Caves of Qud News

2.0.184.0
We did some work on Grit Gate.

• Gave new dialog, description, skills, and equipment to Mafeo, Jacobo, Sparafucile, Dardi, Aloysius, Hortensa, Iseppa, Neek, and Shem -1.
  
• Gave Ereshkigal new dialog.
  
• Added a new piece of jewelry: silver rondure.
  
• Added a new item: umber frock.
  
• Made the completion of The Earl of Omonporch quest more robust.
  
• Removed a duplicate dialog option that appeared in conversations with Barathrum after you completed 'Pax Klanq, I Presume?'.
  

Gave Tam new dialog.
Spacetime vortices now work again.
Vomiting on the world map no longer covers a square parasang in putrescence.
Sheba Hagadias no longer has the chance to spawn as a creature with no inventory and thus no ability to receive books.
You no longer get spurious warning messages when you manipulate an object you don't own but you've already stolen.
You no longer get spurious popup messages when other creatures mutate due to a gamma moth gaze.
Fixed a bug that caused the chance of falling while flying to be 1% lower than it should have been.
Fixed conversations bugging out when there were too many dialog options.
Fixed some Oboroqoru typos.
Fixed the spelling of the 'statpenalty' wish.

Hello all,
Due to a short week (July 4th holiday) and behind-the-scenes feature arc work, we're going to skip the weekly patch this week. Updates will resume with next Friday's patch.

Live and drink!

Small patch this week as we work on some bigger feature arcs behind the scenes.

Added two new rare items: programmable recoiler and reprogrammable recoiler.
Abilities that require a particular weapon type to be equipped are now smarter about which weapon they choose if there are multiple options.
Added new descriptions for the following creatures and items: qudzu, irritable tortoise, jilted lover, rustacean, salthopper chip, phase spider, and scrap-clad hermit.
Renamed safety bracelet to life loop and rewrote the description.
Added a message for when a life loop dematerializes its wearer.
Butchery's visual effect and bloodsplatter are working again.
Fresh corpses may now bleed when struck.
Bumped up the bloated leech corpse chance to 100%.
Chromelings, plated chromelings, and waydroids in sleep mode no longer appear in dynamic encounters.
Otho now waits for you to actually give him the signal disk before leaving his study to discuss the signal with Barathrum.
Fixed a bug that caused Otho to not return to his study and discussing the signal.
Added some fallthrough dialog for Otho.
Made the completion of The Earl of Omonporch a bit more robust.
Copies of the sheaf of bloodstained goatskin parchment no longer appear in the world with the title "Illuminated".

I accidentally deleted the original Feature Friday post while working to fix a critical save issue. The save issue has been resolved and a fix for corrupt saves has been posted as 182.1. Sorry for the trouble!

182.1

Updated the dialog and changed the quest turn-in sequence for Decoding the Signal to make more sense narratively.
Added new descriptions to one of the arc sconces, glass, tinted glass, urshiib, newfather, chromeling, chain laser, forcefield, and force barrier.
Fixed a bug with Time Dilation that caused it to speed up creatures rather than slow them down.
Added more information to the Time Dilation mutation description.
Folks now refer to each other with a more intimate appellation after they've performed the water ritual together.
You can no longer lay mines or set bombs on the world map.
Force bracelets and Stopsvalinn no longer continue operating when you move to the world map.
Charge no longer goes on cooldown when aborted.
You can no longer take objects while frozen.
Limbs severed from plant and fungal creatures are no longer considered meat suitable for carnivores.
The overlay inventory screen can now handle it when you have hands but no arms.
The menu actions for "learn" and "build" on data disks now have their activation keys highlighted.
When tinkering recipes produce more than one of an item, it's now apparent on the tinkering screen and in data disks' descriptions.
Forcefields of all kinds no longer fall through holes in the ground.
The entire word "blow" is no longer highlighted in the interaction menu for grandfather horns. Now only the 'b' is highlighted.
Asphodelytes and faction delegates no longer to spawn inside the building at Omonporch.
Fixed some issues with force bracelets and Stopsvalinn along zone boundaries.
Fixed a bug that caused the frenzied status effect to become permanent.
Fixed a typo in hatter dialogue.
Fixed a bug that caused some objects to be classified in the Unknown category in inventory lists after a save and reload.
Fixed a bug that caused some text to be cropped in the Abandon Character dialog.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused liquid containers to generate without liquid in contexts where they should have had liquid.

As noted, there was a bad break in serialization. Loading games is failing in 182.x. Working on a fix now.\

update 8:27est: I've found the problem, working on a fix now.

update 8:45est: Ok 182.1 is being uploaded which should resolve the issue. Thanks to everyone that sent in a saved game!

update 10:34est: 182.1 is now live