ver.0.4のchanges.stone_soup

• 0.4 Highlights
• Interface
• Gods
• Characters
• Items
• Monsters
• Levels
• Tiles
• Miscellaneous

0.4 Highlights

• Many interface improvements.
• Greatly improved Tiles.
• Allow all sensible species/class combinations.
• Added Vampire species.
• Overhaul of the good gods.
• Smarter monsters.

Interface

• Overhauled key settings of a number of commands.

(See settings/034_commands.txt or press ?v while playing.)

• Added monster list for monsters in line of sight (ASCII only).
• Improved religion, skills, ability interface. (Commands are ^!, m?, and a!.)
• Overhauled (f)iring interface: abolish (t)hrowing, output quiver in status.
• Improved butchering interface.
• Allow selection of equipment slots from '%' overview screen.
• Added coloured HP/Magic bars.
• Many new tutorial information triggers.
• Allow searching item/monster/spell/... descriptions ('?/' command).
• Allow swapping (' command) to non-weapons that need to be wielded for spells.
• Fixed weapon swap ignoring {!w}.
• Added Ctrl-D as a synonym for '~' (defining macros).
• Added commands for repeating commands ('`' and '0').
• Added command to annotate level ('!' command).
• Stepping into lava/deep water is not possible anymore, unless confused.
• Ask for confirmation before stepping into dangerous clouds, or traps.
• Allow autotravel through clouds your character is immune to.
• Prompt when firing through allies, or doing a ranged attack TSO would punish.
• Make butchering respect distortion weapons.
• (W)ear and (P)ut on menus allow removal of equipped items.
• Arriving via stairs calls autopickup and lists items on square.
• Refuse to eat rotten meat for non-saprovorous characters.
• Added harmful effects (poison etc.) to chunk descriptions.
• Evaporate can now be cancelled during potion/direction choice.
• Portaled Projectile now allows choice of ammunition.
• Stash tracker now tracks decay of corpses/chunks, eventually removing them.
• greedy_explore now defaults to true.

Gods

• Overhauled the good gods: Zin/TSO completely new, Elyvilon more interesting.
• Greatly improved Beogh and Nemelex, and made Xom more interesting.
• Vehumet isn't evil anymore, and all boosts apply without prayer.
• Switch costs of Lugonu's self-banishment and leaving the Abyss.
• Removed autoprayer and option to stop prayer.
• Removed item sacrifices for all gods except Nemelex, TSO, Zin.
• Upon failed sacrifice hint on accepted item types.
• Divine summons will leave on penance, or turn hostile on abandonment.

Characters

• Added Vampire species.
• Enable all sensible species/class combinations.
• Overhaul starting skills and equipment.
• Removed Glamour.
• Red/White Draconians gain heat/cold resistance at xl 14 (rather than 18).
• Mutations: Removed forgetfulness; introduced fur, shouting, +mp/-mp.
• Added +1 damage bonus for orcs and dwarves throwing racial gear.
• Fixed undead being unable to smite.
• Necromutation now gives torment resistance again.
• When transforming only remove armour you can't wear while transformed.

Items

• Removed weapons of disruption, improved holy wrath.
• New weapon brand: dragon slaying, limited to Polearms.
• Fixed darts of flame/ice to actually work, add similarly branded javelins.
• Forbid (un)equipping of items with known potentially fatal stat drain.
• Make distortion only take effect on unwielding.
• Improved autotargeting for weapons of reaching.
• Disable random generation of weapons of orc slaying (allowed in randarts).
• Fixed cap acquirement misbehaviour.
• New scrolls: Holy Word, Fog.
• Removed scrolls of forgetfulness.
• Added potions of blood and coagulated blood.
• Scrolls of recharging and enchant armour now prompt for an item.
• Potions of restore ability also cancel breath delay.
• Staves and rods of the same type can now be recognized.
• Staves will autoID if your skill in the appropriate school is 4 or higher.
• Manuals are visibly different from spell books and don't prompt anymore.
• Improved artefact autoinscriptions.
• Several new pre-defined (un)randarts.
• Added message for returning weapons NOT returning.
• Equipped randarts can now actually cause berserk.
• Thrown potions of poison won't poison monsters anymore.
• Limit racial properties applying to only some fitting item types.
• Prompt when attempting to sacrifice important items.
• Fixed books in shops being noted as identified over and over again.

