Caves of Qud News

201.107/202.67

• Tweaked madpole frenzy behavior. Now when they sense blood in their tile, they enter a frenzied state for 10 rounds that gives them +10 Quickness and makes them prefer bleeding targets. They also go berserk for 5 rounds, per usual.
  
• Temporary mutations gained from items or cooking are now displayed on the character sheet.
  
• If you give a companion or other creature a book that trains a skill or increases an attribute, they now read it on their own.
  
• The temperature of creatures and objects in stasis no longer adjusts toward the ambient temperature of their surroundings.
  
• Inventory categories now stay collapsed after closing and reopening the inventory.
  
• Decarbonizers now have their attacks interrupted if they are moved out of the tile they are firing from.
  
• You can now start campfires on bridges.
  
• High-powered magnets now only magnetize one item if applied to a stack.
  
• Rusted creatures now have a -70 Quickness penalty.
  
• Praetorian's cloaks can now be modded.
  
• You can no longer name locations after your culture, for now.
  
• Deactivated turrets no longer interrupt autoact.
  
• The "attack" interaction now requests confirmation before attacking non-hostiles unless they are your target.
  
• The Sacred Well now accepts more kinds of artifacts.
  
• Items treated as artifacts because of item mods are more consistently techscannable rather than structural scannable.
  
• When your items are unequipped due to body changes that aren't dismemberment (for example, due to equipping a two-faced helmet), the unequipped items now go to your inventory rather than dropping on the ground.
  
• Various quest-related data disks are now marked as important.
  
• When entering text into popup dialogs, the characters '&' and '^' are now handled properly.
  
• Dynamic generation of indefinite articles now works correctly for the words "heiress" and "heirloom".
  
• Fixed a bug that caused owned objects being taken from containers using the trade screen to disappear if you declined the confirmation prompt.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented decarbonizer beams from working.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused inventory categories to stick around when empty.
  
• Fixed a bug that cuased hologram bracelet decoys to not move.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic villages to generate overlapped with their own outskirts.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused empty ground tiles to appear in desert villages and ruins.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the hollow tree hideout to generate without ground tiles.
  

Due to some team travel, we're skipping our weekly patch this week. Feature Friday will be back next week.

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201.106/202.66

• You can now disassemble HE Missiles. The chance of recovering any given bit from dissassembly of a missile is very low, since multiple missiles are created per batch. (Note: This won't affect missiles already generated in saved games.)
  
• Crocs are now good swimmers.
  
• Phase shift grenades are now capable of shifting out-of-phase things to in-phase, in addition to their existing behavior of shifting in-phase things to out-of-phase. They continue to only shift the phase of things they are phase-interactive with.
  
• Decarbonizers' molecular cannons can now be shut down by more conditions, such as being EMPed.
  
• Decarbonizers can now fire through obstacles that missiles can normally pass through.
  
• Added new dialogue for tinkers, gemcutters, and jewelers.
  
• If you have the option to confirm before moving into dangerous liquids enabled, and autoact would take you into a pool of dangerous liquid, you are now asked via popup whether you wish to move there, and autoact is cancelled if you disconfirm.
  
• Simplified the signoff for several merchants.
  
• You can now eat gross food such as corpses without being famished if you have Mind over Body.
  
• Tattoo guns are no longer EMP sensitive.
  
• Ichor merchants and kippers now actually sell the neutron flux phials they occasionally spawn with.
  
• Using a Schrodinger page on a village faction from a hidden village now reveals the location of that village.
  
• Mechanical wings can now have the following item mods: feathered, reinforced, scaled, and wooly.
  
• You can no longer sleep in a bed that you are out of phase with.
  
• You can no longer tinker recoilers to preset locations. This doesn't apply to random-point recoilers.
  
• Lowered the item tier of Ezra and Six Day Stilt recoilers.
  
• Using metamorphic polygel to duplicate a severed body part with a cybernetic implant in it now properly duplicates the implant as well.
  
• Biological clones no longer have their coloration altered by the tattoos of their original creatures.
  
• Temporal fugue clones, evil twins, and shadow duplicates now inherit the tattoo descriptions of their original creatures.
  
• Items carried by temporal fugue clones, or that are otherwise temporary in nature, can no longer be butchered or harvested.
  
• If you complete the Earl of Omonporch quest by leveraging your high reputation, you can no longr convene the Council of Omonporch.
  
• Glass bottle descriptions now include cooking ingredient info for the liquids they contain.
  
• Important villagers no longer occasionally spawn as malformed dual-named uniques.
  
• Extradimensional cultists no longer occasionally spawn as malformed dual-named uniques.
  
• These cherubim now belong to the right faction for their species: bat, cat, equine, grazing, mushroom, pottery, root, swine, tree, and urchin.
  
• The targets of quests to interact with an object are now points of interest even if they can be taken, though they cease being points of interest if taken.
  
• Young ivory and lurking beth attacks now generate floating text instead of a popup.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused young ivory and lurking beth to destroy themselves when attacking.
  
• Reduced the intensity of visual effects produced by the the morphogenetic item mod.
  
• The vestigial 'village robot' no longer spawns.
  
• Simplified some basic color patterns.
  
• Corrected Sparafucile's ASL.
  
• Night-vision goggles no longer consume charge on the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some effects, such as phasing, to last indefinitely on inanimate objects.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused grenades and thrown weapons to be auto-equipped improperly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the estimated weight of water for a trade to be inverted.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your turn to pass when cancelling a reload attempt of a cell-loaded weapon.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused electrical discharges gained from cooking to count as free actions.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the entire upper level of villages to fall to the ground below immediately upon entering the zone.
  
