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Latest Patch Notes
Feature Friday - June 14, 2024
207.69
  • Added an additional scale option for the character sheet (Modern UI > Character sheet additional scale percentage).
  • Added an additional scale option for message log text (Modern UI > Message log line size adjustment (pt)).
  • Added support for multiple default keyboard binding sets.
  • Added a 'hjkl' keyboard binding set.
  • Added an option to disable the modern character sheet while keeping other elements of the new UI (Modern UI > Modern character sheet).
  • Added a KBM option to controller font type to force keyboard glyphs (Modern UI > Controller buttons > KBM).
  • Added an option for a compact ability bar layout (Modern UI > Ability bar mode > Compact).
  • Added a tooltip delay slider (Controls > Tooltip Delay (MS)).
  • Added explicit value display for options sliders.
  • Added an option to disable the input warning (Modern UI > Disable input warning)
  • The new trade UI now stays open with items selected when cancelling the "Offer" dialog, making the behavior between the console and new UIs the same.
  • Keyboard glyphs now show on Steam Deck if keyboard input is being issued.
  • Added a missing default keyboard keybind for wait until healed and wait menu.
  • Greatly improved the performance of the trade screen.
  • Removed the vestigial "additional user interface elements" option.
  • Removed a stray newline when completing quest steps.
  • Bep is now interesting.
  • Dawning apes now use oil as their water ritual liquid.
  • Erah now has a leather apron.
  • Frogs are no longer considered to have scales.
  • Crysteel axes now have an appropriate equipment shader.
  • Learning an item mod now gives a popup message like learning how to build an item does.
  • Removed several stair types from dynamic encounters.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the wild-eyed watervine merchant to usually be hostile toward you.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the player to be left with no allegiances when their mind was stranded.
  • Fixed unlocking of the 'Total Makeover' achievement.
  • Fixed reputation adjustments from mutations being skipped for determining creature attitude until a save cycle happened.
  • Fixed a crash when loading a game while inhabiting a body with no abilities.
  • Fixed a bug causing the object picker to reset to the starting selection state after interacting with an item.
  • Fixed the dynamic controller fonts.
  • Fixed a bug with focus retention when setting a primary limb.
  • Fixed a sound issue on the ability manager.
  • Fixed a bug that caused zone generation to fail after someone was exiled from Bey Lah.
  • Fixed a zone generation issue in Grit Gate and the rusted archway.
  • [modding] Fixed Object parameter of AfterAddOpinionEvent.
  • [modding] Added IScribedPart, IScribedEffect, and IScribedSystem, which allow the free addition and removal of fields without breaking save compat.
— 2024-06-15 00:26:11
The Spring Molting update is now live!
Hello friends!

We are shedding some of our text-based skin for the Spring Molting update, live NOW on the main branch. This is the FINAL major update before the 1.0 release later this year. This patch brings the much-anticipated UI overhaul and lots of other upgrades and improvements. If you’ve been intimidated by the console UI and it's stopped you from diving into Qud, give Spring Molting's new RPG-like interface a try. Watch the update trailer to see the changes:

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Spring Molting Update Highlights:

  • 🚨ALL NEW INTERFACE🚨 Our transformational UI redesign is complete! Fully mouseable, fully gamepaddable, and much prettier, but all carefully designed to maintain the essence of what makes Qud Qud. More polish is coming, but everything functional is in.
  • Support for Steam Cloud saves. Play between PCs or between Steam Deck and PC, at your leisure
  • a refresh of the starting town of Joppa, with the same lived-in texture as the rest of the world
  • hundreds of new sound and visual effects
  • 40 new achievements
  • several new narrative touches, big bug fixes, & performance improvements

Compare the old text-based Quests screen...

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...to the new, showing the locations of your quest givers on the worldmap.

<img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/7472163/89b7f736ce0dcf252694e4ce0afa0d42841de71d.jpg" />

By the way, if you prefer the text-based UI, don't worry- It's still here. Go to Options > Overlay UI > uncheck "Enable modern UI elements".

What’s Next?
We are getting even closer to 1.0! We have two main objectives for the rest of the year: finish the main quest and create a more hands-on tutorial. Until then, you can still weekly updates to resume 1.0 launch at the end of the year.

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Spring Molting Patch Notes

Quick note on saves
Old games aren't compatible with the Spring Molting patch, but you can finish them out before you update. From Caves of Qud in your Steam library, go to Preferences > Betas > "206.78" for the previous branch.

