Fear is now implemented as a status effect called Terrified. This means it now appears in creatures' descriptions, can be removed by phenomena that remove status effects, counts as a debuff for Shank's purposes, and interrupts Sunder Mind.
The energy cost of a move action now uses the move speed you had at the start of the action. This fixes a bug where if you went prone while wading through water, enemies would get dozens of free attacks on you.
Move speed now has a minimum value of 5.
Missile combat messages now give more information about the direction of projectiles and missile attacks and less information about creatures you cannot see.
You no longer have a chance to use random ingredients from your equipment or inventory when you whip up a meal.
Baetyls and baetyl cherubim now gently repel gases.
Reduced the speed of projectiles to make their directions more legible.
Engraved and Painted no longer increase the tinker cost of adding additional item mods to the items they are on.
Mines laid by miner robots are now hidden.
Miner robots are now better at avoiding their enemies.
Sower's seeds can no longer be used as mines or bombs.
Miner robots can no longer generate as sower's seed miners.
Klanq no longer asks you to puff on [Object]s.
Changed the text of Corpus Choliys to no longer imply that the Flaming Ick has to be quaffed from a particular type of container.
Gorged growths now belong to the root faction.
When Camp looks for existing campfires or campfire remains, it no longer counts campfires in unexplored areas.
Camp now better indicates where the existing campfire is if there is one.
You can no longer use Sting if you cannot move your extremities.
Nests are no longer hidden under light sources when they generate in the same tile.
Tortoise cherubim now correctly belong to the tortoise faction.
Removed the possibility of faction encounters in the middle of the stilt cathedral.
Recoilers now give a clearer message when they drain the last charge in their energy cells while failing to recoil.
Named snapjaws in villages now have snapjaw-like names. We also expanded the snapjaw name generator.
Added better messaging for young ivory and lurking beth attacks.
Young ivory and lurking beth are no longer revealed when they attacked victims you cannot see.
You can no longer autowalk to stairs while confused.
Falling asleep now interrupts autoact.
Explosions produced by mines now better inherit the phase characteristics of the mines themselves.
Added a death message for metabolic collapse due to hulk honey abuse.
Dynamic quest item names no longer occasionally have punctuation in them.
Made the duration in Paralyzing Stinger's level text more consistent across levels.
These abilities now snap to hostile targets: Lase, Sunder Mind, Flaming Ray, Freezing Ray, Berate, Menacing Stare, Mark Target, and Charge.
Fixed some cases where message log entries would begin with a lower-case letter.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused Syzygyriors to start the game without any weapons.
Fixed a bug that occurred when you spoke to Neelahind or Eskhind while carrying Kindrish after completing Kith and Kin.
Fixed a typo in Elder Irudad's conversation.
Fixed unprocessed dynamic text from appearing in cookbooks generated during world generation.
Fixed an XP bug with companions.
Fixed a typo in square cap.
Fixed some grammar errors with relic boots.
Feature Friday - January 22, 2021
201.62/202.22
Warden Ualraig no longer carries glowspheres.
Glowspheres are now more expensive.
Lase now acts as a projectile for the purposes of passing through forcefields, fences, and low walls.
The location secret for Mamon Souldrinker's village lair is now logged in your journal when you find the village.
Birds now have the Beak and Wings mutations by default.
Acid humors are now immune to acid.
Canned mystery meat is now properly considered meat.
Ink weeps now properly weep ink.
Tactful no longer gives bonus reputation with hidden factions.
Made brooding jadepuff's spores a darker shade of green.
Made parts of Otho's dialog slightly less repetitive.
Made poison-tipped spears a little more expensive.
Quantum ripplers must now be identified.
Urn duster villagers no longer leave to look for urns in the Tomb of the Eaters.
Urn dusters are now able to dust urns outside the Tomb of the Eaters, should they find some.
Village colonists no longer have a chance to spawn as previously named legendary creatures.
Sheba Hagadias no longer has a chance to spawn as a named Knight Commander of the Holy Temple.
Troll foals can no longer spawn on the world map.
You can no longer compliment Q Girl's hair if you have monochrome.
Dynamic quests to find items now respect item plurality in their quest text.
You can no longer roll on the ground to put out a fire if you're out of phase with the ground.
