Feb 19, 2021
Feature Friday - February 19, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.70/202.29
  • Added all new tiles for melee weapons, over 50 in total.
  • Added basic mouse support to field placement for force wall, force projectors, and portable walls.
  • The activated abilities menu now supports page up and page down.
  • You no longer attack yourself if you slip while charging, but you are sent careening in a random direction and may charge a different target than intended.
  • NPCs no longer charge when there's a wall or non-hostile creature between them and their target.
  • NPCs are now less willing to charge through hazards between them and their target, especially where hazards are in the tile they would wind up in.
  • Critical hits are now noted in the message log.
  • Reworked and rephrased the critical hit bonus from the masterwork item mod and the Weak Spotter skill.
  • Trees that are rooted in place can no longer be knocked prone.
  • Disassemble is now only the default interaction for scrap and empty injectors.
  • Reordered the pour options: the first option is now to pour into another container and the third option is now to pour on yourself.
  • The lighting status of torches no longer appear in the short versions of their display names.
  • Drastically reduced the chance to spawn vantabuds and vantablooms with high-level Burgeoning.
  • Made reload messaging with a single projectile have better grammar.
  • Made pulse field magnet's Pulse cooldown 5x as long.
  • Made the description of the Sturdy item mod clearer.
  • Sturdy objects now have their hit points increased by 25%.
  • Inanimate objects that are reduced to 25% of their hit points now become broken if they are not sturdy.
  • Clarified in the description of Strapping Shoulders that it only affects heavy weapons.
  • Village colonists can now properly engage in dialog.
  • Removed some unnecessary error condition reports from sultan relics.
  • Fixed a bug that made NPCs sometimes wind up inside walls when teleporting.
  • Fixed a bug preventing some goatfolk shamans from having the mutations appropriate to their epithets.
  • Fixed a bug that disabled long blades' critical bonus.
  • Fixed a bug that made strength-based penetration on arrows from compound bows and turbows not work properly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some equipment effects to persist after the equipment was unequipped.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the village intro message to display multiple times at the start of the game if you spawned on top of aloe fugues.
  • Fixed a bug that caused a slight misreporting of bits received in large Disassemble All batches.
  • Fixed a bug with pack-spawning creatures (like segmented mirthworm) when they were generated as hired guard, psychic thralls, or domesticants: their packs would not be properly affiliated with them.
  • Fixed a bug that caused extradimensional psychic hunters to often fail to materialize.
  • Fixed some cases where the energy pulses from blast cannons could become interactable objects.
  • Fixed a bug that broke an intervention to prevent young ivories and lurking beths from stacking.
  • Fixed a zone generation error in the banana grove worldmap tile directly above the Spindle.
  • Fixed an unintentionally incongruous mismatch between the historical record and tomb inscriptions for certain historical events.
  • Fixed a bug that added extra caste descriptions to the ornately filigreed walls in the Tomb of the Eaters crypts.
  • Fixed verb conjugation in the description of phylactery squire.
  • [debug] Added a new wish, "allskills", that gives you every skill.
Feb 12, 2021
Feature Friday - February 12, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.69/202.28
  • Gave agolflies wings.
  • Euclid now wanders around Barathrum's study but no longer attacks the mushrooms there.
  • Dynamic quests that instruct you to find a location 3-7 parasangs in a direction from a landmark no longer use underground landmarks.
  • Yuckwheat is no longer destroyed when harvested.
  • Quartziferous mirrors now refract light.
  • The following actions now have energy costs and exit menu interfaces: eating, drinking, and opening & closing doors you aren't moving through.
  • We moved some Autoget options around.
    • Moved "Maximum auto-move squares/sec and auto-attack actions/sec" from Autoget to Automation.
    • Moved "Ignore enemies less than <difficulty>" from Autoget to Automation.
    • Moved "Ignore enemies farther away than <tile number>" from Autoget to Automation.
    • Moved "Take corpses when using Tab to take all" from Autoget to User Interface.
  • Removed Q Girl's plastifer jerkin.
  • Jump no longer snaps to your current target.
  • Items that use a particular liquid can now be set to autocollect that liquid when they're empty.
  • Ogre ape pelts are no longer considered food.
