This are the release notes for H-World 0.0.7

(Please also read the former release notes!)

Since the last release a few more features have been finished:


- Monsters can carry and use equipment. They also drop it if they die.
- The combat system now uses the limb (body part) system to
  determine the hit location
- Armor actually protects from damage
- Unified hitpoints instead of cut and blunt hitpoints
- Castle/room type dungeons are now created with more variation
- Items now have short descriptions (see item inspector)

New items:

- light war hammer, spiked club and large dagger

New monsters:

- skeleton warrior, killer sqirrel and watcher


For more info, please read the readme.txt file and the release notes
of H-World 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5 and 0.0.6

The player can't die in this release, if the hitpoints (HP) drop to 0
the game will restore them to 9999.


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Chronological list of changes since the last release:

27-Jul-02: NEW: monsters randomly choose an attack from all of their attacks
                (formerly they always used their first attack)
           FIX: castle type dungeon generator can now produce a wider
                variety of rooms.

25-Jul-02: FIX: fixed a bug in floor display which prevented visible floor 
                scrolling
           FIX: fixed a bug (wrong number of expected results) in lua attack
                script calls
           NEW: new ground image for cave level type
           TIME: 1:30 h

24-Jul-02: FIX: fixed alignment of houses
           FIX: due to a mistake image offsets always were a multiple of
                2 pixels. Fixed, now 1 pixel offsets are possible
           NEW: new monsters: killer squirrel and watcher 
           TEST: playtesting
           TIME: 1:30 h
           
22-Jul-02: NEW: spiked club and large dagger
           NEW: monster drop equipment (if they had any before dying)
           FIX: fixed a bug in config file reader - can now read 8 bit
                characters at end of line, too
           TIME: 1:30 h

21-Jul-02: CHANGE: updated readme.txt
           CHANGE: only one HP counter (instead of separate cut and blunt
                   hitpoints)
           CHANGE: adjusted monster HP and limb hitchances
           FIX: fixed a bug in level change code which could cause a crash
           TIME: 0:30 h

20-Jul-02: NEW: armor actually protects the body parts (limbs)
           TIME: 1:00 h

19-Jul-02: NEW: attacks now consider body parts (limbs)
           TIME: 1:30 h

18-Jul-02: NEW: war hammer (item, image, inventory image, overlay)
           FIX: fixed some small bugs in the makepak tool 
           TIME: 1:00 h

17-Jul-02: NEW: set up a CVS for managing the sources, the project seems to
                be prosper enough to survive a longer time
           NEW: randomised item sets for monsters
           TIME: 1:00 h

16-Jul-02: CHANGE: thing inspector is now triggered by 'mouse over' instead
                   of 'mouse pressed'
           NEW: monsters can carry equipment. The equipment is shown visibly
                as it is for the player character
           NEW: new monster type 'skeleton warrior'
           TIME: 1:00 h


written by Hansjörg Malthaner, July 2002
Email: hansjoerg.malthaner@gmx.de