January 24th, 2012· A number of crash fixes.
· Fix new games overwriting existing saves in one case.
· Fix Temple overflow gods not being randomized
September 4th, 2011· Fix missing portals to Zot on D:27 with restart_after_game after Sprint.
· Fix most large special maps not being generated.
· Fix mad amounts of divine gifts in certain cases.
· Don’t duplicate monsters when exiting the Abyss.
· Fix a lock-up on selecting a random character.
· A number of crash fixes.
· Some documentation amendments.
· Don’t stop butchering on unimportant messages.
· Add a command “show runes” (‘}’) that was documented but not implemented.
April 28th, 2011· Bug fixes
· Fix #3676: crashes when butcher delay tries to switch back to empty hands.
· Fix #3748: crash when viewing aptitude with CK or Wa selected.
· Fix a crash when an aptitude was improved between saves.
· Fix #3156, #3709: cloud safety checks getting randomized AC reductions.
· Fix #3598: if necessary, update perma-mutation if you gain a mutation.
· Fix #2395: Disallow ending forms/levitation if it would cause drowning.
· Fix antitraining when opposite skill is nil.
· Stop quick actions from letting you search faster.
· Don’t avoid glow by cancelling semicontrolled blinks with enter instead of escape.
· Fix trying to climb when overloaded taking a turn.
· Fix #3801: Don’t consume a turn when trying to go downstairs while levitating.
· Fix #3660: canceling DD recharging ability still costing max MP.
· Fix #3781: wall clinging not triggering traps.
· No stealth bonus from boots if you’re flying or in water.
· Fix clinging status not updated properly when switching out of spider form.
· Fix #3444: off-by-one error in autopickup_no_burden checks.
· Fix #3334: boot of levitation message when melding and not levitating.
· Message fix for levitation while clinging.
· Other changes for player characters
· Disable Arcane Marksmen.
· All sources of berserk are blocked at “Very Hungry”. Berserk automatically stops when you hit “Starving”.
· Remove experience pool limit; abbreviate the XP pool above 100K.
· Replace scroll reading penalty while brainless with 80% failure chance.
· A wielded ranged weapon will only “clumsily bash” monsters, no matter its enchantment.
· Prompt the player before moving to a deadly cell with an expiring status.
· Remove the satiation requirements from evokable invis.
· Disable ghost creation/loading in wizard non-debug mode.
· Better warning messages for form and levitation expiration.
· Special Airstrike message if struck while flying.
· Don’t auto-attack toadstools when wielding the Wrath of Trog.
· Reduce the spam when butchering with artefacts.
· Consistently abort teleportation attempts when wearing stasis or -TELE.
· Nerf Felid aptitudes: Fighting/UC: 0 -> -2, Ice/Earth: -1 -> -2, improve Cj: -2 -> -1.
· Decrease Felid’s factor for getting hp from Fighting from 1/5 -> 1/8.
· Reduce Felid exp modifier from 15 to 16.
· Don’t let Felids (auto)quiver anything, hide the Qv line.
· Obey no_tele_into when bringing you a new fresh kitty.
· Give Ogres an extra +1 hp per level, and +3 apts in Fighting and M&F.
· Let Kenku use beak+talons for butchering, like birds they are.
· Mention dietary and drinkary habits of mummies on the ‘A’ screen.
· Meld all weapons unless you’re in a form that allows wielding.
· Don’t consider melding a distortion weapon to be unwielding.
· Don’t check inscriptions on melding stuff — you’re not removing them.
· Don’t show “it sticks to your hand” on cursed unmeld.
· Prevent ice form from picking items at the bottom of deep water.
· Disallow wearing hats in spider or ice form.
· Allow wearing shields in statue form.
· Don’t give Green Dracs poison spit in spider form.
· Don’t cling to the wall when levitating.
· Clear clinging status when taking stairs.
· Don’t drown when transforming into a flying form while clinging.
· Allow spider form to scramble out of deep water by clinging to a wall. (#2967)
· Allow extending spider form while clinging over dangerous terrain
· Set clinging status colour according to the current feature.
· Allow wall clinging on closed doors (#3778).
· Don’t give Halfling hunters a buckler for free.
· Save weapon selection for quarterstaves with new games.
· Let player elves have elven gear.
· Gods
· Ashenzari
· Fix #3344: Don’t crash if you.transfer_to_skill somehow is SK_NONE.
· Fix #3735: some dropped and useless items being autopickuped.
· Don’t crash on old saves in Ashenzari penance.
· New Ashenzari passive ability: identify monster equipment with chance boundedness/3.
· Ashenzari also warns about monsters’ wands.
· Nerf Ashenzari transfer knowledge: double XP penalty (20%), greatly increase piety cost 10 -> 25.
· Lower piety gain.
· Forbid reskilling from or into Fighting.
· Make scrying fail proof and instantaneous.
· Ashenzari: scale passive mapping density with piety.
· Ashenzari on-sight item identification.
· Reskilling: keep the same letters between the from and to menu.
