Caves of Qud News

201.110/202.70

• Added a new item mod, overloaded, that can be tinkered or found on a variety of electronics, including most energy weapons. Overloaded items have increased performance but draw extra charge, generate heat when used, and have a chance to break relative to their charge draw.
  
• Overloaded laser pistols are now normal laser pistols with the overloaded mod applied.
  
• You can no longer repair items in combat, generally.
  
• The micromanipulator array implant now lets you repair items in combat at an action cost of one turn.
  
• Added new dialogue for crab farmers, leech farmers, cat herders, snail farmers, goat herders, amoeba farmers, beetle farmers, and schematics drafters.
  
• You can no longer enter yourself if you are a piece of enclosing furniture such as an iron maiden, a regeneration tank, or a psionic sarcophagus.
  
• Spray bottles can now be manually sealed and unsealed.
  
• Ganglionic teleprojectors now cost less charge to activate but have a per-turn cost while active.
  
• Nulling armors, ontological anchors, and items with co-processors no longer consume charge on the world map.
  
• Added the option to set a custom autosave interval for zone transitions (Options > Automation > Automatic save on zone transition).
  
• Cases where chairs, beds, and enclosing furniture move or are picked up while someone is using them are now handled properly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to never spawn if you abandoned your original body.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused AI to continuously reload their magazine and liquid-loaded weapons if they also had an empty energy cell socket.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused visible damage you were responsible for not to be printed to the message log unless the recipient was adjacent to you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to continue to display as enclosed when the furniture that was enclosing them was destroyed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to end prematurely when targeting a companion.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to not play its sound or visual effects when the target died.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to print its damage message after the target had died.
  
• Fixed a bug that made the walk command attack a wall you arrive at if you have a digging capability active.
  
• Fixed an exception when cancelling aggression.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused VSync to stop functioning when the game window was resized on Linux.
  
• Fixed some missing spaces in preacher sermons and generated book text.
  

201.109/202.69

• Moving via the Walk command now displaces neutral creatures the same way manual movement does.
  
• Added a new Automation option: "Show finding items while scavenging through trash as message log entries instead of popups." Defaults to off.
  
• Robots with mental-mutation-equivalent modules can no longer be detected by Sense Psychic.
  
• You can no longer attempt to sit on yourself, if you are a chair, or sleep on yourself, if you are a bed.
  
• You can no longer be a point of interest.
  
• If a chair a creature is sitting in is destroyed, the creature is now knocked prone.
  
• If a bed a creature is sitting in is destroyed, the creature is now awakened in a daze.
  
• Made a small content edit to the text of Council of Gamma Rock.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused bedrolls you drop to suppress NPC idle behavior throughout the zone.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some forms of autoact to mysteriously fail at zone edges.
  
• Fixed a bug that, when the chair a creature was sitting in was destroyed, made the creature continue to be shown as sitting in the chair.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Oboroqoru's Lair to build infinitely.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic starting villages to not be constrained in the western portion of the map.
  
• [modding] Fixed a bug causing the map editor to not register keyboard input.
  

201.107/202.67

• Tweaked madpole frenzy behavior. Now when they sense blood in their tile, they enter a frenzied state for 10 rounds that gives them +10 Quickness and makes them prefer bleeding targets. They also go berserk for 5 rounds, per usual.
  
• Temporary mutations gained from items or cooking are now displayed on the character sheet.
  
• If you give a companion or other creature a book that trains a skill or increases an attribute, they now read it on their own.
  
• The temperature of creatures and objects in stasis no longer adjusts toward the ambient temperature of their surroundings.
  
• Inventory categories now stay collapsed after closing and reopening the inventory.
  
• Decarbonizers now have their attacks interrupted if they are moved out of the tile they are firing from.
  
• You can now start campfires on bridges.
  
• High-powered magnets now only magnetize one item if applied to a stack.
  
• Rusted creatures now have a -70 Quickness penalty.
  
• Praetorian's cloaks can now be modded.
  
• You can no longer name locations after your culture, for now.
  
• Deactivated turrets no longer interrupt autoact.
  
• The "attack" interaction now requests confirmation before attacking non-hostiles unless they are your target.
  
• The Sacred Well now accepts more kinds of artifacts.
  
• Items treated as artifacts because of item mods are more consistently techscannable rather than structural scannable.
  
• When your items are unequipped due to body changes that aren't dismemberment (for example, due to equipping a two-faced helmet), the unequipped items now go to your inventory rather than dropping on the ground.
  
• Various quest-related data disks are now marked as important.
  
• When entering text into popup dialogs, the characters '&' and '^' are now handled properly.
  
