Hey friends! We are thrilled to announce that Caves of Qud recently won the Excellence in Narrative award at the Independent Games Festival (IGF)! Several members of our team flew out to GDC to attend the award show, which meant some of us met in person for the first time. It was a surprise and honor to win, especially in the narrative category, since Caves of Qud's systemic approach to story is unusual among narrative games. We posted Jason's acceptance speech to the Kitfox Youtube if you wanna check it out. More good news: Caves of Qud is nominated for Best Game or Interactive Work at the 2025 Hugo Awards! This one is particularly special to us, as several members of the team grew up reading science fiction and fantasy, and so have been aware of the Hugos for quite a wall. The winners will be presented on August 16 at Seattle Worldcon 2025. Expect to hear more as that date approaches. Next updates are continuing to fix bugs and improve performance, as well as beginning to lay the groundwork for bigger work ahead, including localization and expansions. - Kitfox + Freehold

E: Issues resolved. Hotfix build 209.46 on main and 210.4 on beta. E2: If you're still experiencing the problem, you can verify client files in steam force steam to update to the latest. We're temporarily rolling back the default branch to 209.44 while we work an input bug. Saves that were upgraded by 1.0.3 will report as being 209.45 when you attempt to load them in 1.0.2, but are safe and can be played on the 209.45 branch or on the next hotfix once we fix the issue. We're working on the input problem and will repost the patch as soon as it's fixed.

1.0.3 (build 209.45)

• The build library is now synced to Steam Cloud.
• Auto light/douse torches is now toggled on again by default.
• Horns now benefit from the Jab skill when used for secondary attacks.
• Thrown weapons equipped in a non-thrown-slot hand now display their melee properties, rather than their thrown properties.
• The penetration estimate of missile & thrown weapons now respects their respective penetration caps.
• You are now prompted to stop traveling if your HP falls below the warning threshold.
• Fixed an issue with the ordering of certain tomb murals.
• Fixed a bug that caused some sub-limbs to stay permanently dismembered even after their parent limb was regenerated.
• Fixed a bug that caused some bodies to never recover the use of their missile weapons after dismemberment.
• Fixed a bug that caused hostile creatures with a short kill radius to not react when shot from range.
• Fixed a bug that caused the turbow to not apply its penetration bonus.
• Fixed a bug that caused the displayed penetration value of thrown weapons to be lower than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused the psychal fleshgun to double its penetration bonus from Ego.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to never forget secrets even with Amnesia.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mouth of Shug'ruith to always be built straight down.
• Fixed a bug that caused liquid stains to be included in water ritual reputations.
• Fixed a bug that caused water ritual options to be selectable even when you did not have the required reputation.
• Fixed a bug that caused a southeast pointing arrow to be displayed on the western map border.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to acquire the Change Grip ability regardless of equipping [redacted] properly or not.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Cleave skill to apply a -2 penalty to AV per hit instead of the intended -1.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hook and Drag to display popups when other creatures failed to use it.
• Fixed a bug that caused faces dismembered during domination to not modify reputation.
• Fixed a bug that caused the conch of the Aji to grant its ability when equipped in the thrown slot.
• Fixed a bug that caused Stopsvalinn to give its ability when improperly equipped.
• Fixed a bug that caused quest objectives to pick up items to complete when just looking at them.
• Fixed a bug that caused flying with cathedras to impede other movement abilities and remove cooldowns when teleporting.
• Fixed a bug that caused the tile of [redacted] farmers to be overridden.
• Fixed a bug that prevented music from playing in Brightsheol.
• Fixed a bug that could cause an object to be attached with invalid parts, preventing the game from being saved.
• Fixed a bug that caused some zones to build very slowly.
• Fixed a minor inconsistency between XP being awarded from turning in Resheph secrets vs. turning in Sheba books.
• Fixed message ordering of space time vortexes appearing.
• [modding] Added an alterable Icon to ConversationUI, also accessible via BeginConversationEvent.
• [modding] Added a RenderNodeEvent to conversations, which can temporarily override the rendered icon and title.
• [modding] Variants to the Hooks for Feet mutation now use their blueprint's display name in the mutation description.
• [modding] Undefined tables in Mods.xml now properly initialize an empty table list.
• [modding] The RenderEvent has been extended with new parameters to alter rendering in specific contexts.
• [modding] The quest 'O Glorious Shekhinah!' is no longer hardcoded to a specific zone ID.
• [modding] Sultan statue tiles have now been extracted to a weighted population table: SultanShrines_StatueTiles.
• [debug] Creature attitude info can now also be enabled via the 'Show attitude info on objects' option.
• [debug] Journal note attributes are now separated for readability (these are only visible when the object internals debug option is turned on).
• Fixed a bug that prevented the game from recognizing you were marooned in [redacted].

• Minorly improved performance across the board.
• Fixed a bug where Ornate Tables would change colors when items were placed on them.
• Fixed a bug where enclosed objects could appear above their encloser.
• [modding] Various methods on Tinkering_Disassemble have been made public & static.
• [modding] Added an OptionFlag attribute, which can sync an option's value to a field or property.
• [modding] Added a Options.HasOptionValue method to check if an option has a player-configured value.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused displayed version numbers using the upgrade operator to be parsed as a color code.
• [modding] Fixed an exception when specifying invalid attribute requirements for powers.

build 210.2 - 'beta' branch

• Added a fallback font for the modern UI with many previously missing international unicode characters.
• The message for blocking will now include what shield you blocked with.
• Fixed a bug that caused some historic regions to generate without articles.
• Fixed a bug that caused common phrases for "cooking" to not generate.
• [modding] Steam workshop mods will now check for updates and prompt downloads if you've declared a version in your manifest.json.
• [modding] You can now add HistorySpice.json files to your mod which will merge with that of the game.
• [modding] Added LoadBefore and LoadAfter to manifest.json which can influence mod load order without creating dependency cycles.
• [modding] The XRL namespace is now checked for type name conflicts which could previously cause silent incompatibilities between mods.
• [modding] Map files in subdirectories will now merge together by their ID, if no ID is defined the relative path is used.
• [modding] You can now add 'Textures' folders for your sprites anywhere in your project, respecting your manifest.json directories.
• [modding] Added an alert to the main menu if enabled mods are missing dependencies.
• [modding] Added a new GetBleedLiquidEvent which defaults to the old BleedLiquid tag or property.
• [modding] XML files loaded by root now print an info block of file counts to the Player.log.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the default values of options to be ignored when used as conditions for manifest.json directories.

build 210.0 - 'beta' branch

• Unity version upgraded to 6000.0.41f1.
• Windows builds are now 64-bit.
• DLC is no longer subject to the 'Enable mods' option.
• [modding] The game is now restarted when the mod configuration is changed to fully unload old mod data.
• [modding] Mod approval has been replaced by a one-time option to opt-in when installing a script mod for the first time.
• [modding] We added some new features to manifest.json.
  • Mod dependencies can now be declared, allowing your mod to require and be loaded after others.
  • Separate subdirectories can be loaded depending on what version of the game is running, allowing further mod compatibility.
  • Subdirectories can also be loaded only if a certain mod is present, allowing optional interwoven features.
  • Defining a manual LoadOrder is deprecated, in favor of dependencies.
  • Refer here for usage: wiki.

1.0.2 (build 207.44)

• Changed Make Camp so that only campfires you made are considered when checking for existing campfires.
• Psychic hunters now ambush you less often in [redacted].
• The pool of brain brine effects no longer includes adding skills or skill points if you already have every skill.
• Distracting holograms now have a higher render layer.
• Increased the render layer of lit campfires.
• Fixed the circle of light in the chord of Rermadon not displaying its resistance boosts.
• Fixed a bug that caused the golem to sometimes remain in a semi-piloted state after being destroyed, preventing player control.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rodanis Y to not receive power from Grit Gate's broadcast power station.
• Fixed a bug that caused social coprocessors to not be accounted for in some water ritual contexts.
• Fixed a bug that caused Spinnerets to not deactivate on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused your cryo clones to sometimes prevent the game from saving.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to repeatedly gain the reward for completing "A Call to Arms" from Otho by mentioning the slynth.
• Fixed a bug that caused dreadroots to be unable to travel on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused salt krakens to leave trails on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that prevented companions from satisfying the objective of spreading Klanq to their original faction.
• Fixed a bug that caused the cooldown reduction from Willpower to be uncapped when applied to Ultra Fire.
• Fixed a bug that caused items cloned via cryotubes to conflict in unpredictable ways when equipped together with the original item.
• Fixed a bug that caused Blinking Tic to teleport you outside vehicle interiors, inflicting large amounts of fall damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused conflicts between complex parties to not propagate opinions between the leaders, leading some members to remain neutral.
• Fixed a bug with hotkey inputs from the ability menu not being properly consumed when activating an ability.
• Fixed a bug with hotkey inputs from the ability menu that rarely caused an ability mapped to 'a' to be immediately used when entering the screen.
• Fixed an exception during missile weapon fire when a cell was fully drained during a multi-shot action.
• Fixed an exception thrown during explosive projectile impacts.
• Fixed a typo in the tutorial.
• Added some names to the credits. [modding] Fixed an exception in FromWebColor when passing in a color code starting with #. [debug] Added party leader and inherited feeling towards the player to the attitude menu.

Hey friends, Its Alexandra from Kitfox here with a quick update on how things are going. Development has started again after the Freehold Team was on a much deserved break! As we mentioned last month, the major focus post-1.0 will be to explore localization and porting to mobile and consoles but theres so much more in the works. Theres a couple of updates you can expect in the next few weeks: February 28th This week there will be a maintenance patch on the main branch with bug fixes. March 7th Then we have the initial 'beta' branch release of 1.1, including an upgrade to Unity 6 and Windows 64-bit builds. No new game features yet, just technical and modding platform updates for now. Future After that, the team will return to a regular maintenance fix cadence, probably slower than weekly updates. The team is also building the technical localization API, and starting builds for mobile & consoles but we are just in the very early stages of this so we will have more to say later. We are excited for more folks to be able to play Caves of Qud! See you in the next one. -Alexandra

Hey friends, Happy 2025, happy lunar new year, and we hope youre still enjoying the Caves of Qud 1.0 update. We have some updates to share with yall. The team is still taking a rest, but we are still planning out the future of Qud, and the first priority will be looking at localization and console porting. Awards season is also in full swing and weve been nominated for some very prestigious categories!

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Hi friends, It's been two weeks since we launched Caves of Qud 1.0, and WOW what a stellar launch it's been! There's always some uncertainty when you press the release button for a game that's been in development for so long, but we've been floored by Qud's overwhelmingly positive reception. Glowing reviews, hilarious player stories, so many interpretations of the ending... And, wow, so many folks are playing. We 2.5X'd the previous record for number of players, and that was just a single day of activity; this has been going on for two weeks! Whether you've been with us since the beginning or you just discovered the game this December, thank you for being here and transporting with us to the vine-strangled arches.

1.01 Patch

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Full Patch Notes for 1.01

• Added an advanced option to disable all control binding conflict checking (Options > Debug > Disable conflict checking when rebinding controls).
• Added an advanced option to toggle autohiding of the mouse cursor (Options > UI > Automatically hide mouse cursor when inactive).
• The Skills tab details pane now scrolls properly with the right thumbstick or shift+arrow keys.
• Books now scroll properly with the right thumbstick or shift+arrow keys.
• Hatters no longer sell quartzfur cloaks.
• Made it more obvious that the [redacted] can be [redacted] to.
• Added a clarifying message when you try to enter the [redacted] after [redacted] already [redacted].
• The Reverse Engineer description now clarifies you can reverse engineer mods.
• Restored the mod status alert indicator.
• Fix-it spray foam can no longer be used to repair things that cannot be repaired.
• Reduced the memory pressure from using Precognition.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Page Right and Fire Missle Weapon from sharing a control bind.
• Fixed a missing duration stat in the description of cave spider's Spin Webs ability.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to begin the tutorial with the modern UI disabled.
• Fixed a couple more very rare input focus loss issues.
• Fixed a bug that caused invalid quest locations to prevent the quest screen from opening.
• Fixed a rare freeze when drinking warm static.
• Fixed a rare exception with templar phylacteries.
• Fixed a rare exception in status bar rendering.
• Fix an animation bug with certain late-game holograms.
• Fixed a bug that caused leaving the battlefield during Reclamation to not generate a warning if you completed Beast Slouching before defeating all the warleaders.
• Fixed a bug that caused some generated books to always generate as a single type.
• Fixed a bug that caused some factions to not be visible in the [redacted].
• Made the [redacted] plural instead of singular.
• Fixed a bug that caused rebuked robots to continue hostilities.
• Fixed an exception that prevented you from viewing gamepad binds with no active controller.
• Fixed a bug that caused an unendable conversation if you interacted with the Grit Gate intercom without a tongue.
• Fixed an issue with the Pets of Harvest Dawn DLC not loading properly on some OSX devices.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'Melee attack nearest enemy' to stop working without feedback.
• Fixed a bug that caused loss of input focus when viewing the Records screen without any records.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong endgame state to be logged in the Records screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused endgame Records to be saved twice.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to recoil during the [redacted].
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacting] yourself to yield a [redacted] that was missing reactive objects.
• Fixed a bug on OSX that caused screen size to be reduced to 0 when toggling fullscreen mode.
• Fixed a typo in [redacted].
• Fixed a typo in the mod toolkit.
• Fixed a rare exception when objects were cloned.
• Fixed a tile flipping issue when charging.
• [modding] GetCyberneticRejectionSyndromeChance now returns 0 by default.

We are proud to announce that after 17 years of development, Caves of Qud launches into 1.0 today. A new trailer celebrating the launch will also be debuting today at PC Gamers Most Wanted showcase. Make sure you tune in starting at 12pm PST/3pm EST/8pm GMT/9pm CEST. EDIT: The 1.0 launch trailer is now live! [previewyoutube=4nG-N_jtpZI;full][/previewyoutube] The Caves of Qud 1.0 update includes:

• The conclusion of the main quest, with multiple endings
• Lots of new music, sound effects, items, and final UI polish
• Tons of bugfixes and small feature improvements

• The base game
• The finished original soundtrack, now with over 2 hours of music
• The Pets of Harvest Dawn DLC, with your choice of 13 unique companions to start the game with
• And most importantly, the Dromad Deluxe seal stamped on your main menu!

Whats Next?

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Full Patch Notes for Caves of Qud 1.0

END OF THE GAME

• We added the end of the game, including the conclusion of the main quest and the ability to beat the game, with multiple endings. In support of this we added many, many things that are too numerous to list and would need to be redacted anyway. Enjoy!

SOUND & MUSIC

• Added several new music tracks, mostly for the endgame but one for overland maps in the salt marshes, desert canyons, hills, and flower fields.
• Added several remasters of existing tracks.
• Added many, many new sound effects.

UI

• Added a new main menu with animation.
• Refactored the main menu and secondary menu options.
• Polished the frames of several submenus, like the Mods menu and Modding Toolkit.
• Renamed the Skills & Powers screen to Skills, the Attributes screen to Attributes & Powers, and the Inventory & Equipment screen to Equipment.
• We made several functionality improvements to the Equipment screen.
  • Added a new option that allows pagination binds to move between inventory and equipment panes and arrow keys to collapse / expand categories. (Options > UI > "Navigate inventory and equipment panes with left/right pagination instead of movement binds"; must have advanced options enabled)
  • The option "Equip/unequip highlighted item when pressing right or left" now functions in modern UI when using pagination navigation on the Equipment screen.
  • Added a new option to expand whichever of the inventory or equipment panes is currently focused. (Options > UI > "Expand the equipment or inventory pane when focused"; must have advanced options enabled)
  • The proper pane on the Equipment screen is now selected based on how you enter the screen (ie, hitting 'i' will enter the screen with the inventory pane in focus).
  • Added a selection highlight to the inventory and equipment lists.
  • Added hotkeys to the equipment pane in list mode.
  • Dragging an item onto the paper doll background now autoequips it to an appropriate slot.
  • Right-clicking a piece of default equipment on the paperdoll now inspects it.
  • The inventory search filter now prefers exact substring matches instead of fuzzy searching by default. The search mode can be changed in the toggle options on the Equipment screen.
  • Added tooltips for the filter categories.
• Added compute power to the secondary attributes pane of Attributes & Powers screen. It only appears if you have compute power greater than the default of zero.
• Added a new option that allows the character sheet to expand to full height or full screen on large monitors. (Options > UI > Character sheet size)
• Buy Mutations and Show Effects are now navigable options on the Attributes & Powers screen.
• The Quests screen now supports expand and collapse-all binds.
• Left and right now expand and collapse categories correctly on the Tinkering, Journal and Quests screens.
• Collapsing a category on the Skills screen now selects the proper parent category.
• Using search on the Skills screen now searches all skills, including unexpanded categories.
• Added a sort menu to the Reputation screen.
• Added tooltips for the Journal tabs.
• Removed the unused "general" category from the chronology.
• The stage dock width is now saved between sessions.
• Improved the character creation UI on small screens.
• Improved the formatting of the Skills screen.
• Improved the formatting of the Tinkering screen on small screens.
• Improved the formatting of the Quests screen on small screens.
• Right-clicking on the worldmap now defaults to look instead of the interact menu.
• Becoming nook terminal lines can now be clicked.
• You can now right-click the background to exit the becoming nook terminal.
• The modern UI now properly shows robot modules.
• Opening the abilities menu when you have no abilites no longer shows placeholder text.

OPTIONS

• We did a big refactor of the options menu.
  • Massively simplified and reduced the number of default "simple" options.
  • There's now a "Show advanced options" checkbox next to the options search bar (and in the Legacy UI, an App Settings option). Enabling this reveals all options.
  • Did an edit & cleanup pass on option categories and text.
  • Deleted some deprecated options.
  • Added a volume slider for combat sounds.
  • Added a volume slider for interface sounds.
• We did a refactor of the control bindings menu.
  • Did an edit & cleanup pass on binding categories and text.
  • Deleted some deprecated binds.
  • Changed all references from 'keybindings' to 'control bindings'.
• Search text is now cleared when reopening the options menu or control bindings.

TUTORIAL

• The tutorial pumping station no longer stocks hundreds of drams of free freshwater.
• Sprint and Freezing Ray are taken off cooldown if you need to use them.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to take the starting chest.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to miss with Freezing Ray.
• Fixed a softlock in the tutorial if you failed to equip the torch.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to reset the starting location to Joppa.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from getting the battle axe.

GAMEPLAY

• We reduced the point cost of some mutations.
  • Quills now costs 3 instead of 4.
  • Psychometry now costs 3 instead of 4.
  • Stunning Force now costs 3 instead of 4.
  • Pyrokinesis now costs 4 instead of 5.
  • Cryokinesis now costs 4 instead of 5.
  • The Star-Eye Esper preset now has Sense Psychic.
• Stunning Force now deals damage in up to 3 increments based on proximity to the center of the blast, as it's supposed to.
• You may now seal yourself in [redacted] when you are gigantic.
• Pools of liquid indirectly affected by warm static pouring now glitch into a safer subset of liquids.
• Charge can now be used while standing next to plants without melee attacks.
• Love tonic effects now more reliably expire when old zones are loaded.
• Restocking merchants now more reliably trade away unimportant items sold to them.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Added special time icons for Tzimtzlum and [redacted].
• In addition to all the new objects, we added several new tiles for old objects.
  • Added a new figurine tile.
  • Added four new sultan statue tiles.
  • Added a tile for portable wall.
  • Added a tile for psychic glimmer.
  • Added new tiles for all golems.
  • Added new tiles for albino ape, ogre ape, cragmensch boulderer, cragmensch luminary, glittermensch boulderer, glittermensch luminary, several merchants, Mayor Nuntu, plated knollworm, worm of the earth, dromad caravan guard, juicing cannibal, bow turrets, yempuris phi, and the Pilgrim calling.
• Proselytize now asks which creature to target when there are two+ targets in a square.
• Bask is now disabled when not usable.
• Plants summoned by Burgeoning are now considered trifling and, for example, won't generate messages for follower deaths.
• Toggling the Trash Rifling ability now resets the autoexplore ignore list for trash in the zone.
• Added an explanatory popup when a vendor identifies an item for you.
• Improved the performance of power transmission elements.
• [modding] Subtype tiles are now flipped to be right-facing programatically.
• [debug] Added a new resetauto wish to reset the autoexplore ignore lists for the zone.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed a bug that caused containers to rarely become filled with 'objects' and 'pooledobjects'.
• Urchin cherubs are now properly mobile.
• Fixed a memory leak on the Attributes & Powers screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures separated from their leader to sometimes ignore your attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused powered items to be drained rapidly if traveling on the world map in a vehicle.
• Fixed a bug that caused sensing effects like Heightened Hearing to apply to yourself in darkness.
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic, two-handed equipment to use more slots than required, if any were available.
• Fixed a bug that caused flame and frozen sound effects to rarely play at inappropriate times.
• Fixed a bug that caused blank 'this rank' and 'next rank' entries in mutation descriptions.
• Fixed a bug causing rapid mutations to not apply some changes to mutation effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused the layout to jitter on the Skills screen when the scrollbar appeared and disappeared.
• Fixed a bug that caused stacks to temporarily disappear from trade after recharging an item from the stack.
• Fixed a bug that caused sultan statue names in the journal to not be properly highlighted.
• Fixed a bug that caused extremely long names to break the layout on the Attributes & Powers screen.
• Fixed a bug in the scrollbar positioning of wide popups.
• Fixed inconsistencies in the direction the player tile faces.
• Fixed a rare exception during object destruction.
• Fixed an issue with right-trigger wait on Steam Deck.
• Fixed an issue with click-to-explore pathing.
• Fixed some responsiveness issues at 1.5x in 1080p.
• Fixed some responsiveness issues with Skills lines.
• Fixed some intermittent layout issues in the status screens.
• Fixed some layout issues in character creation
• Fix a rare exception during zone build.
• Fixed the "mod with tinkering" item action in the classic UI.
• Fixed a description error with ThermalAmp and hamsa selection.
• Fixed problems with the disabled mouse input option.
• Fixed a bug with display names of some quests involving dynamic items.
• Fixed a bug that caused tooltips to get stuck open.
• Fixed a bug that caused tinkering line items to be unclickable.
• Fixed a rare bug in zone generation due to random baetyl rewards not generating properly.
• Fixed a bug in the scroll position of the journal map when highlighting a new entry.
• Fixed a bug that caused layout issues in the map editor when reopening after reloads.
• Fixed a bug that caused the comparison tooltip to overflow on small screens.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hover tooltips to sometimes flicker.
• Fixed some layout issues on small screens on the Equipment screen.
• [modding] Fixed an issue with AllowedMutationCategories on Genotypes during character creation.

Hey friends, Caves of Qud 1.0 comes out in just over a week, on December 5th! Its been an emotional and exciting time and the team has been hard at work with all the finishing touches on the update. We wanted to share some info about what you can expect on launch day.

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Hey friends, Surprise! The Caves of Qud tutorial is out on the main branch today. After a lot of helpful feedback during beta, we feel it's ready to release ahead of the 1.0 launch. Try it out, especially if you are new to Qud and want to get a foothold on the basics of the game. Here are a few patch notes from the last tutorial beta.

Tutorial Patch Notes

• Fixed a bug that allowed you to press hotkeys to bypass required tutorial selections.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to edit the tutorial preset.
• Fixed a bug that caused the daily challenge to occasionally start in the tutorial area.
• Fixed a common source of zone build errors.
• Added an option to ask flying companions to stop flying.

Hey friends, After 15+ years of development, Caves of Qud 1.0 will be released on December 5th 2024! Were amped up on the juice, near out of our minds, and so ready to let the creature emerge from its cocoon. Check out the release date announcement trailer on Youtube: [previewyoutube=87TKcq4tcJ4;full][/previewyoutube]

Patch Notes for Beta Branch

Fixed several small bugs.

Tutorial Leaving Beta for 1.0 + The Last Story Quest

This is the capstone update to the hundreds of updates weve put out over the years. 1.0 will include the new tutorial that weve been beta-testing, meant to help teach beginners the very basics of the game. And also the much-anticipated final quest in the main questline, with multiple endings. Were playing this one extremely close to the vest, but just know were pouring our hearts and souls in. In addition to the tutorial and last quest, 1.0 will have several new music tracks, new sound effects, new items, lots of bugfixes, and other small feature improvements. To pair with this announcement, we have a Steam Daily Deal going RIGHT NOW for $16.99 USD, the lowest price Caves of Qud will ever be. On October 29th, one week from today, the price increases to $29.99 USD. So if youve been on the fence, or you have a friend who youve been nudging to dive in, today is the day!

Pets of Harvest Dawn & Dromad Deluxe

Alongside 1.0, were also putting out the Dromad Deluxe edition which includes Caves of Qud, the newly enhanced soundtrack, and the Pets of Harvest Dawn DLC pack, with in-game companions for your character. Pets of Harvest Dawn includes pets that were exclusive to Patreon supporters while the game was in early access. The pack will also include one never before seen pet. Whew were almost there. Thank you to all our water-sibs for supporting us on this journey. As announced previously, we plan to keep working on Caves of Qud after 1.0, and well have more details about those plans in a future update. For now Live and drink.

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Hello friends, We just released the Caves of Qud tutorial on our beta branch. Its designed to teach the very basics of Caves of Qud and ends with your character arriving in Joppa, just like in a standard game. If youre already a seasoned Qud player, youll likely be familiar with most of what gets taught (though there may be some useful nuggets for you); if you have a friend whos been itching to try the game, this is a great opportunity to get them going!
To access the beta, select Caves of Qud in your Steam library, then Properties > Betas choose beta - beta from the dropdown. For feedback, were specifically looking for bugs and breakages so experienced players, feel free to go in and try to break it. Please post your issues here. The tutorial along with the last segment of the main story will come into the main branch when 1.0 releases. No date just yet, but be on the lookout. And a reminder: the game and soundtrack prices are going up on October 29th. One last month to buy at the current price! Soon, Live and drink.

Hey folks, If you missed this announcement, tonight's Feature Friday will be the last one before our 1.0 launch later this year. We're going heads down to give full focus to the endgame. Thanks for observing this Friday ritual with us week after week, and we'll see you again soon! Live and drink. 207.100

• Added a clickable close button to the status screens frame.
• We changed how the procedurally generated, white-titled books work when read.
  • Most of the time, reading a generated book displays a short excerpt from the book instead of the full, several-page text.
  • You'll occasionally still find full-text books.
  • Due to this change, Ruin of House Isner secrets are still findable but rarer. To offset his, we've made the location secret appear more frequently when you trade for or discover journal secrets.
• The gun rack and cathedra cybernetics can no longer rust.
• Removed biome and stratum information from slynth sanctuary choices.
• The "of terrifying visage" mod now shows the effect on cooldown for Berate, Intimidate, and Menacing Stare in the ability menu.
• Removed "fast travels much faster" from the description of the flying effect since that bonus is no longer tied to the effect.
• Horns now displays its to-hit bonus in the mutation description and on the Horns (or variants) natural weapon description.
• Tweaked troll foal character level.
• You know complete the Disable the Magnetic Field step of the Tomb of the Eaters quest after [redacted].
• You can now enter the [redacted] without the Tomb of the Eaters quest without having the game lock up.
• A sound is now played when your sharpened polyp crumbles to dust.
• A sound is now played when you activate the Temple of the Rock platform.
• World generation tier is now set correctly for objects generated at worldgen time such as lair owners.
• Gave becoming nooks way more HP.s
• Made the ingredient baskets and medical chests in the Yd Freehold unowned.s
• Added missing grenades to some artifact tables.
• Fixed Mass Mind not properly cooling down mental mutations.
• Fixed a bug that caused the second golem spawned from using cloning draught as a catalyst to not be your follower.
• Fixed a bug that caused ickslugs birthed by a snailmother to adopt a docile demeanor.
• Fixed a bug with village apothecary stats.
• Fixed an error in the display of the cleave amonut for gigantic axes.
• Fixed an issue that caused mutations added from cooking recipes to not be applied properly in some cases.
• Fixed an issue that caused cooking effects to not apply their effects but still remove the effect when wearing off in some cases.
• Fixed an issue that caused skills added from cooking recipes to not be applied properly in some cases.
• Fixed a bug with the tier of metal locker contents.
• Fixed some issues with cybernetic credit wedge chests.
• Fixed some description typos in Syphon Vim and some creature objects.
• [modding] Added a RegionalObject part, which can place keyed groups from a population table based on the zone's terrain region.
• [modding] Cleaned up the StreamingAssets folder.

Hey friends, Its been a while since weve had a big news post, so we want to give you an update as we head towards our 1.0 launch at the end of the year. We dont have a more specific release date yet, but we will let you know as soon as we do... The team has reached some major milestones in completing the enormous amount of detail work it takes to get Qud to 1.0. We recently finished rewriting descriptions for the 2,000+ (!!!) objects in the game. Heres the last one we did: its trash.
We also finished activated ability descriptions, message log messages, sound effects for everything in the game (over 1,000). And we fixed some long-standing bug chains with cooking, cloning, and creature attitudes. So what is left to do? Aside from more detail, there are two major pieces. First is the tutorial, which were designing specifically to teach the very basics of Qud and help new players get their footing. Were far along and will be making it available to Patreon backers and private testers soon. Second is the endgame. How do you end a game like Caves of Qud? Well, weve had the outline for 15 years, and were finally making good on it. Endings are hard, we take the task very seriously, and to be frank: we are absolutely cooking! Cant say anything else yet, but were so excited to share it soon.

As we head into the endgame

The Price is Going Up. After much consideration to many factors, including how far the game has come since our Early Access launch in 2015, weve decided to raise the price on October 29th to $29.99 USD (and the OST to $9.99). This will be the final price heading into 1.0. We wanted to give as much notice as possible so that folks can get the game at its current price and take advantage of the 10% off sale running now. Please tell your friends whove been on the fence to pick up the game before the price goes up![/olist] We are nearly there, and were feeling it: excited, exhausted, etc. Were committed to having these last few updates put a satisfying capstone on the game while also welcoming new players with (multiple) open arms. Thank you so much to everyone who has stuck with us for the long haul. Soon...
Live and drink!

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207.99

• Added the rest of the activated ability descriptions.
• Added several more descriptions for creatures and items, finishing a full pass.
• Added icons to the pet selection menu during character creation
• You may now cook with objects from adjacent cells (eg, open bodies of water).
• Inanimate objects that are on fire or being attacked will no longer be too distracted to allow you to place objects on or in them.
• Clicking on zone transition arrows now walks you to the edge of the screen instead of taking a single step.
• The pet Frondzie now more reliably uses it's taunt whenever you are in combat.
• Fixed the "NoCombat" tag used on various pets.
• The pet Ercolano should be properly animated now.
• The lairs of legendary girshling should now be populated with more girsh creatures rather than random creatures.
• Added a verification step when saving the game to ensure it was written to disk correctly.
• Gave decarbonizers turret bodies rather than hover robot bodies.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Precognition vfx to get stuck or not wait until the zone was rendered before animating.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions to have the incorrect water ritual liquid.
• Fixed a bug that caused creature opinions to temporarily be ignored after a save was loaded.
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple redundant popups to appear if your precognitive vision was about to run out after you already chose to return.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused you to die after choosing to return to the start of your precognitive vision.
• Fixed a memory leak when choosing to not return to the start of your precognitive vision.
• Fixed a bug that caused cloned abilities to never come off cooldown.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ultra Fire to not have a cooldown.
• Fixed a typo in the Empty the Clips activation message.
• Fixed some typos in worldmap messages.
• [modding] Added a 'clearcooldowns' wish that can be used in some cases to resolve issues with non-ticking cooldowns.

Hey all, We've been working hard on finishing the game for our 1.0 release, so we're taking a break from Feature Friday next week to get some much needed rest. FF will return the following week. Live and drink, friends. 207.98

• Clicking on an interactable object or hostile creature now advances one square before warning instead of preventing movement altogether.
• The accomplishment for donating books to Sheba can now only be engraved on your [redacted] once, if other deeds are available.
• Proselytizing a creature is now only an accomplishment if they have not previously been your companion.
• Fixed a bug that took some loot away from the ancient bones in the asphalt mines.
• Fixed an issue with metabolizing effects from cooked recipes not triggering properly.
• Fixed the character sheet description of Light Manipulation to properly show the PV and reflect chance of the next level.
• Fixed a bug with installing two onboard recoilers at the same time resulting in only one being usable.
• Fixed a bug that caused the ceremonial vibrokhopesh to clack and buzz constantly on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused popups referring to the chime '_' to be incorrectly capitalized.
• [modding] Added float and double gamestate methods.
• [modding] Added several methods for getting properties from HistoricEntity and HistoricEvent.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the Circuitry part to lose all charge on the world map.
• [modding] The IXP multiplier wish (xpmul:#) behavior is now stored as a float game state "XPMul" and will persist on save load.

207.97

• Objects are now re-flagged for autoget after being thrown.
• Flurry now properly integrates with effects that impact physical attacks (eg. sprinting, stuck, etc.)
• The ancient bones now look like bones and are easier to spot.
• Included daughters of Exile is dynamic encouters.
• Removed the chiming rock from dynamic encounters.
• Fixed a bug that caused "when you drink freshwater" trigger effects to trigger even if you declined the prompt to drink.
• Fixed a bug that caused liquids to be consumed even when you declined a prompt about drinking too much.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused an elevator platform to spawn on top of stairs down in Bethesda Susa.
• Fixed a bug in the display of a single standalone iron fence tile.
• Fixed a bug that caused several legendary creature types to be uncloneable.
• Fixed a rare exception when cloning.
• Fixed a bug that caused phasing to be able to be reactivated on the turn it expired.
• Fixed some odd grammar around staring at one's own reflection.
• Fixed a rare exception in party leadership assignment for breeders.
• Fixed a rare exception during worldgen.
• Fixed a grammar bug with shimmering heat messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused the music during the battle for Omonporch to loop incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug that caused the stair traversal sound to play even if something blocked your way.
• Fixed a bug that caused the sound for identifying an artifact not to play.
• Fixed some grammar issues in the effects of one of the new special items.
• [modding] Added a Notify conversation delegate, which triggers an event on the target object and game systems.

207.93

• Reverse Engineer now lets you reverse engineer mods.
  • 15% chance (per mod) to learn a mod when you disassemble a modded item.
  • If you have Disassemble and Reverse Engineer, you can now disassemble non-tinkerable items if they have tinkerable mods.
• Added Daughter of Exile.
• Added a few new special items.
• You can now scroll choice dialogs with the right stick on gamepad.
• Reduced volume of the wait sound.
• Replaced the prompt sound with the standard popup sound in most cases.
• Fixed an issue with tents made from memory eater scales.
• Fixed overlapping ability bar command text.
• Fixed several pages in the character sheet that weren't responding properly on small screens.
• Fixed overlapping ability pagination bindings.
• Fixed a grammar issues when using a high-powered magnet from a stack.
• Fixed a bug that caused planished godhed pariahs to appear unplanished in their display names.
• Fixed a rare exception when changing keybinds.
• Fixed a memory leak when using Precognition.
• Fixed a bug that caused 3d cobblers to start teleporting you randomly after looking at a wall.
• [modding] Added BeforeShieldBlockEvent and AfterShieldBlockEvent.
• [modding] Added StaticObjectsTable tag populations, which function similarly to DynamicObjectsTable but ignore the ExcludeFromDynamicEncounters tag.

207.89

• Added 100+ new sound effects for quests, status effects, and various other interactions.
• We made some changes to decoy holograms.
  • The radius of single holograms was reduced from 20 to 12.
  • Affected creatures now have a visible "distracted by a decoy" status effect.
  • Distracted creatures now make a new save to resist the decoy every 10 turns.
  • Creatures that resist distraction can no longer be distracted by that particular hologram for several days. This immunity persists even if the hologram is deactivated and reactivated. For items the produce multiple holograms, each individual hologram tracks its own saves.
  • Creatures now remain distracted after loading a save.
• Added more creature and ability descriptions.
• Added a failure message to Hook and Drag for situations where the target can't be hooked.
• AI now properly considers phase when using Hook and Drag.
• Disarmed mines originally created by the player are now autogettable.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quests requiring the player to enter an object to not complete correctly.
• Fixed a bug with the weapon skill of the shoulder-mounted light cannon natural weapon.
• Fixed a small memory leak in world generation.
• Changed the step wording on the Creating World screen.

207.87

• Added some more item descriptions.
• Added some more ability descriptions.
• Gamepad highlight (left trigger+right trigger) now shows inventory tooltips.
• The time of day icon now continues to work even when you're inside an interior.
• Fixed a display name bug in legendary clockwork beetle names.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally caused focus to be lost when navigating the cybernetics terminal with gamepad.
• Fixed a bug that caused rare lockups in the cybernetics terminal.
• Fixed a bug that caused gaslight chisels to be improperly weighted for AI autoequip.
• Fixed a bug that caused 3d cobblers and step sowers to sometimes remove you from your cell, causing you to reappear in a random place.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the missile weapon menu from displaying on gamepad.
• [modding] Zones and interiors can now override whether they are considered to be "inside" for natural daylight with SetInside.
• [modding] The IllnessChance method of Food is now virtual.
• [modding] Added JournalAPI.AddVillageNote to add journal notes to a village's history.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the InventoryItemConvertor part to not process inventory items.

207.85

• Added some more ability descriptions.
• Leather braces can now be wooly.
• Cast nets and throwing axes now have sell values.
• Charging with adjacent hostiles now respects phase & flight.
• Reduced memory pressure from creatures that fabricate their own ammunition.
• Clarified in the descriptions of serene and terrifying visage that they require both head and face slots.
• Time cherubim will now properly use temporal fugue.
• Fixed a rare exception when creating clones.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'when you gain a new follower' cooking triggers to not properly trigger.
• Fixed an issue with dragging the message log divider when the log was docked to the left.
• Fixed an issue that caused warm static to instantly kill you.
• Fixed an issue that caused you to die at the end of precognition.
• Fixed a bug that caused slotted energy cells to disappear when reloading a save if a hired guard was separated from its extradimensional leader.
• Fixed a bug that caused love injectors to create permanent followers if you had either Beguiling, Proselytize, or Rebuke Robot.
• Fixed a bug that caused various creature and furniture abilities that required someone standing in the same cell to not activate, e.g. aloe volta.
• Fixed a bug that caused bonded companions such as psychic thralls to repeatedly thaw the zone their leader was in when separated.
• Fixed a bug that caused inventory hotkeys to function incorrectly the first time the screen was opened.
• Fixed a bug that caused temporal fugue to not summon copies when surrounded by a lot of deep water.
• [debug] The debug internals option now adds the ability to toggle logging of AI "Think" to the message log.
• [modding] Fixed a bug in pregen default icons.
• [modding] Upgraded Unity version to 2022.3.39f1.

207.81

• Added an option for zoom sensitivity (Options > Modern UI > Zoom Sensitivity).
• Sultan curios can no longer produce temple mecha.
• Added a few more ability descriptions.
• Added a few more item descriptions.
• Made a clarification to the nulling item mod's tinker description.
• Fixed a bug that caused a specific jungle tile on the world map to lock you in place.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Bell of Rest to recall you from far distant zones.
• Fixed a bug in the transmutation of liquid volumes.
• Fixed a rare cloning exception.
• Fixed an exception when naming unnamed places.
• Fixed a bug with generated text in murals.
• [modding] Variant entries in Bodies.xml can now specify an empty string to remove an inherited property.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the tile, foreground, and detail of skill entries to be overridden with defaults when multiple mod values were merged.
• [modding] Added VillageBase.CreateVillageFaction to add new village factions from history.
• [debug] Fixed a bug that caused the 'idall' wish to only identify a handful of objects in the current zone.

207.78

• We updated some default gamepad binds.
  • Walk to edge is now Y.
  • Move to Point of Interest is now left-stick press.
  • Ability page up and down is now left trigger + dpad up and down.
  • Melee attack nearest enemy is now left bumper.
  • Zoom in and out is now left trigger + dpad left and right.
• Added several item descriptions.
• Added some activated ability descriptions.
• Gave Dyvvrach an inventory so they can sell their credit wedges.
• Jellies and oozes now have default Ego and Willpower scores of 1 instead of 0.
• Rhinoxen now have a trio of single horns instead of a trio of double horns.
• Changed the indefinite article for leather armor and studded leather armor.
• Removed some tomb walls from dynamic encounters.
• Popups aligned to mouse position are now properly clamped to the screen.
• The Spindle channel now extends up to the z-level of Resheph's tomb.
• Added rolling session backups when you load a save game from the main menu. These can be manually restored from the <...>/CavesOfQud/Local/Session folder.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warden Indrix to sometimes corrupt your save game.
• Fixed a bug that prevented save games from being loaded if the info file was corrupt.
• Fixed incorrect damage in Shield Slam's description.
• Fixed a bug that caused zone stratum info to occasionally appear in the names of items you've named.
• Fixed a bug that caused tile clicks to incorrectly register on button down and when dragging.
• Fixed a bug that caused clicking on non-active buttons to activate the selected button instead.
• Fixed a bug in the display of keybinds in the menu bar of the keybinds screen.
• Fixed a bug in the stat shifts of clones affecting the original object when the clones vanish.
• [modding] Added GetLandingLocation to the ZoneManager for getting the arrival zone of a parasang.
• [modding] The GetTransitiveLocationEvent now supports prioritization of the selected portal and destination.
• [modding] More interface members of the Rack collection are now virtual.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the AfterTravelEvent to sometimes be handled twice if the parent object moved.

207.76

• The new UI now properly shows the purchase cost of skills when some powers have already been learned.
• Smart use is now a bit smarter, defaulting to high priority actions (opening doors, ascending stairs) but still allowing low priority actions (closing doors, collecting liquids) if no high priority actions are available.
• Copies of objects now properly inherit statistical shifts.
• Increased the render layer of fracti.
• Fixed a log spam bug when clicking outside of the valid tile area.
• Fixed a bug that caused some default limb behaviors to not be properly removed.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Show Wffects command to not show up on the character sheet for true kin.
• Fixed a bug that caused some items to occasionally stop working until they were re-equipped after multiple save cycles. (e.g. step sowers, 3D cobblers, grassy yurtmat)
• Fixed a bug that caused music to not play in the Moon Stair.
• Fixed a bug that caused some continuously looping sounds to sometimes not play.
• Fixed a bug that caused mods to break on Linux.
• Fixed a bug that caused the global location of interiors to sometimes be outdated, preventing recoiling when traversing between worlds.
• [modding] Added a flag to ignore the contained weight of interiors.
• [modding] Added a stale flag to zones that have been released via game end or freezing.
• [modding] Various AI behaviors now inherit from AIBehaviorPart for collective removal.

207.73

• Added many new sound effects for equipping items, reloading guns, and various other interactions.
• Greatly improved the loading speed of sound effects, all but eliminating the delay when a sound is played for the first time.
• Mouse movement now attempts to explore toward unexplored square you click.
• The mouse right-click interact context menu now appears at the position of the mouse cursor instead of the center of the screen.
• There's now a hierarchy of click actions. For example, clicking on an open door now moves into its square instead of trying to close it, though clicking on an open door still opens it.
• Chimeras can now grow mouths, oral arms, and muscular feet.
• Tinkers and artifexes now start with a wrench, and horticulturists start with a pestle.
• You can now look at the contents of more bookshelves without angering their owners.
• Arconauts, rhinoxen, Saad Amus, and Saad Amus clones should now wander more often (in the right contexts) rather than stand around.
• Replaced scorpiock's unspecified stinger with a paralyzing stinger and lowered its mutation rank to 2.
• Tweaked scorpiock's description.
• The Mechanimist convert in Joppa is now considered interesting.
• Non fresh-water liquids are now be ignored by general smart use actions.
• Added faction icons for sultan cults and dynamic villages.
• Added a new 'Adventure Mouse Quick Look' bind which shows a tooltip look instead of entering look mode.
• Mutation points are now consumed after gaining a mutation rank, meaning Irritable Genome can no longer level something past it's maximum rank.
• Removed Kyakukyan converts from dynamic encounters.
• Burrowing claws, drills, and pickaxes now only use their dig damage against walls if its greater than a normal attack.
• Swapped out the More Than a Willing Spirit Steam achievement icon.
• Fixed a typo in the Bricks Can Be Thrown, Too achievement text.
• Fixed a bug that caused Thah to give you an effectless asterisk. Affected saves will receive a 10-pointed asterisk when loaded.
• Fixed a bug that caused popup width to be incorrectly sticky in some cases.
• [modding] Fixed zoom in the map editor.
• [modding] Folded in all the Spring Molting blueprints from Staging.xml into their respective XML blueprint files.

