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'''0.19''' is a version of ''Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup''. It was released on October 30th, 2016.
 +
 
 +
==Highlights==
 +
 
 +
* New gods: Uskayaw the Reveler and Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
 +
* New portal: the Desolation of Salt.
 +
* Sif Muna and Nemelex Xobeh have been dramatically reworked.
 +
* Long blades have a new passive effect, 'riposte'.
 +
 
 +
==Branches, Environment==
 +
 
 +
* New timed portal vault: the Desolation of Salt, appearing in Elf and Vaults.
 +
** - Six new enemies, including swarms of fragile golems with supporting allies.
 +
** - Open terrain layout with large, opaque clouds to use as cover.
 +
** - Many powerful artefacts resting within ancient ruins.
 +
* Volcanoes are now much more dangerous, but offer better rewards.
 +
* Lair is now six floors (formerly eight).
 +
* Slime is now five floors (formerly six).
 +
* The Slime treasure vault's walls disappear entirely on their master's death.
 +
* Webs are no longer destroyed after creatures escape from them.
 +
* Beogh will no longer smite creatures that destroy orcish idols.
 +
* Ambient noise is more significant in Shoals, the Desolation, Crypt, and Tomb.
 +
*  Lair and Orc no longer have ambient noise.
 +
* Storm cloud damage is more common and much less severe.
 +
* Non-opaque clouds created by the player vanish instantly when out of LOS.
 +
* The Orb's translocation restrictions now apply throughout the Zot branch.
 +
 
 +
==Character==
 +
 
 +
* Flight or transformations expiring over deep water or lava no longer causes instant death. Instead, they cause heavy drain over time until reaching land.
 +
* Potions, scrolls and books can be used while still on the floor.
 +
* Resistances granted by rN (to e.g. Pain effects) now scale with rN, only reaching full immunity at rN+++ (instead of at rN+).
 +
* Monks can now choose a weapon to start with.
 +
* Corrosion slaying penalties now affect unarmed & auxiliary attacks.
 +
* Spriggans can wield any weapons that kobolds and halflings can.
 +
* Kobolds and halflings rebalanced toward & away from casting, respectively.
 +
* Hidden "stealth factors" for species and forms are gone.
 +
* Vampire blood level effects have been simplified and reworked.
 +
* Bat form can quaff potions and open doors.
 +
* The undead always take stat damage if mutated, instead of sometimes rotting.
 +
* Temporary mutations only have a 50% chance of affecting the undead.
 +
* Mummy self-restoration has been removed.
 +
* The 'sustain abilities' effect has been removed.
 +
* Sickness no longer has a chance of damaging stats.
 +
* Issuing orders to allies no longer makes noise.
 +
* Climbing stairs takes slightly longer, but doesn't penalize EV.
 +
* Clarity provides immunity to sleep and fear.
 +
 
