Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - September 15, 2023

204.104

The reload command no longer attempts to reload point-defense drones.
When creatures die in the same square as a wall or other movement-blocking object, items they had equipped now drop into a nearby passable square if one is available.
Creatures are now more likely to use Quill Fling if they are adjacent to multiple hostile creatures and less likely to use it if there are adjacent to friendlies or neutrals (especially if those are badly hurt) or objects that may cause trouble to damage.
Copies of the sheaf of tattered parchment no longer appear randomly in the world.
Barathrumites present in Grit Gate at the start of A Call to Arms no longer perform idle behavior until A Call to Arms is over.
Horned chameleons that are mimicking something else's color are now only recognized by autoact as hostile at a distance of 3 squares or less.
Mimics that are mimicking something else now are no longer recognized by autoact as hostile.
Clonelings now stop cloning attempts in progress when their ability to clone becomes forbidden or otherwise unusable.
Spider creatures who have prominent roles in villages no longer compulsively attack creatures who become stuck near them. The same is true of Sheba Hagadias if she is a spider creature.
Sheba Hagadias is now automatically revealed if she is a type of creature that is usually hidden.
When you try to walk into a brick wall, your way is now referred to as being blocked by some brick, not a brick.
Idle creatures will now sometimes move to a chair that isn't too far away in order to sit on it for a while, rather than only sitting on chairs that are in the same square as them.
Fixed a bug that caused excessive failure popups when trying to auto-equip an item while stuck.
Fixed a bug that made falling down a coral pit display messages both that you fell down a coral pit and fell down a deep shaft.
Fixed a bug that caused villages and ruins to generate with far more inaccessible areas than intended.
Fixed a bug that caused temporal fugue clones to spawn their own copies of Either/Or.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to hit walls with thrown objects.
Fixed a bug that made throwing reveal the identified appearance of unidentified artifacts.
Fixed a bug that made energy cell replacement on artifacts in your inventory or equipped default to cancelling out of the dialog if you had no suitable cells for the artifact.
Fixed a bug that made containers filled with convalessence, even in normal environmental temperatures, sublimate away and, in the case of regen tanks, explode.
Fixed an error that could occur during world generation when spawning legendary animated versions of high-tech furniture.
[modding] Updated the mod compiler, allowing projects to use C# language version 9.
[modding] Updated the mod toolkit's csproj template.
[modding] Added Before="[ELEMENT_ID]" and After="[ELEMENT_ID]" attributes to Conversations.xml, which positions the element relative to the referenced id.

205.63 - 'beta' branch

Fixed a bug that caused doubled navigation inputs in some cases.
Fixed 'm' not opening the modding utilities on the main menu.
[modding] The workshop uploader now provides a native file picker for images.
[modding] The workshop uploader now allows you to close the upload status screen after an error.
[modding] The workshop uploader now allows you to elide hidden files from your uploads.
[modding] The map editor now provides a native file picker for maps.
[modding] The mod manager now displays disabled mods as grey instead of red.

[ 2023-09-16 06:28:35 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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