207.72

• Added new mouse bindings for contextual action, interact, interact all, force attack, force move and look (Key Mapping > Adventure Mouse).
• Nerfed the powerful "remove any one negative status effect" triggered action on the non-powerful variety of regeneration and healing-based cooking ingredients. Now that effect removes one -minor- negative status effect, like the first 4 ranks of the Regeneration mutation.
• Similarly, gave a less impactful nerf to the powerful variety of regeneration and healing-based cooking ingredients by making their triggered action remove one negative status effect instead of all (but preferring a major one over a minor).
• Fixed a bug that caused old journal entries from prior games to sometimes appear in the journal.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some relic quests from completing correctly.
• Fixed a bug that could rarely cause any dynamic quest to never complete correctly.
• Changed the default framerate for OSX from vsync to 120, because of an OSX bug that caused a freeze when alt-tabbing a vsync application.
• Changed the default framerate for Steam Deck from vsync to 120, because of some cases of the modern UI being sluggish on Steam Deck when vsync is enabled..
• Fixed a layout issue that prevented some inventory categories from being clicked when there were a lot of them.
• Fixed an issue with custom visage and some other configurable cybernetics not being properly configured in the modern UI.
• [modding] The FinalizeRead method of parts and effects now supports removing the read component for migration purposes.
• [modding] Upgraded Unity version to 2022.3.33f1.

207.69

• Added an additional scale option for the character sheet (Modern UI > Character sheet additional scale percentage).
• Added an additional scale option for message log text (Modern UI > Message log line size adjustment (pt)).
• Added support for multiple default keyboard binding sets.
• Added a 'hjkl' keyboard binding set.
• Added an option to disable the modern character sheet while keeping other elements of the new UI (Modern UI > Modern character sheet).
• Added a KBM option to controller font type to force keyboard glyphs (Modern UI > Controller buttons > KBM).
• Added an option for a compact ability bar layout (Modern UI > Ability bar mode > Compact).
• Added a tooltip delay slider (Controls > Tooltip Delay (MS)).
• Added explicit value display for options sliders.
• Added an option to disable the input warning (Modern UI > Disable input warning)
• The new trade UI now stays open with items selected when cancelling the "Offer" dialog, making the behavior between the console and new UIs the same.
• Keyboard glyphs now show on Steam Deck if keyboard input is being issued.
• Added a missing default keyboard keybind for wait until healed and wait menu.
• Greatly improved the performance of the trade screen.
• Removed the vestigial "additional user interface elements" option.
• Removed a stray newline when completing quest steps.
• Bep is now interesting.
• Dawning apes now use oil as their water ritual liquid.
• Erah now has a leather apron.
• Frogs are no longer considered to have scales.
• Crysteel axes now have an appropriate equipment shader.
• Learning an item mod now gives a popup message like learning how to build an item does.
• Removed several stair types from dynamic encounters.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wild-eyed watervine merchant to usually be hostile toward you.
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to be left with no allegiances when their mind was stranded.
• Fixed unlocking of the 'Total Makeover' achievement.
• Fixed reputation adjustments from mutations being skipped for determining creature attitude until a save cycle happened.
• Fixed a crash when loading a game while inhabiting a body with no abilities.
• Fixed a bug causing the object picker to reset to the starting selection state after interacting with an item.
• Fixed the dynamic controller fonts.
• Fixed a bug with focus retention when setting a primary limb.
• Fixed a sound issue on the ability manager.
• Fixed a bug that caused zone generation to fail after someone was exiled from Bey Lah.
• Fixed a zone generation issue in Grit Gate and the rusted archway.
• [modding] Fixed Object parameter of AfterAddOpinionEvent.
• [modding] Added IScribedPart, IScribedEffect, and IScribedSystem, which allow the free addition and removal of fields without breaking save compat.

Hello friends! We are shedding some of our text-based skin for the Spring Molting update, live NOW on the main branch. This is the FINAL major update before the 1.0 release later this year. This patch brings the much-anticipated UI overhaul and lots of other upgrades and improvements. If youve been intimidated by the console UI and it's stopped you from diving into Qud, give Spring Molting's new RPG-like interface a try. Watch the update trailer to see the changes: [previewyoutube=okr1o8j0su0;full][/previewyoutube]

Spring Molting Update Highlights:

• ALL NEW INTERFACE Our transformational UI redesign is complete! Fully mouseable, fully gamepaddable, and much prettier, but all carefully designed to maintain the essence of what makes Qud Qud. More polish is coming, but everything functional is in.
• Support for Steam Cloud saves. Play between PCs or between Steam Deck and PC, at your leisure
• a refresh of the starting town of Joppa, with the same lived-in texture as the rest of the world
• hundreds of new sound and visual effects
• 40 new achievements
• several new narrative touches, big bug fixes, & performance improvements

Whats Next?

Spring Molting Patch Notes

Quick note on saves

We added an entire new UI. (ie, we completed work on the modern UI, for folks who've been following our progress). More polish will be coming over the next several weeks, but all the functionality is there.
• There are too many changes to fully document, but here's a partial list of new screens: trade, quests, message log, character sheet, skills, equipment & inventory, tinkering, game summary, every journal tab, status effects, reputation, world generation, interact nearby, books, in-game terminals.
• The new UI has full keyboard, mouse, and controller support.
• The new UI plays natively on handhelds like Steam Deck.
• Added a search bar to relevant screens.
• Added a system menu button to the top-right of the main play screen.

• Added full support for Steam Cloud saves.
• Vastly improved the performance of saves and loads.
• Greatly reduced the number of files per save.
• Greatly reduced save size.
• Saves are now more resilient towards breakage, from mods or otherwise.
• Saves now kept in the \Synced subdirectory, and unsynced files are kept in \Local.
• Multiple attempts are now made to delete save games that are in use by another process.

• We refreshed the starting village of Joppa.
  • Added a new apothecary: Nima Ruda.
  • Replaced Warden Ualraig with a more fleshed-out version: Warden Yrame.
  • Gave all major NPCS new dialog and new descriptions.
  • Widened the range of artifacts that can be turned in to Argyve. Concurrently, we gave some true kin castes fewer starting trinkets.
  • Made some significant changes to O Glorious Shekhinah! These changes carry through to the generated village starts, and in fact are slightly different in each village type.
  • Gave the village a makeover, with several new walls, pieces of furniture, and monuments.
  • Joppa NPCs now point you to questgivers, like the villagers of dynamic villages do.
• We refreshed the Naphtaali faction and culture.
  • Replaced or renamed several Naphtaali. Here's the new roster of creatures: Naphtaali forager, Naphtaali tinker, Naphtaali nimrod, Naphtaali jeer, and Naphtaali sap.
  • Replaced chrome idols with unplanished godheds, and their legendary counterparts, planished godheds.
  • Refreshed woodsprogs and added them to jungle populations.
  • Added Erah the ciderer to Kyakukya.

• Strong feelings creatures have due to actions you take (such as attacking them) now weaken over time instead of reverting suddenly when a map is unloaded.
• Creatures belonging to multiple factions now take your reputation with all those factions into account when determining their attitude toward you.
• Creatures no longer ignore changes to your faction reputation if they have a personal opinion of you.
• Companions no longer revert to their base attitude when they lose track of their leader.
• In general, we made the attitude system governing creature AI much more robust and fixed many of its long-standing bugs.
• Creatures now get mad at you if you tell your companions to attack them.
• Added a new piece of furniture: electric generator.
• Tables randomly have items. on them more often.
• Fixed Yurl having way too much ammo.
• Removed the extraneous grazer golem.
• Creatures no longer get saves vs. dreamcrungle gazes.
• Lampreys no longer wake up from a nearby creature calling for help.
• Hardpoints and Middle Hardpoints are no longer selected as metachrome slots.

• Added 40 new achievements.
• Added many, many new visual and sound effects.
• Looping music tracks now play seamlessly.
• Added an option to disable interface sounds (Opetions > General > Interface Sounds).
• Made some alterations to the track that plays during Reclamation.
• Added an option to disable text particle effects (Options > General > Use Text Particle VFX).
• Made some tweaks to hindren and mopango dialog.
• Refreshed and polished the dynamic wall generation system used for villages (e.g., "dragonfly chitin tent")
• Refreshed and polished the display names, tiles, and descriptions of uindentified artifacts and partially identified artifacts.
• Added some new trinkets: Added bubble level, spiral iron, and salt mill.
• Added a wrench and a pestle.
• Added several new item descriptions.
• Tillifergaewicz is now a point of interest.
• Twinning and trining lamprey can be villagers again.
• Reduced memory fragmentation over long play sessions.
• Improved turn-by-turn performance.
• Improved lightray casting performance during the day.
• Improved performance in liquid-heavy zones.
• Improved memory overhead in general.
• Improved memory overhead and performance when saving/loading.
• Reduced memory pressure from reality-stabilizing effects.
• Changed Issachari renderstring to 'h'.
• Clarified Ruin of House Isner rules text.
• Removed the prerelease inventory and trade options.
• Clarified the disease cure achievements only trigger when the diseases are cured via traditional methods.

• We made many, many fixes to long-standing issues around creature attitudes, including creatures losing their
• Fixed Asphodel's followerss being limited to 8.
• Fixed nonspecific gender verb conjugation.
• Fixed several cases of messages referring to a *PooledObject.
• Fixed the performance impact when many creatures had died or objects had been destroyed.
• Fixed non-human village tinkers and apothecaries not having tier-appropriate stock.
• Fixed twinning and trining lampreys generating erroneous copies.
• Fixed starch and lignin being removed.
• Fixed backswings being able to trigger additional backswings recursively.
• Knowing the Cloaca Surprise no longer significantly slows down game loading.
• Fixed many other small issues.

• [modding] Creatures now have action-specific opinions of others. For example, being attacked by someone's ally now garners the OpinionAttackAlly opinion.
• [modding] Creatures now maintain a history of allegiance. For example: "On the 3rd of Ut yara Ux, was constructed by a turret tinker." and "On the 12th of Tuum Ut, was proselytized by you."
• [modding] Many invalid components are now removed gracefully when loading a saved game, making it possible to remove a mod from a saved game and continue playing.
• [modding] Made the Leader part more general and functional. Use it to generate a creature with companions.
• [modding] MinEvents now support registration with prioritized execution and optional serialization.
• [modding] Any class can now register for a MinEvent by implementing the IEventHandler interface.
• [modding] Event handlers now use event registrars to handle both registration and unregistration with a single method implementation.
• [modding] Some events are now sent and can be listened for on the global game level, such as AfterPlayerBodyChangeEvent.
• [modding] Added ModSingletonEvent, ModPooledEvent and IModEventHandler, which allow creating modded events with native performance. See XML docs for examples.
• [modding] Object instances can now tokenize themselves for the serializer by implementing the ITokenized interface.
• [modding] IParts can now define a priority which determines their order within the parent object's list. This has an effect on the orders of event processing and serialization.
• [modding] Inert parts with no functionality, such as those gained from some skills, can now define a skip priority that excludes them from event processing, for a minor performance benefit.
• [modding] Ported blueprint builders to be IObjectBuilders, which are singletons that can process many game objects without creating garbage or polluting the object's parts.
• [modding] Text variable replacers, such as "=verb:shloop=" or "=player.waterRitualLiquid|capitalize=", are now moddable by decorating a class and method with the related attributes.
• [modding] Complex and/or custom text variable operations can now use the Text.StartReplace() builder to do every replacement in a single pass.
• [modding] Abilities can now set IsWorldMapUsable to allow activation on the world map.
• [modding] The basic fields of effects are now manually serialized. It's no longer necessary to call the base Write method.
• [modding] Game state singletons can now handle any embark events that occur after their creation.
• [modding] An error is now generated when a serialized type falls through to the deprecated binary formatter.
• [debug] Added a 'show attitude' action to creatures when debug information on object internals is enabled.
• [debug] Added several creature modifier wishes: fungusfriend:*, qudzusymbiote:*, slimewalker:*, slimespitter:*, kindlethumbed:*, firethumbed:*, convert:*, mechanical:*.

207.55 - 'beta' branch

• Swapped tinkering and journal tab positions.
• Added +/- and left/right category support to tinkering and journal entries.
• Phasing now shows cooldown and duration.
• Removed the extraneous grazer golem.
• Tillifergaewicz is now a point of interest.
• Twinning and trining lamprey can be villagers again.
• Creatures no longer get saves vs. dreamcrungle gazes.
• Replaced the 'Entomb yourself' achievement with 'Swollen Bulb'.
• Gave the nephilim achievements real names.
• Reverted an earlier change that allowed the nephilim achievements to be unlocked via pacification.
• Reverted a change that made nephilim grow in strength when one was pacified.
• Clarified the disease cure achievements only trigger when the diseases are cured via traditional methods.
• Knowing the Cloaca Surprise no longer significantly slows down game loading.
• Tinkering bitlocker items are no longer navigable.
• Made performance and memory utilization improvements.
• Guarded against some invalid text markup shaders causing crashes.
• Improved performance when many active effects were in play.
• Improved memory overhead and performance when saving/loading.
• Fixed a bug that caused the low HP warning to persist after ending a game.
• Fixed a bug that caused the zone you were entering to be frozen, making the game lock up.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes attack things they were not hostile towards if they were the only prospective target left.
• Fixed a bug that caused ongoing effects like explosions to sometimes persist after restoring a checkpoint or precognitive vision.
• Fixed a bug that caused local achievements to lose their unlock date.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions to not use some abilities when directed to attack neutral creatures.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the player object to be lost.
• Fixed unlocking of the '0 for 2' and 'The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 3' achievements.
• Fixed a bug that allowed books to be read from non-librarian vendors.
• Fixed some wigglyness in the layout of game object pickers.
• Fixed a bug in the eventing system that caused high-cpu usage and out of control animation speed.
• Fixed a bug in part nesting in list mode.
• Fixed checkpointing and autosaves being affected by your move speed.
• Fixed parts of zones being serialized twice.
• Fixed several pieces of game state being serialized erroneously.
• Fixed a save compatibility issue with dynamic village quests.
• Fixed an error when some objects were garbage collected.
• [modding] The basic fields of effects are now manually serialized. It's no longer necessary to call the base Write method.
• [modding] Game state singletons can now handle any embark events that occur after their creation.
• [modding] An error is now generated when a serialized type falls through to the deprecated binary formatter.

207.49 - 'beta' branch

• Added 40 achievements. They are visible from the in-game achievement manager (Main Menu > Achievements) but are not yet active on Steam or other platforms.
• Added a system menu button to the top-right of the main play screen.
• Added UI sounds for selections, some popups and picking targets.
• Added an option for to disable interface sounds.
• Added an option to disable text particle effects (Options > General > Use Text Particle VFX).
• Renaming crysteel and zetachrome items no longer takes away their paperdoll shader.
• Clarified Ruin of House Isner rules text.
• You are no longer always stranded in waking dreams.
• Gave eyewear mods a tinkering icon.
• Improved the layout of the comparison tooltip.
• Improved equipment drag and drop indicators.
• Improved performance when wearing a lot of equipment.
• Greatly improved memory overhead.
• Multiple attempts are now made to delete save games that are in use by another process.
• Added additional safeguards and debugging for player duplication.
• Fixed Yurl having way too much ammo.
• Fixed a bug that could look you out of Argyve dialog between knickknack quests.
• Fixed an issue causing strange items to appear in your inventory as a result of showing comparison tooltips.
• Fixed backswings being able to trigger additional backswings recursively.
• Fixed a bug with liquids creates via warm static.
• Fixed some item duping bugs.
• Fixed a bug that would rarely cause the paperdoll equipment and inventory to vanish.
• Fixed a bug where some scrollers wouldn't accept page up or page down.
• Fixed an error when attempting to revisit a zone that was missing from the zone cache.
• Fixed some bugs in the Mechanimist convert dialog.
• Fixed objects attempting to enter the pool multiple times.
• [debug] Added several creature modifier wishes: fungusfriend:*, qudzusymbiote:*, slimewalker:*, slimespitter:*, kindlethumbed:*, firethumbed:*, convert:*, mechanical:*.

207.40 - 'beta' branch

• Added default gamepad binds for ability page left/right, zoom in/out, walk and auto-attack-nearest.
• Added icons for gloves and wings mod categories.
• Tweaked the color of spendable AP and MP on the character sheet.
• Removed the prerelease inventory and trade options.
• Revised the Mechanimist convert's dialog.
• Replaced the Joppa monuments with history books in Irudad's library.
• Reversed the collapse/expand semantics on the Reputation page.
• Added equipment shaders to crysteel and some unique items.
• Journal categories are now sorted properly.
• The modern equipment screen now properly displays limb cardinality.
• You can now collapse/expand with left and right on the Reputation page.
• Improved performance in liquid-heavy zones.
• Improved memory overhead.
• Improved turn performance.
• Excluded BaseSwine from dynamic encounters.
• Removed the watervine farmer & Mechanimist convert from dynamic encounters.
• Added a timeout to precognition vfx if something goes wrong.
• Legendary creature titles no longer get doubled in certain circumstances.
• Gyre irons and bubble levels no longer close inventory when pressed and flipped, respectively.
• Added safeguards against non-takeable or destroyed objects ending up on your person and cleaned up existing ones from saves.
• Argyve will now wire up his loudspeaker after completing 'Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!'.
• Improved performance in zones with large power grids.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the salt dunes music track from playing.
• Fixed starting village Mechanimist converts having watervine farmer gear despite not all being watervine farmers.
• Fixed some layout issues in the game object picker.
• Fixed an issue with pagination in windowed lists.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused the hotkey display in the item picker to truncate.
• Fixed a rare layout exception in the equipment paperdoll.
• Fixed some excess memory allocation in the journal map.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed main menu commands to be triggered after continuing a game.
• Fixed several mouse input issues when modern UI was disabled.
• Fixed input on the console trade window.
• Fixed an exception when tabbing left through only one category.
• Fixed starch and lignin being removed.
• Fixed popups being hidden by other interface elements.
• Fixed errors when fetching icons for world generation.
• Fixed companions not re-evaluating their equipment after finishing a trade.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from acquiring the Spread Pax quest.
• Fixed the category display for morphotype mutations.
• Fixed a bunch of bugs in page up and page down in pooled-window scrollers.
• Fixed a bug in the formatting of the tinkering screen.
• Fixed a bug that stopped hotkeys from working on an equipment item after interacting with it with a popup until it was reselected.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused the wrong item to be selected in the modern game object picker.
• Fixed the default categories for equipping to a hand.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented spray bottles from working.
• Fixed an issue causing weird stuff like [widgets] to show up in inventory.
• Fixed a minor formatting issue in the show cybernetics hotkey display.
• Fixed twinning and trining lampreys generating erroneous copies.
• Fixed a bug that caused Joppa to not be available as an option for the slynth.
• Fixed a bug that caused expired temporary cells and ammo to sometimes drop to the ground.
• Fixed some message variables not being parsed correctly.
• Fixed key input on the map editor.

Hello friends! We are excited to announce that the Spring Molting update is live now in beta. We'll be testing for a few weeks and then releasing the update on the main branch June 6th. Full patch notes can be found at the end of this post, but here is a summary: - ALL NEW INTERFACE Our transformational UI redesign is complete! Fully mouseable, fully gamepaddable, and much prettier, but all carefully designed to maintain the essence of what makes Qud Qud. More polish is coming, but everything functional is in. - Support for Steam Cloud saves. Play between PCs or between Steam Deck and PC, at your leisure - a refresh of the starting town of Joppa, with the same lived-in texture as the rest of the world - hundreds of new sound and visual effects - several new narrative touches, big bug fixes, & performance improvements To access the beta, select Caves of Qud in your Steam library> Preferences> Betas> Beta Branch. No password required. For bugs and feedback, please post here. If you'd like to watch some gameplay before diving into the update yourself, you can watch snapjaw V-Tuber Gra on Youtube. Here is the VOD from yesterday's Ludonarracon Stream. And if you want to get your friends in on Qud, there is a free demo available from now till May 13th. Access it from the Caves of Qud Steam store page. Live and drink! -Freehold + Kitfox

SPRING MOLTING PATCH NOTES

UI

• There are too many changes to fully document, but here's a partial list of new screens: trade, quests, message log, character sheet, skills, equipment & inventory, tinkering, game summary, every journal tab, status effects, reputation, world generation, interact nearby, books, in-game terminals.
• The new UI has full keyboard, mouse, and controller support.
• The new UI plays natively on handhelds like Steam Deck.
• Added a search bar to relevant screens.

SAVES

• Added full support for Steam Cloud saves.
• Vastly improved the performance of saves and loads.
• Greatly reduced the number of files per save.
• Greatly reduced save size.
• Saves are now more resilient towards breakage, from mods or otherwise.
• Saves now kept in the \Synced subdirectory, and unsynced files are kept in \Local.

WORLD

• We refreshed the starting village of Joppa.
  • Added a new apothecary: Nima Ruda.
  • Replaced Warden Ualraig with a more fleshed-out version: Warden Yrame.
  • Gave all major NPCS new dialog and new descriptions.
  • Widened the range of artifacts that can be turned in to Argyve. Concurrently, we gave some true kin castes fewer starting trinkets.
  • Made some significant changes to O Glorious Shekhinah! These changes carry through to the generated village starts, and in fact are slightly different in each village type.
  • Gave the village a makeover, with several new walls, pieces of furniture, and monuments.
  • Joppa NPCs now point you to questgivers, like the villagers of dynamic villages do.
• We refreshed the Naphtaali faction and culture.
  • Replaced or renamed several Naphtaali. Here's the new roster of creatures: Naphtaali forager, Naphtaali tinker, Naphtaali nimrod, Naphtaali jeer, and Naphtaali sap.
  • Replaced chrome idols with unplanished godheds, and their legendary counterparts, planished godheds.
  • Refreshed woodsprogs and added them to jungle populations.
  • Added Erah the ciderer to Kyakukya.

GAMEPLAY

• Strong feelings creatures have due to actions you take (such as attacking them) now weaken over time instead of reverting suddenly when a map is unloaded.
• Creatures belonging to multiple factions now take your reputation with all those factions into account when determining their attitude toward you.
• Creatures no longer ignore changes to your faction reputation if they have a personal opinion of you.
• Companions no longer revert to their base attitude when they lose track of their leader.
• Creatures now get mad at you if you tell your companions to attack them.
• Added a new piece of furniture: electric generator.
• Tables randomly have items. on them more often.

MISC

• COMING SOON THIS BETA: 40 new achievements
• Added many, many new visual and sound effects.
• Looping music tracks now play seamlessly.
• Made some alterations to the track that plays during Reclamation.
• Made some tweaks to hindren and mopango dialog.
• Refreshed and polished the dynamic wall generation system used for villages (e.g., "dragonfly chitin tent")
• Refreshed and polished the display names, tiles, and descriptions of uindentified artifacts and partially identified artifacts.
• Added some new trinkets: Added bubble level, spiral iron, and salt mill.
• Added a wrench and a pestle.
• Reduced memory fragmentation over long play sessions.
• Improved turn-by-turn performance.
• Improved lightray casting performance during the day.
• Changed Issachari renderstring to 'h'.

BUGFIXES

• We made many, many fixes to long-standing issues around creature attitudes, including creatures losing their
• Fixed Asphodel's followerss being limited to 8.
• Fixed nonspecific gender verb conjugation.
• Fixed several cases of messages referring to a *PooledObject.
• Fixed the performance impact when many creatures had died or objects had been destroyed.
• Fixed non-human village tinkers and apothecaries not having tier-appropriate stock.
• Fixed many other small issues.

MODDING AND DEBUGGING

• [modding] Creatures now have action-specific opinions of others. For example, being attacked by someone's ally now garners the OpinionAttackAlly opinion.
• [modding] Creatures now maintain a history of allegiance. For example: "On the 3rd of Ut yara Ux, was constructed by a turret tinker." and "On the 12th of Tuum Ut, was proselytized by you."
• [modding] Many invalid components are now removed gracefully when loading a saved game, making it possible to remove a mod from a saved game and continue playing.
• [modding] Made the Leader part more general and functional. Use it to generate a creature with companions.
• [modding] MinEvents now support registration with prioritized execution and optional serialization.
• [modding] Any class can now register for a MinEvent by implementing the IEventHandler interface.
• [modding] Event handlers now use event registrars to handle both registration and unregistration with a single method implementation.
• [modding] Some events are now sent and can be listened for on the global game level, such as AfterPlayerBodyChangeEvent.
• [modding] Added ModSingletonEvent, ModPooledEvent and IModEventHandler, which allow creating modded events with native performance. See XML docs for examples.
• [modding] Object instances can now tokenize themselves for the serializer by implementing the ITokenized interface.
• [modding] IParts can now define a priority which determines their order within the parent object's list. This has an effect on the orders of event processing and serialization.
• [modding] Inert parts with no functionality, such as those gained from some skills, can now define a skip priority that excludes them from event processing, for a minor performance benefit.
• [modding] Ported blueprint builders to be IObjectBuilders, which are singletons that can process many game objects without creating garbage or polluting the object's parts.
• [modding] Text variable replacers, such as "=verb:shloop=" or "=player.waterRitualLiquid|capitalize=", are now moddable by decorating a class and method with the related attributes.
• [modding] Complex and/or custom text variable operations can now use the Text.StartReplace() builder to do every replacement in a single pass.
• [modding] Abilities can now set IsWorldMapUsable to allow activation on the world map.
• [debug] Added a 'show attitude' action to creatures when debug information on object internals is enabled.

Freehold Games' resident snapjaw v-tuber Gra is streaming live right here on Steam! She will be playing the beta for the Spring Molting update, which will be out tomorrow on the public beta branch. Caves of Qud is also part of the official selection for this year's Ludonarracon, check out the entire event over here.
Love Qud but want to get your friends in on the action too? You're in luck because there is a free demo available from now till May 13th. You can access the demo from the Caves of Qud Steam store page Subscribe to Gra on Twitch to see more of her streams: twitch.tv/grastreams -Alexandra

206.77

• Flaming tar pits are once again flaming.
• Terrified creatures no longer charge.
• Tumbling pods that are cult leaders now grant XP if they explode during combat.
• You can now select stacks of items when donating books to Sheba or throwing artifacts down the Sacred Well.
• You can now rename yourself in your original body or one your mind is stranded within.
• The name for your saved game is now updated when you take a new name via stranded mind or otherwise.
• Stilt Day Stilt pigs no longer open their pens.
• Conjoined girshlings are now considered plural.
• If you're standing next to friendly creature, you can use their culture when renaming your companions.
• Clarified the popup message when you can't autoexplore the full map due to unusually dark darkness.
• Goggles are now referred to in "pairs" rather than sets".
• Gave thistle pitches a sell value.
• Made Asphodel's description respect dynamic pronouns.
• Added info about using the Alt overlay to the manual.
• Fixed a bug that caused a popup message when one of your companions incurred extradimensional disappointment.
• Fixed a bug that caused intact cryochambers to spawn on stair landings.
• Fixed a bug that caused Neelahind to say the well has been poisoned by a previous accusation when the evidence did not match the culprit.
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Jeweled Dusk' achievement to unlock when you were not the target of the gemming attack.
• Fixed a bug that caused the waking dreamers to always start one experience point away from leveling up.
• Fixed a bug that caused temporary merchants to drop non-temporary wares on death.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'Petals on the Wind' to be unfinishable if you had already started 'Find Eskhind'.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'The Earl of Omonporch' delegates to spawn with and leave behind companions.

Hey there, Here's an update on last week's Feature Friday plus some other news. Since it's already Thursday, we've decided to just wait and post Feature Friday along with this week's patch tomorrow. Then, we'll be skipping Feature Friday next week, because: the following week we're posting the Spring Molting beta! So the schedule is

• Friday, April 26th: Feature Friday
• Friday, May 3rd: no Feature Friday; patch skipped
• Sometime between May 6th - May 10th: Spring Molting beta

Hey all, Got some team tech issues so we'll be posting this week's patch a few days late, likely some time this weekend. Until then, live and drink.

206.75

• The salt desert is once again populated with scorpiocks.
• Credit lockboxes are now made out of metal, as claimed.
• Gigantic tonics now indicate they contain double dosage.
• Flowers are no longer breakable.
• Symbiotic fireflies are now treated as live animals.
• Legendary animated objects now have "animated" in their display names, where appropriate.
• Added plants and farmable plants to Mountains population tables.
• Motorized treads and gun racks can no longer be dismembered.
• Made Spinnerets' web stickiness scale better with mutation rank.
• Clarified in Spinnerets' description that you are immune to getting stuck.
• When you have Dystechnia, tinkers now give the right message when you ask them to identify an artifact.
• Light chords no longer display their blank armor stats.
• Stalagmites now render above liquid pools.
• Creatures are now less prone to walking over catch basins and polluting their contents.
• Opening yourself when you are an animated container (for ex. a table) will now open your inventory rather than saying "You have nothing to trade."
• Fixed a bug that caused some spiders not to weave webs.
• Fixed a bug that caused the AI to toggle many toggleable AI abilities on and off again repeatedly.
• Fixed a bug that caused the sacred well to prompt you twice about important items.
• Fixed a bug that caused limbs dismembered from creatures implanted with a phase harmonic modulator to stay omniphase indefinitely.
• Fixed a color issue with mumblemouth.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused IPlayerParts to be deep copied.

Hey quddites! As you probably know, we announced that Caves of Qud is finally releasing on Steam in its full glory later this year, after more than 15 years of work. But we havent talked a ton about how we get there and whats left to do. So lets get to it!

Very Soon: Spring Molting

Summer & Fall 2024: Secrets til Launch!

Late 2024: Launch

What About After Launch?

Back to Work!

206.74

• Bundles of noisegrass are now more appropriately priced.
• Added ability icons to the gas breath mutations of breathing lizards.
• Fungus-ridden robots now actually host fungi.
• Spacetime vortices now remain stationary for the first round they appear, giving you a window to step outside their range.
• Cragmensch and glittermensch are now harder to set on fire.
• High-powdered magnets now indicate when they are destroyed due to application.
• Your DV is now set to zero while you are dominating.
• Stasis now freezes the timer on bombs.
• Fixed a bug that caused interact nearby, the nearby objects list, and the looker object list to consider objects inside solids differently from one another.
• Fixed a bug that caused the direction of the current local map to be displayed incorrectly when choosing a local map to travel to from the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused the item description in power switch abilities to be wrong.
• Fixed a typo in murals describing the historic liberation of cities.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic turret tinkers controlled by you to be unable to place turrets.
• Fixed a bug in the ability text of turret tinkers that displayed the internal blueprint or table name it was using.
• Fixed a bug that caused the target details text of a hidden sidebar to be clipped when using bio-scanning bracelet.
• Fixed a bug that caused cleave to indicate a target was cleaved even when it was immune to effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused zones below strata 50 of Eyn Roj to be devoid of creatures.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused population items that did not specify a load strategy to be skipped.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused load strategies on population groups to be ineffectual.
• [modding] The full file path is now displayed when a conversation part referenced in XML cannot be resolved.

206.72

• Extradimensional psychic assassin weeps are no longer noted in your journal on sight.
• You are now allowed to pick your target when there are multiple creatures available to beguile or proselytize in a cell.
• Flying objects that become stuck (for ex. in webs) will now stop flying and fall.
• Fixed a bug that caused some golems to retain their mental shield.
• Fixed a bug that caused some golems to drop a corpse or their inventory on death.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused several webs to spawn stacked in a single square.
• Fixed a bug that caused phase webs to break immediately.
• Fixed a bug that caused phasing from phase webs to wear off immediately.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the phased VFX from rendering.
• Fixed a bug that caused frost webs to behave differently for player and NPC use.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused fixed settlement ovens to appear in random encounters.
• [modding] Added support for removing any blueprint tag by prefixing them with remove: e.g. removetag, removebuilder, removestat, etc.
• [modding] Buttons in Options.xml can now declare an OnClick method.
• [debug] We made some changes to modding population tables.
  • Populations and their groups with the same IDs are now merged by default, specify Load="Replace" to replace them.
  • Objects and tables can now be merged by explicitly specifying Load="Merge".
  • Any population item can now be removed by specifying Load="Remove".

206.70

• Added new visual effects to throwing axes and geomagnetic discs.
• Poison-tipped spears are now thrown with the pointy end towards the target.
• Throwing axes are now categorized under Thrown Weapons.
• You are no longer required to die permanently in order to unlock the achievement 'Jeweled Dusk'.
• Motorized treads can no longer rust.
• There's now a popup message when you or a companion has a stat drained by a creature for the first time.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented popups from being displayed when equipment was removed by a pulse field magnet.
• Fixed a messaging oddity when losing the use of dependent limbs, such as hands.
• Fixed a bug that caused trails on thrown items to render over their sprite.
• Fixed a bug that caused your average armor to not be recalculated when regenerating limbs.
• Fixed a bug that caused dismembered limbs of named creatures to be referred to with an article.
• Fixed a bug that caused dismembered limbs to not inherit the article of the creature they were dismembered from.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "worn around wings" slot to lose its name after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to permanently lose your beak after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
• Fixed a bug that caused your disguise to disappear in completely dark areas.
• Fixed a bug that caused graffiti to sometimes not change the foreground color of a tile.
• [modding] Added several configurable parameters to throwing visual effects: e.g. speed, arc, rotation, trail, color, etc.
• [modding] The ending transparency of projectile trails can now be set with a full-length RGBA value, e.g. '#77bfcf60'.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused transparency on custom projectile trails to be overriden.

206.69

• Added new hamsa effects to various grenades.
• All heavy weapons will now be reloaded before each individual shot while using Sweep.
• Fixed a bug that caused the automove interrupt code to be incorrectly 'sticky' in some situations.
• Fixed a messaging oddity when attempting to recoil to the court of sultans in combat.
• Fixed a bug that caused some factions to not gift their cybernetics credit wedges via the water ritual.
• Fixed a bug that caused irisdual beam to misreport its dealt damage.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to lunge with a dismembered stinger.
• Fixed a bug that caused thermal and freeze grenades to not have appropriate hamsa effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused armed mines to be reported as disarmed in their description.
• Fixed a bug that caused the item category of the scrapped waydroid to be incorrect.
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Auto-pickup of zero weight items' but skip picking up items with fractional weight.
• [debug] Added a new debug option to show current faction reputation when looking at creatures that grant reputation.
• [modding] Name is now a required property of population groups.
• [modding] Added a Name to every population group.

206.68

• The liquid font mutation no longer oozes liquid on the world map.
• Popup menus with many options now ignore mouse position when scrolling with keyboard or joystick.
• Added a confirmation dialogue before dismemebering yourself using metabolizing effects.
• Flight and Swoop abilities now correctly display the falling chance.
• The Fear Aura mutation no longer wastes a turn if there are no enemies to fear nearby.
• The scrapepd waydroid is now categorized under Quest Items.
• Automove while holding the movemnt input will now properly stop for all events that interupt autoexplore, even if the source is not visible.
• Fixed a soft lock when a combat animation would continuously fail to render.
• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects to sometimes stop playing permanently.
• Fixed a bug that caused petting creatures to sometimes lock the screen for up to 10 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that caused other NPCs petting creatures nearby to interrupt player inputs.
• Fixed a bug that caused the jump ability to display its popup twice.
• Fixed a bug that caused the shimmering visual effect to persist after a waking dream.
• [modding] Added GameObject.HasItemWithTag(string) to search inventory and equipment for tagged items.
• [modding] The QudChooseStartingLocationModuleWindow now adds a breadcrumb to the UI.

206.67

• You can now wear gigantic gauntlets on your giant hands.
• The geomagnetic disc now benefits from being gigantic even while powered.
• Engulfing creatures will now disgorge something they are digesting if they become part of the same party during the digestion process.
• The temple mecha mk Ia's machined edge is no longer gigantic.
• You will now auto-explore over fracti if it wouldn't damage you due to non-matching phase or faction reputation.
• Fixed a bug that caused various coloration of creatures to be lost when in range of nightvision.
• Fixed a bug that caused unidentified missile weapons to display their identified icon in the missle weapon status bar.
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic items to require even more limbs to equip if they were already equipped somewhere else.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to immediately want to unequip a piece of gigantic equipment after equipping it.
• Fixed a bug that caused equipment to not update how many limbs it uses after implanting giant hands.
• Fixed a bug that caused giant hands to reduce the amount of limbs required to wear any item regardless of type, most notably gigantic armor.
• Fixed a bug that caused the geomagnetic disc to sometimes consume double charge.
• [modding] Dismembered limbs now copy all properties of their severed parts into a DismemberedProperties part.
• [modding] Added AfterDismemberedEvent which can be used to add additional properties to the severed limb.
• [debug] Added an 'implant' wish to directly add a cybernetic to yourself in an optional location: "implant:giant hands", "implant:pneumatic pistons:feet".
• [debug] Added a 'modify' wish to create an item with a specific mod installed: "modify:crysteel gauntlets:gigantic".

Hey everyone, Its Alexandra from Kitfox Games with some development and community news! We are working towards the final, major content update before 1.0 release. Much like the Creatures of the 7th Plague, this one will have a ton of new features, bug fixes and improvements. The team has been working on a full UI rework complete with fully mouseable, gamepadable, gorgeous updates for every screen. Here are some mockup screenshots of the new UI:



Joppa is also getting a refresh! Everyones favourite starting area is going to be as textured and lived-in as the rest of the world. More to show on this later! Along with those major reworks, the update will also include:

• Hundreds of new sound and visual effects
• 40 new achievements
• New death can and icons
• Several new narrative touches
• Big bug fixes and performance improvements

Jam with us!

206.66

• Phase-shift grenades are no longer moddable with the redundant phase-harmonic mod.
• Rivers in preset settlements now have the same object and wall-sparing behavior as random villages.
• Added a new visual effect for night vision.
• Radar now reveals [redacted].
• Greatly improved the performance of complex hydraulic power systems.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to violate the Pauli exclusion principal when surrounded by your own force bubble.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally produced incorrect capitalization of your name in recipes you create.
• Fixed a bug that caused your hunger level to not update when becoming famished via dilute warm static.
• Fixed a bug that caused broadcast power receivers to be non-functional within interiors.
• Fixed a bug that caused decarbonizers to self-destruct when firing their molecular cannon.
• Fixed a bug that caused decarbonizers with invalid targeting to prevent the game from rendering.
• Fixed a bug that caused delayed attacks from lithofexes and dreamcrungles to be aborted when loading a game.
• [debug] We made some changes to wishing for mutations.
  • You should now prefix wishes for mutations with "mutation:", e.g. "mutation:beak".
  • You can wish for a mutation variant by adding it as a parameter, e.g. "mutation:beak:rostrum".
  • You can wish for a specific mutation entry using its display name, e.g. "mutation:stinger confusing venom".
  • If the mutation has variants and one wasn't specified, you are now asked to select one.
  • You will be asked to confirm when a fuzzy search is about to apply a mutation to you.

206.65

• Added new descriptions for several pieces of armor and ceremonial vibrokhopesh.
• Trash and scrap can no longer break or rust.
• Creatures no longer expel their quills against inanimate objects.
• Clues for the Kith and Kin quest are now properly marked as quest items, warning you before being sold.
• Autoexplore no longer picks up Kith and Kin clues.
• Gas masks and filters now reduce damage caused by dangerous gases only if they are dangerous to inhale, but when they are, the damage reduction is much more effective.
• You are no longer prompted multiple times about your ability to swoop when flying.
• Star kraken no longer extrude unidentifiable tubes.
• The recoil ability can once again be used on the world map.
• Made death by damage reflection messages a little more sensical.
• Unidentified hoversleds are no longer seen as 'small boxes'.
• Increased the value of rubber tree seed.
• Fixed a bug that caused Eskhind to sometimes travel back towards the hollowed tree after returning to Bey Lah.
• Fixed a bug that caused Keh-hind to sometimes not leave Bey Lah right away when exiled.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused creatures to spawn directly over pits.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused creatures to spawn directly on top of spacetime vortices.
• Fixed a bug that caused fish to sometimes spawn without water.
• Fixed a bug that caused daggers in the thrown weapon slot to be eligible for Rejoinder.
• Fixed a bug that prevented your notes from displaying properly on unidentified items.
• Fixed a bug that caused walls and furniture to remain targeted even when out of line of sight.
• Fixed a bug that caused death from thirst to be attributed to the last creature that damaged you.

206.64

• Activated abilities can no longer be used on the world map.
• Transmuting the amaranthine prism now disappoints someone.
• The trade binds Value + and Value - and Add One/Remove One can now share bindings.
• Gun racks and cathedras can no longer be destroyed by coating in acid or lava.
• Star kraken no longer extrude the Grit Gate communications panel.
• Adding local cooking ingredients for when you whip up a meal in Tzimtzlum.
• ASCII bleed effects now match your bleed liquid color.
• Gave urshiib albinism.
• Defanged girshling corpses now indicate their defanged status in their display names.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hollowed tree to sometimes overwrite a location with existing encounters.
• Fixed a bug that caused the snapjaw who wields Stopsvalinn to be removed by dynamic encounters.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Sticky Tongue mutation to not animate if it failed to move its target.
• Fixed a bug with the status effect companions get when you wear Dagasha's Spur and renamed the effect "spurred to teleport".
• Fixed a bug that prevented forced attacks up and down.
• Fixed a bug with the coloration of slam messages from rhinoxen charges.
• Fixed a crash bug due to ashes being reduced to even more ashes when burnt.
• Fixed a crash bug deaing with infinite move chains.

206.63

• Added new descriptions for several pieces of furniture.
• Added new descriptions for several pieces of equipment.
• Domesticated Barathrumite tinkers now have their display name adjectives appear in the right order.
• Wardens Esther can no longer spawn hated by the Farmers' Guild.
• You no longer autodisassemble items that contain liquids.
• You can no longer select flaming/freezing ray variants for body parts you do not have.
• When selecting a variant for a random mutation, you can now go back and select another mutation instead.
• Random cryotubes that spawn with a stairwell inside them are now always destroyed.
• Clarified some language in the description of Penetrating Strikes.
• Fixed a sequence-break between Call To Arms and Grave Thoughts, if you never acquired Grave Thoughts before completing A Call To Arms.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to occasionally spawn on top of stairs.
• Fixed a bug that caused some templar warleaders to be missing during Reclamation.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic village merchants to restock twice.
• Fixed a bug that caused mid and high-tier dynamic village merchants to have less stock than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic village merchants to sometimes spawn with the wrong items in stock.
• Fixed a bug that caused autoexplore stop warnings for targeting lines to incorrectly display extra info.
• Fixed a bug that caused unidentified frozen items to use their identified tiles.
• Fixed an issue that caused quest item handwritten books to lose their yellow titles and look like generated books.
• Fixed some grammar issues in generated dialog for the Landing Pads quest.
• [modding] GenericInventoryRestocker now supports combining multiple population tables of stock by providing a comma separated list.
• [debug] Added a 'restock' wish to force all restocking merchants on the map to refresh their inventories.

206.61

• Added the following grenades as rare drops on Explosives population tables: spring-turret, time dilation, plasma, gravity, glitter, and phase shift.
• Added descriptions for several pieces of furniture.
• Weapons with lots of ammo no longer cause the ammo display to overflow the bar.
• Creatures can no longer be woken up the turn they fall asleep, which will prevent some issues like a backswing from a blow that knocked a creature unconscious immediately waking them up.
• Weapons that stun on impact now stun when they are thrown as well.
• Boosted the disassemble performance of unpowered advanced toolkits to match that of basic toolkits, as clained in the rules text.
• In look descriptions, fungal infections now show up under "Physical Features" instead of "Equipped".
• Creatures who prefer not to sell specific items or types of items now agree to sell them to you if they are your companion.
• Added a sound effect to the "you feel increasingly unstable" mutating message.
• Liquid-fueled energy cells are now tagged as ammo.
• Killing all the girshlings in Redrock before accepting What's Eating the Watervine? no longer prevents the quest's completion.
• Gave Saad Amos the Rebuke Robot skill.
• Removed how many seconds are left on a bombs timer from its description. It still appears in the display name.
• Active fungi now have a higher render layer.
• Fixed a bug that caused clues to the location of Ruin of House Isner to disappear from loaded games.
• Fixed a bug that caused unequipping the amaranthine prism via Precognition to not disappoint someone, if the prism was not in your inventory prior.
• Fixed a bug that caused averaged armor values from multiple limbs of the same type to sometimes not update when one of the limbs was lost.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to always receive blame for unequipping the prism, regardless of whom it was equipped to. (You'll still be blamed if it's your companion doing the unequipping.)
• Fixed a bug that caused the Decarbonizer module to permanently stop working if its beam was interrupted.
• Fixed a bug that caused the golem's ability to recall to the Court of Sultans to stop working if recalled or reshaped via the reshaping nook.
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Eat the God's Flesh' step to not complete correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Wandering Tau to wander off as if she were preparing to join the Seekers of the Sightless way.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Wandering Tau from being a follower after If, Then, Else was completed.
• Fixed a grammar issue with falling through open air.
• [modding] Folded Staging.xml blueprints into their respective data files.
• [modding] Added IfHaveItemDescendsFrom conversation delegate which checks your inventory and equipment for an object with a descendant blueprint.
• [modding] RecoilOnDeath now checks its active status, meaning it can be disabled by normality, EMP, rust, et cetera if flagged as vulnerable.