· Wrath: Reduces xp gain by 50%.
· Allow Ashenzarites to cancel scrolls of remove curse.
· Allow Ashenzarites to choose which piece of armour/jewellery to curse.
· The good gods: Elyvilon, The Shining One, Zin
· Shorten and tweak Elyvilon’s ^! description to fit in an 80×24 screen.
· Don’t consume food/mp/piety when trying to pacify invalid targets.
· Make TSO non-holy summon extension at most double the current duration.
· Zin forbids shapeshifting spells and protects against Kirke’s pig spell.
· Fix recite working through walls and squarelosish.
· Make recite train more often.
· Add a message when you switch from a good god to another good god.
· Other gods
· No stat boosts during Cheibriados penance.
· Fedhas: Don’t blame the player for trees felled by monster-cast tornado.
· Reduce the number of corpses from Kiku’s invocation.
· Makhleb: Fix Lesser Servant summoning chaos spawn instead of hellwings.
· Increase piety cost of Makhleb’s greater servant, since 1s were improved.
· Fix Okawaru not accepting kills of holy beings.
· Repair Xom’s potion of experience.
· When Xom lifesaves you, clear stat_zero penalty.
· Let His Xomminess grant you extra xp at level 27 (xp pool).
· Don’t let Yred gift Eidolons anymore.
· General
· No instant divine retribution — many gods are abusable.
· Don’t give experience or items for killing monsters from god wrath
· Reduce the amount of unrands among god gifts.
· Monsters
· Bug fixes
· Don’t crash on banishing dancing weapons; don’t abyss any kinds of summons.
· Fix a crash when the player thinks the monster has a wand but it doesn’t.
· Fix #2404: Disallow polymorphing monsters taking the stairs.
· Fix #2927: crash when looking up ghosts in the db search.
· Fix non-ghost spells not getting loaded.
· Fix silence working on demons, orbs of fire, etc.
· Fix #3750: coming into view messages ignoring mislead.
· Fix shouting monsters not being announced.
· Fix resurrected shedu being placed in bad places.
· Fix #3718: grey draconians not floundering in deep water.
· Don’t give a chance to hit rock worms in walls except in Zotdef.
· Fix #3689: dual wielding monsters’ descriptions.
· Mimics
· Remove trap mimics.
· Disable portal mimic generation for 0.8.
· Prevent stair mimics from posing as branch stairs.
· Don’t place downstairs mimic on branch bottom, and vice versa.
· Make door mimics replace actual doors.
· Make item mimics appear earlier, reduce both types’ rarity.
· Don’t include unknown mimics in beam targetting.
· Include item type in item mimics’ names.
· Uniques
· Disable Terpsichore, she’s not ready for 0.8.
· Give Asmodeus a permanent ring of flames, replace greater demon with fire summon, remove bolt of draining.
· Dispater: give LCS instead of lightning bolt, remove common demon summon.
· Mnoleg: + AF_BLINK/AF_MUTATE attacks, -greater demon, -invis, +summon eyeballs, more hp.
· Lom Lobon: give AF_ANTIMAGIC attacks.
· Make Antaeus amphibious again.
· Make the royal jelly stay on Slime:6.
· Give Grinder AF_PAIN attacks instead of a weapon.
· Give Pikel a whip of elec instead of pain.
· Remove rF+ and rC+ from Nergalle.
· Allow Ijyb to get high-tier wands in normal game.
· Give Jory Mesmerise (new spell) instead of Cause Fear.
· Adjust Roxanne’s casting messages, since she can’t move.
· Other monster-related changes
· Don’t give experience or items for killing monsters from god wrath or miscasts.
· Revert monsters avoiding walking into clouds — the new behaviour was abusable.
· Don’t cancel monster travels when player goes out of LoS.
· Don’t make a monster at the edge of LOS leave a trail.
· No elephants in D and Vaults, slightly reduce their frequency in Lair.
· Announce all monsters “coming into view” at once.
· Give the non-spellcasting random pan lords (10% chance) a guaranteed melee brand, and a chance of greater speed.
· Restore monster speeds for Orb Guardian, Royal Jelly, Fiends, Storm/Golden dragon, Grater Mummy.
· Tweak holy monster speeds: phoenix/blessed toe: 10, pearl dragon/shedu: 12.
· Improve Cacodemons: -Dig, -Call Imp, +Energy Bolt, +Slow, +Confuse, + 3 levels rPois/Elec, extra attack, more health.
· Green Death, Blue Death: remove call imp.
· Give Eidola spells: Cause Fear and Pain.
· Give giant orange brains Cause Fear instead of Polymorph Other.
· Hunger attack takes 25% of your nutrition.
· Give clinging to geckos, giant mites, cockroaches and demonic crawlers.
· Allow fake rakshasa to use weapons and armour like real ones; don’t hide equipment of Mara and rakshasa.
· Rework monster rElec levels.
· Set the xp for vanilla orcs to 3.
