Welcome to Zangband!

This is the source code release of Zangband 2.2.3d.
Any piece of my code may be used in any freeware/pd version of Angband
(meaning all versions where you do not ask for money).

Robert Ruehlmann ( rr9@angband.org )
"Thangorodrim - The Angband Page" : http://thangorodrim.angband.org/

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ZAngband 2.2.3d
-Fixed a bug that caused food to become invisible after switching from
 the 8x8 tiles to ASCII mode.
-Fixed a bug in the loading of magic realm specific pref-files.
 Macros and other preferences in files with the names "Life.prf",
 "Sorcery.prf", "Nature.prf", "Chaos.prf", "Death.prf", "Trump.prf",
 and "Arcane.prf" are now automatically loaded for magic users with
 these realms.
-Fixed a small memory leak in the research monster option.
-Fixed a bug in the chaos realm spell "Meteor swarm".
-ZAngband will no longer try to place Sea-Trolls in troll pits.
-Corrected hitpoints of lesser krakens and Yig, Father of Serpents.
-Friendly monsters will no longer be wanted for crimes.
-Undead players races will start the game at midnight.

ZAngband 2.2.3c
-Fixed a bug in the weaponsmaster that could cause the inventory to
 get corrupted.
-Worked around a bug in the optimizer of the Windows MS VC compiler
 that caused all entries in the list of racial powers and mutations
 to be labeled with "a)".
-Fixed a bug that allowed the player to gain full knowledge
 about all monsters.
-Kamikaze yeeks and Leprechaun fanatics are now fearless.
-Fixed a bug in the "polymorph self" routine that could cause
 crashes.
-Restored the 'Hellfire' spell to it's former glory. Evil monsters
 take extra damage, all others normal damage.
-Fixed a bug that allowed the player to fire anything with a bow
 that is too heavy to wield comfortably.
-Fixed a bug that could place the player inside rubble after recalling
 down into the dungeon.

ZAngband 2.2.3b
-The algorithm for the selection of random quest monsters is now
 less likely to choose an easy monster, especially on the deeper levels.
-Prevented savefile-scumming of the casino.
-Fixed a bug that sometimes caused monsters in quests to share the same
 position with the player.
-Fixed a bug that allowed up-stairs to be created in the 'no climbing up'
 mode on quest-levels.
-Fixed the palette of the 16x16.bmp for the Windows version.
-Fixed the 16x16 tiles for 'Wolf, Farmer Maggot's dog' and the
 'insect swarm'.
-Fixed a bug in the vanilla_town option that could cause the player
 to be trapped in permanent walls.

ZAngband 2.2.3
-Improved the initialization- and game-speed and reduced memory requirements.
-Added a menu for startup options (press '=' at character generation to
 enter it).
-Added a 'vanilla town' startup-option, that disables the wilderness,
 buildings and quests (but you can still use the random quests).
-Added several 'ironman' startup-options, like 'all stores closed',
 'no climbing upwards', 'always small levels', and 'always autoscum'.
-Added a menu for 'pet commands' (press 'p' to access it).  You can
 call them to you, send them out to kill monsters, dismiss them, and
 allow/dissallow opening of door and picking up items. Your pets will
 drop all picked up items when you disallow them to pick up anything.
-Greatly lowered the fail-rates of the trump spells.
-Trump summoning spells will now only summon hostile monsters if the
 spell fails.
-Rangers start now with a short-bow, a dagger and some arrows instead
 of the broad-sword.
-High-mages will now start with a wand of magic missile.
-Changed the monster AI to allow monster groups to surround the player
 in arena levels and in the wilderness.
-Completely changed the item enchantment and recharge services of
 the buildings and adjusted the prices.
-You can now also enchant bolts and shots in the Rangers guild.
-Changed the Weaponsmaster to display the weapon-damage including the
 players bonus to damage.
-Random quest monsters may now appear in groups or with escorts.
-Changed the creation of trees in the dungeon to a more reasonable layout.
-Added a new room type with four pillars.
-Lowered the odds of ammunition breaking when thrown/fired.
-Changed the display of racial powers and mutations to show fail rates.
-Adjusted the 'shriek' mutation.
-Changed the 'Hellfire' spell. Now it hurts Good, Evil resist,
 and others take normal damage.
-Fixed a bug in the mindcrafter 'psychometry' spell that could cause crashes.
-Fixed a bug in the rumors code that produced *strange* rumors.
-You no longer receive "The sun has risen/fallen" messages when in a quest.
-The 'Living Trump' spell now correctly gives 'random teleportation'
 or the 'teleport control' ability.
-Golems, skeletons, zombies, vampires and spectres no longer get food
 rations at character birth. Vampires no longer get scrolls of light.
-Fixed a bug that messed up quest-descriptions with single quotes
 in the text.
-The 'banish evil' mutation no longer affects quest monsters or uniques.
-'Swordsman' will now be correctly pluralized.
-The 'Eric's Stronghold' quest in the 'lite' town is rewarded correctly.
-A bug that caused *strange* problems when the sound of the DOS version
 was enabled was "fixed" by disabling MOD-file support.
-Fixed a bug in the initialization of realm dependent buildings.
-Added a bunch of new 16x16 tiles by Adam Bolt.
-Updated the ZAngband FAQ and the documentation a bit.
-The following bugfixes and patches are taken from Tim Baker's ZAngbandTk:
-Added the 'easy floor' option. You can now select an item from a stack
 on the floor by browsing a list.
-Fixed a bug that prevented the player from entering a new wilderness
 area if the target grid was lava or water.
-The monster-health bar is now correctly updated.
-The 'Cowardice' mutation is now correctly handled.
-Animal pack monsters will now flee correctly if afraid.
-Fixed a bug that could cause the mindcrafters spell-points to go
 below zero if a failed spell caused a mana-storm.
-Friendly monsters and pets are now a bit more careful in the
 selection of targets for distance attacks.
-Monsters falling asleep from an psi-attack are now correctly noted.
-Escaping from an earthquake works now correctly.
-Monsters that are embedded in rock after an earthquake are now killed.
-Snaga sappers will now explode when killed.

