Caves of Qud News

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).
  

Our Deep Jungle feature arc is now in beta. If you're interested, come help us test!

To access the beta: right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. We'd appreciate if you logged issues you find at our public issue tracker. Kindly include [beta] in the bug title.

Live and drink, friends.

[h2]PATCH NOTES[/h2]

[h3]DEEP JUNGLE AND BAROQUE RUINS[/h3]

• We added two minor late-game regions, the deep jungle and baroque ruins.
  
  • Made significant changes to the worldmap to accommodate the new regions.
    
  • Added new creatures: deep slumberling, purple jell, trash abbot, and goatfolk qlippoth.
    
  • Added new flora: nachash tree and nimbus beam.
    
  • Added rare urberry bushes.
    

[h3]LATE-GAME HISTORIC SITES[/h3]

• We added historic sites for the period 1, 2, and 3 sultans. The number of historic sites per game now follows this pattern:
  
  • Period 5 sultan: 2 sites
    
  • Period 4 sultan: 2 sites
    
  • Period 3 sultan: 2 sites
    
  • Period 2 sultan: 1 site
    
  • Period 1 sultan: 1 site
    
• We made mid and late-game historic sites have fewer levels. They now max out at around depth 7.
  
• More changes to historic site population are likely to come.
  

[h3]NEW ACHIEVEMENTS[/h3]

• Added 48 new achievements.
  
  • Mechanimist Reformer; Aaaaaaaaargh!; Feast Upon the Goat Hearts!
  • cheers*; Rocket Bear; Two Cats Are Better Than One; Me, Myself, and I; Clonal Colony; The Woe of Apes; Close the Loop; Tourist; Sight Older Than Sight; What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered?; Star-Eye Esper; The Quasar Mind; There Can Be Only One; Glimmer of Truth; Sultan of Salt; Absolute Unit; Non-Locally Sourced;
    Surprise!; From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif; All Those Who Wander; The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth; A Clammy Reception; What's Eating the Watervine?; Byevalve; You Recame; Dayenu; Belong, Friends; Token of Gratitude; The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2; Aetalag; I-;
  • gulp*; Jeweled Dusk; The Narrowing Sky; Dawnglider; Was It Something I Said?; Lottery Winner; The Psychal Chorus; Become as Gods; Live and Ink; tsk tsk; Raisins in the Layer Cake;
    May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble; Red Rock Hazing Ritual; Mumblecore; Open Your Mind
    

[h3]RUST WELLS[/h3]

• The Rust Wells have been entirely revamped. The dungeons are now based on fulcrete wells that are dug into the earth.
  
• Added a mechanism to allow flight in strata beneath the surface when there is sufficient open sky above you.
  

[h3]BALANCE[/h3]

• If you have the Hooks for Feet defect, your dismembered hooks now regrow.
  
• We reduced the defensive buffs from cooking with the preserved gland paste of the various bearded lizards.
  
  • Sleetbeard gland paste and concentrated sleetbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 cold resist, respectively, instead of +100.
    
  • Flamebeard gland paste and concentrated flamebeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 heat resist, respectively, instead of +100.
    
  • Tartbeard gland paste and concentrated tartbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 acid resist, respectively, instead of +100.
    
  • The gland paste and concentrated gland paste of nullbeards, gallbeards, dreambeards, stunbeards, and maze beards no longer offer any defensive bonuses.
    
• Made a small adjustment to the creature tier calculation.
  

[h3]POPULATION REFACTOR[/h3]

• We're in the process of refactoring our systems for populating maps and creature inventories. Creature and equipment distributions may have changed somewhat (but not drastically).
  
• Humanoid creatures, particularly snapjaws and goatfolk, now rarely spawn with a wider range of equipment.
  
• Snapjaw scavengers now occasionally spawn without equipment.
  

[h3]MODDING[/h3]

• We're in the process of retiring encounter tables in favor of population tables. This may affect mods.
  
• Creatures that were previously equipped via encounter table equipment builders are now implemented as multiple creature objects with the AggregateWith tag (ex: Snapjaw Scavenger).
  

Hello,
We're skipping this week's update both to focus on our next feature arc (the Deep Jungle) and because it's Christmas Eve. Early next week, though, we'll be posting an early beta of the Deep Jungle feature arc, which'll include two minor late-game regions, the rest of the sultans' historic sites, a revamped version of the Rust Wells, dozens of new achievements, and more.

Live and drink, friends.

202.102

• Equipment with power switches, such as ontological anchors, night-vision goggles, and ninefold boots, now grasts you an activated ability for toggling their power.
  
• Creatures that are immune to being damaged are now also immune to being dismembered.
  
• Jewelers and gemcutters now have guards.
  
• Corrected resonance grenade damage to non-structural objects in the grenade description.
  
• Frog cherubim now correctly belong to the frogs faction.
  
• Regeneration tanks now tolerate impure convalessence mixtures as long as they contain at leats 100 drams and the mixture is at least two-thirds convalessence. Regen tanks in existing saved games won't be affected, though.
  
• Regen tanks now properly regenerate tongues even when they're the only body part you lost.
  
• Creatures no longer attempt to use Disintegration against enemies they are out of phase with.
  
• Gave the [redacted] sapient plant properties.
  
• You can no longer [redacted] before starting the Tomb of the Eaters quest.
  
• Added the arcology names back to the true kin caste selection screen.
  
• Cooking effects that identify all artifacts on the local map now identify implanted cybernetics.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused variables to occasionally display in the names of village factions.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused hologram bracelets to have infinite range.
  
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused invalid text to be generated after leaving a zone with an object you were lovesick for.
  
• Fixed a bug with temporal fugue clones and other temporary objects that prevented zones from unloading, degrading performance.
  
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused out-of-date copies of your body or your followers to return from [redacted].
  
• Made the text color consistent across hyperbiotic object names.
  
• Fixed a wrong identation in Corpus Choliys.
  
• Fixed a bug that made sower's seeds considered inorganic and eligible for donation at the sacred well.
  
• Fixed the pluralization of 'moments in time chosen arbitrarily'.
  
• Fixed a pluralization issue in dynamic quest text.
  
• Fixed a rare bug that caused saves to fail to load.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your [redacted] to fail to generate properly.
  
• [modding] Made the 'sheeter' wish more robust.