Caves of Qud News

• Added all new tiles for most missile weapons.
  
• Added new items: kaleidocera cape, kaleidocera muffs, kaleidocera krakows, enigma cone, and enigma cap.
  
• Added a new book: The Murmurs' Prayer.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following items: night-sight interpolaters, tri-hologram bracelet, slip ring, precision nanon fingers, step sowers, 3D cobblers, gas tumbler, chiral rings, eigenrifle, eigenpistol, light rail, hand rail, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, psychal fleshgun, di-thermo beam, and sharpened polyp.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: slynth residents and wanderers, all the wild svardym, Geeub, Krka, Tillifergaewicz, Rokhas, and Warden Une.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following terrain objects: coral polyp, palladium strut, coral and palladium strut, swollen bulb, and coral pit.
  
• Build Library is now functional.
  
• You now autosave when you reach a checkpoint in Roleplay and Wander modes.
  
• Gorged growths who are members of settlements no longer crumble apart.
  
• Farmed bop sponges are no longer always ripe.
  
• Generated villages now have accurate descriptions on the world map.
  
• Night-sight interpolators now work like other kinds of night vision for the purpose of perceiving [redacted].
  
• Using the sit interaction on a chair that's in your inventory now places the chair on the ground and sits on it, rather than silently failing.
  
• Recycling suits can no longer (uselessly) get the recycling mod.
  
• Added a popup confirmation for targeting yourself with a geomagnetic disc.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Regeneration to regrow your tongue while you were still affected by glotrot.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused ubernostrum tonics to remove glotrot without the cure.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation's lase ability to fail when targeting a creature with mental mirror.
  
• Fixed a perfomance issue caused aquatic or wall-walking creatures in your party trying to pathfind to you.
  
• Fixed a grammar error in some messages when companions were swallowed whole.
  
• Fixed conversation choices getting resorting when you revisited a node.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Golgotha and Bethesda Susa to not build properly.
  
• [pets] Fixed a bug that caused You, but Mechanical not to inherit your anatomy.
  

• Flawless crysteel gear is now a bit rarer.
  
• Zetachrome gear is now much rarer.
  
• Added new creature descriptions: giant clam, ixlthyxl, tongue tyrant, star kraken, and galgal.
  
• Added new item descriptions: thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, and psychic meridian.
  
• Gorged growths now dehydrate and crumble apart after a while.
  
• Updated Burgeoning plant-summoning tables to be better distributed and include more plants, particularly late-game plants.
  
• Added some polish to the Hydropon.
  
• Warden Une now has appropriate equipment.
  
• Palladium struts are no longer takeable.
  
• Made several enhancements to [redacted].
  
• Irritable Genome's message now includes the mutation that was affected.
  
• Eater's flesh and luminous hoarshroom now counts as mushrooms for the purposes of triggering cooking effects.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused pits and chasms to drop you into solid walls.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused objects to be placed on top of pits, leading to excessive build times as multiple zones were built.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused zone transitions to happen rapidly every time an object was swallowed by a vortex.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused gas generation to continue after transitioning to the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects like torches to sometimes persist after teleporting to another zone.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused geomagnetic disc to sometimes bounce to neutral and friendly creatures.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villages or village outskirts to build over Pax Klanq's hut.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villages to use the wrong liquid type when building pools and rivers
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Seek the Heart of the Rainbow" quest step not to complete upon reaching the correct zone.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the minimap to share the message logs opacity setting
  
• Fixed a bug that caused subtype tile detail colors to not be properly set
  
• Fixed the pluralization of pneumatic pistons, anchor spikes, palladium electrodeposits, and tibular hydrojets.
  

• Added a new kind of fauna: bop sponge.
  
• Added new butcherable and harvestable consumables: bop cheek and tongue twist.
  
• Added three new cooking effect domains: rubber-based, powerful rubber-based, and tongue-based.
  
• Added three new ingredients: congealed rubbergum, sliced bop cheek, and fermented tongue.
  
• The Yd Freehold now has a signature dish: Tongue and Cheek.
  
• Svardym no longer rain down on the Yd Freehold.
  
• Added a prerelease input manager binding for "move to point of interest".
  
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: twinning lamprey, trining lamprey, reef hermit, junk dollar, enigma snail, and plasma jelly.
  
• Having the equipment rack cybernetic implant no longer prevents you from receiving a certain achievement.
  
• You no longer receive a certain achievement earlier than is appropriate just by being repeatedly dismembered.
  
• Billowing conch of the Aji can no longer produce plasma.
  
• You can no longer use the following items and abilities on the worldmap: hologram bracelet, Force Wall, Light Manipulation, Time Dilation, gas generation, and Spinnerets.
  
• Generated villages now interact more robustly with their surrounding terrain.
  
• The trip back from [redacted] now works more consistently.
  
• Fixed an error when a creature with no back grew wings.
  
• Fixed the worldmap tip displaying too soon (during world generation).
  
• Fixed incorrect pronouns in the description of sultan crocs.
  
• Fixed a zonegen error in the Yd Freehold.
  
• Fixed a rare exception that prevented the ability manager from opening.
  
• Fixed an issue causing "BoxColliders does not support negative scale or size." spam in the message log.
  
