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'''0.8.0''' is an old version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Stoup, released April 26, 2011.

==Changelog==
===Stone Soup 0.8 (20110426)===
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Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.
Breaks save compatibility with the 0.7 release.

===0.8 Highlights===
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* New god: [[Ashenzari]], god of divinations.
* New species: [[Felid]]s, sentient cats.
* New spells: [[Malign Gateway]], [[Tornado]], [[Leda's Liquefaction]], [[Summon Dragon]], [[Summon Hydra]], [[Darkness]].
* Removed spells: [[Bone Shards]], [[Tame Beasts]], [[Portal]], [[Alter Self]], [[Extension]].
* Split Enchantments into [[Hexes]] (harm foes) and [[Charms]] (self-buffs).
* Replaced [[Selective Amnesia]] spell with [[Scroll of amnesia]] and book destruction.
* Improved heavy armour.
* [[Makhleb]] and [[The Shining One]] are no longer available as starting gods.
* Shortened the [[Elven Halls]].

===Gods===
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* New god: Ashenzari, god of divinations.
* Fixed gods sometimes missing from the game due to some temple vaults.
* Except for Jiyva, prayer is now only used for (piety-gaining) sacrifices. Other effects are abilities.
* Killing monsters from god wrath doesn't give experience or items anymore.
* Gods ignore kills of dancing weapons, ball lightning and vortices.
* No instant divine retribution.
* Beefed up Cheibriados' wrath; no stat boosts during Chei penance.
* Eating with Chei doesn't give piety.
* Cheibriados warns you when putting on boots of running or amulet of rage.
* Armour keeps its ponderousness when melded.
* Invoking Elyvilon's protection is now an ability.
* Destroying weapons in Elyvilon's name is now a prayer.
* Elyvilon allows destruction of staves.
* Clarified Ely's healing/pacification messaging.
* Fedhas cares about trees burnt down in forest fires.
* Fedhas's corpse decomposition is now activated by prayer.
* Followers of Jiyva gain food, hp and mp on jellies slurping items.
* Jiyva no longer provides duplicate conservation and resist corrosion effects.
* Allowed the player more control over what items to sacrifice to Nemelex (on the '^!' screen).
* Kikubaaqudgha's invocations use Necromancy skill.
* Toned down Kiku's mummy death curse protection.
* Made corpses received from Kiku actually fit for reanimation; reduce number of corpses.
* Kikubaaqudgha protects followers from ordinary mummy curses.
* Okawaru: Might -> Heroism, increasing all weapon skills by 5, up to 27.
* Okawaru: Haste -> Finesse, doubled combat speed (melee and ranged).
* Okawaru now accepts kills of holy beings.
* Sif Muna punishes destruction of spellbooks.
* Sif Muna's miscasts don't decrease penance.
* Trog extending your rage doesn't cause glow.
* The Shining One no longer accepts item sacrifices.
* TSO non-holy summon extension at most doubles the current duration.
* Prevented starvation by Xom swapping you to a vampiric weapon.
* Yredelemnul's prayer (Injury Mirror) is now an ability.
* Injury Mirror can now reflect torment damage.
* Yredelemnul accepts kills of artificial beings (golems, gargoyles).
* Overhauled Zin's Recite invocation: much more powerful and interesting.
* Zin protects from Hell effects, chance depending on piety.
* Zin forbids shapeshifting spells and protects against Kirke's pig spell.
* Zin hates monsters with mutagenic/rot corpses.
* Spell failure while already in yellow glow angers Zin.
* Butchering forbidden corpses asks for confirmation.
* Some god welcome messages differ while under penance.

