ChangeLog

2014-2-23	SLASH'EM UP	0.0.1
	* Applied bugfixes:
		- C343-17:  After polymorphing into a xorn and returning to 
		            human form, player can be stuck in a pit that isn't 
			    there.
		- C343-19:  Dipping acid in a fountain may not destroy the acid.
		- C343-30:  Cursed scroll of destroy armor on cursed armor 
		            doesn't always interact correctly.
		- C343-52:  Worn or wielded objects destroyed by dipping into 
		            lit potions of oil are not handled properly; this 
			    can result in odd game behavior.
		- C343-72:  You get confusing messages when you stop levitating 
		            while on a flying steed.
		- C343-95:  If killed by the wish from a magic lamp (or similar 
		            situation) and a bones file is produced, the bones 
			    file has the lamp in the wrong state.
		- C343-100: Game may crash if thrown potion hits bars before a 
		            monster. 
		- C343-115: Sleeping or paralyzed unicorns can catch gems.
		- C343-134: Being petrified by swallowing a cockatrice violates
		            foodless conduct.
		- C343-172: Crash could occur when monster uses potion or food 
		            to cure stoning or confusion.
		- C343-175: Chatting to hostile prisoners may give an in-
		            appropriate message.
		- C343-179: If a monster is killed by a drawbridge while 
		            carrying a potion of acid, the game may panic.
		- C343-218: Applying a wielded cream pie can crash the game. 
		            This generalizes to wielded objects being destroyed.
		- C343-243: Hero can throw without hands.
		- C343-248: You can't put candles in a candelabrum while under-
		            water.
		- C343-268: Used up potion of acid may end up in bones file.
		- C343-275: If a lit, wielded, candle or potion of oil burns 
			    out, the game may crash.
		- C343-276: If a figuring auto-transforms while wielded or worn,
	  		    the game may crash.
		- C343-290: Rings do not show up in the "what do you want to 
			    charge?" prompt when they should. Applies to oil 
			    lamps (and brass lanterns), too.
		- C343-305: Attacking with an applied polearm ignores the
			    "confirm" option.
		- C343-324: Cutting a long worm in two will crash the game if
		            the cut takes the worm to 1 HP or if long worms had 
			    become extinct.
		- C343-343: Helm of Opposite alignment gives incorrect piety 
			    level.
		- C343-351: Alchemy-caused explosions don't wake nearby 
		            monsters.
		- C343-355: Archeologists start out at basic skill level in
			    sling.
		- C343-383: Applying a bullwhip while hero is at edge of map may
			    cause a panic or crash.
		- C343-394: Throwing a potion of acid into water may panic the 
			    game.
		- C343-409: Unlocking a mimic pretending to be a door is not 
			    handled properly.
		- SC343-11: It's possible to easily find the identity of a high 
			    priest on the Astral plane.
		- SC343-12: Hero using telepathy can abuse Call on the Astral 
			    Plane.
	* Demon and devil levels are now shuffled, so Asmodeus' Lair may
	  appear before Demogorgon's Lair.
	* Applied Randomized Sokoban Prize patch, with a chance of generating
	  cloak of magic resistance.
	* Players can select Sokoban prize like UnNetHack by enabling 
	  CHOOSABLE_SOKOPRIZE in config.h.
	* Ettins and their undead counterparts, as well as titans, now have
	  their M2_GIANT flag set.
	* Flame/ice mage quest artifacts and first sacrifice gift are changed
	  by enabling ENHANCED_MAGE_ARTI in config.h.
	  	- Firewall Deep Freeze now summons fire/water elementals.
		  Earth/air elementals are summoned when invoked while
		  confused.
		- The Candle of Eternal Flame now confers hungerless
		  regeneration, teleport control, cold resistance, and a
		  passive 1d10 fire attack when carried.
		- The Storm Whistle now confers energy regeneration, teleport
		  control, fire resistance, and a passive 1d10 cold attack
		  when carried.
	* Applied Enhanced Artifacts patch, with some differences:
		- Giantkiller is an axe which warns the player of giants while
		  wielded, deals an extra 20 damage, gives a +8 bonus to hit, 
		  and has a small chance of instakilling at most 7 adjacent 
		  giants (including titans and ettins).
		- Dragonbane is a dwarvish spear which deals double damage and
		  provides a +8 to-hit bonus against dragons. It also grants
		  reflection while wielded.
		- Sunsword is a long sword which detects and deals double
		  damage against undead, has a chance of blinding any
		  opponent, and prevents light-based blinding.
		- Demonbane is now a silver long sword which deals double
		  damage and gives a +8 to-hit bonus against major demons, and
		  prevents demon-gating.