  • Arch dervishes no longer spawn with weak psionic weapons.
  • Creatures on walls can be looked at again.
  • Mines are now triggered only by creatures hostile to the minelayer.
  • Mines now function as hidden in pathfinding only to creatures hostile to the minelayer.
  • Creatures now do at least a little work to avoid mines they can detect, even if they aren't a threat.
  • Spray bottles can no longer be used to spray themselves.
  • Most objects in your tile or adjacent tiles now have an "attack" action available from the interaction menu, enabling you to be more specific in your attacks when there are multiple targets.
  • NPCs no longer irrationally prefer armor that is a light source over armor that is not.
  • You are no longer asked to spread Pax Klanq in Joppa in games where you did not start in Joppa.
  • Hitting escape when asked for a target for Spray-a-Brain or nano-neuro animator no longer generates an error.
  • Temporary and existence-support objects are now never animatable; the same is true of objects whose phase of matter is something other than solid.
  • Hoarshrooms sprouted from luminous fungal infections no longer bond to body parts they are equipped in once they are separated from the body part they initially sprout on.
  • Multiple applications of hulk honey, when not causing overdose, now refresh the duration of the effect rather than stacking.
  • Lunge now respects phase and flight with regard to whether objects between you and your target obstruct you.
  • Tattooed detail color no longer persists across player characters and save games.
  • You no longer receive popups when other creatures' irritable genomes act up.
  • Removed the blank Garden of Geth tile from the worldmap.
  • Fixed a bug that made pools of water strangely resistant to being evaporated once somebody walked through them. This change may introduce new liquid temperature behavior, some of which is unintended.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the Reputation screen to display the text for a faction hating you when they merely just dislike you.
  • Fixed a bug that caused freshly animated objects not to become active until odd conditions were met.
  • Fixed an exception when blast cannons were disarmed, e.g. from leering stalkers.
  • Fixed some bugs with the interaction between snap-to-hostile-target behavior and wall-dwelling creatures in corners.
  • Fixed the tile color of zetachrome warhammer.
  • Fixed elastyne skin suit appearing in certain encounter tables twice.
  • [modding] Several messages pertaining to curable fungal infections now emit & conjugate properly for NPCs.
Feb 6, 2021
Feature Friday - February 5, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.68/202.27
  • Cans of Spray-a-Brain and nano-neuro animators now let you animate more types of inanimate objects (anything with the animatable tag) instead of just walls, doors, and tables.
  • Added more variety to relic names.
  • Added makers' marks to item names.
  • Added new descriptions for the following objects: sacred well, marble dais, and fungal spores.
  • Changed the cleated mod name to "fitted with cleats".
  • Changed the name of exit teleporter to "stairwell teleporter".
  • Fixed some issues with The Earl of Omonporch quest.
    • The Council is no longer convened if you don't have the required reputation with four factions.
    • The delegates that show up now better match the factions they're supposed to represent.
    • Faction delegates now disperse once you complete the quest.
  • The Spiked item mod can now be applied to gauntlets.
  • The old item "spiked gauntlets" is now a pair of steel gauntlets with the Spiked mod added. Spiked gauntlets already generated in existing saved games are unaffected.
  • You no longer get messages about nosebleed for creatures you can't see.
  • Dynamic villages no longer have the chance to teach you the intro power of a skill rather than the skill itself that was advertised.
  • Witchwood bark now gives some clue as to its eat effect in its description.
  • Added a death message for dying via Syphon Vim.
  • Added some more missing death messages.
  • Ongoing damage from poison and Syphon Vim no longer sets your target.
  • Autoact is now interrupted when an enemy initiates Syphon Vim on you on a visible or audible.
  • You can now cancel the life drain effect of Syphon Vim via the interaction menu on its target, including at a distance via look + interact.
  • Dynamic quest items names no longer include qualifiers like [empty].
  • Refined some of the edge case uses of domination.
  • Fixed a bug with biological clones inheriting their progenitor's cybernetic implants.
  • Fixed a bug that made some cybernetic implantees immortal.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Albino's regeneration penalty to be applied while inside rather than outside.
  • Fixed an exception when there was no space for air wells and solar stills to deploy their catch basins.
