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0.31 is a version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It was released on January 19th, 2024.

==Highlights==
*New skill and background: Shapeshifters, using Talismans to change forms.
*New skill and background: Alchemists, melding Poison Magic and Transmutation.
*A variety of exciting new spells for sorcerers and sword-slingers alike.
*Many dangerous new monsters, from the early Dungeon to the Realm of Zot.
*Major changes to many species.

==Artefacts==
*New unrand: Mule, a +7 flaming hand cannon which sometimes knocks the user backwards when fired.
*The dreamshard necklace now has Acrobat, but only restores the player to 1 HP when they'd otherwise die, rather than healing 50-100% of their max HP.
*Artefact staves and orbs can now enhance other schools of magic, even those which don't have corresponding base enhancer staff types.
*Gyre & Gimble's enchantment is reduced from +12 to +8.
*The macabre finger necklace is now evil, and the amulet of Vitality no longer is.
*Glaive of the Guard no longer gives +5 AC.

==Branches, Environment==
*The Slime Pits now have many new endings, instead of one fixed ending.
*Fast-moving adventurers can find gems at the bottom of many branches. These have no use, but are great for bragging rights.
*Negative energy clouds have been replaced with clouds of excruciating misery, which deal damage based on max HP %.
*The Ecumenical Temple is now fully mapped on entry.
*The lairs of the lords of Pandemonium have been reworked.
*Bazaars now have other (friendly!) patrons.
*Crypt now has a 1/3 chance of containing a talisman of death.
*The Hall of Blades in Elf:2 now holds weapon-enhancing scrolls, and sometimes has a blade talisman.
*'Hard' ice caves are displayed pre-entry as "glacial chasms".

==Character==
*New skill: Shapeshifting, used for talismans.
*New background: Shapeshifter, replacing Transmuter. Shapeshifters enter the dungeon with a beast talisman, a potion of lignification, and an animal skin.
*Merged skills: Poison Magic and Transmutations have been merged into Alchemy.
*Reworked background: Venom Mage has become Alchemist, which has the reworked spells Mercury Vapours and Sticky Flame, along with Sting, Mephitic Cloud, and Olgreb's Toxic Radiance.
*Reworked Hexslinger, which now starts with new spells Jinxbite, Sigil of Binding, and Dimensional Bullseye, along with Inner Flame and Cause Fear.
*Conjurers no longer start with Dazzling Flash.
*Shields no longer degrade in effectiveness with each hit taken per-turn. Instead, they now have a limit on per-turn blocks, based on shield type.
*New mutation: persistent drain, which makes HP drain take more XP to cure.
*Hunters and Chaos Knights now start with scrolls of butterflies instead of immolation and xom's chesspieces, respectively.

==Gods==
*Okawaru now gives exactly one weapon gift and one armour gift as a capstone (chosen by the player), rather than giving many random gifts.
*Ashenzari now gives perfect mapping, but only maps within LOS radius.
*Trog now disables pain brand instead of becoming angry at it.
*Nemelex:
**The Swarm card can now summon higher level bees.
**The Elements card has had its summon set adjusted.
**The Cloud card now produces different types of cloud based on power.
**The Deal Four ability now costs more piety.
*The Wu Jian Council now allows rampaging.
*Cheibriados piety gain now only depends on monsters' base speed.
*The good gods now hate distortion-branded weapons.
*Gozag no longer detects gold.
*Kikubaaqudgha's wrath has been overhauled to be much more dangerous.

==Interface and Options==
*Monsters with unusual items (e.g. distortion) are now highlit in purple by default.
*Monster descriptions have been compacted and made more informative.
*Monster resists from equipment is now used for display and targeting.
*For many list options, commas can now be escaped with backslash.
*The ctrl-T "toggle travel speed" option has been removed.

