This are the release notes for H-World 0.2.6


Two new features have been included in this release:

A new playable race: Naga
This comes along with a complete reworked program startup and
character 'birth' process.

A food system has been implemented. The PC is getting hungry and 
thirsty, needs to eat and drink. Eventually he can die from 
starvation. The fountain at the marketplace will supply water for
free if you have a bottle. Some monsters will leave edible remains.
A nutritious sort of fruit has been included for those who don't 
like to eat meat.

A minor change: once the PC has identified one type of scroll or
potion he can identify all scrolls or potions of that type (i.e.
after identifiying one healing potion, the PC will automatically
identify newly found healing potions as a healing potion).

Items can now be used from the inventory screen. This feature isn't
complete yet. Using an item from teh backpack should impose a time
penalty on the next players move, becuase of the time needed to get
the item out of the backpackm using it, and putting it back. This
time penalty isn't implemented yet.


Unfortunately some of the changes required a new savegame format.
This measn laoding the old saved games will not work. I'm afraid it
will even cause a crash.

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Chronological list of changes since the last release:


23-Dec-03: FIX: attacking a square with a monster and an item now
                always attacks the monster

22-Dec-03: CHANGE: changed item/body structure to better represent
                   "thing x is holding thing y"
           NEW: items can now be "used" by right-clicking them in
                the inventory view
           FIX: fixed a bug if an antidote was quaffed while not
                being poisoned
           NEW: added hunger and thirst
           NEW: killed jackals now leave a drumstick
           NEW: new fruit 'shmacko'

21-Dec-03: NEW: started to work on ranged attacks for monsters
           FIX: fixed a bug in identified items memory

19-Dec-03: NEW: identifying potions and scrolls memorizes them so that
                newly found scrolls and potions of already identified
                types are recognized by the PC automagically
 
17-Dec-03: CHANGE: continued work on naga body structure

??         NEW: naga as PC race option

13-Dec-03: NEW: started to work on new playable races

11-Dec-03: CHANGE: reworked character birth window, and reworked the
                whole process of creating a new game.


written by Hansjörg Malthaner, Dec. 2003
Email: hansjoerg.malthaner@gmx.de