Added a new wayfaring skill, Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes.
Renamed Wilderness Lore: Mountains to Wilderness Lore: Hills and Mountains.
Made moving across rivers, lakes, and the Rainbow Wood a little slower.
The Rainbow Wood and Palladium Reef are no longer considered jungles for the purposes of wilderness lore.
Various becoming nooks across Qud now have implants in their cybernetics racks again.
Gravity grenades now down flyers in their area of effect.
Creatures beguiled via the cooking effect triggered action now lose interest in their beguilers after the metabolizing effect expires.
Algal water pools in Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef are now deeper and squarely past the swim threshold.
Serrated and nanon weapons now have a very small chance to decapitate independent of whether you have the Decapitate skill power. Having Decapitate does not augment this chance.
Nanon now requires Tinker III.
Moved the river referenced in Raising Indrix to south of the Kyakukya instead of north. Also fixed a bug with its starting location.
Added descriptions for all new cybernetic implants.
Changed the name of some high-tier implants.
Added descriptions for prism perch, white esh, quatravolt glider, and sultan croc.
Updated what secrets svardym and the denizens of the Yd Freehold are interested in.
The Hydropon is no longer subject to svardym storms.
Urns in the Yd Freehold now have appropriate names.
Changed the names and added descriptions for finger coral and tunnel sponge.
Increased the number of times you can drink [redacted] for a positive effect.
Meditation no longer occasionally cures gamma moth mutation.
Damage reflected by equipment is now attributed to the equipment's wearer.
Fixed a bug that caused new characters to be created without the proper faction reputations for their genotype and subtype.
Fixed a bug that caused natural claw weapons from Skulk Tonic to remain after the effect expired.
Fixed a bug that caused you to start with the skill that your random starting village teaches via the water ritual.
Fixed a reputation bug that caused several hostility issues with creatures' attitudes toward you.
Fixed a bug that caused map notes to not load until you opened your journal.
Fixed a bug that caused recipes intended to give corrosive gas generation to have no effect.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to complete an important Tomb of the Eaters quest step.
Fixed a bug that prevented relics that bestow extra carry capacity from working.
Fixed a bug that caused kills via your spaser-generated plasma to not be attributed to you.
Fixed a bug that caused robots to be unaffected by ganglionic teleproject and Rebuke Robot.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to fly underground with a certain flight-granting cybernetic boosts.
Fixed a bug that caused you to be referred to in the third person wehn dealing damage with Sunder Mind.
Fixed a bug that caused up-stairs to generate on the surface level of the Palladium Reef.
Fixed a bug that cauased identified artifacts to keep their unidentified color.
Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] to fail to render correctcly if entered with penetrating radar enabled.
Fixed a bug that caused an exception when a [redacted] is targeting during a serialization cycle
More [redacted].
[modding] Fixed the player's body object not being sourced from Genotype/Subtype.
Additionally, here are the notes for some additional changes that were included in the last few alpha and beta patches.
Our official, community-mananged wiki has a new home: https://wiki.cavesofqud.com. We updated the link in the Modding Utilities.
You can now jump through squares that contain creatures who are out of phase or flight with you.
You can no longer manipulate the results of cooking with nectar by using Precognition.
The carrying capacity bonus from Multiple Legs now reflects its description.
You can no longer talk to your original body while dominating another creature. (This led to bad things.)
Ctrl+Space once again looks at items on the equipment screen.
Most things that interrupt autoact now provide a visual indicator of what caused the interruption, if it's something external.
Psionic weapons no longer affect inanimate objects.
Night-vision goggles are now overloadable.
Creatures are now a little better at escaping environmental damage.
Creatures no longer use Force Bubble if an ally is adjacent. This prevents rare Force Bubble + Temporal Fugue crashes.
Nulling weapons now apply astral burdening for a short time after they hit, rather than only instantaneously as they hit.
Looking at objects in force fields and stasis fields now gives info on the object instead of the field.
Rephrased messages about additional body parts needed to equip items in more abstract, inclusive terms.
Slightly decreased the traversal speed of most projectiles.
A visible rhinox getting ready to charge now interrupts autoact.
