Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 2, 2021

201.85/202.45

Added a new tile for mechanical wings.
Aquatic creatures now dream in blub-ridden language.
Dirt paths, salt paths, and dirt roads are now more varied in their appearance.
Added a subtle visual effect when you walk on dirt paths, salt paths, and dirt roads, meant to suggest leaving tracks.
Reverted a change from last week that made the Light Manipulation recharge rate affected by Willpower. It no longer is.
Added a death message for being pricked to death by fracti.
Schrodinger pages now warn before use if they are in a container owned by somebody else.
Data disks for the co-processor mod no longer falsely indicate that the modded item will provide 0 units of compute power.
Item mods described using "with" now aggregate together, so for example you might have a "ganglionic teleprojector with electromagnetic shielding, filters, and suspensors" rather than a "ganglionic teleprojector with electromagnetic shielding with filters with suspensors".
Visible mines are now highlighted in the alt overlay in red or green according to whether they belong to a creature hostile to the player.
Visible bombs are now highlighted in the alt overlay in red.
Baboons becoming terrified of blood-stained neck-rings no longer leaves messages in the message log.
Strip flies are now better at avoiding trying to steal equipment that they will not be able to remove from your body.
Fixed that bug that caused Long Blade powers like Swipe and Lunge to not work if you learned them without learning the base skill first.
Fixed a bug that caused the effect of the Mark of Death to persist even if the mark was removed from your body.
Fixed a bug that caused attribute shifts from certain sources such as skulk injectors to not work properly.
Fixed a bug that caused key bindings to display improperly.
Fixed a bug that caused transparent liquid containers to retain the appearance of the liquid they previously contained.
Fixed a pair of bugs that caused salt dunes to turn into white squares when you revisited their zones after having left for a while.
Fixed a bug that caused NPC mines to be considered hostile to the player less often than they should have been.
Fixed a bug that made Hook and Drag not work.
Fixed a bug allowing legendary crafters to choose a newline character as a craftmark, leading to odd name displays.
Fixed a bug that made display name modifiers like slimy or [flying] commute to your sultan murals.
[modding] Conversations support some new attributes.
- SetStringState="name,value" sets the global string state labeled 'name' to 'value' (if 'value' is empty, it unsets the state)
- SetIntState="name,value" sets the global integer state labeled 'name' to 'value' (if 'value' is empty, it unsets the state)
- AddIntState="name,value" adds 'value' to the global integer state labeled 'name'
- SetBooleanState="name,value" sets the global boolean state labeled 'name' to 'value', which should be true or false (if 'value' is empty, it unsets the state)
- ToggleBooleanState="name" toggles the global boolean state labeled 'name'
- IfTestState="test" makes the conversation element conditional on a test of game state (see https://cavesofqud.fandom.com/wiki/Modding:Conversation for details)
[debug] Enabling "Show debug information on object and system internals" now lets you interact with flooring objects that you otherwise couldn't interact with.

[ 2021-04-03 09:08:23 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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