Hello crawlers, welcome to the last trunk update of the 0.23 cycle. Before we plunge into the abyss of changes, the 0.23 Release will occur tentatively on 6 February, with the accompanying 0.23 Release Tournament running from 20:00 UTC Friday 8 February to 20:00 UTC Sunday 24 February. The tournament website will be brought online soon, watch this space for details.

And now, the latest from the depths of Gehenna.

  • Clear runed doors replaced most runed doors.
  • An experimental seeded dungeon mode has been implemented, allowing for plays through a pre-generated dungeon. See the new manual section “Seeded play” for further information.
  • Tengu now gain permanent flight at XL 5, but no longer apply their flight evasion bonus to evasion from rings and artefacts.
  • Nemelex’s Storm card now unleashes a fearsome blast of wind and electricity, instead of clouds and an elemental.
  • The xv display now shows monster spell ranges.
  • An extra pane has been added to the religion screen for Ashenzari, Beogh, Gozag, Hepliaklqana, Nemelex Xobeh, and Wu Jian; displaying god specific extra information.
  • Spell damage punctuation now reflects the damage done in the same way as melee damage.
  • A new unrandart demon trident has been added, the +8 demon trident “Rift”, distortion branded with a reaching range of 3 and smite-targeted attack. Thanks to aolowin for the concept and first draft!
  • The Singing Sword has been taking voice lessons, and now sings more often and with greater vigor.
  • The circus has come to Zot, with new klown and carnival vaults; watch out for the klown kars!
  • Grate traps have been removed.
  • The traps in the Tomb have been overhauled, toned down in places and toned up in others.
  • High Elves have been removed again.

Space warps horribly around the trunk updates!!!!! The trunk updates disappear!