Caves of Qud News

204.61

• Gaze and light-based attacks are now blocked by vantabud and vantabloom darkness.
  
• Spaser rifles now deal plasma damage instead of light damage.
  
• Phase cannons and decarbonizers now deal disintegration damage instead of light damage.
  
• Plasma damage now has its own death message.
  
• Nerfed psychodyne helmet.
  
• Added several new wall descriptions.
  
• Added an Ego requirement to [redacted].
  
• You now need to be adjacent to a creature to perform the water ritual.
  
• Primordial soup no longer cools into shale.
  
• Removed an outdated version of cryokinesis from ice frogs and gave them Freezing Ray.
  
• Star kraken no longer excrete quasi-real starch and lignin.
  
• It's no longer possible to deal negative damage.
  
• Dromad traders now politely pretend to be fooled by the disguises their customers wear.
  
• Made further adjustments to make creatures prefer not to use non-weapon equipment as improvised weapons.
  
• Messages displayed for taking zero damage now say "no damage" rather than "0 damage".
  
• Added rules text for what camel bladder does.
  
• Accomplishments based on eating something no longer complete if you fail to eat the thing.
  
• Pyrokinesis and Cryokinesis can no longer be activated on the world map.
  
• Cooking effects triggered by drinking freshwater no longer trigger on the world map.
  
• Added a basic description to Rebuke Robot ability.
  
• The heads of high-level robots now more consistently contain high-level bits.
  
• You now get an appropriate message when you attempt to shield slam a target you can't reach because it's playing.
  
• You now get an appropriate message when you attempt to shield slam a target who's out of phase with you.
  
• Twinning and trining lampreys now spawn with the same effects in place that the lamprey spawning them has.
  
• Fixed various bugs that caused the allegiance of twinning and trining lampreys to behave strangely in some interactions of their spawning behavior, Proselytize, Beguiling, love injectors, and/or cloning.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Disintegration, Light Manipulation, and Stunning Force not to benefit from Two-Headed.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to eat a luminous hoarshroom at no action cost if you did it through thethe overlay UI inventory view.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused agolmaggots to lack any natural weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug that made non-companion creatures sucked through spacetime vortices create action queue inconsistencies.
  

204.60

• We refreshed the corpus of game text used to generate text for white-titled books, graffiti, urn inscriptions, and bird dialog. You'll now see text from the last several updates appear.
  
• Beak and hooks for feet no longer benefit from having the Horns mutation.
  
• Quantum ripplers have a new tile.
  
• Two quantum ripplers a space apart now spawn a spacetime rift between them and stabilize it so that nothing emerges.
  
• Dyvvrach now only mentions the chiming rock if you've talked to it.
  
• Acid humors now leave behind brackish acid pools rather than pure acid pools, meaning they'll evaporate over time.
  
• Creatures now have considerably greater tolerance for friendly fire incidents from allied creatures that are not controlled by the player.
  
• Flashbang grenades can now confuse creatures that are immune to psychic confusion.
  
• Being confused now prevents vantabuds and vantablooms from absorbing light.
  
• Unidentified modded pickaxes no longer appear as small boxes.
  
• Creatures are now less willing to equip items that have missile weapon, shield, or thrown weapon functionality as melee weapons.
  
• Flying companions are now more mindful when swooping with friendlies in their paths.
  
• Exiled Keh & Kesehind no longer immediately disappear when dismissed as proselytes.
  
• Crafting recipes listed in the water ritual no longer include the penetration and damage values of weapons.
  
• Fixed a bug that made thrown phials of neutron flux fail to explode and instead leave behind a strange puddle of null liquid.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic pieces of armor to be considered highly potent melee weapons by NPCs.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Stingers to not always sting when charging or lunging.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused jump animations to play on inactive zones.
  
• [modding] Implanted missile weapons now validate whether they are equipped on an appropriate body part using CyberneticsBaseItem.Slots rather than Physics.UsesSlots or MissileWeapon.SlotType.
  
• [modding] Previously, when objects were being destroyed with the Obliterate flag, the return value of BeforeDestroyObjectEvent was ignored, meaning the normal object destroy process continued (as opposed to without Obliterate, where returning false would prevent destroy). Now, the return value of BeforeDestroyObjectEvent is always honored, and BeforeDestroyObjectEvent handlers are responsible for checking the Obliterate flag if they need to before returning false.
  

Hi all,
We're skipping the patch this week due to some travel. We'll be back next week!

Live and drink.

204.59

• Spacetime vortices can no longer be coated in liquids.
  
• We made some performance improvements to spacetime vortices. They no longer immediately load new zones when spawned, meaning playing with Spacetime Vortex and Quantum Jitters should be smoother.
  
• The Discharge power from the Electrical Generation mutation now requests confirmation before targeting yourself.
  
• Barathrumite tinkers now spawn with a leather cloak rather than a cloth robe they cannot wear.
  
