Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - September 24, 2021

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.

[ 2021-09-25 05:34:06 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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