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0.30 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It was released on May 5th, 2023.

==Highlights==
*New background: Reavers, spellswords with powerful but situational Conjurations.
*Palentongas reworked into Armataurs, with innate rampage and an affinity for potions.
*A variety of exciting new spells for warriors and wizards alike.
*Many new and reworked artefacts, both random and fixed.
*Lugonu made more available and tempting to unfortunates cast into the Abyss.

==Branches, Environment==
*It is now possible to enter the Vaults without holding a rune. However, a rune is still required to leave.
*Slime walls now apply corrosion to the player, rather than dealing damage. Jiyva's Oozemancy ability still deals damage as before.
*Thunderstorms now deal much more damage.

==Character==
*New background: Reaver.
**Reavers are warrior-mages, primarily focused on melee combat but with situational Conjurations for tough situations.
**Reavers begin with two new spells, Kiss of Death and Momentum Strike, as well as a revised version of the Hailstorm spell.
*Species rework: Palentonga -> Armataur.
**Like Palentongas, Armataurs are large, scaled mammals, wearing bardings instead of boots.
**Armataurs lose the Rolling Charge and Curl abilities. They gain Rollpage (innate Rampage) and long tongues, which double the effects of potions but slow down scroll reading.
**Armataurs' aptitudes have been adjusted.
*Background changes:
**Monks now start with an orb of light.
**Warpers replace Gell's Gravitas with Vhi's Electric Charge.
**Hedge Wizards have Conjure Flame replaced by Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot.
**Fire Elementalists have Conjure Flame replaced by Volatile Blastmotes.
**Ice Elementalists have Hailstorm replaced by Summon Ice Beast.
**The 'Arcane Marksman' background has been renamed to 'Hexslinger'.
**Removed the Abyssal Knight background.
*Miscellaneous species changes:
**Mummies gain innate Faith, giving them extra piety gain.
**Large species move at normal speed through shallow water.
**Formicids can now shaft themselves in the Tomb of the Ancients.
**Species size no longer affects SH.
**Pale draconians' breath is no longer usable twice as often as others'.
*rF- and rC- are added to the 'bad mutations' pool.
*All players regenerate an extra 0.2 HP/turn.
*Will is now capped at `+++++`.
*It is now possible to stack two levels of Harm.
*Reaching the end of the Zot clock now causes a smaller amount of permanent max HP loss (similar to Borgnjor's Revivication), rather than temp HP drain.

==Gods==
*Lugonu:
**Banishment is now available at ** piety (from ***), has a lower failure chance, and causes malmutation when resisted.
**When the player suffers the wrath of another god, Lugonu now responds by banishing some number of hostile monsters nearby.
**Lugonu's altars are more common in the Abyss, and the piety bonus for converting to Lugonu in the Abyss has been increased.
**The Bend Space ability has been removed.
*Ashenzari:
**Skill boost reduced.
**Trap detection moved to 4* (was at 0*).
**Removed Astral Vision (automatically seeing through walls).
*When worshipping at a faded altar, the player is given a preview of three gods the altar might belong to.
*Xom's mutation gifts are no longer limited to a small pool of options.
*Gozag's corpse-to-gold effect now blocks enemies from creating simulacra, and the duration of the distraction effect is no longer based on corpse size.
*Fedhas protects trees from being set on fire by the player.
*Okawaru's Heroism and Finesse abilities cost more piety.
*Hepliaklqana's Knight now attacks 50% more slowly.
*Good gods will now suppress evil clouds from Condenser Vanes.

==Interface and Options==
*Two new menus that unify all equip and unequip actions:
**The Equip menu (`e`) combines wield, wear, and put on commands for equipping weapons, armour, and jewellery, respectively.
**The Unequip menu (`c`) allows to unwield, take off, or remove any equipped item.
**Tab toggles between equip and unequip.
*Character overview ('%') screen:
**Displays much more information about items, moving niche statuses downward.
**No longer shows .s for low Stealth values.
*Damage ratings are now shown via @, including those for unarmed combat.
*An indicator is now displayed when movement would cause a Rampage.
*Bumping a foe while holding a ranged weapon shoots instead of bashing.
*The piety cost of divine invocations is now shown more clearly.
*Spells' maximum damage is now displayed in their descriptions.
*Unrands (pre-defined artefacts) have a distinct colour by default.
*Almost all unrands with special behavior now have a corresponding inscription.
*Many weapon brands now provide more quantitative damage information.
*Up to 100 waypoints can now be placed (up from 10).
*New show_blood option allows disabling blood spatters and bloody corpses.
*Webtiles muting commands are reworked into a block mechanism; see `/help` in webtiles chat for more details.

==Items==
*New brand: Heavy.
**Heavy weapons have +80% base damage and +50% attack delay.
**Both melee and ranged weapons can be Heavy.
*Elemental evokers:
**Lightning rods now do 50% more damage.
**Elemental evokers now recharge faster in the early game and slower later.
**Each elemental evoker can now generate at most once in a given game.
**Jiyva jellies can no longer eat elemental evokers.
**Condensation Vanes and Tremorstones can no longer both generate in one game.
**Phials of floods have their range and effect duration reduced.
*Evocable invisibility and blink no longer have an MP cost.
*Spells have been reshuffled between books, and a new Maxwell's Memoranda book has been added.
*Shield penalties are now reduced by Str rather than by players' size.
*Orb, scarf, and magical staff artefacts can now appear.
*Orbs of energy now give -Wiz in exchange for a chance to refund MP when spells are cast, with no chance of backlash.
*Scrolls of butterflies now blow back nearby creatures and create many more butterflies. They now alternate with scrolls of summoning instead of fog.
*Rings of evasion are now +5 (were +4).
*All ranged weapons can now generate with electrocution, antimagic, and draining brands. Venom ranged weapons no longer appear.
*Ranged weapons are now quieter.
*Longbows, arbalests and hand crossbows have had their stats slightly tweaked.
*Throwing weapons now deal extra damage when they break.
*The spectral brand now matches the player's accuracy and damage, the latter reduced by 30% (ala cleaving).
*Short sword attack delay reduced.
*Removed the 'vorpal' brand.

