0.17

Version 0.17: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

0.17 is a future version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It is the current trunk or development version.

Stone Soup 0.17 (up to 0.17-a0-477-g451446c)

Environment

Character

All races have had their evocations aptitudes reduced by one point.
MP scaling has been reworked & simplified; MP aptitudes have been adjusted.
Rot is now healed first, instead of last; effectively, rotting reduces the effectiveness of healing until cured.

Gods

Beogh's smite damage now scales better with invocations.
Finesse no longer gives contamination.
Lugonu and Trog no longer accept corpse sacrifices.
The Shining One no longer blesses allies' weapons and armour; their angel summoning ability is now slightly cheaper.
Gozag's gold distraction is now an effect centered on the player that's refreshed whenever they find (make) new corpse-gold, rather than being centered on the gold piles themselves.

Items

The Cloak of Starlight is now +2 and gives Stlth--.
Warding now applies to ranged attacks.
Troll leather armour now provides regeneration to trolls.
Staves of summoning no longer have a chance of abjuring on hit.
Staves of power now give a flat +15 mp, rather than scaling with your MP; they no longer store MP when swapping.
Removed items:
- The Cloak of Flash.
- Potions of decay.

Monsters

New monsters:
- Salamander stormcallers, appearing in the late Dungeon and the Vaults. They chant for a few turns before calling down a Fire Storm on their victims.
- Entropy weavers, appearing in Spider, Vaults, and Depths. They chant for a few turns before corroding their victims' equipment terribly.
XP and placement for many uniques has been adjusted; in general, uniques have been removed from depths at which they're no longer threatening, and their XP has increased considerably.
rElec++ has been removed; monsters that previously had it now either have rElec+ or full immunity.
Non-magic-immune monsters are now always confuseable.
Revenants no longer ignore silence.
Phantasmal warriors' attacks no longer pierce shields & armour.
Death knights now have agony & haunt in addition to pain mirror.
Removed monsters:
- Unborn.
- Giant mites.

Spells

Enslavement is replaced by Tukima's Dance in the Enchanter starting book, and by Gell's Gravitas in the Arcane Marksman starting book. Tukima's Dance no longer appears in the Book of Enchantments.
Gell's Gravitas is now level 3 and smite-targeted, but no longer confuses enemies.
Summon Guardian Golem is now level 3.
Removed spells:
- Sure Blade.
- Enslavement.

Interface

The level map viewer (X) now allows you to examine monsters, items & features (with 'v'), just as the normal examine mode does.

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