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A review and basic guide for the game Caves of Qud

Caves of Qud has received an update that makes a notable change to the willpower stat.

Feature Friday - August 4, 2017

• We're trying out a change to how Willpower works. It now modifies the cooldowns of all activated abilities, not just mental mutations. Each point of Willpower above 16 decreases cooldowns by 5%, down to a minimum 20% of the original cooldown or a minimum 5 rounds. Likewise, each point of Willpower below 16 increases cooldowns by 5%.
• We reduced the power level of Freezing Hands and (to a lesser degree) Flaming Hands.
• Freezing Hands: reduced the magnitude of the temperature decrease and reduced damage from (level)d4 to (level)d3+1.
• Flaming Hands: slightly reduced the magnitude of the temperature increase and reduced damage from (level)d6 to (level)d4+1.
• New liquid: sap.
• Added sap to the list of potential cure ingredients for diseases and fungal infections.
• Creatures now bleed appropriate blood types.
• Robots now bleed oil.
• Plants now bleed sap.
• Oozes now bleed slime.
• Fixed an issue that caused shields to not apply their AV bonuses when you blocked an attack.
• Made the Berate messages more sensible.
• Fixed the reputation formatting on the Reputation screen for factions that love you.
• Fixed engraved and painted items occasionally spawning with no historical events depicted.
• You no longer get "x pours out all over you" messages when other creatures get liquids poured on them.
• Fixed an issue causing cloned liquid volumes to share the source volume's liquid mixture.
• [modding]Added the following tags to specify what blood type a creature uses.
• BleedLiquid, ex: <tag Name="BleedLiquid" Value="sap-1000"></tag>
• BleedColor, ex: <tag Name="BleedColor" Value="&amp;W"></tag>
• BleedPrefix, ex: <tag Name="BleedPrefix" Value="&amp;Wsappy"></tag>

A lot of new features were added to the popular roguelike Caves of Qud:

• We added hatters, glovers, armorers, and haberdashers.
• Added hatter, glover, armorer, and haberdasher tents to the Stiltgrounds.
• Added legendary hatter, glover, armorer, and haberdashers. You'll find their workshops as new overland encounters.
• Descending into a pit or open air while flying no longer grounds you.
• Added more variety to the geometry of historic sites.
• The Quest screen now has a scrollbar, scrolls smoothly, and properly wraps text.
• Added an option to scale the minimap (under Overlay UI).
• Added an option to scale the nearby items list (under Overlay UI).
• Monster AI now uses the Cudgel powers Conk, Slam, and Demolish.
• Monster AI now considers broken and rusted item statuses when equipping gear.
• Oboroqoru and rhinoxes now have a few more cudgel powers.
• Slam now properly requires a cudgel to use.
• Liquid volumes no longer interfere with other smart-useable objects.
• 'Spread Klanq' quest steps now properly complete when you spread Klanq to the proper targets.
• Made the Pax Klanq quest sequence a bit more robust.
• You can no longer choose a square without a target when you charge.
• Creatures that live on walls no longer spawn in the middle of a solid group of walls.
• Fixed some cases where objects spawned on stairs.
• Consuming an Eater's fleshcap no longer permanently decreases quickness.
• For clarity, we renamed 'Eater's flesh' to 'elcatl' and 'Eater's fleshcap' to 'Eater's flesh'.
• If you have burrowing claws and you use a skulk injector, you no longer lose your claws when the effect
• wears off.
• Made it clear that invoking the Chaos Spiel infuriates Asphodel.
• Added more messaging for shaking off dazings and stuns.
• Fixed some rare cases where commands were being issued twice in the overlay UI.
• Fixed some cases where overlay UI elements incorrectly displayed on top of each other.
• Fixed an issue causing the selected conversation option not to be highlighted when a conversation started.
• Fixed some rare cases where dismembered limbs didn't drop the items they had equipped.
• Fixed some rare occurrences of objects cloning themselves when slipping on slime.
• Fixed a rare hang during map generation.
• Cleaned up the text for becoming afraid.
• Fixed a typo in the hulk honey damage message.
• Removed <redacted> and <redacted> from dynamic encounters.