Caves of Qud News

Impressively large and strange roguelike Caves of Qud has a new update out on October 25, a big one adding two new regions, a new village, and a bunch of improvements for those looking to get into what can be an intimidating genre...
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This is a release candidate for Monday's launch.

202.89 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new book: In Maqqom Yd.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: Mak, Goek, and Bep.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following objects: display breadboard, sewming machine, kiln, rock tumbler, lathe, glass printer, glass furnace, mannequin, light sculpture, brain sculpture, unfinished sculpture, painted column, painting, mushroom case, harp, rectangular bells, and hammered dulcimer.
  
• Added a new sound effect for the start of a svardym eggsac storm.
  
• Added a new sound effect and visual effect for someone nearby plucks a coral polyp.
  
• Refined most of the new content's ASCII.
  
• Made some changes to the ASCII worldmap.
  
• Added authentic stats for all the new furniture.
  
• New furniture now appears in dynamic villages.
  
• Made tier 6 bits a little more common.
  
• The prerelease input manager now lets you rebind the cancel action.
  
• Additional jumps triggered via cooking effects are now messaged better.
  
• Pathfinding now avoids hostile junk dollars.
  
• Goek now teaches Tongue and Cheek via the water ritual.
  
• Bep now identifies artifacts.
  
• Rummaging creatures, such as arconouts and svardym scrounges, no longer rummage as villagers.
  
• Slynth wanderers are now a bit more common.
  
• Slynth settling in the mopango hideout now cluster in a safer location.
  
• Slynth settlers are now docile, like other villagers.
  
• Legendary soup sludges are now be more easily distinguishable from normal ones.
  
• Removed some extraneous and fragile piping infrastructure from the Yd Freehold.
  
• Getting from the current cell now prioritizes takeable items over liquids.
  
• Missle weapon targeting now has a bindable context menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a checkpoint to be created after the game had stopped and then overwrite your primary save.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Mental Mirror to be very unlikely to reflect mental attacks.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused bonded companion cherubim and soup sludges to spawn without their party leaders or factions set.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused soup sludges to only render their first four liquid colors.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused errors when soup sludges spit algae or sunslag.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Thah to choose a faction that no longer loved you when resolving the Landing Pads quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Joppa's opening story popup to give incorrect info.
  
• Fixed a bug that confused Joppa and the ruins of Joppa in certain contexts.
  
• Fixed a tile color bug with semi-automatic pistol.
  
• [modding] AllowedMutationCategories defined in Genotypes.xml now supports a comma separated list of included/excluded categories. E.g., "Physical,Morphotypes" = only physical and morphotypes; "*,-Mental" = everything but mental.
  
• [modding] Added a context menu to objects in the map editor for adding a part without the need of a new blueprint.
  
• [modding] Fixed a boot crash when defining duplicate conversation nodes.
  

That's one week from today. This Friday, we'll post one last beta patch before the launch.

Live and drink, friends.

202.88 - 'beta' branch

• Added new descriptions for the following objects: starmchair, sofa, multicabinet, chalkboard, marble steps, glass hydraulic pipes in the Yd Freehold, and fulcrete with square wave.
  
• Thermo casks are now considered artifacts.
  
• Night-sight interpolators now have a trade value.
  
• Svardym storms now last longer and eggs drop a bit less frequently.
  
• Lithofex gaze is now more visible in the reef.
  
• Crab cherubim and mechanical crab cherubim now have claws.
  
• Clarified that precision nanon fingers' 3X boost to crit chance applies only to base crit chance.
  
• Clarified that the fitted with filters mod only protects against harmful gases if you're breathing them.
  
• Creatures now render over clams.
  
• Clarified in the description of giant hands that it applies to all weapon types.
  
• Clarified in the description of Akimbo that it applies to all missile weapon types.
  
• The glass pipes in the Yd Freehold are now lacquered.
  
• Greatly improved performance when a large party of creatures is on screen.
  
• Swapped the tiles for Teleportation and Teleport Other.
  
• Minorly improved input performance.
  
• Minorly improved erformance when transitioning to or traveling on the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug in the alt overlay that revealed the tile of unidentified artifacts and disguised creatures.
  
• Fixed a bug in the alt overlay with the Yd Freehold's appearance.
  
• Fixed an bug that caused crashes during zone builds.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused empty "pool" objects to appear in zones.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to speak with Otho if he was selected for the resolution of the Landing Pads quest.
  
• Fixed several issues with variant selection on the Choose Mutations screen.
  
• Fixed a text error in slynth settler's dialogue.
  
• Fixed a typo in Mental Mirror's description.
  
• Fixed a typo in trining lamprey's description.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when transitioning to [redacted].
  

202.85 - 'beta' branch

• The new quest Landing Pads is now fully implemented start to finish.
  
• Added a new music track for Rainbow Wood, Lake Hinnom, and Palladium Reef.
  
• Fixed a major OSX hang on startup.
  
• Character generation screens now have hotkeys.
  
• Added arsplice hyphae to the subterranean reef.
  
• Added a new description, name color, and eat message for arsplice seed.
  
• Reduced the damage on-high voltage arc winder and the overloaded variants of both arc winder and high-voltage arc winder.
  
• Added new dialogue for gutsmongers.
  
• Added a new description for star orchid marble.
  
• Electrobow has a tile again.
  
• The Esper morphotype now has the right icon in the character creation UI.
  
• Turrets mounting blood-gradient hand vacuums are now called blood-gradient vacuum turrets.
  
• Baetyls no longer request nanon-modded items.