Hi crawlers! Here’s your roughly weekly dose of trunk update news:

• The special diets of centaurs (fast metabolism 1, herbivorous 1) and halflings (slow metabolism 1) have been removed.
• Vampires always get the full effect of all potions, can always mutate, and always get the full effect of all mutations.
• Corrosion affects all of your equipment, but only temporarily.
• Purple (very) ugly things deal extra damage in lieu of a sickness attack.
• Sustain abilities effects no longer stack.
• Scrolls of brand weapon can roll any brand on an unbranded weapon.
• Ambrosia and royal jellies have been removed; honeycombs have been renamed to royal jellies.
• The Mercenary card generates base demonspawn instead of spriggan riders.
• Sif Muna wrath can no longer cause amnesia.
• Gods that give missile gifts can do so sooner, i.e. there is no skill-related breakpoint associated with it.

Happy crawling!

Hi crawlers! Here’s what’s new in trunk:

• The Lava Orc species has been removed.
• Player clinging (seen only in Spider Form and with the boots of the Spider) is no more.
• Kobolds, hill orcs, and ogres are no longer saprovorous.
• Ogres no longer have a fast metabolism.
• Silver statues and orange crystal statues are immune to disintegration, but have less health and AC and have their abilities converted to spells such that they spam less; this implies OCS confusion can be resisted.
• Bog bodies no longer randomly rot.
• Removed monsters: shedu, plague shamblers.
• New unrand: the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar SustAb}
• Potions of blood cure a point of ghoul rotting.
• Removed unrands: the boots of the Spider.
• Decks of wonders now contain Dowsing, Battlelust, Helm, and Shadow instead of Experience, Helix, Sage, and Trowel.
• Decks of dungeon are no more.
• The Potion card has a new list of effects: power 0 is decay/curing/agility/ might/brilliance; 1 has a chance of resistance/haste; 2 has a chance of magic/heal wounds.
• Removed cards: Experience, Sage, Water, Vitrification, Trowel, Minefield, and Shuffle.
• Zin’s Recite no longer prompts for a book, instead affecting all monsters in sight with the strongest effects that would impact them.

Happy crawling!

Hi crawlers! Here’s the latest and greatest from trunk:

• The gods branch has landed, bringing two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer. Both are temple gods with an altar either in Temple or on D:2-9.
  • Gozag
    • Charges a service fee for joining, dependent on the amount of gold that has been generated in the game.
    • Does not have piety.
    • Defeated enemies turn to gold; these gold piles distract nearby creatures, causing them to sometimes not act.
    • Potion Petition: purchase one set of potion effects.
    • Call Merchant: fund a merchant to set up shop somewhere near to areas of the dungeon you have explored.
    • Bribe Branch: send money to the inhabitants of a branch to turn them + temporarily neutral or incite them to join you.
    • Duplication: one non-artefact item can be duplicated at an altar.
  • Qazlal
    • Piety on kills.
    • All followers are immune from their own clouds.
    • 1*: Storm Shield: you passively generate elemental clouds around you and gain bonus SH, and gain RMsl at 3*; you also generate a lot of noise.
    • 2*: Upheaval: blast a small nearby area with elemental forces.
    • 3*: Elemental Force: turn nearby clouds into elementals.
    • 4*: Elemental Adaptation: taking elemental or physical damage sometimes temporarily grants you resistance against that element.
    • 5*: Disaster Area: blast the entire area around you with elemental forces.
    • 6*: at an altar, gain a permanent elemental resistance of your choice for as long as you worship Qazlal.
• The Abyss no longer sometimes blocks blinking.
• Wanderers have tweaked starting kits with generally better items.
• Teleportitis cannot be controlled.
• Manticores have an unlimited number of spike volleys.
• Base draconians can become nonbase draconians with experience.
• Undead and nonliving enemies regenerate as fast as other enemies.
• Ghouls and necrophages can no longer equip weapons or armour.
• Monster melee attacks can no longer destroy items.
• Death Channel lasts twice as long.
• The blowgun of the Assassin returns; it has a chance to affect the target more than normal blowguns.
• Gloves of archery no longer penalise melee.
• (Plain) bows have been renamed to shortbows.
• Identify scrolls now always identify a single item.
• Monsters with special attack flavours have this noted in their descriptions.
• Summon Elemental has been removed.
• Spriggan enchanters (the monster) and phoenixes have been removed.

Happy crawling!

Hi crawlers! Here’s what’s new in trunk:

• The ranged_combat branch has landed – it is a rewrite of the ranged combat system to be based on many of the same formulas as melee attacks, so the effect of AC/EV on ranged attacks is more predictable, weapon delay is more predictable, and even Throwing should be a viable option compared to the other ranged weapons.
• Jewellery automatically identifies on equipping it.
• Cleaving hits the full eight squares around a player.
• Rebranding a distortion weapon no longer causes a distortion effect.
• Scrolls of brand weapon can no longer affix brands; they keep their effect of rerolling a weapon brand.
• Blessed weapons can be rebranded.
• Amulets of inaccuracy are always cursed.
• New rings of stealth and loudness, which positively/negatively adjust a player’s stealth; these take the place of rings of sustenance and hunger.
• Followers of good gods no longer get a chance to turn holy enemies neutral.
• The Book of War Chants is no more.
• Removed spells: Fire Brand, Freezing Aura, Lethal Infusion, Poison Weapon.
• Removed enemies: silver stars, flaming corpses, grizzly bears.

A brief reminder that the gods experimental branch is still available for testing on cszo and cbro; if you want to help get our newest potential additions to the pantheon into the game, be sure to help us try them out!

Happy crawling!