0.3.0

Template:Oldversion 0.3.0 is an old version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, released on October 31, 2007.

Release notes

Stone Soup 0.3.0 (20071031)

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

Characters

• Removed Hill Dwarf and Elf species.
• Demigods lose fast metabolism, get better stat gain.
• Kenku can kick with their talon feet, and can fly faster than normal when lightly burdened.
• Kenku and merfolk get an evasion bonus when in their element.
• Demonspawn get a bonus with demonic weapons.

Gods

• New god: Beogh, god of Orcs.
• Changed gods: Nemelex, Xom, Lugonu, Trog, Elyvilon, Okawaru.
• No need to pray to dedicate kills.
• Nemelexites no longer need a portable altar in order to sacrifice objects.
• Nemelexites are granted various deck manipulation abilites as they gain piety.
• [1761974] Trog gets a Burn Books ability.
• [1754125] Trog's Hand and Brothers in Arms replace Might and Haste.
• Elyvilon: Destroy Weapon ability replaces weapon sacrifices.
• Okawaru loses Minor Healing.
• Gods won't accept sacrifices of rotten corpses.
• Good gods no longer punish for unintended draining.
• Different messages now indicate piety gain for offered items.

Items

• New missiles: javelins, sling bullets and throwing nets.
• Throwing weapons may be generated with the "returning" brand.
• [1756363] New potion: potion of resistance.
• [1744612] Introduced weapons of returning.
• [1789869] Items which the player sees a monster use become identified if they have an obvious effect.
• Artefact jewellery doesn't auto-id anymore, instead "obvious" changes and abilities give a message.
• [1768865] Added inscription prompt when viewing items.
• Viewing via inventory listing won't leave the inventory.
• [1735752] Autoinscribe wands with zap count.
• Added autoinscriptions for items used by monsters.
• Warning inscriptions now actually work for all advertised commands ([1795568] !r now prevents scrolls from being read.)
• [1793698] In the item selection menu, pressing "." will toggle the selection of the item after the previously selected item.
• [1783003] More menu sorting methods, and fixed jewellery sorting bug.
• Book shops are less likely to stock duplicate copies.
• [1746014] Added command to cycle through ammunition when 'f'iring.

Monsters

• Abominations created by Twisted Resurrection now count as undead.
• Increased spawning rate after picking up the Orb.
• Berserked monsters attack nearby enemies and ignore ally commands.
• Monsters confused by you that kill themselves or others now give xp.
• [1779770] Monsters taking stairs are created according to stair destination.
• Monster descriptions are shorter when looking at them with 'x' and targeting.
• Unflasked efreets are permanent.
• Mummy priests and greater mummies now have high intelligence.

Levels

• Added portal vaults, specifically bazaars.
• Labyrinths look much different now.
• Changed rock stairs to escape hatches.
• New trap type: net trap.
• Added several new vault maps.
• Monster generation rate in the Vestibule drops with time spent in the Vestibule.
• Fixed sealed rooms being generated in the Vaults.

Interface

• [1772497] runrest_ignore_monster can be used to ignore distant mosters when running, resting or exploring.
• Filter talk and sound channels from interrupting resting
• Filter information from examining your surroundings from message history
• Three new informational-only hunger states: near starving, very hungry and very full.
• Added pickup.lua for smarter autopickup
• Added trap_item_brand for traps hidden by items
• Added visible beam path for targetting
• Added warning when trying to fight wielding a non-weapon
• Interlevel travel also allows travelling to entrances of branches
• Polearms can be used to attack monsters submerged in shallow water using Ctrl+direction when adjacent.
• Added support for Unicode glyphs in Unix.
• Large viewport support for terminals larger than 80x24 if the view_max_width and view_max_height options are set.
• Quit prompt needs "Yes" to confirm.

Miscellaneous

• Crawl needs Lua - Lua 5.1 sources are included with the Crawl sources.
• Monster, spell and feature descriptions and monster dialogue are now loaded from text files.
• [1777426] Explosions can no longer pass through walls.
• Invisibility is more useful.
• User Lua scripts now have limits on CPU usage and memory use and are safer to use on public servers.
• Fixed DOS glitches.
• Game time reported by Crawl clamps time-per-move at 5 minutes.
• More fixes for Crawl to play well with dgamelaunch.