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'''0.21''' is a version of ''Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup''. It was released on January 5, 2018.
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==Highlights==

* New species: [[Gnoll]]s
* New god: [[Wu Jian Council]]
* New spell: [[Borgnjor's Vile Clutch]]

==Branches, Environment==

* The rate at which unique Pan lord levels appear in [[Pandemonium]] is increased.
* [[Transporter]]s now have a 'landing site' that indicates their destination.
* The Hellbinder and Cloud Mage [[Wizlab]]s have been revamped to give greater and more varied challenges as well as improved loot.

==Character==

* New species: [[Gnoll]]s, with extremely high aptitudes for all skills, but an inability to focus: Gnolls always train all skills equally, regardless of whether they have the requisite items or spells.
* [[Ogre]]s now have better aptitudes in [[short blades]], [[long blades]], and [[axes]].

==Gods==

* New (temple) god: [[Wu Jian Council]]
** Grants free 'martial' attacks from certain movement actions:
*** 0*: Moving toward an enemy triggers 'Lunge', which attacks the enemy and does extra damage.
*** 1*: Moving between tiles adjacent to a monster triggers 'Whirlwind', which attacks all adjacent foes and 'pins' them, preventing one turn of movement.
*** 2*: Moving against solid obstacles triggers a two-turn Wall Jump, moving two tiles in the opposite direction and attacking any adjacent enemies. This ability can also be triggered via an (a)bility, and the movement- based mode can be disabled using `wall_jump_move = false` in your rc file for more careful play.
*** 3*: Active 'Serpent's Lash' ability, granting two free movement actions, of which any martial actions will never miss.
*** 5*: Active 'Heavenly Storm' ability, creating opaque clouds and increasing your martial prowess while you continue to use 'martial' attacks.
*** Piety is gained through defeating foes.
* [[Gozag]] Potion Petition no longer offers haste/berserk potions for species that can't haste/berserk.
* [[Zin]] blocks 100% of mutations at 6* piety. At that piety level, potions of mutation now only remove mutations and don't cause piety loss.
* Zin no longer has a mutation removal one-time ability at 6* piety.
* [[Makhleb]]'s Minor Destruction has slightly lowered range, and Makhleb's Major Destruction has slightly increased range.

==Interface==

* Players can now set training targets for [[skills]].
** Press = on the skill screen, select a skill, and enter a skill level.
** Training of that skill is disabled when it reaches the specified level.
* Water species except for [[merfolk]] [[autoexplore]]/travel through shallow water.
* Diagonal shift-running now stops properly at doors.
* [[Draconian]] players now show their hat tiles in Tiles/WebTiles.
* New 'tc_forbidden' RC option to set color of squares forbidden by travel.
* New xp_by_level morgue table to track XP sources on a per-level basis.
* New -force-map objstat/mapstat option to always place a given map on each level.
* New objstat fields for tracking monster numbers/XP from vaults.
* Many new tiles for artefact weapons and monsters.

==Items==

* [[Wands]] of the same type merge charges upon pickup and wands have no cap on charges.
* Wands [[identify]] charges upon pickup and are destroyed when their last charge is used.
* [[Items]] in a doorways no longer prevent closing doors in most instances.
** Items get pushed out of the doorway when the player closes the door.
** Doors refuse to close only if the items would fall into deep [[water]] or [[lava]].
* [[Potion of mutation|Potions of mutations]] remove fewer mutations on average and are a bit rarer.
* [[Fan of gales]] now disperses clouds at the user's location.
* Un-equipping an item currently giving you [[Invisibility (ego)|invisibility]] now gives extra contamination.
* [[Lightning rod]]s XP-recharge even when only partially used and only grant a power bonus for shots over consecutive turns.
* [[Scarf|Scarves]] are never made as artefacts.
* [[Wands of random effects]] include malmutate in the set of possible effects.
* Permanent [[food]] has been simplified.
** [[Ration]]s are now the only type of permanent food, replacing bread and meat rations, fruit, and royal jelly.
** Ration item generation and well as the herbivore and carnivore mutations have been balanced to keep available nutrition the same as before.
** [[Fedhas]] abilities that formerly required a piece of fruit instead require two rations.
* Removed:
** [[Wands of confusion]] and [[Wand of lightning|lightning]].
** [[Scrolls of recharging]].
** Mutagenic [[chunk]]s.

==Monsters==

* [[Monsters]] no longer spawn after level-generation in most places.
** This also eliminates the "super OOD" timer that could generate exceptionally hard monsters after a long time on the level.
** The number of monsters created during level generation is increased slightly to compensate.
** [[Pandemonium]] and [[Abyss]] are unaffected by this change.
* A fraction of the monsters generated with a level are created awake, but never near stairs.
* [[Air elemental]]s now have a Vortex ability, which creates a short-range, short-duration tornado effect.
* [[Player ghost]]s have normal speed regardless of species, never have a chaos ego on their melee attack, and no longer generate in portal branches.
* [[Pandemonium lord]]s can no longer have the [[Shatter]] spell.

==Spells==

* New spell: [[Borgnjor's Vile Clutch]] (L5 Necromancy/Earth); calls forth undead hands from the earth over a smite-targeted area to constrict hostile monsters. Appears in the [[Necromancer]] [[book of Necromancy|starting book]], the [[book of Unlife]], and the [[book of Dreams]].
* [[Shatter]]'s damage has been simplified to use one of three dice values for susceptibility, and can now slightly damage [[insubstantial]] monsters. Intrinsic player/monster susceptibility takes precedence for damage over [[flight]] status.
* [[Lee's Rapid Deconstruction]] now gives each material type a fixed explosion damage and size that doesn't increase when a wall is destroyed.
* Removed:
** [[Control Undead]].
** [[Cigotuvi's Embrace]].

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