Caves of Qud

Devlog

• 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: equipment, consumables, cooking ingredients, etc. Added several new rock types. Redesigned the geological strata of natural cave systems by adding new rock types, creatures, plants, and terrain approp... 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 us test, switch to the beta branch, go explore some underground caves, and post your issues here . Stay tuned next week for the full patch release, which will include patch notes. Until then, live and... 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. Quest items preservables are now considered exotic foods. Creatures no longer sell their natural equipment. Reduced Slog's base move speed to balance against their buffed move speed while moving thro... 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 while moving through liquid. Gave slugs feelers instead of antennae. Photosynths now bleed a mixture of blood and sap. Telemetric data now appears in the descriptions of certain artifacts when you have... 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 amount of fermented yondercane yielded from preserving yondercane. Reduced the drop chance of voider corpses. Increased the price of urberries. Increased the drop chance of electric snail and snailmo... 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 now be cooked with. Meals cooked from village ovens no longer ever bestow a permanent +1 AV. Cooking recipe names are now more varied (there'll be less names like "Baklava with Smoked Baklava on top of... 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 powers and items no longer work when you're out-of-phase or have a different flying status than your targets: Kickback, Shield Slam, and geomagnetic disc. Select Target and Draw a Bead are now smarte... 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. Overburdened is now a visible effect. Bioscanning, techscanning, and structural scanning no longer show incorrect DV values. You can only sell unidentified artifacts for a fraction of their value. Conta... 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. Closed a loophole with reputation modifying items where the rep bonus gained from dominating a creature and equipping them with a rep-boosting item stuck around after the domination ended. When you domin... 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 of their original body plan. Body parts added later (e.g., via mutations such as Multiple Legs) were treated differently; equipment equipped on these parts didn't have their AV and DV modifiers factore... 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 who give dynamic quests no longer confusingly wander around their villages. Rehabilitated some jumbled outcomes for the Kith and Kin quest. Corrected the rhyme scheme of the procedural love poem. Dawng... 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 wield missile weapons unless their body plan specifies otherwise. Configured most body parts of the same type in a lateral arrangement and made newly grown body parts respect laterality. This means some b... 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 Lah, hidden in the flowerfields. Added a new faction: hindren of Bey Lah. Added several new hindren NPCs. Added a chain of quests: Petals on the Wind, Find Eskhind, and Kith and Kin. Added a new signat... 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. *Pouring liquid on the ground now results in a salt-diluted puddle of the same volume you poured, not twice that volume. *You can no longer avoid attacks by certain sludges on the basis of the attacks ove... 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 preserved into congealed blaze. Salve injectors can now be preserved into congealed salve. Carbide and fullerite fist implants now count as unarmed attacks. Laser beam and falling rock damage messages now ha... 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: preserve exotic foods. This option is for manually preserving foods that are otherwise consumable and so excluded from bulk preservation. Luminous hoarshrooms now preserve into freeze-dried hoarshroo... 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 levels granted by equipment and meals now count toward your psychic glimmer. Note that this change applies to true kin, too. Hindren clue items no longer appear as randomly revealed secrets via trash... 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 character in From Entropy to Hierarchy. Energy cells now only stack if they have the same charge level. Two-faced helmets and helping hands no longer prevent body parts other than the ones they're add... 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 wardens now attack wild beasts or snapjaws that make their way into villages. Objects traded to merchants are now considered part of their trade stock. Equipped items no longer used as ingredients when yo... 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 developments. Increased the diversity of village populations, particularly for the choice of warden. There's now a menu option to fill empty liquid containers. Fixed an issue with village item placeme... 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, richly cultured, and rife with sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world with us and chisel through a layer cake of thousand-year-old civilizations. We're pairing this launch with an enormous up... Continue reading