Jan 8, 2021
Feature Friday - January 8, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.60/202.19

  • Creatures can now pathfind through force bubbles they are emitting.
  • Creatures now care when you damage their force bubbles.
  • Gamma moth's mutating gazes no longer have non-functional energy cell sockets.
  • Historic sites now reward a more appropriately tiered amount of cybernetic credits.
  • Legendary pilgrims no longer up and leave their lairs.
  • While socializing at the Six Day Stilt, burrowing creatures no longer burrow and restless creatures are now less restless.
  • Passing the turn to put yourself out while on fire no longer loosens your carapace or interrupts Heal or Meditate.
  • If you successfully fence a stolen object, it's no longer considered owned by someone else.
  • Attempting to cure glotrot before your tongue has completely rotted away no longer cements the disease in its first bleeding stage.
  • Changed some properties for clockwork beetles to make them more fully automaton-like.
  • Meditate is now smarter about what status effects it reduces the duration of and can now include effects added by mods.
  • The interior of the Tomb of the Eaters is now correctly treated as indoors for the purposes of Albino.
  • Once you've discovered the Mark of Death, the mark itself is now displayed in your journal.
  • The Mutating effect can now bestow multiple defects and properly mutates you after a save/load.
  • Entourages of fort snapjaws are now excluded from dynamic encounters.
  • Whipping up a meal in [redacted] now properly uses local ingredients.
  • Ovens no longer generate in liquid volumes.
  • Signs now appear on the alt overlay.
  • Mushroom walls now paint together nicely.
  • Removed some wall tiles with broken descriptions from the town square of Ezra.
  • Identified hologram bracelets now provide an activated ability that activates and deactivates them.
  • [redacted]
  • Fixed some cases where companions of companions incorrectly got angry at you.
  • Fixed some figurine grammar.
  • Fixed a bug that turned the Barathrumites against you when you damaged Barathrumite-owned furniture or equipment during A Call to Arms.
  • Fixed a bug that showed the player failure popups from NPCs' Syphon Vim usage.
  • Fixed a bug that caused NPCs with Syphon Vim to lock up when they became hostile to non-creature targets.
  • Fixed a bug that made ape pilgrims path to the Six Day Stilt instead of to [redacted].
  • Fixed the particle text color of dazed, stunned and bonded.
  • Fixed a text color bug in Blood and Fear: On the Life Cycle of Lah.
Jan 2, 2021
Feature Friday - January 1, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.59

  • Added several new movement-related commands:
    • Move To Square (default mapping: ctrl-enter), which prompts you for a target square and attempts to pathfind to there.
    • Move To Zone Edge (default mapping: shift-enter), which prompts you for a NSEW direction and attempts to pathfind to that edge of the screen, or as close to it as you can manage.
    • Force Attack Direction (default mapping: backslash), which prompts you for a direction and attacks in that direction.
    • Force Attack Square (default mapping: shift-backslash), which prompts you for a target square adjacent to you and attacks there.
  • Creatures becoming dazed now appears in the message log and produces floating text.
  • Creatures who are interested in occasionally going on shopping sprees at the Six Day Stilt no longer engage in this behavior when they have a party leader.
  • Ironshank can now only infect creatures with a Feet body part that is made of live tissue and provides mobility.
  • Identified force bracelets now provide an activated ability that activates and deactivates them.
  • Dig no longer works on the world map.
  • Slam will now prefer your primary cudgel.
  • Owned Schrodinger pages now warn you when you attempt to activate them.
  • If you are dominating a temporary or existence-supported creature at the time when it ceases to exist, this now ends your game once more, but now with case-specific messaging.
  • Young ivory, lurking beth, holographic ivory, and holographic beth now self-destruct if they enter a square with another object of any of these types, preventing stacks of multiple instances of these from forming. (The only exception is if the object is, due to extraordinary circumstances, a fully self-mobile creature, as for example in the case of an extradimensional psychic assassin lurking beth.)
  • Shield Slam now has an action cost of one turn.
  • Syphon Vim now does a better job of targeting the creature in its target cell that you would want it to target, when there is more than one.
  • Syphon Vim now appears in the message log any time it is initiated between creatures you can see, and produces floating text when initiated.
  • Syphon Vim now provides better failure messaging.
  • Mouse-based movement no longer knows how to pathfind through areas you have not explored.
  • The display names and descriptions of leather bracer Kith and Kin clue items is now coherent with leather bracers being single items.
  • Narcoleptics' original body no longer falls asleep outside of combat while they are Dominating another creature.
  • The ExploreZone debug command will now expand the player's sight radius.
  • The 'wait a specified number of turns' dialog now uses the last number of turns waited as the default.
  • The modern message log is now hidden when using the alt overlay.
  • Humanoid creatures no longer default to having the Night Vision mutation.
  • True Kin NPCs now have Rebuke Robot.
  • When Joppa is abandoned, the zones surrounding it are now given names as per ordinary salt marsh.
  • Fixed a bug that turned the Barathrumites against you when friendly fire hit chain laser emplacements during A Call to Arms.
  • Fixed a bug that made move speed of 100 display as move speed of 99 in the modern UI.
  • Fixed a bug causing engulfment-capable creatures to potentially freeze up when hostile to non-combat-capable objects like young ivory and dreadroots.
  • Fixed a bug that resulted in zone names of the form "some slimyorgotten ruins".
  • Fixed an issue causing machine press tiles to become nonfunctional.
  • Fixed excessive event usage during legacy explosions.
  • Fixed color bleeds in cooking messages from congealed skulk, congealed love, and dried lah petals.
  • Fixed a bug that made zero move speed exploits still possible when dominating sapient plants and fungi.
  • [modding] Erroneous population tables should no longer prevent loading of tables from other mods.