ZAngband 2.2.2d
-Having mutations will now slow down hitpoint regeneration and reduce
 the hitpoints healed from draining monsters with a vampiric weapon.
 Beastman are affected less by this effect.
-The door creation spell no longer creates a door directly on the player.
-Added many new rumors by Juergen Neitzel.
-Fixed the display of the life rating.
-Fixed the wilderness mode prompt.
-ZAngband now removes the '.lok' file when quiting at character
 generation on systems where VERIFY_SAVEFILE is defined.
-Removed the space after Thorondor's name in r_info.txt.
-Beholders are now worth less experience than the undead beholders.
-Really fixed the bug in the 'Eric's Stronghold' quest.
-Fixed the articles of the new armors.
-The 'Assault on Montsalvat' quest is now only available to
 Paladins of Death.
-Fixed two bugs in the monster polymorph code.
-Changed the prompt when quitting (commiting suicide).
-Changed the behaviour of the automatic trap disarming. Traps that
 can't affect you are now ignored.
-Disintegration spells no longer affect water or lava.
-Fixed a bug in the artifact activation code that prevented
 artifact dragon scale mails from activating correctly.
-Scrolls of artifact creation no longer affect dragon scale mails.
-Splitted up the source code into smaller files.

ZAngband 2.2.2c
-The chaos tower can now remove mutations.
-Fixed a bug in the layout of the M$ quest.
-Fixed a bug that made pack animal fearless.
-Fixed a bug that could hang the game in mountain areas.
-Fixed several spelling errors.
-Fixed a bug that prevented already killed uniques from being revived
 for a quest.
-Fixed a bug that allowed normal sized levels to be created when the
 'always create small dungeon-levels' option is active.
-Fixed a bug that caused monsters to cast spells at the player
 even if they can't hit the player with the spell.
-Fixed several bugs in the M$ quest.
-Fixed a bug in the 'Eric's Stronghold' quest.
-Fixed a bug in the R'Lyeh quest.
-Fixed a bug that allowed monsters that can 'destroy weaker monsters'
 to destroy quest monsters.
-Fixed a bug that caused the extra attacks from mutations to sometimes
 "kill" an already dead monster.
-Changed the vampiric mutation to act like the racial activation.
-The mindcrafter 'psychometry' spell now can pseudo-id already
 sensed items.
-Added Jesse Jones' updated main-mac.c file (used for the Mac versions)
 with improved handling of multiple monitors, arg_graphics is saved
 with the preferences, and a much more attractive alert window.

ZAngband 2.2.2
-Fixed a bug that could crash the game when entering any area
 around the town 'Angwil'.
-Fixed the 'wilderness mode' prompt.
-Allowed the dropping of items and running in forests.
-Pressing ESCAPE at the prompt for your bet in the gambling
 house works now correctly.
-Fixed a graphics glitch with beam spells and permanent walls.
-'Word of recall' works now also outside of the towns.
-Golems, Zombies, Vampires, ... no longer can get food in the inns.
-You have now to pay for rumors in the inn.
-Dworkin Barimen has now a chance to drop the Jewel of Judgement.
-You can no longer kick aquatic monsters in the ankle.
-Removed a dublicated 'You have completed your quest!' when
 summoning and killing a monster in an already completed quest.
-Killing monsters with the explosion of a thrown potion
 gives now experience.
-Fixed the 'You see (nothing).' message that can appear in an
 obscure constellation involving a skeleton quaffing a potion
 of detonation.
-Set the default state of the first two terminal windows to
 'Display messages' and 'Display inven/equip'.
-Set the default state for the list and look commands to
 expanded mode.
-'Trap Creation' only affects floor grids now.
-Added 4 new quests designed by Topi Ylinen.
-Added 5 new quests designed by Jeff Coleburn.
-Changed some other quests slightly.
-Added the Rod of Pesticide (fast charging, activates for a
 low damage poison cloud).
-Changed the behavior of earthquake/destruction spells in quests.
 In random quests these spells try to teleport away quest monsters,
 before the area caves in, in predefined quests these spells do
 nothing.
-Changed the (Mass-)Genocide spells to prevent them from working
 in predefined quests.
-Fixed the pluralization of various monster names.
-Bloodletters of Khorne may now drop magical blades of chaos.
-Added a draft of the new ZAngband-FAQ.
-Various other bugfixes.

