Thankfully, I had a number of people report crash bugs, which I was able to investigate and fix. Apart from that, there are a lot of smaller changes in this one. The biggest ones include plantable plants, fungi (regular and magical), and an expansion of the way that an item's status affects things in-game. Please let me know if you run into any issues!
Shadow of the Wyrm v1.6.2 "Daca"
- Version started July 8, 2023. Version finalized December 10, 2023.
- The game now shows "a vanished god" if you worship one of the Nine and they
are gone from the game.
- Added a new religion option, godlessness (Josh Engdahl). Godless characters
receive no divine help via prayer, and cannot be crowned. They are still
subject to divine wrath if they do particular disliked things, such as
kicking altars. Godless characters have a much harder time learning divine
magic, and receive far fewer castings. When they drop items on altars, those
items will be cursed, as when doing this on a cross-aligned altar.
- A while ago, the breakage chance of regular pickaxes was reduced to 1%, and
that of dwarven mattocks to 0%. Tthis made Delver less useful, so it's been
buffed up: it now offers resistances to all the physical damage types, does
a bit more damage, and has the piercing flag.
- Made some improvements to the menu options in curses mode when
"full_stop_after_options" is set, so that they sound better when read by a
screen reader.
- Added a "display_simplified_splash_screen" setting which in curses-mode will
present a much simpler splash screen suitable for screen readers (no ASCII
art) (Stephen Shaffer).
- Added a "show_distance_on_examine" setting (off by default) to display the
distance of the selected tile from your current position when examining.
- Added mushrooms to fields, and fungus to tree generation.
- Added a special mushrooms room type to dungeons.
- The base chance for an enchantment to brand a wearable has been halved.
- Amaurosis has been buffed up a bit: he can now cast spells, has a greater
chance to blind on a successful hit, and is faster.
- A weapon/armour's status now affects the chance of that piece being branded
when enchanted.
- A weapon's status now affects whether it gives a bonus or penalty to the
application of the damage type's status.
- When digging, an item's status now affects its breakage chance.
- Blessed scrolls of recharging now increase the minimum number of charges
when recharging a wand. The wand's status now affects the potential number
of extra charges.
- A consumable's status now affects its nutrition, though this does not affect
what the item is worth to the divine.
- The status of the item selected for the Bowyer/Fletchery skill now affects
both the quality of the item produced, as well as (for fletchery) the
quantity.
- Your fishing rod or spear's status now influences your fishing outcome.
- Most plants and vegetables are now plantable, and when dropped in a hole
will yield more of the same the next summer.
- Non-weapons that you can wield (such as shovels and fishing rods) and now
properly treated as exotic weapons when using them in combat. Previously,
the game treated you as unarmed.
- Added a temple master to the top of the temple in Carcassia - she takes
donations to the temple, which are rewarded with piety; particularly large
donations will bless the player's equipment, or inventory.
- When specifying symbol information in the configuration file, if no Row and
Col are provided, a default of 0 for each is assumed.
- Externalized a bunch of world-generation settings into swyrm.ini for modding
and/or just messing around.
- Created trap traps, which are traps that generate other traps nearby.
- Allowed for a per-class symbol which overrides the defaults applied to the
player (Paddy).
- Added an option (off by default) that allows the game to save and then
prompt for quitting.
- Tweaked a few sprites.
- More name combinations.
- New creatures: temple master.
- New items: mushroom, shelf fungus, Shiver's kiss, deathbloom, chanterelle,
morel, elfcap, pufftop, elfland's exit, scroll of trap summoning.
- Stanzas for "Tel and Floridel".
- Bug fixes:
- The game would crash if an invalid race was specified for a creature being
generated.
- Fixed an auto-death issue involving mountains where you could be generated
on an air tile, instantly killing you if you didn't have flying.
- Pov wasn't handling invalid input nicely (Sofistico).
- When notifying a deity about a pleasing action, the piety was incorrectly
always getting applied to the creature's active deity.
- The '%' character was being duplicated on screen in curses mode.
- Cursed scrolls of enchanting completely prevented branding.
- You could farm piety with Sceadugenga by continually digging on the same
grave tile (Quartzartine).
- The HP indicator (when using e'x'amine) sometimes wouldn't return a valid
description.
- Targetting via ranged combat could target a creature outside the field of
view if they move (Hems).