  • Fixed the cone picker occasionally being unresponsive to keyboard input.
  • Fixed a bug with cone-shaped breath weapons.
  • Fixed an exception when using very high level breath weapons.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some templated text, such as "*it*", not to be dynamically replaced.
  • Fixed some empty text in some sultan histories.
  • Fixed some empty text in recipes and cooked meal descriptions.
  • Fixed a typo in the error log.
Jan 29, 2021
Feature Friday - January 29, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.67/202.26
  • Fear is now implemented as a status effect called Terrified. This means it now appears in creatures' descriptions, can be removed by phenomena that remove status effects, counts as a debuff for Shank's purposes, and interrupts Sunder Mind.
  • The energy cost of a move action now uses the move speed you had at the start of the action. This fixes a bug where if you went prone while wading through water, enemies would get dozens of free attacks on you.
  • Move speed now has a minimum value of 5.
  • Missile combat messages now give more information about the direction of projectiles and missile attacks and less information about creatures you cannot see.
  • You no longer have a chance to use random ingredients from your equipment or inventory when you whip up a meal.
  • Baetyls and baetyl cherubim now gently repel gases.
  • Reduced the speed of projectiles to make their directions more legible.
  • Engraved and Painted no longer increase the tinker cost of adding additional item mods to the items they are on.
  • Mines laid by miner robots are now hidden.
  • Miner robots are now better at avoiding their enemies.
  • Sower's seeds can no longer be used as mines or bombs.
  • Miner robots can no longer generate as sower's seed miners.
  • Klanq no longer asks you to puff on [Object]s.
  • Changed the text of Corpus Choliys to no longer imply that the Flaming Ick has to be quaffed from a particular type of container.
  • Gorged growths now belong to the root faction.
  • When Camp looks for existing campfires or campfire remains, it no longer counts campfires in unexplored areas.
  • Camp now better indicates where the existing campfire is if there is one.
  • You can no longer use Sting if you cannot move your extremities.
  • Nests are no longer hidden under light sources when they generate in the same tile.
  • Tortoise cherubim now correctly belong to the tortoise faction.
  • Removed the possibility of faction encounters in the middle of the stilt cathedral.
  • Recoilers now give a clearer message when they drain the last charge in their energy cells while failing to recoil.
  • Named snapjaws in villages now have snapjaw-like names. We also expanded the snapjaw name generator.
  • Added better messaging for young ivory and lurking beth attacks.
  • Young ivory and lurking beth are no longer revealed when they attacked victims you cannot see.
  • You can no longer autowalk to stairs while confused.
  • Falling asleep now interrupts autoact.
  • Explosions produced by mines now better inherit the phase characteristics of the mines themselves.
  • Added a death message for metabolic collapse due to hulk honey abuse.
  • Dynamic quest item names no longer occasionally have punctuation in them.
  • Made the duration in Paralyzing Stinger's level text more consistent across levels.
  • These abilities now snap to hostile targets: Lase, Sunder Mind, Flaming Ray, Freezing Ray, Berate, Menacing Stare, Mark Target, and Charge.
  • Fixed some cases where message log entries would begin with a lower-case letter.
  • Fixed a bug that occasionally caused Syzygyriors to start the game without any weapons.
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when you spoke to Neelahind or Eskhind while carrying Kindrish after completing Kith and Kin.
  • Fixed a typo in Elder Irudad's conversation.
  • Fixed unprocessed dynamic text from appearing in cookbooks generated during world generation.
  • Fixed an XP bug with companions.
  • Fixed a typo in square cap.
  • Fixed some grammar errors with relic boots.
Jan 22, 2021
Feature Friday - January 22, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.62/202.22
  • Warden Ualraig no longer carries glowspheres.
  • Glowspheres are now more expensive.
  • Lase now acts as a projectile for the purposes of passing through forcefields, fences, and low walls.
  • The location secret for Mamon Souldrinker's village lair is now logged in your journal when you find the village.
  • Birds now have the Beak and Wings mutations by default.
  • Acid humors are now immune to acid.
  • Canned mystery meat is now properly considered meat.
  • Ink weeps now properly weep ink.
  • Tactful no longer gives bonus reputation with hidden factions.
