Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 7, 2023

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Great magma crabs now leave behind basalt when they die.
Creatures will no longer prioritize equipping the gaslight chisel over better weapons.
The stated neutron flux requirement for the [redacted] quest now matches what Klanq requires.
Fire ant queens, segmented mirthworms, and worms of the earth can no longer spawn creatures on the world map.
Walls with pipes installed in them now get their ignition temperature raised to 1200 degrees if it was below 1200 degrees, preventing random villages with lava-based hydraulics in their wooden walls from instantly bursting into flame.
The Barathrum clock with Q Girl pendulum no longer sometimes break adjacent power systems when picked up. This will not affect clocks already loaded in existing save games.
Applied a probable fix for magnetic bottles issuing a warning while traveling on the world map, then exploding before the player has a chance to address the situation.
In most cases, any mods that could be applied to a piece of armor prior to magnetization can now also be applied to it afterward.
Tweaked item population tables.
Made some further improvements to electrical arc messaging.
Fixed a bug that caused bows to not automatically reload after firing.
Fixed a bug that caused bows to bring up a menu for type of ammo to reload with any time you had more than one type of arrow instead of automatically reloading with the same type of arrow if available.
Fixed a bug that caused the bilge sphincter to replace your stinger.
Fixed a bug that caused electrical arcs emanating from equipment to be described as coming from "somewhere".
Fixed a bug that made electrical arcs with no place to go cause errors.
Fixed a bug that caused some corners of the river Yonth to generate as blank zones.
Fixed a crash that occurred when multiple creatures occupying the same cell attempted to swap positions.
Fixed a typo in ixlthyxl's description.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to contract blurry vision and monochrome at the same time under exotic circumstances, potentially resulting in incurable monochrome.
[modding] Bonded companions with proper names now have display names of the form "Gatt Alhonyawr, hired guard" rather than "Gatt Alhonyawr and hired guard".
Added a "soundlog" wish to show the last 20 requests processed by the sound engine

[ 2023-04-08 08:24:45 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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