==Monsters==
*New monsters:
**Sleepcap: native to the early Dungeon, sleepcaps may inflict sleep on hit, making the player take massive damage from whoever attacks next.
**Skyshark: appearing in late Lair and early Shoals, skysharks become enraged on drawing blood - first becoming Mighty, then Berserk!
*Demonic Crawlers lose the Warning Cry ability and elemental resistances in exchange for higher damage and very fast regeneration.
*Doom Hounds' Howl is now resistable by Will.
*Many monsters do somewhat less damage.
*Walking Tomes are now unable to cast while silenced.
*Ironbound Frosthearts' Creeping Frost spell is now fully resistable by rC.
*Fleeing monsters will no longer avoid harmful clouds.
*Monsters, notably Asterion, can now use spectral weapons.

==Spells==
*New spells:
**Kiss of Death (L1 Conj/Necro): does high draining damage to an adjacent enemy, at the cost of significant max HP drain to the caster.
**Momentum Strike (L2 Conj/Tloc). Redirects the caster's momentum for a damaging attack that doesn't require line of fire, but locks the caster in place for some turns after a hit (and cannot be recast until this expires).
**Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot (L2 Necro/Air/Pois). Rots away the caster's flesh to create a cloud of deadly miasma on their tile.
**Volatile Blastmotes (L3 Fire/Tloc). Creates an explosive cloud on the caster's tile, usable as a land mine or tricky tool.
**Vhi's Electric Charge (L3 Tloc/Air). Launches the caster at a nearby foe and launches a crackling melee attack, phasing through creatures en route.
**Arcjolt (L5 Air/Conj). Electrocutes everything adjacent to the caster, everything adjacent to those creatures, etc, etc, in a chain.
**Plasma Beam (L6 Fire/Air): Fires a bolt of lightning and another bolt of fire, both at the most distant foe.
*Hailstorm moved to L3 (from L4) and can now miss.
*Call Imp now always and only calls a spear-wielding cerulean imp.
*Manifold Assault moved to L4 (from L5) and does half as many attacks with UC as with a weapon.
*Lesser Beckoning moved to L2 (from L3) and is now better at low power.
*Battlespheres now fire when any destructive spell is cast, not just Conj.
*Ozocubu's Refrigeration's damage has been increased.
*Slow no longer has bonus hex power.
*Irradiate now only has a 50% chance of malmutating affected creatures.
*The Scorch, Simulacrum and Static Discharge spells have been weakened.
*Removed: Conjure Flame, Corpse Rot and Lightning Bolt.

==Tiles and Other Art==
*New tiles for player draconians.
*More icons for mutations.
*Several new splash screens.
*A new icon for Monstrous Menagerie.
*New art for many monsters, including Prince Ribbit and X-shaped simulacra.
*New art for many unrands, including the Elemental Staff and Wrath of Trog.
*New holiday-exclusive tiles for Sigmund, ogres and hats.

==Unrands==
*New unrands:
**The Hermit's Pendant, an amulet of faith that sets the wearer's Invocations skill to 14 and their Evocations skill to 0.
**The Consecrated Labrys, a holy axe with sInv, Flight, and an enchantment that grows larger while more dangerous enemies are in view.
**The Slick Slippers, which make all damaging melee attacks trample their wearer backward. They provide immunity to constriction, engulfing, etc.
**The Force Lance, a Heavy +5 lance (ala Wyrmbane) which has a 1/3 chance of knocking back foes when landing a damaging blow.
**The Storm Queen's Shield, a +5 kite shield of rElec and flight which fires electrical retaliation at those it blocks.
**The toga "Victory", a robe which gains AC, Int and Slay as the wearer slays dangerous foes, but loses everything if they drink or read near foes.
*Orbs:
**The Staff of Dispater is now an orb with +AC and *Corrode.
**The Staff of Battle is now an orb. It now enhances all destructive spells (matching Vehumet's categorization), but de-enhances other spells.
**The Staff of Wucad Mu is now an orb, with double the MP refund chance of a normal orb of energy.
*Devorpalization:
**Sniper is now +27 and Heavy (was +9 and Vorpal).
**The Dark Maul is now Heavy (was Vorpal), and has its base stats adjusted.
**Other formerly Vorpal unrands have been adjusted individually.
*The Mad Mage's Maulers lose Int-3 and RegenMP, gain -Cast and MPVamp (gain MP from damage dealt), and deal twice as much damage when spending MP.
*The Ring of the Hare is now +10 (was +8).
*Majin-Bo is now one-handed and deals much more damage in melee.
*The sceptre of Asmodeus is now an eveningstar that summons demons on-hit.
*The Elemental Staff now provides weaker resistances.
*The Lochaber Axe now causes HP Drain on unequip.
*Removed Morg.

0.30 - Revision history

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