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Pratolli: Fixing a tiny typo of mine.

2012-09-06T11:15:21Z

Fixing a tiny typo of mine.

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== Description ==

The goal of this project is to go through the updates and <s>cross out</s> lines once they have been incorporated into the appropriate wiki page.

=== Contributors ===
* [[User:Flun]]
* [[User:Flaming Corpse]] (updating all monster pages, sporadic other work)
* [[User:ToBeFree|ToBeFree]]
* [[User:MoogleDan]]
* ''Add name here''

===TODO===
* Add history subsections to the god pages since changes were pretty significant.

==Changelog==

Stone Soup 0.10 (20120216)

===0.10 Highlights (Done)===

* <s>New species: [[Octopode]]s, sentient land-capable octopuses.</s>
* <s>Skill training system reworked. Dancing is really gone this time!</s>
* <s>All [[polearm]]s have reaching</s>.
* <s>[[Constriction]] (nagas, octopodes, some snakes, tentacled monstrosities).</s>
* <s>New version of the [[Abyss]].</s>

=== Branches, portal vaults, levels===

* <s>Remove [[Hive]].</s> Guarantee some limited food supply in the dungeon.
* <s>Completely reworked Abyss: it now morphs continuously over time, is mappable,and extends infinitely in all directions.</s>
* Most abyssal runes are in special vaults.
* Escaping the Abyss returns to place of banishment.
* Ziggurats have much more colourful holy levels.
* Ziggurats: spriggan levels.
* Pan monster set tweaked.
* More Volcano portal vaults.
* <s>Web "traps", can briefly entangle those caught.</s>
* A "twisting cavern" map layout.
:I checked the des files, it's randomly generated from lua code to draw a fixed-width passage made of brown rock and occasionally green crystal. --[[User:Palin|Palin]] 10:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
* Many vaults, including large altar vaults, Abyss vaults, Pan Lord maps,and several branch endings.
* A number of branches have a completely new set of tiles: Snake Pit,Labyrinth, Vestibule of Hell, Crypt, Dis, Tartarus, Cocytus, Pandemonium.
* The chance of getting a unique Pandemonium level increases for each level of Pan you visit.

===Gods (Done)===
* <s>Ammo gifts can include large rocks and javelins.
* Lugonu accepts kills of demons.
* Cheibriados loses the "Make Ponderous" invocation, slows you down all the time depending on piety.
* Cheibriados can slow down Abyss morphing and Orb run monster spawns.
* New Cheibriados ability: Temporal Distortion, moves nearby monsters forwards in time a few turns.
* Cheibriados doesn't grant resistances anymore.</s>
* <s>Makhleb's powers use Health instead of Magic.</s>
* <s>Makhleb gives more Health for killing but no Magic anymore.</s>
* <s>Makhleb's Greater Destruction costs less piety.</s>
* <s>Zin followers pay mandatory tithe for piety. No more piety for waiting.
* Zin takes some gold upon conversion; this gives more piety than donation.
* Zin's Vitalisation is proactive, protecting from all bad statuses.
* Prayer to Zin doesn't provide feeding, Vitalisation gives satiation instead.
* Zin's Imprison duration increased.
* TSO: piety decays; gain piety for spotting non-evil monsters.
* Elyvilon: piety decays; piety for pacifications doubled.
* Elyvilon has piety loss for ally deaths instead of penance.
* Elyvilon doesn't grant piety for non-evil weapons past *** (even if you drop lower later!). Evil weapons get identified on sight.
* Deaths of plants and non-living beings no longer count as friend deaths for god conduct purposes.</s>

===Species===
* <s>Octopodes: sentient octopuses that can wear eight rings.
* Draconians cannot wear body armour anymore, can wear gloves and boots.
* Centaurs can survive longer on vegetarian food.</s>
* <s>Felids gain lives every three levels.
* Minotaurs instinctively retaliate in melee.</s>
* <s>New Demonspawn mutations: Foul Stench, Ignite Blood, and Augmentation.</s>
* <s>Kenku are now called Tengu, and get more MP.
* Mountain Dwarves are no more.
* Minotaur and Hill Orc aptitudes are a lot better.</s>

