix the two inaccessible chambers on the locate level

rogue quest: fix the four inaccessible chambers on the home level;

link the two inaccessible chambers on the locate level and provide

a means of escaping from them; on the goal level, link most

chambers together, resulting in just four disconnected regions,

and force stairs to be in a different region from the nemesis

angels can fly

under #twoweapon fix it so that only Stormbringer carries out the

blood-thirsty attacks, not both

booby-trapped doors shouldn't make you stagger if you're riding

encumbrance exertion checks should happen each time player moves

mksobj_at: add way to suppress the chance of a new object being an artifact

steed should be the one caught in a bear trap, even if player is polymorphed

use a more appropriate message than "being held" when using < or > while

swallowed or engulfed on stairs

stinking cloud isn't useless and shouldn't be excluded from initial inventory

shopkeeper will not try to buy food you are eating when inventory is full

don't duplicate any gold inside containers when saving bones data

can't tell between acid and holy/unholy water that burns like acid

tame stuck monsters should release you after regaining their senses

engraving Elbereth exercises wisdom, engraving anything else does not

artifact bows get any special attack bonus added to missile to-hit roll

monsters with gaze attacks should not try to blind the hero with potions

players polymorphed into umber hulks should not try to eat boulders in Sokoban

when a monster uses up a partially eaten food item, cleanup was not performed

temple priests shouldn't be created with two robes

give some quest leaders and nemeses equipment appropriate for their class

mis-engraving "X" or "x" shouldn't violate illiterate conduct

Heart of Ahriman now explicitly does double damage

prevent NO_ATTK artifacts from accidentally doing double damage

player polymorphed into monster that loses hp out of water should lose hp too

make sure that all leashed monsters get released when bones data is saved

eating a ring of levitation doesn't confer permanent intrinsic levitation

silver hating monster using a bullwhip shouldn't snatch silver weapons into

its inventory

fracturing one of several boulders at a location should not unblock vision

don't hide stairs, thrones, &c under spider webs when creating levels

rediscovering forgotten object types behaved differently depending upon

whether they had user assigned names at the time of amnesia

taming while engulfed is limited to the engulfer

restore blindness resistance to Archons

if a shk is polymorphed into monster form which has Wizard-style tactics,

don't let him teleport to the stairs if he's inside his shop

when the player digs a hole through a shop's floor, don't let shopkeeper

wander out of that shop while multi-turn digging is in progress

don't protect alternate weapon and quivered objects against being taken

by shk who grabs your pack when you dig a hole through his shop floor

add missing break to POT_WATER case in potionbreath()

keep monster from forgetting its weapon is cursed every other round

multiple shot throwing stops immediately whenever you hurtle backwards

don't panic if being billed for a burning or other timed object

food that makes a monster peaceful should not re-anger it at the same time

abusing a leashed pet could result in a leashed peaceful monster

couldn't unleash steed while mounted

trying and failing to wield an item could leave current weapon flagged as both

"weapon in hand" and "alternate weapon" when `pushweapon' option is set

handle OBJ_CONTAINED case for corpse revival so that trolls can revive

from inside containers

eating one of several merged partly eaten food items should take nutrition

from only one of them

coyote names should not disable printing of "tame" or "peaceful"

Eyes of the Overworld protect from stun effect of Archon's radiance attack

give feedback when putting on or taking off the Eyes of the Overworld causes

blindness state to be toggled

avoid spurious "you can see again" when temporary blindness being overridden

by the Eyes of the Overworld times out

removing blindfold or lenses via 'A(' gives same results as via 'R'

make blindness with just 1 turn remaining be a candicate for repair by

unicorn horn and healing potions/spells

healing potions/spells shouldn't fix being creamed

make pie throwing and venom spitting by the player be consistent with the

effects of those attacks by monsters

offering & tinning corpses on altars should work even while riding

It was possible to faint after eating a fortune cookie and still read

the fortune's text despite being unconscious

when filling a pit containing a vortex, a surviving vortex gets untrapped

teleporting no longer moves the iron ball to under you if that's not necessary;

prevents odd ball movement when crawling out of water

monsters now prefer to wear speed boots over other boots

prevent crash when loading a special level specifying a mimic using m_object

prevent crashes caused by dropping or shipping quivered or secondary weapons

don't trigger spurious encumbrance messages on last turn of a multi-turn meal

prevent food being restored to untouched status if interrupted while eating

troll revival shouldn't increment the troll creation counter

breaking mirrors and your eggs should be bad luck when kicking chests as well

as throwing

vampires should be G_NOCORPSE so you can't wish for them

glass objects should break when thrown, just like when kicked in chests

rocks/gems shouldn't be hard to throw by hand because they are ammo

avoid all cases where splitting an object would result in two objects being

quivered, wielded or otherwise having its owornflag set

allow 'a' prompt when dropping many objects in shop for credit (Wingnut)

monsters who get polymorphed while wearing dragon armor turn into dragons

shape changers can't be killed by system shock when hit by polymorph

Chromatic Dragon has silver scales too (she reflects)

being killed when wishing for an artifact should retain that item in bones data

the drain life spell should not wipe out engravings (especially not using a

function that requires you to be able to reach the floor)

