This are the release notes for H-World 0.1.5

(Please also read the former release notes!)


Since the last release some new features have been finished:


- Items can be created from components. Currently implemented are two
  recipes for creating healing potions. More will follow.

To mix a potion, you need a bottle (often a bottle of water or base
potion is required),and some ingredients.
Open the inventory view, and drag the ingredients onto the bottle. If
the ingredients don't fit, nothing happens. If it was a valid recipe
the bottles content is transformed to a new potion. (Spoiler: See 
scripts/recipes.lua if you want to learn the recipes without 
experimenting).

In future it is planned to have randomized recipes, so the player can't
learn them, they will be new in every new game.

- Quick pockets: Belts provide quick access pockets. Items stored there
  can be used directly (the usages can be selected from the usage panel
  on the games screen; that is the bottom panel). In future more
  equipment will provide quick pockets.

- The inventory view changes its layout if items with inventories (bags,
  packs, belts) are worn or taken off.

- Items can be recolored dynamically. Currently only used with potions.
  The color table is randomized every game. In extremely unlucky cases
  two or more potions can get the same color. 

- Different base speeds for monsters. The player now can outrun some
  of the monsters. Bulk (total size of carried stuff) can slow you down.
  Weight isn't considered yet.

- Item prefixes (i.e. sharp, smashing, shining ...) now affect the items
  value (price) in trading

For more info, please read the readme.txt file and the old release notes.


**
Chronological list of changes since the last release:

31-Dec-02: CHANGE: equipment no longer fits on any body part. I.e. belts
                now can only be worn on the waist.
           CHANGE: improved usage display, can now dispay a second row of 
                usages if running out of space
           CHANGE: monster without aim move less erratically now

30-Dec-02: NEW: item prefixes now affect item value (price) in trading
           FIX: pickup hotkey 'g' now also works if pickup is not the 
                first usage (shown on usage panel)
           FIX: fixed some problems running a new game after 'game over'

29-Dec-02: FIX: lots of bugfixes for window management
                - game no longer crashes if inventory view is open when
                  loading a game
                - game no longer crashes if trade view is open when
                  loading a game
                - map view, birth options, inventory view, trade view can 
                  only be opened once
                - map view, birth options, inventory view, trade view get 
                  closed after loading a game
           FIX: fixed a bug in message creation for drinking a potion
           FIX: fixed an event handling problem in inventory (ground) view
           CHANGE: message log is cleared after laoding a game

28-Dec-02: NEW: added more potion recipes
           NEW: added two poisoneous potions
           NEW: new lua hook
	        translate()
           FIX: drinking water no longer crashes the game
           CHANGE: pick up is now always useable as long as the PC has hands
           CHANGE: updated help system a bit
 
27-Dec-02: NEW: recipes for combining items. Recipes are implemented as
                Lua script, see scripts/recipes.lua
           NEW: new monster: rat
           NEW: new item: rat tail

26-Dec-02: NEW: fountains to refill bottles (water)
           CHANGE: quaffing a potion now leaves an empty bottle
           NEW: new lua hooks
	        thing_find_limb()
		thing_set_item()
		thing_replace_item()
		thing_create()

25-Dec-02: FIX: lots of bugfixes for new inventory view
           NEW: item properties display now has better texts for
                "magically affects XYZ"
           NEW: new item 'expedition belt' (currently uses same image as
                leather belt, although being bigger)

24-Dec-02: FIX: inventory view now adapts it's layout and display if
                containers are weld or taken off (i.e. taking/dropping
                a second backpack
           CHANGE: optimized inventory view redraws a bit.

23-Dec-02: NEW: randomized flavor table
           NEW: new item: empty bottle
           NEW: different monsters now have different base speeds
           NEW: bulk (carried stuff) affects your speed
	   NEW: include feature for sections files (see beings.sects)
           FIX: repaired item chooser display
	   FIX: corrected bad offset in dropping items onto inventory grid
           FIX: too long description in usage panel are now truncated
                ...
           CHANGE: reduced size of visual_t, saves 4 bytes per thing and
                   feature
           NEW: started work on quick-accesss inventories
           NEW: 'quick access inventories', i.e. pockets from belts and
                 clothes -> items readily useable from usage panel
           NEW: belt now has a quick access inventory (4x2)

18-Dec-02: CHANGE: further progress with recoloring feature, nearly complete

17-Dec-02: NEW: recoloring feature i.e. to draw different potions in
                different colors

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