Caves of Qud News

203.32

• Owned containers are shown as owned in the trade UI. Items in the owned container that belong to you are labeled to show that.
  
• The item listing when opening a container now shows which container you are opening.
  
• NPCs are now a bit less prone to attacking you if you damage objects owned by their faction, especially if the damage seems accidental.
  
• Abilities granted by items now have their cooldowns tracked separately from the equipped status of the item, and you no longer have to wait before unequipping an item with an ability on cool.
  
• You no longer automatically reload broken or rusted throwing weapons.
  
• The reload prompt now displays the current reload keybinding.
  
• Trolls no longer spawn troll foals on the world map, causing game crashes.
  
• Living things without brains can now be cloned using cloning draught rather than remaining in budding state indefinitely.
  
• Clones of animated objects now also indicate that they are animated in their display names.
  
• Animated doors no longer cause adjacent doors to open and close to match their own state.
  
• When you use Temporal Fugue in a body that is not your own and then try to talk to the clones, you no longer get the message "You make small talk with yourself" before entering conversation.
  
• The look display no longer forces capitalization on proper names that are not supposed to be capitalized.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some merchant advertisements to not properly reveal the locations of their respective merchants when read.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rare exceptions in handling liquid coatings.
  
• Fixed a bug that made custom visages fail to function if unimplanted and reimplanted.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused NPCs to equip items they weren't supposed to, such as Hand-E-Nukes.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused mine explosions to be displayed as coming from a
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• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Hydropon to fail to build.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused zones to be empty if rebuilt after visiting a sky zone above.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Svardym to croak in unspoken conversation text. ((e.g. water ritual reputation))
  
• Fixed a bug that caused hostile creatures to be present near the charred tree of Eskhind.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the death message of being transmuted into a gem to not display.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to pray twice at statues created by the gaze of a lithofex.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the stairs of the rust wells to be blocked by shale;
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some nearby items, minimap and message log settings to be improperly stored.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to complete the quest "Weirdwire Conduit.. Eureka!" after collecting enough wire, whether it was still in your inventory or not.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the effects of items such as torches and braziers to display over inventory icons if they lined up with their cell.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot multiple sultan reliquaries if you interacted with them across zone borders.
  
• Fixed a harmless exception when aborting out of Spray-a-Brain usage from the stage of selecting a target.
  

Hi folks,
Due to some team travel we'll be skipping Friday's patch this week. We'll resume next week.

Live and drink.

203.29

• Villages are no longer occasionally colonized by multiple versions of the same legendary creature, which lead to various issues.
  
• The quest 'Pax Klanq, I Presume?' now completes after you do the important step and talk to Barathrum about it, even if earlier quest steps are still active.
  
• Events that would create an open pit in [redacted] now open space-time rifts instead.
  
• Meyehind and Liihart now aid Eskhind if you initiate a fight with her via dialogue.
  
• 'Do You Really Want to Die' prompts now function correctly in modes with checkpoints.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the key mapping option in the system menu to set a checkpoint.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when an open pit appeared in a pocket dimension that wraps back onto itself in a single screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some secrets to fail to print to the message log when they were revealed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused blank sultan murals to appear in rare circumstances.
  
• Fixed an exception caused by malformed color codes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused manually dismissed proselytes to keep following you.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Pax Klanq and other legendary fungi to infect a different limb from the one selected.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Pax Klanq to spawn outside his hut.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it possible for a galgal to run over itself, particularly when possessed by the player.
  
• Fixed bugs in the interaction of space-time vortices with reality stabilization that caused confusing messages and inappropriate showers of sparks.
  
• Fixed a bug that made your force bubble not move with you when you jumped. (This probably also will result in jumping interacting with other movement-triggered events that it previously bypassed.)
  
• Fixed a bug that made hydraulics presses only compress objects that were placed in them, not creatures who entered them.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the comm panel from taking data disks from the player.
  
• Fixed a typo with a Paralyzing Stinger exclusion.
  
• [modding]Added anatomies for motes, mirrors, and octohedra.
  

203.28

• You can now use Sunder Mind on creatures who have been fully identified with Sense Psychic.
  
• Pulsed field magnets now pull just one item from your inventory at a time.
  
• Electromagnetic shielding now makes artifacts immune to maghammers and pulsed field magnets.
  
• Holograms can no longer be set on fire.
  
• Poison-tipped spears and geomagnetic discs are now categorized as thrown weapons.
  
• Creatures spawned from nests now award 1/4th XP by default.
  
• Stepping on a junk dollar is now tracked as killing it.
  
• Robotic psychic hunters are now mentally assailable.
  
• Urberry is now considered a med.
  
• Bep now sells an Yd Freehold recoiler.
  
• Plant walls can now catch on fire, and they vaporize into ash instead of lava.
  
• Fixed scoring for the Daily Challenge.
  
• Removed Weekly from high scores screen.
  
• Added Key Mapping back to the system menu.
  
• The inventory hotkey spread now takes into account active navigation keybinds.
  
• The burnished fullerite shield tile no longer has the Templar rhombus.
  
• Saad Amus can now install cybernetic implants.
  
• Gave helping hands an item tier.
  
• Flowers now use fractional weight.
  
• Caslainard and Polluxus no longer have their item mods appear in their display names.
  
• There are new UI options to disable text-based and fullscreen screen-warping effects.
  
• The brinestalk gate in Ezra is now properly named.
  
• Improved grammar for objects on the worldmap.
  
• Improved plurality grammar in sultan gospels.
  
• Fixed a bug that broke move to zone edge.
  
• Fixed a bug that made turning off automatic rifling through trash disable manually rifling through trash.
  
• Fixed some issues with the new keybind UI when using the legacy input manager.
  
• Fixed some non-bonnet relics being described as bonnets.
  
• Fixed a typo in the gentling cone and mask descriptions.
  
• FearAura will no longer cause a hard lock if acquired by a player.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented Hindriarch Esk from participating in the "Landings Pads" quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the beguiled effect to persist after a creature had been proselytized.
  

203.27

• Most forms of pathfinding will now automatically dig through walls, if need be, if you have digging capability.
  
• Autoact interruption by Heightened Hearing, Sense Psychic, and electromagnetic sensors now behaves in a fashion more consistent with other ways that autoact gets interrupted.
  
• Terrain is no longer shown as "Undamaged" when looked at.
  
• Added new default bindings to the prerelease input manager:
  
  • alt+dpad left => move to point of interest
    
  • alt+dpad right => auto attack nearby
    
  • alt+dpad up => ascend
    
  • alt+dpad down => descend
    
• Added a new 'Adventure' keybinding category for legacy keybinds.
  
• Hook and Drag and latch-on weapons no longer trigger a drag attempt, and potentially prevent movement/attacking, when attempting movement that would not actually perform a drag.
  
• NPC scavengers will now only attempt to pathfind to trash that is in their line of sight.
  
• Liquid auto-collection can now always be disabled when it has been enabled, and gives an appropriate message when you attempt to enable it on an empty container for which no appropriate liquid type is obvious.
  
• Targeting with the prerelease input manager enabled now correctly fires via the fire binding when picking a target when using a binding other than F.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the highlight overlay from working with the prerelease input manager.
  
• Fixed a typo in the "Zoom In" binding.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some autoact interruption messages to not be displayed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused anchor spikes to prevent the defensive lunge of long blades.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to take items from sultan reliquaries without triggering the robber chimes by using the "Store an item" menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Proselytize to become guaranteed once you were sufficiently above your target in levels.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused wire strands to display both a length and a stack size.
  
• Fixed a bug that that prevent some alternate move commands from being activated.