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'''0.24''' is a version of ''Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup''. It was released on October 25th, 2019.

==Highlights==
* Vampire species simplified
* Thrown weapons streamlined
* Fedhas reimagined
* Sif Muna reworked

==Branches, Environment==
* Incremental pregeneration:
** This mode generates the dungeon in a stable order for all games regardless of the path taken by the player, meaning that the behavior of seeds for online and offline games should now be the same.
** Games using the same seed will see the same dungeon if they are incrementally pregenerated without requiring the long initial generation time of full pregeneration as introduced in 0.23.
** Incremental pregeneration is the default mode for new games.
** Servers can now enable seed selection without heavy CPU cost.
* A Trove map requiring many uses of digging has been removed.
* Identification scrolls are no longer used as a potential Trove cost.
* Transporters in vaults now correctly place in the Abyss.
* Fog generation in the Desolation of Salt portal now happens far less often per turn, greatly reducing slowdown from high CPU usage.
* Random traps no longer place under items placed by vaults.

==Character==
* Formicids can now use their dig ability on diggable statues.
* Manticore barbs now can only be picked out if the player can move, isn't confused, and isn't asleep.
* Net traps now always trigger when the player steps on them.
* Vampiric weapons no longer have a hunger cost upon wield.
* Vampire simplification: Player vampires no longer eat or drink blood, and have exactly two blood states:
** Alive: Regenerates quickly, normal HP modifier, no undead bonuses, no batform, can transform and berserk normally.
** Bloodless: No regeneration with monsters in sight, -20% HP, stealth bonus, undead resistances, batform, no other transformations or berserk.
** Blood states are transitioned by an ability which costs delay; becoming bloodless incurs no penalty, becoming alive causes a temporary frail mutation.
** Bat form causes stat drain.

==Gods==
* Fedhas reimagined:
** Piety is gained exclusively from kills instead of through corpse decay.
** Fedhas abilities now create plant allies directly as temporary summons instead of creating permanent allies using plants. All abilities cost piety instead of food.
** New abilities:
*** 2*: Active 'Wall of Briars' ability to surround the player with briar patches. Hostile monsters will attack briars to reach you, taking damage.
*** 3*: Active 'Grow Ballistomycete' ability to place a ballistomycete at any location within radius 2. The ballistomycete will fire spores that seek out foes and make a 1-radius damaging explosion that additionally confuses living creatures.
*** 4*: Active 'Overgrow' ability to destroy any non-permarock walls in a 3x3 area, replacing them with plant allies, mostly wandering mushrooms or burning bushes and sometimes ballistomycetes or oklob plants.
*** 5*: Active 'Grow Oklob' ability to place an oklob plant at any location within radius 2.
** Fedhas no longer hates any necromancy spells, and allows worship by undead species.
** Removed abilities: Fungal Bloom, Reproduction, Growth, Evolution, Rain.
* Sif Muna reworked:
** Piety gain is exclusively from kills.
** 'Channel Energy' is available at 1* piety instead of 3*.
** 'Forget Spell' is available at 3* piety instead of 4*.
** New 4* 'Divine Exegesis' ability to cast any spell in your library regardless of skill training. Receives a spell-power bonus based on Invocations skill of 1.5 times the spell-power received from equivalent levels of training in the spell's schools.
** The Divine Energy ability and Sif's miscast protection are removed.
* Trog and Okawaru now can gift unbranded boomerangs and javelins.
* Jiyva's Slimify ability now works properly on skeletons, zombies and simulacra.
* Torment can now trigger Jiyva jelly spawns and Xom butterfly spawns.

==Interface==
* The 'X' key map mode has zoom support, defaulting to 60% zoom.
* Sealed off clinging and sensed monsters no longer stop autoexplore.
* Equipment melding no longer stops autoexplore and autotravel.
* Armour, jewellery, and weapons can be worn/wielded from the floor.
* Summoner monsters are now highlighted when the cursor is over one of its summons.
* Traps are now shown in the ctrl-x listing and are indexed in the stash tracker.
* Scarves are now properly shown on player tiles.
* Species and background selection menus now have tiles.
* Updated visual theme for main menu, high scores, and related screens.

==Items==
* New unrand: Staff of Battle, a staff of conjuration that spawns a battlesphere when a hostile monster is in view.
* Unrandart changes:
** The Storm Bow now has a penetration effect.
** Gyre and Gimble now has the protection brand, enchantment of +7, and no longer has Dex-3.
** Piercer has been removed, its effect having been merged into Storm Bow.
* Weapons with the holy wrath ego can now be cursed.
* Randart rings no longer generate with both rCorr and *Corrode.
* Throwing weapons have been streamlined.
** Blowguns are removed, needles are replaced with throwing darts.
*** Dart effects scale with Throwing and Stealth skill.
*** Darts of sleep, paralysis, confusion are removed.
*** Darts of frenzy are renamed datura-tipped darts.
*** A new dart brand, atropa is added. Atropa-tipped darts cause brief confusion and longer-lasting blindness in the target.
** Tomahawks are renamed to boomerangs and always return.
** Javelins always penetrate.
** Steel and silver are merged into a single brand, called silver. Silver ammunition applies the maximum of vorpal bonus damage and the old silver damage bonus.
** Poison, returning, penetration, and exploding are no longer available brands for tomahawks and javelins.

==Lua==
* Monster AC, EV, MR, MaxHP, and descriptions are now exposed in the CLua monster.info class.
* A new function 'defeat_mr()' to determine the chance that a given spell defeats a monster's magic resistance.
* There is a basic seed explorer available in scripts/seed_explorer.lua.

==Monsters==
* Monsters can now use wands of clouds, iceblast, and scattershot.
* Monsters clones created by Mara and rakshasa have the intended reduced HP of the original monster instead of several times that value.
* A monster having the Dig spell no longer allows it to cast spells out of LOS.
* Azrael and draconian scorchers can use Call Down Damnation when not at low HP.
* Player ghosts can be shafted.
* Golden Eyes no longer have randomized spellpower for their gaze.
* Monster airstrike uses the same formula as the player, reducing damage variance.
* Pikel's slaves no longer drop corpses nor items.

==Spells==
* The HP from Death's Door is fixed at time of casting rather than being updated continuously, hence being subject to changes in spellpower.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now properly triggers ally conducts when cast.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now applies direct damage and poison status in a way that considers the time of each turn.
* Shroud of Golubria's spellpower is now capped at 50.