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 edge of the world now gives a message instead of failing silently.
• When you fire a missile weapon without a target and your aim snaps to the nearest hostile creature, that creature is no longer set as your target.
• NPCs are now able to attack inanimate objects they want to destroy.
• Mutants with temporal fugue are now referred to as temporal fugitives in village histories.
• Lase now ignores targets it cannot hit when selecting a target.
• Dehydration notifications are no longer provided for companions who wouldn't generate a death notification.
• You can no longer swap position with neutral or friendly puffer fungi.
• Being involuntarily moved into a wall with burrowing claws or a drill equipped no longer forces you to attack the wall.
• Being involuntarily moved can no longer swap you with a hostile creature.
• Autoexplore can no longer swap you with an ignored hostile creature.
• Engulfed creatures now have the lowest priority for purposes of determining which creature is hit when a tile is attacked. The purpose of this change is to make it so that companions can reasonably attack creatures that are engulfing you.
• Village zones no longer fight with themselves over what music to play.
• Grenades, mines, and bombs can now be detonated as an inventory action.
• The classic UI key mapping screen now indicates that you can press delete to clear a command's bindings.
• The selection hotkeys for donating a book to Sheba Hagadias no longer goes into non-alphabetic characters when you have a lot of books.
• Projectile animations now become faster the longer the projectile's flight path is.
• Lase's animation is now faster in general, and becomes faster the longer its path is.
• Added variant death messages for being killed by electrical, acid, and disintegration damage.
• Fixed a bug that made delete in the classic UI key mapping screen fail to trigger the bindings being saved.
• Fixed a bug that caused temporary liquids (for example, acid pools produced by acid walltraps to become permanent through fluid dynamics processes.
• Myopia's effect on visibility distance now works in more contexts.
• Fixed a bug that degraded performance when creatures swam.
• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs with Flaming Hands, Freezing Hands, Freeze Breath, and other breath attacks to stand still when targeting an enemy in the same cell as a wall.
• Fixed a two-character grammatical redundancy in torches' description.
• Fixed the message given when you lay a mine or set a bomb.
• Fixed various instances of situation-specific death messages being overwritten by the generic, "You were killed by so-and-so".
• Fixed a bug that made agility contribute less to throwing accuracy than it was meant to.
• Fixed a bug that broke telepathy.
• [debug] Fixed a bug that caused the "Give 250000 XP" keybind to give the XP without leveling you.
• [modding] Creatures now respect their NoTrade tag in conversations.
• [modding] The Mods directory is now created on startup if it doesn't already exist.
• [modding] The ID attribute of your quests can now be used in QuestsByID. If an ID doesn't exist, Name is used.
• Proselytes and rebuked robots can now be dismissed from your service as an interaction command.
• Party members now more consistently behave in a fashion consistent with their leader's attitudes.

201.15 - beta

This patch includes the first batch of changes for a wide-scale mutation balance. More to come!

• When you level up to level 5, and every 10 levels afterward, your genome enters an excited state and you can rapidly advance one of your physical mutations.
• Rapid advancement increases the mutation's rank by 3.
• These three ranks don't count toward the rank 10 limit.
• Rapidly advanced mutations are still subject to the mutation rank cap that's based on character level.
• If you have 4 mutation points after gaining a level, you'll have a chance to buy a new mutation before you choose a mutation to rapidly advance.
• If you have no physical mutations at this point, nothing happens.