Temperature changes performed by firefighting are now phase insensitive.
The option "Take corpses when using Tab to take all" now defaults to off.
XP gained by companions of companions is now shared up the leadership chain.
There's now a specific death message for bleeding to death.
Scans of local environments do a better job of checking the visibility of individual creatures and items, rather than merely that of the squares they are in. This means that Attack Nearest no longer moves you toward hidden young ivories and lurking beths.
Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray now more consistently message the names of the limbs they're on.
Molting basilisk husk no longer includes its thrown weapon stats in its display name.
Psychometry can no longer be used to switch off turrets created by turret tinkers.
Empty waterskins you are selling no longer count toward your liquid carrying capacity, while empty waterskins you are buying do.
Certain indirect forms of damage, such as gases, mines, and fires, no longer incorrectly set your target.
If a dialog option results in you getting in a fight with one of your companions, they now become hostile to you after you exit the conversation.
Added a more descriptive message for trying to move through movement-blocking terrain on the worldmap.
Made the hyphenation of Two-Headed, Two-Hearted, and Cold-Blooded consistent.
The word "apex" is now procedurally pluralized to "apices".
Attack Nearby and autoattack will no longer attack creatures who are not hostile to you.
Cooking effects on NPCs no longer go on forever.
Fixed a generative text error in some sultan tomb inscriptions.
Fixed a character creation display bug with Ibul cybernetic implants.
Fixed a bug that caused the game to occasionally freeze when you were targeted by a lithofex's gaze.
Fixed a typo in barkbiter jerky.
Fixed a typo in damage reflection cooking effect text.
Fixed plurality issues in some dynamic quest text.
[Patreon] Fixed a bug in E-Ros's speech patterns.
Feature Friday - January 15, 2021
201.61
Added ink, sap, and wax weeps.
Made ink a little more common across the world.
Recipes based on meals cooked with Canned Have-It-All now require a random ingredient from the Canned Have-It-All effect rather than a serving of Canned Have-It-All. For example, if you're inspired via Carbide Chef, cook a meal with a serving of Canned Have-It-All, and choose "Grants slime spitting" as the effect, the recipe will now require 1 dram of slime.
Completing What's Eating the Watervine? now completes the quest step 'Return with a critter corpse' and awards appropriate the XP.
Updated which abilities work with Triple-Jointed's cooldown skipping -- Sprint and any skill power that has an Agility prerequisite -- and changed the phrasing to make this clear.
Rephrased the description of Wings to make it clearer you get its speed boost only while traveling on the world map.
Added a description for the crackling effect.
Rephrased the description of Spinnerets to make it clearer that the duration only ticks down when you move.
Moving to stairs no longer knows how to pathfind through areas you have not explored.
Made great magma crab corpses weigh a lot more.
If half of a double door is animated to life, it no longer closes other doors it passes through.
The Life and Death Gates now become unsealed if they are animated.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused a slain character in Grit Gate to show up more than once in Otho's report.
Creatures can now only go prone if they have a Feet or Roots-type body part that provides mobility.
Urchins are now animals rather than plants, more strongly anatomically resemble sea urchins, and have Quills.
Campfire remains are now considered campfires for purposes of whether you can use Camp.
Ovens are no longer considered campfires for purposes of whether you can use Camp.
You can no longer create an arbitrary number of campfires in Brightsheol.
You can no longer generate a campfire with a red flame in Brightsheol by making a campfire, extinguishing it, and relighting it.
You can no longer spot notable objects while confused.
Losing equipment to dismemberment no longer describes you as unequipping it.
Changed Wilderness Lore: Salt Pans to Salt Dunes.
Village pets can no longer be pre-legendary snapjaws, goatfolk, or baboons.
Disabled idle behavior on Otho to prevent some quest-breaking behaviors.
Added some extra protections against the Decoding the Signal questline not advacing properly.
Red jells now bleed lava.
Lava in containers now heats them up over time proportionally to the amount and purity of the lava, rather than setting their temperature to 1000 degrees upon any amount of lava being poured into the container then doing nothing afterward.
Damage from drinking lava is now tracked as heat damage.
Sheba Hagadias can once again be a breathbeard or an elder breathbeard.
Phials are now immune to heat, cold, acid, and electricity.
