Hi, crawlers! Welcome – to the first changelog of 2017!

  • Evocations:
    • Rods of scattershot & rods of clouds have both been turned into rare, high-power wand types. Wands of Clouds, unlike their rod predecessors, always create harmful clouds.
    • Discs of storms have been replaced with lightning rods, a new xp-charged misc evocable with a remarkable resemblance to the old ‘lightning’ type of rod.
    • Wand power scales significantly better with Evocations skill.
    • Some wands have sub-LOS range.
    • Wands cannot be evoked while confused.
    • Wands of disintegration no longer destroy terrain; wands of digging can now destroy statues.
    • Wands of slowing have, belatedly, followed their hasting friends into oblivion; they’re gone.
    • Rods have been removed.
  • New race: Barachians, a species of frog-men with a great hatred of the letter t. They have a powerful innate Hop ability, a partially-controllable Blink effect that requires several turns of motionlessness to recover before re-use. To balance this, they also have slow movement 1 (1.2 turns/move; nagas move at 1.4) and ghoul-tier attributes.
  • New spell: Poisonous Vapours, L2 Poison/Air. Smite-targeted; creates an extremely short-lived poison cloud on a targeted creature. Appears in the VM starting book.
  • Removed: Poisonous Cloud.
  • Apportation scales more significantly with spellpower. Its targeter is also hopefully a little better.
  • Your current regeneration rate is shown in %.
  • Deep dwarves can now benefit from the special effects of Kryia’s armour.
  • The displayed resistance chance for Siren/Avatar song is shown correctly in monster descriptions; it formerly miscalculated (underestimated) their power.
  • Clearing multiple ziggurats will make the figurines you find within glow in new and exciting colours. Note that clearing multiple ziggurats is, quote, “silly and should not be encouraged”.
  • In addition to summoning golden dragons (see trunk update post #219, true believers!), fortunate TSO worshippers can also use poison stingers.
  • Iron giants can no longer throw your orbs of destruction back at you. (It didn’t work properly anyway.)
  • It’s no longer possible to ?acquire an item directly into lava or deep water. Sploosh no more…
  • Cerebov scumming has been removed.
  • Wizards can now rest inside walls.
  • Sandblast blasts sand.

Happy crawling, and happy new year, and if you haven’t yet taken the survey, hey! What better time for a fresh start (on taking the survey) than now?)