{"id":4648,"date":"2020-02-22T04:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2020-04-11T06:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T04:15:30","slug":"trunk-updates-21-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-21-february-2020","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Updates &#8211; 21 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You quaff a potion. It was a potion of stabbing. You feel ready to backstab. You open the trunk update like a pillowcase!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greetings fellow crawlers. The 0.25 development cycle has proved to be a busy one, so we&#8217;re back with another Trunk Update. Many of us usual suspects have been hard at work bringing you some new toys to play with. I&#8217;m also happy to note that PleasingFungus has recently returned to drop some new crawl creations of his own. How he managed to escape from the dreaded Tower of Lemuel, we&#8217;ll never know!<\/p>\n<p>Now, on with the update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Frozen Ramparts<\/strong>, a new L3 Ice spell that makes all walls within radius 3 become covered in icicles that release when a monster walks nearby. The icicles do light damage that checks AC but is only partly resistable. Affected monsters additionally receive a &#8220;frozen&#8221; debuff that slows their movement by 4 aut for a few turns. Available now for any Ice Elementalist in their starting book!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tin of Tremorstones<\/strong>, a new multi-use evocable. When used, it creates two radius 2 explosions at range 3 that are triple-affected by AC (like LRD), but the explosions are randomly skewed and may hit the user. Most useful for players with good armour. It has a 33% chance to fall apart with each use. It&#8217;s a tin of angry earth elementals waiting to explode!<\/li>\n<li>New <strong>Potion of Stabbing<\/strong> that gives a 50% chance to upgrade weak stabs (e.g.distracted monsters) to strong ones (e.g. sleeping monsters). I wonder what this potion would taste like?<\/li>\n<li>New unrand:\u00a0<strong>Cigotuvi&#8217;s Embrace<\/strong>, a +4 leather armour with rN+, rRot and *Drain that automatically gathers corpses to increase AC. The AC decays slowly over time but decays more quickly as more corpses are added. That&#8217;s right, the former Cigotuvi&#8217;s Embrace spell has returned, but as an unrand!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ledas&#8217; Liquefaction<\/strong>\u00a0gets a boost: the player is now immune to the effects of liquefied ground made by casting it. With this spell, we can all pretend to be a centaur.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scrolls of Magic Mapping<\/strong> now reveal any floor traps on the level. Now you can feel the pain of finding of a double-zot-trapped Hall of Zot:5 right after you enter the level!<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>vorpal<\/strong> weapon ego no longer has distinct adjectives for each weapon class. Now all such weapons are described as &#8216;vorpal&#8217;. Vorpality is the new reality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shields<\/strong> have gotten a reskin. Ordinary shields are renamed to kite shields and large shields have been renamed to tower shields. Sword-and-tower sounds cooler than sword-and-board, in my humble opinion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Confusing Touch\u00a0<\/strong>is now level 3 and checks MR instead of monster HD. Additionally, the\u00a0<strong>Confuse<\/strong>\u00a0spell has been removed. Now there&#8217;s exactly one &#8220;confuse exactly one thing&#8221; spell and it&#8217;s not so overpowered.<\/li>\n<li>Boots of the Assassin are now called the <strong>hood of the Assassin<\/strong> and use the headgear slot. Imagine wearing this while quaffing a potion of stabbing and standing next to a distracted Rupert. Nothing personnel, kid.<\/li>\n<li>The demon blade <strong>Leech\u00a0<\/strong>gains *Rage\/+Rage and loses its AC-3 and EV-3 properties.\u00a0<strong>Bloodbane<\/strong>\u00a0has been removed, having been merged into Leech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warlock&#8217;s Mirror<\/strong> can now reflect piercing ranged weapons. Is there anything this little gadget can&#8217;t do?!<\/li>\n<li>God conducts for harming allies now apply to spells and items that place harmful clouds. But don&#8217;t worry, demonspawn, your ignite blood mutation won&#8217;t anger Oka.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Staff of Olgreb<\/strong> now grants poison immunity to monsters wielding it. The gauntlet minotaur can&#8217;t wait to try this out when he next finds Olgreb in his loot pile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Potions of Agility<\/strong>\u00a0have been removed. Among the less interesting of the many buff potions that fill our inventories, agility potions have been replaced with the more specialized potions of stabbing.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters such as spiders can no longer cling. Rest in peace, a myriad of clinging code bugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the above items will continue to receive balance adjustments and tweaks over coming weeks. And we&#8217;re not done adding new stuff for 0.25, so stay tuned. Until next time, Happy Crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You quaff a potion. It was a potion of stabbing. You feel ready to backstab. You open the trunk update like a pillowcase! Greetings fellow crawlers. The 0.25 development cycle has proved to be a busy one, so we&#8217;re back with another Trunk Update. 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