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California is hot and this house is hotter and this room is hotter than that, but somehow I managed to finish almost all of the clean up.  This is surprising, since I rewrote little parts of everything...  basically, I need to keep track of what is referring to what, so I don't save pointless objects (like inventory items of creatures that you ran away from).  The problem was that when you delete an item, all of the actions and so on that refer to it need to be altered.  For instance, if you are processing a corpse at the same time that somebody is trying to pick it up, and the processing destroys the object, the pick up action of the other creature needs to be deleted or altered.  The way I dealt with this before wasn't very save-friendly, so it had to be changed.

There might still be some problems -- we'll see as I finish the cleaning tonight and Thursday.  Wednesday is totally packed:

Morning: classes, math reading
3PM-6:30PM: office hours
6:30PM-9:15PM: proctor exam
9:15PM-THURSDAY: grade exam

However, since there is an Armok log entry for every day from March 24th, 2002, I'll have to find time to do at least one thing  I only cheated once -- April 17th, 2002 says "Had a birthday"  I must allow myself certain luxuries to perpetuate my thankless grind...  I guess I'm a real Slave to Armok...  he he he...

Hmmm...  certain aspects of saving universes entail a major overhaul of some code portions.  I'm not sure how long it will take yet.  Don't count on anything for next weekend.

When you detonate yourself, you land all over the hill like this, but it went very very slow (took about 40 seconds from blast to landing), and 4 of the pieces went through the ground and kept going (that really sucks -- I'm not sure where the bug is).  Anyway, a tasteful arrangement, but I need to speed it up or abstract it and work the bugs out.  Right now, each of those chunks actually stands for something (you could shift through the mess and actually pick out a few pieces of lower spinal cord tissue)...  even though I had realism in mind, this isn't so realistic.  The chunks should probably be more like "lower body slurry" and you can pick through each chunk and possible find what you want.  Then it should go faster, as there will be fewer chunks all together.  This kind of abstract corpse item will be required when I go to make things like hides and so on for clothing.  You don't weave a cap out of a raccoon's hair, you just use the hide itself as a single object.  Hmmm....  anyway, more things to do...  there should also be some kind of liquid splash from the circulatory material.  Very pleasant.  I'm glad I'm not a morbid person, obsessed with the pieces of the dead.  Yes....

I think kobolds on speed might be a welcome addition.  And you should probably have to get drunk before you can fight a dragon.  Then I can make your character say random things to it and stumble around and get killed.  At least the high score entry would be amusing.

Man, projectiles suck.  It was satisfying shooting a reptile in the leg and downing it, but lots of crap left to work through...  especially that part where the arrow hits your arm when you shoot it...  then what...  I guess you need to be able to skin things and make clothes.  And lots of other things...  2009...  2009...

Cool...  I guess it should kind of flop around like a fish (spin slightly off the long axis) so you know you did something wrong...

I shot an arrow at a rabbit, but I hit the edge of the hill it was sitting on instead.  So I went over to pick up the arrow, and as I was walking, a giant insect started running toward me.  I made it to the arrow first, and shot it at the bug, but I only winged it with the shaft, bruising one of its legs.  I only had that one arrow, so I tried to fight it off by clubbing it with my bow...  it beat me into unconscious, broke my leg, and went off to kill rabbits...

There are lots and lots of bugs.  But the code is all there.

Actually, I think item stacks will be done with containers, because they are more or less the same thing.  I'm still going to have items with numbers, such as "16 wooden arrows", but at the same time, you could have an item stack 'container' called "16 wooden arrows" which is actually composed of two items -- "15 wooden arrows" and "1 wooden arrow that explodes when you try to shoot it that you don't know about".  If there are N arrows in the pile, it would assign a probability of 1/N that you pull out the bad arrow.  Then you've got problems.  In this way, you won't be able to always use the common roguelike trick of telling magic items apart by how they stack in your inventory.  On the other hand, if you pick up two batches of similar looking arrows at different times, the game will keep them separated.  However, if you find one batch of an item, it might actually contain many different items that just look similar.

Anyway, so item stacks will be stored like a backpack.  You'll be able to move them around like a unit, but they may contain more than one item definition.  In this way you'll also be able to throw them all at the same time if you want, although I'll have to be reasonable with the projectiles (if you have 100 marbles, maybe it won't make 100 projectiles...  probably too slow).