206.70

• Added new visual effects to throwing axes and geomagnetic discs.
  
• Poison-tipped spears are now thrown with the pointy end towards the target.
  
• Throwing axes are now categorized under Thrown Weapons.
  
• You are no longer required to die permanently in order to unlock the achievement 'Jeweled Dusk'.
  
• Motorized treads can no longer rust.
  
• There's now a popup message when you or a companion has a stat drained by a creature for the first time.
  
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented popups from being displayed when equipment was removed by a pulse field magnet.
  
• Fixed a messaging oddity when losing the use of dependent limbs, such as hands.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused trails on thrown items to render over their sprite.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your average armor to not be recalculated when regenerating limbs.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dismembered limbs of named creatures to be referred to with an article.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dismembered limbs to not inherit the article of the creature they were dismembered from.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "worn around wings" slot to lose its name after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to permanently lose your beak after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your disguise to disappear in completely dark areas.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused graffiti to sometimes not change the foreground color of a tile.
  
• [modding] Added several configurable parameters to throwing visual effects: e.g. speed, arc, rotation, trail, color, etc.
  
• [modding] The ending transparency of projectile trails can now be set with a full-length RGBA value, e.g. '#77bfcf60'.
  
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused transparency on custom projectile trails to be overriden.

206.69

• Added new hamsa effects to various grenades.
  
• All heavy weapons will now be reloaded before each individual shot while using Sweep.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the automove interrupt code to be incorrectly 'sticky' in some situations.
  
• Fixed a messaging oddity when attempting to recoil to the court of sultans in combat.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some factions to not gift their cybernetics credit wedges via the water ritual.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused irisdual beam to misreport its dealt damage.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to lunge with a dismembered stinger.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused thermal and freeze grenades to not have appropriate hamsa effects.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused armed mines to be reported as disarmed in their description.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the item category of the scrapped waydroid to be incorrect.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Auto-pickup of zero weight items' but skip picking up items with fractional weight.
  
• [debug] Added a new debug option to show current faction reputation when looking at creatures that grant reputation.
  
• [modding] Name is now a required property of population groups.
  
• [modding] Added a Name to every population group.

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.