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Article #1248

Re: hack bugs (spoiler?)

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From: Don Kneller%Langridge
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1986 02:35
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In article <302@vger.UUCP> barnes@vger.UUCP (Steve Barnes) writes:
>[]
>My appologies if these bugs are old news...  I've noticed
>several in our version of hack.
>
>1) "Full Moon tonight, you feel lucky!" - when this message
>   is printed, your luck is incremented by one.  This means
>   you can save your game, and restart it, thereby raising
>   your luck as high as you want.
Was fixed in 1.03.  The quick fix is to decrement your luck
before saving the game if there is a full moon.

>2) Polymorph wands - a "feature" of this game is that you
>   can polymorph a wand, and it will turn into a different
>   wand, fully charged.
I just posted a bug fix, which also fixes the bug of polymorphed
piles of gems having the weight of 1 gem.

>3) Engraving.  When you engrave using your hands, your weapon
>   is automatically un-wielded.  Great way to un-wield
>   cursed weapons...
Was fixed in 1.03.  The fix checks if you're wielding a cursed
weapon and forces you to use it.

>4) The hell hound - you can throw food at him, and he becomes
>   your friend.  Seems a bit silly to me.
Perhaps he was very hungry.
>
>				Steven Barnes
>				ucbvax!ucscc!vger!barnes


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	Don Kneller
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From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: hack bugs (spoiler?)
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Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 21:35:49 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 21:35:49 1986
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