206.59

• Long trader names are now properly clipped on the trade screen.
• Gave lover's blossom a new tile.
• Autoexplore now avoids osseous ash.
• Traders are now referred to by name in messages explaining they don't have the skill to recharge or repair something.
• Urchin cherubim now grow their cherubic spines on their body instead of their arms, which they don't have.
• Qas and Qon are now immune to confusing gas.
• Glass doors are no longer opaque.
• The quest text of A Signal in the Noise no longer references Joppa.
• Made some tweaks to mid and late-game armor tables.
• Creatures with glotrot can no longer use Sticky Tongue.
• Thrown objects now use the proper unidentified tile if you don't know what they are.
• Multiple ejection seats can no longer lock in place in the same tile.
• Reaching loved reputation now only creates an entry in your chronology once per faction.
• Greatly improved the performance and memory utilization of pathfinding.
• Improved the performance of breeders.
• Fixed a bug that caused Putus Templar party leaders in faction encounters to get double their inventory.
• Gave Putus Templar party leaders the chance to have more than one Eaters' nectar tonic.
• Fixed a bug with the scoring of A Call to Arms that caused chain laser emplacements and waydroids to be treated as full Barathrumite persons.
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic energy cells to never generate with more than half charge.
• Fixed a bug that put proselytize on cooldown with no effect when targeting a baetyl.
• Fixed a bug that caused spaser gas to emit from the attacker instead of the defender when killing a target in one shot.
• Fixed a recurring bug where some legendary creatures had malformed titles.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the deployment of portable walls on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hobbled to become less effective as your move speed increased, and increase it once your move speed was above 200.
• Fixed a bug that prevented levels deep underneath Ezra from building properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused a big performance hit when a creature was boxed in and unable to move.
• Fixed some grammar errors in books without titles.
• Fixed a text generation issue with sultan titles.
• [debug] Added "hobbled" wish.
• [modding] Added object, int, and float properties to factions.

206.57

• Mountain and hill maps now have a little more unique character and no longer generate without any open spaces.
• Improved the generation of rivers in villages.
• When you get lost, you generally no longer get plopped down in a tile with spawn-blocking objects like fracti and pits.
• Santalalotze now has tier 8 wares instead of tier 7 (very similar population but slightly more weighted toward the highest-end stuff).
• Temple mecha are no longer included among a newfather's domesticants.
• The game no longer thinks the plural of 'human' is 'humen'.
• Tweaked the description of Short Blade Expertise to match other references to action cost.
• Molting basilisk husk now has the right description.
• The sacred well should be less flammable.
• Messages now refer to 'the' amaranthine prism instead of 'an' amaranthine prism.
• Improved the consistency of object placement inside of village buildings.
• Fixed several map generation issues due to reachability being incorrectly calculated.
• Fixed an issue with village generation that caused a bunch of random objects to appear in random areas, particularly in the upper left region of the map.
• Fixed a bug in village generation that caused partial, garbled WFC-generated buildings.
• Fixed a bug in village generation issue that caused extra holes in buildings.
• Fixed a rare world generation exception.
• Fixed a rare village generatione exception.
• Fixed an issue that caused garbage liquids to leak into system memory and cause crashes in Golgotha.
• Fixed the display name of small sphere of negative weight when it's offered as a reward for completing a village quest.
• Fixed some plurality issues in messages generated about identifying cybernetic implants.
• Fixed a capitalization issue with generated messages about pulsed field magnets interrupting autoact.
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'S' after an possessive apostrophe to be capitalized when naming an item.
• Fixed a bug that caused water ritual options to be disabled if you did not have enough reputation to afford them without the social coprocessor.
• Fixed a bug that caused Tinker and Artifex starts to not receive their schematic from Tinker I and II.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Yd Freehold asterisk from affecting the reputation cost of pacifying nephilim.
• Tagged some objects as mass nouns.
• [modding] The DestroyContiguous part of nullray can now be used for melee weapons on hit.
• [modding] GiganticInventory now makes restocked inventories gigantic.

206.52

• Cathedras now supply the same bonus to tinkering as sitting in the nicest chairs.
• Curio summoned salt krakens will no longer wander.
• Creatures with power switches who are promoted to have conversations will no longer default to the interaction menu when used.
• Statues are now diggable.
• Floor cushions are now decorative.
• Improved the random baetyl rewards from building the golem.
• Onboard recoilers are now excluded from the recoil menu until they are implanted.
• [redacted] will now spawn creshes in adjacent cells.
• Random mental mutations offered via the water ritual will now be rerolled if you acquired the selected mutation elsewhere.
• Fixed a bug that caused the pit in Golgotha to sometimes spawn directly under a chute.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused an exception while saving the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused autowalk to stop before entering a cell with a sealed container of a dangerous liquid.
• Fixed a bug that caused spaser fire to not properly generate plasma if the target died.
• Fixed a bug that allowed traders to identify items for players with Dystechnia.
• Fixed a bug that caused tonic stacks dropped by creatures to be capped at 5 injectors.
• Fixed a bug that caused non-crop objects to count as crops destroyed during A Call To Arms.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused an entire fence side to be missing from farms and forts.
• Fixed a bug in generated the descriptions and titles of extradimensional objects that caused the text "cultSymbol" and "dimensionSymbol" not to be replaced with their real values.
• Fixed a bug that caused learning Tinker I, II, or III via the water ritual to not award the free schematic if you did not have the base skill.
• Fixed a bug that caused templar mechs to be overburdened.
• Fixed a bug that caused treating with the Girsh nephilim to not complete the quest step 'Beast Slouching'.
• Fixed a bug that caused village tinkers and apothecaries to sometimes not have their intended stock.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to dash vertically through multiple floors without stairs using the flume-flier.

The team is skipping Friday's patch this week due to the holiday week. We'll resume next week. Happy new year everyone! Live and drink.

206.50

• Added new descriptions for booster bot, cyclopean gibbon, diplomacy droid, ickslug, mimic, molting basilisk.
• Mech and golem walls are no longer tagged as diggable.
• Asphodel now tends to have fewer issues with the Barathrumites.
• Added chronology entries for curing ironshank and monochrome.
• Asphodel and xyr asphodelytes are now more tolerant of friendly fire during the Reclamation quest.
• The Girsh nephilim are now more likely to direct their beams at their target, under some circumstances.
• If the slynth move into Grit Gate, they are now considered for A Call To Arms scoring.
• You can no longer initiate the water ritual when your conversation is about to start a fight.
• Keh-hind no longer disappears if she is, or has ever been, your follower.
• You can now pray beneath the hologram of Shekhinah.
• Tumbling pods are now always rated at least Tough.
• Dromad's trade conversation option now shows the correct dynamic keybind.
• Holding an automatic movement key or button now properly respects several autowalk stoppers that weren't triggering before, including Aloe Porta and entering spacetime vorticies.
• Aloe Porta no longer stop autowalk when merely moving past them.
• Changed the rules text on night-sight interpolators to better match their behavior.
• Schematics drafters no longer have Tinker III.
• The Ironshank message about joint pain subsiding is now a popup.
• The crystal chime Tammuz is now considered a proper noun.
• Gave eyeless king crab legs the right tile.
• Updated brazier's display colors to be more sightly when unseen.
• NPCs that fall into spacetime vortices now become lost.
• Fixed a bug that caused the level up sound to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused spurious "You are frozen soild!" popups.
• Fixed a bug that prevented turrets from being deployed into gas clouds.
• Fixed a crash when generating levels in Golgotha.
• Fixed a bug that caused phase adaptive scope's safety feature to malfunction when used with long-distsance throwing weapons.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures in vantabloom darkness to stop autoexplore.
• Fixed the templating of Opportune Attack's trigger message.
• Fixed a typo in sawhander's description.
• Fixed a bug that caused Warden Indrix to stop sharing secrets after the first time.
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple water ritual and trade options to appear for dynamic villagers if there was an exception during the conversation.
• Fixed a bug that caused player-controlled soup sludges to not grow new pseudopods.
• Fixed a bug that would blink the player out of existance if they went to Bey Lah as Eskhind during Kith and Kin, via domination or otherwise.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mound of scrap and clay to appear in random populations.

206.49

• Gave Mayor Haddas better mental stats.
• Gave turrets the Strapping Shoulders skill.
• If you Bask on the world map, you no longer immediately become hungry upon leaving the world map.
• Altered the colorization of fungus-ridden creatures to make them more distinct from legendaries.
• Spotted shagspooks and dandy caps are now diggable.
• The Otherpearl is now referred to using the definite article more often.
• Clonelings' second pair of arms is no longer made of flesh.
• Cragmensch and glittermensch now leave behind large boulders on death even when burned to death.
• Mechanimist pilgrims who aren't converts now also carry the Canticles Chromaic, occasionally.
• Changed a reference to two-weapon fighting in the multiweapon fighting description.
• Added a message for getting teleported by an infiltrator.
• Took Single Weapon Fighting away from Crowsong.
• Fixed a bug that made phase-adaptive scopes malfunction in conjunction with geomagnetic discs.
• Fixed a bug that prevented gemstones created by transmutation of extradimensional creatures from being bartered.
• Fixed a bug that made autoact not describe or indicate why it was being interrupted in some circumstances.
• Fixed a grammar error in third-party Time Dilation activation messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused legendary templars to be incorrectly selected as psychic thralls.
• Fixed some misconstruction in desalination pellet messaging.
• Fixed love tonic description to match its real save difficulty.
• Fixed a typo in the description of monad.
• Fixed a typo in the message when you tried to slam a flying creature.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions of vehicles to be forced neutral when the pilot died or exited the vehicle.
• Fixed a bug with capitalization in the revelation of rumors about Rainwater Shomer.

206.48

• Entries in the wait menu and move menu now have hotkeys.
• Made random book titles format better when they contain words enclosed in punctuation marks.
• Throwing multiple weapons with grafted mirror arms now costs a single turn, as intended, rather than a turn per weapon.
• Gave thrown knives a new visual effect.
• Precision force lathe activation no longer has an action cost.
• NPCs can now use precision force lathes.
• The accuracy bonus from Draw a Bead now only applies to bows and rifles, matching the description.
• NPCs can now use Draw a Bead.
• Draw a Bead now only considers your visibility for purposes of maintaining the target mark, not obstructions.
• Added an Automation option to turn off digging through walls by walking into them.
• When something falls in love with you, your companions now stop attacking it.
• Added some new creature descriptions.
• There are now different indicator animations for when autoact is interrupted by threats vs. nonthreats.
• When you untarget something via the untarget interaction, your companions now stop attacking your former target.
• Autoexplore now looks at the village history monuments in the Yd Freehold and Kyakukya.
• Autoact interactions with doors now only use popups for failed interactions.
• Portable walls now fill deep shafts and similar terrain features that they are deployed over.
• Stats now display in the build summary screen using a formatted version of their name, where relevant.
• The bulging waterskin that sometimes appears in Bey Lah now starts off sealed.
• You now usually become lost if you attempt to travel on the world map while confused.
• It's no longer necessary to use force attack to attack while overburdened.
• Nostrums options in the cooking menu are now grayed out if they don't do anything.
• Attempting to shield slam yourself now gives a more sensical failure message.
• Item targets for the Spread Klanq quest no longer include item stats.
• Having an item ripped from your body by a magnetic pulse now interrupts autoact.
• There is now a popup message or autoact interruption when a visible, non-trifling companion has an item ripped from their body by a magnetic pulse.
• Added a message when you're missing a certain chime in an important situation.
• Improved name transfer of transmuted NPCs.
• When conjoined creatures split, the parts now take on the attitudes of the whole.
• The engrave interaction of gaslight chisels can now be used from the inventory.
• Fixed a rare grammar error with transkinetic cuffs.
• Fixed a bug where if you disassembled a recoiler from the Recoil menu, the recoiler remained in the menu.
• Fixed a bug that made the Recoil menu open with no option initially selected.
• Fixed a bug that made cybernetics credits wedges normally available via the water ritual from some factions only available from the Putus Templar.
• Fixed an exception when bleeding stopped.
• Fixed a bug with checkpointing locations.
• Fixed a bug that made creatures more willing to walk off cliffs than they should have been.
• Fixed a bug that caused crystalline roots to fall down the pits left by their destruction.
• Fixed a bug that disabled the Dashing effect of the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes included transient conditions like being wet in the names of creatures harvested for village construction materials.
• Fixed a bug that made torches in your initial inventory not stack until interacted with.
• Fixed some cases of color markup being incompletely removed from text.
• Fixed a bug that made rhinoxen, rarely, charge while frozen.
• Fixed a bug that made clones potentially inherit some of their original's descriptive elements inappropriately.
• Fixed the word "block" appearing twice in creatures' Staggering Block messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused some data disk vendors to fail to stock.
• Fixed a bug that made poisoning not affect creatures while they were stunned or paralyzed.
• Fixed a bug that caused strange phrasing in some generated sentences.
• Fixed a bug that caused strange phrasing when items were taken from the player as part of conversation.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions' point-defense systems to target your projectiles.
• Fixed a bug causing use of possessive pronouns in some messages where possessive forms of names were appropriate.
• Fixed a case of inappropriate capitalization when memory eaters try to consume a memory and can't find one.
• Fixed a bug that made status feedback for the quest Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka! tell you that you had picked up "1 feet" of wire if the first piece of wire you picked up was 1' long.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to fail to fall in love with things viewed via their interaction menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused some merchants to fail to restock until their zone had been visited multiple times.
• Fixed a bug that disabled digging by walking into a wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused waking peacefully to become impossible when crungled into the body of a level 1 creature.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to end if you leveled up by killing your original body in a deep dream.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze when transmuting items without a detail color.
• Fixed a bug that caused items glitched via warm static to create duplicate references to themselves within the same tile.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aoyg-No-Longer to become hostile after loading a save.
• Fixed a bug that caused some consumed or destroyed items to instead re-appear within your inventory.
• Fixed a bug that caused kills via transmutation not to be properly attributed.
• Fixed a bug that allowed missile weapons to instantly destroy invulnerable objects.
• [modding] There is now an intproperty TradeCount that is incremented on objects each time the player enters the trade screen with them.
• [modding] Degenerate markup of the form {{text}} now displays nothing, consistently with the results of ColorUtility analytical and transformation methods.
• [modding] Builder-based merchant inventory has been converted to population tables using GenericInventoryRestocker.
• [modding] XRL.World.Capabilities.Disarming.Disarm() can now take an argument GameObject Weapon that specifies a weapon to attempt to disarm rather than allowing it to be determined randomly.
• [modding] Optional predicates can now be applied to the TextInsert conversation part.
• [modding] Hooks for feet no longer resets its stats when regenerating.

Hey folks, No Feature Friday this week as we have team members traveling. We'll be back next week. Live and drink.

206.37

• Added a move menu, default binding shift-M.
• Added a "Move to Point of Interest" clickable button to the top right of the new UI, between the buttons for Character Sheet and Autoexplore.
• Stat saps are now always considered at least Tough opponents.
• Gigantic items now produce more wire in wire extruders.
• Autoact now explicates the reason it stopped via the message log more often.
• Pathfinding now works harder to avoid digging through walls with wiring, piping, or gearboxes.
• Hidden things being discovered no longer necessarily interrupts autoact.
• Sparking baetyls no longer ask for Sparafucile's masterwork weapons.
• Blast cannon projectiles ("pressurized energy") are now treated as mass nouns ("some pressurized energy", not "a pressurized energy").
• Attempting to activate a ganglionic teleprojector from its interaction menu while the ability is on cooldown no longer fails silently.
• Lagroots, junk dollars, and other urchins no longer interrupt autoact through mere hostility.
• Requesting gifts via the water ritual now operates on one item at a time if the NPC has a stack of them.
• When you die while confused, a confused version of your name is no longer recorded with your score.
• Legendary dervishes of the Sightless Way are no longer incorrectly titled as servants of Ptoh.
• Torches are now extinguished by being submerged in liquid.
• Made Value + and - binds able to share bound keys with Move Up and Move Down.
• The option "Use text autowalk threat indicator" is now called "Use text version of the autoact interrupt indicator instead of flashing red box".
• You can now return to the Recoil menu by escaping out of interaction with a recoiler.
• The option "Use text version of the autoact interrupt indicator instead of flashing red box" is now in the Automation category.
• The option "Use text version of the autoact interrupt indicator instead of flashing red box" now works consistently: it indicates the interrupting object with a pulsing red visual effect, if disabled, or with a descending yellow v character, if enabled.
• Creatures now consider moving away from gases or walltraps that are damaging them a little more aggressively.
• When creatures die while engulfed, items left behind are now left in the engulfer's inventory.
• When creatures die, the location items left behind drop in is now more consistent.
• Force bubbles no longer push anything when their owner is being pushed by another force bubble. This should prevent crashes from force bubble owners pushing each other.
• The activated ability for force bracelets now synchronizes properly when the force bracelet is deactivated by its force fields are independently destroyed.
• The icon colors applied by desecration now take priority over the icon colors applied by village history engraving.
• Improved how some items are specified in Spread Klanq quest steps.
• Slightly reduced the render layer of low walls.
• Removed two extra spaces from interdictor lock-on messages.
• Fixed the stats in the ability description of Cryokinesis.
• Fixed a bug that randomly caused some items to be incorrectly flagged as needing two slots to equip.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused a hard lock during world generation.
• Fixed a bug with the repulsive device.
• Fixed a rare bug with inventory stacking.
• Fixed a bug that caused the glotrot cure to fail.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused walls to paint incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to be described as disassembling "something", or for a disassembled item to be omitted, when disassembly was interrupted.
• Fixed a bug that made automatic attacks on ignored enemies interrupt autoexplore.
• Fixed a bug that made broken and engulfed statuses not appear in display names.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore" option to cause you to automatically attack ignored enemies that you moved next to on a single manual step.
• Fixed a bug that with item naming trying to name items after the world map.
• Fixed a bug that duplicated items when you equipped one from the ground while having another in your inventory.
• Fixed a bug that made the grounded effect prevent movement actions it shouldn't have, such as charging.
• Fixed a bug that made miners continue to lay mines after being instructed not to.
• Fixed a bug that made sparking baetyls imply they might take items from your inventory even if there were enough items to satisfy them nearby.
• Fixed a bug that caused the looker to be unable to switch objects.
• Fixed a bug that made merchants become temporarily incapacitated by restocking and soup sludges become temporarily incapacitated by growing their pseudopods.
• Fixed some bugs with text filters applied to speech, like with birds and fish.
• Fixed a bug that made geomagnetic discs unable to fly through gases.
• Fixed a bug with important tonics having their "apply" and "apply to" interaction hotkeys swapped.
• Fixed a bug with junk dollars' impaler behavior. Existing junk dollars in saved games will not be affected.
• Fixed a bug that made rock tumblers and wire extruders work when unpowered. Existing furniture in saved games will not be affected.
• Fixed a bug that caused the positive and negative cacophonic sounds for multiple simultaneous reputation changes to be played simultaneously, when applicable.
• Fixed a bug that made morphogenetic geomagnetic discs fail to work properly.
• Fixed a bug that put confused quest names in Reclamation quest steps if you were confused when Girsh nephilim spawned.
• Fixed a bug in the activation message of Shield Wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused mutation permutation to occur repeatedly past the halfway point of the Mutating effect.
• Fixed a bug that made some secrets display with inappropriately capitalized words in the middle of them.
• Fixed a bug where your hagiographies claimed you penned a copy of a cookbook instead of the cookbook itself.
• Fixed a messaging oddity in some messages about resistance to recruitment.
• Fixed a missing space in some possible faction descriptions.
• Fixed a bug that allowed duplicating a chord of light at Omonporch.
• Fixed a bug that caused Stingers to not activate when lunging.
• Fixed a bug that caused the golem mound's catalyst menu to be unopenable when a dram of slime was in your inventory.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Dayenu' achievement from progressing.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the repulsive device from being removed.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quests to sometimes become unfinishable.
• Fixed a bug in the ability manager screen that casued a lockup when activating an ability in the middle of a drag operation.
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when quitting a game.
• [modding] ProneOnHit now works on projectiles.
• [modding] The mod manager now sorts mods case-insensitively.
• [modding] The reference name of the highly entropic beings faction has been changed to Entropic.

Hey everyone, One of the biggest Caves of Qud updates, Creatures of the 7th Plague is out now! This year-long patch is full of new content: Boss fights, factions and new quests! Watch the brand-new update trailer: [previewyoutube=PZU4LpzlOQg;full][/previewyoutube]

The Creatures of the 7th Plague Update features:

• Arrival of the Girsh Nephilim, 7th plague of the Gyre, mythic beings whose cradles are tucked throughout the caves of Qud as five new dungeons
• Next leg of the main quest: a climactic battle with the Putus Templar at the foot of the Spindle
• Finalized, fully native gamepad and Steam Deck support
• Hundreds of new visual and sound effects
• New UI for the hotbar & Abilities screen and new icons for every ability
• New creatures (mechs!), skills, furniture, items, implants, and more

v206.26

NEW MAIN QUEST AND THE GIRSH NEPHILIM

• Added the next leg of the main quest. Talk to Barathrum after completing the Golem.
• Added the Girsh nephilim, 7th plague of the Gyre: Agolgot, Bethsaida, Rermadon, Shug'ruith the Burrower, Qas, and Qon.
• Added cradles throughout Qud where the Girsh nephilim reside.
• Added secrets for the locations of the cradles.
• When one of the nephilim is killed, the ones remaining now absorb its essence and become more powerful.
• The nephilim now leave behind chorded circles of light when they perish.
• Added shrines to the nephilim throughout Qud. Occasionally they have gyre wights worshipping them, and rarely, legendary gyre wights.
• We made several changes to the glow wights faction.
  • Glow wights are now known as gyre wights.
  • Changed default gyre wight reputation from -650 to 0.
  • Gyre wights now consider nephilim cradles, Golgotha, and Bethesda Susa holy places.
  • Replaced glow-wight cultists of Agolgot and Bethsaida with gyre wights of Agolgot and Bethsaida, respectively.
  • Added gyre wights of Rermadon, Shug'ruith, Qas, and Qon.
  • Legendary gyre wights are now willing to share the locations of nephilim cradles. Gyre wights of a particular Girsh are more likely to share the cradle of that Girsh.
  • Gyre wights now sometimes camp on the Stiltgrounds.
• We made several changes to girshlings.
  • Added girshling variants as nephilim spawn: rank girshling, conjoined girshling, plasmatic girshling, burrowing girshling, polarized girshling, and cryptic girshling.
  • Added a defanged girshling variant.
  • Added a new butcherable to girshling corpses: girshling fangs, rank fangs, incadescent fangs, and zigzag fangs, depending on the corpse.
• Changed the Girsh water ritual liquid to cloning draught.
• Added a special water ritual option to the Girsh nephilim.
• Added new creatures: grand newfather, temple mecha mk I, and temple mecha mk II (legendary).
• Added a new music track for the next leg of the main quest.

UI AND INPUT

• Merged all input managers down to one, meaning you no longer have to change settings for gamepad to work.
• Added a new keybind screen and made key binding more flexible, with many more commands now bindable.
• Made keyboard, gamepad, and Steam Deck input much more robust across the board.
• We added a new Abilities screen ('a').
  • Added icons for every ability.
  • Added in-depth, dynamic descriptions for many abilities (the rest to come).
  • You can reorder abilities on the Abilities screen and they will also reorder in your hotbar.
• We made several enhancements to the ability hotbar.
  • Your abilities are now automatically hotkeyed. You can change the hotkeys from the Abilities screen.
  • Added hotkeys for scrolling through your hotbars (default ctrl+1 - ctrl+5).
  • New ability icons also appear on the hotbar.
  • Added the new ability icons to the old UI sidebar. They also now respect the order of abilities on your ability screen.
• We added many new visual effects.
  • Added new visual effects for several abilities: flaming ray, flame breath, teleportation, slammed, digging, and temporal fugue.
  • Added new visual effects for several types of deaths: decapitation, transmuted, consumed, lased to death, and immolated.
  • Added new visual effects for several missile weapons: all lead slug weapons, all arrows, laser rifle, chain laser, laser pistol, point defense laser, spitting seed plant, light rondure, flamer thrower, null ray pistol, and rocket launchers.
  • Added new visual effects for several other creatures and items: aloe pyra, flaming vents, HE grenades, neutron flux, and hookah.
  • Added new visual effects for throwing.
  • Replaced the combat slash animation with a new one that has three grades of intensity for 1, 2-3 and 4+ penetrations.
  • Added a new animation for bludgeoning damage.
  • Added a new block animation.
• Added a new, highly visible autoexplore danger indicator.
• Added new tiles for some flashing status indicators: swimming, wading, covered in spores, flying, and sprinting.
• Holding down movement keys to move quickly is now safeguarded by the autoexplore danger indicator.
• Added gamepad button glyphs for Xbox and PlayStation controllers wherever the UI indicates a button bind.
• Right-stick up and down now defaults to page up and down in menus.
• Added default force-attack diagonal bindings: Ctrl+Shift+arrow keys.
• Added a bunch of new keybinds.
• Page Up and Page Down can now be used to navigate popups and the look menu.
• Changed the default bind for the Factions page to ctrl+f.
• Removed "laptop defaults" keybind options. The new defaults should be usable without numpad.
• Added a user interface option to select the main menu background image.
• In the new main menu, the Continue button is now disabled if there are no games to continue.
• Added an autoget option "Exclude liquid in containers you've dropped from auto-collect".

GAMEPLAY

• We added mecha, late-game pilotable robots.
  • Added special mechanics for infiltrating piloted mecha.
  • Added a key card requirement for piloting an unaccessed mecha.
  • Mecha do not heal on their own and must be repaired with 7 or 8 bits.
  • Mecha require a special type of energy cell to function: mecha power core.
  • Piloted temple mecha appear in dynamic encounters.
  • Unpiloted temple mecha can be found, very rarely, abandoned in caves.
• Added new items: grappling gun and longreach grappling gun.
• Added new cybernetic implants: grafted mirror arm, holographic visage, stasis entangler, phase-adaptive scope, and precision force lathe.
• Added a new piece of furniture: wire extruder.
• Added wire extruders to Grit Gate, Yla Haj's workshop, and the Yd Freehold.
• We revamped the First Aid skill tree.
  • Renamed the skill tree to Physic and reduced the initial purchase cost to 50sp.
  • Staunch Wounds now simply improves your bandaging rolls, both in and out of combat.
  • You can now use Staunch Wounds on your companions.
  • Removed the Heal and Set Limb skills.
  • Added a new skill: Nostrums. 100sp. INT 21.
    • You can treat bleeding, poison, illness, and disease onset at a campfire.
    • Treatments can be applied to companions.
    • Some treatments require a medicinal ingredient.
  • Added a new skill: Amputate limb. 25sp. INT 23.
    • You can voluntarily amputate your own limbs.
    • You can amputate your companions' limbs, if they are infected or equipped with unremoveable equipment.
  • Added a new skill: Apothecary. 100sp. INT 25.
    • Healing tonics you apply last an extra round.
• We revamped the Dual Wield skill tree and made changes to how offhand attack changes are displayed. (Experimental: subject to change)
  • Renamed the skill tree Multiweapon Fighting and the skills Multiweapon Proficiency, Multiweapon Expertise, and Multiweapon Mastery.
  • The bonuses to offhand attacks granted by Multiweapon Fighting skills now apply to all offhand limbs, except mutation-based weapons like Horns and Stinger. This now includes chimera limbs, as before, but also limbs granted by Multiple Arms and Helping Hands.
  • Reduced the offhand bonuses from the three skills from (effective) +20/40/60% to +20/35/50%.
  • Reduced the skill point cost of Multiweapon Fighting and Multiweapon Expertise to 150sp, down from 300sp.
  • Reduced the skill point cost of Multiweapon Mastery to 200sp, down from 300sp.
  • Increased the stat requirements of Multiweapon Expertise and Multiweapon Mastery from 21 and 25 to 23 and 27, respectively.
  • Natural offhand limbs and weapons wielded in offhand limbs now display their offhand attack chance in their descriptions.
  • When you swap your primary limb, your old primary inherits the offhand chance of the new primary you swapped to. This was always the case but is now easier to track due to the offhand chance getting displayed in the limb/weapon description.
• We added a new Single Weapon Fighting skill tree.
  • Single Weapon Fighting. 100sp. STR or AGI 17. You no longer make offhand attacks in exchange for mastery with a single weapon (toggleable).
  • Opportune Attacks (free with skill) - Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee weapon, the cooldowns of up to two random weapon or shield skills are immediately refreshed.
  • Weapon Expertise. 150sp. STR or AGI 21. Whenever you make a melee attack, there's a 50% you immediately make a second attack for free.
  • Penetrating Strikes. 200sp. STR or AGI 23. Your attacks always penetrate one extra time.
  • Weapon Mastery. 300sp. AGI 29. Whenever you make a melee attack, immediately make a second attack for free.
• We made several balance changes to the Horns mutation.
  • Horns now costs 4 mutation points instead of 3.
  • Changed the damage scaling from 2d(3+[rank/2]) to 2d(3+[rank/3]).
  • Changed tho to-hit bonus scaling from +rank to +(rank/2)+1.
  • Changed bleed damage scaling from 1d2+(rank-4)/3 to 1d2+(rank-4)/4.
  • Changed the bleed save target from 20 + 3*rank to 20 +2*rank.
• Updated dream tortoise preset to comply with starting point requirements now that Horns mutation point cost is increased (removed Telepathy).
• We made improvements to how mutation variants are chosen and displayed.
  • Added new tiles and descriptions for each mutation variant. E.g., horns, horn, spiral horn, antlers, and casque now each have their own tiles and descriptions.
  • Added new tiles and descriptions for Flaming Ray's ghostly flames and Freezing Ray's icy vapor.
  • When you choose a variant during character generation, the appropriate tile and description are now displayed.
  • When you randomly choose mutations during character generation, you can now get mutation variants.
  • When you gain a mutation after character generation, you can now pick a variant.
• Increased Gun Rack's license point cost from 4 to 6.
• Intravenous ports now stack by adding to the tonic's duration its original duration, before any modifiers, for each implant.
• When two spacetime vortices come into contact, they now explode instead of one being sucked into the other.
• Objects that occlude vision, like trees, and stationary pieces of furniture now have a chance to be hit if a missile passes through their space.
• Creatures now refuse to chat or trade with you when they are on fire.
• Kesehind now knows how to use the shield he carries.
• Made gyre wight apotheotes have a hostile temperament.
• NPCs can now use healing foods like witchwood bark and urberries.
• Leather whips can now be modded with some item mods.
• You no longer switch targets to a clockwork beetle when one spawns.
• Neutral-temperature liquids now stabilize their containers' temperature, including in the case of liquid-cooled overloaded weapons.
• Holograms are no longer immune to normality fields.
• Friendly creatures can no longer swap you out of their way.
• Added a command "Rest until party healed" that waits for you and your companions to recover full hit points, excepting any who do not heal naturally.
• Carapace now gives 400 tortoise reputation, per its description.
• Forcefields from force bracelets and Force Bubble must now be within 1 space of their emitters to continue existing.
• Galgal charges are now interrupted by [redacted].
• Gigantic arc winders now receive the appropriate bonus to their damage roll.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Added remastered music tracks: Pilgrim's Path and Overworld.
• Added MANY new sound effects.
• Changed the penetration SFX to match the 1, 2-3 and 4+ tiers.
• Replace "Then Things to Do When You Start the Game" with a "Quickstart" guide that has up-to-date info and dynamic keybinds.
• Tweaked "What's Eating the Watervine?" quest dialog.
• Tweaked the language of the book From Entropy to Hierarchy.
• Added a From Entropy to Hierarchy, 2nd Edition.
• There is now case specific death messaging for dying from reflected damage.
• Removed the unfinished dungeon Trembling Dunes, to return at a later date.
• Simplified the campfire sounds.
• Gave portable wall a new tile.
• Greatly improved save & load performance for both the game and previously visited zones.
• Greatly improved performance when new game objects were created.
• Improved general rendering performance.
• Improved performance when sounds would play during your turn.
• Improved performance when custom effects play during your turn, particularly offscreen.
• Improved performance when a creature takes damage and attempts to alert nearby allies.
• Reduced memory usage & fragmentation for long play sessions, particularly when saving or loading the game often.
• Reduced save file size.
• Stable, stationary spacetime vortices are now points of interest.
• Walking by flowers now refers to some flowers rather than a set of flowers.
• Made some performance improvements to autoexplore.
• Added a popup message when a companion fall down a pit.
• Improved messaging when robots are affected by Sunder Mind.
• The chiming rocks at Eyn Roj and the glowing soft below it are now points of interest.
• Liquid collection now indicates the direction the liquid is being collected from, and the source if from a container.
• You now receive a popup when non-trifling companions fall down a pit or similar terrain feature.
• Granite and tangled mudroot are now treated grammatically as mass nouns.
• Sparking baetyls no longer ask you for things you have equipped and cannot unequip.
• Missile weapons now prefer to autoequip in an unoccupied slot.
• If you get multiple pieces of scrap at once and autodisassemble is on, they are now all disassembled.
• Shrines becoming desecrated by non-player damage no longer issues a popup message.
• In several places we rephrased "+1 penetration" to "+1 to penetration rolls" to differentiate that bonus from when you get a full additional penetration.
• It's no longer possible for you to become your own target.
• Added an autoexplore option: "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore."
• The Bey Lah village stores are now consistently referred to using the definite article.
• It's now possible to interact with wall-crawling creatures while they're on walls.
• Skin glitter is now treated grammatically as a mass noun.
• You are no longer offered a trade conversation option with baetyls.
• Tweaked the electromagnetic shielding description to include its effect on magnetism and expanded the items that can be modded with it.
• Tweaked zone names in Oboroqoru's lair.
• Normalized all instances of Agolgot and Agolgut to Agolgot.
• Tools are now included in the categories expanded by default when choosing an item to equip on a hand.
• You can now escape out of dialogs to name an item.

BUGFIXES

• Rejoinder no longer counterattacks while toggled off.
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation to cast ambient light even when out of charges.
• Fixed a bug that caused some popup selections to cancel autoexplore immediately after.
• Fixed an issue that caused a spurious option popup when selecting a category in the trade menu.
• Fixed some grammar issues in Disintegration's messaging.
• Fixed a bug that caused several dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
• Fixed a bug that prevented "find a relic"" dynamic quests from immediately completing the find step if you already had the relic when you got the quest.
• Fixed a bug that caused the first step for site-finding dynamic quests to not complete if you found the site before you got the quest.
• Fixed a bug that made Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray hands variants stop working after eating the Cloaca Surprise or Crystal Delight.
• Fixed a bug that made the first deployment of a stasis grenade's stasis field be unaffected by normality.
• Fixed a bug that brain brine to not be consumed upon drinking.
• Fixed a bug that prevented entering clams.
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement for defeating a chrome pyramid to not be awarded.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to attack with hooks for feet.
• Fixed a bug that caused hooks for feet not to regenerate again.
• Fixed the spelling and capitalization of Dyvvrach's name in the fourth step of If, Then, Else.
• Fixed a typo in a medassist module loading message.
• Fixed many issues with faulty zone generation. Canyons and canyon-like areas should be more canyon-like again.
• Fixed a bug that made relics providing improved block not remove the effect when unequipped, quickly resulting in 100% blocking chance.
• Fixed a bug that made some relics associate themselves with an incorrect historical period.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause tomb stairs to spawn encased in walls.
• Fixed an issue that would ocassionaly cause historic sites to not generate correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused pit ledges to render incorrectly after a serialization cycle.
• Fixed a bug that caused missile weapon penetration to be more limited than it should have been under some circumstances.
• Fixed a number of issues involving environmental power systems when entering a zone.
• Fixed some message composition issues in mimic, jilted lover, and livid creeper special attacks.
• Fixed some issues causing NPCs to interfere with and delay each other in combat by swapping positions.
• You can no longer dupe chairs by equipping them as weapons and then sitting on them.
• Fixed a bug that prevented unlocking the 'Become as Gods' achievement.
• Fixed a bug that caused some sultan relic retrieval quests to fail to recognize completion.
• Fixed some issues arising from hostile creatures being considered impassable by autoexplore.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic interaction quests to complete with actions that didn't match the quest requirements.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic location quests to not complete correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused some non-artifact items to be considered the most advanced artifact in your possession at a end of the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to open (or try to) animated doors when swapping positions with them.
• Fixed a bug that made the offspring of segmented mirthworms, worms of the earth, and fire ant queens employed as hired guards not be as peaceable as their parents.
• Fixed third-person shield slam messages telling you the shield in question was yours.
• Fixed awkward phrasing when a shield slam was performed against a phase-mismatched target.
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to fail to fully utilize extra equipment slots granted by worn items.
• Fixed a bug that made zone-wide identification effects fail to identify natural equipment artifacts.
• Fixed a bug that made liquid coverings involving algae mixes sometimes use the word algae where they should use the word algal.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Call to Arms from scoring correctly.
• Fixed a bug that prevented "drink from", "opened" or "closed" quests from completing properly.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused startup crashes when configuration files became corrupt.
• Fixed a bug that made Electrical Generation not accumulate charge during turns when you weren't taking actions.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions to keep attacking a creature they had been targeting after you have Dominated it.
• Fixed a bug that made NPCs lock up trying to use Quicken Mind when it was unusable.
• Fixed a bug that disabled the "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore" option.

DEBUG & MODDING

• Improved the map editor UI.
• The workshop uploader now provides a native file picker for images.
• The workshop uploader now allows you to close the upload status screen after an error.
• The workshop uploader now allows you to elide hidden files from your uploads.
• The map editor now provides a native file picker for maps.
• Fixed a bug in the map editor that caused dragging the map to be scaled improperly.
• The mod manager now displays disabled mods as grey instead of red.
• There is a new GameSystems class which provides public static helpers for raising an event on all game systems.
• Added string, int, float, list, and dictionary properties to Quest XML.
• ReflectDamage is now an IActivePart.
• Systems now support PlayerEquipped, PlayerActivating, and PlayerObjectAddedToInventory.
• The Consumer part now has the fields Message and FloatMessage for configuring its message log message and, optionally, a floating text message.
• The parts Breeder, LeavesTrail, LeaveTrailWhileHasEffect, PopulationSpawner, and DeploymentGrenade all now support extended blueprint syntax (# can preface a comma-separated list of blueprints to select from, and @ can preface a population table name). The first four also have a new Range parameter that allows objects to be deployed at a randomizable range from the source.
• ModSerene and ModHorrifying now work with existing equip slots configurations, adding a head and/or face requirement if not already present, rather than replacing existing configurations entirely.
• Any mutation that grants natural equipment (such as wings or hooks for feet) can now specify variants using the "MutationEquipment" tag.
• Severed body parts now have string properties EquippedBlueprint, DefaultBehaviorBlueprint, and CyberneticsBlueprint set to the blueprints of the respective attached objects, if any.
• Added a Tree tag to objects considered trees.
• Added 'music' and 'widget' tags to Worlds.xml, which are aliases for ZoneBuilders.Music and ZoneBuilders.AddWidgetBuilder, respectively.
• The BleedingOnHit part now has a field Holographic that, if true, causes it to inflict holographic bleeding instead of regular bleeding, and no longer has a SelfOnly field, instead using its IActivePart scope configuration to control what it affects (with WorksOnSelf, WorksOnEquipper, WorksOnHolder, WorksOnWearer, and WorksOnImplantee supported).
• Symbolic links are now be excluded from workshop uploads.
• Populations within interiors are no longer be placed outside the bounds of the map.
• ModTransmuteOnHit's description is now moddable via the DescriptionTerm field, and creatures transmuted into other creatures are no longer considered to have died.
• The Impaler part now has a field NeedsToBeHidden, true by default, which if set to false makes being hidden unnecessary for the impalement functionality to work.
• Added weights to water ritual secrets and journal entries, making secrets more or less likely to be shared and discovered.
• Added weight modifiers to interests in Factions.xml, specified via a Weight attribute. Ex: Weight="50".
• Added GetWaterRitualSecretWeightEvent, which can modify the final weight of secrets in the water ritual.
• Added BuySecretWeight and SellSecretWeight attributes to the water ritual xtag, which can override a creature's weighting of secrets by id.
• Added EntityID and EventID to factions, allowing retrieval of their historic entities and events, respectively, when they exist. Example use is to get the village inhabited by a given village faction.
• Added Transmitter and Receiver to conversations to facilitate long-distance physical communication.
• Pressing Control now brings up the blueprint XML for a hovered object in the map editor blueprint list.
• Reduced the mouse wheel sensitivity of the map editor blueprint list.
• Added a scroll bar to the blueprint list.
• Fixed a bug that caused the blueprint list to jump to the top whenever a blueprint was selected in the map editor.
• BioAmmoLoader now has two new fields StartAvailable and VariableTurnsToGenerate. Start Available provides a randomizable amount to be assigned to the field Available at object creation. VariableTurnsToGenerate provides a randomizable amount of turns taken to generate another point of Available firing capacity.

206.20 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new music track for the quest Reclamation.
• Added remastered music tracks: Pilgrim's Path and Overworld.
• Added descriptions for grappling gun, longreach grappling gun, phase-adaptive scope, stasis entangler, holographic visage, grafted mirror arm, precision force lathe, force knife, ashy stalagmite, girshling variants, girshling corpse variants, girshling fang variants, mecha power core, variants of resin extruded by the Girsh nephilim, and the girsh creshes.
• Added a command "Rest until party healed" that waits for you and your companions to recover full hit points, excepting any who do not heal naturally.
• Added a user interface option to select the main menu background image.
• Gave several NPCs Single Weapon Fighting skills.
• Gave amputate limb an icon and description.
• Renamed polyphase modulator to phase-adaptive scope.
• Swapped tiles for phase-adaptive scope and stasis entangler.
• Hookahs can receive common item mods once again.
• Missile weapons now prefer to autoequip in an unoccupied slot.
• Toggling phase-adaptive projectiles off now works.
• If you get multiple pieces of scrap at once and autodisassemble is on, they are now all disassembled.
• Carapace now gives 400 tortoise reputation, per its description.
• Updated dream tortoise preset to comply with starting point requirements now that Horns mutation point cost is increased (removed Telepathy).
• Forcefields from force bracelets and Force Bubble must now be within 1 space of their emitters to continue existing.
• Galgal charges are now interrupted by [redacted].
• You can no longer remove a piloted mechas sealed power core just by being allied to them.
• It's no longer possible for mutants with Electrical Generation to drink all the charge out of a mecha's sealed power socket.
• You can no longer dupe chairs by equipping them as weapons and then sitting on them.
• Tam now addresses you appropriately if you approach him in a temple mecha.
• The Flaming Ick is now exempted from liquids stabilizing their containers' temperature downward.
• In the new main menu, the Continue button is now disabled if there are no games to continue.
• Shrines becoming desecrated by non-player damage no longer issues a popup message.
• Burrowing girshlings now extrude a layer of resin visually distinct from Shug'ruith's.
• Rank and plasmatic girshlings now drop the right corpses.
• Girshling fangs are now actually butcherable from girshling corpses.
• Nephilim are now more resistant to love tonics.
• Decreased the frequency that girshling fangs appear dynamically.
• Gyre wights of Qas now have the right display names.
• In several places we rephrased "+1 penetration" to "+1 to penetration rolls" to differentiate that bonus from when you get a full additional penetration.
• Tweaked the look of mecha interiors.
• Tweaked the high mecha name generator.
• It's no longer possible for you to become your own target.
• Added an autoexplore option: "Attack ignored hostile creatures that you move adjacent to during autoexplore."
• The Bey Lah village stores are now consistently referred to using the definite article.
• Fixed a bug that caused claws from the circle of light in the chord of Agolgot to receive a +10 hit bonus.
• Fixed a bug that caused the UI to not remove effects cured via the Nostrums skill.
• Fixed a bug that caused objects to be transmuted out of existence when stepping into a deep pool of pure warm static.
• Fixed a bug that caused pacified nephilim companions to despawn on zone transition.
• Fixed a bug that caused stingers to display their variant twice.
• Fixed a bug that caused energy turrets to occasionally spawn loaded with mecha power cores.
• Fixed a bug that caused your primary weapon to be excluded from Flurry.
• Fixed a bug that caused recharging mecha power cores to not consume the right bit type.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Quicken Mind ability to not refresh abilities.
• Fixed a bug that prevented unlocking the 'Become as Gods' achievement.
• Fixed a bug that prevented clones with single weapon fighting from attacking.
• Fixed a bug that caused temple mecha at Omonporch to start with damage accrued and drained power cores.
• Fixed a bug that caused some sultan relic retrieval quests to fail to recognize completion.
• Fixed some issues arising from hostile creatures being considered impassable by autoexplore.
• Fixed a bug that caused a hang if you used interact nearby to initiate [redacted].
• Fixed a bug preventing page up and page down from working to scroll the console looker.
• Fixed some issues with pathfinding, in particular navigation to zone edges.
• Fixed a bug that caused a hang during the "Mod Configuration Differs" popup when using the console UI.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic interaction quests to complete with actions that didn't match the quest requirements.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic location quests to not complete correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused organic creatures to display as damaged instead of wounded, and vice versa.
• Fixed a bug that caused the ability bar pagination text to not always match the number of actual pages.
• Fixed a bug that caused the ability bar to be stuck on a blank page if losing an ability removed the last ability on the selected page.
• Fixed a bug that caused leaderboard scores to be truncated on low DPI displays.
• Fixed some issues with the interaction of spiral borers and pits.
• Fixed a rare lockup related to fungal vision.
• Fixed a bug that caused warm static to not glitch mutations.
• Fixed an inconsistency in hookah behavior.
• Fixed a bug that caused some non-artifact items to be considered the most advanced artifact in your possession at a end of the game.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to hit a wall-clinging creature while using a phase-adaptive scope.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to open (or try to) animated doors when swapping positions with them.
• Fixed a bug that made the offspring of segmented mirthworms, worms of the earth, and fire ant queens employed as hired guards not be as peaceable as their parents.
• Fixed a bug that prevented pressing left from unequipping an item when 'Equip and unequip the highlighted item when pressing right or left respectively on the Inventory and Equipment screens.' is enabled.
• Fixed a bug that caused navigation issues when the last saved game was deleted.
• Fixed a bug that caused mangled unicode output in the ability bar.
• Fixed a bug that could cause you to become trapped inside a wall when falling down a pit.
• Fixed third-person shield slam messages telling you the shield in question was yours.
• Fixed awkward phrasing when a shield slam was performed against a phase-mismatched target.
• Fixed an issue causing stacking reputation sounds.
• Fixed a rare lockup related to fungal vision.
• [modding] Added Transmitter and Receiver to conversations to facilitate long-distance physical communication.
• [modding] Pressing Control now brings up the blueprint XML for a hovered object in the map editor blueprint list.
• [modding] Reduced the mouse wheel sensitivity of the map editor blueprint list.
• [modding] Added a scroll bar to the blueprint list.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the blueprint list to jump to the top whenever a blueprint was selected in the map editor.
• [modding] BioAmmoLoader now has two new fields StartAvailable and VariableTurnsToGenerate. Start Available provides a randomizable amount to be assigned to the field Available at object creation. VariableTurnsToGenerate provides a randomizable amount of turns taken to generate another point of Available firing capacity.

