Caves of Qud

Devlog

• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - July 10, 2020 ('beta' branch)
  July 11, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  Live and drink, friends. If all goes well, we'll be launching Tomb of the Eaters on the main branch next week! 200.66 Tomb-related notes: Added two new cooking ingredients: crushed grave moss and comp... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - July 3, 2020 ('beta' branch)
  July 04, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.65 Tomb-related notes: Polished and bugfixed [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted]. Changed the Bell of Rest timer from 200 to 300 rounds. Gave the Life and Death Gates descriptions and much more... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - June 26, 2020 ('beta' branch)
  June 27, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.57 Tomb notes: Finished the bugfixing and polish work in the crypts. Added a new liquid: brain brine. [redacted] General notes: Occasionally, upon gaining a level, completing a quest, performing t... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - June 19, 2020 ('beta' branch)
  June 20, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.55 Tomb-related notes: Did some bugfixing, polish, and performance work on the crypt levels of the Tomb of the Eaters. More to come next week. General notes: Added some new recoilers. Added a new... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - June 13, 2020 ('beta' branch)
  June 13, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.52 Tomb-related notes We made several gameplay and polish enhancements to the cherubim. Cherubim are now better protected against missile weapons and freezing attacks. Revamped cherubim stats and... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - June 6, 2020 (beta branch)
  June 06, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.50 Autoexplore now seeks out and examines objects that contained unrevealed secrets in their descriptions. Giant beetle and beetlebum corpses can now be butchered for raw beetle meat, which can be... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - May 29, 2020 (beta branch)
  May 30, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.43 General notes: Added a water wheel and millstone to Joppa. Bone worm corpses can no longer be included as part of the cure for fungal infections. Pathfinding now strongly avoids tiles next to n... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - May 23, 2020 (beta branch)
  May 23, 2020 by unormal

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  200.41 Tomb-related notes The Tomb-dwelling pangoloids knows as the mopango have officially moved in. Added or refined several types of mopango. Added a new quest: The Buried Watchers. Talk to Zothom... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - May 15, 2020 (beta branch)
  May 16, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.40 Tomb-related notes: Added new tiles for Eater statues, Eater holograms, and urn duster. Crypt sitters and conservators no longer cause unintended trouble in dynamic encounters. General notes: N... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday ('beta' branch) - May 8, 2020
  May 09, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.35 Tomb-related notes: Expanded the Grand Vestibule to multiple maps. Changed the Omonporch entry zone to a new map: Court of the Sultans. Made various tweaks and enhancements to the Arcade to the... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - May 2, 2020
  May 02, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.29 Tomb-related notes: We added polish to the architecture of the Tomb. Added a new exterior caryatid wall and extended it up and down through the Z-dimension as appropriate. Added support pillars... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - April 24, 2020 (beta branch)
  April 25, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  Tomb-related notes: We added more polish to the crematory. Redesigned the columbarium. Added ASCII art to the look screen for urns. Urn dusters now walk around dusting urns in the columbarium. Fixed s... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - April 17th, 2020 (beta branch)
  April 18, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.22 Note: this update will break save compatibility. If you'd like to continue a save from a previous patch, you can switch back to that patch's branch. From Steam, right-click Caves of Qud > Prope... Continue reading
• Tombb of the Eaters Feature Friday - April 3rd, 2020
  April 04, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.21 Tomb-related notes We added some polish to the [redacted] sequence that starts in Resheph's burial chamber. Added some sound and visual effects. Smoothed out some issues with engraving tomb mur... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - March 6th, 2020 (beta branch)
  March 06, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.20: We've posted an update on the beta branch. A note on updates: our cadence has slowed a bit while our small team deals with some impactful life events. We'll be ramping back up soon. Live and d... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Feature Friday - January 31, 2020 (beta build)
  February 01, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.17 We've posted an update to the Tomb of the Eaters beta on the beta branch. Tomb-related notes We made some structural changes to the layout of the Tomb. We shifted the whole dungeon up several Z... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Beta #2
  December 21, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Welcome to the Tomb of the Eaters beta #2! This patch takes you through the back half of the Tomb of the Eaters dungeon and through the rest of the quest. The full feature arc should be ready in Janua... Continue reading
• Tomb of the Eaters Beta #1
  November 26, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Welcome to the first Tomb of the Eaters beta! This is an unpolished and incomplete build of the Tomb of the Eaters feature arc. The beta takes you through the first half of the Tomb of the Eaters dung... Continue reading
• No patch friday, first 'Tomb of the Eaters' beta early next week
  November 21, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, There'll be no patch this Friday. Instead, we're posting an early, beta version of the Tomb of the Eaters feature arc—the first of the final few legs of the main quest—early next week. In... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 16, 2019
  November 16, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  199.0 There are now sound effects for slotting and unslotting energy cells and recharging energy cells and capacitors. You will now be prompted when attempting to beguile or proselytize a target that... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 9, 2019