  • Made brooding jadepuff's spores a darker shade of green.
  • Made parts of Otho's dialog slightly less repetitive.
  • Made poison-tipped spears a little more expensive.
  • Quantum ripplers must now be identified.
  • Urn duster villagers no longer leave to look for urns in the Tomb of the Eaters.
  • Urn dusters are now able to dust urns outside the Tomb of the Eaters, should they find some.
  • Village colonists no longer have a chance to spawn as previously named legendary creatures.
  • Sheba Hagadias no longer has a chance to spawn as a named Knight Commander of the Holy Temple.
  • Troll foals can no longer spawn on the world map.
  • You can no longer compliment Q Girl's hair if you have monochrome.
  • Dynamic quests to find items now respect item plurality in their quest text.
  • You can no longer roll on the ground to put out a fire if you're out of phase with the ground.
  • Temperature changes performed by firefighting are now phase insensitive.
  • The option "Take corpses when using Tab to take all" now defaults to off.
  • XP gained by companions of companions is now shared up the leadership chain.
  • There's now a specific death message for bleeding to death.
  • Scans of local environments do a better job of checking the visibility of individual creatures and items, rather than merely that of the squares they are in. This means that Attack Nearest no longer moves you toward hidden young ivories and lurking beths.
  • Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray now more consistently message the names of the limbs they're on.
  • Molting basilisk husk no longer includes its thrown weapon stats in its display name.
  • Psychometry can no longer be used to switch off turrets created by turret tinkers.
  • Empty waterskins you are selling no longer count toward your liquid carrying capacity, while empty waterskins you are buying do.
  • Certain indirect forms of damage, such as gases, mines, and fires, no longer incorrectly set your target.
  • If a dialog option results in you getting in a fight with one of your companions, they now become hostile to you after you exit the conversation.
  • Added a more descriptive message for trying to move through movement-blocking terrain on the worldmap.
  • Made the hyphenation of Two-Headed, Two-Hearted, and Cold-Blooded consistent.
  • The word "apex" is now procedurally pluralized to "apices".
  • Attack Nearby and autoattack will no longer attack creatures who are not hostile to you.
  • Cooking effects on NPCs no longer go on forever.
  • Fixed a generative text error in some sultan tomb inscriptions.
  • Fixed a character creation display bug with Ibul cybernetic implants.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the game to occasionally freeze when you were targeted by a lithofex's gaze.
  • Fixed a typo in barkbiter jerky.
  • Fixed a typo in damage reflection cooking effect text.
  • Fixed plurality issues in some dynamic quest text.
  • [Patreon] Fixed a bug in E-Ros's speech patterns.
Jan 15, 2021
Feature Friday - January 15, 2021
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
201.61
  • Added ink, sap, and wax weeps.
  • Made ink a little more common across the world.
  • Recipes based on meals cooked with Canned Have-It-All now require a random ingredient from the Canned Have-It-All effect rather than a serving of Canned Have-It-All. For example, if you're inspired via Carbide Chef, cook a meal with a serving of Canned Have-It-All, and choose "Grants slime spitting" as the effect, the recipe will now require 1 dram of slime.
  • Completing What's Eating the Watervine? now completes the quest step 'Return with a critter corpse' and awards appropriate the XP.
  • Updated which abilities work with Triple-Jointed's cooldown skipping -- Sprint and any skill power that has an Agility prerequisite -- and changed the phrasing to make this clear.
  • Rephrased the description of Wings to make it clearer you get its speed boost only while traveling on the world map.
  • Added a description for the crackling effect.
  • Rephrased the description of Spinnerets to make it clearer that the duration only ticks down when you move.
  • Moving to stairs no longer knows how to pathfind through areas you have not explored.
  • Made great magma crab corpses weigh a lot more.
  • If half of a double door is animated to life, it no longer closes other doors it passes through.
  • The Life and Death Gates now become unsealed if they are animated.
  • Fixed a bug that occasionally caused a slain character in Grit Gate to show up more than once in Otho's report.
  • Creatures can now only go prone if they have a Feet or Roots-type body part that provides mobility.
  • Urchins are now animals rather than plants, more strongly anatomically resemble sea urchins, and have Quills.