Note: this update breaks save compatibility with previous versions. 206.17 - 'beta' branch

• Added new cybernetic implants: stasis entangler, polyphase modulator, and precision force lathe.
• We made some refinements to temple mecha.
  • Added special mechanics for infiltrating piloted mecha.
  • Added a new requirement for piloting an unaccessed mecha.
  • Mecha no longer heal on their own and must be repaired with 7 or 8 bits.
  • Mecha now require a special type of energy cell to function: mecha power core.
  • Piloted temple mecha now appear in dynamic encounters.
  • Unpiloted temple mecha can now be found, very rarely, abandoned in caves.
• Gyre wights now sometimes camp on the Stiltgrounds.
• Added new legendary names and titles for gyre wights.
• Added new gyre wight dialog.
• The approaches to Girsh cradles are no longer considered holy sites to gyre wights. Golgotha and Bethesda Susa themselves stil are, however.
• Rank girshlings and plasmatic girshlings now occasionally leave corpses behind on death, like other girshlings.
• Neutral-temperature liquids now stabilize their containers' temperature, including in the case of liquid-cooled overloaded weapons.
• Holograms are no longer immune to normality fields.
• Granite and tangled mudroot are now treated grammatically as mass nouns.
• Sparking baetyls no longer ask you for things you have equipped and cannot unequip.
• Prevented some cases of named creatures being randomly assigned the same term in multiple elements of their name.
• Friendly creatures can no longer swap you out of their way.
• Fixed several issues with yes/no/cancel dialogs in console mode.
• Fixed a bug that caused no keybinding to be displayed for some popups in console mode when playing with a gamepad.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a long pause when returning the application to focus.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to enter some interiors if the entrance was blocked.
• Fixed a bug that caused keyboard input not to register on prerelease inventory and trade screens. Note: Directional navigation of prerelease trade and inventory screens won't respect binds and only responds to arrows and numpad.
• Fixed a number of issues involving environmental power systems when entering a zone.
• Fixed some message composition issues in mimic, jilted lover, and livid creeper special attacks.
• Fixed some issues causing NPCs to interfere with and delay each other in combat by swapping positions.
• [modding] The Impaler part now has a field NeedsToBeHidden, true by default, which if set to false makes being hidden unnecessary for the impalement functionality to work.
• [modding] Added weights to water ritual secrets and journal entries, making secrets more or less likely to be shared and discovered.
• [modding] Added weight modifiers to interests in Factions.xml, specified via a Weight attribute. Ex: Weight="50".
• [modding] Added GetWaterRitualSecretWeightEvent, which can modify the final weight of secrets in the water ritual.
• [modding] Added BuySecretWeight and SellSecretWeight attributes to the water ritual xtag, which can override a creature's weighting of secrets by id.
• [modding] Added EntityID and EventID to factions, allowing retrieval of their historic entities and events, respectively, when they exist. Example use is to get the village inhabited by a given village faction.

206.11 - 'beta' branch

• Added new cybernetic implants: grafted mirror arm and holographic visage.
• Revised the design of stasis resonators.
• Changed the Girsh water ritual liquid to cloning draught.
• Added a new water ritual option to the Girsh nephilim.
• Girsh nephilim now bleed.
• Gave girshlings fangs.
• Added a new butcherable to girshling corpses: girshling fangs, rank fangs, incadescent fangs, and zigzag fangs, depending on the corpse.
• Added defanged girshlings.
• We made more changes to the Gyre wights.
  • Changed default Gyre wight reputation from -650 to 0.
  • Gyre wights still consider nephilim cradles and their approaches holy places.
  • Replaced glow-wight cultists of Agolgot and Bethsaida with gyre wights of Agolgot and Bethsaida, respectively.
  • Added gyre wights of Rermadon, Shug'ruith, Qas, and Qon.
  • Legendary gyre wights of a particular Girsh are more likely to share the cradle of that Girsh.
  • Nephilim shrines now occasionally have gyre wights worshipping at them, and rarely, legendary gyre wights.
  • Fleshed out Gyre wight descriptions, dialog, and legendary titles coming soon.
  • Made gyre wight apotheotes have a hostile temperament.
• Added a new tile for the nephilim circles of light.
• Added a new tile for the Single Weapon Fighting ability toggle.
• NPCs can now use healing foods like witchwood bark and urberries.
• The chiming rocks at Eyn Roj and the glowing soft below it are now points of interest.
• Leather whips can now be modded with some item mods.
• You no longer switch targets to a clockwork beetle when one spawns.
• Liquid collection now indicates the direction the liquid is being collected from, and the source if from a container.
• You now receive a popup when non-trifling companions fall down a pit or similar terrain feature.
• Fixed many issues with faulty zone generation. Canyons and canyon-like areas should be more canyon-like again.
• Fixed a bug that made relics providing improved block not remove the effect when unequipped, quickly resulting in 100% blocking chance.
• Fixed a bug that made some relics associate themselves with an incorrect historical period.
• Fixed a bug that caused key delay to reset to the lowest value after existing and re-entering the game.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause tomb stairs to spawn encased in walls.
• Fixed an issue that would ocassionaly cause historic sites to not generate correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused pit ledges to render incorrectly after a serialization cycle.
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple simultaneous throw animations to each require an individual keypress to animation cancel.
• Fixed a bug that caused missile weapon penetration to be more limited than it should have been under some circumstances.
• Fixed an issue that caused rapid flickering of the zone transition arrows.
• Enabled opengl support for legacy OSX 10.3 systems.
• [modding] The BleedingOnHit part now has a field Holographic that, if true, causes it to inflict holographic bleeding instead of regular bleeding, and no longer has a SelfOnly field, instead using its IActivePart scope configuration to control what it affects (with WorksOnSelf, WorksOnEquipper, WorksOnHolder, WorksOnWearer, and WorksOnImplantee supported).
• [modding] Symbolic links are now be excluded from workshop uploads.
• [modding] Populations within interiors are no longer be placed outside the bounds of the map.
• [modding] ModTransmuteOnHit's description is now moddable via the DescriptionTerm field, and creatures transmuted into other creatures are no longer considered to have died.

206.10 - 'beta' branch

• Added cradles throughout Qud where the Girsh nephilim reside.
• Added secrets for the locations of the cradles.
• Nephilim cradles and their approaches are now considered holy places to Gyre wights.
• Legendary Gyre wights are now willing to share the locations of nephilim cradles. Gyre wight creature updates coming soon.
• When one of the nephilim is killed, the ones remaining now absorb its essence and become more powerful.
• The nephilim now leave behind chorded circles of light when they perish.
• Added shrines to the nephilim throughout Qud.
• Added new sound effects for Girsh nephilim presence and irisdual beam attack.
• Added girshling variants to population tables.
• Temple mechas Mk 1a can now use their gigantic machined edge again.
• Fixed a bug that caused armor pieces to be ineffectually equippable to any limb.
• Fixed a bug that caused temporary mutations to be removed inconsistently.
• Fixed a bug that caused torches to not automatically equip.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes equip gigantic items they shouldn't be able to equip.
• Fixed a bug that caused the equipment screen to occasionally close when unequipping an item that provided limbs.
• Fixed a bug in fork-horned gnu's description.
• [modding] Severed body parts now have string properties EquippedBlueprint, DefaultBehaviorBlueprint, and CyberneticsBlueprint set to the blueprints of the respective attached objects, if any.
• [modding] Added a Tree tag to objects considered trees.
• [modding] Added 'music' and 'widget' tags to Worlds.xml, which are aliases for ZoneBuilders.Music and ZoneBuilders.AddWidgetBuilder, respectively.

206.4 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new piece of furniture: wire extruder.
• Added wire extruders to Grit Gate, Yla Haj's workshop, and the Yd Freehold.
• We made several balance changes to the Horns mutation.
  • Horns now costs 4 mutation points instead of 3.
  • Changed the damage scaling from 2d(3+[rank/2]) to 2d(3+[rank/3]).
  • Changed tho to-hit bonus scaling from +rank to +(rank/2)+1.
  • Changed bleed damage scaling from 1d2+(rank-4)/3 to 1d2+(rank-4)/4.
  • Changed the bleed save target from 20 + 3*rank to 20 +2*rank.
• We made some balance changes to Single Weapon Fighting.
  • Made all the stat requirements Strength OR Agility instead of just Agility.
  • Descreased skill point cost to 100sp.
  • Renamed Expert Strikes to Penetrating Strikes, increased the skill point cost to 200, and increased the stat requirement to 23.
  • Broke Weapon Mastery into two skills: Weapon Expertise and Weapon Mastery. Expertise costs 150sp and has a 21 stat req, gives 50% chance for a second attack. Mastery costs 300sp and has a 29 stat req, bumps the second attack chance up to 100%.
  • You can now make offhand attacks with horns and stingers even if Single Weapon Fighting is toggled on, but if you make either one your primary weapon, then you do not get offhand attacks with the swapped limb.
  • Made Penetrating Strikes no longer apply to non-creature walls.
  • Extra attacks from Weapon Expertise and Weapon Mastery now trigger off activated weapon abilities.
• We made some balance changes to Multiweapon Fighting.
  • Made all the stat requirements Strength OR Agility instead of just Agility.
  • Increased the stat requirements of Multiweapon Expertise and Multiweapon Mastery from 21 and 25 to 23 and 27, respectively.
  • Increased the skill point cost of Multiweapon Mastery from 150 to 200sp.
• Gave the Girsh nephilim base resistances.
• Gave portable wall a new tile.
• When two spacetime vortices come into contact, they now explode instead of one being sucked into the other.
• Stable, stationary spacetime vortices are now points of interest.
• Creatures now refuse to chat or trade with you when they are on fire.
• Kesehind now knows how to use the shield he carries.
• Walking by flowers now refers to some flowers rather than a set of flowers.
• Made some performance improvements to autoexplore.
• Added a popup message when a companion fall down a pit.
• Improved messaging when robots are affected by Sunder Mind.
• Temporarily replaced overly long melee attack sounds.
• Irisdual beam is now more audible through walls.
• Fixed a bug that caused the legendary grand newfather's followers to be much lower level than they should have been.
• Fixed a bug that caused lockups in autoexplore.
• Fixed a bug that made Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray hands variants stop working after eating the Cloaca Surprise or Crystal Delight.
• Fixed a bug that made the first deployment of a stasis grenade's stasis field be unaffected by normality.
• Fixed a bug that brain brine to not be consumed upon drinking.
• Fixed a bug that prevented entering clams.
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement for defeating a chrome pyramid to not be awarded.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to attack with hooks for feet.
• Fixed a bug that caused hooks for feet not to regenerate again.
• Fixed a bug that caused irisdual beam's vfx to be delayed by the firing of other missile weapons.
• Fixed missile weapon VFX from offscreen zones being displayed.
• Fixed pagination controls on character generation screens.
• Fixed a bug that would rarely cause an object to become invulnerable. []*Fixed a bug that would rarely cause a UI lockup when interaction with an object.
• Fixed a bug that made Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray hands variants stop working after eating the Cloaca Surprise or Crystal Delight.
• Fixed the spelling and capitalization of Dyvvrach's name in the fourth step of If, Then, Else.
• Fixed a typo in a medassist module loading message.
• [modding] The Consumer part now has the fields Message and FloatMessage for configuring its message log message and, optionally, a floating text message.
• [modding] The parts Breeder, LeavesTrail, LeaveTrailWhileHasEffect, PopulationSpawner, and DeploymentGrenade all now support extended blueprint syntax (# can preface a comma-separated list of blueprints to select from, and @ can preface a population table name). The first four also have a new Range parameter that allows objects to be deployed at a randomizable range from the source.
• [modding] ModSerene and ModHorrifying now work with existing equip slots configurations, adding a head and/or face requirement if not already present, rather than replacing existing configurations entirely.
• [modding] Any mutation that grants natural equipment (such as wings or hooks for feet) can now specify variants using the "MutationEquipment" tag.

Our next feature arc, Creatures of the 7th Plague, is now in beta! Big picture, this arc includes the next quest in the main questline, significant updates to the UI and input, lots of new visual and sound effects, lots of performance improvements, and many gameplay changes. If you'd like to help us test it, right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Check out this thread if you want to post your feedback and get access to fast-forward wishes to help test the new quest. Note: previous saves won't be compatible with this beta. Live and drink, friends. Patch notes below.

NEW MAIN QUEST AND THE GIRSH NEPHILIM

The beta for our next feature arc Creatures of the 7th Plague is coming next week! Once it's up, we'll post our Feature Friday updates to the beta branch until the beta is over and merged into the mainline. Keep an eye out! Live and drink, friends. 204.108

• When you first get a recoiler, you now gain an activated ability Recoil that selects from among your recoilers to interact with, sorted by the most recently used. In existing saved games, drop a recoiler and pick it up again to gain the activated ability.
• The default interaction for programmable and reprogrammable recoilers in your inventory is now "imprint" if they have not yet been imprinted.
• Recoilers are now metal. Existing recoilers in saved games will not be affected.
• Autoexplore no longer attempts to talk to sparking baetyls that are hostile to you.
• The offer dialog for sparking baetyls is now clearer about exactly which items will be offered, and it prefers to offer less valuable items.
• Swoop now respects being disabled via the "direct ability use" interaction.
• Barathrumite tinkers and arconauts who are no longer part of the Barathrumites faction are now described as urshiib tinkers and arconauts, respectively.
• Stairwell teleporters are now interesting. Existing teleporters in saved games will not be affected.
• The default interaction for data disks is no longer "learn" when you already know how their recipe. For known item recipes in your inventory, the default action is now usually "build"
• Creatures no longer attempt to use Intimidate or Menacing Stare against brainless targets.
• You can no longer use crayons on the world map.
• Fixed several bugs that made creatures much less willing to forgive friendly fire incidents than they were supposed to be.
• Fixed a bug that made skin glitter implants held as thrown or improvised weapons refract light. Existing implants in saved games will not be affected.
• Fixed a bug that made being overburdened cause some actions to fail silently.
• Fixed a bug that made attempts to unequip cursed items fail silently.
• Fixed an exception that could happen rarely when liquids were moving around.
• Fixed some cases where in unusual circumstances you could be blamed for targeting someone with a missile attack who you hadn't meant to target.
• Fixed a bug that made autoexplore path to sparking baetyls whose request you had fulfilled and whose journal entry you had deleted.
• [modding] Added a MutationOnEquip part for equipped items that can give/improve a mutation.

204.106

• You can no longer deploy wire strands on the world map.
• You can no longer deploy wire strands that are rusted or broken.
• Creatures can now only vomit once every three turns.
• Creatures in stasis can no longer be dismembered or decapitated.
• Learning Kickback now enables NPCs to fire missile weapons at point-blank range if they did not previously do so.
• Neelahind now knows how to use the shield she carries.
• The cragmensch and glittermensch capacity to extract boulders from their own bodies is no longer visible via techscanning.
• Chiral rings equipped by someone in stasis no longer dismember adjacent creatures.
• Autoexplore now chats with sparking baetyls that you have not yet spoken to.
• Pathfinding now goes to slightly more effort to avoid being next to pits.
• When unlocking a door with a security card that is in a stack, the stack count is no longer displayed.
• Creatures can no longer start flying while overburdened or while engulfing another creature.
• Engulfing now forces both the engulfer and engulfee to land if they were flying.
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs who equipped a piece of armor in place of a worse piece of armor then become enthusiastic to equip the worse piece of armor as an improvised weapon.
• Fixed a bug that made trading for very low value items free.
• Fixed a bug that made being submerged prevent beginning to swim or wade.
• [modding] Updated Harmony to version 2.2.2.

• Fixed a bug that prevented 'find a relic' dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
• Fixed a bug that prevented 'find a relic' dynamic quests from immediately completing the find step if you currently posess the relic when you get the quest.
• Fixed a bug that prevented 'find a specific item' dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
• Fixed a bug that prevented 'interact with a specific item' dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
• Fixed a bug that caused the first step for site-finding dynamic quests to not complete if you found the site before you acquired the quest.
• Fixed a bug that caused Temporal Fugue to have no cooldown.
• [modding] Improved the map editor UI.
• [modding] Fixed a bug in the map editor that caused dragging the map to be scaled improperly.
• [modding] Systems now support PlayerEquipped, PlayerActivating, and PlayerObjectAddedToInventory.
• [modding] GameSystems.FireEvent now supports all events fired on the player
• [modding] There is a new GameSystems class which provides public static helpers for raising an event on all game systems.

204.104

• The reload command no longer attempts to reload point-defense drones.
• When creatures die in the same square as a wall or other movement-blocking object, items they had equipped now drop into a nearby passable square if one is available.
• Creatures are now more likely to use Quill Fling if they are adjacent to multiple hostile creatures and less likely to use it if there are adjacent to friendlies or neutrals (especially if those are badly hurt) or objects that may cause trouble to damage.
• Copies of the sheaf of tattered parchment no longer appear randomly in the world.
• Barathrumites present in Grit Gate at the start of A Call to Arms no longer perform idle behavior until A Call to Arms is over.
• Horned chameleons that are mimicking something else's color are now only recognized by autoact as hostile at a distance of 3 squares or less.
• Mimics that are mimicking something else now are no longer recognized by autoact as hostile.
• Clonelings now stop cloning attempts in progress when their ability to clone becomes forbidden or otherwise unusable.
• Spider creatures who have prominent roles in villages no longer compulsively attack creatures who become stuck near them. The same is true of Sheba Hagadias if she is a spider creature.
• Sheba Hagadias is now automatically revealed if she is a type of creature that is usually hidden.
• When you try to walk into a brick wall, your way is now referred to as being blocked by some brick, not a brick.
• Idle creatures will now sometimes move to a chair that isn't too far away in order to sit on it for a while, rather than only sitting on chairs that are in the same square as them.
• Fixed a bug that caused excessive failure popups when trying to auto-equip an item while stuck.
• Fixed a bug that made falling down a coral pit display messages both that you fell down a coral pit and fell down a deep shaft.
• Fixed a bug that caused villages and ruins to generate with far more inaccessible areas than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused temporal fugue clones to spawn their own copies of Either/Or.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to hit walls with thrown objects.
• Fixed a bug that made throwing reveal the identified appearance of unidentified artifacts.
• Fixed a bug that made energy cell replacement on artifacts in your inventory or equipped default to cancelling out of the dialog if you had no suitable cells for the artifact.
• Fixed a bug that made containers filled with convalessence, even in normal environmental temperatures, sublimate away and, in the case of regen tanks, explode.
• Fixed an error that could occur during world generation when spawning legendary animated versions of high-tech furniture.
• [modding] Updated the mod compiler, allowing projects to use C# language version 9.
• [modding] Updated the mod toolkit's csproj template.
• [modding] Added Before="[ELEMENT_ID]" and After="[ELEMENT_ID]" attributes to Conversations.xml, which positions the element relative to the referenced id.

• Fixed a bug that caused doubled navigation inputs in some cases.
• Fixed 'm' not opening the modding utilities on the main menu.
• [modding] The workshop uploader now provides a native file picker for images.
• [modding] The workshop uploader now allows you to close the upload status screen after an error.
• [modding] The workshop uploader now allows you to elide hidden files from your uploads.
• [modding] The map editor now provides a native file picker for maps.
• [modding] The mod manager now displays disabled mods as grey instead of red.

Hi friends, We're skipping Feature Friday this week due to some team travel and focus on an upcoming feature arc. We'll be back next week with an update! Live and drink.

204.103

• Manual equip now makes an effort to have the default slot be the typical slot the item would be equipped in for non-melee-weapon items.
• The cybernetics install screen now displays the license points of each available implant.
• Attempting to use a matter recompositer on the world map now fails with a message rather than silently.
• You can now only build campfires in the same zone you are in.
• When disarming a creature, the weapon being disarmed is now part of the disarm message, and separate messages about the weapon being unequipped and dropped are no longer displayed.
• When disassembling a liquid-fueled energy cell slotted in a device in a nearby square, the liquid in the cell now pours out into the nearby square rather than onto you.
• Lair names no longer describe their occupants as wet, otherwise liquid-covered, or lost.
• Fixed a bug that made convalessence warmer than it was supposed to be.
• Fixed a grammar issue in the message when attempting to enter the Spindle from the world map.
• Fixed an orthographic issue in Yempuris Phi's description.
• Fixed a misplaced capitalization in an item naming prompt.
• Fixed some odd formatting in some automatically generated item naming results.
• [modding] ITeleporter now defines a method virtual string GetCustomTeleportFailure(GameObject Actor) that can be overridden by child classes to provide custom teleportation failures; if the method returns a value that isn't a null or an empty string, a teleport attempt will fail and the string returned will be displayed as a failure message.

• Legacy command assignments are now upgraded properly if you don't already have a Keybinds2.json file.
• The equipment screen auto-hotkeys now respect bound commands.
• Objects will now properly emit smoke VFX if they are in inventories.
• 'draw' now has a higher action priority than 'show effects'
• 'clean' now has a slightly higher action priority
• Added a "add/remove whole inventory" command to match legacy key behavior.
• Autoact now properly advances and cancels VFX frames
• Fixed the first render of the ability bar showing the wrong number of pages.
• Fixed several instances of modern VFX playing for off-screen zones.
• Fixed several binds that were incorrectly marked as conflicting.
• Fixed an issue causing you to be able to bind the same key to multiple abilities.
• Fixed the hotkey spread for abilities overlapping with VI style keybinds.
• Fixed temporal fugue not activating correctly.

204.102

• Added Moon Stair plants to plant-germinating tables.
• Reduced the Sunder Mind rank on novices of the Sightless Way.
• Reduced the Confusion rank on disciples of the Sightless Way.
• Reduced the frequency of novice and disciple gear drops.
• Added a more accurate message for when a memory eater tries to eat your memories but you have none.
• Sitting on a stack of chairs now splits off one chair to sit on.
• Intimidate can no longer be activated on the world map.
• Confirmation is now requested before offering items to sparking baetyls.
• Unidentified objects no longer show up as points of interest.
• Mechanical legendary creatures now retain "mechanical" in their display names.
• Improved some cases of poor pluralization in generated text.
• Removed some offensive words from the corpus.
• Glotrot no longer causes you to contaminate the water in your containers. Instead you spit your putrid water on the ground.
• Klanq can now puff on you regardless of what your body is composed of.
• Fixed a soft lock when possessing an inactive crypt sitter via dreamcrungling.
• Fixed a bug that caused doors to be closeable by creatures that should not be able to close them.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in you losing control of your golem on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused some strange pronoun behavior in electrical arc messages.
• Fixed a bug that made some village denizens unable to give you directions when lost.
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to throw things through walls that you were next to.
• [modding] Grammar.Pluralize() now converts "lb." to "lbs."
• [modding] In ObjectBlueprints.xml, part, mutation, and skill tags now support a field ChanceIn10000 that defines a chance for the tag to be applied (for example, ChanceIn10000="5000" applies the tag 50% of the time).
• [modding] Added OwnerAfterInventoryActionEvent, which fires on the interacting creature.
• [modding] Added a Silent parameter to Door AttemptOpen/AttemptClose.
• [modding] IfGenotype and IfSubtype conversation predicates now supports comma delimited lists.

• Added move to next ability page and move to previous ability page bindings
• Added a pagination indication to the abilities bar when you have more than one page of abilities
• Item manipluation popups now correctly exclude already-used hotkeys for actions
• Slightly increased the speed of the throw animation
• Added new VFX for nullray pistols, rockets
• Removed some incorrect "Enter" popup hotkey indicators
• Fixed an unnecessary delay when rendering new style explosion VFX
• Fixed the stepping when zooming in and out

204.101

• Burning trash now sometimes releases gases.
• Added several new descriptions for various foods.
• NPCs are a little less eager to use Temporal Fugue when facing foes much, much weaker than them.
• Sparking baetyls now take items directly out of your inventory if available. Important items are exempted and items on the ground will be taken first.
• Sparking baetyls no longer request food cubes or Ekuemekiyyen greens.
• Qudzu and pricklers now use the color of the wall behind them as a background color, like jilted lovers and livid creepers. Existing qudzu and pricklers in saved games will not be affected.
• Made some adjustments to make wall-clinging creatures show up better on similarly-colored walls. Existing wall-clinging creatures in saved games will not be affected.
• Falling rocks now affect the player's companions as well as the player.
• Earthquakes in surface areas no longer inflict damage from falling rocks.
• Being killed by falling rocks now has a case-specific death message.
• Asphodel no longer ceases being hostile after a while if you invoke the Chaos Spiel.
• Strip flies and modded companions can no longer rob tomb reliquaries without consequence.
• Gave Rodanis Y a treaded body plan.
• Clarified the description of the masterwork item mod.
• Improved messaging when strip flies steal items from companions.
• Improved messaging when companions attempt to loot tomb reliquaries.
• Fixed a bug that caused cooking effects triggered by phasing out to process before the subject had finished phasing out.
• Fixed a bug that made hidden inventory objects show up in lists of items to equip.
• Fixed a bug that made sparking baetyls take less than the number of items they were asking for when provided with more than that number.
• Fixed a bug that made the move speed buff from Wings sometimes display with way too many significant digits.
• Fixed a bug that allowed becoming terrified to exempt you from being immobilized by stasis.
• Fixed a bug that made the text =Name= appear in murals depicting you naming an item.
• Fixed a bug that made autoexplore continue pathing into walls when you were temporarily phased.
• Murals depicting you naming an item now use the item's short display name.
• [modding] Multiple skillsofts affecting the same skill now interact correctly.

• Updated help with dynamic keybinds.
• Added a new VFX for arrows.
• Many performance improvements.
• Fixed several issues with key re-binding.

204.100

• You are no longer informed that you have lost sight of your marked target after you kill them.
• Removed the steel plate mail and steel buckler from wardens of the Sanctum and protectors of the Stilt.
• Removed the strength bonus cap from the natural weapons of humors, gyrohumors, Rodanis Y, rhinoxen, molting basilisks, traipsing mortars, plastronoids, and the Bethesda trolls.
• Dismember can no longer be activated on the world map.
• Improved the grammar in the message when creatures fabricate things from the substance of their own bodies.
• The injector "apply to" action no longer notionally targets inanimate objects. (e.g., by representing that a wall does not want a salve injector applied to it).
• The injector "apply to" interaction is no longer available on the world map.
• Added tiles for albino ape heart, ogre ape heart, and black puma haunch.
• You now become lost upon taking a teleport gate to a zone you have not previously visited.
• Fixed a bug that caused duplicate messages about ceasing to be lost.
• Fixed a bug that made force bracelets activate then immediately deactivate.
• Fixed a bug that caused every pariah to be a diplomacy droid.
• Fixed a bug that caused girshworms not to be immune to their own poison gas, and for the gas discharges of girshworms, honey skunks, and worker ants to end earlier than they should have.
• Fixed a bug that caused errors when firing missile weapons at inanimate targets.
• Fixed a bug that caused some village merchants not to be properly titled.
• Fixed a bug that caused village dromad merchants to have their tile color set to gold instead of brown.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures hidden by darkness to interrupt autoact with a claim that you could see them.
• [modding] Added 'removeinventoryobject' and 'removemutation' tags to object blueprint XML.
• [debug] Added 'destroy' and 'obliterate' wishes to remove targeted objects from play.
• [debug] The 'beguile' wish no longer targets you and then crashes the game.
• [modding] There are now events SubjectToGravityEvent and CanFallEvent that can be used to modify whether an object is subject to gravity and whether it can fall (e.g., elelvator platforms are 'yes' to SubjectToGravity and 'no' to CanFall).

• Fixed several occurrences of input spillover.
• Fixed input hang when using generic terminals.
• Fixed several issues where hotbar keys weren't working properly.
• Fixed 'F' not working in some menus.
• Fixed ESC not working on the main menu.
• Fixed a serialization hang when adding a bind with three modifiers.
• Fixed a bug causing the cancellation message for held movement to say "you stop waiting" instead of "you stop moving".
• Fixed the keybinding display on the legacy Continue screen.
• Fixed a bug causing an error message whne trying to read one of Sheba's books.
• Fixed the map editor "in use" toggle.
• Fixed a bug that caused the automatic ability bar bind to never be displayed for an ability that had its custom bind deleted.

204.98

• Added a new command, "Replace energy cells" (Ctrl-R by default) -- brings up a prioritized menu of your items that have energy cell slots so you can choose one to slot a new cell into.
• When replacing an energy cell in an item that is equipped or in your inventory, the highlighted default is now the first cell available.
• The remove cell option in the replace/install cell menu now shows what the currently slotted cell is.
• Took off the metal classification on psychodyne helmets.
• NPCs can now use Sweep.
• Sweep now sometimes traverses from right to left.
• Increased the animation speed of missile traversal using Akimbo and Sweep.
• Mind Over Body now lets you travel on the world map while famished.
• It's no longer possible for villages to build their habitats out of the non-existent 'bones' of plants.
• As improvised weapons, tonic injectors are now considered short blades. Injectors in saved games will not be affected.
• Burrowing Claws no longer extends its special behavior against walls to your other melee weapons.
• If Burrowing Claws is toggled on and you attack a wall, you now attack with your burrowing claws instead of your wielded weapons.
• Gave frogs some more frog-like characteristics.
• Creatures no longer attack force fields they own or can pass through in the attempt to reach their targets.
• Increased the default priority of the read interaction for books and scrolls once they've ready been ready.
• The cooldown of Ultra Fire is now affected by Willpower.
• If you're a telepath who is missing their tongue and you attempt to proselytize a creature who you can't make telepathic contoct with, the failure message is now clearer.
• Explicitly targeting a creature for a missile attack by placing the targeting reticule over them now switches your target, even if you already have one. Explicitly targeting an inanimate object now switches your target, only if your previous target was also an inanimate object.
• Made electrical discharges from power grids a little more corrigible.
• Figurines no longer rarely give you reputation with nonexistent factions.
• Improved the animation when petting creatures.
• Fixed some strange naming patterns when already-legendary creatures immigrated to villages.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sweep to have no action cost.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to use Sweep with non-heavy missile weapons.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hooks for Feet to not equip its hooks unless the mutant already had shoes on when they acquired the mutation.
• Fixed a bug that made autoexplore still try to burrow when your Burrowing Claws were toggled off.
• Fixed a bug that gave Kickback multiple chances to take effect when using Akimbo.
• Fixed a bug that caused Force Bubble to think it was still toggled on if the entire force bubble was destroyed.
• Fixed a bug that caused your evil twin to occasionally be friendly.
• Fixed a bug that caused crypt sitters to be leashed to the wrong tile when crossing zone boundaries.
• Fixed some incorrect broodpuff descriptions.
• Fixed a typo in the Donation Level: Kasaphescence achievement.
• Fixed some grammar in quest text.
• [modding] Added a serialized ModVersions dictionary to SerializationReader which can be referenced when overriding IPart.LoadData to preserve save compatibility.
• [modding] LiquidVolume.Fill() now calls Empty() with NoDestroy: true.

• Replaced the combat slash animation with a new one, with three grades of intensity for 1, 2-3 and 4+ penetrations.
• Changed the penetration SFX to match the 1, 2-3 and 4+ tiers.
• Input is now buffered, which should eliminate missed inputs when entering keyboard input very quickly.
• Rebinding menu navigation keys is now allowed.
• Added a new animation for bludgeoning damage
• Added a new block animation.
• Added modern VFX for abilities: flaming hands, flame breath, Aloe Pyra, flaming vents.
• Added modern VFX for items: flamethrower.
• Fixed an issue where input would sometimes become nonresponsive after binding a key.
• Fixed some bugs with rebinding a key forgetting all the defaults.
• Improved conflict checking logic for main keybinds and abilties screens.

204.96

• Quartzfur items can now get three item mods.
• Phylactery squires now carry steel bucklers instead of steel shields.
• Autoexplore no longer explores inside a vantabloom radius.
• When autoexplore finds nothing left to explore, but there are unexplored regions inside vantabloom darkness, an appropriate message is now displayed.
• Autoexplore no longer explores through solid walls if you're (temporarily) phased.
• Burrowing creatures are now more willing to pathfind through walls.
• Mopango now have the claws normally granted by their species' Burrowing Claws mutation.
• Taking and then giving an item to a merchant follow now removes the merchant stock designation and makes them more likely to equip it.
• Wax nodules are now takeable.
• Boulders are now less flammable.
• Made ashes more stackable.
• Improved the grammar in messaging around metamorphic polygel and ashes.
• Made improvements to some spark shower visual effects.
• Fixed bugs that prevented NPCs from equipping phylacteries and pickaxes.
• Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from using offensive activated abilities provided by equipment.
• Fixed a bug that made having a nanopneumatic jackhammer equipped caused you to try to autoexplore through walls even when the jackhammer was unpowered.
• Fixed a bug that caused scrambled waydroids to sometimes be hostile to your companions and vice versa.
• Fixed a bug that caused the droid scrambler to work unreliably when in the inventory of a companion.
• Fixed a bug that caused you permamently blink out of existence if you dominated Aoyg-No-Longer at the wrong time.
• Fixed a bug that caused a clone of Aoyg-No-Longer, if one is present during the quest, to sometimes zip away instead of the original.
• Fixed a bug that caused warm static to rarely not apply a random effect.
• Fixed a bug that caused non-adjacent map squares with a clear path to them to become explored even when not lit.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Empty The Clips from applying its effect if you didn't have at least a single pistol equipped.
• Fixed a freeze when attempting to view the incantations for your golem when you have several thousand chronology entries.
• [modding] IActiveParts now include the result of GetActivePartLocallyDefinedFailureDescription() (as "LocallyDefinedFailureDescription") in their debug internals if their status is LocallyDefinedFailure.

• Added new visual effects for several abilities: teleportation, slammed, digging, and temporal fugue.
• Added new visual effects for several types of deaths: decapitation, transmuted, consumed, lased to death, and immolated.
• Added new visual effects for several missile weapons: all lead slug weapons, laser rifle, chain laser, laser pistol, point defense laser, spitting seed plant, and light rondure.
• Added new visual effects for several other items: HE grenades, neutron flux, and hookah.
• Added new visual effects for throwing.
• Added some icons for death messages. More to come.
• Added new tiles for some flashing status indicators: swimming, wading, covered in spores, flying, and sprinting.
• Fixed a bug preventing key repeat looking.
• Removed "laptop defaults" keybind options. The new defaults should be usable without numpad.
• Improved conflict-checking logic for main keybinds screen.
• Controls that had all bindings removed no longer revert to defaults when loading.

Hey friends! We want to introduce you to a couple of our friends at Kitfox Games, community manager Alexandra and director Tanya. Kitfox is here to help us ring in a new era of Caves of Qud development. Today, we'd like to all announce together that the game will fully launch out of Early Access next year, 2024! Kitfox will be helping us do that, and hopefully as many people as possible will enjoy the fruits of those efforts. We made a new trailer to announce the upcoming launch and publishing partnership, so please do watch it and send it to those of your friends who weirdly haven't bought the game yet for some reason: [previewyoutube=2c6burNvtsU;full][/previewyoutube] If you like the new visual effects you see in the trailer, you can check 'em out in game now, on the beta branch! (right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch) Feature Fridays will continue, as well as everything else we normally do, but we'll also be popping up regularly with news and updates surrounding other ways to chat and hype and enjoy the game together. For example, you're welcome to join the Qud channel on the Kitfox Discord server, or come meet some Kitfoxes at the Gamescom booth this year, where we'll be showing Qud to mystified Germans alongside Dwarf Fortress. Kitfox will probably livestream the game on their Twitch channel in the coming days or weeks, so keep an eye out there too, if you want to hang with some fellow mutants or even give them a few pointers on how best to enjoy our journey under the salt sun. You can sign up for our email newsletter for updates directly to your inbox! Excitedly, Brian (AlphaBeard), Jason (ptychomancer), Alexandra & Tanya

204.95

• Point-defense systems can now target dart projectiles, in the same tracking category as arrows.
• Fjorn-Kosef's fists no longer have antimatter cells slotted into them, nor are they considered weird artifacts.
• Made improvements to how NPCs equip gear.
• NPCs are now better able to use fidget cells.
• Stasis now prevents bloodsplatter and similar effects.
• Colossal creatures can now equip large boulders.
• When you dominate a creature, your companions now stop attacking it.
• When you get lost on the worldmap, you no longer always wind up in the center of the parasang.
• When you become unlost via an unconventional method, you now get the usual message about regaining your bearings.
• Nests and nest-like creatures who are villagers should no longer collapse after they finish spawning.
• Items that are temporary, coated in dangerous liquids, or in the process of being eaten away by acid can now be given to or taken from NPCs via the trade screen, except you still cannot sell them.
• Creatures that leave trails of objects behind them no longer fall through the floor when they leave a pit in the space behind them.
• Krakens no longer do their two-step move on the worldmap.
• Fixed some issues causing energy cells with the radio-powered mod not to recharge correctly.
• Fixed a bug that made it only possible to disarm weapons equipped in hands or in missile slots.
• Fixed a bug that disqualified items from becoming magnetized based on total stack weight rather than weight per item.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to look at fungal infections. Existing fungal infections in saved games will not be affected.
• Fixed a bug where Reverse Engineer success messages would refer to the artifact by its unidentified name.
• Fixed a bug that made padded items worthless.
• Fixed a bug that caused errors when some creatures tried to retreat via teleportation.
• Fixed a bug that made leyline puppeteers, enigma cones, and enigma caps only able to accept two item mods.
• Fixed the default subterranean wall type in baroque ruins.
• [modding] The Lost effect is no longer hardcoded to JoppaWorld; being lost is now tracked per world.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that made removing Photosynthetic Skin cause errors with bleeding.

• Changed the default bind for the Factions page to ctrl+f.
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation to cast ambient light even when out of charges.
• Fixed a bug that caused some popup selections to cancel autoexplore immediately after.
• Fixed an issue that caused a spurious option popup when selecting a category in the trade menu.

204.93

• NPCs now use Berate, Empty the Clips, and Juke (especially if they also know Pointed Circle).
• Improved the messaging around Berate, Intimidate, Menacing Stare, Juke, and Empty the Clips.
• If you have the Wings mutation and Jump and your flight ability is not presently disabled, you can now jump over creatures.
• Creatures who are lost can no longer give directions to other creatures who are lost.
• You can now generally get directions from robots when lost, if they're willing to talk to you.
• To-hit bonuses on armor now specify that they apply to melee combat.
• Added a message for using an exit teleporter.
• Made a few more creatures able to give you directions if you get lost.
• More severed ooze parts are now green.
• Warden Indrix now has Intimidate.
• Fixed a bug that made to-hit bonuses on armor not work.
• Fixed a bug that made the Hampered movespeed penalty from wielding a heavy weapon removable by things that cure negative status effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to grow two tails after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
• Fixed a bug that caused pure warm static not to glitch other liquids when mixed.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from gaining mental defects via brain brine.
• Fixed a bug that made ovens fail to appear as points of interest.
• Fixed a bug that made Slime Glands have a usable range of one square less than it was supposed to have.
• Fixed a bug causing the chronology entry for permanent mind transfer to sound as if it were describing an existential crisis.
• Fixed an instance of excessively godlike pronoun capitalization in agolflies' description.
• Fixed more bugs in petting messages.
• [modding] The DataDisk part now supports a number of fields for controlling the type of data disk generated:
  • TargetBlueprint allows a specific blueprint to be designated.
  • TargetType allows a type of recipe (Build or Mod) to be specified.
  • TargetTinkerTier allows a desired tinker tier (the tier of the highest bit required) to be specified.
  • TargetTier allows an item tier to be specified.
  • TargetTechTier allows an item tech tier to be specified.
  • TargetTinkerCategory allows a tinkering category to be specified.
• [modding] Various blueprints for data disks of specific types have been added:
  • BuildDataDisk and ModDataDisk for disks with item and mod recipes, respectively
  • TinkerTier1DataDisk through TinkerTier8DataDisk for disks of the respective tinker tiers
  • TinkerTier1BuildDataDisk through TinkerTier8BuildDataDisk for item recipe disks of the respective tinker tiers
  • TinkerTier1ModDataDisk through TinkerTier8ModDataDisk for mod recipe disks of the respective tinker tiers
  • ArmorBuildDataDisk, AmmoBuildDataDisk, GrenadeBuildDataDisk, HeavyWeaponBuildDataDisk, MeleeWeaponBuildDataDisk, PistolBuildDataDisk, RifleBuildDataDisk, TonicBuildDataDisk, and UtilityBuildDataDisk for item recipe disks of the respective tinkering categories
• [modding] Mutation defects are now flagged with Defect="true" on either the category or mutation itself, instead of being tied to the category display name.
• [modding] GameObject now has a generic method HasPart(), similar to GetPart().
• [debug] Added a "population: findblueprint: blueprint" wish that calculates the probability of the specified [blueprint] appearing at least once in each population table.
• [debug] Added a "population: generate: table#amount" wish that generates the specified population table an amount of times, showing a breakdown of what was rolled.

• Added binds for Mark Target and alternate fire modes.
• Added support for up to 4 binds for an action.
• Item containers can now be scrolled with the scroll wheel.
• Reduced and standardized the sensitivty of scroll views.
• Fixed a bug causing interaction from the looker to select the default action immediately.
• Fixed a rare exception in commandDelayTimers.
• Fixed the store items binding.
• Fixed the binding for collapse and expanding categories in the item picker.
• Fixed the binding for scrolling long descriptions on the tinkering screen.
• Fixed several bindings for various tinkering screen commands.
• Fixed night vision cybernetic not toggling state.

204.91

• Springing now affects power skating.
• NPCs now use Intimidate and Menacing Stare.
• Baetyls no longer request bizarre carnage.
• Mechanical cherubim now prefer to use oil for the water ritual.
• NPCs are now more willing to throw things and fire missile weapons at forcefields and at targets hiding behind trees.
• Friend to fungi and fungus-ridden creatures now get recolored dark and bright magenta, respectively.
• Immobile creatures may now move using Juke.
• Pathfinding on the world map now prefers to go around the Rainbow Wood.
• Campfires and campfire remains that are buried under solid objects no longer prevent another campfire from being built nearby.
• Added new descriptions for some articles of clothing.
• Reduced the volume of the stasis field sound effect.
• Targets are now unset if you pick them up, equip them, implant them, slot them, load them, or used them as a component.
• Fixed a bug that made pouring neutron flux from one functional magnetic bottle to another issue a false warning about lack of magnetic containment.
• Fixed a bug that made NPCs able to reload a weapon and fire immediately.
• Fixed a bug that caused Terrified effects which were supposed to suppress the use of activated movement abilities to fail to do so.
• Fixed a bug that caused trining lampreys to not self-replicate.
• Fixed a bug that caused jumping and ejection seat animations to sometimes display your tile with the wrong colors.
• Fixed a bug that caused a quills object to be unequipped into your inventory if a prior mutation was glitched into Carapace via warm static.
• Fixed a bug that made Templar phylacteries reference a confused name if they generated while the player was confused.
• Fixed a bug that caused strange phrasing in tomb inscriptions about books.
• Fixed more grammar oddities in third-party petting messages.
• Fixed a typo in Hortensa's conversation.
• Fixed a bug causing text following commas to be inappropriately removed from item names in some contexts.
• Fixed a bug that caused the stripping of color formatting to fail on some nested color patterns.
• [modding] Added SourceID, SourceBlueprint, KillerID, and KillerBlueprint properties to dropped corpse objects. ID properties will only be populated if the relevant object already had an ID when the corpse was generated.

