0.24

Version 0.24: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

Highlights

• Vampire species simplified
• Thrown weapons streamlined
• Fedhas reimagined
• Sif Muna reworked

Branches, Environment

• Incremental pregeneration:
  • This mode generates the dungeon in a stable order for all games regardless of the path taken by the player, meaning that the behavior of seeds for online and offline games should now be the same.
  • Games using the same seed will see the same dungeon if they are incrementally pregenerated without requiring the long initial generation time of full pregeneration as introduced in 0.23.
  • Incremental pregeneration is the default mode for new games.
  • Servers can now enable seed selection without heavy CPU cost.
• A Trove map requiring many uses of digging has been removed.
• Identification scrolls are no longer used as a potential Trove cost.
• Transporters in vaults now correctly place in the Abyss.
• Fog generation in the Desolation of Salt portal now happens far less often per turn, greatly reducing slowdown from high CPU usage.
• Random traps no longer place under items placed by vaults.

Character

• Formicids can now use their dig ability on diggable statues.
• Manticore barbs now can only be picked out if the player can move, isn't confused, and isn't asleep.
• Net traps now always trigger when the player steps on them.
• Vampiric weapons no longer have a hunger cost upon wield.
• Vampire simplification: Player vampires no longer eat or drink blood, and have exactly two blood states:
  • Alive: Regenerates quickly, normal HP modifier, no undead bonuses, no batform, can transform and berserk normally.
  • Bloodless: No regeneration with monsters in sight, -20% HP, stealth bonus, undead resistances, batform, no other transformations or berserk.
  • Blood states are transitioned by an ability which costs delay; becoming bloodless incurs no penalty, becoming alive causes a temporary frail mutation.
  • Bat form causes stat drain.

Gods

• Fedhas reimagined:
  • Piety is gained exclusively from kills instead of through corpse decay.
  • Fedhas abilities now create plant allies directly as temporary summons instead of creating permanent allies using plants. All abilities cost piety instead of food.
  • New abilities:
    • 2*: Active 'Wall of Briars' ability to surround the player with briar patches. Hostile monsters will attack briars to reach you, taking damage.
    • 3*: Active 'Grow Ballistomycete' ability to place a ballistomycete at any location within radius 2. The ballistomycete will fire spores that seek out foes and make a 1-radius damaging explosion that additionally confuses living creatures.
    • 4*: Active 'Overgrow' ability to destroy any non-permarock walls in a 3x3 area, replacing them with plant allies, mostly wandering mushrooms or burning bushes and sometimes ballistomycetes or oklob plants.
    • 5*: Active 'Grow Oklob' ability to place an oklob plant at any location within radius 2.
  • Fedhas no longer hates any necromancy spells, and allows worship by undead species.
  • Removed abilities: Fungal Bloom, Reproduction, Growth, Evolution, Rain.
• Sif Muna reworked:
  • Piety gain is exclusively from kills.
  • 'Channel Energy' is available at 1* piety instead of 3*.
  • 'Forget Spell' is available at 3* piety instead of 4*.
  • New 4* 'Divine Exegesis' ability to cast any spell in your library regardless of skill training. Receives a spell-power bonus based on Invocations skill of 1.5 times the spell-power received from equivalent levels of training in the spell's schools.
  • The Divine Energy ability and Sif's miscast protection are removed.
• Trog and Okawaru now can gift unbranded boomerangs and javelins.
• Jiyva's Slimify ability now works properly on skeletons, zombies and simulacra.
• Torment can now trigger Jiyva jelly spawns and Xom butterfly spawns.

Interface

• The 'X' key map mode has zoom support, defaulting to 60% zoom.
• Sealed off clinging and sensed monsters no longer stop autoexplore.
• Equipment melding no longer stops autoexplore and autotravel.
• Armour, jewellery, and weapons can be worn/wielded from the floor.
• Summoner monsters are now highlighted when the cursor is over one of its summons.
• Traps are now shown in the ctrl-x listing and are indexed in the stash tracker.
• Scarves are now properly shown on player tiles.
• Species and background selection menus now have tiles.
• Updated visual theme for main menu, high scores, and related screens.

Items

• New unrand: Staff of Battle, a staff of conjuration that spawns a battlesphere when a hostile monster is in view.
• Unrandart changes:
  • The Storm Bow now has a penetration effect.
  • Gyre and Gimble now has the protection brand, enchantment of +7, and no longer has Dex-3.
  • Piercer has been removed, its effect having been merged into Storm Bow.
• Weapons with the holy wrath ego can now be cursed.
• Randart rings no longer generate with both rCorr and *Corrode.
• Throwing weapons have been streamlined.
  • Blowguns are removed, needles are replaced with throwing darts.
    • Dart effects scale with Throwing and Stealth skill.
    • Darts of sleep, paralysis, confusion are removed.
    • Darts of frenzy are renamed datura-tipped darts.
    • A new dart brand, atropa is added. Atropa-tipped darts cause brief confusion and longer-lasting blindness in the target.
  • Tomahawks are renamed to boomerangs and always return.
  • Javelins always penetrate.
  • Steel and silver are merged into a single brand, called silver. Silver ammunition applies the maximum of vorpal bonus damage and the old silver damage bonus.
  • Poison, returning, penetration, and exploding are no longer available brands for tomahawks and javelins.

Lua

• Monster AC, EV, MR, MaxHP, and descriptions are now exposed in the CLua monster.info class.
• A new function 'defeat_mr()' to determine the chance that a given spell defeats a monster's magic resistance.
• There is a basic seed explorer available in scripts/seed_explorer.lua.

Monsters

• Monsters can now use wands of clouds, iceblast, and scattershot.
• Monsters clones created by Mara and rakshasa have the intended reduced HP of the original monster instead of several times that value.
• A monster having the Dig spell no longer allows it to cast spells out of LOS.
• Azrael and draconian scorchers can use Call Down Damnation when not at low HP.
• Player ghosts can be shafted.
• Golden Eyes no longer have randomized spellpower for their gaze.
• Monster airstrike uses the same formula as the player, reducing damage variance.
• Pikel's slaves no longer drop corpses nor items.

Spells

• The HP from Death's Door is fixed at time of casting rather than being updated continuously, hence being subject to changes in spellpower.
• Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now properly triggers ally conducts when cast.
• Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now applies direct damage and poison status in a way that considers the time of each turn.
• Shroud of Golubria's spellpower is now capped at 50.