This (after looking at how compos does it) is now the plan. In full, then:

• Stealing to become a bit easier
• New mushrooms of shadows to increase stealth temporarily
• Unique thefts will be tracked and their drops reduced

These changes will be in the next build, which will break savefiles.

One miniscule suggestion: could high elves, at character generation, not be 8 ft tall?

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I've been trying for a while to score an ironman win with a ranger gnome, kobold and hobbit. Still no win, but enjoyable games. I find the game clearly more difficult than previous version but not in a stupid way. Mostly, I die from attrition. It's not one fight that kills, it's the lack of free consumables. Also I am very happy about the Create Arrows spell. It means I can concentrate on bows after the initial 30 levels(ish).

Two things:
* In 20+ games I think I've found one (1) scroll of teleportation.
* Wand of darkness - does it really hurt foes? how would I know? lore has no knowledge about resistance for darkness

New builds now up on the nightlies page and angband.live, with the following changes:

• Fix to looking at targeted monsterd so a single space shows the item the monster is standing on (if any), rather than potenitally several
• Overhead and minimap views now work properly
• Fixes to stealing suggested by Voovus:
  • Stealing is a bit easier
  • New (deepish) object, Mushroom of Shadows, which gives a +10 stealth boost for a short time
  • Thefts are tracked throughout the game, and stealing successfully from uniques will reduce their drops when killed

As forewarned upthread, this build breaks savefiles.

What'd be really cool is if examined squares just showed a list of everything on the square.
Then pick a letter to see details of the object/monster/(terrain or trap)

Edit:

To do this, you would have to make special purpose listing code that packaged things into proper objects:
Static arrays of:
* Function pointers for suitable lore
* Printing object/monster/etc description (and color)
The menu list would be structs consisting of pointers into the table plus a pointer to the object itself. (You'd really only want to make the function table a singleton object.)

Thank you. I'm really looking forward to trying it out. Just finished off a Morgoth, so it's perfect timing too. ;)

Spotted two minor bugs:
"Witch" has wrong plural form ("2 witchs").
Wand of darkness appears to do no damage, while claiming that it does (unless it's meant for particular types of monsters that are specifically vulnerable to darkness damage, a la light damage).

Boo hoo - nasty savefile standart/randart bug
 

Tired of losing all my games, I loaded my last (dead) character, said NO to immediate restart, then changed settings from randarts to standarts and then started. And for sure, things went better all the way and just now I had managed to get a short bow of power AND a nice artifact cutlass. Except it was a random artifact! I verified that the =setting was for standards (y) then quit the game to zip the savefile and the randart file for a bug report. Hmmm, there is no randart file. Odd. Restart the game and... crash due to not finding the randart file. Back to rolling up another weak ironman ranger...

First one is actually fixed in the latest build too. Second I need to check.

OK, will follow this up.

Newest build seems to have a save game bug: unique monsters appear to come back from the grave when loading a game (all marked as alive in monster memory). :eek:

Got suspicious after killing Maggot's fifth dog...

Yep, confirmed. Will get a fix out when I work out what's gone wrong.