Hi, crawlers! Last week was a little quieter, possibly because of some of our US devs visiting friends and family for the holiday weekend, rather than toiling away in the Crawl mines as they know they should. Still, a few changes to report:

  • Potions of confusion have been befuddled out of existence. In their place sit Potions of Ambrosia, which grant considerable health & magic regeneration for a short period, along with confusion. If the confusion is prevented (by e.g. clarity) or cured, the regeneration immediately ends.
  • Liches (and their ancient & antique friends) now have a much wider variety of spells available, rather than being restricted to a handful of spellbooks.
  • Singularity is now considerably stronger at low spellpower, and less powerful at very long range.
  • Makhleb now gives somewhat more piety for kills, and no longer accepts corpse sacrifice.
  • Xom now has a ‘mood meter’, looking suspiciously like the piety meter for other, more boring gods. (And yet somehow different…)
  • Gozag’s “shining gold” visual effect is now only present on the tile of the gold itself, rather than on surrounding tiles. In console, it’s now a different colour from normal gold.
  • Gozag’s “duplication” ability can now duplicate stacks of items.
  • A wide variety of quotes have been added, mainly for spells.
  • Pandemonium lords now come in a riotous variety of colour; they have a number of new tiles, and their text descriptions now match up with the tiles.
  • The Plane Papyrus has been renamed to the Akashic Record.
  • Various other tile tweaks; all potion tiles have been replaced, goblins & pals were reworked, the Seraph is now considerably taller, and wretched stars now have a worrying glow about them, among other changes.
  • Irradiate now offers a warning before harming allies.
  • The game no longer crashes whenever the player takes cloud damage.
  • Delayed Fireball is now back to being two schools, after a brief, yet torrid romance with the mysterious “Utility” school.
  • It is no longer possible to hit monsters so hard that their souls are completely obliterated.
  • Messaging has been improved for attempting to close doors on Orbs of Destruction.
  • Orb spiders no longer have poisonous bites.
  • Trees can no longer enter malign portals.

Happy crawling!