===Character===
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* New species: Felids, sentient cats.
* Increased GDR from body armour. New GDR formula: 14 * (baseAC-2)^(1/2).
* XP from monster kills is proportional to the damage dealt by player/allies out of total damage.
* No chain paralysis: When coming out of paralysis, you're immune for 1d3 turns.
* Removed Paladins, Reavers and Arcane Marksmen.
* Removed Chaos Knight of Makhleb.
* Split out CK/Lugonu -> Abyssal Knight, Pr/Yredelemnul -> Death Knight.
* Overhauled Draconians, now more interesting.
* Fixed dangerous clouds sometimes being considered safe for travelling.
* Fixed normal mutations possibly preventing getting them as a perma-mutation.
* Stop quick actions from letting you search faster.
* All sources of berserk are blocked at 'Very Hungry'. Berserk automatically stops when you hit 'Starving'.
* Remove experience pool limit; abbreviate the XP pool above 100K.
* Stalker background changed to Transmutation-based Stabber.
* Allow starting with a falchion for Fi and Gl, also restrict trident to these backgrounds.
* Differentiate Ha/Ko aptitudes: Kobolds are good at Summ/Necro/Hex, Halflings at Charm/Tloc.
* Halflings gain innate mutation resistance 1.
* Only cancel levitation once the last equipped +Lev item is removed.
* Nearing stat death causes paralysis, with increasing chances.
* Allow Merfolk transformations even in water.
* Retain talons, fangs and tail in appropriate transformations.
* Don't allow any headgear with Horns 3 or Antennae 3.
* Fix mutators and glowing occasionally giving good mutations.
* Balanced some Demonspawn mutations (Demonic guardian, Nightstalker).
* Remove Demonspawn breath mutations.
* Adapt exclusion radius to the Nightstalker mutation.
* New DS mutation Powered by Pain: restores MP when sufficient damage is taken.
* Demonspawn Fire and Ice facets are now mutually exclusive.
* Ghouls may now use food-cost abilities when starving.
* Ghouls and Vampires may evoke invisibility when starving/bloodless.
* Make hellfire ignore monster AC.
* Remove map-forgetting and spell-forgetting Divination miscast effects.
* Don't prevent blink from putting you in dangerous clouds.
* Don't train Stealth for pacified monsters.
* Allowed Merfolk/Kenku to blink over deep water.
* Allowed Kenku to stop flying.
* Apply terrain change to player when banished.
* Brought Merfolk HP down to Human HP levels.
* Boosted Mummy base MR 3 -> 5.
* Make LOS reducers multiplicative rather than additive.
* Potions/cards of experience give you a full level; similarly drain costs a full level.
* Make stat gain mutations work for satiated Vampires.
* Replace scroll reading penalty while brainless with 80% failure chance.
* A wielded ranged weapon will only 'clumsily bash' monsters, no matter its enchantment.
* Remove the satiation requirements from evokable invis.
* Disable ghost creation/loading in wizard non-debug mode.
* Better warning messages for form and levitation expiration.
* Consistently abort teleportation attempts when wearing stasis or -TELE.
* Give Ogres an extra +1 hp per level, and +3 apts in Fighting and M&F.
* Mention dietary and drinkary habits of mummies on the 'A' screen.
* Also meld wielded weapons.
* Disallow wearing hats in spider or ice form; allow wearing shields in statue form.
* Prevent ice form from picking items at the bottom of deep water.
* Overhaul combo recommendations.

