Background

Version 2.7.6 was released on 24th May 1995, as part of Ben Harrison's continuing attempt to overhaul the game's codebase and fix the bugs introduced as a result. This release fixed various bugs, and added some new features like the "monster health bar".

Changelist [*1]

• Allow more objects to be used from the floor
• Bugfix for a long-standing "invisible monster" bug
• Some similar ego types were separated out into separate "types", with associated code improvement
• Some code optimisations.
• Monster speeds can now be specified fractionally in the monster edit files.
• New options to display labels and weights in the "choices" window
• Options overhauled, not loaded from savefiles from earlier versions
• '=' now works during character creation to set "birth" options
• E'x'amine command added to inspect currently targeted location.
• Solitary street urchins removed to free up index 0 for empty grids.
• '/' command improved
• Some summoning and pit changes
• Killing 30,000 of a given monster in a game stops them from being created again.
• Monster health bar added to display a rough idea of the state of the last monster attacked.

[*1]:The changelist has been pieced together from newsgroup postings around the time of release - it is unlikely to be complete and may not be accurate.