As a side effect of fixing this minor thing ADOM now truly randomly provides traps - there no longer is a hidden pattern or formula to them :-)

I wonder what the VDDL looks like now...

That's great!

There goes Minotaur Maze! xD

I personally dislike this change a lot, but I guess I will reserve judgement until evaluating it in p8.

Also, I always thought it was pretty neat that you could create any trap by covering a pit---and lord knows, the chances of you being able to use this trick were really extremely rare, so I don't know why that needed to be changed, per se.

Cats in the arena will quite fun also :)

People have been creating all sorts of traps with blankets and pits left and right, SirTheta. It definitely wasn't intentional. Now all you get is pit traps, as would be expected.

The end of the fixed trap pattern makes me kind of giddy - especially if it results in random trap setups in the pyramid or the dwarven graveyard. I've been evading traps by heart for years, and always knew exactly where to look for convenient teleports.

They really haven't, Silfir. A wand of trap creation is like 100x more likely than an expendable blanket, and it's rechargeable to boot. It's really not that common a tactic, from what I see [and what I use]. I also don't see why this wouldn't be 'expected'; ADOM is a rather magical place after all.

Wow, people are defending covered pits turning into other trap types? That's one of the worst, immersion-killing bugs in the game. There was absolutely no logic behind it.

^ Agreed. Where do stone blocks or spears fall from if you create those traps in open-air areas?

Anyway, a truly random layout is an interesting thing. Goodbye to using the TTTN method for detecting fake levels and creating free teleports, I guess.

Oh c'mon, there's no 'logic' behind half the things in ADOM! It made perfect sense to me ('immersion-killing'?!). ADOM's a pretty magical place (I mean, just look at what some of these wands can do), why couldn't the natural magic/corruption in dungeons create wildly different trap types when you used a blanket over a pit?

There's fantasy and then there's pure lack of logic. Even though there's stuff in ADOM (or any other fantasy setting) that doesn't exist in the real world, it still has to follow its own rules. (The Belgariad is a great example of magic with well-specified, consistent rules.) Pits and blankets are both mundane real-world items, and covering a pit with a blanket in real life wouldn't produce an arrow trap out of thin air. There's nothing in ADOM's pits and blankets that hints that there'd be something magical about them, so a player would expect them to behave just like in real life. Would you defend this bug if it appeared in a game in a sci-fi setting?

Hopefully the Creator remembered to keep it the same.

Hell no. Random teleport trap VDDL is going to be the funkiest place ever.