==Items==
*New item type: talismans.
**When used, talismans transform the player into a corresponding form. This transformation lasts until the player chooses to end it. It takes five turns to use a talisman.
**Shapeshifting skill increases the power of talismans' forms. Insufficient Shapeshifting skill reduces the player's maximum HP while in a form. Different forms have different min and max Shapeshifting skills.
**Beast talisman: starting talisman for Shapeshifters. Gives +Slay but melds aux armour.
**Flux talisman: starting talisman for Shapeshifters. Over multiple hits, contaminates enemies with magical radiation until they explode.
**Serpent talisman: transforms the player into a big, constricting python.
**Maw talisman: melds the body slot, transforming it into a devouring maw. Launches auxiliary chomp attacks and heals the player by devouring foes.
**Blade talisman: gives the player blade hands and also a blade body, reducing AC from body armour at lower Shapeshifting skill.
**Statue talisman: turns the player into a slow-moving, durable statue.
**Dragon-blood talisman: turns the player into a fire-breathing dragon.
**Storm talisman: turns the player into living lightning.
**Talisman of death: turns the player into an undead abomination, blighting foes on hit and tormenting them to heal.
*New item: sack of spiders, an XP-charged evoker which webs foes and summons creepy-crawlies. Alternates with boxes of beasts.
*Potions of flight replaced with enlightenment, which also give Will+.
*Scrolls of magic mapping replaced with revelation, which also give X-ray vision and sInv for one turn.
*New weapon: orcbow, between a shortbow and an arbalest in strength.
*Hand crossbows are now hand cannons, alchemically belching smoke and death.
*Ranged weapons' damage, delay and accuracy have been adjusted.
*Quick blades now hit twice for every swing, with a higher attack delay.
*Boomerangs of dispersal have been replaced with darts.
*Condenser vanes are now more effective at low power.
*Spectral weapons now share 70% of damage taken (from 50%).
*Staves of earth now check only 1x AC, but deal 1/3rd damage to fliers.
*The 'chaos' brand has a new set of possible effects.
*Wands of light no longer affect undead, plant and nonliving monsters.
*Wands of quicksilver can no longer be self-targeted.
*Troll leather armour now has slightly less base AC.
*Removed books: Sky, Rime and Transfigurations.
*Removed: silver boomerangs and xom's chesspieces.

==Monsters==
*Uniques:
**New: Jeremiah, a peaceful barachi trapped between sleep and waking. Their dreams leak into reality in a stream of beautiful butterflies.
**Returned and revamped: Norris, a death cultist who surfs into battle with a gang of skysharks.
**Maurice is now a vine stalker, with high regen and antimagic bites.
**Erica is now an octopode, with constriction and a more focused spell set.
**Frederick holds an orb, has a new spell set, and is much stronger.
**Boris now sprays clouds of misery instead of casting Invisibility.
**Xtahua and Mnoleg are considerably stronger.
*Other new and returned monsters:
**Arcanists, fairly dangerous vitrifying wizards.
**Bombardier beetles, an early monster that shoots sticky flame.
**Brain worms, which eat magic and minds alike.
**Burial acolytes, masters of the Ossuary.
**Crocodiles, which drag victims backward.
**Formless jellyfish, which constrict and sting for single-turn paralysis.
**Glass eyes, which vitrify victims to make them fragile as glass.
**Kobold blastminers, who blast enemies with alchemical cannons and get sent flying backwards by the recoil.
**Laughing skulls, whose painful laughter grows stronger in numbers.
**Protean progenitors, which split into shapeshifting fragments when slain.
**Weeping skulls, which spray clouds of misery.
*Other changes to individual monsters:
**Alligators and reapers are a bit weaker, but drag victims backward.
**Ufetubi, tengu warriors, and draconian monks now slip behind their foes before meleeing.
**Tengu reavers now have rMsl.
**'Wizard' has been renamed to 'occultist' and has a new spell set.
**Worms have turned into ribbon worms, doing less damage but ensnaring.
**Great orbs of eyes have a new spell set, and are slightly stronger.
**Cacodemons now Vitrify instead of casting Slow/Confuse.
**Killer Klowns now Vitrify instead of Polymorphing.
**Monsters which cast Energy Bolt now instead cast Bolt of Devastation, which applies Will/2 temporarily.
**Concentrate Venom (from naga mages and Amaemon) is more effective.
**Naga ritualists are much more powerful.
**Nagas' spit is now more powerful.
**Deep Elf Elementalists now cast LRD instead of Awaken Earth.
**Deep Elf Death Mages are tougher and summon many more lost souls.
**Red very ugly things now do direct fire damage instead of sticky flame.
**Sun moths have a different spellset and melee attack effects.
**Wargs are now notably stronger and faster.
**Abominations' speed is no longer randomized.
*Attacks of opportunity have been reworked.
**Monsters now have a chance to attack when moving into melee with a player who just moved away. Previously, this triggered immediately when the player moved away, didn't use any of the monster's time, and couldn't trigger for monsters slower than the player.
**Monsters have a slight chance to fall behind or catch up while following the player.
*Other behavioral changes:
**Giant monsters can now be ensnared by webs and nets.
**Jellies can no longer be netted or constricted.
**Allied undead no longer become angry when damaged.
**Allies match your speed when no foes are nearby.
**Polymorphing monsters no longer heals them.
**Monsters no longer use up charges when zapping wands.
**Monsters can no longer use scrolls or potions.
*Some monsters now have special dialogue after killing the player.
*Flying skulls have been removed.

