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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
moe SAINT Evergreen and Crystalion, for making Hellfire playable
Zamal and Zenda, for their Modworkshop & notes
Selby, whose notes save me oodles of time
Dr. Zed, whose notes helped me in one way or another, over and over again
Jarulf, for DView and his Guide (which guided changes in many respects)
Kp629, who made hex editing make sense, plus code insight
LemmingofGlory, Thenryb, Hammerskjold, Ell_man: for feedback, testing, and ideas
And Bolty, for letting this suck up his bandwidth

Normally this is where modmakers thank Blizzard and Sierra for "making such great games." Granted, they did manage to crank out a superbly entertaining piece of code. However, since this mod exists only to fix things they screwed up, I must blame them for their ineptitude instead. You guys leave it to your fans to fix this stuff? That's so tacky. :p

You can send reports of bugs that do not exist in vanilla Hellfire here. Do not send me bug reports of things I've explicitly told you not to do.

READ AND UNDERSTAND
The mod *will* use your existing characters. Morphing of certain items (mostly uniques) *will* occur, though not all uniques will morph.

HellfireFixed.exe is the Multiplayer Version. The features listed will not correspond with single player and can corrupt characters. Do not use it in single player.

HFFsp.exe is the Single Player Edition of Hellfire: Fixed. Do not use it in multiplayer.

You do not need both versions, unless you want to play both SP and MP.

HOW TO USE
Place HellfireFixed.exe (and/or HFFsp.exe) in your Hellfire folder.
Run HellfireFixed.exe (and/or HFFsp.exe)
That's all.

HOW NOT TO USE

• As a flotation device
• As a non-dairy creamer
• As currency in foreign or domestic markets
• As a substitute for sleep and/or nourishment
• As a substitute for a paying job
• As an antacid
• As a contraceptive

FIXES BY OTHER FOLKS

• By moe: Two MS-related bugs fixed
• By Crystalion:
  • Monster AC wraparound bug fixed
  • Random ReSeeding fixed
  • Sweep attack fixed
  • Jog in town in MP
  • Prevent end movie
  • Characters will not block if they're resistant

CURRENT VERSION: v1.21

• New Bug Fixes
  • Added bugfix for Berserk
  • Flash bugfix
  • Due to an error on my part, Fortitude and Permeance Oils weren't dropping in v1.11. This has been corrected.
• New Features
  • View normal monsters Current-Max HPs
  • Exp shared in multiplayer
  • Hacked dll no longer necessary for multiplayer
• New Gameplay Features
  • Diablo always drops an item
  • Search lasts longer
  • Disabled Griswold's "pack peeking"
  • Reduced CL gapping at high levels
• Unique Improvements (designed to encourage use or expand usefulness)
  • Helm of Sprits: Life steal changed to 0-12.5% life (stackable)
  • Ring of Magma: 10 Fire Hit Dmg, 10 Fire Arrow Dmg, +30 Hps added
  • Ring of Thunder: Swiftness, 10 Lit Hit Dmg, 10 Lit Arrow Dmg added
  • Ring of Mystics: +50 Mana added
  • Bone Chain Armor: +25% ToHit, -20% Light added
  • Demon Plate Armor: +30% ResAll, +50% ToHit, Stability added
  • The Needler: Swiftness changed to Haste
  • Sparking Mail: 15-15 Lit Dmg, 15% ResAll added
  • Black Razor: Changed damage bonus to 450% with 450% "decaying" damage
• Other
  • Monk's "Lorric" speech has been changed
  • Monk's "chow!" pain sound has been changed
  • Plate Mail (again) looks like plate on the floor
  • Breast Plate looks like Mail when equipped
  • (Undocumented Change in v1.11) Player ears can be right-clicked (like scrolls) to cast Resurrect.
  • (UC in v1.11) Spiritual Shrine has a new shrine message.
• !WARNING!: Do NOT use Cornerstone of the World to transfer SP quest items to MP. Many of them do not exist in MP and may cause unpleasant results.
• Thanks! again to Z&Z, Dr. Zed, Kp, and all the rest. As always, their modmaking notes and know-how makes this possible.