202.18 - 'beta' branch

  • The Wait N Turns dialog is now a number picker
  • The default number of items to drop is now the size of the stack instead of 1
  • Modern windows are now responsive to the player position in ASCII mode
  • Added prerelease input manager keybindings for load game, save game and auto-attack-nearest
  • Fixed an issue with liquid selection when modern ui elements were enabled
Dec 26, 2020
Feature Friday - December 25, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.58
  • Burrowing Claws, nanopneumatic jackhammers, and pickaxes now enable an activated ability Dig. This is a form of autoact that allows you to automatically move in a straight line from your current location to somewhere else on the map, attacking walls as necessary. All events that normally interrupt autoact will interrupt autodig, as will being displaced from your planned path and failing too many times in a row to damage what you are attacking. Hazards that would be avoided by autoexplore are NOT avoided by autodig.
  • When naming an item based on its qualities and choosing to name it after a creature (most relevantly, the player naming after themself), item naming now preserves the capitalization pattern of the creature's name rather than converting it to standard title case.
  • Manual equip now reports properly on some process failures which previously failed silently, and on items unequipped in the equip process.
  • Heat resistance and cold resistance now affect the absorption of ambient temperature when absorption does not appear to be desirable (for instance, if you are on fire, it would not be desirable for your cold resistance to interfere with ambient temperature cooling you down).
  • Poisoning and asphyxiation now have specific death messages.
  • Pathfinding now avoids revealed yonderbrush.
  • The gemstone transmutation power of some relics now only works on creatures that are hostile to the relic's wielder.
  • Sparking baetyls no longer ask for items with the Sharp mod.
  • Joppa's zone is no longer treated as having a proper name, and has the display name "an abandoned village", when Joppa is abandoned.
  • The sultan gospel learned from the shrine in Joppa is no longer annotated as having been learned from the villagers of Joppa when the villagers of Joppa are not a visible faction.
  • Warden 1-FF no longer generates as hated by the Farmers' Guild.
  • The Jacked mod's description now reflects its interaction with mutants with Electrical Generation.
  • Liquids being poured out onto the ground now retain the phase characteristics of their pourers briefly, and some internal mechanics of neutron flux explosion have been adjusted, such that neutron flux explosions will generally have the phase characteristics of the individual causing them.
  • Move speed now has a floor at 1, disabling exploits involving slowing move speed down to 0 to achieve a mathematically undefined rate of motion.
  • If you are dominating a temporary or existence-supported creature at the time when it ceases to exist, this now breaks the domination rather than ending your game.
  • Being in the target area of a fulcrete catapult, or seeing that your companion is, now interrupts autoact.
  • Twinning lamprey generated twins now take on the party leader and target of the current lamprey.
  • The names of village building materials made from creature parts now preserve the case pattern of the names of the creatures they are made from.
  • Attempting to charge while overburdened now fails early and shows a relevant error message, rather than attempting to charge and failing in a fashion that costs action points and puts Charge on cooldown.
  • Disguises are no longer generated for breathbeards and elder breathbeards.
  • Sheba Hagadias no longer generates as a breathbeard or elder breathbeard.
  • Fixed a bug causing the deathlands and the Spindle's parasang to have the wrong difficulty tiering.
  • Fixed a bug causing explosions to terminate early on an exception.
  • Fixed a bug causing single leather bracers to still be treated as plural.
  • Fixed a bug that made maghammers and leather whips ignore their wielders' relevant attribute bonuses when calculating the difficulty of saves to escape from being latched onto by them.
  • Fixed a bug that caused player companions to lose their faction memberships and other attitudinal tracking when left behind in a zone which was then returned to, with this then carrying on down the leadership chain where applicable.
  • Fixed a bug that disabled the action cost benefits of plastifer chem vests and medassist modules.
  • Fixed a bug causing wraith-knights to be friendly to more phylactery users than they should have been.
  • Fixed a bug that caused flamethrowers and swarm racks equipped on the back slot provided by an equipment rack implant fail to fire.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause exceptions interacting with chests using the trade screen.
  • Fixed a bug in tomb inscriptions describing sultans' forging of relics.
  • Fixed a typo in Agyra's dialogue.
  • [modding] GetEnergyCostEvent now has its Type field set properly.
  • [modding] added support for 'populaton' zone tags in worlds.xml