===Interface===
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* New tutorial, split into different maps/lessons.
* Fix a crash when reloading a game after restart_after_game.
* Allow item interaction from the inventory.
* Messages for things coming into view even when not exploring.
* Bind Tab to autofight, shift-Tab to autofight_nomove.
* Autofight: fire at nearest enemy if wielding a ranged weapon.
* More status lights: transformations, post-berserk fatigue, temporary resistances.
* Timeout information for temporary resistances and see invisible.
* New background choice layout, grouped by category.
* Display piety on the main screen.
* Use inventory colours for stats area and % screen.
* New, more informative and mouse-operable skill menu ('m' screen).
* Don't consider places next to slime walls as "safe".
* Allow traveling across radius 1 excluded stairs.
* Don't generate cloud autoexclusions when immune.
* Don't prompt for cloud-excluded staircases.
* Make i_feel_safe() smarter about critters behind lava/statues/etc.
* Explicitly name inventory items that are getting destroyed.
* Display ghosts' xl rank, species and background when they come into view.
* In the console version, don't override monster colour when berserk.
* Fix exclusion LOS not being updated properly.
* Make shift-running respect exclusions.
* Allow ' to auto-switch from unarmed to slot b.
* Clear stack autopickup flag when dropping an item on top of it.
* List prompt choices explicitly, i.e. "(y)es or (n)o" rather than "y/n".
* Starting sub-menus: Escape brings back to main menu instead of exiting the game.
* Don't waste turns attempting known prevented scroll teleports/blinks.
* Inscribe item modification scrolls with "tried on foo".
* Disallow autoexploring while berserking.
* Don't mark level 1 upstairs and branch exits as unvisited.
* Colours for output of Ctrl-F.
* Re-enable highlighting of notes.
* Colour annotations in Overview.
* Colouring labyrinth messages.
* Add force_more_messages for bazaar and labyrinth announcements.
* Don't prompt for which ring to swap if one of them is cursed.
* When enchanting an unknown piece of armour, mark it as uncursed.
* Make the . drop/pickup selector respect quantity input.
* '*' inverts selection instead of selecting drop_filter, and ',' selects all instead of inverting.
* More information when missing.
* More information when MR is effective.
* Display on the HUD if you're both hasted and slowed.
* Add a toggle to the discoveries screen to display _un_known items.
* Check terrain before clouds for moveto check.
* Don't warn about entering excluded portals.
* Force a -more- on death.
* Autoinscribe randarts after death.
* Taskbar overlap is now automatically detected, and the window is placed just above it.
* Allow setting of the window size relative to the screen size.
* Fix Tab not working correctly in startup menus.
* Reinitialize message window and notes for restart_after_game.
* Don't waste a turn and/or magic when aborting various actions.
* For local builds, mention morgue location after hiscore or when doing a chardump.
* Extend and rearrange tutorial/hints mode command help.
* Better feedback when canceling various prompts.
* Split monster/feature quotes into another screen toggleable via '!'.
* Add several missing descriptions, improve some existing ones.

===Spells===
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* Split Enchantments skill and spell school into [[Charms]] and [[Hexes]].
* Removed [[Bone Shards]], [[Tame Beasts]], [[Portal]], [[Alter Self]], [[Extension]].
* New spell: [[Passage of Golubria]] (Tloc 5).
* New spell: [[Malign Gateway]] (Summ/Tloc 7).
* New spell: [[Tornado]] (Air 9).
* New spell: [[Leda's Liquefaction]] (Tmut/Earth 4), area slowing effect.
* New spell: [[Summon Dragon]] (Summ 9).
* New spell: [[Summon Hydra]] (Summ 7), summons short-lived 4-12 headed hydra.
* New spell: [[Darkness]] (Hex 7), decreases LOS radius by 2.
* Prevent passwalling into deep water/lava if it would kill you.
* Fix [[Lee's Rapid Deconstruction]] not obeying some checks when destroying walls.
* Fix casting cloud spells out of range, or on (and through) walls.
* Teleportation interrupts [[Passwall]].
* Fix weapon grinding via [[Shadow Creatures]] in the Hall of Blades.
* [[Animate Dead]] no longer animates through walls.
* Don't prompt for casting auto-hit spells "in direction" of allies.
* Nerf [[Haste]]: multiplies speed by 1.5 instead of 2. Same factors apply to [[Slow]].
* Replace [[Selective Amnesia]] with [[Scroll of amnesia]].
* Allow forgetting spells from books, destroying the book in question.
* Nerf [[Sticky Flame]] range to 1.
* Removed slower training for magic schools; doubled xp cost for opposing schools.
* Stop the player from [[Vampiric Draining]] known demons and undead.
* Disallow [[Fulsome Distillation]] while levitating.
* Implement a crude spell quiver. Store last spell cast.
* Add a toggle to the memorisation screen for the spell descriptions.
* Auto-id items of wizardry if you have spellcasting skills.
* Enable autotargeting for [[Vampiric Draining]] and [[Freeze]].
* Make [[Borgnjor's Revivification]] cost 2-11 *percent* of maxhp.
* Restore casting noise for target spells.
* Add noise level to spell description.
* Increased claw damage for [[Dragon Form]], also allows trampling.
* For [[Draconian]]s, [[Dragon Form]] changes into dragon of the appropriate colour.
* [[Animate Skeleton]] works on unskeletalized corpses and leaves chunks behind.
* [[Shadow Creatures]] summons only mobile monsters.
* Slightly bump [[Orb of Destruction]] (IOOD) damage.
* Allow [[Sticks to Snakes]] on staves and javelins, disallow on steel/silver stuff.
* Allow Tukimizing staves.
* New level 3 [[Air]] [[miscast]]s; buff [[Air]] [[miscast]]s.
* Buff [[Static Discharge]]: Higher damage and increased chance of arcing.
* Make [[Summon Butterflies]] require spell power for effectiveness.
* Heavily nerf orb [[Apportation]]. Chance and distance depend on spell power and total distance.
* Make [[Death Channel]] spectrals temporary, let ally kills work too. Reduce to level 7.
* Make semi-controlled [[Blink]] random if it fails to find a location.
* [[Evaporate]] no longer uses [[Throwing]] skill.
* [[Summon Swarm]] monsters are always friendly; lower it to level 5.
* While [[Ring of Flames]] is active, flame clouds are removed when you step on them.
* Make LOS-affecting spells work through transparent walls.
* Boost LRD damage.
* [[Apportation]] targetting: allow cycling with +/-.
* When apporting part of a stack, don't destroy the rest of it.
* Don't [[rot]] while under [[Death's Door]].
* [[Death Channel]] spectral monsters are not abjurable.
* Merge low spell success adjectives (Cruddy, Bad, Very Poor) into Very Poor (now 5-30%).
* Move spells around among various spellbooks.
* Reduce the chance of any book to be replaced by Power/Wizardry from 10% to 4%.
* Don't prompt for targeting self with clouds if you've got the matching resistance.
* Ensure [[Death's Door]] leaves you at least 1 hp.
* Make only heavy armour remove [[Ozocubu's Armour]] on wearing.
* Make large rocks do extra damage with [[Sandblast]].
* Allow swapping to large rocks when [[Sandblast]] is memorised.
* Offer wielding coagulated blood for [[Sublimation of Blood]].
* Make transformations affect [[stealth]].
* Don't cancel [[Condensation Shield]] when blinking/teleporting.
* Don't hurt rC- players with [[Condensation Shield]].
* Don't prompt for unwielding weapons branded with [[Warp Weapon]].
* Don't let Mummies/Lichform cast [[Sublimation of Blood]] on themselves, do let them cast [[Passwall]].
* Reduce [[Haunt]] duration
* Increase [[Sandblast]] to range 2 without stones, range 3 with.
* Boost [[Stone Arrow]] damage from 2d12 at 50 power to 3d11.
* Change several spell levels to be more appropriate.
* Mention glow in [[Haste]]/[[Invisibility]] spell descriptions.
* Consolidate the books of Minor Magic into a single book.
* Include spell hunger in the chardump.