 +
==Gods==
 +
 
 +
* New temple god: Uskayaw the Reveler.
 +
** - Piety gained by dealing damage to enemies.
 +
** - Piety decays extremely rapidly over time.
 +
** - 1*: Stomp: deals damage to all adjacent enemies.
 +
** - 2*: Line Pass: instantly travel through a line of enemies, confusing some.
 +
** - Solo Time: on reaching 3*, briefly paralyse all visible enemies.
 +
** - Pain Bond: on reaching 4*, all visible enemies begin sharing damage taken with each-other.
 +
** - 5*: Grand Finale: blink into and instantly kill target monster.
 +
* New temple god: Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
 +
** - Grants a permanent customizeable ally, respawning on a delay after death. The ally automatically grows in strength as you level up.
 +
** - Piety granted for exploration.
 +
** - 0*: Recall: interlevel recall for your ally.
 +
** - 2*: Remember Life: permanently make your ancestor a Hexer, Knight or Battlemage.
 +
** - 3*: Transference: swap your ancestor with any creature in LOS, or yourself.
 +
** - 4*: Idealise: heal your ancestor & temporarily increase their AC, damage
 +
        and spellpower dramatically.
 +
** - 5*: Transference drains enemies adjacent to the target.
 +
* Sif Muna changes:
 +
** - The 1* Channel Energy ability is replaced with Divine Energy, which allows the player to cast with insufficient mp, causing temporary -Cast.
 +
** - At 3*, grants "Channel Magic", trading piety for a fast MP regen status.
 +
** - Book gifts now begin at 5*, instead of 6*.
 +
** - Sif grants piety for both learning magic and killing enemies.
 +
* Nemelex Xobeh changes:
 +
** - Now gifts decks of escape, destruction and summoning.
 +
** - Drawing from decks and using Nemelex abilities now uses invocations, not evocations.
 +
** - Identify scrolls can no longer be used on decks.
 +
* Beogh's water-walking always lasts until the player is on land.
 +
* Beogh no longer increases the benefits of armour and shields.
 +
* Dithmenos's Shadow Step can no longer be used on allies or while immobile.
 +
* Fedhas appreciates all corpse decay, and rots all corpses when the player leaves a level. Toadstool generation is an ability, instead of a 'p' effect.
 +
* Qazlal's cloud immunity applies to all clouds, not just the player's.
 +
* Jiyva's jelly paralyse ability has been removed.
 +
* Many divine abilities have had their hunger costs removed or increased.
 +
* Most gods that like killing are less particular about what you kill.
 +
* Piety decay over time has been streamlined and adjusted for most gods.
 +
* Gods that hate specific monsters no longer prevent you from enslaving them.
 +
* Pakellas has been removed.
 +
 
 +
==Interface==
 +
 
 +
* Most targeters will be more intelligent when trying to maximize enemies hit.
 +
* In tiles, monster attitude is indicated with colored auras instead of icons.
 +
* The (p)rayer command is gone; pray at altars with > or <, as with shops.
 +
* Descriptions of monsters with multiple spellsets show which spells you've seen them cast.
 +
* Monster descriptions list their average max HP.
 +
* New auto_butcher option, which butchers edible corpses during autoexplore.
 +
 
 +
==Items==
 +
 
 +
* Fixed artefacts:
 +
** - Firestarter and Frostbite now provide immunity to their cloud types.
 +
** - The Octopus King trident's enchantment bonus for wearing Octopus King rings is now +2 (prev. +1).
 +
** - The Staff of Olgreb now has a fixed +9 enchantment.
 +
** - The Sword of Zonguldrok no longer creates hostile dead or curses itself.
 +
** - The arbalest 'Damnation' doesn't provides resistances, and does more damage.
 +
** - The morningstar Eos takes Brilliance's halo, and no longer has -Tele.
 +
** - Fencer's Gloves no longer increase Sbl/Lbl skill or provide +EV/AC, but let the player riposte with any weapon (details below).
 +
** - Wyrmbane now has rC+ instead of +Rage.
 +
** - The greatsling Punk has a unique 'acid' brand, instead of freezing.
 +
* Evocations:
 +
** - Wands of random effects can no longer produce digging or disintegration.
 +
** - Boxes of beasts and sacks of spiders have a fixed chance of destruction per-use, instead of a hidden charge count. They now stack.
 +
** - Fans of gales & lamps of fire no longer summon elemental allies.
 +
** - Phials of floods impact damage significantly reduced.
 +
* Players using long blades sometimes riposte when dodging attacks, launching instant, automatic counterattacks.
 +
* Weapons of protection give a temporary +7 AC on hit, replacing a passive +5.
 +
* Creatures that could be butchered for enchantable hides instead, with the same chance, leave behind the corresponding armour when killed.
 +
* Amulets of harm now increase damage dealt more than damage taken, and are no longer evil.
 +
* Elemental enhancers no longer penalise spells of the opposite element.
 +
* Jewellery acquirement creates twice as many randarts.
 +
* The *Confuse randart property is now *Slow.
 +
* Books can no longer be destroyed to forget spells.
 +
* Rods are created through misc. acquirement instead of staff acquirement.
 +
* It's no longer possible to acquire ammunition.
 +
* Renamed:
 +
** - dragon armour -> dragon scales.
 +
** - greatsling -> fustibalus.
 +
* Removed:
 +
** - All decks and their cards, except for those gifted by Nemelex Xobeh.
 +
** - Dragon and troll hides.
 +
** - Sword of the Doom Knight, Amulet of Cekugob, and "Brilliance".
 +
** - Amulets of dismissal.
 +
** - Rings of sustain abilities.
 +
** - Stones of tremors.
 +
** - The evasion weapon ego.
 +
** - The Akashic Record.
 +
** - Artefact blowguns.
 +
 
