Caves of Qud

Devlog

• Patch 1.04 is here!
  May 23, 2025 by Freehold Games

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  We've merged all the changes from the last few months of our beta branch into mainline. Full patch notes below. Soon we'll be updating the beta branch with some architecture changes to prepare for loc... Continue reading
• Beta Update - April 25, 2025
  April 26, 2025 by Freehold Games

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  210.6 - 'beta' branch Particle effects now respect visibility and won't render on top of objects that stand over them. Improved performance when many particle effects were active onscreen. Improved pe... Continue reading
• Beta Update - April 18, 2025
  April 19, 2025 by Freehold Games

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  The 210 sequence will be leaving 'beta' soon, kick it around and see if anything breaks! 210.5 - 'beta' branch Options that require a game restart to take effect will now prompt you to do so upon exit... Continue reading
• Maintenence Update 1.0.3 and Beta Update 210.3
  April 12, 2025 by Freehold Games

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  1.0.3 (build 209.45) The build library is now synced to Steam Cloud. Auto light/douse torches is now toggled on again by default. Horns now benefit from the Jab skill when used for secondary attacks... Continue reading
• Maintenance Update - 1.0.2
  February 28, 2025 by Freehold Games

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  1.0.2 (build 207.44) Changed Make Camp so that only campfires you made are considered when checking for existing campfires. Psychic hunters now ambush you less often in [redacted]. The pool of brain b... Continue reading
• Thank you for a stellar launch + 1.01 Patch
  December 19, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hi friends, It's been two weeks since we launched Caves of Qud 1.0, and WOW what a stellar launch it's been! There's always some uncertainty when you press the release button for a game that's been in... Continue reading

  
• Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW!
  December 05, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  We are proud to announce that after 17 years of development, Caves of Qud launches into 1.0 today. A new trailer celebrating the launch will also be debuting today at PC Gamer’s Most Wanted showcase... Continue reading

  
• Beginner tutorial out now, release date announced, and Dromad Deluxe edition!
  October 29, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hey friends, You may have heard, after 15+ years of development, Caves of Qud 1.0 will be released on December 5th 2024 ! We’re amped up on the juice, near out of our minds, and so ready to let the... Continue reading

  
• You gain the mutation Precognition!
  October 21, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  A monad of answers inscribe the cocoon... {n} purple wardens beseech the Chair, What is death, if one rose is fair? How long from beetle moon to beetle moon?... Continue reading
• Tutorial beta out now!
  October 03, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hello friends, We just released the Caves of Qud tutorial on our beta branch. It’s designed to teach the very basics of Caves of Qud and ends with your character arriving in Joppa, just like in a st... Continue reading
• Final Feature Friday!
  September 21, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hey folks, If you missed this announcement , tonight's Feature Friday will be the last one before our 1.0 launch later this year. We're going heads down to give full focus to the endgame. Thanks for o... Continue reading
• Journey to 1.0! Final preparations + new price
  September 21, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hey friends, It’s been a while since we’ve had a big news post, so we want to give you an update as we head towards our 1.0 launch at the end of the year. We don’t have a more specific release d... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 13, 2024
  September 14, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.99 Added the rest of the activated ability descriptions. Added several more descriptions for creatures and items, finishing a full pass. Added icons to the pet selection menu during character crea... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 30, 2024
  August 30, 2024 by unormal

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  Hey all, We've been working hard on finishing the game for our 1.0 release, so we're taking a break from Feature Friday next week to get some much needed rest. FF will return the following week. Live... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 23, 2024
  August 24, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.97 Objects are now re-flagged for autoget after being thrown. Flurry now properly integrates with effects that impact physical attacks (eg. sprinting, stuck, etc.) The ancient bones now look like... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 16, 2024
  August 16, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.93 Reverse Engineer now lets you reverse engineer mods. 15% chance (per mod) to learn a mod when you disassemble a modded item. If you have Disassemble and Reverse Engineer, you can now disassembl... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 9, 2024
  August 09, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.89 Added 100+ new sound effects for quests, status effects, and various other interactions. We made some changes to decoy holograms. The radius of single holograms was reduced from 20 to 12. Affec... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 2, 2024
  August 02, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.87 Added some more item descriptions. Added some more ability descriptions. Gamepad highlight (left trigger+right trigger) now shows inventory tooltips. The time of day icon now continues to work... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 26, 2024
  July 27, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.85 Added some more ability descriptions. Leather braces can now be wooly. Cast nets and throwing axes now have sell values. Charging with adjacent hostiles now respects phase & flight. Reduced mem... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 19, 2024
  July 20, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.81 Added an option for zoom sensitivity (Options > Modern UI > Zoom Sensitivity). Sultan curios can no longer produce temple mecha. Added a few more ability descriptions. Added a few more item des... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 12, 2024
  July 13, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.78 We updated some default gamepad binds. Walk to edge is now Y. Move to Point of Interest is now left-stick press. Ability page up and down is now left trigger + dpad up and down. Melee attack ne... Continue reading
• Feature Fridy -July 5, 2024
  July 06, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.76 The new UI now properly shows the purchase cost of skills when some powers have already been learned. Smart use is now a bit smarter, defaulting to high priority actions (opening doors, ascendi... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 28, 2024
  June 28, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.73 Added many new sound effects for equipping items, reloading guns, and various other interactions. Greatly improved the loading speed of sound effects, all but eliminating the delay when a sound... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 21, 2024
  June 22, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  207.72 Added new mouse bindings for contextual action, interact, interact all, force attack, force move and look (Key Mapping > Adventure Mouse). Nerfed the powerful "remove any one negative status ef... Continue reading
• The Spring Molting update is now live!
  June 06, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  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... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 31, 2024
  June 01, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  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 ext... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 24, 2024
  May 25, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  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 b... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 18, 2024 - 'beta' branch
  May 18, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  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 spendab... Continue reading
• Spring Molting Beta Out Now!
  May 10, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hello friends! We are excited to announce that the Spring Molting update is live now in beta. We'll be testing for a few weeks and then releasing the update on the main branch June 6th . Full patch no... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 26, 2024
  April 27, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.77 Flaming tar pits are once again flaming. Terrified creatures no longer charge. Tumbling pods that are cult leaders now grant XP if they explode during combat. You can now select stacks of items... Continue reading
• Patch schedule + Spring Molting Beta coming!
  April 25, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hey there, Here's an update on last week's Feature Friday plus some other news. Since it's already Thursday, we've decided to just wait and post Feature Friday along with this week's patch tomorrow. T... Continue reading

