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 natural weapons.
  • Learned cherubim now properly discharge clockwork beetles.
  • Added descriptions.
  • Added cherubim to dynamic encounters.
  • Gave cherubim appropriate ASCII glyphs.
• Gave appropriate names and descriptions to carved stone and gilded marble from the various periods of the sultanate.
• Added descriptions for mural endcaps and mural medians.

General notes:

• We made some changes to sparking baetyl rewards.
  • Item rewards are now much better.
  • Item rewards now scale with both the baetyl's zone difficulty and the tier of the demanded item.
  • Reduced the maximum number of demanded items to six.
• Baetyls asking for Templar phylacteries no longer ask for the phylacteries of specific people.
• Trees are now stronger and tougher.
• Attacking into a frozen zone now thaws it. This is most relevant when attacking up or down stairs.
• Removing energy cells from owned items now angers their owners.
• You can now pour into equipped liquid containers.
• When selecting a container to pour a liquid into, containers that already contain that liquid now appear at the top of the list.
• Smart use on environmental liquid pools and liquid containers now opens the interaction menu rather than going directly into the pour-into-container action.
• Cleaning yourself using liquid from an owned vessel now potentially angers its owners.
• Gave the following objects better ASCII glyphs: sultan shrines, Asphodel, Asphodelytes, walkways, various vessels, and yawning gap.
• Made some improvements to creature pathfinding.
• Rebekah's tombstone no longer shows up in dynamic contexts.
• Fix-It spray foam and other applicators, when unidentified, no longer reveal themselves when you back out of an interaction.
• The water ritual can no longer be used to obtain unlimited cybernetics credit wedges.
• Shank now respects phase and flight.
• Sheba Hagadias will no longer lay mines if a miner or deploy turrets if a turret tinker.
• Fixed a bug that caused some village tinkers to not be members of their village's faction.
• Fixed a bug that caused companions to take steps in the wrong order when trying to follow their leader.
• Fixed a bug that caused one-shotting a creature to fail to trigger hostility in the creature's nearby allies.
• Fixed a bug that caused camel bladders to fail to negate the weight of the liquid in them when worn.
• Fixed some bugs in water ritual option coloring.
• Fixed a bug in tiling of liquid pools as they change size.
• Fixed a bug that made snapjaw forts, starapple farms, and pig farms not generate properly in village outskirts.