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-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/docs/changes.stone_soup33
-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt221
-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt12
-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/init.txt1
-rw-r--r--crawl-ref/source/command.cc8
5 files changed, 141 insertions, 134 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/docs/changes.stone_soup b/crawl-ref/docs/changes.stone_soup
index 9080d77669..5f6bd433d4 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/docs/changes.stone_soup
+++ b/crawl-ref/docs/changes.stone_soup
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ Interface
---------
* Overhauled key settings of a number of commands. (See /docs/034_commands.txt.)
* Added monster list for monsters in LOS (for big consoles, ASCII only).
-* Overhauled (f)iring interface, abolish (t)hrowing, output quiver in status.
+* Overhauled (f)iring interface: abolish (t)hrowing, output quiver in status.
* Allow selection of equipment slots from '%' overview screen.
* Improved butchering interface.
* Allow searching item/monster/spell descriptions ('?\' command).
* Allow swapping (' command) to non-weapons that need to be wielded for spells.
+* Fixed weapon swap ignoring {!w}.
* Added Ctrl-D as a synonym for '~' (defining macros).
* Added commands for repeating commands ('`' and '0').
* Added command to annotate level ('!' command).
@@ -21,13 +22,9 @@ Interface
* Ask for confirmation before stepping into dangerous clouds, or traps.
* Allow autotravel through clouds your character is immune to.
* Prompt when firing through allies, or doing a ranged attack TSO would punish.
+* Make butchering respect distortion weapons.
* (W)ear and (P)ut on menus allow removal of equipped items.
-* easy_butcher won't switch away from distortion weapons.
-* Distortion effect now cancels butchering.
-* Fixed weapon swap ignoring {!w}.
-* Added inscriptions =p, !p for preventing autosaccing.
* Arriving via stairs calls autopickup and lists items on square.
-* Output item slots for rotting meat message.
* Refuse to eat rotten meat for non-saprovorous characters.
* Evaporate can now be cancelled during potion/direction choice.
* greedy_explore now defaults to true.
@@ -51,17 +48,17 @@ Characters
* Added +1 damage bonus for orcs and dwarves throwing racial gear.
* Fixed undead being unable to smite.
* Necromutation now gives torment resistance again.
-* When transforming only remove armour you can't wear when transformed.
+* When transforming only remove armour you can't wear while transformed.
* Improve Priests' starting weapons.
Items
-----
* Removed weapons of disruption, improved holy wrath.
* New weapon brand: dragon slaying, limited to Polearms.
-* Disable random generation of weapons of orc slaying (allowed in randarts).
-* Allow random generation of throwing nets.
+* Forbid (un)equipping of items with known potentially fatal stat drain.
* Make distortion only take effect on unwielding.
* Improved autotargeting for weapons of reaching.
+* Disable random generation of weapons of orc slaying (allowed in randarts).
* Fixed cap acquirement misbehaviour.
* New scrolls: Holy Word, Fog.
* Removed scrolls of forgetfulness.
@@ -73,7 +70,6 @@ Items
* Manuals are now visibly different from spell books.
* Improved artefact autoinscriptions.
* Several new pre-defined (un)randarts.
-* Warn before putting on items of potentially fatal stat drain.
* Added message for returning weapons NOT returning.
* Equipped randarts can now actually cause berserk.
* Thrown potions of poison won't poison monsters anymore.
@@ -84,20 +80,21 @@ Items
Monsters
--------
* New glyphs and colours for many monsters. (See /docs/034_monster_glyphs.txt.)
-* Ghosts get freezing cloud.
* Draconian ghosts of xl >= 7 get the shadow dragon breath attack.
+* Ghosts get freezing cloud.
+* Mummy curses now only decay a random amount of a stack of potions.
* Angels and Daevas may appear randomly in the Abyss.
* Holy monsters may turn neutral if the player follows a good god.
-* Unknown mimics are now consistently treated like items.
* Beefed up demon lords.
-* Mummy curses now only decay a random amount of a stack of potions.
-* Began changing monster resists to have several levels, like the player's.
+* Unknown mimics are now consistently treated like items.
+* Changed monster resists to have several levels, like the player's.
* Removed electricity resistance from several monsters.
* Daevas now resist negative energy.
* Fixed Oklob plants being confuseable.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction now works against skeletal dragons.
* Changed evil/holiness/intelligence flags for a number of monsters.
* Improved trap handling for intelligent monsters.
