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Feature Friday - June 10, 2022

203.45
  • Disassembling single-bit scrap once again shows the bit that is obtained.
  • Putting items in a chest you are carrying no longer attempts to describe the location of the chest.
  • The trade screen no longer requests confirmation when putting important items in containers unless the containers are owned.
  • Ancient bones and tar-encrusted bones now have more bone-like tiles.
  • Dynamically generated compound words are now a little easier to read.
  • Fixed a bug that caused equipping too many Otherpearls to cause an integer overflow on the chance to drop extradimensional items.
  • Multiple Otherpearls now stack their chances to drop extradimensional items linearly rather than multiplicatively. Ex: equipping six Otherpearls now multiplies the extradimensional item drop chance by 30, not by 15625.
  • Fixed a bug that caused turret tinkers to sometimes build a turret in the tile they were occupying.
  • Fixed a bug that caused fungal infections on the hand to be incurable.
  • Fixed a bug that caused fungal infections to disappear when applied to anything but a hand.
  • Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes start in the ruins of Joppa when selecting a generated village start.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented you from being able to jump into clams.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented dynamic villages and their respective factions from being generated.
  • Fixed a bug that made phase-conjugate and phase-harmonic grenades fail to perform their phase effects if detonated using the 'detonate' interaction.
  • Fixed a bug that made harvesting a stack of witchwood wreaths render the rest of the stack unharvestable.
  • Fixed a bug that made falling down while flying trigger Quantum Jitters.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed Amnesia and memory eaters to override the effect of air current microsensors until you left the zone and returned to it.
  • Fixed a bug that caused uninstalled gun rack implants to generate phantom copies of themselves in your inventory.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Force Bubble forcefields to be partially destroyed if active at the very edge of the world.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented block sounds from playing properly.
  • Fixed some grammar errors in tombstone text.
  • Fixed a dynamic pronoun issue in tomb mural text.
  • Fixed some dynamic pronoun issues in creature description text.
  • Fixed a capitalization issue with Rainwater Shomer's name.
  • [modding] Updated the HighScores.json format to store more information for easy access.
  • [modding] HitSounds now have a default 135ms delay, which can be overriden by the HitSoundDelay int property. The delay is specified in MS.
  • [modding] Added BlockSound and BlockSoundDelay tag/property support to shields.

Feature Friday - June 3, 2022

203.41
  • Improved page up and page down behavior on the equipment screen.
  • Companion clonelings ordered to stay put no longer move around to clone.
  • Molting basilisks that spawn in a zone that's already generated, like when one climbs through a spacetime vortex, no longer place molted husks throughout the zone.
  • Revealed mines and bombs now have much higher priority for being shown in their tile relative to other objects.
  • Smart use near mines and bombs now triggers interaction with them.
  • Crab legs now count as meat.
  • Creatures freed from gentling cones and mask now usually return to conversing as they would have prior to gentling.
  • Goatfolk haunts now have fewer huts and a higher density of qlippoths per hut.
  • Mercurial cloaks are now considered weird artifacts.
  • Digging, in conjunction with autoexplore and normal movement, no longer attempts to burrow through the force bubbles of non-hostile NPCs.
  • Jotun, Fjorn-Kosef, and Haggabah are now marked as having proper names.
  • Chalkboards can now be animated.
  • Duplicating a temporary item using non-temporary metamorphic polygel now creates a non-temporary version of the item.
  • Duplicates created by metamorphic polygel now carry over effects like being broken or cleaved from the parent object.
  • Removed the defunct Waydroids faction.
  • Gave concrete floors to some areas in the Tomb of the Eaters that were missing them.
  • Fixed a bug that caused mutation points to be spent when there were no further random mutations to buy.
  • Fixed a bug that caused villages to sometimes generate without an oven.
  • Fixed a bug that caused wire strands shorter than 25' to not stack with wire strands longer than 25'.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some village wardens to generate without the warden title in their name.
  • Fixed a bug where items duplicated with temporary metamorphic polygel became non-temporary.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the damage message for ranged weapon attacks that killed their target to be suppressed. (Tthe target's death was reported but not the damage.)
  • Fixed a crash when traveling to [redacted].
  • Fixed several rare crashes in the audio manager.
  • Fixed some grammar issues with the messages for when you spot weeps.
  • Fixed a repeat word in blood-gradient hand vacuum description.
  • [modding] Genotypes without available presets are now hidden when selecting a preset character.
  • [modding] Custom embark modes can now skip the Genotype and Subtype modules if they are not applicable.
  • [modding] The CanEquipOverDefaultBehavior event is now honored by attempts to equip items from the equipment screen as well as from the inventory screen.

