0.9.0

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.

0.9.0 was released 8-12-2011.

Misc notes

Changes that didn't make it into the changelogs:

• There is only one demonic rune, treated like the Abyssal rune.

Changelog

Stone Soup 0.9 (20110812)

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes. Save compatibility with the 0.8 release is retained, although once a game is loaded in 0.9, you can not go back to 0.8.

0.9 Highlights

• New skill training system. Experience pool and victory dancing are gone.
• Ashenzari: Remove passive XP boost, add a skill boost depending on level of boundedness and which equipment is bound.
• Rename Crusader to Skald, change starting book and skill levels.
• New spells: Inner Flame, Shroud of Golubria.
• Removed spells: Teleport Self, Berserker Rage, Resist Poison.
• New monsters: Ignacio (unique executioner), catoblepas, basilisk.
• New subgame: Zot Defence. Consider it of experimental quality, though.

Skills

• Skill training: skills are trained immediately when XP is gained. The skills trained are the ones that have been used recently (auto) or the ones which have been selected (manual).
• Skill costs: the XP to skill point ratio no longer depends on skill level.
• Magic school skills early game discount removed.

Gods

• Cheibriados gives full stat boost for fully ponderous, regardless of species.
• Jiyva is a little less likely to remove mutations.
• Improve Jiyva's stat shuffling, take skills and armour into account.
• Makhleb has a new flavour description.
• Nerf TSO's and Makhleb's HP and MP on kills.
• Trog specialises in antimagic weapon gifts, gives fewer artefacts.
• Trog dislikes it when you train magic skills.
• Yred takes statue kills and forbids Statue Form.
• Zin's Vitalisation is cheaper and cures petrification, stat boost stackable.
• Don't allow avoiding good god wrath by swapping via another good god.
• Ashenzari: Remove passive XP boost, add a skill boost depending on level of boundedness and which equipment is bound.
• Ashenzari: reduce reskilling XP penalty and some ability piety costs.
• Ashenzari wrath: reduce all skills for the duration of wrath.

Character

• +3 base HP for all characters.
• Racial HP/MP gain is now displayed on a -3 to +3 scale (see ?%).
• Fighting gives less HP boost.
• All characters carry a bootknife to dissect corpses.
• Hill Orc Priests always take on Beogh.
• Berserkitis mutation triggers less often.
• Tweak starting skills for a few backgrounds (Fi, Gl, Wr, CK).
• Give Warpers a few more darts of dispersal.
• Let Gladiators start with a cap if they can't wear helmets.
• Start all Hunters with the same melee weapon.
• Start Artificers with quarterstaves, instead of letting Monks choose them.
• Rename Crusader to Skald, change starting book and skill levels.
• Conjurers don't need to choose a book (they always get an Air/Ice book).
• Felids: lose a level on death, gain at most nine lives, improved aptitudes.
• Draconians are more dextrous.
• Berserk speed-up reduced to that of haste (1.5 instead of 2).
• All species take the same amount of time to use stairs.

Interface

• New command: 'D'rop last. Drops the item(s) last picked up.
• Auto-switch: bumping while wielding launcher switches to weapon in slots a/b.
• Auto-switch: firing while wielding melee weapon switches to launcher in a/b.
• Auto-explore tries to look at unreachable places.
• Search: allows searching for portals, and for waypoints (Ctrl-F 1, Ctrl-F *).
• Search: "branded" synonymous with "ego". Better help (Ctrl-F ?).
• Search: only show items in a stash matching the search.
• Search: allow searching for armour by equipment slot.
• New help for skills screen (m??).
• Change inventory colours for some potions.
• Auto-pickup chunks after Animate Skeleton.
• Allow toggling hit prediction with ':' in new targetting modes.
• Cloud glyph in 7-bit ASCII is '0', not '#' anymore.
• Prompt before leaving Ziggurat.
• Better butchering messages, less spam.
• Abort spellcasting in many cases where spells are guaranteed to fail.
• Display -cTele on the status line where controlled teleports are blocked.
• Allow redefining mimic glyphs, once identified.
• Show percentage progress to the next level, instead of number of XP points.
• Show 'chaotic' in monster status only when aiming silver ammo at them.
• Show 'mindless' in monster status only when using Ely's healing abilities.

