Background

2.5.5 was released on 7th February 1994, as part of Charles Swiger's quickfire 2.5 series of releases. This was considered a stable release.

Changelist

Features

• Darkness breath and scrolls now blind you for a while (like light breath)
• Level feeling now saved in the save file
• Now display home inventory at death or part of char description [ct/dgk]
• Everything that Slays Undead now is See Invisible
• Made some SU weapons Hold Life, and some SE Blessed Blades
• Whips of Fire now have Resist Fire
• Made the low hitpoint warning more noticeable
• Reduced MAX_{T,M}ALLOC to 400 and 600 respectively to reduce memory hogging for those systems which would appreciate this....
• Caused create food to fill you up and not create an item [cba]

Bugfixes

• Fixed chests to generate treasure at the correct level [dbd]
• Fixed self_knowledge code wrt negative p1 values (again)
• Maybe fixed some more header file braindamage
• Tried to fix a bug where stackable items could be placed over your weapon, causing you to lose the weapon
• Fixed a bug displaying (+0) digging implements
• Fix so that storebought chests don't give hellacious treasure (backwards compatibility problem w/ old savefiles)
• Fixed small display glitch while rolling [ch]
• Fixed msgs when throwing items at monsters
• Fixed Belthronding not getting a "special level" msg
• Added equippy chars [dgk/cba]
• Fixed item colors not being randomly shuffled for new characters [dk]
• Changed Celefarn->Celegorm, touched up a few other artifact names