0.30

Version 0.30: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

0.30 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It is planned to release on May 5th, 2023.

Incomplete changelog: Stone Soup 0.30-a0 (through 0.30-a0-985-g0638232e92)

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Branches, Environment

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• It is now possible to enter the Vaults without holding a rune. However,

 a rune is still required to leave.

• Slime walls now apply corrosion to the player, rather than dealing damage.

 Jiyva's Oozemancy ability still deals damage as before.

• Thunderstorms now deal much more damage.

Character

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• New background: Reaver.

 - Reavers are warrior-mages, primarily focused on melee combat but with
   situational Conjurations for tough situations.
 - Reavers begin with two new spells, Kiss of Death and Momentum Strike,
   as well as a revised version of the Hailstorm spell.

• Species rework: Palentonga -> Armataur.

 - Like Palentongas, Armataurs are large, scaled mammals, wearing bardings
   instead of boots.
 - Armataurs lose the Rolling Charge and Curl abilities. They gain Rollpage
   (innate Rampage) and long tongues, which double the effects of potions but
   slow down scroll reading.
 - Armataurs' aptitudes have been adjusted.

• Background changes:

 - Warpers replace Gell's Gravitas with Vhi's Electric Charge.
 - Hedge Wizards have Conjure Flame replaced by Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot.
 - Fire Elementalists have Conjure Flame replaced by Kindle Blastsparks.
 - Ice Elementalists have Hailstorm replaced by Summon Ice Beast.
 - The 'Arcane Marksman' background has been renamed to 'Hexslinger'.

• All players regenerate an extra 0.2 HP/turn.
• Mummies have innate Faith, giving them extra piety gain.
• Large species move at normal speed through shallow water.
• It is now possible to accumulate two levels of Harm.
• Formicids can now shaft themselves in the Tomb of the Ancients.
• Reaching the end of the Zot clock now causes a smaller amount of permanent

 max HP loss (similar to Borgnjor's Revivication), rather than temp HP drain.

• Species size no longer affects SH.
• rF- and rC- are added to the 'bad mutations' pool.
• Pale draconians' breath is no longer usable twice as often as others'.
• Will is now capped at +++++.
• Removed the Abyssal Knight background.

Gods

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• Lugonu:

 - Banishment is now available at ** piety (from ***), has a lower failure
   chance, and causes malmutation when resisted.
 - When the player suffers the wrath of another god, Lugonu now responds by
   banishing some number of hostile monsters nearby.
 - Lugonu's altars are more common in the Abyss, and the piety bonus for
   converting to Lugonu in the Abyss has been increased.
 - The Bend Space ability has been removed.

• Ashenzari:

 - Skill boost reduced.
 - Trap detection moved to 4* (was at 0*).
 - Removed Astral Vision (automatically seeing through walls).

• When worshipping at a faded altar, the player is given a preview of three

 gods the altar might belong to.

• Xom's mutation gifts are no longer limited to a small pool of options.
• Gozag's corpse-to-gold effect now blocks enemies from creating simulacra,

 and the duration of the distraction effect is no longer based on corpse size.

• Fedhas protects trees from being set on fire by the player.
• Okawaru's Heroism and Finesse abilities cost more piety.
• Hepliaklqana's Knight now attacks 50% more slowly.
• Good gods will now suppress evil clouds from Condenser Vanes.

Interface and Options

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• Two new menus that unify all equip and unequip actions:

 - The Equip menu (`e`) combines wield, wear, and put on commands for equipping
   weapons, armour, and jewellery, respectively.
 - The Unequip menu (`c`) allows to unwield, take off, or remove any equipped
   item.
 - Tab toggles between equip and unequip.

• Damage ratings are now shown via @, including those for unarmed combat.
• Bumping a foe while holding a ranged weapon shoots instead of bashing.
• The piety cost of divine invocations is now shown more clearly.
• Spells' maximum damage is now displayed in their descriptions.
• Unrands (pre-defined artefacts) have a distinct colour by default.
• Almost all unrands with special behavior now have a corresponding inscription.
• The % screen no longer shows .s for low Stealth values.
• Many weapon brands now provide more quantitative damage information.
• Up to 100 waypoints can now be placed (up from 10).
• New show_blood option allows disabling blood spatters and bloody corpses.

Items

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• New brand: Heavy.

 - Heavy weapons have +80% base damage and +50% attack delay.
 - Both melee and ranged weapons can be Heavy.

• New unrands:

 - The Hermit's Pendant, an amulet of faith that sets the wearer's Invocations
   skill to 14 and their Evocations skill to 0.
 - The Consecrated Labrys, a holy axe with sInv, Flight, and an enchantment
   that grows larger while more dangerous enemies are in view.
 - The Slick Slippers, which make all damaging melee attacks trample their
   wearer backward. They provide immunity to constriction, engulfing, etc.
 - The Force Lance, a Heavy +5 lance (ala Wyrmbane) which has a 1/3 chance of
   knocking back foes when landing a damaging blow.
 - The Storm Queen's Shield, a +5 kite shield of rElec and flight which
   fires electrical retaliation at those it blocks.
 - The toga "Victory", a robe which gains AC, Int and Slay as the wearer
   slays dangerous foes, but loses everything if they drink or read near foes.

