Caves of Qud Wiki

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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.

Live and Drink, knowledge-seeker.

Wiki Contents

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Character

Preset Characters

Mutations

Cybernetics

Callings

Castes

Attributes

Skills

Limbs

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Items

Item Mods

Artifacts

Equipment

Weapons

Books

Light Sources

Energy Cells

Liquids

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Mechanics

Combat

Cooking

Trading

Status Effects

Fungal Infections

Illnesses

Glimmer

Experience

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Guides

Early Game Guide

Terminology

Game Concepts

Wish

Achievements

Modding

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World

World Map

Locations

Zone Tier

Factions

Creatures

Characters

Quests

Lore

Endgame

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Latest Patch Note

Beta Update - build 210.2

build 210.2 - 'beta' branch

• Added a fallback font for the modern UI with many previously missing international unicode characters.
  
• The message for blocking will now include what shield you blocked with.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some historic regions to generate without articles.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused common phrases for "cooking" to not generate.
  
• [modding] Steam workshop mods will now check for updates and prompt downloads if you've declared a version in your manifest.json.
  
• [modding] You can now add HistorySpice.json files to your mod which will merge with that of the game.
  
• [modding] Added LoadBefore and LoadAfter to manifest.json which can influence mod load order without creating dependency cycles.
  
• [modding] The XRL namespace is now checked for type name conflicts which could previously cause silent incompatibilities between mods.
  
• [modding] Map files in subdirectories will now merge together by their ID, if no ID is defined the relative path is used.
  
• [modding] You can now add 'Textures' folders for your sprites anywhere in your project, respecting your manifest.json directories.
  
• [modding] Added an alert to the main menu if enabled mods are missing dependencies.
  
• [modding] Added a new GetBleedLiquidEvent which defaults to the old BleedLiquid tag or property.
  
• [modding] XML files loaded by root now print an info block of file counts to the Player.log.
  
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the default values of options to be ignored when used as conditions for manifest.json directories.

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