• Fixed an issue that would prevent [redacted] from carving murals if interruped by a serialization cycle.
  
• [modding] Fixed populations being replaced instead of merged.
  

• Added a new wayfaring skill, Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes.
  
• Renamed Wilderness Lore: Mountains to Wilderness Lore: Hills and Mountains.
  
• Made moving across rivers, lakes, and the Rainbow Wood a little slower.
  
• The Rainbow Wood and Palladium Reef are no longer considered jungles for the purposes of wilderness lore.
  
• Various becoming nooks across Qud now have implants in their cybernetics racks again.
  
• Gravity grenades now down flyers in their area of effect.
  
• Creatures beguiled via the cooking effect triggered action now lose interest in their beguilers after the metabolizing effect expires.
  
• Algal water pools in Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef are now deeper and squarely past the swim threshold.
  
• Serrated and nanon weapons now have a very small chance to decapitate independent of whether you have the Decapitate skill power. Having Decapitate does not augment this chance.
  
• Nanon now requires Tinker III.
  
• Moved the river referenced in Raising Indrix to south of the Kyakukya instead of north. Also fixed a bug with its starting location.
  
• Added descriptions for all new cybernetic implants.
  
• Changed the name of some high-tier implants.
  
• Added descriptions for prism perch, white esh, quatravolt glider, and sultan croc.
  
• Updated what secrets svardym and the denizens of the Yd Freehold are interested in.
  
• The Hydropon is no longer subject to svardym storms.
  
• Urns in the Yd Freehold now have appropriate names.
  
• Changed the names and added descriptions for finger coral and tunnel sponge.
  
• Increased the number of times you can drink [redacted] for a positive effect.
  
• Meditation no longer occasionally cures gamma moth mutation.
  
• Damage reflected by equipment is now attributed to the equipment's wearer.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused new characters to be created without the proper faction reputations for their genotype and subtype.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused natural claw weapons from Skulk Tonic to remain after the effect expired.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to start with the skill that your random starting village teaches via the water ritual.
  
• Fixed a reputation bug that caused several hostility issues with creatures' attitudes toward you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused map notes to not load until you opened your journal.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused recipes intended to give corrosive gas generation to have no effect.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to complete an important Tomb of the Eaters quest step.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented relics that bestow extra carry capacity from working.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused kills via your spaser-generated plasma to not be attributed to you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused robots to be unaffected by ganglionic teleproject and Rebuke Robot.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to fly underground with a certain flight-granting cybernetic boosts.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be referred to in the third person wehn dealing damage with Sunder Mind.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused up-stairs to generate on the surface level of the Palladium Reef.
  
• Fixed a bug that cauased identified artifacts to keep their unidentified color.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] to fail to render correctcly if entered with penetrating radar enabled.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused an exception when a [redacted] is targeting during a serialization cycle
  
• More [redacted].
  
• [modding] Fixed the player's body object not being sourced from Genotype/Subtype.
  

• Our official, community-mananged wiki has a new home: https://wiki.cavesofqud.com. We updated the link in the Modding Utilities.
  
• You can now jump through squares that contain creatures who are out of phase or flight with you.
  
• You can no longer manipulate the results of cooking with nectar by using Precognition.
  
• The carrying capacity bonus from Multiple Legs now reflects its description.
  
• You can no longer talk to your original body while dominating another creature. (This led to bad things.)
  
• Ctrl+Space once again looks at items on the equipment screen.
  
• Most things that interrupt autoact now provide a visual indicator of what caused the interruption, if it's something external.
  
• Psionic weapons no longer affect inanimate objects.
  
• Night-vision goggles are now overloadable.
  
• Creatures are now a little better at escaping environmental damage.
  
• Creatures no longer use Force Bubble if an ally is adjacent. This prevents rare Force Bubble + Temporal Fugue crashes.
  
• Nulling weapons now apply astral burdening for a short time after they hit, rather than only instantaneously as they hit.
  
• Looking at objects in force fields and stasis fields now gives info on the object instead of the field.
  
• Rephrased messages about additional body parts needed to equip items in more abstract, inclusive terms.
  
• Slightly decreased the traversal speed of most projectiles.
  
• A visible rhinox getting ready to charge now interrupts autoact.
  
• Temporal fugue clones are now placed a little more intelligently with respect to natural movement modes (e.g., aquatic creature clones will prefer spawning in swim-depth water).
  
• Fixed a bug that caused autoexplore to dig around boulders and rubble instead of through them.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Temporal Fugue clones to always spawn northwest of you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused jewelers to occasionally have double-jewel-encrusted items.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to occasionally get stuck inside walls when using Space-Time Vortex.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes generate inside walls.
  
• Fixed a rare crash in Grit Gate.
  
• The "you" pronoun is no longer incorrectly used when creatures collect liquids.
  
• [modding] Added some new predicates to conversations: IfTrueKin, IfNotTrueKin, IfGenotype, IfNotGenotype, IfSubtype, and IfNotSubtype.
  
• [modding] Unity impostors now support X and Y offsets.
  

Caves of Qud is probably one of the best modern roguelikes around and Freehold Games have put up a huge new Beta version with lots of goodies to play through.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/caves-of-qud-gets-new-late-game-content-new-character-creation-and-lots-of-items