{"id":2849,"date":"2014-06-15T21:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2014-06-16T00:04:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T22:04:29","slug":"trunk-updates-15-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-15-june-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 15 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! A whole pile of changes, just waiting for some enterprising adventurer to seize them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weapon enchantments and slaying bonuses (from artefacts and rings of slaying) have been merged into one number, which gives both +accuracy and +damage. Enchant Weapon scrolls have likewise been merged into a single type. Various unrands have been adjusted to account for this.<\/li>\n<li>Monster item pickup:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Monsters will no longer pick up items that players have seen.<\/li>\n<li>Friendly monsters will no longer pick up any items at all. (And, accordingly, the old ctrl-t functionality has been removed.)<\/li>\n<li>Beogh has a new ***** piety ability, allowing the player to gift items directly to named followers.<\/li>\n<li>Beogh now improves allies&#8217; equipment by blessing them.<\/li>\n<li>Mercenaries now start with slightly better items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Ctrl-T now toggles displaying enemies&#8217; weapons&#8217; glyphs while playing console.<\/li>\n<li>Cross-training now gives a direct bonus to skills, rather than providing an aptitude bonus.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-training has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>New monster: Ghost crabs, appearing in the Crypt and Tartarus. The clouds of ghostly flame they breathe summon dangerous specters into fleeting existence.<\/li>\n<li>Giant fireflies have flickered out of existence; spriggan riders now buzz into battle on deadly wasp mounts.<\/li>\n<li>Halfling and kobold stats have been tweaked; halflings now have more str and less int\/dex, and kobolds now have slightly more dex and slightly less str.<\/li>\n<li>TSO no longer blasts you with cleansing fire when you kill holy monsters.<\/li>\n<li>Simulacrum now works on a single corpse at the caster&#8217;s feet, creating several simulacrula from it. Monsters instead have an animate-dead like version that works on all corpses in LOS and produces half as many simulacrula.<\/li>\n<li>Sublimation of Blood no longer uses chunks; it now only draws from the caster&#8217;s HP.<\/li>\n<li>Temporary brand spells (Excruciating Wounds and Warp Weapon) can now be used on branded non-artefact weapons to temporarily re-brand them.<\/li>\n<li>The Sack of Spiders now places webs directly onto enemies, rather than spreading them randomly around the area.<\/li>\n<li>The Frost card has been removed, and replaced with Hammer; Flame has been renamed to Cloud, and now produces either fire or freezing clouds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! A whole pile of changes, just waiting for some enterprising adventurer to seize them: Weapon enchantments and slaying bonuses (from artefacts and rings of slaying) have been merged into one number, which gives both +accuracy and +damage. Enchant Weapon scrolls have likewise been merged into a single type. Various unrands have been adjusted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}