0.28 - Revision history

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 * Aux attacks now trigger with a chance based on XL.
 ** The chance to offhand punch now starts at 5% and increases to 50% with Unarmed Combat skill.
 * Strength 0's regeneration reduction is replaced with -Regen in monster LOS.
 * Intelligence 0's 4/5 chance to fail scroll reading is replaced with -Scroll.
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 * Lear's Hauberk is reduced to +18 (was +27).
 * The trident of the Octopus King loses +Will.
-* Wucad Mu now counts as two sources of channeling. This means it is twice as likely to refund MP and the probability of backfiring is squared.
+* Wucad Mu now counts as 1.5 sources of channeling. This means it is 1.5x as likely to refund MP and the probability of backfiring is reduced.
 * The robe of Misfortune loses Contam and Drain.

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 * Blink now has a cooldown that scales with spell power.
 * Lesser Beckoning's power cap is reduced to 100 and range reduced to 5.
-* Bolt of Magma, Corona, Shadow Creatures, and Invisibility are now monster
+* Bolt of Magma, Corona, Shadow Creatures, and Invisibility are now monster only.

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-.28 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It has not been released yet.
+.28 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It was released on Feburary 4th, 2022.
 ==Branches, Environment==
 * Ziggurats no longer require a rune of zot to enter.

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 ==Monsters==
-* New unique: Mlioglotl. A unique horror with the power to corrupt the level,
+* New unique: Mlioglotl. A unique horror with the power to corrupt the level, changing terrain and summoning other abyssal horrors, as well as cause fear. Appears in the S-branches and rarely in the abyssal lair end.
 * New Hell monsters (with subbranch):
    - Wendigo, collapses simulacra into painful iceblasts (Coc)
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    - Radroaches are armoured roaches that cast irradiate, greatly contaminating
      the player.
-* New monsters: walking tomes, which summon living spells that cast themselves
+* New monsters: walking tomes, which summon living spells that cast themselves at the player. Appearing in Tukima's Studio and Depths.
-  at the player. Appearing in Tukima's Studio and Depths.
+* Demonspawn warmongers' Sap Magic effect now causes a short term -Cast after casting a spell.
 * All derived undead retain their reach, constriction, and trample attacks.
 * Red Devils now apply barbs on hit, instead of hopping back.
-* Wretched Stars only apply one temporary mutation per use of corrupting pulse,
+* Wretched Stars only apply one temporary mutation per use of corrupting pulse, and use the spell less often.
 * Demonic and holy monsters are now susceptible to fear, berserk, alistairs intoxication, and ballistomycete spores.
 * Monsters have a chance to break a door permanently when opening it. This chance is higher if the mosnter is berserk.
 * Classed draconians have a fixed colour per job.
-* When Dowan dies Duvessa goes berserk permanently; when Duvessa dies Dowan
+* When Dowan dies Duvessa goes berserk permanently; when Duvessa dies Dowan  gains haste permanently.
 * If Jiyva dies Dissolution's summon eyeballs is replaced with a cantrip.
 * Kills by and of player-frenzied monsters now grant XP.

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 * One 'pip' of regen is reduced to 0.8 HP/turn.
 * MPRegen amulets are buffed to 0.4 MP/turn.
-* New glove ego: infusion. Gloves of infusion add damage per hit in exchange
+* New glove ego: infusion. Gloves of infusion add damage per hit in exchange for 1 MP per hit.
 * The archery ego is renamed hurling and now only applies to throwing.
 * New item type: orbs, occupying the shield slot.
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 ***guile: reduce target willpower by 3 pips, and the wearer's will by 2 pips.
 *** energy: gives a source of passive channeling. Each source of channeling gives a chance to refund the MP of a cast spell and a chance to backfire. If all sources backfire the caster is confused or drained of intelligence.
-* New unrand: the +3 Mad Mage's Maulers {Infuse+∞ RegenMP Int-3}. These use all
+* New unrand: the +3 Mad Mage's Maulers {Infuse+∞ RegenMP Int-3}. These use all available MP to give proportional bonus damage to a melee hit.
-  available MP to give proportional bonus damage to a melee hit.
+* New unrand: the dreamshard necklace {*Dream}. On receiving a lethal or near-lethal hit, the dreamshard necklace shatters, averting the blow, healing the player, releasing dream allies, and fog. Otherwise does nothing.
 * New "early-game" unrandarts, weighted heavily up to D:6 and much less after:
 ** Delatra's gloves. These gloves heal the wearer for drinking unknown potions and give the wearer MP for reading unknown scrolls.