  November 09, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  198.0 Added more grass variety. Sealed liquid containers are no longer used as random cooking ingredients. Liquids poured on the world map tiles are now lost. Nests and nest-like beings can no longer... Continue reading
• Feature Friday and End-of-Year Patch Plans
  November 02, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, We want to sketch out our patch plans for you for the rest of the year. Our work on the Tomb of the Eaters feature arc is reaching fever pitch, so you can expect smaller weekly patches leadin... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 25, 2019
  October 26, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  196.0 Added two new cooking ingredients: congealed skulk and drop of nectar. Added three new cooking domains: Agility-based effects, burrowing-based effects, and uncertain attribute-based effects. Tsz... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 11th, 2019
  October 12, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  195.0 Added two new cooking ingredients: congealed hulk honey and soul curd. Added two new cooking domains: Strength-based effects and powerful regeneration/healing-based effects. When you turn in 'A... Continue reading
• October Patch Schedule
  October 02, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hello friends, We're doing some traveling in October for Roguelike Celebration and other work-related events, and this'll impact our weekly updates. So here's our updated patch schedule for the rest o... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 27, 2019
  September 28, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  194.0 Note: this update will break save compatibility. Walls, furniture, and tombstones now occasionally appear with graffiti. If the creature you're dominating gets turned to stone by a lithofex gaze... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 21, 2019
  September 21, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  193.0 We tweaked the layout of Joppa. Moved the sultan shrine to the map north of Joppa, near the graveyard. Added a guaranteed shrine to Resheph where the sultan shrine used to be. Added a dirt path... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 13, 2019
  September 14, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  192.0 Added a Sixth Great Sultan to the history of Qud: Resheph. His history is depicted via shrines like the other sultans but remains the same from game to game. Converted the dates that appear in s... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 6, 2019
  September 07, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new item: maghammer. Added a new eyewear mod: nav. Added new tiles for the following items, creatures, and locations. Mechanmist rummager albino ape pelt ogre ape pelt ripe cucumber arsplice s... Continue reading
• No Patch This Week, Weekly Patch Resumes on September 6th
  August 28, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, The dev team is doing some traveling this week, so there'll be no patch on Friday. The weekly patch will resume the following Friday (September 6th). Thanks, friends. Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 24, 2019
  August 24, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  190.0 Arconauts report the continued unearthing of a massive tomb complex surrounding the Spindle at Omonporch. A stolen ledger reveals the presence of catacombs, a crematory, crypts, and sepulchers f... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 16, 2019
  August 17, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Reclassified various mushroom-based consumables as fungi rather than plants. Reduced the Ego requirement of Menacing Stare (and thus the Persuasion skill) to 17. Feral lah now get XP for kills made by... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 10, 2019
  August 10, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  188.0 Note: this update will break save compatibility. Added a new Tactics power: Deft Throwing. We changed how the Backswing power works. Removed the Axe version of the power. New Cudgel version: wh... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 2, 2019
  August 03, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added a chance for generated villages to have their own village tinker. Starting villages always have a village tinker. Tinkers now sometimes immigrate to villages during village history generation. C... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 27, 2019
  July 27, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.186 You now get a popup message when one of your followers dies, with some exceptions for temporary or swarming followers. Added some conditional dialog to Yurl. Added the framework for certain d... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 19, 2019
  July 20, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new music track to historic sites. Villages can now undergo historic events that cause them to become abandoned. You'll now occasionally come across abandoned villages in your travels. Sheba H... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 13, 2019
  July 13, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.184.0 We did some work on Grit Gate. Gave new dialog, description, skills, and equipment to Mafeo, Jacobo, Sparafucile, Dardi, Aloysius, Hortensa, Iseppa, Neek, and Shem -1. Gave Ereshkigal new di... Continue reading
• No Patch This Week, Weeklies Resume Next Week
  July 04, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hello all, Due to a short week (July 4th holiday) and behind-the-scenes feature arc work, we're going to skip the weekly patch this week. Updates will resume with next Friday's patch. Live and drink!... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 28, 2019
  June 29, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Small patch this week as we work on some bigger feature arcs behind the scenes. Added two new rare items: programmable recoiler and reprogrammable recoiler. Abilities that require a particular weapon... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 22, 2019
  June 22, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.182.0 Updated the dialog and changed the quest turn-in sequence for Decoding the Signal to make more sense narratively. Added new descriptions to one of the arc sconces, glass, tinted glass, urshi... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 14, 2019
  June 15, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added new dialog for ichor merchants, shoemakers, gunsmiths, grenadiers, armorer, and haberdashers. You can no longer use spiral borers on the world map. Changed the stats of leather apron and gave i... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 7, 2019
  June 08, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.180.0 The 'cook a recipe' popup now displays the effect of the meal, sorts favorites to the top and hides uncookable recipies by default. The console version of the 'cook a recipe' popup got a ma... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 31, 2019
