0.18

Stone Soup 0.18 (up to 0.18-a0-1126-ga2d7f46)

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Highlights

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• New god: Pakellas the Inventive.

Branches, Environment

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• Ziggurat portals no longer appear in Pan.
• The Orcish Mines are now two levels, and only spawn plain orcs as part of

 bands; gold generation is doubled to account for the shorter branch.

• The Elven Halls now contains elementals and dancing weapons (in addition to

 the ones normally found in the Hall of Blades).

Character

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• A new mutation: Sturdy Frame, reducing base ER by 2/4/6 and thus making

 heavy armour easier to wear. Can be a demonspawn mutation.

• The player no longer takes an accuracy penalty for fighting while invisible

 but without SInv (also true of monsters).

• Formicids now have 0 Throwing aptitude (was -2).
• Taking a known shaft now has a 2/3 chance of shafting one floor and 1/3 of

 two floors.

• Breath abilities are no longer mutations and are now unique to draconians

 and nagas.

• Weapon types no longer have distinct strength weights. Instead of dex and str

 both giving varying bonuses to damage, str now solely gives a bonus to-dam,
 and dex now solely gives a bonus to accuracy.

Gods

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• New god: Pakellas the Inventive. Pakellas is a temple god, with an altar

 either in Temple or on D:2-9.
 - Grants MP on kills (at about half the rate of Vehumet) and passive
   wand charge identification.
 - Blocks MP regeneration and hates channeling (staff of energy, crystal
   ball of energy, the Staff of Wucad Mu, and Sublimation of Blood).
 - Piety on kills.
 - 1*: Quick Charge: spend 2/3 your current MP pool to add some charges
   to a wand or rod proportional to your Evocations, your current MP pool,
   and the capacity of the device.
 - At 2*, Pakellas gifts you a wand once (of any type other than heal
   wounds, hasting, and teleportation).
 - 3*: Device Surge: on your next use of an evocable item, spends 1-9 MP
   to apply one to three enhancers to its power output, with maximum
   MP and number of enhancers dependent on piety.
 - Starting at 4*, Pakellas occasionally gifts rods, wands, and miscellaneous
   evokables (always starting with a rod unless you are a felid).
 - 6* capstone: Supercharge: sets a rod to +10 (18/18), or sets a wand's
   capacity to 50% above normal for that wand type (in addition to recharging
   it - this has the effect of improving Quick Charge's efficiency on the
   wand).

• Xom now chaos brands more weapon gifts, and can chaos brand ranged weapons

 again.

• Xom's random spell list has been adjusted slightly.
• Finesse is no longer blocked by stasis.
• Jiyva altars in Dungeon no longer appear as early in Dungeon.
• Cheibriados now blocks chaos effects from hasting the player.
• Piety given for a Ru sacrifice is more explicitly stated.
• Abandoning Yredelemnul now destroys your zombie minions.
• Followers of Elyvilon can pacify insects (again).
• Zin's Recite is now only interrupted if the player is silenced or

 incapacitated (or goes berserk).

• Gozag's Call Merchant now bases the shop quality on the player's level

 rather than on their location.

Items

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• New items:

 - The amulet of dismissal, which has a chance of teleporting away enemies
   that damage the player, but causes a few turns of vertigo (lowered
   accuracy, EV, and spell success) when first worn.
 - The amulet of reflection, which grants a few points of shielding that
   act as a shield of reflection.
 - The amulet of harm, which increases damage dealt to and by the wearer by
   25%.
 - The amulet of magic regeneration, which increases the player MP regen rate
   after a warmup period.
 - The ring of resist corrosion, which has the same effect as the former
   amulet.
 - A figurine of a ziggurat - evoke to create a ziggurat portal. Appears on
   Zig:27 of all ziggurats and in the Tomb:3 loot.
 - Pieces from Xom's chessboard - evoke to randomly swap the positions of
   you and all enemies and LOS, or (on failure) to trigger a Xom effect.
 - Unrand: The +8 frozen axe "Frostbite" {freezing cloud, *Noise +Fly rC+}, an
   executioner's axe with a chance of placing freezing clouds on enemies it
   strikes.
 - Unrand: The +12 armour of Talos {ponderous, rF+}, a troll/ogre-sized suit
   of plate mail.
 - Unrand: The +3 Warlock's Mirror {reflection}, a buckler that allows
   reflection of piercing effects and enchantments, among other things.

• The robe of vines is now +2, Regen+7.
• The Majin-Bo now speaks occasionally.
• The amulet of Cekugob is now an amulet of dismissal.
• The brooch of Shielding is now a +8 amulet of reflection with no AC or EV

 bonus.