 +
==Monsters==
 +
 
 +
* New monsters
 +
** - Bai Suzhen, a late-game draconian unique that casts Summon Hydra. When severely injured, she becomes a dragon ringed by storm clouds.
 +
** - Meliai, bee priestesses that sting and smite in trios.
 +
** - Dream sheep, pack monsters that put their enemies to sleep.
 +
** - ...and the residents of the Desolation of Salt.
 +
* Uniques:
 +
** - Urug and Jory's weapons are now much nastier for their depth.
 +
** - Mennas always spawns with a sacred weapon.
 +
** - Donald can now cast Haste and Might.
 +
** - Asterion's Spectral Weapon has been replaced by Greater Servant of Makhleb.
 +
** - Xtahua can now roar to cast Paralyse.
 +
** - Nergalle can no longer enter Death's Door.
 +
** - Gloorx Vloq can no longer cast Black Mark.
 +
** - Various uniques have had their genders changed.
 +
* Zombies, skeletons, and simulacrula no longer hide damage taken, and display the full names of the monster they were created from.
 +
* Battlecry has been simplified, affecting all monsters of the same genus.
 +
* Blood Saints's Legendary Destruction now casts two spells at a time.
 +
* Necromancers gain Bind Soul, reviving slain monsters as simulacrula.
 +
* Ghostly Fireball is now completely resistable by rN and causes draining.
 +
* Obsidian statues can Mesmerise.
 +
* Wizards and Ogre Mages have split up and re-arranged their many spell sets to arrive at three sets each, with minimal overlap.
 +
* Spriggan air mages can no longer cast Control Winds.
 +
* Hellions no longer have fire resistance or cold vulnerability.
 +
* Deep elf archers no longer fire their bows in melee.
 +
* Death scarabs no longer trail miasma, but are somewhat tougher.
 +
* Tzitzimitl melee slows and rots victims, instead of creating miasma.
 +
* Ushabti gain Dispel Undead and Warning Cry, and their clouds are now miasma.
 +
* Friendly monsters will no longer open doors.
 +
* Jellies no longer eat unseen items for non-Jiyva worshippers.
 +
* Turtles no longer withdraw into their shells when injured.
 +
* Giant eyeballs charge up their paralysis-stare 50% faster.
 +
* Statues are now stabbable; obsidian & orange crystal statues gain sInv.
 +
* Renamed monsters:
 +
** - Giant newt -> frilled lizard.
 +
** - Giant frog -> bullfrog.
 +
** - Giant gecko -> leopard gecko.
 +
** - Giant leech -> tyrant leech.
 +
** - Giant spore -> ballistomycete spore.
 +
** - Giant orange brain -> glowing orange brain.
 +
** - Greater naga -> nagaraja.
 +
* Removed monsters:
 +
** - Anubis guards.
 +
** - Boulder beetles.
 +
** - Chaos champions.
 +
** - Griffons.
 +
** - Putrid demonspawn.
 +
** - Salamander stormcallers.
 +
** - Sheep.
 +
** - Wasps.
 +
** - Norris.
 +
** - Maud.
 +
** - Wiglaf.
 +
 
 +
==Spells==
 +
 
 +
* New spell: Infestation (L8 Necromancy), appearing in the Necronomicon. Applies 'infested' to monsters in a large, smite-targeted area; a friendly death scarab erupts out of the victims when they die.
 +
* New spell: Lesser Beckoning (L3 Translocation), which pulls a single target adjacent to the caster.
 +
* All temporary allies are incapable of attacking out of LOS, not just summons.
 +
* Confusing Touch is level 1 (was level 2).
 +
* Cigotuvi's Embrace only degrades over time, not on-hit.
 +
* Irradiate causes significantly less contamination when cast.
 +
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance causes less damage, but doesn't poison the caster.
 +
* Simulacrum's duration is significantly shorter.
 +
* Spells formerly in the Akashic Record have been redistributed elsewhere.
 +
* Various other spellbooks have had minor adjustments.
 +
* Removed: Cure Poison, Haste, and Warp Weapon.

