? about Castle-Filled the pits floor hard.

I'm of the opinion that boulders dropped into Castle trapdoors
shouldn't plug them up. This is simply to remove the illogical
situation of digging down through a recently plugged trapdoor and
somehow striking bedrock.
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On Thu, 18 May 2006, Stanley Myrick <ancientlore.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I filled the pits and in my enthusiasm and nativity (sp?) I filled all of
>them leaving me not one to jump down in. Now afterwards, I didn't sweat it
>too bad and continued to clear out the level, the final couple of rooms.
>
>Then I dig down with pick and wand of digging and the floor is too hard.
>Please do not tell me my game is over now.

You can level teleport down to the valley of the dead,
by any standard means of controlled level teleport.


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On 18 May 2006 22:57:15 -0700, L wrote:

>I'm of the opinion that boulders dropped into Castle trapdoors
>shouldn't plug them up. This is simply to remove the illogical
>situation of digging down through a recently plugged trapdoor and
>somehow striking bedrock.

Magic. (Almost unthinkable in NetHack, I know.)



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Pasi Kallinen wrote:
> L <L_1_L_0.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm of the opinion that boulders dropped into Castle trapdoors
>>shouldn't plug them up. This is simply to remove the illogical
>>situation of digging down through a recently plugged trapdoor and
>>somehow striking bedrock.
>
>
> Or maybe NetHack should keep tabs where the holes were, so player
> could dig them open again. Want to implement that?
>

It would seem more elegant to set a flag for the entire level.
If the level is castle-like, digging downwards always produces
a hole, never a pit. Otherwise, diggging behaves as normal.
The bottom level of Sobokan would also be castle-like, and
probably some of the quest levels.

You'd also need to make everywhere to the left of the castle
throne undiggable, via the level description files, but that
doesn't seem obviously difficult, for someone better at C than
me.

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