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Welcome to the official wiki for Caves of Qud, a Science-Fantasy Roguelike RPG developed by Freehold Games and set in the exotic, deeply-simulated, far-future world of Qud.

This wiki is run and maintained by the players, and graciously hosted by the developers. Infoboxes updated every patch.

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Latest Patch Note

Beta Update - May 14, 2025

210.8 - 'beta' branch

• The score screen now displays the correct number of lairs you found.
  
• Switched the icons of Steady Hand and Steady Hands.
  
• Clarified that some abilities let you jump over creatures in Jump's skill description.
  
• Added a new advanced option 'Show popups when you dismember or decapitate someone'
  
• Added new directional keybinds to auto-walk to specific edges of the map
  
• Fixed some dynamic language when describing unknown jewelry.
  
• Fixed a typo in tongue twist.
  
• Fixed dynamic grammar issue with hindren scout's description.
  
• Walls created via 3D cobblers or step sowers no longer inherit your phase.
  
• The high mecha in Reclamation is now loved by the Putus Templar.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to prioritize hostiles farther away, causing them to frequently get blocked in narrow passages.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes ignore stationary hostiles that were shooting at them.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some epilogue conversations to be inaccessible when marooned.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Jab to sometimes not work with chimeric hands.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to lose your followers when recoming at Gyl.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused custom time clocks to not display in other planes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused water rituals with followers to skip awarding reputation for loved factions beyond the first.
  
• [modding] Crystallinity is now added via its mutation entry, allowing its class to be changed.
  
• [modding] You can now define a 'Reputation' xtag for various state used by the GivesRep part, such as 'LovedBy', 'LikedBy', 'NotDislikedBy', etc.
  
• [modding] Adding an invalid object to cybernetics population tables will no longer prevent world generation, instead logging an error.
  
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused custom clock images to fill the available space in the status bar.
  
• [modding] Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the wrong extrinsic attack to be removed when processing a melee action.
  
• [debug] Added 'shimmering' wish which gives you the effect of eating earer's flesh.

— 2025-05-14 06:18:06

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