UI
    We added an entire new UI. (ie, we completed work on the modern UI, for folks who've been following our progress). More polish will be coming over the next several weeks, but all the functionality is there.
    • There are too many changes to fully document, but here's a partial list of new screens: trade, quests, message log, character sheet, skills, equipment & inventory, tinkering, game summary, every journal tab, status effects, reputation, world generation, interact nearby, books, in-game terminals.
    • The new UI has full keyboard, mouse, and controller support.
    • The new UI plays natively on handhelds like Steam Deck.
    • Added a search bar to relevant screens.
    • Added a system menu button to the top-right of the main play screen.

SAVES
  • Added full support for Steam Cloud saves.
  • Vastly improved the performance of saves and loads.
  • Greatly reduced the number of files per save.
  • Greatly reduced save size.
  • Saves are now more resilient towards breakage, from mods or otherwise.
  • Saves now kept in the \Synced subdirectory, and unsynced files are kept in \Local.
  • Multiple attempts are now made to delete save games that are in use by another process.

WORLD
  • We refreshed the starting village of Joppa.
    • Added a new apothecary: Nima Ruda.
    • Replaced Warden Ualraig with a more fleshed-out version: Warden Yrame.
    • Gave all major NPCS new dialog and new descriptions.
    • Widened the range of artifacts that can be turned in to Argyve. Concurrently, we gave some true kin castes fewer starting trinkets.
    • Made some significant changes to O Glorious Shekhinah! These changes carry through to the generated village starts, and in fact are slightly different in each village type.
    • Gave the village a makeover, with several new walls, pieces of furniture, and monuments.
    • Joppa NPCs now point you to questgivers, like the villagers of dynamic villages do.
  • We refreshed the Naphtaali faction and culture.
    • Replaced or renamed several Naphtaali. Here's the new roster of creatures: Naphtaali forager, Naphtaali tinker, Naphtaali nimrod, Naphtaali jeer, and Naphtaali sap.
    • Replaced chrome idols with unplanished godheds, and their legendary counterparts, planished godheds.
    • Refreshed woodsprogs and added them to jungle populations.
    • Added Erah the ciderer to Kyakukya.

GAMEPLAY
  • Strong feelings creatures have due to actions you take (such as attacking them) now weaken over time instead of reverting suddenly when a map is unloaded.
  • Creatures belonging to multiple factions now take your reputation with all those factions into account when determining their attitude toward you.
  • Creatures no longer ignore changes to your faction reputation if they have a personal opinion of you.
  • Companions no longer revert to their base attitude when they lose track of their leader.
  • In general, we made the attitude system governing creature AI much more robust and fixed many of its long-standing bugs.
  • Creatures now get mad at you if you tell your companions to attack them.
  • Added a new piece of furniture: electric generator.
  • Tables randomly have items. on them more often.
  • Fixed Yurl having way too much ammo.
  • Removed the extraneous grazer golem.
  • Creatures no longer get saves vs. dreamcrungle gazes.
  • Lampreys no longer wake up from a nearby creature calling for help.
  • Hardpoints and Middle Hardpoints are no longer selected as metachrome slots.

MISC
  • Added 40 new achievements.
  • Added many, many new visual and sound effects.
  • Looping music tracks now play seamlessly.
  • Added an option to disable interface sounds (Opetions > General > Interface Sounds).
  • Made some alterations to the track that plays during Reclamation.
  • Added an option to disable text particle effects (Options > General > Use Text Particle VFX).
  • Made some tweaks to hindren and mopango dialog.
  • Refreshed and polished the dynamic wall generation system used for villages (e.g., "dragonfly chitin tent")
  • Refreshed and polished the display names, tiles, and descriptions of uindentified artifacts and partially identified artifacts.
  • Added some new trinkets: Added bubble level, spiral iron, and salt mill.
  • Added a wrench and a pestle.
  • Added several new item descriptions.
  • Tillifergaewicz is now a point of interest.
  • Twinning and trining lamprey can be villagers again.
  • Reduced memory fragmentation over long play sessions.
  • Improved turn-by-turn performance.
  • Improved lightray casting performance during the day.
  • Improved performance in liquid-heavy zones.
  • Improved memory overhead in general.
  • Improved memory overhead and performance when saving/loading.
  • Reduced memory pressure from reality-stabilizing effects.
  • Changed Issachari renderstring to 'h'.
  • Clarified Ruin of House Isner rules text.
  • Removed the prerelease inventory and trade options.
  • Clarified the disease cure achievements only trigger when the diseases are cured via traditional methods.

