v0.11.0.1

• Split the long Content.ModeKind texts into lines, #283
• In unit tests, re-use values from UnitTestHelpers and Game.LambdaHack.Common.Kind, #286
• Rename unsnoc (see #300)
• Bump the bound on hsini to handle trailing whitespace properly
• Hack around a crash when TABbing during item manipulation
• Document better that macros start with Cmd_
• Correct a typo in test/Spec.hs
• Add the communication overhead explanation proposed by fYnch
• Compress detail levels and don’t show paths at DetailHigh
• Balance speedrunning and explain it better in player docs
• Change failed alter message to less confusing; thanks go to Pug
• Tweak tutorial hint enums and tests
• Make lore menu with all tutorial hints
• Don’t punish naughty window managers with spammy warning
• Try harder to prevent resizing in SDL
• Change install from Hackage instructions so that they work outside package dir
• Interrupt sleep and running a bit less

v0.11.0.0

• Partially work around regression in libsdl2 2.0.16 (https://github.com/LambdaHack/LambdaHack/issues/281); to also avoid deformed boxes around tiles on the game map, please switch to a different SDL2 version
• Deduplicate UI code for exiting game, with extra style points
• Create monadic test harness and use it for UI and other unit tests
• Validate empty content and fix other soundness issues revealed by unit tests
• Add extra hints in –more and similar lines when tutorial is on
• Show full history at SPACE press and let second SPACE close it
• Spawn insects in the swamp
• Remove slot letter display in menus and instead display subtle bullets
• Repurpose item slots to item roles
• Redo display and control of main menu and its submenus
• Make Teletype frontend a bit closer to playable
• Switch right pane item description display from mono to prop font
• Ensure score not zero if victory
• Add a custom SDL cursor, working around a bug in SDL2 bindings
• Gut out most content symbols; weren’t used even in lore menus after all
• Add a flag to disable the costly optimizations (that give 15-25% speedup)
• Add faction kind content and redo game mode content to use it
• Display seen faction lore
• Simplify and fortify faction and client assignment code
• Make a few unique items that were identified meta-game identifiable instead
• Fix persistence of meta-game discoveries in save files
• When assigning a faction, first try the group actor was picked from
• When assigned faction is dead, don’t spawn the actor
• Don’t use benign weapons on projectiles not to lose the fun
• Make the unique harpoon worth saving for a unique foe
• Spawn enemies closer and fix too random spawning location
• Improve display of item’s range
• Warn when SDL game windows is resized not via config file
• Ban or force sleep on levels
• Protect against unset or primitive OS locale
• Add temporary hearing aids
• Disallow generating a door beside an opening in room’s wall
• Permit smaller caves and validate cave content more accurately
• Try harder to generate escape from dungeon in a level corner
• Avoid exit/escape confusion in content names and descriptions
• Extend LH game mode a descriptions since people play it instead of Allure
• Make sure every cave has a description
• Many fixes, refactorings and tweaks

v0.10.3.0

• Work around regression https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1076 by making the scalable square font the default as the map font; the tiny map fonts, for which there is no such workaround, won’t work for anybody with freetype 2.11.0
• Enable display of details in right pane in many menus
• Switch mouse wheel to move selection now that it changes right pane display
• Make the line where messages wrap configurable in config file
• Remove rarely used options from config file and code
• Prepare client-server for delays when operating over the network
• Reveal all map at game over and make it explorable
• Don’t run with -threaded, increasing speed by a couple dozen percent
• Don’t show messages during enemy turn (except when under AI control)
• Spawn many actors at once with probability correlated to spawning at all
• Gut out Ubuntu Font Family fonts
• Default to more old-fashioned small fonts in LambdaHack the game
• Add a few tutorial messages, reword some in-game texts
• Move with CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (but GHA can’t keep up as well)
• Add hlint to CI
• Make place content directly define legends instead of overriding them
• Add a warning that crosshair is out of flinging range
• Add ANSI display to SDL2 frontend; remove vty, hcurses and GTK frontends
• Make Teletype frontend more usable (input, speed, overlays)
• Remove sight malus from light sources to avoid micromanagement
• Keep convenience settings between new games
• Add an option to mark FOV area with grey background
• Refactor and clean up a lot of the code
• Unhardwire various constants (hat tip to Jamie)
• Fix a couple of bugs and improve documentation
• Add whole new kinds of tests (even greater hat tip to Jamie)

