0.11.0

Changelog for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.11

Stone Soup 0.11 (20121001)

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0.11 Highlights

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• A new branch: the Spider Nest.
• The Swamp branch is less annoying now.
• Missile enchantments are no more.
• Monster constriction vs the player has been overhauled.
• New monsters: Arachne, Fannar, orb spider, bog body, Hell Sentinel.
• Removed monsters: Jozef, bog mummy, midge, Pit Fiend, hairy devil.
• Lots of new vaults and tiles.
• Config file overhaul: lists require += when appending, you don't need to upgrade your config by hand anymore (after this last(?) time).

Branches, environment

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• New wizlab: Roulette of Golubria.
• A metric buttload of new vaults, including several new branch endings and a full-level vault for deeper parts of the main dungeon.
• A new Sprint map by st, based on the Ziggurat.
• Vaults are more common.
• There are three new level layouts for the dungeon and various branches.
• You don't lose portal vaults after being banished from one.
• Escaping the Abyss places you where you came from, but grants short-term immunity to most forms of banishment.
• Pandemonium: slightly fewer exits to the dungeon are placed, but there are many more exits through the abyss (which will return you to the Dungeon).
• The Elven Halls are only three levels deep.
• Branch difficulty doesn't depend on where their entrance was anymore.
• Traps of a given type deal the same damage no matter where they are.
• Axe traps got axed.
• Wax walls are no more.
• There are no more randomly generated secret doors, but they can still be found in vaults.
• The Swamp has an improved layout, with smaller and more compact levels, and more trees. It is also less misty than before.
• Swamp trees are now mangroves, and are opaque.
• Spider Nest: replaces the old spider portal vault, contains the gossamer rune of Zot.
• Games will have one of the Spider Nest or Snake Pit, and one of the Swamp or Shoals, guaranteeing one poison themed branch and one water themed one.

Character

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• Humans get slightly more stat increases.
• Nagas get constriction at XL13 now.
• Tengu can fly when transformed.
• Grey Draconians are better at Earth and worse at Air, get more AC, and no longer fumble in water.
• Felids are better at combat and Evocations, worse at Summonings.
• Felid pounces (sneak attacks) do more damage.
• The Evocations skill increases max MP.
• Forms without some sort of hands can't use wands/etc.

Monsters

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• Player ghost Sticky Flame autohits but is range 1.
• Berserk monsters are immune to fear.
• Plants don't feel torment. Oklob farms ahoy!
• Monsters attached to the ground are -TELE.
• Jellies, porcupines, flaming corpses won't get constricted.
• Magical staves work for monsters as something more than a mere cudgel.
• Monsters can use rings and amulets.
• Mindless monsters don't have any skills (zombies with pain weapons, etc.).
• New uniques:
  • Arachne, half-human, half-spider.
  • Fannar, an elven ice elementalist.
• Margery gets dragon armour.
• Monsters with arcane spells won't wear heavy armour.
• Donald can spawn in Labyrinths, and complains about them.
• Urug is drastically stronger.
• Mimics can be "inept", (no adjective), "ravenous" or "monstrous", with a progression of strength and abilities.
• New monster: orb spider. Shoots weak orbs of destruction at you.
• Removed: Jozef, midges, killer bee larvae, hairy devils.
• Porcupines get spines.
• Hell Sentinels replace Pit Fiends.
• Boulder beetles can roll as a boulder.
• Jumping spiders can ensnare you with webs in melee.
• Poison attacks from sea snakes and redbacks can only be partially resisted.
• Hit dice and damage have been increased for all spider enemies.
• Emperor scorpions are much stronger.
• Ghost moths have been nerfed.
• Vampire mosquitoes lose their sickness attack, gain a stronger vampiric attack.
• Swamp worms have better melee accuracy.
• Giant leeches are more dangerous.
• Bog mummies have been replaced with bog bodies: no death curse, stronger spells, can be decomposed via Fedhas prayer.
• Monsters who submerge stop fleeing.
• Umbras don't give bonuses to demons anymore.
• Monsters (and player ghosts) can cast Ozocubu's Refrigeration.
• Monsters cast emergency spells more often.
• Monster constriction has been overhauled. Escape is easier, blinking counts as two escape attempts (rather than always succeeding), and damage values are saner.
• A "damageless constriction" effect has been implemented for certain monsters, particularly mimics.
• The Royal Jelly is able to regenerate.

