{"id":2858,"date":"2014-06-27T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2014-06-27T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:55:00","slug":"trunk-updates-26-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-26-june-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 26 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! Sorry for the downtime earlier this week; the database died, and then the backup database died while attempting to restore the primary. Thankfully, our admin was able to recover almost everything. So here&#8217;s a fresh pile of changes, seized from the heart of a dying sun!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beogh gifting has been somewhat revised:\n<ul>\n<li>Beogh will now improve allies&#8217; equipment, enchanting them and improving their base type. (The latter would sometimes occur before, but very rarely.)<\/li>\n<li>And he&#8217;ll gift weapons, armour, shields, and ammo to orcs who lack them.<\/li>\n<li>And he&#8217;ll bless weapons and armour that the player has gifted.<\/li>\n<li>And he&#8217;ll give some extra ammo to any orc that the player chooses to gift a ranged weapon to.<\/li>\n<li>And orcs won&#8217;t drop their melee weapons when the player gives them a ranged weapon, or vice versa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The Trident of the Octopus King now gets an additional +1 for each Ring of the Octopus King its wielder wears, up to a maximum of +16. (But good luck getting that!)<\/li>\n<li>Godless hill orcs can now convert to Beogh with &#8216;p&#8217; when orc priests are nearby, as an alternative to using the option from the abilities menu.<\/li>\n<li>The Deck of Wonders is back to giving mainly strategic effects (e.g. Helix, Mercenary, etc), rather than duplicating the Deck of Battle.<\/li>\n<li>New monster: torpor snails, found in Lair and Spider. Their enemies are slowed on sight, somewhat like ancient zymes.<\/li>\n<li>Weapons and armour which aren&#8217;t visibly enchanted no longer have enchantments higher than +0.<\/li>\n<li>The Staff of Air now activates its extra melee damage as often as other elemental staves.<\/li>\n<li>Brown oozes and pulsating lumps have oozed off to the great slime pit in the sky.<\/li>\n<li>The dragonslaying brand has been slain. (Except for Wyrmbane, of course.)<\/li>\n<li>Scrolls of Enchant Weapon are now rarer, and always succeed on use.<\/li>\n<li>Most randomly-placed teleport traps now disappear after one use.<\/li>\n<li>Lost souls now make enemies into ghosts instead of specters.<\/li>\n<li>Skullcrusher now gives +7 STR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>0.15 will be released in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! Sorry for the downtime earlier this week; the database died, and then the backup database died while attempting to restore the primary. Thankfully, our admin was able to recover almost everything. So here&#8217;s a fresh pile of changes, seized from the heart of a dying sun! Beogh gifting has been somewhat revised: Beogh [&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\/2858"}],"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=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}