===Monsters===
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* New monster set: feature mimics.
* New monster set: holy monsters.
* New monster set: spriggans.
* New monster set: deep dwarves (in Abyss, Ziggurats).
* Several new monsters, including [[silent spectre,]] [[sky beast]], [[porcupine]], [[fire crab]], [[bog mummy]], and a few new spiders.
* New unique: Jory, mesmerising vampire.
* New monster spells: Cause Fear, Drain Life, Agony, Summon Elemental, Noxious Cloud.
* Fix a crash when looking up ghosts in the db search.
* Fix silence working on demons, orbs of fire, etc.
* Fix messages about monsters coming into view ignoring mislead.
* Fix monsters being capable of spellcasting while berserk, reading scrolls while silenced.
* Disallow various attacks on submerged monsters.
* Fix Aizul and Mara casting through allies.
* Fix rock worms aimlessly moving around in walls instead of attacking.
* Get rid of mummy death curses turning potions into decay.
* Don't give experience or items for killing monsters from god wrath or miscasts.
* Don't make a monster coming into view leave a trail on the edge of LOS.
* Give Asmodeus a permanent ring of flames, replace greater demon with fire summon, remove bolt of draining.
* Give Dispater Lehudib's Crystal Spear instead of Lightning Bolt.
* Give Geryon a reaching attack, make beasts trample.
* Give Lom Lobon antimagic attacks.
* Give Mnoleg blink and mutate attacks, summon eyeballs instead of greater demons, more hp.
* Give the non-spellcasting random pan lords (10% chance) a guaranteed melee brand, and a chance of greater speed.
* Compensate for the Haste nerf by slowing some monsters most players fight hasted.
* Huge monsters (dragons, elephants) can trample smaller ones, shoving them around.
* Krakens have multi-segment tentacles.
* Spiders and a few other monsters can cling to walls which allows them to effectively bypass water and other obstacles.
* Non-stupid monsters try to avoid slime walls.
* Allies animating dead is okay for hungry level 3 herbivores.
* Make monsters consider resistances along with AC for armour pickup.
* Only allow allies to pick up weapons, armour and ammunition.
* Boost ettins to hit as hard as dual-wielding stone giants. Move them deeper.
* Sheep can catch fire and spread it to other sheep.
* Polymorphed uniques may only cast spells if they can speak.
* Better movement AI for ranged attackers, now try to regain line of fire.
* Make yaks, death yaks, ugly things and slime creatures stick together when wandering.
* Try to make wandering band members stick around the leader.
* Make wandering band members path back to the leader.
* Let band leaders displace their followers.
* Allow friendly monsters to path to you across the level.
* Friendlies start following you again after killing target instead of wandering.
* Smart monsters use pathfinding to go around shallow water.
* Monsters floundering in shallow water move slowly and fumble attacks.
* Large monsters don't flounder in shallow water.
* Giant monsters can walk through deep water as if it were shallow.
* Make the royal jelly stay on Slime:6.
* Limit number of summons from lamp of fire and fan of air.
* Make skeletal warriors obey silence.
* Greatly improve cacodemons.
* Hungry ghost attack takes 25% of your nutrition.
* Prevent confused giant eyeballs from paralyzing.
* Make aquatic monsters chase instead of submerging if they can.
* Friendly monsters told to 'wait here' don't follow through stairs.
* Merged slimes split on polymorph.
* Porkelated monsters can't cast spells either.
* Implement snail/turtle shells; withdrawing into such a shell adds extra protection.
* Print 'zot!' sound when a friendly monster triggers a zot trap outside LOS.
* Make zombified monsters retain their stats (at least, HD and HP).
* Boring beetles may now burrow along diagonals.
* No elephants in D and Vaults, slightly reduce their frequency in Lair.
* Remove bears, replace with grizzly or black bears where appropriate.
* Boost monster ghouls' health and damage.
* Monsters respect glowing when deciding whether to cast Invisibility.
* Ugly things may mutate if adjacent to a monster glowing with radiation.
* Make good and strict neutral monsters not choose nearby foes.
* Disallow armour mimics from taking the forms of hides.
* Fix monsters not getting the same bonuses from dragon hides as players.
* Naga/serpent glyph changes. (See 'settings/071_monster_glyphs.txt'.)
* Refactor monster vamp draining.
* Tweak Grinder's spells, weapon, and reduce depth (6-10 -> 3-6).
* Don't give Grinder a high-tier wand, nor Ijyb in Sprint.
* Don't hand out pain weapons to Grinder (pain attack flavour) and Pikel (whip of electrocution).
* Add paralysis and draining to the list of high tier wands.
* Don't consider plants/fungi 'interesting', no matter their rarity.
* Give every monster a globally unique id for proper attribution of clouds, poisoning etc.

