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MUDDY-SHOES handles "TAKE", so it should perhaps have TRYTAKEBIT? #32

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

MUDDY-SHOES-F handles the TAKE action. To prevent implicit taking from messing up, the boots (MUDDY-SHOES) should probably have TRYTAKEBIT.

All it does when taking the boots are to clear NDESCBIT. Since ITAKE does that automatically anyway, I wasn't sure if the boots have to do that too. But they probably have to, in case the player is carrying enough objects to fumble and drop the boots when trying to pick them up.

It's there can ever be a case where implicit taking does mess up for this particular object. But it shouldn't hurt to disable it here.