I programmed a few humanoid characters to use wands in CLIVAN. If you come across a goblin warlock, he will zap you with one of Teleportation, door creation and acid rain (finally a use for wand of acid rain). He has all three in his inventory.

I don't know if it was totally crash-proof, I don't know what happens when an npc wand-user tries to zap with both arms severed.

Many more hedgehogs will need to be sacrificed before that happens!

Heh, have you considered developing IVAN at any point?

Thanks for spending time playing CLIVAN and spotting bugs

I don't know how widespread the shopkeep teleport bug is. My guess would be that it is limited to CLIVAN. I had hoped that most of the bugs were squashed, but I made quite a few recklessly implemented changes, so stability is not always guaranteed.

Just out of interest, what did you change the rookie dwarf's HP and Day Requirements to?

I'm glad you like the new creatures. Welcome, and be sure to stick around

Hear hear!

Continuing this thread. Performing a diff using WinMerge on Vasily's script.cpp with the one from IVAN CVS, reveals that the changes required to "burst" the script files involve less than fifteen lines of code:

In script.cpp:

...
    if (Word == "Include") 
    {
      Word = SaveFile.ReadWord();
      if (SaveFile.ReadWord() != ";") 
        ABORT("Invalid terminator in file %s at line %ld!", SaveFile.GetFileName().CStr(), SaveFile.TellLine());
      inputfile incf(game::GetGameDir()+"Script/"+Word, &game::GetGlobalValueMap());
      ReadFrom(incf);
      continue;
    }
    if (Word == "Message")
    {
      Word = SaveFile.ReadWord();
      if (SaveFile.ReadWord() != ";") ABORT("Invalid terminator in file %s at line %ld!", SaveFile.GetFileName().CStr(), SaveFile.TellLine());
      fprintf(stderr, "MESSAGE: %sn", Word.CStr());
      continue;
    }
...

But then I think you'd have to add his LoadGlobalValueMap() function before InitGlobalValueMap() in game.cpp. And you might have to add a bunch of other stuff.

I'm pretty sure there's a rate at which monsters spawn, which can be set in the dungeon script and varies from level to level.

Actually, that's pretty good I find it difficult to beat Mr. Enner in any arbitrary game. When it happens for me it's because a whole lot of neat things fall perfectly into place.

Curious. Do you have details about what material he wished for? and also what thing he wanted to change the material of?

Yay! That is great Alvers