Neo Angband 1.0.1-edge.96 (edge)

This is an automatic build of every commit on master. It is the
early channel of the in-game updater, and it is not a release.

Built from e1be8ef: Neo Angband 1.0.0

No release notes, no changelog entry, and no promise that it works.
It has passed the same test suite every commit passes and nothing else -
in particular nobody has played it. Saves made here are still saves: a
format change ships its conversion like any other build. If you want
something that has been looked at by a human, switch the channel to
beta on the update screen.

This release is REPLACED, tag and all, by the next commit.

Neo Angband 1.0.0

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 1.0.0.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-1.0.0-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-1.0.0.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Added

• Two new ModHooks extension points for the bug-fixes mod: partialStackMerge,
  a veto on combinePack's uneven-stack merge (the point a mod can refuse to
  drain an already-full source stack into a smaller one, #115),
  and packOverflowVictim, a decision hook that lets a mod redirect
  pack_overflow's NULL-victim shed to the item that actually displaced out of
  the quiver rather than the last inventory slot (#116).
  With no hook installed, both call sites are byte-identical to 4.2.6.
• checkRecords now emits an advisory field/vocabulary hint when a
  record's value falls outside the closed set RECORD_BLUEPRINTS measures
  for that field - the same measurement the workshop's record-screen
  dropdown and file editor already read independently of each other. The two
  consumers now share one answer instead of each deciding on its own
  (#48).
• Agent API 1.4.0: PlayerStatusView now exposes thirteen buff timers
  (fast, sprint, protection from evil, hero, berserker strength, mystic
  shield, stoneskin, blessed, fastcast, and the five temporary elemental
  resists) alongside the eight negative afflictions it already carried,
  the same read-only, add-only way. Unblocks a mod-side buff cross-check
  against real engine state instead of the mod's own message-based
  bookkeeping (#121).
• The desktop build now bundles README.md and the other root policy/legal
  docs (CHANGELOG, LICENSE, TERMS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, CODE_OF_CONDUCT,
  CONTRIBUTING, AI_USAGE_POLICY) at the install folder's own root, beside
  the executable - they were never copied there before.

Changed

• The browser tab icon, PWA install icon, and iOS home-screen icon are now
  the actual app icon (the same mascot artwork the desktop build ships)
  instead of a placeholder green "@" glyph. The web app's index.html also
  gained explicit favicon <link> tags, which it never had before.
• The portable data folder beside the executable is named data instead
  of neo-angband-data. Only a fresh install or a fresh portable data
  folder gets the new name; an existing neo-angband-data folder is found
  and used in place, exactly as before, both at startup and across an
  in-place update - nothing migrates and no save is moved, and neither
  name is ever deleted out from under an install that has it.

Fixed

• A message longer than the display line took up a whole page of its own;
  upstream splits it at the rightmost space and recurses on the rest
  instead. The pager now does the same (#7).

• Selecting a Linoleum tile pack that had never been converted before blocked
  the whole game until the entire source atlas finished slicing into loose
  files - long enough on a large pack (Shockbolt) to look identical to a
  hang. The game now hands control back immediately and shows a banner
  naming what is converting; the tileset applies once it finishes. Streaming
  individual tiles in as they convert, instead of applying the whole pack at
  once at the end, remains open (#124).

• The birth point-buy stat allocation screen never showed the gold-rectangle
  cursor upstream draws just after the current stat's cost (ui-birth.c:1135),
  because that screen is hand-rolled rather than built on the shared menu
  widget every other cursor-driven screen in the game already gets it from.
  Up/down now moves a real cursor there like everywhere else
  (#60).

• menuNav, the one navigation helper every overlay and menu screen shares,
  never recognized h/j/k/l, even with the roguelike keyset selected - a
  game-wide gap, not limited to the birth screen where it was first
  reported. It now takes a roguelike parameter and resolves h/j/k/l
  through the same direction mapping arrows and numpad already use.
  Reported by Nate (#127).

• The store's item context menu (Examine/Buy/Buy One) printed its labels
  directly over the live stock list with no backdrop, so the stock row's own
  text bled through around and behind them. It now draws as a bordered,
  backed popup near the selected row instead. Reported by Nate
  (#128).

• A mod's unresolvable reference or malformed patch could take the whole game
  down at boot in six places the mod-resilience audit had not yet reached: an
  artifact's flags:/values: tokens, a curse's type: entries, a monster's
  base:/friends-base:/friends:/shape:, a terrain feature's mimic:,
  and a store record whose owner: list a replaces body dropped entirely.
  Each now drops only the mod's own bad entry (or, where the field is the
  whole record's foundation, the one record) and reports it, the same way an
  ego's unresolvable item: line already did; core's own data still fails
  loudly. A malformed fieldPatch operation - an append written with
  value instead of values, for instance - used to abort composition
  entirely with no partial result and could drop every installed mod at once
  when the resulting error named none of them; it is now refused the same way
  a missing patch target already was (#8).

