Welcome to Zangband!

This is the Windows95/98/NT binary release of Zangband 2.2.1.

Self-extracting zip archive for easier installation.

Includes support for Adam Bolt's tiles.


Robert Ruehlmann ( rr9@angband.org )
"Thangorodrim - The Angband Page" : http://thangorodrim.angband.org/

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ZAngband 2.2.1
-Changed the scores file back to the old pre-2.2.0 file-format,
 Score-files from version 2.2.0 won't work!
 The installation will overwrite the 'lib/apex/scores.raw' file
 by default, so if you want to keep your old scores file then
 make a backup before installing.
-Added friendly monsters.
-Added a 'no wilderness' mode for slower systems. The mode can
 be selected when starting a new character and when importing
 a 2.1.1c or older savefile. A special town with quests and
 buildings has been added for this mode.
-Bloodletters of Khorne drop now a Blade of Chaos when killed.
-Pink horrors split into two Blue Horrors when killed.
-Allowed easy addition of new monsters to r_info.txt.
-Various optimizations to improve game speed.
-Added a cold aura to some monsters.
-Added an option to switch on 'hard quests' on character birth
 and when importing old savefiles.
-Fixed a bug in the 'Reset Recall' spell.
-Fixed problems with the 'Vault' quest.
-Added a home to the town Telmora.
-Changed the 'look' command to ignore boring terrains.
-Changed the damage when walking over shallow lava.
-Fixed a bug that allowed creation of townspeople in the dungeon.
-Changed the behaviour of the 'magic mapping' spell.
-Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to ignore 'glyphs of warding'
 and 'exploding runes'.
-Golems, Zombies, Vampires, ... no longer can get food in the inns.
-Fixed bugs in the 'absorb light' mutation.
-Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the creation of 'conneced stairs'
 and caused lookups when killing the last quest-monster.
-Fixed a bug that hangs the game when displaying the contents of your
 houses after quitting or dying.
-Various changes in the monster definitions.
-Fixed the k_info.txt entry of the Trifurcate Spear.
-Removed some disturbing messages.
-The quests from the magic towers are now only available for members
 of the towers realm.
-'Detect treasure' no longer detects monsters represented with an '*'.
-Prevented the use of 'Alter Reality' in quests.
-Changed the description of ~ in the 'identify symbol' command.
-Changed some of the 8x8 tiles.
-Hagen has now a high chance to drop his spear.
-Fixed the 'cursed items as quest rewards' bug.

ZAngband 2.2.0
-Added 279 new monsters and the corresponding 8x8 sized tiles designed and
 drawed by Topi Ylinen.
-Added 46 new items (weapons, armor, and ammo) designed by John Duffin and
 Leigh Silas Hanrihan.
-Added exploding, aquatic, swimming, and flying monsters.
-Added new monster melee attacks (time, explode, and disease).
-Added Ken Wigles KAngband style town, quests and terrains.
-Changed quest system to allow more flexibility and multi-level quests.
-Added big wilderness outside the towns with a modified fractal terrain
 generator from KAmband.
-New initialization code for quests, towns, buildings and wilderness.
-Removed the 64 kByte limits for monsters, items, artifacts, and vaults.
-Moved the definition of the limits for the number of monsters, items,
 vaults, ... to an external data-file.
-Added Keldon Jones patch to allow automatic recreation of the raw-files.
-Added "equippy chars" in the inventory, equipment list and in shops.
-Fixed the definitions of the new tiles for the Half-Ogres and Dark-Elfes.
-Added support for the S-Lang scripting language, based on Scott Bigham's
 S-Lang patch.
-Added Greg Wooledge's patch that adds the "flag grid" to Zangband
 char dumps and shows immunities in the "flag grid".
-The Windows version no longer requires "LibPath" to be set correctly.
 This allows installation in any directory without changes to the ini-file.
-Allowed random selection of race, class, realms, ... at character birth
 with the * key.
-Added the Easy-Patch by Tim Baker and changed it to be an option.
-Added 52 new mutations created by Jeff Duprey.
-Changed the pet AI to make the pets more useful.
-Added new sound-events.
-Only uniques will now resist disintegration effects.
-Warrior-Mages can now choose Sorcery.
-Many other changes and bugfixes.

Old changes (versions 2.0.0 - 2.1.1c):
	Listed in the file z_update.txt (included in the archive)