{"id":2677,"date":"2014-04-28T05:39:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T03:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2014-04-28T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T04:48:07","slug":"trunk-updates-27-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-27-april-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 27 April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! With the end of the tournament, trunk development is gearing up again. Here are some of the changes that have already been made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A large number of enemy glyphs (for console players) have been changed; see <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/mantis\/view.php?id=8242\">Mantis #8242<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<li>Crypt has been reduced to three levels (was five); the entrance to Tomb is always on Crypt:3.<\/li>\n<li>Some areas of the Tomb layout can now vary.<\/li>\n<li>Formicids can no longer throw large rocks.<\/li>\n<li>Tengu gain their permanent flight ability at XL14 (was 15).<\/li>\n<li>Changes\/improvements to forms: all non-undead forms can eat and drink normally; all forms can butcher; wisp form can read scrolls and cannot blink innately.<\/li>\n<li>Enemies are more intelligent about using some attack spells such as Symbol of Torment and Chain Lightning when the player is not in LOS.<\/li>\n<li>Manticores can now move as fast as the player.<\/li>\n<li>Komodo dragons bite harder but can no longer sicken the player.<\/li>\n<li>Deep dwarf death knights are now (human) death knights.<\/li>\n<li>Removed enemies: vapours, thorn lotuses, giant goldfish, silver stars.<\/li>\n<li>Dazzling Spray replaces Invisibility in the book of Maledictions (the Enchanter starting spellbook); Invisibility in turn replaces Apportation in the book of Burglary. (Note that each of these spells is still available in at least one other spellbook.)<\/li>\n<li>When the player casts Ozocubu&#8217;s Refrigeration, they are now prevented from using potions for several turns instead of having their potions destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>Damage from the electrocution brand has been reduced slightly.<\/li>\n<li>There are status lights for might, agility, and brilliance.<\/li>\n<li>Followers of good gods no longer get a chance to pacify holy enemies.<\/li>\n<li>The low-level weapon branding skills and the book of War Chants have been removed.<\/li>\n<li>Scrolls of brand weapon can no longer be used to affix brands, and do not trigger a distortion effect on rebranding a distortion weapon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.beRotato.org:8080\">crawl.beRotato.org<\/a> has some experimental branches available for testing: &#8220;ranged_combat&#8221;, containing a mostly-complete rewrite of the system of ranged combat (bows, crossbows, etc.), and &#8220;gods&#8221;, featuring two new deities &#8211; Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer. These branches should also be available on <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.s.z.org\/\">crawl.s-z.org<\/a> shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! With the end of the tournament, trunk development is gearing up again. Here are some of the changes that have already been made: A large number of enemy glyphs (for console players) have been changed; see Mantis #8242 for more details. Crypt has been reduced to three levels (was five); the entrance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}