• Unrand changes:

 - The Mad Mage's Maulers lose Int-3 and RegenMP, gain -Cast and MPVamp (gain
   MP from damage dealt), and deal twice as much damage when spending MP.
 - The Staff of Dispater is now an orb with +AC and *Corrode.
 - The Ring of the Hare is now +10 (was +8).
 - Majin-Bo is now one-handed.
 - Sniper is now +27 and Heavy (was +9 and Vorpal).
 - The Dark Maul is now Heavy (was Vorpal), and has its base stats adjusted.
 - Other formerly Vorpal unrands have been adjusted individually.
 - The Lochaber Axe now causes HP Drain on unequip.

• Orb, scarf, and magical staff artefacts can now appear.
• Orbs of energy and the Staff of Wucad Mu now give -Wiz in exchange for a

 chance to refund MP when spells are cast, with no chance of backlash.

• Scrolls of butterflies now blow back nearby creatures and create many more

 butterflies. They now alternate with scrolls of summoning instead of fog.

• Rings of evasion are now +5 (were +4).
• All ranged weapons can now generate with electrocution, antimagic, and

 draining brands. Venom ranged weapons no longer appear.

• The spectral brand now matches the player's accuracy and damage, the latter

 reduced by 30% (ala cleaving).

• Throwing weapons now deal extra damage when they break.
• Short sword attack delay reduced.
• Evocable invisibilty and blink no longer have an MP cost.
• Spells have been reshuffled between books, and a new Maxwell's Memoranda book

 has been added.

• Condensation Vanes and Tremorstones can no longer both generate in one game.
• Longbows, arbalests and hand crossbows have had their stats slightly tweaked.
• Removed the 'vorpal' brand and the unrand Morg.

Monsters

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• New monsters:

 - Sleepcap: native to the early Dungeon, sleepcaps may inflict sleep on hit,
   making the player take massive damage from whoever attacks next.
 - Skyshark: appearing in late Lair and early Shoals, skysharks become
   enraged on drawing blood - first becoming Mighty, then Berserk!

• Demonic Crawlers lose the Warning Cry ability and elemental resistances in

 exchange for higher damage and very fast regeneration.

• Doom Hounds' Howl is now resistable by Will.
• Many monsters do somewhat less damage.
• Walking Tomes are now unable to cast while silenced.
• Ironbound Frosthearts' Creeping Frost spell is now fully resistable by rC.
• Fleeing monsters will no longer avoid harmful clouds.

Spells

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• New spells:

 - Kiss of Death (L1 Conj/Necro): does high draining damage to an adjacent
   enemy, at the cost of significant max HP drain to the caster.
 - Momentum Strike (L2 Conj/Tloc). Redirects the caster's momentum for a
   damaging attack that doesn't require line of fire, but locks the caster in
   place for some turns after a hit (and cannot be recast until this expires).
 - Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot (L2 Necro/Air/Pois). Rots away the caster's flesh
   to create a cloud of deadly miasma on their tile.
 - Kindle Blastsparks (L3 Fire/Air/Tloc). Creates an explosive cloud on the
   caster's tile, usable as a land mine or tricky tool.
 - Vhi's Electric Charge (L3 Tloc/Air). Launches the caster at a nearby foe
   and launches a crackling melee attack, phasing through creatures en route.
 - Arcjolt (L5 Air/Conj). Electrocutes everything adjacent to the caster,
   everything adjacent to those creatures, etc, etc, in a chain.
 - Plasma Beam (L5 Fire/Air): Fires a bolt of lightning and another bolt of
   fire both at the most distant foe.

• Hailstorm moved to L3 (from L4) and can now miss.
• Manifold Assault moved to L4 (from L5) and does half as many attacks with

 UC as with a weapon.

• Lesser Beckoning moved to L2 (from L3) and is now better at low power.
• Battlespheres now fire when any destructive spell is cast, not just Conj.
• Ozocubu's Refrigeration's damage has been increased.
• Slow no longer has bonus hex power.
• Irradiate now only has a 50% chance of malmutating affected creatures.
• The Simulacrum and Static Discharge spells have been weakened.
• Removed: Conjure Flame, Corpse Rot and Lightning Bolt.

Tiles and Other Art

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• New tiles for player draconians.
• More icons for mutations.
• Several new splash screens.
• A new icon for Monstrous Menagerie.
• New art for many monsters, including Prince Ribbit and X-shaped simulacra.
• New art for many unrands, including the Elemental Staff and Wrath of Trog.
• New holiday-exclusive tiles for Sigmund, ogres and hats.