Stone Soup 0.34.1 (20260314)

Bugfix release

Fix the Lua error handler causing slowdowns seen in vaults like Pan's Disco
Hall.
Properly mark unidentified talismans evil/chaotic as appropriate.
Allow deconstructing forgecraft allies while wielding a ranged weapon.
Fix Freezing Cloud not having a self-damage warning prompt.
Fix the force_more prompts for dancing weapons of distortion.
Fix banished Orb Guardians not activating the Boundless Tesseracts.
Fix Duel/Banishment on top of a portal entrance expiring that entrance.
Prompt for wearing any talisman that would lower max HP by more than 10%.
Fix randart Bane scarves having hidden AC (Back-form)
Fix Revenant spells being free and boosted by Enkindle if cast via Sif
Muna's Divine Exegesis.
Fix removing Fragile equipment not triggering unequip effects before being
destroyed.
Don't have Dithmenos' Marionette treat monsters it charms as hostile for
subsequent actions.
Fix Dominate Undead not working properly for friendly casters.
Fix the force_scroll_targeter option interfering with ability targeters.
Fix anacondas taking no damage from cactus giant spines.
A new clua function you.zot_orb_monster() to see the type of orb monster the
player will face in Zot, if known.
New clua functions for checking visibility between cells:
view.cell_see_cell_no_trans(), view.cell_see_cell_solid(), and
view.cell_see_cell_solid_see().
36 other bug fixes, interface improvements, and documentation updates.

Stone Soup 0.34.0 (20260205)

Highlights

Players can now carry an unlimited number of consumables.
Big overhauls to strategic damage, adding new types and reducing mutation.
Dozens more new monsters have been spread throughout the Dungeon.
Many new egos have been added for weapons, armour, amulets, and orbs.
Troves, the Slime Pits, and the Halls of Zot have received major updates.

Artefacts

The faerie dragon scales now has a higher average enchantment, can sometimes
come with evokable invisibility, and is a Hexes enhancer.
The Mask of the Dragon loses its Will+ and Slay+3 modifiers to gain +2
enchantment and the ability to rarely summon dragons when using invocations,
with dragon choices scaling to one's XL.
The Orb of Wucad Mu is no longer twice as likely to trigger as other orbs of
energy, but now has a chance to apply antimagic to monsters after channelling
mp for successful spells casts.
The Scales of the Dragon King no longer has Will+, and instead has the new
Command ego.
The Sword of the Doom Knight has been renamed to the Sword of the Dread
Knight.
Randarts can now come with a Bane property, which inflicts a Bane on the
player when equipped. Randarts with this property have higher enchantment.
Armour egos that are not otherwise in the regular randart property pool can
now occasionally appear once per randart as the randart's base ego.
Removed unrands: the Sword of Power.

