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-a0-1526-g60de0e4)

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• Two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer.
• Nemelex Xobeh and decks in general have had many changes.
• Ranged combat has been rewritten from the ground up.
• Inventory weight limits have been removed.
• Item destruction is no more, and corrosion has a more severe but temporary effect.

Branches, environment

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• The Hall of Blades has been cut.
• Crypt is now three levels (was five).
• Some areas of the Tomb layout can now vary.
• Mechanical traps no longer drop ammo.
• Most randomly-placed teleport traps now disappear after one use.
• Troves asking for items require that item to be unequipped.
• The Abyss no longer sometimes blocks blinking.
• Mutagenic fog now causes large amounts of glow instead of mutating directly.

Character

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• Inventory item weight and player burden states are no more.
• Cross-training now gives a direct bonus to cross-trained skills, rather than decreasing the XP cost of learning them.
• Anti-training (for opposite elemental schools) has been removed.
• 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.
• Teleportitis cannot be controlled.
• Wanderers have tweaked starting kits with generally better items.
• 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 stats and 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.
• Monsters will no longer pick up items that the player has seen. Allies won't pick up items at all.
• Monsters no longer fall asleep after long periods of time.
• Corrosion affects all of your equipment, but only temporarily, and the chance to corrode equipment does not consider item enchantment.
• New monster: ghost crabs, found in Crypt. They breathe ghostly flames that call dangerous specters into existence.
• New monster: torpor snails, found in Lair and Spider. Their enemies are slowed on sight, somewhat like ancient zymes.
• Enemies are more intelligent about using area-of-attack spells such as Symbol of Torment and Chain Lightning even when you are not in sight.
• Komodo dragons now bite harder but don't sicken the player.
• Purple ugly things deal extra damage in lieu of a sickness attack.
• 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.
• 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.
• Curse skulls are now immobile, again.
• Lost souls now make enemies into ghosts instead of specters.
• Spriggan riders now ride wasps.
• Cherub's hymns can buff any allies, not just those with higher HDs.
• Killing holy monsters no longer invokes cleansing flame on the perpetrator.
• Ghouls and necrophages can no longer equip weapons or armour.
• Each unique now has a special title, shown when you first see them or in the description screen.
• Removed enemies: vapours, thorn lotuses, giant goldfish, silver stars, flaming corpses, grizzly bears, spriggan enchanters, phoenixes, shedu, plague shamblers, giant slugs, elephant slugs, giant fireflies, brown oozes, pulsating lumps.

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, and no longer gives clinging.
• 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.
• Sublimation of Blood no longer uses chunks; it now only draws from the caster's HP.
• Simulacrum now works on a single corpse at the caster's feet, creating several simulacrula from it.
• Monsters casting Simulacrum now affect all monsters in LOS, producing half as many simulacrula as the player version of the spell.
• 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

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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.
• Weapon enchantment & slaying bonsues have been merged into a single number, giving both +accuracy & +damage. Scrolls of enchant weapon I, II, and III have all been merged into a new "enchant weapon" scroll. The scrolls are rarer, but always succeed.
• 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.
• Multiple changes to unrandarts:
  • 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.
  • Leech is now +8, with -2 to all stats (instead of -1), and -2 to both AC and EV.
  • Skullcrusher is now +3 with +7 strength.
  • The Trident of the Octopus King now starts at +8 and gets an additional + for each Ring of the Octopus King worn. If anyone reads this & gets it to +10 or higher in an actual game, send screenshots!
  • Many other weapon artefacts have had their enchantments tweaked.
  • 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 adjusted.
  • Removed unrands: the boots of the Spider.
• Branding changes:
  • Scrolls of brand weapon will no longer make temporary brands permanent, but can now randomly apply any brand to an unbranded weapon.
  • Blessed weapons can be rebranded.
  • Rebranding a distortion weapon no longer causes a distortion effect.
  • Branded non-artefact weapons can now be given a temporary re-brand.
  • Damage from the electrocution brand has been reduced slightly.
  • The dragonslaying brand is no longer generated. (Wyrmbane still has it.)
• Food changes:
  • Honeycombs have been renamed to royal jellies; they don't restore abilities.
  • Potions of blood cure a point of ghoul rotting.
  • All types of fruit have been merged together into one gooey, messy item type.
  • Cheese, sausages, and ambrosia are no more.
• Identify scrolls now always identify a single item.
• Jewellery automatically identifies once equipped.
• Amulets of inaccuracy are always cursed.
• New rings of stealth and loudness, which positively/negatively adjust a player's stealth.
• Amulets of rage no longer have a tiny chance of extending berserk duration.
• Sacks of spiders now place webs directly onto enemies, rather than spreading them randomly around the area.
• Cleaving hits the full eight squares around a player, when not blocked by walls.
• Gloves of archery no longer penalise melee.
• (Plain) bows have been renamed to shortbows.
• Sustain abilities effects no longer stack.
• Staves of air now activate extra melee damage as often as other elemental staves.
• Weapons and armour which aren't visibly enchanted no longer have enchantments higher than +0.
• Corpses and skeletons are stationary, and can't be picked up nor apported.
• Other removed items: darts, rings of hunger and sustenance, amulet of conservation, cloak of preservation.

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.
  • Cloud, which spawns dangerous clouds around the user and on hostiles.
  • 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.
  • 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 dungeon are no more.
• Removed cards: Experience, Sage, Water, Vitrification, Trowel, Minefield, Shuffle, Warp, Portal, Frost, Flame, Spark, Flight, Battlelust, 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.
• Beoghites can now gift items directly to their followers at high piety.
• Beogh will now improve allies' equipment, and outright gift weapons, armour, and ammo to orcs who lack them.
• 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.
• Ctrl-T now displays the weapons that enemies are carrying, in console.
• 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.