{"id":4337,"date":"2018-11-25T20:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2019-03-31T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:59:28","slug":"trunk-updates-25-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-25-november-2018","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Updates 25 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Crawlers. Since I last wrote for this blog (a long long time ago indeed)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve joined the development team, and I&#8217;m happy to be back with a write up of<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s been popping and shaking over the past few months of trunk development.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start off with some miscellaneous changes that come from categories that aren&#8217;t big enough to merit a separate heading.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wanderers&#8217;<\/strong> starting spell libraries are listed in the<br \/>\nmessage log on game start, and logged to the character log. They also<br \/>\nstart with a level 1 spell memorized if they start with exactly one<br \/>\nsuch spell.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New tiles:<\/strong> monster spell icons, shock serpent, dream sheep,<br \/>\nmana viper, Azrael, Dispater, Robe of Vines; plus a <strong>new splash<br \/>\nscreen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Confusing touch<\/strong> can now be used with a weapon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Levels<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A vast and terrible array of new vaults (over two hundred) has been<br \/>\nadded, touching most branches of the dungeon, including new ghost<br \/>\nvaults, new transporters, vaults that place early manuals, and much more.<\/li>\n<li>Many old vaults have been adjusted to prevent unnecessary vetoing,<br \/>\nallowing them to place with greater frequency.<\/li>\n<li>The concentric octagons layout has been added to Snake and Lair,<br \/>\nand the cave pools layout (with some parameter changes) has been added<br \/>\nto D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Monsters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grasping Roots<\/strong> is now a smite-targeted constriction<br \/>\neffect.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jorgrun<\/strong> has learned this new Grasping Roots spell, and can<br \/>\nspawn in Swamp. Watch out for the Roots\/Iron Shot wombo-combo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orb run spawns<\/strong> are more frequently near the player and more<br \/>\ndangerous.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pandemonium lords&#8217;<\/strong> spell sets and attack brands are revealed<br \/>\nwhen you meet them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monster equipment<\/strong>\u00a0is identified when you see the monster (including wands).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stash search<\/strong> can now search by handedness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Butchering<\/strong> always leaves a skeleton.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wand charges<\/strong> have been reduced, according to the following<br \/>\nschedule of average charges per wand:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Wand<\/th>\n<th>Before<\/th>\n<th>After<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>digging<\/td>\n<td>12.5<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>enslavement<\/td>\n<td>12.5<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>paralysis<\/td>\n<td>12.5<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>polymorph<\/td>\n<td>12.5<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>flame<\/td>\n<td>24.5<\/td>\n<td>16.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>random effects<\/td>\n<td>24.5<\/td>\n<td>16.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The following fixed artefacts have been changed:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Singing Sword<\/strong> is now a vorpal double sword, its\u00a0sonic damage effect triggers on 50% of hits (including\u00a0ripostes) and is considerably higher.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Spriggan&#8217;s Knife<\/strong> now carves into the realm of\u00a0dreams, and all backstabs are as if the target were\u00a0asleep.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Robe of Misfortune<\/strong> is no longer an item\u00a0identification trap, and is now a +5 robe with *Drain *Corrode\u00a0*Contam Harm *Slow and EV+5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sceptre of Torment<\/strong> is now a pain branded\u00a0eveningstar that torments on 1 in 5 hits but does not torment\u00a0the wielder. It gains a new tile too!<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Arc Blade&#8217;s<\/strong> static discharge effect now casts\u00a0the spell once (instead of using a special custom version) and\u00a0has had its enchantment bumped to +8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finisher<\/strong>\u00a0trades Str+3 for a chance (based on monster toughness) to instantly kill and explode the target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Technical<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MS Visual Studio<\/strong> can build crawl again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crawl&#8217;s Lua API<\/strong> has been documented, at least the portions\u00a0available from your options file. Read the docs <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.dcss.io\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for right now, so until next time: happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Crawlers. Since I last wrote for this blog (a long long time ago indeed) I&#8217;ve joined the development team, and I&#8217;m happy to be back with a write up of what&#8217;s been popping and shaking over the past few months of trunk development. Let&#8217;s start off with some miscellaneous changes that come from categories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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\/4337"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}