v0.10.2.0

• Let ‘?’ scroll help
• Handle Alt and Shift modifiers together
• Advertise the C- Tab command instead of A-
• Ignore empty lines in history, just in case
• Don’t keep trailing endlines in history
• Don’t include placeholders in history.txt
• Retry explosions 10 instead of 100 times
• Point crosshair to a modified tile to easily get lore info
• Point crosshair to a bumped tile to easily get lore info
• Don’t spam when reporting that crafting is forbidden
• Prevent AI from attempting to fling when challenge forbids it
• Hint about absolute paths to fonts
• Disable testing ubuntu fonts, because they can’t be distributed in Debian
• If any savefile corrupted, move aside all
• Be more consistent about moving corrupted files aside
• Stop running when passing a door, etc.
• Make the game over lore headers sound more natual
• Do not mention embeds in minimal detail
• Tweak detail in one step to minimal
• Don’t let distant taunts interrupt running
• Add a comment about fleeing from stash
• Help AI not to leave a scout guarding the stash
• Ensure some gems in escape scenario
• Don’t show embed descriptions by default now that ~ does that easily
• Add one more typical organ symbol
• Avoid cut off descriptions of conditional effects
• Prefer weapons with burn or wound
• Pick up bad weapons if decent projectiles
• Slightly prefer weapons that have any effects
• Permit cycling through pointed-at lore with tilde
• Split chooseItemDialogMode into several functions
• Permit pointed-at lore display also outside aiming mode
• Reset the pointed at lore display sequence
• Maintain current state of lore display
• Save current state of being-aimed-at lore display
• Don’t use timeout weapon if non-timeout as strong
• Add delay to pushed frames, to notice things shorter than a turn
• Pretty-print activationFlag to make it more understandable
• Replace the special periodic activation handling with effect conditions
• Replace the special effect handling under ranged with effect condition
• Set ActivationOnCombine in one case for now
• Replace EffOnSmash by ActivationOnSmash
• Add effect condition based on activation method
• Add Unless effect
• Introduce ActivationFlag in place of EffActivation type
• Make server check that melee is done with a legal weapon
• Add a failure about meleeing with not a weapon
• Get rid of a lot of spurious instances
• Don’t say a hit was amusing if non-piercing damage was high
• Vary also the block messages when high armor
• Use ‘a’ and ‘the’ in dangerous item use confirmations
• Prevent safe spots near centres of big explosions
• Permit explosions to sometimes go off inside unwalkable terrain
• Don’t sleep if the only friend on level is guarding the stash
• Shorten mreason text for crawl to fit in main menu with square fonts
• Don’t hint to press ‘?’ when it does nothing yet
• Avoid empty manual page at the end with square font
• Make sure spot crosshair description fits on the status line
• Don’t display the aim mode prefix when inside a menu
• Experiment with item menu not insisting on selecting an item
• Talk about the relevant lore command in manual
• Hint about the relevant lore command
• Make lore display context sensitive in aiming mode
• Signal that lore command is sometimes context-sensitive
• Don’t add the interruption message unless useful
• Don’t wipe key status that opens main menu after automation
• Permit random flavour assignment with brightCol, etc.
• Don’t make detection modal if not performed by player’s faction
• Don’t describe the goal tile when performing mouse goto
• Simplify turn display code, removing most of the newest additions
• Remove another spurious source of frames
• Remove spurious sources of frames
• Re-add refined interrupted via messages
• Ensure all frames when inside macro have one-line report only
• Display interrupted also when messages interrupt macros
• Factor out oneLineBasicFrame
• Declare the codebase lens-free
• Avoid distributing test.exe in Windows packages
• Use squareToUI for mouse handling in the browser
• Introduce game map coordinates: PointSquare
• Update wrt PointUI transition in other frontends
• Define UI screen coords in a separate file
• Silence messages about dead actors activating most embeds
• Make it possible to prevent the sleep effect
• Remove savefiles if config file too old
• Force savegame load result to catch errors ASAP
• Wait until browser finalizes Local Storage in the background
• Throw a Haskel exception when JS decompression fails on an old savefile
• Now that browser compresses savefiles, permit full history size
• Limit DOM keyboard focus highjacking, etc.
• Tell player when browser can be closed
• Use lz-string.js externs for minification
• Compress savefiles in GHCJS
• Bump base-compat bound to include Data.Semigroup compat
• Simplify containers for explosions
• Start embedded explosions inside the tile, not inside projectile
• Exclude meta game items from combat messages
• Move snxtScenario to session
• Avoid ‘you are less more tidy’
• Don’t count valuables inside organs to dungeon total
• Clarify that normal damage is piercing, as opposed to blunt wounding
• Change the misleading ‘guards a hoard’
• When dropped, destroy any organs, not only conditions
• Don’t hint to press ? when it would skip some messages
• Explain why the fadeout report is rendered in square font
• Show each tutorial hint at most once per game
• Require keypress when another faction killed off
• Don’t show question marks in HUD for MinorAspects items
• Add MinorAspects flag
• Get rid of the mechanism for referring expressions across messages
• Commute freely messages about conditions lasting longer
• Add NopEffect
• Add AtMostOneOf effect constructor
• Assign stable faction IDs to teams with continuity
• Display also actor initial items, not only organs
• Use Condition flag, not group, for speed and simplicity
• Keep paragraphs of the same width, unless the first really short
• Add the ‘stomachs’ irregular plural
• Don’t identify item if PutToSleep applied to sleeping actor
• Permit question marks in verb effects
• Do not announce item trigger if explicit and so already told
• Do not report conditions triggered when they vanish
• Inform differently when sleep induced by own organ, etc.
• Reflect that item triggering message appears after the fact
• Do not spam when backstory can’t trigger yet
• Give more details in logs when item triggering does not work
• Do not spam about water being activated
• Prevent server failure when triggering a gold piece
• Log item application even from, e.g., periodic activation
• Don’t announce that a dying actors stopped being hungry
• Add a temporary hack that prevents AI from stealing backstories in Allure
• Hardwire the player team continuity token
• Don’t identify meta game items at game end
• Implement conditional effects
• At death, destroy all organs, not just the trunk
• Permit non-unique non-singleton flavours
• Render story flavours specially
• Announce identification even during melee
• Inform about discovering meta game organs
• Make sure heroes spawned in safari mode are properly numbered
• Add a few more hero names
• Improve the descritpion of MetaGame flag
• Record meta game gear for future games
• Consume current, not persistent team gear
• Create gear according to character preferences, if any
• Use server-assigned actor numbers in the client
• Assign index numbers to actors from continued teams
• Add continued team character counter
• Generalize hero gear to each team with continuity
• Store team continuity in a faction
• Add team continuity across scenarios to content
• Add persistent sheroGear to server state
• Add a comment about why aspects of meta game items are not preserved
• Keep flavour of MetaGame items between games
• Keep identity of MetaGame items between games
• Simplify and speed up serverDiscos
• Add a flag to keep item identified between games
• Make sure pushed actors never hit before flying away
• Use lookupActorTime instead of manually inlining
• Only activate the first effect with UnderRanged and UnderMelee
• Simplify deflection descriptions given they don’t stack in practice, after all
• Describe the new challenges in the manual
• Implement disabled flinging challenge
• Implement disabled crafting challenge
• Add two more challenges
• Display tutorial hint only for bad temporary conditions
• Let AI use items with -1 speed, e.g., shields
• Improve valuing of SkDeflectRanged and SkDeflectMelee
• Try not to recompile dependencies between cabal-plan and LambdaHack
• Try to work around packages not updated for GHC 9.0.1
• Add deflection temporary conditions
• Add GHC 9.0.1 to travis and .cabal
• Implement skills for ranged and melee invulnerability
• Add skills for ranged and melee invulnerability
• Implement flags for applying when under attack
• Add flags for auto-activation when under attack
• Let AI with low skill target suspect terrain
• Prevent AI from trying to trigger blocked tiles
• Explain why we crop surface, not texture, even for prop font
• Explain the pointman/leader discrepancy
• Gut out the last remain of ‘cabal list-bin’
• Add some list-bin debug to travis script
• Explain away a text rendering artifact
• Make sure speaking unique messages are not ignored
• Don’t interrupt for taunt messages
• Move the tutorial hint about hearing taunts to the correct place
• Add tutorial hints about taking damage
• Only save to log any interruptible messages while in melee
• Add some more tutorial hint messages
• Write key names as on the keyboard, button names as in the button
• When leader stands over an item, say so, not ‘notices item’
• Unify pluralization of skills and challenges
• Add some tutorial hint messages
• Add the first tutorial hint
• Start with tutorial hints, but not in screensaver mode
• Ignore tutorial hints, as needed
• Give a more informative message when detecting that AI stuck
• Move tutorial hint options from state to session because they are UI-only
• Keep the tutorial override option from game to game
• Implement the convenience option to override tutorial hint display
• Add a convenience option to override tutorial hint display
• Set tutorial messages according to game mode
• Toggle tutorial messages when starting a game
• Mark some game modes as tutorials
• Display manual at the end of help
• Keep the rest of the manual in content
• Split manual into paragraphs aware of some markdown formatting
• Simplify an address in manual not to spill over 80 columns
• Make duplicate errors more informative (fixes #204)
• Factor out movementDefinitions
• Hint in config file to disable the special movement keys
• Hint that stealth if possible and AI vs player symmetric
• Save after game over, to preserve history
• Limit mentions of ‘playing’ not to break immersion
• Delimit with colour the known endings section of F1 screen
• Change ‘scenario’ to ‘adventure’ to be more immersive
• Dedupe special item and lore menu overlay handling
• Strenghten the types in item and lore menu code
• Display scenario lore (fixes #157)
• Factor our scenario description code
• Mention that scale needs to be configured for high dpi displays, see #164
• Shorten some travis tests
• Make full map position info mode the default
• Refer to the inspected map position as ‘here’, not ‘there’
• Use the actor pronoun when describing items at the same position (fixes #215)
• Don’t switch the subject from enemy actor to self for the same map position
• Don’t chain dependent sentences when examining map position
• Improve the wording of actor blurbs when inspecting map postions
• When inspecting map locations, make items subjects (see #215)
• Make it more obvious the game outcomes are fixed terms
• Compute BFS with Word16, not Word8; slower, but some paths are longs
• Be more careful avoiding 32bit overflows in frequencies (for JS)
• Don’t interpret the common desktop-switching key combinations
• Clear the margins also when redrawing after viewpane changed
• Specify fullscreen in config file and override on commandline
• Implement both kinds of fullscreen
• Name variable same as record field
• Remove help comment regarding SDL-only
• Add fullscreen CLI option for SDL renderer
• Indent by 4, not 2, proportional spaces
• Disable brew-sdl2-osx in travis that now takes too long
• Don’t configure the unused data directories when invoking cabal
• When installing don’t create the now empty GameDefinition/fonts/
• Don’t limit jobs to 1 now that cabal shows errors fine
• Don’t embed the fonts in the web frontend version
• Get rid of datafiles from .cabal
• Kill the font license files that are duplicated in COPYLEFT file
• Get rid of the now unused fontDir option
• Use embedded fonts, unless absolute path is given
• Embed game-supplied font files
• Try to be more verbose where running cabal test in appveyor
• Don’t create ~/.test directory when testing
• Version config file; fixes #220
• Don’t error out if the effect-causing item is not seen by strangers
• Add assertionz that, normally, items are known by actors affected by them
• Hardwire a few less colours
• Mention the item responsible for an effect, unless spammy
• Get rid of a left over no-repetition message helper
• Pass on the item responsible for an effect
• Start main menus at the first normal item
• Open game homepage when clicked in Main Menu
• Write the homepage address in full in Main Menu
• Depend on open-browser package
• Make the game over messages more colourful; fixes #213
• Tweak the display of game over messages
• Make one kind of ending message more precise and colourful
• Display camped and restarted endings in F1 scenario screen
• Save which games are camped or restarted
• Add default messages for Restart and Camping; fixes #212
• Sort outcome constructors for best display in F1 scenario screen
• Colour only outcome name in game over header
• Refactor renderSection in preparation of multi-color lines
• Avoid ‘restart in foggy mode’
• Unify rendering of game outcomes; fixes #210
• Remove a leftover mention of rmainMenuArt
• Improve the colours of the F1 scenario description screen
• Expose the meaning of colours for the use in other modules
• Specify also defeat endings
• Make headers in F1 scenario screen monospace
• Factor out attrLinesToFontMap
• Render F1 scenario screen better; fixes #208
• Add tests for many game modes in one session; fixes #228
• Add slowCrawl make target to observe AI in detail
• Mention in item description it’s unique, because name may not underscore it
• Ignore the placeholder messages when displaying one message
• Don’t overwrite prop with mono overlay even if the latter empty
• Add placeholders to history display, fixing #236
• Add a comment about historyMax divisible by screenful
• Improve message class of HP-affecting effects display
• Mark with dots if the show distinct messages different than the longer
• Implement distinct messages for becoming more affected by a condition
• Implement distinct messages for SfxTimerExtended
• Move messages that are hard to scrap to Distinct class, to fix it
• Prepare ppSfxMsg for Distinct messages
• Don’t let ESC clear messages in aiming mode; was confusing
• Add Discord and Matrix addresses to the manual
• Add links to discord and matrix chat
• Let MsgRunStopReason suffice for running interruption
• Save spam, but don’t show
• Clean up scraping messages
• Don’t run if ordered to run into solid tile
• Reword the short post-action messages
• Don’t show both terrain description and a warning about it in yellow
• Typeset one line of history view the same as whole history
• Make some messages longer to look better on a separate line
• Reverse history to match the order of messages shown on screen normally
• No longer specify initial repetition of a message
• Eliminate not saving and not repeating messages using counts
• Use allB in a couple more asserts
• Assert message constructors have proper length