202.16
  • Fixed an issue with some dynamically typed NPCs appearing as generic "breathbeards"
  • Fixed an issue with overal message log toggling via legacy keybinds
Dec 19, 2020
Feature Friday - December 18, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.57
  • Sparking baetyls now sometimes request items modded in some way; for example, "SIX JEWEL-ENCRUSTED ITEMS" or "THREE ITEMS FITTED WITH SUSPENSORS".
  • Vaporizing pools of water and acid now produce steam and acid gas, respectively, once more.
  • Lase has unlimited range again, and this is now reflected in the UI and by AI behavior.
  • You can no longer trade with creatures who are out of phase with you.
  • Resting and waiting no longer honor the "ignore enemies easier than" option.
  • Resting and multi-turn waiting now check for hostiles before starting, rather than using a turn then checking for hostiles.
  • Autoexplore now only attempts to open doors you are in phase with.
  • Interruption messages are now only displayed for autoget (messages about "gathering") if you have autogotten at least one item.
  • Being shot at with missile weapons now interrupts autoact under more circumstances.
  • Haggabah is now invisible when lit by penetrating radar and visible to psychic observation.
  • Temporal Fugue clones can no longer use Temporal Fugue.
  • There is now a pair of protectors of the Stilt inside it.
  • Improved the visibility of explosions, particularly near walls.
  • Campfires and ovens now heat themselves up.
  • Campfires are now extinguished if they freeze.
  • North-facing and south-facing industrial fans no longer need to be identified separately.
  • Yla Haj no longer generates as hated by the Fellowship of Wardens or the Farmers' Guild.
  • Anomaly extinguishers no longer have a message about compute power in their description.
  • The description of Staunch Wounds no longer mentions the decommissioned defect Hemophilia.
  • When a creature you have performed the water ritual with is cloned, the clone's description no longer incorrectly reports that you have performed the water ritual with it.
  • Wood floor and bridges made of brinestalk no longer render as if they were on top of non-flooring objects.
  • Walltraps no longer trigger on the world map, should they find themselves there in some way, such as by being animated using a nano-neuro animator or Spray-a-Brain, then being dominated by the player.
  • Reputation change messages now correctly report reputation levels influenced by Socially Repugnant and faction attitudes toward mutations.
  • Activating flight while swimming no longer temporarily leaves you in a state of both flying and swimming.
  • Procedural grammar composition now uses the article "an" with the word "heir" rather than "a".
  • Encounter tables for generating random items of armor no longer sometimes redirect to tables for generating non-armor-specific artifacts, meaning among other things that sparking baetyls promising A SPLENDID VESTMENT will no longer occasionally give people a cybernetics credit wedge.
  • Buying skills no longer bypasses the requirements for their basic powers (the 0 SP ones included with the skill).
  • While auto-exploring you will no longer notice hostiles outside your actual vision range, i.e. when myopic.
  • Fungal infections no longer print unequip messages when cured and instead specify what body part they were cured from.
  • Removed legacy torch sconces hidden in the walls of the Stilt ground floor.
  • Creatures and companions should now have a higher preference for using vibro weapons.
  • Puffing Klanq on items and creatures now works on items and creatures that are in the same square as you.
  • Summoning curios will now normally summon a creature of a faction that existed during the Sultanate of Qud.
  • Two-handed weapons no longer fail to be equipped to the thrown weapon slot, and multi-slot armor equipped to the thrown weapon slot or in a hand as a melee weapon no longer additionally occupies body parts related to its armor functionality unless the thrown weapon or hand slot is normally part of the armor's slot usage pattern.
  • Fixed a bug causing Swimming and Wading statuses to sometimes hang around longer than appropriate, especially with high move speed and/or quickness.
  • Fixed a bug causing displacer bracelets to be more common than intended.
  • Fixed a bug that made some forms of being stuck show you, when preventing actions, a failure message of "You are!" or "You are !" rather than "You are stuck!"
  • Fixed a bug causing NPCs to use Slam on themselves in some circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug that generated an inconsequential exception when unmatched piston presses Slammed things.
  • Fixed a typo and exception in the Spread Klanq mural text.
  • Fixed exception when waiting a number of turns.
  • Fixed the hollow tree playing music of the last visited zone.
  • Fixed some bugs causing errors when soup sludges attempted to spit liquid.
  • Fixed a bug causing chromelings affected by the chrome beacon to sometimes have two Overclocked effects active.
  • Fixed a bug that made disassembling an energy cell slotted in an item fail to immediately update carried weight.
  • [modding] Physics.ExplosionDamage() now passes its WhatExploded parameter to GameObject.TakeDamage() as its Source parameter, making it available in the TakeDamage event.
  • [modding] The Source parameter from the TakeDamage event is now available in the AttackerDealtDamage, BeforeTookDamage, TookDamage, and TookEnvironmentalDamage events.
  • [modding] XRL.UI.ConversationUI.HaveConversation() now has a default of null on its Speaker parameter, and an effort has been made to make sure it and its downstream dependencies can handle a conversation without a Speaker.

