init.txt

#
# Crawl Init file
#
# Lines begining with '#' are comments.  The basic syntax is:
#
# field = value         or      field.subfield = value
#
# Only one specification is allowed per line.
#
# The terms are typically case-insensitive except in the fairly obvious
# cases (the character's name and specifying files or directories when
# on a system that has case-sensitive filenames).
#
# White space is stripped from the begining and end of the line, as
# well as imediately before and after the '='.  All other whitespace
# is left alone.
#


#
# Player name
#

# name=kernel


# Directory for reading macro.txt and init.txt, and dumping characters.
# It should end with the path delimiter.
# crawl_dir=/home/bwross/crawl/


# Here's a list of autopickup types:
#
#    )          Weapons
#    (          Missiles
#    [          Armour
#    /          Wands
#    %          Food
#    ?          Scrolls
#    " or =     jewellery
#    !          Potions
#    + or :     Books
#    \ or |     Staves
#    0          Orbs
#    }          Misc items
#    X          Corpses
#    $          Gold

autopickup = $?!:"/0


# verbose dump causes less important item details to appear in character dumps
# verbose_dump  = false


# Colours out of sight map features on the playing screen
colour_map    = true


# Cleans up out of sight monsters and clouds on the map
clean_map     = false


# Open doors by moving on to them
# easy_open     = false


# Auto-switch to uncursed short blade for butchery (EXPERIMENTAL!)
easy_butcher  = true


# Allows auto removal of armour when dropping it
# easy_armour   = false


# Make confirmation queations easier to answer:
#       none = force capitals on Y/N questions
#       safe = force only on questions that will end game
#       all  = never force capitals

# WARNING TO KEYPAD USERS: The number 7 is mapped to the letter 'y',
# which can result in accidentally answering yes to questions; it is
# suggested that you use a value of 'none' or 'safe'

easy_confirm  = safe


# Setting this option to true allows the quitting of item listing with
# space as well as escape.  These lists are essentially all of those
# that are requesting an inventory item and accept '?' and '*'.
#
# The identify list will never easy quit.  The default is false.

# easy_quit_item_lists = true


# This option adds the text "uncursed" to items where the
# curse status is relevent and known.  Does not bother to
# show "uncursed" on items that are fully identified (showing pluses),
# since that wound be redundant and waste space.

show_uncursed = true


#
# The weapon option allows defaulting on the weapon selection screen
#
# Valid weapons are short sword, hand axe, spear, mace, and trident...
# although tridents are restricted to only merfolk and gladiators, so
# you'll get queries for the illegal cases.
#

# weapon = hand axe


#
# These allow auto-selection of other third-screen options.
#
# Select "random" for random choice.
#
# chaos_knight => Xom or Makleb
# death_knight => necromancy or Yredelemnul
# priest       => Zin or Yredelemnul
#

# chaos_knight = xom
# death_knight = necromancy
# priest       = random


#
# The random_pick option will randomly generate a character.
# The above options (weapons and class options) will override where
# appropriate.
#

# random_pick = true


# Macro colours to other colours
#
# Useful for terminals where some colours are hards to read (and cannot
# be adjusted), as well as for creating a custom scheme, especially
# when used with the background option on a terminal with a non-black
# background.
#
# Format is colour.OLDCOLOUR = NEWCOLOUR, later rules take preference and
# the NEWCOLOUR is always literal (ie. it won't re-evaluate to a different
# colour).
#
# The colours are:
#
# black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown, lightgrey, darkgrey,
# lightblue, lightgreen, lightcyan, lightred, lightmagenta, yellow, white
#
# lightgray = lightgrey, darkgray = darkgrey

# colour.lightgray = black
# colour.white     = black
# colour.lightcyan = cyan
# colour.yellow    = brown


#
# always_greet will give the race/class and god messages everytime the
# game is started.
#

always_greet = true


# Set the default background colour of your window
# Warning: setting this to a value different than the window's background
#          colour, will probably result in some very ugly results.