• Nearly every screen in the web front end still wrote its UI text as a
  hardcoded English literal, so a mod-supplied locale could not reach it no
  matter what it declared: context menus, the mods and mod-browse screens,
  options, keymap editing, pref-file screens, the wizard/debug console, the
  shop, the character sheet, the knowledge browser, the title screen's
  credits, and birth and character-select. All of it now routes through
  t() - over a thousand message ids added in this pass - and the bundled
  demo-resources mod's en-XA pseudo-locale catalog grew to match, so
  switching to it no longer shows plain English for anything that is in fact
  translatable. main.ts's combat messages and its confirmYesNo/getCheck
  prompts were outside this pass's scope and remain untranslated
  (#95).

• An autoplayer mod (the Borg) took over the keyboard with no way to hand it
  back short of force-quitting: its own answer to a blocking prompt reached
  the game the same way a real keypress did, so opening the game menu to
  disable it just closed again on the mod's next tick. Any real keypress now
  interrupts an autoplayer immediately, only while the window actually has
  focus, so one left running in the background does not hand back control on
  a keystroke meant for another window. Ctrl-Z also now offers to start one,
  through upstream's own warn-and-confirm prompt, rather than a silent
  mod-manager toggle that took effect on the next reload
  (#125).

---

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Neo Angband 0.34.2

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.34.2.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.34.2-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.34.2.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Fixed

• The desktop build's injected mod-origin-merge script carried its own copy of
  the save database's schema, out of sync with a store added earlier: it still
  expected schema version 2 and did not know about the linoleum tile-cache
  store, so an install landing on that path could fail to open a save
  (#122).

---

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Neo Angband 0.34.1

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.34.1.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.34.1-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.34.1.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Fixed

• The desktop in-place updater refused to download any release after GitHub
  renamed the CDN host release downloads redirect to, failing every update
  attempt with "the release download redirected to an unexpected host." The
  trusted-host check now matches any *.githubusercontent.com subdomain
  instead of one specific hostname, so a future rename does not repeat this.
  A copy already stuck on the old check has to be reinstalled by hand once
  (see the README) since the broken check runs in the copy that is already
  installed, not in whatever is published next.

---

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Neo Angband 0.33.0

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.33.0.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.33.0-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.33.0.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Added

• Character history now exposes a write-time mod seam that can retain raw input
  with a display-expansion marker, plus a display-time formatter shared by the
  history screen and character dump. Unused seams preserve the faithful 4.2.6
  stored text and rendering.
• A mod can now decide the radius a blast is built from, through a new
  projectionRadius hook on the behaviour seam (ModHooks). Core reads it in
  computeProjection before any grid is collected, and it is folded chained,
  so two mods narrowing one blast for two unrelated reasons both get their
  narrowing. With no mod contributing one the member is absent and the radius is
  used exactly as it was given, which is Angband 4.2.6's own behaviour: 4.2.6
  sizes its damage-at-distance table by max_range and never checks the radius
  against it, so a radius above the maximum reaches distances the table has no
  entry for. Upstream corrected that after the tag
  (f0f6bd223,
  upstream issue #6671); core
  stays pinned to the tag and holds only the point at which the radius is
  decided, and the correction ships as the upstream-catchup mod's
  catchup.projections rule. The hook is RNG-free by contract - the radius
  decides how many grids the blast collects, so a draw there would move the
  stream by an amount that depends on the terrain.

Fixed

• Long capability descriptions and other scrollable table text now wrap instead
  of being silently cut off at the edge of the terminal. Reported by neostryder.

---

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Neo Angband 0.31.0

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.31.0.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.31.0-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.31.0.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Security

• The desktop updater no longer accepts a download URL or checksum from the
  renderer. The main process re-reads the named release from GitHub and
  resolves the platform asset's URL, digest, and size itself; redirects are
  followed manually with a host check on every hop, and extraction now
  enforces archive size, entry count, and expansion-ratio limits.
• A content patch path such as __proto__.x no longer reaches
  Object.prototype. Every path-walking entry point in the patch and compose
  modules now rejects __proto__, prototype, and constructor and reads
  only a container's own properties.
• Repository mod downloads and imported .neochar saves now decompress
  within the same resource limits the local mod importer already enforced,
  instead of expanding an untrusted archive or save with no ceiling.
• The game window no longer navigates away from its own origin on a
  same-window navigation. The check that decides what counts as the game's
  own address now parses the URL instead of matching a string prefix.
• Three dependencies pinned to versions with published advisories
  (fast-uri, js-yaml, nanoid) are updated.