• Get rid of message class GADT as designed by Alex Byaly, simplifying code
• Wrap first line of overlay at half the screen, not earlier
• Make indentSplitAttrString more accurate
• Tweak unique entities in content, adding ‘the’ as needed; fixes #214
• Don’t capitalize and add ‘the’ to unique entities
• Be more verbose when displacing over laying items
• Align single high score lines
• Copy-paste-hacked enlarging line-wrap treshold if too long headers then fit
• Fine-tune display of too long reports
• Display message classes aligned
• Rename message class constructors for better display
• Display message class in grey
• Indent wrapped messages
• In messages, replace some magenta risks by bright red harms
• Be careful measuring length of multi-line texts for wrapping
• Use the config option for one message per line on screen
• Hide the implementation of Msg, again
• Display message class in history if one per line
• Don’t report HP changes of projectiles
• Use the config option for one message per line in history
• Pass along the config option for one message per line in history
• Add config options for one message per line
• Rename the item spotting message
• Bring back filtering empty messages, to fix checking if report empty
• Add Show instance to history and its components for debugging
• Improve removing EOLs when deduplicating messages
• Remove MsgItemMoveLog now that one message class suffices for two components
• Get rid of isSavedToHistory and isDisplayed encoded now in the GADT
• Customize messages more comfortably
• Simplify restarting client
• Remove the code enabling multiple UI clients
• Don’t spawn many UI clients, but re-assign a single one
• Make MsgClass a GADT
• Eliminate Binary instance of MsgClass in preparation of GADT
• In config file, specify prefixes of message class names
• Change colour of game start message to a nicer one
• Issue special messages when actor fall to sleep or wake up
• Tweak message class use and colour assignment again
• Remove abuse of MsgTileDisco
• Recolour enemy spotted animation according to colour meaning table
• Redo colour assignment to messages
• Update frontends to highlight changes
• Change the colour of names of sleeping actors to blue
• Reflect changes in highlighting in the manual
• Swap blue and green highlights
• Highlight dominated actors more distinctly, as proposed by @bulbousBullfrog
• Rename confusing message classes
• Make sure indented texts are wrapped at earlier position
• Make most texts wrap before full screen width
• Extend UI.Content.Screen validation
• Tweak texts to fit on screen easily with square font
• Permit wrapping messages after N columns
• Prefer stairs in bottom right corners to leave space for messages
• Prefer levels in bottom right corners to leave space for messages
• Update documentation to the config changes
• Prevent friendly AI from wasting time nosing around our stash
• Rename an identifier to a consistent form
• Limit the size of monospace prompts when keypress requested
• Redo message colours given that some colours get a very thin font, possibly
• Use a mixture of fonts in the challenges menu
• Comment the config file some more
• Render all titles in mono font
• Typeset mouse command table in varied font
• Gut out Ubuntu Family Fonts from Debian package, because non-free
• Beautify CREDITS
• Rand the fontsets differently
• Make the fontset tests more random
• Don’t run noopt travis tests on normal length crawl
• Test all fontsets
• Extend client logging
• Make the game reentrant
• Prevent mangled newlines in concurrent screen writes
• Permit text usage in tests
• Refactor mkUIOptions to require less content
• Settile on ‘auxiliary fonts’ instead of ‘long text’
• Hardwire GTK font size to fix breakage from config format change
• Simplify FontSetup
• Implement scaling all fonts easily and safely
• Add font scaling option to config and commandline
• Prevent overspill when prop font is, in fact, mono
• Remove the now unused portions of config and commandline
• Make getFontSetup more accurate (not used yet)
• Eliminate really the last dependency on old config file fields
• Add a comment about lack of optimization for duplicated fonts
• Eliminate one last dependency on old config file fields
• Hardwire the font families to use for GTK frontend
• Use the two weights of prop font
• Recover old SDL frontend functionality using new config
• Move font types to make importing them in ClientOptions legal
• Let fontset be chosen on commandline as well
• Extend config file with font and fontset definitions
• Molify Debian’s lintian
• Legalize all the long text fonts even more
• Legalize all the long text fonts
• Add the ubuntu font family set of long text fonts
• Add another set of long text fonts
• Add new long text fonts based Adobe Source
• Remove old long text fonts
• Add commented out TTF.setHinting directive
• Crop too high fonts more at the top than bottom
• Get rid of the last traces of ‘exploiting’ terrain
• Simplify and speed up linearInterpolation (not benchmarked)
• Change which test is run in -O0 travis
• Make final version of integer casts hardening, using the type-level int-cast
• Explain the communication overhead concept
• Use toIntegralSized to crash when int wrap would occur during conversion
• Parse config at compile time
• Let foes occupiy exit in escape scenario, etc.
• Add missing cskip specifications
• If more info in history, end message with three dots
• Bump GHC versions for testing
• Bring back SPACE as clearning messages
• Update the default config wrt changes to RET keybinding
• Let ESC cancel the aiming line as well
• Keep the order, modulo abs, of factions as in the roster
• Don’t switch level away from melee when positions not taken yet
• Improve valuing AI displace action a bit
• Increase expressiveness of initial actor generation
• Permit tiny rooms if no stairs variety
• Pick the sole actor for cwolf games ignoring empty specs
• Remove length that forces the whole psFree, even though most unused
• Don’t drop initial actors if not enough initial faction positions
• Remove a code check that is already in mode content check
• Generate initial actors in the order given in content
• Prepare types for more faithful initial actor generation
• Rename ES.toList
• Simplify populateDungeon and catch similar overcomplications
• Generate initial actors in per-faction positions, not in alliances
• Make the use of integral conversion easier to verify
• Reword ESC description again
• Settle on apostrophes to denote one-letter keyboard keys
• Update command docs to command help changes
• Let only ESC clear messages
• Show newcomer aim mode help also when pressing ? in non-default detail level
• Simplify how the hint prompt works
• Align newcomer aiming help with ? help when aiming
• Try harder to display errors in appveyor runs
• Simplify and slightly fix linearInterpolation
• Extend debug information when summoning fails for lack of space
• Except for DetailLow, always show any description when examining
• Give feedback of detail level also when item selected
• Show item symbol in item lore view in square font
• Tweak and fix item examination messages one last time
• Change display of terrain more gradually as detail level rises
• Simplify two cases of sortBy emulating sortOn performance-wise
• Improve describing of items with words limit 1
• Use partItemWsDetail for item description when examining
• Make the second detail level the default
• Fine-tune shortest item examination message once more
• Move SPACE to CmdAim category
• Document that MMB and RMB cycle detail level
• Let RMB and MMB cycle detail level
• Add aiming help line for newcomers with SPACE hint
• Don’t warn about our own actors
• Reformat lookAtActors
• Implement detail level for actor descriptions at position
• Show position description components according to detail level
• Show detail level in HUD
• Redraw after detail level changed
• Implement detail level for item descriptions at position
• Match the new order of descriptions in a couple more places
• Bind SPACE to cycle detail level in aiming mode
• Add DetailCycle human command
• Record detail level in the aiming mode state
• Add and improve headers for scenario endings messages
• Change sortBy to sortOn in a couple of places
• Optimize truncateOverlay with the best of the sortOn and sortBy worlds
• Replace some performance-wise wrong uses of sortOn with sortBy
• Mark the last major outcome in F1 scenario screen
• Change unique actor names to match the upcoming new convention
• Don’t show even deafeat messages in F1 if not experienced
• Update the ‘?’ hints to the new Tab semantics
• Add dumping history to a text file
• Advise to replay initial scenarios
• Adjust the order of spotting to match the order when exploring
• Swap the order of intrusion warning and enemy spotted message
• Announce specially foes that have non-trivial items equipped
• Clean up Content.Input.makeData
• Destroy the trunk when actor dies, for death effects
• Make sure embedded item desc stands out from the following activation info
• Make unique speech heard regardless of distance
• Let uniques taunt in a big way
• Add type signatures to AI action picking functions
• Reorder consistenly mode kind component definitions in the file
• Extend rarity specs to above 10 logical levels
• Improve comments and messages about Rarity datatype
• Avoid spoiling victory game over messges, until seen
• Factor out victoryOutcomes
• Display game over messages in F1 scenario screen
• Shorten a field name to avoid >80 length lines
• Colour header in the F1 scenario screen
• Disable a travis test that still panics
• Revert the scenario choice font frop prop to mono, for typographic consistency
• Shorten a flavour blurb to make it fit when font is square
• Extend wrong line break avoidance to colourful texts
• Display also flavour in scenario choice screen
• Don’t attempt to display F1 scenario blurb in square fonts with two columns
• Don’t display the extra TAB commands in item menu headers
• Mention the new TAB commands in manual and keys sheet
• Represent a key not appearing in help by empty categories, not CmdNoHelp
• Enable pointman cycling key bindings with Control
• Factor out the pointman cycling key bindings
• Make sure item spotting messages are of proper length
• When spotting new items, write short message to screen and long to history
• Don’t merge messages with different classes
• Enable messages that are not displayed unless from history
• When spotting items, sort them only once
• Don’t report each item located in stash in a separate sentence
• Add verbosity flag to UpdSpotItemBag and UpdLoseItemBag
• Make new Direction type more general so that it can be used in other cases
• Add direction type to make cycle function less verbose
• Add functionality of back-tabbing both across floors and within single levels
• Add bool flag to cyclying so that direction will be possible
• Change naming of member cycling in-code to be keypress agnostic
• Swap S-Tab for A-Tab as new binding for cycling members on the same level
• Swap descriptions in help file so that tab functionality matches description
• Swap funcionality of Tab and S-Tab without renaming in-code
• Reverse order of S-Tab so that it doesn’t first cycle to another level
• Add up to two EOLs in tile examination message
• Order tile examination message elements by decreasing importance
• Make terrain names harder to confuse with items
• Improve messages and order of stores when moving items
• Make ItemNotCalm message applicable to flinging and triggering, too
• Tighten the result type of moveItems
• Add a comment to the default config with an example for rebinding a key
• Clarify that nominal values of burning and wounding are used
• Don’t call robots living
• Don’t display TMI about total condition time if come from explosions
• Let AI prefer a buckler over a fist
• Nag about the F1 screen when starting or resuming
• Display info about scenario in F1 screen
• Split mode note into motivation and hints to choose where text is displayed
• Restructure text displayed on challenge menu to make it more clear
• Add scenario rule notes to be displayed instead of full notes
• Don’t let crosshair obscure terrain, items and actors
• Work around SDL treating tilde as paragraph on some Mac keyboards
• Speed up DOM rendering by ignoring highlights if possible
• Permit specifying seeds in the config file
• Make attacking animation more subtle to distinguish from harm animation
• Even in the subtle hit animation indicate who is the victim
• Add a missing space between ‘modify terrain stat’ and ‘5’ with square font
• Make Burn as valuable as other damage for consistent UI display
• Show very good no-timeouts weapons at the correct position
• Partially hash-cons ItemQuant, with very modest effect
• Change some occurences of trivial Quant to quantSingle
• Simplify skill and place menu code
• Don’t multiply initialPlaces when preparing place display
• Consume places for places menu more eagerly
• Eliminate space leak when creating items
• Avoid memory leak due to caves used for levels on a list
• Fit the short help blurb in 4 lines
• Start the game with a confirmation prompt
• Sort weapons wrt timeout and item kinds ID as well
• Simplify querying skills of the leader
• Avoid long animations before the extra burn or wound animations
• Change combat animations to easily distinguish attacker from attacked
• Let AI displace teammates when no risk of displacing back
• Restrict AI use of stash guards less harshly
• Add a comment about allies stealing each other’s stashes
• Let AI keep fleeing if no support gained
• Remove a few redundant TypeFamilies pragmas
• Explain in a comment why on a level with stash many sleeping may accumulate
• Make safari scenario harder now that aliens are buffed up
• Let AI displace friends less often
• Unify the test for item being damaging
• Improve module haddocs for content
• Hide unneeded content group name patterns
• Add short-caves debug game mode
• Display melee damage even if there’s no ranged damage
• Reduce the number of calls to foeRegularAssocs
• Make sure AI actions are not recursive, even shallowly
• Reduce the number of calls to currentSkillsClient
• Speed up skill arithmetic
• Math order of cases in processWatchfulness with the order in type definition
• Remove inlines that stopped helping in GHC 8.8 and that obstruct profiling
• Compute friendAssocs only once for each actor AI processing
• Limit and speed up invalidating BFS
• Speed up a few significantly expensive functions
• Use the JS splitmix optimization
• Tweak random numbers code a bit
• Improve haddocks of the dice mechanism
• Improve help display a bit
• Move ClientOptions.hs to adhere to the convention about module hierarchies
• Meld LH and Allure content, continued
• Port over oil explosions that harm the targeted actor from Allure
• Meld LH and Allure cave and item content
• State the number of item in equipment even when removing from it
• Explain the goofy handling of recharging in stash
• Regenerate tile even if kind not changed, but all embeds gone
• Permit altering tiles with items on them
• Don’t leave stash unguarded if friends may spawn
• Add stash detection effect
• Cap stat bonuses when assigning AI value to items
• Value skill bonuses differently for each skill
• Be even more specific when describing what an actor does on a tile
• Adjust the SDL test to run without installing fonts, as Debian requires
• Don’t let projectiles ever cause normal tile transitions
• Tweak pushing via an embed
• Add Q&A about hearing
• Tweak item valuations to make awkward armours wearable by AI
• When describing an actor, say if it’s pushed
• Push towards embed, not in direction of previous movement
• Simplify key bindings display code
• Clean up naming of column offset in UI
