0.15

Version 0.15: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

0.15 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It has no release date as of yet.

Stone Soup 0.15 (up to 0.15-a0-1331-ga052c3c)

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• Two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer.
• Ranged combat has been rewritten from the ground up.

Branches, environment

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• Crypt is now three levels (was five).
• Some areas of the Tomb layout can now vary.
• Mechanical traps no longer drop ammo.
• Troves asking for items require that item to be unequipped.
• The Abyss no longer sometimes blocks blinking.

Character

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• Inventory item weight and player burden states are no more.
• Formicids can no longer throw large rocks.
• Tengu now gain permaflight at XL14 (was 15).
• All non-undead forms can eat and drink normally.
• All forms can butcher.
• Wisp form can read scrolls and cannot blink on demand.
• Wanderers have tweaked starting kits with generally better items.
• Teleportitis cannot be controlled.
• Player clinging (seen only in Spider Form and with the boots of the Spider) is no more.
• Kobolds, hill orcs, and ogres are no longer saprovorous.
• Kobolds no longer have disease resistance.
• Halflings have rebalanced aptitudes, shifting them towards defense.
• Ogres and centaurs no longer have a fast metabolism; halflings no longer have a slow metabolism.
• Centaurs are no longer herbivorous.
• Vampires:
  • always get the full effect of all potions;
  • can always mutate; and
  • always get the full effect of all mutations.
• Some Demonspawn mutations have been modified:
  • The Foul Stench facet gives rot immunity earlier and separately instead of saprovore.
  • Facets which gave potion/scroll item conservation now give freezing/fire cloud immunity earlier and separately.

Monsters

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• Many enemy glyphs have been adjusted. See 0.14_monster_glyphs.txt.
• Corrosion affects all of your equipment, but only temporarily.
• The chance of corroding equipment no longer considers item enchantment.
• Enemies are more intelligent about using area-of-attack spells such as Symbol of Torment and Chain Lightning when you are not in sight.
• Komodo dragons now bite harder but don't sicken the player.
• Deep dwarf death knights are now just death knights.
• Manticores now move as fast as the player, and have an unlimited number of spike volleys.
• Base draconians can become nonbase draconians with experience.
• Undead and nonliving enemies regenerate as fast as other enemies.
• Ghouls and necrophages can no longer equip weapons or armour.
• Item destruction of scrolls and potions has been completely removed.
• Silver statues and orange crystal statues are immune to disintegration, but have less health and AC and have their abilities converted to spells such that they spam less; this implies OCS confusion can be resisted.
• Bog bodies no longer randomly rot.
• Purple ugly things deal extra damage in lieu of a sickness attack.
• Boris can use weapons.
• Cherub's hymns can buff any allies, not just those with higher HDs.
• Curse skulls are now immobile, again.
• Removed enemies: vapours, thorn lotuses, giant goldfish, silver stars, flaming corpses, grizzly bears, spriggan enchanters, phoenixes, shedu, plague shamblers, giant slug, elephant slug.

Spells

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• Dazzling Spray replaces Invisibility in the book of Maledictions (the Enchanter starting spellbook). Invisibility in turn replaces Apportation in the book of Burglary.
• Casting Ozocubu's Refrigeration now prevents the player from using potions for several turns instead of destroying potions.
• Spider Form now moves at normal speed.
• Death Channel lasts twice as long.
• Tukima's Dance now animates weapons held by monsters. The weapons will fight against their former owners. It is also now level 3.
• Confusing Touch now has a short, non-stacking duration which discharges entirely when it successfully confuses an enemy. While it's in effect, your attacks do no damage. It's been moved to level 2.
• The Book of War Chants is no more.
• Removed spells: Fire Brand, Freezing Aura, Lethal Infusion, Poison Weapon, Summon Elemental.

