{"id":3073,"date":"2015-01-24T05:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2015-01-24T05:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T04:35:45","slug":"trunk-updates-23-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-23-january-2015","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 23 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! The newest changes, organized by a completely arbitrary and arguably meaningless set of priorities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major:\n<ul>\n<li>Shoals tides have been reworked: they now shift only between shallow water &#038; land, never creating or destroying deep water tiles. They also move fifteen times faster.<\/li>\n<li>New fake language: &#8216;butt&#8217;. To quote the purpose statement of <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/buttbot\/\">the original<\/a>:\n<p>Buttbot is a social experiment in humour and interaction, it<br \/>\n    playfully mocks those around it. Almost deconstructionist in<br \/>\n    nature by manipulating the context of the text it parodies,<br \/>\n    it forces people to reexamine what has been said in a new light.<\/p>\n<p>    It builds on the tradition of mechanising surrealist techniques,<br \/>\n    such as example Dadadodo by Jwz implementing the cut-up technique<br \/>\n    made famous by William S. Burroughs (and used by Radiohead).<br \/>\n    However instead of merely rearranging the content, buttbot aims<br \/>\n    to augment it with the simplistic low brow humour.<\/p>\n<p>    The use of puerile humour is mainly to bring the conversation<br \/>\n    back down to earth, to remind us that in our intellectual pursuits<br \/>\n    that childish references to anatomy can bring a smile to our<br \/>\n    faces&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Fake languages are now stackable. Try adding &#8220;fake_lang = dwarven,!!!&#8221; to your rcfile, or see the <a href=\"http:\/\/s-z.org\/neil\/git\/?p=crawl.git;a=blob_plain;f=crawl-ref\/docs\/options_guide.txt;hb=HEAD\">options guide<\/a> for more languages and options.<\/li>\n<li>New rcfile option: &#8220;easy_door&#8221;, which toggles whether or not to ask for a prompt when (C)losing doors if only one open door is adjacent. (For consistency.) Defaults to true.<\/li>\n<li>add_autopickup_func() rcfile functionality has changed; returning false now signifies that corresponding items should never be picked up. I am told that if your autopickup is broken by this, you should do the following: &#8220;in the function passed to add_autopickup_func, change return false to return nil and change return a and b or c and d to return (a and b or c and d) or nil&#8221;. If you don&#8217;t understand that (I&#8217;m not super confident on it myself), maybe just delete the relevant functions and hope for the best.<\/li>\n<li>Evocables now charge &#038; discharge per-type, rather than individually. (That is, whenever you use a lamp of fire, all lamps of fire are unuseable until you gain enough xp to recharge it.) The elemental spirits are whimsical beings&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Moderate:\n<ul>\n<li>Light armour now has a small penalty to spellcasting success chance, and heavy armour&#8217;s penalties to spellcasting are slightly reduced.<\/li>\n<li>Bucklers now have a very slightly smaller encumbrance penalty.<\/li>\n<li>Shields&#8217; evasion penalties, &#038; the skill required to completely mitigate them, are now displayed in their descriptions.<\/li>\n<li>Caustic shrikes, after being nerfed, buffed, nerfed, and nerfed, have been buffed. Specifically, they&#8217;re now somewhat buffer, and less likely to appear when polymorphing earlier, weaker creatures. Celebrate!<\/li>\n<li>Natasha has traded her Mephitic Cloud for Conjure Flame, which she&#8217;ll use to try to block off the player&#8217;s avenues of manuever. (She had a bad habit of walking into her own mephitic clouds. Ridiculous cat&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>All book tiles have been completely replaced.<\/li>\n<li>New tiles for several uniques. Check out Nikola&#8217;s new look, just before the next time he electrocutes you to death!<\/li>\n<li>Gargoyles, being statues, can no longer cast Statue Form.<\/li>\n<li>Exploration piety no longer scales by the size of the level; it now is based solely on the number of tiles explored. (Early Ziggurat levels no longer give enormous amounts of Ash\/Nemelex piety.)<\/li>\n<li>Throwing net range no longer varies by the size of the player; all races can now throw them to the edge of LOS, up from 5 squares for most races, 6 squares for ogres, 4 for halflings &#038; kobolds, &#038; a mere 3 squares for spriggans.<\/li>\n<li>The Tome of Destruction has been utterly destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>All non-permanent summoned monsters are now unable to use stairs.<\/li>\n<li>Trog&#8217;s wrath summons are now permanent.<\/li>\n<li>rPois- items now prevent the player from reaching rPois+.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Minor:\n<ul>\n<li>Item descriptions no longer claim that rPois- &#8220;protects against poison&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It is no longer possible to instantly die from putting on a -hp item, or from having your last maximum hit point rotted away, or by being tormented at 1 hp while at rN-.<\/li>\n<li>You can no longer drink !poison, !decay or !degeneration if you know what they are and are not immune to them. Crawl does <b>not<\/b> encourage self-destructive drinking among its players.<\/li>\n<li>Hell rats no longer appear in the Sewers.<\/li>\n<li>Hexes with a 100% success chance should no longer fail.<\/li>\n<li>+Twstr and +-HP have been removed from randart generation.<\/li>\n<li>Artefacts can no longer spawn with both &#8220;cause random teleportation&#8221; and &#8220;prevent all teleportation&#8221; properties.<\/li>\n<li>Mummies can no longer be trapped in an infinite loop when calling for merchants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! The newest changes, organized by a completely arbitrary and arguably meaningless set of priorities: Major: Shoals tides have been reworked: they now shift only between shallow water &#038; land, never creating or destroying deep water tiles. They also move fifteen times faster. New fake language: &#8216;butt&#8217;. 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