0.23

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.

0.23 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup released on February 7th, 2019.

Highlights

• Trap system overhaul
• New Gauntlet portal to replace Labyrinths
• Nemelex Xobeh rework
• Nine unrandarts reworked and the new "Rift" unrandart added
• Support for seeded dungeon play

Branches, Environment

• Traps have been overhauled:
  • Traps that generate on the ground are always revealed.
  • Exploration has a chance to trigger a "trap effect" independent from terrain traps. The possible effects are alarm, shaft, and teleport near monsters.
  • Monsters only trigger traps in sight of the player.
  • Alarm traps now always Mark the player whenever they are triggered in LOS.
  • Net traps now try to net the player whenever they are triggered in LOS.
  • New trap: dispersal trap. When triggered, every actor in sight of the trap is blinked.
  • Trap placement in Ossuaries, Zot:5, and Tomb has been overhauled. In Zot:5 and Tomb, all mechanical traps save for net traps have been removed.
  • Grate traps (triggered by pressure plates) have been removed.
• A new Gauntlet portal that replaces Labyrinths:
  • Gauntlets have the player choose a path through several combat arenas, each of which contains (sometimes exotic) monsters and loot.
  • Access to each arena is one-way using transporters. Teleports and the Passage of Golubria spell are disabled.
  • All paths lead to the minotaur who guards the exit and a pile of treasure.
  • Gauntlets are found where Labyrinths previously generated.
• Support for seeded play:
  • A new option for pregenerating the entire connected dungeon based on a fixed seed has been added. This takes a bit of time, but ensures that any playthroughs of a particular seed will use the same dungeon.
  • This option is not yet available for online play, but can be used offline. See the manual section "Seeded play" for details.
  • The dungeon RNG has been separated from the gameplay RNG to allow this feature to work.
  • Each game seed generates a unique dungeon (including layout and monster and item placement) that is always the same for the same version of Crawl, as long as levels are generated in the same order.
  • If you see that two games with the same seed generate a different dungeon, please report this as a bug!
• New early vaults featuring thematic item shops and monsters guarding manuals, as well as new ghost vaults for many branches.
• Two new dungeon layouts enabled, one for Dungeon and one for Lair.
• Translucent doors that can be seen through when closed have been added and are now used in some Elf layouts and some vaults, including most runed door vaults.

Character

• The player can no longer be put to sleep when paralysed or petrified.
• Tengu Permanent Flight becomes immediately available at XL 5.
• Tengu EV bonuses are no longer applied to +EV from equipment.
• Wanderer starting spell libraries are announced along with equipment.
• Wanderers that start with exactly one level 1 spell start with it memorized.

Gods

• Nemelex Xobeh has been reworked:
  • Decks are accessed through abilities and no longer exist as items.
  • Nemelex offers three abilities: "Draw Escape", "Draw Destruction", and "Draw Summoning", which provide card effects.
  • The deck abilities do not have rarities; card power levels are determined by invocations and piety alone.
  • Nemelex periodically adds cards to the three abstract decks.
  • Triple Draw works on the three decks as before, offering a choice of three cards. The piety cost is increased.
  • Deal Four deals four cards from a deck and has a reduced piety cost.
  • Stack Five constructs a player-ordered stack of five cards drawn from any of the three decks to be drawn later. Creating a new stack discards the old. The piety cost is the same as old stack five.
  • The Velocity card no longer hastes enemies, instead always slowing them with a chance proportional to power.
  • The Storm card has been revised. It now performs a wind blast followed by one to nine electrical explosions.
• Elyvilon's Heal Other is adjusted:
  • The formula depends only on monster type, not specific monster max HP.
  • Player ghosts and Pandemonium lords are now immune.
  • The targeter displays the pacification chance.
• Ashenzari protects followers from exploration based trap effects.
• Qazlal's cloud immunity is extended to elementals created with Elemental Force.
• Fedhas' protection of plants from player spells is extended to LOS-wide attack spells.
• The acid damage from Makhleb's Minor Destruction has been reduced.
• Exploration-based piety is no longer granted for the Temple, deep water, or lava.
• Monster conversion for Beogh, Gozag's Bribe Branch, and Jiyva is attempted upon sight instead of on the turn after the monster enters LOS.

