206.68

• The liquid font mutation no longer oozes liquid on the world map.
  
• Popup menus with many options now ignore mouse position when scrolling with keyboard or joystick.
  
• Added a confirmation dialogue before dismemebering yourself using metabolizing effects.
  
• Flight and Swoop abilities now correctly display the falling chance.
  
• The Fear Aura mutation no longer wastes a turn if there are no enemies to fear nearby.
  
• The scrapepd waydroid is now categorized under Quest Items.
  
• Automove while holding the movemnt input will now properly stop for all events that interupt autoexplore, even if the source is not visible.
  
• Fixed a soft lock when a combat animation would continuously fail to render.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects to sometimes stop playing permanently.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused petting creatures to sometimes lock the screen for up to 10 seconds.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused other NPCs petting creatures nearby to interrupt player inputs.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the jump ability to display its popup twice.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the shimmering visual effect to persist after a waking dream.
  
• [modding] Added GameObject.HasItemWithTag(string) to search inventory and equipment for tagged items.
  
• [modding] The QudChooseStartingLocationModuleWindow now adds a breadcrumb to the UI.

206.67

• You can now wear gigantic gauntlets on your giant hands.
  
• The geomagnetic disc now benefits from being gigantic even while powered.
  
• Engulfing creatures will now disgorge something they are digesting if they become part of the same party during the digestion process.
  
• The temple mecha mk Ia's machined edge is no longer gigantic.
  
• You will now auto-explore over fracti if it wouldn't damage you due to non-matching phase or faction reputation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused various coloration of creatures to be lost when in range of nightvision.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused unidentified missile weapons to display their identified icon in the missle weapon status bar.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic items to require even more limbs to equip if they were already equipped somewhere else.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to immediately want to unequip a piece of gigantic equipment after equipping it.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused equipment to not update how many limbs it uses after implanting giant hands.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused giant hands to reduce the amount of limbs required to wear any item regardless of type, most notably gigantic armor.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the geomagnetic disc to sometimes consume double charge.
  
• [modding] Dismembered limbs now copy all properties of their severed parts into a DismemberedProperties part.
  
• [modding] Added AfterDismemberedEvent which can be used to add additional properties to the severed limb.
  
• [debug] Added an 'implant' wish to directly add a cybernetic to yourself in an optional location: "implant:giant hands", "implant:pneumatic pistons:feet".
  
• [debug] Added a 'modify' wish to create an item with a specific mod installed: "modify:crysteel gauntlets:gigantic".

Hey everyone,

It’s Alexandra from Kitfox Games with some development and community news! We are working towards the final, major content update before 1.0 release. Much like the Creatures of the 7th Plague, this one will have a ton of new features, bug fixes and improvements.

The team has been working on a full UI rework complete with fully mouseable, gamepadable, gorgeous updates for every screen. Here are some mockup screenshots of the new UI:






Joppa is also getting a refresh! Everyone’s favourite starting area is going to be as textured and lived-in as the rest of the world. More to show on this later!

Along with those major reworks, the update will also include:

• Hundreds of new sound and visual effects
  
• 40 new achievements
  
• Several new narrative touches
  
• Big bug fixes and performance improvements

You can expect this update to be released in Q2.


The folks in the Caves of Qud community are doing another mod jam!! The theme this time around is...Vignettes.

Like last time, they'll be compiling mods from the jam into a modpack. Unlike last time, they're allowing C# scripting - so they've also extended the duration to a week. Beginner modders are still very much welcome and encouraged to join! If you've ever been curious to try modding now is the perfect chance!

The jam will run from March 15, 6:00 PM to March 22 6:00 PM EST.

To sign up for the jam visit: https://itch.io/jam/caves-of-qud-modding-jam-2
If you've got questions, visit us on the Kitfox Discord in the #⁠qud-jam channel

That’s all for now! We will have more details, about the major update in the coming months so stay tuned!

-Alexandra + Freehold

206.66

• Phase-shift grenades are no longer moddable with the redundant phase-harmonic mod.
  
• Rivers in preset settlements now have the same object and wall-sparing behavior as random villages.
  
• Added a new visual effect for night vision.
  
• Radar now reveals [redacted].
  
• Greatly improved the performance of complex hydraulic power systems.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to violate the Pauli exclusion principal when surrounded by your own force bubble.
  
• Fixed a bug that occasionally produced incorrect capitalization of your name in recipes you create.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your hunger level to not update when becoming famished via dilute warm static.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused broadcast power receivers to be non-functional within interiors.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused decarbonizers to self-destruct when firing their molecular cannon.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused decarbonizers with invalid targeting to prevent the game from rendering.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused delayed attacks from lithofexes and dreamcrungles to be aborted when loading a game.
  