+* Improved control over friendly monsters.
* Smarter pickup handling.
* Fixed friendlies accidentally shooting the player.
* Fixed monsters firing/reaching through walls.
@@ -127,24 +124,21 @@ Levels
* Removed amnesia traps.
* Introduced shafts.
* Added blood spattering.
-* Allow for fountains of blood in vault generation.
Tiles
-----
-* Merged Tiles into Crawl code.
+* Merged Tiles into Crawl code.
* Save files between tile and non-tile games are compatible.
* Added lots of new tiles, and corrected misdisplayed ones.
* wininit.txt is now autocreated, if missing.
* Tutorial improvement for tiles.
* Improved mouse-click inventory/dungeon interaction.
* Show travel exclusion in tile map and mini-map.
-* Added MP colour bar.
* Fixed ghosts changing icons between saves.
-* Fixed Detect creatures revealing exact monster type.
+* Fixed Detect creatures revealing exact monster type.
* Mimics posing as autopickable items now get marked as such.
* Clicking on items now respects warning inscriptions.
* Added item brand for plants.
-* Added '0' significator for empty wands.
* General improvement.
Miscellaneous
@@ -154,6 +148,7 @@ Miscellaneous
* Train Traps & Doors by setting off traps.
* Increase cost for self-banishment, and nerf Banishment spell.
* Better feedback on Detect Traps.
+* Added MP colour bar.
* Identify post-mortem inventory in morgue.txt.
* Dump command also dumps level map.
* init.txt/crawlrc allow loading of external options/macro files.
diff --git a/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt b/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt
index 7ec8d92151..f8236166be 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/docs/monster_speech.txt
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ Overview
========
As of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.3 the previously hard-coded monster
-speech has been outsourced by Matthew Cline. This makes changing
-existing messages, or adding new ones really easy. This file will
-hopefully help you in this endeavour.
+speech has been outsourced. This makes changing existing messages,
+or adding new ones really easy. This file will hopefully help you in
+this endeavour.
The outsourced messages are used to create two databases out of which
-Crawl randomly draws the necessary speech text.
+Crawl randomly draws the necessary speech text.
-* shout.db (handling speech when monsters first notice you), and
-* speak.db (for all other cases).
+* shout.db (handling speech when monsters first notice you), and
+* speak.db (for all other cases).
Because of the amount of definitions necessary, they have been divided
over a number of different files.
@@ -18,25 +18,25 @@ over a number of different files.
The shout database is constructed from the following two files:
* shout.txt handles message output for monsters noticing you
-* insult.txt handles insults thrown at you by imps and demons
+* insult.txt handles insults thrown at you by imps and demons
The speak database contains messages defined in these files:
* monspeak.txt handles messages for monsters communicating with you
* wpnnoise.txt handles randart weapons with the noises property
-* godspeak.txt handles randomized speech by the gods, as well as
+* godspeak.txt handles randomized speech by the gods, as well as
speech used for some divine abilities
* insult.txt Same file as above.
-The messages defined in insult.txt form a part of both databases.
-Apart from that, keywords and statements defined for one database
-cannot be automatically accessed from the other. Rather, they have to
+The messages defined in insult.txt form a part of both databases.
+Apart from that, keywords and statements defined for one database
+cannot be automatically accessed from the other. Rather, they have to
be defined a second time.
Whenever Dungeon Crawl is started, the game checks whether any of the
databases needs to be updated. If one of the underlying files has been
-changed since the last check, the database is automatically rerolled.
-That means that if you'd like to change one of the descriptions or add
+changed since the last check, the database is automatically rerolled.
+That means that if you'd like to change one of the descriptions or add
some new monster speech all you have to do is modify the file, save,
and restart the game to test your changes.
@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ Contents:
A. Monster speech probabilities
================================
-Not all monsters are equally likely to speak. Rather there are
+Not all monsters are equally likely to speak. Rather there are
different chances involved, depending on several attributes, and most
of the time the database lookup stage isn't even reached.
-First, the player will only ever hear monsters speak if they are in
-line of sight, and monsters will only ever speak if they are not
+First, the player will only ever hear monsters speak if they are in
+line of sight, and monsters will only ever speak if they are not
asleep, not submerged in water, air or lava, and not wandering around
aimlessly (unless neutral).
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ if the monster in question was generated as a member of a group.
Chances are again doubled if this non-humanoid monster is fleeing, and
doubled again if confused.