Branches, Environment

The Lair of Beasts now contains more decorative vaults as well as increased
chances to see decorative vaults each game.
The staircases to and from Vaults:5 now have unique tiles and descriptions.
The Crypt end vault's old thematic item rewards have been moved into a unique,
guaranteed shop containing a larger quantity of the prior options at high
prices.
The Slime Pits has received layout changes:
- All staircases in the branch are now slimy and can no longer be climbed back
  up until The Royal Jelly is dead (or the player worships Jiyva).
- Going down on a slimy staircase confers a status that greatly increases HP
  and MP regen for a short while.
- All floors are now fully connected and up and down stairs are placed further
  apart.
- Altars to Jiyva are guaranteed on Slime:2-4 with a 50% chance for one on
  Slime:1.
The Depths now more consistently contains threatening minivaults.
The Halls of Zot will now contain one of three types of orb monster each game,
each wielding a different element and form of strategic damage.
- The orb type one will encounter that game is indicated via statues placed
  by the Temple entrance in the Dungeon and the Zot entrance in the Depths.
  This can also be viewed from the Dungeon overview screen (ctrl+O) once seen.
The last floor of Zot contains now contains two Boundless Tesseracts, immobile
enemy spawners with fast regeneration.
- Tesseracts wake up the first time one kills an Orb Guardian. Once a
  tesseract wakes up, both are automatically detected, and 4 to 7 new monsters
  will appear outside of the Orb vault. Further monsters will spawn at random
  locations across the entire floor on average of once every 50 turns. These
  will always be outside of the player's sight until at least 50 monsters have
  been created this way. These spawns reward no XP, are marked as originating
  from the tesseracts, are capped to 60 on the floor at a time, and will
  continue to spawn in a limited capacity when on other floors.
- Destroying one tesseract will destroy both, dismiss all tesseract-created
  monsters, and daze all other monsters in sight of the tesseract for ~9 8000
  turns.
The Orb status from being in Zot or having picked up the Orb of Zot now also
fuzzes the destination of scrolls of blinking by up to two spaces.
The depth at which the player enters the Abyss is now based upon their XL,
regardless of whether they arrive by banishment or entering a gateway
themselves.
- Abyss shifts can no longer pull the player deeper than they otherwise would
  have entered it (unless they spend a while there at max XL), and the Abyss
  will no longer 'remember' the deepest depth a player previously reached.
- Finding the rune on Abyss:4-5 takes longer on average than before.
Hell effects can now inflict a small amount of Doom instead of inflicting
transient mutations.
Troves' prices and contents have been heavily revised:
- Troves will no longer ask for any consumables besides scrolls of acquirement
  and will no longer ask for specific named items from shops.
- Equipment costs are less common. Demon weapons are all interchangeable and
  heavier dragon scales are rarer.
- The Slimy / Abyssal rune troves and Horn of Geryon troves are more common.
- Piety troves now use a new debuff that temporarily caps one's piety at 0
  until XP is gained instead of permanently draining it, allowing them to
  function with more gods than before.
- New trove costs include accepting pre-announced Banes and being extremely
  drained.
- Trove contents are no longer grouped by item category, and contain a
  slightly lower amount of higher-quality items themed after spell namesakes
  or unrand items. These items are also far less likely to be useless
  according to god restrictions or species limits.
- Potential troves to discover include The Dread Knight's Derelict Chapel,
  Eringya's Secret Bog, The First Justicar's Armoury, Leda's Sunken Stockpile,
  The Lost Hoard of Erebora, The Name-Rending Infernalists' Reservoir, The
  Octopus King's Forgotten Garden, Ozocubu's Refrigerator, Rutra's Hidden
  Sanctum, The Storm Queen's Palace Crash Site, a devouring Rift, and an
  orange crystal hatchery.
Dispersal traps now have a short cooldown after triggering before they can
trigger again.
Harlequin's traps' chaos lace buff now stacks on top of any other attack
brands a monster previously had.

Character

Players can now accumulate Doom from enemies and other hostile effects, a
new form of medium-term damage displayed as a percentage. Doom has no effect
on its own and disappears with gaining experience, but at 100% causes one to
gain a random Bane, which itself only disappears with gaining significantly
more experience differing between Bane types. Banes include:
- Bane of Claustrophobia, which lowers melee damage and accuracy for each
  wall the player is adjacent to.
- Bane of the Dilettante, which reduces the player's highest weapon skill
  as well as their two highest magic / invocation / evocation skills.
- Bane of Electrospasm, which makes suffering electric damage sometimes
  inflict the -Move status.
- Bane of Heatstroke, which makes suffering fire damage sometimes Slow you.
- Bane of the Hunted, which makes any creatures summoned by enemy appear
  next to the player, last longer, and be better at tracking you.
- Bane of Lethargy, which slows the player's movement speed.
- Bane of Mortality, which gives a chance for reapers to appear near wounded
  players when no other enemies are around.
- Bane of Multiplicity, which gives a chance for any monster you fight to
  create fragile clones of itself.
- Bane of Paradox, which gives a small chance for each new monster you
  encounter to learn Manifold Assault with a chance to blink after casting it.
- Bane of Snow-blindness, which makes suffering cold damage something inflict
  Blind and Weak.
- Bane of Stumbling, which inflicts -25 EV when moving or standing still.
- Bane of Succour, which makes killing enemies heal other nearby enemies
  based on the slain foe's max HP.
- Bane of Warding, which gives a small chance to give groups of monster the
  Warding buff when first seen, which grants damage immunity from non-adjacent
  sources of damage.
Undead species and forms lose Doom and Banes half as quickly as other species.
Player contamination has been heavily adjusted.
- The exact amount one is contaminated is now indicated as a percentage in the
  sidebar. Harmful effects begin at 100% and cap at 300%.
- Crossing the 100% threshold is more likely to result in a bad mutation than
  before (but very high amounts are less dangerous). Mutations gained this
  way no longer ignore rMut.
- Explosions from contamination are now possible at a lower threshold, ignore
  AC, and are more damaging. Their potential damage can be seen on the %
  screen.
- Many existing effects have been rescaled to be similarly dangerous as before
  this change.
New mutations:
- Booming Voice, which makes reading scrolls in sight of enemies incredibly
  loud.
- Efficient Metabolism, which doubles the duration of potion status effects.
- Feed Off Suffering, which restores HP and MP after killing poisoned or
  drained foes.
- Initially attractive, which sometimes pulls monsters close to the player
  when first seen (and then sometimes wakes them up).
- Lucky, which gives a small chance for floor items the player encounters to
  be randarts.
- Meek, which provides negative Slaying.
- Potion Fungus, which sometimes spreads the beneficial effects of potions the
  player drinks to random enemies and allies in sight.
- Protean Grace, which gives +Slay and +EV based on how mutated you are.
- Reckless, which cuts your SH in half but gives +15% damage with two-handed
  weapons.
- Spatial Entanglement, which gives a chance of dragging along another hostile
  monster whenever the player translocates.
- Spiteful Blood, which may spawn hostile XL-scaling erythrospites when the
  player is injured below 50% of their max HP.
Other individual mutation changes:
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Stone Soup 0.33.1 (20250606)

