Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - March 31, 2023

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We made some changes to how electrical conductivity works (ie, what determines which objects electrical arcs leap to).
- Liquid pools now have their conductivity correctly calculated based on their component mixtures. Electrical arcs now correctly leap across conductive pools of liquid.
- Made some tweaks to creature conductivity calculations.
- A creature who wears footwear that's less conductive than they are now gets some additional anti-conductivity protection.
- Arcs no longer leap to flying creatures unless they are the initial target of a discharge.
- Arcs can now travel diagonally.
- Improved the messaging around arc leaping, especially for when a creature avoids an arc due to anti-conductive footwear.
Added some alternate tiles for bookshelves with items in them.
Dynamic quest rewards are now identified.
Data disks offered as dynamic quest rewards now display the item blueprint they teach.
You now need to have the appropriate Tinker skill level to build an item, rather than have that skill level only when learning the blueprint.
Village tinkers can no longer recharge broken or rusted energy cells.
Legendary pilgrims no longer abandon their lairs.
Conservators shoot their lightlocks again.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to be cancelled as if your concentration slipped when you had high quickness and your target died prematurely.
Fixed a bug that caused traipsing mortars to fail to equip their natural melee weapons.
Fixed a bug that caused villagers in villages with pets to talk about nothing except those pets.
Fixed a bug that caused stingers to repeatedly re-equip themselves when mutations changed.
Fixed a crash that occurred when a creature fell in love with itself after stepping in dilute warm static.
Fixed a bug that caused creatures not to receive random cybernetics.
[modding] Common rendering colors are now accessible in C# via The.Color API. For example, The.Color.Red returns the Color value of 'R' previously accessed from the ColorUtility.ColorMap dictionary.

[ 2023-04-01 04:29:36 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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