• We revamped several physical mutations.
  • Adrenal Control.
    • Reduced cost from 4 MP to 3.
    • We revamped this mutation.
      • You now gain an activated ability, Release Adrenaline, that increases your quickness by mutationLevel*2+38 for mutationLevel+19 rounds.
      • Cooldown: 100.
  • Burrowing Claws
    • Increased cost from 2 MP to 3.
    • Claws no longer occupy hand slot.
    • Your base fists are now replaced with claws that function as short blades and deal increased damage with mutation level.
      • levels 1-3: 1d2
      • levels 4-6: 1d3
      • levels 7-9: 1d4
      • levels 10-12: 1d6
      • levels 13-15: 1d8
      • levels 16-18: 1d10
      • levels 19+: 1d12
  • Carapace
    • Reduced cost from 4 MP to 3.
    • DV penalty is now a flat -2 across all mutation levels.
    • You no longer have trouble getting up when knocked prone.
    • Reduced the DV penalty for tightening your carapace from -10 to -2.
  • Carnivorous
    • Changed this into a defect that gives 1 MP.
    • Removed the tasty bonuses from eating meat.
  • Corrosive Gas Generation
    • Removed mutual exclusion with Sleep Gas Generation.
    • Increased the number of rounds you release gas for from mutationLevel/2 + 1 to mutationLevel+2.
    • Increased the cooldown from 35 to 40.
    • Corrosive gas no longer deals damage to items.
    • (cosmetic) Renamed the activated ability name to "Release Corrosive Gas".
  • Double-muscled
    • Reduced cost from 4 MP to 3.
    • Removed the movespeed penalty.
    • Changed the chance to daze on a successful melee attack to 13% + mutationLevel*2 for 2-3 rounds.
  • Electromagnetic Pulse
    • (cosmetic) Renamed the activated ability to "Emit Pulse".
  • Flaming Hands and Freezing Hands
    • Renamed to Flaming Ray and Freezing Ray. You now have the option to customize these mutations and choose a limb for the ghostly flames/icy vapor to appear on (Hands, Feet, or Face).
    • Now neither mutation occupies the Hands or any other body slot.
    • If you get the limb you chose severed, you lose access to the mutation's powers.
    • The temperature increase/decrease on melee attacks now applies to attacks made with any limb. We also added this behavior to the mutation description (it was previously undocumented).
    • Added a temporary exclusion with Beak.
  • Flaming Ray
    • Reduced cost from 5 MP to 4.
  • Freezing Ray
    • Increased cooldown from 10 to 20.
  • Heightened Quickness
    • Reduced cost from 4 MP to 3.
    • Removed the toughness penalty.
    • Increased quickness buff to mutationLevel*2 + 13.
  • Horns
    • You can now choose a cosmetic option for horns (horns, horn, antlers, casque).
    • Increased the chance for a horns attack from 20% to 25%.
    • Increased AV progression to (mutationLevel-1)/3 + 1.
    • Generalized damage to 2d[(mutationLevel/2)+3].
    • Improved bleeding damage to the following.
      • levels 1-3: 1
      • level 4+: 1d2 + (mutationLevel-4)/3
    • If you aren't wielding anything in your primary hand, you now attack with your horns as if they were your primary attack.
  • Multiple Arms
    • Increased the chance for extra attacks from 6% + mutationLevel * 2 to 7% + mutationLevel * 3.
  • Multiple Legs
    • Increased cost from 4 MP to 5.
    • Changed move speed bonus from mutationLevel * 5 + 3 to mutationLevel * 20.
  • Night Vision
    • You can now see [redacted].
  • Phasing
    • You can now phase back in on demand.
  • Photosynthetic Skin
    • Increased the bonus regeneration rate from Basking or cooking with lignin from 20% + mutationLevel * 4 to 20% + mutationLevel * 10.
    • Increased the bonus quickness from Basking or cooking with starch from 1 + Ceiling(mutationLevel/2) to 13 + mutationLevel*2.
    • Generalized the servings of starch and lignen you can store to [(mutationLevel-1) * 4] + 1.
    • Generalized the bonus duration of Basking's effect to [(mutationLevel-1) * 4] + 1.
  • Sleep Gas Generation
    • Increased cost from 3 MP to 4.
    • Removed mutual exclusion with Corrosive Gas Generation.
    • Increased the number of rounds you release gas for from mutationLevel/2 + 1 to mutationLevel+2.
    • Increased the cooldown from 35 to 40.
    • (cosmetic) Renamed the activated ability name to "Release Sleep Gas".
  • Slime Glands
    • You can walk now over slime without slipping.
  • Spinnerets
    • Activating Spin Webs no longer takes an action.
    • Made web save difficulty scale at 2X mutation level instead of 1X.
    • Increased arachnid reputation bonus from +200 to +300.
  • Thick Fur
    • Increased heat and cold resist bonus to +5
    • +100 reputation with all of the following: apes, baboons, bears, and grazing hedonists
  • Triple-jointed
    • Reduced cost from 4 MP to 3.
    • Removed the strength penalty.
    • Removed the bonus chance to dodge.
    • Added a 7% + mutationLevel * 3 chance that Agility-based skill powers don't go on cooldown after use
  • Two-headed
    • Increased cost from 2 MP to 3.
    • Improved mental action cost reduction from 16% + mutationLevel * 4 to 15% + mutationLevel * 5.
    • Improved chance to shake off a mental debuff from 5% + mutationLevel to 5% + mutationLevel * 2
  • Wings
    • Wings no longer take up the Worn on Back slot.
    • (cosmetic) Your Worn on Back slot is renamed to Worn around Wings.
    • +10% + (mutationLevel*10) move speed while sprinting.
    • Jump range is increased by (mutationLevel/3) + 1.
    • Charge range is increased by (mutationLevel/3) + 2.
• We nerfed the carbine and the sparbine.
  • Reduced carbine's accuracy.
  • The masterwork carbine quest reward now uses the same ammo as the standard carbine (lower damage).
• We made burning damage scale with temperature.
  • 1-100 above flame point: 1 damage per round
  • 101 - 300 above flame point: 1-2 damage per round
  • 301 - 500 above flame point: 2-3 damage per round
  • 501 - 700 above flame point: 3-4 damage per round
  • 701 - 900 above flame point: 4-5 damage per round
  • 901+ above flame point: 5-6 per turn
• Added a new clock to the main screen in the overlay UI.
• Added a new item: wrist fan.
• Added a new item mod: disguise.
• Dynamic villages can now generate with resident apothecaries.
• Elder Irudad now has some apothecary wares.
• Added a nice new overlay UI element for popup messages.
• The overlay UI now displays your drams of freshwater next to your weight.
• You can now access the mod manager from the main menu in the classic UI.
• You can now use Page Up, Page Down, +, and - to navigate the classic options & key mapping menus.
• You can now use Page Up and Page Down to navigate the tinker menu.
• The trade UI "don't have enough water containers" message no longer resets the trade window.
• Sprint now has a single active ability, "Sprint", which can be toggled.
• Stopsvalinn now has a better chance of spawning with a high-end energy cell, when it spawns with an energy cell.
• Spiral borers are now able to dig in reloaded zones.
• The Astral monster mutation can no longer be leveled
• Nonexistent journal entries can no longer be deleted.
• Fixed the switched cooking effect behavior on starch and lignin.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong XP value to be displayed in the Sheba Hagadias book turn-in dialog for stacks of books.
• [debug] The clearstatshifts wish no longer returns spent mutation, skill and attribute points.
• [modding] Most internal classes are now public.
• [modding] Colors, anatomies, options, conversations, and pronouns now reload properly when mod configuration changes.
• [modding] Fixed a bug that caused the detail color of subtypes to be merged onto the tile.