Monsters

• New glyphs and colours for many monsters.

(See settings/034_monster_glyphs.txt.)

• Beefed up demon lords.
• Draconian ghosts of xl >= 7 get the shadow dragon breath attack.
• Ghosts get Dispel Undead, Freezing Cloud, etc.
• Mummy curses now only decay a random amount of a stack of potions.
• Make Snorg go berserk.
• Angels and Daevas may appear randomly in the Abyss.
• Holy monsters may turn neutral if the player follows a good god.
• Unknown mimics are now consistently treated like items.
• Changed monster resists to have several levels, like the player's.
• Removed electricity resistance from several monsters.
• Daevas now resist negative energy.
• Fixed Oklob plants being confuseable.
• Lee's Rapid Deconstruction now works against skeletal dragons.
• Changed evil/holiness/intelligence/... flags for a number of monsters.
• Improved trap handling for intelligent monsters.
• Improved control over friendly monsters.
• Smarter pickup handling.
• Implemented patrolling and monster pathfinding.
• Fixed friendlies accidentally shooting the player.
• Fixed monsters firing/reaching through walls.
• Fixed summoned monsters sharing a square with the player.
• Monsters won't enter miasma if it harms them.
• Implemented Dispel Undead for monsters.
• Fix nagas/centaurs never being generating with bardings.
• Monsters may use wands of disintegration/polymorph other (mutate the player).
• Make paralysed monsters stabbable.
• Give a message for kills out of LOS.
• No experience for killing summoned monsters.
• Give half xp for enslaved monsters dying.
• Monster blink is now (mostly) restricted to their LOS.
• Introduced fish zombies.
• Fixed several spell/invocation attacks not waking monsters.
• Improved monster shields.
• More refined monster speech. (See docs/monster_speech.txt.)

Levels

• Added transparent wall types.
• Modified Slime Pits end, guarantee rune.
• Several new vaults.
• Fixed some levels having the wrong amount of stairs.
• Fixed wonky vaults on lava etc.
• Treat adjacent doors as one (large) gate, opening/closing together.
• Player minotaurs will now map labyrinths.
• Removed amnesia traps.
• Introduced shafts.
• Added blood spattering.

Tiles

• Merged Tiles into Crawl code.
• Save files between tile and non-tile games are compatible.
• Added lots of new tiles, and corrected misdisplayed ones.
• wininit.txt is now autocreated, if missing.
• Adapted tutorial for tiles.
• Improved mouse-click inventory/dungeon interaction.
• Show travel exclusion in tile map and mini-map.
• Fixed Detect creatures revealing exact monster type.
• Mimics posing as autopickable items now get marked as such.
• Clicking on items now respects warning inscriptions.
• General improvement.

Miscellaneous

• New scoring system.
• Train Stealth by sneaking around sleeping monsters.
• Train Traps & Doors by setting off traps.
• Disallow self-banishment via Banishment spell.
• New spell: Summon Ugly Thing.
• Replace Paralyse spell with new spell Petrify.
• Better feedback on Detect Traps.
• Identify post-mortem inventory in morgue.txt.
• Dump command also dumps level map.
• init.txt/.crawlrc allow loading of external options/macro files.
• Changed stat display to be more compact and visually appealing.
• Overhaul of ghost structure.
• Overhauled and improved the documentation.
• Outsourced a lot of text into database files.
• Lots of additional bugs squashed.
• General code clean-up.