==Species==
*Ogres have been renamed to Oni.
**They heal twice as much from potions, and launch a 'drunken brawling' melee attack against all adjacent foes when drinking healing potions.
**Some apts have been improved or tweaked.
**They now have Horns 1.
*Armataurs:
**At XL7 and higher, armataurs now regenerate HP and MP when rampaging.
**Their 'double potion' effect has been removed.
**Their max HP is reduced.
*Felids now get an extra life at XL 1, and don't lose XLs on dying. They also have higher base health, but no longer have fast movement.
*Tengu now have inherent Acrobat (+15 EV after moving/waiting) at XL 1. They now gain +4 EV at XL7 instead of a 20% EV bonus and fast movement.
*Humans now heal while exploring, but their XP apt is now average.
*Mummies now get their first necromancy enhancer at XL 1, not 3.
*Vine Stalkers now get regeneration at XL 1, not 4.
*Djinn now use all magic skills, instead of only Spellcasting. Djinn can only choose to train all magic skills or none.
*Ghouls start with an additional +4 Int and +1 MP.
*Formicids can no longer be involuntarily shafted.
*Meteorans have been removed.

==Spells==
*Poison Magic and Transmutations have merged into a new Alchemy school.
**Poisonous Vapours has been replaced by Mercury Vapours, which can now inflict Weak on the target and other creatures nearby, but has short range.
**Sticky Flame is now L4 Fire/Alch (was L4 Fire/Conj), does much more damage, but can be shaken off by non-forced movement.
**Ignite Poison is now L4 Fire/Alch (was L3 Fire/Poison/Tmut).
**Leda's Liquefaction is now L4 Earth / Alch (was L4 Earth / Hexes)
**Sting is now Conj/Alch (was Pois/Tmut), and has more range and damage.
**Fulminant Prism is now Conj/Alch (was Conj/Hex).
*New spells:
**Jinxbite (L2 Hex): deals additional Will-checking damage to foes attacked while its duration lasts, but also halves the caster's will.
**Sigil of Binding (L3 Hex): creates two magical traps nearby, which temporarily bind hapless victims in place.
**Brom's Barrelling Boulder (L4 Earth/Conj): creates a boulder, which crushes and knocks back foes and explodes when hitting walls.
**Martyr's Knell: L4 Summ/Necro. Summons a shade that absorbs damage taken by other allies. Becomes a flayed ghost on death.
*Replaced spells:
**Fugue of the Fallen (replacing Wereblood): Now L3 Necro (was L2 Tmut), triggers on ally kills as well as the player's, inflicts pain on nearby foes at max power, caps at +7 (was +9), and no longer gives minor healing.
**Blazeheart Golem (replacing Guardian Golem): Now L4 Summ/Fire (was L3 Summ/Hex). Now has slow, powerful, self-damaging melee, and blows up one turn after dying. Only functions when the player is adjacent.
**Dimensional Bullseye (replacing Portal Projectile): targets a foe and teleports all shots fired at other foes to also hit the chosen unfortunate.
**Curse of Agony (replacing Agony). Hexed foes have their health halved after each of the next two melee attacks the caster lands against them.
**Bombard (replacing Iron Shot). Sometimes knocks back the caster.
**Sculpt Simulacrum (replacing Simulacrum). L6 Ice/Alch (was L6 Ice/Necro). Creates simulacra of an adjacent foe after a few turns.
*Call Canine Familiar now summons inugami, dog spirits which scale with power. Recasting the spell heals the dogs and gives them a free cleaving attack, but if the inugami is defeated, it can't be resummoned for some time.
*Passwall is now L3 Earth (was L2 Earth/Tmut). It now has fixed range and gives temporary AC.
*Petrify can now chain its effect on up to two other adjacent foes, but has its range reduced to 6.
*Summon Ice Beast is now L3 (was L4).
*Plasma Beam no longer has limited range, but does 10% less damage.
*Arcjolt now initially arcs to foes within two tiles of the caster.
*Static Discharge now does more damage, but checks half AC instead of none.
*Hailstorm does more damage at low power and less at high power.
*Swiftness now works in water.
*Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot now drains the user much less.
*Borgnjor's Vile Clutch (and Fastroot) now work on invisible enemies.
*Borgnjor's Vile Clutch does less damage.
*Blastmotes now explode when waited in.
*Spellforged Servitor requires conjurations to be <=20% fail (was 50%).
*Many summons now have a shorter duration.
*Removed: Beastly Appendage, Spider Form, Ice Form, Blade Hands, Statue Form, Dragon Form, Storm Form, Necromutation.

==Tiles and Other Art==
*New art for existing game elements:
**Monsters:
***Ancient liches.
***Blink frogs.
***Deep elf death mages.
***Dragons.
***Rakshasas.
***Shrike simulacrula.
***Barachi and Oni (decorative).
**Unrands: Eos, Sniper, Starlight, Dragonskin, Ratskin and the Thief.
**Short sword and eveningstar artefacts.
**All bardings.
**Volatile Blastmotes (spell icon and clouds).
**Dragon form.
**Many mutation icons.
**Stone walls and floors in the Depths.
**Dithmenos's altar.
**The Orb of Zot.
*New Eustachio splash screen.
*Player body variants are randomized at the start of each game.

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