# background = white


#
# Brand friendly monsters with a curses attribute... these might not
# do what you think, it depends on the terminal being used (and won't
# work with non-curses compiles).
#
# Available options, with typical results:
#
# standout      -- often the same as reverse, might be underline or dim
# bold          -- used by colour curses for brightening foreground colours
# blink         -- used by colour curses for brightening background colours
# reverse       -- this will probably work
# dim           -- probably no effect
# underline     -- this will probably work
#
# This is somewhat interesting (blink here is used to give friends a
# dark grey background, and then we change dark grey so we can see bats):
#
# friend_brand = blink
# colour.darkgrey = magenta

friend_brand = reverse


# Message channel options:
#
# Format is channel.CHANNEL_NAME = (COLOUR|mute|default|on|off|plain)
#
# CHANNEL_NAME can currently be one of these:
#   plain           = regular text (and things "uncoloured")
#   prompt          = input prompts to the player
#   god             = messages from the gods
#   duration        = messages about character spells/effects wearing off
#   danger          = serious threats to the characters existence
#   food            = warnings about food
#   warning         = various other warnings
#   recovery        = recovery from disease/stat loss/poison conditions
#   talk            = monsters talking (acting)
#   intrinsic_gain  = level/stat/species power gains
#   mutation        = gain/lose mutations
#   monster_spell   = messages about monsters gesturing and casting spells
#   monster_enchant = messages pertaining to monster enchantments (up or down)
#   monster_damage  = messages telling how damaged a monster is
#   rotten_meat     = messages about chunks/corpses becoming rotten
#
# COLOUR can be any of the colours in the colour section above.
#
# Other channel options:
#
#   mute      = show no messages from channel (dangerous, be careful!)
#   default   = turn channel on to it's default scheme
#   alternate = turn channel on to it's alternate "colourful" scheme
#   on        = same as default
#   plain     = make channel the same colour as the "plain" channel
#               (won't do anything silly like "mute" if plain == mute, though)
#   off       = same as plain
#
# Note: The only multi-colour channels currently are monster_damage and
#       god.  Setting god to a COLOUR will make all god messages that
#       colour.  Setting monster_damage to a colour will make the
#       "monster dies" messages that colour, and the "injured" messages
#       will be plain coloured.  More control of these and other channels
#       will be coming later.
#

# channel.plain = green
# channel.talk = mute
# channel.warning = plain
# channel.diagnostic = mute
# channel.rotten_meat = yellow
# channel.god = alternate
# channel.mutation = green


#
# hp_warning gives "* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *" on the danger channel
# when the player takens damage and their hitpoints are less than this
# percentage of their maximum (use 0 to turn off these messages).

hp_warning = 25


# race
#
# Use to preselect race.  Argument can be:
#
# - letter used in the character creation process
# - two letter abbreviation used on the high score board
# - a string to match against the full name

# race = human


# class
#
# Used to preselect class.  Same format as race option above.

# class = fighter


#
# Wizard mode options (available only in WIZARD compiles):
#
#     yes   = start games in wizard mode (game might not be scored)
#     no    = still allows player to enter wizard mode after start of game
#     never = never allow a wizard command to be used
#

wiz_mode = no


#
# Fire command options
#
# fire_items_start - sets the first inventory item to consider (default is a)
#
# fire_order       - controls when to consider types of items
#
#     launcher, dart, stone, dagger, spear, handaxe, club
#
# The list should be on one line, with commas between items.
#
# Launcher refers to firing the appropriate missile for the wielded
# weapon (ie crossbow, bow, sling)... you'll probably want it first, as
# it'll be ignored when you're not wielding a ranged weapon.  The default
# is "launcher, dart" which matches the old behaviour.
#

fire_items_start = c
fire_order = launcher, dart, stone


#
# auto_list
#
# Setting this to true if you want to automatically list appropriate
# inventory items for commands like quaff and read.  This is like
# immediately hitting '?', and can be confusing to beginners because
# they won't get to see the prompts.
#
# This option does not apply to spell casting... Conjurers would probably
# find that really annoying.
#

# auto_list = true


#
# Input buffer flushing options (flush.*)
#
# These are useful when using macros.  Setting one of these
# sub-options to true will cause the entire input buffer to
# be dumped and thus effectively stop the macro.
#
# The sub-options currently are (and their defaults):
#
# failure -- when spells/abilities get miscast (true)
# command -- whenever the game is aboutn to get the next command (false)
# message -- whenever the game outputs a non-mute message (false)
#
# flush.failure = false
# flush.command = true
# flush.message = true

#
# lowercase_invocations
#
# Set this option to true if you prefer to have invocations on 'a'-'e'
# instead of the traditional 'A'-'E' (which is the default).
#

lowercase_invocations = true


#
# terse_hand
#
# Set this to false to have the "in hand" description on the main screen
# the same as the inventory.  The default setting of true will give the
# newer more terse description that should fit the limited space better
# (but will be harder for newbies to understand).

# terse_hand = false


#
# delay_message_clear - experimental (may be ugly at points)
#
# Setting this option to true will delay the clearing of messages until
# the message space is full (default is false which results in clearing
# between player actions).

# delay_message_clear = true