· Remove bears, replace with grizzly or black bears where appropriate.
· Boost monster ghouls’ health and damage.
· Reduce electric eel accuracy slightly.
· Make Fiends and Pit Fiends use regular spells rather than abilities.
· Give vampires blood.
· Give Ophan high intelligence.
· Convert shedu’s main attack to kick instead of claw.
· Allow raising trapdoor spider zombies.
· Always remove the mold when fungal colony is destroyed.
· Add a message for monsters casting Trog’s Hand.
· Spells
· Bug fixes
· Fix #3650: Don’t spend turn/MP when aborting the berserk spell.
· Fix placing Fire Storm on a wall.
· Don’t allow cancelling out of chain lightning with ally prompts.
· Guarantee IOOD placement on tiny levels.
· Correct the colour of LRDed glass.
· Don’t display a success message when aborting sublimation of blood at full mp.
· Books
· Remove Summon Hydra from the Book of Summonings.
· New spellbook, book of zoology: summon butterflies, sticks to snakes, call canine familiar, ice form, summon ice beast, summon hydra.
· Move Silence from the book of Maledictions to War Chants (replaces Haste).
· Add IOOD to the book of Power.
· Other spell-related changes
· Tornado changes for 0.8: pure Air, 80% damage, negative spell enhancer.
· Disable Tukima’s Ball as a player spell.
· Remove the Stonemail spell.
· Allow Sticks to Snakes on javelins, disallow on steel/silver stuff.
· Death channel spectral monsters are not abjurable.
· Invisibility becomes pure Hex.
· Silence becomes Charms/Air.
· Brand spells go back to being Charms.
· Simplify low spell success adjectives: Merge Cruddy and Bad into Very Poor (now 5-30%).
· Make poison clouds all lightgreen.
· Apportation targetting: allow cycling with +/-.
· Don’t destroy the rest when apporting part of a stack.
· Don’t destroy items apported if at the item limit.
· Don’t rot while under Death’s Door.
· Fix spells being unaffected by antimagic in some cases.
· Items
· Bug fixes
· Fix #2722: crash when accessing a buggy deck’s description.
· Fix 2535: “stasis identification check.
· Fix scroll of fear not being use-IDed properly.
· Fix placeholders in Xom’s book gift names.
· Remove nutrition from kills with vampiric weapons.
· Fix #3614: wizmode creating “cards” not working.
· Fix an out-of-bounds assertion with unknown rings of sustain ability.
· Fix #3441: inventory actions occasionally affecting the wrong item.
· Fix #3319: Don’t prevent butcher swap with temporary distortion brand.
· Fix #3217: equipping sInv artefact not reactivating autopickup.
· Fix #3682: Identify brand of vampiric and holy artefact weapons when wielding fail.
· Fix throwing nets becoming “stuck” after a monster pushed past another monster trapped in a net.
· Prohibit flame-branded missiles from entering trees and wax.
· Filter scrolls of (old) paper out of the item knowledge screen.
· Cards
· New card for decks of Wonder: the Alchemist, transmuting some of your gold into health and magic.
· Don’t let high-power common/rare Experience card be better than legendary.
· Fill the Potion card effect list with potions that are useful in battle.
· Make the Torment and Experience cards a little rarer.
· Improve the Hammer card at low power.
· Reduce the maximum duration of Pentagram, Dance, Foxfire and Bones cards.
· Tweak the weapons created by the Dance card at low power.
· Other item-related changes
· Remove crystal balls of fixation.
· Nerf the speed brand. Damage reduced to 90%.
· Reintroduce item stat loss prompts.
· Prompt before wearing or wielding a known-cursed item.
· Remove misleading messages about weapon str/dex weighting.
· Warn when equipping armour with a penalty caused by low strength.
· Don’t let the vorpalise weapon effect destroy potions or scrolls.
· Correctly mark amulets of controlled flight useless for Kenku above xl5.
· Identify rings of sustain ability if they block stat loss completely.
· Don’t allow using crystal balls if they are guaranteed to fail.
· Don’t corrode ammo by clumsily bashing jellies with it.
· Don’t let antimagic work on priests.
· Don’t acquire manuals or sage to utterly useless skills.
· Make acquiring rods of striking less likely.
· Obsidian axe bug fixes. Add +Lev to get across obstacles.
· Improve rods of striking: 1d5 -> 1d8.
· Make default books ‘:’ again, use different glyphs for detected items on Windows.
· The Dungeon
· Bug fixes
· Fix #218: Place upwards and downwards escape hatches in all isolated Orc bubbles.
· Fix returning from portals to Pan clobbering the level.
· Don’t place steam near fire out of bounds.
· Fix door restrictions being ignored when calculating travel paths.
· Make troves handle manuals correctly.
· Fix the portal short timeout messages for unnannounced portals.
· Fix wizmode-blinking (xm, &b) asserting in the Abyss.
· Other level-related changes
· No banishment from hell effects.
· Don’t enable cTele by quaffing Elf fountains.
