KeeperRL Alpha 25 is finally out! This is another patch with a lot of gameplay improvements, focusing especially on dungeon development. It includes moat building, special items and minions and a new Keeper character. Check out the change log below for details!
The full change log: Gameplay

• Dark knight, a new Keeper character focused on melee skills.
• Digging moats.
• Added "ego" items with special effects, which can be crafted by extraordinarily talented, and usually also insane minions.
• Added special minions with extra positive or negative buffs.
• All AI, including enemies, can use portals when navigating around.
• Worker AI will pick up items from multiple tiles before hauling them back.
• Beast minions don't trigger enemies with their attacks.
• Equipping, picking up, and dropping equipment doesn't use up turn.
• Enemy AI will construct bridges if they're cut off by water.
• Added "stand ground", and "ignore enemies" team orders.
• Removed the "proximity" trigger from cyclops.
• Every creature has separate combat experience independent of training.
• Entire wolf pack takes up one population spot.
• Vampire lord is stronger.
• Adamantium golems are vulnerable to magic.
• Added "fireball" spell.
• Dwarves and ants won't attack after player mines in their vicinity but, not breaching their mineral veins.
• Bridges can be removed.
• Escape spell teleports away from fire.
• All prisoners can construct furniture.
• Added potions of melee and spell vulnerability.
• Added night vision mushrooms.
• Added stone statue, which increases population by up to 4.
• Summoned creatures, like flies, aren't automatically added to current team.
• Changes in the building menu: bridge moved to "Structure". Changed some hotkeys.
• Creature's can pick up a single heavy item over their carry limit.
• Up to 4 prisoners are allowed with having a prison built.
• Tunnels can be filled up with hard rock.
• Allowed building fountains in the dungeon.
• Summoned creatures disappear when summoner is knocked-out.
• Villains won't launch attacks with undead minions during the day.
• Removed the scroll of darkness and made the vampire lord a permanent darkness source.
• All prisoners are poison resistant.
• Dogs and other animals can be petted. AI will also pet animals sometimes.

• New villains UI with attack and trigger notifications, easier pillaging and browsing villains.
• New animated sprites for water, lava, torches, fountain.
• Animations for melee attacks and creature death.
• New sprites for zombie, bears, and the warriors tribe.
• Creature's health percentage is displayed in map legend.
• Immigrants first name is displayed in immigrant menu.
• New UI for selecting numbers.
• Added music and sfx volume controls.
• Added an in-game bug reporting menu.
• Message boards can be viewed in real-time mode by clicking on them.
• Icons of all items lying on the ground or in a creature's possession are displayed in map legend.
• Portals are colored based on their pairing.

• Improved late game framerate.
• Fixed attacker AI issues which caused them to never reach the player.
• Fixed lighting glitch related to trees being destroyed while on fire.
• Fixed issue with bogus "enter tile?" warning after tile is no longer on fire.
• Fixed kraken's behavior.
• Fixed spell and buff timeouts are on retired keeper maps.
• Doppelganger no longer absorbs some effects that did't make sense, like "collapsed", "stunned", etc.
• Placing traps on top of doors and other furniture is not allowed.
• Game will create a directory for save files if it doesn't exist.
• Tile memory is updated when items are pillaged using the villain menu.
• Fixed tiny glitches when rendering fog-of-war.
• Made it impossible to retire in the tutorial.
• Fixed crash caused by enslaving the same retire creature twice.