Disable wielding non-weapons

[Sandman25]

Why does crawl allow to wield weird stuff like bread ration or potion of haste?
Sometimes I mistype and it results in wielding unintended item, I cannot assign unintended items to capital letters because there are too many of them. Should I inscribe everything with "!w"???

If breadswinging must stay, it can be achieved by making an exception for bread/meat rations, then we can autoinscribe them with !w in RC if not interested in speedruning.

[ion_frigate]

Breadswinging should absolutely not stay. Speedrunners should adapt to the game, not the other way around.

[Chicken]

I think the reason is MUMMIES. You can end up with a whole bunch of cursed alt-amulets or something and want to straighten them out.

[johlstei]

Speedrunning does not seem like a good reason to keep breadswinging - I imagine accidentally wielding a non-weapon happens 10 times as often as intentionally doing so for a speedrun.

[jejorda2]

I couldn't tell you if wielding a cursed amulet stops you from unwielding it. It's a perverse kind of genius to figure out a way to save a remove curse scroll.

I can tell you that in trunk, killing mummies doesn't curse equipment. I don't think mummies exist outside of ossuaries other vaults, though.

[Rast]

Are there any spells left which require wielding items? Arrows, rocks, chunks of flesh?

[johlstei]

Are there any spells left which require wielding items? Arrows, rocks, chunks of flesh?

I can't imagine sandblast has changed, don't know about sticks of snakes. I think twisted resurrection and sublimation of blood are both changed now.

[Siegurt]

Maybe I'm imaginging it, but I swore there was a commit that limited the regen/turn to 1.0 auts (So the advantage to breadswinging was pretty severely limited)

[tedric]

you might be thinking of this, which only affected movement:

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34059cf | Nicholas Feinberg | 2015-04-19 17:05:59 -0700

Remove the hunger/regen cap on movement
Previously, various over-time effects behaved oddly with slow
movement. When walking, any action that took more than 10 aut
(one normal turn) was counted as if it took 10 aut instead for
regen/hunger purposes. This meant that, for example, moving in
statue form cut your hunger & regen to 2/3rds normal; Chei
worshippers had both halved...

This removes that effect and adds a few small compensations;
Naga get Slow Metabolism 1 and Chei reduces hunger significantly
more. (Now cuts it to 50%; previously 75%).

[tasonir]

Maybe I'm imaginging it, but I swore there was a commit that limited the regen/turn to 1.0 auts (So the advantage to breadswinging was pretty severely limited)

As Tedric posted, this was only for movement and it was in fact going the other way - it used to be automatically limited to 10 auts (not 1.0 auts, stop it people, auts cannot be divided!), but now it no longer is. If you're a chei following in statue form, you now get triple regeneration taking a step (30 auts) compared to pressing . (10 auts). Everyone go play chei statue formers now, I demand it!

[dowan]

(not 1.0 auts, stop it people, auts cannot be divided!),

Come on, they're Arbitrary units of time. We can arbitrarily represent them however we like
I can never keep that straight for some reason, I don't know why but in my mind auts have a decimal place.

[jejorda2]

Are there any spells left which require wielding items? Arrows, rocks, chunks of flesh?

All of those spells would be more convenient if they didn't require wielding items to use them, without losing their tactical depth.