[CF-Devel] Artifact & subtype question (to know how to fix broken build patch...)

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Yesterday i showed my building patch to some players, and it worked fine... 
except i had to fix subtypes of items manually (i use'em to discriminate between 
some items: type 161 = building material, subtype 1 = floor, and so on).

Investigating the reason, it's because subtype is not part of what an artifact 
can give to an item (see common/treasure.c:add_abilities)

My 'building tiles', in shops, generate items, with the correct artifacts, but 
since subtype isn't copied, it is wrong.

So the question would be: is there a compelling reason why an artifact could not 
alter the archetype's subtype?
The type obviously is archetype-depend, but what about the subtype?
(btw, is subtype actually used somewhere?)

Now i could use another way to find what the player is building: use the builded 
item's 'type' field. Which is not set for most floors & walls. So I'd have to 
change archetypes for those, to add the 'type' field. I can live with that, 
though :)
(the 'is_floor' is not enough, i fear, to correctly discriminate, especially 
when there are walls without floors. And the 'no_pass' is not enough for walls, 
since for instance doors have it too...)

Any thoughts about that?


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