• Ensure no missing space between columns of help text
• Prevent a trailing space
• Don’t activate barrels via mist
• Don’t treat blasts that damage through effects as mists
• Don’t let on noise distance if nobody can hear it directly
• Differentiate the sound of projectile and actor hitting a tile
• Emit sound also when an actor hits a tile
• Display close and out-of-level noises with special colours
• Display noise distance information
• Send noise distance information
• Refactor hearing
• Mock up extended hearing
• Give better message when not enough skill to melee
• Disturb resting when calm enough again
• Don’t summon by hitting a projectile
• Make actor aggresive if only one is not guarding stash on the level
• Ban teleporting immobile foes; they come back and their loot is lost
• Validate that item group names are short enough
• Cath too long group names
• Catch empty group names
• Let more actors start sleeping
• Consistently create on the ground all items looted from terrain
• Mark game modes already won in this difficulty
• Clear screen after start ASAP
• Use the AttrLine smart constructor or assertions as appropriate
• Rename firstParagraph
• Tweak types to work with the stricter smart constructor
• Move assertion about trailing whitespace to a smart constructor
• Eliminate trailing spaces in help and item menus
• Replace a momentarily trailing space with nbsp
• Don’t define special messages with space, they are added automatically
• When splitting lines, remove the trailing spaces
• Simplify a condition in splitAttrPhrase
• Don’t add a space when appending a report that starts with newline
• Don’t produce backdrop on black background
• Optimize truncateAttrLine and truncateOverlay
• Mark assertions expensive in menus
• Make avoiding SDL frame drawing more fine-grained
• Simplify SDL frame drawing based on previous frame
• Optimize menu scrolling via an extra texture
• Don’t waste healing items when HP low ceiling
• Don’t display that foes don’t know their weapon when only you don’t
• Reflect keybindings change in the start scenario menu
• Permit hero AI to consume elixirs
• Don’t flee if can kill a blocking enemy instead
• Make fast or hasted actors willing to close in for melee
• Compensate for overhead of animals when creating conditions
• Mark organs that are ready to expire once applyPeriodicLevel runs
• Avoid stating that an organ will last for 0s
• Tweak slightly AI item preferences
• Get rid of DropBestWeapon
• Don’t rechare nor discharge projecile payloads
• Start dicharging with strongest weapons
• Let Discharge add to cooldown, not reset
• Discharge only items with a timeout
• Consider as support only actors that can harm in melee
• Make organs (minimally) accessible from triggering
• Let AI trigger items among organs
• Relax trigger stat 1 restrictions
• Tweak AI item use preferences valuation
• Improve the gameover item menu message
• Record duplication of items to avoid absurd gameover messages
• Discharge not only equipment, but also organs
• Don’t paralyse the last AI stash guard
• Give AI stash guard more freedom if friends adjacent
• Make AI keep guarding even if teammates on the level may leave it
• Don’t let AI leave stash unless foes harm it
• Don’t abandon stash when teammates temporarily immobile
• Prevent displacing a stash guard
• Don’t abandon stash if temporarily nonmoving
• Abandon stash if under heavy fire
• Don’t abandon stash unless foes seen
• Don’t use aidTgtToPos unless necessary
• If enemy in light, pelt him instead of leaving dark
• Don’t stop fleeing into hideout after 5 turns even if foes appear
• Target dark if fleeing and no foes targetted
• Efficiently find closest hideout for AI
• Tabulate hideout tiles predicate
• Factor out distanceBfs
• Don’t hog leadership just because weak and enemies close
• When fleeing and soon after target only actors that can’t melee
• Stop fleeing if not hit and possibly friends managed to join
• Take into account recent fleeing when taking off light
• Simplify hinders
• In AI action choice use recent fleeing instead of this and last turn distress
• Don’t overwrite fleeing record if fled recently
• Don’t chase foes if fled recently
• GC fleeing record when actor lost
• Extend fleeing state from 1 to 5 turns
• Store not only fleeing position but also fleeing start time
• Reorder organs
• Make two organs not LH-specific
• Don’t undervalue weapons with drop condition
• Make it possible for animals to mark levels as explored
• Make slack tactics AI less erratic when focused or distressed
• Add a comment about animals bad at changing levels
• Let AI displace any sleeping blockers
• Don’t let AI actors fall asleep if not relaxed
• Don’t force animals to change target just before reaching it
• Improve condAimCrucialM for vector targets
• Flesh out the crawl survival test scenario
• Make crafting act as if on bottom level
• Move skill checks from pathfinding to targetting and restrict immovable actors
• Forbid making missiles hungry, asleep, etc.
• Optimize processTileActions
• Make sure projectiles can modify terrain even if safe from effects
• Don’t reset TVector target, because it’s set manually
• Create a central staircase
• Display ranged damage even when limited space in menu line
• Shorten the display of weapons if not enough space
• Don’t consider enemy projectiles for determining if AI is in melee
• Make poison less deadly in corridors
• Eliminate the stash domination exploit
• Make guessing if AI was hit by projectiles more accurate
• Prevent wounded animals from closing in agains mutliple enemies
• In messages tell discharge from recharge effects
• Make smell more important that stairs, again
• Clean up vector target code
• Melee non-targets if target not worth killing
• Don’t perform all monadic actions that compute strategies before choosing one
• Don’t retarget actor if blocked by the very actor and so can melee it
• Simplify target shoice for slack doctrine factions
• Sort items in lists in normal texts
• Help AI unlock the dungeon if stash guard helds the key
• Prevent animals from eating their own meat
• Prevent creating new items via throwing others, with ikit
• Signal specially when an item is located in a stash, as well
• Say when an item appears in a stash, etc.
• Don’t warn if selected missile from stash can’t be picked up
• Don’t flee if back next turn
• When fleeing don’t remember the last targetted enemy
• Move keybinding content definitions to match display order
• Prevent, in UI, removing from equipment if not calm
• Warn when illegal item movement attempted
• Display stash blurb also when switching the leader
• Don’t let stash guards leave levels
• Don’t prevent displacing a friend if only half of a loop is present
• Don’t neglect guarding stash unless no buddies to help
• Tweak AI conditions
• Don’t flee if own stash close unless completely overwhelmed
• Easily displace teammates that guard the stash
• Mention stash when walking over a tile
• Do not flee and be reluctant to chase when guarding stash
• Introduce guarding own stash
• Make isDoor more accurate
• Don’t make a rumble when door closes
• Tabulate isOpenable and isClosable
• Make tall staircases more likely now that they are often broken
• Make types a bit more strict in stairs calculation
• Simplify stair number computation
• Rename cextraStairs
• Change the semantics of cextraStairs
• Separate stair number computation and level generation
• Compute abandoned stairs earlier
• Correct the documentation of cextraStairs
• Roll extra stairs earlier
• Roll cave kinds earlier
• Simplify shuffling caves
• When transforming walkable tiles, don’t insist on embed activations
• Ban crafting and terrain transformation in the same action
• Try to make the terrain transformation specs more readable
• Prevent the exploit of using cover against non-moving shooters
• Make makeLine non-monadic
• Keep the data invariant of @arenas@ for longer
• Make the interrupted running display look less corrupted
• Add and tweak comments about item maps
• Update the manual and keybindings printout
• Tweak the wording of keybidings descriptions
• Prevent marking inert items as (charging)
• Add ANY_FLASK group
• Make sure impression is dropped before other conditions
• Handle failed bump-modification without embed activation
• Change the key for new game, not to mix up with ‘n’o
• Remove misleading comment about tiles being explorable
• In message fits in one long line, don’t wrap it into small lines
• Don’t make consumables with Ascend effect worthless
• Change division by zero into an assertion failure
• Comment why ‘seen’ sometimes gets from 100% to 99%
• Validate HideAs in content instead of asserting its property later on
• Tweak (speedup the tiniest bit) updAlterTile
• Stop leader before leaving dark in a more useful way
• Don’t equip light even if enemy only remembered
• Simplify the interesting target conditions for AI
• Flee through dark not only when starting in light
• Chase and flee through dark even if not starting from light
• Simplify the chasing ambient light condition
• Prefer leaders that don’t step into light
• Detour when chasing, to avoid lit spots
• Prefer fleeing into dark spots
• Don’t flee from projectiles if can’t flee into the dark
• Prevent AI from vainly chasing fast shooters
• Tweak and simplify AI fleeing condition
• Help AI sidestep a blocking meleeing friend
• Let AI go towards enemy stash even if in melee
• Join melee from twice longer distance
• Rename CURIOUS_ITEM
• Don’t display 0 ranged damages
• Add missing content group definitions
• Simplify content validation
• Check that content group names are all listed
• Let the draft detector emit noise and sound
• Tweak the engine to accomodate a detection device that pings
• Prevent non-humans from hogging key items and so blocking progress
• Reorder item definition to match those of Allure for diffing
• Don’t emit server leader change messages if known to client
• Comment about the trade-offs of weapon benefit calculation
• Mark the lore screen with crafting recipes
• Don’t confusingly refuse to display the pushing effect for shields
• Increase minimal damage taken, regardless of armor, to 5%
• Be pendantic when emitting messages about creating items
• Don’t say that a projectile is wounded
• Show enemy HP under the selected item
• Simplify strongestMelee
• Add an alias for picking up all items, etc.
• Sort out naming of item and embed activations
• Simplify revCmdMap
• Warn when embeds activated, but transformation failed
• Check dangerous tools use even when nested in transformations
• Don’t transform terrain when bumping
• Let pathfinding avoid vicinity of enemies
• Make it easy to discern an attack on teammate among many messages
• Don’t display misleading condition drop messages
• Visually distinguish embed names and descriptions
• Permit fractional FPS, for debugging
• Colour-code map position descriptions
• Move the run macro to where all other engine macros are defined
• Permit unknown command, for testing
• Simplify and clarify the mock
• Unify repeatHumanTransition 1 and macroHumanTransition
• Reflect in types that macro frame stack is never empty
• Make more space for explicit import lists
• Rename components of the macro data structure
• Drive the point home that repeatHumanTransition 1 /= macroHumanTransition
• Add tests that illustrate not creating new buffers for in-game macros
• Touch up the macro code a bit
• Add tests showing lack of referential transparency of named macros
• Don’t prompt about recording a macro it’s part of macro replay
• Warn when pick up not to equipment due to low calm
• Display how many items in equipment when equipping
• Refuse to equip if equipment full
• Separate testing harness import from game content import
• Add a helper function to shorten tests
• Rename the semantics functions
• Implement the desired semantics of RepeatLast
• Sketch the desired semantics of RepeatLast via tests
• Use the same updateLastAction function in test mock
• Collect a more precise last action key
• Simplify slightly the mock
• Grey out more (all?) illegal commands
• Add special messages when illegally flinging or applying
• Go even through stores that all factions have empty
• Revert banning stores for all actors based on the first checked
• Add special messages when illegally moving items from or to eqp or ground
• Forbid unequipping items when not calm, again
• Don’t ignore illegal stores if once shown
• Display the number of items in equipment even when not calm
• Write client RNG seed to UI RNG seed numbers at game restart
• Save UI random seed to avoid boring messages if many save/loads
• Add a comment about stealth viable for tactics, but not strategy
• Reset C-f when x-hair automatically changed
• Pick as leaders also the actors that could melee but should not
• Make animals unable to catch projectiles
• Don’t cycle xhair through own stash
• Display slideshows normall unless really too long, not just excessively long
• Give more time to view a frame when frame level changes
• Be more verbose when kicking terrain
• Prevent the inability of taking off max calm draining items
• Re-assign action repeating keys
• Clean up macro command’s texts
• Place ikit item in a semi-random way
• Tweak content group names for display
• Avoid ‘of gain of gain’ in item descriptions
• Don’t talk about blocking when no kinetic damage dealt
• Match the order of game over lore screens with in-game lore menu
• Prevent AI from imbibing a potion of panic
• Don’t call a tile alterable if embeds have no effects
• Prefer leaders that target enemy stashes
• Don’t chase stashes of friends and neutrals
• When creating items on the floor during dungeon generation, create ikit items
• When embedding items in tiles, optionally generate more items
• Redesign so that charging items can be determined even if timeout unknown
• Clean up some instance deriving
• Factor out two more pure functions about macros to use in unit tests
• Permit creation of input content without parsing a config file
• Factor out pure function about macros to use in unit tests
• Record nested macros on stack
• Snatch enemy stash ASAP if adjacent
• Port tests to tasty
• Undo the attempt to end game when player kills window
• Remove a spurious recordHistory
• Make sure verifyCaches error doesn’t obscure RNG seed of the crashing run
• Don’t let big actors auto-craft at death
• In menus show how long conditions will last
• Tell how for long an actor is going to be slowed when first affected
• Tell how for long an actor is slowed in total after extra slowness, etc.
• Tell how much poisoned actor is in total after extra poison, etc.
• Don’t display the mandatory turn frame if a frame already displayed this turn
• Don’t draw (and printscreen) identical frames, even if small fonts used
• Don’t trigger terrain if projectile has lost its payload
• Enable cooking of food thrown into fire
• Don’t spam when blasts transform terrain
• Simplify dieSer
• Ensure the last step of projectile flight is shown
• Remove a repeated check
• Be more verbose when transforming items with scrolls
• Display level where the stash is, as a reminder
• Don’t displace sleeping immobile actors
• Simplify checking if an item is identified
• Prevent AI from putting most weapons in reserve
• Let AI be eager to equip unidentified and good unique items
• Don’t be too verbose with tile altering when leader stands on it
• Don’t craft from equipment due to possible involuntary harm
• Remove altering via dropping items; too disaster-prone
• Refactor handleDir
• Permit indicating the zero vector with mouse
• Colour and reword the message about consuming items
• Be a bit more verbose about tile changes
• Don’t inform about a projectile’s equipment
• Avoid hitting ‘feebly’ with a heavy hammer
• Show, e.g., harpoon as an obvious choice for throwing despite usable for melee
• Don’t summon by hitting a friend