  
• Feature Friday coming a few days late this week
  April 18, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, Got some team tech issues so we'll be posting this week's patch a few days late, likely some time this weekend. Until then, live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 12, 2024
  April 13, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.75 The salt desert is once again populated with scorpiocks. Credit lockboxes are now made out of metal, as claimed. Gigantic tonics now indicate they contain double dosage. Flowers are no longer b... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 5, 2024
  April 06, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.74 Bundles of noisegrass are now more appropriately priced. Added ability icons to the gas breath mutations of breathing lizards. Fungus-ridden robots now actually host fungi. Spacetime vortices n... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 29, 2024
  March 30, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.72 Extradimensional psychic assassin weeps are no longer noted in your journal on sight. You are now allowed to pick your target when there are multiple creatures available to beguile or proselyti... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 22, 2024
  March 23, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.70 Added new visual effects to throwing axes and geomagnetic discs. Poison-tipped spears are now thrown with the pointy end towards the target. Throwing axes are now categorized under Thrown Weapo... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 15, 2024
  March 16, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.69 Added new hamsa effects to various grenades. All heavy weapons will now be reloaded before each individual shot while using Sweep. Fixed a bug that caused the automove interrupt code to be inco... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 8, 2024
  March 09, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.68 The liquid font mutation no longer oozes liquid on the world map. Popup menus with many options now ignore mouse position when scrolling with keyboard or joystick. Added a confirmation dialogue... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 1, 2024
  March 01, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.67 You can now wear gigantic gauntlets on your giant hands. The geomagnetic disc now benefits from being gigantic even while powered. Engulfing creatures will now disgorge something they are diges... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 23, 2024
  February 24, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.66 Phase-shift grenades are no longer moddable with the redundant phase-harmonic mod. Rivers in preset settlements now have the same object and wall-sparing behavior as random villages. Added a ne... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 16, 2024
  February 17, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.65 Added new descriptions for several pieces of armor and ceremonial vibrokhopesh. Trash and scrap can no longer break or rust. Creatures no longer expel their quills against inanimate objects. Cl... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 9, 2024
  February 10, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.64 Activated abilities can no longer be used on the world map. Transmuting the amaranthine prism now disappoints someone. The trade binds Value + and Value - and Add One/Remove One can now share b... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 2, 2024
  February 03, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.63 Added new descriptions for several pieces of furniture. Added new descriptions for several pieces of equipment. Domesticated Barathrumite tinkers now have their display name adjectives appear i... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 26, 2024
  January 26, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.61 Added the following grenades as rare drops on Explosives population tables: spring-turret, time dilation, plasma, gravity, glitter, and phase shift. Added descriptions for several pieces of fur... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 19, 2024
  January 19, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.59 Long trader names are now properly clipped on the trade screen. Gave lover's blossom a new tile. Autoexplore now avoids osseous ash. Traders are now referred to by name in messages explaining t... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 12, 2024
  January 13, 2024 by unormal

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  206.57 Mountain and hill maps now have a little more unique character and no longer generate without any open spaces. Improved the generation of rivers in villages. When you get lost, you generally no... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 5, 2024
  January 05, 2024 by Freehold Games

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  206.52 Cathedras now supply the same bonus to tinkering as sitting in the nicest chairs. Curio summoned salt krakens will no longer wander. Creatures with power switches who are promoted to have conve... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 22, 2023
  December 22, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.50 Added new descriptions for booster bot, cyclopean gibbon, diplomacy droid, ickslug, mimic, molting basilisk. Mech and golem walls are no longer tagged as diggable. Asphodel now tends to have fe... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 15, 2023
  December 16, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.49 Gave Mayor Haddas better mental stats. Gave turrets the Strapping Shoulders skill. If you Bask on the world map, you no longer immediately become hungry upon leaving the world map. Altered the... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 8, 2023
  December 09, 2023 by Freehold Games

  206.48 Entries in the wait menu and move menu now have hotkeys. Made random book titles format better when they contain words enclosed in punctuation marks. Throwing multiple weapons with grafted mirr... Continue reading
• No Feature Friday this week; back next week
  December 01, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Hey folks, No Feature Friday this week as we have team members traveling. We'll be back next week. Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 24, 2023
  November 25, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.37 Added a move menu, default binding shift-M. Added a "Move to Point of Interest" clickable button to the top right of the new UI, between the buttons for Character Sheet and Autoexplore. Stat sa... Continue reading
• Creatures of the 7th Plague Major Update is OUT NOW!
  November 15, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  #major update, #feature arc, #creatures of the 7th plague

  Hey everyone, One of the biggest Caves of Qud updates, Creatures of the 7th Plague is out now! This year-long patch is full of new content: Boss fights, factions and new quests! Watch the brand-new up... Continue reading

  
• Creatures of the 7th Plague - Full Patch Notes
  November 15, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  v206.26 NEW MAIN QUEST AND THE GIRSH NEPHILIM Added the next leg of the main quest. Talk to Barathrum after completing the Golem. Added the Girsh nephilim, 7th plague of the Gyre: Agolgot, Bethsaida,... Continue reading