===Levels===
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* New game mode: 'Zot Defence'.
* Shorten Elven Halls from 7 -> 5 floors.
* Use a random Temple map if the original temple map is no longer available.
* Fix portal vaults not being deleted after leaving.
* Place escape hatches in all isolated Orcish Mines bubbles.
* Make entering portal vaults from Hell work correctly.
* Travelling to/from the Vestibule of Hell works now.
* Include "Ten Rune Challenge" Dungeon Sprint map, slightly tweaked.
* New sprint map by 78291.
* Prevent randomly teleporting into the Slime:6 loot chambers.
* Introduce serial vaults consisting of several themed mini vaults.
* Every random Pan vault now has a 1/9 chance of having a demonic rune in it.
* No banishment from hell effects.
* No more darkgrey walls/floors in Geh:7 or Gloorx.
* Ambient noise levels for dungeon branches (affecting stealth).
* Describe level 1 upstairs as "staircase leading out of the dungeon."
* Don't enable cTele by quaffing Elf fountains.
* Plain water fountains give no nutrition.
* Fix no-cTele announcements being affected by Translocations skill.
* Generate at most one labyrinth per game (~70% chance), at depth 10-20, never in Slime or Orc.
* Troves aren't timed anymore, and always require an item.
* Nerf troves: increased entry fees, reduced loot.
* Make troves handle manuals correctly.
* Don't generate outright useless troves for your species.
* Timed markers get a second timer, activated on sight.
* Extend unannounced portal timers to around 3000 turns.
* Don't open transparent secret doors with warnings.
* New noise propagation system, taking into account walls and doors.
* Fix good_item gold giving ludicrous amounts.
* Fix no traps being generated on Zot:5.
* Reveal teletraps triggered by a monster in sight.
* Replace hell exit stairs with portals.
* Boost alarm trap noise to 25.
* Two custom traps: basket of spiders, falling grate.
* Change temple_entry_steam to mist, which doesn't block autotravel.
* Allow vaults to specify shops, monster gods, wand charges.
* New temple maps, many with < 12 altars.
* Many great new vaults (entry vaults, serial, Lair/Snake branch ends, etc.)

