Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - June 3, 2022

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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.

[ 2022-06-04 06:05:53 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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