Bugfix release

Fix vampire form not having torment resistance.
Fix bat swarm form having torment immunity instead of torment resistance.
Fix breaking cursed items without a prompt when leaving slot-granting forms.
Fix sphinx and serpent forms having slot items fall off when changing
temporarily to another form via lignification or polymorph.
Fix Dithmenos' player shadow not having the same reach as the player when in
aqua form.
Fix inconsistencies in handling of beam types:
- The spells Chain Lightning and Stunning Bolt are now properly 33%
  resistable with rElec instead of only 25% resistable.
- Mercury Arrow is now properly 25% resistable with rPois.
- Stunning Bolt now checks half of AC like other elecriticy-themed spells.
- Qazlal's adaptive rElec is now properly triggered by Stunning Bolt.
- Qazlal's adaptive AC is now properly triggered by all 'physical' spell
  projectiles.
The Slick Slippers now prevent being bound by an ironbound beastmaster's
bolas.
Fix not being able to use Yredelemnul's Light the Black Torch on a
portal level like Necropolis if it had been used in a previous instance of
that portal.
Don't allow orbrun spawns in Okawaru's Arena.
Remove erroneous extra placements of alderkings in Sprint IV.
37 other bug fixes, interface improvements, and documentation updates.

Stone Soup 0.33.0 (20250502)

Highlights

New magic school + background: Forgewrights, building explosive constructs.
Two new species: Poltergeists and Revenants.
Twelve new talismans have been added, and Shapeshifters have been reworked.
Ghost vaults are moved into a game-long repeating portal, the Necropolis.
Yet more new monsters, decorations, and traps spread throughout the Dungeon.

Artefacts

New unrands:
- The Crown of Vainglory, a +3 hat that grants two extra ring slots, but also
  makes entering floors wake up nearby enemies and temporarily prohibits
  stair use.
- The fungal fisticloak, a +3 cloak that also takes up the hat slot, provides
  another gloves slot, and grants a confusion-branded auxiliary fungus attack.
- The Justicar's Regalia, a +5 scale mail that grants an extra amulet slot and
  gives allies summoned or created by the player the regeneration status.
- The Skull of Zonguldrok, a talkative off-hand item that grants Reaping brand
  to one's attacks and another hat slot (on the skull).
The macabre finger necklace now also grants +7 HP.
Randart weapons can now be Reaping branded, which now creates spectres.
-Cast on the Sword of the Doom Knight, Maxwell's Patent Armour, and general
randarts is replaced with *Silence, which inflicts a short-term silence on
1% of hits on the wielder.
+Invis, Harm, and Rampage artefact properties can now be found on talisman
randarts.
Removed unrands: the Sword of Zonguldrok.