===Items===
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* New items: scroll of curse jewellery, scroll of amnesia.
* Remove scrolls of paper, rods of discovery, crystal balls of fixation.
* Nerf the speed brand. Damage reduced to 90%.
* Increase the guaranteed damage reduction from armour.
* Body armour can be enchanted up to a bonus equivalent to its base AC.
* Enchant armour scrolls don't fail because of high bonus anymore.
* Antimagic weapon brand.
* Disable equipment corrosion from slime walls.
* Remove the robe of the Archmagi's experience penalty.
* Remove wizardry effect from Archmagi, allow it to enhance Tmut/Tloc spells.
* Autopickup weapons subjected to Tukima's Dance.
* Disallow blowing Geryon's horn when silenced.
* Fix breakage of blood potion stacks when partially eaten by jellies.
* Fix randarts with unknown base type sometimes not being eligible for ?identify.
* Fix rod pluses not being considered for ?identify.
* Fix misleading spell descriptions on rods; display average power.
* Disallow creation of randart demonic weapons with the holy wrath brand.
* Fix equipping sInv artefact not reactivating autopickup.
* Fix throwing nets becoming 'stuck' in certain situations.
* Fix permafood being coloured brown like contaminated chunks.
* Inscribe "was cursed" for items uncursed using ?enchant foo.
* Fix an information leak about magic resistance from unidentified items.
* Remove random staff ID over time: identify staff types on wield, just like weapons and rods do.
* Give staves and rods a chance to be generated cursed.
* Allow staves of poison to affect monsters with rPois; Olgreb is 1/4 irresistible.
* Give the staff of death rN+.
* Give the staff of summoning warding, sometimes abjure summons on hit.
* Asphyxiation resistance blocks curare damage, but not slowing.
* Poison resistance protects against curare entirely.
* Add new chunk type that is both poisonous and contaminated.
* Remove +AC/+EV from randarts. Fixedarts still keep them.
* Auto-id gourmand for non-Mu non-full-herbivores (level 3).
* Allow cancelling some scrolls without consuming them.
* Allow (M)emorising from books on the floor.
* Reintroduce item stat loss prompts.
* Prompt before wearing or wielding a known-cursed item.
* Remove misleading messages about weapon str/dex weighting.
* Don't corrode ammo by clumsily bashing jellies with it.
* Don't acquire manuals or sage to utterly useless skills.
* Improve rods of striking: 1d5 -> 1d8.
* Do proper foe checking for rod spells that are direct effects.
* ?EWII may uncurse blowguns.
* Remove nutrition on hit for vampiric weapons.
* Make Evocations skill help with ball of seeing radius.
* Disallow use of staff of channeling when starving.
* Give missiles of flame/frost some bonus damage.
* Add noise to missiles.
* Make wield mass check apply to all items.
* Tweak some cards' probabilities and effects.
* More detailed corrosion resistance reporting.
* Mention butchery requirement for food in corpse description.
* Tweak blood potion descriptions to mention nutrition for non-herbivores.
* Disable generation of missiles and bows of reaping.
* Remove scrolls of recharging's effect on weapons of electrocution.
* Stop the generation of racial missiles.
* Make ball of energy stat loss now drains between 1 and 2/3 max Int.
* Improve some unrandart weapons: add brands, more damage.
* Improve Maxwell's Patent Armour: AC+15, +preservation ego, +MR.
* Improve Staff of Wucad Mu: remove miscast effects except for when channeling.
* Make potions of experience give some xp for skills as well.
* Fix acquirement hardly ever generating "plain" crystal plates and dragon armour.
* Make acquirement's "redundant armour" check consider things seen rather than worn.
* Allow acquirement of non-regular shields, weighted by skills.
* When using an unidentified potion or scroll, display its name in the message.
* New Demon axe unrandart: obsidian axe, adds a siren-like pull to nearby monsters.
* All weapons have min 7 delay, or better.

