Caves of Qud News

188.0

Note: this update will break save compatibility. If you'd like to continue a save from a previous patch, you can switch back to that patch's branch. From Steam, right-click Caves of Qud > Properties > Betas > choose a branch. Last week's branch is 2.0.187.x'.

Added a new Tactics power: Deft Throwing.
We changed how the Backswing power works.

• Removed the Axe version of the power.
  
• New Cudgel version: whenever you make a cudgel attack with your primary hand, there's a 25% chance you make an additional free attack with the same hand.
  

Added a new cooking ingredient: congealed love.
Glowpad corpses are now considered plant-based instead of meat-based.
Made Beguiling's description more descriptive and removed the inaccurate reference to a level cap.
Gave the torch sconces in the Six Day Stilt cathedral working tiles.
Fixed a rare exception caused by ganglionic teleprojector.
Fixed a rare exception during village zone generation.
Rare exceptions during the generation of greater voider lairs no longer cause the zone to fail to build.
Fixed a color formatting issue in the manual.
Fixed a typo in the description of linear cannon.
Fixed a grammar bug in Slog's description.
Changed the detail color of congealed blaze's tile.
Beguiled and proselytized creatures now have beguiled and proselytized status effects, respectively.
Fixed some memory leaks with Burgeoning.

Added a chance for generated villages to have their own village tinker. Starting villages always have a village tinker.
Tinkers now sometimes immigrate to villages during village history generation.
Clairvoyance now grants visibility through vantabloom and vantabud's blackout effect.
Unpreserved mushrooms are now correctly considered mushrooms.
Long blade powers now appear under the Skill category on the Abilities screen, like all other skill powers.
Removed some incorrectly assigned creature roles that were causing some creatures to have reduced stats and XP awarded.
Added a message when you reach the current end of the main questline.
The Mechanimist faction name is now correctly formatted with the definite article in certain contexts.
Ogre ape corpse now has the correct display name.
Changed Mouldering Corpse object name to Moldering Corpse.
Added informative descriptions to gentling mask and gentling cone.
Gave gentling cone the same tile as gentling mask.
Fixed a bug that prevented some followers from gaining XP.
Fixed a bug that caused NPCs with slime glands to refuse to spit slime.
Fixed an object blueprint typo that caused all trinkets to be ineligible for dynamic encounters.
Fixed a typo in urberry's eat message.
Fixed a grammar issue that appeared in the follower death message when the follower was of pseudo-plural gender.
Fixed a grammar issue that appeared in the wild-eyed watervine merchant's description when they were of pseudo-plural gender.
Fixed a bug that caused the description for the Slime Glands mutation to be truncated.
Fixed a typo in the take-all weight limit message.
Reduced lag while on the world map.
[modding] Added a new tag, HeroLevelMultiplier, that can be put on creatures and hero templates. It lets you specify the level multiplier applied when a creature is uplifted to a unique. The default unspecified value is 1.5.

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.