Improved death messages for companions who die in explosions you caused.
Starting villages can no longer be disease communes.
Fixed the tile color of bronze battle axe.
Bloated pearlfrogs' sticky tongue can still pass through fences but no longer pull you through them.
Removed the unused acidHighTier cooking ingredient.
It's now possible for a certain obscure death message to be shown under more circumstances.
Cannibals and glow wights are no longer always male.
Yempuris Phi is now visible in gas.
Made ape pelts weight less.
Made spheres of negative weight more complex to identify.
Procgen books no longer occasionally generate with empty titles.
Slightly increased the render layer of liquid volumes and webs so they always appear on top of walkways like conveyors.
Excluded the farmed version of animals from dynamic encounters.
Made gaslight weapons light sources when powered.
Names of legendary creatures you've slain now appear magenta in the chronology.
Added a description for the crackling effect.
Changed Wilderness Lore: Salt Pans to Salt Dunes.
Losing equipment to dismemberment no longer describes you as unequipping it.
You can no longer spot notable objects while confused
Lithofex's gaze ability is now correctly limited to line of sight
Fixed a bug that caused flowers to teach Swimming rather than fish. Flowers now teach Persuasion.
Fixed a bug that caused flaming and freezing hands to sometimes have their modifier displayed twice.
Removed the unused acidHighTier cooking ingredient effect type.
Rephrased the description of Wings to make it clearer you get its speed boost only while traveling on the world map.
Stray line breaks in the classic dialogue interface are now trimmed.
Fixed a bug that made "Historic sites now reward a more appropriately tiered amount of cybernetic credits" from last week not work.
Fixed a bug that caused sultans to occasionally have successors name suffixes when they weren't successors.
Fixed the duplicate "live and drink" dialog that Mechanimist pilgrims had.
Fixed a bug with legendary pariah names.
Fixed a typo in sultan history.
Fixed a typo in the description of Brittle Bones.
Fixed a typo in mirror bug's description.
Fixed some grammar bugs with Agyra and Lebah.
Made a small grammar change to dynamic village descriptions.
Fixed the capitalization of Gyl in popup text.
Fixed tile color of bronze battle axe.
Fixed a broken mural tile on the outskirts of Ezra.
Fixed carbide folding hammer's ANSI color.
Made flowers teach persuasion and fish teach swimming.
Fixed a bug that broke attribution of the creature responsible for killing another creature in some circumstances, particularly explosions.
Fixed a bug causing quests to not properly give reputation awards after a save/load cycle
Fixed Lase passing through objects it failed to penetrate.
[modding] Fixed an exception in the 'makevillage' wish
202.20 - 'beta' branch
[modding] ConsoleChar underwent a large internal refactor to simplify its data structure and provide a more flexible framework for colors.
Feature Friday - January 8, 2021
201.60/202.19
Creatures can now pathfind through force bubbles they are emitting.
Creatures now care when you damage their force bubbles.
Gamma moth's mutating gazes no longer have non-functional energy cell sockets.
Historic sites now reward a more appropriately tiered amount of cybernetic credits.
Legendary pilgrims no longer up and leave their lairs.
While socializing at the Six Day Stilt, burrowing creatures no longer burrow and restless creatures are now less restless.
Passing the turn to put yourself out while on fire no longer loosens your carapace or interrupts Heal or Meditate.
If you successfully fence a stolen object, it's no longer considered owned by someone else.
Attempting to cure glotrot before your tongue has completely rotted away no longer cements the disease in its first bleeding stage.
Changed some properties for clockwork beetles to make them more fully automaton-like.
Meditate is now smarter about what status effects it reduces the duration of and can now include effects added by mods.
The interior of the Tomb of the Eaters is now correctly treated as indoors for the purposes of Albino.
Once you've discovered the Mark of Death, the mark itself is now displayed in your journal.
The Mutating effect can now bestow multiple defects and properly mutates you after a save/load.
Entourages of fort snapjaws are now excluded from dynamic encounters.
Whipping up a meal in [redacted] now properly uses local ingredients.
Ovens no longer generate in liquid volumes.
Signs now appear on the alt overlay.
Mushroom walls now paint together nicely.
Removed some wall tiles with broken descriptions from the town square of Ezra.
