Inscribing rod

Altabin · May 7, 2017, 22:32

It's been a while since I've played Angband, so I may be doing something wrong.

I inscribed the Rod of Trap Detection I found early on with {@z0}. I expected I could (z)ap the rod with z0, regardless of its place in my inventory. But hitting "z" brings up a list of rods in inventory, and their letter names - hitting "0" or any other number key for inscribed rods has no effect.

Nick · May 7, 2017, 23:15

You should be able to. Which version are you playing?

fph · May 8, 2017, 20:18

Maybe you have bound a macro to 0?

Werbaer · May 9, 2017, 11:25

Maybe you have inscribed another item with {@0} ?

Gwarl · May 9, 2017, 16:28

Could this be obscurely related to how rods aren't magic items for ID by gnomes?

Altabin · May 10, 2017, 22:12

I am playing 4.0.5. I have other inscriptions (@f0, @w0) which work exactly as intended. In my current game, I'm playing a hobbit rogue, who, on his first dive, picked up a Rod of Identity on level 1 (!).

And I just now inscribed that @z0!d!k!v and was able to zap it with z0.

Which is weird; because in my last game (which I was still playing when I made this post) with a now deceased half-elven warrior, I could not get z0 to work; and that was with the same version of Vanilla. So I didn't even bother inscribing the rods on this game.

I'll keep an eye out if it happens again, and will post a screenshot. But I guess it could have been some stray key binding.

May 7, 2017, 22:32	#1
Altabin Rookie Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 2	Inscribing rod It's been a while since I've played Angband, so I may be doing something wrong. I inscribed the Rod of Trap Detection I found early on with {@z0}. I expected I could (z)ap the rod with z0, regardless of its place in my inventory. But hitting "z" brings up a list of rods in inventory, and their letter names - hitting "0" or any other number key for inscribed rods has no effect.

May 7, 2017, 23:15	#2
Nick Vanilla maintainer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Canberra, Australia Age: 57 Posts: 9,426 Donated: $60	You should be able to. Which version are you playing? __________________ One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

May 8, 2017, 20:18	#3
fph Veteran Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pisa / DL0 Posts: 1,017	Maybe you have bound a macro to 0? __________________ Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse. -- You read a scroll labeled 'lol gtfo' of Teleport Level.

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Altabin Rookie Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 2	I am playing 4.0.5. I have other inscriptions (@f0, @w0) which work exactly as intended. In my current game, I'm playing a hobbit rogue, who, on his first dive, picked up a Rod of Identity on level 1 (!). And I just now inscribed that @z0!d!k!v and was able to zap it with z0. Which is weird; because in my last game (which I was still playing when I made this post) with a now deceased half-elven warrior, I could not get z0 to work; and that was with the same version of Vanilla. So I didn't even bother inscribing the rods on this game. I'll keep an eye out if it happens again, and will post a screenshot. But I guess it could have been some stray key binding.

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