  June 01, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.179.0 Added new autoexplore options to ignore enemies based on their distance and your evaluation of their difficulty. Autoexplore will no longer run into immobile friendlies and stop. Autoexplore... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 25, 2019
  May 25, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.178 Target pickers will no longer snap to the mouse location until the pointer moves. Clicking the window to regain focus with mouse input enabled will no longer walk to the clicked location. Vari... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 17, 2019
  May 18, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  The inventory screen now allows filtering (Ctrl+F or ,). Filtering from the overlay UI isn't supported yet. Baetyl locations are now recorded in the journal. Beguiling is now put on cooldown when you... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 10, 2019
  May 11, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.176 When you're looking at something with the Look command, you can now hit space to bring up an interaction menu for the object you're looking at. From there you can target the object, untarget i... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 3, 2019
  May 04, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.175 Added a new book: The Artless Beauty. Added a new energy cell mod: radio-powered. Added reasons for why satellite-sourced radio-power might be occluded: orbital debris, glass storms, flocks of... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - Grit Gate, Remodeled
  April 27, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  We remodeled Grit Gate. The whole layout is new. Explore! Added a new music track to Grit Gate. Added a functional power grid to Grit Gate. Power is generated at power stations, conducted through powe... Continue reading
• Feature Saturday - 'Grit Gate Remodeled' Beta
  April 21, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, No mainline patch this week. Instead, we've posted a beta of the 'Grit Gate, Remodeled' patch. If you're interested, please help us test it! Specifically, we're looking for folks to run throu... Continue reading
• Feature Friday Will Be Feature Saturday This Week!
  April 20, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, We're planning to post the 'Grit Gate, Remodeled' patch to the beta branch, but we're not quite ready yet, so Feature Friday will be Feature Saturday this week! See you tomorrow... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 12, 2019
  April 13, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Reminder: per our announcement here , there are 6 DAYS LEFT before the price up Caves of Qud bumps up to $14.99! The Barathrumites are still remodeling. Continue staying tuned. Added new item: blood-g... Continue reading
• Caves of Qud price is going up to $14.99 in 10 DAYS (April 18th)
  April 08, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, The story of Caves of Qud 's development is a long one. Twelve years ago we began work on the project. Four years ago we put it on Steam in Early Access. Since then, we've taken an already su... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 5, 2019
  April 06, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  The Barathrumites are remodeling. Stay tuned. Tumbling pods are now considered hostile at distances greater than 1. Warden Indrix and Mamon Souldrinker can now use grandfather horns, while goat herder... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 29, 2019
  March 30, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.171.0 Added a new grenade mod, phase-conjugate, that causes grenades to shift phase right before they explode. Added new dialog for scribes, vintners, shoemakers, and Issachari tribesfolk. Increas... Continue reading
• No Patch This Week, Weeklies Resume Next Week
  March 20, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hi all, We're at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week, so we won't be posting a patch this Friday. Our weekly patch schedule will resume the following Friday (3/30). Until then, live and dri... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 15, 2019
  March 16, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added new dialog for snapjaws, cannibals, arconauts, apple farmers, pig farmers, apothecaries, beekeepers, bookbinders, kippers, and some other merchants. Hypertractors and phase cannons are once agai... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 9, 2019
  March 09, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added new tiles for yuckwheat and yuckwheat stem. The fate of Bey Lah now more closely matches the outcomes described upon completing the quest Kith and Kin. Nests no longer attack you with fists. Cre... Continue reading
• Featire Friday - March 1, 2019
  March 02, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.168.0 Tinkering messages are now cleared about which bits you need and which you have, and the list of bits you have is now presented in a consistent order. The game version is now displayed in re... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 22, 2019
  February 23, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  We refreshed the Putus Templar. Tweaked the stats and gear of Knights Templar. Among other changes, this included lowering their level and HP but giving them fullerite armor and weapons. New creature:... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 15, 2019
  February 16, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.166.0 We refreshed the banana grove. Changed the stats, behaviors, and descriptions of the following creatures and plants: cyclopean gibbon, red death dacca, gelatinous palms (now called irritable... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 8, 2019
  February 09, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.165.0 Most static quests now award reputation when completed. The maps "behind" the Spindle are no longer empty. Slam now costs a turn and goes on cooldown when used on inanimate objects. Quests w... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 1, 2019
  February 02, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new book: Council at Gamma Rock. Sapient plants are now considered to have minds and can be interacted with in all the ways mental interaction is supported (e.g., domination, beguiling, etc)... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 25, 2019
  January 26, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new music track to Bethesda Susa. Added tiles for red death dacca, gelatinous palm, arcwyk, skittering sentry, Rodanis Y, the Alchemist, and Saad Amus. Updated Burgeoning to choose from a much... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 18, 2019 - Stratification