• Baetyl rewards received as part of the [redacted] creation process are now written to the message log.
  
• Gaslight weapons now consistently display their powered performance in the tinkering UI, rather than gaslighting you about their stats.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the reputation bonus from the custom visage implant to persist when swapping bodies.
  
• Fixed a bug that made creatures with random cybernetic implants sometimes receive implants in excess of their license tier.
  
• Fixed some bugs with Juke, like how juking out of your own force bubble left the forcefield in place until you moved again.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented dreamcrungles from becoming sated after you woke up peacefully.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mutation ranks not to stack with the [redacted] if you gained ranks from multiple sources.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacteds] with the custom visage implant not to apply their reputation bonus when controlled.
  
• Fixed a coloration issue with dromad caravan journal entries.
  
• [modding] Added IfZoneVisited conversation predicate, which is true when the specified zone ID has been visited by the player. Fixed the RemoveItem/RemoveSpeakerItem delegates.
  

204.58

• Pickaxes now count as axes for melee purposes.
  
• Pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers now display rules text for their wall penetration behavior.
  
• Gigantic pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers, and burrowing claws on gigantic creatures, now destroy walls in half as many penetrating hits.
  
• NPCs with air current microsensors or optical multiscanners implanted no longer reveal stairs to you. The exception is if the NPC is your follower and close enough for you to hear them.
  
• Added an animation to jumping.
  
• Arrows wielded as melee weapons now use the Short Blades skill.
  
• Dawngliders have a flaming bite again.
  
• Turret tinker followers now respect being told not to set up turrets.
  
• You now get an appropriate failure message when you try to apply a tonic to a robot.
  
• The repulsive device can no longer be taken back from the Children of the Tomb.
  
• Conveyor belts now stop animating when their drive is destroyed or disabled.
  
• Animated doors and walls are now affected by Slam as creatures, not as walls/doors.
  
• Stunning from Slam can no longer allows a successful save on a natural 20.
  
• Slam now propels creatures across pits in the middle of their path of being slammed.
  
• Slam now moves items on the ground along with a slammed creature regardless of whether the creature dies as a result of the slam.
  
• Slam now shakes the camera if the player is anywhere in the chain of creatures moved, rather than only if the player is the initial target.
  
• Creatures are no longer blocked from being moved by Slam by non-square-occupying items on the ground.
  
• Death due to the damage from being Slammed through walls now has case-specific death messaging.
  
• Using Slam while engulfed now results in slamming the engulfing creature in the direction indicated (unless you choose no direction, in which case you still Slam yourself).
  
• Creatures that are rooted in place can no longer be knocked prone.
  
• You are no longer considered able to move your extremities while enclosed in furniture like an iron maiden, regen tank, or sarcophagus.
  
• Removed the penetration cap from phase spider bite.
  
• NPC and starting player equipment usage is now less willing to use non-melee-weapon items as improvised melee weapons.
  
• Fixed an issue causing fungal infections to misbehave.
  
• Fixed a bug that made creatures fail to equip items over natural gear.
  
• Fixed a bug with applied tonics that looked at the applying creature's attributes rather than the applied-to creature.
  
• Fixed an issue with the rendering of taproot floor in Chavvah's keter.
  
• Fixed a rare infinite zone generation bug when generating dynamic quests after all secrets have been exhausted.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused amnesia to trigger on the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused the Bell of Rest to recall the player directly over an open pit, killing them.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused data disks to give every effect when used as hamsa.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused qudzu and their symbiotes to not rust your items.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused beguiling via cooking effects to always fail.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures temporarily beguiled via cooking effects to replace your permanent followers.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused limb regeneration faculties to fail to regenerate dismembered treads and hardpoints from cybernetics. (Treads and hardpoints already severed in saved games are not affected.)
  
• Fixed a bug when you acquired Monochrome in the body of a dominated creature that resulted in being permanently unable to cure it.
  
• Reverted the input manager change that caused some issues on Linux machines. This will re-break some issues on MacOS without the bugfix enabled, but now it's broken in a more historically normal way.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some small inconsistencies in spawns.
  
• Fixed a bug that made Slam destroy items on the ground in the same square as a slammed creature in some circumstances.
  
• Fixed a bug that usually made Slam's damage message from hitting walls not be displayed.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when wading and proneness interacted.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some NPC and player equipment loadouts to feature items being equipped multiple times in the same loadout.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause games to crash on startup.
  
• [modding] Body parts added by cybernetics (motorized treads, gun rack, equipment rack, magnetic core) are no longer tracked as extrinsic (like body parts added by helping hands and two-faced headgear). They're instead considered long-term parts of the body in the same way limbs added by mutations are.
  
• [pets] Creatures no longer fruitlessly try to attack Gloaming or Either/Or. You'll have to re-redeem these pets for this change to take effect.