206.57

• Mountain and hill maps now have a little more unique character and no longer generate without any open spaces.
  
• Improved the generation of rivers in villages.
  
• When you get lost, you generally no longer get plopped down in a tile with spawn-blocking objects like fracti and pits.
  
• Santalalotze now has tier 8 wares instead of tier 7 (very similar population but slightly more weighted toward the highest-end stuff).
  
• Temple mecha are no longer included among a newfather's domesticants.
  
• The game no longer thinks the plural of 'human' is 'humen'.
  
• Tweaked the description of Short Blade Expertise to match other references to action cost.
  
• Molting basilisk husk now has the right description.
  
• The sacred well should be less flammable.
  
• Messages now refer to 'the' amaranthine prism instead of 'an' amaranthine prism.
  
• Improved the consistency of object placement inside of village buildings.
  
• Fixed several map generation issues due to reachability being incorrectly calculated.
  
• Fixed an issue with village generation that caused a bunch of random objects to appear in random areas, particularly in the upper left region of the map.
  
• Fixed a bug in village generation that caused partial, garbled WFC-generated buildings.
  
• Fixed a bug in village generation issue that caused extra holes in buildings.
  
• Fixed a rare world generation exception.
  
• Fixed a rare village generatione exception.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused garbage liquids to leak into system memory and cause crashes in Golgotha.
  
• Fixed the display name of small sphere of negative weight when it's offered as a reward for completing a village quest.
  
• Fixed some plurality issues in messages generated about identifying cybernetic implants.
  
• Fixed a capitalization issue with generated messages about pulsed field magnets interrupting autoact.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'S' after an possessive apostrophe to be capitalized when naming an item.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused water ritual options to be disabled if you did not have enough reputation to afford them without the social coprocessor.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Tinker and Artifex starts to not receive their schematic from Tinker I and II.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Yd Freehold asterisk from affecting the reputation cost of pacifying nephilim.
  
• Tagged some objects as mass nouns.
  
• [modding] The DestroyContiguous part of nullray can now be used for melee weapons on hit.
  
• [modding] GiganticInventory now makes restocked inventories gigantic.

206.52

• Cathedras now supply the same bonus to tinkering as sitting in the nicest chairs.
  
• Curio summoned salt krakens will no longer wander.
  
• Creatures with power switches who are promoted to have conversations will no longer default to the interaction menu when used.
  
• Statues are now diggable.
  
• Floor cushions are now decorative.
  
• Improved the random baetyl rewards from building the golem.
  
• Onboard recoilers are now excluded from the recoil menu until they are implanted.
  
• [redacted] will now spawn creshes in adjacent cells.
  
• Random mental mutations offered via the water ritual will now be rerolled if you acquired the selected mutation elsewhere.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the pit in Golgotha to sometimes spawn directly under a chute.
  
• Fixed a rare bug that caused an exception while saving the game.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused autowalk to stop before entering a cell with a sealed container of a dangerous liquid.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused spaser fire to not properly generate plasma if the target died.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed traders to identify items for players with Dystechnia.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused tonic stacks dropped by creatures to be capped at 5 injectors.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused non-crop objects to count as crops destroyed during A Call To Arms.
  
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused an entire fence side to be missing from farms and forts.
  
• Fixed a bug in generated the descriptions and titles of extradimensional objects that caused the text "cultSymbol" and "dimensionSymbol" not to be replaced with their real values.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused learning Tinker I, II, or III via the water ritual to not award the free schematic if you did not have the base skill.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused templar mechs to be overburdened.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused treating with the Girsh nephilim to not complete the quest step 'Beast Slouching'.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused village tinkers and apothecaries to sometimes not have their intended stock.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to dash vertically through multiple floors without stairs using the flume-flier.

The team is skipping Friday's patch this week due to the holiday week. We'll resume next week.

Happy new year everyone!

Live and drink.

206.50

• Added new descriptions for booster bot, cyclopean gibbon, diplomacy droid, ickslug, mimic, molting basilisk.
  
• Mech and golem walls are no longer tagged as diggable.
  
• Asphodel now tends to have fewer issues with the Barathrumites.
  
• Added chronology entries for curing ironshank and monochrome.
  
• Asphodel and xyr asphodelytes are now more tolerant of friendly fire during the Reclamation quest.
  
• The Girsh nephilim are now more likely to direct their beams at their target, under some circumstances.
  
• If the slynth move into Grit Gate, they are now considered for A Call To Arms scoring.
  
• You can no longer initiate the water ritual when your conversation is about to start a fight.
  
• Keh-hind no longer disappears if she is, or has ever been, your follower.
  
• You can now pray beneath the hologram of Shekhinah.
  
• Tumbling pods are now always rated at least Tough.
  
• Dromad's trade conversation option now shows the correct dynamic keybind.
  
• Holding an automatic movement key or button now properly respects several autowalk stoppers that weren't triggering before, including Aloe Porta and entering spacetime vorticies.
  
• Aloe Porta no longer stop autowalk when merely moving past them.
  
• Changed the rules text on night-sight interpolators to better match their behavior.
  
• Schematics drafters no longer have Tinker III.
  
• The Ironshank message about joint pain subsiding is now a popup.
  
