0.19

Version 0.19: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

0.19 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It was released on October 30th, 2016.

Highlights

• New gods: Uskayaw the Reveler and Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
• New portal: the Desolation of Salt.
• Sif Muna and Nemelex Xobeh have been dramatically reworked.
• Long blades have a new passive effect, 'riposte'.

Branches, Environment

• New timed portal vault: the Desolation of Salt, appearing in Elf and Vaults.
  • Six new enemies, including swarms of fragile golems with supporting allies.
  • Open terrain layout with large, opaque clouds to use as cover.
  • Many powerful artefacts resting within ancient ruins.
• Volcanoes are now much more dangerous, but offer better rewards.
• Lair is now six floors (formerly eight).
• Slime is now five floors (formerly six).
• The Slime treasure vault's walls disappear entirely on their master's death.
• Webs are no longer destroyed after creatures escape from them.
• Beogh will no longer smite creatures that destroy orcish idols.
• Lair and Orc no longer have ambient noise.
• Storm cloud damage is more common and much less severe.
• Non-opaque clouds created by the player vanish instantly when out of LOS.
• The Orb's translocation restrictions now apply throughout the Zot branch.

Character

• Flight or transformations expiring over deep water or lava no longer causes instant death. Instead, they cause heavy drain over time until reaching land.
• Potions, scrolls and books can be used while still on the floor.
• Resistances granted by rN (to e.g. Pain effects) now scale with rN, only reaching full immunity at rN+++ (instead of at rN+).
• Monks can now choose a weapon to start with.
• Corrosion slaying penalties now affect unarmed & auxiliary attacks.
• Spriggans can wield any weapons that kobolds and halflings can.
• Kobolds and halflings rebalanced toward & away from casting, respectively.
• Hidden "stealth factors" for species and forms are gone.
• Vampire blood level effects have been simplified and reworked.
• Bat form can quaff potions and open doors.
• The undead always take stat damage if mutated, instead of sometimes rotting.
• Temporary mutations only have a 50% chance of affecting the undead.
• Mummy self-restoration has been removed.
• The 'sustain abilities' effect has been removed.
• Sickness no longer has a chance of damaging stats.
• Issuing orders to allies no longer makes noise.
• Climbing stairs takes slightly longer, but doesn't penalize EV.
• Clarity provides immunity to sleep and fear.

Gods

• New temple god: Uskayaw the Reveler.
  • Piety gained by dealing damage to enemies.
  • Piety decays extremely rapidly over time.
  • 1*: Stomp: deals damage to all adjacent enemies.
  • 2*: Line Pass: instantly travel through a line of enemies, confusing some.
  • Solo Time: on reaching 3*, briefly paralyse all visible enemies.
  • Pain Bond: on reaching 4*, all visible enemies begin sharing damage taken with each-other.
  • 5*: Grand Finale: blink into and instantly kill target monster.
• New temple god: Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
  • Grants a permanent customizeable ally, respawning on a delay after death. The ally automatically grows in strength as you level up.
  • Piety granted for exploration.
  • 0*: Recall: interlevel recall for your ally.
  • 2*: Remember Life: permanently make your ancestor a Hexer, Knight or Battlemage.
  • 3*: Transference: swap your ancestor with any creature in LOS, or yourself.
  • 4*: Idealise: heal your ancestor & temporarily increase their AC, damage and spellpower dramatically.
  • 5*: Transference drains enemies adjacent to the target.
• Sif Muna changes:
  • The 1* Channel Energy ability is replaced with Divine Energy, which allows the player to cast with insufficient mp, causing temporary -Cast.
  • At 3*, grants "Channel Magic", trading piety for a fast MP regen status.
  • Book gifts now begin at 5*, instead of 6*.
  • Sif grants piety for both learning magic and killing enemies.
• Nemelex Xobeh changes:
  • Now gifts decks of escape, destruction and summoning.
  • Drawing from decks and using Nemelex abilities now uses invocations, not evocations.
  • Identify scrolls can no longer be used on decks.
• Beogh's water-walking always lasts until the player is on land.
• Beogh no longer increases the benefits of armour and shields.
• Dithmenos's Shadow Step can no longer be used on allies or while immobile.
• Fedhas appreciates all corpse decay, and rots all corpses when the player leaves a level. Toadstool generation is an ability, instead of a 'p' effect.
• Qazlal's cloud immunity applies to all clouds, not just the player's.
• Jiyva's jelly paralyse ability has been removed.
• Many divine abilities have had their hunger costs removed or increased.
• Most gods that like killing are less particular about what you kill.
• Piety decay over time has been streamlined and adjusted for most gods.
• Gods that hate specific monsters no longer prevent you from enslaving them.
• Pakellas has been removed.

Interface

• Most targeters will be more intelligent when trying to maximize enemies hit.
• In tiles, monster attitude is indicated with colored auras instead of icons.
• The (p)rayer command is gone; pray at altars with > or <, as with shops.
• Descriptions of monsters with multiple spellsets show which spells you've seen them cast.
• Monster descriptions list their average max HP.
• New auto_butcher option, which butchers edible corpses during autoexplore.

