Caves of Qud News

203.12 - 'beta' branch

• We gave Red Rock a big makeover. It's now much more cavern-like, includes unique encounters, and is home to a snapjaw settlement.
  
• We added a rare chance for power grid, hydraulic, and mechanical infrastructure to appear in various sites.
  
  • Possible sites include ruin worldmap tiles (extending 30 strata down), baroque ruin worldmap tiles (also extending 30 strata down), unnamed ruins found in the jungle or deep jungle, Bethesda Susa, and some villages.
    
  • Infrastructure and the equipment it powers will be found in various states of disrepair.
    
  • Infrastructure equipment may or may not have a use.
    
  • Added -- or made dynamically generatable -- some new furniture of varying technological sophistication.
    
  • Removed metal and plastic hydraulic pipes.
    
• If you have Tinker I, you can now deploy wire.
  
  • 1" of wire extends across one tile.
    
  • You can deploy up to 10' at a time.
    
  • Deployed wire can be used to connect components across a working power grid.
    
  • Wire objects now merge into a single coil that weight 1lb per 25'.
    
• We revamped ruin generation and population in several sites.
  
  • Sites include ruin worldmap tiles (extending 30 strata down), baroque ruin worldmap tiles (also extending 30 strata down), unnamed ruins found in the jungle of deep jungle, and some named ruins.
    
  • Revamped ruined structures tend to be a little more complex than they were previously.
    
  • Ruin creature and loot population is much improved.
    
  • Baroque ruins now use a consistent wall type across the parasang and down the ruin column.
    
• Made a bunch of population adjustments to the deep jungle.
  
• Adjusted the tier of Bethesda Susa and Asphalt Mines subterranean levels.
  
• Increased the chance for 50' strands of wire to appear on the surface of the rust wells.
  
• Previously chosen conversation options are now more consistently recolored.
  
• Shale that is adjacent to large pools of water now has its tile detail color altered to indicate vine growth.
  
• Changed dreadroot's tile color.
  
• [debug] Added a new debug option, ""Draw zone semantics", that indicates the inside/outside areas of zones using the newest ruins builder.
  
• [modding] We revamped the conversation system to be much more dynamic and moddable.
  
  • See the wiki for full details.
    
  • Conversations now merge their contents together by default.
    
  • Conversations and elements can now inherit their properties from one or multiple elements.
    
  • Conversations and elements can now have custom logic defined with C# parts.
    
  • Custom predicates and actions like IfHaveQuest or GiveItem can be added for use in XML.
    
  • Elements can now be distributed to other elements. For example, a choice can be distributed to every start node within the conversation.
    
  • Nodes and choices can now have multiple text elements.
    
  • Any element can now have predicates, including individual text elements.
    
  • The logic for the water ritual and dialogue-heavy quests such as "Landing Pads" has moved into Conversations.xml.
    
• [modding] Added extensive semantic tagging to several objects for power grid, hydraulic, and mechanical infrastructure.
  

203.9 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new UI for the Continue screen and removed the stand-in overlay one.
  
• Mouse input is now enabled by default.
  
• On Roleplay and Wandor modes, Gyl is now a checkpoint location.
  
• Creatures no longer spawn inside the [redacted] at Gyl.
  
• Reduced the chance for low tier creatures to have high tier items like zetachrome.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to occasionally crash when you accessed a book.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some relics to generate with place names.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused artifacts providing additional carry capacity to function when improperly equipped.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the hooks from Hooks for Feet to be placed in your inventory when buying new mutations.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused popups about extradimensional psychic hunters to continue appearing after you left [redacted].
  
• We started to add Steam Deck support.
  
  • When running on Steam Deck, the default scale is set to 1.25x.
    
  • When running on Steam Deck, the prerelease input manager is the default input mode.
    
  • When running on Steam Deck, the overlay keyboard will be displayed for text input fields.
    
  • Updated Steamworks SDK to 1.53a.
    

203.7 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new music track to deep caves.
  
• Sleeping waydroids in the Grit Gate enclave are now friendly to Barathrumites.
  
• Added two new shields: crysteel aegis and flawless crysteel aegis.
  
• Added a new force attack binding to the prerelease input manager which will force attack in the currently selected direction. (defaults to alt+L1)
  
• Widened the range of possibilities for relic missile weapons.
  
• Tweaked the details and added several new descriptions for relic base items.
  
