{"id":3836,"date":"2017-01-14T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2019-03-31T21:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:01:34","slug":"trunk-updates-14-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-14-january-2017","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 14 January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Welcome &#8211; to the first changelog of 2017!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evocations:\n<ul>\n<li>Rods of scattershot &#038; rods of clouds have both been turned into rare, high-power wand types. Wands of Clouds, unlike their rod predecessors, always create harmful clouds.<\/li>\n<li>Discs of storms have been replaced with lightning rods, a new xp-charged misc evocable with a remarkable resemblance to the old &#8216;lightning&#8217; type of rod.<\/li>\n<li>Wand power scales significantly better with Evocations skill.<\/li>\n<li>Some wands have sub-LOS range.<\/li>\n<li>Wands cannot be evoked while confused.<\/li>\n<li>Wands of disintegration no longer destroy terrain; wands of digging can now destroy statues.<\/li>\n<li>Wands of slowing have, belatedly, followed their hasting friends into oblivion; they&#8217;re gone.<\/li>\n<li>Rods have been removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New race: Barachians, a species of frog-men with a great hatred of the letter t. They have a powerful innate Hop ability, a partially-controllable Blink effect that requires several turns of motionlessness to recover before re-use. To balance this, they also have slow movement 1 (1.2 turns\/move; nagas move at 1.4) and ghoul-tier attributes.<\/li>\n<li>New spell: Poisonous Vapours, L2 Poison\/Air. Smite-targeted; creates an extremely short-lived poison cloud on a targeted creature. Appears in the VM starting book.<\/li>\n<li>Removed: Poisonous Cloud.<\/li>\n<li>Apportation scales more significantly with spellpower. Its targeter is also hopefully a little better.<\/li>\n<li>Your current regeneration rate is shown in %.<\/li>\n<li>Deep dwarves can now benefit from the special effects of Kryia&#8217;s armour.<\/li>\n<li>The displayed resistance chance for Siren\/Avatar song is shown correctly in monster descriptions; it formerly miscalculated (underestimated) their power.<\/li>\n<li>Clearing multiple ziggurats will make the figurines you find within glow in new and exciting colours. Note that clearing multiple ziggurats is, quote, &#8220;silly and should not be encouraged&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to summoning golden dragons (see <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-23-december-2016\">trunk update post #219<\/a>, true believers!), fortunate TSO worshippers can <i>also<\/i> use poison stingers.<\/li>\n<li>Iron giants can no longer throw your orbs of destruction back at you. (It didn&#8217;t work properly anyway.)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s no longer possible to ?acquire an item directly into lava or deep water. Sploosh no more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Cerebov scumming has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>Wizards can now rest inside walls.<\/li>\n<li>Sandblast blasts sand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling, and happy new year, and if you haven&#8217;t yet <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/dcss-player-survey\">taken the survey<\/a>, hey! What better time for a fresh start (on <a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/dcss-player-survey\">taking the survey<\/a>) than now?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Welcome &#8211; to the first changelog of 2017! Evocations: Rods of scattershot &#038; rods of clouds have both been turned into rare, high-power wand types. Wands of Clouds, unlike their rod predecessors, always create harmful clouds. Discs of storms have been replaced with lightning rods, a new xp-charged misc evocable with a remarkable [&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\/3836"}],"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=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}