• Increased the value of the leftmost tick of the repeat delay slider from 0 to 5.
• Fixed the main menu X not highlighting on hover.
• You can use the walk command again while looking to walk to the object you're looking at.
• Fixed v positive and v negative binds changing objects in a stack in the looker.
• Page Up and Page Down can now be used to navigate popups and the look menu.
• Fixed the binding display on the book UI.
• You can now use hotbar positional binds to trigger an ability even if that ability has a custom bind.
• Fixed an issue when looking at a tile when you didn't have Walk bound.
• Fixed an issue when using backspace on the number selection popup.
• Fixed an issue causing page up and down to be reversed in some menus.

204.90/205.35 beta

• Added new descriptions for some natural equipment.
• Heightened Hearing, Sense Psychic, and electromagnetic sensors no longer alert enemies.
• Ichor merchants now occasionally stock sap, putrescence, primordial soup, and (rarely) warm static.
• The Light Source category is now initially expanded when equipping a thrown weapon.
• Sense Psychic now allows you to perceive when someone creates an otherwise non-visible pyrokinesis or cryokinesis field.
• Factory arms now properly move objects.
• Being rusted now generally turns things red.
• If a village records its history through tattoos, and a villager has a body that cannot be tattooed but can be engraved, they now spawn with an historical engraving.
• You no longer auto-disassemble items in the course of modding them.
• The trade screen no longer ever shows a negative post-trade weight.
• Improved auto-equip failure messages, especially in cases where auto-equip failed on multiple body parts.
• Improved messaging for the appearance and disappearance of pyrokinesis and cryokinesis fields.
• The damage done by pyrokinesis and cryokinesis now depends on the phase that the field's creator was in at the time of creation.
• Fixed a bug that made armor fail to auto-equip to an occupied but potentially available body part if the first appropriate body part was occupied by non-removable equipment.
• Fixed a bug that caused odd grammar in the descriptions of your severed limbs.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to get time cube messages when zero jells applied the effect to NPCs.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to swap energy cells too frequently in items that have boot sequences with high charge draws.
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to sometimes fail to spawn and prevent other creatures in the zone from moving.
• Fixed support for the "Stack" hint, which will cause some ammunition populations not to be scattered all over the floor as individual objects.
• Fixed a bug that made some farms generate with odd names.
• Fixed a bug that caused some tinkerable items to display a in their name and give no bits when disassembled.
• Fixed a bug that caused rusted robots who had their rusting repaired remain red.
• Fixed a bug that caused your tongue to continuously regrow and rot away if you had Regeneration.
• Fixed a bug that made initial cryokinesis field deployment use colors appropriate to pyrokinesis.
• Fixed a bug causing graphical glitches with some force field interactions.
• Fixed a bug that excluded disguise mod name elements from item pickup messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused doubled punctuation at the end of village history tattoos.
• Fixed some formatting issues with pet responses to being petted.

Hi there, We've been working on some UI features, including better gamepad support, a more robust input manager, and a whole new Abilities screen. That work is now live on the beta branch! If you'd like to help us test it, right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Note: previous saves won't be compatible with this beta. Please post your bugs here. Live and drink, friends.

• Merged all input managers down to one, meaning you no longer have to change settings for gamepad to work.
• Made keyboard & gamepad input much more robust across the board.
• We added a new Abilities screen ('a').
  • Added icons for every ability.
  • Added in-depth, dynamic descriptions for many abilities (the rest to come).
  • You can reorder abilities on the Abilities screen and they will also reorder in your hotbar.
• We made several enhancements to the ability hotbar.
  • Your abilities are now automatically hotkeyed. You can change the hotkeys from the Abilities screen.
  • Added hotkeys for scrolling through your hotbars (default ctrl+1 - ctrl+5).
  • New ability icons also appear on the hotbar.
• Added the new ability icons to the old UI sidebar. They also now respect the order of abilities on your ability screen.
• Added a new, highly visible autoexplore danger indicator.
• Holding down movement keys to move quickly is now safeguarded by the autoexplore danger indicator.
• Added gamepad button glyphs for Xbox and PlayStation controllers wherever the UI indicates a button bind.

204.87

• Phasing is now better integrated with pathfinding.
• Gave fire ant queens wings.
• Made the default interaction for spiral borers be 'activate'.
• Clonelings can once again drink cloning draught to restore their cloning capacity.
• Added a bunch of new creature descriptions.
• Changed the appearance of hyrkhounds.
• Regeneration tanks now change tiles when broken.
• Added an option to disable fire sounds.
• Landing Pads now awards XP upon completion.
• Reduced the degree to which creature AI avoids webs.
• Lase's penetration value in the Light Manipulation description is now accurate.
• Phase-harmonic spasers now generate omniphase plasma.
• Quartzfur and glass armor no longer reflects damage from sources like bleeding and poison that are inside armor.
• Resolved various issues involving conflicts between different sources of icon coloration for creatures.
• Reasonably smart creatures can now slot fresh energy cells into various energy-cell-using equipment besides ranged weapons.
• Fixed a bug that caused flaming objects coated in plasma to emit much more smoke than intended.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally caused odd wind direction messages.
• Fixed a bug that made merchant restocking announcements depend on the merchant being visible.
• Fixed a bug that made gas tumblers not affect spasers.
• Fixed a bug that caused villagers to occasionally be assigned duplicate titles.
• Fixed a bug that caused points of interest and some exotic construction materials to have superfluous language in their descriptions.
• Fixed a bug that could cause broken world history entries.
• Fixed a bug that could cause exceptions in zone generation.
• Fixed a bug that caused the final step of "Kith and Kin" to not award experience.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Spread Klanq around Qud" quest steps not to update unless you had saved & loaded your game.
• Fixed a bug that caused villages with empty but unreachable cells to fail to generate.
• Fixed a bug that caused Unity impostors to be visible with tiles disabled.
• Fixed a bug that caused rust fields and bogs to fail to generate.
• Fixed a bug that caused Slog to have two tails.
• Fixed a rare exception in Slam.
• [modding] Pettable creatures can now have their chance of assigning a Pet goal set using the intproperty PetGoalChance (default 10), and the number of times to wait (times they would otherwise have been assigned a Pet goal) after successfully assigning a Pet goal before assigning another with the intproperty PetGoalWait (default 100).
• [modding] Added the AwardXP conversation action, which gives XP to the player or speaker with an optional popup message.

204.84

• We made Kickback work with any missile attack and moved it under the Tactics skill tree.
• Bilge sphincter bonuses are now considered "base".
• Normality fields have a new appearance.
• Reduced the difficulty of the save to avoid going prone from Rocket Jump.
• Various items that provide saving throw modifiers now say what they are doing using more descriptive language.
• Simplified some save modifier language involving forced movement.
• Creatures are now much less willing to use special movement abilities to go to dangerous locations.
• Slog is now more willing to enter pools of filth.
• The Stuck effect from a grabber arm now ends if the grabber arm is destroyed or moved out of adjacency to the target.
• Hints about location of the Ruin of House Isner found in books now use more sensible language when the hint is less than one parasang.
• Fixed various cases of things being described awkwardly as sets. This fix will show up unevenly in existing saved games.
• Fixed a bug that removed creatures' titles from restocking announcements and points of interest.
• Fixed a bug that caused the messages for discovering a lair not to indicate the type of creature the lair owner is. Lairs in existing save games will not be affected.
• Fixed a bug that caused several quests not to complete correctly if you had swapped bodies. More fixed quests to come next week.
• Fixed a bug that caused crashes in some situations with stuck creatures.
• Fixed a bug that caused the player's name to be rendered as "you" when items were named for them.
• Fixed a bug that caused some maker's marks to cause strange text generation.
• Fixed a capitalization issue with generated quest item names.
• Fixed a bug that caused some exotic construction materials to be described as wet when they weren't.
• Fixed bugs that caused brinestalk, sliced bop cheek, wild rice to be treated as plural.
• [modding] Added a new part, ExcludeMods, that can be used like to prevent an item from getting specified mods it would otherwise qualify for. Exclude="*" will exclude all mods, though typically that would be done using .
• [modding] Added AfterSecretRevealed, PlayerAfterConversation and PlayerEnteredCell events to IGameSystem.

204.83

• Rocket skates now alter Jump into Rocket Jump.
  • +4 jump range
  • Minimum range 3
  • You can rocket jump over creatures.
  • Upon landing, you make an Agility 20 save or fall prone.
  • You leave a trail of burning exhaust behind you.
• The Hurdle skill now lets you jump without interrupting your sprint.
• Movement confirmation now a yes/no popup, rather than requesting confirmation via moving again, when moving up or down.
• When you perform the water ritual with a social coprocessor installed, you now gain additional reputation with the creature's faction if your implant's performance has been boosted by compute power.
• Photosynthetic skin, vine-weave tunics, and other leafy items no longer count your own foliage (if you are a plant or plant-like creature) in determining camoflauge DV.
• The Leap, Frog achievement now triggers when you are taught Jump by a wider range of frogs, including svardym.
• Flaming vents are a little more destructive.
• Robots can no longer eat food or drink liquids. Existing robots in saved games won't be affected.
• Robots no longer heal while EMPed. Existing robots in saved games won't be affected.
• Forts no longer sometimes spawn disconnected from the rest of the map.
• Added new descriptions for several map terrain objects.
• Replaced the tiles for low-tier relic hats and helmets with different, better-suited existing tiles.
• Improved the spawn placement of esper assassins.
• The main menu music now restarts when returning to the main menu from an active game.
• Added a section on saving throws to the manual.
• Fixed a bug that caused a variety of item types to be unable to stack.
• Fixed a bug that made buying skills in the water ritual display the original cost in the dialog rather than the adjusted cost.
• Fixed a bug that caused the natural claw weapons of burrowing claws to not be removed with the mutation.
• Fixed a bug that caused Slog of the Cloaca to not award reputation when killed.
• Fixed a bug that made pettable creatures with multiple pet responses fail to display proper messages.
• Fixed a bug that caused several quests to not complete correctly if you had swapped bodies. More fixed quests to come next week.
• Fixed pettable creatures pet responses that used the old format (all Patreon pets).
• Fixed a bug where Rainwater Shomer was able to follow you back into the corporeal world.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Eskhind, Liihart, or Meyehind from spawning.
• Fixed a bug that caused the names of lairs not to indicate the type of creature the lair owner is. Lairs in existing save games will not be affected.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures not to equip shields.
• Fixed a bug that caused legendary tortoises to be described as legendary tortoises twice.
• Fixed a bug with the network of roots pet that caused its inventory to transmute into "pooled objects".
• Fixed a bug that caused a non-dominant biome for an area to sometimes be listed as its most notable feauture.
• Fixed a rare crash during gem tumbling when the tumbler was frozen.
• [modding] Added IfHaveLiquid, GiveLiquid, and UseLiquid conversation delegates (wiki ref: Modding:Conversations#Delegates_2).
• [modding] Added a PlayerTook event to IGameSystem.
• [debug] Wishing "rebuild" on the world map now correctly places you on the rebuilt world map.
• [debug] Fixed the Grit Gate doors not being properly opened when wishing "stage4".

204.82

• Non-player creatures now occasionally pet nearby pettable creatures.
• Eating a plant or fungi-based meal at an oven as a carnivore no longer provides satiation and may make you ill.
• Photosynthetic Skin now gives a small bonus to DV when occupying the same tile as foliage.
• We made some cosmetic changes to jungle trees.
  • To reduce confusion around which tree blocked movement -- tanglewood tree or shimscale mangrove tree -- we replaced the tanglewood tree with a new tree, ziv bough, and gave shimscale mangrove tree (the movement blocking one) both mangrove/tanglewood tile variants.
  • Added another new tree: star palm.
  • Witchwood trees now have a tile variant.
  • Dogthorn and swarmshade trees now use their tile variants.
  • Tweaked the tree population in the jungle and jungle-like regions.
  • Added new descriptions for shimscale mangrove tree, swarmshade tree, star palm, and ziv bough.
• Containers of pure water that are also quest items are no longer excluded from NPC inventories in trade.
• Clicking on an object to walk toward it now continues to walk toward the object if it moves rather than the location it was in when clicked.
• Legendary chefs no longer occasionally spawn without an oven.
• Village ovens may spawn surrounded by liquid but no longer spawn immersed and unusable.
• Village ovens no longer spawn in hallways.
• Village ovens are no longer removed by random rivers passing through them.
• Pathfinding now avoids visible sprouting orbs.
• In the modern UI, characters with Nerve Poppy now have their HP bar move when they change HP statuses.
• Save file cleanup no longer deletes any folder starting with a period.
• Improved some failure messaging for Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray.
• Improved the determination of whether a creature is in combat for the purposes of Narcolepsy.
• Tweaked some descriptions on the worldmap.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to fall in love with objects that weren't real.
• Fixed a bug that caused soup sludges to only equip a single pseudopod.
• Fixed a bug that assigned extra titles to some creatures.
• Fixed a bug that caused game crashes in some exotic combinations of creatures being stuck and engulfed.
• Fixed a bug that caused some named items to be called weird artifacts in their descriptions.
• Fixed a bug that made Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray unusable when granted by cooking effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused burrowing claws granted by skulk injectors to not generate their natural claw weapons.
• Fixed various bugs involving messages not being generated, or sight being lost on targets, because a creature you're fighting is across a zone boundary.

204.78

• Gaslight chisels can now be used to engrave hard, inorganic body parts in a fashion similar to how tattoo guns can be used to tattoo soft, organic body parts. (Existing gaslight chisels in saved games will not receive this functionality.)
• Digging while autoexploring or otherwise pathfinding now prefers somewhat to dig through softer walls.
• When a selected target square for Jump is invalid, you are now asked to select it again rather than exiting the command entirely.
• Village pets talk less like villagers now, and smart use brings up their interaction menu rather than immediately chatting with them.
• Attacks now pass harmlessly through holographic walls, unless they are animated.
• Reduced the weight (and thus gravity grenade damage when they slam into you) of conveyor belts.
• Added some references to the Corpus Choliys and spray bottles in apothecary dialolg.
• Non-player creatures can now use the following implants if they have them installed: matter recompositer, high-fidelity matter recompositer, inflatable axons, nocturnal apex, and stasis projector.
• Non-player creatures wielding psionic melee weapons now unequip them if their target is immune to psychic attacks.
• Non-player creatures wielding psychal fleshguns now stop trying to shoot targets that are immune to psychic attacks.
• Improved the death messages for being killed by your Temporal Fugue clones and similar phenomena.
• Fixed a bug where "Wait N turns" was waiting 1 extra turn.
• Fixed a color inconsistency in village generated dialog.
• Fixed a bug that prevented smart use on some objects from correctly bringing up their interaction menu when it was supposed to.
• Fixed a bug that caused plural creatures to sometimes be referred to as a set of themselves.
• Fixed a bug that caused some cybernetic implants to sometimes be described strangely.
• [modding] Added an after-render callback to some displays that were not using it (especially Targeting displays).
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused XML files of failed mods to be loaded.
• [modding] The unapproved mod alert now only displays when nothing else prevents that mod from running.
• [modding] Generally standardized on use of The.Player over Core.Player.Body
• [modding] Fixed several instances where UI screens (Skills and Powers, Status, etc.) were referencing The.Player directly instead of the object passed in to them.

204.74

• When aiming a missile or thrown weapon with a known maximum range, the portion of the selected path beyond that range is now colored black.
• When aiming a thrown weapon, the portion of the selected path beyond your full-accuracy throw range is now colored yellow.
• Geomagnetic discs are now subject to being intercepted by point-defense systems.
• Point-defense systems now respect phase.
• Glowfish and glowcrows now emit a small amount of light.
• Kickback no longer activates if you have no feet.
• Renamed the "Open chests while auto-exploring" option to "Look in containers while auto-exploring", made it apply to all container types, and removed the now vestigial "Open bookshelves while auto-exploring" option.
• Using the Confusion mutation now makes affected targets angry.
• Added a custom message on Pax Klanq's death.
• Liquid pools now freeze into solids based on the primary liquid in the mixture.
• Manual equip now uses body parts' descriptions rather than names.
• Flurry can no longer be activated on the world map.
• Smart use near harvestable plants now harvests them.
• Inflated axons and prowling effects now end if the corresponding cybernetics are removed.
• Added color animation effects to glowspheres, floating glowspheres, luminous motes, quantum motes, and black motes.
• Added new descriptions to grenades and several other items.
• Improved the grammar used with the leatherworking tools in Bey Lah.
• Improved the grammar in messages related to examining and putting things on tables and bookshelves.
• Color-coded grenade tiles and ASCII glyphs.
• Fixed some issues with the stats assigned to tinkered turrets.
• Fixed a bug that caused the cone picker to not respond to movement directions properly when locked.
• Fixed a bug that caused the cone picker display to be assymetrical.
• Fixed a bug that removed the "space-select | lock/unlock (F1)" line of the fire/throw target picker from the text UI.
• Fixed a bug with the display of some sultan names in village histories.
• Fixed a bug that caused rebuked followers to keep following you when dismissed.
• Fixed a bug that disabled the look interaction on items in containers and implanted cybernetics.
• Fixed a bug causing some deep shafts and special worldmap terrains to have "set of" prepended to their names.
• [modding] Gave Meal Preparation its own Class name unique from CookingAndGathering (CookingAndGathering_MealPrep).
• [modding] Added a new 'rapid:[n]' wish to trigger rapid advancement.

204.72

• Added a remappable command for interacting with your companions (defaults to Ctrl-C).
• Items being gigantic no longer uses up one of their three modding slots.
• Improved the artifact identification messages shown when you permanently come to understand an artifact you temporarily understand due to tech or bioscanning.
• When a weapon can only penetrate a maximum of 1x, the penetration arrow icon in its display name is now black.
• Offhand attacks from your stinger now always apply their venom.
• Palladium electrodeposits are now destroyed on removal, and their Intelligence bonus, when applicable, now counts toward skill requirements. (Existing implants in saved games will not be affected.)
• Becoming hungry no longer interrupts autoact. Becoming famished still does.
• Items marked to be treated as scrap no longer continue to be treated as scrap if they become unidentified.
• Brinestalk gates and iron gates no longer occlude vision while closed.
• Popups from pulsed field magnets ripping things off your body now require you to press space to dismiss them.
• You no longer get a chronology entry for visiting a generated village if it's the village you started in.
• Gave glowsphere and silver rondure more appropriate tiles.
• Made the gigantic chassis plate metal.
• Made wavy doors metal.
• Improved the sort order of liquid containers.
• Fixed a bug that caused named items to include superfluous details about their state in their descriptions.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Find Eskhind" quest to start when Eskhind was slain.
• Fixed an issue where pressing a movement direction multiple times could cause one press to not register.
• Fixed a bug that made nulling melee weapons not necessarily eligible for the Jacked mod.
• Fixed a bug that made autoexplore unable to swap positions with animated doors that the player was unable to unlock.
• Fixed a bug that made some remote sensing effects carry through inappropriate colors to the tiles shown.
• [modding] The PortableWall part now supports a field DeployingWhat for controlling the text the field picker displays.

204.71

• The watervine farmer calling now starts with bonus reputation with the Farmers' Guild.
• Ticking vents are now limited to spawning 30 clockwork beetles in total.
• Fungal infections on hands now display their stats as melee weapons.
• You now fall to the ground if you lose your wings in-flight.
• Gave equimaxes double-muscled.
• Creatures are now more willing to attack force fields and plant growth and, sometimes, dig through walls to reach an enemy.
• Gigantic creatures now break most beds and chairs they attempt to sleep or sit in.
• Certain liquids are now converted to other liquids if they react with a desalination pellet.
• The target selection prompt for stasis and force projectors now refers to a field rather than a wall.
• You can no longer enter the [redacted] if you do not bear the Mark of Death.
• The bit cost of item modifications is now in part based on the base item's tech tier instead of its general tier. This mostly has no impact, except that it's now easier to mod recoilers even if they port you to late-game locations.
• When a creature is pushed or pulled due to an effect that propels them through the air (e.g., Slam, gravity grenade), they no longer interact with liquid pools they pass over.
• Pariahs in pariah groups no longer exhibit extremely antisocial behavior like leaving trash trails and swallowing things whole.
• Attempting to sleep on a bed or sit on a chair with a neutral creature in its square now swaps positions with the creature, if possible, rather than asking if you want to attack them.
• Added new descriptions for several creatures.
• Removed an outdated version of Electrical Generation from electrofuges and gave them the newer one.
• Improved some suboptimal grammar in tombstone messages.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally made exploding items explode multiple times.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to complete quests with temporary items.
• Fixed a bug that caused permanent clones of narratively important NPCs to flag the original as dead when the clone died.
• Fixed a bug that made geomagnetic discs not overloadable.
• Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from reloading some missile weapons.
• Fixed a bug that made the fists installed by fist replacement cybernetics persist after the implant was removed.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from automatically equipping a torch on game start.

204.69

• Slugsnouts and leering stalkers no longer use their ranged weapons at point-blank range.
• Reverted last week's change about not being able to open doors if you can't access your extremities. Now, certain creatures won't open or close doors based on behaviorial factors.
• Made it harder to get to [redacted] if you don't have the Tomb of the Eaters quest.
• You can no longer travel to [redacted] while in a body that's not your own.
• The deployment of portable walls and stasis projectors is now animated.
• Increases the frequency Ruin of House Isner secrets appear in generated text, which had become less frequent since the last corpus refresh.
• Messaging for secrets discovered via Trash Divining is now sensitive to the "Display popups when noting information in your journal." option.
• Revamped some creature descriptions.
• Fixed a bug causing some sentences to refer to a creature when they should have referred to a piece of the creature's equipment.
• Fixed a bug that made some creature detection effects continue highlighting creatures if you switched bodies into something lacking the detection capacity.
• Fixed a bug where heavy weapons were categorized as rifles in tinkering categories, resulting in heavy weapon schemasofts with no blueprints.
• Fixed a bug where the Hampered effect was categorized as mental, which caused it to terminate Sunder Mind.
• Fixed a bug in the construction of some trader restocking messages.

204.68

• We made some changes to geomagnetic discs.
  • They no longer bypass walls or doors.
  • They no longer have unlimited range for reaching their initial target.
  • They no longer target the same creature twice in a given throw.
  • They no longer rely on the thrower's vision to find targets.
  • Their base charge use is lower.
  • Their charge use is now asserted on every bounce.
  • When disabled due to lack of charge, they now fail to activate and are not thrown.
  • When targets are out of phase with them, they now attempt to hit the target and fail, rather than refraining from the attempt.
  • Previously, when used by NPCs, they would use the NPC's strength bonus for the to-hit calculation rather than agility bonus if the strength bonus was higher. They no longer do this.
  • Deft Throwing and parabolic muscular subroutines now improve their chance to hit.
  • Their appearance in flight is now that of their tile.
  • Seeing one in action now identifies it.
  • Fixed a bug that made them fail to target some hostile creatures who had not yet noticed the player.
• The move speed penalty from equipping heavy weapons is now surfaced as a status effect, Hampered.
• You can no longer open or close doors if you are unable to move your extremities.
• Creatures with no hands or hand-likes can no longer open or close doors.
• A chronology entries is no longer recorded for trying to rename a companion who already has a proper name.
• Unidentified thrown weapons no longer autoequip to the thrown weapon slot.
• Equipment, inventory, and some companions now persist when an object is glitched via warm static. ((Beguiled/proselytized creatures will still lose interest if new body can't support them))
• Reduced the number of "target temperature reached" messages issued by transkinetic cuffs.
• Improved the journal verbiage when you learn a secret that's known by a faction but not the faction you learned the secret from.
• Improved the grammar across many spots in text generation.
• Fixed a bug that caused Spread Klanq quest steps not to complete after a save/load cycle.
• Fixed some situations where inanimate objects would become targeted during a multi-weapon ranged attack.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally caused you to fall in love with quest-related statues or statues created by lithofex gazes, even if there was no reason to love them.
• Fixed a bug that caused pure warm static to not glitch objects its container shattered on.
• Fixed a bug that caused the inventory or equipment screen to be rendered blank when you glitched yourself via warm static.
• Fixed a bug that made fungal infections not operate properly when occupying left/right/upper/lower body parts. This fix won't affect existing fungal infections in saved games.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quests steps requiring an item not to complete in some circumstances, like receiving the item as a gift during the water ritual.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quest steps requiring an item not to complete if you already had the item in your inventory at the start of the quest.
• Fixed a bug that made in-place disassembly of energy cells slotted into sockets often fail if you had other energy cells that could stack with that one in your inventory.
• Fixed a bug that caused [owned by you] to appear on sold items if you had stored them in a container at any point prior.
• Fixed a grammar error in some sentences involving compacted bone matter.

204.67

• Quests to recover historic relics now include the name of the historic site in the quest text, in addition to the name of the level the relic is on. This does not necessarily mean the location of the historic site is revealed when you get the quest, though.
• Leeches are no longer implied to produce chitin.
• Spitting slugs now spit salty acid that evaporates over time.
• Tweaked the artifact identification messaging.
• Using an unidentified tonic now indicates that you have identified it with a message.
• Large lists of pickable items with similar names now have a consistent sorting order, rather than items sometimes moving around in the list as you navigate it.
• Colorless generic brooding puffs no longer appear in fungal sites.
• Tree cherubim now equip their cherubic bark in the right place.
• Non-player creatures who use Teleportation are now subject to its accuracy limitations.
• Companions with force bubbles active no longer attempt to pathfind right up next to you, pushing you around.
• There is a new companion interaction available, direct to change follow distance, that lets you direct companions to follow close by, at medium range, or far away.
• Inanimate objects that are brought to life can no longer be brought to life a second time.
• You can no longer activate the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear when wielding it is a weapon.
• Gave the sizzling effect on liquid containers a more informative description.
• Fixed a regression that allowed you to get infinite chrome keys from Otho.
• Fixed a bug that caused physical transformations to incorrectly increase the base rank of other mutations.
• Fixed a bug with generated village history text involving worshipped sultans.
• Fixed a bug that prevented unlocking the Mutagenic Mastery achievement.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Cloaca Surprise to give you an extra tail.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to leave the current screen when possessing a creature with a party leader.
• Fixed a bug that caused corpses and other objects to become targets after killing a primary target with akimbo pistols.
• Fixed some grammar errors in damage messages.
• Fixed a pluralization error when learning crafting recipes via the water ritual.

204.66

• Great magma crabs now leave behind basalt when they die.
• Creatures will no longer prioritize equipping the gaslight chisel over better weapons.
• The stated neutron flux requirement for the [redacted] quest now matches what Klanq requires.
• Fire ant queens, segmented mirthworms, and worms of the earth can no longer spawn creatures on the world map.
• Walls with pipes installed in them now get their ignition temperature raised to 1200 degrees if it was below 1200 degrees, preventing random villages with lava-based hydraulics in their wooden walls from instantly bursting into flame.
• The Barathrum clock with Q Girl pendulum no longer sometimes break adjacent power systems when picked up. This will not affect clocks already loaded in existing save games.
• Applied a probable fix for magnetic bottles issuing a warning while traveling on the world map, then exploding before the player has a chance to address the situation.
• In most cases, any mods that could be applied to a piece of armor prior to magnetization can now also be applied to it afterward.
• Tweaked item population tables.
• Made some further improvements to electrical arc messaging.
• Fixed a bug that caused bows to not automatically reload after firing.
• Fixed a bug that caused bows to bring up a menu for type of ammo to reload with any time you had more than one type of arrow instead of automatically reloading with the same type of arrow if available.
• Fixed a bug that caused the bilge sphincter to replace your stinger.
• Fixed a bug that caused electrical arcs emanating from equipment to be described as coming from "somewhere".
• Fixed a bug that made electrical arcs with no place to go cause errors.
• Fixed a bug that caused some corners of the river Yonth to generate as blank zones.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when multiple creatures occupying the same cell attempted to swap positions.
• Fixed a typo in ixlthyxl's description.
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to contract blurry vision and monochrome at the same time under exotic circumstances, potentially resulting in incurable monochrome.
• [modding] Bonded companions with proper names now have display names of the form "Gatt Alhonyawr, hired guard" rather than "Gatt Alhonyawr and hired guard".
• Added a "soundlog" wish to show the last 20 requests processed by the sound engine

204.63

• We made some changes to how electrical conductivity works (ie, what determines which objects electrical arcs leap to).
  • Liquid pools now have their conductivity correctly calculated based on their component mixtures. Electrical arcs now correctly leap across conductive pools of liquid.
  • Made some tweaks to creature conductivity calculations.
  • A creature who wears footwear that's less conductive than they are now gets some additional anti-conductivity protection.
  • Arcs no longer leap to flying creatures unless they are the initial target of a discharge.
  • Arcs can now travel diagonally.
  • Improved the messaging around arc leaping, especially for when a creature avoids an arc due to anti-conductive footwear.
• Added some alternate tiles for bookshelves with items in them.
• Dynamic quest rewards are now identified.
• Data disks offered as dynamic quest rewards now display the item blueprint they teach.
• You now need to have the appropriate Tinker skill level to build an item, rather than have that skill level only when learning the blueprint.
• Village tinkers can no longer recharge broken or rusted energy cells.
• Legendary pilgrims no longer abandon their lairs.
• Conservators shoot their lightlocks again.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to be cancelled as if your concentration slipped when you had high quickness and your target died prematurely.
• Fixed a bug that caused traipsing mortars to fail to equip their natural melee weapons.
• Fixed a bug that caused villagers in villages with pets to talk about nothing except those pets.
• Fixed a bug that caused stingers to repeatedly re-equip themselves when mutations changed.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a creature fell in love with itself after stepping in dilute warm static.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures not to receive random cybernetics.
• [modding] Common rendering colors are now accessible in C# via The.Color API. For example, The.Color.Red returns the Color value of 'R' previously accessed from the ColorUtility.ColorMap dictionary.

Hello all, We're skipping this week's patch due to some more travel. We'll be back on schedule the Friday after (3/31). Until then, Live and drink.

204.62

• The Barathrumites now offer the choice between a masterwork carbine and a masterwork chain pistol upon completing a certain quest.
• Companions who can technologically generate force bubbles now respect being told not to.
• Dawning apes are now more convincingly considered robots.
• Added spitting slugs back to regional populations.
• Cages now have a new tile and can be entered.
• Faundren villagers are now docile by default.
• Made some improvements to liquid freezing.
  • It now takes a larger, more sensible volume of liquid to freeze into large rock walls, for those liquids that freeze into rock.
  • Freezing containers of convalessence no longer obliterates them.
  • Creatures in the same tile as a liquid that freezes into a solid wall now become stuck.
  • Creatures that become stuck from a pool of liquid freezing under them are now immediately freed if the pool melts or is destroyed.
• Being stuck is now included in creatures' display name, like sitting or lying down.
• The stuck effect now displays more information about what you're stuck in.
• When you talk to Sparafucile during A Call to Arms, you no longer reference equipped items you don't actually have equipped.
• Turbow and linear cannon now have appropriate tinker categories for the purpose of SchemaSoft implants.
• Added a heavy weapons category to SchemaSoft.
• Changed the tile and color for fossilized remains.
• Short display names for liquid pools no longer display the number of drams in the pool.
• Achievements based on equipping things now only trigger if the item is equipped properly.
• Food no longer typically has 'equip' as its default action.
• When navigating to a point of interest that's a creature, you now more reliably go to that creature's new location if they move.
• Fixed a bug that allowed item duplication when twinning and trining lampreys made new lampreys.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Non-Locally Sourced achievement to be uncompleteable.
• Fixed a typo in the message displayed when something falls on a creature.
• Fixed some grammar errors in tomb inscriptions.
• [modding] Conversations now support negated versions of the IfHasBlueprint and IfWearingBlueprint predicates, IfNotHasBlueprint and IfNotWearingBlueprint.

204.61

• Gaze and light-based attacks are now blocked by vantabud and vantabloom darkness.
• Spaser rifles now deal plasma damage instead of light damage.
• Phase cannons and decarbonizers now deal disintegration damage instead of light damage.
• Plasma damage now has its own death message.
• Nerfed psychodyne helmet.
• Added several new wall descriptions.
• Added an Ego requirement to [redacted].
• You now need to be adjacent to a creature to perform the water ritual.
• Primordial soup no longer cools into shale.
• Removed an outdated version of cryokinesis from ice frogs and gave them Freezing Ray.
• Star kraken no longer excrete quasi-real starch and lignin.
• It's no longer possible to deal negative damage.
• Dromad traders now politely pretend to be fooled by the disguises their customers wear.
• Made further adjustments to make creatures prefer not to use non-weapon equipment as improvised weapons.
• Messages displayed for taking zero damage now say "no damage" rather than "0 damage".
• Added rules text for what camel bladder does.
• Accomplishments based on eating something no longer complete if you fail to eat the thing.
• Pyrokinesis and Cryokinesis can no longer be activated on the world map.
• Cooking effects triggered by drinking freshwater no longer trigger on the world map.
• Added a basic description to Rebuke Robot ability.
• The heads of high-level robots now more consistently contain high-level bits.
• You now get an appropriate message when you attempt to shield slam a target you can't reach because it's playing.
• You now get an appropriate message when you attempt to shield slam a target who's out of phase with you.
• Twinning and trining lampreys now spawn with the same effects in place that the lamprey spawning them has.
• Fixed various bugs that caused the allegiance of twinning and trining lampreys to behave strangely in some interactions of their spawning behavior, Proselytize, Beguiling, love injectors, and/or cloning.
• Fixed a bug that caused Disintegration, Light Manipulation, and Stunning Force not to benefit from Two-Headed.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to eat a luminous hoarshroom at no action cost if you did it through thethe overlay UI inventory view.
• Fixed a bug that caused agolmaggots to lack any natural weapons.
• Fixed a bug that made non-companion creatures sucked through spacetime vortices create action queue inconsistencies.

204.60

• We refreshed the corpus of game text used to generate text for white-titled books, graffiti, urn inscriptions, and bird dialog. You'll now see text from the last several updates appear.
• Beak and hooks for feet no longer benefit from having the Horns mutation.
• Quantum ripplers have a new tile.
• Two quantum ripplers a space apart now spawn a spacetime rift between them and stabilize it so that nothing emerges.
• Dyvvrach now only mentions the chiming rock if you've talked to it.
• Acid humors now leave behind brackish acid pools rather than pure acid pools, meaning they'll evaporate over time.
• Creatures now have considerably greater tolerance for friendly fire incidents from allied creatures that are not controlled by the player.
• Flashbang grenades can now confuse creatures that are immune to psychic confusion.
• Being confused now prevents vantabuds and vantablooms from absorbing light.
• Unidentified modded pickaxes no longer appear as small boxes.
• Creatures are now less willing to equip items that have missile weapon, shield, or thrown weapon functionality as melee weapons.
• Flying companions are now more mindful when swooping with friendlies in their paths.
• Exiled Keh & Kesehind no longer immediately disappear when dismissed as proselytes.
• Crafting recipes listed in the water ritual no longer include the penetration and damage values of weapons.
• Fixed a bug that made thrown phials of neutron flux fail to explode and instead leave behind a strange puddle of null liquid.
• Fixed a bug that caused gigantic pieces of armor to be considered highly potent melee weapons by NPCs.
• Fixed a bug that caused Stingers to not always sting when charging or lunging.
• Fixed a bug that caused jump animations to play on inactive zones.
• [modding] Implanted missile weapons now validate whether they are equipped on an appropriate body part using CyberneticsBaseItem.Slots rather than Physics.UsesSlots or MissileWeapon.SlotType.
• [modding] Previously, when objects were being destroyed with the Obliterate flag, the return value of BeforeDestroyObjectEvent was ignored, meaning the normal object destroy process continued (as opposed to without Obliterate, where returning false would prevent destroy). Now, the return value of BeforeDestroyObjectEvent is always honored, and BeforeDestroyObjectEvent handlers are responsible for checking the Obliterate flag if they need to before returning false.

Hi all, We're skipping the patch this week due to some travel. We'll be back next week! Live and drink.

204.59

• Spacetime vortices can no longer be coated in liquids.
• We made some performance improvements to spacetime vortices. They no longer immediately load new zones when spawned, meaning playing with Spacetime Vortex and Quantum Jitters should be smoother.
• The Discharge power from the Electrical Generation mutation now requests confirmation before targeting yourself.
• Barathrumite tinkers now spawn with a leather cloak rather than a cloth robe they cannot wear.
• Baetyl rewards received as part of the [redacted] creation process are now written to the message log.
• Gaslight weapons now consistently display their powered performance in the tinkering UI, rather than gaslighting you about their stats.
• Fixed a bug that caused the reputation bonus from the custom visage implant to persist when swapping bodies.
• Fixed a bug that made creatures with random cybernetic implants sometimes receive implants in excess of their license tier.
• Fixed some bugs with Juke, like how juking out of your own force bubble left the forcefield in place until you moved again.
• Fixed a bug that prevented dreamcrungles from becoming sated after you woke up peacefully.
• Fixed a bug that caused mutation ranks not to stack with the [redacted] if you gained ranks from multiple sources.
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacteds] with the custom visage implant not to apply their reputation bonus when controlled.
• Fixed a coloration issue with dromad caravan journal entries.
• [modding] Added IfZoneVisited conversation predicate, which is true when the specified zone ID has been visited by the player. Fixed the RemoveItem/RemoveSpeakerItem delegates.

204.58

• Pickaxes now count as axes for melee purposes.
• Pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers now display rules text for their wall penetration behavior.
• Gigantic pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers, and burrowing claws on gigantic creatures, now destroy walls in half as many penetrating hits.
• NPCs with air current microsensors or optical multiscanners implanted no longer reveal stairs to you. The exception is if the NPC is your follower and close enough for you to hear them.
• Added an animation to jumping.
• Arrows wielded as melee weapons now use the Short Blades skill.
• Dawngliders have a flaming bite again.
• Turret tinker followers now respect being told not to set up turrets.
• You now get an appropriate failure message when you try to apply a tonic to a robot.
• The repulsive device can no longer be taken back from the Children of the Tomb.
• Conveyor belts now stop animating when their drive is destroyed or disabled.
• Animated doors and walls are now affected by Slam as creatures, not as walls/doors.
• Stunning from Slam can no longer allows a successful save on a natural 20.
• Slam now propels creatures across pits in the middle of their path of being slammed.
• Slam now moves items on the ground along with a slammed creature regardless of whether the creature dies as a result of the slam.
• Slam now shakes the camera if the player is anywhere in the chain of creatures moved, rather than only if the player is the initial target.
• Creatures are no longer blocked from being moved by Slam by non-square-occupying items on the ground.
• Death due to the damage from being Slammed through walls now has case-specific death messaging.
• Using Slam while engulfed now results in slamming the engulfing creature in the direction indicated (unless you choose no direction, in which case you still Slam yourself).
• Creatures that are rooted in place can no longer be knocked prone.
• You are no longer considered able to move your extremities while enclosed in furniture like an iron maiden, regen tank, or sarcophagus.
• Removed the penetration cap from phase spider bite.
• NPC and starting player equipment usage is now less willing to use non-melee-weapon items as improvised melee weapons.
• Fixed an issue causing fungal infections to misbehave.
• Fixed a bug that made creatures fail to equip items over natural gear.
• Fixed a bug with applied tonics that looked at the applying creature's attributes rather than the applied-to creature.
• Fixed an issue with the rendering of taproot floor in Chavvah's keter.
• Fixed a rare infinite zone generation bug when generating dynamic quests after all secrets have been exhausted.
• Fixed a bug that caused amnesia to trigger on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused the Bell of Rest to recall the player directly over an open pit, killing them.
• Fixed a bug that caused data disks to give every effect when used as hamsa.
• Fixed a bug that caused qudzu and their symbiotes to not rust your items.
• Fixed a bug that caused beguiling via cooking effects to always fail.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures temporarily beguiled via cooking effects to replace your permanent followers.
• Fixed a bug that caused limb regeneration faculties to fail to regenerate dismembered treads and hardpoints from cybernetics. (Treads and hardpoints already severed in saved games are not affected.)
• Fixed a bug when you acquired Monochrome in the body of a dominated creature that resulted in being permanently unable to cure it.
• Reverted the input manager change that caused some issues on Linux machines. This will re-break some issues on MacOS without the bugfix enabled, but now it's broken in a more historically normal way.
• Fixed a bug that caused some small inconsistencies in spawns.
• Fixed a bug that made Slam destroy items on the ground in the same square as a slammed creature in some circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that usually made Slam's damage message from hitting walls not be displayed.
• Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when wading and proneness interacted.
• Fixed a bug that caused some NPC and player equipment loadouts to feature items being equipped multiple times in the same loadout.
• Fixed a bug that could cause games to crash on startup.
• [modding] Body parts added by cybernetics (motorized treads, gun rack, equipment rack, magnetic core) are no longer tracked as extrinsic (like body parts added by helping hands and two-faced headgear). They're instead considered long-term parts of the body in the same way limbs added by mutations are.
• [pets] Creatures no longer fruitlessly try to attack Gloaming or Either/Or. You'll have to re-redeem these pets for this change to take effect.

204.56

• Increased the default HP for all items.
• Increased the default HP for all armor to 100.
• Put the Phase harmonic modulator implant in cybernetic loot tables.
• On the equipment screen, when you default interact with a natural weapon, you once again attempt to equip over it. You can press Ctrl+Space to look at it instead.
• You no longer autoexplore over dilute warm static.
• Items unintentionally dropped by your companions are now auto-picked-up when the "Auto-pickup special items" option is enabled.
• Natural gear of gigantic creatures is now always gigantic (including +3 damage and Slam bonus for cudgels).
• Rampaging sultans who earn a title as a result of their rampage are no longer called the Untitled.
• Removed the "flower" object from the game but left "flowers", making baetyl requests less ambiguous.
• Creatures are now pickier about equipping gear over their natural gear if the natural gear might be better.
• Added some more wall descriptions.
• Made magnetic bottles in trader (particularly tinker) inventories more reliably generate empty.
• Tweaked the ANSI in sultan murals.
• Fixed a bug that made glowmoths and gamma moths fail to attack.
• Fixed a bug that made True Kin register as mutants.
• Fixed a bug that made normality gas pumps use two slots even when you had giant hands.
• Fixed a bug that made some creatures' natural gear disappear when they gained some physical mutations.
• Fixed a bug that made most creatures' natural gear that had previously been visible in their descriptions stop showing up.
• Fixed a bug that made the Ruin of House Isner fail to have a guaranteed critical on its seventh shot.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally occurred with Sheba Hagadias's detail color.
• Fixed a grammar issue with some implant-related historical messages.
• Fixed some grammar errors in historical information and village quest text.
• Fixed several issues with MacOS and non-English keyboard layouts.
• Improved the grammar of some polygel duplication messages.

204.53

• Chimeras can now eat the Cloaca Surprise and Crystal Delight.
• Extra floating nearby slots you obtain are no longer removed by transformative meals.
• Any time the player is forced to drop an item, that item is now considered a "special item" until the next time the player or a companion of the player picks it up, meaning autoget will pick it up if "Auto-pickup special items" is on.
• Space-time vortices caused by Quantum Jitters now have a short delay before they begin moving.
• Creatures' natural weaponry can now be equipped over, generally. This change resolves various cases of natural weapons appearing twice in creature descriptions. It also allows creatures to equip items over some natural weapons, like bites and claws.
• Shield Wall can no longer be activated without a shield equipped.
• Natural gear can now be interacted with from the equipment screen.
• Gigantic items can no longer be randomly generated by tinkering.
• Transkinetic cuffs are now actually spawnable.
• Extradimensional True Kin are no longer unable to install implants. (Existing instances in saves will not be affected.)
• Made metachrome weapons count as gigantic (and so get the +3 bonus) but reduced their base damage roughly by half.
• Palladium electrodeposits now implant into the head slot of your [redacted], if available.
• The "Auto-pickup ammo" option no longer strips energy cells out of devices.
• You can now harvest plump mushrooms from mushroom cases.
• You can no longer pour neutron flux to or from magnetic bottles if they aren't in working order.
• You're now warned when pouring neutron flux from a magentic bottle to an unsafe container.
• Schrodinger pages now display their faction when offered as a reward.
• Renamed cactus cherub to fractus cherub.
• Fractus cherubim are now considered members of the fractus species.
• All urshiib now have the Triple-jointed mutation.
• You can now throw recycling items or items fitted with filters down the Sacred Well.
• Turret tinkers are considered now hexapedal robots.
• Robot cheburim are now considered wheeled robots.
• Drillbots have short blades skills now.
• Pulse field magnets can no longer pull away natural gear.
• Small spheres of negative weight can now have some mods.
• You can no longer get infinite chrome keys from Otho.
• The hindren of Bey Lah are now interested in secrets about Kindrish.
• Heartbiter goatfolk now have the modern Adrenal Control mutation instead of the old one.
• Asphodel no longer becomes unresponsive at certain phases in the Earl of Omonporch quest.
• The gesticulating mod strength bonus now scales with item tier.
• Wheeled creatures like the mopango charioteer now have two wheels.
• Phase cannons are now considered heavy weapons.
• You can no longer get Chavvah's roaming keter by traveling to the map above Eyn Roj.
• Modified the stats of Wardens Esther so that they appropriately spawn 4 clones with Temporal Fugue.
• Table [redacted] no longer have blue detail color.
• Fixed a bug that caused skulk injectors not to be consumed if you were already under the effects of one.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain invalid limbs to break the Atzmus menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused old saves with Issachari present to behave strangely.
• Fixed a bug that caused some effects not to be listed in your status effects readout on the main screen.
• Fixed the pronoun for the Slam bonus in the description of gigantic plural weapons.
• Fixed a grammar issue in message for fully identifying an artifact.
• Fixes Tau's gender.
• Fixed some grammar in generated text.
• [modding] Robots and [redacted] are no longer considered mutants by the method GameObject.IsMutant().
• [modding] Fixed an error that could occur with custom Options.xml loading
• [modding] Added optional predicates to several GetCreatureAroundPlayerLevel methods in EncountersAPI.
• [modding] ModColossal is no longer hardcoded to be disallowed as a bonus mod, so its settings in Mods.xml are better adhered to.