• Don’t hit delicately just because the weapon was not identified
• Prevent AI from wasting time throwing very weak projectiles
• Avoid ‘chip of scientific explanation turns out to be’, when identifying
• Improve item destruction messages
• Add OnUser effect constructor
• Avoid ‘the pair turns out to be’ when identifying
• When short name requested, don’t append numbers and parens
• Prevent VerbMsgFail being repeated 99 times
• Describe how colours correspond to tile properties
• Let even unskilled actors take over stash
• Take over stash also when actor dominated or created
• Target enemy stash in preference even to enemy actors
• Add comments about salter and pathfinding
• Avoid ‘controlled by Controlled foo’
• Avoid ‘hits delicately’ with a 14 HP wounding hammer
• Ensure in content that Burn is positive
• Mark weapon burning and wounding on HUD, to avoid hammers all look benign
• Clarify that chosen weapon needs not be optimal for a foe
• Improve display of places lore
• Pick up enemy summoning periodic items to deny them to foes
• Don’t send the SfxTrigger messages to the client
• Mention that stats menu summarizes the organ menu
• Add sample cabal.project.local files
• Introduce VerbMsgFail effect
• Let crafting use up terrain, if successful
• Don’t split tile properties description by description of things on the tile
• Avoid crafting via walking into a worshop tile
• Introduce SeqEffect to use for crafting creation in place of AndEffect
• Let components ‘disappear’, not ‘be removed’ during crafting
• Improve crafting recipe description
• Automatically identify crafted items
• When cratfing, use tools but destroy components
• Don’t create items in equipment if not enough free slots
• When crafting, apply as many copies of durable items as required, not just one
• Don’t crash if crafting fails due to unique already generated
• Improve debugging of item creation
• Don’t display thrown damage for organs
• Flesh out projectiles opening terrain and flying through
• Require embed activation even for item-fueled terrain transformations
• Don’t spam if recording is a part of a macro
• Make the summary of killed enemies less confusing
• Let some explosions destroy terrain
• Add black backdrop beneath prop font overlays, for readability
• Be even less verbose in descriptions of items with crafting
• Validate that item definitions have slots whenever expected
• Rename the Macro type
• Record also in-game menu navigation keys
• Recover macro’s recording order invariant
• Document Macro, swap types in smacroBuffer’s Either type
• Wrap the macro buffer into a newtype
• Encode recording state in type of macro buffer
• Be more precise when reporting OnCombine effects
• Format crafting recipes in a more readable way
• Gather effects application flags into one record, for redability
• Add an assertion that catches ItemQuant data invariant violation
• Ignore timeouts when using tools or transforming terrain
• Don’t apply kinetic damage when using tools or transforming terrain
• Generalize printing crafting recipes to many products
• Rename the dagger item definition to match Allure
• Help parsing recipes with bullets
• Avoid spike 2d1 (cooldown 8) of cooldowns at 4
• Typeset crafting recipes slightly
• Rename the whetstone item definition to match Allure
• Don’t repeat crafting recipes in OnCombine descriptions
• Show full crafting recipes only in lore menu, not when targeting
• Speed up and simplify the use of countIidConsumed
• Alter ConsumeItems and unify with ChangeWith
• Add optional count parameter to effect CreateItem
• Validate that item definition parameters in content are positive
• Display details of item crafting effects
• Add ConsumeItems effect
• Let AI ignore potentially unopenable entrances, to avoid AI loops
• Improve messages related to Discharge effect
• Simplify checking actor presence on a level
• Add the Discharge effect
• Be more verbose when loot created
• Don’t complain about failed transformation if embedded item triggered
• Revert “Break thrown non-unique items, even if durable”
• Let projectiles trigger only easiest embeds and alterings
• In tile content specify if projectiles may trigger actions
• Display when ending a flight, to make harpoon a sensible weapon
• When actor lacks tools to transform a tile, inform him
• Break thrown non-unique items, even if durable
• Squash repeated terrain transformation tools in descriptions
• Confirm that a weapon is to be used for transformation
• List tools needed for transformation in terrain description
• Factor out client altering conditions
• Unify altering by bumping and altering by pointing and server conditions
• Don’t waste turn when altering fails, but waste when embed triggering fails
• Factor out listToolsForAltering and subtractGrpfromBag
• Permit the use of tile altering tools with different durabilities
• Factor out parseTileAction
• Don’t count repetitions in OneOf effect description
• Prefer non-durable altering tools, even in equipment
• Avoid message about triggering a ‘way’ without any more details
• Rename terrain patterns that denote possibly depleted resource
• Consider durable tools last for terrain alteration
• Process tile features in order to prefer trap disarming to triggering
• Prevent embeds triggering each other in a loop
• Simplify applying embeds
• Display untruncated (and mangled) messages in teletype mode
• Make frontendName to avoid losing message in teletype frontend
• Clean up the presentation of group name patterns again
• Verify that singleton group names are so
• Separate singleton kind group names
• Validate that some more kind groups are singletons
• Rename HideAs to PresentAs for item kinds
• Simplify individual content validation due to stronger global validation
• Check that group names unique and not void
• Supply group names to the content creation and validation function
• Improve special gameover messages
• Clean up the lists of hardwired patterns
• Get rid of OVER in pattern names
• Clean up the DEFENSELESS vs VULNERABLE mixup
• Remove foldl from prelude to prevent space leaks
• Group the patterns yet slightly differently
• Catch empty OneOf during item content validation
• Group the patterns slightly differently
• Be consistent in taking only first word as game mode name
• Rename PHD_DEFENSE_QUESTION to VULNERABILITY_BALM for diffing with Allure
• Group TileKind patterns
• Remove IsString instance of GroupName to catch typos
• Reorder code in content files
• Make embed content patterns different from tile patterns
• Use PatternSynonyms for all content
• Permit and use PatternSynonyms in some ItemKind-related code
• Don’t crash when some items consumed during dropping
• Don’t warn about untriggered embeds; altering may be the focus
• Don’t report exploiting if not triggered
• Let terrain be changed with items even when embeds not untriggered
• Be less verbose when losing items
• Be more verbose when losing items due to tile altering
• Report which embedded item was exploited so that ‘Nothing happens’ makes sense
• Don’t report items appearing under projectiles that are already spent
• Reword command category headings
• Don’t move away staircase inhabitants if projectile is changing levels
• Let only visible projectiles discover hidden tiles, etc.
• Don’t display vacuus menu mode switch symbols
• Waste items for altering only if voluntary or released as projectile
• Get rid of spam about inability to modify terrain
• Identify item lost in order to modify terrain
• Let projectiles alter terrain, but not when just flying over it
• Don’t check alter skill when projectiles do the altering
• Improve comments about the 6 tile modifying constructors
• Don’t modify terrain by just walking over it
• Permit the use of equipment for modifying terrain
• Warn when no items to modify terrain
• Prefer durable items for altering tiles
• Don’t destroy but apply durable items used to alter tiles
• Add tile alteration that demands and consumes items
• Improve description of cooking effects
• Add OrEffect binary constructor
• Replace Composite by a binary constructor
• Display failure message when embed not under feet triggered vacuusly
• Don’t light adjacent tiles for free
• Avoid ‘you look less hungry’ about the pointman
• When smashed item exhibits no effect, don’t warn
• Report tile changes under a big actor
• Generally never alter tile if under feet and embed not triggered
• Detect when dropping or destroying items is vacuus
• Only alter tiles via walking on them if any embed triggered
• Don’t spam when embed doesn’t trigger when walked over
• Implement DestroyItem effect
• Let embedded items react to items dropped over them
• Explain away only pointman moving
• Inform about automatic melee in the in-game help
• Mention that all factions and actors are equal
• Reverse stars and underscores in HP bar in HUD
• Stress suvival in the game manual
• Make skill check for embedded items on the client consistent with server
• Give hints when terrain can’t be entered nor modified
• Describe hunger removing items, etc., with more detail
• Mention leap frog in game manual
• When scrapping message repetitions, ignore trailing EOLs
• Don’t spam about items underfoot at game start, when they are also ‘located’
• Report moving player’s stash on a new line, mostly for starting screen
• Bring back scenario notes at game start and resume
• Bring back notes in challenges menu
• Handle the meta note about scenario separately
• Mention challenges in the high score entries
• Remove the Show instance of ScoreRecord
• Invalidate inMelee when weapons dropped or picked up
• Use –assertExplored in makefile tests
• Verify the commandline assertion about explored level
• Don’t assert exploration if another game started in a debug run
• Add a debug commandline option to verify explorers are not stuck
• Make projectile-less actors randomly more aggressive
• Add a bit of histeresis when fleeing
• Destroy proportional font textures to avoid freezes when they pile up
• Prevent AI from running away from helpless foe
• Stop targetting foes once they lose all weapons
• Let AI do more vs foe with HP <= 0 to avoid stalemate if foe regenerates fast
• Don’t spuriously check if TEnemy is a foe
• Improve documentation of targeting
• Don’t attack hapless nonmoving foes at range also
• Don’t normally target nonmoving actors that can only melee
• Use actorWorthMelee in inMelee
• Melee a targeted foe even if not worth meleeing otherwise
• Don’t target hapless uninteresting foes
• Don’t melee a foe with only benign weapons
• Don’t consider foes with benign weapons a threat
• Only consider actor in melee if adjacent foes worth meleeing
• Don’t interrupt running if benign melee actor adjacent
• Introduce the count of benign weapons of an actor
• Make sure tutorial scenarios have enough melee weapons
• Avoid checking isModifiable once more, in verifyAlters
• Consistently check isModifiable together with embeds
• Mark the new request failures as impossible on the server
• Add some internal operations, for future easier profiling
• Removed TileOpenClosed error message
• Further enhancements in tile closing
• Removed TriggerTile
• Remove commandline default that forced Just that is interpreted as game reset
• Bring back the way dungeon generation perturbed random rolls
• Make 64bit native and 32bit browser games play the same with the same RNG seed
• Keep a separate random seed for UI
• Use bitmaskWithRejection form randomR
• Add some BENCHOPTS
• Use splitmix
• Suggest switching to another teammate if movement skill drained
• Turned off showing of default –maxFps value
• Additional logPriority value and defaultMaxFps
• Couple command line options are now clamped or checked before they’re set
• Only run with selected actors that are not yet at goal
• Hint about menus in movement stst too low message
• Hint to wake up if movement skill drained by sleep
• Display also own asleep actors green on HUD
• Make the heading of item menu when inspecting an organ less confusing
• Tell that second ‘f’ projects
• Add a comment about the ‘exploit’ verb
• Do not mention ‘trunk’ in weapon strike messages
• Do not mention ‘trunk’ in armor blocking messages
• Suggest in history menu to press RET
• Get rid of Server.EndM
• Make sure closing window in rage at defeat/win saves game
• Mention in the manual that HP starts at half max
• Reformat game peculiarities list in the manual
• Don’t announce pushing that has no effect
• Try to make the under AI control prefix less confusing
• Let animations be toggled in main menu
• Don’t display buttons on a separate line unless message is very long
• Add a newline after scenario description
• Avoid blank lines in history
• Overhaul the order and blurbs of game modes
• Make raid scenario squad-based
• Display scenario descriptions in their submenu
• Don’t show backstory in submenus of the main menu
• Rework new game start menus
• Add a visual separator between new games in history
• Reverse the order history messages are displayed in
• Copy the list of distinguishing features from Allure homepage
• Restructure chronologically the game manual with verbs as section titles
• Avoid empty paragraphs
• Ignore linebreaks when showing the condensed history line
• Underline that mouse is optional
• Make ‘crosshair’ on the status line uniform with other headers
• Bring back the help prompt that doesn’t confusingly mention advancing
• Mark overful HP and Calm specially on HUD
• Add some blank lines when stacking command lists
• Stress that mouse is optional
• Move mouse help screens earlier
• Don’t indent help parts by proportional space width
• Clarify the structure of help information
• Don’t show ‘crosshair’ when not aiming
• Get rid of ‘x-hair’
• Make collective running less prominent in help; tweak help
• Mark some text files as out of date
• Add a paragraph break before nearby item summary
• Accept longer menu messages
• Add a paragraph break before cave description
• Warn that over-max HP gain is transient
• Mark deaths with paragraphs and display ‘Alas’ already at incapacitation
• Add a line break after gameover identification of items
• Add a couple of line-breaks to reports
• Rename emptyAttrString, which was misleading
• Introduce a newtype of attribute lines with no linebreaks
• Prevent backstory overflow in main menu with proportional font
• Move O command just after I command in help
• When toggling autoplay, as with y/n, not SPACE/ESC
• Let left and right arrow keys move between sides of help screen
• Fine-tune helps screens for display side-by-side
• Naively cram help screens side by side
• Merge the two item command help pages
• Use proportional font for help, dashboard and item menu
• Use square font for movement scheme help paragraph
• Make it possible to use many fonts in help
• Get rid of MoveKeys.txt
• Set up main menu for both proportional and square fonts
• Remove backstory from help screens
• Add backstory to main menu, set up for square font, for now
• With square font, add extra space before item symbol
• Represent button width as a datatype
• Parameterize all typesetting by the font setup (multi or single)
• Pass along information about supported fonts
• Let sdl frontend really handle the setup with no prop nor mono font
• Gut out ascii art
• Add blank space around some lines of overlays
• Take all items with *, not !
• Update the item removal verb
• Switch a single place lore display to mono font
• Render skill menu and item lore menu with proper fonts
• Display item symbol in item menu in square font
• Display label and symbol in items overlay using square fonts
• Display at most 3 lines of buttons when too little space for menu
• Make a mouse misclick error easier to understand
• Don’t wrap Mono keys after a prompt
• Overlay in square font when basic frame is under animations
• Introduce a separate UI coordinate system
• Make boxSize even
• Don’t highlight wrong overlays when buttons highlighted