-Neutral monsters only speak half as often, and for charmed monsters
-the probability is divided by 3. The same applies to silenced
-monsters, i.e. monsters that are not naturally silent will only get to
-even attempt to speak in one out of three tries where the above
+Neutral monsters only speak half as often, and for charmed monsters
+the probability is divided by 3. The same applies to silenced
+monsters, i.e. monsters that are not naturally silent will only get to
+even attempt to speak in one out of three tries where the above
chances hold.
Note that the definition of which monsters are capable of speech is
@@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ are comment lines.
friendly '5'
The first non-comment, non-blank line is interpreted as the key of an
-entry. Many keys are hardcoded, but there's place for user defined
-ones as well. More on that later, though.
+entry. Many keys are hardcoded, but there's place for user defined
+ones as well. More on that later, though.
In this case, the key is "friendly '5'".
'5' refers to the monster glyph, so the speech will not be entirely
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ attributes as prefixes.
speech from "hostile" or "neutral". All prefixes are optional and
tested in the following order:
- default <attitude> fleeing silenced confused [related] <player god>
+ default <attitude> fleeing silenced confused [related] <player god>
where <attitude> can be any of friendly, neutral or hostile. Note that
the game generally treats neutral monsters like hostiles since they
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ still pose a danger to players.
The prefix "related" is added if the player and the monster share the
same genus, e.g. if you're playing a Sludge Elf, and the monster in
-question is a deep elf blademaster, you both are Elves and the monster
+question is a deep elf blademaster, you both are elves and the monster
speech may reflect that. It's currently only used for friendly
humanoids who will now sometimes mention that you're family, if you
are. Stupid monsters, i.e. animals, will judge your relatedness status
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ orc species and the character worships Beogh, the prefix "beogh" gets
added to the list, though not for charmed orcs who will simply use the
generic friendly statements instead of the orcish followers' cheers.
If you worship one of the good gods instead (Zin, The Shining One, or
-Elyvilon) the prefix "good god" is used. Conversely, worshippers of
+Elyvilon) the prefix "good god" is used. Conversely, worshippers of
one of the evil gods (Yredelemnul, Makhleb, Kikubaaqudgha, Lugonu, or
-Beogh) will use the prefix "evil god".
+Beogh) will use the prefix "evil god".
This allows fine-grained handling of monsters depending on your
character's religion status, e.g. orcs will use special speech for
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ shout messages of encouragement to followers of the good gods, while
demons will attempt to slander the good gods.
Once the entire set of prefixes has been determined, we only need
-to add the monster name and start the database search.
+to add the monster name and start the database search.
First we search for the complete prefix string in combination with the
monster name. Then we try omitting some very specific prefixes that
@@ -236,16 +236,16 @@ general.
In practice this means that database keys starting with "default" are
the fallback solution if the exact look-up has failed. As such, the
-messages should be generic enough to allow for all the possibly
-skipped prefixes, or else those cases should be caught earlier, e.g.
-if you have "default friendly humanoid", you should also define
-"default friendly fleeing humanoid" and "default friendly confused
-humanoid" (and possibly both combined) even if only with "__NONE"
-(stay silent), as the general friendly messages may look odd for a
+messages should be generic enough to allow for all the possibly
+skipped prefixes, or else those cases should be caught earlier, e.g.
+if you have "default friendly humanoid", you should also define
+"default friendly fleeing humanoid" and "default friendly confused
+humanoid" (and possibly both combined) even if only with "__NONE"
+(stay silent), as the general friendly messages may look odd for a
monster such afflicted.
Only keys that match a search string perfectly (ignoring case) will
-be used. Once all prefixes have been exhausted and still no match has
+be used. Once all prefixes have been exhausted and still no match has
been found, the database lookup will try for a more general monster
description. There are several possible ways this is attempted, in the
following order:
@@ -263,19 +263,19 @@ following order:
latter is entirely hardcoded, though.
Examples: "default winged insect", "default confused humanoid"
-If you are playing with tiles, you may not know the monster glyphs,
-but internally the monsters are still treated the same, and even under
-tiles, the glyph keys used for step 3 are entirely valid. In case you
-need to know the monster glyphs for your speech definitions you'll
-find a list of monster glyphs at the end of this file. Also, for many
-monsters you can find out their glyph in-game by searching the
-database ('?/') and entering a vague enough monster name. For example,
+If you are playing with tiles, you may not know the monster glyphs,
+but internally the monsters are still treated the same, and even under
+tiles, the glyph keys used for step 3 are entirely valid. In case you
+need to know the monster glyphs for your speech definitions you'll
+find a list of monster glyphs at the end of this file. Also, for many
+monsters you can find out their glyph in-game by searching the
+database ('?/') and entering a vague enough monster name. For example,
entering "drac" will tell you that all draconians use the symbol 'd'.