• Dynamic generation of indefinite articles now works correctly for the words "heiress" and "heirloom".
  
• Fixed a bug that caused owned objects being taken from containers using the trade screen to disappear if you declined the confirmation prompt.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented decarbonizer beams from working.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused inventory categories to stick around when empty.
  
• Fixed a bug that cuased hologram bracelet decoys to not move.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic villages to generate overlapped with their own outskirts.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused empty ground tiles to appear in desert villages and ruins.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the hollow tree hideout to generate without ground tiles.
  

Due to some team travel, we're skipping our weekly patch this week. Feature Friday will be back next week.

Live and drink, friends.

201.106/202.66

• You can now disassemble HE Missiles. The chance of recovering any given bit from dissassembly of a missile is very low, since multiple missiles are created per batch. (Note: This won't affect missiles already generated in saved games.)
  
• Crocs are now good swimmers.
  
• Phase shift grenades are now capable of shifting out-of-phase things to in-phase, in addition to their existing behavior of shifting in-phase things to out-of-phase. They continue to only shift the phase of things they are phase-interactive with.
  
• Decarbonizers' molecular cannons can now be shut down by more conditions, such as being EMPed.
  
• Decarbonizers can now fire through obstacles that missiles can normally pass through.
  
• Added new dialogue for tinkers, gemcutters, and jewelers.
  
• If you have the option to confirm before moving into dangerous liquids enabled, and autoact would take you into a pool of dangerous liquid, you are now asked via popup whether you wish to move there, and autoact is cancelled if you disconfirm.
  
• Simplified the signoff for several merchants.
  
• You can now eat gross food such as corpses without being famished if you have Mind over Body.
  
• Tattoo guns are no longer EMP sensitive.
  
• Ichor merchants and kippers now actually sell the neutron flux phials they occasionally spawn with.
  
• Using a Schrodinger page on a village faction from a hidden village now reveals the location of that village.
  
• Mechanical wings can now have the following item mods: feathered, reinforced, scaled, and wooly.
  
• You can no longer sleep in a bed that you are out of phase with.
  
• You can no longer tinker recoilers to preset locations. This doesn't apply to random-point recoilers.
  
• Lowered the item tier of Ezra and Six Day Stilt recoilers.
  
• Using metamorphic polygel to duplicate a severed body part with a cybernetic implant in it now properly duplicates the implant as well.
  
• Biological clones no longer have their coloration altered by the tattoos of their original creatures.
  
• Temporal fugue clones, evil twins, and shadow duplicates now inherit the tattoo descriptions of their original creatures.
  
• Items carried by temporal fugue clones, or that are otherwise temporary in nature, can no longer be butchered or harvested.
  
• If you complete the Earl of Omonporch quest by leveraging your high reputation, you can no longr convene the Council of Omonporch.
  
• Glass bottle descriptions now include cooking ingredient info for the liquids they contain.
  
• Important villagers no longer occasionally spawn as malformed dual-named uniques.
  
• Extradimensional cultists no longer occasionally spawn as malformed dual-named uniques.
  
• These cherubim now belong to the right faction for their species: bat, cat, equine, grazing, mushroom, pottery, root, swine, tree, and urchin.
  
• The targets of quests to interact with an object are now points of interest even if they can be taken, though they cease being points of interest if taken.
  
• Young ivory and lurking beth attacks now generate floating text instead of a popup.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused young ivory and lurking beth to destroy themselves when attacking.
  
• Reduced the intensity of visual effects produced by the the morphogenetic item mod.
  
• The vestigial 'village robot' no longer spawns.
  
• Simplified some basic color patterns.
  
• Corrected Sparafucile's ASL.
  
• Night-vision goggles no longer consume charge on the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some effects, such as phasing, to last indefinitely on inanimate objects.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused grenades and thrown weapons to be auto-equipped improperly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the estimated weight of water for a trade to be inverted.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused your turn to pass when cancelling a reload attempt of a cell-loaded weapon.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused electrical discharges gained from cooking to count as free actions.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the entire upper level of villages to fall to the ground below immediately upon entering the zone.
  
• Fixed an issue causing dynamic encounters to sometimes be improperly overlapped with village outskirts, which caused a variety of issues in villages and dynamic encounters.
  
• Fixed an issue causing some new-style popups to not properly respect key delay and repeat settings when keys were held down.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the hollow tree hideout in the flower fields to have encounters it shouldn't have.
  
• Fixed an issue causing item duplication on return from [redacted].
  
• Fixed a rare issue causing village build failures.
  
• Fixed a rare exception.