Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, IndieCaves of Qud
Feature Friday on hold as we ramp up to the Moon Stair beta
Yesterday's patch will be the last Feature Friday for a while as we tighten focus on our upcoming feature arc, the Moon Stair. We're still some weeks out, but our next step will be to put up a Moon Stair beta. So be on the lookout.
Until then, link and drink.
Feature Friday - July 22, 2022
- Mysterious gunslingers now often generate with wide-brimmed hats and woven tunics.
- When you put extradimensional gemstones in a rock tumbler, you now get their extradimensional smooth varieties out.
- Newly sentient beings with onboard power generation can now power Jacked equipment. This change won't apply to creatures that already exist in saved games.
- Dangerous liquids that are out of phase or that you're flying over no longer prompt you with a movement warning in autoexplore.
- The default option when prompted to confirm the deletion of a save is no longer Yes.
- The flattened remains one occasionally stumbles onto in the salt marsh is now considered interesting.
- A creature ceasing to fly in the same tile as a giant clam now uses the same behavior as walking into that tile.
- Bep no longer minds if you use the rock tumbler in the Yd Freehold.
- Hookahs can now be sealed. This change won't apply to hookahs that already exist in saved games.
- Creatures no longer attempt to equip Templar phylacteries in their primary hands.
- Very smart creatures no longer activate Templar phylacteries if the wraith-knight would be hostile to them.
- When you attempt to move into a tile with an animated door that's locked, you no longer attempt to open them.
- "Kin" is now recognized as a plural noun.
- Removed some unimplemented mutations from various creatures.
- The bonus item mod chance from equipping multiple copies of the Otherpearl once again stacks multiplicatively.
- Added a message when selecting 'replay last character' and no valid last character is present.
- Fixed a bug that caused the mental action cost reduction from Two-headed to not get applied.
- Fixed a bug that made point-defense drones fail to fire at some thrown objects.
- Fixed some issues with the tile display of walls in villages.
- Fixed a bug that caused some named items to have their original item type described strangely.
- Fixed a bug that made it so that if fungal infections were occupying two Hand slots, each would try to also occupy a Hands slot rather than sharing one.
- Fixed a bug that made it so that a fungal infection occupying a Hand slot could also occupy a Hands slot that was not the one associated with the Hand slot.
- Fixed a bug that caused an invalid detail color to crash the game.
- [modding] All wall tiles have been updated to use DetailColor as their secondary color instead of BackgroundColor.
Feature Friday - July 15, 2022
- You and your companions are now highlighted blue instead of green on the alt overlay.
- Obtaining a base skill by drinking brain brine now unlocks the skill tree instead of only unlocking the skill itself.
- Books and artifacts marked important by default, but not explicitly marked important by you, are no longer excluded from the donation list.
- Changed the donation message when the only books or artifacts you have are marked important.
- You're no longer asked for confirmation when you move into a space with a pool of dangerous liquid if you're flying over the pool or not in phase with it.
- Fixed a bug that caused the stat bonuses from Graftek grafts to carry over to clones even through the graft did not.
- Fixed a bug that caused merchant advertisements not to generate.
- Fixed a bug that caused the music tracks for Grit Gate and Ezra to allocate large amounts of memory.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when choosing to start a new game.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused reality stabilization fields to fire random events, causing world state to fluctuate.
Feature Friday - July 8, 2022
- Legendary hindren pariah leaders are no longer called "*name*, Hindren Pariah Pariah".
- Sprouting orbs and friendly junk dollars now respect phase and flight.
- Signs now show their description on smart use.
- The cryochamber plaques in Bethesda Susa now act more like signs.
- Journal locations are now marked with a colored '?' to indicate whether you've visited that location.
- Journal locations now note the date of your last visit.
- Journal locations with the same name are now sorted by their time of discovery.
- You can now use the Home and End keys to navigate to the top or bottom of the journal.
- Your cursor positions within the journal are now remembered when you change tabs, until the journal is closed.
- The 'Limit the input buffer to two commands.' option now defaults to on.
- Gossip and lore learned indirectly, such as by cooking with psychal gland paste, now displays what the gossip was in the popup message.
- Renamed the "Open Skills & Powers" keybind to "Open Skills".
- Renamed the status effect Shatter Mental Armor"" to "psionically cleaved".
- The 'villagers of Joppa' faction is no longer be present in alternate starts.