Note that changing monster glyphs using the mon_glyph option may also
affect speech of this kind.
-For the last round (shape comparison, e.g. winged humanoid)
+For the last round (shape comparison, e.g. "winged humanoid")
occasionally an additional intelligence estimate ("stupid", "smart")
is prefixed to the search string, depending on the monster type, e.g.
a "stupid humanoid" may still be smarter than a "smart arachnid".
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Examples
Example 1:
The monster we want to make "speak" is a "confused killer bee".
- However, such an entry cannot be found in the database, so the game
+ However, such an entry cannot be found in the database, so the game
tries first for "default confused killer bee", then "default killer
bee", neither of which yields any results.
The monster genus is also plain "killer bee", so that doesn't help
@@ -318,11 +318,11 @@ Example 2:
wizard".
This obviously made up example also has no direct equivalent in the
- database, so first we try to remove the less important prefixes, in
+ database, so first we try to remove the less important prefixes, in
this case "related" and "beogh". Unfortunately, none of "friendly
fleeing related orc wizard", "friendly fleeing beogh orc wizard", or
"friendly fleeing orc wizard" has any corresponding entry in the
- database, so that we now check for "default" in combination with,
+ database, so that we now check for "default" in combination with,
one after another, all combinations of three or less prefixes.
Three prefixes: "default friendly fleeing related orc wizard",
@@ -338,24 +338,24 @@ Example 2:
One prefix: "default friendly orc wizard", "default fleeing orc
wizard", "default related orc wizard", "default beogh orc wizard".
- No prefix: "default orc wizard".
+ No prefix: "default orc wizard".
Sadly, none of these is successful. The genus of orc wizards is
- "orc", so we retry the above using "orc" instead of "orc wizard".
+ "orc", so we retry the above using "orc" instead of "orc wizard".
The same is repeated for "friendly fleeing beogh 'o'", and we still
haven't found anything.
This is starting to get ridiculous, so it's time for desperate
- measures:
+ measures:
- With the help of some rather complicated functions the game works
+ With the help of some rather complicated functions the game works
out that orcs can be described as humanoids of average intelligence.
Thus, in a final attempt of making this orc wizard speak, we search
- the database for "friendly fleeing related beogh humanoid",
- something that, not surprisingly (since Beogh and humanoid don't go
- well together), doesn't exist. Annoyingly enough, neither do the
- variants "friendly fleeing related humanoid", "friendly fleeing
- beogh humanoid" or even "friendly fleeing humanoid".
+ the database for "friendly fleeing related beogh humanoid",
+ something that, not surprisingly (since Beogh and humanoid don't go
+ well together), doesn't exist. Annoyingly enough, neither do the
+ variants "friendly fleeing related humanoid", "friendly fleeing
+ beogh humanoid" or even "friendly fleeing humanoid".
Still, we haven't yet tried the prefix combinations: "default
friendly fleeing related humanoid" is still unsuccessful, as
@@ -381,15 +381,22 @@ VISUAL:@The_monster@ tries to hide somewhere.
Weapon speech
-------------
-
For obvious reasons, weapon noises get by without any such prefixes,
and the only hardcoded keywords are "noisy weapon" for weapons with
the noises property, and "singing sword" for (who'd have guessed?) the
Singing Sword.
+Special monster speech
+----------------------
+Rarely, monster speech will also rely on hard-coded keys, such as
+Boris' "return_speech". If such a hard-coded key is changed or removed,
+the speech in question will simply not be printed. This may look odd in
+the game, but will have no other effect. Sometimes, default messages
+will be output instead.
+
God speech
----------
-The keys used to search for god speech are entirely hard-coded, though
+The keys used to search for god speech are entirely hard-coded, though
some local synonyms have been defined as well. Hopefully, the comments
will explain what the different speech messages are used for.
@@ -421,8 +428,8 @@ Values can contain variable references, which look like text
surrounded by @@. These variables may be defined by entries in
shout.txt for the shouting database, or monspeak.txt or one of the
other files for the speech database, in which case they are replaced
-with a random value from the entry; or they may have hardcoded
-expansions defined by the game.
