{"id":3497,"date":"2016-04-21T05:21:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2016-04-21T05:21:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:21:39","slug":"trunk-updates-20-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-20-april-2016","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 20 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! We&#8217;re in feature freeze right now, so here&#8217;s the last batch of changes for 0.18 trunk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gods:\n<ul>\n<li>Pakellas now gifts exactly one weak wand, one strong wand, one charge-based evoker, and one XP evoker as characters advance in piety, rather than gifting an endless succession of evocables.<\/li>\n<li>Lugonu&#8217;s Banish no longer has a power cap; instead of reaching maximum power at 10.5 Invocations, it scales smoothly up to 27 Invocations. It&#8217;s also somewhat harder to invoke.<\/li>\n<li>Ru&#8217;s sacrifice descriptions are somewhat more verbose and, hopefully, more useful.<\/li>\n<li>Enemies buffed by Gozag&#8217;s wrath remain buffed until slain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monsters:\n<ul>\n<li>Shadow fiends have been renamed and rethemed to Tzitzimitl, Aztec skeletal demon-gods which threatened to devour the sun. Their defenses are slightly better than before, and their attacks create a ring of miasma around (but not on) the player&#8217;s tile, similarly to the late, lamented salamander firebrands.<\/li>\n<li>Giant eyeballs are back! They can show up in Depths and Slime, accompanied by tough allies. They&#8217;ve also gone from slow to normal speed, but need to charge up twice before being able to paralyse the player, similar to orb spiders or salamander stormcallers.<\/li>\n<li>Lich &#038; ancient liches have spellbooks again, instead of per-lich randomly-generated spell lists.<\/li>\n<li>Salamander stormcallers have traded their Sticky Flame for a higher rate of Fire Storm casting.<\/li>\n<li>Iron Giants have been slowed to 80% speed.<\/li>\n<li>Hell Hogs now spit Fireballs. Beware, or your bacon may be cooked&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Demonic, angelic, and &#8216;magical&#8217; spells have all been merged into one category. This primarily affects descriptions.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters can no longer use vampiric drain on gargoyles, nor heal from draining summoned creatures.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters can no longer zap or evoke equipment while confused or fleeing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Items:\n<ul>\n<li>Rods are no longer treated as weapons; hitting someone with a magic rod is no longer more effective than hitting them with a rolled-up scroll. (Previously, they functioned as&#8230; clubs.) They can no longer be cursed.<\/li>\n<li>Scrolls of enchant weapon &#038; enchant armour no longer remove curses.<\/li>\n<li>Ziggurat figurines can be used even after having sacrificed Evocations through Ru.<\/li>\n<li>The lantern of shadows has faded, mysteriously, into the shadows.<\/li>\n<li>Sniper can no longer miss. Its enchantment has been correspondingly downgraded to +9, from +15.<\/li>\n<li>Arrows, bolts &#038; sling bullets no longer have brands.<\/li>\n<li>Poison needles scale with skill; they reach their old effectiveness at 8 Throwing, and improve from there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Throwing speed scales like weapon skills, rather than being like unarmed combat; it&#8217;s floored at 0.7 turns per toss, up from 0.5, but scales faster with skill.<\/li>\n<li>Wild\/subdued magic are both much less dramatic; each level of the mutation has been reduced in severity to about 60% of what they were before. (E.g., wild magic 1 increases spellpower by 30%, instead of 50%.) Subdued magic&#8217;s effects on spell failure were reduced even further, to reinforce its status as a bad mutation.<\/li>\n<li>If you would starve with food in your inventory, you will automatically eat that food instead.<\/li>\n<li>rElec reduces damage by 2\/3rds, rather than 3\/4ths.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Defensive actions&#8217; (dodging, blocking, etc) can now be listed in morgues.<\/li>\n<li>Wind Blast no longer misleadingly claims to &#8216;summon&#8217; wind; instead, it correctly <i>conjures<\/i> wind, in accordance with Dungeon Crawl lore.<\/li>\n<li>The Abyss has been decisively deanthropomorphised.<\/li>\n<li>High score entries featuring mountain dwarves that died of stupidity no longer crash the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! We&#8217;re in feature freeze right now, so here&#8217;s the last batch of changes for 0.18 trunk: Gods: Pakellas now gifts exactly one weak wand, one strong wand, one charge-based evoker, and one XP evoker as characters advance in piety, rather than gifting an endless succession of evocables. Lugonu&#8217;s Banish no longer has a [&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\/3497"}],"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=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}