• [debug] We made some changes to wishing for mutations.
  
  • You should now prefix wishes for mutations with "mutation:", e.g. "mutation:beak".
    
  • You can wish for a mutation variant by adding it as a parameter, e.g. "mutation:beak:rostrum".
    
  • You can wish for a specific mutation entry using its display name, e.g. "mutation:stinger confusing venom".
    
  • If the mutation has variants and one wasn't specified, you are now asked to select one.
    
  • You will be asked to confirm when a fuzzy search is about to apply a mutation to you.

206.65

• Added new descriptions for several pieces of armor and ceremonial vibrokhopesh.
  
• Trash and scrap can no longer break or rust.
  
• Creatures no longer expel their quills against inanimate objects.
  
• Clues for the Kith and Kin quest are now properly marked as quest items, warning you before being sold.
  
• Autoexplore no longer picks up Kith and Kin clues.
  
• Gas masks and filters now reduce damage caused by dangerous gases only if they are dangerous to inhale, but when they are, the damage reduction is much more effective.
  
• You are no longer prompted multiple times about your ability to swoop when flying.
  
• Star kraken no longer extrude unidentifiable tubes.
  
• The recoil ability can once again be used on the world map.
  
• Made death by damage reflection messages a little more sensical.
  
• Unidentified hoversleds are no longer seen as 'small boxes'.
  
• Increased the value of rubber tree seed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Eskhind to sometimes travel back towards the hollowed tree after returning to Bey Lah.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Keh-hind to sometimes not leave Bey Lah right away when exiled.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused creatures to spawn directly over pits.
  
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused creatures to spawn directly on top of spacetime vortices.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused fish to sometimes spawn without water.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused daggers in the thrown weapon slot to be eligible for Rejoinder.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented your notes from displaying properly on unidentified items.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused walls and furniture to remain targeted even when out of line of sight.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused death from thirst to be attributed to the last creature that damaged you.

206.64

• Activated abilities can no longer be used on the world map.
  
• Transmuting the amaranthine prism now disappoints someone.
  
• The trade binds Value + and Value - and Add One/Remove One can now share bindings.
  
• Gun racks and cathedras can no longer be destroyed by coating in acid or lava.
  
• Star kraken no longer extrude the Grit Gate communications panel.
  
• Adding local cooking ingredients for when you whip up a meal in Tzimtzlum.
  
• ASCII bleed effects now match your bleed liquid color.
  
• Gave urshiib albinism.
  
• Defanged girshling corpses now indicate their defanged status in their display names.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the hollowed tree to sometimes overwrite a location with existing encounters.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the snapjaw who wields Stopsvalinn to be removed by dynamic encounters.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Sticky Tongue mutation to not animate if it failed to move its target.
  
• Fixed a bug with the status effect companions get when you wear Dagasha's Spur and renamed the effect "spurred to teleport".
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented forced attacks up and down.
  
• Fixed a bug with the coloration of slam messages from rhinoxen charges.
  
• Fixed a crash bug due to ashes being reduced to even more ashes when burnt.
  
• Fixed a crash bug deaing with infinite move chains.

206.63

• Added new descriptions for several pieces of furniture.
  
• Added new descriptions for several pieces of equipment.
  
• Domesticated Barathrumite tinkers now have their display name adjectives appear in the right order.
  
• Wardens Esther can no longer spawn hated by the Farmers' Guild.
  
• You no longer autodisassemble items that contain liquids.
  
• You can no longer select flaming/freezing ray variants for body parts you do not have.
  
• When selecting a variant for a random mutation, you can now go back and select another mutation instead.
  
• Random cryotubes that spawn with a stairwell inside them are now always destroyed.
  
• Clarified some language in the description of Penetrating Strikes.
  
• Fixed a sequence-break between Call To Arms and Grave Thoughts, if you never acquired Grave Thoughts before completing A Call To Arms.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to occasionally spawn on top of stairs.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some templar warleaders to be missing during Reclamation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic village merchants to restock twice.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mid and high-tier dynamic village merchants to have less stock than intended.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic village merchants to sometimes spawn with the wrong items in stock.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused autoexplore stop warnings for targeting lines to incorrectly display extra info.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused unidentified frozen items to use their identified tiles.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused quest item handwritten books to lose their yellow titles and look like generated books.
  
• Fixed some grammar issues in generated dialog for the Landing Pads quest.
  
