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> <email deleted> (<Someone>)
> Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
> Subject: Question: Why don't silver wands give silver damage?
> Date: 9 Nov 2003 09:18:50 -0800
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
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> <email deleted>
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> I had a character cornered by a werejackal the other day. I'm not too
> bothered by the death but why didn't the silver wand he desperately
> wielded in his final moments do extra damage? I mean, silver rings do
> so why not wands? I realise this is a pretty minor problem since not
> that many people will be going around wielding wands, but still.
>
> ~<Someone>
There was a code path for objects such as wands that avoided
all the silver checks. Now fixed.