• The crystal chime Tammuz is now considered a proper noun.
  
• Gave eyeless king crab legs the right tile.
  
• Updated brazier's display colors to be more sightly when unseen.
  
• NPCs that fall into spacetime vortices now become lost.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the level up sound to not play correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused spurious "You are frozen soild!" popups.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented turrets from being deployed into gas clouds.
  
• Fixed a crash when generating levels in Golgotha.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused phase adaptive scope's safety feature to malfunction when used with long-distsance throwing weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures in vantabloom darkness to stop autoexplore.
  
• Fixed the templating of Opportune Attack's trigger message.
  
• Fixed a typo in sawhander's description.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Warden Indrix to stop sharing secrets after the first time.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple water ritual and trade options to appear for dynamic villagers if there was an exception during the conversation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused player-controlled soup sludges to not grow new pseudopods.
  
• Fixed a bug that would blink the player out of existance if they went to Bey Lah as Eskhind during Kith and Kin, via domination or otherwise.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the mound of scrap and clay to appear in random populations.

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206.49

• Gave Mayor Haddas better mental stats.
  
• Gave turrets the Strapping Shoulders skill.
  
• If you Bask on the world map, you no longer immediately become hungry upon leaving the world map.
  
• Altered the colorization of fungus-ridden creatures to make them more distinct from legendaries.
  
• Spotted shagspooks and dandy caps are now diggable.
  
• The Otherpearl is now referred to using the definite article more often.
  
• Clonelings' second pair of arms is no longer made of flesh.
  
• Cragmensch and glittermensch now leave behind large boulders on death even when burned to death.
  
• Mechanimist pilgrims who aren't converts now also carry the Canticles Chromaic, occasionally.
  
• Changed a reference to two-weapon fighting in the multiweapon fighting description.
  
• Added a message for getting teleported by an infiltrator.
  
• Took Single Weapon Fighting away from Crowsong.
  
• Fixed a bug that made phase-adaptive scopes malfunction in conjunction with geomagnetic discs.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented gemstones created by transmutation of extradimensional creatures from being bartered.
  
• Fixed a bug that made autoact not describe or indicate why it was being interrupted in some circumstances.
  
• Fixed a grammar error in third-party Time Dilation activation messages.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused legendary templars to be incorrectly selected as psychic thralls.
  
• Fixed some misconstruction in desalination pellet messaging.
  
• Fixed love tonic description to match its real save difficulty.
  
• Fixed a typo in the description of monad.
  
• Fixed a typo in the message when you tried to slam a flying creature.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused companions of vehicles to be forced neutral when the pilot died or exited the vehicle.
  
• Fixed a bug with capitalization in the revelation of rumors about Rainwater Shomer.

206.48

• Entries in the wait menu and move menu now have hotkeys.
  
• Made random book titles format better when they contain words enclosed in punctuation marks.
  
• Throwing multiple weapons with grafted mirror arms now costs a single turn, as intended, rather than a turn per weapon.
  
• Gave thrown knives a new visual effect.
  
• Precision force lathe activation no longer has an action cost.
  
• NPCs can now use precision force lathes.
  
• The accuracy bonus from Draw a Bead now only applies to bows and rifles, matching the description.
  
• NPCs can now use Draw a Bead.
  
• Draw a Bead now only considers your visibility for purposes of maintaining the target mark, not obstructions.
  
• Added an Automation option to turn off digging through walls by walking into them.
  
• When something falls in love with you, your companions now stop attacking it.
  
• Added some new creature descriptions.
  
• There are now different indicator animations for when autoact is interrupted by threats vs. nonthreats.
  
• When you untarget something via the untarget interaction, your companions now stop attacking your former target.
  
• Autoexplore now looks at the village history monuments in the Yd Freehold and Kyakukya.
  
• Autoact interactions with doors now only use popups for failed interactions.
  
• Portable walls now fill deep shafts and similar terrain features that they are deployed over.
  
• Stats now display in the build summary screen using a formatted version of their name, where relevant.
  
• The bulging waterskin that sometimes appears in Bey Lah now starts off sealed.
  
• You now usually become lost if you attempt to travel on the world map while confused.
  
• It's no longer necessary to use force attack to attack while overburdened.
  
• Nostrums options in the cooking menu are now grayed out if they don't do anything.
  
• Attempting to shield slam yourself now gives a more sensical failure message.
  
• Item targets for the Spread Klanq quest no longer include item stats.
  
• Having an item ripped from your body by a magnetic pulse now interrupts autoact.
  
• There is now a popup message or autoact interruption when a visible, non-trifling companion has an item ripped from their body by a magnetic pulse.
  
• Added a message when you're missing a certain chime in an important situation.
  
• Improved name transfer of transmuted NPCs.
  
• When conjoined creatures split, the parts now take on the attitudes of the whole.
  
• The engrave interaction of gaslight chisels can now be used from the inventory.
  
• Fixed a rare grammar error with transkinetic cuffs.
  
• Fixed a bug where if you disassembled a recoiler from the Recoil menu, the recoiler remained in the menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that made the Recoil menu open with no option initially selected.
  
• Fixed a bug that made cybernetics credits wedges normally available via the water ritual from some factions only available from the Putus Templar.
  