+with a random value from the entry in question; or they may have
+hardcoded expansions defined by the game.
Note that variable replacement is recursive, so be careful to avoid
infinite loops. Though the game will abort after a number of
@@ -442,16 +449,16 @@ The following variables are hardcoded:
@a_something@ : similar
@the_something@ : similar
@player_name@ : Player name.
-@player_species@: Player base species, with Draconian rather than the
+@player_species@: Player base species, with Draconian rather than the
actual subtype.
@player_genus@ : Player genus, i.e. "Elf" rather than the exact type,
or "Ogre" instead of "Ogre-Mage".
@player_genus_plural@ : pluralised genus form.
@player_god@ : Player's god name, or "you" if non-religious.
@Player_god@ : Player's god name, or "You" if non-religious.
-@god_is@ : replaced with "<god name> is" or "you are", if
+@god_is@ : replaced with "<god name> is" or "you are", if
non-religious.
-@God_is@ : replaced with "<god name> is" or "You are", if
+@God_is@ : replaced with "<god name> is" or "You are", if
non-religious.
@surface@ : Whatever the monster is standing on.
@feature@ : The monster's square's feature description.
@@ -485,10 +492,10 @@ replacements don't hold. Instead you can use @The_weapon@,
@the_weapon@, @Your_weapon@, @your_weapon@ and @weapon@ which will get
replaced by "The (weapon name)", "the (weapon name)", "Your (weapon
name)", "your (weapon name)", and the plain weapon name,
-respectively.
+respectively.
-Note that the Singing Sword, being unique, cannot be referred to by
-the possessive variants, so they will be replaced with the appropriate
+Note that the Singing Sword, being unique, cannot be referred to by
+the possessive variants, so they will be replaced with the appropriate
definite article ones.
Examples of pre-defined variables in the database include
@@ -544,16 +551,16 @@ and enforce output even when silenced.
VISUAL SPELL : MSGCH_MONSTER_SPELL
VISUAL WARN : MSGCH_WARN
-Note, though, that these only will take effect if a VISUAL message
-just happens to be chosen. As stated above, the database search
-doesn't really care whether a monster is supposed to be silent, so it
-may pick any noisy monster speech, but the message output will care
-and refuse to print such nonsense, so that in this case the monster
-will actually stay silent after all.
+Note, though, that these only will take effect if a VISUAL message
+just happens to be chosen. As stated above, the database search
+doesn't really care whether a monster is supposed to be silent, so it
+may pick any noisy monster speech, but the message output will care
+and refuse to print such nonsense, so that in this case the monster
+will actually stay silent after all.
-All in all, chances of silent "speech" are lower (as is intended) but
-only VISUAL messages even have a chance to be printed under these
-circumstances.
+To summarize, chances of silent "speech" are overall lower (as is
+intended) but only VISUAL messages even have a chance to be printed
+under these circumstances.
As explained earlier, "silenced" is one of the prefixes that are
regarded as "less important" and can be ignored in the exact string
@@ -578,7 +585,7 @@ Killer Klown
...
- none of which, if chosen, would actually be printed, but luckily the
+ none of which, if chosen, would actually be printed, but luckily the
"Killer Klown" entry also contains VISUAL statements like the
following:
@@ -593,7 +600,7 @@ VISUAL:@The_monster@ does a flip.
If one of these is chosen, we get a non-verbal "speech" statement of
this silenced monster.
- However, what happens if the other 50% take effect and we will *not*
+ However, what happens if the other 50% take effect and we will *not*
ignore the "silenced" prefix? In this case, we'll simply continue
like in the earlier examples above, get no results for either of
"default silenced Killer Klown" or "default Killer Klown", and try
@@ -621,11 +628,15 @@ VISUAL:@The_monster@ gestures.
For shouts the default channel is also MSGCH_TALK, which is
automatically changed to MSGCH_TALK_VISUAL for monsters that can't
-speak (animals, usually), and manually set to MSGCH_SOUND for all
+speak (animals, usually), and manually set to MSGCH_SOUND for all
those variants of "You hear a shout!"
+Monster spells and enchantments will only interrupt resting/running
+if done by a non-friendly creature, and, as stated above, messages
+passed through the TALK or SOUND channels never will.
