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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Suggested hack modifications
Message-ID: <303@tilt.FUN>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 16:24:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: tilt.303
Posted: Fri May 31 16:24:58 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 02:26:32 EDT
References: <125@uw-june>
Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton )
Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept
Lines: 25
Summary: Already implemented

In article <125@uw-june> louns@uw-june (Michael Lounsbery) writes:
>1) I really don't like the fact that a pickaxe can't dig into a shop wall.
>After all, what's the fun of playing a wimpy speleologist if you can't
>swindle the shopkeepers...

	You can, however, dig on the FLOOR!
>
>2) As for the issue of simply counting your gold by dropping it and picking
>it back up, maybe the solution would be to have some of it get lost (roll
>into a crack in the floor) when it's dropped.
>
	It's been said before: #define GOLD_ON_BOTL in hack.pri.c, to get your
gold printed in the bottom line.

>3) Maybe the wand of freezing could be used to ice over the top of a pond,
>or the wand of fire could be used to evaporate the water (possibly creating
>a pit in its place).

	I don't know about the wand of freezing, but the wand of fire DOES
	evaporate the ponds. I think that dragon's breath does that too.

The above hints apply for hack 1.0.2.
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	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)