207.40 - 'beta' branch

• Added default gamepad binds for ability page left/right, zoom in/out, walk and auto-attack-nearest.
  
• Added icons for gloves and wings mod categories.
  
• Tweaked the color of spendable AP and MP on the character sheet.
  
• Removed the prerelease inventory and trade options.
  
• Revised the Mechanimist convert's dialog.
  
• Replaced the Joppa monuments with history books in Irudad's library.
  
• Reversed the collapse/expand semantics on the Reputation page.
  
• Added equipment shaders to crysteel and some unique items.
  
• Journal categories are now sorted properly.
  
• The modern equipment screen now properly displays limb cardinality.
  
• You can now collapse/expand with left and right on the Reputation page.
  
• Improved performance in liquid-heavy zones.
  
• Improved memory overhead.
  
• Improved turn performance.
  
• Excluded BaseSwine from dynamic encounters.
  
• Removed the watervine farmer & Mechanimist convert from dynamic encounters.
  
• Added a timeout to precognition vfx if something goes wrong.
  
• Legendary creature titles no longer get doubled in certain circumstances.
  
• Gyre irons and bubble levels no longer close inventory when pressed and flipped, respectively.
  
• Added safeguards against non-takeable or destroyed objects ending up on your person and cleaned up existing ones from saves.
  
• Argyve will now wire up his loudspeaker after completing 'Weirdwire Conduit... Eureka!'.
  
• Improved performance in zones with large power grids.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the salt dunes music track from playing.
  
• Fixed starting village Mechanimist converts having watervine farmer gear despite not all being watervine farmers.
  
• Fixed some layout issues in the game object picker.
  
• Fixed an issue with pagination in windowed lists.
  
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused the hotkey display in the item picker to truncate.
  
• Fixed a rare layout exception in the equipment paperdoll.
  
• Fixed some excess memory allocation in the journal map.
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed main menu commands to be triggered after continuing a game.
  
• Fixed several mouse input issues when modern UI was disabled.
  
• Fixed input on the console trade window.
  
• Fixed an exception when tabbing left through only one category.
  
• Fixed starch and lignin being removed.
  
• Fixed popups being hidden by other interface elements.
  
• Fixed errors when fetching icons for world generation.
  
• Fixed companions not re-evaluating their equipment after finishing a trade.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from acquiring the Spread Pax quest.
  
• Fixed the category display for morphotype mutations.
  
• Fixed a bunch of bugs in page up and page down in pooled-window scrollers.
  
• Fixed a bug in the formatting of the tinkering screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that stopped hotkeys from working on an equipment item after interacting with it with a popup until it was reselected.
  
• Fixed a bug that rarely caused the wrong item to be selected in the modern game object picker.
  
• Fixed the default categories for equipping to a hand.
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented spray bottles from working.
  
• Fixed an issue causing weird stuff like [widgets] to show up in inventory.
  
• Fixed a minor formatting issue in the show cybernetics hotkey display.
  
• Fixed twinning and trining lampreys generating erroneous copies.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Joppa to not be available as an option for the slynth.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused expired temporary cells and ammo to sometimes drop to the ground.
  
• Fixed some message variables not being parsed correctly.
  
• Fixed key input on the map editor.

Hello friends!

We are excited to announce that the Spring Molting update is live now in beta. We'll be testing for a few weeks and then releasing the update on the main branch June 6th. Full patch notes can be found at the end of this post, but here is a summary:

- 🚨ALL NEW INTERFACE🚨 Our transformational UI redesign is complete! Fully mouseable, fully gamepaddable, and much prettier, but all carefully designed to maintain the essence of what makes Qud Qud. More polish is coming, but everything functional is in.
- Support for Steam Cloud saves. Play between PCs or between Steam Deck and PC, at your leisure
- a refresh of the starting town of Joppa, with the same lived-in texture as the rest of the world
- hundreds of new sound and visual effects
- several new narrative touches, big bug fixes, & performance improvements

To access the beta, select Caves of Qud in your Steam library> Preferences> Betas> Beta Branch. No password required. For bugs and feedback, please post here.

If you'd like to watch some gameplay before diving into the update yourself, you can watch snapjaw V-Tuber Gra on Youtube. Here is the VOD from yesterday's Ludonarracon Stream.

And if you want to get your friends in on Qud, there is a free demo available from now till May 13th. Access it from the Caves of Qud Steam store page.

Live and drink!

-Freehold + Kitfox


We added an entire new UI. (ie, we completed work on the modern UI, for folks who've been following our progress). More polish will be coming over the next several weeks, but all the functionality is there.

• There are too many changes to fully document, but here's a partial list of new screens: trade, quests, message log, character sheet, skills, equipment & inventory, tinkering, game summary, every journal tab, status effects, reputation, world generation, interact nearby, books, in-game terminals.
  
• The new UI has full keyboard, mouse, and controller support.
  
• The new UI plays natively on handhelds like Steam Deck.
  
• Added a search bar to relevant screens.

• Added full support for Steam Cloud saves.
  
• Vastly improved the performance of saves and loads.
  
• Greatly reduced the number of files per save.
  
• Greatly reduced save size.
  