  
• Feature Friday - November 10, 2023
  November 11, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.20 - 'beta' branch Added a new music track for the quest Reclamation. Added remastered music tracks: Pilgrim's Path and Overworld. Added descriptions for grappling gun, longreach grappling gun, ph... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 3, 2023
  November 04, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Note: this update breaks save compatibility with previous versions. 206.17 - 'beta' branch Added new cybernetic implants: stasis entangler, polyphase modulator, and precision force lathe. We made some... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 27, 2023
  October 28, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.11 - 'beta' branch Added new cybernetic implants: grafted mirror arm and holographic visage. Revised the design of stasis resonators. Changed the Girsh water ritual liquid to cloning draught. Adde... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 20, 2023
  October 21, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.10 - 'beta' branch Added cradles throughout Qud where the Girsh nephilim reside. Added secrets for the locations of the cradles. Nephilim cradles and their approaches are now considered holy place... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 13, 2023
  October 14, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  206.4 - 'beta' branch Added a new piece of furniture: wire extruder. Added wire extruders to Grit Gate, Yla Haj's workshop, and the Yd Freehold. We made several balance changes to the Horns mutation... Continue reading
• Creatures of the 7th Plague - NEW BETA!
  October 07, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  #beta, #feature arc, #creatures of the 7th plague

  Our next feature arc, Creatures of the 7th Plague, is now in beta! Big picture, this arc includes the next quest in the main questline, significant updates to the UI and input, lots of new visual and... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 29th, 2023. AND 7th Plague beta coming next week!
  September 30, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  The beta for our next feature arc — Creatures of the 7th Plague — is coming next week! Once it's up, we'll post our Feature Friday updates to the beta branch until the beta is over and merged into... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 22, 2023
  September 23, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.106 You can no longer deploy wire strands on the world map. You can no longer deploy wire strands that are rusted or broken. Creatures can now only vomit once every three turns. Creatures in stasi... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 15, 2023 - Fixed a bug that made throwing reveal the identified appearance of unidentified artifacts.
  September 16, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.104 The reload command no longer attempts to reload point-defense drones. When creatures die in the same square as a wall or other movement-blocking object, items they had equipped now drop into a... Continue reading
• No Feature Friday patch this week
  September 08, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Hi friends, We're skipping Feature Friday this week due to some team travel and focus on an upcoming feature arc. We'll be back next week with an update! Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 1, 2023
  September 02, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.103 Manual equip now makes an effort to have the default slot be the typical slot the item would be equipped in for non-melee-weapon items. The cybernetics install screen now displays the license... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 26, 2023
  August 26, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.102 Added Moon Stair plants to plant-germinating tables. Reduced the Sunder Mind rank on novices of the Sightless Way. Reduced the Confusion rank on disciples of the Sightless Way. Reduced the fre... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 19, 2023 - Fixed a bug that allowed becoming terrified to exempt you from being immobilized by stasis.
  August 19, 2023 by unormal

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  204.101 Burning trash now sometimes releases gases. Added several new descriptions for various foods. NPCs are a little less eager to use Temporal Fugue when facing foes much, much weaker than them. S... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - Fixed a bug that caused every pariah to be a diplomacy droid.
  August 12, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.100 You are no longer informed that you have lost sight of your marked target after you kill them. Removed the steel plate mail and steel buckler from wardens of the Sanctum and protectors of the... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 4, 2023
  August 05, 2023 by unormal

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  204.98 Added a new command, "Replace energy cells" (Ctrl-R by default) -- brings up a prioritized menu of your items that have energy cell slots so you can choose one to slot a new cell into. When rep... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - Boulders are now less flammable.
  July 29, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.96 Quartzfur items can now get three item mods. Phylactery squires now carry steel bucklers instead of steel shields. Autoexplore no longer explores inside a vantabloom radius. When autoexplore fi... Continue reading
• Meet Kitfox Games! They are co-publishing Caves of Qud 1.0 with us!
  July 28, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Hey friends! We want to introduce you to a couple of our friends at Kitfox Games, community manager Alexandra and director Tanya. Kitfox is here to help us ring in a new era of Caves of Qud developmen... Continue reading

