Okay, I feel comfortable enough in the scope of all the new content that I'm calling this v1.0.0. This release contains the start of the Carcassian empire. In particular, it defines the Isle of Carcassia, and the city of the same name. This city is reasonably populated, with lots of quests and things to do (fighting pits, guilds, gambling on the outcome of snapping turtle races).
Carcassia and the god-slayer ending were always two things that I wanted in place before I moved out of the v0.x releases. And since those are now in place, I'm comfortable calling this v1.0.0.
Because I haven't released anything since January, I'm afraid there might be bugs. Please report them! I'll put out another release in December, and in general I'm going to try to go back to smaller and more regular releases.
I hope you enjoy this.
Full changelog:
Shadow of the Wyrm v1.0.0 "Dalza"
- Version declared January 20, 2018. Version finalized November 23, 2018.
- There are now two starting locations: on Little Island, as before; and
on the Isle of Carcassia.
- On the south-eastern tip of the Isle of Carcassia is the great city of
Carcassia. Carcassia is home to a great fortress, and four city
sectors:
1. The public sector.
- The public sector contains a sealed room with no obvious way in, the
tower of high sorcery, the guild of thieves, as well as a number of
potential public areas such as plazas, parks, and shops. The public
sector is also, it's said, built above the ruins of a much older
settlement, one which has long since sunk deep into the earth.
- The guild of thieves is said to be difficult to enter, difficult to
leave. It's also said that the ground there is cursed, and that at
night, those that dwell there hear strange scratches sounds past the
basement walls.
- The Floundering Catfish is a source of rumour and gossip, as well as
a few quests.
- In the centre of the sector is the great Tower of High Sorcery, where
those with magical aptitude from across the world come to study the
arcane school of wizardry.
- The tower extends high into the air. It's said that a number of great
creatures make their roost platforms anchored in the air by old
magics. The students study at the base of the tower, while the
masters make their homes above.
2. Old Town
- The oldest part of Carcassia. The nobility left this area years ago,
and it's grown a bit ramshackle and untended. There are few roads.
- The old gambling house still stands, recently renovated. Its
winnings are locked away in a vault, and closely guarded. There
are tables for dice and card games, as well as a number of slot
machines, with varying payouts and probabilities.
- Besides some old houses and a graveyard, there is an ancient sewer
from an earlier empire by the east gate.
3. New Town
- The New Town is home to the second-in-command of the Carcassian
Empire, the praetor Dantus, uncle of the Emperor. He maintains
a palatial residence in the western part of the sector.
4. Temple District
- Home to an interfaith temple, the Fellowship of the Nine. Considered
by some to be an unwelcome front for the leadership of the Empire, it
is ostensibly an organization dedicated to the promotion of religion
in everyday life. Membership in the Fellowship causes one's piety
to increase faster and decrease less quickly.
- In a small hut lives an old woman considered to be the holiest person
in the world: the blind oracle. Part of an unending line of oracles
chosen by the Nine to be their direct speaker on earth, she can both
speak with and as them, her voice shifting from her own creaky tones
to the sweet music of The Lady, or Urgoth's horrifying roar.
The fortress of Carcassia is the home of the Emperor Titus.
- Surrounded by his Emperor's Guard, he rules from within his pillared
court. It stands on the remains of the old Carcassian senate, long
since neutered by the absolute rule of the emperors.
- Beside it is his altar to Celeste, the favoured deity of the
Carcassian people.
- Further into the palace, there are a few small, official shops; and
a fountain where the nobleman Questare hands out quests to aspiring
adventurers.
- The eastern sector contains the fighting pits and a vault protected
by a moat full of electric eels. Leading up from the fortress, the
vaults are protected by strange, lifeless creatures loyal to the
empire.
- The Isle of Carcassia was inhabited long before the Carcassian Empire
took hold, and it has a number of other features, including a dungeon
on the north-east penninsula.
- Off the northern coast of the Isle is a small, rocky islet, known to
have been the home of an ascetic for a number of years.
- The "no dig" flag can now be set at the tile level, allowing a general
map that is diggable, but sections that are not.
- There is now a chance to find coal when digging through rock.
- Summoning is now less dangerous: it's the average of the map's danger
level and the triggering creature's current level.
- The Lua API functions map_set_additional_property and
map_set_tile_property did exactly the same thing. Made the former
set map-level properties, with the former handling setting tile
properties, and renamed the former to "map_set_property".
- Script errors are now properly logged to disk as well as the UI.
- Hiding can now be cancelled by using Hiding again while hidden (Karagy).
- Unpaid items in the shop can now be "paid for" - no money changes hands,
and the shopkeeper sees the items as yours (Karagy).
- Unimplemented general skills are now noted (Karagy).
- Gnomish barkeepers are now just called bartenders.
- There is now an option (that default to on) to do checkpoint saves
whenever a map is loaded. This ensures that in the event of a crash,
there is still a reasonably-recent savefile available (Dallas Herrin,
Alan Charlesworth).
- New poem fragment for the title screen (Pope's "The Rape of the Lock").