· Shrink the hall of blades, guarantee a single rare weapon with a brand.
· No potion troves for mummies.
· Increase the chance of bleeding on walls.
· Give troves more loot items again.
· Add a note when entering a Pan Lord level.
· Let Zot vaults spawn more often.
· Don’t block off branches with grates.
· A wizmode command (& ^R) to recreate the current level.
· ZotDef: no Abyss with Lugonu.
· Malign Gateway as a hell effect.
· If the Abyss has been wizmode-mapped, update the map on Abyss shifts.
· Various glyph changes for features.
· Give a message when a Golubria portal on the level closes.
· Disable _many_pools in Crypt.
· No more darkgrey walls/floors in Geh:7 or Gloorx.
· Let Abyss and Pan entrances overwrite vaults to make them truly guaranteed.
· Add two new Spider portal vault maps by 7hm.
· An awesome Crypt end by evilmike.
· Replace Wiglaf with Norris in Sprint 1.
· Interface
· Bug fixes
· Fix a crash when reloading a game after restart_after_game.
· Fix #3535: Buggy movement keys for Windows consoles.
· Fix #3609: autoexplore stopping with no monster in sight.
· Fix multidrop with monsters in sight.
· Fix #3709: travel failing to start if standing right next to a cloud.
· Fix items not being announced when revealed by opening a door.
· Fix #2930: stash search results not being coloured correctly when matching item heaps.
· Fix #1184: Limit tagged block display’s lines to screen size.
· Fix #3700: sprint map menu offering you to replay tutorial.
· Options
· Change the explore_stop option to use greedy_pickup_smart by default.
· New travel_key_stop option for whether keypresses should interrupt travel/resting.
· Default easy_exit_menu to false.
· Make all keyhelp menus respect the easy_exit_menu option.
· Mantis #1282: Make autopickup_no_burden default to true.
· Other interface changes
· Stop autoexplore when sensing a previously undetected monster nearby.
· New background choice layout, grouped by category.
· Autofight: fire at nearest enemy if wielding a ranged weapon.
· Don’t ranged autofight through walls/glass/scryed walls.
· Don’t start the game if terminal is smaller than 80×24.
· Don’t print wielding effect when switching back from butchering.
· Display “-) Unavailable” if you cannot wield/quiver anything.
· Better error messages for (M)emorisation. (#3665)
· Mantis #1839: Treat clearing annotation prompt as “safe”.
· Mantis #3727: When placing a single exclusion on part of a gate, exclude all of it.
· Mantis #3112: Mention any skeleton vampiric feeding leaves behind.
· Tiles
· Bug fixes
· Fix #3730: inventory crash at some resolutions.
· Fix #3772: Don’t crash when pressing odd key combinations.
· Fix #3643: kraken simulacra causing crashes in Tiles.
· Fix #3764: crash when drawing disconnected tentacle segment tiles.
· Fix #3596: Don’t fire at friendly monsters when clicking on them.
· Fix #3596: “Unknown command” when mouseclick-travelling.
· Fix #3703: pickup by mouseclick on player icon not taking a turn.
· Fix #3810: mouseclick movement working during the stat prompt.
· Fix manuals being mouseclick-readable while “brainless”.
· Fix mouseclick travel internally using the vi keys.
· Fix #3255: real staff tiles displayed in the undiscovered items list.
· Fix #3356: clearing the map having no effect in Tiles.
· Fix #3516: LRD exploding in odd tiles in the Elven Halls.
· Partially fix #3358: re-init tile flavour on Abyss shifts.
· Make wyvern zombies use the dragon zombie tile.
· Upgrade weapon tile when fixing a temp. brand with ?vorpalise weapon.
· Fix #3639: Slight tweaks to the player naga tiles.
· New/improved tiles
· Curio: Ilsuiw, necromancer, wingless Grinder.
· Denzi: silver star, pillar of salt, Ashenzari altar, fire bat, Darkness spell, Leda’s Liquefaction spell tile, chardump command tile, arena icon, wingless shadow imp, pressure plate trap.
· dolphin: jumping spider, shark.
· Omndra: wall blood spatter.
· Porkchop: phoenix.
· purge: eye of devastation.
· XuaXua: glowing mold, death ooze.
· Add a tile for liquefied floor.
· Use !heal wounds icon (rather than !healing) for the wand of healing.
· Apply Tornado’s colour scheme to Tiles, as well.
· Remove omndra’s cauldron title screen, not fitting with the rest of them.
July 26th, 2010· Fix travel excludes not being saved.
· Fix map markers not being activated on game reload.
June 14th, 2010· Fix instant starvation bug related to vampiric weapon butchery.
· Fix Cheibriados excommunication permanent stat gain.
· Reenable sound for mingw builds.
· Xcode, Visual C++ and clang build fixes.
· Fix save handling on BSD systems.
· Fix Lua markers not being reactivated after viewing other levels.
· Selected other bug fixes.
April 21st, 2010· Removed Divinations spell school.