  
• Feature Friday - July 21, 2023
  July 22, 2023 by unormal

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  204.95 Point-defense systems can now target dart projectiles, in the same tracking category as arrows. Fjorn-Kosef's fists no longer have antimatter cells slotted into them, nor are they considered we... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 15, 2023
  July 15, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.93 NPCs now use Berate, Empty the Clips, and Juke (especially if they also know Pointed Circle). Improved the messaging around Berate, Intimidate, Menacing Stare, Juke, and Empty the Clips. If you... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 7, 2023
  July 08, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.91 Springing now affects power skating. NPCs now use Intimidate and Menacing Stare. Baetyls no longer request bizarre carnage. Mechanical cherubim now prefer to use oil for the water ritual. NPCs... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 30, 2023
  July 01, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.90/205.35 beta Added new descriptions for some natural equipment. Heightened Hearing, Sense Psychic, and electromagnetic sensors no longer alert enemies. Ichor merchants now occasionally stock sap... Continue reading
• Gamepad support + new Abilities screen beta is now live!
  June 27, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Hi there, We've been working on some UI features, including better gamepad support, a more robust input manager, and a whole new Abilities screen. That work is now live on the beta branch! Note: previ... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 23, 2023
  June 24, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.87 Phasing is now better integrated with pathfinding. Gave fire ant queens wings. Made the default interaction for spiral borers be 'activate'. Clonelings can once again drink cloning draught to r... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 16, 2023
  June 17, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.84 We made Kickback work with any missile attack and moved it under the Tactics skill tree. Bilge sphincter bonuses are now considered "base". Normality fields have a new appearance. Reduced the d... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 9, 2023
  June 10, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.83 Rocket skates now alter Jump into Rocket Jump. +4 jump range Minimum range 3 You can rocket jump over creatures. Upon landing, you make an Agility 20 save or fall prone. You leave a trail of bu... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 2, 2023
  June 03, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.82 Non-player creatures now occasionally pet nearby pettable creatures. Eating a plant or fungi-based meal at an oven as a carnivore no longer provides satiation and may make you ill. Photosynthet... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 26, 2023
  May 27, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.78 Gaslight chisels can now be used to engrave hard, inorganic body parts in a fashion similar to how tattoo guns can be used to tattoo soft, organic body parts. (Existing gaslight chisels in save... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 19, 2023
  May 20, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.74 When aiming a missile or thrown weapon with a known maximum range, the portion of the selected path beyond that range is now colored black. When aiming a thrown weapon, the portion of the selec... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 12, 2023
  May 13, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.72 Added a remappable command for interacting with your companions (defaults to Ctrl-C). Items being gigantic no longer uses up one of their three modding slots. Improved the artifact identificati... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 5, 2023
  May 06, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.71 The watervine farmer calling now starts with bonus reputation with the Farmers' Guild. Ticking vents are now limited to spawning 30 clockwork beetles in total. Fungal infections on hands now di... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 28, 2023
  April 29, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.69 Slugsnouts and leering stalkers no longer use their ranged weapons at point-blank range. Reverted last week's change about not being able to open doors if you can't access your extremities. Now... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 21, 2023
  April 22, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.68 We made some changes to geomagnetic discs. They no longer bypass walls or doors. They no longer have unlimited range for reaching their initial target. They no longer target the same creature t... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 14, 2023
  April 15, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.67 Quests to recover historic relics now include the name of the historic site in the quest text, in addition to the name of the level the relic is on. This does not necessarily mean the location... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 7, 2023
  April 08, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.66 Great magma crabs now leave behind basalt when they die. Creatures will no longer prioritize equipping the gaslight chisel over better weapons. The stated neutron flux requirement for the [reda... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 31, 2023
  April 01, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.63 We made some changes to how electrical conductivity works (ie, what determines which objects electrical arcs leap to). Liquid pools now have their conductivity correctly calculated based on the... Continue reading
• No patch this week, Feature Friday resumes next week
  March 19, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Hello all, We're skipping this week's patch due to some more travel. We'll be back on schedule the Friday after (3/31). Until then, Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 17, 2023
  March 18, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  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... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 10, 2023
  March 11, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.61 Gaze and light-based attacks are now blocked by vantabud and vantabloom darkness. Spaser rifles now deal plasma damage instead of light damage. Phase cannons and decarbonizers now deal disinteg... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 3, 2023
  March 04, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.60 We refreshed the corpus of game text used to generate text for white-titled books, graffiti, urn inscriptions, and bird dialog. You'll now see text from the last several updates appear. Beak an... Continue reading
• No patch this week, Feature Friday resumes next week
  February 22, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  Hi all, We're skipping the patch this week due to some travel. We'll be back next week! Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 17, 2023
  February 18, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.59 Spacetime vortices can no longer be coated in liquids. We made some performance improvements to spacetime vortices. They no longer immediately load new zones when spawned, meaning playing with... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 10, 2023
  February 11, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.58 Pickaxes now count as axes for melee purposes. Pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers now display rules text for their wall penetration behavior. Gigantic pickaxes and nanopneumatic jackhammers... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 3, 2023
  February 04, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.56 Increased the default HP for all items. Increased the default HP for all armor to 100. Put the Phase harmonic modulator implant in cybernetic loot tables. On the equipment screen, when you defa... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 27, 2023
  January 28, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.53 Chimeras can now eat the Cloaca Surprise and Crystal Delight. Extra floating nearby slots you obtain are no longer removed by transformative meals. Any time the player is forced to drop an item... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 20, 2023
  January 21, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.52 Added a new item: transkinetic cuffs. The slynth of the Hydropon can now resettle on Chavvah, the Tree of Life. The bottom level of the rusted archway now consistently builds with an electrical... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 13, 2023
  January 14, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.51 Added a tree [redacted]. Fulling identifying an artifact now gives a different message than partially identifying it. Magnetic bottles now alert you when they're nearly out of power. Magnetic b... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 6, 2023
  January 07, 2023 by Freehold Games

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  204.50 Albino apes now have the Albino defect. The data disk options you get for buying Tinker I, II, and III now match the item tier range for each of those skills. All winged mammals now correctly h... Continue reading
• No patch this week, Feature Friday will resume Jan 6th
  December 28, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  Hello friends, Due to some holiday travel we'll be skipping our weekly patch this week. We'll resume the following week. See you in the new year. Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 23, 2022
  December 24, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  204.49 We made some balance changes to the [redacted]. Metachrome weapons no longer have a penetration cap. Vastly increased tortoise [redacted] Carapace rank. Vastly increased cragmensch [redacted] A... Continue reading
• The Moon Stair is here
  December 17, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  The artifacts of plant and time, crust and fuzz with lossy compression, doze in moonlit marble beds, touched by august muzzles. The past is unwritten as the future, And what is left, broken and change... Continue reading
• The Moon Stair comes out this Friday, December 16th
  December 10, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  Live and drink, friends... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 9, 2022
  December 10, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  204.45 - 'beta' branch Added a new signature dish to Chavvah: Crystal Delight. Added a new tile for diplomacy droid. Added a dynamic description for the [redacted]. Added more Barathrumite dialogue fo... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 2, 2022
  December 03, 2022 by unormal

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  204.42 - 'beta' branch Added new armor: gigantic chassis plate. Added a new item: magnetic bottle. Added [redacted] to the bottom of the asphalt mines. Added sated dreamcrungles. After escaping the wa... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 25, 2022
  November 26, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  204.41 - 'beta' branch Added a new plant to the Moon Stair: noisegrass. Added a new harvestable: bundle of noisegrass. Added a new cooking ingredient: wild rice. Added a new item: leyline puppeteers... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 18, 2022
  November 19, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  204.38 - 'beta' branch Added a new mouse cursor and an option to disable it or choose an alternate color scheme (Options > Overlay UI > Mouse cursor). Added more status effect possibilities to dilute... Continue reading