• Relic curios that summon friendly creatures now typically summon higher-level creatures.
  
• Relic tonics now provide two attribute/mutation points instead of one (or boost an attribute by two instead of one).
  
• Added new descriptions for the following items: nanoweave vest and rainboweave cloak.
  
• Added signs for gutsmongers' shops.
  
• Added new tiles for the following objects: canned Have-It-All, canned mystery meat, bandage, desalination pellet, knollworm skull, blood-stained neck ring, miner's helmet, fire ant gaster, steel buckler, steel shield, carbide shield, bronze ingot, qudzu stem, rubber tree seed, fullerite aegis, hunk of cheese, Yd Freehold workshop sign, jeweler sign, some books, tokens, timecube, relic curios, gentling cone, eyeless crab legs, crimson hood, mirrorshades, telemetric visor, chrome mantle, mercurial cloak, rainboweave cloak, worn burnoose, Praetorian's cloak, leather scraps, panther's cloak, furs, point-defense lasor, precinct navigator, wrist calc, force bracelet, structural scanning bracelet, life loop, snakeskin armlet, chain gauntlets, elastyne gloves, plasifer gloves, carbide boots, fullerite boots, anti-gravity boots, bounding boots, brinestalk gate, small sphere of negative weight, data disk, waterskin, camel bladder, robot limbs, organic limbs, trash, security cards, spiral borer, Klanq infection, ganglionic teleprojector, forge, anvil, fused security door, geomagnetic disc, luminous mote, quantum mote, palladium electrodeposits, crumpled piece of paper, torn sheet of graph paper, Templar phylactery, chrome platform, pocketed vest, plasifer chem vest, puma chitin vest, fullerite flake armor, rubber suit, flexivest, nanoweave vest, all grenades, and all energy cells.
  
• Changed the ASCII and tile colors of various objects.
  
• We did some more population refactoring. You may see some more changes in creature and equipment distributions.
  
• Rocks falling from the ceiling now respect phase.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused svardym storms to roll over to protected zones like the Yd Freehold if the storm started outside of it.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused lithofexes to refract their own lithifying gaze if equipped with refractive gear.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused high explosives (including sowers seeds) to ocassionally explode forever.
  
• Fixed some cooking effects not serializing properly (this will unfortunately break some small % of saved games)
  

203.6 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new music track to [redacted].
  
• You now fall in love with statues and figurines depicting creatures you would normally fall in love with.
  
• Renamed "desert rifle"" to "Isaachar rifle"".
  
• Renamed "borderlands revolver" to "chrome revolver".
  
• Added new descriptions for the following guns and ammo: Issachar rifle, carbine, sniper rifle, musket, chain laser, linear cannon, freeze ray, blood-gradient hand vacuum, chaingun, chrome revolver, semi-automatic pistol, chain pistol, pump shotgun, combat shotgun, lead slug, electrobow, grenade launcher, missile launcher, HE missile, phase cannon, nullray pistol, short bow, compound bow, and flamethrower.
  
• Adjusted the tiers of some missile weapons.
  
• Fixed a typo in Goek's dialog.
  
• The life drain effect of bloody soup sludges no longer triggers on all weapon hits, instead restricted to a hit from their bloody pseudopod.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Hole Like a Head" achievement to not unlock if you had multiple heads.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze if you were dominating an object requiring fungal vision as the shimmering effect expired.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the shimmering screen effect from consuming Eater's flesh to persist when dominating another creature.
  

203.4 - 'beta' branch

• Added new items: ogre fur hat, ogre fur gloves, and ogre fur cloak.
  
• You can now butcher ape fur hats and ape fur gloves from albino ape corpses. The descriptions of these items were changed to make this more sensible.
  
• Relic melee weapons are now sometimes two-handed.
  
• Historic sites are now built from a more sensible set of wall types, which includes gilded marble from the appropriate sultanate period.
  
• Removed short swords from the game because their stats were extraneous and identical to daggers. If they do come back, they'll likely be revamped.
  
• Added new descriptions for low and mid tier daggers, cudgels, axes, and swords.
  
• Cloneling clones now count toward the achievements "Me, Myself, and I" and "Clonal Colony".
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement for traveling to the Six Day Stilt not to unlock if you had accepted the quest O Glorious Shekhinah!
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the razed goatfolk village to fail to build.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused read books to count multiple times for achievements.
  
• [debug] Added an option to disable achievement progress (Debug > disable achievements).