BUGFIXES
  • We made many, many fixes to long-standing issues around creature attitudes, including creatures losing their
  • Fixed Asphodel's followerss being limited to 8.
  • Fixed nonspecific gender verb conjugation.
  • Fixed several cases of messages referring to a *PooledObject.
  • Fixed the performance impact when many creatures had died or objects had been destroyed.
  • Fixed non-human village tinkers and apothecaries not having tier-appropriate stock.
  • Fixed twinning and trining lampreys generating erroneous copies.
  • Fixed starch and lignin being removed.
  • Fixed backswings being able to trigger additional backswings recursively.
  • Knowing the Cloaca Surprise no longer significantly slows down game loading.
  • Fixed many other small issues.

MODDING AND DEBUGGING
  • [modding] Creatures now have action-specific opinions of others. For example, being attacked by someone's ally now garners the OpinionAttackAlly opinion.
  • [modding] Creatures now maintain a history of allegiance. For example: "On the 3rd of Ut yara Ux, <creature> was constructed by a turret tinker." and "On the 12th of Tuum Ut, <creature> was proselytized by you."
  • [modding] Many invalid components are now removed gracefully when loading a save...
— 2024-06-06 18:08:44
Feature Friday - May 31, 2024 - 'beta' branch
207.55 - 'beta' branch
  • Swapped tinkering and journal tab positions.
  • Added +/- and left/right category support to tinkering and journal entries.
  • Phasing now shows cooldown and duration.
  • Removed the extraneous grazer golem.
  • Tillifergaewicz is now a point of interest.
  • Twinning and trining lamprey can be villagers again.
  • Creatures no longer get saves vs. dreamcrungle gazes.
  • Replaced the 'Entomb yourself' achievement with 'Swollen Bulb'.
  • Gave the nephilim achievements real names.
  • Reverted an earlier change that allowed the nephilim achievements to be unlocked via pacification.
  • Reverted a change that made nephilim grow in strength when one was pacified.
  • Clarified the disease cure achievements only trigger when the diseases are cured via traditional methods.
  • Knowing the Cloaca Surprise no longer significantly slows down game loading.
  • Tinkering bitlocker items are no longer navigable.
  • Made performance and memory utilization improvements.
  • Guarded against some invalid text markup shaders causing crashes.
  • Improved performance when many active effects were in play.
  • Improved memory overhead and performance when saving/loading.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the low HP warning to persist after ending a game.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the zone you were entering to be frozen, making the game lock up.
  • Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes attack things they were not hostile towards if they were the only prospective target left.
  • Fixed a bug that caused ongoing effects like explosions to sometimes persist after restoring a checkpoint or precognitive vision.
  • Fixed a bug that caused local achievements to lose their unlock date.
  • Fixed a bug that caused companions to not use some abilities when directed to attack neutral creatures.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the player object to be lost.
  • Fixed unlocking of the '0 for 2' and 'The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 3' achievements.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed books to be read from non-librarian vendors.
  • Fixed some wigglyness in the layout of game object pickers.
  • Fixed a bug in the eventing system that caused high-cpu usage and out of control animation speed.
  • Fixed a bug in part nesting in list mode.
  • Fixed checkpointing and autosaves being affected by your move speed.
  • Fixed parts of zones being serialized twice.
  • Fixed several pieces of game state being serialized erroneously.
  • Fixed a save compatibility issue with dynamic village quests.
  • Fixed an error when some objects were garbage collected.
  • [modding] The basic fields of effects are now manually serialized. It's no longer necessary to call the base Write method.
  • [modding] Game state singletons can now handle any embark events that occur after their creation.
  • [modding] An error is now generated when a serialized type falls through to the deprecated binary formatter.
— 2024-06-01 05:05:32
Feature Friday - May 24, 2024 - 'beta' branch
207.49 - 'beta' branch
  • Added 40 achievements. They are visible from the in-game achievement manager (Main Menu > Achievements) but are not yet active on Steam or other platforms.
  • Added a system menu button to the top-right of the main play screen.
  • Added UI sounds for selections, some popups and picking targets.
  • Added an option for to disable interface sounds.
  • Added an option to disable text particle effects (Options > General > Use Text Particle VFX).
  • Renaming crysteel and zetachrome items no longer takes away their paperdoll shader.
  • Clarified Ruin of House Isner rules text.
  • You are no longer always stranded in waking dreams.
  • Gave eyewear mods a tinkering icon.
  • Improved the layout of the comparison tooltip.