• Wearing an amulet of regeneration has no effect until the next time you are

 at full health.

• A new property can now generate on random artefacts: Fragile, which destroys

 the item when it is removed.

• Amulets of faith now grant a 25% bonus to piety, not a 33% bonus.
• Potions of ambrosia now bypass clarity.
• The evocable teleport property +Tele is removed. Rings of teleportation now

 only have the *Tele teleportitis effect.

• Potions of cure mutation are slightly more common.
• Removed items:

 - Amulets of resist mutation, stasis, warding, and corrosion.
 - Ring of invisibility.
 - Potions of degeneration.

Monsters

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• New monsters:

 - Spark wasps, lethally electric swarming insects that appear singularly in
   Spider and in packs in Depths.
 - Iron giants, with all the resilience that iron implies and the ability to
   throw you into the pack of giants they lead.
 - Doom hounds, demonic canines lurking in Tartarus who can howl once to
   create a pack of nasty creatures.
 - Deep elf archers, who have attained a notable level of skill in both
   archery and hexes.
 - Deep elf elementalists, with mastery of all of the elemental schools and
   the noted ability to turn rock into earth elementals to dig out entrenched
   foes.

• Chaos champions lose Chaotic Mirror and instead gain Call of Chaos, an

 ability which applies (usually) positive status effects to allies in its
 line of sight.

• Mnoleg gains Call of Chaos (as above), Random Bolt, and Dig.
• Gloorx Vloq gains Summon Executioners and Black Mark.
• Salamander stormcallers' chant does not need to be continuous; they now

 only need to try to cast Fire Storm at their target three times for it to
 trigger.

• Entropy weavers' corrosion is now instant and smite-targeted, but only

 applies one level of corrosion.

• Ice devils are now tier 4 demons, with lowered HD to match.
• Hellwings now have the swoop attack formerly possessed by blue devils.
• Orange demons have their attacks split - they now have a reaching poison

 sting and a melee-only weakness attack.

• Salamander mystics lose Localised Ignite Poison.
• Natasha, deep elf knights, and salamander stormcallers can no longer cast

 Conjure Flame.

• Banishment from powerful monsters can now send you deeper into the Abyss

 than Abyss:1.

• Deep elf mages are now HD 9 and have new spell sets, including spells

 previously cast by deep elf conjurers and summoners.

• The Sap Magic effect from demonspawn warmongers now has three fixed levels of

 success rate penalty, rather than scaling continuously. Each spell cast while
 under the Sap effect has a fixed chance to increase the penalty level. The
 penalty now expires when the "Sap" status expires.

• Demonspawn corruptors' Corrupt Body spell is now a single-target version of

 the same spell used by wretched stars. These spells both now try to apply
 multiple levels of a single random temporary mutation instead of giving many
 different kinds.

• Ancient champions and death knights no longer have the Haunt spell.
• Swamp worms are now amphibious and generate submerged, emerging to attack the

 player and never resubmerging.

• Deep elf high priests now have an Aura of Brilliance spell that affects all

 allies in their view, making them cast spells more frequently and with more
 spell power.

• Natasha no longer becomes weaker upon revival.
• Removed monsters:

 - Octopode crushers.
 - (Plain) spiders.
 - Salamander firebrands.
 - Blue devils.
 - Brain worms.
 - Deep elf fighters, conjurers, priests, and summoners.
 - Trapdoor spiders.

Spells

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• New spell: Yara's Violent Unravelling (L5 Hexes/Transumations). Dispels

 all cancellable effects on the target and, if any were dispelled, causes
 a damaging explosion of mutagenic energy around the victim.

• Hydra Form now has a fixed number of heads.
• The Infusion spell has a lower power cap, scaling more quickly to the same

 damage bonus as before.

• Spectral Weapon now bases the strength of the summoned weapon on spell power

 instead of weapon skill.

• Alistair's Intoxication is now level 5 and gives Vertigo status instead of

 confusing the player or draining Int, and can sometimes affect rPois
 monsters.

• Monstrous Menagerie is now level 7.
• Shadow creatures is now level 6.

Interface

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• Earth elementalists now have their stones start on b.
• Characters starting with a primary ranged weapon now have their melee weapon

 on b by default.

• An option is added to the butchering prompt to allow butchering only

 (e)dible corpses.

• Auto-eat now triggers for ghouls if they are rotted.
• The religion screen now shows all god powers, with currently accessible

 powers (per level of piety) being highlighted.

• Many previously hardcoded forced mores are now optional and present in the

 default init.txt.