{"id":2958,"date":"2014-09-30T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2014-09-30T19:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T17:18:02","slug":"trunk-updates-30-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-30-september-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 30 September 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! It&#8217;s been a while, but now that the tournament is over, the 0.16 season has kicked off with a bang. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new so far in trunk!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New god: Ru the Awakened, a new temple god, lord of sacrifice and power!\n<ul>\n<li>Periodically offers the player a choice of three permanent sacrifices in exchange for piety. All abilities scale with piety; piety never decreases.<\/li>\n<li>Leaving Ru incurs no wrath, but leaves all your sacrifices in place (permanently).<\/li>\n<li>1*: Enemies may fail to attack you, or even attack each other or themselves instead.<\/li>\n<li>2*: Enemies that hurt you may be punished with status effects.<\/li>\n<li>3*: Draw Out Power: restore health and mana to yourself, break free of webs and constriction, and cure confusion and petrification. Inflicts minor self-drain and exhaustion.<\/li>\n<li>4*: Power Leap: Blinks you three tiles and deals high AOE damage at your destination. Costs exhaustion.<\/li>\n<li>5*: Apocalypse: Deals very high damage to all monsters in LOS and inflicts statuses. Costs heavy drain and exhaustion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monster changes:\n<ul>\n<li>Mermaids have been renamed to sirens; sirens have been renamed to merfolk avatars.<\/li>\n<li>Mimics now cackle and vanish (forever) when discovered. This optimizes their psychological damage potential (PDP).<\/li>\n<li>The Serpent of Hell is considerably tougher; it now has three heads which can attack and\/or breathe separately, and can also summon (dragon-shaped) backup.<\/li>\n<li>Mnoleg now has a pair of tentacles, acting similarly to eldritch tentacles.<\/li>\n<li>New monster: elemental wellsprings, appearing in Cocytus. They fire powerful waves of water which produce hostile water elementals &#8211; but deplete their own &#8216;health&#8217; in the process.<\/li>\n<li>New monster: bennu, the divine phoenix, appearing in Tomb. Attacks with fire, draining, and holy; when killed, explodes into ghostly flame and instantly returns to life (once).<\/li>\n<li>Curse skulls now move &#8211; fast!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Completing a ziggurat (by exiting from the top floor, zig:27) makes all subsequent zigs harder. Dare you face the terror of the Megazig?<\/li>\n<li>Ziggurats now only require two runes to enter, instead of three.<\/li>\n<li>A Hall of Blades area (not branch) is now guaranteed on Elf:2.<\/li>\n<li>Demigods now gain one stat of their choice on 2\/3 levels (2,3,5,6&#8230;26,27), instead of gaining one stat of their choice on every third level and one random stat on every other level.<\/li>\n<li>All species can now choose &#8216;unarmed&#8217; when playing backgrounds that allow a weapon choice.<\/li>\n<li>Necromutated characters can now memorize spells normally, even ones that undead characters are unable to cast.<\/li>\n<li>Dragon Form now provides a spell power &#038; success chance enhancer for Dragon&#8217;s Call.<\/li>\n<li>The captain&#8217;s cutlass is now +5 (was +10) and can disarm enemies.<\/li>\n<li>TSO&#8217;s Divine Shield no longer benefits from Shields skill.<\/li>\n<li>Zin&#8217;s Hell effect protection has been halved; it now caps out at a 50% chance to block the terrors of Hell at max piety, down from 100%.<\/li>\n<li>Zin&#8217;s Recite is now more effective at very low Invocations.<\/li>\n<li>A third page has been added to the god description (^) screen, listing causes and effects of divine wrath.<\/li>\n<li>Some effects (Shatter, banishment, etc.) now display animations.<\/li>\n<li>Stealth is now displayed as a bar in the % screen. (The old &#8216;stealth words&#8217;) are still visible with @.)<\/li>\n<li>Monsters no longer appear on the minimap.<\/li>\n<li>The init file now allows you to specify an arbitrary monster tile for your character to be displayed as. Play as the Royal Jelly you always knew you were!<\/li>\n<li>Porcupine-shaped players now have blood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! It&#8217;s been a while, but now that the tournament is over, the 0.16 season has kicked off with a bang. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new so far in trunk! New god: Ru the Awakened, a new temple god, lord of sacrifice and power! Periodically offers the player a choice of three permanent sacrifices in exchange [&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\/2958"}],"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=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}