Tangaria

– Add missing tiles, remap tileset
– Don’t display “Start a new game” message on server shutdown
– Allow to play again after getting a character dump
– Add option to hide trap/terrain on status line
– Allow multiple “force-locations” for monsters
– Add option to disable the Enter menu
– Fix of the “crash on opening chest” bug

• Races:
  • Humans got some damage reduction over their life (they are getting used to pain..)
  • Yeeks are now much faster in running (not attacking!)
  • Dragon got bonus to mana while young
  • Hydra changes:
    • AoE attack
    • More HPs
    • Moves faster (only movement speed!)
    • Receive more damage
    • Drain exp at 10+
    • Regen
    • got bonus to mana while young
    • Nerfed primary stats & disarm
  • Troll & Half-giant: movement debuff instead of speed
  • Ogre: movement debuff
• New items:
  • equipment: broken dagger, broken sword, filthy rags, Old Rusty Chain Mail
  • artifacts: Filthy Rag of Righteousness, Broken Dagger ‘Shard’, Broken Sword ‘Narsil’
  • ego-lights: Feanorian and Dwarven lamps
  • food: Sprig of Athelas, Strip of Beef Jerky
  • mushrooms: Paranoia, Hallucination, Toadstool
  • jewellery: Ring of Woe, Amulet of Doom
  • scrolls:
    • curse armour/weapon (thanks Powerwyrm for returning traditional flags!)
    • Animate Weapon, Evil Spirit
  • Potions:
    • Ugliness
    • Novice Alchemist’s Creation
    • Stomach Water
    • Lose Memories is back (ty PW!)
  • Junk:
    • Ruined chest
• Stores:
  • NPCs are selling Stomach Water instead of Salt Water (which still there, but not sellable)
  • Newbie NPC sells Phase Doors now
  • Provisioneer sells Empty Bottles\
• Archer/Monk classes reordered in character creation screen

• Fixed old store crush (thanks to Powerwyrm!)
• Rinswind now got proper newbie spellbooks and potions
• Added 1/3 of short-desc for terrain
• Assigned some tileset to new world map
• Revamp of tamer (volkhv), scout, Mad woodsmen & some others
• Ported new tiles from PWMA
• Added new sounds for blindness/confusion
• Added five towny fishes: roach, ruff, crucian, perch, carp:
  

– Simplify lighting, update graf-dvg.prf
– Redo chest traps, make chest_trap.txt
– Plug more memory leaks
– Update help
– Improve datafile documentation
– Add missing tiles, remap tileset
– Remove some redundant flags from monster.txt
– Fix the worst of quiver anomalies
– Changed to allow sense/detect objects to remove marks on the map for locations detected as empty
– Display short description instead of name for terrain on status line if there is one
– Implement custom symbols for displaying towns on the world minimap
– Un-hardcode admin equipment
– Decrease satiation in town areas if full
– NO_STAIRS flag on terrain to prevent generating stairs

Yay, server updated!

Also Lobelia Sackville-Baggins got new tile from PWMA (a bit revamped), mists moved; plundered beautiful statues and blood from DCSS (no in-game yet, but already in .psd):

• New monsters from ZAngband (with some revamp): hobo & raving lunatic townies, blinking dot, grid bug, Freesia, giant leech.
• Also some other mobs fixes: huorn-trees are less speedy; woodsman appears at town; mad woodsman now unique and a bit more healthy. Apprentice renamed to Novice mage (classic!).
• Trolls (race) fears light and a bit worse in save and shoot.
• Fixed loads of terrain-walls which was undiggable.
• Designed The Old Ruins dungeon:

• Merged race part of tileset with PWMA; to do so I’ve moved monster tiles from 83-84 to other spots
• Added appearance to recently added Tangaria’s races (tiles plundered from DCSS tileset; some are reworked):

Black Numenorean, Damned, Merfolk, Barbarian, Black Dwarf, Goblin, Half-Giant, Ogre, Troll, Orc, Forest Goblin, Dark Elf, Werewolf, Undead, Vampire, Enlightened, Cambion, Celestial, Balrog, Nephalem, Gargoyle, Golem.

