Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - April 24, 2020 (beta branch)

Tomb-related notes:

We added more polish to the crematory.
Redesigned the columbarium.
Added ASCII art to the look screen for urns.
Urn dusters now walk around dusting urns in the columbarium.
Fixed some bugs with the interaction of various crematory objects.
Added a visual effect for when objects are pushed by industrial fans.
Added descriptions for the following objects: conveyor drive unit, conveyor belt, rubber curtains, bones, ashes, industrial fan, miasmatic ash, machine wall, metal door, plastic tree, statue of Eater, full-spectrum bright sconce, elevator shaft, empty urn, marble walkway, sunflower, and scrapable deposit box.
Edited the ASCII glyphs for the entire crematory.
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General notes:

You can now use water to clean your stained equipment via inventory actions on either your water containers or your stained equipment.
You can now use the Walk keybind from the Look menu to autowalk to the tile you're looking at.
Offhand attacks work again.
Changed the glyph and tile colors of non-mayor quest givers in villages from dark green to bright yellow. Accordingly, we also changed Mehmet's color to bright yellow.
Girshlings you encounter outside of Red Rock no longer advance 'What's Eating the Watervine?'.
The water ritual now consumes a dram of liquid only when you initiate it instead of consuming one for every action you take during it.
Force fields you can pass through no longer interrupt automove regardless of their source.
Psychic hunters are no longer incorrectly interdicted on maps without reality stabilization.
Cybernetic implants that occupy an equipment slot are no longer shown twice in the implantee's description.
Temporary items can no longer be used as tinkering components.
Improved the grammar in "you pass by" messages.
Fixed a bug that caused Rebuke Robot to fail way more often than it should.
Fixed a bug that caused take-all to not work in the classic UI looting menu when the cursor was on a category rather than an item.
Fixed a bug that caused the 'Tweet this character build' button to not work.
[debug]Added a new wish, "factionencounter:", that generates a special faction encounter in your current zone. For example, wishing for "factionencounter:Templar" generates a Templar faction encounter. You can override the tier and level values for the zone, both of which affect the creatures generated for the faction encounter, like so: "factionencounter::" and "factionencounter:::".
[modding] The ConversationScript part now supports a Color field that's used to specify a color or shader to be applied to the creature's conversation text.
[modding] Self-closing tags in the XML no longer skip the next mutation when they're loaded.
[modding] The new blueprints loader no longer crashes when given an with no Value (it assumes 0 instead).
[modding] Added Transform > Flip Vertical to the map editor.
[modding] Added File > Reload Blueprints to the map editor. This lets you reload ObjectBlueprints.xml without quitting and reopening the editor.

[ 2020-04-25 03:28:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Caves of Qud
Freehold Games

Developer

Freehold Games

Publisher

2015-07-15

Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer EA

Who are you?

Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a pure-strain descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes—the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the Holy City; the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul; or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon.

You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.

You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."

What can you do?

Anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world.

Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects and 24 castes and kits—outfit yourself with wings, two heads, quills, four arms, flaming hands, or the power to clone yourself—it's all the character diversity you could want.
Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations—each world is nearly 1 million maps large.

Dig through everything—don't like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point.
Hack the limbs off monsters—every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things.
Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions—apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings—just to name a few.
Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.
Learn the lore—there's a story in every nook, from legendary items with storied pasts to in-game history books written by plant historians.
Die—Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent. Don't worry, though—you can always roll a new character.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 18.04. and CentOS 7
Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
Storage: 2 GB available space

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