  
• Feature Friday - November 11, 2022
  November 12, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  204.32 - 'beta' branch Moved the Pixel Perfect and Dock options to the Overlay UI section. Added a new option for "Play area scale" with three choices. Fit - fits the whole play area on screen. May ne... Continue reading
• The Moon Stair beta is here!
  November 09, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  The beta for our latest feature arc, the Moon Stair, is here. Big picture, this arc includes the last late-game region, a new quest in the main questline, significant updates to the new UI, all new so... Continue reading
• Feature Friday on hold as we ramp up to the Moon Stair beta
  July 23, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  Hello folks, Yesterday's patch will be the last Feature Friday for a while as we tighten focus on our upcoming feature arc, the Moon Stair. We're still some weeks out, but our next step will be to put... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 22, 2022
  July 23, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.54 Mysterious gunslingers now often generate with wide-brimmed hats and woven tunics. When you put extradimensional gemstones in a rock tumbler, you now get their extradimensional smooth varieties... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 15, 2022
  July 16, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.53 You and your companions are now highlighted blue instead of green on the alt overlay. Obtaining a base skill by drinking brain brine now unlocks the skill tree instead of only unlocking the ski... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 8, 2022
  July 09, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.52 Legendary hindren pariah leaders are no longer called "*name*, Hindren Pariah Pariah". Sprouting orbs and friendly junk dollars now respect phase and flight. Signs now show their description on... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 1, 2022
  July 02, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.51 Creatures can now shank. "Skills and powers"" are now just called "skills". Droid scramblers are now considered metal. Gave droid scramblers a commerce value. Gas breathing mutations are now af... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 24, 2022
  June 25, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.50 Added polished varieties of the rough gemstones. They're rarer and a bit more valuable. Powered rock tumblers can now tumble rough gemstones into polished ones. Temporal Fugue now clones into m... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 17, 2022
  June 18, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.49 Added an option to display full level up information for your followers. (Prompts > "Display full level up message for followers") Legendary newly sentient beings now have more sensible names a... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 10, 2022
  June 11, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.45 Disassembling single-bit scrap once again shows the bit that is obtained. Putting items in a chest you are carrying no longer attempts to describe the location of the chest. The trade screen no... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 3, 2022
  June 04, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.41 Improved page up and page down behavior on the equipment screen. Companion clonelings ordered to stay put no longer move around to clone. Molting basilisks that spawn in a zone that's already g... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 27, 2022
  May 28, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.39 When an engulfed creature flings quills, the quills now strike the engulfer. Gave the villagers of Kyakukya plump mushrooms again. You can now harvest witchwood wreaths for witchwood bark. The... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 20, 2022
  May 21, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.38 We made several changes, cultural and otherwise, to Kyakukya. Added village monuments and village history snippets. Removed Kyakukyan hunter, mushroom gatherer, and worshipper of Oboroqoru. Obo... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 13, 2022
  May 14, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.37 Liquid pools under wading depth (200 drams) are now called 'puddles'. Liquid pools at or over swimming depth (2000 drams) are now called 'deep pools'. Added new, connected tiles for puddles. Ad... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 6, 2022
  May 07, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.35 The billowing conch of the Aji now blows gas in a cone. Mannequins can now be animated. The thrown weapons category is now also expanded with grenades when you're choosing a weapon to throw. In... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 29, 2022
  April 30, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.34 Skills learnable via the water ritual are now disambiguated when necessary. E.g., "Charging Strike" is displayed as "Charging Strike (Cudgel/Axe)". Bilge sphincters can no longer be used to dup... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 22, 2022
  April 23, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.33 The Joppa Zealot is now much louder. Improved the travel direction selection for the Joppa Zealot's particle effects. Description text for Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes now correctly descri... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 15, 2022
  April 16, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.32 Owned containers are shown as owned in the trade UI. Items in the owned container that belong to you are labeled to show that. The item listing when opening a container now shows which containe... Continue reading
• No Feature Friday this week
  April 07, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  Hi folks, Due to some team travel we'll be skipping Friday's patch this week. We'll resume next week. Live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 1, 2022
  April 02, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.29 Villages are no longer occasionally colonized by multiple versions of the same legendary creature, which lead to various issues. The quest 'Pax Klanq, I Presume?' now completes after you do the... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 25, 2022
  March 26, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.28 You can now use Sunder Mind on creatures who have been fully identified with Sense Psychic. Pulsed field magnets now pull just one item from your inventory at a time. Electromagnetic shielding... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 18, 2022
  March 19, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.27 Most forms of pathfinding will now automatically dig through walls, if need be, if you have digging capability. Autoact interruption by Heightened Hearing, Sense Psychic, and electromagnetic se... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 12, 2022
  March 12, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.25 When you are flying, force attack and automatic attack commands now use swoop if it seems productive for them to do so. Damage from Sunder Mind, Syphon Vim, poison, bleeding, and various other... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 4, 2022
  March 05, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.23 Wings and functional flight equipment now provide their overland travel bonuses regardless of whether you enable flight (you are presumed to always be flying in overland travel if you are able... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 25, 2022
  February 26, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.21 We made some improvements to saved games. Saved games are now less likely to break from patches or mod alterations. Most mods can now be disabled in the middle of a saved game. You can now bask... Continue reading
• The Deep Jungle feature arc is here
  February 17, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  Rampant greenspread canopies a starburst of the Eaters' richest works. The jungle is torn at the corners, where crysteel balustrades and star orchid lancets peek through... [203.18. Note: This update... Continue reading
• The Deep Jungle comes out this Thursday, Feb 17th
  February 14, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  Hello friends, We'll be bringing the Deep Jungle feature arc out of beta and into the mainline game this Thursday, Feb 17th. Until then, live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 11, 2022
  February 12, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.14 - 'beta' branch We made a bunch of changes to starting equipment. All castes and callings now start with at least 3-4 witchwood bark. Correspondingly, starting village apothecaries now stock on... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 4, 2022
  February 05, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.12 - 'beta' branch We gave Red Rock a big makeover. It's now much more cavern-like, includes unique encounters, and is home to a snapjaw settlement. We added a rare chance for power grid, hydrauli... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 28, 2022
  January 29, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.9 - 'beta' branch Added a new UI for the Continue screen and removed the stand-in overlay one. Mouse input is now enabled by default. On Roleplay and Wandor modes, Gyl is now a checkpoint location... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 21, 2022
  January 22, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.7 - 'beta' branch Added a new music track to deep caves. Sleeping waydroids in the Grit Gate enclave are now friendly to Barathrumites. Added two new shields: crysteel aegis and flawless crysteel... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 14, 2022
  January 15, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.6 - 'beta' branch Added a new music track to [redacted]. You now fall in love with statues and figurines depicting creatures you would normally fall in love with. Renamed "desert rifle"" to "Isaac... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 7, 2022
  January 08, 2022 by Freehold Games