- The usual default interaction on Schrodinger pages is now entangle.
- Stopsvalinn now only makes its full powers available once it is identified.
- Removed an exception that allowed temporary cooking ingredients to be used in cooking if they had no defined duration of their own.
- Normality fields, kindled flames, and space-time anomalies no longer fall down pits.
- Fixed some grammar issues in juice sap drain messages.
- Fixed a bug that caused clones of flying creatures to show as if their Fly ability was activated even though they weren't flying.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Shank from being used if the shanker was able to move their extremities.
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to soft lock if you became a brooding puffer.
- Fixed a bug that caused arrow penetration bonus caps to not apply when using compound bows and turbows.
- Fixed a bug that caused canvas walls in villages to use the ASCII colors of their source creatures instead of the tile colors.
- Fixed a bug that prevented pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers from applying their penetration bonus against diggable objects.
- Fixed a bug that caused deleting deleting entries from your journal's chronology to require two confirmations.
- Fixed a bug that caused the ability bar status to not update properly.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Yd Freehold to not show up in the worldmap alt overlay when ASCII mode was enabled.
- Fixed a bug that caused the text based conversation view to be improperly placed if a conversation was initiated from a zoomed-in view.
- Fixed a bug that caused the text options view to be improperly placed if a conversation was initiated from a zoomed-in view.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused the main building in Golgotha to have a sealed exit.
- Fixed a bug that caused sparking baetyls to spark very quickly when in a targeting view.
- Fixed a bug that caused locations names to overflow the text sidebar.
- [modding] Background color can now be defined in Display.txt.
- [modding] Fixed a bug that prevented Display.txt from loading correctly.
- [modding] Fixed a bug that prevented custom item mods from being craftable.
Feature Friday - July 1, 2022
- Creatures can now shank.
- "Skills and powers"" are now just called "skills".
- Droid scramblers are now considered metal.
- Gave droid scramblers a commerce value.
- Gas breathing mutations are now affected by the gas tumbler.
- Mushroom cherubim now have more appropriate idealized features.
- Mechanical urchin cherubim now have idealized features that match non-mechanical urchin cherubim.
- When a creature is cloned via cloning draught or by a cloneling, the clone no longer carries over graftek grafts.
- You can now select several artifacts at once to throw down the sacred well.
- Added missing "molten wax drop" object.
- Conveyor belts now have 64,000 HP, down from 250,000 HP.
- Added a user interface option to disable most tile-based flashing and animation effects.
- The same sound can no longer be played more than once in a single frame. This fixes several issues with sound volumes.
- Unequipping the [redacted] via [redacted] of a [redacted] now angers [redacted] similarly to as if you had used [redacted].
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the stairs created by spiral borers to override the generation of normal stairs.
- Fixed a bug that caused recharge sounds to sometimes play too loudly.
- Fixed a bug that caused buggy dialog options like "MISSING_QUESTION" and "MISSING_ANSWER" to appear in village immigrants' dialogs.
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible for 1-pound metal items to become coated with liquids.
- Fixed a bug that caused the majority of encounters on the world map to become undiscoverable after reloading the game.
- Fixed a bug that caused followers who end up on the world map for some reason to crash the game.
- Fixed a bug that caused followers joining their leader from the world map to pass time as if you, the player, were traveling.
- Fixed a bug that caused stingers to appear in the inventory.
- Fixed a bug that caused krakens to fail to change their behavior in any way because of being terrified.
- Fixed a bug that caused precognitive visions gained via sphynx salt injectors to continuously ask if you wished to return to the start of your vision.
- Fixed a bug that caused unequipping the [redacted] to leave permanent attribute modifiers behind.
- Fixed a bug that caused some sets of strange tubes to not be treated as plural.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused game state to not reset after reloading.
- Fixed a bug that caused single-size penetration dice to explode infinitely.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused the game to freeze on the Freehold splash screen.
- Fixed a soft lock when speaking to Pax Klanq without Q Girl's climber blueprints.
- Fixed a frequent crash caused by an interaction between temporal fugue and force bracelets.
- Fixed errors in Kah and Nacham's dialogue.
- Fixed some typos in polished gemstone descriptions.
- Fixed a typo with rectangular bells.
- [pets] Gloaming no longer respawns on the world map, forestalling a possible crash.
Feature Friday - June 24, 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.