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9852 Bug Report minor always 2015-07-11 17:44 2015-11-29 03:59
Kvaak Both  
wheals All  
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resolved 0.17 ancient branch  
0.17-a0-1510-gb3fb22e done  
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none 0.18 ancient branch  
0009852: Lurking horrors, lost souls, and other 0-XP monsters aren't considered dangerous.
There's no message when one comes into view, it doesn't show up on the monster list and x+ won't cycle through it.
related to 0005373resolved wheals spells do not target crawling corpses 
has duplicate 0009863closed neil Lost soul aren't selected when cycling trough possible targets 
has duplicate 0009965resolved wheals Autotarget fails for lost souls 
related to 0009532closed wheals Tentacles are not treated as targets for rods 
Issue History
2015-07-11 17:44 Kvaak New Issue
2015-07-15 23:36 neil Relationship added has duplicate 0009863
2015-07-15 23:36 neil Summary Lurking horrors aren't considered dangerous. => Lurking horrors, lost souls, and other 0-XP monsters aren't considered dangerous.
2015-07-15 23:42 neil Note Added: 0029329
2015-07-15 23:44 neil Note Added: 0029330
2015-07-15 23:46 neil Note Edited: 0029330
2015-07-15 23:47 neil Note Edited: 0029330
2015-09-20 03:04 wheals Relationship added has duplicate 0009965
2015-09-27 09:41 Medar Relationship added related to 0005373
2015-09-27 09:42 Medar Note Added: 0029545
2015-11-27 17:24 wheals Relationship added related to 0009532
2015-11-29 03:59 wheals Note Added: 0029891
2015-11-29 03:59 wheals Status new => resolved
2015-11-29 03:59 wheals Fixed in Branch => 0.18 development branch
2015-11-29 03:59 wheals Resolution open => done
2015-11-29 03:59 wheals Assigned To => wheals

Notes
(0029329)
neil   
2015-07-15 23:42   
In 0009863 nago describes another symptom:

When firing/zapping a spell, lost souls aren't select among the possible targets, and it's necessary to manual aim for them - even if they are the only visible target in LOS.

This applies to all no-exp monsters, but confusingly not to conjured-only things like IOOD that are always worth 0 XP but don't have the no-exp flag.
(0029330)
neil   
2015-07-15 23:44   
(edited on: 2015-07-15 23:47)
amalloy has a fix for this at https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/82 [^] , but IIRC it still needs some tweaks: I don't think it was ever decided which monsters should get which flag; and a few of the checks like Gozag goldification use (IMO) the wrong flag.

(0029545)
Medar   
2015-09-27 09:42   
Added related issue "spells do not target crawling corpses". (Maybe duplicate would have been better?)
(0029891)
wheals   
2015-11-29 03:59   
Fixed by recent changes to "harmless"/0-xp monster handling.