0.1.3

Template:Oldversion 0.1.3 is an old version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, released on November 16, 2006.

Release notes

Stone Soup 0.1.3 (20061116)

• Updated documentation and reorganised the manual.
• Jewellery puton/remove interface can now automatically remove amulets and rings before wearing new jewellery.
• Rings/staves of wizardry give a bigger boost to spell success rates.
• [1594109] Fixed bad messages when trying to animate a weapon if no weapon is wielded.
• [1589854] Orange and silver statues are now monsters.
• [1593356] Fixed ghouls being able to mutate.
• Fixed undead decomposing from mutation only if wearing an amulet of resist mutation.
• [1593318] Rearranged skills display for ranged combat and unarmed combat.
• [1593089] Escape can be used to break out of sequential pickup prompt in addition to 'q'.
• Curare-tipped needles are more fragile than ordinary needles.
• [1592629] \ now shows item identification knowledge in shops.
• [1592521] Fixed the invisibility check for tracer beams to produce nicer results.
• Fixed beta 26 bug: Glow contamination has an extremely severe mutation rate.
• [1591152] Fixed macros being able to infinite loop.
• makefile.lnx renamed to makefile.unix.
• [1578169] More intelligent messages when monsters hit themselves.
• [1591105] Invisible monsters can no longer 'gesture wildly.'
• Added an option, increasing_skill_progress (default false), which if true makes skills display in increasing percentiles.
• [1591103] Fixed incorrect no-damage messages with vorpal brands.
• [1590656] Fixed bad claw message.
• [1591269] Dissection failure hints why without easy_butcher.
• [1585863] Added a level compiler.
• [1589868] Lightning grounds on metal walls; fire/cold reflect off green crystal.
• [1588662] Let the player know why they didn't pass out after berserking.
• [1589824] Long messages were being truncated.
• [1587182] Eliminated possibility of murky clear potions.
• [1588587] Amulets of resist corrosion also reduce acid damage.
• [1585820] Lowered skill penalties for player draconian colours.
• [1589141] Mimics can no longer push player off stairs.
• [1588831] Fixed poison frost/flame beams from blowguns being useless.
• [1581270] Amulet of the gourmand refactoring:
  • When hungry, only converts contaminated chunks to clean.
  • When not hungry, converts contaminated to clean, and provides nutrition based on how long it's been worn, the effects maxing at 200 turns with AotG.
  • Maybe we should increase this further.
  • Rotten chunks will sicken susceptible races even with AotG.
  • Appropriate flavour messages for chunk taste.
  • Changed description of AotG.
• Beam code rewritten.
• Line-of-sight code rewritten.
• [1584969] Allow the user to cancel out of a spell at targeting prompt without losing the turn.
• [1581221] When taking a low-hp note, also mention what caused the hp loss.
• Chain lightning is a little more powerful.
• Shields can be worn/taken-off faster.
• Nemelex has a small chance of giving piety even for junk.
• [1586069] Fixed player yellow draconians not having a BWpn delay.
• [1585811] Fixed inability to generate fixedarts.
• [1585793] Increased frequency of altars and mini-temples.
• Fixed multidrop not remembering previously selected items that were not dropped.
• Okawaru is less eager to shower missiles on the player.
• Slightly upped MR for draconians and death drakes.
• [1571251] Added a character picker to select existing savefiles.
• [1580955] Fixed mesclr() not happening for keypad action in DOS.
• [1581536] Monsters won't break fleeing if hit by missiles.
• [1578124] Additional help for level-map.
• [1581418] Curse toes are now visibly different from curse skulls.
• [1581730] Monster draconians can now have a base colour + skill title.
• [1578847] Summoned unholies are hostile to worshippers of good.
• [1567659] Ammo can ID through use.
• [1574591] Wait for one second after hinting "a fine choice".
• [1576514] Bees could cause bad fight messages.
• [1578752] Better handling of init.txt locations.
• [1581210] Draconians go to Zot, deep elves leave.
• [1571320] Ghost names were being truncated badly.
• [1571272] Ignore rod-recharge MP fluctuation while resting.
• [1578875] Added JPEG's trapwalk.lua to the list of official Lua scripts.
• Changed autopickup default to be the same as in the standard init.txt.
• [1579636] Fixed notes being generated after death.
• [1565579] [1565575] Rods and missile launchers work with shields.
• [1574462] Fixed labyrinth files not being deleted correctly.
• [1577066] If all items on a square are squelched, the squelch is ignored.
• [1563661] Character dump section order is now configurable with dump_order.
• Updated keyboard help screen.
• [1575175] Fixed orcs getting elven and dwarvish equipment.
• [1575517] Fixed broken colouring on rod spell screen.
• Piety gain works normally in the temple again.
• [1571342] Fixed bad grammar for rotting meat.
• Stash-tracking defaults to "explicit", rather than "none".
• Accept g as an alternative key to go into the pickup menu.
• Superior submerge behaviour for monsters in fountains.
• Fixed acquirement giving bad items (specifically with barding.)
• [1571334] Fixed clumsy titles: "Master of Thousand Battles", "Master of Arcane".
• Lochaber axes now get correct combat messages.
• [1563548] Escape dumps you out of both menu and prompt.
• [1571278] Horn of Geryon monsters are defined as MF_CREATED_FRIENDLY and thus give no benefits when dying.
• [1571276] Altar cards don't look for a better spot.
• Import of (most of) 4.1's view code.
• Spriggans are told that they are fast.
• [1567636] Made the Orcish Mines entrance message more informative.
• [1568413] Conjurers and wizards get to choose their starting spellbook.
• [1567640] Uniques with less than 5 hit dice can't get top-tier wands in their starting inventory.
• [1563668] Travel respects easy_open.
• Added a better go-to-hell message when attempting to cast Swiftness in water.
• Berserkers now have stealth 0.
• 4.1 import: better messages when gaining skills, better '@' report.
• [1567625] Moths++.
• Ctrl-C is handled better on DOS and Windows.
• [1567688] Change Ogre starting weapon from club to ancus.
• [1567482] Capped wands of hasting at 9 charges.
• [1567674] Description change for wands of disintegration.
• [1567652] Empty wands are marked [empty].
• [1567641] Butchery asks you to pick a corpse before switching weapons.
• [1567621] Warning if corpse rots during dissection.
• [1567613] Removed CMD_OBSOLETE_INVOKE.
• [1564899] Added "Power" column for spells screen.
• [1566657] Rings of teleportation are now pricier.
• [1566759] Fixed merfolk getting duplicate messages when entering water.
• [1566652] Fixed control teleport being noted in the dump even if unIDed.