· Three new gods: Jiyva, Fedhas, Cheibriados.
· Altars for dungeon gods may now appear on levels 2 to 9 instead of the Temple.
· New water based branch: the Shoals, sometimes replacing Swamp or Snake Pit.
· Overhauled AC/EV system. In particular, effect of Dexterity on EV is uncapped.
· Strength has a much greater effect on carrying capacity.
· Slime creatures and ugly things are more interesting and dangerous.
· Many cool new monsters, portal vaults and ammunition brands.
· Gods
· ----
· New god: Jiyva, god of slime.
· New god: Fedhas, god of plants and fungi.
· New god: Cheibriados, god of slowness.
· Ecumenical Temple may randomly contain 6 to 14 altars.
· Dungeon gods not included in Ecumenical Temple get guaranteed altar on D:2-9.
· Sacrifice corpses with prayer ('p') rather than prayer and chop up ('pc').
· Elyvilon doesn't mind butchery during prayer anymore.
· Lugonu's Corruption is usable only once per level.
· Kikubaaqudgha gives torment resistance, hands out corpses and the Pain brand.
· Lugonu's Corruption only produces neutral monsters.
· Sif Muna doesn't accept worshippers who don't know any spells.
· TSO's wrath does much less damage.
· TSO's halo no longer makes the player easier to hit.
· Vehumet reduces mana cost and increases ranges of destructive spells.
· Xom is nicer about banishment and hostile monsters for low-xp followers.
· Xom has a small chance of reviving the player after death.
· Yredelemnul's gifts follow through stairways even if behind zombies.
· Zin protects the player against disease, rotting and miasma.
· Zin's Recite has no food cost and no longer causes monsters to go berserk.
· Levels
· ------
· New branch: the Shoals. Greek-inspired, featuring merfolk, tides, and turtles.
· Games now select two branches from Shoals, Snake Pit, and Swamp to enable.
· Shorten Lair to eight levels.
· More interesting level layout for Lair and Swamp.
· New portal vaults: Bailey, Trove, Volcano, Wizard's Laboratory.
· Some escape hatches are replaced by (single-use) shafts.
· New wall type "tree"; two trees in a row block vision.
· Seal hell portals rather than Vestibule when the player picks up the orb.
· Loosen restrictions about which branches may contain uniques.
· Disallow mechanical traps in the Slime Pits.
· Limit alarm traps to 1-3 charges.
· Trap disarming prompts if you have less hp than the trap's maximum damage.
· New alternative branch endings for Hells, Hive, Swamp, Vaults.
· The pandemonium lords' levels get special announcements.
· Added milestones for all portal vaults and the pandemonium lords' levels.
· Many new vaults.
· Ranged combat
· ------
· Removed hand crossbows and the Darts skill; moved blowguns to Throwing skill.
· New background: Arcane Marksman, combining Crusader, Warper and Hunter.
· New missile materials: silver, steel.
· New missile brands: dispersal, electricity, exploding, penetration, reaping.
· New needle brands: sleep, slow, paralysis, confusion, frenzy and sickness.
· Branded and enchanted ammunition is described as "runed".
· Branding spells will also affect launchers.
· On launchers, the protection brand is replaced with evasion, providing +5 EV.
· Except for Nessos, launchers of flame can't be combined with poisoned ammo.
· Removed Poison Ammunition in favour of Poison Weapon and temporary brands.
· More generous stacking of ammunition.
· Lowered mulch rate for branded ammunition.
· Poisoned ammunition is more effective.
· Rings of slaying also apply to missile launchers.
· Hunter starting ammunition starts out at +1; sling-based Hunters get bucklers.
· Slings are one-handed and no longer delayed by shields.
· Stones are three times heavier.
· Items
· -----
· Removed amulet of resist slowing.
· Removed distinction between light and heavy armour.
· Added scroll of silence.
· Added potions of brilliance and agility.
· Added shields of reflection.
· New amulets: guardian spirit, faith, stasis.
· Amulet of clarity prevents involuntary berserk.
· Lowered gold dragon armour's AC value.
· All randart weapons are now guaranteed a brand.
· The speed brand is only created randomly for artefacts, short blades
· and staves.
· Halved damage bonus of the vorpal brand to 12.5%.
· Armour acquirement is more likely to fill secondary slots.
· Non-divine acquirement tries to avoid handing out armour/weapons already seen.
· Book acquirement doesn't give manuals to spellcasting specialists anymore.
· Added wands as an acquirement option.
· Potions of resistance last longer.
· Weapons of holy wrath cannot be cursed.
· Improvements to whips and demon whips; the latter can be blessed by TSO.
· Reduce the chances for artefacts with only one stat property.
· Weapons of electrocution discharge in water.
· Removed some evokable properties (mapping/teleportation) from artefacts.
· Removing +Lev items cancels levitation and is disallowed over water.
· Clubs and spears get moderate stabbing bonus.
· Clubs may stun target upon successful stabbing.
· Vampiric weapons can only be wielded at full and cause hunger when wielded.