Feature Friday - May 27, 2022

203.39
  • When an engulfed creature flings quills, the quills now strike the engulfer.
  • Gave the villagers of Kyakukya plump mushrooms again.
  • You can now harvest witchwood wreaths for witchwood bark.
  • The walls of Pax Klanq's hut are once again only visible after taking [redacted].
  • Soup sludges now stop spawning if there are already thirty in the zone.
  • Light-based phenomena now pass through glass walls and doors.
  • Tetraxenonoglass now has a chance to refract light-based projectiles.
  • Temporary Eaters' nectar tonics no longer permuate your mutation buy options.
  • The Kyakukya and Yd Freehold monuments are now considered interesting.
  • Gave unique items many more hitpoints.
  • Sound effects for when items break or armor is shattered are now less unpleasant.
  • Excluded gnawed watervine from dynamic encounters.
  • Fixed several instances of incorrect double spaces.
  • Swapped the colors of the sun and moon mask.
  • Removed a reference to the First Huntsman.
  • Fixed an error when escaping out of the accusation phase of Kith and Kin.
  • Fixed a bug that caused poor accusations to be forgotten in Kith and Kin.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Keh-hind to stay in Bey Lah after being exiled.
  • Fixed a bug that caused AltUse Ability to not properly trigger Sprint.
  • [modding] Added SwingSound, MissSound, and BlockedSound sound tag support to weapons.
  • [modding] Added support for [soundname]_variant_[n] with shuffled playback for sound effect variants.
  • [modding] Added the current build number to the runtime compiler symbols.
  • [modding] World sounds are now delayable.

Feature Friday - May 20, 2022

203.38
  • We made several changes, cultural and otherwise, to Kyakukya.
    • Added village monuments and village history snippets.
    • Removed Kyakukyan hunter, mushroom gatherer, and worshipper of Oboroqoru.
    • Oboroqoru worshippers are now generated dynamically and pulled from a wide pool of creatures.
    • Oboroqoru worshipers have new dialog.
    • Made significant edits to Mayor Nuntu's dialog.
    • Gave Mayor Nuntu a new description.
    • Made some edits to Yurl's dialog.
    • Replaced Svenlairnard with someone else.
    • Tweaked woodsprog dialog.
    • Made the quest reward choices for Raising Indrix much better.
    • Added new tiles for mushroom walls.
    • Gave mushroom walls a new description.
    • Changed the brinestalk walls to weathered wood and replaced the flower ground tiles near the Oboroqoru shrine with real flower objects.
  • Added a new set of default keybinds for diagonal movement -- shift+arrow keys -- and diagonal attack -- ctrl+shift+arrow keys.
  • You can no longer block with shields in your thrown weapon slot or bucklers equipped in your hand.
  • Objects drawn into existence with temporary [redacted] are now also temporary.
  • Objects drawn into existence now respect phase.
  • Changed the Naphtaali ASCII glyph to 'n'.
  • Added a notification that automatic laptop defaults aren't currently implemented for the prerelease input manager.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some Palladium Reef maps to build without respecting the worldseed.
  • Fixed a bug that caused line and cone targeting to occasionally ignore visibility.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the wrong map to be named Gyl.
  • Fixed an error when generating grenadier tents in the Stiltgrounds.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented enter from mapping keys on the ability screen.
  • Fixed a bug that caused F2 not to work on the new keybindings screen.
  • Fixed incorrect sound tagging on several melee objects.
  • Fixed pluralization of clay pots.
  • Fixed a rare exception in scoreboard processing.
  • [modding] You can now override existing game state in EmbarkModules.xml.
  • [modding] Added population table support to the ReceiveItem conversation part.
  • [modding] Added conversation predicates: IfZoneID, IfZoneWorld, IfZoneTier, IfZoneLevel.
  • [modding] The "reload" wish now invalidates the sound file cache.
  • [modding] The Sounds mod subdirectory now supports its own arbitrary subdirectories.

Feature Friday - May 13, 2022

203.37
  • Liquid pools under wading depth (200 drams) are now called 'puddles'.
  • Liquid pools at or over swimming depth (2000 drams) are now called 'deep pools'.
  • Added new, connected tiles for puddles.
  • Added a few new tile variants for the following pure liquid pools: wax, algae, green goo, brown sludge, black ooze, honey, primordial soup, salt, lava, slime, asphalt, and the four rare liquids.
  • You can now restore from a checkpoint in the menu options.
  • Reduced the cold resistance on elaystine skull cap from +25 to +5.
  • Added resistances to the tier 5 relic haurberk.
  • Tier 3 relic pistols are no longer carbine-like.
  • Shem -1 is now counted as a friend for the purposes of A Call to Arms and The Assessment.
  • The default interaction on witchbark is once again 'eat'.
  • Fewer of the cider, wine, honey, and oil vessels you come across in random dungeons are mysteriously owned.
  • Star kraken no longer extrude [sultan wall] objects.
  • Followers trying to join you after a map transition no longer spawn in lava or over open pits.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented you from blowing the conch of the Aji while wielding it in your thrown weapon slot.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Liihart and Meyehind to resurrect when you progressed Kith and Kin.
  • Fixed a bug where loading a more recent quick save after restoring from checkpoint would cause zone thawing errors.
  • Fixed a rare issue that caused map generation to ignore locked doors when determining pathable connectivity.
  • Fixed a rare issue that caused stairs to be disconnected.
  • Fixed a typo in tier 3 gauntlet relics.
  • Fixed a conjugation bug in rubber-based cooking effect descriptions.