Temporal fugue clones are now placed a little more intelligently with respect to natural movement modes (e.g., aquatic creature clones will prefer spawning in swim-depth water).
Fixed a bug that caused autoexplore to dig around boulders and rubble instead of through them.
Fixed a bug that caused Temporal Fugue clones to always spawn northwest of you.
Fixed a bug that caused jewelers to occasionally have double-jewel-encrusted items.
Fixed a bug that caused you to occasionally get stuck inside walls when using Space-Time Vortex.
Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes generate inside walls.
Fixed a rare crash in Grit Gate.
The "you" pronoun is no longer incorrectly used when creatures collect liquids.
[modding] Added some new predicates to conversations: IfTrueKin, IfNotTrueKin, IfGenotype, IfNotGenotype, IfSubtype, and IfNotSubtype.
[modding] Unity impostors now support X and Y offsets.
The beta is here! Palladium Reef + New Character Creation
The beta for our latest feature arc -- Palladium Reef / New Chargen -- has arrived. The patch is unpolished but very functional; the full release is likely to come in the next few weeks. Here is an incomplete list of patch notes.
NEW LATE-GAME REGIONS
Added two new late game regions: Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef.
Added a new village, the Yd Freehold, with several new NPCs.
Added new creatures: svardym hatchling, svardym jut, svardym scrounge, svardym eld, prism perch, white esh, quatravolt glider, trining lamprey, giant clam, reef hermit, plasma jelly, kaleidoslug, enigma snail, junk dollar, tongue tyrant, sultan croc, star kraken, galgal, and slynth wanderer.
Added a new side quest (partially implemented). It's up to you to figure out where to get it.
Expanded the Rainbow Wood and configured it to include dynamic sites like villages, ruins, and lairs.
CHARACTER CREATION AND UI
Entirely refactored the character generation sequence to be much more sensible, highly moddable, and use an all-new, responsive, fully keyboardable AND mousable UI.
Added nine new preset character builds. These are designed to help new players get started, but they're also fully customizable.
Added two new game modes (these were already live on the beta branch):
Roleplay Mode - checkpointing at settlements
Wander Mode - checkpointing at settlements, no XP for kills, bonus XP for discoveries, creatures begin neutral to you
Made several enhancements to the new UI.
[Modding] Added a new, highly-extensible data file, EmbarkModules.xml, that drives character creation.
Added new cybernetic implants: tibular hydrojets, optical multiscanner, magnetic core, skin glitter, stasis projector, crysteel hand bones, and [redacted].
Added three new item mods: snail-encrusted, nanon, and fitted with beamsplitter.
Added two new liquids: algae and sunslag.
Added a new gas: plasma.
Added a new type of cybernetic implant merchant: gutsmonger. There's one guaranteed in the SE corner of the Stiltgrounds.
Added organ markets.
Added a whole bunch of new furniture.
Added a whole bunch of new tile art.
OTHER CHANGES
Made significant visual enhancements to the world map.
Gave several existing merchants cybernetic implants as wares.
Gunslingers now start with Akimbo instead of Weak Spotter, and they start with much more ammo.
Water Merchants now start with Short Blade.
Modified how plant-based cooking effects work.
Changed salt krakens behavior.
You can no longer disassemble non-takeable furniture.
Soup sludges now appear in dynamic encounters.
Added Omonporch and the Yd Freehold as landmarks.
Village ovens can no longer include psychal gland paste.
Morphotypes now show up in the character sheet.
[Modding] Added three new body types for clams, jellies, and starfish.
[Beta] Added a wish for late-game testing: reefjump.
If you're interested, come help us test! Our focus right now is on broad scale testing: big bugs, big balance issues, and big UI issues. Here's a thread for feedback.
To access the beta: right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch.
Live and drink, friends.
Pausing weekly patches in the runup to our next Big Beta
Hello folks, Our usual patch cadence is to update weekly and then pause those updates as we get ready for one of our big Feature Arc patches. That's where we are right now with our next Feature Arc: the Palladium Reef / Character Creation Rework!
We plan to put up a beta in the coming weeks (no date yet), so to give us the focus we need, we're pausing weekly patches as of this week. We may still sneak one in now and then if there's a reason to, but it's safer not to expect it.