• Fixed an issue causing dynamic encounters to sometimes be improperly overlapped with village outskirts, which caused a variety of issues in villages and dynamic encounters.
  
• Fixed an issue causing some new-style popups to not properly respect key delay and repeat settings when keys were held down.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the hollow tree hideout in the flower fields to have encounters it shouldn't have.
  
• Fixed an issue causing item duplication on return from [redacted].
  
• Fixed a rare issue causing village build failures.
  
• Fixed a rare exception.
  

201.105/202.65

• If you know Meditate, you automatically begin meditating when you rest for 10 or more rounds uninterrupted.
  
• The effects of multiple items of serene visage on Meditate's cooldown now work properly.
  
• Added a new UI option: "Show ability cooldown warnings as message log entries instead of popups". Defaults to no.
  
• You can now choose to treat disarmed mines and bombs as scrap.
  
• Carapaces are now sturdy and cannot be cleaved.
  
• Evil twins and shadow duplicates no longer inherit the party leader of the original creature.
  
• Being wet no longer produces a visual effect.
  
• Bonuses to your cybernetics license tier granted by equipment no longer count toward your base tier for the purposes of upgrading your tier. (Note: This won't affect equipment already generated in saved games.) New language was added to becoming nooks to reflect this.
  
• Clarified in the item mod description that sturdy items cannot crack.
  
• Multiple sound effects playing at the same time are now better compressed into fewer effects.
  
• Made some performance improvements to liquid-rich environments.
  
• The estimated weight on the trade screen now includes the weight of the water that will be traded to pay for the transaction.
  
• Extrinsic limbs can no longer be set as primary limbs
  
• Fixed a bug that caused starting villages in the salt marsh and salt dunes to always be known for Butchery.
  
• Fixed some bugs with hostility cessation when creatures changed allegiances.
  
• Fixed ulnar stimulators remaining operational when switched off.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused spontaneous combustion to only trigger outside of combat instead of during combat.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented newly sentient beings from being considered creatures in some contexts.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented psychic Ego absorption from working.
  
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented deaths from being correctly attributed to psychic Ego absorption.
  
• Fixed a bug that made creature names come up as blank in some circumstances.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused UI sounds to always play at full volume.
  
• Fixed a grammar error in trash rifling messages.
  
• Fixed some cases where creatures' cultures were not mapped properly for naming purposes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused cloned sludges to share component liquids.
  
• [modding] The Chance property in population tables now supports "n/m" format to express "n chance in m". If no denominator is specified, 100 is assumed, per the current usage.
  

201.104/202.64

• Added new descriptions for books and crocs.
  
• Urchins now bleed ink.
  
• Books are no longer breakable.
  
• You now receive a popup when a non-trifling companion is sucked into a space-time vortex.
  
• Dynamically-named mutants who start with the Two-Headed mutation, including you, now sometimes generate with a name for each head, such as Ishrutep/Emehiras or Famoroq/Famaar.
  
• Tweaked the wording on the new companion engagement style options.
  
• Tonic application no longer messages as if the entire stack of tonics had been applied.
  
• Made some refinements and corrections to the iteraction between Shield Slam and Charge.
  
  • You now get a single Shield Slam per charge, not one per melee attack made.
    
  • Your Shield Slam no longer depends on any other attack made during the charge successfully hitting.
    
  • Shield Slamming at the end of a charge is now free of action cost rather than occasionally costing multiple additional turns.
    
• A number of powered items -- including bioscanning bracelets, telemetric visors, and powered exoskeletons -- no longer consume charge on the world map. (Unless they have the nav mod, which does consumes charge.)
  
• Techscanning now makes data disks show what they are for in the display name even if the player does not know Tinkering.
  
• Takeable containers on the ground now respond to smart use.
  
• Holographic shimscale mangrove trees and holographic dicalyptus trees no longer block movement. (This won't affect trees already generated in saved games.)
  
• Severed body parts no longer inherit the colors of liquid coverings affecting the creature they were severed from.
  
• Nacham's Ribbon and Vaam's Lens can now be powered via the biodynamic power plant implant or Electrical Generation. (This won't affect items already generated in saved games.)
  
• Compacted bone walls are now referred to as "some compacted bone" in sentences, not "a compacted bone".
  
• Made some improvements to pathfinding through friendly creatures.
  
• Spontaneous Combustion on NPCs now matches its player behaivor and no longer triggers in non-combat situations.
  
• You can no longer use the fill interaction to transubstantiate liquids from other dimensions.
  
• Campfire remains in liquid pools that prevent them from being reignited no longer count as campfires for purposes of whether you can start a new one. (This won't affect campfire remains already generated in saved games.)
  
• More types of objects now get in the way of making a campfire.
  
• Turrets can no longer be deployed on stairs or open shafts.
  
• Items that cannot be unequipped no longer message you about it when a process like breakage is trying to unequip them.
  
• Fixed a typo in autoact interrupt messages caused by your companions fighting.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could attempt taking all of your own inventory when equipping an item.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to equip the item under your cursor when you pressed a category shortcut key.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused item shortcut keys to not twiddle the item if the cursor was on a category.
  
• Fixed a bug that occasionally made you spend a turn while prone instead of standing up.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to talk to mayors of villages with complex signature liquids.
  
• Fixed a bug when you used ganglionic teleprojector from the equipment menu that let you continue to navigate the equipment menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused clones of creatures with proper names to also be treated as if they had proper names.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to warp back to the zone you left if you were dominating a creature with a party leader in that zone.
  
• Fixed a bug in the floating text that appeared when you were grabbed by a livid creeper.
  
• Fixed a typo in the messaging for activated ability cooldown durations.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused trailing commas to be included in some creatures' shortened names.
  
• Fixed a bug with dynamic tiles on some objects, like tombstones.