Trunk Updates, 4 December 2015

Hi crawlers! With the close of the tournament, let’s find out what has changed in trunk since 0.17.

• Gods
  • New god: Pakellas the Inventive. Pakellas is a temple god, with an altar either in Temple or on D:2-9.
    • Grants MP on kills (at about half the rate of Vehumet) and passive wand charge identification.
    • Blocks MP regeneration and hates channeling (staff of energy, crystal ball of energy, the Staff of Wucad Mu, and Sublimation of Blood).
    • Piety on kills.
    • 1*: Quick Charge: spend 2/3 your current MP pool to add some charges to a wand or rod proportional to your Evocations, your current MP pool, and the capacity of the device.
    • At 2*, Pakellas gifts you a wand once (of any type other than heal wounds, hasting, and teleportation).
    • 3*: Device Surge: on your next use of an evocable item, spends 1-9 MP to apply one to three enhancers to its power output, with maximum MP and number of enhancers dependent on piety.
    • Starting at 4*, Pakellas occasionally gifts rods, wands, and miscellaneous evokables (always starting with a rod unless you are a felid).
    • 6*capstone: Supercharge: sets a rod to +10 (18/18), or sets a wand’s capacity to 50% above normal for that wand type (in addition to recharging it – this has the effect of improving Quick Charge’s efficiency on the wand).
  • Xom now chaos brands more weapon gifts, and can chaos brand ranged weapons again.
  • Finesse is no longer blocked by stasis.
  • Jiyva altars in Dungeon no longer appear as early in Dungeon.
  • Cheibriados now blocks chaos effects from hasting the player.
  • Piety given for a Ru sacrifice is more explicitly stated.
  • Abandoning Yredelemnul now destroys your zombie minions.
  • Followers of Elyvilon can pacify insects (again).
  • Zin’s Recite is now only interrupted if the player is silenced or incapacitated (or goes berserk).
• Branches, Environment
  • The enemies in the Elven Halls ending vault are now less likely to be lured out of the vault.
  • Ziggurat portals no longer appear in Pan.
• Character
  • A new mutation: Sturdy Frame, reducing base ER by 2/4/6 and thus making heavy armour easier to wear. Can be a demonspawn mutation.
  • The player no longer takes an accuracy penalty for fighting while invisible but without SInv (also true of monsters).
  • Formicids now have 0 Throwing aptitude (was -2).
  • Taking a known shaft now has a 2/3 chance of shafting one floor and 1/3 of two floors.
• Items
  • New items:
    • The amulet of dismissal, which has a chance of teleporting away enemies that attack you in melee combat, and contaminates the player when it is removed.
    • The +8 frozen axe “Frostbite” {freezing cloud, *Noise +Fly rC+}, an executioner’s axe with a chance of placing freezing clouds on enemies it strikes.
    • The +12 armour of Talos {ponderous, rF+}, a troll/ogre-sized suit of plate mail.
    • A figurine of a ziggurat – evoke to create a ziggurat portal. Appears on Zig:27 of all ziggurats and in the Tomb:3 loot.
    • Pieces from Xom’s chessboard – evoke to randomly swap the positions of you and all enemies and LOS, or (on failure) to trigger a Xom effect.
  • The robe of vines is now +2, Regen+7.
  • The Majin-Bo now speaks occasionally.
  • The amulet of Cekugob is now an amulet of dismissal.
  • Removing an amulet of regeneration now causes 2-7 hp of rot.
  • A new property can now generate on random artefacts: Fragile, which destroys the item when it is removed.
  • Amulets of faith now grant a 25% bonus to piety, not a 33% bonus.
  • Removed items:
    • Amulets of resist mutation and warding.
• Monsters
  • New monsters:
    • Spark wasps, lethally electric swarming insects that appear singularly in Spider and in packs in Depths.
    • Iron giants, with all the resilience that iron implies and the ability to throw you into the pack of giants they lead.
    • Doom hounds, lurking in Tartarus who can howl to summon a pack of their brethren.
  • Mnoleg gains Random Bolt and Dig.
  • Gloorx Vloq gains Summon Executioners and Black Mark.
  • Juggernauts now have two less damaging attacks instead of one powerful attack.
  • Jellies and death oozes cannot be blinded.
  • Jumping spiders and mana vipers can be blinded.
  • Jumping spiders cannot see invisible.
  • Giant eyeballs and golden eyes can now see invisible.
  • Salamander stormcallers’ chant does not need to be continuous; they now only need to try to cast Fire Storm at their target three times for it to trigger.
  • Entropy weavers’ corrosion is now instant and smite-targeted, but only applies one level of corrosion.
  • Ice devils are now tier 4 demons, with lowered HD to match.
  • Hellwings now have the swoop attack formerly possessed by blue devils.
  • Orange demons have their attacks split – they now have a reaching poison sting and a melee-only weakness attack.
  • Salamander mystics lose Localised Ignite Poison.
  • Natasha, deep elf knights, and salamander stormcallers can no longer cast Conjure Flame.
  • Spectral mist can no longer summon completely random spectral enemies.
  • Banishment from powerful monsters can now send you deeper into the Abyss than Abyss:1.
  • Removed monsters:
    • Octopode crushers.
    • (Plain) spiders.
    • Salamander firebrands.
    • Blue devils.
    • Brain worms.
• Spells
  • New spell: Yara’s Violent Unravelling (L5 Hexes/Transumations). Dispels all cancellable effects on the target and, if any were dispelled, causes a damaging explosion of mutagenic energy around the victim.
  • Hydra Form now has a fixed number of heads.
• Interface
  • Earth elementalists now have their stones start on b.
  • Characters starting with a primary ranged weapon now have their melee weapon on b by default.
  • An option is added to the butchering prompt to allow butchering only (e)dible corpses.
  • Auto-eat now triggers for ghouls if they are rotted.
  • The religion screen now shows all god powers, with currently accessible powers (per level of piety) being highlighted.

Time to start the experiments… happy crawling!