• Fixed an exception when bleeding stopped.
  
• Fixed a bug with checkpointing locations.
  
• Fixed a bug that made creatures more willing to walk off cliffs than they should have been.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused crystalline roots to fall down the pits left by their destruction.
  
• Fixed a bug that disabled the Dashing effect of the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes included transient conditions like being wet in the names of creatures harvested for village construction materials.
  
• Fixed a bug that made torches in your initial inventory not stack until interacted with.
  
• Fixed some cases of color markup being incompletely removed from text.
  
• Fixed a bug that made rhinoxen, rarely, charge while frozen.
  
• Fixed a bug that made clones potentially inherit some of their original's descriptive elements inappropriately.
  
• Fixed the word "block" appearing twice in creatures' Staggering Block messages.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some data disk vendors to fail to stock.
  
• Fixed a bug that made poisoning not affect creatures while they were stunned or paralyzed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused strange phrasing in some generated sentences.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused strange phrasing when items were taken from the player as part of conversation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused companions' point-defense systems to target your projectiles.
  
• Fixed a bug causing use of possessive pronouns in some messages where possessive forms of names were appropriate.
  
• Fixed a case of inappropriate capitalization when memory eaters try to consume a memory and can't find one.
  
• Fixed a bug that made status feedback for the quest Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka! tell you that you had picked up "1 feet" of wire if the first piece of wire you picked up was 1' long.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to fail to fall in love with things viewed via their interaction menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some merchants to fail to restock until their zone had been visited multiple times.
  
• Fixed a bug that disabled digging by walking into a wall.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused waking peacefully to become impossible when crungled into the body of a level 1 creature.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to end if you leveled up by killing your original body in a deep dream.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze when transmuting items without a detail color.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused items glitched via warm static to create duplicate references to themselves within the same tile.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Aoyg-No-Longer to become hostile after loading a save.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some consumed or destroyed items to instead re-appear within your inventory.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused kills via transmutation not to be properly attributed.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed missile weapons to instantly destroy invulnerable objects.
  
• [modding] There is now an intproperty TradeCount that is incremented on objects each time the player enters the trade screen with them.
  
• [modding] Degenerate markup of the form {{text}} now displays nothing, consistently with the results of ColorUtility analytical and transformation methods.
  
• [modding] Builder-based merchant inventory has been converted to population tables using GenericInventoryRestocker.
  
• [modding] XRL.World.Capabilities.Disarming.Disarm() can now take an argument GameObject Weapon that specifies a weapon to attempt to disarm rather than allowing it to be determined randomly.
  
• [modding] Optional predicates can now be applied to the TextInsert conversation part.
  
• [modding] Hooks for feet no longer resets its stats when regenerating.

Hey folks,
No Feature Friday this week as we have team members traveling. We'll be back next week.

Live and drink.

206.37

• Added a move menu, default binding shift-M.
  
• Added a "Move to Point of Interest" clickable button to the top right of the new UI, between the buttons for Character Sheet and Autoexplore.
  
• Stat saps are now always considered at least Tough opponents.
  
• Gigantic items now produce more wire in wire extruders.
  
• Autoact now explicates the reason it stopped via the message log more often.
  
• Pathfinding now works harder to avoid digging through walls with wiring, piping, or gearboxes.
  
• Hidden things being discovered no longer necessarily interrupts autoact.
  
• Sparking baetyls no longer ask for Sparafucile's masterwork weapons.
  
• Blast cannon projectiles ("pressurized energy") are now treated as mass nouns ("some pressurized energy", not "a pressurized energy").
  
• Attempting to activate a ganglionic teleprojector from its interaction menu while the ability is on cooldown no longer fails silently.
  
• Lagroots, junk dollars, and other urchins no longer interrupt autoact through mere hostility.
  
• Requesting gifts via the water ritual now operates on one item at a time if the NPC has a stack of them.
  
• When you die while confused, a confused version of your name is no longer recorded with your score.
  
• Legendary dervishes of the Sightless Way are no longer incorrectly titled as servants of Ptoh.
  
• Torches are now extinguished by being submerged in liquid.
  
• Made Value + and - binds able to share bound keys with Move Up and Move Down.
  
• The option "Use text autowalk threat indicator" is now called "Use text version of the autoact interrupt indicator instead of flashing red box".
  
• You can now return to the Recoil menu by escaping out of interaction with a recoiler.
  
• The option "Use text version of the autoact interrupt indicator instead of flashing red box" is now in the Automation category.
  
• The option "Use text version of the autoact interrupt indicator instead of flashing red box" now works consistently: it indicates the interrupting object with a pulsing red visual effect, if disabled, or with a descending yellow v character, if enabled.
  
• Creatures now consider moving away from gases or walltraps that are damaging them a little more aggressively.
  
• When creatures die while engulfed, items left behind are now left in the engulfer's inventory.
  
• When creatures die, the location items left behind drop in is now more consistent.
  
• Force bubbles no longer push anything when their owner is being pushed by another force bubble. This should prevent crashes from force bubble owners pushing each other.
  
• The activated ability for force bracelets now synchronizes properly when the force bracelet is deactivated by its force fields are independently destroyed.
  
