DynaHack - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: pothole

2023-05-29T23:47:38Z

pothole

K2 at 16:13, 27 March 2022

2022-03-27T16:13:15Z

Netzhack: /* Interface */ "Respectively" was misspelled -- and completely unnecessary because all the elements concerned are explicit.

2019-04-10T15:12:59Z

‎Interface: "Respectively" was misspelled -- and completely unnecessary because all the elements concerned are explicit.

Netzhack: /* Character */ Formal English grammar.

2019-01-23T23:28:17Z

‎Character: Formal English grammar.

Netzhack: c/e

2017-11-11T12:41:16Z

c/e

K2: added Hardfought to list of available servers for DynaHack

2017-05-05T16:32:54Z

added Hardfought to list of available servers for DynaHack

Netzhack: "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

2016-12-29T14:24:20Z

"chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

Netzhack: /* Monsters */ "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability (and if they ain't fish, they don't spawn)

2016-12-29T14:21:01Z

‎Monsters: "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability (and if they ain't fish, they don't spawn)

Netzhack: /* Items */ "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

2016-12-29T14:20:01Z

‎Items: "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

Netzhack: /* Dungeon */ "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

2016-12-29T14:19:06Z

‎Dungeon: "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

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 * [NEW] Pressing `??` shows quick command key reference, reorganized to show commands by topic instead of alphabetically.
 * [NEW] `Ctrl-P` message log starts scrolled to the most recent messages.
-* [NEW] Show boulders as `0` by default instead of backtick.
+* [NEW] Show boulders as `[[0]]` by default instead of [[backtick]].
 * [NH4] Recolor/underline monsters with duplicate colors.
 * [NH4] Show "--More--" by screenfuls instead of by lines.

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 It started life as [[UnNetHack]]'s content and gameplay transplanted onto NitroHack with its resizing ASCII interface, but has also come to roll in parts of [[NetHack 4]], [[GruntHack]], [[UnNetHackPlus]] and a few original changes.
-DynaHack is available to play on [[nethack.dank.ninja|ascension.run]] and at <span id="hardfought.org">[https://www.hardfought.org/ hardfought.org] (HDF)</span>.
+DynaHack is available to play on <span id="hardfought.org">[https://www.hardfought.org/ hardfought.org] (HDF)</span>.
 == Major differences to NetHack ==

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 * [NH4] Show number of available skill slots in `#enhance` menu.
 ** [NEW] Show skill slot cost to advance skills in `#enhance` menu.
-* [NH4] Stop player from walking into water and/or lava (both optional with new `paranoid_water` and `paranoid_lava` options respecitvely), can be overridden using `m-<direction>`.
+* [NH4] Stop player from walking into water and/or lava (both optional with new `paranoid_water` and `paranoid_lava` options), can be overridden using `m-<direction>`.
 * Display known-unlocked doors in bright green, known-locked doors in red and known-trapped doors in cyan.
 * Highlight item piles on the map.

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 **** Restricted: Healer, Monk, Wizard
 **** Unlike weapon skills, shield skill always starts at unskilled.
-** Martial arts and bare-handed combat now get to-hit bonuses from skills just like weapons do (from SporkHack).
+** Martial arts and bare-handed combat now get to-hit bonuses from skills just as weapons do (from SporkHack).
 ** Allow 1-damage hits to still train relevant skills; in NetHack, hitting with a weapon at unskilled gives -2 to damage, so weapons that couldn't roll at least a 4 on damage wouldn't be trained at all!
 ** Accelerate heavyshot skill training: hitting with a heavyshot weapon trains the relevant skill by 1dX points similar to its damage multiplier.

