Caves of Qud News

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.