Sangband 1.0.2 bug

[Malak Darkhunter]

Just noticed a bug in 1.0.2, browsing through the book shop in town, I noticed words of wisdom was selling for 320gp, *but* holy of holies sold for 370gp!? no discount listed. the other 3rd tiers spellbooks listed correct prices.

[Malak Darkhunter]

a couple of other possible bugs-

1. wooden torch of shadows still give stealth/infravision bonuses even when the fuel for the torch has expired.

2. Saw an empty room by itself on the DL a square room several squares away from the main dungeon, magic mapping revealed no corridors to it. Phased door into it, the room was empty.

3. Also have a helm of serenity that grants confusion resistance, yet Nar mind blasted me and still caused confusion.

[RogerN]

Originally Posted by Malak Darkhunter

2. Saw an empty room by itself on the DL a square room several squares away from the main dungeon, magic mapping revealed no corridors to it. Phased door into it, the room was empty.

Most Angband variants do not guarantee dungeon connectivity. The dungeon-generating algorithm attempts to connect each room to at least one other room, but due to the random nature of the tunneling code it sometimes fails to find a legal path.

IIRC Sangband's tunneling algorithm is pretty much identical to those used by other popular variants, but some of the rooms that Sangband generates (especially on lower levels) make it a little harder for the tunneling code to find a legal path between rooms.

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by RogerN

Most Angband variants do not guarantee dungeon connectivity. The dungeon-generating algorithm attempts to connect each room to at least one other room, but due to the random nature of the tunneling code it sometimes fails to find a legal path.

IIRC Sangband's tunneling algorithm is pretty much identical to those used by other popular variants, but some of the rooms that Sangband generates (especially on lower levels) make it a little harder for the tunneling code to find a legal path between rooms.

You'd think you could make a last pass to remove rooms unconnected from the rest of the dungeon..

(Nice avatar btw!)

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by Patashu

You'd think you could make a last pass to remove rooms unconnected from the rest of the dungeon..

That would require determining map connectivity, which is something the dungeon generator doesn't do. I'd imagine when the game was written such a thing would have been fairly expensive...though at the same time I'm not entirely clear on why the generator wasn't written in a way that guarantees connectivity to begin with.

[Mikko Lehtinen]

Originally Posted by Derakon

That would require determining map connectivity, which is something the dungeon generator doesn't do. I'd imagine when the game was written such a thing would have been fairly expensive...though at the same time I'm not entirely clear on why the generator wasn't written in a way that guarantees connectivity to begin with.

I had to wrestle with this in the dev version of my variant (Fay -> Halls of Mist). After I tweaked the dungeon generation, unconnected rooms became much more common. I had to create a super-hackish connectivity test (I'm not a coder really). It seems to work alright, but it would be cool to see a cleaner implementation in Vanilla.

BTW, some of my rooms are generated after placing stairs and most tunnels. That way I can have properly locked doors. If you fail your lock picking skill check, you might have no other way to get in the treasure room.

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by Derakon

That would require determining map connectivity, which is something the dungeon generator doesn't do. I'd imagine when the game was written such a thing would have been fairly expensive...

Yes, and now it's 2012, where even your microwave could probably solve it

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Malak Darkhunter

3. Also have a helm of serenity that grants confusion resistance, yet Nar mind blasted me and still caused confusion.

I think this is WAD - IIRC mind blasting can penetrate rconf as well as FA (and rblind too, possibly).

[camlost]

Originally Posted by Magnate

I think this is WAD - IIRC mind blasting can penetrate rconf as well as FA (and rblind too, possibly).

Yep, all true. WAD since before my time. There's worse out there, though, that gets through resistances. You have been warned.

[NotMorgoth]

There are at least two monsters in the game who can paralyze you through Free Action. Probably quite a few more than two, but two I know of for certain.