MISC. IMPROVEMENTS

• Items
  • Gold stacks in piles of 10k. (No more Auric Amulet, either)
  • Runes of Fire and Rune of Lightning were junk treasure. They're gone now.
  • Greater Rune of Lightning/Scroll of Nova and Rune of Stone/Scroll of Stone Curse were redundant. The two scroll types no longer appear.
  • Oils of Sharpness and Accuracy were crap. They no longer drop.
  • Oil of Permeance can now be found. It's fairly rare at qlvl 30, however.
  • Peril no longer occurs on bows (It didn't work)
  • Readiness affix no longer drops (It didn't work). "Readiness" on uniques is now "Swiftness"
  • Long War Bow now has its proper graphic.
  • Torn Notes 1-3 and Reconstructed Note were boring. They've been replaced with quaint trinkets.
  • Splint Mail AC range was raised from 30-35 to 30-40. No item covered the 36-39 AC range, so Splint was the best candidate.
  • Plate Mail's graphic is now different from Field Plate, just for variety.
  • Field Plate AC range was raised from 40-45 to 45-55, so it's better than Plate Mail (42-50 AC).
• Monsters
  • Tomb Rat, Devil Kin Brutes, Hell Bats/Firebats, and the Defiler have been given different (more fitting) sound effects. High-pitched squeals do not a gothic atmosphere make.
  • Lich and Arch-Lich death speed has been increased. They died too awkwardkly.
  • Black Deaths no longer permanently steal HPs
  • Advocates can appear on 15
• Shrines
  • Fascinating, Ornate, Sacred, Murphy's, and Tainted shrines no longer appear.
  • MP Only: Mendicant's no longer appears. The exp cap would prevent you from getting full exp, which is not worth the gold it'd steal from high level characters.
  • Shimmering shrine now appears in MP.
  • Glowing Shrine has been banished to dlvls 1-4. +5 Mag/-5% exp was too icky to show up from a Cauldron or a Goat Shrine. This way you can choose whether to use it. Beware: Occasionally Goat Shrines show up on dlvl 4, and they could therefore be Glowing Shrine.
  • SP Only: Gloomy and Weird shrines do not appear below dlvls 1-4. (They seemed fairly useless down there.)
• Spells
  • Teleport and Town Portal can be cast in town. Why TP, you ask? Portal Tag!
  • MP Only: Resurrect is now a book, qlvl 4 (perspective: same qlvl as Book of Lightning)
  • ID is now a book. Rejoice. ID book is qlvl 17, which should be extrodinarily rare in book terms. Adria can't sell it.
• Town
  • After reaching dlvl 14 or killing Laz, Cain no longer throws a scrolling textbox at you. These were the "This does not bode well..." and "Your story is quite grim..." speeches.
  • Several players complained about Adria's "I sense a soul in search of answers" greeting. It has been replaced with a less annoying sound.

UNIQUE MODIFICATIONS
In order to fix a fatal combination of BlizzLogic and Sierra's utterly confused attempt at creating a functional unique item drop system, many changes were made to base items, qlvls, and even attributes.

Bows			Clubs			Swords
Name	Qlvl	Base	Name	Qlvl	Base	Name	Qlvl	Base
Rift Bow	1	Short	Jholm	1	Club	Gonnagal	1	Short Sword
Needler	11	Short	Baranar	1	Mrn Star	Exe's Blade	3	Blade
Celestial	3	Long	Crackrust	13	Mrn Star	Diamondedge	17	Claymore
Fleshstinger	13	Long	Thunderclap	05	Hammer	Gibbous	2	Bastard
Deadly Hunter	3	Hunter's	Schaefer	17	Hammer	Grizzly	17	2H
Blackoak	13	Hunter's	Axes			Eater	28	2H
Bow of the Dead	3	Composite	Name	Qlvl	Base	Grandy	17	Great
Flamedart	15	Composite	Mangler	2	Axe	Shirotachi	28	Great
Flambeau	9	SBB	Sharp Beak	2	Small Axe	Staves
Gnat Sting	20	SBB	Bloodslayer	3	Great Axe	Name	Qlvl	Base
Blitzen	13	SWB				Shadows	2	Quarter Staff

