0.21 - Revision history

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2018-01-31T22:55:42Z

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Copy-pasted changelog from Github and re-formatted.

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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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 * 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]].
+* [[Ogre]]s now have better aptitudes in [[short blades]], [[long blades]], and [[axes]].
 ==Gods==

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 ==Highlights==
-* New species: Gnolls
+* New species: [[Gnoll]]s
-* New god: Wu Jian Council
+* New god: [[Wu Jian Council]]
-* New spell: Borgnjor's Vile Clutch
+* New spell: [[Borgnjor's Vile Clutch]]
 ==Branches, Environment==
-* The rate at which unique Pan lord levels appear in Pandemonium is increased.
+* The rate at which unique Pan lord levels appear in [[Pandemonium]] is increased.
-* Transporters now have a 'landing site' that indicates their destination.
+* [[Transporter]]s now have a 'landing site' that indicates their destination.
-* The Hellbinder and Cloud Mage Wizlabs have been revamped to give greater and more varied challenges as well as improved loot.
+* 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: Gnolls, 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.
+* 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.
-* Ogres now have better aptitudes in shortblades, longblades, and axes.
+* [[Ogre]]s now have better aptitudes in [short blades]], [[long blades]], and [[axes]].
 ==Gods==
-* New (temple) god: Wu Jian Council
+* 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.
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 *** 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.
+* [[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]] 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.
+* [[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.
+* 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.
+* 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.
+* [[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.
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 ==Items==
-* Wands of the same type merge charges upon pickup and wands have no cap on charges.
+* [[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.
+* 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]] 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.
+** Doors refuse to close only if the items would fall into deep [[water]] or [[lava]].
-* Potions of mutations remove fewer mutations on average and are a bit rarer.
+* [[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.
+* [[Fan of gales]] now disperses clouds at the user's location.
-* Un-equipping an item currently giving you invisibility now gives extra contamination.
+* Un-equipping an item currently giving you [[Invisibility (ego)|invisibility]] now gives extra contamination.
-* Rods of lightning XP-recharge even when only partially used and only grant a power bonus for shots over consecutive turns.
+* [[Lightning rod]]s XP-recharge even when only partially used and only grant a power bonus for shots over consecutive turns.
-* Scarves are never made as artefacts.
+* [[Scarf|Scarves]] are never made as artefacts.
-* Wands of random effects include malmutate in the set of possible effects.
+* [[Wands of random effects]] include malmutate in the set of possible effects.
-* Permanent food has been simplified.
+* Permanent [[food]] has been simplified.
-** Rations are now the only type of permanent food, replacing bread and meat rations, fruit, and royal jelly.
+** [[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.
+** [[Fedhas]] abilities that formerly required a piece of fruit instead require two rations.
 * Removed:
-** Wands of confusion and lightning.
+** [[Wands of confusion]] and [[Wand of lightning|lightning]].
-** Scrolls of recharging.
+** [[Scrolls of recharging]].
-** Mutagenic chunks.
+** Mutagenic [[chunk]]s.
 ==Monsters==
-* Monsters no longer spawn after level-generation in most places.
+* [[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.
+** [[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 elementals now have a Vortex ability, which creates a short-range, short-duration tornado effect.
+* [[Air elemental]]s now have a Vortex ability, which creates a short-range, short-duration tornado effect.
-* Player ghosts have normal speed regardless of species, never have a chaos ego on their melee attack, and no longer generate in portal branches.
+* [[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 lords can no longer have the Shatter spell.
+* [[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 starting book, the book of Unlife, and the book of Dreams.
+* 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.
+* [[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.
+* [[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.
+** [[Control Undead]].
-** Cigotuvi's Embrace.
+** [[Cigotuvi's Embrace]].

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		+	{{version021}}
		+
		+	'''0.21''' is a version of ''Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup''. It was released on January 5, 2018.
		+	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
		+	==Highlights==
		+
		+	* New species: Gnolls
		+	* 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.
		+	* Transporters now have a 'landing site' that indicates their destination.
		+	* The Hellbinder and Cloud Mage Wizlabs have been revamped to give greater and more varied challenges as well as improved loot.
		+
		+	==Character==
		+
		+	* New species: Gnolls, 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.
		+	* Ogres now have better aptitudes in shortblades, longblades, 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.
		+	* 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 now gives extra contamination.
		+	* Rods of lightning XP-recharge even when only partially used and only grant a power bonus for shots over consecutive turns.
		+	* Scarves are never made as artefacts.
		+	* Wands of random effects include malmutate in the set of possible effects.
		+	* Permanent food has been simplified.
		+	** Rations 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 lightning.
		+	** Scrolls of recharging.
		+	** Mutagenic chunks.
		+
		+	==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 elementals now have a Vortex ability, which creates a short-range, short-duration tornado effect.
		+	* Player ghosts have normal speed regardless of species, never have a chaos ego on their melee attack, and no longer generate in portal branches.
		+	* Pandemonium lords 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 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.