• Saves are now more resilient towards breakage, from mods or otherwise.
  
• Saves now kept in the \Synced subdirectory, and unsynced files are kept in \Local.

• We refreshed the starting village of Joppa.
  
  • Added a new apothecary: Nima Ruda.
    
  • Replaced Warden Ualraig with a more fleshed-out version: Warden Yrame.
    
  • Gave all major NPCS new dialog and new descriptions.
    
  • Widened the range of artifacts that can be turned in to Argyve. Concurrently, we gave some true kin castes fewer starting trinkets.
    
  • Made some significant changes to O Glorious Shekhinah! These changes carry through to the generated village starts, and in fact are slightly different in each village type.
    
  • Gave the village a makeover, with several new walls, pieces of furniture, and monuments.
    
  • Joppa NPCs now point you to questgivers, like the villagers of dynamic villages do.
• We refreshed the Naphtaali faction and culture.
  
  • Replaced or renamed several Naphtaali. Here's the new roster of creatures: Naphtaali forager, Naphtaali tinker, Naphtaali nimrod, Naphtaali jeer, and Naphtaali sap.
    
  • Replaced chrome idols with unplanished godheds, and their legendary counterparts, planished godheds.
    
  • Refreshed woodsprogs and added them to jungle populations.
    
  • Added Erah the ciderer to Kyakukya.

• Strong feelings creatures have due to actions you take (such as attacking them) now weaken over time instead of reverting suddenly when a map is unloaded.
  
• Creatures belonging to multiple factions now take your reputation with all those factions into account when determining their attitude toward you.
  
• Creatures no longer ignore changes to your faction reputation if they have a personal opinion of you.
  
• Companions no longer revert to their base attitude when they lose track of their leader.
  
• Creatures now get mad at you if you tell your companions to attack them.
  
• Added a new piece of furniture: electric generator.
  
• Tables randomly have items. on them more often.

• COMING SOON THIS BETA: 40 new achievements
  
• Added many, many new visual and sound effects.
  
• Looping music tracks now play seamlessly.
  
• Made some alterations to the track that plays during Reclamation.
  
• Made some tweaks to hindren and mopango dialog.
  
• Refreshed and polished the dynamic wall generation system used for villages (e.g., "dragonfly chitin tent")
  
• Refreshed and polished the display names, tiles, and descriptions of uindentified artifacts and partially identified artifacts.
  
• Added some new trinkets: Added bubble level, spiral iron, and salt mill.
  
• Added a wrench and a pestle.
  
• Reduced memory fragmentation over long play sessions.
  
• Improved turn-by-turn performance.
  
• Improved lightray casting performance during the day.
  
• Changed Issachari renderstring to 'h'.

• We made many, many fixes to long-standing issues around creature attitudes, including creatures losing their
  
• Fixed Asphodel's followerss being limited to 8.
  
• Fixed nonspecific gender verb conjugation.
  
• Fixed several cases of messages referring to a *PooledObject.
  
• Fixed the performance impact when many creatures had died or objects had been destroyed.
  
• Fixed non-human village tinkers and apothecaries not having tier-appropriate stock.
  
• Fixed many other small issues.

• [modding] Creatures now have action-specific opinions of others. For example, being attacked by someone's ally now garners the OpinionAttackAlly opinion.
  
• [modding] Creatures now maintain a history of allegiance. For example: "On the 3rd of Ut yara Ux, <creature> was constructed by a turret tinker." and "On the 12th of Tuum Ut, <creature> was proselytized by you."
  
• [modding] Many invalid components are now removed gracefully when loading a saved game, making it possible to remove a mod from a saved game and continue playing.
  
• [modding] Made the Leader part more general and functional. Use it to generate a creature with companions.
  
• [modding] MinEvents now support registration with prioritized execution and optional serialization.
  
• [modding] Any class can now register for a MinEvent by implementing the IEventHandler interface.
  
• [modding] Event handlers now use event registrars to handle both registration and unregistration with a single method implementation.
  
• [modding] Some events are now sent and can be listened for on the global game level, such as AfterPlayerBodyChangeEvent.
  
• [modding] Added ModSingletonEvent, ModPooledEvent and IModEventHandler, which allow creating modded events with native performance. See XML docs for examples.
  
• [modding] Object instances can now tokenize themselves for the serializer by implementing the ITokenized interface.
  
• [modding] IParts can now define a priority which determines their order within the parent object's list. This has an effect on the orders of event processing and serialization.
  
• [modding] Inert parts with no functionality, such as those gained from some skills, can now define a skip priority that excludes them from event processing, for a minor performance benefit.
  
• [modding] Ported blueprint builders to be IObjectBuilders, which are singletons that can process many game objects without creating garbage or polluting the object's parts.
  
• [modding] Text variable replacers, such as "=verb:shloop=" or "=player.waterRitualLiquid|capitalize=", are now moddable by decorating a class and method with the related attributes.
  
• [modding] Complex and/or custom text variable operations can now use the Text.StartReplace() builder to do every replacement in a single pass.
  
• [modding] Abilities can now set IsWorldMapUsable to allow activation on the world map.
  
• [debug] Added a 'show attitude' action to creatures when debug information on object internals is enabled.