Caves of Qud

Devlog

• Feature Friday - September 24, 2021
  September 25, 2021 by Freehold Games

  1

  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

  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

  2

  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

  3

  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

  5

  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

  5

  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

  2

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  4

  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

  5

  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

  4

  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

  4

  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

  1

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  6

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  4

  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

  2

  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

  4

  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

  2

  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

  3

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  4

  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

  3

  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

  9

  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

  5

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  5

  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

  4

  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

  2

  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

  6

  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

  4

  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

  6

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  4

  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

  5

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  3

  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

  4

  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

  6

  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

  2

  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

  3

  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

  4

  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

  1

  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

  4

  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

  3

  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

  4

  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

  6

  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

  4

  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

  5

  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

  4

  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

  4

  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

  5

  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

  4

  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

  4

  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

  5

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  4

  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

  5

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  3

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  5

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  5

  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

  4

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  3

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  2

  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

  2

  *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

  2

  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

  3

  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

  4

  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

  2

  *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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  1

  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

  2

  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

  1

  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

  2

  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

  9

  #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