ZAngband 2.2.1
-Changed the scores file back to the old pre-2.2.0 file-format,
 Score-files from version 2.2.0 won't work!
 The installation will overwrite the 'lib/apex/scores.raw' file
 by default, so if you want to keep your old scores file then
 make a backup before installing.
-Added friendly monsters.
-Added a 'no wilderness' mode for slower systems. The mode can
 be selected when starting a new character and when importing
 a 2.1.1c or older savefile. A special town with quests and
 buildings has been added for this mode.
-Bloodletters of Khorne drop now a Blade of Chaos when killed.
-Pink horrors split into two Blue Horrors when killed.
-Allowed easy addition of new monsters to r_info.txt.
-Various optimizations to improve game speed.
-Added a cold aura to some monsters.
-Added an option to switch on 'hard quests' on character birth
 and when importing old savefiles.
-Fixed a bug in the 'Reset Recall' spell.
-Fixed problems with the 'Vault' quest.
-Added a home to the town Telmora.
-Changed the 'look' command to ignore boring terrains.
-Changed the damage when walking over shallow lava.
-Fixed a bug that allowed creation of townspeople in the dungeon.
-Changed the behaviour of the 'magic mapping' spell.
-Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to ignore 'glyphs of warding'
 and 'exploding runes'.
-Fixed bugs in the 'absorb light' mutation.
-Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the creation of 'connected stairs'
 and caused lookups when killing the last quest-monster.
-Fixed a bug that hangs the game when displaying the contents of your
 houses after quitting or dying.
-Various changes in the monster definitions.
-Fixed the k_info.txt entry of the Trifurcate Spear.
-Removed some disturbing messages.
-The quests from the magic towers are now only available for members
 of the towers realm.
-'Detect treasure' no longer detects monsters represented with an '*'.
-Prevented the use of 'Alter Reality' in quests.
-Changed the description of ~ in the 'identify symbol' command.
-Changed some of the 8x8 tiles.
-Hagen has now a high chance to drop his spear.
-Fixed the 'cursed items as quest rewards' bug.

ZAngband 2.2.0
-Added 279 new monsters and the corresponding 8x8 sized tiles designed and
 drawed by Topi Ylinen.
-Added 46 new items (weapons, armor, and ammo) designed by John Duffin and
 Leigh Silas Hanrihan.
-Added exploding, aquatic, swimming, and flying monsters.
-Added new monster melee attacks (time, explode, and disease).
-Added Ken Wigles KAngband style town, quests and terrains.
-Changed quest system to allow more flexibility and multi-level quests.
-Added big wilderness outside the towns with a modified fractal terrain
 generator from KAmband.
-New initialization code for quests, towns, buildings and wilderness.
-Removed the 64 kByte limits for monsters, items, artifacts, and vaults.
-Moved the definition of the limits for the number of monsters, items,
 vaults, ... to an external data-file.
-Added Keldon Jones patch to allow automatic recreation of the raw-files.
-Added "equippy chars" in the inventory, equipment list and in shops.
-Fixed the definitions of the new tiles for the Half-Ogres and Dark-Elfes.
-Added support for the S-Lang scripting language, based on Scott Bigham's
 S-Lang patch.
-Added Greg Wooledge's patch that adds the "flag grid" to Zangband
 char dumps and shows immunities in the "flag grid".
-The Windows version no longer requires "LibPath" to be set correctly.
 This allows installation in any directory without changes to the ini-file.
-Allowed random selection of race, class, realms, ... at character birth
 with the * key.
-Added the Easy-Patch by Tim Baker and changed it to be an option.
-Added 52 new mutations created by Jeff Duprey.
-Changed the pet AI to make the pets more useful.
-Added new sound-events.
-Only uniques will now resist disintegration effects.
-Warrior-Mages can now choose Sorcery.
-Many other changes and bugfixes.

Old changes (versions 2.0.0 - 2.1.1c):
	Listed in the file z_update.txt (included in the archive)