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==Release notes==

Stone Soup 0.5.0 (released on June 12, 2009. (20090612))

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

Breaks saves and bones compatibility.

===0.5 Highlights===

* New species and job: Deep Dwarf, Artificer.
* Removed three species: Gnome, Grey Elf, Ogre-Mage.
* Several cool new uniques and other monsters.
* Several great new portal vaults.
* Zombies and skeletons can no longer use stairs.
* Transformations meld equipment instead of removing it.
* Many spell ranges shortened.
* Much more useful monster descriptions.
* More convenient tiles version.

===Levels===

* New portal vaults (Sewer, Ice Cave, Minitomb, Ziggurat), and many new vaults.
* Self-changing labyrinths (mappable but subject to map rot).
* Teleporting within a labyrinth always sends you away from the exit.
* The Orcish Mines are completely interconnected via the branch bottom.
* Shortened Hive to two levels.
* Ghosts may no longer appear in the Ecumenical Temple.
* Traps remember how much ammunition they have.
* Branch descriptions mention depth and whether they contain a rune.
* Fixed KMONS not accepting comma-separated list of alternative monsters.
* Tweaked most of the oklob vaults to make them less dangerous.
* Allow bazaars outside of the main dungeon.
* For timed portal vault alerts, give directional feedback.

===Characters===

* Removed Grey Elf and Gnome species.
* Merged Ogre-Mages into Ogres with completely new aptitudes.
* Added non-healing species: Deep Dwarves.
* Swapped Kobolds' aptitudes for Long Blades and Maces & Flails.
* Added Artificer job.
* Transformations cause worn equipment to be melded rather than removed.
* Overhaul nutrition values and duration for Vampires feeding on corpses.
* Vampires can no longer heal via potions of blood or non-fresh corpses.
* Vampires recover lost stats depending on blood level.
* Draining of the experience pool is reduced by life protection.
* Merfolk can swim in heavy armour, albeit with doubled armour penalty.
* Player and monster nagas no longer flounder or lose stealth in shallow water.
* Secondary unarmed attacks wake sleeping monsters.
* Pure spellcasters don't start with a weapon anymore.
* Tweak starting choice restrictions.
* Going into berserk rage doubles Health, ending it halves Health.
* Added the slow healing mutation, affecting hitpoints and stat regeneration.

===Monsters===

* Disallow zombified monsters' use of stairs.
* New monsters: trapdoor spider, rock worm, flaming corpse, chaos spawn.
* Monster descriptions list resistances and some other attributes.
* Several cool new uniques.
* Many of the later uniques appear a few dungeon levels earlier.
* Polymorphed uniques retain their spells and speech.
* Reintroduce chance of orc wizards and priests in early orc bands.
* Most monsters of the same genus will attempt to surround the player.
* Implemented monster miscasts caused by Zot traps or mummy curses.
* Make all allies (including zombies) avoid Zot traps known to the player.
* Ghosts don't get holy wrath branded attacks anymore.
* Monsters will shout when woken, unless stabbed.
* Monsters will drink !healing to cure confusion, etc.
* Allies no longer mind being teleported by the player.
* Causing fear will make permanent allies flee but does not anger them.
* Retain the teleportation enchantment on polymorphed monsters.
* Make vampiric draining and torment alert and anger its target.
* Fixed draconians being able to strike 3 times per turn with their weapons.
* Account for randart shields when scanning monsters' inventories for randarts.
* Fixed monsters getting stuck in deep water after entering it while confused.
* Monsters behind glass but with a path to the player interrupt rest/travel.
* Monsters raised from the dead are equipped with their original equipment.
* Zombies/skeletons no longer drown, but will still avoid water.
* Fixed summoned monsters taking non-summoned items with them.
* Summoned monsters are no longer susceptible to Vampiric Draining.
* Make abominations resist poison.
* Butchered corpses sometimes leave skeletons.
* Finally fixed monsters acting before being announced as "coming into view".

