Caves of Qud News

The definitive word on Bungie's Marathon won't be laid down for quite some time yet, but everyone who plays it can agree on one thing: it's got that special sauce. The otherworldly sci-fi energy of Tau Ceti IV has clearly had a huge amount of care and thought put into every piece of the puzzle, from its gleaming environments to its sinister megacorporations, the dark hostility of its world, and the deliberately expendable nature of its runners. But the method behind the magic clicks into place with the reveal of one unexpected detail: the involvement of Caves of Qud developers Freehold Games.

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• Graffiti is now visible on walls with ornately engraved plaques.
  
• Merchants now allow you to trade with them you after you buy their entire inventory.
  
• Stairs in the Tomb of the Eaters are now more consistently reachable.
  
• The looker now indicates the number of objects in the square in the top command bar if there is more than one lookable object.
  
• The default keybind for force attack up and down (Ctrl+ < or >) have been swapped to match movement binds.
  
• Autoget now ignores nuggets if the "Autoget nuggets" option is disabled, even if "Autoget trade goods" is enabled.
  
• Equipping multiple force bracelets now gives multiple abilities to toggle each independently.
  
• Cooking with wild rice or canned Have-it-All now picks a random effect from the correct pool of effects rather using the pool of the ingredient you first cooked with this play session.
  
• Temporary food items no longer stack with non-temporary food items and become permanent.
  
• Build codes using mods that aren't loaded should more reliably work.
  
• [modding] EmbarkBuilderModule now has a GetRequiredMod() method you can override to pop up an error if your mod is not enabled when loading a build code that uses it.
  

• [p]Repair now takes slightly lower precedence in menu priority.[/p]
• [p]Added a debug option to allow world seeds to be input during game creation. It's experimental and won't fully work yet.[/p]
• [p]Ruins that claim they have becoming nooks now always have becoming nooks.[/p]
• [p]The \[redacted] now always have a becoming nook on the bottom floor.[/p]
• [p]Reality stabilization no longer cause individual limbs and equipment (like horns) to vanish from a creature without that creature itself vanishing.[/p]
• [p]Digging tools in the offhand are now preferred over primary non-digging weapons when attacking diggable objects.[/p]
• [p]You now properly melee attack wallbound creatures instead of the wall when a digging tool is equipped in your primary hand.[/p]
• [p]You can now tap your throw bind again in the throw targeting window in order to throw.[/p]
• [p]You now get notified that you gain a \[redacted] when you \[redacted].[/p]
• [p]Tau's crystalline items now have more hitpoints.[/p]
• [p]Fixed various typos.[/p]

• Greatly improved pathfinding performance.
  
• Greatly improved performance when auto-moving to the edge of a zone.
  
• Improved pathfinding logic of creatures, causing them to take more sensible paths around obstacles.
  
• Tri-hologram bracelets no longer reset your targeting position for each hologram.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused unreal objects to be affected by temperature radiation.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes be unable to open your equipment after glitching yourself with warm static.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes lose your inventory after glitching yourself with warm static.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to bump into obstacles on the destination when moving to zone edges.