## xNetHack 1.1 Changelog

This is the first minor update version of xNetHack. It remains a fork off of
the vanilla NetHack 3.6.1 development version, and is also based directly on
xNetHack 1.0. See doc/fixes36.1 for the devteam's changes.

The xNetHack page at the NetHackWiki, https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/XNetHack,
attempts to describe these changes in a way that's better formatted and more
friendly to players. However, it might be out of date; in case of conflicting
information, this changelog and others in this folder are more up-to-date than
the wiki page, and the commit messages are more up-to-date than this changelog.

On top of any changes made by the NetHack devteam on 3.6.1, and any changes
made in xNetHack 1.0, xNetHack 1.1 contains the following changes:

### Gameplay changes

- Change the level generation of maze levels (mostly Gehennom, but also applies
  to mazes below Medusa) rather drastically. Widemazes and corridor mazes are
  currently disabled. Instead, several rooms are generated and placed before
  the maze generates, and aligned with it. These rooms can be walless, leaving
  large swaths of the level open, or they can be new Gehennom-themed special
  rooms. The new special rooms include:
  - Demon dens, containing demons and simple piles of loot.
  - Submerged rooms, containing sea monsters and a sunken treasure chest.
  - Lava rooms, containing salamanders.
  - Slaughterhouses, bloody rooms containing corpses, leashes, and knives.
  - Seminaries of Moloch, a regular temple to Moloch containing one peaceful
    priest and several hostile priests.
- Maze levels above the Castle will use regular Dungeons special rooms instead
  of these.
- New conduct unfair-scare-less, which tracks the number of times you scare
  monsters while standing on a position of impunity, such as an Elbereth square
  or scroll of scare monster.
- Monsters that deliberately jump into polymorph traps will stay in-depth.
- Foocubi no longer affect maximum Pw; the effects now only either set current
  Pw to max or 0.
- Spellcasting system tweaked: skill no longer gives you a bonus, but caps your
  effective success rate instead.
- Boost most roles' starting Pw amounts so that in general casters starting
  with level 1 spells will be able to cast them.
- Rings of carrying now produce a unique message when dropped into sinks.
- You can force-fight a web with a bladed weapon to attempt to cut through and
  destroy it. Chance of success depends on Str.
- Wielding Sting will auto-destroy any web you are stuck in when you try to
  move out of it, also letting you take your move normally.
- Dropping a container onto an altar will show colored flashes corresponding to
  its contents and identify their beatitude.
- Objects will merge with other objects even if the enchantment, beatitude, or
  erosionproofing on one of the items is not known. The merge will retain your
  knowledge of the objects' enchantment and beatitude.
- Archeologists begin the game with a grappling hook.
- Pits in graveyards generate 1/200 of the time instead of 1/80.

### Interface changes

- In the Ctrl-X status screen, the last turn on which you prayed is displayed.
- Grappling hooks are now known as that even when unidentified, "iron hook" is
  removed.
- Altars are colored according to their alignment: yellow for lawful, gray for
  neutral, red for chaotic, and black for unaligned. High altars are bright
  magenta.