Any time. Christmas is a good natural deadline though.
It's a good thing our INSTALL file is so comprehensive, and props to the guys who set up all those macos build scripts in the ci folder. Those are definitely still actively useful.
I was stuck conceptually the day before trying to build on ubuntu-latest. It later occurred to me that I should simply select macos-latest. Silly really.
In that vein, Microsoft's ci tooling is pretty impressive. I wonder what the catch is though? I know they came out with GitHub Copilot based on everyone's code (we should run some tests with it and see if we can get it to spit out some IVAN source code - we have some notoriously unique class and function names, hehe).

The windows build is the first to be built using proper GNU tooling for a long time. More sensible than that whack-ass MXE compiler, even if it gave a fully static binary exe. I really had no idea where those dependencies came from. At least with msys2 it's easy to trace it back to trusted maintainers.
Also easy now is finding dlls using cmake, definitely solved that headache once and for all.

Let's have a new IVAN version for Atavus' Day: https://github.com/Attnam/ivan/releases/tag/v059

I hate to be the one to ask, but have you got a savefile? All good if not

If you want to write a new dungeon, it can be added. Just fire up a text editor and load up the script files, make changes, submit pull request.
IVAN has lots of features already, therefore try use what is existing at the moment to come up with new ways of challenging players.
When your new dungeon is fleshed out (or has bones, in the case of undead), then narrative progression and dungeon/creature/item specific code can be added as needed.

People will play your dungeon and give you feedback. It can be hard to satisfy everyone. Be prepared for criticism.
That said, this is a relatively safe place to try out new things, compared to the internet at large. It is amazing when anyone plays something you wrote, so earnest player feedback is hugely valuable. Use that feedback to improve your work.

On weapons, I think people's experience with the LIVAN/CLIVAN variants reveals the weapon system to be easy to unbalance. There are numerous threads all over this forum where we have discussed weapon system at length.
I think the weapon/combat system could be expanded, but we need a good model of what we have already in order to study how we can make changes while maintaining balance. I have no plan to do research or make changes in this area.

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That was a good fix, thanks

Re flames, yes they are annoying, I must implement fountain sit.

Small or four screen, noted.
GC showing up early is a bug and I must scream fix it.

Are mustard gas traps still invisible?

Without saying I'm done, I think I have something that is sufficiently stable to ship You can take a look here:
https://github.com/Attnam/ivan/pull/631

The key takeaways for players:
* You can choose Pangea or Continent world type.
* Pangea makes bigger landmasses, and puts all locations on one continent.
* Continents puts UT Exit, Attnam, and GC on one continent, the rest of the dungeons either same continent or random continent. (With hindsight I think no-one will use this ) .
* You can select a world seed, which determines the land and water distribution by seeding the noise algo. Seed 0 gives random seed.
* You can select a world size out of Huge [128x128], Large [96x96], Medium [64x64], Small [49x49], Tiny [32x32], Four screens [84x52], or One screen [42x26].
* You can select what happens to the PC when he reaches the edge of the world map by selecting a world shape out of flat pancake, flat brandy snap, or flat doughnut. The edges of the map roughly align What happens to the PC when he crosses the edge of the world map is left as an exercise for the player.

To reduce confusion, the defaults will be:
* World size: Medium (64x64)
* Land type: Pangea
* World shape: Doughnut
* Seed: 0 (will generate random worlds)

Fear not, IVAN plan to purify Windows from inside Infrastructure of Pure Evil with Holy Banana.