Caves of Qud News

2.0.186

You now get a popup message when one of your followers dies, with some exceptions for temporary or swarming followers.
Added some conditional dialog to Yurl.
Added the framework for certain dialog options to reveal secrets in the Gossip and Lore tab of your journal.
Increased the specific heat of all objects.
Extremely hot objects now cool off a small percentage of their heat instead of a low, flat amount per round.
Phase cannon and swarm rack turrets now start with much less ammo.
Excluded some offensive words from generated text results.

2.0.185

Added a new music track to historic sites.
Villages can now undergo historic events that cause them to become abandoned. You'll now occasionally come across abandoned villages in your travels.
[*]Sheba Hagadias now accepts village history books for trade-in.
Added new conditional dialog for Jacobo.
Forcefields no longer push other forcefields or holograms.
You now get dialog confirmation when using the 'Take all' command if it would put you over your weight limit.
Fixed a few typos in the Barathrumites' dialog.
Fixed a bug that caused some saved games from the previous game version to fail to restore.
Removed a duplicate part on mirror shard.
Fixed a typo referring to Shakesprig.
Fixed some issues with ANSI coloring in book text.
Fixed a rare exception when installing a skillsoft implant.
[modding] Scrap buffer generation is now thread-safe.

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".