• [modding] GenericInventoryRestocker now supports combining multiple population tables of stock by providing a comma separated list.
  
• [debug] Added a 'restock' wish to force all restocking merchants on the map to refresh their inventories.

206.61

• Added the following grenades as rare drops on Explosives population tables: spring-turret, time dilation, plasma, gravity, glitter, and phase shift.
  
• Added descriptions for several pieces of furniture.
  
• Weapons with lots of ammo no longer cause the ammo display to overflow the bar.
  
• Creatures can no longer be woken up the turn they fall asleep, which will prevent some issues like a backswing from a blow that knocked a creature unconscious immediately waking them up.
  
• Weapons that stun on impact now stun when they are thrown as well.
  
• Boosted the disassemble performance of unpowered advanced toolkits to match that of basic toolkits, as clained in the rules text.
  
• In look descriptions, fungal infections now show up under "Physical Features" instead of "Equipped".
  
• Creatures who prefer not to sell specific items or types of items now agree to sell them to you if they are your companion.
  
• Added a sound effect to the "you feel increasingly unstable" mutating message.
  
• Liquid-fueled energy cells are now tagged as ammo.
  
• Killing all the girshlings in Redrock before accepting What's Eating the Watervine? no longer prevents the quest's completion.
  
• Gave Saad Amos the Rebuke Robot skill.
  
• Removed how many seconds are left on a bombs timer from its description. It still appears in the display name.
  
• Active fungi now have a higher render layer.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused clues to the location of Ruin of House Isner to disappear from loaded games.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused unequipping the amaranthine prism via Precognition to not disappoint someone, if the prism was not in your inventory prior.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused averaged armor values from multiple limbs of the same type to sometimes not update when one of the limbs was lost.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to always receive blame for unequipping the prism, regardless of whom it was equipped to. (You'll still be blamed if it's your companion doing the unequipping.)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Decarbonizer module to permanently stop working if its beam was interrupted.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the golem's ability to recall to the Court of Sultans to stop working if recalled or reshaped via the reshaping nook.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Eat the God's Flesh' step to not complete correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Wandering Tau to wander off as if she were preparing to join the Seekers of the Sightless way.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented Wandering Tau from being a follower after If, Then, Else was completed.
  
• Fixed a grammar issue with falling through open air.
  
• [modding] Folded Staging.xml blueprints into their respective data files.
  
• [modding] Added IfHaveItemDescendsFrom conversation delegate which checks your inventory and equipment for an object with a descendant blueprint.
  
• [modding] RecoilOnDeath now checks its active status, meaning it can be disabled by normality, EMP, rust, et cetera if flagged as vulnerable.

206.59

• Long trader names are now properly clipped on the trade screen.
  
• Gave lover's blossom a new tile.
  
• Autoexplore now avoids osseous ash.
  
• Traders are now referred to by name in messages explaining they don't have the skill to recharge or repair something.
  
• Urchin cherubim now grow their cherubic spines on their body instead of their arms, which they don't have.
  
• Qas and Qon are now immune to confusing gas.
  
• Glass doors are no longer opaque.
  
• The quest text of A Signal in the Noise no longer references Joppa.
  
• Made some tweaks to mid and late-game armor tables.
  
• Creatures with glotrot can no longer use Sticky Tongue.
  
• Thrown objects now use the proper unidentified tile if you don't know what they are.
  
• Multiple ejection seats can no longer lock in place in the same tile.
  
• Reaching loved reputation now only creates an entry in your chronology once per faction.
  
• Greatly improved the performance and memory utilization of pathfinding.
  
• Improved the performance of breeders.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Putus Templar party leaders in faction encounters to get double their inventory.
  
• Gave Putus Templar party leaders the chance to have more than one Eaters' nectar tonic.
  
• Fixed a bug with the scoring of A Call to Arms that caused chain laser emplacements and waydroids to be treated as full Barathrumite persons.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic energy cells to never generate with more than half charge.
  
• Fixed a bug that put proselytize on cooldown with no effect when targeting a baetyl.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused spaser gas to emit from the attacker instead of the defender when killing a target in one shot.
  
• Fixed a recurring bug where some legendary creatures had malformed titles.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the deployment of portable walls on the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Hobbled to become less effective as your move speed increased, and increase it once your move speed was above 200.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented levels deep underneath Ezra from building properly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a big performance hit when a creature was boxed in and unable to move.
  
• Fixed some grammar errors in books without titles.
  
• Fixed a text generation issue with sultan titles.
  
• [debug] Added "hobbled" wish.
  
• [modding] Added object, int, and float properties to factions.

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.