{"id":3817,"date":"2016-12-24T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T06:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2019-03-31T21:01:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:01:45","slug":"trunk-updates-23-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-23-december-2016","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 23 December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Hope everyone&#8217;s been enjoying the holiday season as much as we have. Here&#8217;s the latest, most festive changes from trunk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characters:\n<ul>\n<li>Whisper &#8216;Farewell&#8217; when you leave, Legolas: High Elves are no more. (This is, of course, part of the crawl dev team&#8217;s newly &#8220;straight edge&#8221; lifestyle.)<\/li>\n<li>Ogres&#8217; apts have been adjusted: their Maces and Flails apt has been lowered, and in compensation, their spellcasting skills have been increased to -1 across the board.<\/li>\n<li>Deep Dwarves&#8217; wand recharge ability has been replaced with a self-healing ability that has a chance of decreasing their max MP whenever it&#8217;s used.<\/li>\n<li>Mummies&#8217; Spellcasting apts are now +2; formerly -1.<\/li>\n<li>The demonspawn Augmentation effect is 25% less dramatic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Items:\n<ul>\n<li>To avoid miskeys, the letter keys can no longer be used to wield or throw useless items unless the * key (&#8216;display all&#8217;) has been pressed first. Breadswingers can rest easy, as other selection techniques, e.g. {@w1}, are unchanged.<\/li>\n<li>Wands of heal wounds, teleportation, and hasting have discharged their last zap. They&#8217;re removed. We removed them. Hence: no more zapping.<\/li>\n<li>Wand and misc acquirement have been merged into one category, &#8216;evocables&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Nemelex wrath reclaims all decks, instead of merely sabotaging them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monsters:\n<ul>\n<li>Hill giants and two-headed ogres have merged into one big two-headed monster. (I&#8217;m not sure what happened to the third head.) &#8216;Hill giants&#8217; will be seen no more, and two-headed ogres take their place, becoming significantly nastier in the process.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters should no longer, very rarely, appear to be random strange colours in console. This bug was first reported at least three years ago; thanks to johnny0 for finally figuring it out and creating a fix!<\/li>\n<li>Monster white draconian breath can now be resisted by AC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Per popular demand, Sandblast now consumes stones directly from the inventory. As part of the change, it no longer functions without ammo, and large rocks can&#8217;t be used at all. (Earth Elementalists get more stones to compensate.)<\/li>\n<li>Slime:$&#8217;s walls no longer collapse entirely when TRJ is slain; instead, only newly-added transparent sections will be destroyed. It seemed a bit too mean to take out the entire thing, even for us.<\/li>\n<li>In the spirit of helping new players, the autofight_stop default is now 50, up from 30.<\/li>\n<li>For the first time in nearly two years, acquirement and god gifts can now produce helmets. Oops.<\/li>\n<li>Followers of the Shining One can now summon golden dragons.<\/li>\n<li>Trees will appear angry, when appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>You can no longer rest while on fire.<\/li>\n<li>You can no longer learn spells that no longer exist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling, and a happy new year in advance! Here&#8217;s to many more.<\/p>\n<p>(P.S.: <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/dcss-player-survey\">take the survey!<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Hope everyone&#8217;s been enjoying the holiday season as much as we have. Here&#8217;s the latest, most festive changes from trunk: Characters: Whisper &#8216;Farewell&#8217; when you leave, Legolas: High Elves are no more. (This is, of course, part of the crawl dev team&#8217;s newly &#8220;straight edge&#8221; lifestyle.) Ogres&#8217; apts have been adjusted: their Maces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817"}],"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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}