• Full Plate Mail
  • Demon Plate Armor (qlvl 25) is now the only FPM.
  • Demonspike Coat (qlvl 25) is now Studded Leather. (Interesting, eh monks?)
  • Armor of Gloom (qlvl 30) is now Gothic Plate. Additionally, AoG no longer has 225 specified Armor Class. Instead, it has 75 AC and +200% AC. It must be ID'd for the 225 AC.
• Amulet: Amulets previously existed as two separate items with identical in-game characteristics. (They sold for the same amount unid'd, they had the same name, and they had the same graphic.) The two base types are now separate both in name and in graphic: Amulet and Necklace. The two unique Amulets are similarly separate. Amulet of Warding is a qlvl 20 Amulet. Acolyte's Amulet is a qlvl 8 Necklace.
• Bovine Plate no longer has 150 specified AC. It has 50 AC and +150% AC. It must be identified for the 150 AC. It's now Field Plate base, so it should be possible to drop in the dungeon.
• -AC: This attribute was bugged. When left in town, the AC would rollover to somewhere in the neighborhood of 247 AC. Celestial Star and Gnarled Root have been given alternate curses, +2 DFE and +4 DFE respectively. Scavenger's Carapace now sports -100% AC.
• ToHit Bonuses: Many melee weapons gained a Qlvlx3 to Qlvlx4 ToHit attribute (based on original qlvls). Weapons that did not receive this modifier were those that had sufficient ToHit, those that had -Dex or -ToHit% attributes which would cancel out a ToHit bonus, and "channeling" weapons like Mindcry and Dreamflange. This should make uniques weapons viable (even desirible) for younger characters.
• New Graphics: Most uniques that lacked a unique graphic have been given a unique graphic.

RINGS
These were an absolute MESS. There were SEVEN qlvl 8 unique rings, two qlvl 1s, a qlvl 2, a qlvl 5, a qlvl 10, and a qlvl 11. On top of that, they were positioned in the code so wrongly that Gladiator's Ring (qlvl 10) would override Ring of Engagement (qlvl 11) despite the latter having the higher qlvl. This mess has been cleaned up.

The biggest problem with the unique rings was that all 13 rings used the same base type - "ring." This in and of itself is one of the most blisteringly idiotic ideas you're likely to see outside of "The Grandfather is a good sword" threads. Doubly so when you see exactly how easy it is to fix this.

In the code, there's not one but three types of rings - all identical. Like the two types of amulets, this trio of rings is the same in name, in graphic, and in unique item code. Unique item code is a data value that tells the game "Use this base type." Since there are three different types of rings, it's possible to assign each ring a different unique item code and create three distinctly different ring bases.

To help you see this more clearly, let's give these rings new names: Ring, Band, and Coil. (Bands and Coils have new pictures to boot.) We can spread the 13 unique "rings" onto these three base types more-or-less evenly: four "rings" to each base.

Rings	Qlvl	Bands	Qlvl	Coils	Qlvl
The Bleeder	1	Bramble	1	Ring of Regha	1
Ring of Thunder	11	Ring of Magma	11	Ring of the Mystics	11
Karik's Ring	21	Mercurial Ring	21	Giant's Knuckle	21
Constricting Ring	31	Xorine's Ring	31	Ring of Engagement	31

As you can see, the qlvls are tiered so each ring has a chance of dropping. This fix, however, required a tweak to the base types as well. "Ring" base type existed as qlvl 5, qlvl 10, and qlvl 15. To allow Bramble, Bleeder, and Regha to drop in normal the qlvl of Rings, Bands, and Coils was dropped to 1. This means you'll see a lot more rings in early church. In testing, the number of rings that showed up in late-game did not seem significantly affected. So all in all, it seems okay.

Note that the qlvls of the unique rings are not arbitrary. The qlvl 1's three are largely junk that deserve qlvl 1. The qlvl 11's aren't good enough to drop any deeper. The qlvl 21's are interesting, but not interesting enough. The 31's are the most powerful resistance ring, reading glasses, and ToHit modifier in the game. These puppies are what the Big Bosses deserve to drop.

But what about the 13th ring, Gladiator's Ring? It's gone. I'm sorry if you were fond of it, but I absolutely loathed it. I couldn't bear to see it again. It's been replaced by a new unique. I hope you enjoy it. ;)

BOSSES
Egads, do we have bosses! More than a few bosses were on the "wrong" dlvl. That is, they were supposed to appear on a dlvl where their base type didn't. (e.g. Blacktongue, a Counselor, was slated to appear on dlvl 12. Counselors do not appear there.) These bosses have been enabled. Additionally, lots of boss slots were occupied by bosses belonging to monster types that don't exist. These boss slots were used to provide bosses in the Hive, Crypt, and one or two elsewhere.

