{"id":2982,"date":"2014-10-21T03:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2014-10-21T03:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T01:38:01","slug":"trunk-updates-20-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-20-october-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 20 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers!<\/p>\n<p>First, fair warning: a very large rewrite of monster spellcasting &#038; special abilities landed in trunk this morning. This lets us do some very cool things (some of which are already in!), but it&#8217;s also a large amount of new code, which is going to have a corresponding number of new bugs. For the next day or two, trunk will be a little more unstable than usual.<\/p>\n<p>One thing you can do to help, as always, is to report any bugs you find on <a href=\"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/mantis\/main_page.php\">the official bugtracker<\/a>. We get notified whenever a new bug is filed, and while we can&#8217;t promise we&#8217;ll fix everything immediately, we do our best!<\/p>\n<p>With all that said, let&#8217;s get to the week&#8217;s new features!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mennas can now occasionally be found wandering through Pandemonium. His Confusion &#8216;recitation&#8217; has been replaced with Mass Confusion.<\/li>\n<li>The Great Lords of Pandemonium &#8211; that is, Cerebov, Lom Lobon, etc &#8211; will reappear on later floors of Pandemonium once their rune is stolen, unless and until the player kills them.<\/li>\n<li>Lom Lobon (and, to a lesser extent, Gloorx Vloq) are much more likely to spend their time casting spells rather than attacking in melee.<\/li>\n<li>Player ghosts and spellforged servitors can now know more than six spells.<\/li>\n<li>New items:\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow dragon armour. 10 AC and 15 ER, the same as Storm Dragon Armour, but instead of rElec, shadow dragon armour gives Stlth++++. (The weight of the armour naturally subtracts exactly Stlth+++, leaving players wearing this armour at Stlth+ above what they would have with no armour at all.)<\/li>\n<li>Quicksilver dragon armour. 10 AC, 6 ER, and MR+; however, it cannot be enchanted with scrolls of enchant armour, and is always +0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Scale Mail now only has 10 ER, down from 11.<\/li>\n<li>Dithmenos now specifically hates fire (owing to a <i>very<\/i> old divine grudge), rather than &#8216;fire and illuminating effects&#8217;. The glimmering light of a Corona will no longer bring down the dread wrath of Dithmenos upon worshippers.<\/li>\n<li>A new malmutation: &#8220;MP-powered wands&#8221;, which increases the power of your wands, but makes them cost MP with every zap.<\/li>\n<li>New tiles: Irradiate, Hydra Form, Octopode &#038; Felid Blade Hands (if that&#8217;s the right word?), triple swords, and more.<\/li>\n<li>Various skill titles have been rearranged or replaced; notably, Cheibriados&#8217;s invocations titles have been completely rewritten from scratch.<\/li>\n<li>Hydra Form, like most forms, now has a special message when praying at altars.<\/li>\n<li>The legendary serpent J\u00f6rmungandr is now selectable by tiles players. (&#8220;tile_player_tile=tile:mons_jormungandr&#8221;.) Beware his ophidian wrath!<\/li>\n<li>Wumpuses can occasionally be heard roaring in the distance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! First, fair warning: a very large rewrite of monster spellcasting &#038; special abilities landed in trunk this morning. This lets us do some very cool things (some of which are already in!), but it&#8217;s also a large amount of new code, which is going to have a corresponding number of new bugs. 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