• Avoid proportional font in button-like UI areas
• Permit overlays with gaps
• Name font kinds consistently
• Display some overlays in monospace font
• Display history labels in mono font
• Specify fonts also in slideshows
• Move the definitions of DisplayFont and FontOverlayMap
• Propagate the choice of fonts for overlays
• Generalize drawOverlay to specify desired font for each overlay
• Generalize overlays to let them start at arbitrary X offsets
• Eliminate overlayFrameWithLines
• Document better the overlay types
• Move ColorMode to another module
• Specify when to use which kind of main font
• Add monospace rectangular font to game configuration
• Remove the old woff font
• Add new fonts, proportional and monospace
• Specify size of the message font separately
• Don’t cursor highlight break up proportional font message chunks
• Don’t let space break up prorpotional font message chunks
• Render the extra overlays in proportional font
• If message font supported, pass overlay over instead of rendering
• Initialize also the message font in SDL frontend
• Add message overlay font to game configuration
• Comment about why animals rarely eat food
• Rename tactics to doctrine
• Get rid of the henchman notion
• Rename leader to pointman
• Handle UpdTimeItem when container not visible (CStash), but item visible
• Improve command descriptions
• Redefine key bindings not to collide with new movement keys
• Detect collisions of keybindings with movement keys
• Use the keys freed by removing the right hand movement setup
• Replace right hand with left hand movement keys
• Main inventory the main store in game help and UI
• Move total value display to all posessions menu
• Identify items at any item move, in case they are thrown at stash
• Avoid spam about actors getting braced
• Mention in failure messages that hoard accessed when stading over it
• Mention in failure messages that too low Calm for Eqp
• Attempt to display handling of multiple items more succintly
• Bring back UpdMoveItem to have better messages
• Properly describe item move actions
• Lose access to stash when enemy steps on it
• Say who’s stash is an item moved to, unless it’s ours
• Announce that enemy stash found
• Make sure to let clients know even the human trinket items at gameover
• Let new stash correctly overwrite old, even if old not seen
• Introduce PosSightLevels and use for CStash containers
• Get rid of seenAtomicGeneralCli
• Simplify handleAndBroadcast
• Make updTimeItem more loose when enemy CStash is considered
• Don’t carry item definitions in commands that don’t create items
• Register on the client the items necessary for commands
• Analyze what items client needs to know to process a command
• Clean up creation vs spotting of actors and items
• Add UpdRegisterItems to be used instead of many ad-hoc calls currently
• Be permissive when performing atomic action wrt CStash
• Simplify SfxStrike, etc., and don’t require access to store’s bag
• Simplify PosFidAndSight
• Remove UpdMoveItem atomic command that is not too common without CInv any more
• Simplify handling of CStash action visiblity
• Display also enemy stashes in position description
• Let actors learn stash positions when they come into view
• Mark on the map enemy stashes as well
• Refactor UpdStashFaction to let enemies see it sometimes
• Add shared stash position to team’s perception
• Say in position description that stash is there
• Mark own shared stash position with white box
• Remove gstash handling in atomic commands
• Move CStash in server code, not atomic commands
• Avoid catch-all in cmdAtomicSemSer
• Introduce UpdStashFaction
• Do not produce a now unused ItemFull for inventory
• When moving items, don’t cycle to Ground, when over stash
• In UI don’t try to use CGround when over CStash
• Don’t let AI consider floor items at it shared stash location
• When scanning a map, don’t consider own stash an ordinary pile of items
• Update atomic position information for shared stash
• Make eqp, not stash, unavailable when low Calm
• Make CStash the new implicit default when picking up items
• Gut out CInv and CSha and replace it with CStash represented on the map
• Remove the unused effect ActivateInv
• Bump version, anticipating major inventory logic overhaul
• Reword the MOwned item dialog mode blurbs
• Simplify the header of the lore menus
• Change meny keys / and ? to > and <
• Update scenario names in the manual
• Mention the ! key whenever KP_* is mentioned
• Simplify and fix placement of –more- prompts
• Change the AttrString word gluing operation and fix drawFrameStatus
• Slightly fix speed calculation to agree with what’s on the wiki
• Fix a memory leak from tutorial hints repetition avoidance
• Fix no frames displayed while resting
• Fix missing dot at the end of taunt message
• Fix heroes starting on exit in escape scenario
• Fix the healing necklace better used from the backpack
• Fix which are considered minor effects
• Fix spurious double space suffix when rendring on blank
• Fix mouse in area help, wrongly typeset with square font
• Fix interruption message not appearing on screen, only in history
• Fix wrong order of words in the detection effect message
• Fix and simplify armor conditions message choice
• Fix good conditions displayed in red
• Fix broken combat description condition about armor
• Fix not updated tutorial switch when game won
• Fix a hint wrongly guessing the damage was piercing
• Fix failures not stopping macro playback
• Fix the lack of ‘a’ when hearing distant summoning
• Fix using the reserved number 0 for faction ID
• Fix backing up broken savegames
• Fix a spurious space before a sentence ending dot
• Fix lack of capitalization in verb messages
• Fix genetic flaw activated at death
• Fix a typo in identifier names
• Fix first lines of message wrapped too late
• Fix botched conditions for SfxFizzles, etc.
• Fix includeMetaGame computed twice
• Fix meta game identification not carrying through to the next game
• Fix accumulating meta game item kinds
• Fix scenarios with numbered actors but without continued team
• Fix an optimization two lines too low in shuffleExcept
• Fix a triple copy-pasto with Ability.MetaGame
• Fix discoMetaGame for clients with state held by server
• Fix displaying deflection when the perpetrator is not seen
• Fix tutorial hints disabling
• Fix a link to roguebasin
• Fix short wrapping of adventure lore
• Fix overflowing messages with more than 2 spaces
• Fix 4 spaces message indentation with square font
• Fix trash on fullscreen borders
• Fix not showing aiming line when changing epsilon
• Fix trying to describe an item that is not seen by the actor hit with it
• Fix whitespace in displayRespSfxAtomicUI
• Fix display of message log aligned to newest message
• Fix extra SPACE needed to see history after game save command
• Fix running broken due to vacuus MsgAtFeetMajor messages
• Fix MsgStopPlayback not stopping running
• Fix usage of two different widths in splitAttrString
• Fix history lines starting with EOL
• Fix monospace overlay whitespace spilling onto proportional
• Fix wrongly enabled display of MsgRunStop message class
• Fix deduplicating shown and saved messages separately
• Fix, again, leftover UI clients killing frontend after already killed
• Fix the numeric display of HP gain/loss
• Fix wrong SDL wrapping markers when using mono fonts only
• Fix a missing mouse command description
• Fix Tasty tests broken by frontend fixes
• Fix screensavers broken by UI faction not being the first
• Fix a bug with two UI clients interspersing frames
• Fix ‘open main menu’ command of Dashboard
• Fix the GTK frontend again
• Fix a syntax error in travis script
• Fix license name
• Fix linearInterpolation for inflated dungeon depths once more
• Fix running disturbed by many boring tiles at open levels
• Fix MsgItemMove messages not saved to history
• Fix unintentional cap on actor generation level
• Fix calling gameover and ‘endgame’
• Fix lack of EOL before initial separation line of history
• Fix mouse coordinates in the browser
• Fix assigning number symbols to hero faction projectiles
• Fix and improve how deflections are displayed
• Fix a 32bit system bug that intCast detected
• Fix damage not displayed when other attributes are
• Fix flinging from item menu cancelling item selection
• Fix the comment about users able to overwrite keys
• Fix a crash when impossible command chosen
• Fix bitrot that corrupted curses frontend
• Fix ‘the fallen falling’ projectiles
• Fix wrong alignment of level percent seen
• Fix autoexplore with changing crosshair
• Fix goto not interrupted change of crosshair
• Fix the valuation of OnUser effect
• Fix the lack of the last backdrop line in the game greeting blurb
• Fix memory leak in placesFromState
• Fix double braced due the hack for skill-less yelling
• Fix order of using weapons inconsistent with HUD
• Fix actor that can’t wait not ignored as a pointman even when inactive
• Fix stash guard preferred as pointman
• Fix AI leader choice to really prefer old leader and to avoid light more
• Fix raid scenario starting with two faction close to escape
• Fix random number out of range on 32bit JS
• Fix teleport effect from stash item not identifying it
• Fix warnings in gtk frontend
• Fix the extra blank menu line starting too late
• Fix section links in the game manual
• Fix and simplify rules for disabling tile transformation
• Fix missed blank prefixes of empty lines inside text
• Fix and simplify projectiles activating and transforming terrain, again
• Fix projectiles not able to lit up oil
• Fix padded empty string overwriting UI elements
• Fix the position of second column with square font
• Fix trailing spaces in dashboard
• Fix a trailing space in a message
• Fix disable extra empty shadow line at the bottom of menus
• Fix determining if item identified in permittedPrecious
• Fix an actor pulling himself
• Fix desynchronized copy-pasted actorVulnerable code
• Fix history message display header
• Fix Calm measurement code to match code documentation
• Fix sleeping stash guard not considered a guard
• Fix reaching escape from below when all levels explored
• Fix hero AI sometimes not exploring levels fully
• Fix weapon order of Smithhammer
• Fix messages about melee-only armor deflecting missiles
• Fix wrong condition, wrongly reducing fleeing behaviour
• Fix comments about slack doctrine targets
• Fix assertion failure when targetting a tile under oneself
• Fix code documentation about inventory stores
• Fix the unequipping failure message condition
• Fix wrong cave reversal when generating dungeon
• Fix non-pointman heroes meleeing healing geysers
• Fix poisons never activating and never running out
• Fix registering if altering failed due to bumping
• Fix a bushy patch that can block starting actors
• Fix diverging definitions of foes worth killing
• Fix barrels not destroyed by bumping
• Fix inability to open doors due to no embeds
• Fix projectiles not to bump off, but to transform terrain
• Fix the display of level in stash menu header
• Fix alliance placing to put heroes over stairs
• Fix a wrong message when displacing a waking foe
• Fix AI not eating and not removing other bad conditions
• Fix nested macros
• Fix wrong game mode started due to only the first word inspected
• Fix the result of AndEffect
• Fix the warning when flinging benign items
• Fix a loop when actor pushed to another level via stairs
• Fix melee disrupting pushed flight
• Fix unidentified weapons marked in HUD as without timeout
• Fix modelling wear and tear with DestroyItem
• Fix mixed up resistance conditions
• Fix item dropping crashes when OnSmash effects remove them while dropped
• Fix an AI loop when applying a recharging item
• Fix some no-fence places not appearing in statistics
• Fix display of empty lists of tools for terrain transformations
• Fix referring in the server code to definitions from the client internals
• Fix embedded items activated twice
• Fix an attempt to consume more items than there exist
• Fix broken running macro
• Fix activating embeds
• Fix repeating predefined macros
• Fix unsafe recording
• Fix in-game macro system
• Fix discharging an item that is not recharged
• Fix consumeItems missing in an export list
• Fix missing spaces in describeToolsAlternative
• Fix display of tool alternatives
• Fix random results of sortEmbeds
• Fix checks if actors in combat
• Fix the semantics of Discharge effect
• Fix a crash when updating invisible item timer
• Fix altering skill check in the client
• Fix omission of OpenWith when OpenTo is considered
• Fix unidentified embedded items impossible to trigger
• Fix usage of outdated state component when altering tiles
• Fix an attempt to apply a used up embedded item
• Fix the direction of < and > scrolling in ending screens
• Fix rubble tile definition wrt order of activated features
• Fix old actor body used after altering caused by collision with terrain
• Fix wrong condition for alien captured at victory message
• Fix moving only all or none items between containers
• Fix crash when actor not visible after triggering an item
• Fix crash when dopping previous may destroy next items
• Fix projectile altering a tile too many times at once
• Fix DropItem reporting no activation due to item vanishing earlier
• Fix off-by-one when picking projectiles with enough range
• Fix trying to destroy an empty item bag when modifying terrain with it
• Fix assumption that if last actor is alien, game is won
• Fix no identification message sometimes in the first turn
• Fix compilation without EXPOSE_INTERNAL
• Fix the trap of drain Calm item in equipment that can’t be removed
• Fix tiles never altered via walking on them
• Fix articles incorrectly recognized in words that end similarly
• Fix wrong calculation of number of non-durable weapons
• Fix incorrect conjugation
• Fix a corruption of backstory text
• Fix first character of buttons sometimes overwritten by space
• Fix wrongly displaying a special ending for small scenarios
• Fix other frontends wrt engine and sdl2 frontend changes
• Fix proportional overlay overwriting first character of mono one
• Fix help setup for large screens
• Fix broken item menu with square font
• Fix wrong button initial position with square font
• Fix distant overlays wrongly getting a highlighted line
• Fix SDL frontend truncating proportional font lines
• Fix and tweak measuring texts in various fonts
• Fix empty menus in single font mode
• Fix spurious ending prompt in single-font setup
• Fix padding of line chunks overwriting subsequent chunks
• Fix display of history
• Fix buttons holding other locations of an item
• Fix not shown highlight of prop font lines
• Fix spurious empty line between header and menu
• Fix use of fromAscList where fromDistinctAscList would do
• Fix spacing in history display
• Fix off-by-one crash in history
• Fix mouse clicks on buttons in small font areas
• Fix updateLine for the case of multiple overlays
• Fix overrun in mouse help table
• Fix history highlight restricted to 80 columns
• Fix menu highlight splitting proportional text chunks
• Fix proportional texts never wiped out
• Fix horizontal starting points of message chunks
• Fix a syntax error stemming from wrong CPP
• Fix illegal containers creeping into item choice
• Fix cmdAtomicSemSer for UpdMoveItem
• Fix AI not sidestepping explosive tiles, even if it could
• Fix AI not sidestepping nearby actors
• Fix cmdAtomicSemSer in the presense of CStash that acts like CFloor
• Fix broken atomic commands assigned wrong LevelId
• Fix visible enemy stash position not updated, because foes not seen
• Fix countless typos
• Start using cabal-plan
• Fix and improve Makefile, cabal file and CI scripts
• Improve and update game manual and help texts wrt game changes
• Tweak travis scripts and building docs in README

