0.15

Version 0.15: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

0.15 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It has no release date as of yet.

Stone Soup 0.15 (up to 0.15-a0-911-gf0b1c87)

Two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer.
Ranged combat has been rewritten from the ground up.

Branches, environment

Crypt is now three levels (was five).
Some areas of the Tomb layout can now vary.
Mechanical traps no longer drop ammo.
Troves asking for items require that item to be unequipped.
The Abyss no longer sometimes blocks blinking.

Character

Formicids can no longer throw large rocks.
Tengu now gain permaflight at XL14 (was 15).
All non-undead forms can eat and drink normally.
All forms can butcher.
Wisp form can read scrolls and cannot blink on demand.
Wanderers have tweaked starting kits with generally better items.
Teleportitis cannot be controlled.
Player clinging (seen only in Spider Form and with the boots of the Spider) is no more.
Kobolds, hill orcs, and ogres are no longer saprovorous.
Ogres no longer have a fast metabolism.

Monsters

Many enemy glyphs have been adjusted. See 0.14_monster_glyphs.txt.
Corrosion affects all of your equipment, but only temporarily.
Enemies are more intelligent about using area-of-attack spells such as Symbol of Torment and Chain Lightning when you are not in sight.
Manticores now move as fast as the player.
Komodo dragons now bite harder but don't sicken the player.
Deep dwarf death knights are now just death knights.
Manticores have an unlimited number of spike volleys.
Base draconians can become nonbase draconians with experience.
Undead and nonliving enemies regenerate as fast as other enemies.
Ghouls and necrophages can no longer equip weapons or armour.
Monster melee attacks can no longer destroy items.
Silver statues and orange crystal statues are immune to disintegration, but have less health and AC and have their abilities converted to spells such that they spam less; this implies OCS confusion can be resisted.
Bog bodies no longer randomly rot.
Purple ugly things deal extra damage in lieu of a sickness attack.
Removed enemies: vapours, thorn lotuses, giant goldfish, silver stars, flaming corpses, grizzly bears, spriggan enchanters, phoenixes, shedu, plague shamblers.

Spells

Dazzling Spray replaces Invisibility in the book of Maledictions (the Enchanter starting spellbook). Invisibility in turn replaces Apportation in the book of Burglary.
Casting Ozocubu's Refrigeration now prevents the player from using potions for several turns instead of destroying potions.
Death Channel lasts twice as long.
The Book of War Chants is no more.
Removed spells: Fire Brand, Freezing Aura, Lethal Infusion, Poison Weapon, Summon Elemental.

Items

Ranged combat has been rewritten based on melee attacks - AC and EV has more of an impact, attack delay is more predictable, and Throwing should be more viable as a ranged option as compared to bows and crossbows, among other changes.
The blowgun of the Assassin returns; it has a chance to affect the target more than normal blowguns.
New unrand: the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar SustAb}.
Cleaving hits the full eight squares around a player.
Jewellery automatically identifies on equipping it.
Damage from the electrocution brand has been reduced slightly.
Rebranding a distortion weapon no longer causes a distortion effect.
Scrolls of brand weapon can no longer affix brands.
Blessed weapons can be rebranded.
Amulets of inaccuracy are always cursed.
New rings of stealth and loudness, which positively/negatively adjust a player's stealth.
Gloves of archery no longer penalise melee.
(Plain) bows have been renamed to shortbows.
Identify scrolls now always identify a single item.
Potions of blood cure a point of ghoul rotting.
Sustain abilities effects no longer stack.
Removed items: rings of hunger and sustenance.
Removed unrands: the boots of the Spider.

Cards

Decks of wonders now contain Dowsing, Battlelust, Helm, and Shadow instead of Experience, Helix, Sage, and Trowel
Decks of dungeon are no more.
The Potion card has a new list of effects: power 0 is decay/curing/agility/ might/brilliance; 1 has a chance of resistance/haste; 2 has a chance of magic/heal wounds.
The Mercenary card can generate base demonspawn instead of spriggan riders.
Removed cards: Experience, Sage, Water, Vitrification, Trowel, Minefield, and Shuffle.

Gods

Two new gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Qazlal Stormbringer. Both are temple gods with an altar either in Temple or on D:2-9.
- Gozag
- Charges a service fee for joining, dependent on the amount of gold that has been generated in the game.
- Does not have piety.
- Defeated enemies turn to gold; these gold piles distract nearby creatures, causing them to sometimes not act.
- Potion Petition: purchase one set of potion effects.
- Call Merchant: fund a merchant to set up shop somewhere near to areas of the dungeon you have explored.
- Bribe Branch: send money to the inhabitants of a branch to turn them temporarily neutral or incite them to join you.
- Duplication: one non-artefact item can be duplicated at an altar.
- Qazlal
- Piety on kills.
- All followers are immune from their own clouds.
- 1*: Storm Shield: you passively generate elemental clouds around you and gain bonus SH, and gain RMsl at 3*; you also generate a lot of noise.
- 2*: Upheaval: blast a small nearby area with elemental forces.
- 3*: Elemental Force: turn nearby clouds into elementals.
- 4*: Elemental Adaptation: taking elemental or physical damage sometimes temporarily grants you resistance against that element.
- 5*: Disaster Area: blast the entire area around you with elemental forces.
- 6*: at an altar, gain a permanent elemental resistance of your choice for as long as you worship Qazlal.
Followers of good gods no longer get a chance to turn holy enemies neutral.
Zin's Recite no longer prompts for a book, instead affecting all monsters in sight with the strongest effects that would impact them.
Sif Muna wrath can no longer cause amnesia.

Interface

There are status lights for Might, Agility, and Brilliance.
Monsters with special attack flavours have this noted in their descriptions.