{"id":3404,"date":"2015-12-05T01:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2015-12-05T01:53:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:53:32","slug":"trunk-updates-4-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-4-december-2015","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Updates, 4 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! With the close of the tournament, let&#8217;s find out what has changed in trunk since 0.17.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gods<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>New god: Pakellas the Inventive. Pakellas is a temple god, with an altar either in Temple or on D:2-9.\n<ul>\n<li>Grants MP on kills (at about half the rate of Vehumet) and passive wand charge identification.<\/li>\n<li>Blocks MP regeneration and hates channeling (staff of energy, crystal ball of energy, the Staff of Wucad Mu, and Sublimation of Blood).<\/li>\n<li>Piety on kills.<\/li>\n<li>1*: Quick Charge: spend 2\/3 your current MP pool to add some charges to a wand or rod proportional to your Evocations, your current MP pool, and the capacity of the device.<\/li>\n<li>At 2*, Pakellas gifts you a wand once (of any type other than heal wounds, hasting, and teleportation).<\/li>\n<li>3*: Device Surge: on your next use of an evocable item, spends 1-9 MP to apply one to three enhancers to its power output, with maximum MP and number of enhancers dependent on piety.<\/li>\n<li>Starting at 4*, Pakellas occasionally gifts rods, wands, and miscellaneous evokables (always starting with a rod unless you are a felid).<\/li>\n<li>6*capstone: Supercharge: sets a rod to +10 (18\/18), or sets a wand&#8217;s capacity to 50% above normal for that wand type (in addition to recharging it &#8211; this has the effect of improving Quick Charge&#8217;s efficiency on the wand).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Xom now chaos brands more weapon gifts, and can chaos brand ranged weapons again.<\/li>\n<li>Finesse is no longer blocked by stasis.<\/li>\n<li>Jiyva altars in Dungeon no longer appear as early in Dungeon.<\/li>\n<li>Cheibriados now blocks chaos effects from hasting the player.<\/li>\n<li>Piety given for a Ru sacrifice is more explicitly stated.<\/li>\n<li>Abandoning Yredelemnul now destroys your zombie minions.<\/li>\n<li>Followers of Elyvilon can pacify insects (again).<\/li>\n<li>Zin&#8217;s Recite is now only interrupted if the player is silenced or incapacitated (or goes berserk).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Branches, Environment<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The enemies in the Elven Halls ending vault are now less likely to be lured out of the vault.<\/li>\n<li>Ziggurat portals no longer appear in Pan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Character<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A new mutation: Sturdy Frame, reducing base ER by 2\/4\/6 and thus making heavy armour easier to wear. Can be a demonspawn mutation.<\/li>\n<li>The player no longer takes an accuracy penalty for fighting while invisible but without SInv (also true of monsters).<\/li>\n<li>Formicids now have 0 Throwing aptitude (was -2).<\/li>\n<li>Taking a known shaft now has a 2\/3 chance of shafting one floor and 1\/3 of two floors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Items<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>New items:\n<ul>\n<li>The amulet of dismissal, which has a chance of teleporting away enemies that attack you in melee combat, and contaminates the player when it is removed.<\/li>\n<li>The +8 frozen axe &#8220;Frostbite&#8221; {freezing cloud, *Noise +Fly rC+}, an executioner&#8217;s axe with a chance of placing freezing clouds on enemies it strikes.<\/li>\n<li>The +12 armour of Talos {ponderous, rF+}, a troll\/ogre-sized suit of plate mail.<\/li>\n<li>A figurine of a ziggurat &#8211; evoke to create a ziggurat portal. Appears on Zig:27 of all ziggurats and in the Tomb:3 loot.<\/li>\n<li>Pieces from Xom&#8217;s chessboard &#8211; evoke to randomly swap the positions of you and all enemies and LOS, or (on failure) to trigger a Xom effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The robe of vines is now +2, Regen+7.<\/li>\n<li>The Majin-Bo now speaks occasionally.<\/li>\n<li>The amulet of Cekugob is now an amulet of dismissal.<\/li>\n<li>Removing an amulet of regeneration now causes 2-7 hp of rot.<\/li>\n<li>A new property can now generate on random artefacts: Fragile, which destroys the item when it is removed.<\/li>\n<li>Amulets of faith now grant a 25% bonus to piety, not a 33% bonus.<\/li>\n<li>Removed items:\n<ul>\n<li>Amulets of resist mutation and warding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monsters<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>New monsters:\n<ul>\n<li>Spark wasps, lethally electric swarming insects that appear singularly in Spider and in packs in Depths.<\/li>\n<li>Iron giants, with all the resilience that iron implies and the ability to throw you into the pack of giants they lead.<\/li>\n<li>Doom hounds, lurking in Tartarus who can howl to summon a pack of their brethren.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Mnoleg gains Random Bolt and Dig.<\/li>\n<li>Gloorx Vloq gains Summon Executioners and Black Mark.<\/li>\n<li>Juggernauts now have two less damaging attacks instead of one powerful attack.<\/li>\n<li>Jellies and death oozes cannot be blinded.<\/li>\n<li>Jumping spiders and mana vipers can be blinded.<\/li>\n<li>Jumping spiders cannot see invisible.<\/li>\n<li>Giant eyeballs and golden eyes can now see invisible.<\/li>\n<li>Salamander stormcallers&#8217; chant does not need to be continuous; they now only need to try to cast Fire Storm at their target three times for it to trigger.<\/li>\n<li>Entropy weavers&#8217; corrosion is now instant and smite-targeted, but only applies one level of corrosion.<\/li>\n<li>Ice devils are now tier 4 demons, with lowered HD to match.<\/li>\n<li>Hellwings now have the swoop attack formerly possessed by blue devils.<\/li>\n<li>Orange demons have their attacks split &#8211; they now have a reaching poison sting and a melee-only weakness attack.<\/li>\n<li>Salamander mystics lose Localised Ignite Poison.<\/li>\n<li>Natasha, deep elf knights, and salamander stormcallers can no longer cast Conjure Flame.<\/li>\n<li>Spectral mist can no longer summon completely random spectral enemies.<\/li>\n<li>Banishment from powerful monsters can now send you deeper into the Abyss than Abyss:1.<\/li>\n<li>Removed monsters:\n<ul>\n<li>Octopode crushers.<\/li>\n<li>(Plain) spiders.<\/li>\n<li>Salamander firebrands.<\/li>\n<li>Blue devils.<\/li>\n<li>Brain worms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spells<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>New spell: Yara&#8217;s Violent Unravelling (L5 Hexes\/Transumations). Dispels all cancellable effects on the target and, if any were dispelled, causes a damaging explosion of mutagenic energy around the victim.<\/li>\n<li>Hydra Form now has a fixed number of heads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interface<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Earth elementalists now have their stones start on b.<\/li>\n<li>Characters starting with a primary ranged weapon now have their melee weapon on b by default.<\/li>\n<li>An option is added to the butchering prompt to allow butchering only (e)dible corpses.<\/li>\n<li>Auto-eat now triggers for ghouls if they are rotted.<\/li>\n<li>The religion screen now shows all god powers, with currently accessible powers (per level of piety) being highlighted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time to start the experiments&#8230; happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi crawlers! With the close of the tournament, let&#8217;s find out what has changed in trunk since 0.17. Gods New god: Pakellas the Inventive. Pakellas is a temple god, with an altar either in Temple or on D:2-9. Grants MP on kills (at about half the rate of Vehumet) and passive wand charge identification. 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