Items

• Fixed artefacts:
  • Firestarter and Frostbite now provide immunity to their cloud types.
  • The Octopus King's trident's enchantment bonus for wearing Octopus King rings is now +2 (prev. +1).
  • The Staff of Olgreb now has a fixed +9 enchantment.
  • The Sword of Zonguldrok no longer creates hostile dead or curses itself.
  • The arbalest 'Damnation' doesn't provides resistances, and does more damage.
  • The morningstar Eos takes Brilliance's halo, and no longer has -Tele.
  • Fencer's Gloves no longer increase Sbl/Lbl skill or provide +EV/AC, but let the player riposte with any weapon (details below).
  • Wyrmbane now has rC+ instead of +Rage.
  • The greatsling Punk has a unique 'acid' brand, instead of freezing.
• Evocations:
  • Wands of random effects can no longer produce digging or disintegration.
  • Boxes of beasts and sacks of spiders have a fixed chance of destruction per-use, instead of a hidden charge count. They now stack.
  • Fans of gales & lamps of fire no longer summon elemental allies.
  • Phials of floods impact damage significantly reduced.
• Players using long blades sometimes riposte when dodging attacks, launching instant, automatic counterattacks.
• Weapons of protection give a temporary +7 AC on hit, replacing a passive +5.
• Creatures that could be butchered for enchantable hides instead, with the same chance, leave behind the corresponding armour when killed.
• Amulets of harm now increase damage dealt more than damage taken, and are no longer evil.
• Elemental enhancers no longer penalise spells of the opposite element.
• Jewellery acquirement creates twice as many randarts.
• The *Confuse randart property is now *Slow.
• Books can no longer be destroyed to forget spells.
• Rods are created through misc. acquirement instead of staff acquirement.
• It's no longer possible to acquire ammunition.
• Renamed:
  • dragon armour -> dragon scales.
  • greatsling -> fustibalus.
• Removed:
  • All decks and their cards, except for those gifted by Nemelex Xobeh.
  • Dragon and troll hides.
  • Sword of the Doom Knight, Amulet of Cekugob, and "Brilliance".
  • Amulets of dismissal.
  • Rings of sustain abilities.
  • Stones of tremors.
  • The evasion weapon ego.
  • The Akashic Record.
  • Artefact blowguns.

Monsters

• New monsters
  • Bai Suzhen, a late-game draconian unique that casts Summon Hydra. When severely injured, she becomes a dragon ringed by storm clouds.
  • Meliai, bee priestesses that sting and smite in trios.
  • Dream sheep, pack monsters that put their enemies to sleep.
  • ...and the residents of the Desolation of Salt.
• Uniques:
  • Urug and Jory's weapons are now much nastier for their depth.
  • Mennas always spawns with a sacred weapon.
  • Donald can now cast Haste and Might.
  • Asterion's Spectral Weapon has been replaced by Greater Servant of Makhleb.
  • Xtahua can now roar to cast Paralyse.
  • Nergalle can no longer enter Death's Door.
  • Gloorx Vloq can no longer cast Black Mark.
  • Various uniques have had their genders changed.
• Zombies, skeletons, and simulacrula no longer hide damage taken, and display the full names of the monster they were created from.
• Battlecry has been simplified, affecting all monsters of the same genus.
• Blood Saints's Legendary Destruction now casts two spells at a time.
• Necromancers gain Bind Soul, reviving slain monsters as simulacrula.
• Ghostly Fireball is now completely resistable by rN and causes draining.
• Obsidian statues can Mesmerise.
• Wizards and Ogre Mages have split up and re-arranged their many spell sets to arrive at three sets each, with minimal overlap.
• Spriggan air mages can no longer cast Control Winds.
• Hellions no longer have fire resistance or cold vulnerability.
• Deep elf archers no longer fire their bows in melee.
• Death scarabs no longer trail miasma, but are somewhat tougher.
• Tzitzimitl melee slows and rots victims, instead of creating miasma.
• Ushabti gain Dispel Undead and Warning Cry, and their clouds are now miasma.
• Friendly monsters will no longer open doors.
• Jellies no longer eat unseen items for non-Jiyva worshippers.
• Turtles no longer withdraw into their shells when injured.
• Giant eyeballs charge up their paralysis-stare 50% faster.
• Statues are now stabbable; obsidian & orange crystal statues gain sInv.
• Renamed monsters:
  • Giant newt -> frilled lizard.
  • Giant frog -> bullfrog.
  • Giant gecko -> leopard gecko.
  • Giant leech -> tyrant leech.
  • Giant spore -> ballistomycete spore.
  • Giant orange brain -> glowing orange brain.
  • Greater naga -> nagaraja.
• Removed monsters:
  • Anubis guards.
  • Boulder beetles.
  • Chaos champions.
  • Griffons.
  • Putrid demonspawn.
  • Salamander stormcallers.
  • Sheep.
  • Wasps.
  • Norris.
  • Maud.
  • Wiglaf.

Spells

• New spell: Infestation (L8 Necromancy), appearing in the Necronomicon. Applies 'infested' to monsters in a large, smite-targeted area; a friendly death scarab erupts out of the victims when they die.
• New spell: Lesser Beckoning (L3 Translocation), which pulls a single target adjacent to the caster.
• All temporary allies are incapable of attacking out of LOS, not just summons.
• Confusing Touch is level 1 (was level 2).
• Cigotuvi's Embrace only degrades over time, not on-hit.
• Irradiate causes significantly less contamination when cast.
• Olgreb's Toxic Radiance causes less damage, but doesn't poison the caster.
• Simulacrum's duration is significantly shorter.
• Spells formerly in the Akashic Record have been redistributed elsewhere.
• Various other spellbooks have had minor adjustments.
• Removed: Cure Poison, Haste, and Warp Weapon.