---

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Neo Angband 0.30.0

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.30.0.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.30.0-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.30.0.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Added

• The mod conflict report now includes a row for two or more mods that both
  provide the player's own tile. TileRegistry.playerTile already took the
  first non-null answer in load order; a later provider's opinion was
  silently discarded with nothing to show for it, unlike every other
  contested slot the report already covers.

Changed

• Mod sizes now display as their exact byte count instead of a KiB/MiB
  approximation. Every size in the pipeline was already measured exactly;
  only the display step was rounding it.

Fixed

• Text-entry prompts (including the mod install "Repository" prompt) now
  accept a pasted value, and no longer insert a character typed while
  composing text through an IME.
• A session-only mod's consent now refreshes when a re-staged draft changes
  the archive's bytes, instead of carrying the original consent across the
  edit.

---

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Neo Angband 0.29.0

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.29.0.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.29.0-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.29.0.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

---

Added

• Mod authors can now put renamedSectionFlags on a PackSection to preserve
  a player's explicit on/off decision when a section is renamed or when a rule
  becomes a section to gate content. The host imports the first matching legacy
  rule or section choice before applying the section default.
• A save's manifest now records the content digest of every present pack.
  Loading warns when a still-present pack's digest no longer matches what the
  save was written with, catching a session-only mod that patched a core
  record (rather than only adding one) differently, or dropped the patch
  entirely, even though nothing was orphaned. Only session mods are measured
  today; a regular installed mod's digest is a documented follow-up
  (docs/modding/MOD_SEAMS.md section 4d).
• The agent view can answer "does this player's class have flag X."
  PlayerView.classFlags reports the PF_* codes on the player class's own flag
  set (class.txt's player-flags: lines) - COMBAT_REGEN for a Blackguard, ZERO_FAIL
  for a Mage, and so on. The view already carried equipment-derived object flags
  and derived skills, but nothing that read the class definition itself, so a mod
  asking a class-flag question had no seam to ask it through. A new field on an
  existing view rather than a new accessor, so the agent API is now 1.3.0.

Fixed

• flavor.txt's fixed:/flavor: order is now recoverable from the
  compiled record. The content compiler used to split the two directives
  into separate arrays, so a record that interleaved them could not be
  reproduced from the compiled shape at all - the entry index cannot stand
  in for file order either, since flavor.txt's own numbering is not the order
  the file writes lines in. Nothing shipped interleaves the two directives, so
  this was latent rather than live; it would have become live the moment a
  mod's flavor.txt did. The compiler now emits one ordered entries list per
  record, each entry tagged with which directive produced it, so binding
  follows the file's real line order regardless of how a flavor.txt
  interleaves fixed: and flavor:.

---

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Neo Angband 0.28.1

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.28.1.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.28.1-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.28.1.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

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A fixes release: two keymap defects are corrected, and the Mod Builder mod is
renamed to ModForge.

Fixed

• Home/PageUp/End/PageDown now walk the same diagonal the numpad digits
  7/9/1/3 do with Num Lock on, matching the numpad's own orthogonal keys
  (Arrow keys), which already worked either way.
• A custom keymap can now be triggered by a plain F-key (F1-F12, no modifier)
  or by Enter, and an action sequence can now include Enter as one of its
  keypresses - so a macro ending in Enter, such as the rest command
  R&[Enter], can be bound. Both the keymap editor's capture prompt and the
  keymap resolver that fires a bound key during play now accept the same set
  of trigger keys, so a trigger the editor accepted could no longer silently
  fail to ever fire.

Changed

• The Mod Builder mod is now named ModForge, with a new manifest id (forge).
  An existing install's enabled and consent choices carry over automatically.

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Neo Angband 0.28.0

What you can download

Platform	File
Windows (installer)	Neo Angband Setup 0.28.0.exe
Windows (portable, one file)	Neo Angband-0.28.0-portable.exe
macOS	.dmg, or the .zip if you prefer to unpack it yourself
Linux	.AppImage (no install), .deb, or .tar.gz
Self-hosting	neo-angband-web-0.28.0.zip - static files, any web server

The portable Windows build and the AppImage need no installer:
download, run, and the game keeps its saves in a folder beside itself.

These builds are not code-signed

There is no Apple Developer identity or Windows certificate behind this
project yet, so your OS blocks the first launch.

Windows is one click: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC",
choose More info then Run anyway.

macOS is not one click, and the dialog it shows you does not contain the
way through - it offers only Done and Move to Trash. Do this:

1. Drag the app out of the .dmg, then double-click it and press Done
   on the refusal. This step is required: it is what makes the permission
   below appear, and it expires about an hour later.
2. Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security and scroll to
   Security, near the bottom.
3. Press Open Anyway on the line naming Neo Angband, authenticate, and
   launch it again.

