Feature Friday - September 10, 2021

2.0.202.79 - 'beta' branch

Added a new wayfaring skill, Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes.
Renamed Wilderness Lore: Mountains to Wilderness Lore: Hills and Mountains.
Made moving across rivers, lakes, and the Rainbow Wood a little slower.
The Rainbow Wood and Palladium Reef are no longer considered jungles for the purposes of wilderness lore.
Various becoming nooks across Qud now have implants in their cybernetics racks again.
Gravity grenades now down flyers in their area of effect.
Creatures beguiled via the cooking effect triggered action now lose interest in their beguilers after the metabolizing effect expires.
Algal water pools in Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef are now deeper and squarely past the swim threshold.
Serrated and nanon weapons now have a very small chance to decapitate independent of whether you have the Decapitate skill power. Having Decapitate does not augment this chance.
Nanon now requires Tinker III.
Moved the river referenced in Raising Indrix to south of the Kyakukya instead of north. Also fixed a bug with its starting location.
Added descriptions for all new cybernetic implants.
Changed the name of some high-tier implants.
Added descriptions for prism perch, white esh, quatravolt glider, and sultan croc.
Updated what secrets svardym and the denizens of the Yd Freehold are interested in.
The Hydropon is no longer subject to svardym storms.
Urns in the Yd Freehold now have appropriate names.
Changed the names and added descriptions for finger coral and tunnel sponge.
Increased the number of times you can drink [redacted] for a positive effect.
Meditation no longer occasionally cures gamma moth mutation.
Damage reflected by equipment is now attributed to the equipment's wearer.
Fixed a bug that caused new characters to be created without the proper faction reputations for their genotype and subtype.
Fixed a bug that caused natural claw weapons from Skulk Tonic to remain after the effect expired.
Fixed a bug that caused you to start with the skill that your random starting village teaches via the water ritual.
Fixed a reputation bug that caused several hostility issues with creatures' attitudes toward you.
Fixed a bug that caused map notes to not load until you opened your journal.
Fixed a bug that caused recipes intended to give corrosive gas generation to have no effect.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to complete an important Tomb of the Eaters quest step.
Fixed a bug that prevented relics that bestow extra carry capacity from working.
Fixed a bug that caused kills via your spaser-generated plasma to not be attributed to you.
Fixed a bug that caused robots to be unaffected by ganglionic teleproject and Rebuke Robot.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to fly underground with a certain flight-granting cybernetic boosts.
Fixed a bug that caused you to be referred to in the third person wehn dealing damage with Sunder Mind.
Fixed a bug that caused up-stairs to generate on the surface level of the Palladium Reef.
Fixed a bug that cauased identified artifacts to keep their unidentified color.
Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] to fail to render correctcly if entered with penetrating radar enabled.
Fixed a bug that caused an exception when a [redacted] is targeting during a serialization cycle
More [redacted].
[modding] Fixed the player's body object not being sourced from Genotype/Subtype.

Additionally, here are the notes for some additional changes that were included in the last few alpha and beta patches.

Our official, community-mananged wiki has a new home: https://wiki.cavesofqud.com. We updated the link in the Modding Utilities.
You can now jump through squares that contain creatures who are out of phase or flight with you.
You can no longer manipulate the results of cooking with nectar by using Precognition.
The carrying capacity bonus from Multiple Legs now reflects its description.
You can no longer talk to your original body while dominating another creature. (This led to bad things.)
Ctrl+Space once again looks at items on the equipment screen.
Most things that interrupt autoact now provide a visual indicator of what caused the interruption, if it's something external.
Psionic weapons no longer affect inanimate objects.
Night-vision goggles are now overloadable.
Creatures are now a little better at escaping environmental damage.
Creatures no longer use Force Bubble if an ally is adjacent. This prevents rare Force Bubble + Temporal Fugue crashes.
Nulling weapons now apply astral burdening for a short time after they hit, rather than only instantaneously as they hit.
Looking at objects in force fields and stasis fields now gives info on the object instead of the field.
Rephrased messages about additional body parts needed to equip items in more abstract, inclusive terms.
Slightly decreased the traversal speed of most projectiles.
A visible rhinox getting ready to charge now interrupts autoact.
Temporal fugue clones are now placed a little more intelligently with respect to natural movement modes (e.g., aquatic creature clones will prefer spawning in swim-depth water).
Fixed a bug that caused autoexplore to dig around boulders and rubble instead of through them.
Fixed a bug that caused Temporal Fugue clones to always spawn northwest of you.
Fixed a bug that caused jewelers to occasionally have double-jewel-encrusted items.
Fixed a bug that caused you to occasionally get stuck inside walls when using Space-Time Vortex.
Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes generate inside walls.
Fixed a rare crash in Grit Gate.
The "you" pronoun is no longer incorrectly used when creatures collect liquids.
[modding] Added some new predicates to conversations: IfTrueKin, IfNotTrueKin, IfGenotype, IfNotGenotype, IfSubtype, and IfNotSubtype.
[modding] Unity impostors now support X and Y offsets.