===Tiles===
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* Fix crash when searching the database for zombies.
* Fix mouseclick travel internally using the vi keys.
* Fix manuals being readable while berserk or "brainless".
* Fix tooltip leaking mimic information.
* For the message overlay, treat mouseclicks as relevant to the map (travel etc.) rather than the message history.
* Run pngcrush in non-debug builds if installed, shaving 700KB per download.
* Fix randomized animation of unidentified wand/missile.
* New tile tabs for common commands and for skill management.
* Space allowing, detach monster, spell and command tabs.
* Automatically zoom the minimap to fill available space.
* Generate a Windows Alert dialog on assertions.
* Allow mouseclick movement through exclusions and stationary monsters.
* Clicking on an enemy while wielding a ranged weapon fires at it.
* Fix the need to click on an enemy twice to fire or cast at it.
* Casting with ctrl+click casts the last spell if appropriate.
* Suppress tree descriptions on mouseover.
* Make sure mouseover descriptions are only triggered by mouse movement.
* Ctrl-mouseclick asks for quantity for drop/pickup.
* Add disturbance tiles for invisible monsters in clouds.
* More helpful and less obnoxious exclusion tiles.
* Reinstate the red haze during berserk.
* Add species-dependent lich/statue form tiles, capable of weapon display.
* Use poison icon for player doll, if poisoned.
* New title screens (Denzi, Omndra).
* Add tiles to the startup menu.
* Remove shield tiles from various shieldless monsters.
* New runed armour/weapon tiles.
* Fix randart item tiles never actually being used.
* Many great new monster tiles.
* Improved Swamp and Lair floor.
* New dungeon statue, blood, and Xom altar tiles.
* Reinitialise dungeon tiles if TILE_WALL_MAX changed between versions.
* Store vault-defined tile names in the save.
* Overhaul tiles_help.txt.

===Technical===
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* No setgid installs, due to many security issues; this means no shared scores or ghosts.
* Saves are stored in single files, with transactional protection against crashes.
* Don't include lua chunks in save files.
* Autosave at game start and in Sprint, to keep crashes from losing the game.
* Internal changes to handling monsters/LOS/map/UI, merged from NetTiles.
* Reduce idle clock threshold, fix several bugs in measuring play time.
* Except for public servers, ensure robustness against filesystem crashes.
* Special and non-special unrandarts use the same generation code.
* Reorder spell code by school and functionality.
* Simplify ghost I/O.
* Clean up the level generation code.

===Options===
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* Change the explore_stop option to use greedy_pickup_smart by default.
* New travel_key_stop option for whether keypresses should interrupt travel/resting.
* Default easy_exit_menu to false; make all keyhelp menus respect this option.
* Make autopickup_no_burden default to true.
* New console option: 'show_player_species' (default false), uses appropriate monster glyph.
* New option: 'show_real_turns' (default off).
* Tiles: New option: 'tile_layout_priority', for fully customizable tile tabs.
* Tiles: Replace 'tile_title_screen' (default true) with 'tile_skip_title' (false).

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Soyweiser at 01:43, 16 December 2011

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 * New monster set: spriggans.
 * New monster set: deep dwarves (in Abyss, Ziggurats).
-* Several new monsters, including [[silent spectre,]] [[sky beast]], [[porcupine]], [[fire crab]], [[bog mummy]], and a few new spiders.
+* Several new monsters, including [[silent spectre]], [[sky beast]], [[porcupine]], [[fire crab]], [[bog mummy]], and a few new spiders.
 * New unique: Jory, mesmerising vampire.
 * New monster spells: Cause Fear, Drain Life, Agony, Summon Elemental, Noxious Cloud.

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