Interface

• Spell damage message punctuation has been adjusted to reflect damage done using the same scale as melee damage.
• Damage brand message punctuation has been similarly adjusted.
• Monster descriptions in 'xv' display spell ranges.
• The Religion screen '^' gains a fourth pane for gods that need Extra information:
  • Ashenzari displays information about bondage status.
  • Beogh displays a list of named followers, with gifts.
  • Gozag displays bribe information.
  • Hepliaklqana displays ancestor upgrades.
  • Nemelex Xobeh displays deck information.
  • Wu Jian displays information about martial attacks.
• The Hepliaklqana ancestor reaching full health interrupts resting. The exact behavior of this interrupt can be configured by rest_wait_ancestor.
• The new display_chars cloud_weak, cloud_fading, and cloud_terminal indicate remaining cloud duration in console.
• WebTiles users can use a "Forgot Password" link to reset their password via a link sent to their registration email address. This feature is not yet enabled on most official servers.

Items

• Unrandart changes:
  • New Unrand: the +8 demon trident "Rift" {distort, reach+}. A distortion demon trident with a reaching range of 3 and smite targeted attack.
  • The Singing Sword's sonic damage effect is stronger, can trigger at low tension, and triggers only on-hit. It also gains the vorpal brand.
  • The Spriggan's Knife converts all stabs to sleep-tier stabs and loses Dex+4 and MR+.
  • The robe of Misfortune is +5 {*Contam *Corrode *Drain Harm *Slow EV+5} and is now always identified.
  • The sceptre of Torment is now a +7 eveningstar of pain, and its torment does not affect the wielder.
  • The arc blade's effect now casts static discharge only once, but at very high spellpower. The weapon's enchantment is now +8.
  • Finisher loses Str+3 and gains a chance to instant-explode the target.
  • The robe of Clouds is now +3 {+Thunder rCloud rElec}, providing evocable storm clouds in place of its old mist.
  • The storm bow no longer occasionally creates rain clouds.
  • The skin of Zhor gains SInv and a passive Metabolic Englaciation effect.
  • Unrandarts with melee effects that could anger nearby allies give a proper warning.
• Wand charges for wands of digging, enslavement, flame, paralysis, polymorph, and random effects have been reduced.
• Butchering a corpse always leaves a skeleton.
• The blowgun targeter now displays the chance to affect the target.
• Stash search can now search by handedness.

Lua

• The custom `require` used in clua and dlua has been renamed `crawl_require`.
• A new function `spells.path` has been added to the `spells` module to provide access to the targeter from clua.

Monsters

• Monster weapons, armour, and wands are identified and revealed to the player when the monster is first seen.
• The shambling mangrove Grasping Roots ability now performs smite-targeted constriction instead of applying a 'Roots' status.
• Jorgrun gains the Grasping Roots spell and can now spawn in Swamp.
• Killer Klowns now have a pie throwing ability that damages the player and affects them with one of Vertigo, Silence, -Potion, Stat drain, rF-, or polymorph to bat, pig, or wisp form.
• Killer Klowns have highly enchanted, branded clubs instead of the Klown melee flavor, and no longer have fast regen.
• Orb run spawns are more frequently near the player and more dangerous.
• Pandemonium lords' spell sets and attack brands are revealed.
• Monster summons disappear whenever the summoner changes alignment from being charmed/uncharmed, pacified, or slimified.
• Confused monsters now get a 1 in 3 chance to move normally, like players do.
• Giant monsters no longer tear through webs.

Spells

• Confusing Touch works with a weapon wielded.

0.23.1

The bugfix release of 0.23.1 was released on February 28th, 2019.

• Vampiric attacks by the player against allies created from Sticks to Snakes and the Ratskin Cloak no longer restore HP or give vampires satiation.
• Damage from Ozocubu's Refrigeration has been increased to the correct amount.
• Placement for the uniques Aizul, Bai Suzhen, Donald, Jorgrun, and Mara has been fixed so they can place throughout their intended level ranges.
• The chance of Boris to respawn has been lowered to match previous rates.
• Yellow draconians now correctly receive their rCorr mutation at XL 7.
• 45 bugfixes, adjustments, and cleanups in total.