202.15 - 'beta' branch
  • Added prerelease keybind for toggling the message log visibility
  • Fixed an issue causing the keybinding screen to be unescapeable if prerelase input was turned on but modern ui was disabled
  • Fixed an issue causing a few non-alternate adventure keybinds to fire even when the alternate key was pressed
Dec 11, 2020
Feature Friday - December 11, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.56

  • Turbows now allow Strength bonuses to apply to arrow penetration.
  • Autoexplore and autowalk now open doors as a separate action before moving into the doorway.
  • Attack-nearest can no longer target adjacent enemies that you cannot see.
  • Auto-attack will now be interrupted if you cannot see your target.
  • Auto-attack and attack-nearest can no longer be used while confused.
  • Auto-attack and attack-nearest now produce movement/attacking in random directions if used while furious.
  • Smart use on an active force projector now deactivates it rather than prompting for a new deployment pattern.
  • Holographic plants no longer produce sap when attacked.
  • Rifle and pistol relics can now be part of sultans' histories.
  • You can no longer sacrifice biotech-based artifacts at the Sacred Well.
  • Lasing with Light Manipulation no longer has infinite range.
  • Mental Mirror will now properly reflect and terminate Sunder Mind on a failed penetration.
  • Sunder Mind damage now ignores phase.
  • Improved the composition of biome zone names in forgotten ruins.
  • Improved the road layout in Bey Lah.
  • Tattooing now uses the names rather than the descriptions of body parts.
  • Tinkers now properly repair certain rusted, broken, or damaged items, such as scrap.
  • Assigned tier values to various tonics, crystals of Eve, and arsplice seeds, fixing several related issues including sparking baetyls asking for them will no longer tend so much provide rewards dramatically out of keeping with their difficulty of obtainment.
  • Fixed a but where it was possible for curing glotrot to not work if you drank the Flaming Ick on the very last turn before you would have transitioned from having a sore throat to having full-on glotrot.
  • Fixed a typo in Herododicus's dialogue.
  • Fixed a typo in Frivolous Lives, Vol. I.
  • Fixed a pronoun in tomb inscriptions.
  • Fixed a bug making puffing Klanq on objects sporadically fail.
  • Fixed a bug that made resupplying clonelings with cloning draught only work if you did not have any cloning draught.
  • Fixed a bug causing color bleeding in some hero names.
  • Fixed a bug where the bonus MA of Mental Mirror was not being applied.
  • Fixed a bug causing Psionic Migraines not to unequip items on your head.
  • Fixed an exception when resisting Sunder Mind damage.
  • Fixed an exception when a creature was attempting to reload while wielding a geomagnetic disc.
  • Added "zonebuilders" wish to display the builders of the current zone & their parameters.
  • [modding] PopulationTables.xml now supports merging. <population> elements with Load="Merge" attributes now support basic merge semantics, and <group> elements now have Name attributes that can be used to either replace or, with Load="Merge", merge with the group of the same name in the base XML file.
  • [modding] The TinkerItem part no longer supports the field CanRepair; repairability is now simply a matter of the object being in a state that can be repaired.