		- Trollsbane grants hungerless regeneration while wielded, and
		  has a +20 to-damage and +8 to-hit bonus against trolls.
		- Ogresmasher provides a bonus +8 to-hit and +20 to-damage,
		  and sets constitution to a constant 25 when carried.
		- Sword of Balance now deals double damage and gives +5 to-hit
		  against cross-aligned enemies.
		- Vorpal Blade gives a +8 bonus to-damage.
		- Added a new artifact called Mouser's Scalpel, and
		  uncommented the relevant code in artifact.c. It's a rapier
		  which gives +5 to-hit bonus and +1 to-damage. Since rapiers
		  are not randomly generated, one can only find a naturally
		  generated Mouser's Scalpel in Grund's Stronghold.
		- Grimtooth is a permanently poisoned weapon, much like
		  Serpent's Tongue.
		- Deathsword occasionally knocks the opponents unconscious.
		- Elfrist detects elves.
		- Invoking Nighthorn causes all hostile enemies who can see
		  you and are not mindless flee, or even paralyze. Of course,
		  invoking an alignment quest artifact induce a penalty to
		  alignment and luck.
		- The Heart of Ahriman confers stealth, displacement and
		  energy regeneration when carried.
		- The Sceptre of Might again deals double damage against
		  cross-aligned monsters. It also sets the wielder's strength
		  at 18 + enchantment, to the maximum of 25.
		- Re-enabled the Palantir of Westernesse. It is now an
		  unaligned crystal ball which tame nearby creatures when
		  invoked.
	* Introduced Dungeon Overview patch by Hojita Discordia into SLASH'EM.
	* Applied Ask Order patch by Pasi Kallinen.
	* Necromancers now receive a +1 alignment bonus when digging graves,
	  and will exercise wisdom if found a corpse.
	* Applied Polysink patch by L. Dropping a ring of polymorph into the
	  sink could also convert it into a toilet.
	* Applied Flipped Levels patch by Pasi Kallinen.
		- Directions of drawbridges are not flipped in the original
		  patch. This is now fixed.
	* Applied Watchmen Bribery patch by L.
	* Vlad the Impaler and Doctor Frankenstein are tougher.
	* Floating eyes are now bright green in TTY.
	* Materials for boots are now shuffled, as seeing brown streaks on the
	  stones when rubbing steel boots is weird. Kicking boots are no
	  longer guaranteed iron boots any more.
	* Pistols, bullets, silver bullets and frag grenades may randomly
	  generate if FIREARM_RANDGEN is enabled.
	* The times a long worm attack per move is equal to the length of the
	  long worm.
	* Cutting long worm in the middle now has a 2 in 3 chance to create
	  two shorter worms.
	* Applied Golem-Shattering patch by L.
	* Cancelling monsters now have a visible effect (covered in sparkling
	lights).
	* More object upgrading:
		- Elven/dark elven daggers can now upgrade to wooden stakes,
		  and vice versa.
		- Knives can upgrade to scalpels, and vice versa.
		- High boots can upgrade to any magic leather boots except for
		  fumble boots, and vice versa.
		- Iron shoes can upgrade to iron magic boots unless the magic
		  boots are fumble boots, and vice versa.
		- Flintstones can upgrade to touchstones and whetstones.
		- Touchstones and whetstones can upgrade to luckstones and
		  healthstones, and vice versa.

2014-2-27	SLASH'EM UP	0.0.1E1
	* Undead slayers can reach saber skills to skilled, short sword skills
	basic.
	* Undead slayers can be dwarves.
	* Yeoman's calm steed technique is implemented. Calming steed will
	raise its tameness by 1, to a maximum of 10.
	* Vampires and lycanthropes now can only switch between human form and
	animal form, even stepped on a polymorph trap.
	* Killing quest leader can unlock the lower quest levels. (from
	SporkHack)
	* Drain energy attack against player is implemented and works as if
	stepping on an anti-magic field.
	* Player-lycanthropes now gain intrinsic polymorph control at level
	LYC_POLYCONTROL, default 9, and would not have intrinsic polycontrol
	if LYC_POLYCONTROL is not defined.
	* Applied Itlachiayaque patch by L.
	* Angelic beings now have a small chance of generating with silver long
	sword.
	* Doppelgangers can no longer gain intrinsic polymorph control by
	leveling up.
	* Grenades are lighter.
	* Keystone Kops may generate with pistols, bullets and dagger/knife.

2014-3-10	SLASHEM'UP	0.0.1E2
	* The form-changing chance for player-lycanthropes is now 
	  80 * u.ulevel ^ 2 / 2.
	* Mirrorbright no longer hinders spell-casting.
	* Mirrorbright is not the first guaranteed gift to healers any more.
