0.5.1

Template:Oldversion 0.5.1 is an old version of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, released on July 29, 2009.

Release notes

Stone Soup 0.5.1 (20090728)

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

• Improved performance for the Tiles version.
• Fixed crashes related to giant spores.
• Fixed Summon Horrible Things sometimes hanging or crashing.
• Fixed monsters refusing to enter or attack into grids on the map edge.
• Fixed minivaults not being placed.
• Fixed inconvenient electrical eels in entry vaults.
• Fixed summoning decks giving permanent summons at low power.
• Fixed erroneous "blocked line of fire" warnings.
• Fixed missing items in Tiles inventory menus.
• Fixed 'C' closing one out of several adjacent doors without prompting.
• Fixed Xom's repel stairs effect moving shops.
• Fixed Xom gifts not being destroyed in deep water.
• Fixed magic mapping bugs in the Tiles version.
• Fixed AltGr not being recognized in Windows Tiles version.
• Fixed Alt-Tab sometimes locking the Alt key on Windows.
• Fixed misbehaviour for temporary weapon brands and throwing.
• Fixed Blade Hands not counting as slicing while wearing melded gloves.
• Fixed berserking allies taking orders from 'ta'.
• Fixed random blinking sometimes placing the player in dangerous clouds.
• Fixed certain incorporeal monsters flying instead of levitating.
• Fixed server disconnects at --More-- prompts allowing to avoid retribution.
• Staff of earth damage is reduced by AC.
• Lowered damage output for elemental staves.
• Once entered, the gate to Zot remains open even without carrying runes.
• Add some fancy messaging when opening the gate to Zot.
• Prompt before moving when confused and next to lava or deep water.
• Check some abilities' requirements before rolling the success check.
• Consider armour properties in fatal stat loss check before transforming.
• Really allow uniques to retain their spells when polymorphed.
• Improve Yredelemnul's Enslave Soul, no longer uses random resistance checks.
• Mutation attacks disregard magic resistance again.
• Zin gets a power to once per game cure a follower of all mutations.
• Artificers start with 1 MP.
• Prompt before allowing TSO/Lugonu to bless your weapon.
• Vampiric Draining/Drain Life deal damage to summons again, but don't heal.
• Wielding stones for Sandblast now guarantees a range of 2.
• Change Portal Projectile range to full LOS.
• Limit the number of items a monster may pick up to two per turn.
• Unknown mimics are no longer stabbable.
• Turn autopickup back on if you gain see invisible, even temporarily.
• Polymorph other always polymorphs shapeshifters whose form isn't magic immune.
• Troll hide and armour count as light armour.
• Let ghouls wear gloves again.
• Wearing a visored helmet prevents biting attacks.
• Allow players to reroll already named random character combinations.
• Improved error messages when trying to load pre-0.5 save files or ghosts.
• Some new vaults.
• Add new milestones for the CAO tournament.
• Tiles: Re-allow selection of player dolls ('-' command).
• Add missing tiles options to the options guide (docs/, '?&' command).
• Improve tiles for escape hatches and disturbances in shallow water.
• Document tiles lags in tiles_help.txt and in the in-game FAQ ('?Q' command).