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  203.4 - 'beta' branch Added new items: ogre fur hat, ogre fur gloves, and ogre fur cloak. You can now butcher ape fur hats and ape fur gloves from albino ape corpses. The descriptions of these items w... Continue reading
• The Deep Jungle beta is here
  December 30, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  Our Deep Jungle feature arc is now in beta. If you're interested, come help us test! We'd appreciate if you logged issues you find at our public issue tracker . Kindly include [beta] in the bug title... Continue reading
• No patch this week, Deep Jungle beta early next week
  December 22, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  Hello, We're skipping this week's update both to focus on our next feature arc (the Deep Jungle) and because it's Christmas Eve. Early next week, though, we'll be posting an early beta of the Deep Jun... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 17, 2021
  December 18, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.102 Equipment with power switches, such as ontological anchors, night-vision goggles, and ninefold boots, now grasts you an activated ability for toggling their power. Creatures that are immune to... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 10, 2021
  December 11, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.101 Robots and mutated plants can now be stunned. Baetyl, hermit, and mysterious stranger cherubim now belong to the correct factions. Pax Klanq is now immune to fungal infections. Dynamic quests... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 3, 2021
  December 04, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.100 Regen tanks no longer generate with drained capacitors. Mechanical cherubim no longer spawn as psychic thralls. Drinking algae or algal water now dehydrates you. Kraken hired as guards no long... Continue reading
• Belated Feature Friday - November 28, 2021
  November 28, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.98 Added hotkeys to the campfire menu. Neutronic sludges no longer spit neutronic liquid mixtures. Their melee attacks still cause neutronic explosions, though. Fixed a bug that caused loading def... Continue reading
• Caves of Qud price is going up to $19.99 early next year
  November 23, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  Hey all, As we move along our road map , fleshing out the game and getting closer to our 1.0 release, we've reached a point where it makes sense to raise the price from $14.99 to $19.99. If you're on... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 19, 2021
  November 20, 2021 by Freehold Games

  202.97 Made some tweaks to the price of identifying artifacts, particularly around the exponential explosion at the high end. The Tinker I Recharge ability now allows you to choose how many bits to us... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 12, 2021
  November 13, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.95 Fonts are now much crisper on the main gameplay screen. Hyperbiotic beds no longer regenerate limbs. Regeneration tanks now rejuvenate health and regenerate limbs. The tank must be filled with... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 5, 2021
  November 06, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.94 Disassembling a single item now has no action cost and no longer drops you out of the inventory. We may change this behavior again once we do more refinement to inventory action cost. Added wor... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 29, 2021
  October 30, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.93 Added a third completely transparent opacity setting to the minimap, nearby objects and message log opacity toggles. Added a window position lock toggle which removes the position and size bord... Continue reading
• The Palladium Reef feature arc is complete and now live. Patch notes here.
  October 25, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  "What an enchanting place! The maze of polyps allowed me to slink along, mostly unnoticed, and take in the doings of its flora and fauna. A rich diversity of life radiates across Qud, but in the Reef,... Continue reading

  
• Feature Friday - October 22, 2021
  October 23, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  This is a release candidate for Monday's launch. 202.89 - 'beta' branch Added a new book: In Maqqom Yd. Added new descriptions for the following creatures: Mak, Goek, and Bep. Added new descriptions f... Continue reading
• The Palladium Reef comes out on Monday, October 25th
  October 19, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  That's one week from today. This Friday, we'll post one last beta patch before the launch. Live and drink, friends... Continue reading

  
• Feature Friday - October 16, 201
  October 16, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.88 - 'beta' branch Added new descriptions for the following objects: starmchair, sofa, multicabinet, chalkboard, marble steps, glass hydraulic pipes in the Yd Freehold, and fulcrete with square wa... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 9, 2021
  October 09, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.85 - 'beta' branch The new quest Landing Pads is now fully implemented start to finish. Added a new music track for Rainbow Wood, Lake Hinnom, and Palladium Reef. Fixed a major OSX hang on startup... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 1, 2021
  October 02, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  203.83 - 'beta' branch Added all new tiles for most missile weapons. Added new items: kaleidocera cape, kaleidocera muffs, kaleidocera krakows, enigma cone, and enigma cap. Added a new book: The Murmu... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 24, 2021
  September 25, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.82 - 'beta' branch Flawless crysteel gear is now a bit rarer. Zetachrome gear is now much rarer. Added new creature descriptions: giant clam, ixlthyxl, tongue tyrant, star kraken, and galgal. Adde... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 17, 2021
  September 18, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  202.80 Added a new kind of fauna: bop sponge. Added new butcherable and harvestable consumables: bop cheek and tongue twist. Added three new cooking effect domains: rubber-based, powerful rubber-based... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 10, 2021
  September 11, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  2.0.202.79 Added a new wayfaring skill, Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes. Renamed Wilderness Lore: Mountains to Wilderness Lore: Hills and Mountains. Made moving across rivers, lakes, and the Rainbow... Continue reading
• The beta is here! Palladium Reef + New Character Creation
  August 31, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  The beta for our latest feature arc -- Palladium Reef / New Character Creation -- has arrived. The patch is unpolished but very functional; the full release is likely to come in the next few weeks. He... Continue reading
• Pausing weekly patches in the runup to our next Big Beta
  July 24, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  Hello folks, Our usual patch cadence is to update weekly and then pause those updates as we get ready for one of our big Feature Arc patches. That's where we are right now with our next Feature Arc: t... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 24, 2021
  July 24, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.114/202.74 If you already have Burrowing Claws, taking a skulk tonic now boosts its level. Creatures who feel victimized by inanimate objects no longer become retributively angry, usually. In orde... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 16, 2021
  July 17, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.113/202.73 Digging tools now work on rubble and boulders. You can no longer clean things while frozen. You are now asked for confirmation when loading ammo that's marked as important. You no longe... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 9, 2021
  July 10, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.110/202.70 Added a new item mod, overloaded, that can be tinkered or found on a variety of electronics, including most energy weapons. Overloaded items have increased performance but draw extra ch... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 3, 2021
  July 03, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.109/202.69 Moving via the Walk command now displaces neutral creatures the same way manual movement does. Added a new Automation option: "Show finding items while scavenging through trash as messa... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 25, 2021
  June 26, 2021 by Freehold Games