	* Droven sleeping punch is made a technique.
	* Alchemy, including mixing potions and dissolving gems, is much more
	dangerous (there's now 1 in 3 chance of exploding) unless you are
	wearing a lab coat, in which case the chance is reduced to 1 in 10.
	* Empty wands may crumble after an unsuccessful wresting.
	* Green slimes' passive sliming attack is implemented. Hitting while
	bare-handed starts the sliming process.
	* Mugger can steals items, and will teleport if succeeds. (This makes
	the mall a much more annoying place)
	* Applied Epitaph patch by Ross Presser. Enabled ability to write
	epitaphs.
	* Flame mage quest artifact can destroy potions/scrolls/spellbooks
	through passive fire attack. Similarly, ice mage quest artifact can
	destroy potions. The passive fire/cold attack code is made more
	readable.
	* Player-vampires gain intrinsic sleep resistance and poison
	resistance at level 7 if EASIER_VAMPIRE is enabled.
		- Still needs further testing to balance...
	* Cursed potion of gain ability can decrease one's attributes.
	* Unicorn horn's chance of fixing attribute problems are reduced. A
	unicorn horn can permanently not fix the problem if it fails to
	restore the attribute.
	* Pistols and bullets can be randomly generated in intelligent
	monsters' starting inventory.
	* '@'s now have initial weapons.
	* Grimtooth now does acid damage against non-acid-resistant monsters,
	like Fire and Frost Brand against non-fire/cold-resistant enemies.
	* Autoconf script modified. Execute sys/autoconf/bootstrap.sh before
	./configure if you need to change the default settings.
	* Bug fixed: begin_burn error when receiving Holy Spear of Light as
	gift. (http://sourceforge.net/p/slashem/bugs/907/)
	* Bug fixed: picking up drained corpses may receive "You hear
	something popping" message.
	* Bug fixed (Zero-turn wresting, C343-246): Players who unsuccessfully
	try to engrave with empty, wrestable wands while levitating will spend
	1 turn doing so with this patch. This removes the bug which allows the
	player to wrest a wand in zero turns.

2014-03-24	SLASH'EM UP	0.0.1E3
	* Strong monster wielding two-handed weapon can shatter the opponent's
	wielding weapon just like the player.
	* Artifacts have a chance of shattering. Be careful.
	* The possibility of defender's weapon shattering relates to BUC
	status, enchantment, erosion, and whether it is an artifact. Erosion
	of the attacker's weapon also counts.
	* Partially applied L's resistance patch.
		- Resistances granted from eating and leveling up are now half
		resistances, which reduces the damage or effect by half.
		- Extrinsic resistances and starting intrinsic resistances are
		full resistances.
		- Magic resistance (currently) remains unchanged.
		- Fire damage (currently) does not reduce maximum HP.
		- Elves and drow have full sleep resistance.
		- Vampires have full sleep and poison resistance.
	* Flame/ice mage quest and quest nemeses is slightly redesigned.
		- Flame mages will encounter a lot of water-based and
		ice-based monsters, including sea monsters, water trolls,
		frost giants, water nymphs, water demons etc.
		- Ice mages will fight through various fiery monsters and
		demons in their quest. Beware of demon summoning.
		- The quest nemesis for flame mages is Neptulon, the water
		elemental lord in World of Warcraft. He has two arcane
		spell-casting attacks, and can deal a fair amount of physical
		damage, as well as possessing a passive cold attack.
		- Quest nemesis for ice mages is Ragnaros the Firelord, also
		from World of Warcraft. He is merely a fiery counterpart of
		Neptulon. He can cast both arcane and clerical spells, and
		deals a lot of fire and physical damage.
	* Price identification is no longer available to certain object types:
		- All rings.
		- All wands.
		- All potions.
		- All spellbooks.
		- All scrolls.
		- Armors with randomized appearance. Specifically, all magic
		cloaks, all robes, all conical hats, helmets and magic helms,
		all gloves, and all magic boots.
		- All bags, both wooden and magic flutes, tooled horns and all
		magical counterparts, both wooden and magic harps, leather
		drum and drum of earthquake.
		- All gray stones.
	* Magical musical instruments are made more expensive.
	* Create pool spell can be affected by invisibility and/or
	displacement.
	* Game will pause when a secret door or passage is revealed. ("You find
	a secret door" or "You reveal a secret passage")
	* Applied Randomized Planes patch by Patric Mueller.
	* Specifying "dragon scales" or "dragon scale mail" in level
	description file generates random dragon scales/scale mail, instead of
	printing a warning message, if RANDOM_DRAGON_SCALES is enabled.