· Mummies and ghouls get no healing effect from vampiric weapons.
· Shields can be enchanted up to +3.
· Rods identify on wielding and use the Maces & Flails skill.
· Rod recharging no longer depends on player MP or being in inventory.
· Enchanting rods increases their recharge rate.
· Let same-type chunks stack, if their age is similar.
· Deep water doesn't destroy items, lava only flammable ones.
· Weapons with temporary distortion brand don't damage or banish on unwielding.
· Disallow sacrifice of runes, the orb of Zot, and the unused horn of Geryon.
· Autoinscribe items found cursed with {was cursed}.
· Monsters
· -
· New Shoals monsters: merfolk/mermaid, siren, harpy, kraken, turtle, shark.
· New monster: ballistomycete, spawned by and spawning giant spores.
· A few other new monsters: toadstool, sixfirhy, golden eye, giant leech.
· New plant: bush, can be fired through, two or more block vision.
· (Very) ugly things get resistances and attack flavours depending on colour.
· Slime creatures can merge in corridors to become larger and more powerful.
· All spectral things can use stairs again.
· Display magic (or "hostile enchantments") resistance in monster descriptions.
· Monsters get more sensible experience values matching their difficulty.
· OOD (out-of-depth) monsters no longer appear in bands until many turns
· spent on the level.
· OOD monster generation increases sharply with time spent on a level.
· Monster respawns on any level in the main dungeon branches outside
· Hell and Zot decline with time spent on the level until eventually
· no further monsters will be generated on the level.
· Demons spawned during the orb run will actively seek out the player.
· Hydras pick new target for remaining attacks if their current foe dies.
· Make monsters forget player position if the player teleports away.
· Monsters go to sleep more readily when the player is off-level for
· a while.
· Implement and use monster spells "blink away" and "blink closer".
· Detected, unopened secret doors remain unknown to stupid monsters.
· Monsters may quaff potions of might and berserk rage.
· Bears go berserk, but mindless monsters can't.
· Confused monsters zap wands in random directions.
· Giant lizards are now called crocodiles and are amphibious.
· Greatly reduce number of monsters capable of submerging.
· Submerged monsters cannot be targeted or affected by beams anymore.
· Submerged monsters always unsubmerge if they can attack.
· Amphibious creatures don't get an attack bonus in water anymore.
· Monsters' sense invisible is more effective on invisible monsters,
· and less effective on invisible players.
· Hungry ghosts eat corpses.
· Confused monsters zap wands in random directions.
· Bashing plants or fungi will only train Fighting/Unarmed Combat up to level 1.
· Several cool new uniques.
· Unique speech much more varied and interesting.
· Glyph changes for several monsters. See 052_monster_glyphs.txt.
· Characters
· ---
· Overhauled AC/EV system.
· Armour/Dodging/Stealth training depends on item mass.
· Strength effect on carrying capacity greatly increased.
· Base carrying capacity depends on weight of the player species.
· Wanderers have been overhauled and are much stronger.
· Increased Mummies' starting stats.
· Starting stats and equipment are no longer assigned randomly.
· Gain of Health and Magic Points on level up is no longer random.
· Many status effects and durations use delay rather than turn count.
· Round all aptitudes to multiples of 10.
· Nerf damage reduction of the player's elemental resistances.
· Distracted stabbing is more likely, but resulting damage bonus is lowered.
· Fighting is noisy depending on damage dealt, weapon type and brand.
· Decouple miasma resistance from negative energy resistance;
· rotting resistance implies both disease and miasma resistance.
· Regeneration only increases hunger while regenerating.
· Shield value SH transparently reflects blocking chance.
· Hellfire ignores AC, damage is toned down.
· Changed Magic mapping mutation to work passively.
· Sticky flame negates invisibility.
· Vampires can bottle blood via an (a)bility rather than by (c)hopping.
· When berserk, hit points are scaled to 150%, as was the case before 0.5.
· Add a time limit of ~200M turns, to safeguard against time wraps.
· Interface: Dungeon exploration
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· In the Abyss, allow travel via 'x' or mouseclick to cells within LOS.
· Autotravel doesn't cut corners and tries to avoid ambushes.
· Switched to line-of-sight exclusions.
· Exclusions within LOS can be set and removed with 'xe'.
· Exclusions are displayed on the overview screen ('Ctrl-O' command).
· Ctrl-O lists ranges of branches not yet found.
· Show explored depth for all branches in the overview screen ('Ctrl-O').
· Autoexclusions get removed again once the trigger monster is no longer there.
· Dangerous clouds that are generated by the dungeon itself ("fog machines")
· generate autoexclusions when seen by player.
· Treat non-adjacent mimics as safe for resting/travel.
· Allow viewing off-level maps from the 'X' overmap with '[' and ']'.
· Level features (e.g. stairs, gates, altars) are listed in the 'X' map.
· Disallow autoexplore and resting when starving.
· Disable autoexplore in labyrinths.
