Announcing the release of UnNetHack 5.2.0.

Source code and Windows TTY and GUI executables can be downloaded here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unnethack/files/unnethack/5.2.0/. Homebrew for OSX has also already been updated.

This is a release that brings the released version up to speed with the version that is already deployed at public servers. It is not bones and saves compatible with the previously released version 5.1.0.

The (mostly) complete ChangeLog is in the download packages or can be read online at https://github.com/UnNetHack/UnNetHack/blob/5.2.x/ChangeLog

Besides lots of bugfixes, some of the more notable changes include:

Reproducible dungeon layout. Set OPTIONS=seed:number to get the same dungeon layout for new games. The seed number is noted in the dumplog.

item changes:

Decreased weight of all mithril armor, especially ones of elven make

Wand wresting happens always when an empty wand is zapped with a chance depending on BUC state if an effect is produced

Putting blessed and uncursed scrolls of charging into a bag of tricks charges it

Picking up scrolls of scare monsters change BUC from blessed to uncursed to cursed

Picked up scrolls of scare monsters only turn to dust if they are cursed

user interface improvements:

Automatically identify scrolls of scare monster during pickup when turning to dust or changing known BUC state

Don’t autopickup unpaid items

Change default of shopkeeper sell prompt to ‘n’

Added naming last broken object to #name menu

Added stone, strangled, levitation, flying, and riding indicators to the status line

Status indicators on third status line if the terminal is high enough (example with every indicator turned on)

Pressing > or < autotravels to the stairs if not already on the right kind of stairs

customizable colors: Dark gray improved on terminals supporting 256 colors Configurable system colors using RGB values (on terminals supporting 256 colors or 24 bit color)

For example, put “COLOR=light blue:5f00ff” into your config file New extended command in tty: show_colors (shows in-game color names, some debugging info and all possible color combinations)



Happy Hacking!

Share this: Twitter

Reddit

Flattr

Like this: Like Loading... Related

Posted in releases, unnethack