  • Campfire remains are now considered campfires for purposes of whether you can use Camp.
  • Ovens are no longer considered campfires for purposes of whether you can use Camp.
  • You can no longer create an arbitrary number of campfires in Brightsheol.
  • You can no longer generate a campfire with a red flame in Brightsheol by making a campfire, extinguishing it, and relighting it.
  • You can no longer spot notable objects while confused.
  • Losing equipment to dismemberment no longer describes you as unequipping it.
  • Changed Wilderness Lore: Salt Pans to Salt Dunes.
  • Village pets can no longer be pre-legendary snapjaws, goatfolk, or baboons.
  • Disabled idle behavior on Otho to prevent some quest-breaking behaviors.
  • Added some extra protections against the Decoding the Signal questline not advacing properly.
  • Red jells now bleed lava.
  • Lava in containers now heats them up over time proportionally to the amount and purity of the lava, rather than setting their temperature to 1000 degrees upon any amount of lava being poured into the container then doing nothing afterward.
  • Damage from drinking lava is now tracked as heat damage.
  • Sheba Hagadias can once again be a breathbeard or an elder breathbeard.
  • Phials are now immune to heat, cold, acid, and electricity.
  • Improved death messages for companions who die in explosions you caused.
  • Starting villages can no longer be disease communes.
  • Fixed the tile color of bronze battle axe.
  • Bloated pearlfrogs' sticky tongue can still pass through fences but no longer pull you through them.
  • Removed the unused acidHighTier cooking ingredient.
  • It's now possible for a certain obscure death message to be shown under more circumstances.
  • Cannibals and glow wights are no longer always male.
  • Yempuris Phi is now visible in gas.
  • Made ape pelts weight less.
  • Made spheres of negative weight more complex to identify.
  • Procgen books no longer occasionally generate with empty titles.
  • Slightly increased the render layer of liquid volumes and webs so they always appear on top of walkways like conveyors.
  • Excluded the farmed version of animals from dynamic encounters.
  • Made gaslight weapons light sources when powered.
  • Names of legendary creatures you've slain now appear magenta in the chronology.
  • Added a description for the crackling effect.
  • Changed Wilderness Lore: Salt Pans to Salt Dunes.
  • Losing equipment to dismemberment no longer describes you as unequipping it.
  • You can no longer spot notable objects while confused
  • Lithofex's gaze ability is now correctly limited to line of sight
  • Fixed a bug that caused flowers to teach Swimming rather than fish. Flowers now teach Persuasion.
  • Fixed a bug that caused flaming and freezing hands to sometimes have their modifier displayed twice.
  • Removed the unused acidHighTier cooking ingredient effect type.
  • Rephrased the description of Wings to make it clearer you get its speed boost only while traveling on the world map.
  • Stray line breaks in the classic dialogue interface are now trimmed.
  • Fixed a bug that made "Historic sites now reward a more appropriately tiered amount of cybernetic credits" from last week not work.
  • Fixed a bug that caused sultans to occasionally have successors name suffixes when they weren't successors.
  • Fixed the duplicate "live and drink" dialog that Mechanimist pilgrims had.
  • Fixed a bug with legendary pariah names.
  • Fixed a typo in sultan history.
  • Fixed a typo in the description of Brittle Bones.
  • Fixed a typo in mirror bug's description.
  • Fixed some grammar bugs with Agyra and Lebah.
  • Made a small grammar change to dynamic village descriptions.
  • Fixed the capitalization of Gyl in popup text.
  • Fixed tile color of bronze battle axe.
  • Fixed a broken mural tile on the outskirts of Ezra.
  • Fixed carbide folding hammer's ANSI color.
  • Made flowers teach persuasion and fish teach swimming.
  • Fixed a bug that broke attribution of the creature responsible for killing another creature in some circumstances, particularly explosions.
  • Fixed a bug causing quests to not properly give reputation awards after a save/load cycle
  • Fixed Lase passing through objects it failed to penetrate.
  • [modding] Fixed an exception in the 'makevillage' wish

202.20 - 'beta' branch
  • [modding] ConsoleChar underwent a large internal refactor to simplify its data structure and provide a more flexible framework for colors.
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
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