Caves Bosses
Name	Type	Dlvl	Hps	MFL	Damage	AI	Pack
The Boogey Man	Illusion Weaver	9	325	RI-	10-40	Hidden	Yes
Hive Bosses
Name	Type	Dlvl	Hps	MFL	Damage	AI	Pack
Damned	The Shredded	H1	375	IR-	20-40	Melee	Yes
Bob and Fred	Felltwin	H2	405	IRR	25-50	Melee	Yes
Pigmaul Rentflesh	Hellboar	H2	495	IRR	30-55	Melee	Yes
Blinky the Destroyer	Necromorb	H3	350	IIR	20-30	Psychorb	Yes
Antphir	Torchant	H4	390	-IR	20-30	Torchant	Yes
Gutretch Acidburp	Spider Lord	H4	550	I-R	15-30	Spitter	Yes
Hell Bosses
Name	Type	Dlvl	Hps	MFL	Damage	AI	Pack
Blacktongue	Counselor	13	360	RII	15-30	Mage Demon	Yes
Brother Jerec1	Advocate	15	900	-II	50-50	Telekill	No
Fleshdancer	Soul Burner	15	999	III	30-50	Succubus	No
Lord of the Pit	Azure Drake	15	762	IIR	25-42	Melee	Yes
Sir Gorash2	Blood Knight	16	1050	RII	20-60	Melee	No
Crypt Bosses
Name	Type	Dlvl	Hps	MFL	Damage	AI	Pack
Bum Nibbler	Tomb Rat	C1	850	-II	36-36	Melee	Yes
Coughagus	Gravedigger	C1	800	RRI	27-48	Scavenger	Yes
Peanut	Devil Kin Brute	C1	800	-IR	15-30	Melee	Yes
Construct	Crypt Demon	C2	1300	IRI	55-65	Melee	Yes
Flappity the Floppy	Firebat	C2	950	IIR	25-40	Melee	Yes
Smellsbad Tastesworse	Satyr Lord	C2	1003	IRR	30-50	Melee	Yes
Howlingire the Shade	Bone Demon	C3	1900	RII	40-75	Melee	Yes
Izual, the Fallen	Reaper	C3	2500	III	60-90	Melee	Yes
The Blob	Flesh Thing	C3	1500	III	1-150	Melee	Yes
Axgash	Biclops	C4	1400	RRI	60-80	Butcher	Yes
Fleshdoom	Reaper	C4	2666	III	30-150	Melee	Yes
Mrs. Leoric	Arch Lich	C4	1200	III	100-100	Melee	No

¹: Think of him as a "Monk"-ish enemy. Always appears.
²: He's not new, but he has resists now.

BUGS: New and Old

• NEW: Hork Demon began causing crashes at some point, so he's been removed. (I have a suspicion what the problem is, but I'd rather not fix it if it means un-doing one of the above changes.)
• NEW: Hellfire: Fixed v1.11 does not drop Fortitude or Permeance Oils. This is fixed in v1.21.
• OLD: The "classic" MS Bug (MS-No-Stun) still exists. Sorry.
• OLD: Duplication bugs still exist. I'm no Dr. Zed, okay? :p
• OLD: Barbarian's Rage skill is still bugged.
• OLD: Characters with 0 Magic will lose mana if they hit a Mysterious Shrine. Barbarians have been given 5 max magic as a "buffer" for this (other stats are unchanged).
• OLD: In Classic Diablo, Blizzard created Deadly Hunter. It is, by far, the most unfortunately bugged bow in D1 and HF. Had its +200% Damage vs Demons affix worked DH would've been the Civerb's Cudgel of bows. If that wasn't insult enough, it was cursed by the God of Inept Unique Drops and became the rarest item in the game (next to Staff of Shadows). Bugged in functionality and nigh-impossible to drop, what can be done for it now? Well, let me tell you: Now its buggedness has been taken to whole new heights!! Can YOU spot the number of non-working affixes on Deadly Hunter? Find it and find out!