monsters who can cast undirected spells don't need to be in combat with you

to do so

messages consistent for all monster spells

monsters casting spells at your displaced image now set mspec_used

monsters without ranged spells don't print curse messages for ranged spells

going down to floor using > should set Heart of Ahriman invocation timeout

riding a steed into water kills the steed if it cannot swim, with penalties

gaze attacks now stop occupation

proper death message when killed by "plain" high priest

don't conceal the identity of Moloch's high priest

blessed full healing can't recover levels lost when polymorphing into new man

blessed full healing can recover at most half of other lost levels

golden glow when praying will recover lost level if blessed full healing could

gaining a level while polymorphed increases current monst hit points as well

as latent human (or whatever) hit points

pets should not try to go after food that they can't reach

monsters shouldn't use wands of digging in Sokoban

objects dropped in or travelling across lava pools can take damage

monsters that enter lava can take damage

eating an unpaid tin should calculate cost before not after eating

spells shouldn't do negative damage

when reading spellbooks, don't "continue studying" wrong book if original one

gets destroyed after previous reading attempt has been interrupted

correctly handle polymorphed quest leader

swallowing zombies/mummies whole makes you sick, like when eating them normally

impose additional teleport restrictions on the no-teleport Plane of Air

landmines set off by pushed boulders have same effects as stepping on them

secret corridor detected out of vision range is still displayed (prevents bug

where wand of secret door detection found nothing but still identified)

getobj can now see user-specified count when using inventory to make selection

scalpel is stainless steel (i.e. METAL) not regular steel (IRON)

eggs, potions & other breakables may break when they fall down stairs

hurtling via grappling hook does not apply effects of destination location

consider vortexes to be nonliving

dragons have scales, not fur

if player teleports a monster while swallowed on a noteleport level, the

player should not teleport along with the monster

prefixes that can appear in any order when wishing should include +/- and empty

don't allow untrapping of adjacent traps in locations you can't move to

summoning should summon any alignment if summoner's base alignment is A_NONE

when dipping unicorn horn in potion, the potion might change bless status, so

set bknown to FALSE

grammar fixes such as "Eyes of the Overworld resists" and others

score bonus was missing from scrolls of identify and fire

make wands of speed or slow monster known if their effect

on monsters is observed; likewise for speed boots

gold detection "materially poor" message inappropriate if you have hidden_gold()

cannot reflect back an invisible umber hulk or medusa's attack

monsters with M3_WANTSBOOK often couldn't move in the Wizard-level

Vlad should want the Candelabrum

if you float_down on a trap in which you're already trapped, don't retrap

applying whip toward hidden mimic displays mimic name before "Wait!" message

stealing a container didn't multiply cost of stolen contained objects by quan

halve air elemental damage to compensate for side effect of speed system

strengthen Death; weaken Famine, Pestilence, and Demogorgon

pet purple worms get nutrition from engulfing attack

throwing an artifact upwards will trigger artifact hit effects when it falls

being hit by Fire Brand stops the turning-into-slime process

monsters hitting other monsters can split puddings with weapons

be consistent with checking for iron weapons when splitting puddings

prevent corpses of undead creatures just killed by undead turning from being

instantly revived by the same undead turning attack

allow fake player monsters to handle artifacts that don't match alignment/role

chaotic monsters can use Stormbringer; lawful monsters can use Excalibur

No "corridor disappears" message if Vault guard dies off-level

slip while mounting and levitating at will should not cause damage

if you see a monster jump into a trap in a secret corridor, it's not secret

fixed a few places where unblock_point wasn't called but should have been

cloned monsters should have the same name and tameness as the original

you should stop eating (etc.) if a monster attacks you and misses

half physical damage should apply to gas spores

iron bars should affect wall corner wallification

potion of polymorph shouldn't be identified if object being dipped into

it ends up as the same type of object after polymorphing

don't slap against the floor while riding and eating bad food

got rid of "nori" (since it doesn't really translate "kelp frond" accurately)

engraving in fog-covered location on in the Wizard quest said you

engraved in air, not dust

dipping non-weapons into burning potions of oil had no effect

dipping arrows into burning potions resulted in rust damage

Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes

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amiga: random crashes when opening menu window in fontmode eliminated

amiga: proper action taken (cancel) when closing the menu window

with closegadget or escape

amiga: allow #/altmeta combination on foreign keymaps

amiga: prevent plname[] overflow from askname()

amiga: prevent writing outside basewindow (bottom)

amiga: tilemode tombstone corrected on cybergfx screen

amiga: don't clutter levels/ with foo.0 when quitting at playerselection

micro: prevent a guaranteed impossible() if we ever have more than (COLNO - 1)

