Making Permanent Rock Brown!
Making Permanent Rock Brown!
You can edit your client, so all permanent rocks show up in brown instead of regular wall colour. I wouldn't call this cheating, because inn regular Angband, you have all the time in the world to browse and look at rocks. Here, you don't.
You need to edit the file called Mangband\lib\user\font-win.prf
At the bottom of this file looks like this (in windows notepad):
# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)
F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:1/8
F:61:1/8
F:62:1/8
F:63:1/8
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Change it to look like this:
# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)
F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:7/8
F:61:7/8
F:62:7/8
F:63:7/8
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ZAL
You need to edit the file called Mangband\lib\user\font-win.prf
At the bottom of this file looks like this (in windows notepad):
# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)
F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:1/8
F:61:1/8
F:62:1/8
F:63:1/8
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Change it to look like this:
# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)
F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:7/8
F:61:7/8
F:62:7/8
F:63:7/8
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ZAL
Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
In regular Angband, you can change any pref setting, so why not the color of permawalls? That's not cheating, it's just customizing your gameplay.
Of course, changing the symbol/color of secret doors and traps WOULD be cheating, as it would be exploiting a known bug...
Of course, changing the symbol/color of secret doors and traps WOULD be cheating, as it would be exploiting a known bug...
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Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
*bump*
Sorry for bumping this, i know its like never done. But I thought that, with the new release deleting some user's old lib files (mine) it might be nice if it was easier to remember how to change the color back to brown.
Sorry for bumping this, i know its like never done. But I thought that, with the new release deleting some user's old lib files (mine) it might be nice if it was easier to remember how to change the color back to brown.
Anything worth being done, is worth being overdone.
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Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
Thanks for bumping this. Came quite in handy for clearing this out last night:

My friend and I killed Shelob, Ulfang, Ren the Unclean, Scatha, the Mouth of Sauron, Akhorahil the Blind, and Uvatha the Horseman in there, along with all the other OOD stuff. Got about a half dozen nice artifacts plus several inventories-full of excellent items.

My friend and I killed Shelob, Ulfang, Ren the Unclean, Scatha, the Mouth of Sauron, Akhorahil the Blind, and Uvatha the Horseman in there, along with all the other OOD stuff. Got about a half dozen nice artifacts plus several inventories-full of excellent items.
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Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
perhaps we could have permanent rock being brown as an option in one of the future releases? It would be a rather nice feature. And we'd never lose this thread again!
Anything worth being done, is worth being overdone.
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Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
Imho those prefs should be hardcoded into the game to make it harder to "customize" colors. If "different" color for rocks is available to everyone by everyone then sobe it :)
Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
After screwing around, I found how you get brown permawalls in Linux (which uses only SDL mode).
Open /var/games/mangband/user/font-sdl.prf. Go down to the bottom, which should say
# permanent wall
F:60:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:61:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:62:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:63:0x01:0x02
Do not change the second hex code. That changes the character it uses, and that just looks... awkward. You want the first hex code. Change each '0x01' to '0x0F', save it, and fart diamonds. Whatever.
Open /var/games/mangband/user/font-sdl.prf. Go down to the bottom, which should say
# permanent wall
F:60:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:61:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:62:0x01:0x02
# permanent wall
F:63:0x01:0x02
Do not change the second hex code. That changes the character it uses, and that just looks... awkward. You want the first hex code. Change each '0x01' to '0x0F', save it, and fart diamonds. Whatever.
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Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
thats an angband ticket though...mang devs, can we have the same ticket for mangband? Would be great IMO.
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Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
Here's my copy:
This causes magma to show up red and quartz as purple, in addition to the permarock color change. Useful for quick digging without switching to pick - or with ;)### Terrain features ###
# Floors (white / centered dot)
# F:1:1/31
# Invis traps (white / centered dot)
# F:2:1/31
# Magma (slate / solid block)
F:50:4/8
F:52:4/8
# Quartz (light slate / solid block)
F:51:10/8
F:53:10/8
# Secret door (white / solid block)
F:48:1/8
# Granite walls & permanent rock (white / solid block)
F:56:1/8
F:57:1/8
F:58:1/8
F:59:1/8
F:60:7/8
F:61:7/8
F:62:7/8
F:63:7/8

Re: Making Permanent Rock Brown!
Indeed, these must have been some *really* great mushrooms!Avenger wrote:This causes magma to show up red and quartz as purple, in addition to the permarock color change. Useful for quick digging without switching to pick - or with ;)