Revision as of 15:48, 2 November 2016

Version 0.19: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

0.19 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It was released on October 30th, 2016.

Highlights

  • New gods: Uskayaw the Reveler and Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
  • New portal: the Desolation of Salt.
  • Sif Muna and Nemelex Xobeh have been dramatically reworked.
  • Long blades have a new passive effect, 'riposte'.

Branches, Environment

  • New timed portal vault: the Desolation of Salt, appearing in Elf and Vaults.
    • - Six new enemies, including swarms of fragile golems with supporting allies.
    • - Open terrain layout with large, opaque clouds to use as cover.
    • - Many powerful artefacts resting within ancient ruins.
  • Volcanoes are now much more dangerous, but offer better rewards.
  • Lair is now six floors (formerly eight).
  • Slime is now five floors (formerly six).
  • The Slime treasure vault's walls disappear entirely on their master's death.
  • Webs are no longer destroyed after creatures escape from them.
  • Beogh will no longer smite creatures that destroy orcish idols.
  • Ambient noise is more significant in Shoals, the Desolation, Crypt, and Tomb.
  • Lair and Orc no longer have ambient noise.
  • Storm cloud damage is more common and much less severe.
  • Non-opaque clouds created by the player vanish instantly when out of LOS.
  • The Orb's translocation restrictions now apply throughout the Zot branch.

Character

  • Flight or transformations expiring over deep water or lava no longer causes instant death. Instead, they cause heavy drain over time until reaching land.
  • Potions, scrolls and books can be used while still on the floor.
  • Resistances granted by rN (to e.g. Pain effects) now scale with rN, only reaching full immunity at rN+++ (instead of at rN+).
  • Monks can now choose a weapon to start with.
  • Corrosion slaying penalties now affect unarmed & auxiliary attacks.
  • Spriggans can wield any weapons that kobolds and halflings can.
  • Kobolds and halflings rebalanced toward & away from casting, respectively.
  • Hidden "stealth factors" for species and forms are gone.
  • Vampire blood level effects have been simplified and reworked.
  • Bat form can quaff potions and open doors.
  • The undead always take stat damage if mutated, instead of sometimes rotting.
  • Temporary mutations only have a 50% chance of affecting the undead.
  • Mummy self-restoration has been removed.
  • The 'sustain abilities' effect has been removed.
  • Sickness no longer has a chance of damaging stats.
  • Issuing orders to allies no longer makes noise.
  • Climbing stairs takes slightly longer, but doesn't penalize EV.
  • Clarity provides immunity to sleep and fear.