===Character===
* <s>Wild Magic mutation: reduced spell success, increased power.</s>
* Evolution mutation: extra mutations as time passes.
* Always gain partial nutrition from brown chunks.
* <s>Bad food causes nausea instead of sickness.</s>
* <s>Non-full carnivores cannot eat up to "engorged" without gourmand.</s>
* A little score increase from runes for non-winners.
* <s>Poison resistance is only 90% effective.</s>

===Spells (Done)===
* <s>New spell: [[Beastly Appendage]] (Transmutation 1).
* Flame Tongue has slightly longer range.
* Removed: Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Levitate.</s>
* <s>Abjuration becomes single-target. The old version (Mass Abj.) is available as a new level 6 spell.</s>
* <s>Swiftness and Flight no longer give an extra boost when cast together.</s>
* <s>Swiftness halves stealth and makes it harder to detect traps.</s>
* <s>Flight lowered to level 3, Dragon Form lowered to level 7.</s>
* <s>Dispel Undead raised to level 5.</s>
* <s>Summoned Ugly Things are now always friendly.
* Shadow Creatures don't last as long anymore.
* Tornado's damage has been slightly improved.
* Conjure Ball Lightning improved, ball lightnings explode when their duration expires.
* Mephitic Cloud and Evaporate don't guarantee a 3x3 cloud anymore.
* Recasting a transformation is no worse than the original cast.
* Animate Dead animates stacks.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction: prevent abuse, improve targeting.
* Summon Greater Demon only has tier 1 demons turn hostile over time.
* Spider form is susceptible to poison.
* Shatter doesn't work through walls, unless it manages to destroy them.
* No spells work through glass or trees anymore.
* Metabolic Englaciation slows down enemies.
* Twisted Resurrection is improved: corpses merge into abominations on their own without needing to be stacked.
* Alistair's Intoxication is less reliable, depends on spell power.
* Boost the effective power of some hexes: Corona, Slow, Mass Confusion,Cause Fear, Control Undead.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance is more effective at high spell power.
* Confusing Touch is less reliable.
* Inner Flame leaves clouds of fire when an affected monster explodes.
* Passage of Golubria creates two portals when cast, and allows more than two portals to exist simultaneously.
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===Backgrounds (Done)===
* <s>Arcane Marksmen are back, with a Hex-based spellbook.
* Artificers get a weaker staff and skills, but an extra wand.
* Transmuters lose Fulsome Destillation and Evaporate, gain Beastly Appendage.
* Necromancers lose Dispel Undead, gain Control Undead.
* Monks get ** piety upon taking on their first god.</s>

===Skills===
* Non-integer values of a skill matter.
* Add skill training restrictions instead of requiring victory dance-style usage of unknown skills.
* Stealth skill is no longer heavily discounted.

===Interface (Done)===
* <s>Experience points are no longer shown directly, just a percentage to the next level.
* Throwable starting weapons are autoinscribed with "=f".
* Leaving an unique Pan level without the rune asks for confirmation.
* Uniques and player ghosts annotate the level on the overview screen.
* New character dump options: spell_usage, which counts spells you have cast,and action_counts, which also counts non-spell actions.
* Ctrl-W toggles weight display in inventory and dropping menu.
* Better ?/G and ?/B menus.
* Spell success adjectives are replaced with failure rate percentages. Failure rates are coloured based on potential miscast severity.
* Many new monster descriptions and quotes.</s>

