Current projects/0.10 update project

Description

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

Contributors

• User:Flun
• User:Flaming Corpse (updating all monster pages, sporadic other work)
• 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)

• New species: Octopodes, sentient land-capable octopuses.
• Skill training system reworked. Dancing is really gone this time!
• All polearms have reaching.
• Constriction (nagas, octopodes, some snakes, tentacled monstrosities).
• New version of the Abyss.

Branches, portal vaults, levels

• Remove the Hive. Guarantee some limited food supply in the dungeon.
• Completely reworked Abyss: it now morphs continuously over time, is mappable,and extends infinitely in all directions.
• 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.
• Web "traps", can briefly entangle those caught.
• 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. --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)

• 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.
• Makhleb's powers use Health instead of Magic.
• Makhleb gives more Health for killing but no Magic anymore.
• Makhleb's Greater Destruction costs less piety.
• 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.

Species

• 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.
• Felids gain lives every three levels.
• Minotaurs instinctively retaliate in melee.
• New Demonspawn mutations: Foul Stench, Ignite Blood, and Augmentation.
• Kenku are now called Tengu, and get more MP.
• Mountain Dwarves are no more.
• Minotaur and Hill Orc aptitudes are a lot better.

Character

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

Spells (Done)

• New spell: Beastly Appendage (Transmutation 1).
• Flame Tongue has slightly longer range.
• Removed: Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Levitate.
• Abjuration becomes single-target. The old version (Mass Abj.) is available as a new level 6 spell.
• Swiftness and Flight no longer give an extra boost when cast together.
• Swiftness halves stealth and makes it harder to detect traps.
• Flight lowered to level 3, Dragon Form lowered to level 7.
• Dispel Undead raised to level 5.
• 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.

Backgrounds (Done)

• 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.

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)

• 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.

Monsters

• 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.
• New holy monsters: silver star, cherub, phoenix, paladin, seraph.
• Removed: giant toads, vipers, blue deaths.
• Renamed: Fiend -> Brimstone Fiend, Imp -> Crimson Imp.
• Reorganized demon ranks, moving easier 1s to 2s.
• Feature mimics may now masquerade as most features.
• Item mimics can move once revealed.
• Monsters will retreat when hit from behind an obstacle they can't walk around.
• Unique Pandemonium lords can hunt you on the Orb run if you've stolen their runes. Violate the 5th Commandment, not the 7th!
• 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.
• Queen bees can send nearby killer bees berserk.
• Killer bee larvae turn into killer bees if they eat honeycombs or royal jellies.
• All abominations are now both demonic and undead.

Items

• Slaying works like weapon enchantments.
• Acquirement allows choosing missiles.
• Nagas and Centaurs get far better chances to acquire bardings.
• 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.
• The Orb of Zot has a slightly mutagenic glow and reduces stealth.
• The Crusade card can no longer give you permanent allies.
• All polearms have the reaching brand built in.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Rename potion of healing to potion of curing.
• Rename wand of healing to wand of heal wounds.
• Known properties of unique enemies' gear are pre-identified.
• Medium armour is better.
• Banded mail is no more, plate mail has been renamed to plate armour.

Webtiles (Done)

• 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.

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)

• 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.