Development version of PWMAngband 1.4.0 released for testing

[PowerWyrm]

Here's the list of changes that have been implemented up to now:

- Monsters can whip or spit on the player from nearby
- Implement temporary monster flags (CAMOUFLAGE, AWARE, HANDLED)
- Monster groups act more as a group, with leaders and sometimes bodyguards
- Monster shapechanges
- Innate spells and cast spells have separate frequencies
- Tweak resist fraction and damage cap for high elements
- Add extra effects for some projection types
- Restore UNIX support
- Major overhaul of the monster list
- Tidying and documenting of monster allocation
- Deeper in the dungeon shallow monsters are less likely to appear
- Spiders can weave webs
- Add line for fragility in describe_curses()
- Monsters can teleport to the player
- Variable light and darkness are created by monsters, player gear and player
spells, and the player has a meter to measure the light level on their
square
- Monsters can have innate darkness around them
- Remove Shockbolt tileset
- Traps added that trigger on leaving their square
- Monster spells can have different levels depending on monster spell power
- Unify wounding spells
- Unify arrow spells, add shot and bolt spells
- Add missing Shapechanger spells
- Add shard balls
- Add a dummy golem in base town for target practice
- Add SMASH_WALL, changes to SHATTER blow effect
- Some font improvements
- Many fixes to bugs and memory leaks
- Nerf randarts
- Unnerf no_selling gold drops on early levels
- Adjust first cast experience for lots of spells
- Remove TMD_CUT_ constants
- New mode where all races gain experience at the same rate, except for
humans who are faster, and high-elves who are slower (PWMAngband: define
CLASSIC_EXP_FACTOR = false in mangband.cfg to activate this mode -- yeeks
are still faster and ents/thunderlords/dragons are still slower)
- The player now has a hunger meter, and food is more important
- Fancy lighting
- Take all rock colors down a shade
- Treasure in quartz as yellow
- Expand properties line in object.txt to level, weight, cost
- Expand combat line in object.txt to attack and armor
- Replace Lose Memories
- Simplify saved subwindow preferences
- Make Fortune Cookies single items in stores
- Make Dragons and Monks learn obvious object properties on carry
- Add throwing weapons
- Add some missing object descriptions
- Expand properties line in artifact.txt to level, weight, cost
- Expand combat line in artifact.txt to attack and armor
- Add extra moves and damage reduction
- Add TRAP_IMMUNE
- Make _Starlight more useful, replace Door Destruction with Darkness
- Fix for targeting of spells with multiple effects
- Make sure arcs include all the target path
- Stop fast monsters getting a turn before the player after being summoned by a trap
- Make timed healing fast metabolism, adjust nature spells
- New Hydra race
- Make stores always accept items with unknown runes in no-selling
- Fix outside of a couple of vaults
- Change vegetal monster base symbol to 'l', add 'l' monsters to the Old Forest
- Change stealing command to 's'
- Make stealing a bit easier
- Add Mushrooms of Shadows

Files updated: binaries only (source will come with first beta).
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

Note: Gervais tileset hasn't been updated yet, so if you want to test this just stick to ASCII.

Development will continue until I catch up with Vanilla changes, add remaining PWMAng features and tackle the planned issues from Git repository.

[PowerWyrm]

New version released with the following changes:

- Add aquatic monsters
- Track number of thefts, reduce drops of uniques accordingly
- Add option to play again on death
- Replace Satisfy Hunger with Remove Hunger
- Add new foods
- Enlarge character resist display
- Nerf rings of Escaping
- Make being teleported wake monsters
- Stop lore saying undead don't resist nether
- Add light level meter
- Pressing another macro clears choice menu when a first macro lacks item
- Adjust some player race heights
- Make player not learn slays for monsters they can't see
- Add trap immunity, move speed and damage reduction as possible randart properties

Files updated: binaries only (source will come with first beta).
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

Note: all commits from V ported up to the official 4.2.0 release. So the last 3 things to implement are:
- bugfixes and improvements from V for 4.2.0
- Git issues for PWMAngband set for 1.4.0 release
- Gervais tileset with all the new stuff

[Grotug]

Something I wanted to ask about V: why are rings of escaping nerfed? Even at <+4> the rings were pretty bad in my opinion. At <+2> they are a veritable joke. Anyway, I think I'm going to try out your variant soon.

[Pete Mack]

Some people occasional dual wield them, apparently. But they mess up spell success rate along with melee, so there's not much use IMO. Ring of Mouse is way, way better.

[tangar]

Awesome update! Aquatic monsters, option to play again on death, character resist display, new randart properties (-> new race/class properties!).. It's life-changing stuff

Originally Posted by Grotug

Something I wanted to ask about V: why are rings of escaping nerfed? Even at <+4> the rings were pretty bad in my opinion. At <+2> they are a veritable joke. Anyway, I think I'm going to try out your variant soon.

I've also nerfed this rings in Tangaria (~ year ago) - they still give +4 speed, but you pay a very good price for it.. Spoiler could be found there: https://tangaria.com/data/objects/.. +4 speed is imba at the start of the game, especially for archer =)

[Derakon]

Yeah, once you make the decision to give permanent speed on early-game gear, you find yourself with a very tricky balance problem. In Vanilla the downside doesn't even stack, so if you're going to wear one there's very little reason not to wear two.

[DrWho42]

thanks for all the changes!

[PowerWyrm]

New version released with the following changes:

- Stop block fall trap crash
- Fix a few small bugs
- Nerf death wings/golems
- Remove Unlife pits (we already have golem and elemental pits)
- Reorganise player-attack
- Increase bigger weapon dice chance
- V-combat throwing
- Modify some artifacts
- Make ent draughts nourish like honey-cakes
- Harmonise plurals of hydra
- Change order of messages when taking items off
- Detarget teleported monsters if out of LoS
- Add j/k keys for scrolling help text
- Nerf Recharge effect
- Make stunning kill fastcast, tap devices stun
- Halve device damage boosts
- Give some monsters orb of draining
- Fix resource leak (file descriptor not closed)
- Grammatical and spelling fixes
- Simplify Term_fresh
- Give ATTR_FLICKER to Cantoras and Gilim
- Give Alchemist's gloves better armor
- Arrange town shops along streets
- Light hidden squares in town
- Un-hardcode hybrid monsters by adding a HYBRID flag
- Make sure every extra projection effect has a message
- Show plater grid trap or terrain on status line
- Make items with random resists also ignore that element
- Allow player to be pushed into traps, webs or objects by earthquakes
- Add README file
- Replace hardcoded flicker table with one from a config file
- Implement color cycling
- Nerf to Mana Channel
- Make Cover Tracks reduce monster hearing and sight as well as smell
- Major changes to blackguards
- Don't show negative values in spell info
- Add player_property.txt
- Fix incorrect number of bytes read from Packet_scanf() calls
- Add browsing of player abilities
- GCU port fixes
- Changed Term_resize() to handle all of the saved stack of terminals
- Add movement speed to status line
- Make birth_ai_learn learn from breath attacks
- Make birth_ai_learn on by default
- Make monsters at preferred range more likely to cast spells
- Prevent randart launchers from getting negative multipliers
- New option: Use white color for torch-lit grids in towns
- Replace specific skeletons by general skeletons, rework Raise effect

Files updated: binaries only (source will come with first beta).
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

Note: this is now on par with current V.