v0.9.5.0

• Fix NumLock disabled in the browser
• In screen reader frontend, highlight active menu line with the cursor
• Clone the main main menu commands as map mode commands
• Add C-RMB and C-S-LMB as alternatives of MMB
• Announce prominently MMB binding for describing map positions
• Clean up the default config file, keeping compatibility
• Make scenario names longer and slighlty more informative
• Make Vi movement keys the default in addition to keypad and mouse
• Fix a bug where death prompt when autoplaying was capturing a keypress
• Let ESC from main menu return to insert coin mode, if applicable
• Make various small UI tweaks, especially to main menu and its submenu
• Let main menu lines have 35, not 30, characters
• Make the main menu ASCII art less intrusive (and easier for screen readers)
• Don’t invalidate the score file due to game minor (only) version bump

v0.9.4.0

• In vty frontend highlight actors more
• Clean up actor highlighting
• Add yell/yawn to minimal command set, remove swerving the aiming line
• Invoke yell/yawn exclusively with ‘%’, due tor Windows and terminal woes
• Move C-c command to C, not to mask C-c on console frontends
• Tweak and fix vty console frontends, for screen-readers
• React specially at gameover under certain special circumstances
• Simpliy assignSlot now that slots are auto-sorted
• Get rid of explicit item sorting; let lore and menu slots agree
• Make DetectExit non-modal
• Mark in a game end confirmation message that more treasure can be found
• Add a description to the escape embedded item
• Reword gameover text for raid scenario
• Be more verbose when confirming escape from the game
• Don’t claim to summon, when not possible on this level
• Fix missing ‘no longer poisoned’ when applying antidote
• Don’t ask confirmation for neutral (e.g., not IDed) items
• Fix ‘you fall down; you stand on a sword’
• Prevent selecting regions via mouse down in web frontend
• Deselect item if player declines to apply or fling
• Hand-hold the player, warning if flung item is beneficial
• Hand-hold the player, warning if applied item is harmful
• Rewrite the condition in UI applyItem check
• Improve the lobable item skill failure message
• Let mouse buttons describe tiles, etc.
• Unblock S-MouseButton in SDL2 frontend
• Always describe things under mouse button
• Make the message when hitting dead foe more varied

v0.9.3.0, aka ‘Velvet smoking jacket’

• Introduce message classes with configurable behaviour
• Create a new 16x16 font and use it everywhere; tweak smaller fonts
• Lock some levels or otherwise make ascending tricky
• Add cooldown to most melee weapons, display that in HUD, adjust AI
• Add per-scenario and per-outcome gameover messages in content
• Add duplicate and reroll item effects in preparation for crafting
• Add actor and item analytics as a preparation for XP gain quests
• Implement piercing projectiles that may share a tile with a big actor
• Increase the spawn speed now that monsters sleep a lot
• Introduce actors falling asleep and yelling
• Allow any level size and position
• Mention places when looking at tiles and add place lore menu
• Expand all kinds of content and rebalance
• Create and rework all item, cave and plot prose (Dan Keefe @Peritract)
• Make explosives in cramped spaces twice weaker
• Tweak player fling command
• Tweak equipping when equipment overfull
• Start cycling stores at equipment since that’s the one mentioned in help
• Overhaul CI scripts
• Restructure and clean up codebase
• Extend balance debugging tools, using item and actor analytics, places, etc.
• Drop the gameplay option that first death means defeat
• Avoid idle-GC between slow keystrokes
• Put content data into a compact region to limit GC
• Remove the border around web frontend game screen; seems unneeded now
• Don’t draw aiming line nor path in vty frontend
• Highlight xhair by cursor in vty frontend
• Highlight player by cursor in vty frontend
• Switch the default FPS to 24 for tradition’s sake
• Highlight current high score
• Remove most stopPlayBack, now spurious, because message classes used
• Overhaul cabal file: define common options, split into internal libraries
• Fix confusion of nub and uniq
• Rename short wait to lurk and many lurks to heed
• Show a red message when HP or Calm dip too low or when foe appears
• Lose Calm and so alert AI even at weakest non-zero HP draining attacks
• Enable screenshots while in menus
• Rename config options related to fonts
• Recolour aiming line not to clash with the red crosshair
• Exchange the functions of yellow and red highlight
• Tweak all colours, in particular to differentiate blues/cyans
• Cap bright colours at 85 CIELAB Lightness at D65
• Normalize dark colours to be between 42 and 57 CIELAB Lightness at D65
• Get rid of colorIsBold option; KISS
• Tint white in alternating lines with different hue for long text readability
• Don’t split lines at articles
• Set xhair to currently meleed foe to see his HP
• Display speed on HUD; tweak status lines in other ways
• Don’t show description of leader target in HUD; TMI
• Help AI flee in a consistent direction over many turns
• Expose the save backup command, for browser games
• Don’t display target info when item selected
• Let AI actors spawn even quite far from the player
• Auto-select all new team members, to help new players
• Replace O by zero on the map display; make zero distinct from O in all fonts
• Flesh out the initial ? prompt
• Add ‘I’ alias for pack-related commands, unless laptop key-scheme used
• Turn off movementLaptopKeys by default not to confuse new players
• Make sure AI attacks bosses even if distant and fleeing or non-moving
• Lower bonus HP at extreme difficulty
• Add a separate frame for each projectiles start
• Don’t go modal at the frequent and weak hidden tile detection effect
• Make AI pick closest stairs more often
• Let apply-unskilled actors activate embedded items
• Don’t boost damage by speed unless actor is projectile
• If everything else fails, let AI flee by opening doors
• Help AI actor prevent being dominated
• Make computing gameplay benefit to items more accurate
• Rename, clone and fine-tune effect Temporary
• Simplify code and content by getting rid of Recharging effect
• Let applying periodic items only produce the first effect
• Tweak item detection to help in skipping boring level portions and in stealth
• Invoke and display embedded items in the order specified in tile definitions
• Let lit trails illuminate colonnades
• Prevent an exploit for avoiding self-invoked firecrackers
• Don’t let AI attempt summoning if not enough Calm
• Improve item label bracket codes in menus
• Pick randomly destination stairs if teleporting level
• Display the number of items in store
• Summarize value of player loot in shared stash menu’s header
• Start history menu at the close-up of the last message
• Make fast-dying insects aggressive
• Overhaul game score DSL and particular scoring definitions in content
• Add and extend messages, e.g., tell if victim blocks and with what armor
• Extend and rework menu manipulation keys
• Remove specialized quaff, read and throw commands; KISS
• Split walls of text into more paragraphs and/or make them narrower
• Extend and update help and manual
• Don’t let AI waste time looting distant lone projectiles
• Make Enum instances of Point and Vector contiguous, hackily
• Make dominated actor drop all his items, for ID and in case he defects ASAP
• Try to find a non-waiting action, if better AI leader can’t be found
• Prevent summoning OoD actors
• Let animals eat food and add several foods
• Make Domination effect harder to activate
• Let only actors and items with SkOdor property leave smell and add perfumes
• Let spawning rate level out after a few dozen spawns
• Describe smell, if present in an inspected tile
• Let pushed actor fly after crashing a door open
• Show passing time and heard events even if no actors in the UI faction
• When movement impossible, describe the tile with SHIFT-direction
• Catch and steal projectiles when braced instead of when weaponless
• Let actors that are pushed perform any action in addition to movement
• Improve deduplication of messages
• When describing actor on map, tell if it has loot
• Represent being braced as having an organ; also add other pseudo-organs
• Overhaul hearing to facilitate triangulation based on sound cues
• Prefer to spawn aquatic actors on aquatic tiles
• Add swimming and flying skills and shallow water tile features
• Boost/drain skills via many new items
• Rework and extend skills and their effects as a preparation for XP rewards
• Enable specifying each side of outer cave fence separately
• Make definition of caves of a scenario more precise
• Specify more properties of levels in content
• Extend content validation
• Improve placement and fitting stairs and rooms on levels
• Don’t hardwire level size
• Simplify game rules content
• Change the format of game client content
• Fix an arbitrary delay in killing dying actors
• Fix arbitrary branch of a corridor chosen when running
• Fix bush patches blocking off a level’s corner
• Fix config file ignored at game reinit
• Fix running disturbed by flavours of walls
• Fix splitting lines one character too early
• Fix Calm drain from nearby foes occurring only every other turn
• Fix some AI looping movement, in particular when fleeing
• Fix running into own periodic explosions, e.g., from necklaces
• Fix ‘she painfullies collide’
• Fix AI with vector targets unwilling to change them
• Fix crash when attempting to fling at a target on remote level
• Fix wrong timestamps in history
• Fix, again, various kinds of frames intruding between fadeout and fadein
• Fix wrong pluralization of some item names, compound and exceptions
• Fix disabled items benefit recalculation after item kind learned
• Fix in many ways too close initial faction and item positions
• Fix performance in many ways and places, particularly for JS translation
• Fix missing perception updates, causing missed AI actions concerning us
• Fix uninitialized sarenas, which was probably causing resume to change state
• Fix weak AI actors fleeing even if enemy can’t melee
• Fix and optimize sifting free tiles for spawn/summon location
• Fix various cases of excessive summoning
• Fix recording of item first seen level
• Fix many problems with item descriptions and other messages
• Fix reporting of reduction and elimination of actor conditions
• Fix reading and interpreting old format config files
• Fix synced initial item timeouts and actor times, leading to artificial feel
• Fix actors erratically following their leader
• Fix lifts continuing as stars and the other way around
• Fix various 32bit overflows
• Fix other errors, probably not present or not visible in previous version

v0.8.3.0

• Add a hack to run SDL2 on the main thread, fixing the OS X crash
• Warn visually when impressed and Calm running low, risking domination
• Display actor as red when low Calm and impressed or when low HP
• Fix, complete and fine tune UI, AI and server skill and weapon checks
• Fix a bug where item aspects look different to clients than to the server
• Change the requirements for the main menu ASCII art

v0.8.1.2

• Fix typos detected by lintian
• Fix the code that runs in case of old async (bug introduced in v0.8.1.1)

v0.8.1.1

• no player-visible changes
• make it possible to compile with old async package
• rewrite copyright information according to Debian format
• make github display the correct main license

v0.8.1.0

• no player-visible changes
• significantly reduce RAM usage when compiling library
• update and extend CI

v0.8.0.0, aka ‘Explosive dashboard’

• rework greying out menu items and permitting item application and projection
• rework history collection; merge message repetitions more aggressively
• display HP in red when below (configurable) warning threshold
• tweak AI: actors remember they are fleeing; better leader choice, etc.
• add to content specialized explosive projectiles; tune the effects
• calculate loot score component based on fraction of dungeon loot collected
• don’t hardwire item price, but let it be specified in content
• let all valuables glitter in the dark to avoid complete level exploration
• teach AI to cure ailments and shake off impressions
• rework detection effects; add detection of items embedded in tiles
• automatically identify stolen items that only have minor effects
• let projectiles hit each other if fragile and substantial enough
• rework item kind identification code; change the way it’s defined in content
• make more item kinds (including some traps) secret
• protect paralyzed actors with a stasis condition to avoid infinite paralysis
• implement dumping screenshots in SDL2 and create animated GIFs in Makefile
• generate most common consumables less often, but in depth-scaled bunches
• make pushed actors alter tiles and trigger effects of embedded items
• validate and cross-validate more content; reduce content creation boilerplate
• make summoning more varied and prevent chain-summoning
• add many ways to conditionally sequence effects
• create large, merged rooms more often
• generalize the terrain altering player command (C-c, mouse)
• let RET, SPACE and ESC clear pending messages, if any
• add dashboard with links to all menus and info screens
• scale some organ and trap power with level depth
• simplify level-scaled dice roll semantics
• change scaled dice notation ‘dl’ to ‘dL’ for readability in-game
• rebalance items and decrease dice variety to unclutter backpack
• colour-code beneficial and harmful conditions in menu and in HUD
• display item lore (also for organs, embedded items, explosions, etc.)
• display embedded item descriptions as if they were tile descriptions
• tweak blast visuals, lower particle counts, beautify their spread
• tweak projectile visuals, e.g., display an extra frame when projectile dies
• add intro screen and work on other ways to convey story
• simplify a lot of code, including a bit of game rules
• fix some bugs, tweak content, speed up some AI bottlenecks

v0.7.1.0, aka ‘Ancient troubles’