Branches, Environment

Ghost vaults have been moved into their own portal, the Necropolis.
- Portals to the Necropolis can be found up to three times each game: once in
  D:5-15, Lair, or Orc; once in Swamp, Snake, Shoals, Spider, or Vaults; and
  once in Elf, Crypt, or Depths.
- Each Necropolis contains three separate ghost vaults, which are still
  flavoured and tailored towards the branch a portal entrance is found in.
- Another 10 ghost vaults have been added.
- Pre-Lair ghost vaults have been somewhat nerfed, while rewards for many
  ghost vaults have been increased.
New traps, all of which activate when monsters or players step on them:
- Archmage's traps, which drain player mp and grant monsters empowered spells.
- Devourer's traps, which corrode players.
- Harlequin's traps, which grant monsters chaotic attacks.
- Tyrant's traps, which weaken players and grant monsters might.
New decorations:
- Walkable: caches of baked goods, floral vases (sometimes broken), flower and
  garden patches, fountains of eyes, fur piles, infernal standards, mops and
  buckets (sometimes bloodied), mourning vases, and orcish standards.
- Solid: enigmatic dynamos and nascence circuits.
- Destructible: petrified flowers.
Walking over fountains now has a chance to produce flavour messages, varying
based on the fountain, one's god, and the absence of hostile enemies in sight.
Zot traps now can inflict blindness.
Entering Gauntlets now reveals their layout, items, and monsters to the
player, outside of the shape or contents of the minotaur's maze.
The last floor of Crypt now has a 30% chance to contain a sanguine talisman.
The clouds of degeneration in Alistair's Party Mansion are now alcoholic mist,
inflicting Vertigo.
The orb chamber on Zot:5 no longer has a chance to be completely blocked off
by traps, and instead will deploy several of the above newer traps.
Frail pillars of rime can be found in Cocytus.
Ziggurats have even more exponential scaling for those doing multiple
ziggurats.
Sprint VII ("The Pits") has gotten major updates to balance and monster
options, while Sprint V ("Ziggurat Sprint") has had minor updates to the same.

Character

Stat drain has been removed.
- Reaching 0 in any stat (through e.g. items or mutations) now solely makes
  the player permanently slow until their stats are raised again.
- Undead players being malmutated now have their HP drained instead.
New skill: Forgecraft, used for Forgecraft spells.
- Most species have Forgecraft apts that are the same as their Summoning
  apts, with the exceptions of Mountain Dwarves, Coglins, Yellow Draconians
  (all +2), Barachi (+1), Demonspawn, Felids, Poltergeists (all -1),
  Revenants, Minotaurs, and Tengu (all -2).
New background: Forgewright, which starts with a +0 hammer (a reskinned mace),
a potion of magic, and a variety of Forgecraft spells.
Fighters now start with a second potion of might.
Shapeshifters now start with a quill talisman, three flux baubles, and a
protean talisman, which can be used with 6 or more Shapeshifting skill to
randomly transform it into a scarab, rimehorn, medusa, or maw talisman.
They keep their potion of lignification and start with 1 more Fighting skill.
Wanderers can now start with quill talismans, inkwell talismans, flux baubles,
protean talismans, or any protean-tier talisman.
Reavers now start with knowledge of Rending Blade.
Summoners start with knowledge of Eringya's Surprising Crocodile and Summon
Seismosaurus Egg instead of Summon Blazeheart Golem or Lightning Spire.
New mutations:
- efficient magic, making spells cost 1 less (to a minimum of 1 MP).
- ephemeral shield, granting +7 SH briefly after spells and invocations.
- poor constitution, inflicting Weak and then Slow on taking damage.
- slime shroud, sometimes deflecting melee attacks and then cooling down until
  it can do so again (Jiyva only).
- time-warped blood, hasting some of your allies when you fall below 50%
  health, and can only activate again after returning to full health.
Berserk players are now immune to fear.
Constructs the player makes with their own Forgecraft spells can be
nonviolently deconstructed by pressing ctrl+[direction] while adjacent.
Fungus Form and Tree Form are both immune to sleep.
Paralysis, sleep, petrification, and vex status inflicted on the player all
now share the same temporary immunity cool-down.
Removed mutations: deterioration.
Penalties to body armour AC from talismans and the Deformed Body mutation
are now also applied to the AC bonus from training Armour skill. To
compensate, the AC penalties of Deformed Body and blade talismans have been
reduced, and Naga and Armataurs have their Armour aptitudes increase by 1.

Gods

Ashenzari's curse of Companions now supports Forgecraft as well as its prior
skills of Summoning and Necromancy.
Cheibriados worshippers are never hasted by potions of haste, and can't
enter penance by deliberately drinking potions of haste.
The wraths of Cheibriados and Trog have been simplified.
Dithmenos's shadow mimic also works for Forgecraft spells, creating a shadow
turret that can fire through allies.
Xom has received more adjustments:
- Xom's bazaars have more variety and are less common.
- Polymorph and draining effects are less dangerous early on.
- New actions: hyperbuff weak ally, burn webs.
All three good gods that care about injuring allies now consistently don't
care about injuring mindless non-living allies (like Forgecraft's).