  2

  201.107/202.67 Tweaked madpole frenzy behavior. Now when they sense blood in their tile, they enter a frenzied state for 10 rounds that gives them +10 Quickness and makes them prefer bleeding targets... Continue reading
• No Feature Friday this week; back next week
  June 16, 2021 by Freehold Games

  2

  Hello friends, Due to some team travel, there'll be no patch this week. We'll be back next week. Until then, live and drink... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 12, 2021
  June 12, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.106/202.66 You can now disassemble HE Missiles. The chance of recovering any given bit from dissassembly of a missile is very low, since multiple missiles are created per batch. (Note: This won't... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - June 4, 2021
  June 05, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.105/202.65 If you know Meditate, you automatically begin meditating when you rest for 10 or more rounds uninterrupted. The effects of multiple items of serene visage on Meditate's cooldown now wor... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 28, 2021
  May 29, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.104/202.64 Added new descriptions for books and crocs. Urchins now bleed ink. Books are no longer breakable. You now receive a popup when a non-trifling companion is sucked into a space-time vorte... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 21, 2021
  May 22, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.103/202.63 Added the ability to direct companions to engage with enemies aggressively or only engage defensively. When only engaging defensively, your companion will not look for hostile targets t... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 14, 2021
  May 15, 2021 by Freehold Games

  2

  201.102/202.62 Added a new movement command: Move to Point of Interest (default mapping: backspace). The command prompts you with a list of points of interest that you've discovered on the local map,... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - May 7, 2021
  May 08, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.99 Added two new tracks for the [redacted]. Improved creatures AI for movement and use of activated abilities. As a result, Companions are now less prone to inexplicable states of inactivity. When... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 30, 2021
  May 01, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.98/202.58 Villagers now indicate direction when guiding you toward quest givers in the village. Carapaces and quills now appear in creature descriptions as physical features. True Kin who gain mut... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 23, 2021
  April 24, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.97/202.57 Slugs now below to the mollusk faction. If you are unable to use Take All because of a nearby hostile creature, you now get a popup message. Made sprinting and power skating work on the... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 16, 2021
  April 17, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.89/202.49 You can now talk to nests. Holographic plants are no longer affected by defoliant. Holograms can no longer be dismembered or decapitated. Holograms can no longer be pushed around. Baetyl... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 9, 2021
  April 10, 2021 by Freehold Games

  2

  201.88/202.48 When furniture with integrated power transmission systems becomes animated, the resulting newly sentient being no longer breaks every time it moves. You can no longer do the following wh... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - April 2, 2021
  April 03, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.85/202.45 Added a new tile for mechanical wings. Aquatic creatures now dream in blub-ridden language. Dirt paths, salt paths, and dirt roads are now more varied in their appearance. Added a subtle... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 26, 201
  March 27, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.81/202.40 You can now disassemble unidentified artifacts. Willpower now affects the recharge rate of Light Manipulation. The dispersion rate of gases is now somewhat higher. Rocket skates no longe... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 19, 2021
  March 20, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.77/202.36 Magazine-loaded heavy weapons can now be drum-loaded. Force fields, stasis fields, and normality fields can no longer be frozen. You no longer get to confirm whether you want to jump dow... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 12, 2021
  March 13, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.74/202.33 We changed how robots and mutations interact. Robots now have modules rather than mutations. Robots no longer receive mutation points nor do they rapidly mutate. Robots can no longer buy... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - March 5, 2021
  March 06, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.73/202.32 Tweaked the layout of the Tinkering screen. Improved the display of very large numbers of bits on the Tinkering screen. Removed some extraneous information from the display names and des... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 26, 2021
  February 27, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.71/202.30 Renamed miasmatic ash to osseous ash. Added a new gas type: miasma. Black ooze now vaporizes into miasma. Green goo now vaporize into poison gas. Brain brine now vaporizes (at very high... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 19, 2021
  February 20, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.70/202.29 Added all new tiles for melee weapons, over 50 in total. Added basic mouse support to field placement for force wall, force projectors, and portable walls. The activated abilities menu n... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 12, 2021
  February 13, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.69/202.28 Gave agolflies wings. Euclid now wanders around Barathrum's study but no longer attacks the mushrooms there. Dynamic quests that instruct you to find a location 3-7 parasangs in a direct... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - February 5, 2021
  February 06, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.68/202.27 Cans of Spray-a-Brain and nano-neuro animators now let you animate more types of inanimate objects (anything with the animatable tag) instead of just walls, doors, and tables. Added more... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 29, 2021
  January 30, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.67/202.26 Fear is now implemented as a status effect called Terrified. This means it now appears in creatures' descriptions, can be removed by phenomena that remove status effects, counts as a deb... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 22, 2021
  January 23, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.62/202.22 Warden Ualraig no longer carries glowspheres. Glowspheres are now more expensive. Lase now acts as a projectile for the purposes of passing through forcefields, fences, and low walls. Th... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 15, 2021
  January 16, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.61 Added ink, sap, and wax weeps. Made ink a little more common across the world. Recipes based on meals cooked with Canned Have-It-All now require a random ingredient from the Canned Have-It-All... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 8, 2021
  January 09, 2021 by Freehold Games