Spells

• New spell: Shroud of Golubria (comes in Skald and Warper starting books). Prevents some melee damage, but likely to break against more damaging attacks.
• New spell: Inner Flame (comes in starting book of Fire Elementalists). Causes targeted enemy to explode in a fireball when killed.
• Removed spells: Teleport Self, Berserker Rage, Resist Poison.
• Tornado: radius starts low, increases over time, add cooldown, adjust damage.
• Tornado moves monsters within its radius around.
• Blinking with Tornado active reduces its duration, teleporting cancels it.
• Make Fire Storm, Ice Storm, Bolt of Magma and Throw Icicle more resistible.
• Increase Bolt of Magma damage.
• Give Summon Dragon a longer duration, summon two dragons at high power.
• Shock and Lightning will hit a creature at most twice; damage increased.
• Make LRD and Sandblast more strongly affected by monster AC again.
• Ranges of Throw Frost/Flame and of Bolt of Cold/Fire swapped.
• Increase Flame Tongue's accuracy and range a little.
• Sublimation of Blood takes spellpower into account.
• Apportation takes spellpower into account for all items.
• Statue and Dragon Form balance: give both some GDR, reduce unarmed damage.
• Statue Form: boost all melee damage, give 50% torment resistance.
• Increase Ozocubu's Refrigeration to level 6.
• Reduce Summon Ice Beast to level 4, Static Discharge to level 3.
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer works also on all weapons with bludgeoning damage.
• Poison Weapon works also on blunt weapons.
• Condensation Shield duration increased.
• Simulacra from the spell are no longer abjurable.
• Renamed books: Chemistry -> Alchemy, Zoology -> Beasts.

Monsters

• Catoblepas: a new hard-hitting yak-genus monster with petrifying breath.
• Replace "gila monster" with "basilisk", complete with petrification.
• Ignacio, a unique executioner of Makhleb, spawns in Pandemonium.
• AI: monsters improve even signature weapons (e.g. Sigmund will use Finisher).
• AI: confused high intelligence monsters don't move if next to a deadly cell.
• Allow polymorphing demons into other similar-tier demons.
• Snapping turtles and Geryon reach diagonally.
• Give Shadow fiends and Tormentors a pain-branded melee attack.
• Boost ghost moth damage, don't spawn them in Spider's Nests.
• Fix random pan lords not getting Symbol of Torment in their spell sets.
• Vampire bats are undead.
• Monsters with mutagenic chunks leaves corpses less often.
• Reaching over a hostile monster may hit the monster between you and target.
• Kenku monsters come with gear, may spawn in the Abyss.
• Rename "beast" to "hell beast".
• Rename "megabat" to "bat".
• Kobolds can (rarely) get crossbows.
• Pikel: fixed bugs with freed monsters.
• Adjust xp values for some monsters.
• Disable feature mimics.

Levels

• New branch endings: multiple Elf:5 maps, Zot entry vaults on D:27.
• Many other new vaults, including serial vaults, traps, Abyss vaults.
• Blink in the Abyss only blinks; does not teleport anymore.
• Baileys are more sane in loot and threat.
• Troves: fix some bugs, and additional quests.
• Vestibule of Hell has its own monster set.
• Don't place kobold/orc/jelly/bee special rooms in the Hells.

Orb run

• Double the orb's weight.
• Disable controlled teleports once the orb is picked up.
• Orb run spawns are more likely to spawn near the player.
• Teleportation may need longer to kick in.

Items

• Price reform: scrolls, potions, rings. Bad items cost more than 1 gold now.
• Cards: the Orb (new card), destruction cards buffed.
• Experience card gives less experience at low power.
• Scroll of identify shows top card when used on deck of cards.
• Picked up runes are no longer part of the inventory. They are listed in \.
• Randarts with the *Rage property trigger berserk less often.
• Modified spellbooks: Conjurations, Unlife, many elemental books.
• Bucklers provide less SH.
• Large rocks can (rarely) be generated on the dungeon floor.
• Ammo of dispersal only disperses if it does damage.
• Silver-branded ammo only does bonus damage to chaotic creatures.
• Reduce silver and steel damage bonus.
• Reflected missiles get their full range on the way back.
• Randart heavy armours tend to come with better enchantment.
• Wands and rods rely more strongly on Evocations skill.
• Long blades: nerf double swords, buff demon blades, remove katanas.
• Reduce demon whip and demon trident damage.
• Remove knives. Change Spriggan's Knife from knife to dagger.
• Make the Sword of Zonguldrok a double sword with the reaping brand.
• Give Undeadhunter a disruption effect against undead instead of holy wrath.
• Make Wyrmbane's enchantment increase whenever it kills a dragon.
• Give Scythe of Curses draining brand, inflict necro miscasts on its targets.
• Mace of Brilliance comes with a halo.
• Singing Sword does sonic damage at high tension.
• Bad unrandarts (Misfortune, Folly, Lear's) get a random appearance.
• Make potions of berserk rage more common.

Tiles

• Display halo radius, fix information disparity between tiles and console.
• Don't allow casting spells in -CAST equipment by clicking on spell icons.
• Only flying pan lords have tiles with wings.
• Many new or improved monster, dungeon and interface tiles.

Options

• Allow hiding the -cTele indicator with show_no_ctele.
• Allow automatically assigning specific spells to letters with spell_slot.