Thanks, friends. Until the sponge, live and drink.
Feature Friday - July 24, 2021
201.114/202.74
If you already have Burrowing Claws, taking a skulk tonic now boosts its level.
Creatures who feel victimized by inanimate objects no longer become retributively angry, usually.
In order to bask, photosynthetic skin mutants must now be able to move their extremities and not be in combat.
Items marked as important no longer show up in the picker for donating at the Sacred Well.
Books marked as important now ask for confirmation before you donate them to Sheba Hagadias.
Roads that pass through Bey Lah and its outskirts now connect properly.
Data disks now display the shortened names of the items they build.
Fixed a bug that caused diagonal autowalk to allow zone transitions.
Fixed some inconsistency in the appearance of data disks for gaslight weapons.
Fixed a bug that made overloaded laser pistols continue to appear as a distinct objects from laser pistols.
Fixed a bug that caused skulk tonics to display endless popups if you lost your burrowing claws or dark vision before the tonic duration expired.
Fixed a bug that caused zone building to sometimes fail if you saved and reloaded on the world map.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to forget things too frequently with Amensia.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused quest steps based on visiting a zone to complete before you visited the zone.
Fixed a bug that caused ruins to build endlessly if a door was animated.
Fixed a bug that caused the entrance to Oboroqoru's lair to build endlessly if there was a tree in the northwest corner.
Fixed a bug that caused the up and down stairs in Oboroqoru's lair to be disconnected if you approached them from below.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused the hollowed tree to generate too close to Bey Lah.
Fixed a bug that caused the hollowed tree to generate without floor tiles and Bey Lah's outskirts to generate with grass instead of flowers.
Fixed an exception when cancelling aggression.
Feature Friday - July 16, 2021
201.113/202.73
Digging tools now work on rubble and boulders.
You can no longer clean things while frozen.
You are now asked for confirmation when loading ammo that's marked as important.
You no longer get popup messages for unlocking security doors during autoact.
In their requests, sparking baetyls now refer to cooking ingredients in terms of servings rather than sets.
The root knot is more friendly.
Added an option to control the 'press right to equip selected item' behavior on the Inventory screen. It defaults to on.
Fixed a variety of bugs related to primary limb selection becoming unset over serialization cycles
Fixed a bug that made autoexplore inaccurately say there was nothing left to explore when actually it was being sensitive to the presence of enemies, particularly when using clairvoyance.
Fixed a bug that caused dropping objects to exit the inventory screen.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to be a point of interest when dominating some creatures.
Fixed a bug that caused map generation in ruins to prefer to spawn sultan statues in the northwest corner.
Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to occasionally spawn on the world map.
Fixed a bug that prevented turrets who gained mobility through flight from flying in combat.
Fixed a bug that caused world generation to fail if you became loved by a faction before the game started.
Fixed the Bey Lah zone name appearing as "flower fields" instead of Bey Lah.
Fixed a bug in how electrical discharges are attributed.
Fixed a bug that caused the interact menu of [redacted] to persist through after you [redacted].
Fixed some text coloration issues when noting a location in your journal.
Fixed a bug that caused action queue inconsistences at the start of a new game.
[modding] You can now use placement hints for zone and party objects in faction encounters.
Feature Friday - July 9, 2021
201.110/202.70
Added a new item mod, overloaded, that can be tinkered or found on a variety of electronics, including most energy weapons. Overloaded items have increased performance but draw extra charge, generate heat when used, and have a chance to break relative to their charge draw.
Overloaded laser pistols are now normal laser pistols with the overloaded mod applied.
You can no longer repair items in combat, generally.
The micromanipulator array implant now lets you repair items in combat at an action cost of one turn.
Added new dialogue for crab farmers, leech farmers, cat herders, snail farmers, goat herders, amoeba farmers, beetle farmers, and schematics drafters.
You can no longer enter yourself if you are a piece of enclosing furniture such as an iron maiden, a regeneration tank, or a psionic sarcophagus.
Spray bottles can now be manually sealed and unsealed.
Ganglionic teleprojectors now cost less charge to activate but have a per-turn cost while active.