• The icon colors applied by desecration now take priority over the icon colors applied by village history engraving.
  
• Improved how some items are specified in Spread Klanq quest steps.
  
• Slightly reduced the render layer of low walls.
  
• Removed two extra spaces from interdictor lock-on messages.
  
• Fixed the stats in the ability description of Cryokinesis.
  
• Fixed a bug that randomly caused some items to be incorrectly flagged as needing two slots to equip.
  
• Fixed a rare bug that caused a hard lock during world generation.
  
• Fixed a bug with the repulsive device.
  
• Fixed a rare bug with inventory stacking.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the glotrot cure to fail.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused walls to paint incorrectly.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to be described as disassembling "something", or for a disassembled item to be omitted, when disassembly was interrupted.
  
• Fixed a bug that made automatic attacks on ignored enemies interrupt autoexplore.
  
• Fixed a bug that made broken and engulfed statuses not appear in display names.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore" option to cause you to automatically attack ignored enemies that you moved next to on a single manual step.
  
• Fixed a bug that with item naming trying to name items after the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that duplicated items when you equipped one from the ground while having another in your inventory.
  
• Fixed a bug that made the grounded effect prevent movement actions it shouldn't have, such as charging.
  
• Fixed a bug that made miners continue to lay mines after being instructed not to.
  
• Fixed a bug that made sparking baetyls imply they might take items from your inventory even if there were enough items to satisfy them nearby.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the looker to be unable to switch objects.
  
• Fixed a bug that made merchants become temporarily incapacitated by restocking and soup sludges become temporarily incapacitated by growing their pseudopods.
  
• Fixed some bugs with text filters applied to speech, like with birds and fish.
  
• Fixed a bug that made geomagnetic discs unable to fly through gases.
  
• Fixed a bug with important tonics having their "apply" and "apply to" interaction hotkeys swapped.
  
• Fixed a bug with junk dollars' impaler behavior. Existing junk dollars in saved games will not be affected.
  
• Fixed a bug that made rock tumblers and wire extruders work when unpowered. Existing furniture in saved games will not be affected.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the positive and negative cacophonic sounds for multiple simultaneous reputation changes to be played simultaneously, when applicable.
  
• Fixed a bug that made morphogenetic geomagnetic discs fail to work properly.
  
• Fixed a bug that put confused quest names in Reclamation quest steps if you were confused when Girsh nephilim spawned.
  
• Fixed a bug in the activation message of Shield Wall.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mutation permutation to occur repeatedly past the halfway point of the Mutating effect.
  
• Fixed a bug that made some secrets display with inappropriately capitalized words in the middle of them.
  
• Fixed a bug where your hagiographies claimed you penned a copy of a cookbook instead of the cookbook itself.
  
• Fixed a messaging oddity in some messages about resistance to recruitment.
  
• Fixed a missing space in some possible faction descriptions.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed duplicating a chord of light at Omonporch.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Stingers to not activate when lunging.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the golem mound's catalyst menu to be unopenable when a dram of slime was in your inventory.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Dayenu' achievement from progressing.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the repulsive device from being removed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quests to sometimes become unfinishable.
  
• Fixed a bug in the ability manager screen that casued a lockup when activating an ability in the middle of a drag operation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when quitting a game.
  
• [modding] ProneOnHit now works on projectiles.
  
• [modding] The mod manager now sorts mods case-insensitively.
  
• [modding] The reference name of the highly entropic beings faction has been changed to Entropic.

Hey everyone,

One of the biggest Caves of Qud updates, Creatures of the 7th Plague is out now! This year-long patch is full of new content: Boss fights, factions and new quests! Watch the brand-new update trailer:

• Arrival of the Girsh Nephilim, 7th plague of the Gyre, mythic beings whose cradles are tucked throughout the caves of Qud as five new dungeons
  
• Next leg of the main quest: a climactic battle with the Putus Templar at the foot of the Spindle
  
• Finalized, fully native gamepad and Steam Deck support
  
• Hundreds of new visual and sound effects
  
• New UI for the hotbar & Abilities screen and new icons for every ability
  
• New creatures (mechs!), skills, furniture, items, implants, and more

You can read the full update with all the patch notes here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/333640/view/3802788059284257843

This will be our last major update to Caves of Qud before we shift our focus completely to the 1.0 release. You can follow along with updates here on Steam but also on the Kitfox Community Discord or the Official Caves of Qud Discord.



Now who's ready for some Nephilim?!

-Kitfox + Freehold

v206.26

• Added the next leg of the main quest. Talk to Barathrum after completing the Golem.
  
• Added the Girsh nephilim, 7th plague of the Gyre: Agolgot, Bethsaida, Rermadon, Shug'ruith the Burrower, Qas, and Qon.
  
• Added cradles throughout Qud where the Girsh nephilim reside.
  
• Added secrets for the locations of the cradles.
  
• When one of the nephilim is killed, the ones remaining now absorb its essence and become more powerful.
  
• The nephilim now leave behind chorded circles of light when they perish.
  
• Added shrines to the nephilim throughout Qud. Occasionally they have gyre wights worshipping them, and rarely, legendary gyre wights.
  