· Interface: Other
· --
· Fix wands not prompting when fired at allies.
· Add a shopping list ('$') to notify you when you can afford a listed item.
· New memorisation interface lists all spells contained in carried books.
· Autopickup turns itself back on when killing invisible backlit monsters.
· Greatly decreased message spam, especially when targeting.
· Add !a inscription to prompt when attacking with this wielded item.
· New Lua file autofight.lua which allows auto-attacking of the nearest enemy.
· Abort some teleportation attempts with -TELE without losing the turn.
· Food is never autoassigned to slot 'e' and potions are never autoassigned
· to slots 'q' or 'y'.
· If you know Evaporate, list possible clouds in potions' descriptions.
· Unidentified artefacts can now be found with "Ctrl-F artefact".
· Prefer swapping to a butchery tool to unequipping gloves.
· Allow more than 8 colours in Mac builds if the terminal supports it.
· Provide Dvorak vi key bindings, see dvorak_command_keys.txt.
· Allow overriding vi keys with "Unknown command", see no_vi_command_keys.txt.
· Colour experience pool according to fullness.
· Added an html version of the FAQ in the docs/ directory.
· Spells
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· Removed Divinations spell school.
· New spell: Orb of Destruction, homes in on target and explodes.
· Silence radius decreases with duration.
· Always prompt when attempting to cast non-helpful spells at yourself.
· Limit Summon Small Mammals to a maximum of two mammals per casting.
· Summon Small Mammals doesn't summon green or orange rats anymore.
· Reduced Poison Arrow's irresistible damage component from 60% to 30%.
· Semi-controlled blink causes glowing.
· Fulsome Distillation depends only on corpse type - RNG and rotting influence
· has been removed. Also doesn't prompt when only one corpse present.
· Tukima's Dance weapon strength depends on spell power and weapon weight.
· Summon Wraiths is replaced by Haunt, a smite-targetted summoning spell.
· Directed non-enchantment spells make noise when they hit something.
· Casting spells is noisy.
· Spell miscasts and hell effects are noisy.
· Call Canine Familiar only calls friendly canines.
· Condensation Shield is more effective.
· Improved Passwall interface.
· Allow Mummies to cast Summon Horrible Things.
· Ice Form can swim in deep water; be careful you don't drown!
· Disintegration is really messy.
· Display current power, range and food cost in spell descriptions.
· Useless and forbidden spells are coloured in spell menus.
· Tiles
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· Added tabs to switch between inventory and clickable spells display.
· Autoexplore can be started by Shift-Left-clicking on the minimap.
· Re-added doll editing screen ('-' command).
· Display tiles in many more menus, including the database search (?/).
New modifier keys for left-clicking on monsters or the player:
· Shift-Left-Click: fire quivered ammo at monster.
· Ctrl-Left-Click: cast spell at target (monster or player).
· Alt-L-Click/Ctrl-Shift-L-Click: zap wand at target (monster or player).
· When applicable, L-clicking on a monster within reaching range attacks it.
· Added a health and mana bar to the player tile.
· Added an icon designating berserk monsters.
· Added icons for chunk/corpse eating effects.
· Added icons for armour egos.
· Reuse dancing weapon icon for known mimics.
· Many new and/or improved tiles, for monsters and features.
· Add some animations when the screen is redrawn.
· Vaults can specify custom tiles for features or monsters.
· Tiles can be recoloured dynamically during compilation.
· Variant tiles of a set can be assigned weights.
· When waiting for input, suppress mouseover descriptions in the message area.
· Draw splash screen before loading maps and database, and output loading state.
· Tile dependencies are handled correctly, and tile sheets recompiled as needed.
· The Shoals branch is our testing ground for a smoother level layout.
· Options
· Changed: clear_messages = false. (Was: delay_message_clear = false.)
· New: option explore_delay = -1, to differentiate explore from travel delay.
· New: autoinscribe_cursed = true, for items found cursed.
· New: msg_condense_short = true, joins short messages into one line.
· New: show_more = true. With clear_messages, prints -More- for full messages.
· New: small_more = false. If true, gives one extra line to the message area.
· New: msg_min_height = 7, sets minimum size of the message area.
· New: messages_at_top = false, draws messages above the main map.
· New: explore_stop_pickup_ignore, pick up regexed items and continue travel.
· New, ASCII-only: use_fake_player_cursor = false, highlights player glyph.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_show_minihealthbar = true, draws hp bar on player tile.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_show_minimagicbar = true, draws mp bar on player tile.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_show_demon_tier = true, displays demon tier icons.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_better_transparency = false, better water masks.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_peaceful_col = lightred, colour for peaceful monsters.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_force_overlay = false, displays messages in an overlay.
· New, Tiles-only: tile_runrest_rate = 100, screen update rate while resting.
· New explore_stop options greedy_pickup_smart, greedy_pickup_thrown.
· Renamed: unix 'background' option to 'background_colour'.
· Renamed: character 'job' option to 'background'.