- Fire pillars now "shimmer", hooking into the shimmer colour code that
was added for Telari.
- Guilds/associations are now possible, and will slowly be added to the
game. Memberships can be seen in the character display/dump, and
membership in some organizations will exclude membership in others.
- Ranged combat is now disallowed when overburdened (Troubler).
- Huge rocks are much heavier.
- The various races are now specified as having hair (or not), so races
like human, divine, demons all have hair. Snakelings, constructs,
insects, etc., do not (Troubler).
- Sex selection is now skipped, with the player's sex officially tracked
as "not specified". Sex has never had any real impact on the game for
the player, who is always "you". There is a setting in swyrm.ini
controls pre-selecting your sex. This can be unset to bring back the
sex selection screen. Characters created through the "Random character"
option at the main menu will continue to get their sex specified and
selected randomly.
- Digging now considers properties of the tile when considering whether
or not the digging item is broken. Items now only break when digging
through solid rock.
- Iron and steel ingots now weigh the same.
- To model their general inappropriateness as weapons, exotic weapons
now have a speed multiplier that is modified by skill in melee/ranged
exotics (Troubler).
- Thengil in Stoneheim now appropriately has a forge (Troubler).
- You can now descend into wells.
- Pathfinding has been updated to favour cardinal directions when
constructing paths. This prevents some "weird paths" that enemies will
take to you, that are actually equally optimal, given that diagonal
moves cost the same as cardinal (Karagy).
- Randomly generated buildings now look like people actually live in them
and have features such as beds and tables. They also have the chance
to have items, such as food, clay pots, inkpots, magici shards...
- New feature, signs.
- New conduct, artifactless.
- Piety regeneration bonuses now have a per-creature component, rather
than being based entirely on the creature's class.
- When dungeons are repopulated, there is now a check to ensure that
creatures are not generated close to the player (Troubler).
- Sages can now also start with a spellbook of Electric Arc.
- More possibilities for randomly generated names.
- Stanzas for "Tel and Floridel".
- New creatures: Glich, Carcassian guard, urchin, vendor, Guildmaster
Caro, Tela, drunk, Serat, Old Tomer, Ffleur, gardening spellstudent,
evocations student, summonings student, enchantments student, runic
student, Golgoa, Lorelei, Okhoa, Scheldt, shimmering cloud, Lish,
gambler, pov dealer, blackjack dealer, racemaster, snapping turtle,
Asher, Akhra, Axander, Wart, presence, the blind oracle, Praetor's
footman, coalman, Praetor's scullerymaid, Praetor's cook, Praetor's
secretary, Praetor Dantus, Emperor Titus, the Emperor's guard,
Questare, senator, Lycaon, magici merchant, herbalist, Scamander,
Carcassian recruiter, Pitmistress Ghara, commoner, noble.
- New items: salted nuts, skewer of mystery meat, wizard staff,
linothorax, Calara's cloak, Calara's flaming whip, piece of coal.
- New spells: electric arc (Cantrips).
- New features: table, slot machine.
- New artifacts: skeleton key, Amulet of the Carcassian Emperor, famed
fighting rod "Qaali".
- New traps: teleport.
- Bug fixes:
- The code to make copies of tiles for view maps was causing sentinel
creatures' tiles to be marked as unviewed.
- When confirming whether to move to a dangerous tile, an extra "[y/n]"
could be added.
- Teleporting/blinking wasn't disabling automatic movement afterward.
- In-game keybindings was still referencing "Look" instead of "Examine".
- All NPCs were erroneously defined as flying.
- Thrown items weren't stacking properly due to a bug in how the item's
worn location was processed (Alan Charlesworth).
- Automovement wasn't being stopped by drowning (Karagy).
- When checking other creatures' FOV maps for hiding checks, stale
maps were causing the game to consider the hiding creature in view,
even if it had moved out of range the turn before (Karagy).
- Combat skill checks were succeeding even when 0 damage was dealt
(Troubler).
- Digging within the current tile wasn't checking for breakage.
- The spell listing code would crash when given a spell ID that didn't
have a corresponding entry in the game configuration.
- Traps were being improperly checked and having usages decremented
when the player declined to move into a new tile (Troubler).
- Great axes weren't marked as two-handed (Troubler).
- Various bestiary typos (Troubler).
- The bestiary entry for Drakheen mentions a breath attack, but this
wasn't defined in the configuration (Troubler).
- Automove wasn't working correctly on the first attempt after
teleporting.
- The Lua API function get_creature wasn't checking the current map
pointer before using it, which could cause a crash when certain other
functions were invoked before the game had fully started.
- You can no longer swap places into a race-restricted tile if you
don't meet the requirements.
- Fixed a pathfinding crash bug when trying to pathfind to the same
tile.
- Pickup code was broadcasting further than it should - you could get
notifications for NPCs picking up items behind walls.
- Maps weren't being loaded properly when timewalking (Troubler).
- When items were being generated, they could be null, and this wasn't
checked properly.
- Fixed a pthread linker issue for the Arch builds (Larzid).
