{"id":4944,"date":"2021-04-02T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2021-04-02T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:45:23","slug":"trunk-updates-2-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-2-april-2021","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Updates 2 April 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You pray at the faded altar. The Trunk Updates accept your prayer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello crawlers, trunk is currently as hot as Geh:7 on a hot day with lots of commits coming fast. Since we last wrote over 150 changes have landed in trunk, a mix of tweaks, shifts, new features, community contributions, and bugfixes. As with last time, I want to again highlight our non-code contributors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New\u00a0<strong>vaults<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0<em>beargit,\u00a0<em>n<\/em><em>icolae,\u00a0<\/em><\/em>and\u00a0<em>ShaperMC<\/em>,\u00a0appearing in various places in the dungeon. If you&#8217;re interested in making vaults (prefabricated bits of the map), read an introduction to editing vaults\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crawl\/crawl\/blob\/master\/crawl-ref\/docs\/develop\/levels\/introduction.txt\">here<\/a>\u00a0and consider setting up a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crawl\/crawl\/blob\/master\/crawl-ref\/docs\/develop\/git\/quickstart.txt\">development environment to test your vaults<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>New\u00a0<strong>tiles<\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0<em>Sastreii<\/em>. If you&#8217;re interested in making tiles, read our tiles guideline\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crawl\/crawl\/blob\/master\/crawl-ref\/docs\/develop\/tiles_creation.txt\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both kinds of contribution can be submitted on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crawl\/crawl\">GitHub repository<\/a>, either as an issue or a pull request, if you don&#8217;t have a mantis account. If the documents seem a little old, they&#8217;ll be getting updates in the coming month.<\/p>\n<p>Work on spicing up the <strong>early dungeon experience<\/strong> has continued with significant changes to the <strong>overflow altar system<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each floor from D:1-3 has a 50% chance of placing a <strong>faded altar<\/strong>. <em>We need more faded altar vaults! If you&#8217;re interested in making vaults this is a good place to start (as are arrival vaults).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>There is a 20% chance of an identified `altar to a <strong>random Temple god<\/strong>\u00a0on D:2.<\/li>\n<li>Except for the previous two chances, no other altars appear on D:1 or D:2.<\/li>\n<li>Every &#8220;Temple god&#8221; receives <strong>exactly one guaranteed altar<\/strong>, appearing either\u00a0in the<strong> Ecumenical Temple<\/strong> or in an <strong>overflow temple<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>between D:3 and D:10.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>We also need more overflow temple vaults!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the changes to altar placement, further adjustments continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oozes<\/strong> are renamed <strong>endoplasms<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dungeon<\/strong> spawn tables are adjusted to produce more depth appropriate monsters<br \/>\nand less chaff.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ogres<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Two headed ogres<\/strong>\u00a0again attack slowly and hit harder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scorpions<\/strong>\u00a0are now fast.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gnolls<\/strong>\u00a0on D:1 no longer get <strong>halberds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worker ants<\/strong>, <strong>soldier ants<\/strong>, and<strong> queen ants<\/strong> are removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new <strong>Djinni<\/strong>\u00a0species continues to be tweaked in response to play testing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Weapon aptitudes<\/strong> have been lowered by one.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>scholarly gods<\/strong>\u00a0now all reject Djinn worship (that&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Sif Muna<\/strong>, <strong>Vehumet<\/strong>, and <strong>Kikubaaqudgha<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Spells are guaranteed on level-up: if a starting book spell is rolled the spell gets re-rolled until an available spell is found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some changes to the <strong>mutation pool<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All <strong>scales<\/strong>\u00a0except <strong>Iridescent<\/strong>\u00a0scales are now Demonspawn only.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iridescent scales<\/strong>, <strong>bone plates<\/strong>, <strong>thin skeletal structure<\/strong>, and <strong>sturdy frame <\/strong>are no longer incompatible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blurry vision<\/strong>\u00a0is removed, replaced by allowing Ru&#8217;s <strong>-Scroll<\/strong>\u00a0while threatened mutation in the random mutation pool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shoutitis<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>No potion heal<\/strong>\u00a0are reduced to 2 levels, with the maximum level effect at the top level, and half the effect at the first level.<\/li>\n<li>A new <strong>Jiyva mutation<\/strong>\u00a0gives player melee an <strong>engulf<\/strong>\u00a0effect, engulfing foes in ooze (gross).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>blink mutation<\/strong>\u00a0is removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course, a grab bag of other changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manifold Assault<\/strong> is raised to level 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Depths vaults<\/strong> have their monster lists updated to match the spawn table.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Vestibule of Hell<\/strong>\u00a0has its monster list updated to remove chaff monsters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flying equipment<\/strong>, <strong>species<\/strong>, and <strong>forms<\/strong> cause you to fly at all times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sif Muna&#8217;s<\/strong> book gifting rate has been reduced, to make it more feasible to reach 6* piety.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blade Hands<\/strong> is now level 6 and appears only in the book of Transfigurations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hydra Form<\/strong> is now level 5 and appears in the book of Changes and the Fen Folio<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heavenly Storm<\/strong> grants bonus EV and is a bit quieter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scrolls of random effects<\/strong> are removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. On the horizon: new demonspawn tier 3 facets have come into focus. The winds of freshening continue to blow through branches but just where they&#8217;ll go remains mysterious. Until next time, happy crawling!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>You feel\u00a0<\/em><em>threatened and lose the ability to read!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You pray at the faded altar. The Trunk Updates accept your prayer! Hello crawlers, trunk is currently as hot as Geh:7 on a hot day with lots of commits coming fast. Since we last wrote over 150 changes have landed in trunk, a mix of tweaks, shifts, new features, community contributions, and bugfixes. 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