  January 19, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.162.0 We refreshed the underground cave systems, adding new geological strata and several new creatures. Added over 70 new creatures. Added several new related harvestable and butcherable items: e... Continue reading
• New Stratification Beta Patch
  January 12, 2019 by Freehold Games

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  Hey folks, We posted a new update to the stratification beta that's closer to the final version (fewer bugs, monsters are more fleshed out, geological strata are more refined). If you'd like to help u... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 15, 2018
  December 15, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Another small update this week as we work on a big upcoming content patch. 2.0.160.0 Added two new music tracks for Bey Lah and Barathrum's study. Village music now plays in the outskirts of villages... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 7, 2018
  December 08, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Small update this week as we work on a big upcoming content patch. Added the Cloaca Surprise and a chronology entry for eating it. Made some balance adjustments to Slog, including a move speed buff wh... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 30, 2018
  December 01, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  You can now cook with green goo, brown sludge, and black ooze. 'Can' doesn't mean 'should'. Web-spinning creatures are now smart enough to spins webs in combat. Made yondercane much rarer. Reduced the... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 16, 2018
  November 17, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  We added furniture to Joppa and Kyakukya. We made Tam, dromad merchant, better able to defend himself. You can now cook with salt, asphalt, and cloning draught. Liquids bought from the alchemist can n... Continue reading
• Feature "Friday" - October 31, 2018
  November 01, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Added some furniture to Grit Gate and Bethesda Susa. You can now properly equip ape fur gear bought from Svenlainard. The Trip power now more properly respects the anatomy of its target. The following... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 26, 2018
  October 27, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new item: rocket skates. Added a new music track to generated villages. You may now freely access Argyve's chests once you become his apprentice. NPC companions can now become overburdened. Ov... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 19, 2018
  October 20, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Hotkey favorites now use the most recent re-binding for commands. Leering stalkers now use their pneumatic pistons again. Hypertractors can no longer move holes in the ground or areas of open air. Clo... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 12, 2018
  October 13, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  *We changed the way we calculate AV and DV from equipment across similar body parts. *Previously, creatures always received AV and DV modifiers from equipment equipped on any body part that was part o... Continue reading
• Feature "Friday" - October 4, 2018
  October 05, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  New item: anti-gravity boots. Your clones no longer pass on their inspirations for meal ideas to you. Evil twins no longer spawn during game initialization, resulting in half-formed twins. Villagers w... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 28, 2018
  September 29, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  We made a bunch of enhancements to the body part system. Made dynamic body part growth and loss much smarter. Example: if a creature loses all their hand-like parts, they also lose the ability to wiel... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 21, 2018 [Hindren Patch]
  September 21, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Qud's augurs have read the petals on the wind and agree: the deerfolk who call themselves 'hindren' are real, and their hidden village exists. The hindren patch is now live! Added a new village: Bey L... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 14, 2018
  September 15, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  *Brainless things no longer fall asleep. *Hindren clues should now be more successfully excluded from gossip. *Pressing left on an object in the inventory screen now collapses the whole category. *Pou... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 25, 2018
  August 25, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Added new, animated tiles for forcefields. Added a new faction: pariahs. Pariahs now sometimes appear on the Stiltgrounds. You may encounter bands of roving pariahs. Blaze injectors can now be preserv... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 17, 2018
  August 18, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Added two new creatures: feral lah and tumbling pod. Added a new plant: lahbloom with harvestable lah petals. Added a new cooking ingredient: dried lah petals. Added a new option to the campfire menu:... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 10, 2018
  August 11, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new item: fidget cell. Added new level-up sound effects for both the player and other creatures. You can now pet all village pets. Hyrkhounds are now properly considered dogs. Mental mutation... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 3, 2018
  August 04, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Cats and dogs now let you pet them if they like you. Some domesticated cats and dogs will let you pet them if they merely tolerate you. New book: Eta and the Earthling, Canto I. Changed the name of a... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 27, 2018
  July 28, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  Added a new village government type: anarchy. When you go to the world map and then immediately return to the local map you were just in, you're now placed in the same tile you left from. Village ward... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 20, 2018
  July 21, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  We added several new historic events that make village histories much more diverse. Examples include trait-based reasons for congregation, regime changes and new types of government, and new culinary... Continue reading
• Caves of Qud Is Now Available on itch.io
  July 10, 2018 by Freehold Games

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  #launch, #caves of qud, #freehold games, #early access, #roguelike, #RPG, #science fantasy

  We're so thrilled to bring Caves of Qud to itch.io in early access. A decade in the making, Caves of Qud is a science fantasy RPG & roguelike epic. It’s set in a far future that’s deeply simulated... Continue reading