204.52

• Added a new item: transkinetic cuffs.
• The slynth of the Hydropon can now resettle on Chavvah, the Tree of Life.
• The bottom level of the rusted archway now consistently builds with an electrical power grid rather than a hydraulic system.
• Being on fire no longer shows a damage message when the damage amount is zero.
• Reduced slynth level and gave them more AV.
• Crypt sitters should be more responsive to attacks.
• Tillifergaewicz now wears her clay pot and also has an extra one.
• Certain significant body transformations now change your species.
• Urn dusters now equip and attack with their ash shovels.
• Added a couple seats to the Grit Gate library.
• Leeches are now worms instead of mollusks.
• Eating luminous hoarshrooms now costs energy.
• Several creatures that had hands or hands-variants but not a Hands slot now do.
• Something being coated in neutron flux now results in its immediate explosion.
• Responsibility for neutron flux explosions is now tracked better.
• Added new hamsa effects to tartbeard glands and gallbeard glands.
• The reshaping nook and pad are now rebuilt if destroyed.
• Dromad [redacted] are no longer uniformly brown.
• Mopango charioteers now make [redacted] charioteers.
• The repulsive device now has an associated incantation when chosen for the [redacted].
• Reduced the chance that extradimensional hunters ambush you inside your [redacted].
• Tweaked the wording of Wilderness Lore skills to be clearer.
• Added new descriptions to several creatures.
• Changed kipper detail color.
• Changed beetlebum's color.
• Fixed a bug that made neutron flux poured or spilled on the ground fail to explode.
• Fixed a bug that caused using the Spacetime Vortex mutation to undergo two normality checks instead of one.
• Fixed a bug that made broken power lines sometimes appear working and working power lines sometimes appear broken.
• Fixed a bug that caused craftmarks to appear in the middle of some partially identified artifact names.
• Fixed a bug that made shots fired by your point-defense drone incur an action cost on you and interrupt your ongoing actions like Sunder Mind.
• Fixed a bug that caused dynamic village mayors to become unresponsive after the slynth had settled there for a week.
• Fixed a bug that gave you the Repair option on your [redacted] if you had the tinkering Repair skill.
• Fixed a bug that caused non-standard limbs with metachrome to not be eligible for offhand attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused sub-limbs of extra body parts acquired from the an incantation to not receive metachrome natural weaponry.
• Fixed a bug that caused reputation giving items equipped to bodies you have released control of to be retained.
• Fixed a bug that caused the crystal chimes of Chavvah to not comment on the death of Aoyg-No-Longer when it occurred by your hand.
• Fixed a bug that prevented fungicide from destroying fungal spores.
• Fixed more instances of music notes appearing in quest texts.
• Fixed some grammar errors in village histories.
• Fixed some grammar errors in Two-Headed shake off messages.
• [debug] When The Golem quest has been completed, any subsequently wished-in mounds now have a 'Build' option available to construct it.

204.51

• Added a tree [redacted].
• Fulling identifying an artifact now gives a different message than partially identifying it.
• Magnetic bottles now alert you when they're nearly out of power.
• Magnetic bottles generated in vendor inventories are now always empty.
• Great magma crabs now bleed lava.
• Ink now has value.
• Having something explode in your inventory while you're on the world map no longer destroys significant portions of the world map.
• Village mayors, wardens, tinkers, apothecaries, and merchants can no longer generate hidden.
• Somewhat reduced the priority Repair has as the default interaction on repairable items.
• You are now always able to make contact with equipped or inventory items for the purpose of repairing them.
• Creatures resistant to acid and heat are now more willing to traverse acid and lava, respectively.
• Extradimensional dromad hunters no longer spawn with their caravans.
• The masterwork carbine now bears Sparafucile's mark in its display name.
• Gave sandals of the river-wives a different tile.
• You can no longer eject from the [redacted] on the world map.
• Added some new creature descriptions.
• The repulsive device is now marked as important.
• Dormant waydroids are now marked as quest items.
• Deleted some extraneous conversation for Aoyg-No-Longer.
• Attempting to build a campfire in open air or over a pit now generates a better failure message.
• Fixed Klanq's pronouns in Barathrum's dialog.
• Fixed some bugs with the partially identified states of recoilers and chiral rings.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to spawn over pits in some contexts.
• Fixed a bug that with the Six Day Stilt n-pointed asterisk buff.
• Fixed a bug that caused repair attempts on scrapped waydroids to cost energy when they shouldn't have.
• [pets] Esbear is now of species bear. You'll have to re-redeem him for this change to take effect.

204.50

• Albino apes now have the Albino defect.
• The data disk options you get for buying Tinker I, II, and III now match the item tier range for each of those skills.
• All winged mammals now correctly have wings.
• Robot cherubim now correctly use treaded body plans.
• You can now complete Decoding the Signal if you manage to do the decoding without traveling to the quest location.
• The Null Face can no longer be modded or generate with mods.
• Villager tinkers and merchants in dynamic villages should more often include their roles in their display names.
• Barathrum now correctly states the number of drams of neutron flux needed for [redacted] battery.
• Checkpointing and autosaves are no longer triggered when you enter or exit an interior space.
• Dream wrens now have their peck.
• Breathbeard gland paste no longer has the odd chance to bestow Teleportation when used as a hamsa.
• Mazebeard gland paste can no bestow Confusion when used as a hamsa.
• The interior of the [redacted] is now less prone to catching fire from its own catalyst liquid.
• Legendary soup sludge pariahs that get catalyzed by new liquids now update their names accordingly.
• Soup sludges that get catalyzed by warm static now grow entropic pseudopods.
• Legendary pilgrims in lairs no longer leave their lairs to go on pilgrimages.
• Slightly increased the population density of the Moon Stair.
• Fixed a bug that caused Klanq to wander inappropriately.
• Fixed a bug with the rendering of piped walls in the dark.
• Fixed a bug that made magnetized two-handed melee weapons, bows, rifles, and heavy weapons require two Floating Nearby slots. (Existing magnetized items in saved games won't be fixed.)
• Fixed a bug that made plasma-coated creatures and objects to not radiate heat.
• Fixed a bug that caused some crystal chimes to hide under the crystalline branches of Chavvah.
• Fixed a bug that let you start If, Then, Else several times and get multiple crystal keys.
• Fixed some branch confusion in Dyvvrach's dialog.
• Fixed a bug that caused Aoyg-No-Longer to respawn under certain conditions.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes be unable to reshape the [redacted].
• Fixed a bug that caused clones of the [redacted] to not follow you until piloted.
• Fixed a bug that crashed the game on systems using decimal commas when certain mods were installed.
• Fixed a bug that caused the tile of unidentified artifacts to be revealed when throwing them down the Sacred Well.
• Fixed a rare UI deadlock.
• Fixed some bugs with legendary creatures generating as village pets.
• Fixed a few grammar issues with generated text.
• [modding] Moved Moon Stair objects out of Staging.xml and into their appropriate data files.

Hello friends, Due to some holiday travel we'll be skipping our weekly patch this week. We'll resume the following week. See you in the new year. Live and drink.

204.49

• We made some balance changes to the [redacted].
  • Metachrome weapons no longer have a penetration cap.
  • Vastly increased tortoise [redacted] Carapace rank.
  • Vastly increased cragmensch [redacted] AV and strength.
  • Removed the malus for installing cybernetic implants as the hamsa of the [redacted].
  • Gave oddities a new body.
• Faction delegates should behavior a little more cordially during the Omonporch negotiation.
• Spark ticks are now considered arachnids.
• Night-sight interpolators are now considered metal.
• Made camel bladders a little more common.
• You no longer rifle through trash (and spend the action cost doing so) while charging through it.
• Tweaked Triple-Jointed description.
• Holographic trees now appear more rarely in village farms.
• Plucking coral polyps while confused now displays a confused name for the polyp.
• Followers no longer Slam themselves constantly.
• Fixed a bug that caused hexagonal crystals to always appear magenta.
• Fixed a bug that caused the sidebar to hide while pressing Shift and entering text.
• Fixed a bug that caused natural equipment to be damageable.
• Fixed a bug that caused some dynamic locations to not properly trigger checkpoints.
• Fixed a bug that caused the numpad workaround for the MacOS13 Unity bug to not register entries in some menus.
• Fixed a typo in pet Ercolano's description. Redeem this pet again to get the fix.
• Fixed a body bug with the pet Recall Star. Below are some additional notes from the Moon Stair patch.
  • You can now delete recipes from your journal.
  • Syphon Vim no longer affects inorganic creatures, as indicated by its rules text.
  • Modern UI text input boxes now escape & and ^ color formatting codes. The new color formatting style (e.g. {{color|shaders}}) still works.
  • Fixed another bug that made point-defense drones fail to fire at thrown objects.
  • Fixed a bug with controller targeting.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the next command to be ignored after you used the Move to Zone Edge command.
  • Fixed a bug that caused creatures to not use Slam.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the game to freeze on the Freehold Games loading screen due to errors loading mods.
  • Fixed a bug that caused build codes with selected gender or pronoun sets to fail to load correctly. This should fix errors with the last character option during character creation.
  • [modding] Added additional logging for ObjectBlueprints.XML errors: missing inherits and missing tag.
  • [modding] Made the hateReasons and likeReasons on XRL.World.Parts.GenerateFriendOrFoe and GenerateFriendOrFoe_HEB public.

The artifacts of plant and time, crust and fuzz with lossy compression, doze in moonlit marble beds, touched by august muzzles. The past is unwritten as the future, And what is left, broken and changed, to be tended by the point Colossi and their swarm. -Daughter Erinna, Modulo Moon Stair and the Tree of Life Here are the patch notes for the Moon Stair feature arc.

NEW QUEST IN THE MAIN QUESTLINE

• There is now a new quest after returning from the Tomb of the Eaters. Talk to Barathrum in his study to learn more.
• Added a new system for the creation of [redacted] in support of this quest.

NEW LATE-GAME REGION

• Added the last late-game region: the Moon Stair.
• Added new creatures: zero jell, unimax, dawning ape, n-dimensional starshell, dreamcrungle, glow-wight apotheote, monad, and dream wren.
• Added a new village-like location -- Chavvah, the Tree of Life -- with several new NPCs.
• Added a new side quest at Chavvah.
• Added psychic biomes, limited to the Moon Stair.

UI

• Added a new Pixel Perfect mode, which forces zoom to snap to a perfect multiple of the pixel art. You can toggle it in the General options menu.
• Added a new Docked mode that locks the combat log, nearby items list, and minimap. You can toggle it in the General options menu.
• Added a new 'Flip' mode to the modern dock. It has behavior similar to the original text sidebar.
• Added a new mouse cursor and an option to disable it or choose an alternate color scheme (Options > Overlay UI > Mouse cursor).
• Added a new option for "Play area scale" with three choices.
  • Fit - fits the whole play area on screen. May necessitate letterboxing.
  • Cover - ensures the play area covers the screen. Minimizes letterboxing.
  • Pixel Perfect - sizes the play area to an integer multiple of the pixel art. Maximizes sharpness.
• Changed the default setting for the modern UI play scale from Fit to Cover.
• General UI note: if the camera is zoomed in so that the whole play area doesn't fit on the screen, you may notice the UI switching to fullscreen Fit mode when you take certain actions that still have unfinished UI elements (like Interact nearby). This is done to prevent the old UI elements from becoming unreadable at the zoomed in scales. As we add continue to add modern UI elements, it'll stop happening.
• Added new UI for target pickers.
• Added new UI for examining things with the Look function.
• Added a new target reticle for some contexts.
• The information bar when using the look/target pickers is now at the top of the screen.
• The ability bar is now fully functional.
• The selected ability bar button is now only highlighted if the "Use Ability" command has an active bind.
• The User Interface option "Pressing shift will hide the sidebar" now affects the modern UI dock and undocked windows.
• Added a new UI for the Options screen.
• Added a new UI for the High Scores screen.
• Added a new UI for the Help screen.
• Added tooltips and highlights to attributes with bonuses during character creation.
• You can now look at who you're talking to from the conversation UI.
• Added binds for page up and page down.
• Added a new option to disable the mouse-clickable zone transition arrows that appear when the map is zoomed in (Options > Overlay UI > Disable mouse-clickable zone transition border arrows).
• The mouse cursor now hides itself when the mouse is stationary.
• Added an option to disable mouse zoom.
• Removed option to show tooltips when looking. It's now always works this way when the modern UI is enabled.
• Tooltips shown by mouseclick now hide when keyboard or joystick buttons are pressed (please report any tooltips that do not behave this way).
• Added a tooltip to the window layout lock button
• Look now is now bound to left stick button by default in the modern input manager.
• After firing a ranged weapon, your target for future shots is now more reliably what you shot at instead of what you hit.
• Added two options for filtering the nearby items list to only takeable items and only items in the current tile (Options > Overlay UI > enable Show overlay nearby objects list). When both are enabled, the behavior approximates the legacy UI "only show contents of the current cell" option.
• Added ability bar navigation and activation keybinds to the legacy input manager.
• Refactored the imposter system for visual effects. This fixes many bugs where visual effect artifacts remained on the screen improperly.
• Removed code and unused bits of Overlay UI that have been replaced with the Modern UI.
• Removed the unintentional fade-in effect when tooltips appear.

SOUNDS & MUSIC

• We're in the process of adding all new sound effects to the game. Several hundred have already been added. More to come.
• Added ambient environmental sounds. For now: to Joppa, salt marshes, desert canyons, jungles, subterranean caves, the rust wells, rust biomes, and slime biomes. More to come.
• Added a new toggle and volume slider for ambient sounds to the General options menu.
• Added a new music track in the Moon Stair.

NEW THINGS

• Added new cybernetic implants: grounding shunts and social coprocessor.
• Added new items: palladium weave tabard, dazzle cheek, psychodyne helmet, black mote, leyline puppeteers, magnetic bottle, gigantic chassis plate, dream rondure, crystalline halo, and crystalline jile.
• Added a new liquid: warm static.
• Added a new skill: ?????
• Added a unique encounter to the bottom of the Asphalt Mines.
• Added a new book: Module Moon Stair and the Tree of Life.
• Added a new signature dish: Crystal Delight.
• Added a new harvestable: noisegrass.
• Added new cooking ingredients: wild rice and dream smoke.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• We made some balance tweaks to the attributes of merchants.
  • Stiltground merchants are now higher level and have more Willpower.
  • Legendary merchants are now leveled appropriately for the difficulty tier their workshops are found in.
  • More kinds of merchants now have hired guards.
  • Adjusted the number of hired guards for several kinds of merchants.
• We changed how the item mod 'gigantic' works and classified some creatures as 'colossal'.
  • The following creatures are classified as colossal: salt kraken, star kraken, great saltback, great magma crab, Rodanis Y, chrome pyramid, and [redacted].
  • Colossal creatures can no longer wear non-gigantic gear.
  • Non-colossal creatures can no longer wear gigantic gear, with the exception of gigantic weapons, which can be wielded in twice the number of hands they normally take to wield.
  • Most types of items can now be gigantic.
  • Gigantic weapons deal additional damage and may have other effects, depending on the weapon class.
  • Gigantic vessels now store twice as much liquid.
  • Gigantic grenades have double the radius.
  • Gigantic gems and precious nuggets have 5x the trade value.
  • Gigantic energy cells have twice the energy capacity.
  • Swarm racks are now gigantic and no longer occupy back or arm slots.
• The Quantum Jitters defect is now worth 4 points.
• The following cybernetic implants all had their bonuses raised from +1 to +2: bionic hands, bionic arm, bionic heart, dopamine synth, and beautiful visage.
• Beautiful visage now costs 3 license points.
• Svardym are no longer considered a sultanate faction.
• There is now a teleport gate in the rusted archway.
• You can no longer trade with creatures who are engaged in melee combat.
• Having an adjacent inanimate object as a target no longer counts as being engaged in melee combat.
• Charging Strike for axes and Charging Strike for cudgels are now the same skill.
• Robots with the Wings module can no longer fly while EMP'd.
• Set the region tier of the Six Day Stilt to 2.
• We made some balance changes to blast cannon.
  • Increased accuracy.
  • Increased damage.
  • Increased concussive force on impact.
  • Increased cell energy cost per fire.
  • Changed the cooldown from 1d4 to 2.
• Krakens who have a party leader no longer wander in the characteristic kraken style.
• Item-based bonuses to throwing range are now functional on geomagnetic discs.
• Cheap credit wedges are now excluded from dynamic encounters.
• Raised scorpiock's level and lowered their AV.
• Made some tweaks to Crystal of Eve.
• Pathfinding now considers standing next to dangerous gases to pose some fraction of the danger of standing in them.
• Firing ranged weapons now more accurately targets flying creatures rather than the trash beneath them.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Added more Barathrumite dialogue for late-game quests.
• The preferred water ritual liquid for highly entropic beings is now warm static.
• Replaced deathlands worldmap tiles with the Moon Stair.
• Autoget can now unload weapons and empty liquid containers.
• Campfires and torch sconces are now avoided to a much lesser degree by pathfinding.
• Sometimes pilgrims you encounter are now lost. You can give them directions.
• Teleport gates are now points of interest.
• If you're controlling a turret tinker or miner, you can now deploy a turret or mine as an activated ability.
• Horns now regrow properly if you do not have a head and then grow a new one.
• All creatures with proper names who are not player companions are now considered points of interest.
• Artifact functionality that displays status indications in item descriptions, such as (nonfunctional) or (unpowered), no longer does so in context of tinkering item descriptions.
• Added a new tile for diplomacy droid.
• Added a new tile for recoilers.
• Changed leering stalker's ASCII color to bright red.
• Gibbons are now correctly classified as apes.
• Twinning and trining lamprey are now correctly classified as fish.
• Reclassified some robots.
• Deploy Turret, Flaming Hands, Freezing Hands, and Freeze Breath can no longer be used on the world map.
• Robot sensor arrays and hardpoints may now be marked as scrap independently of each other.
• Non-takeable items that theoretically have a reputation modifier (such as painted or engraved immobile furniture) no longer show the reputation modifier in their description.
• Relic containers are now considered important.
• Added a "Wait Menu" keybind to the legacy key mapping.
• Removed the outdated "Display a background image when letterboxing" option.
• Improved performance when moving through liquids, particular during autoexplore.
• Particle simulation now has a fixed timestep.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed a bug that prevented legendary creatures from awarding extra XP in some contexts.
• Fixed a bug that caused legendary creatures to have too little XP for their level.
• Relic missile weapons with the vibro effect now get any penetration bonuses they may have applied on top of the vibro effect.
• Fixed a bug that caused armor categorized as Clothing to auto-equip as held in hand rather than worn.
• Fixed a bug in pathfinding that caused occasional mishaps, in particular inexplicable penchants for walking through fractus.
• Fixed a grammar error in some messages resulting from you decapitating your companion.
• Legendary villagers no longer sometimes erroneously have two names.
• Fixed a bug that caused collecting liquids from the ground to not update your carried weight immediately.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to turn blue.
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to spawn over pits that'd cause them to immediately fall to their death.
• Fixed a bug that caused some popups in the classic UI to cut off the last word.
• Fixed an issue where Suppressive Fire wasn't showing up in the abilities menu.
• Fixed a bug that made morphogenetic weapons apply the compute power of their target to their effect rather than that of their wielder.
• Fixed a few crash and a few other bugs with the Continue screen when there were invalid or corrupt info files.
• Fixed a bug that caused autoact to be interrupted when a follower's maximum HP changed.
• Fixed an issue with ability bar navigation improperly respecting the alternate modifier button.
• Fixed an issue that caused the message log to sometimes not scroll fully to the bottom when passing nearby objects.
• Fixed an issue that prevented right-stick look navigation in the prerelease input manager.
• Fixed a bug that made Barathrum clocks with Q Girl pendulums disassemblable for no bits.
• Fixed a rare exception in village generation.
• Fixed a bug where some creatures were incorrectly receiving bonuses for mutations they had as if they were rank 1 instead of the rank they actually were.
• Fixed a bug with autoget while flying that required landing to take items on the ground.
• Fixed a bug when a non-player creature used a timecube that caused you to get messages as if you used it.
• Fixed a bug that caused imaginary objects to be flammable.
• Fixed a bug that caused imaginary objects to vaporize if they reached vapor point.
• Fixed a bug that caused particles to stack up in look and targeting views.
• Fixed a bug with item naming popups in the console UI.
• Fixed some auto collection bugs for liquids.
• Fixed ability bar buttons not greying out properly.
• Fixed "Wait 1 Turn" option not working properly in the wait menu.
• Fixed a bug where prerelease inventory UI screens were appearing below the play area.
• Fixed a bug where autoget would pick up fancy furniture.
• Fixed a bug that caused village merchants to fail to spawn.
• Fixed a bug where each village history entry in your journal contained histories from every village.
• Fixed a bug with arrow keys improperly paging through modern UI controls.
• Fixed the sizing of popup message windows with long scrollbars.
• Fixed a bug where "Take all" would fail to pick up everything if you had previously dropped any of the items.
• Fixed a bug that caused some shale walls to become invisible.
• Fixed a bug that caused zones to stay in memory for too long.
• Fixed a bug with modern UI keybinds using modifier keys in the legacy input manager.
• Fixed a bug that caused music tracks to improperly restart when entering a new zone.
• Fixed a bug where having the "Enable additional overlay UI elements" on and then disabling the "Enable modern UI elements" option left the game in an unusable state.
• Fixed a bug that caused Astral creatures to flicker in and out of phase while traveling on the world map
• Fixed an exception with throw animations.
• Fixed a rare exception in the "corrected vision" status effect.
• Fixed a rare exception in the "immobilized" status effect.

DEBUG & MODDING

• Added to object blueprints, allowing you to inherit and merge the properties of multiple blueprints together.
  • Load="Fill" will prioritize properties from the Inherited blueprint, otherwise the mixin has precedence.
  • Include="part,stat" can be used to only inherit properties that match a tag name.
  • Exclude="tag,property" can be used to only inherit properties that do not match a tag name.
  • The mixins will be evaluated from top to bottom, unless a manual Priority="5" is specified.
• The Examiner part has been overhauled. Instead of the fields UnknownDisplayName, AlternateDisplayName, UnknownDescription, AlternateDescription, UnknownTile, AlternateTile, and so, there are now two fields, Unknown and Alternate, which take the names of blueprints for objects to derive the unknown and alternate appearances of the item from. The property KeepTile supports the behavior of identifiable furniture where the text appearance changes but the tile does not. Also, the unusual Examiner behavior of tonic injectors is now data-driven and moddable; please refer to the configuration of tonics for more information.
• When using the debug option 'Show quickstart option during character generation, pressing the keybind now only works on the first screen.
• Autoget is now handled with the AutoexploreObjectEvent. Set E.Want = true and E.FromAdjacent = "Autoget". Users of the AutoexploreObjectEvent should now check the AutogetOnlyMode flag. You should only return "Autoget" (or equivalent) actions when this flag is true.
• Moved MenuOption class from XRL.CharacterBuilds.UI to the XRL.UI.Framework namespace.
• Removed old character code entries (Code="ab") from Mutations.xml, Subtypes.xml, and Genotypes.xml. Also removed the properties XRL.MutationEntry.MutationCode, XRL.SubtypeEntry.Code, and XRL.GenotypeEntry.Code.
• The ModManager UI has an additional tag for loaded mods which have Harmony Patches.
• Fixed overriding color palette in Display.txt
• Added some helper methods to make color string templates easier: Markup.Color(color, text) and StringBuilder.AddColored(color, text)
• ObjectBlueprints.xml now logs errors when setting a parameter that does not exist, or if the value can not be parsed.
• Added 'findimportant' and 'fetchimportant' wishes.
• All XML files are now parsed based on their root element and can thus be reorganized within subdirectories and renamed to anything.
• Skill entries can now set the Hidden flag to remove them from the Skills menu until they has been acquired via other means.

204.45 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new signature dish to Chavvah: Crystal Delight.
• Added a new tile for diplomacy droid.
• Added a dynamic description for the [redacted].
• Added more Barathrumite dialogue for late-game quests.
• Refined the crystalline properties of Chavvah, the Tree of Life.
• Made some refinements to the experience of getting dreamcrungled.
• The pipes in [redacted] now flow with a mixture of primordial soup and your chosen catalyst.
• The [redacted] crab is now correctly considered a proper noun.
• Added abilites and equipment to Tau's companion.
• Tweaked the stats of palladium mesh tabbard and psychodyne helmet.
• Made some additional minor tweaks to psychodyne helmet, black mote, palladium mesh tabard, and dazzle cheek.
• Added descriptions for grounding shunts and social co-processor.
• Added descriptions for psychodyne helmet, black mote, palladium mesh tabard, dazzle cheek, crystalline halo, and crystalline jile.
• Added descriptions for crystalline trunk, crystalline branch, crystalline taproot, crystal leaves, crystal key, spiral staircase, chiming rock, and glowing soft.
• Added descriptions for Dyvvrach, Miryam, Tzedech, Tivka, _, Thicksalt, Tammuz, the Tau variants, Aoyg-no-Longer, and the still chime.
• Updated several sounds.
• Removed the watervine step sound.
• Added some chronology entries for important Moon Stair actions.
• Changed the color of severed [redacted] limbs.
• Warm static now distorts skills as well as powers.
• Ejection seats now lock into place when returned after ejecting.
• Added a new option under the Controls section named "MacOS13 Unity Keypad Bug Workaround" as a prospective fix for users on MacOS 13.x having issues with numpad.
• Fixed some issues with temporary mutations not granting their abilities and bonuses.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to turn blue.
• Fixed a bug that made gigantic trade goods much more common than they should be.
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] without poetic features to be unbuildable.
• Fixed a bug that caused the interior of [redacted] that survived death via effects like Precognition to behave strangely.
• Fixed a bug that caused zones to be suspended almost immediately upon leaving them.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to become stranded upon completing a crungle.
• Fixed a bug that caused non-standard metachrome limbs (such as Back, Feet, or Arm weapons) to be ineligible for offhand attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to spawn over pits that'd cause them to immediately fall to their death.
• Fixed a bug that caused some popups in the classic UI to cut off the last word.
• Fixed an exception when warm static applied the Springing effect.
• Fixed an issue where Suppressive Fire wasn't showing up in the abilities menu.
• Fixed a few crash and a few other bugs with the Continue screen when there were invalid or corrupt info files.

204.42 - 'beta' branch

• Added new armor: gigantic chassis plate.
• Added a new item: magnetic bottle.
• Added [redacted] to the bottom of the asphalt mines.
• Added sated dreamcrungles.
• After escaping the waking dream of a dreamcrungle, it now either dies or becomes sated.
• Added a new preservable/piece of butcherable equipment: dream rondure.
• Added a new cooking ingredient: dream smoke.
• Added a new 'Flip' mode to the modern dock. It has behavior similar to the original text sidebar.
• Made some tweaks to Crystal of Eve.
• Added young crystalline roots to the subterranean Moon Stair. They very rarely spawn with harvestable crystals of Eve.
• Added descriptions for the following objects: monad, crystal of Eve, crystalline root.
• Noisegrass now only appears on the Moon Stair surface.
• Pax Klanq now takes three days to construct the [redacted].
• Clarified in Pax Klanq's dialog that the hamsa must weigh 5 lbs. or less.
• Pre-existing natural weapons of a [redacted] now match the armament skill.
• Baetyl rewards awarded during [redacted] creation are now gigantic when applicable.
• A popup is now displayed when your follower is unable to enter your [redacted].
• Cragsmench [redacted] no longer spawn with hoary fists.
• If you get stranded in a waking dream by a dreamcrungle, the reward or penalty for completing the crungle is now applied to your new body.
• Tweaked the screen transitions when hit by a dreamcrungle while using the classic interface.
• Charging Strike for axes and Charging Strike for cudgels are now the same skill.
• Village ovens can no longer recipes that have wild rice as an ingredient.
• Added an option to disable mouse zoom.
• The selected ability bar button is now only highlighted if the "Use Ability" command has an active bind.
• The User Interface option "Pressing shift will hide the sidebar" now affects the modern UI dock and undocked windows.
• Gibbons are now correctly classified as apes.
• Twinning and trining lamprey are now correctly classified as fish.
• Reclassified some robots.
• Turret [redacted] now have the correct tile.
• Goatfolk [redacted] no longer spawn with equipment.
• Changed some verbiage with consuming or getting covered in warm static.
• Renamed Chavvah root to crystalline root.
• Tweaked some properties of crystalline roots.
• The dock drag handle's opacity now respects the dock background opacity setting.
• Pathfinding now considers standing next to dangerous gases to pose some fraction of the danger of standing in them.
• Deploy Turret, Flaming Hands, Freezing Hands, and Freeze Breath can no longer be used on the world map.
• Robot sensor arrays and hardpoints may now be marked as scrap independently of each other.
• Non-takeable items that theoretically have a reputation modifier (such as painted or engraved immobile furniture) no longer show the reputation modifier in their description.
• Fixed several bugs where effects obtained from dilute warm static could be applied multiple times.
• Fixed a bug that caused grazing animals used as in the creation of the [redacted] to incorrectly be assigned the goat body type.
• Fixed a bug that caused the still crystal chime to disappear from your inventory.
• Fixed a bug that caused the follower buff from certain hamsas to flicker on creatures with enhanced quickness.
• Fixed a bug that caused autoact to be interrupted when a follower's maximum HP changed.
• Fixed an issue with ability bar navigation improperly respecting the alternate modifier button.
• Fixed an issue that caused the message log to sometimes not scroll fully to the bottom when passing nearby objects.
• Fixed an issue that prevented right-stick look navigation in the prerelease input manager.
• Fixed a bug that made morphogenetic weapons apply the compute power of their target to their effect rather than that of their wielder.
• Fixed a bug that made Barathrum clocks with Q Girl pendulums disassemblable for no bits.
• Fixed a rare exception in village generation.

204.41 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new plant to the Moon Stair: noisegrass.
• Added a new harvestable: bundle of noisegrass.
• Added a new cooking ingredient: wild rice.
• Added a new item: leyline puppeteers.
• The following cybernetic implants all had their bonuses raised from +1 to +2: bionic hands, bionic arm, bionic heart, dopamine synth, and beautiful visage.
• Beautiful visage now costs 3 license points.
• Added some cybernetic credits wedges to certain places on the Moon Stair.
• Added wheeled, goat, and crystal variants of [redacted].
• We made some balance changes to blast cannon.
  • Increased accuracy.
  • Increased damage.
  • Increased concussive force on impact.
  • Increased cell energy cost per fire.
  • Changed the cooldown from 1d4 to 2.
• Relic containers are now considered important.
• Added a variety of visual effects for Moon Stair objects and interactions.
• Added descriptions for the following creatures and items: zero jell, unimax, dreamcrungle, dawning ape, n-dimensional starshell, drem wren, leering stalker, chrome pyramid, blast cannon, and swarm rack.
• Renamed the liquid container zero jells occasionally drop to entropy cyst and gave it a new tile.
• Added a new tile for recoilers.
• Added a new tile for Santalalotze.
• Changed leering stalker's ASCII color to bright red.
• Fixed an issue with page up and page down binds overriding some ctrl+up and ctrl+down binds. You may have to rebind existing binds using those keys if you have customized them.
• Fixed an issue with page up and page down binds in the prerelease input manager.
• Fixed a bug where some creatures were incorrectly receiving bonuses for mutations they had as if they were rank 1 instead of the rank they actually were.
• Fixed a bug with autoget while flying that required landing to take items on the ground.
• Fixed a bug when a non-player creature used a timecube that caused you to get messages as if you used it.
• Fixed a bug that caused the new missile weapon UI to not update properly.
• [modding] added 'findimportant' and 'fetchimportant' wishes.

204.38 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new mouse cursor and an option to disable it or choose an alternate color scheme (Options > Overlay UI > Mouse cursor).
• Added more status effect possibilities to dilute warm static.
• Made all the Chavvah entities water ritualable. More changes to the Chavvah faction are in progress.
• We made some balance changes to the Hamsa component of [redacted].
  • The action cost reduction for melee weapons was reduced from 25% to 15%.
  • Figurines now award reputation with the factions of the creatures they depict.
  • Cybernetic implants now reduce the toughness of the [redacted] by an amount equal to their license cost.
  • Teleport-granting items now give Teleport 6 instead of Teleport 1.
• Added [redacted].
• Added "If, Then, Else" post-quest dialogue for Tammuz.
• Raised scorpiock's level and lowered their AV.
• When using the modern UI you can now zoom out past your default setting, going to "Fit" mode, then "Fullscreen".
• Added a "Wait Menu" keybind to the legacy key mapping.
• Removed the outdated "Display a background image when letterboxing" option.
• Improved performance when moving through liquids, particular during autoexplore.
• Particle simulation now has a fixed timestep.
• Fixed a bug that caused imaginary objects to be flammable.
• Fixed a bug that caused imaginary objects to vaporize if they reached vapor point.
• Fixed a bug that caused particles to stack up in look and targeting views.
• Fixed a bug with item naming popups in the console UI.
• Fixed a bug that caused the play area to dissapear behind item interaction popups.
• Fixed some auto collection bugs for liquids.
• Fixed ability bar buttons not greying out properly.
• Fixed "Wait 1 Turn" option not working properly in the wait menu.
• Fixed a bug where prerelease inventory UI screens were appearing below the play area.
• Fixed a bug where autoget would pick up fancy furniture.
• Fixed a bug that caused village merchants to fail to spawn.
• Fixed a bug where each village history entry in your journal contained histories from every village.
• Fixed a bug with arrow keys improperly paging through modern UI controls.
• Fixed the sizing of popup message windows with long scrollbars.
• Fixed a bug where "Take all" would fail to pick up everything if you had previously dropped any of the items.
• Fixed a bug that caused some shale walls to become invisible.
• Fixed a bug that caused zones to stay in memory for too long.
• [modding] All XML files are now parsed based on their root element and can thus be reorganized within subdirectories and renamed to anything.
• [modding] Skill entries can now set the Hidden flag to remove them from the Skills menu until they has been acquired via other means.

204.32 - 'beta' branch

The beta for our latest feature arc, the Moon Stair, is here. Big picture, this arc includes the last late-game region, a new quest in the main questline, significant updates to the new UI, all new sound effects, and many, many gameplay changes. Everything is quite functional, but -- per usual -- it is subject to change and will get additional polish over the next several weeks. If you'd like to help us test it, right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Note: previous saves won't be compatible with this beta. Check out this thread if you want to post your feedback, or get access to a debug wish to fast-forward to the new quest. Here are the patch notes, with the usual caveat that some small changes may be missing. Live and drink!

NEW QUEST IN THE MAIN QUESTLINE

• There is now a new quest after returning from the Tomb of the Eaters. Talk to Barathrum in his study to learn more.
• Added a new system for the creation of [redacted] in support of this quest.

NEW LATE-GAME REGION

• Added the last late-game region: the Moon Stair
• Added new creatures: zero jell, unimax, dawning ape, n-dimensional starshell, dreamcrungle, monad, and dream wren.
• Added a new village-like location -- Chavvah, the Tree of Life -- with several new NPCs.
• Added a new side quest at Chavvah.
• Added psychic biomes, limited to the Moon Stair.

UI

• Added a new Pixel Perfect mode, which forces zoom to snap to a perfect multiple of the pixel art. You can toggle it in the General options menu.
• Added a new Docked mode that locks the combat log, nearby items list, and minimap. You can toggle it in the General options menu.
• Added new UI for target pickers.
• Added new UI for examining things with the Look function.
• Added a new target reticle for some contexts.
• The information bar when using the look/target pickers is now at the top of the screen.
• The ability bar is now fully functional.
• Added a new UI for the Options screen.
• Added a new UI for the High Scores screen.
• Added a new UI for the Help screen.
• Added tooltips and highlights to attributes with bonuses during character creation.
• You can now look at who you're talking to from the conversation UI.
• Added binds for page up and page down.
• Removed option to show tooltips when looking. It's now always works this way when the modern UI is enabled.
• Tooltips shown by mouseclick now hide when keyboard or joystick buttons are pressed (please report any tooltips that do not behave this way).
• Added a tooltip to the window layout lock button
• Look now is now bound to left stick button by default in the modern input manager.
• After firing a ranged weapon, your target for future shots is now more reliably what you shot at instead of what you hit.
• Added two options for filtering the nearby items list to only takeable items and only items in the current tile (Options > Overlay UI > enable Show overlay nearby objects list). When both are enabled, the behavior approximates the legacy UI "only show contents of the current cell" option.
• Refactored the imposter system for visual effects. This fixes many bugs where visual effect artifacts remained on the screen improperly.
• Removed code and unused bits of Overlay UI that have been replaced with the Modern UI.

SOUNDS & MUSIC

• We're in the process of adding all new sound effects to the game. Several hundred have already been added. More to come.
• Added ambient environmental sounds. For now: to Joppa, the salt marsh, and subterranean caves. More to come.
• Added a new toggle and volume slider for ambient sounds to the General options menu.
• Added a new music track in the Moon Stair.

NEW THINGS

• Added new cybernetic implants: grounding shunts and social coprocessor.
• Added new items: palladium weave tabard, dazzle cheek, psychodyne helmet, black mote, and stasis casque.
• Added a new liquid: warm static.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• We made some balance tweaks to the attributes of merchants.
  • Stiltground merchants are now higher level and have more Willpower.
  • Legendary merchants are now leveled appropriately for the difficulty tier their workshops are found in.
  • More kinds of merchants now have hired guards.
  • Adjusted the number of hired guards for several kinds of merchants.
• We changed how the item mod 'gigantic' works and classified some creatures as 'colossal'.
  • The following creatures are classified as colossal: salt kraken, star kraken, great saltback, great magma crab, Rodanis Y, chrome pyramid, and [redacted].
  • Colossal creatures can no longer wear non-gigantic gear.
  • Non-colossal creatures can no longer wear gigantic gear, with the exception of gigantic weapons, which can be wielded in twice the number of hands they normally take to wield.
  • Most types of items can now be gigantic.
  • Gigantic weapons deal additional damage and may have other effects, depending on the weapon class.
  • Gigantic vessels now store twice as much liquid.
  • Gigantic grenades have double the radius.
  • Gigantic gems and precious nuggets have 5x the trade value.
  • Gigantic energy cells have twice the energy capacity.
  • Swarm racks are now gigantic and no longer occupy back or arm slots.
• The Quantum Jitters defect is now worth 4 points.
• Svardym are no longer considered a sultanate faction.
• There is now a teleport gate in the rusted archway.
• You can no longer trade with creatures who are engaged in melee combat.
• Having an adjacent inanimate object as a target no longer counts as being engaged in melee combat.
• Robots with the Wings module can no longer fly while EMP'd.
• Set the region tier of the Six Day Stilt to 2.
• Krakens who have a party leader no longer wander in the characteristic kraken style.
• Item-based bonuses to throwing range are now functional on geomagnetic discs.
• Cheap credit wedges are now excluded from dynamic encounters.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Autoget can now unload weapons and empty liquid containers.
• Campfires and torch sconces are now avoided to a much lesser degree by pathfinding.
• Sometimes pilgrims you encounter are now lost. You can give them directions.
• Teleport gates are now points of interest.
• All creatures with proper names who are not player companions are now considered points of interest.
• Artifact functionality that displays status indications in item descriptions, such as (nonfunctional) or (unpowered), no longer does so in context of tinkering item descriptions.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed a bug that prevented legendary creatures from awarding extra XP in some contexts.
• Fixed a bug that caused legendary creatures to have too little XP for their level.
• Relic missile weapons with the vibro effect now get any penetration bonuses they may have applied on top of the vibro effect.
• Fixed a bug that caused armor categorized as Clothing to auto-equip as held in hand rather than worn.
• Fixed a bug in pathfinding that caused occasional mishaps, in particular inexplicable penchants for walking through fractus.
• Fixed a grammar error in some messages resulting from you decapitating your companion.
• Legendary villagers no longer sometimes erroneously have two names.

DEBUG & MODDING

• When using the debug option 'Show quickstart option during character generation, pressing the keybind now only works on the first screen.
• Autoget is now handled with the AutoexploreObjectEvent. Set E.Want = true and E.FromAdjacent = "Autoget". Users of the AutoexploreObjectEvent should now check the AutogetOnlyMode flag. You should only return "Autoget" (or equivalent) actions when this flag is true.
• Moved MenuOption class from XRL.CharacterBuilds.UI to the XRL.UI.Framework namespace.
• Removed old character code entries (Code="ab") from Mutations.xml, Subtypes.xml, and Genotypes.xml. Also removed the properties XRL.MutationEntry.MutationCode, XRL.SubtypeEntry.Code, and XRL.GenotypeEntry.Code.
• The ModManager UI has an additional tag for loaded mods which have Harmony Patches.
• Fixed overriding color palette in Display.txt
• Added some helper methods to make color string templates easier: Markup.Color(color, text) and StringBuilder.AddColored(color, text)
• ObjectBlueprints.xml now logs errors when setting a parameter that does not exist, or if the value can not be parsed.

Hello folks, 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.

203.54

• 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.

203.53

• 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.

203.52

• 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.

203.51

• 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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

203.38

• We made several changes, cultural and otherwise, to Kyakukya.
  • Added village monuments and village history snippets.
  • Removed Kyakukyan hunter, mushroom gatherer, and worshipper of Oboroqoru.
  • Oboroqoru worshippers are now generated dynamically and pulled from a wide pool of creatures.
  • Oboroqoru worshipers have new dialog.
  • Made significant edits to Mayor Nuntu's dialog.
  • Gave Mayor Nuntu a new description.
  • Made some edits to Yurl's dialog.
  • Replaced Svenlairnard with someone else.
  • Tweaked woodsprog dialog.
  • Made the quest reward choices for Raising Indrix much better.
  • Added new tiles for mushroom walls.
  • Gave mushroom walls a new description.
  • Changed the brinestalk walls to weathered wood and replaced the flower ground tiles near the Oboroqoru shrine with real flower objects.
• Added a new set of default keybinds for diagonal movement -- shift+arrow keys -- and diagonal attack -- ctrl+shift+arrow keys.
• You can no longer block with shields in your thrown weapon slot or bucklers equipped in your hand.
• Objects drawn into existence with temporary [redacted] are now also temporary.
• Objects drawn into existence now respect phase.
• Changed the Naphtaali ASCII glyph to 'n'.
• Added a notification that automatic laptop defaults aren't currently implemented for the prerelease input manager.
• Fixed a bug that caused some Palladium Reef maps to build without respecting the worldseed.
• Fixed a bug that caused line and cone targeting to occasionally ignore visibility.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong map to be named Gyl.
• Fixed an error when generating grenadier tents in the Stiltgrounds.
• Fixed a bug that prevented enter from mapping keys on the ability screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused F2 not to work on the new keybindings screen.
• Fixed incorrect sound tagging on several melee objects.
• Fixed pluralization of clay pots.
• Fixed a rare exception in scoreboard processing.
• [modding] You can now override existing game state in EmbarkModules.xml.
• [modding] Added population table support to the ReceiveItem conversation part.
• [modding] Added conversation predicates: IfZoneID, IfZoneWorld, IfZoneTier, IfZoneLevel.
• [modding] The "reload" wish now invalidates the sound file cache.
• [modding] The Sounds mod subdirectory now supports its own arbitrary subdirectories.