202.14 - 'beta' branch

  • Added a new number-picker popup that supports directional inputs
  • Added prerelase input manager key bindings for journal screen management
Dec 4, 2020
Feature Friday - December 4, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.55

  • There is a new autoget option, autoget special items, which currently causes you to autoget relics, extradimensional items, and quest items. It defaults to on.
  • Autoexplore now collects items from tables.
  • Stunning Force's target picker now better matches its area of effect.
  • Stairs now have a high render priority in the alt display.
  • Seekers of the Sightless Way are now rare instead of uncommon encounters.
  • Added an 'abandon' prompt when quitting the game using the quit keybind.
  • Penetrating Radar now reveals its entire radius again, not just the top left.
  • Giving books to Sheba Hagadias no longer makes two XP messages appear in the message log.
  • Fixed a bug that made the nocturnal apex's Prowl effect only provide its agility and move speed benefits if you were cloned during the duration of the effect.
  • Fixed bugs causing some liquid transfers to not affect containers properly or otherwise fail to cause intended effects.
  • Fixed a bug causing the entire second story of villages to immediately plummet to the ground below as soon as the player entered them.
  • Fixed Sheba Hagadias spawning as an uplifted hero creature.
  • Fixed unicomputers from the Crematory being placed in villages.
  • Fixed some grammar in the missing body parts description.
  • Fixed sparking baetyls repeating themselves.

202.13

  • Added a visual indicator for the currently selected take-a-step direction when using prerelease input manager
  • Added a text indicator for the currently selected ability (will be merged into the ability bar in the future)
  • Added zoom in and zoom out bindngs to the prerelease input manager
  • Cancel now properly exits the pick direction screen when prerelease input manager is enabled
Nov 28, 2020
Feature Friday - November 27, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.53/202.11

  • Tonic injectors now have an interaction command available for applying them to others.
  • The fitted with filters mod now protects from critical failures on gas saves, the same as gas masks and vinewood sap masks.
  • You can no longer force-feed creatures luminous hoarshrooms by attacking them while wielding one.
  • Droid scramblers are now more reliable.
  • Several NPCs have returned to Kyakukya.
  • Various stat drain effects now cause the defender to get angry at the attacker.
  • Infiltrate can no longer be used on the world map.
  • The description of mechanical wings now refers to "corroded bronze", not "rusted bronze".
  • Improved a variety of object placement mechanisms to better account for placement hints and object types.
  • Timecubes are now colored so that they look like cubes rather than discs.
  • Added a new skill wish: "skill:name/id", e.g. "skill:Hobble", "skill:strapping shoulders", "skill:Dual_Wield_Fussilade".
  • Aquatic monsters will no longer prefer to spawn on a closed liquid volume like a waterskin.
  • Maps are now more similar when generated in the same world seed (though still not identical in all cases)
  • Fixed some minor map errors in Bey Lah, Barathrum's Study and Tomb.
  • Fixed Stinger tail remaining even were you to lose the mutation.
  • Fixed a bug causing roads and rivers to not properly remove terrain.
  • Fixed some bugs causing relic chests not to be placed.
  • Fixed some issues causing excessive memory use.
  • Fixed "you are stopped by ..." message spam.
  • Fixed some minor typos.
  • [modding] The 'options' node name in options.xml is no longer case sensitive
  • [modding] Updated the default Mods.csproj created from the mod toolkit.
  • [modding] New AddToPopulation function in PopulationManager to merge in new entries adjacent to a sibling.
Nov 21, 2020
Feature Friday - November 20, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.51

