0.13

This article is about a previous release of Crawl. For information about other versions of Crawl, including the newest, see List of Stone Soup versions.

0.13 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It was released on Oct. 11th, 2013.

Stone Soup 0.13 (20131011)

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0.13 highlights

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• A new race: Gargoyles.
• A reimagined Skald background.
• A thorough rework of the monster set in Crypt.
• Improvements to many evokable items.
• A new item: sack of spiders.
• Massively overhauled layout generators.
• Summonings school: per-spell limits and no stair following or pulling.
• New Sprint map: linesprint.

Branches, environment

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• A new Sprint map: "|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||" by st (otherwise known as linesprint).
• Branches now have exactly one exit stair (except the Dungeon, which can, but is not guaranteed, to have more).
• Many new layouts have been added to most branches, including unique layouts for branches that didn't have them; and numerous tweaks and improvements to existing layouts.
• Vaults can now be placed at the centre of some layouts prepared to accept them there.
• All portal vaults entrances that time out are now announced.
• Temple overflow altars can now contain multiple altars.
• New shop type: gadget shops, which sell evokable items.
• Mechanical traps do not spawn outside of vaults.
• Zot trap effects are now only a subset of the full set of miscasts, and have some new unique effects - draining of wand charges and Word of Recall (as per ironbrand convokers).

Character

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• A new race: Gargoyles, with low natural HP but an impressive host of resistances and the ability to fly at XL14.
• Sludge elves are no more.
• The Skald background gets a reworked spell book with four new spells:
  • Infusion grants additional melee damage costing MP with each strike;
  • Song of Slaying grants an incremental slaying bonus with every monster killed (of sufficient threat level);
  • Spectral Weapon creates an allied spectral clone of your weapon which strikes enemies in melee when you do.
  • Song of Shielding has a similar effect to spirit shield, trading HP loss for MP loss.
• Priests are no more.
• The nausea status effect from eating contaminated chunks has been removed; contaminated chunks now give less nutrition for characters that can't handle them.
• Stabbing skill is no more; stabs now depend upon the average of the character's stealth and weapon skill.
• The Traps skill is no more; all characters detect traps as though they had (XL/3) Traps skill.
• Chaos knights start with a +0 chaos weapon instead of a +2 normal weapon.
• New tier 2 demonspawn mutation - "magic shield", giving spirit shield at level one, improved magic regeneration at level two, and regenerating mana in place of health as a function of current magic level at level three.
• Deaths to acid, self-targetting, and sticky flame now credit the appropriate monster/spell.
• Draining a stat to zero can no longer directly kill the player; instead, further stat drain damages the player. The effects of a stat being at zero (fainting, slow actions, etc.) persist.
• Ogre hunters and artificers now start with a club instead of a short sword.