• We made several changes to the glow wights faction.
  
  • Glow wights are now known as gyre wights.
    
  • Changed default gyre wight reputation from -650 to 0.
    
  • Gyre wights now consider nephilim cradles, Golgotha, and Bethesda Susa holy places.
    
  • Replaced glow-wight cultists of Agolgot and Bethsaida with gyre wights of Agolgot and Bethsaida, respectively.
    
  • Added gyre wights of Rermadon, Shug'ruith, Qas, and Qon.
    
  • Legendary gyre wights are now willing to share the locations of nephilim cradles. Gyre wights of a particular Girsh are more likely to share the cradle of that Girsh.
    
  • Gyre wights now sometimes camp on the Stiltgrounds.
• We made several changes to girshlings.
  
  • Added girshling variants as nephilim spawn: rank girshling, conjoined girshling, plasmatic girshling, burrowing girshling, polarized girshling, and cryptic girshling.
    
  • Added a defanged girshling variant.
    
  • Added a new butcherable to girshling corpses: girshling fangs, rank fangs, incadescent fangs, and zigzag fangs, depending on the corpse.
• Changed the Girsh water ritual liquid to cloning draught.
  
• Added a special water ritual option to the Girsh nephilim.
  
• Added new creatures: grand newfather, temple mecha mk I, and temple mecha mk II (legendary).
  
• Added a new music track for the next leg of the main quest.

• Merged all input managers down to one, meaning you no longer have to change settings for gamepad to work.
  
• Added a new keybind screen and made key binding more flexible, with many more commands now bindable.
  
• Made keyboard, gamepad, and Steam Deck input much more robust across the board.
  
• We added a new Abilities screen ('a').
  
  • Added icons for every ability.
    
  • Added in-depth, dynamic descriptions for many abilities (the rest to come).
    
  • You can reorder abilities on the Abilities screen and they will also reorder in your hotbar.
• We made several enhancements to the ability hotbar.
  
  • Your abilities are now automatically hotkeyed. You can change the hotkeys from the Abilities screen.
    
  • Added hotkeys for scrolling through your hotbars (default ctrl+1 - ctrl+5).
    
  • New ability icons also appear on the hotbar.
    
  • Added the new ability icons to the old UI sidebar. They also now respect the order of abilities on your ability screen.
• We added many new visual effects.
  
  • Added new visual effects for several abilities: flaming ray, flame breath, teleportation, slammed, digging, and temporal fugue.
    
  • Added new visual effects for several types of deaths: decapitation, transmuted, consumed, lased to death, and immolated.
    
  • Added new visual effects for several missile weapons: all lead slug weapons, all arrows, laser rifle, chain laser, laser pistol, point defense laser, spitting seed plant, light rondure, flamer thrower, null ray pistol, and rocket launchers.
    
  • Added new visual effects for several other creatures and items: aloe pyra, flaming vents, HE grenades, neutron flux, and hookah.
    
  • Added new visual effects for throwing.
    
  • Replaced the combat slash animation with a new one that has three grades of intensity for 1, 2-3 and 4+ penetrations.
    
  • Added a new animation for bludgeoning damage.
    
  • Added a new block animation.
• Added a new, highly visible autoexplore danger indicator.
  
• Added new tiles for some flashing status indicators: swimming, wading, covered in spores, flying, and sprinting.
  
• Holding down movement keys to move quickly is now safeguarded by the autoexplore danger indicator.
  
• Added gamepad button glyphs for Xbox and PlayStation controllers wherever the UI indicates a button bind.
  
• Right-stick up and down now defaults to page up and down in menus.
  
• Added default force-attack diagonal bindings: Ctrl+Shift+arrow keys.
  
• Added a bunch of new keybinds.
  
• Page Up and Page Down can now be used to navigate popups and the look menu.
  
• Changed the default bind for the Factions page to ctrl+f.
  
• Removed "laptop defaults" keybind options. The new defaults should be usable without numpad.
  
• Added a user interface option to select the main menu background image.
  
• In the new main menu, the Continue button is now disabled if there are no games to continue.
  
• Added an autoget option "Exclude liquid in containers you've dropped from auto-collect".

• We added mecha, late-game pilotable robots.
  
  • Added special mechanics for infiltrating piloted mecha.
    
  • Added a key card requirement for piloting an unaccessed mecha.
    
  • Mecha do not heal on their own and must be repaired with 7 or 8 bits.
    
  • Mecha require a special type of energy cell to function: mecha power core.
    
  • Piloted temple mecha appear in dynamic encounters.
    
  • Unpiloted temple mecha can be found, very rarely, abandoned in caves.
• Added new items: grappling gun and longreach grappling gun.
  
• Added new cybernetic implants: grafted mirror arm, holographic visage, stasis entangler, phase-adaptive scope, and precision force lathe.
  
• Added a new piece of furniture: wire extruder.
  
• Added wire extruders to Grit Gate, Yla Haj's workshop, and the Yd Freehold.
  
• We revamped the First Aid skill tree.
  
  • Renamed the skill tree to Physic and reduced the initial purchase cost to 50sp.
    
  • Staunch Wounds now simply improves your bandaging rolls, both in and out of combat.
    
