Bards and troglodytes

New lightning system (darkness-loving Troglodytes, Vampire, Undead, Wraith)
Players’ houses now permanent
New monster – Acid Blob
Throwing rocks damage reduced
Cobbles have smaller throwing distance
Life leech not takes more ‘space’ in object generation
Ease early account points score 15-30-60→10-25-50
House selling (sell) prices rebalance
Lower prices on cabin house
Rod of speed min lvl req
Removed minimal level requirement for food
Satiation magic now restore up to 14% of nourishment
New attack type: BOLT_RADIUS effect (limited distance ray-bolt)
Poly ‘bird’ and ‘bat’ give FLYING
TMD_FLIGHT re: from FEATHER to FLYING
FLYING: can pass trees
Player_check_terrain_damage() adj: vampire FLYING
Non-TMD AFRAID indicator to status line
TMD_STONESKIN: now reduce only movement
Nerf AI_LEARN at endgame
‘y’: classes go before races
Adjustments to PWMA formula for average damage per attack for polymorphed players. In Tangaria it’s average between old and new system.
Exclude wild cat from pits on shallow lvls
New effect: TMD_SPEEDY – Hastes you up to +10 to speed; based on current character level. So for level 5 player it’s +1, for level 50 it’s +10
Reduced ‘movement speed’ boni (as it stacks with speed)

Races

Ent’s trees and WEB (spider) innate abilities rebalance
Troglodyte: stench (more scent) and noise
Naga got limited radius aggro
Vampire in “Vampiric mist” form can pass doors, rubbles, trees]
Ooze got RES_MANA
Maiar race: 2x speed penalty
Wraith race: hard to equip items on ghostly body
Undead race: custom resistances and vulnerability
Undead race: eat flesh to nourish and heal
Frostmen: limit ESP and feeling
Newborn dragons/hydras buff
Overall race re; especially ooze, troll, demonic, djinn
Some races can rarely dodge melee attacks: Halfling, Forest Goblin, Pixie. Also Wraith race avoid attacks quite often.

Classes

Full class rebalance for:

Druid’s rat-form: sense curses

MA (MARTIAL_ARTS) damage nerf for polymorphed players

Monk class: revert endgame nerf for non-poly

Effects

Added animation for SDL/SDL2 client – do_animate_player()
Fix werewolf appearance from POV of other player
Hardcode spider evolution appearance
Fix playing ambient sounds upon recall into dungeon
Hermit and inquisitor classes got new appearance
Weather system improvements: weather elements, fixed redraw glitch, weather drizzle effect

Technical stuff

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