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 *** Orcus-town
 *** Fake Wizard's Tower
-** Magic chests are fixed to the ground and as such cannot be tipped.
+** Magic chests are fixed to the ground and therefore cannot be tipped.
 ** Attempting to put a corpse set to revive into a magic chest will revive it immediately, to prevent exploiting them to get rid of such corpses.
 * New trap type: shuriken traps, which only appear in quest levels of certain roles.  Replaces dart traps in monk and samurai quests, and also sometimes for ranger and rogue quests.
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 * All options can now be changed in-game instead of using ".nethackrc".
 * Changes to options made in-game are saved and restored.  The underlying files can be found under `~/.config/NitroHack/`.
-* Birth options: Options like ELBERETH, REINCARNATION, SEDUCE and bones files can previously could only be changed by rebuilding the game can now just be set prior to creating a new character.
+* Birth options: Options like ELBERETH, REINCARNATION, SEDUCE and bones files, which previously could only be changed by rebuilding the game, can now be set on beginning a new game.
 ==== Items ====
-* Spellbooks can be read early (while memory of its spell still exists).
+* Spellbooks can be read early (while memory of the spell still exists).
 ==== Monsters ====

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 * Allow SPILL lev_comp command to accept 0 as a size for e.g. breaking holes in cavern walls.
 * Fix some replay desyncs due to uninitialized data.
-* Prevent random chance to same-race polymorph in wizard mode.
+* Prevent random chance of same-race polymorph in wizard mode.
 * lev_comp: New `prize` flag for `OBJECT` statements, denoting objects that should be considered a prize of that level; prizes are ignored by monsters, don't fall down holes, are ignored by autopickup, and picking up a prize causes other prizes on that level to vanish.
 * Fix crash in encumbrance display due to weight underflow e.g. when wishing for 12 million (12 with six zeros) loadstones in wizard mode.
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 * Cap to-hit accuracy to 75% for weapons at unskilled or non-weapon items.
 ** [NEW] Remove luck attribute from to-hit calculations since it was skewing them way too much.  Monk to-hit penalty when wearing body armor has been reduced to -10 (from -20) to compensate.
-* Items thrown at restricted/unskilled have a higher chance to slip.
+* Items thrown at restricted/unskilled have a higher chance of slipping.
 * Fighting wakes up nearby monsters, with noise reduced by having stealth and/or using light weapons.
 * Increased 'hits' needed to advance skill levels:
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 * Entering a co-aligned temple on the Astral Plane will no longer cause monsters to flee.
 * [NEW] Medusa's Island is guaranteed to have a shield of reflection in the statue of Perseus.
-* [NEW] Prevent potential throne farming by making `#loot` on a throne while confused take time and have a chance to make the throne vanish.
+* [NEW] To prevent throne farming, `#loot` on a throne while confused takes time and has a chance of making the throne vanish.
-* Give portal to Fort Ludios a much higher chance to appear in the dungeon.
+* Give portal to Fort Ludios a much higher chance of appearing in the dungeon.
 ==== Wishing ====
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 ==== Artifacts ====
-* New artifact: Thiefbane, two-handed sword, 10% chance to behead `@` class monsters, held by One-eyed Sam, cannot be wished for, reverts to a regular weapon when dropped in bones.
+* New artifact: Thiefbane, two-handed sword, 10% chance of beheading `@` class monsters, held by One-eyed Sam, cannot be wished for, reverts to a regular weapon when dropped in bones.
 * Improvements to Bane artifacts:
-** Bane artifacts now have a 1-in-6 chance to cancel their target monster.
+** Bane artifacts now have a 1-in-6 chance of cancelling the target monster.
 ** Bane artifacts now warn of their target monster.
 ** Wielding Demonbane prevents demons from summoning other demons.
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 ** [NEW] Polearms and lances can be used in melee even when unmounted.
 ** [NEW] Allow spellcasting when hands are stuck to a cursed quarterstaff.
-** [NEW] Weapon enchantment has a small chance to be revealed on each hit, based on skill and doubled if it is of your race.
+** [NEW] Weapon enchantment has a small chance of being revealed on each hit, based on skill and doubled if it is of your race.
 * Changes to armor:
 ** Dragon scales now only give 1 AC (was 3), dragon scale mail only give 5 AC (was 9).
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 ** [NEW] Quaffing a potion of enlightenment while polymorphed into a dragon or baby dragon formally identifies its matching scales and scale mail.
 * Changes to wands:
-** Zapping a cursed wand has a 1-in-30 chance to blow up (was 1-in-100).
+** Zapping a cursed wand has a 1-in-30 chance of blowing it up (was 1-in-100).
 ** Applying wands no longer breaks wands; `#invoke` must be used instead.
 ** [NH4] Zapping or engraving an empty wand identifies its charges.
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 ** Gold dragon: Permenantly lit fire-breathing dragon, drops scales that are also a permanent source of light.
 ** Snow ant: Fire ants but cold.
-** Vorpal jabberwock: Purple `J`, more powerful jabberwock with four 3d10 attacks, two of which have a 1-in-40 chance to decapitate.
+** Vorpal jabberwock: Purple `J`, more powerful jabberwock with four 3d10 attacks, two of which have a 1-in-40 chance of decapitating.
 ** Disintegrator: Bright green `R`, slow, tunnels, disintegrates weapons/armor/you on contact.
 ** Aphrodite: Unique purple `n`, found on the Nymph Level.
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 * Changes to floating eyes:
 ** Floating eyes are now colored bright green instead of dark blue.
-** [NEW] Remove 1-in-4 chance for floating eyes to paralyze for 127 turns, halve duration to (hit dice + 1)d35 instead of (hit dice + 1)d70 otherwise.
+** [NEW] Remove 1-in-4 chance of floating eyes paralyzing for 127 turns, halve duration to (hit dice + 1)d35 instead of (hit dice + 1)d70 otherwise.
 ** [NEW] High wisdom limits floating eye paralysis to 10 * (20 - wisdom) turns, with a minimum of 10 turns.
 * Changes to mind flayers:

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 * Gnomes that spawn with candles will only get a single candle instead of a whole stack of candles.
 * Pets never displace the player from the stairs when entering a level.
-* Ninja have a 50% chance to spawn with some shuriken.
+* Ninja have a 50% chance of being spawned with some shuriken.
 * Remove distintegrators.
 * Nymphs always generate asleep (was 80%).

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 * Grant +1 to-hit for all short swords (from K-Mod).
 * Allow knife and stiletto as possible tin-opening tools (from K-Mod).
-* Items that spawn with a magical property have a much higher chance to spawn with additional properties.
+* Items that are spawned with a magical property have a much higher chance of being spawned with additional properties.
 * The "magical" prefix on items is only omitted once all properties on it have been identified instead of once any of them have been, making it easier to discover items that have more than one property.
 * Show which hand a ring of levitation was on when a sink forcefully removes it.
-* Rings with enchantment +3 or lower no longer have a chance to explode when charged, and rings at -5 or lower will only explode from cursed charging (from SporkHack).
+* Rings with enchantment +3 or lower no longer have a chance of exploding when charged, and rings at -5 or lower will only explode from cursed charging (from SporkHack).
 ** Remove ring destruction from shock damage.
 * Quest artifacts that are spawned at the final level of the Quest will be generated fixed/erodeproofed.

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 * Reduce initial scuffing of randomly-placed engravings to increase the chance that they can be read when they're first encountered.
 * Fix the cosmetic issue of horizontally-flipped levels appearing slightly misaligned in the map area.
-* Fix waking monsters level-wide when entering courts, swamps, morgues, zoos and nymph gardens for the first time without stealth; only monsters in the room being entered have a chance to to be woken.
+* Fix waking monsters level-wide when entering courts, swamps, morgues, zoos and nymph gardens for the first time without stealth; only monsters in the room being entered have a chance of being woken.
 * Fix tracking of upward branches with `#history`, and make a note when entering any new level and not just deeper ones (from NetHack4).