Monsters

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• New/reworked Crypt monsters:
  • Wraiths, shadow wraiths, and eidolons drain speed instead of XP.
  • Eidolons deal more melee damage and can cast Bolt of Draining.
  • Phantasmal warriors can temporarily reduce their target's magic resistance and can blink closer to their foes.
  • Flayed ghosts gain a smite-targeted flaying attack, dealing temporary damage that scales with XP and goes away when the flayed ghost is killed and/or enough time passes.
  • Ancient champions, formerly a vault-specific monster, are now full randomly-generated monsters, coming with a band of skeletal warriors 50% of the time.
  • Vampire mages cast Vampiric Draining more often, and have slightly higher HD and HP; they also come with a band of vampires.
  • Rotting hulks are now plague shamblers, capable of inflicting a "retching" status effect that prevents food consumption; they generate a cloud of miasma on death.
  • Spectral things move at their full base monster speed.
  • Deep dwarf death knights gain slightly better attack power and starting equipment, and now come with a band of undead.
  • Flying skulls get a slight HP boost and a larger attack power boost.
  • Ghouls inflict rot half as often.
  • Curse skulls are capable of out-of-LOS movement, similar to wandering mushrooms, but preferring to place themselves where a player needs to move the most to actually reach them.
  • New monster: revenants, possessing a ghostly fireball attack and capable of creating clouds of ghostly flame, which do not harm undead and occasionally summon spectral things.
  • New monster: lost souls, who sacrifice themselves to heal nearby undead creatures or assume the shape of a nearby killed living creature; they can be summoned by deep elf death mages.
  • Necromancers don't come with necrophages, but do come with simulacra.
  • Unborn deep dwarves are now just unborn.
  • New monster: jiangshi, who move in short burts (like sixfirhies) and possess a vampiric melee attack.
• New forest-themed monsters:
  • Spriggan assassins and spriggan enchanters, who attempt to disable the player with blowguns and hexes respectively before moving in for the kill.
  • Wind drakes, who can breathe powerful blasts of wind and airstrike the player.
• Other new monsters:
  • Tengu reavers, skilled with both steel and spells; appearing in the late dungeon and in Vaults.
  • Deathcaps, summonable by curse toes - tougher wandering mushrooms with Drain Life.
• New unique: Sojobo, king of the tengu.
• Jory now spawns normally in the late dungeon, instead of being limited to vaults.
• Adjustments to some tier 4 demons:
  • Orange demons' sting has a 50% chance of inflicting a Weakness status, which reduces the player's attack damage.
  • Blue devils have a swooping attack, where they can immediately move adjacent to the player and attack from up to four tiles away.
  • Red devils can now hop backwards from adjacent foes to make use of their now-guaranteed polearms' reaching attacks.
• Adjustments to the elementals:
  • Water elementals have an asphyxiation attack which lasts as long as their target is next to them, and have slightly increased AC and HP.
  • Fire elementals (and fire vortices) deal pure fire damage.
• Updated spell set for several monsters:
  • Draconian shifters:
  • Banishment is dropped.
  • A new monster spell: Dimension Anchor, which temporarily prevents teleportation, blinking, and Phase Shift.
  • A new monster spell: Blink Allies Encircling, which blinks nearby allies around the target.
  • Controlled Blink is replaced with Blink Away as an emergency spell.
  • Spriggan air mages:
  • Drop Swiftness.
  • New spell: Control Winds, which manipulates clouds (including putting out fores fires immediately), and improves allied ranged weapon accuracy.
  • Spriggan druids:
  • Drop Summon Caniforms.
  • New spells: Haste Plants, which hastes nearby plant-like enemies, and Druid's Call, which calls wildlife from elsewhere on the level to aid the druid.
  • The Enchantress:
  • Banishment is banished.
  • Gains Dimension Anchor (see draconian shifter entry above), Strip Resistance (lowers the magic resistance of the target), and Mass Confusion.
  • Curse toes:
  • No more Summon Undead.
  • Deep elf summoners:
  • Summon Demon replaced with Summon Vermin, which summons orange rats, spiders, and some other things.
  • Deep elf priests/Deep elf high priests:
  • A new spell "Malign Offering", which steals HP from the target to give to their allies.
  • Deep elf mages:
  • Entirely new spellsets:
  • Freeze, Throw Icicle, Summon Ice Beast;
  • Bolt of Magma, Stone Arrow, Petrify;
  • Iskenderun's Mystic Blast, Slow, Venom Bolt, Blink;
  • Flame Tongue, Throw Flame, Sticky Flame, Fireball;
  • Magic Dart, Force Lance, Iskenderun's Mystic Blast, Iskenderun's Battlesphere.
  • Deep elf conjurers:
  • Only one spellset (Bolt of Fire, Bolt of Cold, Lightning Bolt, Bolt of Draining); the spell set with sticky flame has been removed.
  • Gloorx Vloq:
  • No longer has Invisibility as an emergency spell.
• Speed adjustments to several monsters:
  • Speed 8: spiny worms, snapping turtles, guardian mummies (all previously speed 9).
  • Speed 10: jellies (previously 9).
• Shadows can now turn invisible, allowing them to move faster and land a guaranteed stab attack on enemies.
• The retribution effect for killing an apis now inflicts Weakness on the player, instead of healing nearby hostiles.
• Giant fireflies can now signal nearby awake monsters in a manner similar to shouting.
• Vault wardens can seal stairways in addition to doors.
• Zombies no longer appear excessively out of depth in the early dungeon.
• Orb run monster spawns no longer include weak monsters, and now include Orb Guardians.
• Monster actions are now taken in order of speed, rather than any given monster taking all of its actions at once.
• Removed monsters:
  • Laboratory rats.
  • War dogs (replaced by wolves with essentially matching stats).
  • Deep dwarf scions, deep dwarf necromancers, and deep dwarf artificers.
  • Deep elf soldiers.
  • A large number of vault-specific monsters.
• Imps and other weak monsters no longer appear in Pandemonium.
• Nergalle appears earlier in the dungeon.
• Lamia no longer comes with a band of minions.
• Creatures other than natural creatures can now be frenzied; this causes them to attack anything in sight. The berserking effect of frenzy (might and haste effects) is limited to natural creatures.

