Caves of Qud News

203.34

• Skills learnable via the water ritual are now disambiguated when necessary. E.g., "Charging Strike" is displayed as "Charging Strike (Cudgel/Axe)".
  
• Bilge sphincters can no longer be used to dupe liquids.
  
• Puffing on hookahs without water in them no longer produces smoke.
  
• Being in the path of a decarbonizer's charging molecular cannon now interrupts autoact and discomfits NPCs.
  
• The Olive Face now has a proper trade value.
  
• Elder Irudad and other humanoid apothecaries now spawn with walking sticks.
  
• Quills can no longer be flung on the world map.
  
• Mental mutations now affect psychic glimmer regardless of what source added them.
  
• The bell of rest will no longer rarely drop you into a square with a pit.
  
• Fixed some potential grammar issues in creature and item descriptions.
  
• Fixed a bug that made anomaly fumigators refuse to toggle off.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic meridian to not appear in dynamic encounters.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement "Jeweled Dusk" to not unlock when permadeath was disabled.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic meridians to be excluded from dynamic encounters.
  
• Fixed the display name of an iron gate in the Yd Freehold.
  
• [modding] ObjectBlueprints.xml has been split into multiple XML files. They're all located in the StreamingAssets/Base/ObjectBlueprints folder. We also did some reorganization of object blueprints inside those files.
  

203.33

• The Joppa Zealot is now much louder.
  
• Improved the travel direction selection for the Joppa Zealot's particle effects.
  
• Description text for Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes now correctly describes the skill.
  
• Slynth no longer leave behind human corpses.
  
• Kaleidoslugs in the Yd Freehold now belong to the Yd Freehold faction.
  
• You can no longer cross into [redacted] from outside the [redacted].
  
• Made some clarifications in the help description of the Strength attribute.
  
• Containers that occupy multiple tiles will now be moved together, and break if forcefully separated.
  
• You will now be presented with a list of containers to open if several occupy the same tile.
  
• Cybernetic implants are now described as such when specified in baetyl demands and similar contexts.
  
• Pathfinding now more studiously avoids giant clams.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused odd behavior from armor averaging when some of the body parts involved had 0 AV/DV and others didn't.
  
• Fixed some cases where a lot of watervine or brinestalk would spawn in the same tile.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Joppa Zealot's particle text effect from displaying.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some liquids not to appear is valid cooking ingredients when they should have.
  
• Fixed a typo in the names of recipes that use cloning draught as an ingredient.
  
• Fixed some incorrect grammar in sultan tomb inscriptions.
  
• Fixed a typo in the Tongue & Cheek recipe effect description.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the spreading of Klanq in the vicinity of the Six Day Stilt to only function within the cathedral.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot destroyed containers with the Open action.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the AI behavior of some movement and retreat related abilities to malfunction.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused furniture to rarely spawn stacked.
  
• Fixed a bug that increased world map lag.
  

203.32

• Owned containers are shown as owned in the trade UI. Items in the owned container that belong to you are labeled to show that.
  
• The item listing when opening a container now shows which container you are opening.
  
• NPCs are now a bit less prone to attacking you if you damage objects owned by their faction, especially if the damage seems accidental.
  
• Abilities granted by items now have their cooldowns tracked separately from the equipped status of the item, and you no longer have to wait before unequipping an item with an ability on cool.
  
• You no longer automatically reload broken or rusted throwing weapons.
  
• The reload prompt now displays the current reload keybinding.
  
• Trolls no longer spawn troll foals on the world map, causing game crashes.
  
• Living things without brains can now be cloned using cloning draught rather than remaining in budding state indefinitely.
  
• Clones of animated objects now also indicate that they are animated in their display names.
  
• Animated doors no longer cause adjacent doors to open and close to match their own state.
  
• When you use Temporal Fugue in a body that is not your own and then try to talk to the clones, you no longer get the message "You make small talk with yourself" before entering conversation.
  
• The look display no longer forces capitalization on proper names that are not supposed to be capitalized.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some merchant advertisements to not properly reveal the locations of their respective merchants when read.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rare exceptions in handling liquid coatings.
  
• Fixed a bug that made custom visages fail to function if unimplanted and reimplanted.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused NPCs to equip items they weren't supposed to, such as Hand-E-Nukes.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused mine explosions to be displayed as coming from a
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• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Hydropon to fail to build.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused zones to be empty if rebuilt after visiting a sky zone above.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Svardym to croak in unspoken conversation text. ((e.g. water ritual reputation))
  
• Fixed a bug that caused hostile creatures to be present near the charred tree of Eskhind.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the death message of being transmuted into a gem to not display.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to pray twice at statues created by the gaze of a lithofex.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the stairs of the rust wells to be blocked by shale;
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some nearby items, minimap and message log settings to be improperly stored.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to complete the quest "Weirdwire Conduit.. Eureka!" after collecting enough wire, whether it was still in your inventory or not.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the effects of items such as torches and braziers to display over inventory icons if they lined up with their cell.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot multiple sultan reliquaries if you interacted with them across zone borders.
  
• Fixed a harmless exception when aborting out of Spray-a-Brain usage from the stage of selecting a target.
  

Hi folks,
Due to some team travel we'll be skipping Friday's patch this week. We'll resume next week.

Live and drink.

203.29

• Villages are no longer occasionally colonized by multiple versions of the same legendary creature, which lead to various issues.
  
• The quest 'Pax Klanq, I Presume?' now completes after you do the important step and talk to Barathrum about it, even if earlier quest steps are still active.
  
• Events that would create an open pit in [redacted] now open space-time rifts instead.
  
• Meyehind and Liihart now aid Eskhind if you initiate a fight with her via dialogue.
  
• 'Do You Really Want to Die' prompts now function correctly in modes with checkpoints.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the key mapping option in the system menu to set a checkpoint.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when an open pit appeared in a pocket dimension that wraps back onto itself in a single screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some secrets to fail to print to the message log when they were revealed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused blank sultan murals to appear in rare circumstances.
  
• Fixed an exception caused by malformed color codes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused manually dismissed proselytes to keep following you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Pax Klanq and other legendary fungi to infect a different limb from the one selected.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Pax Klanq to spawn outside his hut.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it possible for a galgal to run over itself, particularly when possessed by the player.
  
• Fixed bugs in the interaction of space-time vortices with reality stabilization that caused confusing messages and inappropriate showers of sparks.
  
• Fixed a bug that made your force bubble not move with you when you jumped. (This probably also will result in jumping interacting with other movement-triggered events that it previously bypassed.)
  
• Fixed a bug that made hydraulics presses only compress objects that were placed in them, not creatures who entered them.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the comm panel from taking data disks from the player.
  
• Fixed a typo with a Paralyzing Stinger exclusion.
  
• [modding]Added anatomies for motes, mirrors, and octohedra.