• Added some new tiles for monsters which were moved from 83-84
• Reduced sleepness of town’s animals
• Town animals now run away from player less willingly
• Buff of Half-Giant race
• Tangaria’s package now accessible on GitHub

Mapping and detection revamp (objects, spells, items activation):

• Mapping magic now has much bigger radius, but serious side effects – short paralize, blindness, hallucinations.
• Detection magic radius restored (as it was overnerfed; limited_esp is enough).

Food system (objects, spells):

• Food now do not decrease satiation, if you are well fed.
• As there are much more food in dungeons (because of new types of food from V), food removed from stores; except especially expensive Hard Biscuits.
• Some food/drinks rework, eg Orcish Liquor increase your movement speed for a couple of moves.

Objects:

• Curse Armour scroll now is more severe; but moved deeper.
• Nerfed scroll of Damned Jail.
• Potion of Death now is equally dangerous (but not fatal) for characters of any level.
• Ruination is now stunningly unpleasant.
• Cursed Vessel → Cursed Jar; and now it’s also dive into the minds, surrounding you.

Monsters:

• Lobelia Sackville-Baggins revamped and moved from newbie dungeon to a bit deeper.
• Barrel sleepness reduced.
• Brigand and outlaw rearrangement and tileset fix.
• Tom Bombadil buff.
• Removed wrong FRIGHTENED flags as monsters don’t attack (we need AI_ANNOYING).

Stores:

• Stores now selling Salt Water (to cure over-eating).
• Fixed bug with custom NPC order (Black Market didn’t work; now it’s ok).

Etc

• Half-Giant got Damage Reducement and immune to trap after it grows (which is extremely unlucky as LIMITED-TELEPORT flag is not there yet; and it has NO-TELEPORT for now).
• Ruins terrain PROJECT flag temporary off (till MOVE flag will appear).
• Hunter’s Valley location got more inhabitants.
• Carn Dum moved to the border of Arda.
• Added tiles to ^W (looks stupid for now).
• Added one-window-fullscreen addon to client package.

Monsters:

• New monsters: Lonely tree; mutant telepath; mutant unbeliever; entwife; Fangorn, Oldest of the Ents.
• Unicorns received additional resistances.
• Nerfed a bit monsters in Mountain Gorge.
• Increased speed of monster-objects (they were too idle).
• Fixed double WOUND flags; monsters which had it got appropriate additional spell to preserve their initial balance.

New tiles:
– added 5 new tiles from DCSS for ents and tree-monsters;
– imported 3 tiles from DCSS for end-game sea-monsters;
– reworked Sangahyando and Angamait of Umbar tiles.

Technical:

• Remastered volume and stereo problems for 16 sounds.
• Removed non-ASCII symbols from artifacts names (previously I’ve deleted them from monster names too).
• New screen now got 7 Stars.
• AI_LEARN = true (in test mode).
• Restored deleted by mistake artifact’s preface.

Items:

• Added invisibility and wraith potions. Beware, they have side-effects.
• Mapping spells now cause hallucination for a while.
• Enlightments and *E* scrolls can’t be bought from store anymore (buy it from other player).
• Added new artifact: Athame ‘Elbereth’ (in rememberings of old version of Nethack).
• Increased detection magic radius a bit.
• Added resist poison potions to Shtukensia.

Etc

• Added pre-defined client options (among others, X:view_yellow_light).
• Old Guard now mentions direction to town.
• Dragon race: trap disarming nerfed.
• A lot of updates at website – new articles, guides, etc

Server wiped, gamedata & .psd updated.

Finally I’ve made an appropriate intro! Yay! // Updaded image: added Seven Stars.

I’ve used mountains from PernAngband and all kind of ASCII art from the internet (warrior and mage credits: Tua Xiong и hjw); some I’ve modified. Respect to people who made such great pictures!

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.

In Old Forest you could try to find Tom Bombadil:

He is signing songs which he composes on the go!

You won’t see two similar songs 😉

Also you could rarely meet Tom in the Old Forest dungeon itself. You can’t harm him really; so no need to try to fight with him 😉