Interface and Options

Examining equipment and talismans now can show the changes to the player's
spell success chances for each spell if they switched to using that item.
Examining spellbooks in webtiles now colours spells according to their
usability and whether or not one has the spell in their library.
Examining talismans now displays their upsides, downsides, changes to one's
defences, and skill scaling in a more compressed format with additional
details.
Spell range is now indicated with numbers instead of diagrams.
Default target-picking behaviour for spells, abilities, and items has been
improved: it is now more consistent at avoiding the player or their allies
when aiming harmful area effects and choose more sensible default aims for
some utility effects.
Ranged autofight should no longer sometimes cast spells at invalid targets
(such as Dispel Undead against living monsters in melee).
Casting ally-creating spells when there is no nearby room is now automatically
cancelled, rather than wasting a turn and one's MP.
Equipping an item that would require unequipping multiple other items (such
as with going from a 1-handed weapon + shield to a 2-hander) no longer needs
manual unequipping to work.
Players can no longer wield non-weapon items.
Equipment slots a player species doesn't have access to no longer show up on
the '%' screen.
The autopickup menu no longer groups together rings and amulets.
The screen is now tinted blue during paralysis and grey during petrification.
Examining monsters shows if they can open doors.
Confusion on monsters no longer shares an icon with monsters being distracted.
Non-monster UI now darkens quote text and can rarely contain flavour text
instead of just quotes.

Items

New weapon: partisans, uncommon one-handed polearms with higher base damage
than demon tridents and the longest swing delay of any one-handed weapon.
Talisman skill thresholds have been reworked, with older talismans adjusted
upwards in baseline stats for higher thresholds. The new tier summary is now:

Tier 1 talismans (old beast talisman): 0 skill minimum, 7 skill maximum
Tier 2 talismans (old flux talisman): 8 skill minimum, 14 skill maximum
Tier 3 talismans (blade talisman): 12 skill minimum, 20 skill maximum
Tier 4 talismans (granite talisman): 17 skill minimum, 25 skill maximum
Tier 5 talismans (storm talisman): 23 skill minimum, 27 skill maximum

New talismans:

Tier 1:
quill talismans, providing Quill Form. This melds all auxiliary equipment,
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Stone Soup 0.32.1 (20240925)

Bugfix release

Fix blockable beam attacks from monster spells being blocked 100% of the
time.
40 other bug fixes, interface improvements, and documentation updates.

Stone Soup 0.32.0 (20240829)

Highlights

Beogh, Dithmenos, Yredelemnul, and Makhleb have been substantially revamped.
Since everybody can become orcs, reworked Mountain Dwarves replace Hill Orcs.
New species: Coglins, dual-wielding gizmo-inventing goblins in exosuits.
More new spells, aimed at new school combinations and higher levels.
Many more new and revamped monsters an 8000 d decorations throughout the Dungeon.

Artefacts

New and returning unrands:
- Returning: Brilliance, an eveningstar of foul flame, which inflicts
  reduced damage to unholy foes and extra damage to holy foes.
- Returning: Sword of the Doom Knight, which loses pain brand to instead
  make its targets lose 10% of their maximum health on hit.
- New: Charlatan's Orb, an orb which boosts your other skills by 20% of your
  base Evocations but has the translocations and stealth downside of the real
  Orb of Zot.
- New: Gloves of the Gadgeteer, fragile gloves that boost evoker recharge
  rate, wand damage, and give a chance to save wand charges on use.
The Cloak of the Thief is now +0, but gives noise suppression instead of
random bursts of fog and no longer gives negative slaying.
Randart MP bonuses and maluses now range from 4 to 12, instead of always
being fixed at 9.

Branches, Environment

Crypt now contains more item rewards throughout its levels.
Troves no longer ask Draconians to offer dragon scales.
Ziggurats now scale up their enemy choices and counts up much faster
if one dares to dive through multiple ziggurats on the same character.
All bazaar portals are timed now.
Quite a few new decorative features have been added to many a vault:
- Several new types of decorative statue: silver statues,
  scintillating statues, mystic cages, and magic conduits.
- A new decorative wall type: bedevilled crystal.
- Completely-decorative caches of fruits and meat, which may occasionally
  be snacked upon when walked over.
- Piles of debris, stony wreckage that crumbles away on a delay after
  being hit.
- Sacred lotuses, extremely resilient but entirely harmless plants.
Miasma clouds deal more damage to monsters and slow them for longer.
Rain no longer can create deep water.
Skeletons no longer decay.

