{"id":3859,"date":"2017-02-08T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2019-03-31T21:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:01:23","slug":"trunk-updates-8-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-8-february-2017","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 8 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Welcome &#8211; to the second changelog of 2017! <i>Even better than the first!<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New item type: scarves!\n<ul>\n<li>Scarves occupy the cloak slot. They give 0 AC and cannot be enchanted, but always generate with an ego.<\/li>\n<li>Scarf egos: rC+, Spirit Shield, Resistance, and rMsl.<\/li>\n<li>Scarves replace about 1\/6 cloaks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spells:\n<ul>\n<li>Replaced Delayed Fireball with a new spell: Ignition (L8 Fire). Ignition drops a fireball on every single enemy in line of sight. The player and their allies are immune. Have fun :)<\/li>\n<li>Repel Missiles is gone. It didn&#8217;t work especially well as a spell: rather than being an effect that required investment (an interesting strategic choice), it was essentially a permanent buff that applied to any non-Trog character that found it. As a spell that&#8217;s mainly cast out-of-combat, it didn&#8217;t work with the spell failure system, either; players were encouraged to take off armour, swap in wizardry items, etc to cast it. Everyone liked it, of course, since it had good lootfeel, but it&#8217;s better to provide that lootfeel without the accompanying annoyances. It&#8217;s an effect that works better as an item (e.g. the new scarf ego, or the Amulet of Air) than as a spell.<\/li>\n<li>Airstrike replaces Repel Missiles in the Book of Air. This should give AE a high-accuracy, lowish-damage spell to complement their other tools.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, Force Lance replaces Battlesphere in the Book of Conjurations. This is an experiment to encourage use of e.g. Fulminant Prism, with which Force Lance has considerable synergy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Unrands:\n<ul>\n<li>Amulet of Bloodlust: MR++ (was MR+), Slay+6 (was +3). Encourage use of an exciting *Rage item.<\/li>\n<li>Sceptre of Torment: only has a chance of tormenting on-hit, rather than randomly over time. Simpler, and doesn&#8217;t encourage annoying swapping while out of combat.<\/li>\n<li>Shield of Ignorance: changed from +6 {AC+4, *Curse, rN+, Int-6} to +10 {rN+, Int-4}. Int-6 was too harsh for almost all potential users to consider it, and *Curse really didn&#8217;t accomplish anything.\n<li>Sword of Cerebov: works on rDamnation monsters.<\/li>\n<li>Sword of Jihad: now the Zealot&#8217;s Sword. Replace a good but loaded word with a very good and non-loaded word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Food:\n<ul>\n<li>All food takes one turn to eat, including rations and royal jellies. Chunks only taking one turn to eat meant that the already-limited tactical implications of slow food were very limited, and the annoyances of getting interrupted while eating outweighed those.<\/li>\n<li>Removed: pizza and beef jerky, since they no longer had much purpose. The loss of pizza in particular is very sad&#8230; some day it will return in cheesy glory.<\/li>\n<li>The auto_butcher option now takes an optional hunger threshold parameter; check options_guide.txt for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Webs generated over the course of play (by e.g. jumping spiders or sacks of spiders) are no longer permanent. Once the monster or player they&#8217;re webbing escapes or dies, the web vanishes. This is to discourage certain degenerate behaviors involving luring jumping spiders around the game and using their webs to trivialize tough enemies; I realized it was theoretically possible when we first implemented permanent webs, but credit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dcss\/comments\/5rkstc\/strategic_use_of_web_traps\/\">Ultraviolent<\/a> for actually putting it into practice and forcing me to get off my rump and fix it!<\/li>\n<li>Elyvilon&#8217;s wrath is simpler. Instead of various irrelevant effects (e.g. minor poison miscasts), Ely just has a chance of applying lifesaving to enemies, healing those that were about to die.<\/li>\n<li>Wands are now ID&#8217;d when you step on them, instead of on pickup.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a longstanding mouse cursor bug in local tiles, which annoyed quite a lot of people. Performance should be much better now!<\/li>\n<li>Temple entrance vaults can spawn again. (Broken since last June&#8230; oops!)<\/li>\n<li>The legendary titan, Antaeus, is no longer terrified of the level 3 spell &#8216;Conjure Flame&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Monster Upheaval no longer increases in power with the player&#8217;s Invocations skill.<\/li>\n<li>Frogs can now ribbit, croak, or, under very special circumstances, bellow.<\/li>\n<li>Mushrooms caps have been banned.<\/li>\n<li>Vampire mages now have ghost hands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Welcome &#8211; to the second changelog of 2017! Even better than the first! New item type: scarves! Scarves occupy the cloak slot. They give 0 AC and cannot be enchanted, but always generate with an ego. Scarf egos: rC+, Spirit Shield, Resistance, and rMsl. Scarves replace about 1\/6 cloaks. Spells: Replaced Delayed Fireball [&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\/3859"}],"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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}