203.37

• Liquid pools under wading depth (200 drams) are now called 'puddles'.
• Liquid pools at or over swimming depth (2000 drams) are now called 'deep pools'.
• Added new, connected tiles for puddles.
• Added a few new tile variants for the following pure liquid pools: wax, algae, green goo, brown sludge, black ooze, honey, primordial soup, salt, lava, slime, asphalt, and the four rare liquids.
• You can now restore from a checkpoint in the menu options.
• Reduced the cold resistance on elaystine skull cap from +25 to +5.
• Added resistances to the tier 5 relic haurberk.
• Tier 3 relic pistols are no longer carbine-like.
• Shem -1 is now counted as a friend for the purposes of A Call to Arms and The Assessment.
• The default interaction on witchbark is once again 'eat'.
• Fewer of the cider, wine, honey, and oil vessels you come across in random dungeons are mysteriously owned.
• Star kraken no longer extrude [sultan wall] objects.
• Followers trying to join you after a map transition no longer spawn in lava or over open pits.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from blowing the conch of the Aji while wielding it in your thrown weapon slot.
• Fixed a bug that caused Liihart and Meyehind to resurrect when you progressed Kith and Kin.
• Fixed a bug where loading a more recent quick save after restoring from checkpoint would cause zone thawing errors.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused map generation to ignore locked doors when determining pathable connectivity.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused stairs to be disconnected.
• Fixed a typo in tier 3 gauntlet relics.
• Fixed a conjugation bug in rubber-based cooking effect descriptions.

203.35

• The billowing conch of the Aji now blows gas in a cone.
• Mannequins can now be animated.
• The thrown weapons category is now also expanded with grenades when you're choosing a weapon to throw.
• In the Tomb of the Eaters when the Bell of Rest rings, you no longer occasionally get teleported to a space with a pit.
• Improved the grammar of base item names that get appended to the descriptions of relics and named items. This won't affect existing items in saved games.
• The nearby objects list now updates faster.
• The nearby objects list and minimap are now masked while you're pressing Alt.
• Open air no longer renders in magenta in the alt overlay.
• Fixed a bug that allowed pulsed field magnets to pull cybernetic implants off your body.
• Fixed a bug that let robots eat meals.
• Fixed a bug that caused onboard recoilers to activate all the time when you had multiple of them implanted. If you want multiple onboard recoilers to work properly in current saved games, you have to uninstall and reinstall the implants.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Otherpearl not to grant psychic glimmer.
• Fixed a bug where, during the water ritual, you could buy mutations you already had.
• Fixed a bug that caused containers to appear empty when an item was taken out of them, regardless of their contents.
• Fixed several bugs related to tho nearby objects list.
  • Fixed a bug that produced various name, description, and weight related errors throughout the game.
  • Fixed a bug where the "Show liquid pools" and "Show plants" options were sometimes ignored.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the nearby objects list to become unresponsive after loading a save.
  • Fixed a bug where objects gradually stopped rendering in the list as the game progressed.
  • Fixed a bug that showed invisible objects.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed you to continually disassemble the same item via the nearby objects list.
• Fixed some murals referring to the player in the second person.
• Fixed a bug that caused conversation options related to the Landing Pads quest to appear even if your tongue was missing.
• Fixed a bug that caused legendary stat saps to have the type of stats they sapped removed from their names.
• Fixed an issue that caused some key inputs to be doubled when using the prerelease input manager.
• [modding] Did a lot more reorganization of the new object blueprint files.
• [modding] The QueryItemList event now gives DefaultBehavior objects the opportunity to prevent usage of their body part via the event CanEquipOverDefaultBehavior. Parameters: Object - the object to be equipped; Subject - the object it is potentially to be equippped on; and Part - the BodyPart being examined. Returning false prevents the object from being equipped in that slot.

203.34

• Skills learnable via the water ritual are now disambiguated when necessary. E.g., "Charging Strike" is displayed as "Charging Strike (Cudgel/Axe)".
• Bilge sphincters can no longer be used to dupe liquids.
• Puffing on hookahs without water in them no longer produces smoke.
• Being in the path of a decarbonizer's charging molecular cannon now interrupts autoact and discomfits NPCs.
• The Olive Face now has a proper trade value.
• Elder Irudad and other humanoid apothecaries now spawn with walking sticks.
• Quills can no longer be flung on the world map.
• Mental mutations now affect psychic glimmer regardless of what source added them.
• The bell of rest will no longer rarely drop you into a square with a pit.
• Fixed some potential grammar issues in creature and item descriptions.
• Fixed a bug that made anomaly fumigators refuse to toggle off.
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic meridian to not appear in dynamic encounters.
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement "Jeweled Dusk" to not unlock when permadeath was disabled.
• Fixed a bug that caused psychic meridians to be excluded from dynamic encounters.
• Fixed the display name of an iron gate in the Yd Freehold.
• [modding] ObjectBlueprints.xml has been split into multiple XML files. They're all located in the StreamingAssets/Base/ObjectBlueprints folder. We also did some reorganization of object blueprints inside those files.

203.33

• The Joppa Zealot is now much louder.
• Improved the travel direction selection for the Joppa Zealot's particle effects.
• Description text for Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes now correctly describes the skill.
• Slynth no longer leave behind human corpses.
• Kaleidoslugs in the Yd Freehold now belong to the Yd Freehold faction.
• You can no longer cross into [redacted] from outside the [redacted].
• Made some clarifications in the help description of the Strength attribute.
• Containers that occupy multiple tiles will now be moved together, and break if forcefully separated.
• You will now be presented with a list of containers to open if several occupy the same tile.
• Cybernetic implants are now described as such when specified in baetyl demands and similar contexts.
• Pathfinding now more studiously avoids giant clams.
• Fixed a bug that caused odd behavior from armor averaging when some of the body parts involved had 0 AV/DV and others didn't.
• Fixed some cases where a lot of watervine or brinestalk would spawn in the same tile.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Joppa Zealot's particle text effect from displaying.
• Fixed a bug that caused some liquids not to appear is valid cooking ingredients when they should have.
• Fixed a typo in the names of recipes that use cloning draught as an ingredient.
• Fixed some incorrect grammar in sultan tomb inscriptions.
• Fixed a typo in the Tongue & Cheek recipe effect description.
• Fixed a bug that caused the spreading of Klanq in the vicinity of the Six Day Stilt to only function within the cathedral.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot destroyed containers with the Open action.
• Fixed a bug that caused the AI behavior of some movement and retreat related abilities to malfunction.
• Fixed a bug that caused furniture to rarely spawn stacked.
• Fixed a bug that increased world map lag.

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 *PooledObject*.
• 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.

203.25

• When you are flying, force attack and automatic attack commands now use swoop if it seems productive for them to do so.
• Damage from Sunder Mind, Syphon Vim, poison, bleeding, and various other appropriate sources can no longer be prevented by, and no longer triggers, teleportation-based defensive mechanisms.
• When villages have water as their signature liquid, this no longer overrides non-water preferences for the liquid used in the water ritual.
• Village quests to find the location of objects within a zone, such as dromad traders, will no longer instantly complete upon entering their zone.
• It is no longer possible to start a conversation with any body currently dormant through use of Domination.
• Entering the trade screen with sentient containers by attempting to open them now respects conditions that should prevent that.
• Butchering severed body parts that are butcherable because of the cybernetics they contain now respects the body part being marked important in the same way that it is respected for items that are butcherable for other reasons.
• Most pathfinding is now actively unwilling to path over known yonderbrush locations, rather than merely being very reluctant.
• Unbound keys now pass through to underlying screens when using the prerelase input manager, which means most hotkey lists and unbound key commands will work properly.
• Fixed an issue where old keybindings would still exist even when seemingly overwritten when using the legacy input manager.
• Fixed a bug that made crypt sitters aggressive when they should have been neutral and neutral when they should have been aggressive.
• Fixed a typo when making small talk with a temporal fugue clone.
• Fixed a bug that caused invisible creatures to be highlighted in red when picking a target.
• Fixed a bug that caused a small sphere of negative weight hovering in open air to fail to fall when EMPed or otherwise disabled.
• Fixed a bug that caused going prone to fail to charge any action cost.
• Fixed a bug that made creatures fail to get out of the way of oncoming krakens.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Cudgel Proficiency skill to apply its +2 hit bonus to short blades instead of cudgels.
• [modding] The character sheet now uses the display name of your character's genotype and subtype.

203.23

• Wings and functional flight equipment now provide their overland travel bonuses regardless of whether you enable flight (you are presumed to always be flying in overland travel if you are able to).
• Relics with the ability to dismember now decapitate independently of the wielder's Decapitate skill, similarly to serrated weapons, with twice the chance to do so that serrated weapons have.
• Grenades can no longer be detonated on the world map.
• Large boulders now render above doors.
• Fixed an issue with the gamepad ability selection not activating some abilities properly, such as sprint.
• Fixed a snippet of dialog with Indrix that indicated the wrong direction to travel.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to report Eskhind's death to Neelahind or Hindriarch Keh.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot multiple [redacted] if you managed to move them into the same zone.
• Fixed a bug that caused Trailblazer and Wilderness Lore to have twice the effect on travel speed they were meant to.
• Fixed some cases where lots of furniture would end up stacked in a single cell.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause halls in some areas to be blocked by statues and boulders in a way that would block off access to stairs.
• Fixed a bug that caused the stairs to the liminal way to sometimes be encased in walls.
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs in villages to spawn in unreachable voids.
• Fixed an issue that caused a variety of rare strange behavior, such as swimming through dirt paths.
• Fixed an issue with double articles in the names of some historic sites generated in some terrains.
• [modding] GameObject.Explode() can now take an optional argument List Hit that will be used as the tracking list for what objects the explosion has affected.
• [modding] The 'placeobjecttest' wish is now more robust when wishing for invalid blueprints.

203.21

• We made some improvements to saved games.
  • Saved games are now less likely to break from patches or mod alterations.
  • Most mods can now be disabled in the middle of a saved game.
• You can now bask in the open areas of the rust wells.
• You no longer get a popup message when your troll foal followers die.
• Effects that change the result of random mutation rolls, like Eaters' nectar tonics, now also change the results of consuming brain brine.
• Pressing escape during item naming now returns you to the begining of the naming process rather than aborting it.
• The disoriented effect now extends duration on multiple applications rather than stacking.
• Tam is now grammatically recognized as having a proper name again.
• Amnesia no longer triggers from new entries in your general notes or chronology.
• Fixed a bug that caused Amnesia to trigger 100% of the time.
• Broadcast power reception from satellites now works in open areas of the Rust Wells regardless of depth.
• Fixed a bug that made broadcast power reception from satellite slower than it should have been on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that where the extra waterskins you bought to hold excess water from a trade ended up empty.
• Fixed a bug that made nectar injector relics give one mutation point instead of two.
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly allowed magnetized shields and missile weapons to have the jacked item mod added to them.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Yd Freehold to take several minutes to build.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when galgalim ran you down.
• Fixed an issue that caused erratic movement and game crashes when you dominated a flocking creature such as a plastronoid or glowcrow.
• Fixed a bug that caused healing messages in the message log to have improper coloration.
• Fixed an exception when traveling to a new zone with followers in tow.
• [debug] Added the "clearcorrupt" wish to clean up corrupted objects from loading a saved game. Additionally, the following patch notes are from last week's Deep Jungle update.
• Items on the ground that were you marked as important now appear as points of interest whes use the 'Move to points of interest' command.
• Reloading weapons and collecting liquids now require you to be able to move your extremities.
• Phylacteries now require you to be able to move your extremities in order to activate them.
• Disabled phylacteries can no longer be activated.
• Geomagnetic discs can no longer acquire the Masterwork item mod (which had no effect on them).
• Magazine-loaded relic missile weapons that fire extra shots now always have at least enough ammo capacity to fire a single set of shots.
• You can no longer sell your knowledge of [redacted] to [redacted].
• The hotkeys for selecting signature meals at ovens are now alphabetic rather than numeric (which caused accidental selection when trying to use the number pad to navigate).
• Stratum identifiers like "surface" and "surface level" no longer appear in the names of random-point and programmable recoilers.
• Attempting to 'open' an animated piece of furniture that is a container now enters the trade screen.
• Tweaked the determination of scanning type to make more things, particularly high-tech furniture, subject to techscanning or bioscanning rather than structural scanning.
• Fixed grammar issues with various boots, gloves, and gauntlets.
• Fixed a bug that caused a number of creatures, including you, to be invulnerable.
• Fixed a bug that made geomagnetic discs fail to target phased creatures while you were phased.
• Fixed a bug that made canvas walls at the Six Day Stilt show up as points of interest via Move to Point of Interest.
• Fixed a bug that caused starting village tinkers and apothecaries to have [human tinker] and [human apothecary] as names.
• Fixed a bug that caused historical sites to generate without a relic or cult leader.
• Fixed a bug that let you sting with a dismembered stinger.
• Fixed a bug that made animated takeable objects still takeable via tab / take all.
• Fixed a bug that caused some quest items not meant to be sold, like Argyve's scratched data disk, to be sellable.
• Fixed a bug that made the wait command error out if you had no activated abilities.
• Fixed a bug that make Berate always unusable when frozen, even if you could use it telepathically.
• Fixed some generative grammar errors in the case of verbs used with pseudo-plural (singular "they") subjects after a pronoun.
• Fixed an appearance of second-person rather than third-person possessive pronouns in mural generation.
• Fixed a bug that made transparent solid objects impossible to look at using the tooltip looker.
• [modding] In a thrown weapon attack, if the Penetrations parameter is modified during the WeaponThrowHit or TakeDamage events, the modified value now appears in messaging. This is cosmetic and does not affect damage calculations.

Rampant greenspread canopies a starburst of the Eaters' richest works. The jungle is torn at the corners, where crysteel balustrades and star orchid lancets peek through... [203.18. Note: This update will invalidate existing saves. If you want to keep playing your current character, switch back to a previous branch. (Steam > Caves of Qud > Properties > Betas > select branch].

DEEP JUNGLE AND BAROQUE RUINS

• We added two minor late-game regions, the deep jungle and baroque ruins.
  • Made significant changes to the worldmap to accommodate the new regions.
  • Added new creatures: deep slumberling, purple jell, trash abbot, and goatfolk qlippoth.
  • Added new flora: nachash tree and nimbus beam.
  • Added rare urberry bushes.
  • Added new items: ogre fur hat, ogre fur gloves, and ogre fur cloak.

LATE-GAME HISTORIC SITES

• We added historic sites for the period 1, 2, and 3 sultans. The base number of historic sites per game now follows this pattern:
  • Period 5 sultan: 2 sites
  • Period 4 sultan: 2 sites
  • Period 3 sultan: 2 sites
  • Period 2 sultan: 1 site
  • Period 1 sultan: 1 site
• The world now properly generates all historic sites that, according to gospels and quests, contain relics. This means that occasionally some additional historic sites are generated.
• We made mid and late-game historic sites have fewer levels. They now max out at around depth 7.

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS

• Added 48 new achievements.
  • Mechanimist Reformer; Aaaaaaaaargh!; Feast Upon the Goat Hearts! *cheers*; Rocket Bear; Two Cats Are Better Than One; Me, Myself, and I; Clonal Colony; The Woe of Apes; Close the Loop; Tourist; Sight Older Than Sight; What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered?; Star-Eye Esper; The Quasar Mind; There Can Be Only One; Glimmer of Truth; Sultan of Salt; Absolute Unit; Non-Locally Sourced; Surprise!; From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif; All Those Who Wander; The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth; A Clammy Reception; What's Eating the Watervine?; Byevalve; You Recame; Dayenu; Belong, Friends; Token of Gratitude; The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2; Aetalag; I-; *gulp*; Jeweled Dusk; The Narrowing Sky; Dawnglider; Was It Something I Said?; Lottery Winner; The Psychal Chorus; Become as Gods; Live and Ink; tsk tsk; Raisins in the Layer Cake; May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble; Red Rock Hazing Ritual; Mumblecore; Open Your Mind

RED ROCK

• We gave Red Rock a big makeover. It's now much more cavern-like, includes unique encounters, and is home to a snapjaw settlement.

RUST WELLS

• The Rust Wells have been entirely revamped. The dungeons are now based on fulcrete wells that are dug into the earth.
• Added a mechanism to allow flight in strata beneath the surface when there is sufficient open sky above you.

BETTER RUINS

• We revamped ruin generation and population in several sites.
  • Sites include ruin worldmap tiles (extending 30 strata down), baroque ruin worldmap tiles (also extending 30 strata down), unnamed ruins found in the jungle of deep jungle, and some named ruins.
  • Revamped ruined structures tend to be a little more complex than they were previously.
  • Ruin creature and loot population is much improved.
• We added a rare chance for power grid, hydraulic, and mechanical infrastructure to appear in various sites.
  • Possible sites include ruin worldmap tiles (extending 30 strata down), baroque ruin worldmap tiles (also extending 30 strata down), unnamed ruins found in the jungle or deep jungle, Bethesda Susa, and some villages.
  • Infrastructure and the equipment it powers will be found in various states of disrepair.
  • Infrastructure equipment may or may not have a use.
  • Added moon, sun, fool, milk, and secant gates.
  • Added -- or made dynamically generatable -- some other new furniture of varying technological sophistication.
  • Glass pipes now change color depending on what liquid is inside.
  • Removed metal and plastic hydraulic pipes.
• Also improved the quality of random cave encounters.

GAMEPLAY

• We made a bunch of changes to starting equipment.
  • All castes and callings now start with at least 3-4 witchwood bark. Correspondingly, starting village apothecaries now stock only a token amount witchwood bark.
  • Reduced the number of starting torches to a more reasonable amount.
  • All starting food -- crusty loaf, food cube, Ekuemekiyyen greens, and salthopper chips -- can now be cooked with. Smoldered mushrooms still preserve into pickled mushrooms.
  • Made a bunch of tweaks to true kin starting gear. As a result, they now start with more tonics than they had been in the beta, but not as many as they were capable of starting with on mainline.
  • Scholars now have a chance to start with a couple books.
  • Pilgrims now start with at least one book and a wineskin.
  • Apostles now start with a honeyskin.
  • Consuls now start with a wineskin.
  • Watervine farmers now start with some random ingredients and a cookbook.
  • Arconauts now start with some canned Have-It-All instead of mystery meat.
  • Fuming God Child's ash-stained robes now grant +1 AV.
  • Greybeards now start with furs and a short bow.
  • Horticulturists and Priests of All Suns now start with a short bow.
  • Priests of All Moons now start with a compound bow.
  • Castes and callings that start with missile weapons now have more ammo.
• If you have Gadget Inspector, you can now deploy wire.
  • 1" of wire extends across one tile.
  • You can deploy up to 10' at a time.
  • Deployed wire can be used to connect components across a working power grid.
  • Wire objects now merge into a single coil that weight 1lb per 25'.
• Witchwood bark now heals a slightly reduced amount.
• Witchwood bark now heals over three turns in descending amounts (12-14 on turn 1, 6-7 on turn 2, 3 on turn 3).
• If you have the Hooks for Feet defect, your dismembered hooks now regrow.
• We reduced the defensive buffs from cooking with the preserved gland paste of the various bearded lizards.
  • Sleetbeard gland paste and concentrated sleetbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 cold resist, respectively, instead of +100.
  • Flamebeard gland paste and concentrated flamebeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 heat resist, respectively, instead of +100.
  • Tartbeard gland paste and concentrated tartbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 acid resist, respectively, instead of +100.
  • The gland paste and concentrated gland paste of nullbeards, gallbeards, dreambeards, stunbeards, and maze beards no longer offer any defensive bonuses.
• Added two new shields: crysteel aegis and flawless crysteel aegis.
• You can now butcher ape fur hats and ape fur gloves from albino ape corpses. The descriptions of these items were changed to make this more sensible.
• Relic curios that summon friendly creatures now typically summon higher-level creatures.
• Relic tonics now provide two attribute/mutation points instead of one (or boost an attribute by two instead of one).
• Relic melee weapons are now sometimes two-handed.
• Widened the range of possibilities for relic missile weapons.
• Removed short swords from the game because their stats were extraneous and identical to daggers. If they do come back, they'll likely be revamped.
• You now fall in love with statues and figurines depicting creatures you would normally fall in love with.
• The life drain effect of bloody soup sludges no longer triggers on all weapon hits, instead restricted to a hit from their bloody pseudopod.
• Rocks falling from the ceiling now respect phase.
• On Roleplay and Wander modes, Gyl is now a checkpoint location.
• Creatures no longer spawn inside the [redacted] at Gyl.
• You can now ask Pax Klanq to puff on you again if you lose your Klanq infection prior to finishing the quest to spread it.
• Snapjaw lairs are now populated with a variety of snapjaws.
• Sleeping waydroids in the Grit Gate enclave are now friendly to Barathrumites.
• Pathfinding now slightly prefers to avoid tiles next to pits, shafts, and open air.
• Industrial fans now blow gases around.
• Fixed some punctuation in messages about being blown around by industrial fans.
• Adjusted the tier of Bethesda Susa and Asphalt Mines subterranean levels.
• Increased the item tier of liquid-cells and nuclear cell.
• Adjusted the tiers of some missile weapons.
• Made a small adjustment to the creature tier calculation.

UI

• We added a brand new Control Mapping screen with new functionality.
  • It's enabled when modern UI elements or the prerelease input manager is enabled.
  • Added support for multiple input devices.
  • You can now choose the control mapping scheme if you have multiple input devices connected.
  • Removed the Key Mappings option from the Esc menu. You can still access the Control Mapping screen via Options > Controls > Control Mapping.
  • Fixed several bugs with default prerelease control bindings.
• When the prerelease input manager is used with a gamepad, gamepad buttons are now shown in hotkey prompts.
• Added better keyboard button icons in the Control Mapping screen and character creation sequence.
• We added full Steam Deck support.
  • Launching on Steam Deck defaults to 1.25x.
  • Launching on Steam Deck defaults to gamepad input.
  • Launching on Steam defaults to the prerelease input manager.
  • Updated Steamworks SDK to 1.53a.
• Text input fields now display an overlay keyboard if one is available on the device.
• Added a brand new UI for the Continue screen and removed the stand-in overlay one.
• Mouse input is now enabled by default.
• Added a new force attack binding to the prerelease input manager which will force attack in the currently selected direction. (defaults to alt+L1)
• Added new tiles for the following objects: canned Have-It-All, canned mystery meat, bandage, desalination pellet, knollworm skull, blood-stained neck ring, miner's helmet, fire ant gaster, steel buckler, steel shield, carbide shield, bronze ingot, qudzu stem, rubber tree seed, fullerite aegis, hunk of cheese, Yd Freehold workshop sign, jeweler sign, some books, tokens, timecube, relic curios, gentling cone, eyeless crab legs, crimson hood, mirrorshades, telemetric visor, chrome mantle, mercurial cloak, rainboweave cloak, worn burnoose, Praetorian's cloak, leather scraps, panther's cloak, furs, point-defense lasor, precinct navigator, wrist calc, force bracelet, structural scanning bracelet, life loop, snakeskin armlet, chain gauntlets, elastyne gloves, plastifer gloves, carbide boots, fullerite boots, anti-gravity boots, bounding boots, brinestalk gate, small sphere of negative weight, data disk, waterskin, camel bladder, robot limbs, organic limbs, trash, security cards, spiral borer, Klanq infection, ganglionic teleprojector, forge, anvil, fused security door, geomagnetic disc, luminous mote, quantum mote, palladium electrodeposits, crumpled piece of paper, torn sheet of graph paper, Templar phylactery, chrome platform, pocketed vest, plasifer chem vest, puma chitin vest, fullerite flake armor, rubber suit, flexivest, nanoweave vest, all grenades, and all energy cells.
• Added new animated tiles for hydraulic press, hydraulic irrigator, pumping stations, and solar power stations.
• Broken wire now looks broken.
• Previously chosen conversation options are now more consistently recolored.
• Witchwood bark is now classified as a med instead of food.
• Shale that is adjacent to large pools of water now has its tile detail color altered to indicate vine growth.
• Tweaked seed-spitting vine's tile and ASCII colors.
• Tweaked dreadroot's ASCII and tile colors.
• Changed the ASCII and tile colors of various other objects.

POPULATION REFACTOR

• We refactored our systems for populating maps and creature inventories. Creature and equipment distributions may have changed somewhat (but not drastically).
• Humanoid creatures, particularly snapjaws and goatfolk, now spawn with a wider range of equipment.
• Snapjaw scavengers now occasionally spawn without equipment.
• Tweaked several artifact and junk population tables.

MISCELLANEOUS AND BUGFIXES

• Added a new music track to deep caves.
• Added a new music track to [redacted].
• Made adjustments to the Palladium Reef / Lake Hinnom music track.
• Renamed "desert rifle"" to "Isaachar rifle"".
• Renamed "borderlands revolver" to "chrome revolver".
• Historic sites are now built from a more sensible set of wall types, which includes gilded marble from the appropriate sultanate period.
• Added new descriptions for low and mid tier daggers, cudgels, axes, and swords.
• Added new descriptions for the following guns and ammo: Issachar rifle, carbine, sniper rifle, musket, chain laser, linear cannon, freeze ray, blood-gradient hand vacuum, chaingun, chrome revolver, semi-automatic pistol, chain pistol, pump shotgun, combat shotgun, lead slug, electrobow, grenade launcher, missile launcher, HE missile, phase cannon, nullray pistol, short bow, compound bow, and flamethrower.
• Added new descriptions for the following items: nanoweave vest and rainboweave cloak.
• Tweaked the details and added several new descriptions for relic base items.
• Gave witchwood bark a new description.
• Added signs for gutsmongers' shops.
• Warden Une is now officially true kin and can install cybernetic implants.
• Cloneling clones now count toward the achievements "Me, Myself, and I" and "Clonal Colony".
• Added iron gates.
• Replaced some doors with gates in zone generation where appropriate.
• Historic sites no longer have erroneous "unknown"s in their descriptions.
• Objects with fractional weight, like wire strands, no longer count as 0 weight items for the autoget option "Auto-pickup 0 weight items".
• Objects with negative weight are now picked up when "Auto-pickup 0 weight items" is enabled.
• Added better lighting to Grit Gate.
• Fixed a bug that caused the razed goatfolk village to fail to build.
• Fixed a bug that caused read books to count multiple times for achievements.
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement for traveling to the Six Day Stilt not to unlock if you had accepted the quest O Glorious Shekhinah!
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Hole Like a Head" achievement to not unlock if you had multiple heads.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze if you were dominating an object requiring fungal vision as the shimmering effect expired.
• Fixed a bug that caused the shimmering screen effect from consuming Eater's flesh to persist when dominating another creature.
• Fixed a bug that caused part of the upper Tomb of Eaters not to be flagged as an interior space.
• Fixed a bug that caused the main quest to skip ahead to "The Earl of Omonporch" if Asphodel died early.
• Fixed a bug that caused objects that were immobile for any reason to become immune to the effects of time dilation.
• Fixed a bug that caused one of the four children of the Tomb to occasionally not spawn.
• Fixed a bug that caused svardym storms to roll over to protected zones like the Yd Freehold if the storm started outside of it.
• Fixed a bug that caused lithofexes to refract their own lithifying gaze if equipped with refractive gear.
• Fixed a bug that caused high explosives (including sowers seeds) to occasionaly explode forever.
• Fixed some cooking effects not serializing properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to occasionally crash when you accessed a book.
• Fixed a bug that caused some relics to generate with place names.
• Fixed a bug that caused artifacts providing additional carry capacity to function when improperly equipped.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hooks from Hooks for Feet to be placed in your inventory when buying new mutations.
• Fixed a bug that caused popups about extradimensional psychic hunters to continue appearing after you left [redacted].
• Fixed a bug that caused the Puff Spores ability to persist permanently if the Klanq infected limb was dismembered.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Grit Gate communications panel to disable trading permanently.
• Fixed a bug that caused Otho not to admit you to Grit Gate if your level was too high when returning from "More Than a Willing Spirit".
• Fixed a bug that caused Neelahind to end the conversation if, during "Kith and Kin", you accused a kendren in prosperous circumstances without having finished "Love and Fear".
• Fixed a bug that caused the dialogue of Bey Lah's residents to not immediately update after "Kith and Kin".
• Fixed an exception when a liquid fell through a pit.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to swipe and lunge on the world map using a long sword.
• Fixed a bug that caused the text for buying additional tinkering recipes in the water ritual to not update until revisited.
• Fixed a bug that let you trade non-gossips secrets as gossip.
• Fixed a bug that made broken wire attached to a live power grid fail to emit sparks.
• Fixed some bugs that sometimes made power grids behave strangely.
• Fixed a typo in Goek's dialog.

DEBUG AND MODDING

• We revamped the conversation system to be much more dynamic and moddable.
  • See the wiki for full details.
  • Conversations now merge their contents together by default.
  • Conversations and elements can now inherit their properties from one or multiple elements.
  • Conversations and elements can now have custom logic defined with C# parts.
  • Custom predicates and actions like IfHaveQuest or GiveItem can be added for use in XML.
  • Elements can now be distributed to other elements. For example, a choice can be distributed to every start node within the conversation.
  • Nodes and choices can now have multiple text elements.
  • Any element can now have predicates, including individual text elements.
  • The logic for the water ritual and dialogue-heavy quests such as "Landing Pads" has moved into Conversations.xml.
  • Added the IfTime, IfLedBy, and IfZoneName conversation predicates.
• We retired encounter tables (EncounterTables.xml) in favor of the much more flexible population tables (PopulationTables.xml). This may affect existing mods.
• Creatures that were previously equipped via encounter table equipment builders are now implemented as multiple creature objects with the AggregateWith tag (ex: Snapjaw Scavenger).
• Added extensive semantic tagging to several objects for power grid, hydraulic, and mechanical infrastructure.
• Added a new debug option, ""Draw zone semantics", that indicates the inside/outside areas of zones using the newest ruins builder.
• Added an option to disable achievement progress (Debug > disable achievements).

Hello friends, We'll be bringing the Deep Jungle feature arc out of beta and into the mainline game this Thursday, Feb 17th. Until then, live and drink.

203.14 - 'beta' branch

• We made a bunch of changes to starting equipment.
  • All castes and callings now start with at least 3-4 witchwood bark. Correspondingly, starting village apothecaries now stock only a token amount witchwood bark.
  • Reduced the number of starting torches to a more reasonable amount.
  • All starting food -- crusty loaf, food cube, Ekuemekiyyen greens, and salthopper chips -- can now be cooked with. Smoldered mushrooms still preserve into pickled mushrooms.
  • Made a bunch of tweaks to true kin starting gear. As a result, they now start with more tonics than they had been in the beta, but not as many as they were capable of starting with on mainline.
  • Scholars now have a chance to start with a couple books.
  • Pilgrims now start with at least one book and a wineskin.
  • Apostles now start with a honeyskin.
  • Consuls now start with a wineskin.
  • Watervine farmers now start with some random ingredients and a cookbook.
  • Arconauts now start with some canned Have-It-All instead of mystery meat.
  • Fuming God Child's ash-stained robes now grant +1 AV.
  • Greybeards now start with furs and a short bow.
  • Horticulturists and Priests of All Suns now start with a short bow.
  • Priests of All Moons now start with a compound bow.
  • Castes and callings that start with missile weapons now have more ammo.
• Witchwood bark now heals a slightly reduced amount.
• Witchwood bark now heals over three turns in descending amounts (12-14 on turn 1, 6-7 on turn 2, 3 on turn 3).
• Witchwood bark is now classified as a med instead of food.
• Gave witchwood bark a new description.
• The world now properly generates all historic sites that, according to gospels and quests, contain relics. This means that occasionally some extra historic sites are now generated.
• Warden Une is now officially true kin and can install cybernetic implants.
• Added iron gates.
• Replaced some doors with gates in zone generation where appropriate.
• Slightly reduced the chest chances in goatfolk haunts.
• Increased the item tier of liquid-cells and nuclear cell.
• Improved the quality of random cave encounters.
• Improved the quality of ruin generation.
• Tweaked some artifact and junk population tables.
• Historic sites no longer have erroneous "unknown"s in their descriptions.
• Fixed some cooking text errors while cooking in the deathlands.
• You can now ask Pax Klanq to puff on you again if you lose your Klanq infection prior to finishing the quest to spread it.
• Broadened the conditions for getting the Red Rock Hazing Ritual achievement.
• Argyve no longer takes wire beyond the 200' requested for "Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!".
• Fixed a bug that caused the Puff Spores ability to persist permanently if the Klanq infected limb was dismembered.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Grit Gate communications panel to disable trading permanently.
• Fixed a bug that caused Otho not to admit you to Grit Gate if your level was too high when returning from "More Than a Willing Spirit".
• Fixed a bug that caused Neelahind to end the conversation if, during "Kith and Kin", you accused a kendren in prosperous circumstances without having finished "Love and Fear".
• Fixed a bug that caused the dialogue of Bey Lah's residents to not immediately update after "Kith and Kin".
• Fixed a bug that caused the quest "Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!" to complete at 20' of wire, rather than 200'.
• Fixed a bug that caused Argyve not to take the wire when completing "Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!".
• Fixed an exception when a liquid fell through a pit.
• Fixed a bug that prevented flying up through the rust wells if the above zones were inactive.
• Fixed a bug that caused a FlyingWhitelistArea object to appear in the nearby objects window.
• Fixed a bug that caused hotkeys to not work in the classic conversation UI.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from getting the [redacted]'s journal secret after speaking with them.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to swipe and lunge on the world map using a long sword.
• Fixed a bug that caused the text for buying additional tinkering recipes in the water ritual to not update until revisited.
• Fixed a bug that let you trade non-gossips secrets as gossip.
• Fixed a bug that caused part of the upper Tomb of Eaters not to be flagged as an interior space.
• Fixed a bug that caused the main quest to skip ahead to "The Earl of Omonporch" if Asphodel died early.
• Fixed a bug that caused objects that were immobile for any reason to become immune to the effects of time dilation.
• Fixed a bug that caused one of the four children of the Tomb to occasionally not spawn.
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'A' hotkey for the old ASCII editor to crash the game if pressed on the main menu.
• [modding] Added the IfTime, IfLedBy, and IfZoneName conversation predicates.

203.12 - 'beta' branch

• We gave Red Rock a big makeover. It's now much more cavern-like, includes unique encounters, and is home to a snapjaw settlement.
• We added a rare chance for power grid, hydraulic, and mechanical infrastructure to appear in various sites.
  • Possible sites include ruin worldmap tiles (extending 30 strata down), baroque ruin worldmap tiles (also extending 30 strata down), unnamed ruins found in the jungle or deep jungle, Bethesda Susa, and some villages.
  • Infrastructure and the equipment it powers will be found in various states of disrepair.
  • Infrastructure equipment may or may not have a use.
  • Added -- or made dynamically generatable -- some new furniture of varying technological sophistication.
  • Removed metal and plastic hydraulic pipes.
• If you have Tinker I, you can now deploy wire.
  • 1" of wire extends across one tile.
  • You can deploy up to 10' at a time.
  • Deployed wire can be used to connect components across a working power grid.
  • Wire objects now merge into a single coil that weight 1lb per 25'.
• We revamped ruin generation and population in several sites.
  • Sites include ruin worldmap tiles (extending 30 strata down), baroque ruin worldmap tiles (also extending 30 strata down), unnamed ruins found in the jungle of deep jungle, and some named ruins.
  • Revamped ruined structures tend to be a little more complex than they were previously.
  • Ruin creature and loot population is much improved.
  • Baroque ruins now use a consistent wall type across the parasang and down the ruin column.
• Made a bunch of population adjustments to the deep jungle.
• Adjusted the tier of Bethesda Susa and Asphalt Mines subterranean levels.
• Increased the chance for 50' strands of wire to appear on the surface of the rust wells.
• Previously chosen conversation options are now more consistently recolored.
• Shale that is adjacent to large pools of water now has its tile detail color altered to indicate vine growth.
• Changed dreadroot's tile color.
• [debug] Added a new debug option, ""Draw zone semantics", that indicates the inside/outside areas of zones using the newest ruins builder.
• [modding] We revamped the conversation system to be much more dynamic and moddable.
  • See the wiki for full details.
  • Conversations now merge their contents together by default.
  • Conversations and elements can now inherit their properties from one or multiple elements.
  • Conversations and elements can now have custom logic defined with C# parts.
  • Custom predicates and actions like IfHaveQuest or GiveItem can be added for use in XML.
  • Elements can now be distributed to other elements. For example, a choice can be distributed to every start node within the conversation.
  • Nodes and choices can now have multiple text elements.
  • Any element can now have predicates, including individual text elements.
  • The logic for the water ritual and dialogue-heavy quests such as "Landing Pads" has moved into Conversations.xml.
• [modding] Added extensive semantic tagging to several objects for power grid, hydraulic, and mechanical infrastructure.

203.9 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new UI for the Continue screen and removed the stand-in overlay one.
• Mouse input is now enabled by default.
• On Roleplay and Wandor modes, Gyl is now a checkpoint location.
• Creatures no longer spawn inside the [redacted] at Gyl.
• Reduced the chance for low tier creatures to have high tier items like zetachrome.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to occasionally crash when you accessed a book.
• Fixed a bug that caused some relics to generate with place names.
• Fixed a bug that caused artifacts providing additional carry capacity to function when improperly equipped.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hooks from Hooks for Feet to be placed in your inventory when buying new mutations.
• Fixed a bug that caused popups about extradimensional psychic hunters to continue appearing after you left [redacted].
• We started to add Steam Deck support.
  • When running on Steam Deck, the default scale is set to 1.25x.
  • When running on Steam Deck, the prerelease input manager is the default input mode.
  • When running on Steam Deck, the overlay keyboard will be displayed for text input fields.
  • Updated Steamworks SDK to 1.53a.

203.7 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new music track to deep caves.
• Sleeping waydroids in the Grit Gate enclave are now friendly to Barathrumites.
• Added two new shields: crysteel aegis and flawless crysteel aegis.
• Added a new force attack binding to the prerelease input manager which will force attack in the currently selected direction. (defaults to alt+L1)
• Widened the range of possibilities for relic missile weapons.
• Tweaked the details and added several new descriptions for relic base items.
• Relic curios that summon friendly creatures now typically summon higher-level creatures.
• Relic tonics now provide two attribute/mutation points instead of one (or boost an attribute by two instead of one).
• Added new descriptions for the following items: nanoweave vest and rainboweave cloak.
• Added signs for gutsmongers' shops.
• Added new tiles for the following objects: canned Have-It-All, canned mystery meat, bandage, desalination pellet, knollworm skull, blood-stained neck ring, miner's helmet, fire ant gaster, steel buckler, steel shield, carbide shield, bronze ingot, qudzu stem, rubber tree seed, fullerite aegis, hunk of cheese, Yd Freehold workshop sign, jeweler sign, some books, tokens, timecube, relic curios, gentling cone, eyeless crab legs, crimson hood, mirrorshades, telemetric visor, chrome mantle, mercurial cloak, rainboweave cloak, worn burnoose, Praetorian's cloak, leather scraps, panther's cloak, furs, point-defense lasor, precinct navigator, wrist calc, force bracelet, structural scanning bracelet, life loop, snakeskin armlet, chain gauntlets, elastyne gloves, plasifer gloves, carbide boots, fullerite boots, anti-gravity boots, bounding boots, brinestalk gate, small sphere of negative weight, data disk, waterskin, camel bladder, robot limbs, organic limbs, trash, security cards, spiral borer, Klanq infection, ganglionic teleprojector, forge, anvil, fused security door, geomagnetic disc, luminous mote, quantum mote, palladium electrodeposits, crumpled piece of paper, torn sheet of graph paper, Templar phylactery, chrome platform, pocketed vest, plasifer chem vest, puma chitin vest, fullerite flake armor, rubber suit, flexivest, nanoweave vest, all grenades, and all energy cells.
• Changed the ASCII and tile colors of various objects.
• We did some more population refactoring. You may see some more changes in creature and equipment distributions.
• Rocks falling from the ceiling now respect phase.
• Fixed a bug that caused svardym storms to roll over to protected zones like the Yd Freehold if the storm started outside of it.
• Fixed a bug that caused lithofexes to refract their own lithifying gaze if equipped with refractive gear.
• Fixed a bug that caused high explosives (including sowers seeds) to ocassionally explode forever.
• Fixed some cooking effects not serializing properly (this will unfortunately break some small % of saved games)

203.6 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new music track to [redacted].
• You now fall in love with statues and figurines depicting creatures you would normally fall in love with.
• Renamed "desert rifle"" to "Isaachar rifle"".
• Renamed "borderlands revolver" to "chrome revolver".
• Added new descriptions for the following guns and ammo: Issachar rifle, carbine, sniper rifle, musket, chain laser, linear cannon, freeze ray, blood-gradient hand vacuum, chaingun, chrome revolver, semi-automatic pistol, chain pistol, pump shotgun, combat shotgun, lead slug, electrobow, grenade launcher, missile launcher, HE missile, phase cannon, nullray pistol, short bow, compound bow, and flamethrower.
• Adjusted the tiers of some missile weapons.
• Fixed a typo in Goek's dialog.
• The life drain effect of bloody soup sludges no longer triggers on all weapon hits, instead restricted to a hit from their bloody pseudopod.
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Hole Like a Head" achievement to not unlock if you had multiple heads.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze if you were dominating an object requiring fungal vision as the shimmering effect expired.
• Fixed a bug that caused the shimmering screen effect from consuming Eater's flesh to persist when dominating another creature.

203.4 - 'beta' branch

• Added new items: ogre fur hat, ogre fur gloves, and ogre fur cloak.
• You can now butcher ape fur hats and ape fur gloves from albino ape corpses. The descriptions of these items were changed to make this more sensible.
• Relic melee weapons are now sometimes two-handed.
• Historic sites are now built from a more sensible set of wall types, which includes gilded marble from the appropriate sultanate period.
• Removed short swords from the game because their stats were extraneous and identical to daggers. If they do come back, they'll likely be revamped.
• Added new descriptions for low and mid tier daggers, cudgels, axes, and swords.
• Cloneling clones now count toward the achievements "Me, Myself, and I" and "Clonal Colony".
• Fixed a bug that caused the achievement for traveling to the Six Day Stilt not to unlock if you had accepted the quest O Glorious Shekhinah!
• Fixed a bug that caused the razed goatfolk village to fail to build.
• Fixed a bug that caused read books to count multiple times for achievements.
• [debug] Added an option to disable achievement progress (Debug > disable achievements).

Our Deep Jungle feature arc is now in beta. If you're interested, come help us test! To access the beta: right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. We'd appreciate if you logged issues you find at our public issue tracker. Kindly include [beta] in the bug title. Live and drink, friends.

PATCH NOTES

DEEP JUNGLE AND BAROQUE RUINS

• We added two minor late-game regions, the deep jungle and baroque ruins.
  • Made significant changes to the worldmap to accommodate the new regions.
  • Added new creatures: deep slumberling, purple jell, trash abbot, and goatfolk qlippoth.
  • Added new flora: nachash tree and nimbus beam.
  • Added rare urberry bushes.

LATE-GAME HISTORIC SITES

• We added historic sites for the period 1, 2, and 3 sultans. The number of historic sites per game now follows this pattern:
  • Period 5 sultan: 2 sites
  • Period 4 sultan: 2 sites
  • Period 3 sultan: 2 sites
  • Period 2 sultan: 1 site
  • Period 1 sultan: 1 site
• We made mid and late-game historic sites have fewer levels. They now max out at around depth 7.
• More changes to historic site population are likely to come.

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS

• Added 48 new achievements.
  • Mechanimist Reformer; Aaaaaaaaargh!; Feast Upon the Goat Hearts! *cheers*; Rocket Bear; Two Cats Are Better Than One; Me, Myself, and I; Clonal Colony; The Woe of Apes; Close the Loop; Tourist; Sight Older Than Sight; What Are Directions on a Space That Cannot Be Ordered?; Star-Eye Esper; The Quasar Mind; There Can Be Only One; Glimmer of Truth; Sultan of Salt; Absolute Unit; Non-Locally Sourced; Surprise!; From Thyn Heres Shaken the Wet and Olde Lif; All Those Who Wander; The Recitation of the Drowning of Eudoxia by the Witches of Moonhearth; A Clammy Reception; What's Eating the Watervine?; Byevalve; You Recame; Dayenu; Belong, Friends; Token of Gratitude; The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 2; Aetalag; I-; *gulp*; Jeweled Dusk; The Narrowing Sky; Dawnglider; Was It Something I Said?; Lottery Winner; The Psychal Chorus; Become as Gods; Live and Ink; tsk tsk; Raisins in the Layer Cake; May the Ground Shake But the Six Day Stilt Never Tumble; Red Rock Hazing Ritual; Mumblecore; Open Your Mind

RUST WELLS

• The Rust Wells have been entirely revamped. The dungeons are now based on fulcrete wells that are dug into the earth.
• Added a mechanism to allow flight in strata beneath the surface when there is sufficient open sky above you.

BALANCE

• If you have the Hooks for Feet defect, your dismembered hooks now regrow.
• We reduced the defensive buffs from cooking with the preserved gland paste of the various bearded lizards.
  • Sleetbeard gland paste and concentrated sleetbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 cold resist, respectively, instead of +100.
  • Flamebeard gland paste and concentrated flamebeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 heat resist, respectively, instead of +100.
  • Tartbeard gland paste and concentrated tartbeard gland paste now bestow +10 and +20 acid resist, respectively, instead of +100.
  • The gland paste and concentrated gland paste of nullbeards, gallbeards, dreambeards, stunbeards, and maze beards no longer offer any defensive bonuses.
• Made a small adjustment to the creature tier calculation.

