how does stealth work?

[wobbly]

Just checking some stuff.

A monster wakes on it's own turn? Perception is effectively multiplied by monster speed & divided by player speed.
Chance is stealth dependent?
Amount of sleepiness lost is distance dependent?

[wobbly]

Ok monsters wake in book keeping time not their turn. So player speed matters, monster speed doesn't?

[t4nk]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Just checking some stuff.

The calculations are:

edit: (LOL, disregard that. I just remembered that my Angband repo is on 4.0.5! I recall Nick changed stealth when he changed pathfinding)
edit2: (It seems he changed it back? well, then the description below is correct)

Player's noise is 1 << (30 - stealth). In other words, noise is 2 in the power of (30 - stealth).

Then, the game does this:

int notice = randint(1024);

if (notice * notice * notice <= noise)
{
    int wake_up_amount = 1;

    if (distance_to_player < 50)
         wake_up_amount = 100 / distance_to_player;

    wake_up_monster_a_little(wake_up_amount);
}

The noise stuff is in player-calcs.c: calc_bonuses() and other stuff in mon-move.c: process_monster_timed().

edit: in 4.1.3 it's in monster_reduce_sleep()

A monster wakes on it's own turn? Perception is effectively multiplied by monster speed & divided by player speed. Chance is stealth dependent?
Amount of sleepiness lost is distance dependent?

Yes to all of that.

[t4nk]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Ok monsters wake in book keeping time not their turn. So player speed matters, monster speed doesn't?

I think it does. process_monster():

    
    /* Not enough energy to move yet */
    if (mon->energy < minimum_energy) continue;

    ...

    /* Give this monster some energy */
    mon->energy += turn_energy(mspeed);

     /* End the turn of monsters without enough energy to move */
     if (!moving)
         continue;

    /* Use up "some" energy */
    mon->energy -= z_info->move_energy;

    /* Check if the monster is active */
    if (monster_check_active(c, mon)) {
        /* Process timed effects - skip turn if necessary */
         if (process_monster_timed(c, mon))

[DavidMedley]

Incorrect conclusions deleted, corrected and reposted below.

[DavidMedley]

I'm going to relate what my research has tentatively discovered. Confirmation or correction greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm missing something, based on experiments.

Question: What do the monster "awareness" ratings mean in game terms?

Answer:
The descriptions given in monster recall correspond to values between 0 and 255. The table below shows what a monster race's "sleepiness" is based on that description.

Min	Max	Description
0	0	is ever vigilant for
1	1	is vigilant for
2	3	is very observant of
4	5	is observant of
6	10	is fairly observant of
11	25	takes a while to see
26	45	takes quite a while to see
46	75	tends to overlook
76	95	pays little attention to
96	200	pays very little attention to
201	255	prefers to ignore

When an individual monster is created in the dungeon (not summoned) it starts with a personalized sleepiness equal to RS*2+1d(RS*10) where RS is racial sleepiness. The level 1 "wild dog" has racial sleepiness 10, so each one will start with 20+1d100 individual sleepiness.

Each time a monster would normally get a turn, you have a chance to disturb its sleep. You must be within its detection range. If you do disturb it, its sleepiness goes down by 1 (or more if you're closer than 50 feet). If the monster reaches 0 sleepiness it wakes up. The chance for you to disturb a monster is 100% at stealth 0 or less, and decreases by almost exactly 50% for every 3 points of stealth, up to 28 where the minimum of about 0.20% is reached.

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But by that description, monsters would sleep about 10x too much!! So I must be missing something. Here's the code that I'm pretty sure converts the racial sleep into individual sleep (I need better terms there, as well).

	/* Enforce sleeping if needed */
	if (sleep && race->sleep) {
		int val = race->sleep;
		mon->m_timed[MON_TMD_SLEEP] = ((val * 2) + randint1(val * 10));
	}

[Pete Mack]

David--look at the code above. the amount of wakeup is also scaled, by 100/distance. This means that you have to be nearby to wake it up fast, and adjacent you will wake him up in 1/10 nominal time.

[DavidMedley]

OK. So when I read

int wake_up_amount = 1;

    if (distance_to_player < 50)
         wake_up_amount = 100 / distance_to_player;

    wake_up_monster_a_little(wake_up_amount);

I assumed that distance must be in feet. But if it's in squares then that's the order of magnitude I was missing. Thanks!!!

[Pete Mack]

I do notice that perfect stealth is not actually possible, as there is a 1/1024 chance of disturbance even when stealth is 30.

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by DavidMedley

OK. So when I read

int wake_up_amount = 1;

    if (distance_to_player < 50)
         wake_up_amount = 100 / distance_to_player;

    wake_up_monster_a_little(wake_up_amount);

I assumed that distance must be in feet. But if it's in squares then that's the order of magnitude I was missing. Thanks!!!

I'm pretty sure that all of the units in-game are purely aesthetic, and you should divide by the greatest common denominator to get the numbers the code uses. For example, all item weights in the code are in decipounds, a bonkers unit if ever there was one.