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 * The Abyssal Knight background now gives stats of 5/2/5 (was: 4/4/4)
 * The evolution mutation is revised. Once per XL's worth of experience it activates, providing a good mutation. Every two activations it reduces its level by one.
-* New bad mutation: devolution. Mechanically similar to evolution but dispenses
+* New bad mutation: devolution. Mechanically similar to evolution but dispenses bad mutations and activates once every 1/4th of an XL.
 * Strength 0's regeneration reduction is replaced with -Regen in monster LOS.
 * Intelligence 0's 4/5 chance to fail scroll reading is replaced with -Scroll.
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 ** Demonic touch, adds irresistible damage to the off hand punch, at level 3 blocks gloves and applies the vulnerable status.
 * Aux attacks now trigger with a chance based on XL.
-* The chance to offhand punch now starts at 5% and increases to 50% with
+* The chance to offhand punch now starts at 5% and increases to 50% with Unarmed Combat skill.
-  Unarmed Combat skill.
+* Player-chosen attribute increases now happen every 6 XLs, starting at XL 3, and increase a stat by 2. Demigods are unchanged.
-* Player-chosen attribute increases now happen every 6 XLs, starting at XL 3,
+* Wanderer creation rules have been overhauled again, to give more useful starting skills in combination with the items generated. Many new ite possibilities are added.
-  and increase a stat by 2. Demigods are unchanged.
+* Formicids now dig at normal movement speed, and each cell dug causes draining.
 ==Gods==
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 ==Interface==
-* The mutation panel is now a menu, selecting individual mutations provides a
+* The mutation panel is now a menu, selecting individual mutations provides a description of the mutation.
 * Most abilities now have targeters like the spell targeters.
-* WebTiles now has a clickable action panel, similar to the local tiles
+* WebTiles now has a clickable action panel, similar to the local tiles inventory panel.
 * Arrow key navigation and keyhelp is available in many more menus.
 * Arrow key navigation can be disabled with `menu_arrow_control`.
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 ==Items==
 * All shields now only use Dex for stat scaling.
-* Shield penalties scale linearly with skill, completely disappearing at skill
+* Shield penalties scale linearly with skill, completely disappearing at skill 27. The size of the penalty depends on the shield's encumbrance rating and species size factors.
 * Armour and shields no longer impose to-hit penalties.
 * Riposte is removed from long blades and base damage is increased.
-* The skill requirements for minimum delay for executioner's axes and bardiches
+* The skill requirements for minimum delay for executioner's axes and bardiches are reduced to 24; for triple swords the requirement is reduced to 22.
-  are reduced to 24; for triple swords the requirement is reduced to 22.
+* *Rage now causes berserk on 20% of hits. This chance stacks linearly among items and with the berserkitis mutation. Certain unrands grant a higher chance.
 * Evokable berserk is removed as an artefact property.
 * The generation of throwing ammunition is reduced.
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 * Wretched Stars only apply one temporary mutation per use of corrupting pulse,
    and use the spell less often.
-* Demonic and holy monsters are now susceptible to fear, berserk, alistairs
+* Demonic and holy monsters are now susceptible to fear, berserk, alistairs intoxication, and ballistomycete spores.
-  intoxication, and ballistomycete spores.
+* Monsters have a chance to break a door permanently when opening it. This chance is higher if the mosnter is berserk.
 * Classed draconians have a fixed colour per job.
 * When Dowan dies Duvessa goes berserk permanently; when Duvessa dies Dowan
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 * Spell summon caps are reduced:
 Summon Small Mammal, Summon Hydra, and Monstrous Menagerie are capped at 2.
-Haunt is capped at 8.