  • Improved equipment drag and drop indicators.
  • Improved performance when wearing a lot of equipment.
  • Greatly improved memory overhead.
  • Multiple attempts are now made to delete save games that are in use by another process.
  • Added additional safeguards and debugging for player duplication.
  • Fixed Yurl having way too much ammo.
  • Fixed a bug that could look you out of Argyve dialog between knickknack quests.
  • Fixed an issue causing strange items to appear in your inventory as a result of showing comparison tooltips.
  • Fixed backswings being able to trigger additional backswings recursively.
  • Fixed a bug with liquids creates via warm static.
  • Fixed some item duping bugs.
  • Fixed a bug that would rarely cause the paperdoll equipment and inventory to vanish.
  • Fixed a bug where some scrollers wouldn't accept page up or page down.
  • Fixed an error when attempting to revisit a zone that was missing from the zone cache.
  • Fixed some bugs in the Mechanimist convert dialog.
  • Fixed objects attempting to enter the pool multiple times.
  • [debug] Added several creature modifier wishes: fungusfriend:*, qudzusymbiote:*, slimewalker:*, slimespitter:*, kindlethumbed:*, firethumbed:*, convert:*, mechanical:*.
— 2024-05-25 00:57:08
Feature Friday - May 18, 2024 - 'beta' branch
207.40 - 'beta' branch
  • Added default gamepad binds for ability page left/right, zoom in/out, walk and auto-attack-nearest.
  • Added icons for gloves and wings mod categories.
  • Tweaked the color of spendable AP and MP on the character sheet.
  • Removed the prerelease inventory and trade options.
  • Revised the Mechanimist convert's dialog.
  • Replaced the Joppa monuments with history books in Irudad's library.
  • Reversed the collapse/expand semantics on the Reputation page.
  • Added equipment shaders to crysteel and some unique items.
  • Journal categories are now sorted properly.
  • The modern equipment screen now properly displays limb cardinality.
  • You can now collapse/expand with left and right on the Reputation page.
  • Improved performance in liquid-heavy zones.
  • Improved memory overhead.
  • Improved turn performance.
  • Excluded BaseSwine from dynamic encounters.
  • Removed the watervine farmer & Mechanimist convert from dynamic encounters.
  • Added a timeout to precognition vfx if something goes wrong.
  • Legendary creature titles no longer get doubled in certain circumstances.
  • Gyre irons and bubble levels no longer close inventory when pressed and flipped, respectively.
  • Added safeguards against non-takeable or destroyed objects ending up on your person and cleaned up existing ones from saves.
  • Argyve will now wire up his loudspeaker after completing 'Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!'.
  • Improved performance in zones with large power grids.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the salt dunes music track from playing.
  • Fixed starting village Mechanimist converts having watervine farmer gear despite not all being watervine farmers.
  • Fixed some layout issues in the game object picker.
  • Fixed an issue with pagination in windowed lists.
  • Fixed a bug that rarely caused the hotkey display in the item picker to truncate.
  • Fixed a rare layout exception in the equipment paperdoll.
  • Fixed some excess memory allocation in the journal map.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed main menu commands to be triggered after continuing a game.
  • Fixed several mouse input issues when modern UI was disabled.
  • Fixed input on the console trade window.
  • Fixed an exception when tabbing left through only one category.
  • Fixed starch and lignin being removed.
  • Fixed popups being hidden by other interface elements.
  • Fixed errors when fetching icons for world generation.
  • Fixed companions not re-evaluating their equipment after finishing a trade.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented you from acquiring the Spread Pax quest.
  • Fixed the category display for morphotype mutations.
  • Fixed a bunch of bugs in page up and page down in pooled-window scrollers.
  • Fixed a bug in the formatting of the tinkering screen.
  • Fixed a bug that stopped hotkeys from working on an equipment item after interacting with it with a popup until it was reselected.
  • Fixed a bug that rarely caused the wrong item to be selected in the modern game object picker.
  • Fixed the default categories for equipping to a hand.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented spray bottles from working.
  • Fixed an issue causing weird stuff like [widgets] to show up in inventory.
  • Fixed a minor formatting issue in the show cybernetics hotkey display.
  • Fixed twinning and trining lampreys generating erroneous copies.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Joppa to not be available as an option for the slynth.
  • Fixed a bug that caused expired temporary cells and ammo to sometimes drop to the ground.
  • Fixed some message variables not being parsed correctly.
  • Fixed key input on the map editor.
— 2024-05-18 04:26:37
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