Character

Only players without weapons can punch with their offhand.
Player constriction no longer deals ramping-up damage.
Removed mutations: noise dampening.
Undead and demonic players can wield weapons of holy wrath, but the brand is
disabled for them. The same applies to good god-worshipping players who wield
weapons of foul flame.
The player can now be Blinded, which gives them a flat chance to miss with
any dodgeable effect that increases with their distance from the target they
are aiming at.
- Wands of Light now Blind the player instead of inflicting Confusion.
The Frozen status now lasts a bit longer, inflicts a heavier movement penalty,
and no longer prevents the player from being hit with Flash Freeze.
Background changes:
- Necromancers now start with Soul Splinter instead of Necrotise, as well as
  a dagger and knowledge of Grave Claw.
- Hedge Wizards now know Grave Claw instead of Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot and
  start with additional Conjurations and Necromancy skill.
- Wanderers can now start with talismans and Shapeshifting skill, and those
  that start with throwing items will usually start with more of them. Logic
  for giving suitable skill levels and items has been improved in multiple
  cases.

Gods

Beogh has been completely overhauled, becoming the god of collective
pariahs and outcasts. All species may elect to worship Beogh and become orcs
when at low HP in front of orc priests. Most abilities are also changed:
- Orc apostles, scaling throughout the game, will challenge the player with
  their own followers, unalterable artefact equipment, and potent mystic
  might. Forfeiting their challenge by leaving the floor inflicts penance,
  which only dismisses worshippers' followers and disables their invocations.
- Shortly after defeating apostles, worshippers can recruit up to three
  apostles to follow them at a time. Beogh now will automatically revive those
  apostles if they die, but only after the player gains sufficient piety.
- Other encountered orcs are pacified instead of recruited.
- Beogh gains a new 5* ability, Blood for Blood. This can only be invoked
  on top of an orc apostle's corpse, and summons a large amount of orcs both
  immediately around the player and around the edges of the screen over time.
Dithmenos has been completely overhauled, becoming the god of actors,
thieves, and everyone else who works in the shadows. They no longer count as
evil, and have replaced nearly all of their active and passive abilities.
- 1*: Passive noise dampening, halving all noise made around the player.
- 2*: A passive shadow mimic, which now casts differing spells based on the
  spell schools of spells cast to now cover all spell types, deals more
  damage with weapons scaling to XL, and also lingers around afterwards.
- 3*: Shadowslip, which instantly swaps worshippers' places with a lingering
  shadow and misleads foes into targeting the shadow for a while instead.
- 4*: Aphotic Marionette, which forces an enemy with spells to instantly cast
  random conjurations at other enemies or give buffs & summons to the
  player.
- 5*: Primordial Nightfall, which reduces one's line of sight to zero, with
  line of sight gradually coming back over the duration.
Yredelemnul has been significantly overhauled.
- Yred now uses a somewhat conventional piety system again, though followers
  have to obey the rules of raising the black torch.
- Followers of Yred get an umbral aura around them that grows as they gain
  piety, and zombies are passively animated only in the umbra aura.
- Yredelemnul grants the following active abilities:
  - 0*: Raise the Black Torch, which enables piety gain, but which can only
    be used once per floor and only lasts until the player leaves the
    floor. Starting at 1*, this ability also summons scaling undead
    allies.
  - 2*: Hurl Torchlight, which mights undead while damaging most others.
  - 4*: Bind Soul, which now temporarily flays the player until the
    binding is successful and heavily scales the soul's HP with invo.
  - 5*: Fathomless Shackles, which binds a large area centered on the
    player and damages over time while vampirically draining foes.
  - Removed abilities: Dark Bargain, Drain Life.
Makhleb has been significantly revamped.
- Minor and Major Destruction have been merged into a single ability: Unleash
  Destruction. Earned at 2*, it costs more HP than Major Destruction, but no
  piety.
- At 4* the player will receive one of 4 random upgrades to their Unleash
  Destruction ability. These upgrades, themed after each of the 4 Hells, grant
  additional effects and elements to your Destruction as well as allow it to
  pierce enemies.
- Lesser and Greater Servant have been merged into a single ability: Infernal
  Servant. Earned at 3*, this costs an amount of piety between Lesser and
  Greater Servant. Many more types of demons can be summoned by this ability
  and the quality of demon increases with Invocations skill. It is no longer
  possible to reduce the chance of a hostile demon, but the player will always
  receive a friendly one at the same time.
- At 6*, the player is offered a one-time choice between 3 different Infernal
  Marks which they may brand themselves with. These Marks grant powerful
  effects so long as the player continues to worship Makhleb:
  - Mark of Haemoclasm: Gives all slain enemies a chance to explode in a
    shower of gore upon death. This explosion may cause a chain reaction if it
    kills something.
  - Mark of the Legion: Replaces Infernal Servant with Infernal Legion, which
    summons a swarm of lower-level demons over time. You may fire Unleash
    Destruction freely through these allies.
  - Mark of Carnage: Infernal Servants appear next to enemies instead of the
    player and arrive in a large explosion of Destruction.
  - Mark of Annihilation: Replaces Infernal Servant with Globe of
    Annihilation, which fires a slow-moving homing projectile that explodes
    in a massive blast of hellish Destruction.
  - Mark of the Tyrant: Infernal Servants last much longer and killing enemies
    will buff them with Haste, Might, Regeneration, or Brilliance. At high
    Invocations skill, it becomes possible to summon even Hell Sentinels.
  - Mark of the Celebrant: Unleash a flurry of blood arrows at nearby enemies
    whenever the player falls below 50% of their max HP, but does not recharge
    until they are fully healed once more.
  - Mark of Execution: Upon killing an enemy in melee, there is a chance to
    temporarily take on the appearance of an Executioner, gaining a strong
    auxiliary blade attack and rampage. This effect lasts indefinitely, so
    long as the player continues attacking.
  - Mark of Atrocity: Both the damage and HP cost of Unleash Destruction now
    increases with the number of times in a row it is used. Upon the 4th use
    in a row, a huge barrage of empowered Destruction will be fired at many
    enemies in sight.
  - Mark of the Fanatic: Gives the player the Vessel of Slaughter ability,
    temporarily transforming them into a demonic avatar of Makhleb and greatly
    increasing their power and durability. But when the form ends, they will
    ...