Gods

  • New temple god: Uskayaw the Reveler.
    • - Piety gained by dealing damage to enemies.
    • - Piety decays extremely rapidly over time.
    • - 1*: Stomp: deals damage to all adjacent enemies.
    • - 2*: Line Pass: instantly travel through a line of enemies, confusing some.
    • - Solo Time: on reaching 3*, briefly paralyse all visible enemies.
    • - Pain Bond: on reaching 4*, all visible enemies begin sharing damage taken with each-other.
    • - 5*: Grand Finale: blink into and instantly kill target monster.
  • New temple god: Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
    • - Grants a permanent customizeable ally, respawning on a delay after death. The ally automatically grows in strength as you level up.
    • - Piety granted for exploration.
    • - 0*: Recall: interlevel recall for your ally.
    • - 2*: Remember Life: permanently make your ancestor a Hexer, Knight or Battlemage.
    • - 3*: Transference: swap your ancestor with any creature in LOS, or yourself.
    • - 4*: Idealise: heal your ancestor & temporarily increase their AC, damage
       and spellpower dramatically.
    • - 5*: Transference drains enemies adjacent to the target.
  • Sif Muna changes:
    • - The 1* Channel Energy ability is replaced with Divine Energy, which allows the player to cast with insufficient mp, causing temporary -Cast.
    • - At 3*, grants "Channel Magic", trading piety for a fast MP regen status.
    • - Book gifts now begin at 5*, instead of 6*.
    • - Sif grants piety for both learning magic and killing enemies.
  • Nemelex Xobeh changes:
    • - Now gifts decks of escape, destruction and summoning.
    • - Drawing from decks and using Nemelex abilities now uses invocations, not evocations.
    • - Identify scrolls can no longer be used on decks.
  • Beogh's water-walking always lasts until the player is on land.
  • Beogh no longer increases the benefits of armour and shields.
  • Dithmenos's Shadow Step can no longer be used on allies or while immobile.
  • Fedhas appreciates all corpse decay, and rots all corpses when the player leaves a level. Toadstool generation is an ability, instead of a 'p' effect.
  • Qazlal's cloud immunity applies to all clouds, not just the player's.
  • Jiyva's jelly paralyse ability has been removed.
  • Many divine abilities have had their hunger costs removed or increased.
  • Most gods that like killing are less particular about what you kill.
  • Piety decay over time has been streamlined and adjusted for most gods.
  • Gods that hate specific monsters no longer prevent you from enslaving them.
  • Pakellas has been removed.

Interface

  • Most targeters will be more intelligent when trying to maximize enemies hit.
  • In tiles, monster attitude is indicated with colored auras instead of icons.
  • The (p)rayer command is gone; pray at altars with > or <, as with shops.
  • Descriptions of monsters with multiple spellsets show which spells you've seen them cast.
  • Monster descriptions list their average max HP.
  • New auto_butcher option, which butchers edible corpses during autoexplore.

Items

  • Fixed artefacts:
    • - Firestarter and Frostbite now provide immunity to their cloud types.
    • - The Octopus King trident's enchantment bonus for wearing Octopus King rings is now +2 (prev. +1).
    • - The Staff of Olgreb now has a fixed +9 enchantment.
    • - The Sword of Zonguldrok no longer creates hostile dead or curses itself.
    • - The arbalest 'Damnation' doesn't provides resistances, and does more damage.
    • - The morningstar Eos takes Brilliance's halo, and no longer has -Tele.
    • - Fencer's Gloves no longer increase Sbl/Lbl skill or provide +EV/AC, but let the player riposte with any weapon (details below).
    • - Wyrmbane now has rC+ instead of +Rage.
    • - The greatsling Punk has a unique 'acid' brand, instead of freezing.
  • Evocations:
    • - Wands of random effects can no longer produce digging or disintegration.
    • - Boxes of beasts and sacks of spiders have a fixed chance of destruction per-use, instead of a hidden charge count. They now stack.
    • - Fans of gales & lamps of fire no longer summon elemental allies.
    • - Phials of floods impact damage significantly reduced.
  • Players using long blades sometimes riposte when dodging attacks, launching instant, automatic counterattacks.
  • Weapons of protection give a temporary +7 AC on hit, replacing a passive +5.
  • Creatures that could be butchered for enchantable hides instead, with the same chance, leave behind the corresponding armour when killed.
  • Amulets of harm now increase damage dealt more than damage taken, and are no longer evil.
  • Elemental enhancers no longer penalise spells of the opposite element.
  • Jewellery acquirement creates twice as many randarts.
  • The *Confuse randart property is now *Slow.
  • Books can no longer be destroyed to forget spells.
  • Rods are created through misc. acquirement instead of staff acquirement.
  • It's no longer possible to acquire ammunition.
  • Renamed:
    • - dragon armour -> dragon scales.
    • - greatsling -> fustibalus.
  • Removed:
    • - All decks and their cards, except for those gifted by Nemelex Xobeh.
    • - Dragon and troll hides.
    • - Sword of the Doom Knight, Amulet of Cekugob, and "Brilliance".
    • - Amulets of dismissal.
    • - Rings of sustain abilities.
    • - Stones of tremors.
    • - The evasion weapon ego.
    • - The Akashic Record.
    • - Artefact blowguns.