  • You can now use Staunch Wounds on your companions.
    
  • Removed the Heal and Set Limb skills.
    
  • Added a new skill: Nostrums. 100sp. INT 21.
    
    • You can treat bleeding, poison, illness, and disease onset at a campfire.
      
    • Treatments can be applied to companions.
      
    • Some treatments require a medicinal ingredient.
  • Added a new skill: Amputate limb. 25sp. INT 23.
    
    • You can voluntarily amputate your own limbs.
      
    • You can amputate your companions' limbs, if they are infected or equipped with unremoveable equipment.
  • Added a new skill: Apothecary. 100sp. INT 25.
    
    • Healing tonics you apply last an extra round.
• We revamped the Dual Wield skill tree and made changes to how offhand attack changes are displayed. (Experimental: subject to change)
  
  • Renamed the skill tree Multiweapon Fighting and the skills Multiweapon Proficiency, Multiweapon Expertise, and Multiweapon Mastery.
    
  • The bonuses to offhand attacks granted by Multiweapon Fighting skills now apply to all offhand limbs, except mutation-based weapons like Horns and Stinger. This now includes chimera limbs, as before, but also limbs granted by Multiple Arms and Helping Hands.
    
  • Reduced the offhand bonuses from the three skills from (effective) +20/40/60% to +20/35/50%.
    
  • Reduced the skill point cost of Multiweapon Fighting and Multiweapon Expertise to 150sp, down from 300sp.
    
  • Reduced the skill point cost of Multiweapon Mastery to 200sp, down from 300sp.
    
  • Increased the stat requirements of Multiweapon Expertise and Multiweapon Mastery from 21 and 25 to 23 and 27, respectively.
    
  • Natural offhand limbs and weapons wielded in offhand limbs now display their offhand attack chance in their descriptions.
    
  • When you swap your primary limb, your old primary inherits the offhand chance of the new primary you swapped to. This was always the case but is now easier to track due to the offhand chance getting displayed in the limb/weapon description.
• We added a new Single Weapon Fighting skill tree.
  
  • Single Weapon Fighting. 100sp. STR or AGI 17. You no longer make offhand attacks in exchange for mastery with a single weapon (toggleable).
    
  • Opportune Attacks (free with skill) - Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee weapon, the cooldowns of up to two random weapon or shield skills are immediately refreshed.
    
  • Weapon Expertise. 150sp. STR or AGI 21. Whenever you make a melee attack, there's a 50% you immediately make a second attack for free.
    
  • Penetrating Strikes. 200sp. STR or AGI 23. Your attacks always penetrate one extra time.
    
  • Weapon Mastery. 300sp. AGI 29. Whenever you make a melee attack, immediately make a second attack for free.
• We made several balance changes to the Horns mutation.
  
  • Horns now costs 4 mutation points instead of 3.
    
  • Changed the damage scaling from 2d(3+[rank/2]) to 2d(3+[rank/3]).
    
  • Changed tho to-hit bonus scaling from +rank to +(rank/2)+1.
    
  • Changed bleed damage scaling from 1d2+(rank-4)/3 to 1d2+(rank-4)/4.
    
  • Changed the bleed save target from 20 + 3*rank to 20 +2*rank.
• Updated dream tortoise preset to comply with starting point requirements now that Horns mutation point cost is increased (removed Telepathy).
  
• We made improvements to how mutation variants are chosen and displayed.
  
  • Added new tiles and descriptions for each mutation variant. E.g., horns, horn, spiral horn, antlers, and casque now each have their own tiles and descriptions.
    
  • Added new tiles and descriptions for Flaming Ray's ghostly flames and Freezing Ray's icy vapor.
    
  • When you choose a variant during character generation, the appropriate tile and description are now displayed.
    
  • When you randomly choose mutations during character generation, you can now get mutation variants.
    
  • When you gain a mutation after character generation, you can now pick a variant.
• Increased Gun Rack's license point cost from 4 to 6.
  
• Intravenous ports now stack by adding to the tonic's duration its original duration, before any modifiers, for each implant.
  
• When two spacetime vortices come into contact, they now explode instead of one being sucked into the other.
  
• Objects that occlude vision, like trees, and stationary pieces of furniture now have a chance to be hit if a missile passes through their space.
  
• Creatures now refuse to chat or trade with you when they are on fire.
  
• Kesehind now knows how to use the shield he carries.
  
• Made gyre wight apotheotes have a hostile temperament.
  
• NPCs can now use healing foods like witchwood bark and urberries.
  
• Leather whips can now be modded with some item mods.
  
• You no longer switch targets to a clockwork beetle when one spawns.
  
• Neutral-temperature liquids now stabilize their containers' temperature, including in the case of liquid-cooled overloaded weapons.
  
• Holograms are no longer immune to normality fields.
  
• Friendly creatures can no longer swap you out of their way.
  
• Added a command "Rest until party healed" that waits for you and your companions to recover full hit points, excepting any who do not heal naturally.
  
• Carapace now gives 400 tortoise reputation, per its description.
  
• Forcefields from force bracelets and Force Bubble must now be within 1 space of their emitters to continue existing.
  
• Galgal charges are now interrupted by [redacted].
  