Items

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• Item destruction is no more.
• Ranged combat has been rewritten based on melee attacks - AC and EV has more of an impact, attack delay is more predictable, and Throwing should be more viable as a ranged option as compared to bows and crossbows, among other changes.
• Shields have been rebalanced. All non-shield-enchantment sources of SH have been halved, and the effectiveness of SH at blocking attacks has been doubled, to make the utility of a point of SH roughly equivalent to a point of EV. In effect, this is a small buff. Non-bucklers can now be enchanted past +3.
• The blowgun of the Assassin returns; it has a chance to affect the target more than normal blowguns.
• New unrand: the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar SustAb}.
• New unrand: the +6 Majin-Bo {vamp, Archmagi, MP+6 Int+6}. A quarterstaff that takes HP every time you cast a spell.
• The dagger of Chilly Death now sometimes flash-freezes enemies, slowing their movement, and the scimitar of Flaming Death now sometimes applies sticky flame to its victims.
• Maxwell's Patent Armour now gives rF+ rC+ instead of Conservation.
• The Shield of Resistance, Shield of the Gong, and Large Shield of Ignorance have had their enchantment levels tweaked.
• Cleaving hits the full eight squares around a player.
• Jewellery automatically identifies on equipping it.
• Damage from the electrocution brand has been reduced slightly.
• Rebranding a distortion weapon no longer causes a distortion effect.
• Scrolls of brand weapon can no longer affix brands.
• Blessed weapons can be rebranded.
• Amulets of inaccuracy are always cursed.
• New rings of stealth and loudness, which positively/negatively adjust a player's stealth.
• Gloves of archery no longer penalise melee.
• (Plain) bows have been renamed to shortbows.
• Identify scrolls now always identify a single item.
• Potions of blood cure a point of ghoul rotting.
• Sustain abilities effects no longer stack.
• Honeycombs have been renamed to royal jellies (to account for the removal of the latter).
• All types of fruit have been merged together into one gooey, messy item type.
• Cheese and sausages are no more.
• Scrolls of brand weapon can apply any brand to an unbranded weapon.
• Corpses and skeletons are stationary, and can't be picked up nor apported.
• Removed items: darts, rings of hunger and sustenance, amulet of conservation, cloak of preservation, ambrosia, (old) royal jelly.
• Removed unrands: the boots of the Spider.

Cards

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• New cards.
  • Fortitude, which gives Damage Shaving and a bonus to strength.
  • Storm, which can make shallow water, a tornado, or cause swiftness.
  • Degeneration, which polymorphs nearby monsters into weaker ones.
  • Shaft, which creates a shaft under the player. This is an old effect of the Flight card.
  • Illusion, which summons an illusion of the player.
• Revamped cards.
  • Flame card now spawns flame clouds around the user and on hostiles rather than dealing damage.
  • Velocity card now hastes the slow and slows hasty rather than simply speeding up the player.
  • Potion card has a new list of effects.
• The Mercenary card can generate base demonspawn instead of spriggan riders.
• Decks of war now contain the Drowsing and Potion cards.
• Decks of wonders now contain Mercenary, Battlelust, Helm, and Shadow instead of Experience, Helix, Sage, and Trowel.
• Decks of dungeon are no more.
• Removed cards: Experience, Sage, Water, Vitrification, Trowel, Minefield, Shuffle, Warp, Portal, Hammer, Spark, Flight, and Genie.

Gods

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• Two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer. Both are temple gods with an altar either in Temple or on D:2-9.
  • Gozag
  • Charges a service fee for joining, dependent on the amount of gold that has been generated in the game.
  • Does not have piety.
  • Defeated enemies turn to gold; these gold piles distract nearby creatures, causing them to sometimes not act.
  • Potion Petition: purchase one set of potion effects.
  • Call Merchant: fund a merchant to set up shop somewhere near to areas of the dungeon you have explored.
  • Bribe Branch: send money to the inhabitants of a branch to turn them temporarily neutral or incite them to join you.
  • Duplication: one non-artefact item can be duplicated at an altar.
  • Qazlal
  • Piety on kills.
  • All followers are immune from their own clouds.
  • 1*: Storm Shield: you passively generate elemental clouds around you and gain bonus SH, and gain RMsl at 3*; you also generate a lot of noise.
  • 2*: Upheaval: blast a small nearby area with elemental forces.
  • 3*: Elemental Force: turn nearby clouds into elementals.
  • 4*: Elemental Adaptation: taking elemental or physical damage sometimes temporarily grants you resistance against that element.
  • 5*: Disaster Area: blast the entire area around you with elemental forces.
  • 6*: at an altar, gain a permanent elemental resistance of your choice for as long as you worship Qazlal.
• Nemelex has been revamped.
  • Nemelex only gives piety for exploration rather than item sacrifices or deck usage.
  • Peek at Two now reveals the top cards of a deck but cannot be used with other Nemelex abilities.
  • Nemelex now only gifts decks of war and escape.
  • Various cards have been changed, added, or removed. See the Cards section for details.
• Followers of good gods no longer get a chance to turn holy enemies neutral.
• Zin's Recite no longer prompts for a book, instead affecting all monsters in sight with the strongest effects that would impact them.
• Sif Muna wrath can no longer cause amnesia.
• Gods that give missile gifts can do so sooner.

Interface

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• Monsters with special melee attacks (e.g. poison, fire) have this noted in their descriptions.
• Unique enemies are now announced by their proper titles when first appearing.
• Ability icons have been reworked.
• There are status lights for Might, Agility, and Brilliance.