Welcome dungeon crawlers one and all! It’s been over two months since our last update. Things have been a bit slower around the Dungeon as of late, but in such a long time we’ve managed to accrue quite a list of notable changes:

• Gods
• Gozag
• Branch bribing works on any intelligent monster in the branch, based on HD and a branch factor.
• Branch allies are permanent, but won’t leave their home branch.
• You can bribe the Dungeon, Depths, Tomb, Crypt, and Pan now! Greed is good.
• Ashenzari
• Reskilling ability now costs less piety and works faster, and can reduce skill levels to 0.
• The Scrying ability is granted at 1* piety, the passive skill boost at 2*, and SInv at 3*.
• Xom makes fewer chaos clouds. You’re welcome.
• Ru’s Sacrifice Eye gives only one amulet’s worth of inaccuracy penalty.
• All altar-based abilities have been moved to the ability menu, and are hence immediately usable when granted: Zin’s Donate Gold and Cure All Mutations, Kiku’s Bless Weapon and Gift Necronomicon, Lugonu’s Bless Weapon, and The Shining One’s Bless Weapon.
• Monsters
• New monster: Juggernauts, terrifying giants that lurk in Depths. They move quickly and deliver fantastically punishing blows, but must rest after each attack. Don’t get jugged!
• Death cobs now have a hunger draining attack and deal significant damage. Don’t get cobbed!
• Hunger draining attacks on Hungry Ghosts and Death Cobs apply whenever the attack hits, not only if damage is done.
• Polyphemus can literally (1st definition) throw his Yaks at the player. We’re just as amazed as you are.
• Salamander genus monsters now all move normal speed and are fast in lava. Because that’s how it is in nature.
• Demonspawn Warmongers no longer cast Grand Avatar and can sometimes generate with a shield.
• Salamander Stormcallers’ Firestorm spell does more damage.
• Monsters have lost some relatively ineffective spells like Animate Dead, Simulacrum, and Hellwings no longer have Teleport Other.
• Polar bears, Black Bears, and your common backyard Kraken no longer try to flee at low HP.
• Wolves and Wargs have been taking howling classes and can now howl competently.
• Wandering Mushrooms no longer spawn as hostile monsters, but you can still make them through Fedhas.
• Lots of new tiles for things like Giants, Smoke demons, Crocodiles, Quokkas, and terrible 3-headed serpents that lurk in the very Hells beneath.
• Player and Dungeon (for they are one…)
• Corrosion applies -4 to both AC and Slaying instead of -5 and -3 respectively.
• Most random feature mimics are gone, save for those mimicing shops and portals.
• Spells
• Darkness is now level 5 instead of level 6! That’s an entire spell level of terrific savings!
• Casting Haunt no longer causes Sickness. We were….sick of it.
• Casting Malign Gateway no longer drains Int. We hope….you get the hInt.
• The Corpse Rot spell rots all corpses in LOS, not just those 5 tiles away.
• Ozocubu’s Armor and Stoneskin now no longer give respective bonuses to Ice Form and Statue Form.
• The Singularity spell is no more. Don’t worry about the Moon Troll, he’s been practicing his Caustic Bolt.
• Items
• The Sack of Spiders has a better spider distribution that’s been certified by spider actuaries. It makes more appropriate spiders at the low and high ends of evocations and fewer ally-nuking orb spiders.
• The Crown of Eternal Torment is gone. May discussions as to whether it was OP or Meme torment us no more…
• The Ephemeral Infusion effect is no more. The Elixir card now directly heals allies, and Demonspawn Bloodsaints don’t need it, since they no longer lose HP when casting Legendary Destruction.
• High-level spellbooks no longer restrict learning or identification based on spell skills.
• The contamination over time from Maxwell’s Cage has been reduced by 20%.

We’ll try to have at least monthly updates from now on. Don’t forget to let it end in Hellfire!

Hey crawl universe, here’s a short list of updates for this week:

• WizLabs:
• New WizLab: Lehudib’s Moon Base, where players can fight the legendary Moon Troll and obtain moon troll leather armour and other superb moon loot. That’s right, it all happens on the Moon!
• The less popular Tukima’s Studio and Eringya’s Formal Garden WizLabs are gone.
• Character:
  • The Rot status is gone; now rot is applied immediately.
  • Being stat-drained while at 0 in a stat no longer directly damages the player.
  • Undead stats: Mummies get one of Str, Int, or Dex every 5 levels, and Vampires get either Int or Dex every 5 levels. That’s right, a Mu buff!
  • Player headbutt aux attack no longer applies a small stun (that’s right, a Mi nerf!), and the hooves aux kick no longer bypasses AC.
  • Teleportitis only triggers when it would land the player in LOS of an enemy. It triggers slightly more often as a result, but never in Labs or the Abyss.
• Monsters:
  • Worms are less vulnerable to some forms of kiting, having more regen in exchange for less max hp.
  • Bog bodies can no longer rot corpses.
  • Liches of all shapes and sizes can no longer have the Shadow Creatures spell. That’s right, a Lich nerf!
  • Goliath beetles don’t generate randomly, now only appearing in dungeon vaults.
• Spells:
  • The Freeze spell no longer stuns enemies. That’s right, an IE nerf!
• Items:
  • Curare needles no longer take your (or monster’s) breath away.
• Gods:
  • Cheibriados’ slouch damage is now based on monster move speed. That’s right, a Chei buff!
  • Ashenzari now grants the Scrying ability at a mere 2* piety.

Now Go! Bring the Dev Team Glory in Combat!