Caves of Qud update for 18 March 2023

204.62

• The Barathrumites now offer the choice between a masterwork carbine and a masterwork chain pistol upon completing a certain quest.

• Companions who can technologically generate force bubbles now respect being told not to.

• Dawning apes are now more convincingly considered robots.

• Added spitting slugs back to regional populations.

• Cages now have a new tile and can be entered.

• Faundren villagers are now docile by default.

• Made some improvements to liquid freezing.

  • It now takes a larger, more sensible volume of liquid to freeze into large rock walls, for those liquids that freeze into rock.
  • Freezing containers of convalessence no longer obliterates them.
  • Creatures in the same tile as a liquid that freezes into a solid wall now become stuck.
  • Creatures that become stuck from a pool of liquid freezing under them are now immediately freed if the pool melts or is destroyed.

• Being stuck is now included in creatures' display name, like sitting or lying down.

• The stuck effect now displays more information about what you're stuck in.

• When you talk to Sparafucile during A Call to Arms, you no longer reference equipped items you don't actually have equipped.

• Turbow and linear cannon now have appropriate tinker categories for the purpose of SchemaSoft implants.

• Added a heavy weapons category to SchemaSoft.

• Changed the tile and color for fossilized remains.

• Short display names for liquid pools no longer display the number of drams in the pool.

• Achievements based on equipping things now only trigger if the item is equipped properly.

• Food no longer typically has 'equip' as its default action.

• When navigating to a point of interest that's a creature, you now more reliably go to that creature's new location if they move.

• Fixed a bug that allowed item duplication when twinning and trining lampreys made new lampreys.

• Fixed a bug that caused the Non-Locally Sourced achievement to be uncompleteable.

• Fixed a typo in the message displayed when something falls on a creature.

• Fixed some grammar errors in tomb inscriptions.

• [modding] Conversations now support negated versions of the IfHasBlueprint and IfWearingBlueprint predicates, IfNotHasBlueprint and IfNotWearingBlueprint.