{"id":2878,"date":"2014-07-13T20:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2014-07-13T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T18:21:12","slug":"trunk-updates-13-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-13-july-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 13 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! Things have been pretty quiet until the last few days; lots of behind-the-scenes work, not much exciting to report. That&#8217;s happily over now, though, so here&#8217;s the latest changes in trunk!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big ranged weapon changes! The second half of the Great Ranged-Combat Rebalance:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Slings have been split into two types: hunting slings, which replace the old basic sling type, and a new rare &#8216;greatsling&#8217; type. Both have had their damage increased considerably.<\/li>\n<li>Crossbows have also been split up into multiple weapons. The hand crossbow returns as a starting weapon for crossbow hunters; &#8220;crossbows&#8221; have been renamed to arbalests, and adjusted to fill a mid\/late-game role. There are rumors of a third, rare &#038; powerful crossbow type&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>Bows have had their delay increased somewhat; shortbows now have slightly lower base damage, longbows somewhat higher.<\/li>\n<li>Various unrands have been adjusted as appropriate. Punk is now a +7 greatsling; Hellfire is now an arbalest; Sniper is a &#8220;heavy crossbow&#8221;, with a base delay of 27.\n<\/ul>\n<li>Scrolls of vulnerability have been split in half. Status effect removal has been moved onto a new item type, &#8220;potions of cancellation&#8221;, which replace potions of paralysis. Scrolls of vulnerability now only have the &#8220;halve magic resistance on all visible creatures&#8221; effect.<\/li>\n<li>Mimics are now somewhat more polite; they will no longer mimic doors, statues, fountains, or hatches.<\/li>\n<li>The hoof mutation no longer gives extra damage or a stealth penalty when covered by boots.<\/li>\n<li>Ashenzari now considers Felids fully bound when all three jewellery slots are cursed.<\/li>\n<li>Undead monsters will now fall to pieces in deep water, instead of hiding invisibly.<\/li>\n<li>Big fish, sharks, and lava worms have swum off to the great aquarium in the sky.<\/li>\n<li>Potions of strong poison have taken the poison pill; they are no more.<\/li>\n<li>Flying creatures no longer have a 2\/3 chance to dodge throwing nets.<\/li>\n<li>Brown (contaminated) chunks are gone, replaced with normal chunks.<\/li>\n<li>Qazlal no longer provides a permanent resistance gift at 6* piety.<\/li>\n<li>Pigs now have trotters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! Things have been pretty quiet until the last few days; lots of behind-the-scenes work, not much exciting to report. That&#8217;s happily over now, though, so here&#8217;s the latest changes in trunk! Big ranged weapon changes! The second half of the Great Ranged-Combat Rebalance: Slings have been split into two types: hunting slings, which [&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\/2878"}],"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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}