Stone Soup 0.31 (20240119)

Highlights

New skill and background: Shapeshifters, using Talismans to change forms.
New skill and background: Alchemists, melding Poison Magic and Transmutation.
A variety of exciting new spells for sorcerers and sword-slingers alike.
Many dangerous new monsters, from the early Dungeon to the Realm of Zot.
Major changes to many species.

Artefacts

New unrand: Mule, a +7 flaming hand cannon which sometimes knocks the
user backwards when fired.
The dreamshard necklace now has Acrobat, but only restores the player to 1 HP
when they'd otherwise die, rather than healing 50-100% of their max HP.
Artefact staves and orbs can now enhance other schools of magic, even those
which don't have corresponding base enhancer staff types.
Gyre & Gimble's enchantment is reduced from +12 to +8.
The macabre finger necklace is now evil, and the amulet of Vitality
no longer is.
Glaive of the Guard no longer gives +5 AC.

Branches, Environment

The Slime Pits now have many new endings, instead of one fixed ending.
Fast-moving adventurers can find gems at the bottom of many branches.
These have no use, but are great for bragging rights.
Negative energy clouds have been replaced with clouds of excruciating
misery, which deal damage based on max HP %.
The Ecumenical Temple is now fully mapped on entry.
The lairs of the lords of Pandemonium have been reworked.
Bazaars now have other (friendly!) patrons.
Crypt now has a 1/3 chance of containing a talisman of death.
The Hall of Blades in Elf:2 now holds weapon-enhancing scrolls, and sometimes
has a blade talisman.
'Hard' ice caves are displayed pre-entry as "glacial chasms".

Character

New skill: Shapeshifting, used for talismans.
New background: Shapeshifter, replacing Transmuter. Shapeshifters enter the
dungeon with a beast talisman, a potion of lignification, and an animal skin.
Merged skills: Poison Magic and Transmutations have been merged into Alchemy.
Reworked background: Venom Mage has become Alchemist, which has the reworked
spells Mercury Vapours and Sticky Flame, along with Sting, Mephitic Cloud,
and Olgreb's Toxic Radiance.
Reworked Hexslinger, which now starts with new spells Jinxbite, Sigil of
Binding, and Dimensional Bullseye, along with Inner Flame and Cause Fear.
Conjurers no longer start with Dazzling Flash.
Shields no longer degrade in effectiveness with each hit taken per-turn.
Instead, they now have a limit on per-turn blocks, based on shield type.
New mutation: persistent drain, which makes HP drain take more XP to cure.
Hunters and Chaos Knights now start with scrolls of butterflies instead
of immolation and xom's chesspieces, respectively.

