0.15
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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-a0-1064-gdf5a4c5)
- Two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer.
- Ranged combat has been rewritten from the ground up.
Branches, environment
- 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
- 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.
Monsters
- Many enemy glyphs have been adjusted. See 0.14_monster_glyphs.txt.
- Corrosion affects all of your equipment, but only temporarily.
- Enemies are more intelligent about using area-of-attack spells such as Symbol of Torment and Chain Lightning when you are not in sight.
- Manticores now move as fast as the player.
- Komodo dragons now bite harder but don't sicken the player.
- Deep dwarf death knights are now just death knights.
- Manticores 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.
- Monster melee attacks can no longer destroy items.
- 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.
- Removed enemies: vapours, thorn lotuses, giant goldfish, silver stars, flaming corpses, grizzly bears, spriggan enchanters, phoenixes, shedu, plague shamblers.
Spells
- 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.
- The Book of War Chants is no more.
- Removed spells: Fire Brand, Freezing Aura, Lethal Infusion, Poison Weapon, Summon Elemental.
Items
- 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.
- 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 fixedart: 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.
- 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: rings of hunger and sustenance, ambrosia, (old) royal jelly.
- Removed unrands: the boots of the Spider.
Cards
- Decks of wonders now contain Dowsing, Battlelust, Helm, and Shadow instead of Experience, Helix, Sage, and Trowel
- Decks of dungeon are no more.
- The Potion card has a new list of effects: power 0 is decay/curing/agility/ might/brilliance; 1 has a chance of resistance/haste; 2 has a chance of magic/heal wounds.
- The Mercenary card can generate base demonspawn instead of spriggan riders.
- Removed cards: Experience, Sage, Water, Vitrification, Trowel, Minefield, and Shuffle.
Gods
- 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.
- 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
- Monsters with special melee attacks (e.g. poison, fire) have this noted in their descriptions.
- Ability icons have been reworked.
- There are status lights for Might, Agility, and Brilliance.