  • Added tiles for arrows, lead slugs, shotgun shells, missiles, and Schrodinger pages.
  • Bats now have wings.
  • Feral lah pods now respect phase.
  • Forced drinking can no longer make you vomit indefinitely and lose an infinite number of turns.
  • Autoexplore no longer requires you to leave a square with a painted or engraved item in it before looking at it.
  • Sound will now propagate through non-occuluding walls such as forcefields or fences.
  • The turn count of Long Blade's En Garde! is now cardinal as opposed to ordinal.
  • The wishes godown and goto no longer toggle calm.
  • Removed orphaned markup from crysteel arrows' description.
  • The Trolls faction is now described as being interested in the locations of "storied items" rather than "artifacts".
  • Learning a secret via non-water-ritual dialogue with a creature of a visible faction now records that faction as the secret's source.
  • Learning a secret via water ritual with a creature of a non-visible faction no longer records that faction as the secret's source.
  • Fixed a bug causing hostiles to be inappropriately ignored during autoexplore.
  • Fixed a bug that caused it to sometimes be possible to sell a secret back to someone you bought it from in the water ritual.
  • Fixed a bug that caused throwing with an accuracy bonus to consistently throw items one square further than targeted.
  • Fixed a bug causing excess stairs to generate in Grit Gate.
  • Fixed a bug causing some historic sites to have no passable area.
  • Fixed a bug causing the starting village not to be revealed on the world map due to an unfortunately placed house.
  • Fixed a bug where village mayors would sometimes not teach you their signature skill.
  • Fixed a bug causing some sultan murals to be improperly initialized.
  • Fixed a bug causing historic event corruption in murals and shrines.
  • Fixed a bug causing [redacted] to yell "DONE!" too early.
  • Fixed a bug causing feral lah pod explosions to display when off-screen.
  • Fixed a bug causing teleport effects to display when off-screen.
  • Fixed a bug causing some biome-altered tiles to not be properly colored.
  • [modding] A registration-based event ObjectExtracted is now called on objects that are harvested or butchered from other objects, with parameters of Object (the object extracted), Source (the object from which it was extracted), Actor (the object performing the harvestry or butchery), and Action ("Harvest" or "Butcher").
  • [modding] The QudHistoryFactory class is now public.
  • [modding] Improved the logging for invalid blueprints in map files and invalid terrains on the world map.

202.7 - 'beta' branch

  • Improved the modern UI tooltips
  • Fixed a bug causing UI lockups with the modern UI enabled
  • Fixed a bug causing excessive log spam
Nov 14, 2020
Feature Friday - November 13, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.50

  • Segmented mirthworms, knollworms, plated knollworms, worms of the earth, and leeches now leave corpses more often.
  • Butchering knollworm corpses now produces knollworm skulls less often.
  • Tweaks the stats, trade value, tile colors, and descriptions of the new arrow ranks.
  • Wristcomps are now wrist calcs and have a new description.
  • Permadeath-related options now appear at top of the debug options list.
  • Entering Grit Gate via alternative routes such as recoilers/tunneling will now track for A Canticle for Barathrum/A Signal in the Noise.
  • Recoilers now give better feedback for various failure conditions when they are non-functional.
  • Elevator platforms are now more resistant to elemental damage and do not catch fire or vaporize readily.
  • Being stuck because of being grabbed by a mimic now goes away when the mimic does.
  • The word "chitin", should pluralization be applied to it even though it is a mass noun rather than a singular noun, no longer pluralizes as "chitins".
  • The previously announced new mod, fitted with filters, now actually appears in the game.
  • All build codes are now uppercase.
  • Added an annotation to the prerelease content option to clarify that it requires a restart.
  • Added a journal entry for the discovery of the flattened remains.
  • You can now compliment Sparafucile on his masterwork carbine while wielding it.
  • Increased the maximum player name length.
  • Removed the display of trader trade drams remaining.
  • Feral lah pods now respect the "calm" wish.
  • Your throwing aim can no longer be overcorrected by your Agility bonus.
  • Vomiting now has an action cost.
  • Items that are on fire, covered in lava, or being dissolved by acid can no longer be traded.
  • Fixed some bugs that resulted in inexplicably being held responsible for companions' deaths.
  • Fixed a bug causing turrets to attack autoexploring players without a chirp warning.
  • Fixed a bug causing multiple sessile creatures (ex. lurking beth) to stack in a single square.
  • Fixed a bug causing multiple pieces of furniture to stack in a single square.
  • Fixed a bug causing relic chests to spawn on top of other furniture and statues.
  • Fixed a bug causing too many crematory levels to be generated when urn dusters are active.
  • Fixed a bug causing some saves in [redacted] to fail to load
  • Fixed a bug causing conservators to attack one another.
  • Fixed a bug causing random cookbooks to be targets of Klanq's quest.
  • Fixed a crash when using Stopsvalinn on your own cell.
  • Fixed a bug causing some teleport vfx to play in non-active zones.
  • Fixed a bug causing too many crematory levels to be generated when urn dusters are active.
  • Fixed a bug causing some saves in [redacted] to fail to load.
  • Fixed a bug causing crashes in the Tomb of the Eaters.
  • Fixed a crash when using Stopsvalinn on your own cell.
  • Fixed a bug causing pets to disappear when wishing "rebuild".
  • Fixed a bug with cloneling clone names.
  • Fixed a bug causing an error when attacking creatures with brackets in their name.

