Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 9, 2021

201.88/202.48

When furniture with integrated power transmission systems becomes animated, the resulting newly sentient being no longer breaks every time it moves.
You can no longer do the following while confused: perform interactions related to note taking, mark things important or unimportant, or mod items with tinkering.
Auto-disassemble no longer attempts to disassemble artifacts owned by others.
Take All is now handled as an ongoing process via autoact, meaning it takes one item or stack at a time and can be interrupted by hostile creatures or damage.
Removed the gender restrictions on True Kin.
Gave chitinous puma and slumberling weapon skills appropriate for their claws.
Antelope cherubim now belong to the antelopes faction.
Nanopneumatic jackhammers are now tinkerable and disassemblable.
Some missile weapons now have their ammo counts colored in the console UI sidebar.
If, while wielding a turbow that is powered and has an arrow loaded, you use the reload command and select an arrow from inventory to reload with, you are no longer asked afterward about loading the turbow's energy cell socket.
Upgraded the appearance of liquid splashes.
Fixed a bug that caused Burrowing Claws to keep pathfinding through walls and continue to grant the Dig ability after you toggled it off.
You now pathfind through walls when you have a pickaxe or nanopneumatic jackhammer equipped.
You no longer pathfind through walls that are owned by others.
Changed the display text on the Wait keybind to "Wait / Pat at flames".
Long Blades stances are no longer visible on sleeping creatures.
Clarified in the Spread Klanq quest text that the faction members you puff on must be sentient.
Normalized Euclid's gender and pronouns.
Fixed a bug that caused smart use to not work on chests and bookshelves.
Fixed a bug that caused the permanent attribute bonuses from Triple-Jointed, Double-Muscled, and Two-Hearted to be treated as temporary under certain circumstances.
Fixed a bug that caused it to be possible for creatures with Wings to be flying and sitting at the same time.
Fixed a bug that caused you to keep your Long Blade stances when you acquired the Lond Blades skill via a skillsoft implanted that you later uninstalled.
Fixed a bug that caused some legendary glow-wights to generate extra copies of their entourages after you saved and loaded. This may happen one last time in existing saves.
Fixed a bug that caused options to occasionally get unintentionally cleared during a data hotload.
Fixed [redacted] as it appears in On the Origins and Nature of the Dark Calculus.

[ 2021-04-10 06:12:16 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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