Monsters

  • New monsters
    • - Bai Suzhen, a late-game draconian unique that casts Summon Hydra. When severely injured, she becomes a dragon ringed by storm clouds.
    • - Meliai, bee priestesses that sting and smite in trios.
    • - Dream sheep, pack monsters that put their enemies to sleep.
    • - ...and the residents of the Desolation of Salt.
  • Uniques:
    • - Urug and Jory's weapons are now much nastier for their depth.
    • - Mennas always spawns with a sacred weapon.
    • - Donald can now cast Haste and Might.
    • - Asterion's Spectral Weapon has been replaced by Greater Servant of Makhleb.
    • - Xtahua can now roar to cast Paralyse.
    • - Nergalle can no longer enter Death's Door.
    • - Gloorx Vloq can no longer cast Black Mark.
    • - Various uniques have had their genders changed.
  • Zombies, skeletons, and simulacrula no longer hide damage taken, and display the full names of the monster they were created from.
  • Battlecry has been simplified, affecting all monsters of the same genus.
  • Blood Saints's Legendary Destruction now casts two spells at a time.
  • Necromancers gain Bind Soul, reviving slain monsters as simulacrula.
  • Ghostly Fireball is now completely resistable by rN and causes draining.
  • Obsidian statues can Mesmerise.
  • Wizards and Ogre Mages have split up and re-arranged their many spell sets to arrive at three sets each, with minimal overlap.
  • Spriggan air mages can no longer cast Control Winds.
  • Hellions no longer have fire resistance or cold vulnerability.
  • Deep elf archers no longer fire their bows in melee.
  • Death scarabs no longer trail miasma, but are somewhat tougher.
  • Tzitzimitl melee slows and rots victims, instead of creating miasma.
  • Ushabti gain Dispel Undead and Warning Cry, and their clouds are now miasma.
  • Friendly monsters will no longer open doors.
  • Jellies no longer eat unseen items for non-Jiyva worshippers.
  • Turtles no longer withdraw into their shells when injured.
  • Giant eyeballs charge up their paralysis-stare 50% faster.
  • Statues are now stabbable; obsidian & orange crystal statues gain sInv.
  • Renamed monsters:
    • - Giant newt -> frilled lizard.
    • - Giant frog -> bullfrog.
    • - Giant gecko -> leopard gecko.
    • - Giant leech -> tyrant leech.
    • - Giant spore -> ballistomycete spore.
    • - Giant orange brain -> glowing orange brain.
    • - Greater naga -> nagaraja.
  • Removed monsters:
    • - Anubis guards.
    • - Boulder beetles.
    • - Chaos champions.
    • - Griffons.
    • - Putrid demonspawn.
    • - Salamander stormcallers.
    • - Sheep.
    • - Wasps.
    • - Norris.
    • - Maud.
    • - Wiglaf.

Spells

  • New spell: Infestation (L8 Necromancy), appearing in the Necronomicon. Applies 'infested' to monsters in a large, smite-targeted area; a friendly death scarab erupts out of the victims when they die.
  • New spell: Lesser Beckoning (L3 Translocation), which pulls a single target adjacent to the caster.
  • All temporary allies are incapable of attacking out of LOS, not just summons.
  • Confusing Touch is level 1 (was level 2).
  • Cigotuvi's Embrace only degrades over time, not on-hit.
  • Irradiate causes significantly less contamination when cast.
  • Olgreb's Toxic Radiance causes less damage, but doesn't poison the caster.
  • Simulacrum's duration is significantly shorter.
  • Spells formerly in the Akashic Record have been redistributed elsewhere.
  • Various other spellbooks have had minor adjustments.
  • Removed: Cure Poison, Haste, and Warp Weapon.