Nulling armors, ontological anchors, and items with co-processors no longer consume charge on the world map.
Added the option to set a custom autosave interval for zone transitions (Options > Automation > Automatic save on zone transition).
Cases where chairs, beds, and enclosing furniture move or are picked up while someone is using them are now handled properly.
Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to never spawn if you abandoned your original body.
Fixed a bug that caused AI to continuously reload their magazine and liquid-loaded weapons if they also had an empty energy cell socket.
Fixed a bug that caused visible damage you were responsible for not to be printed to the message log unless the recipient was adjacent to you.
Fixed a bug that caused creatures to continue to display as enclosed when the furniture that was enclosing them was destroyed.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to end prematurely when targeting a companion.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to not play its sound or visual effects when the target died.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to print its damage message after the target had died.
Fixed a bug that made the walk command attack a wall you arrive at if you have a digging capability active.
Fixed an exception when cancelling aggression.
Fixed a bug that caused VSync to stop functioning when the game window was resized on Linux.
Fixed some missing spaces in preacher sermons and generated book text.
Feature Friday - July 3, 2021
201.109/202.69
Moving via the Walk command now displaces neutral creatures the same way manual movement does.
Added a new Automation option: "Show finding items while scavenging through trash as message log entries instead of popups." Defaults to off.
Robots with mental-mutation-equivalent modules can no longer be detected by Sense Psychic.
You can no longer attempt to sit on yourself, if you are a chair, or sleep on yourself, if you are a bed.
You can no longer be a point of interest.
If a chair a creature is sitting in is destroyed, the creature is now knocked prone.
If a bed a creature is sitting in is destroyed, the creature is now awakened in a daze.
Made a small content edit to the text of Council of Gamma Rock.
Fixed a bug that caused bedrolls you drop to suppress NPC idle behavior throughout the zone.
Fixed a bug that caused some forms of autoact to mysteriously fail at zone edges.
Fixed a bug that, when the chair a creature was sitting in was destroyed, made the creature continue to be shown as sitting in the chair.
Fixed a bug that caused Oboroqoru's Lair to build infinitely.
Fixed a bug that caused dynamic starting villages to not be constrained in the western portion of the map.
[modding] Fixed a bug causing the map editor to not register keyboard input.
Feature Friday - June 25, 2021
201.107/202.67
Tweaked madpole frenzy behavior. Now when they sense blood in their tile, they enter a frenzied state for 10 rounds that gives them +10 Quickness and makes them prefer bleeding targets. They also go berserk for 5 rounds, per usual.
Temporary mutations gained from items or cooking are now displayed on the character sheet.
If you give a companion or other creature a book that trains a skill or increases an attribute, they now read it on their own.
The temperature of creatures and objects in stasis no longer adjusts toward the ambient temperature of their surroundings.
Inventory categories now stay collapsed after closing and reopening the inventory.
Decarbonizers now have their attacks interrupted if they are moved out of the tile they are firing from.
You can now start campfires on bridges.
High-powered magnets now only magnetize one item if applied to a stack.
Rusted creatures now have a -70 Quickness penalty.
Praetorian's cloaks can now be modded.
You can no longer name locations after your culture, for now.
Deactivated turrets no longer interrupt autoact.
The "attack" interaction now requests confirmation before attacking non-hostiles unless they are your target.
The Sacred Well now accepts more kinds of artifacts.
Items treated as artifacts because of item mods are more consistently techscannable rather than structural scannable.
When your items are unequipped due to body changes that aren't dismemberment (for example, due to equipping a two-faced helmet), the unequipped items now go to your inventory rather than dropping on the ground.
Various quest-related data disks are now marked as important.
When entering text into popup dialogs, the characters '&' and '^' are now handled properly.
Dynamic generation of indefinite articles now works correctly for the words "heiress" and "heirloom".
Fixed a bug that caused owned objects being taken from containers using the trade screen to disappear if you declined the confirmation prompt.
Fixed a bug that prevented decarbonizer beams from working.
Fixed a bug that caused inventory categories to stick around when empty.
Fixed a bug that cuased hologram bracelet decoys to not move.
Fixed a bug that caused dynamic villages to generate overlapped with their own outskirts.