+Haunt is capped at 8. All other summon spells except Summon Horrible Things and Dragon's Call are capped at 1.
-All other summon spells except Summon Horrible Things and Dragon's Call are
+* New spell: Summon Cactus Giant (L6 Summonings). Summons a large, spiny, normal move speed but very slow attacking giant.
-    capped at 1.
+* New spell: Scorch (L2 Fire). Hits a random enemy within 3 tiles, dealing fire damage and if damage is delt applying short term rF- to the foe.
-* New spell: Summon Cactus Giant (L6 Summonings). Summons a large, spiny,
+* New spell: Flame Wave (L4 Conjuration/Fire). Flame Wave is a channeled spell like Searing ray that hits all surrounding tiles in ever wider waves of flame.
-  normal move speed but very slow attacking giant.
+* New spell: Enfeeble (L7 Hexes). Enfeeble irresistibly applies weakness and  magic to a single foe. Additionally the target is also dazed and blinded if they fail a willpower check.
-* New spell: Scorch (L2 Fire). Hits a random enemy within 3 tiles, dealing fire
+* New spell: Anguish (L4 Hexes/Necromancy). Gives monsters in sight the  anguished status after passing a Will check. Each time an anguished monster  deals damage it receives damage equal to the damage dealt.
 * Searing Ray and Storm Form have reduced power scaling.
 * Storm Form's blinkbolt ability is now always LOS range.
-* Corpse rot now scales with spell power, placing more clouds per corpse and
+* Corpse rot now scales with spell power, placing more clouds per corpse and reaching up to range 2 with sufficient clouds.
 * Passage of Golubria now has a range that scales with spell power.
 * Blink now has a cooldown that scales with spell power.
-* Eringya's Noxious Bog now places a bog under the caster, as well as on cells
+* Eringya's Noxious Bog now places a bog under the caster, as well as on cells  with only one adjacent wall; the caster is now immune to their own bog.
 * Inner Flame is now smite targeted.
 * Slow is now level 1 with a lower power cap.
 * Metabolic Englaciation has a minimum slow duration when successful.
-* Death Channel now works on demonic and holy creatures as well as corpseless
+* Death Channel now works on demonic and holy creatures as well as corpseless living creatures
-  living creatures
+* Yara's Violent Unravelling can now unravel summons, killing them immediately  and turning them into explosions, and is smite targeted.
-* Yara's Violent Unravelling can now unravel summons, killing them immediately
+* Bolt of Magma, Corona, Shadow Creatures, and Invisibility are now monster only.
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 ==Character==
-* New background: Cinder Acolyte, an Ignis zealot. Starts worshipping Ignis,
+* New background: Cinder Acolyte, an Ignis zealot. Starts worshipping Ignis,along with Scorch and a -1 flame branded weapon of choice.
-  along with Scorch and a -1 flame branded weapon of choice.
+* The Enchanter background no longer starts with the Corona spell, and instead starts with a potion of invisibility.
 * The Fighter background now starts with a buckler instead of a kite shield.
-* Fire Elementalist's starting spells are revised, and are now: Foxfire,
+* Fire Elementalist's starting spells are revised, and are now: Foxfire, Scorch, Conjure Flame, Inner Flame, and Flame Wave
 * The Abyssal Knight background now gives stats of 5/2/5 (was: 4/4/4)
-* The evolution mutation is revised. Once per XL's worth of experience it
+* The evolution mutation is revised. Once per XL's worth of experience it activates, providing a good mutation. Every two activations it reduces its level by one.
 * New bad mutation: devolution. Mechanically similar to evolution but dispenses
    bad mutations and activates once every 1/4th of an XL.
 * Strength 0's regeneration reduction is replaced with -Regen in monster LOS.
 * Intelligence 0's 4/5 chance to fail scroll reading is replaced with -Scroll.
-* Kills by all allies except Beogh and Yredelemnul gifts now give full
+* Kills by all allies except Beogh and Yredelemnul gifts now give full experience.
 * Clarity from any source no longer blocks berserk from random rage.
 * Late game XP gains are reduced.