• Gigantic arc winders now receive the appropriate bonus to their damage roll.

• Added remastered music tracks: Pilgrim's Path and Overworld.
  
• Added MANY new sound effects.
  
• Changed the penetration SFX to match the 1, 2-3 and 4+ tiers.
  
• Replace "Then Things to Do When You Start the Game" with a "Quickstart" guide that has up-to-date info and dynamic keybinds.
  
• Tweaked "What's Eating the Watervine?" quest dialog.
  
• Tweaked the language of the book From Entropy to Hierarchy.
  
• Added a From Entropy to Hierarchy, 2nd Edition.
  
• There is now case specific death messaging for dying from reflected damage.
  
• Removed the unfinished dungeon Trembling Dunes, to return at a later date.
  
• Simplified the campfire sounds.
  
• Gave portable wall a new tile.
  
• Greatly improved save & load performance for both the game and previously visited zones.
  
• Greatly improved performance when new game objects were created.
  
• Improved general rendering performance.
  
• Improved performance when sounds would play during your turn.
  
• Improved performance when custom effects play during your turn, particularly offscreen.
  
• Improved performance when a creature takes damage and attempts to alert nearby allies.
  
• Reduced memory usage & fragmentation for long play sessions, particularly when saving or loading the game often.
  
• Reduced save file size.
  
• Stable, stationary spacetime vortices are now points of interest.
  
• Walking by flowers now refers to some flowers rather than a set of flowers.
  
• Made some performance improvements to autoexplore.
  
• Added a popup message when a companion fall down a pit.
  
• Improved messaging when robots are affected by Sunder Mind.
  
• The chiming rocks at Eyn Roj and the glowing soft below it are now points of interest.
  
• Liquid collection now indicates the direction the liquid is being collected from, and the source if from a container.
  
• You now receive a popup when non-trifling companions fall down a pit or similar terrain feature.
  
• Granite and tangled mudroot are now treated grammatically as mass nouns.
  
• Sparking baetyls no longer ask you for things you have equipped and cannot unequip.
  
• Missile weapons now prefer to autoequip in an unoccupied slot.
  
• If you get multiple pieces of scrap at once and autodisassemble is on, they are now all disassembled.
  
• Shrines becoming desecrated by non-player damage no longer issues a popup message.
  
• In several places we rephrased "+1 penetration" to "+1 to penetration rolls" to differentiate that bonus from when you get a full additional penetration.
  
• It's no longer possible for you to become your own target.
  
• Added an autoexplore option: "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore."
  
• The Bey Lah village stores are now consistently referred to using the definite article.
  
• It's now possible to interact with wall-crawling creatures while they're on walls.
  
• Skin glitter is now treated grammatically as a mass noun.
  
• You are no longer offered a trade conversation option with baetyls.
  
• Tweaked the electromagnetic shielding description to include its effect on magnetism and expanded the items that can be modded with it.
  
• Tweaked zone names in Oboroqoru's lair.
  
• Normalized all instances of Agolgot and Agolgut to Agolgot.
  
• Tools are now included in the categories expanded by default when choosing an item to equip on a hand.
  
• You can now escape out of dialogs to name an item.

• Rejoinder no longer counterattacks while toggled off.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation to cast ambient light even when out of charges.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some popup selections to cancel autoexplore immediately after.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a spurious option popup when selecting a category in the trade menu.
  
• Fixed some grammar issues in Disintegration's messaging.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused several dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented "find a relic"" dynamic quests from immediately completing the find step if you already had the relic when you got the quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the first step for site-finding dynamic quests to not complete if you found the site before you got the quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that made Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray hands variants stop working after eating the Cloaca Surprise or Crystal Delight.
  
• Fixed a bug that made the first deployment of a stasis grenade's stasis field be unaffected by normality.
  
• Fixed a bug that brain brine to not be consumed upon drinking.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented entering clams.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement for defeating a chrome pyramid to not be awarded.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to attack with hooks for feet.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused hooks for feet not to regenerate again.
  
• Fixed the spelling and capitalization of Dyvvrach's name in the fourth step of If, Then, Else.
  
• Fixed a typo in a medassist module loading message.
  
• Fixed many issues with faulty zone generation. Canyons and canyon-like areas should be more canyon-like again.
  
• Fixed a bug that made relics providing improved block not remove the effect when unequipped, quickly resulting in 100% blocking chance.
  
• Fixed a bug that made some relics associate themselves with an incorrect historical period.
  
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause tomb stairs to spawn encased in walls.
  
• Fixed an issue that would ocassionaly cause historic sites to not generate correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused pit ledges to render incorrectly after a serialization cycle.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused missile weapon penetration to be more limited than it should have been under some circumstances.
  
• Fixed a number of issues involving environmental power systems when entering a zone.
  
• Fixed some message composition issues in mimic, jilted lover, and livid creeper special attacks.
  
• Fixed some issues causing NPCs to interfere with and delay each other in combat by swapping positions.
  
• You can no longer dupe chairs by equipping them as weapons and then sitting on them.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented unlocking the 'Become as Gods' achievement.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some sultan relic retrieval quests to fail to recognize completion.
  
