This are the release notes for H-World 0.3.0


After a period of improvements in configurability and extensibility
a new version is being released. There are very little new functions 
included but a few, some even serious, bugs have been fixed.


New features: 

- Items can now have any number of magic attributes, but the item
  factory code by default will only create items with  at most two
  magic attributes.
- Creatures now can have natural protection/armor


Bug fixes:

- Item creation/potion mixing recipes work again
- A strange bug in NPC speaking code was fixed that sometimes
  caused a program crash
- A serious bug in Lua script stack handling was fixed.
- User defined images for dungeon features now work properly


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Chronological list of changes since the last release:

02-May-04: NEW: creatures now can have in-built cut and impact protection
                (i.e. hides, scales ..)
           FIX: item creation/potion mixing recipes work again
           CHANGE: improved flower patch image
           INTERN: (config files) sections now can inherit content of
                   other sections -> this saves some typing work

01-May-04: CHANGE: included improved linen jacket images by
                   Radomir "Sheep" Dopieralski

internally released H-World 0.2.12

29-Apr-04: FIX: fixed a serious problem in Lua script stack handling
                -> this caused crashes if Lua functions were called 
                   recursively through C functions
           FIX: feature factory now preloads user defined images
                so that images indexes are fixed
                -> this problem caused user-defined feature images
                   sometimes to be mixed up after laoding a saved game 
           FIX: fixed a potential buffer overflow in config file
                reading code
           FIX: "memorized" parameter to core.lua/calc_item_ident()
                is now handled correctly
           CHANGE: added a few minor error checks to feature factory
           CHANGE: made mule a bit slower to better match PC speed
                   (last time mule was made faster by accident)
           CHANGE: improved insulation of sections_t class

internally released H-World 0.2.11

28-Apr-04: CHANGE: moved item identifier calculation into 
                   scripts/core.lua
           CHANGE: updated magic item attribute names with help
                   of ABCGi
           CHANGE: minor adaption of thing_t class, needed because
                   of new item attribute handling
           CHANGE: made mule a bit slower to better match PC speed
           CHANGE: updated credits.txt

27-Apr-04: CHANGE: items can not have any number of magic attributes
                   but ATM items are generated with at most 2 magic
                   attributes
		   - there is a 12% chance for an item to get one 
                     magic attribute
                   - items that got one attribute have another 12%
                     chance to get a second special attribute
           CHANGE: added "fern" and "fat bush" plant images. The forest
                   levels now use them.
           FIX: fixed a strange bug in NPC speak action that sometimes
                caused the game to crash

written by Hansjörg Malthaner, May 2004
Email: hansjoerg.malthaner@gmx.de