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"Don't let the name fool you: The Unnamed Angband has no shortage of distinct flavour that sets it apart from any other variant. You adventure in Tolkien's world, through towns and wilderness and multiple dungeons, journeying from Bree towards greater and greater danger.

This variant roughly doubles the monster list, expands the class-based system of Angband with numerous possible specialties that let you fashion a unique character, offers a positively absurd variety of terrain (cages that trap you, floor chests that can store objects, burnable woods, chasms, bloodstains), and includes a bunch of major interface improvements, including better presentation of graphics and an experimental isometric view." - From angband.oook.cz.
Welcome to the old Unangband page, a variant of Angband which I developed for over ten years.

The official Unangband home page is now at at https://dgolddragon28.github.io/Unangband/ which contains links to the latest releases and source code.

I would also like to thank the new Unangband maintainer DGoldDragon28 for taking over this variant. DGoldDragon28 had been developing a variant based on Unangband, and now has my blessing to continue with the main Unangband releases as well.

Saturday 20 June 2009

Unangband 0.6.3a released

This is a bugfix release of Unangband 0.6.3a "Football Competition" Release

You can download the source code from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangband/unangband-063a-src.zip. You can download a precompiled Windows build from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangband/unangband-063a-win.zip or a precompfiled OS/X build from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangband/Unangband-0.6.3a-osx.dmg.

A full list of changes follows:

Unangband 0.6.3a "Football Competition" Release

### Game Play ###

- Storage locations now contain fully identified objects. It is possible for the player to learn about new items this way.

- Never discount services.

- Add service of Acid Proofing to Small Goods Store and Armoury.

- Temples should now usually stock Satisfy Hunger service.

- Don't break thrown weapons.

- Allow flasks to be wielded into the quiver.

- Increase number of monsters in wilderness.

- Reduce starting number of monsters on each dungeon level.

- Reduce frequency of diseases caused by non-disease damage.

- You will now get a disease if you let your stat be drained while at the minimum.

- Grass fires now burn out much faster.

- Make Hornburg open above the ground level.

- Improve routine which picks player allies on the battlefield.

- Make forge giant monsters more like player class.

- Prevent battlefields from getting consumed by fire as easily.

- Improve effectiveness of wand of haste monster.

- Ensure staff of perilous summoning is marked cursed.

- Change semantics of healing percentage to match Angband's.

- Change most healing effects to heal a percentage of the player hit points.

- Increase length of time poison attacks last for.

- Change throwing so that badly balanced weapons do the minimum damage and only have half the damage bonus when thrown.

- Increase frequency of potion and scroll drops deeper in the dungeon.


### User Interface ###

- Allies use the player's name when speaking about them.

- If a player is not hungry and not full and eats and ends up in the same state, don't report anything.

- Remember when we get objects from storage locations or as quest rewards.

- Change appearance of pits and silent watchers to prevent trap regions having the same appearance as unknown areas.

- Suppress messages about weapons getting damaged on the ground.

- Change appearance of shady trail.

- Improve appearance of Old Forest.

- Allow cancellation of recall to avoid consuming scroll.

- Tweak throwing damage information.

- Make some mushroom tips appear early enough to be useful.

- Make the monlist option switched off by default. Bump the save file version to force this off for the competition 70 character. This is due to an unresolved bug with monlist option on preventing stores from being entered.

- Separate out the option to toggle the monlist on or off via space bar from whether it is actually on to start with.


### Bug fixes ###

- Fix stacking bugs between lit and nonlit torches.

- Prevent lit torches in inventory.

- Fix bug where object sold to store wouldn't 'really' become identified.

- Fix bugs causing duplicate tips to appear when seeing items in stores.

- Fix for mushroom spores not stacking.

- Fix bug where thrown items wouldn't be identified when the target died.

- Fix for room filled with trap doors.

- Fix bug with aura reporting itself as an undefined attack.

- Fix explosion and slime attacks so they affect the player.

- Fix bug where ice chasms would be created from wet ground.

- Fix stair direction on the top levels of towers.

- Fix Violin and Drum svals (Thanks to Satyr).

- Fix possible out of bounds error when enchanting (Thanks to Satyr).

- Fix resist nether being accidentally identified on items.

- Fix bug causing slow poison messages every round if poison slowed.

- Fix bug when wielded instruments acted as bows.

- Avoid writing base terrain twice.

- Fix for bug 015845 Khazad-dum - map is locked to 0,0

- Fix up some timed effect description mismatches.

- Fix for discounts not reducing cost of items.

- Fix for Bug #15841 Quake destroys critter

- Fix levels some room descriptions appear on to ensure that the appropriate objects are generated.

- Fix for bug Bug #15836 Giant white mousemice bone

- Fix for Old Forest locations suggested by Satyr.

- Fix for Bug #15830 Dropped staff turned to Nothing

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey there,

new player here, tried downloading the source code for 0.6.3a in order to compile it on Linux but the archive seems incomplete - for a start, './configure' is missing from it, so I can't really follow the compilation instructions.

Am I doing something wrong? If not, could you please upload complete sources for the game?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew Doull said...

You're probably not doing anything wrong. I don't have Linux installed anywhere to verify this. Ping a note on the Angband.oook.cz forums and I'm sure someone will help you out.

Anonymous said...

There are some bugs in the packaging:
* nocompile.txt shouldn't be there
* The compile instructions are for vanilla, not Un.
* SDL can't be enabled in the makefile.std (the standard makefile for UNIX operating systems).

I worked compilation out on Linux because I've compiled Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, which is quite similar. Here's how:
1. In the source directory, open up makefile.std in a text editor, like KWrite or Emacs.
2. Look through the top section "Things you should, or could, change". Uncomment or comment any interfaces you want or don't want. (The comment symbol is a hash/sharp sign.) I recommend keeping the curses interface enabled at least, because it's the most stable.
3. Save the makefile and close the text editor.
4. In a terminal, type "make -f makefile.std" without quotes. (A nice trick in the Dolphin file manager is to press Shift-F4 to open a terminal at your current folder.)
5. Now you can play the game. Make sure you're not in the source directory when you're launching the game.