No better way to go out than a giant ball of fire.

Here's a tip

SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text.

Be careful with that ommel bone plate mail though. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is..

SPOILER ALERT. Click here to see text.

Continuing the discussion in the shoutbox

Now that water is much more essential to survival, I wonder if we should make it more readily available, in containers that monsters can't drink?
Also, are you able to douse multiple items at once? i.e. you should be able to douse your entire body at once, not limb by limb. And your entire pack at once.

I love the flame system, but I think it's too powerful right now.

In real life, you'd be able to pat fires out, or roll around to extinguish them. For a scroll or book you might be able to beat or blow them out.

I think if your limbs catch fire, the flames should go out almost immediately. Same for any items that you're wearing. They'll suffer burn damage but shouldn't stay aflame.
Other items, the flames should die off after several steps depending on the material.

Right now when I play, whenever anything catches fire I pretty much have to write it off, which is a little frustrating and doesn't feel realistic.

Of course extinguishing the fire is always the best option, but if you don't have any way to do that, you should have a chance of the items still surviving.

By the way I just noticed the README specifies the coding style in .custom.emacs

(defconst ivan-style
 '((c-offsets-alist . ((substatement-open . 0)
			(label . /)
			(access-label . /)
			(case-label . 1)
			(statement-case-intro . 1)
			(brace-list-open . 0)
			(statement-cont . c-lineup-math)
			(inline-open . 0)
			(member-init-intro . 0)
			(arglist-close . 0)
			(substatement . 2)
			(defun-block-intro . 2)
			(statement-block-intro . 2)
			(statement-case-open . *))))
 "The Standard IVAN Programming Style")

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'ivan-mode-common-hook)
(autoload 'c++-mode "cc-mode" "Major mode for editing C++ code." t)

(defun ivan-mode-common-hook ()
 ;; add style and set it for the current buffer
 (c-add-style "IVAN" ivan-style t))

For a long time I thought I had enner figured out. Just detect material, teleport, and zap. Ended in death the last several times I've gotten that far

I'm on it! Something I can finally contribute

Looks good to me, thanks for doing that Warheck!

If only our SEO were better. The wiki comes up for a lot of searches but not the forum or github

If somebody wants to setup the Google groups thing then I can configure an email address @attnam.com to forward to it

Is J_Kahvi still on IRC at all? Maybe somebody could ask him

I signed up for Google Apps before they started charging for it So I still have like 30+ free email addresses @attnam.com

But if I set it up, who's going to check those emails? Forward it to the google groups thing? Or I could forward it to my personal email, I doubt many requests will actually come in and if they do I can post them on the forum

Some more updates from zenith
- random movement algorithm for monsters is improved. Instead of just wandering around aimlessly they'll continue in one direction until obstructed (with occasional random turns)
- there were some questions that for some reason you were not able to Escape out of, e.g. scroll of detect material. Now almost all questions are escapable. The one exception I believe is wishes spawned by genies or fountains since if you escape you won't get that wish back

Clawzfire (on Github, I don't remember who that is on here) has started work on making the folder structure of the installed files more standard