POPULATION REFACTOR

• We're in the process of refactoring our systems for populating maps and creature inventories. Creature and equipment distributions may have changed somewhat (but not drastically).
• Humanoid creatures, particularly snapjaws and goatfolk, now rarely spawn with a wider range of equipment.
• Snapjaw scavengers now occasionally spawn without equipment.

MODDING

• We're in the process of retiring encounter tables in favor of population tables. This may affect mods.
• Creatures that were previously equipped via encounter table equipment builders are now implemented as multiple creature objects with the AggregateWith tag (ex: Snapjaw Scavenger).

Hello, We're skipping this week's update both to focus on our next feature arc (the Deep Jungle) and because it's Christmas Eve. Early next week, though, we'll be posting an early beta of the Deep Jungle feature arc, which'll include two minor late-game regions, the rest of the sultans' historic sites, a revamped version of the Rust Wells, dozens of new achievements, and more. Live and drink, friends.

202.102

• Equipment with power switches, such as ontological anchors, night-vision goggles, and ninefold boots, now grasts you an activated ability for toggling their power.
• Creatures that are immune to being damaged are now also immune to being dismembered.
• Jewelers and gemcutters now have guards.
• Corrected resonance grenade damage to non-structural objects in the grenade description.
• Frog cherubim now correctly belong to the frogs faction.
• Regeneration tanks now tolerate impure convalessence mixtures as long as they contain at leats 100 drams and the mixture is at least two-thirds convalessence. Regen tanks in existing saved games won't be affected, though.
• Regen tanks now properly regenerate tongues even when they're the only body part you lost.
• Creatures no longer attempt to use Disintegration against enemies they are out of phase with.
• Gave the [redacted] sapient plant properties.
• You can no longer [redacted] before starting the Tomb of the Eaters quest.
• Added the arcology names back to the true kin caste selection screen.
• Cooking effects that identify all artifacts on the local map now identify implanted cybernetics.
• Fixed a bug that caused variables to occasionally display in the names of village factions.
• Fixed a bug that caused hologram bracelets to have infinite range.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused invalid text to be generated after leaving a zone with an object you were lovesick for.
• Fixed a bug with temporal fugue clones and other temporary objects that prevented zones from unloading, degrading performance.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused out-of-date copies of your body or your followers to return from [redacted].
• Made the text color consistent across hyperbiotic object names.
• Fixed a wrong identation in Corpus Choliys.
• Fixed a bug that made sower's seeds considered inorganic and eligible for donation at the sacred well.
• Fixed the pluralization of 'moments in time chosen arbitrarily'.
• Fixed a pluralization issue in dynamic quest text.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused saves to fail to load.
• Fixed a bug that caused your [redacted] to fail to generate properly.
• [modding] Made the 'sheeter' wish more robust.

202.101

• Robots and mutated plants can now be stunned.
• Baetyl, hermit, and mysterious stranger cherubim now belong to the correct factions.
• Pax Klanq is now immune to fungal infections.
• Dynamic quests no longer use player map notes as landmarks.
• White esh now honk instead of caaw.
• Meyehind and Liihart now rejoin the hindren faction if Eskhind becomes Hindriarch.
• Wardens Esthers, Lulihart, and Tszappur now more consistently get along.
• Argyve no longer offers to sell his scratched data disk, and Q Girl no longer offers to sell her data disk with encoded instructions.
• Made some tweaks to low-tier melee relic base types.
• Fixed pluralization of 'boot' in sultan histories.
• Fixed a bug that caused excessive CPU use in cybernetics terminals.
• Fixed a bug that caused rhinoxen to get a number of free melee attacks on their targets when charging.
• Fixed a bug where if a rhinox's charge killed a creature, a copy of that creature's corpse was spawned in each tile of the charge path.
• Fixed a bug that caused extremely odd names to get generated for sultan cults and sultan relics.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally caused ovens to do nothing.
• Fixed several rare exceptions in the display of cooking recipies.
• Fixed a typo in arc winder's description.

202.100

• Regen tanks no longer generate with drained capacitors.
• Mechanical cherubim no longer spawn as psychic thralls.
• Drinking algae or algal water now dehydrates you.
• Kraken hired as guards no longer swallow things whole on the job. This change applies broadly to a whole range of disruptive creature behaviors.
• Grit Gate doors that somehow failed to unlock when they should have now unlock at the beginning of A Call To Arms.
• The wielder of [redacted] now wields it more reliably.
• Statues now render on top of doors.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to never stop being inspired to cook after cooking in the inspired state.
• Fixed a bug that caused equipment-granting physical mutations to consume energy when you ranked them up.
• Fixed a bug that caused stack overflow crashes in situations where several force fields interact.
• Fixed a bug that caused a rare crash when looking at a psionic item.
• Fixed some late game performance issues.
• Fixed some inconsistent spellings of Kasaphescence.
• Fixed a typo in unfinished sculpture.
• [modding] Item mods added to Mods.xml now merge by part name.

202.98

• Added hotkeys to the campfire menu.
• Neutronic sludges no longer spit neutronic liquid mixtures. Their melee attacks still cause neutronic explosions, though.
• Fixed a bug that caused loading default keybindings to fail to properly reset most keybindings.
• Fixed a bug that caused the regen tanks in the Yd Freehold to be treated as a separate type of device from other regen tanks.
• Fixed a bug that caused flaming NPCs to attempt to douse themselves using lava.
• Fixed a bug that caused AoE effects such as explosions to persist through a precognitive vision.
• Fixed a bug that caused quest objectives involving the placiment of an item inside a container to not complete if the container was not originally empty.
• Fixed a bug that caused greater voiders to place you inside the northwestern-most wall if there was no space for their lair.
• Fixed a bug that caused page down to close the tinkering menu if less than a page of blueprints were available.
• Fixed Thah being referred to with a definite article.
• Fixed an invalid "Enigna Cap" blueprint reference.
• [modding] The campfire now emits a GetCookingActionsEvent on itself and the player to collect options for the cooking menu.

Hey all, As we move along our road map, fleshing out the game and getting closer to our 1.0 release, we've reached a point where it makes sense to raise the price from $14.99 to $19.99. If you're on the fence about buying the game, now's the perfect chance to jump in before the price bumps up in January. To everyone who's supported us thus far, thank you! Live and drink, friends.

202.97

• Made some tweaks to the price of identifying artifacts, particularly around the exponential explosion at the high end.
• The Tinker I Recharge ability now allows you to choose how many bits to use.
• Creatures are now more aggressive about fleeing from approaching krakens.
• Automove is now better at avoiding krakens.
• Temporal fugue clones and clones of psychic assassins no longer have absorbable psyches.
• Items duplicated with metamorphic polygel now inherit the temporariness, existence support, and phase characteristics of the polygel.
• Looking at extradimensional items now only reveals the secret of their home dimension if you've identified the item.
• Fixed a bug that prevented ubernostrum from regenerating limbs and disabled the keybind to regenerate limbs.
• Minorly improved turn performance.
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to always reload with the first energy cell in their inventory, regardless of current charge.
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to remove charged energy cells from their equipment.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions to continuously unload and reload energy cells if they had spares in their inventory after trading.
• Fixed various grammar issues in some messages, particularly when dismembering your own limbs.

202.95

• Fonts are now much crisper on the main gameplay screen.
• Hyperbiotic beds no longer regenerate limbs.
• Regeneration tanks now rejuvenate health and regenerate limbs.
  • The tank must be filled with at least 100 drams of pure convalessence or homogenized convalessence to heal hitpoints.
  • Additionally, the tank must be filled with at least 1 dram of cloning draught to regenerate limbs. If it is, all lost limbs are regenerated, and 1 dram of cloning draught is consumed. Excess cloning draught is not consumed.
  • Added useful information about these rejuvenation/regeneration mechanics to regeneration tank's description, including a live operational status based on its liquid contents.
  • Reduced the chance of hurting yourself while getting into or out of a regeneration tank.
  • Added an option to flush a regen tank's liquid contents down a drain.
  • Adjusted the starting liquid contents of regen tanks to occasionally include homogenized convalessence. More adjustments are likely to come.
  • The regen tank in the Yd Freehold now starts with a homogenized convalessence mixture that includes two drams worth of cloning draught.
• Considerably reduced plasma jelly's plasma damage.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to select the starting location for daily runs.
• Fixed a bug that prevented daily run scores from being recorded.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ironshank to become incurable upon reaching the maximum penalty.
• Fixed a bug that caused the northwestern-most cell of the Palladium Reef to generate without contents.

202.94

• Disassembling a single item now has no action cost and no longer drops you out of the inventory. We may change this behavior again once we do more refinement to inventory action cost.
• Added worldmap descriptions for Lake Hinnom, the Palladium Reef, and the Yd Freehold.
• Added a description for gutsmonger.
• The villagers of Ezra is now considered an old faction.
• Yondercane is no longer considered meat.
• Mechanical cherubim heads now disassemble to a 7-bit.
• Villagers in village outskirts now act more like villagers in the village proper.
• Blank sultan murals no longer show up in villages.
• You can no longer build Six Day Stilt recoilers.
• Small boulders now weigh less than medium boulders.
• Fullerite melee weapons are now considered metal due to their steel shafts.
• Removed unused flail and chain blueprints.
• Clarified in the message for polyp plucking that you aren't collecting the polyp.
• You can no longer duplicate the n-pointed asterisk.
• Mechanical creatures whose descriptions are written in verse now have the description of their persistent hum better integrated.
• Removed an extraneous secret for the Mark of Death.
• Wandering creatures that tend to path around deep pools and other obstacles are now less likely to choose those obstacles as destinations.
• Legendary jilted lovers now get the correct colorization.
• Severed giant amoeba limbs now get the correct colorization.
• Changed the option for pushing right on the inventory screen to equip to also apply to pushing left on the equipment screen to unequip.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused roleplay and wander mode games to be deleted when quitting to the main menu after a death.
• Fixed a bug that caused items to vanish during trade or container use.
• Fixed a bug that caused subterranean deathlands zones not to have names.
• Fixed a bug that caused sultan cult leaders in historic sites not to be identified as leaders in their titles.
• Fixed pentaceps pluralization.
• Fixed a typo in the ornate chair description.
• Fixed a bug that caused canyons, rivers, and roads to sometimes end abruptly between zones.
• Fixed a bug that caused canyons, rivers, roads, and stairs to not build if you had visited the zone or or a connecting zone and then loaded an earlier save.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to occasionally be placed inside walls when you became lost.
• Fixed rare grammar issues around the possessive case.
• [modding] Line numbers are now included in runtime error messages for mods if the "Write compiled mod assemblies to disk" option is enabled.
• [modding] Like Subtypes, Genotypes can now define individual elements instead of .
• [modding] Fixed invalid manifest IDs breaking certain mods.

202.93

• Added a third completely transparent opacity setting to the minimap, nearby objects and message log opacity toggles.
• Added a window position lock toggle which removes the position and size borders of the message log, minimap and nearby objects windows.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from toggling certain toggleable abilities off before their cooldowns expired (including gas generation, Phasing, and Force Bubble).
• Fixed a bug that caused ironshank to stop progressing if you reached over 200 move speed.
• Fixed [redacted] ignoring the combat animations option.
• Fixed a bug causing minimap and message log size persistance to not work correctly when the UI was not at 1.0x scale
• Overloaded arc winder no longer appears as a blueprint on data disks.
• [modding] Added preprocessing symbols for compiled mods to define optional behavior if another mod was loaded. For example, #if MOD_BLUE_CTESIPHUS will only compile what's within if the Blue Ctesiphus mod was loaded earlier.
• [modding] Added [HasOptionFlagUpdate] and [OptionFlagUpdate] attributes that are invoked whenever an option is updated.
• [modding] Added an option to write compiled mod assemblies to disk.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused character creation to freeze if you did not define a detail color for a genotype.

"What an enchanting place! The maze of polyps allowed me to slink along, mostly unnoticed, and take in the doings of its flora and fauna. A rich diversity of life radiates across Qud, but in the Reef, it flourishes on a new level. In but one hemmed in quarter I witnessed a tetrad of kaleidoslugs round the rune-cut cone of an enigma snail, a jelly huff a cloud of plasma onto a memory eater, and a polycule of tongue tyrants devour a squad of interdictors. At one point the Reef came alive and a polyp-jeweled hermit walked out of the lattice. He grinned at me and bartered a broken hand rail. When I turned my head to nod goodbye, he was gone." -Kaylenn Sand-Shell, In Maqqom Yd

GAME MODES

• Classic. This is the standard Qud experience with permadeath. Nothing has changed.
• Roleplay.
  • Checkpointing at settlements. When you die, you have the option to reload from the last checkpoint. Your checkpoint is automatically set whenever you enter or leave a settlement. You can also set your checkpoint manually while at a settlement by hitting Esc and then 'c'.
• Wander.
  • Checkpointing at settlements.
  • Your reputation with every faction starts at 0 (or higher), meaning most creatures start neutral to you. Aggressive creatures of neutral factions will still attack you.
  • You get no XP for kills.
  • You get more XP for discoveries, completing quests, and performing the water ritual. This amount scales with your level.
• Daily. This is the daily challenge as it currently exists. We removed the weekly challenge.

NEW CHARACTER CREATION SEQUENCE

• We entirely refactored the character generation sequence to be much more sensible, highly moddable, and use an all-new, responsive, fully keyboardable and mouseable UI.
• We added nine new preset character builds with their own tiles: Marsh Taur, Dream Tortoise, Gunwing, Star-Eye Esper, Firefrond, bzzzt, Praetorian Prime, First Gardener, and First Child of the Hearth. These are designed to help new players get started, but they're also fully customizable.

LATE-GAME REGIONS

• We added two new late game regions to the east side of the map: Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef.
• Added a new two-tiered settlement, the Yd Freehold, with many new NPCs.
• Added lilypad people, the slynth, and a hidden slynth settlement.
• Added two new factions: svardym and the denizens of the Yd Freehold.
• Added svardym eggcopter storms.
• Added a new side quest: Landing Pads.
• Expanded the Rainbow Wood and configured it to include dynamic sites like villages, ruins, and lairs.
• 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, slynth, and slynth wanderer.
• Added new plants, plant-like animals, and reef infrastructure pieces: coral polyp, palladium strut, palliud strut with coral growth, finger coral, tunnel sponge, bop sponge, and arsplice hyphae.
• Added two new liquids: algae and sunslag.
• Added new butcherable and harvestable consumables: bop cheek and tongue twist.
• Added three new cooking effect domains: rubber-based, powerful rubber-based, and tongue-based.
• Added three new ingredients: congealed rubbergum, sliced bop cheek, and fermented tongue.
• Added [extremely redacted] and all its miscellaneous [redacted].
• Added a new music track for the Rainbow Wood, Lake Hinnom, and the Palladium Reef.
• Added many new items, implants, furniture, and other objects. They're listed below in the OTHER NEW THINGS section.

OTHER NEW THINGS

• Added a new wayfaring skill, Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes.
• Added new items: gravity grenade, plasma grenade, eigenpistol, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, light rail, hand rail, di-thermo beam, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, psychal fleshgun, step sowers, 3D cobblers, slip ring, gas tumbler, thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, chiral rings, tri-hologram bracelet, night-sight interpolators, precision nanon fingers, psychic meridian, kaleidocera cape, kaleidocera muffs, kaleidocera krakows, enigma cone, enigma cap, and sharpened polyp.
• 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 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 two new books: In Maqqom Yd and The Murmurs' Prayer.
• Added new walls: crysteel plate shear wall, star orchid marble wall, and fulcrete with square wave.
• Added a whole bunch of new furniture.
• Added a whole bunch of new tile art.

GAMEPLAY

• Flawless crysteel gear is now a bit rarer.
• Zetachrome gear is now much rarer.
• Gunslingers now start with Akimbo instead of Weak Spotter, and they start with much more ammo.
• Water Merchants now start with Short Blade.
• Gave several existing merchants cybernetic implants as wares.
• You can no longer disassemble non-takeable furniture.
• Tier 6 bits are now a little more common.
• You can no longer manipulate the results of cooking with nectar by using Precognition.
• Creatures beguiled via the cooking effect triggered action now lose interest in their beguilers after the metabolizing effect expires.
• Salt kraken now have their own unique behavior.
• Modified how plant-based cooking effects work.
• Updated Burgeoning plant-summoning tables to be better distributed and include more plants, particularly late-game plants.
• Soup sludges now appear in dynamic encounters.
• Moved the river referenced in Raising Indrix to south of the Kyakukya instead of north. Also fixed a bug with its starting location.
• Made moving across rivers, lakes, and the Rainbow Wood a little slower.
• You can now jump through squares that contain creatures who are out of phase or flight with you.
• Village ovens can no longer include psychal gland paste.
• 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.
• The Rainbow Wood is no longer considered a jungle for the purposes of wilderness lore.
• Generated villages now interact more robustly with their surrounding terrain.
• Gorged growths now dehydrate and crumble apart after a while.
• Meditation no longer occasionally cures gamma moth mutation.
• Damage reflected by equipment is now attributed to the equipment's wearer.
• You can no longer talk to your original body while dominating another creature. (This led to bad things.)
• Psionic weapons no longer affect inanimate objects.
• Night-vision goggles are now overloadable.
• Eater's flesh and luminous hoarshrooms now count as mushrooms for the purposes of triggering cooking effects.
• 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.
• 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).
• Rummaging creatures, such as arconauts, no longer rummage as villagers.

UI

• Made several general enhancements to the look and feel of the new UI.
• Added all new tiles for most missile weapons.
• Most things that interrupt autoact now provide a visual indicator of what caused the interruption, if it's something external.
• Disassembling something now exits the inventory menu when you're done.
• Disassemble-all is now interrupted if you become threatened by a nearby creature.
• Morphotypes now show up in the character sheet.
• Added a prerelease input manager binding for "move to point of interest".
• The carrying capacity bonus from Multiple Legs now reflects its description.
• 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.
• Irritable Genome's message now includes the mutation that was affected.
• Added a popup confirmation for targeting yourself with a geomagnetic disc.
• A visible rhinox getting ready to charge now interrupts autoact.
• The prerelease input manager now lets you rebind the cancel action.
• Getting from the current cell now prioritizes takeable items over liquids.
• Missile weapon targeting now has a bindable context menu.
• Changed ghost perch's color.
• Changed memory eater's ASCII glyph.
• Changed giant amoeba's ASCII glyph.
• Change twinning lamprey ASCII glyph color.

MISCELLANEOUS AND BUGFIXES

• Our official, community-managed wiki has a new home: https://wiki.cavesofqud.com. We updated the link in the Modding Utilities.
• Made significant visual enhancements to the world map.
• Made some changes to the ASCII worldmap.
• Added Omonporch and the Yd Freehold as landmarks.
• Renamed Wilderness Lore: Mountains to Wilderness Lore: Hills and Mountains.
• Having the equipment rack cybernetic implant no longer prevents you from receiving a certain achievement.
• You no longer receive a certain achievement earlier than is appropriate just by being repeatedly dismembered.
• You can no longer use the following items and abilities on the worldmap: hologram bracelet, Force Wall, Light Manipulation, Time Dilation, gas generation, and Spinnerets.
• The trip back from [redacted] now works more consistently.
• Using the sit interaction on a chair that's in your inventory now places the chair on the ground and sits on it, rather than silently failing.
• Recycling suits can no longer (uselessly) get the recycling mod.
• Added a new description, name color, and eat message for arsplice seed.
• Turrets mounting blood-gradient hand vacuums are now called blood-gradient vacuum turrets.
• Crab cherubim and mechanical crab cherubim now have claws.
• Clarified that the fitted with filters mod only protects against harmful gases if you're breathing them.
• Clarified in the description of giant hands that it applies to all weapon types.
• Clarified in the description of Akimbo that it applies to all missile weapon types.
• Greatly improved performance when a large party of creatures is on screen.
• 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 an error when a creature with no back grew wings.
• Fixed the worldmap tip displaying too soon (during world generation).
• Fixed incorrect pronouns in the description of sultan crocs.
• Fixed a bug that caused Regeneration to regrow your tongue while you were still affected by glotrot.
• Fixed a bug that caused ubernostrum tonics to remove glotrot without the cure.
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation's lase ability to fail when targeting a creature with mental mirror.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes generate inside walls.
• Fixed a bug that caused natural claw weapons from Skulk Tonic to remain after the effect expired.
• 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 you to be referred to in the third person when dealing damage with Sunder Mind.
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] to fail to render correctly if entered with penetrating radar enabled.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent [redacted] from carving murals if interrupted by a serialization cycle.
• Fixed a bug that caused pits and chasms to drop you into solid walls.
• Fixed a bug that caused objects to be placed on top of pits, leading to excessive build times as multiple zones were built.
• Fixed a bug that caused zone transitions to happen rapidly every time an object was swallowed by a vortex.
• Fixed a bug that caused gas generation to continue after transitioning to the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects like torches to sometimes persist after teleporting to another zone.
• Fixed a bug that caused geomagnetic disc to sometimes bounce to neutral and friendly creatures.
• Fixed a bug that caused villages or village outskirts to build over Pax Klanq's hut.
• Fixed a performance issue caused by aquatic or wall-walking creatures in your party trying to pathfind to you.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mental Mirror to be very unlikely to reflect mental attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused bonded companion cherubim and soup sludges to spawn without their party leaders or factions set.
• Fixed a bug that caused soup sludges to only render their first four liquid colors.
• Fixed a rare exception that prevented the ability manager from opening.
• Fixed a rare crash in Grit Gate.
• The "you" pronoun is no longer incorrectly used when creatures collect liquids.
• Fixed a bug that caused the minimap to share the message logs opacity setting.
• Fixed the pluralization of pneumatic pistons, anchor spikes, palladium electrodeposits, and tibular hydrojets.
• Fixed a bug that caused Golgotha and Bethesda Susa to not build properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused Joppa's opening story popup to give incorrect info.
• Fixed a bug that confused Joppa and the ruins of Joppa in certain contexts.
• [pets] Fixed a bug that caused You, but Mechanical not to inherit your anatomy.

DEBUG AND MODDING

• Added a new, highly-extensible data file, EmbarkModules.xml, that drives character creation.
• Added three new body types for clams, jellies, and starfish.
• Added some new predicates to conversations: IfTrueKin, IfNotTrueKin, IfGenotype, IfNotGenotype, IfSubtype, and IfNotSubtype.
• Unity impostors now support X and Y offsets.
• Fixed populations being replaced instead of merged.
• AllowedMutationCategories defined in Genotypes.xml now supports a comma separated list of included/excluded categories. E.g., "Physical,Morphotypes" = only physical and morphotypes; "*,-Mental" = everything but mental.
• Added a context menu to objects in the map editor for adding a part without the need of a new blueprint.
• Fixed a boot crash when defining duplicate conversation nodes.

This is a release candidate for Monday's launch. 202.89 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new book: In Maqqom Yd.
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: Mak, Goek, and Bep.
• Added new descriptions for the following objects: display breadboard, sewming machine, kiln, rock tumbler, lathe, glass printer, glass furnace, mannequin, light sculpture, brain sculpture, unfinished sculpture, painted column, painting, mushroom case, harp, rectangular bells, and hammered dulcimer.
• Added a new sound effect for the start of a svardym eggsac storm.
• Added a new sound effect and visual effect for someone nearby plucks a coral polyp.
• Refined most of the new content's ASCII.
• Made some changes to the ASCII worldmap.
• Added authentic stats for all the new furniture.
• New furniture now appears in dynamic villages.
• Made tier 6 bits a little more common.
• The prerelease input manager now lets you rebind the cancel action.
• Additional jumps triggered via cooking effects are now messaged better.
• Pathfinding now avoids hostile junk dollars.
• Goek now teaches Tongue and Cheek via the water ritual.
• Bep now identifies artifacts.
• Rummaging creatures, such as arconouts and svardym scrounges, no longer rummage as villagers.
• Slynth wanderers are now a bit more common.
• Slynth settling in the mopango hideout now cluster in a safer location.
• Slynth settlers are now docile, like other villagers.
• Legendary soup sludges are now be more easily distinguishable from normal ones.
• Removed some extraneous and fragile piping infrastructure from the Yd Freehold.
• Getting from the current cell now prioritizes takeable items over liquids.
• Missle weapon targeting now has a bindable context menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused a checkpoint to be created after the game had stopped and then overwrite your primary save.
• Fixed a bug that caused Mental Mirror to be very unlikely to reflect mental attacks.
• Fixed a bug that caused bonded companion cherubim and soup sludges to spawn without their party leaders or factions set.
• Fixed a bug that caused soup sludges to only render their first four liquid colors.
• Fixed a bug that caused errors when soup sludges spit algae or sunslag.
• Fixed a bug that caused Thah to choose a faction that no longer loved you when resolving the Landing Pads quest.
• Fixed a bug that caused Joppa's opening story popup to give incorrect info.
• Fixed a bug that confused Joppa and the ruins of Joppa in certain contexts.
• Fixed a tile color bug with semi-automatic pistol.
• [modding] AllowedMutationCategories defined in Genotypes.xml now supports a comma separated list of included/excluded categories. E.g., "Physical,Morphotypes" = only physical and morphotypes; "*,-Mental" = everything but mental.
• [modding] Added a context menu to objects in the map editor for adding a part without the need of a new blueprint.
• [modding] Fixed a boot crash when defining duplicate conversation nodes.

That's one week from today. This Friday, we'll post one last beta patch before the launch. Live and drink, friends.

202.88 - 'beta' branch

• Added new descriptions for the following objects: starmchair, sofa, multicabinet, chalkboard, marble steps, glass hydraulic pipes in the Yd Freehold, and fulcrete with square wave.
• Thermo casks are now considered artifacts.
• Night-sight interpolators now have a trade value.
• Svardym storms now last longer and eggs drop a bit less frequently.
• Lithofex gaze is now more visible in the reef.
• Crab cherubim and mechanical crab cherubim now have claws.
• Clarified that precision nanon fingers' 3X boost to crit chance applies only to base crit chance.
• Clarified that the fitted with filters mod only protects against harmful gases if you're breathing them.
• Creatures now render over clams.
• Clarified in the description of giant hands that it applies to all weapon types.
• Clarified in the description of Akimbo that it applies to all missile weapon types.
• The glass pipes in the Yd Freehold are now lacquered.
• Greatly improved performance when a large party of creatures is on screen.
• Swapped the tiles for Teleportation and Teleport Other.
• Minorly improved input performance.
• Minorly improved erformance when transitioning to or traveling on the world map.
• Fixed a bug in the alt overlay that revealed the tile of unidentified artifacts and disguised creatures.
• Fixed a bug in the alt overlay with the Yd Freehold's appearance.
• Fixed an bug that caused crashes during zone builds.
• Fixed a bug that caused empty "pool" objects to appear in zones.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to speak with Otho if he was selected for the resolution of the Landing Pads quest.
• Fixed several issues with variant selection on the Choose Mutations screen.
• Fixed a text error in slynth settler's dialogue.
• Fixed a typo in Mental Mirror's description.
• Fixed a typo in trining lamprey's description.
• Fixed a rare crash when transitioning to [redacted].

202.85 - 'beta' branch

• The new quest Landing Pads is now fully implemented start to finish.
• Added a new music track for Rainbow Wood, Lake Hinnom, and Palladium Reef.
• Fixed a major OSX hang on startup.
• Character generation screens now have hotkeys.
• Added arsplice hyphae to the subterranean reef.
• Added a new description, name color, and eat message for arsplice seed.
• Reduced the damage on-high voltage arc winder and the overloaded variants of both arc winder and high-voltage arc winder.
• Added new dialogue for gutsmongers.
• Added a new description for star orchid marble.
• Electrobow has a tile again.
• The Esper morphotype now has the right icon in the character creation UI.
• Turrets mounting blood-gradient hand vacuums are now called blood-gradient vacuum turrets.
• Baetyls no longer request nanon-modded items.

203.83 - 'beta' branch

• Added all new tiles for most missile weapons.
• Added new items: kaleidocera cape, kaleidocera muffs, kaleidocera krakows, enigma cone, and enigma cap.
• Added a new book: The Murmurs' Prayer.
• Added new descriptions for the following items: night-sight interpolaters, tri-hologram bracelet, slip ring, precision nanon fingers, step sowers, 3D cobblers, gas tumbler, chiral rings, eigenrifle, eigenpistol, light rail, hand rail, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, psychal fleshgun, di-thermo beam, and sharpened polyp.
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: slynth residents and wanderers, all the wild svardym, Geeub, Krka, Tillifergaewicz, Rokhas, and Warden Une.
• Added new descriptions for the following terrain objects: coral polyp, palladium strut, coral and palladium strut, swollen bulb, and coral pit.
• Build Library is now functional.
• You now autosave when you reach a checkpoint in Roleplay and Wander modes.
• Gorged growths who are members of settlements no longer crumble apart.
• Farmed bop sponges are no longer always ripe.
• Generated villages now have accurate descriptions on the world map.
• Night-sight interpolators now work like other kinds of night vision for the purpose of perceiving [redacted].
• Using the sit interaction on a chair that's in your inventory now places the chair on the ground and sits on it, rather than silently failing.
• Recycling suits can no longer (uselessly) get the recycling mod.
• Added a popup confirmation for targeting yourself with a geomagnetic disc.
• Fixed a bug that caused Regeneration to regrow your tongue while you were still affected by glotrot.
• Fixed a bug that caused ubernostrum tonics to remove glotrot without the cure.
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation's lase ability to fail when targeting a creature with mental mirror.
• Fixed a perfomance issue caused aquatic or wall-walking creatures in your party trying to pathfind to you.
• Fixed a grammar error in some messages when companions were swallowed whole.
• Fixed conversation choices getting resorting when you revisited a node.
• Fixed a bug that caused Golgotha and Bethesda Susa to not build properly.
• [pets] Fixed a bug that caused You, but Mechanical not to inherit your anatomy.

202.82 - 'beta' branch

• Flawless crysteel gear is now a bit rarer.
• Zetachrome gear is now much rarer.
• Added new creature descriptions: giant clam, ixlthyxl, tongue tyrant, star kraken, and galgal.
• Added new item descriptions: thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, and psychic meridian.
• Gorged growths now dehydrate and crumble apart after a while.
• Updated Burgeoning plant-summoning tables to be better distributed and include more plants, particularly late-game plants.
• Added some polish to the Hydropon.
• Warden Une now has appropriate equipment.
• Palladium struts are no longer takeable.
• Made several enhancements to [redacted].
• Irritable Genome's message now includes the mutation that was affected.
• Eater's flesh and luminous hoarshroom now counts as mushrooms for the purposes of triggering cooking effects.
• Fixed a bug that caused pits and chasms to drop you into solid walls.
• Fixed a bug that caused objects to be placed on top of pits, leading to excessive build times as multiple zones were built.
• Fixed a bug that caused zone transitions to happen rapidly every time an object was swallowed by a vortex.
• Fixed a bug that caused gas generation to continue after transitioning to the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects like torches to sometimes persist after teleporting to another zone.
• Fixed a bug that caused geomagnetic disc to sometimes bounce to neutral and friendly creatures.
• Fixed a bug that caused villages or village outskirts to build over Pax Klanq's hut.
• Fixed a bug that caused villages to use the wrong liquid type when building pools and rivers
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Seek the Heart of the Rainbow" quest step not to complete upon reaching the correct zone.
• Fixed a bug that caused the minimap to share the message logs opacity setting
• Fixed a bug that caused subtype tile detail colors to not be properly set
• Fixed the pluralization of pneumatic pistons, anchor spikes, palladium electrodeposits, and tibular hydrojets.

202.80

• Added a new kind of fauna: bop sponge.
• Added new butcherable and harvestable consumables: bop cheek and tongue twist.
• Added three new cooking effect domains: rubber-based, powerful rubber-based, and tongue-based.
• Added three new ingredients: congealed rubbergum, sliced bop cheek, and fermented tongue.
• The Yd Freehold now has a signature dish: Tongue and Cheek.
• Svardym no longer rain down on the Yd Freehold.
• Added a prerelease input manager binding for "move to point of interest".
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: twinning lamprey, trining lamprey, reef hermit, junk dollar, enigma snail, and plasma jelly.
• Having the equipment rack cybernetic implant no longer prevents you from receiving a certain achievement.
• You no longer receive a certain achievement earlier than is appropriate just by being repeatedly dismembered.
• Billowing conch of the Aji can no longer produce plasma.
• You can no longer use the following items and abilities on the worldmap: hologram bracelet, Force Wall, Light Manipulation, Time Dilation, gas generation, and Spinnerets.
• Generated villages now interact more robustly with their surrounding terrain.
• The trip back from [redacted] now works more consistently.
• Fixed an error when a creature with no back grew wings.
• Fixed the worldmap tip displaying too soon (during world generation).
• Fixed incorrect pronouns in the description of sultan crocs.
• Fixed a zonegen error in the Yd Freehold.
• Fixed a rare exception that prevented the ability manager from opening.
• Fixed an issue causing "BoxColliders does not support negative scale or size." spam in the message log.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent [redacted] from carving murals if interruped by a serialization cycle.
• [modding] Fixed populations being replaced instead of merged.

2.0.202.79

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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 items: gravity grenade, plasma grenade, eigenpistol, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, light rail, hand rail, di-thermo beam, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, psychal fleshgun, step sowers, 3D cobblers, slip ring, gas tumbler, thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, chiral rings, tri-hologram bracelet, night-sight interpolators, precision nanon fingers, psychic meridian.
• 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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Due to some team travel, we're skipping our weekly patch this week. Feature Friday will be back next week. Live and drink, friends.

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.
• Fixed a rare exception.

201.105/202.65

• If you know Meditate, you automatically begin meditating when you rest for 10 or more rounds uninterrupted.
• The effects of multiple items of serene visage on Meditate's cooldown now work properly.
• Added a new UI option: "Show ability cooldown warnings as message log entries instead of popups". Defaults to no.
• You can now choose to treat disarmed mines and bombs as scrap.
• Carapaces are now sturdy and cannot be cleaved.
• Evil twins and shadow duplicates no longer inherit the party leader of the original creature.
• Being wet no longer produces a visual effect.
• Bonuses to your cybernetics license tier granted by equipment no longer count toward your base tier for the purposes of upgrading your tier. (Note: This won't affect equipment already generated in saved games.) New language was added to becoming nooks to reflect this.
• Clarified in the item mod description that sturdy items cannot crack.
• Multiple sound effects playing at the same time are now better compressed into fewer effects.
• Made some performance improvements to liquid-rich environments.
• The estimated weight on the trade screen now includes the weight of the water that will be traded to pay for the transaction.
• Extrinsic limbs can no longer be set as primary limbs
• Fixed a bug that caused starting villages in the salt marsh and salt dunes to always be known for Butchery.
• Fixed some bugs with hostility cessation when creatures changed allegiances.
• Fixed ulnar stimulators remaining operational when switched off.
• Fixed a bug that caused spontaneous combustion to only trigger outside of combat instead of during combat.
• Fixed a bug that prevented newly sentient beings from being considered creatures in some contexts.
• Fixed a bug that prevented psychic Ego absorption from working.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented deaths from being correctly attributed to psychic Ego absorption.
• Fixed a bug that made creature names come up as blank in some circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused UI sounds to always play at full volume.
• Fixed a grammar error in trash rifling messages.
• Fixed some cases where creatures' cultures were not mapped properly for naming purposes.
• Fixed a bug that caused cloned sludges to share component liquids.
• [modding] The Chance property in population tables now supports "n/m" format to express "n chance in m". If no denominator is specified, 100 is assumed, per the current usage.

201.104/202.64

• Added new descriptions for books and crocs.
• Urchins now bleed ink.
• Books are no longer breakable.
• You now receive a popup when a non-trifling companion is sucked into a space-time vortex.
• Dynamically-named mutants who start with the Two-Headed mutation, including you, now sometimes generate with a name for each head, such as Ishrutep/Emehiras or Famoroq/Famaar.
• Tweaked the wording on the new companion engagement style options.
• Tonic application no longer messages as if the entire stack of tonics had been applied.
• Made some refinements and corrections to the iteraction between Shield Slam and Charge.
  • You now get a single Shield Slam per charge, not one per melee attack made.
  • Your Shield Slam no longer depends on any other attack made during the charge successfully hitting.
  • Shield Slamming at the end of a charge is now free of action cost rather than occasionally costing multiple additional turns.
• A number of powered items -- including bioscanning bracelets, telemetric visors, and powered exoskeletons -- no longer consume charge on the world map. (Unless they have the nav mod, which does consumes charge.)
• Techscanning now makes data disks show what they are for in the display name even if the player does not know Tinkering.
• Takeable containers on the ground now respond to smart use.
• Holographic shimscale mangrove trees and holographic dicalyptus trees no longer block movement. (This won't affect trees already generated in saved games.)
• Severed body parts no longer inherit the colors of liquid coverings affecting the creature they were severed from.
• Nacham's Ribbon and Vaam's Lens can now be powered via the biodynamic power plant implant or Electrical Generation. (This won't affect items already generated in saved games.)
• Compacted bone walls are now referred to as "some compacted bone" in sentences, not "a compacted bone".
• Made some improvements to pathfinding through friendly creatures.
• Spontaneous Combustion on NPCs now matches its player behaivor and no longer triggers in non-combat situations.
• You can no longer use the fill interaction to transubstantiate liquids from other dimensions.
• Campfire remains in liquid pools that prevent them from being reignited no longer count as campfires for purposes of whether you can start a new one. (This won't affect campfire remains already generated in saved games.)
• More types of objects now get in the way of making a campfire.
• Turrets can no longer be deployed on stairs or open shafts.
• Items that cannot be unequipped no longer message you about it when a process like breakage is trying to unequip them.
• Fixed a typo in autoact interrupt messages caused by your companions fighting.
• Fixed a bug where you could attempt taking all of your own inventory when equipping an item.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to equip the item under your cursor when you pressed a category shortcut key.
• Fixed a bug that caused item shortcut keys to not twiddle the item if the cursor was on a category.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally made you spend a turn while prone instead of standing up.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to talk to mayors of villages with complex signature liquids.
• Fixed a bug when you used ganglionic teleprojector from the equipment menu that let you continue to navigate the equipment menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused clones of creatures with proper names to also be treated as if they had proper names.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to warp back to the zone you left if you were dominating a creature with a party leader in that zone.
• Fixed a bug in the floating text that appeared when you were grabbed by a livid creeper.
• Fixed a typo in the messaging for activated ability cooldown durations.
• Fixed a bug that caused trailing commas to be included in some creatures' shortened names.
• Fixed a bug with dynamic tiles on some objects, like tombstones.

201.103/202.63

• Added the ability to direct companions to engage with enemies aggressively or only engage defensively. When only engaging defensively, your companion will not look for hostile targets to attack on its own initiative, only attacking targets in reaction to aggression against itself or another party member.
• If you and your companion both have Trash Divining, you now receive any secrets they discover by rifling through trash.
• The Lacquered item mod can now be applied to a wider range of items with hard surfaces and not just rustable metal items.
• Cloaks are now eligible for more item mods.
• Hookahs can now have common item mods like painted and engraved.
• Basic toolkits are now a bit more valuable.
• Extradimensional robots no longer leave behind non-extradimensional scrap when killed.
• Extradimensional glittermensch no longer drop non-extradimensional gemstones when damaged.
• Robots no longer leave behind ashes when killed by fire and lasers.
• The Love and Fear quest now has an additional step, more dialogue, and can now be completed after Kith and Kin.
• Neelahind now has her new dialog if you return Kindrish.
• Severed body parts now use shorter versions of the names of the creatures they were severed from..
• You can now swap positions with neutral, immobile creatures that have become mobile due to uplifted status (e.g., a turret that's a village warden).
• The AV and DV values of equipment are no longer averaged across multiple Floating Nearby slots.
• If you autoexplore while you have the capacity to dig, you now dig through walls to get to new locations rather than striking a wall once then stopping.
• Clarified that Wings gives 300 reputation with birds and winged mammals, not 400.
• Primordial soup sludges catalyzed by brain brine now spit dilute brain brine rather than the pure stuff.
• Messages about damage you've dealt now only ignore visibility if you are adjacent to what's being damaged.
• The Cybernetics tab of the Equipment screen now displays body parts using simpler language (e.g., "Hands" instead of "Worn on Hands").
• Improved generated text for "living as a nomad" snippet.
• Tweaked the stats of umber frock.
• Point-defense drones no longer consume charge when traveling on the world map.
• Added more safeguards against members of the same party deciding they should kill each other.
• Made companions joining party leaders in other zones more reliably immediate.
• Made companions joining party leaders able to overcome Stuck and Overburdened effects.
• Fixed a sequence break where you could asked your dynamic starting village about the Barathrumites after you started More Than a Willing Spirit.
• Fixed a bug that let you encode the psionic bits of an esper's psyche onto your own multiple times if you repeatedly dealt killing damage with one action.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to stand still when their next step would take them over a hostile plant.
• Fixed a bug that caused the position of the cursor to become unclear if you modded an item on the Tinkering screen with the last mod in the list.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to get equip failure messages when other creatures with complex equipment setups used temporal fugue.
• Fixed a bug that made some mopango burrow through walls when they were not intended to.
• Fixed a bug with gas-breathing mutations that caused their damage not to get attributed to the breather.
• Fixed a bug that caused some items not to stack after they had been repaired.
• Fixed a rare build error when a village was generated in a biome, such as slimy or tarry terrain.
• Fixed a bug in village farm and garden placement.
• Fixed a bug that caused hyperbiotic chairs owned by the Barathrumites to show up in Bethesda Susa.
• Fixed a bug that caused hyperbiotic chairs owned by the Barathrumites to be treated as a different item type from other hyperbiotic chairs.
• Fixed a bug that caused hyperbiotic chairs owned by the Barathrumites to not be automatically identified when you were promoted to Journeyfriend.
• Fixed unwanted asterisks appearing in tomb mural text.
• Fixed a typo in the Wings mutation description.
• Fixed a color issue in some dynamic quest dialog.
• Fixed color bleeding in the names of Templar phylacteries.
• Fixed a bug in Ereshkigal's dialog.
• Fixed a bug that caused two versions of the [redacted] secret to exist.
• Fixed a bug that caused various text-based indicators to be flipped on followers.
• Fixed a bug that caused Charge rendering to not respect flipped tiles.
• Fixed a bug that caused flower fields creatures to spawn in Bey Lah.
• Fixed a bug that caused some artifacts to retain their unidentified tile appearance after being identified.
• Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] to be rendered inert when the player was blocked from entering.

201.102/202.62

• Added a new movement command: Move to Point of Interest (default mapping: backspace). The command prompts you with a list of points of interest that you've discovered on the local map, then it autowalks you to the one you choose.
• Your companions' tiles now face the same direction as you do.
• Akimbo and Decapitate are now toggleable.
• Added better messaging when autoact is interrupted for reasons that may not be obvious, such as when one of your companion starts fighting something.
• NPC evaluation of which items to equip now takes move speed bonuses and energy-supply-dependent stat bonuses into account.
• Autoact is interrupted less frequently due to trifling companions such as burgeoned plants.
• Autoact is now interrupted by returning to the beginning of a sphynx-salt-induced precognitive vision.
• Mayor Haddas no longer generates as hated by pariahs or the Farmer's Guild.
• Default attacks such as fists no longer show up as physical features.
• Dynamically named items and extradimensional items are now marked as important by default.
• Bridges are visible again.
• Improved hostile creature AI to be better at advancing toward you when other creatures are in the way.
• Implants that are unidentified but installed on your body now have their real names displayed in becoming nook terminals.
• Attempting to create a campfire when there's already a campfire nearby now prompts you to move to the existing one if you aren't already next to it.
• Otho no longer has precognitive visions of the [redacted].
• Changed the tile and ASCII character color of oilskins to light black.
• Items offered as quest rewards by Warden Indrix are now always identified.
• Activating Stopsvalinn now works when it is equipped in a hand.
• You now see combat messages you are involved in even if the other creature involved is invisible.
• Liquid pools now conduct electricity.
• Fixed a bug that caused some adverse tonic reactions to lock up the game.
• Fixed creatures not being dragged when successfully hooked by Hook & Drag.
• Fixed Time Dilation not activating.
• Fixed some buggy behavior when using multiple sphynx salt tonics.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to not get the reputation bonus with highly entropic beings from the Space-Time Vortex mutation.
• Fixed a bug that caused liquid coverings to incorrectly flash color.
• Fixed a bug that caused Zothom the Penitent, Doyoba, Dadogom, Gyamyo, and Yona to be treated as if they didn't have proper names.
• Fixed some rogue punctuation in Barathrumite dialogue.
• Fixed typo in Q Girl's dialog.
• Fixed a persistent case of double-pariah naming.
• Fixed a grammar error in the death messages of companions with pseudo-plural pronouns.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to attempt to attack gas clouds they had been injured by.
• Fixed a bug that generated error messages in some liquid behavior, mostly in Golgotha.
• Fixed a bug that made some uniquely named recoilers have odd names.