Hi, crawlers! It’s been a quiet week for changes:

  • Monster spells can now be examined through the xv screen, in the same way as with books & rods (that is, by hitting a letter corresponding to the spell). At present, this lets you see the description and range of their spells.
  • Cigotuvi’s Embrace has been reworked; the rate at which corpses fall off is now based purely on the number currently stacked on the player, and spellpower instead increases the amount of AC+SH per corpse, from a base of 0.5 AC+SH per corpse to a cap of 1.5 AC+SH at the new max of 100 power. Skeletons now count the same as other corpses for Cigotuvi’s purposes.
  • Gell’s Gravitas now has a small chance of confusing creatures pulled by it, based on spellpower and on victims’ MR.
  • A new “item_slot” rcfile has been added, to allow you to specify which letter correspond to which items by default. Works like the spell_slot option.
  • Quite a lot of tiles have been tweaked; notably the Singularity & Sublimation of Blood spell icons, but also many many monsters, which now incorporate advanced artistic techniques such as ‘perspective’. Check out hippogrives!
  • Xom’s mood meter has been added to webtiles.
  • Shard shrike packs can no longer spawn as hell effects in Cocytus; in general, the Cocytus hell effect spawn list has been reworked.
  • Lava snakes can spit again. (They accidentally lost the ability to spit several months ago.)
  • Chaos Champions can no longer give the player Resistance for 4000 turns.
  • Gyre & Gimble can now strike up to 16 times in a single attack. (With the help of the Blade card.)
  • Artefacts may now again be named “of the Doge”.

Happy crawling!