Caves of Qud News

Feature Friday - June 24, 2022

203.50

Added polished varieties of the rough gemstones. They're rarer and a bit more valuable.
Powered rock tumblers can now tumble rough gemstones into polished ones.
Temporal Fugue now clones into many more tiles, in particular ones with liquid puddles below swimming depth, gases, and traversable furniture in them.
Force bracelets can now be overloaded.
Thermo casks and high-energy thermo casks now display status information for the portions of their capabilities that only take effect once their startup sequence is complete.
You can now select multiple options at once when giving books to Sheba, or sharing secrets with Tszappur.
Added an option to suppress popups when noting information in your journal (Prompts > Display popups when noting information in your journal).
The location of the Hydropon will now be noted in your journal when visited.
Fix-It spray foam now repairs scrapped waydroids.
You can no longer repair things you are out of phase with.
Dynamically generated comma-separated lists of items now use semicolons for separation if any of the items in the list already contain commas.
When trading with tinkers, the space menu now only generates identify, repair, and recharge actions for potentially appropriate items.
When a piece of furniture that a dynamic quest expects you to place something in or on spawns as a newly sentient being, you are now always allowed to trade with that being regardless of whether they have anything in their inventory.
When trading items to an animated piece of furniture that is normally a container, this is now tracked as putting something in or on them.
"Arm" is no longer typically the default interaction for disarmed mines on the ground.
Dromad traders once more address the player by species, and now make an effort to get it right when the player is not a human.
Dying while confused or overdosing on hulk honey no longer distorts the name of the most advanced artifact in your possession.
Attacking a stack of inanimate objects no longer damages the entire stack at once.
Fixed a bug that caused some village inhabitants to be unable to give you directions when you're lost.
Fixed a bug that caused reputation bonuses from your subtype selection to not be applied.
Fixed a bug that caused the interaction prompt to be displayed when puffing on hookahs.
Fixed a bug that caused fungal infections and luminous hoarshrooms to have an action cost when sprouting.
Fixed a bug that prevented luminous hoarshrooms from sprouting.
Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quest items to occasionally be nonspecified "items" that would disappear when obtained.
Fixed a bug that made more things red when overdosing on hulk honey than were supposed to be.
Fixed a bug that caused sultan shrines to render beneath doorways.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused zone floors to generate as white dots.
[debug] Added "terrainencounters" wish to display a clickable map of your remaining surface terrain encounters.
[modding] Fixed a bug that prevented the Dragging field from being set in movement MinEvents other than LeaveCellEvent.
[modding] Fixed several warnings when installing mods with custom textures.
[modding] Mods will now be listed with their title in the save game mod configuration dialog.
[modding] Genotype and subtype tags in Genotypes.xml and Subtypes.xml can now specify a Species attribute, which can be used to override the genotype default of "human".

Feature Friday - June 17, 2022

203.49

Added an option to display full level up information for your followers. (Prompts > "Display full level up message for followers")
Legendary newly sentient beings now have more sensible names and titles.
Achievements based on killing a creature are now awarded when a companion lands the killing blow.
Kindrish can no longer be modded.
Kindrish can no longer be returned to the hindren multiple times.
When you create a recipe from a meal with Canned Have-It-All as an ingredient, the recipe's replacement ingredient is now always a valid ingredient.
Wardens Esther can no longer spawn hated by the Merchants' Guild. They can now spawn hated by dromaids, however.
The descriptions of meals cooked with liquid ingredients now include liquids themselves rather than their containers.
Autoexplore is now less willing to walk up next to a hostile aquatic creature that cannot itself approach you.
The missile weapon Fire binding now works to activate an ability when targeting with the prerelease input manager.
Fixed a bug that caused cybernetic implants meant to occupy equipment slots on implantation to fail to do so and appear in inventory, resulting in inappropriate behavior.
Fixed a bug that caused the red targeting indicator for lithofex's gaze to disappear after loading a save.
Fixed a bug that prevented you from pouring across map boundaries.
Fixed a typo in brooding rosepuff's description.
Fixed a bug that caused penetrating radar to show the identified tiles for unidentified items stuck in walls.
Fixed a bug in diagonal movement in target pickers when prerelease input manager is enabled.
[modding] Added GetLevelUpDiceEvent and GetLevelUpPointsEvent to alter stats gained from level ups without defining a new genotype or subtype.

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.