0.18

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

Highlights

New god: Pakellas the Inventive.

Branches, Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.