Spells

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• New spells:
  • Searing Ray, a level 2 conjuration replacing Force Lance in the Book of Conjurations that deals damage over several consecutive turns.
  • Discord, a level 8 Hexes spell that attempts to frenzy all monsters in sight.
• Summon Small Mammals now only ever summons one mammal, and is renamed to Summon Small Mammal as a consequence.
• 100% of teleports on the orb run are delays (up from 50%).
• Haunt adjustments:
  • Summons now fixate on their target.
  • Flayed ghosts are no longer summoned.
  • Friendlies are no longer targettable.
• Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now poisons continuously over several turns (and deals impact damage); it also ignores the caster's poison resistance (if any).
• Dragon Form is pure Transmutations (was Tmut/Fire for all but Draconians).
• Force Lance is now level 5 (was level 2), with boosted range and damage to match.
• Fulminant Prism now caps at 200 spellpower.
• Swiftness can be cast in water; it doesn't operate in water, but it grants the status (which operates as expected when out of the water).
• Summonings caps are introduced. This acts on a per-spell basis, each spell has a fixed numerical limit for the number of summons active at any time. Going over this limit means your oldest summons will expire in a very short number of turns. Applies only to non-necromantic non-permanent summons.
• Temporary summons will no longer follow the player down stairs.
• Temporary summons expire when the player moves to a different level.

Items

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• The elemental evocation items have been reworked:
  • All no longer depend on elemental magic skill or nearby terrain, can summon multiple elementals, and have an XP-based recharge timer.
  • The lamp of fire fires up to three trails of flame in a given direction.
  • The fan of air elementals is now the fan of gales, and blows back nearby enemies.
  • The stone of earth elementals is now the stone of tremors; it causes rubble to fall from nearby rock, stone, or permarock walls to damage creatures adjacent to them, and has a chance to shaft creatures;
  • A new elemental evoker item - the phial of floods; it generates a wave of water which temporarily leaves a pool of water behind, and summons water elementals.
• The dependence of armour penalties on strength has been adjusted; there are no longer magic strength numbers for lowest possible penalties.
• Potions of gain <ability> have been replaced by potions of beneficial mutation, which grant the player a single beneficial mutation.
• the Scroll of vorpalise weapon is now called Scroll of brand weapon, and can rebrand weapons that already have a permanent brand affixed.
• the Scroll of immolation has been reworked to Inner Flame everything in LOS.
• Lear's chain mail is now Lear's hauberk - a +27 chain mail that covers all armour slots other than shields and cloaks.
• The staff of energy eliminates 100% of spell hunger again, and includes the now-gone staff of channeling as well.
• The staff of power scales with your maximum magic power.
• Box of beasts has been reworked:
  • Has a fixed, random number of charges between 5 and 15 inclusive.
  • 1/3 chance to fail on usage with no bad effects.
  • When successful, generates a chimera; a new monster with three heads. Each head can be a different beast, picked from a list which provides better/stronger beasts at higher Evocations skill. The heads determine the attacks and abilities available to the monster.
• New "sack of spiders" item:
  • Fixed charges between 5 and 15 inclusive.
  • On evoking, creates webs around you and releases spiders.
  • Number of webs and type/number of spiders scales with evocations.
• Splint mail has been removed; chain mail is now 8 AC to compensate.
• Needles of sickness have been removed.
• Manuals do not need to be read to be activated; they're always on while in inventory.
• The rod of striking now functions as a melee weapon - it expends charges to deal additional damage in melee.
• Boots of running have a -1 movement delay (was -2).
• The lantern of shadows' rate of shadow spawning scales with evocations, and the resulting shadows now wander instead of following the player.
• New unrand: the +4 moon troll leather armour {Spirit MP+5 Regen}.
• Adjustments to unrands:
  • Arga is now a broad axe.
  • The shield of the Gong no longer has guardian spirit; it is otherwise unchanged.
  • The knife of Accuracy and boots of the Assassin are no more.
  • The lightning scales are now +6 (was +3).
• Hammers do not generate outside of vaults.

Gods

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• Yredelemnul no longer gifts rotting hulks / plague shamblers.
• Hill orcs encountering an orc priest for the first time are offered the chance to convert to Beogh on the spot.
• Zin's Recite no longer paralyses the player; the player can take any action that doesn't involve the mouth while reciting.

Interface

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• For online play, explore_delay and travel_delay are instananeous by default.
• Dungeon features with variable-colour tiles now display those colours in tiles (e.g. walls in the Abyss, the Elven Halls, and the Pan disco hall).
• Examining a monster will display the spells monsters of its type are capable of using.

Technical

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• A port to OpenSolaris (Dyson/Illumos).
• MSVC compilation once again possible (Visual Studio [Express] 2012)