· Removed: target_los_first, target_oos, target_wrap, target_zero_exp.
· Major bug fixes
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· Fix branch ends rarely being generated without a rune.
· Fixed occasional permanent stat loss/gain with stat-modifying equipment.
· LOS is now symmetrical, fixing a variety of bugs.
· Fix teleport control occasionally not being enabled after picking up runes
· or the orb.
· Technical improvements
· Overhauled and improved the line of sight code, including a new,
· slightly more permissive LOS model.
· Overhauled and improved the targeting code.
· Rewrote the message window/message history code.
· Added several automated test cases in Lua.
· New and improved makefiles and updated xcode and msvc projects.
· Split up the contents of several large .cc and .des files into smaller files.
· Many new Lua wrappers to make Lua much more powerful in e.g. map creation.
· A wizard mode Lua REPL.
· Unique placement code has been moved to Lua and is directed via uniques.des.
· Add property hash to monsters, and use it generously for various monsters.
· The documentation file aptitudes.txt is autogenerated from the aptitudes code.
· Cleanup of included header files, greatly reducing compilation time.
· Unrandarts and fixedarts share the same, cleaner coding structure.
January 15th, 2009· Fixed infinite loop when attempting to create randarts named after gods.
· Fixed re-do command (`) wasting a turn.
· Fixed corpses not appearing in Tiles inventory.
December 20th, 2008· Fixed assertion failure upon high-scoring death.
· Fixed Crawl spinning in CPU-pegging loop on disconnect on death screen.
· Fixed time handling in dgl builds.
· Fixed semi-controlled Blink.
· Fixed '{' inscription.
· Fixed crash when wizmode-creating a nonexistent monster type.
· Fixed broken monster movement away from player.
· Fixed acquirement() giving Book of Bugginess.
· Fixed auto-swapping rings and amulets taking twice as long as normal.
· Fixed explosive tracers leaking information about invisible monsters.
· Fixed real/fake rakshasa identity being leaked in descriptions.
· Fixed =f inscription preventing wielding of stones.
· Fixed Spriggans being capable to wield staves while wearing a shield.
· Fixed monsters being created with both a shield and wielding a two-hander.
· Fixed off-by-1 error when selecting starting weapon.
· Fixed bats being capable of opening/closing doors.
· Fixed Draconians getting redundant mutations.
· Fixed secondary unarmed attacks not waking sleeping monsters.
· Fixed incorrect high score calculation.
· Fixed backwards stealth check.
· Fixed recharged wands not being inscribed with zap counts.
· Fixed bad names for god-gifted unrandarts.
· Fixed crash related to running on Windows 98.
· Warn player if interlevel travel intends to take detours.
· Make multi-corpse sacrifices take 1 turn only.
· All 't' commands now take a turn.
· Shining eyes now gives mutagenic chunks, eyes of draining poisonous ones.
· Identify Holy Wrath brand on failed wield.
· Make Lichform discard holy wrath weapons.
· Properly disable traps in the Abyss.
· Don't allow monsters to polymorph into a unique.
· List new amount of charges when recharging identified wands.
· Don't prompt when swapping into dangerous terrain.
· Makhleb accepts collateral demon kills again.
· Only sharp weapons are now offered for butchering.
· Added an aptitudes hotkey for the book/weapon choice submenus.
· Properly allow monsters to pick up and use javelins.
· Don't apply menu colouring to Wp: and Qv: lines.
· Improved interrupted butchery behaviour.
· Saner autopickup exceptions.
October 2nd, 2008· Fixed lack of mouse actions in Tiles version.
· Fixed Evaporate not working with potions of water.
· Fixed Evaporate trailing clouds before explosion.
· Fixed buggy inscription prompt.
· For DGAMELAUNCH, use gmtime() instead of localtime().
· Only prompt for unsuitable weapons if you can see the target.
· Don't discard Stoneskin when using non-conflicting transformations.
· Allow examining items in end-game inventory and while browsing shops.
July 19th, 2008· Fixed crashes related to mapmark.lua.
· Fixed crash when attempting to autoinscribe non-artefacts via '{'.
· Fixed Crawl looping infinitely upon "good random choice" for Thief/Wanderer.
· Fixed crashes when selecting an item with no appropriate items in inventory.
· Fixed DOS problems with long file names.
· Fixed Tiles not working on Windows 2000 and earlier.
· Fixed targetting prompts being ignored or having the wrong result.
· Fixed item quotes causing overlong descriptions.
· Fixed vampire bat jewellery exploit.
· Fixed secondary monster attacks being branded according to their weapon.
· Fixed runes not being counted correctly in scoring.
· Fixed kills by hell effects counting as player kills.
· Fixed persistent --more-- in wizard mode.
· Fixed cold/fire always destroying all potions/scrolls on the floor.
· Fixed Portal Projectile not handling throwing nets or branded ammo correctly.
· Fixed friendly pickup toggle being inappropriately disallowed.
· Fixed known bad potions being subject to autopickup.
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