• Fixed some issues arising from hostile creatures being considered impassable by autoexplore.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic interaction quests to complete with actions that didn't match the quest requirements.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic location quests to not complete correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some non-artifact items to be considered the most advanced artifact in your possession at a end of the game.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to open (or try to) animated doors when swapping positions with them.
  
• Fixed a bug that made the offspring of segmented mirthworms, worms of the earth, and fire ant queens employed as hired guards not be as peaceable as their parents.
  
• Fixed third-person shield slam messages telling you the shield in question was yours.
  
• Fixed awkward phrasing when a shield slam was performed against a phase-mismatched target.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to fail to fully utilize extra equipment slots granted by worn items.
  
• Fixed a bug that made zone-wide identification effects fail to identify natural equipment artifacts.
  
• Fixed a bug that made liquid coverings involving algae mixes sometimes use the word algae where they should use the word algal.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented Call to Arms from scoring correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented "drink from", "opened" or "closed" quests from completing properly.
  
• Fixed a rare bug that caused startup crashes when configuration files became corrupt.
  
• Fixed a bug that made Electrical Generation not accumulate charge during turns when you weren't taking actions.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused companions to keep attacking a creature they had been targeting after you have Dominated it.
  
• Fixed a bug that made NPCs lock up trying to use Quicken Mind when it was unusable.
  
• Fixed a bug that disabled the "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore" option.

• Improved the map editor UI.
  
• The workshop uploader now provides a native file picker for images.
  
• The workshop uploader now allows you to close the upload status screen after an error.
  
• The workshop uploader now allows you to elide hidden files from your uploads.
  
• The map editor now provides a native file picker for maps.
  
• Fixed a bug in the map editor that caused dragging the map to be scaled improperly.
  
• The mod manager now displays disabled mods as grey instead of red.
  
• There is a new GameSystems class which provides public static helpers for raising an event on all game systems.
  
• Added string, int, float, list, and dictionary properties to Quest XML.
  
• ReflectDamage is now an IActivePart.
  
• Systems now support PlayerEquipped, PlayerActivating, and PlayerObjectAddedToInventory.
  
• The Consumer part now has the fields Message and FloatMessage for configuring its message log message and, optionally, a floating text message.
  
• The parts Breeder, LeavesTrail, LeaveTrailWhileHasEffect, PopulationSpawner, and DeploymentGrenade all now support extended blueprint syntax (# can preface a comma-separated list of blueprints to select from, and @ can preface a population table name). The first four also have a new Range parameter that allows objects to be deployed at a randomizable range from the source.
  
• ModSerene and ModHorrifying now work with existing equip slots configurations, adding a head and/or face requirement if not already present, rather than replacing existing configurations entirely.
  
• Any mutation that grants natural equipment (such as wings or hooks for feet) can now specify variants using the "MutationEquipment" tag.
  
• Severed body parts now have string properties EquippedBlueprint, DefaultBehaviorBlueprint, and CyberneticsBlueprint set to the blueprints of the respective attached objects, if any.
  
• Added a Tree tag to objects considered trees.
  
• Added 'music' and 'widget' tags to Worlds.xml, which are aliases for ZoneBuilders.Music and ZoneBuilders.AddWidgetBuilder, respectively.
  
• The BleedingOnHit part now has a field Holographic that, if true, causes it to inflict holographic bleeding instead of regular bleeding, and no longer has a SelfOnly field, instead using its IActivePart scope configuration to control what it affects (with WorksOnSelf, WorksOnEquipper, WorksOnHolder, WorksOnWearer, and WorksOnImplantee supported).
  
• Symbolic links are now be excluded from workshop uploads.
  
• Populations within interiors are no longer be placed outside the bounds of the map.
  
• ModTransmuteOnHit's description is now moddable via the DescriptionTerm field, and creatures transmuted into other creatures are no longer considered to have died.
  
• The Impaler part now has a field NeedsToBeHidden, true by default, which if set to false makes being hidden unnecessary for the impalement functionality to work.
  
• Added weights to water ritual secrets and journal entries, making secrets more or less likely to be shared and discovered.
  
• Added weight modifiers to interests in Factions.xml, specified via a Weight attribute. Ex: Weight="50".
  
• Added GetWaterRitualSecretWeightEvent, which can modify the final weight of secrets in the water ritual.
  
• Added BuySecretWeight and SellSecretWeight attributes to the water ritual xtag, which can override a creature's weighting of secrets by id.
  
• Added EntityID and EventID to factions, allowing retrieval of their historic entities and events, respectively, when they exist. Example use is to get the village inhabited by a given village faction.
  
• Added Transmitter and Receiver to conversations to facilitate long-distance physical communication.
  
• Pressing Control now brings up the blueprint XML for a hovered object in the map editor blueprint list.
  
• Reduced the mouse wheel sensitivity of the map editor blueprint list.
  
• Added a scroll bar to the blueprint list.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the blueprint list to jump to the top whenever a blueprint was selected in the map editor.
  
• BioAmmoLoader now has two new fields StartAvailable and VariableTurnsToGenerate. Start Available provides a randomizable amount to be assigned to the field Available at object creation. VariableTurnsToGenerate provides a randomizable amount of turns taken to generate another point of Available firing capacity.