	* Up to three random dragon scales can generate at the arch-lich
	statue trap in Lawful Quest if RANDOM_DRAGON_SCALES is enabled.
		- If RANDOM_DRAGON_SCALES is disabled, random objects are
		created instead.
	* Inspired by Color Alchemy patch, the product of mixing two potions
	other than blood or vampire blood is no longer random if the player is
	a healer or wearing a lab coat.
		- Mixing with a potion of amnesia always produces an undiluted
		potion of amnesia.
		- Mixing with potion of blood or vampire blood still produces
		random results.
	* Plague is associated with drovenkind.
	* Excalibur can randomly generate, can be obtained by sacrificing, and
	could not be obtained by dipping unless you are a knight.
	* Applied Statuscolors patch.
		- BUG: Status colors are not displayed before you press a key.
		- NOTE: This patch is not recommended for slow computer users,
		as the bottom line would flash _a lot_.
	* 'c's "tastes like chicken" (cockatrice if hallucinating).
	* Vlad the Impaler has his own hallucinatory names (thanks to those
	Dudley's Dungeon guys).
	* Protection for monks not wearing body armor other than robes are
	(level / 3) + 1
	* Cavemen have a 1 in 10 chance of reading scrolls as if they are
	confused.
		- Scrolls of genocide is an exception.
	* Sea monsters CAN BE RANDOMLY GENERATED.
	* Introduced and slightly modified Heck^2 levels. Gehennom is longer.
	* Monsters killed by Trollsbane won't revive (except riders, of
	course).
	* Bug fixed: overviewing the level containing spellbook shops and
	black market only displays "a shop".
		- SLASH'EM added some shop types, so 5 bit is not enough.
	* Bug fixed:
		- C343-1:   At a pit the game can give messages with poor
		grammar. 
		- C343-23:  Dungeon collapses after vault guard fails to lead
		you out.
		- C343-77:  Some messages referring to monsters that look like
		horses refer to claws.
		- C343-263: Probing may miss Schroedinger's cat.

2014-09-12	SLASH'EM UP	0.0.1E4
	* Compilable on OpenBSD.
	* Spells Revised:
		- Summon Undead revives corpses to their undead form if
		practiced by "necromancy performers", i.e. chaotic
		necromancers, wizards, flame and ice mages. Real necromancers
		never raise zombies by this spell.
		- Elemental resistance spells are made level 2 spells, and had
		their duration greatly reduced.
	* Monsters Added:
		- Father Dagon and Mother Hydra are available, holding two
		artifact keys necessary to unlock the doors in the Wizard's
		Tower.
		- Cthulhu available, holding the Amulet, while co-exist with
		the high priest of Moloch.
	* Monsters Revised:
		- Riders have their base level set at 45, and are immune to
		polymorph and sliming attacks.
		- Nightmare is disintegration and stoning resistant.
		- Beholder is disintegration, stoning and sleep resistant, and
		needs +2 weapon to hit.
		- Barbarians are not immune to poison.
		- Necromancer monsters can cast call undead like liches.
		- Flame mages cast cleric spells.
		- Water Elementals have a short passive paralysis attack.
	* Artifacts Added:
		- Two artifact keys.
		- A bullwhip named Angelbane, a moderately powerful weapon.
	* Artifacts Revised:
		- Excalibur is reverted to SPFX_NOGEN.
		- Thiefbane is now a broadsword.
		- Stormbringer deals +6 instead of +2.
		- Mouser's Scalpel had greater chance of combo-hitting.
		- Palantir of Westernesse disabled by default.
	* Objects Revised:
		- Rapiers can be generated randomly.
	* Techniques Revised:
		- Calm steed technique is more effective.
	* Third Party Patches Applied:
		- Hilight Item Piles patch, ported it onto WinNT, with pile
		indicator "memorized".
		- MessageType patch.
		- Bilious #432.
	* Minions will rebel iff the hero converts.
	* Flying players can pick up items in pits.
	* Players wearing or wielding their race-specific armor/weapon may
	exercise their corresponding attributes.
	* Tourists are being overcharged by 3x.
	* Cavemen exercises wisdom and receives HP and maximum HP bonuses if
	levelled up while illiterate.
	* Monk's hitting enchantment is now related to gloves instead of
	his/her own level.
	* Droven starting objects are now more elven.
	* Bug fixed:
		- Bug fixed: cannot cast elemental resistance spells or
		perform warding techs after obtaining partial resistance.
		- Bug fixed: incorrect message of sleeping punch technique.
		- Bug fixed: startquestions patch not working or causing
		glitches on Linux.
		- C343-4
		- C343-16
		- C343-41
		- C343-42
		- C343-45
		- C343-65
		- C343-360
	* Other forgotten features.