{"id":4974,"date":"2021-06-25T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:04:57","slug":"trunk-updates-25-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-25-june-2021","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Updates 25 June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Welcome to\u00a0Tudoco Ucre&#8217;s Tempting Trunk Update!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello crawlers, it has been a while since a post has appeared in this space. While your author has been inactive the rest of the team and the community have been working away in the depths of Gehenna to sift the most lethal ideas from the hellish magma.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, a warm welcome to the two newest players for the Devil&#8217;s team:\u00a0<em>hellmonk\u2013<\/em>a\u00a0long time community contributor, fork developer, and notorious memelord. <em>nicolae\u2013<\/em>another long time community vaultsmith, with a special talent for shop vaults, whimsey, and good quotations. We&#8217;re happy to have both of them aboard the team.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of community contributors, since I last wrote from among the 285 commits to trunk we&#8217;ve seen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new splash screen by <em>ArbitUHHH<\/em><\/li>\n<li>New tiles from <em>Sastreii, <\/em>including for <strong>demonic trees<\/strong>\u00a0which inspired a new dungeon feature<\/li>\n<li>Tweaks and fixes from <em>Goratrix, dilly, nlavsky, and DreamDust<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Specific mechanical input from <em>engine<\/em>\u00a0and <em>pubby<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>On to the changes!<\/div>\n<h2>New and Improved Vaults and Environment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s favorite lair ending, <strong>the Jungle Book<\/strong>, has been overhauled to no longer be a Lua-trigger spoiler. There are still plenty of appearing monsters, brought back from the dead by necromancers that now appear.<\/li>\n<li><em>hellmonk<\/em>\u00a0has been on fire, adding three new <strong>Volcanoes<\/strong>: a smoke and steam themed map, a tribute to the Zot hot tub (beware the orb of fire), and an elven volcano full of pryromancers.<\/li>\n<li>To cool off, he then added a slime themed new <strong>Ice Cave<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Both <em>hellmonk<\/em>\u00a0and <em>nicolae <\/em>have been at work improving <strong>Snake <\/strong>vaults; the first with a new <strong>rune vault<\/strong>, and the second with a wide variety of thematic vaults.<\/li>\n<li>Many old <strong>guarded unrand<\/strong> vaults have been tweaked and adjusted, as well as a slew of new ones.<\/li>\n<li>While not exactly a vault: <strong>demonic trees<\/strong>\u00a0now appear in the Abyss, Pan, and themed vaults. They can be awakened like normal trees but when burned produce a cloud of chaos instead of a forest fire.<\/li>\n<li>Early <strong>out of depth monsters<\/strong>\u00a0have a shallower maximum depth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gods<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hepliaklqana<\/strong>\u00a0waits until you have shown enough devotion to earn 1* of piety to bring your ancestor out of the mists of memory (and kindly also waits to impose the HP penalty).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sacrifice Experience<\/strong> costs more XP now: the experience cost of skills is calculated with your old XL value, which will have a much longer effect. The sacrifice can now be repeated up to three times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sacrifice words<\/strong> and <strong>sacrifice drink<\/strong> grant bonus piety when both are taken (Mummies get the bonus just for sacrificing words.)<\/li>\n<li>Other <strong>sacrifice piety values<\/strong> have been tweaked and rebalanced in various directions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Okawaru<\/strong>\u00a0no longer cares if you slaughter your allies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kikubaaqudgha\u00a0<\/strong>now gifts spells directly into your library; the capstone grants all of the spells of the Necronomicon and also Haunt once more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Character<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Djinni<\/strong>\u00a0aptitudes are adjusted (XP is increased from 0 to +1 and spellcasting reduced from -2 to -3).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unbreathing <\/strong>is no longer a mechanic distinct from rPois or holiness type (this applies also to monsters).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palentonga<\/strong>\u00a0can now silence their rolls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wisp form<\/strong>\u00a0no longer has blinkitis.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>guaranteed damage reduction\u00a0mechanic<\/strong>\u00a0is changed. Instead of being a secret percentage associated with particular armour items, it is an internal calculation derived from AC from any source. For the curious <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crawl\/crawl\/commit\/ff078d554e3f\">you can read the details<\/a>, but to quote the LearnDB &#8220;If you&#8217;re making equipment decisions based on this, please reconsider.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Spells<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>amulet of the Air <\/strong>loses EV+5 and becomes an Air magic enhancer.<\/li>\n<li>Monster <strong>Bind Souls<\/strong>\u00a0now always creates a simulacrum when the targeted monster dies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Air Elementals<\/strong>\u00a0lose their twisters, and gain Stunning Burst which inflicts 1 turn of paralysis and is resistible with rElec, stasis, or by dodging the attack (but not Will).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ice form<\/strong>&#8216;s AC scaling with power is buffed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New spell: Storm Form <\/strong>Level 7 Air\/Transmutations. Transforms the caster into a storm, melding all non-jewellery, and granting power-scaling electric cleaving melee, power-scaling defenses, and an activated blinkbolt ability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wereblood<\/strong>\u00a0grants a small amount of healing on each kill.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blade Hands<\/strong>\u00a0is again level 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Freezing Cloud<\/strong>\u00a0is now level 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tornado<\/strong>\u00a0is re-named and re-flavoured to <strong>Polar Vortex<\/strong>\u00a0Level 9 Ice; the damage flavour is changed to icicle damage and increased.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chain Lightning<\/strong>\u00a0is increased to Level 9 Conjurations\/Air, and has its mechanics simplified to be easier to reason about (but still a bit more complicated than a bullet point).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poisonous Vapours<\/strong>\u00a0no longer creates a cloud as part of its mechanical function.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Absolute Zero <\/strong>and <strong>Hydra Form<\/strong>\u00a0are removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>The trunk updates go straight to hell!<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to\u00a0Tudoco Ucre&#8217;s Tempting Trunk Update! 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