+
For weapon noises only a subset of the above is relevant, as anything
-including VISUAL and the channel keys SPELL and ENCHANT are considered
+including VISUAL and the channel keys SPELL and ENCHANT is considered
invalid and will trigger a default message instead. Again, the default
channel is MSGCH_TALK.
@@ -653,10 +664,10 @@ E. Testing your changes
========================
Get a version of Stone Soup that contains WIZARD mode. You can check
-whether this is the case by pressing '&' during the game. If you are
-told that this is an "unknown command" (likely, since WIZARD builds
-are generally not distributed), you will have to compile the game for
-yourself.
+whether this is the case by reading the in-game version information
+('?v'). If Wizard mode is not listed among the included features
+(likely, since WIZARD builds are generally not distributed), you will
+have to compile the game for yourself.
To build Crawl yourself, download the source code from the Crawl
homepage [1] and read the "INSTALL" file in the main directory for
@@ -664,11 +675,11 @@ instructions. Should you still have any questions after reading the
documentation and checking the archives of the Crawl newsgroup [2],
ask away!
-If you have WIZARD mode compiled in, you can simply answer "yes" to
-the safety question resulting from pressing '&', and then test to your
-heart's content. Pressing '&' followed by a number of other keys will
-execute wizard mode commands that are all listed in the wizard help
-menu (press '&?').
+If you have WIZARD mode compiled in, you can access special wizard
+commands by pressing '&'. First answer "yes" to the safety question
+and then you can test to your heart's content. Pressing '&' followed
+by a number of other keys will execute wizard mode commands that are
+all listed in the wizard help menu (press '&?').
In particular, you can create a monster with '&M', and enforce
behaviour on a monster by examining it (with 'x', as usual). In wizard
@@ -676,8 +687,8 @@ mode, examining monsters offers several new sub-commands such as 'F'
(make monster friendly/neutral/hostile) and 's' (make monster shout).
These last two are of particular interest to monster speech designers.
-Also, the Singing Sword and all other hardcoded artefacts can be
-created with '&|'. The Elemental Staff and the spear of Voo-Doo are
+Also, the Singing Sword and all other hardcoded artefacts can be
+created with '&|'. The Elemental Staff and the spear of Voo-Doo are
examples of noisy weapons.
You can also temporarily increase the likelihood of a given message by
@@ -685,19 +696,19 @@ adding a high weight value before it, e.g. w:5000, or equally
temporarily push it into another channel (e.g. MSGCH_WARN) to make it
more noticeable.
-If you successfully got Crawl compiled, you can easily enable more
-detailed debug information. All you need to do is add
+If you successfully got Crawl compiled, you can easily enable more
+detailed debug information. All you need to do is add
#define DEBUG_MONSPEAK
somewhere in AppHdr.h, for example at the beginning of the section
entitled "Debugging Defines", and then compile the game anew, first
-using "make clean", then "make wizard".
-If you play with DEBUG_MONSPEAK compiled in, whenever the game is
-searching the monspeak database you'll get extensive information on
-all keys and prefixes tried. Once you're done testing don't forget to
+using "make clean", then "make wizard".
+If you play with DEBUG_MONSPEAK compiled in, whenever the game is
+searching the monspeak database you'll get extensive information on
+all keys and prefixes tried. Once you're done testing don't forget to
remove (or comment out) the DEBUG_MONSPEAK setting as trying to
-actually play that way would sure be annoying.
+actually play that way would sure be annoying.
F. Publishing your changes
@@ -713,9 +724,9 @@ request on sourceforge.net [1] or in the newsgroup [2].
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref
.. [2] rec.games.roguelike.misc
- Since this newsgroup is being shared with a number of other
- roguelike games, it is generally considered polite to flag
- subjects of posts pertaining only to Crawl with "-crawl-" or
+ Since this newsgroup is being shared with a number of other
+ roguelike games, it is generally considered polite to flag
+ subjects of posts pertaining only to Crawl with "-crawl-" or
a similar marker.