• add amazing cave and item (actor, blast, organ) descriptions
• package for Windows as an installer and also as zip archives
• fix a crash from SDL frontend under some OpenGL drivers (no thread-safety)
• add WWW address to the Main Menu, for other sites that may run our JS blob

v0.7.0.0, aka ‘The dice are cast’

• decouple tile searching from tile alteration
• refrain from identifying items that are not randomized
• switch away from incapacitated leader to let others revive him
• make rescue easier by not going into negative HP the first time
• fix crowd of friends on another level slowing even actors that melee
• fix missing report about items underneath an actor when changing levels
• API breakage: change the syntax of dice in content
• API addition: introduce cave descriptions
• keep all client states in the server and optimize communication with clients
• improve item choice for identification and item polymorphing
• reset embedded items when altering tile
• replace atomic command filtering with exception catching
• reimplement dice as symbolic expressions inducing multiple RNG calls
• switch to optparse-applicative and rewrite cli handling
• add stack and cabal new-build project files
• improve haddocks across the codebase

v0.6.2.0, aka ‘Zoom out’

• make fireworks slower and so easier to spot
• make rattlesnake deeper but more common
• announce no effect of activation
• describe original and current faction of an actor
• highlight dominated actors
• mark organs with comma instead of percent and gems with dollar
• make the healing cave dangerous to prevent camping
• slightly balance various content
• by default move item the same as last time
• often spawn between heroes and stairs going deeper
• fix totalUsefulness computation for negative effects
• fix abandoning distant enemy target despite no alternatives
• fix slow pushing of actors
• fix a crash when many actors run towards stairs
• hotfix: Pass zoom keys through to the browser
• help players find the info about changing the font size
• depend on GHC >= 8.0 and new vector
• specialize client code already in SampleMonadClient.hs
• enable StrictData in all modules
• replace ‘failure’ with ‘error’ that now shows call stack

v0.6.1.0, aka ‘Breaking one rule at a time’

• fix redrawing after window minimized and restored
• hack around vanishing texture on Windows
• hack around SDL backends not thread-safe on Windows
• the only breaking API change: specify font directory in game rules content
• let the game use its own fonts, not fonts from the sample game in library
• tweak some item creation to occur in character’s pack, not on the ground
• slightly balance various content
• make sure the ‘resolution’ effect is not a drawback
• make artifact weapon rarities more regular
• avoid creating lit, open dungeon at the bottom, where foes have ranged weapons
• number scenarios in user descriptions
• correct, add and modify some in-game messages
• let player hear unseen summonings performed by other actors
• don’t let actors hear blasts hitting walls, as opposed to hitting actors
• when moving item out of shared stash, reset its timeouts
• when ascending, shift timeouts of inventory as well
• when creating item not on the ground, discover it
• when dominating, auto-discover only if the item can’t be discovered by use
• let henchmen take into account their targets, as described in PLAYING.md
• let only walkable tiles be explorable, for clear walls inside solid blocks
• move to API 2.0.0 of sdl2-ttf and depend on corrected sdl2 (builds on Windows)
• simplify code thanks to the new sdl2-ttf API
• tweak travis scripts and building docs in README

v0.6.0.0, aka ‘Too much to tell’

• add and modify a lot of content: items, tiles, embedded items, scenarios
• improve AI: targeting, stealth, moving in groups, item use, fleeing, etc.
• make monsters more aggressive than animals
• tie scenarios into a loose, optional storyline
• add more level generators and more variety to room placement
• make stairs not walkable and use them by bumping
• align stair position on the levels they pass through
• introduce noctovision
• increase human vision to 12 so that normal speed missiles can be sidestepped
• tweak and document weapon damage calculation
• derive projectile damage mostly from their speed
• make heavy projectiles better vs armor but easier to sidestep
• improve hearing of unseen actions, actors and missiles impacts
• let some missiles lit up on impact
• make torches reusable flares and add blankets for dousing dynamic light
• add detection effects and use them in items and tiles
• make it possible to catch missiles, if not using weapons
• make it possible to wait 0.1 of a turn, at the cost of no bracing
• improve pathfinding, prefer less unknown, alterable and dark tiles on paths
• slow down actors when acting at the same time, for speed with large factions
• don’t halve Calm at serious damage any more
• eliminate alternative FOV modes, for speed
• stop actors blocking FOV, for speed
• let actor move diagonally to and from doors, for speed
• improve blast (explosion) shapes visually and gameplay-wise
• add SDL2 frontend and deprecate GTK frontend
• add specialized square bitmap fonts and hack a scalable font
• use middle dot instead of period on the map (except in teletype frontend)
• add a browser frontend based on DOM, using ghcjs
• improve targeting UI, e.g., cycle among items on the map
• show an animation when actor teleports
• add character stats menu and stat description texts
• add item lore and organ lore menus
• add a command to sort item slots and perform the sort at startup
• add a single item manipulation menu and let it mark an item for later
• make history display a menu and improve display of individual messages
• display highscore dates according to the local timezone
• make the help screen a menu, execute actions directly from it
• rework the Main Menu
• rework special positions highlight in all frontends
• mark leader’s target on the map (grey highlight)
• visually mark currently chosen menu item and grey out impossible items
• define mouse commands based on UI mode and screen area
• let the game be fully playable only with mouse, use mouse wheel
• pick menu items with mouse and with arrow keys
• add more sanity checks for content
• reorganize content in files to make rebasing on changed content easier
• rework keybinding definition machinery
• let clients, not the server, start frontends
• version savefiles and move them aside if versions don’t match
• lots of bug fixes internal improvements and minor visual and text tweaks

v0.5.0.0, aka ‘Halfway through space’

• let AI put excess items in shared stash and use them out of shared stash
• let UI multiple items pickup routine put items that don’t fit into equipment into shared stash, if possible, not into inventory pack
• re-enable the ability to hear close, invisible foes
• add a few more AI and autonomous henchmen tactics (CTRL-T)
• keep difficulty setting over session restart
• change some game start keybindings
• replace the Duel game mode with the Raid game mode
• various bugfixes, minor improvements and balancing

v0.4.101.0, aka ‘Officially fun’

• the game is now officially fun to play
• introduce unique boss monsters and unique artifact items
• add animals that heal the player
• let AI gang up, attempt stealth and react to player aggressiveness
• spawn actors fast and close to the enemy
• spawn actors less and less often on a given level, but with growing depth
• prefer weapons with effects, if recharged
• make the bracing melee bonus additive, not multiplicative
• let explosions buffet actors around
• make braced actors immune to translocation effects
• use mouse for movement, actor selection, aiming
• don’t run straight with selected actors, but go-to cross-hair with them
• speed up default frame rate, slow down projectiles visually
• rework item manipulation UI
• you can pick up many items at once and it costs only one turn
• allow actors to apply and project from the shared stash
• reverse messages shown in player diary
• display actor organs and stats
• split highscore tables wrt game modes
• move score calculation formula to content
• don’t keep the default/example config file commented out; was misleading
• I was naughty again and changed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API slightly one last time

v0.4.100.0, aka ‘The last thaw’

• unexpectedly thaw and freeze again v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API
• unexpectedly implement timeouts and temporary effects easily without FRP
• make a couple of skill levels meaningful and tweak skills of some actors
• make AI prefer exploration of easier levels
• permit overfull HP and Calm
• let non-projectile actors block view
• make colorful characters bold (if it resizes your fonts, turn off via colorIsBold = False in config file or –noColorIsBold on commandline)
• start the game with a screensaver safari mode
• add i386 Linux and Windows compilation targets to Makefile

v0.4.99.0, aka ‘Player escapes’

• balance the example game content a bit (campaign still unbalanced)
• various code and documentation tweaks and fixes
• add cabal flag expose_internal that reveals internal library operations
• merge FactionKind into ModeKind and rework completely the semantics
• compatibility tweaks for Nixpkgs
• define AI tactics, expose them to UI and add one more: follow-the-leader
• share leader target between the UI and AI client of each faction
• specify monster spawn rate per-cave
• extend content validation and make it more user friendly
• freeze v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.2.14, aka ‘Out of balance’

• tons of new (unbalanced) content, content fields, effects and descriptions
• add a simple cabal test in addition to make-test and travis-test
• generate items and actors according to their rarities at various depths
• redo weapon choice, combat bonuses and introduce armor
• introduce skill levels for abilities (boolean for now, WIP)
• remove regeneration, re-add through periodically activating items
• ensure passable areas of randomly filled caves are well connected
• make secondary factions leaderless
• auto-tweak digital line epsilon to let projectiles evade obstacles
• add shrapnel (explosions) and organs (body parts)
• express actor kinds as item kinds (their trunk)
• add dynamic lights through items, actors, projectiles
• fix and improve item kind and item stats identification
• make aspects additive from all equipment and organ items
• split item effects into aspects, effects and item features
• rework AI and structure it according to the Ability type
• define Num instance for Dice to make writing it in content easier
• remove the shared screen multiplayer mode and all support code, for now
• rename all modules and nearly all other code entities
• check and consume HP when calling friends and Calm when summoning
• determine sight radius from items and cap it at current Calm/5
• introduce Calm; use to hear nearby enemies and limit item abuse before death
• let AI actors manage items and share them with party members
• completely revamp item manipulation UI
• add a command to cede control to AI
• separate actor inventory, 10-item actor equipment and shared party stash
• vi movement keys (hjklyubn) are now disabled by default
• new movement keyset: laptop movement keys (uk8o79jl)

v0.2.12

• improve and simplify dungeon generation
• simplify running and permit multi-actor runs
• let items explode and generate shrapnel projectiles
• add game difficulty setting (initial HP scaling right now)
• allow recording, playing back and looping commands
• implement pathfinding via per-actor BFS over the whole level
• extend setting targets for actors in UI tremendously
• implement autoexplore, go-to-target, etc., as macros
• let AI use pathfinding, switch leaders, pick levels to swarm to
• force level/leader changes on spawners (even when played by humans)
• extend and redesign UI bottom status lines
• get rid of CPS style monads, aborts and WriterT
• benchmark and optimize the code, in particular using Data.Vector
• split off and use the external library assert-failure
• simplify config files and limit the number of external dependencies

v0.2.10

• screensaver game modes (AI vs AI)
• improved AI (can now climbs stairs, etc.)
• multiple, multi-floor staircases
• multiple savefiles
• configurable framerate and combat animations

v0.2.8

• cooperative and competitive multiplayer (shared-screen only in this version)
• overhauled searching
• rewritten engine code to have a single server that sends restricted game state updates to many fat clients, while a thin frontend layer multiplexes visuals from a subset of the clients

v0.2.6.5

• this is a minor release, primarily intended to fix the broken haddock documentation on Hackage
• changes since 0.2.6 are mostly unrelated to gameplay:
  • strictly typed config files split into UI and rules
  • a switch from Text to String throughout the codebase
  • use of the external library miniutter for English sentence generation

v0.2.6

• the Main Menu
• improved and configurable mode of squad combat

v0.2.1

• missiles flying for three turns (by an old kosmikus’ idea)
• visual feedback for targeting
• animations of combat and individual monster moves

v0.2.0

• the LambdaHack engine becomes a Haskell library
• the LambdaHack game depends on the engine library