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  201.60/202.19 Creatures can now pathfind through force bubbles they are emitting. Creatures now care when you damage their force bubbles. Gamma moth's mutating gazes no longer have non-functional ener... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - January 1, 2021
  January 02, 2021 by Freehold Games

  201.59 Added several new movement-related commands: Move To Square (default mapping: ctrl-enter), which prompts you for a target square and attempts to pathfind to there. Move To Zone Edge (default ma... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 25, 2020
  December 26, 2020 by Freehold Games

  201.58 Burrowing Claws, nanopneumatic jackhammers, and pickaxes now enable an activated ability Dig. This is a form of autoact that allows you to automatically move in a straight line from your curren... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 18, 2020
  December 19, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  201.57 Sparking baetyls now sometimes request items modded in some way; for example, "SIX JEWEL-ENCRUSTED ITEMS" or "THREE ITEMS FITTED WITH SUSPENSORS". Vaporizing pools of water and acid now produce... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 11, 2020
  December 12, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  201.56 Turbows now allow Strength bonuses to apply to arrow penetration. Autoexplore and autowalk now open doors as a separate action before moving into the doorway. Attack-nearest can no longer targe... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - December 4, 2020
  December 05, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  201.55 There is a new autoget option, autoget special items, which currently causes you to autoget relics, extradimensional items, and quest items. It defaults to on. Autoexplore now collects items fr... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 27, 2020
  November 28, 2020 by Freehold Games

  1

  201.53/202.11 Tonic injectors now have an interaction command available for applying them to others. The fitted with filters mod now protects from critical failures on gas saves, the same as gas masks... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 20, 2020
  November 21, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  201.51 Added tiles for arrows, lead slugs, shotgun shells, missiles, and Schrodinger pages. Bats now have wings. Feral lah pods now respect phase. Forced drinking can no longer make you vomit indefini... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 13, 2020
  November 14, 2020 by Freehold Games

  201.50 Segmented mirthworms, knollworms, plated knollworms, worms of the earth, and leeches now leave corpses more often. Butchering knollworm corpses now produces knollworm skulls less often. Tweaks... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - November 7, 2020
  November 07, 2020 by Freehold Games

  201.49 New items: wristcomp, turbow, a variety of arrows. New implant: palladium electrodeposits. New helmet and mask mod: fitted with filters. NPCs no longer choose to use most tonic injectors as thr... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 30, 2020
  October 31, 2020 by Freehold Games

  201.48 The "Prerelease Stage Screen" option was renamed "Enable modern UI elements." and moved to the top of the Overlay options. It's now enabled by default. The options for prerelease stage scale an... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 16, 2020
  October 17, 2020 by Freehold Games

  201.47 Rejoinder is now toggleable. Fixed some cases where stack counts could appear in item repair messages. Made chest inventory generation, and village generation that depends on it, more resilient... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 9, 2020
  October 10, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  201.46 Clonelings' cloning ability now respects phase and flight. Magnetized items are now disabled by EMP. Magnetized containers can now carry a maximum of 25 lbs before they are too heavy to float... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - October 2nd, 2020
  October 03, 2020 by Freehold Games

  201.45 Village quests no longer have the chance to ask you to find a location "with a parasang" of another location. Instead, they may ask you to find a location "next to" another location, in which c... Continue reading
• Mutation Overhaul: our biggest mutation rebalance ever
  September 28, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  The Mutation Overhaul patch is here! This update includes our biggest mutation rebalance ever, new elements of our RPG-style UI, and hundreds of other changes. Enjoy! version 2.0.201.44 MUTATIONS We a... Continue reading
• Mutation Overhaul coming September 28th (this Monday!)
  September 25, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  Hi all, We'll be releasing our Mutation Overhaul patch this Monday, September 28th. It's slated to: be our biggest mutation balance patch ever introduce more elements of our new RPG-style UI include m... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 18, 2020
  September 19, 2020 by Freehold Games

  200.97 You can no longer be flying and wading at the same time. Lasers are no longer considered heat/fire damage or resisted by heat resistance. Boxes of crayons now have their own tile. The "clean" a... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 11, 2020
  September 12, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.95 Spindle negotiation reward relics are no longer easily scummable with Precognition. Millstones can now grind grave moss, compacted bone matter, and voider glands. The language sparking baetyls... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - September 5th, 2020
  September 05, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.91 Dying from a lithofex gaze now gives a better death message than "You die! (good job)". Phasing in now triggers any appropriate gravitational effects. Deep liquids no longer stop autowalk if th... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 28, 2020
  August 29, 2020 by Freehold Games

  200.90 Fixed a bug that caused certain worldmap graphics to be improperly hidden. [modding] The mutation lists in character generation are now sorted by display name rather than displaying in order of... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 21, 2020
  August 22, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.89 It's now possible to use a shield unskilled at a 25% block chance. The section in the manual on the combat sequence now includes a description of shield blocking. Attempting to move past the ed... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 14, 2020
  August 15, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.86 You can once again acquire fungal infections. On the character screen, attributes that are modified above or below their base values now display as green or red, respectively. You can also now... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - August 7th, 2020
  August 08, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.82 Examining artifacts now requires being able to move your extremities. Eating snacks now requires being able to move your extremities. The "HP warning threshold" option now defaults to on at 40%... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 31, 2020
  August 01, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.81 Trolls now know how to swim. Clicking a tile with a hostile creature now attacks the creature instead of attempting to speak with it. Gave rainboweave cloaks lower DV but a chance to refract li... Continue reading
• Feature Friday - July 25, 2020
  July 25, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  200.80 Swarmers now only contribute their swarmer bonus if they are hostile to the target. The swarmer bonuses of swarmers in the same tile no longer stack. Swarmers can now only receive one Swarm Alp... Continue reading
• The Tomb of the Eaters is here.
  July 18, 2020 by Freehold Games

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  After so many months, the Tomb of the Eaters has finally arrived. Here are the patch notes for our biggest update ever. Version 200.71 TOMB OF THE EATERS There's now a gigantic tomb complex built arou... Continue reading
• 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