===Monsters===
* <s>Ignacio no longer uses Torment, and he'll appear repeatedly until killed.
* New monster: profane servitor - an angel corrupted by Yredelemnul (undead).
* New monster: blizzard demon - a cold/air rank 2 demon.</s>
* New holy monsters: silver star, cherub, <s>phoenix</s>, paladin, seraph.
* <s>Removed: giant toads, vipers, blue deaths.
* Renamed: Fiend -> Brimstone Fiend, Imp -> Crimson Imp.</s>
* Reorganized demon ranks, moving easier 1s to 2s.
* <s>Feature mimics may now masquerade as most features.</s>
* <s>Item mimics can move once revealed</s>.
* Monsters will retreat when hit from behind an obstacle they can't walk around.
* <s>Unique Pandemonium lords can hunt you on the Orb run if you've stolen their runes. Violate the 5th Commandment, not the 7th!</s>
* Monsters cast emergency spells more often.
* Breath timeout for dragons, draconians, drakes.
* Most monster summoning spells toned down slightly.
* Monsters flee at lower health thresholds, and less predictably.
* <s>Queen bees can send nearby killer bees berserk.
* Killer bee larvae turn into killer bees if they eat honeycombs or royal jellies.</s>
* All abominations are now both demonic and undead.

===Items===
* <s>Slaying works like weapon enchantments</s>.
* Acquirement allows choosing missiles.
* <s>Nagas and Centaurs get far better chances to acquire bardings</s>.
* Staff acquirement is more random.
* Miscellaneous item acquirement gives better decks.
* Weapon acquirement avoids useless weapon types.
* Misc items start identified when there are no doubts about them.
* <s>The Orb of Zot has a slightly mutagenic glow and reduces stealth</s>.
* The Crusade card can no longer give you permanent allies.
* <s>All polearms have the reaching brand built in</s>.
* Quarterstaves are split into two weapons: weak "staff" and good"quarterstaff". Gladiators and Priests get to start with the latter.
* Common two-handed weapons are easier to use effectively.
* Several new fixed artefacts: lightning scales, Black Knight's horse barding, ring of Vitality, autumn katana, shillelagh "Devastator", dragonskin cloak, rings of the Octopus King.
* The Sceptre of Asmodeus can be evoked for temporary charmed unabjurable demons (instead of random conjurations or hostile demons).
* <s>Scrolls of enchant and vorpalise weapon are always identified upon use.
* Amulet of guardian spirit draws from HP and MP simultaneously.
* Remove crystal balls of seeing.</s>
* Crystal ball of energy restores less MP but has less severe failure effects.
* Scroll of magic mapping detects secret doors.
* Tomb card is rarer.
* Portal card does not give instant teleports.
* Early weapons tend to be better.
* <s>Rename potion of healing to potion of curing.
* Rename wand of healing to wand of heal wounds.</s>
* Known properties of unique enemies' gear are pre-identified.
* <s>Medium armour is better.
* Banded mail is no more, plate mail has been renamed to plate armour.</s>

===Webtiles (Done) ===
* <s>Monster list.
* Webtiles games create a ttyrec, allowing them to be watched from SSH.
* Scale cells for small screens.
* "Glyph mode" which shows letters instead of tiles.
* Tiles in menus; Menus are sized according to each spectator's window, and spectators can scroll independently.
* Improvements to the lobby: show gods, allow sorting on XL/Character/Level, and show milestones.</s>

===Zot Defence===
* You can now choose which map to play on.
* Disable useless gods.
* Disable hunger, except for Vampires.
* Creating altar asks for god, at much higher ability cost.
* Start with some consumables (as in Sprint) to make the early game a little easier.

===Technical (Done)===
* <s>Tarballs use xz rather than bz2 compression.
* Wizard mode is compiled in by default unless you specify NOWIZARD=y.
* Custom shops can be used in vaults.
* Multithreading, currently only to speed up database loading.</s>

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 === Branches, portal vaults, levels===
-* <s>Remove [[Hive]].</s> Guarantee some limited food supply in the dungeon.
+* <s>Remove [[the Hive]].</s> Guarantee some limited food supply in the dungeon.
 * <s>Completely reworked Abyss: it now morphs continuously over time, is mappable,and extends infinitely in all directions.</s>
 * Most abyssal runes are in special vaults.

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Pratolli: Fixing a tiny typo of mine.