Spells

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• Lee's Rapid Deconstruction works in Slime now.
• Iskenderun's Mystic Blast often explodes, but can still safely be used at point blank range.
• Death Channel is level 6.
• Simulacrum works on beef jerkies, sausages and meat rations.
• Removed: Projected Noise.

Items

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• Artefacts can get distortion.
• Blowguns can get evasion.
• Wearing/removing armour can be aborted.
• Fixed artefacts with fixed appearance start identified.
• Weapons may corrode upon stabbing a jelly.
• Ambrosia gives more mp, but only as you digest it.
• Raw troll hides grant regeneration.
• Jewelry auto-ids when it shows an obvious effect.
• Ankuses, scrolls of detect curse, amulets of controlled flight, and rods of smiting are no more.
• Rods of striking are better.
• Staves of energy reduce spell hunger to 1/3 instead of eliminating it.
• Missile enchantments are no more, greatly simplifying inventory management.
  • Formulas have been changed to compensate, with skill filling the role of missile enchantments.
• All missile brands start visible.
• Visored helmets don't prevent bite attacks.
• Identifying weapons by use works instantly but requires a random (per item) level of skill.
• Unbranded items can't be glowing/runed unless they're cursed.
• New item: Lightning rod. Has a continuous effect across multiple zaps, and allows you to spray wide cones of electricity at your enemies.
• Randart weapons have a wider selection of names.
• Acquirement will not provide you with items your god hates.

Cards

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• Trowel works everywhere.
• Sage won't time out or be overwritten on a new draw.
• Removed: Spade.
• Map and Dowsing have been combined into one.
• Walls from the Tomb expire after a while.
• New: the Mercenary. Allows you to purchase allies.
• Warpwright teleport traps expire shortly.

Gods

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• Trog accepts kills of holies.
• Abandoning Kikubaaqudgha rots all currently existing corpses.
• Kikubaaqudgha no longer guarantees getting all necromancy spells: instead, he gifts books with a random selection of spells.
• Banishing monsters grants some XP and Lugonu piety.
• New Xom effect: mass inner flame.
• Nemelex gives far fewer decks of summoning.
• Nemelex loses the Mark Four ability, gains Deal Four.
• Nemelex doesn't try to enforce "genuine" use of cards -- was too inaccurate.
• Xom can't gift permanent allies anymore.
• Xom grants far fewer item gifts.
• Xom acts drastically more often when you're in a tough fight.
• Elyvilon doesn't take piety when life-saving allies.
• Non-newbie Elyvilonites can't destroy non-unholy weapons.
• Fedhas' Sunlight stays in place.
• Okawaru gives almost no heed to kills and sacrifices of easy monsters, rewards toughest fights more.
• Concurrent god wraths don't dilute each other anymore.

Interface

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• Stash tracking, annotations, etc, work for portal levels.
• Mutation notes mention how it was gained or lost.
• Removed options: pizza, ood_interesting, rare_interesting, note_all_spells.
• New options: auto_drop_chunks, autofight_throw, dump_kill_breakdowns, show_travel_trail, sacrifice_before_explore.
• Webtiles chat is now logged (can be disabled via note_chat_messages).
• The show_gold_turns and show_game_turns options are now enabled by default: you will see how much gold you have, and how much time your actions take.
• Fake translations: dwarven, jägerkin, kraut, wide.
• Loads of new tiles.
• The unique Pan/Hell lords get special tall tiles.
• An in-game high scores browser.
• Picking up stackable items shows how many you picked up.
• Every item, monster, feature has a description.
• Many descriptions were improved.
• Autoexplore stops on items sacrificeable to your god.
• Rods appear as a separate item class.
• Autopickup settings can now be configured in-game, via the '\' key.
• Several improvements have been made to the tutorial.
• Lantern of shadows no longer makes the whole screen dark grey in console mode.
• Targetting prompts have been massively improved. Almost all area of effect spells are now supported, and bounce paths (e.g. from lightning bolt) are displayed.
• Some added or improved status indicators.
• Message filters are case-insensitive.
• Webtiles has experimental support for watching console games on servers running both webtiles and dgamelaunch.
• Local tiles now has an abilities tab.

Wizmode

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• &^P to polymorph into a form.
• &P to rebuild a level based on a vault.
• &^M to memorise a spell.
• &# to (partially) load a character dump file.

Technical

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• Local tiles can display non-ASCII characters, in default builds only Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.