202.6 - 'beta' branch

  • Added the minimap to the modern ui
  • Added the nearby items list to the modern ui
  • Added tooltips to the modern ui
  • Cooking with acid-based effects now grant the proper gas generation mutation.
Nov 6, 2020
Feature Friday - November 7, 2020
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.49

  • New items: wristcomp, turbow, a variety of arrows.
  • New implant: palladium electrodeposits.
  • New helmet and mask mod: fitted with filters.
  • NPCs no longer choose to use most tonic injectors as thrown weapons.
  • Many liquid vessels now leak if broken.
  • Waterbeds now break if someone with Quills sleeps in them.
  • Some biotechnological items and components are now identified or displayed via bioscanning rather than techscanning.
  • Stun gas stunning now appears in the message log.
  • Floating text for critical hits will now only be displayed if the hit results in damage or a special effect.
  • Lunging while in aggressive or dueling stances will now correctly trigger a Stinger strike.
  • Socially Repugnant no longer affects trade prices.
  • Compound bows now correctly enable Strength bonuses to penetration.
  • Kickback now respects phase and flight, and does not affect inanimate objects, sessile creatures, or creatures a kick would not affect such as holograms.
  • Baetyls no longer ask for portions of steel boots.
  • Point-defense drones now always return to your inventory when they become inoperative.
  • Sheba Hagadias is now able to provide you with directions if you are lost.
  • Charging no longer gives the player a warning when charging through liquid hazards.
  • Dismember can no longer be used when stuck or frozen.
  • Wrecking Charge can no longer be activated on the world map.
  • The Regeneration mutation can now regrow your tongue if you have drunk the Flaming Ick, but will not regenerate your tongue otherwise.
  • Using an ubernostrum tonic or other regenerative intervention while infected with an early stage of glotrot will no longer tell you your tongue regrew if you have not yet lost your tongue.
  • The [redacted] no longer spawns in every map surrounding [redacted].
  • The lair of Oboroquru no longer has odd dot-like tiles under some terrain features.
  • Trying to trade items with a creature that has no inventory now gives a message rather than failing silently.
  • Spinnerets no longer starts a cooldown when toggling the ability off.
  • Fixed an issue causing NPCs to improperly evaluate shields during auto-equip.
  • Fixed an issue causing textures to load from disabled mods.
  • Fixed an issue causing textures to not properly hotload when changing mod configuration.
  • Fixed a crash in the secret ascii editor.
  • Fixed an issue that made flaming and freezing ray fail to affect the most distant square of their range.
  • Fixed biodynamic power plant displaying debug internals information regardless of whether debug internals was on.
  • Fixed some bugs in Stunning Force, in particular an action cost being assessed when it pushed you against a solid object.
  • Fixed some issues with creatures being unable to act for several turns after spawning because they were assessed an action cost to equip their initial gear.
  • Fixed a typo in the manual.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause an error trying to continue a game after having deleted a different save file.
  • Fixed an issue where various walkways had a higher rendering priority than appropriate, which made some items get hidden by them and made the squares they were in not be considered "empty" for purposes such as companions joining you in a zone.
  • Fixed an issue that made it possible to give energy weapon relics the Jacked mod by deploying turrets using them.

202.5 - 'beta' branch

  • The modern message log window will now remember it's position and other settings
  • The modern message log window will now be properly clamped to the screen area
  • The modern message log window will now properly clear only the old messages when starting a new game with the message log hidden
  • Collapsed categories in the inventory will now persist on save load & won't be forgotten when afflicted with confusion.
  • [modding] On case-sensitive platforms, manifest.json is no longer required to be lower-case.
  • [modding] Worlds.xml now supports self-closing tags.
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