Identified hologram bracelets now provide an activated ability that activates and deactivates them.
[redacted]
Fixed some cases where companions of companions incorrectly got angry at you.
Fixed some figurine grammar.
Fixed a bug that turned the Barathrumites against you when you damaged Barathrumite-owned furniture or equipment during A Call to Arms.
Fixed a bug that showed the player failure popups from NPCs' Syphon Vim usage.
Fixed a bug that caused NPCs with Syphon Vim to lock up when they became hostile to non-creature targets.
Fixed a bug that made ape pilgrims path to the Six Day Stilt instead of to [redacted].
Fixed the particle text color of dazed, stunned and bonded.
Fixed a text color bug in Blood and Fear: On the Life Cycle of Lah.
Feature Friday - January 1, 2021
201.59
Added several new movement-related commands:
Move To Square (default mapping: ctrl-enter), which prompts you for a target square and attempts to pathfind to there.
Move To Zone Edge (default mapping: shift-enter), which prompts you for a NSEW direction and attempts to pathfind to that edge of the screen, or as close to it as you can manage.
Force Attack Direction (default mapping: backslash), which prompts you for a direction and attacks in that direction.
Force Attack Square (default mapping: shift-backslash), which prompts you for a target square adjacent to you and attacks there.
Creatures becoming dazed now appears in the message log and produces floating text.
Creatures who are interested in occasionally going on shopping sprees at the Six Day Stilt no longer engage in this behavior when they have a party leader.
Ironshank can now only infect creatures with a Feet body part that is made of live tissue and provides mobility.
Identified force bracelets now provide an activated ability that activates and deactivates them.
Dig no longer works on the world map.
Slam will now prefer your primary cudgel.
Owned Schrodinger pages now warn you when you attempt to activate them.
If you are dominating a temporary or existence-supported creature at the time when it ceases to exist, this now ends your game once more, but now with case-specific messaging.
Young ivory, lurking beth, holographic ivory, and holographic beth now self-destruct if they enter a square with another object of any of these types, preventing stacks of multiple instances of these from forming. (The only exception is if the object is, due to extraordinary circumstances, a fully self-mobile creature, as for example in the case of an extradimensional psychic assassin lurking beth.)
Shield Slam now has an action cost of one turn.
Syphon Vim now does a better job of targeting the creature in its target cell that you would want it to target, when there is more than one.
Syphon Vim now appears in the message log any time it is initiated between creatures you can see, and produces floating text when initiated.
Syphon Vim now provides better failure messaging.
Mouse-based movement no longer knows how to pathfind through areas you have not explored.
The display names and descriptions of leather bracer Kith and Kin clue items is now coherent with leather bracers being single items.
Narcoleptics' original body no longer falls asleep outside of combat while they are Dominating another creature.
The ExploreZone debug command will now expand the player's sight radius.
The 'wait a specified number of turns' dialog now uses the last number of turns waited as the default.
The modern message log is now hidden when using the alt overlay.
Humanoid creatures no longer default to having the Night Vision mutation.
True Kin NPCs now have Rebuke Robot.
When Joppa is abandoned, the zones surrounding it are now given names as per ordinary salt marsh.
Fixed a bug that turned the Barathrumites against you when friendly fire hit chain laser emplacements during A Call to Arms.
Fixed a bug that made move speed of 100 display as move speed of 99 in the modern UI.
Fixed a bug causing engulfment-capable creatures to potentially freeze up when hostile to non-combat-capable objects like young ivory and dreadroots.
Fixed a bug that resulted in zone names of the form "some slimyorgotten ruins".
Fixed an issue causing machine press tiles to become nonfunctional.
Fixed excessive event usage during legacy explosions.
Fixed color bleeds in cooking messages from congealed skulk, congealed love, and dried lah petals.
Fixed a bug that made zero move speed exploits still possible when dominating sapient plants and fungi.
[modding] Erroneous population tables should no longer prevent loading of tables from other mods.
202.18 - 'beta' branch
The Wait N Turns dialog is now a number picker
The default number of items to drop is now the size of the stack instead of 1
Modern windows are now responsive to the player position in ASCII mode
Added prerelease input manager keybindings for load game, save game and auto-attack-nearest
Fixed an issue with liquid selection when modern ui elements were enabled