You draw a card… it is Trunk Update!
Hello Crawlers, and welcome to the last batch of Trunk Updates for the year.
- Nemelex Xobeh has removed decks from your inventory, placing them into three abstract piles.
- Deck rarities are removed also. Card power is determined entirely from piety and invocations skill.
- In the place of deck items Nemelex provides three abilities “Draw Escape”, “Draw Destruction”, and “Draw Summoning”, which pull from abstract decks that Nemelex occasionally adds cards to.
- Triple Draw works as before, though the piety cost is increased.
- Deal Four deals four cards from a chosen deck (or all remaining if fewer than four remain), discarding the remainder of the deck, and costs no piety.
- Stack Five constructs a stack from five cards drawn from a choice of decks, which are then put in order. The stack can then be drawn from later, like a fourth deck. Stacking again discards an existing stack.
- The Velocity card no longer hastes enemies at low power.
- Ashenzari now protects followers from exploration-based trap effects
- Qazlal has extended cloud immunity to the elementals created with Elemental Force
- Console players can now see cloud duration provided by new display character types; see options_guide.txt for the exact values to customize.
- The skin of Zhor gains See Invisible and a passive Metabolic Englaciation effect. Chilly!
- Giant size creatures (monsters and players in dragon form) no longer tear through webs
- The require function in crawl Lua has been renamed crawl_require to allow local builds to include the Lua package library without conflict.
- Several spooky new ghost vaults are haunting the dungeon
- Cozy new 7×7 Gauntlet arenas are available to die in.
The trunk updates glow with a rainbow of weird colours and disappear!
1. Comment by Matheus Ciappina Pereira
31/Dec/2018 at 14:26
Noob question, are these updates, for now, limited to web crawl? I can’t play web crawl properly because there’s no server in SA and the delay makes the game feel really slow and inorganic.
2. Comment by ebering
31/Dec/2018 at 17:18
If you want to get these changes in a local crawl, you can head over to the download development builds page to download the latest development build for Windows. If you’re on a different operating system you’ll have to compile it yourself.
3. Comment by yclept nem
5/Jan/2019 at 22:31
Deal Four discards an entire abstract deck?
4. Comment by yclept nemo
5/Jan/2019 at 22:36
PS. Love the new dispersal trap. On the fence about the gauntlet: don’t like leaving loot behind.