levels in the game

micro: fix out of bounds memory modification for file opens via PATH

msdos: placeholder tiles accepted by the thin tile builder

tiles: use pixel-accurate grid bug tile for grid bugs

tty: correctly dismiss 1-line menus

tty: clear screen before version incompatibility message so it doesn't just

print the message overwriting previous screen text

tty: pet was not always hilited

tty: don't crash if the news file is present but empty

unix/tty: give user a chance to see any error produced by (de)compression

win32/tty: menus can take advantage of consoles larger than 80x25

win32/tty: add support for inverse attribute

Gnome: workaround for GTK+ attempts to disallow setgid executables

Qt: honor user preferences in startup dialog

X11: map not displayed in color when using X11 windowtype w/o tiles

X11: viewport scrolling could scroll the the wrong place with resized window

X11: allow extra space added to map widget to be removed if widget shrinks

X11: general solution to the problem that the meaning of font height varies

among different implementations of X11

X11: make "slow" mode the default since it seems to be very prevalent

General New Features

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added travel command via '_' or mouse click

config file processing detects multiple use of the same OPTION and

prints a warning when it does

make the player selection prompt more explicit in the information

that it is going to request

remove curse now operates on cursed leashes that are in active use

give feedback when shooting/throwing more than one missile at a time

monsters can now deliberately eat dead lizards to cure confusion

general warning now allows you to attack unseen monsters, as long as you can

see the warning glyph on the screen

wand of fire & fireballs now burn webs

wand of locking / wizard lock zapped down will close and remove trap doors

exploding monsters wake nearby monsters

various mindless, sphere monsters no longer need to breath

sleeping gas no longer affects nonbreathing monsters

vault guard doesn't notice you if you're mimicking gold

good chance of untrapping monsters and pets caught in webs if you are

polymorphed into a spider, and extremely small chance even if not

stamina affects ability to throw heavy things

objects merge in containers

wishing for "nothing" yields no object and preserves wishless conduct

genociding "none" destroys no monsters and preserves genocideless conduct

coyote id naming shows only the true latin name if coyote is cancelled

xorns can "speak" and can smell valuable metal

if you find a trap but there is too much clutter to see it, have the

game display it temporarily until a keypress

rename the Wizard of Balance to Neferet the Green

double the number of messages that apprentices/guards utter, with 5 for

before the quest, and 5 after

wizard mode ^G command can create monster by class, not just by name

wizard mode ^G command takes a count

kicking a sleeping/paralyzed steed now causes special effects

allow overriding of the default boulder symbol via BOULDER option

blessed scroll of detect food provides you with a one time ability to

recognize food that may be harmful to you

wizard mode WIZKIT config file option added to ease adding items to

starting inventory for a debug session

helping a sleeping/frozen monster from a trap might wake/unfreeze monster

if the hero comes upon an obviously trapped monster the trap is considered seen

thrown weapons that hit are now subject to passive damage

locomotion-specific use of words, rather than just using "stagger"

if you come upon a physically trapped, visible monster, you see the trap

too, without searching for it

allow looking and pickup inside monster's stomach or interior when swallowed

add body_part(STOMACH)

pets like tame nymphs, et al, now only steal non-cursed items

monks usually get a spellbook rather than a weapon when crowned

blessed gold detection now detects anything made of gold, not just

coins, including candelabrum and gold rings

new T-shirt messages from Scott Bigham

option to get rid of resistance 'sparkle' (shieldeffect) (Scott Bigham)

option for autodig (Malcolm Ryan)

glowing Sunsword (inspired by Slashem)

msg_window option for ^P in TTY mode (Jay Tilton)

ninjas should get multishot bonus with yumi and ya (Dylan O'Donnell)

put prisoners in the Dark One's dungeon (Dylan O'Donnell)

touchstones; Archeologists start with one

add leather cloak so soldiers don't have elven cloaks

add Tom Friedetzky's BUC-patch with some alterations to the original

add wizard #poly and #levelchange (originally levelgain; Dylan O'Donnell),

add Jason Short's additional lenses use patch

add new Gnomish Mines levels from Kelly Bailey's patch

add Ken Arnold's patch to show unpaid item prices in inventory

jousting by players wielding a lance while riding

Knights start with lance rather than spear

can start game without a pet via pettype:none (Dylan O'Donnell)

allow disclose options to be more finally tuned, including being able

to specify the default response for being prompted

debug mode SPLEVTYPE environment variable to choose specific levels from

when there are random selections

artifacts have individual prices

new window-port preference options added, and some existing options

moved into the window-port preferences section

made each of the end disclosure options customizable to "prompt;default no",

"prompt;default yes", "show it without prompt", and

"don't show it and don't prompt"

add female role level names "Medica ossium", "Magistra", "Chevaliere", "Dame"

more feedback about skill advancement from #enhance command

USER_SOUNDS compilation option to enable use of SOUND and SOUNDDIR variables

in the config file for user-specified sound clips for

user-specified, regex-based message patterns

resistance does not protect inventory from artifacts (cold vs Frost Brand,&c)

phrase the prompts for P and R commands using "put on" and "remove" as the

actions rather than repeating W and T commands' "wear" and "take off"

dipping candles, et al, into burning potions lights them

Platform- and/or Interface-Specific New Features

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amiga: screenmode requester

amiga: 16 color font mode

mac: command-key shortcuts in the player selection dialog

vms: default compiler configuration in sys/vms/Makefile.* switched to DEC C

win32: new graphical port contribution by Alex Kompel