Or, the same decision in one command:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Neo Angband.app"

The old right-click -> Open trick does NOT work: Apple removed that
bypass in macOS 15 Sequoia.

On Apple Silicon take the arm64 build. The x64 one is for Intel Macs,
not a fallback - Apple is withdrawing Rosetta 2, so on a current Mac it is
likelier to refuse to launch than to run slowly.

If that trade is not one you want to make, build it yourself -
docs/INSTALL.md - or play in the browser, which needs no trust decision.

Your save

Saves survive an update. Every save-format change ships the conversion that
reads the version before it, and a save this build cannot open is left
untouched rather than replaced.

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A mod-authoring release: a plugin now gets the SDK's authoring stack and the
game's own composed records live in ctx, and can apply a staged mod with a
proper reload instead of asking the player to press one - alongside a fix for
two windows open on the same character overwriting each other's saves, and a
Turbo speed tier for a mod's autoplayer.

Fixed

• Two windows open on the same character no longer overwrite each other's saves.
  The character a window writes to is now that window's own, held for as long as
  it is open, instead of being read from a setting every window on the origin
  shared. Opening a character that is already being played somewhere else is
  refused with an explanation rather than allowed and then silently lost, and a
  window that ends up without the character - a duplicated tab, which resumes
  without passing the character select - says so instead of playing on unsaved.
  neo-angband-active still records which character to offer at the next launch;
  it no longer decides where a save goes.

Added

• A player-visible speed control for a mod's autoplayer: the mod's own Fixes &
  tweaks screen (Mods -> the mod) now shows an Autoplayer speed row - Turbo,
  Fast, Normal or Slow - beside the rule that hands it the keyboard in the
  first place, once it holds the controller slot. Takes effect at once, no
  reload. Fast, Normal and Slow match the debug agent seam's existing
  ?speed=fast|normal|slow tiers; Turbo (10ms) has no named equivalent there,
  since the debug seam already reaches 10ms by passing a raw millisecond
  value instead of a tier name.
• ctx.authoring: the mod SDK's authoring stack, handed to a plugin. The
  whole public barrel, live, on the terms ctx.core is handed over: blueprints
  measured from core's own records, peersFor, suggestFields, templateRecord,
  draftRecord, checkRecords and ModProject. Always present and gated by no
  capability, because these are pure functions over data the caller supplies. A
  tool that helps somebody write a monster could reach none of it before: a plugin
  resolves no bare specifier, so the published npm package was out of reach of the
  game it describes.
• ctx.composedRecords: the records the running game was composed from.
  Every content record as JSON, keyed by pack-file stem with no extension, which
  is the shape the authoring functions accept. This is the unbound twin of
  ctx.registries: a bound MonsterRace has no base, because the binder
  resolved the name into a pointer, so a table of comparable records could not be
  built from the registry. Mod-added records are in it on the same terms as
  core's, each carrying its provenance, so a draft based on another mod's content
  can name the dependency it just acquired. Absent during content composition,
  for the reason ctx.registries is.
• ctx.reloadGame: a mod can apply what it just staged. The game's own
  mod-change sequence, behind either mod:install or mod:session - whichever
  capability the mod already holds - because content composes at load and
  staging plus reload are one act: a mod that cannot follow a stage with a
  reload leaves the player holding something the running process will never
  load. What the host does that a mod cannot do for itself is the sequence -
  every plugin's uninstall() runs, the autoplayer hands the keyboard back, the
  live character is written down, and the session comes back on that character
  instead of on the title screen. It is not a permission to reload: a plugin
  runs in the page and reaches location with no grant at all, and a mod
  calling that directly loses the player's progress since the last save.
• An install outcome now carries the game's own wording.
  ctx.installMod(bytes) answers with lines on both arms: the lines the Mods
  screen itself prints for that same install, including one row per unmet
  requirement and the author's advice under them. A mod built inside the game
  therefore fails a standards check in the same words as one somebody downloaded,
  rather than in a second vocabulary a player cannot look up. problem is
  unchanged and is still one whole sentence.
• A second API-surface ratchet, over the SDK.
  packages/mod-sdk/mod-sdk-api-surface.json records its 94 runtime exports and
  mod-authoring-surface.test.ts fails in both directions against it. Handing a
  namespace to a plugin puts every name in it beyond the compiler's reach, which
  is why core has had this since 2026-08-02; node tools/api-surface.mjs now
  checks and updates both baselines in one run.

Changed

• The download screen's size line now shows the exact byte count, comma-grouped,
  instead of rounding to KB or MB - "162,343,507 Bytes" rather than "155 MB".
  The screen already reads as a terminal (the ASCII progress bar); an unrounded
  count fits that and visibly climbs while the download runs, where a
  one-decimal MB figure barely moves.

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