Fixed a bug that caused empty ground tiles to appear in desert villages and ruins.
Fixed a bug that caused the hollow tree hideout to generate without ground tiles.
No Feature Friday this week; back next week
Due to some team travel, we're skipping our weekly patch this week. Feature Friday will be back next week.
Live and drink, friends.
Feature Friday - June 12, 2021
201.106/202.66
You can now disassemble HE Missiles. The chance of recovering any given bit from dissassembly of a missile is very low, since multiple missiles are created per batch. (Note: This won't affect missiles already generated in saved games.)
Crocs are now good swimmers.
Phase shift grenades are now capable of shifting out-of-phase things to in-phase, in addition to their existing behavior of shifting in-phase things to out-of-phase. They continue to only shift the phase of things they are phase-interactive with.
Decarbonizers' molecular cannons can now be shut down by more conditions, such as being EMPed.
Decarbonizers can now fire through obstacles that missiles can normally pass through.
Added new dialogue for tinkers, gemcutters, and jewelers.
If you have the option to confirm before moving into dangerous liquids enabled, and autoact would take you into a pool of dangerous liquid, you are now asked via popup whether you wish to move there, and autoact is cancelled if you disconfirm.
Simplified the signoff for several merchants.
You can now eat gross food such as corpses without being famished if you have Mind over Body.
Tattoo guns are no longer EMP sensitive.
Ichor merchants and kippers now actually sell the neutron flux phials they occasionally spawn with.
Using a Schrodinger page on a village faction from a hidden village now reveals the location of that village.
Mechanical wings can now have the following item mods: feathered, reinforced, scaled, and wooly.
You can no longer sleep in a bed that you are out of phase with.
You can no longer tinker recoilers to preset locations. This doesn't apply to random-point recoilers.
Lowered the item tier of Ezra and Six Day Stilt recoilers.
Using metamorphic polygel to duplicate a severed body part with a cybernetic implant in it now properly duplicates the implant as well.
Biological clones no longer have their coloration altered by the tattoos of their original creatures.
Temporal fugue clones, evil twins, and shadow duplicates now inherit the tattoo descriptions of their original creatures.
Items carried by temporal fugue clones, or that are otherwise temporary in nature, can no longer be butchered or harvested.
If you complete the Earl of Omonporch quest by leveraging your high reputation, you can no longr convene the Council of Omonporch.
Glass bottle descriptions now include cooking ingredient info for the liquids they contain.
Important villagers no longer occasionally spawn as malformed dual-named uniques.
Extradimensional cultists no longer occasionally spawn as malformed dual-named uniques.
These cherubim now belong to the right faction for their species: bat, cat, equine, grazing, mushroom, pottery, root, swine, tree, and urchin.
The targets of quests to interact with an object are now points of interest even if they can be taken, though they cease being points of interest if taken.
Young ivory and lurking beth attacks now generate floating text instead of a popup.
Fixed a bug that caused young ivory and lurking beth to destroy themselves when attacking.
Reduced the intensity of visual effects produced by the the morphogenetic item mod.
The vestigial 'village robot' no longer spawns.
Simplified some basic color patterns.
Corrected Sparafucile's ASL.
Night-vision goggles no longer consume charge on the world map.
Fixed a bug that caused some effects, such as phasing, to last indefinitely on inanimate objects.
Fixed a bug that caused grenades and thrown weapons to be auto-equipped improperly.
Fixed a bug that caused the estimated weight of water for a trade to be inverted.
Fixed a bug that caused your turn to pass when cancelling a reload attempt of a cell-loaded weapon.
Fixed a bug that caused electrical discharges gained from cooking to count as free actions.
Fixed an issue causing the entire upper level of villages to fall to the ground below immediately upon entering the zone.
Fixed an issue causing dynamic encounters to sometimes be improperly overlapped with village outskirts, which caused a variety of issues in villages and dynamic encounters.
Fixed an issue causing some new-style popups to not properly respect key delay and repeat settings when keys were held down.
Fixed an issue that caused the hollow tree hideout in the flower fields to have encounters it shouldn't have.
Fixed an issue causing item duplication on return from [redacted].
Fixed a rare issue causing village build failures.