@@ -735,14 +746,14 @@ h all hounds (jackal, hound, wolf, warg, war dog, hell hound)
and hogs (hog, hell-hog)
j snails: elephant slug, giant slug, giant snail
k winged insects: killer bee, bumblebee
-l lizards (giant newt/gecko/iguana/lizard, gila monster, komodo
- dragon), and drakes (swamp drake, firedrake, death drake,
- lindwurm)
+l lizards (giant newt/gecko/iguana/lizard, gila monster, komodo
+ dragon),
+ and drakes (swamp drake, firedrake, death drake, lindwurm)
n ghouls: necrophage, ghoul, rotting hulk
o all orcs
p all ghosts, phantom, and insubstantial wisp
r all rodents (rats of all colours, and quokka)
-s arachnides (giant mite, giant centipede, scorpion, wolf spider,
+s arachnides (giant mite, giant centipede, scorpion, wolf spider,
redback)
t minotaur
u (very) ugly thing
@@ -764,7 +775,7 @@ F all frogs
G all eyes, giant spore, and giant orange brain
H hippogriff, manticore, griffon, and sphinx
I ice beast
-J all jellies, oozes, and slime creature, pulsating lump,
+J all jellies, oozes, and slime creature, pulsating lump,
giant amoeba, jellyfish, and acid blob
K all kobolds
L all liches
@@ -787,10 +798,10 @@ Numbers:
--------
1 all Fiends, Executioner, Blue/Green Death, Balrug, Cacodemon
2 sun demon, reaper, soul eater, ice devil, and Lorocyproca
-3 hellion, tormentor, blue/iron devil, neqoxec, orange/shadow demon,
+3 hellion, tormentor, blue/iron devil, neqoxec, orange/shadow demon,
hellwing, ynoxinul, and demonic crawler
4 red/rotting/hairy devil, beast, and smoke demon
-5 all imps, and other minor demons (quasit, lemure, ufetubus, manes,
+5 all imps, and other minor demons (quasit, lemure, ufetubus, manes,
midge)
8 all golems, and living statues
9 all gargoyles
diff --git a/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt b/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt
index 38a7979f5c..1be63424a4 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/docs/options_guide.txt
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ default_friendly_pickup = (none | friend | all)
(This is the old friendly pick up behaviour.)
friend = They will pick up anything they or another ally
dropped, e.g. if another ally dies.
- (This is the default value.)
+ (This is the default setting.)
all = They will pick up anything they want to have.
(This is how it works for hostile monsters.)
@@ -441,11 +441,11 @@ default_friendly_pickup = (none | friend | all)
when you start a new game, or when you enter a level for the first
time.
- Note that this only works for permanent allies (such as you can
- get when worshipping Beogh or the Shining One), and that monsters
- have their own reasonings for which items they may need, and when
- they feel safe enough to pick them up. Except for "none", these
- options won't let you override these restrictions.
+ Note that this only works for intelligent permanent allies (such
+ as you can get when worshipping Beogh or the Shining One), and
+ that monsters have their own reasonings for which items they may
+ need, and when they feel safe enough to pick them up. Except for
+ "none", these options won't let you override these requirements.
Also, friendly jellies won't ever eat any items, regardless of
this option.
diff --git a/crawl-ref/init.txt b/crawl-ref/init.txt
index 1d54405d03..557d7b6c9e 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/init.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/init.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
# monster colours, command keys, order on the character selection screen,
# item colours, appearance of the stat section, butchering interface,
# targeting interface.
+# The options for monster glyphs and item colours don't matter for Tiles.
# (New players should just ignore these lines.)
#
# include docs/034_monster_glyphs.txt
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/command.cc b/crawl-ref/source/command.cc
index 5959825431..c1f211caac 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/command.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/command.cc
@@ -654,10 +654,10 @@ static const char *targeting_help_1 =
#ifdef WIZARD
" \n"
"<h>Wizard targeting comands:</h>\n"
- "<w>F</w>: toggle target friendly/good neutral/neutral/hostile\n"
- "<w>P</w>: apply divine blessing to target\n"
- "<w>s</w>: force target to shout or speak\n"
"<w>g</w>: give item to monster\n"
+ "<w>s</w>: force monster to shout or speak\n"
+ "<w>F</w>: cycle monster friendly/good neutral/neutral/hostile\n"
+ "<w>P</w>: apply divine blessing to monster\n"
#endif
;
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ static void _add_formatted_keyhelp(column_composer &cols)
"<w>X</w> : eXamine level map\n"
"<w>Ctrl-O</w> : show dungeon Overview\n"
"<w>Ctrl-A</w> : toggle auto-pickup\n"
- "<w>Ctrl-T</w> : toggle ally pickup behaviour\n",
+ "<w>Ctrl-T</w> : change ally pickup behaviour\n",
true, true, _cmdhelp_textfilter);
cols.add_formatted(