===Interface===

* New command for evoking inventory items ('V'), replaces wand zapping ('Z').
* Casting spells with 'z' aborts without prompt if no monsters are in range.
* Casting spells with the new 'Z' allows casting in any case.
* Changed quick save command to 'Ctrl-S' (was Ctrl-X).
* Change exclusion commands to e, E, Ctrl-E (was Ctrl-X, x, Ctrl-E).
* New monster/item view command ('Ctrl-X'), allowing travel to items, features.
* Store message history across saves.
* Some message condensation for identical messages.
* Added stat_colour option to highlight dangerously low stats.
* New option: Automatically set travel exclusions for statues and oklob plants.
* Switch off autopickup and autoswap if you see a monster turn invisible.
* Killing an invisible monster reactivates autopickup.
* Added ally pickup mode for items dropped by either player or allies.
* Shops use shopping cart behaviour.
* Wizard commands can be used from the wizard help screen.
* Allow quivering/firing of wielded missiles and wielded weapons of returning.
* With a full pack, check entire list of selected items to allow for merging.
* Eating prompts for chunks sorted by age and side effects.
* Added an option to make menu colours apply to shops.
* Use menu colours for announcements of items found while travelling.
* Pressing Esc at -More- automatically clears all queued -More- prompts.
* Added FAQ to help screen ('?Q').
* Purchases and donations are noted.
* The database search also prints armour base AC/EV and weapon plusses.
* Add spells and books to book/spell descriptions when searching the database.
* Ability and card descriptions are searchable in the database ('?/').
* Allow wishing for specific fixed and randarts in wizard mode ('o' command).
* Add food item based hunger descriptions to spells.
* "Glow" status is grey for harmless contamination, yellow for dangerous levels.

===Items===

* New scroll: ?vulnerability, applying to all creatures in LoS including you.
* New weapon brand: chaos, available only via Xom and pandemonium lords.
* Introduce randart spellbooks with random spell selections.
* Book acquirements are much more random and may yield manuals.
* Missile enchantment decreases chance of destruction on impact.
* Freezing weapons can slow cold-blooded monsters.
* The staff of channeling trains Evocations.
* Potions of magic no longer increase maximal magic points and are more common.
* Item descriptions mention enchantment/charging limits.
* Randarts get their known properties autoinscribed.
* Randarts are noted as identified even if the plusses are still unknown.
* Eliminate RAP_ANGRY and RAP_BERSERK for launcher weapons.
* Ammo that IDs through throwing merges in your pack instantaneously.
* ?immolation doesn't burn scrolls anymore.
* ?summoning creates a permanent abomination.
* ?random uselessness autoidentifies.
* ?vorpalise weapon fixes temporary brands instead of Enchant Weapon III.
* Nemelex-gifted decks identify after drawing one card.
* Decks of punishment are no longer randomly generated.
* Removing rings of levitation or invisibility no longer cancels the effect.
* Identify the Horn of Geryon when wielding it.
* Skeletons rot away in inventory at the same rate as on the floor.

===Gods===

* Greatly improved Yredelemnul.
* Nerfed TSO/Beogh's blessings of followers.
* Xom is more active and more useful in combat.
* Cleansing Flame centers on the player and deals less damage.
* Killing a holy being is sometimes avenged by TSO.
* Split Elyvilon's healing powers into "heal self" and "heal other" versions.
* Evyvilon's Lesser Healing (for pacification) does not cost piety anymore.
* Move Divine Robustness from Zin to Elyvilon, replacing Incredible Healing.
* Make Zin's retribution-summoned plagues permanent.
* Sif Muna no longer gifts Kiku/Vehumet specific books, spells still possible.
* Trog accepts kills of demons.
* Trog's Hand provides magic resistance as well as regeneration.
* Vehumet accepts undead killing for you.
* Beogh no longer accepts butchery but likes prayer over orcish remains.
* Beogh accepts more kinds of kills.
* Beogh has a non-cannibalism conduct.
* Disallow shapeshifters in orc form to become Beoghites' followers.
* Offer card descriptions when using Nemelex's Triple Draw or Stack Five.
* Enable automatic note taking for Xom effects.

===Tiles===

* Overhauled and improved tiles code, now using SDL.
* Added auto-sizing for font, map, and window sizes.
* Support for full screen mode and for small resolutions (800x480).
* Graphical menu improvements: some menus are clickable and show icons.
* Mouse clicks on the map when unsafe travel one square in that direction.
* Mouse-over item/monster descriptions.
* Added new and improved tiles: Pandemonium lords, draconians, randart books.
* Monster tiles include health bars.
* Added type-specific icons for jewellery, shops, and weapon brands.
* Vaults can specify floor and wall tiles in their description.

===Miscellaneous===

* Greatly reduced spell ranges (both player and monster).
* For most bolts, hitting a monster reduces range by one.
* Added arena mode to watch monsters fighting other monsters.
* Fixed crashes involving "invisible/unmoving" monsters.
* Crashes leave highly informative crash dumps.
* Poison Weapon is a level 2 spell.
* Extension will also extend temporary weapon brands.
* Lua errors report the line numbers of the actual code.
* Flying can be cancelled.
* Petrify is an Enchantment/Earth spell.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction deals great damage to petrified monsters.
* Removed stash_tracking option, always track all stashes.
* Rewrite and clean up of (among others) beam, trap, and mutations code.
* Store code revision in save files for easier bug tracking.
* Many useful new wizard mode commands.

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