Gods

Okawaru now gives exactly one weapon gift and one armour gift as a capstone
(chosen by the player), rather than giving many random gifts.
Ashenzari now gives perfect mapping, but only maps within LOS radius.
Trog now disables pain brand instead of becoming angry at it.
Nemelex:
- The Swarm card can now summon higher level bees.
- The Elements card has had its summon set adjusted.
- The Cloud card now produces different types of cloud based on power.
- The Deal Four ability now costs more piety.
The Wu Jian Council now allows rampaging.
Cheibriados piety gain now only depends on monsters' base speed.
The good gods now hate distortion-branded weapons.
Gozag no longer detects gold.
Kikubaaqudgha's wrath has been overhauled to be much more dangerous.

Interface and Options

Monsters with unusual items (e.g. distortion) are now highlit in purple
by default.
Monster descriptions have been compacted and made more informative.
Monster resists from equipment is now used for display and targeting.
For many list options, commas can now be escaped with backslash.
The ctrl-T "toggle travel speed" option has been removed.

Items

New item type: talismans.
- When used, talismans transform the player into a corresponding form.
  This transformation lasts until the player chooses to end it.
  It takes five turns to use a talisman.
- Shapeshifting skill increases the power of talismans' forms. Insufficient
  Shapeshifting skill reduces the player's maximum HP while in a form.
  Different forms have different min and max Shapeshifting skills.
- Beast talisman: starting talisman for Shapeshifters. Gives +Slay
  but melds aux armour.
- Flux talisman: starting talisman for Shapeshifters. Over multiple hits,
  contaminates enemies with magical radiation until they explode.
- Serpent talisman: transforms the player into a big, constricting python.
- Maw talisman: melds the body slot, transforming it into a devouring maw.
  Launches auxiliary chomp attacks and heals the player by devouring foes.
- Blade talisman: gives the player blade hands and also a blade body,
  reducing AC from body armour at lower Shapeshifting skill.
- Statue talisman: turns the player into a slow-moving, durable statue.
- Dragon-blood talisman: turns the player into a fire-breathing dragon.
- Storm talisman: turns the player into living lightning.
- Talisman of death: turns the player into an undead abomination, blighting
  foes on hit and tormenting them to heal.
New item: sack of spiders, an XP-charged evoker which webs foes and
summons creepy-crawlies. Alternates with boxes of beasts.
Potions of flight replaced with enlightenment, which also give Will+.
Scrolls of magic mapping replaced with revelation, which also give X-ray
vision and sInv for one turn.
New weapon: orcbow, between a shortbow and an arbalest in strength.
Hand crossbows are now hand cannons, alchemically belching smoke and death.
Ranged weapons' damage, delay and accuracy have been adjusted.
Quick blades now hit twice for every swing, with a higher attack delay.
Boomerangs of dispersal have been replaced with darts.
Condenser vanes are now more effective at low power.
Spectral weapons now share 70% of damage taken (from 50%).
Staves of earth now check only 1x AC, but deal 1/3rd damage to fliers.
The 'chaos' brand has a new set of possible effects.
Wands of light no longer affect undead, plant and nonliving monsters.
Wands of quicksilver can no longer be self-targeted.
Troll leather armour now has slightly less base AC.
Removed books: Sky, Rime and Transfigurations.
Removed: silver boomerangs and xom's chesspieces.

Monsters

Uniques:
- New: Jeremiah, a peaceful barachi trapped between sleep and waking.
  Their dreams leak into reality in a stream of beautiful butterflies.
- Returned and revamped: Norris, a death cultist who surfs into battle with a
  gang of skysharks.
- Maurice is now a vine stalker, with high regen and antimagic bites.
- Erica is now an octopode, with constriction and a more focused spell set.
- Frederick holds an orb, has a new spell set, and is much stronger.
- Boris now sprays clouds of misery instead of casting Invisibility.
- Xtahua and Mnoleg are considerably stronger.
Other new and returned monsters:
- Arcanists, fairly dangerous vitrifying wizards.
- Bombardier beetles, an early monster that shoots sticky flame.
- Brain worms, which eat magic and minds alike.
- Burial acolytes, masters of the Ossuary.
- Crocodiles, which drag victims backward.
- Formless jellyfish, which constrict and sting for single-turn paralysis.
- Glass eyes, which vitrify victims to make them fragile as glass.
- Kobold blastminers, who blast enemies with alchemical cannons and get sent
  flying backwards by the recoil.
- Laughing skulls, whose painful laughter grows stronger in numbers.
- Protean progenitors, which split into shapeshifting fragments when slain.
- Weeping skulls, which spray clouds of misery.
Other changes to individual monsters:
- Alligators and reapers are a bit weaker, but drag victims backward.
- Ufetubi, tengu warriors, and draconian monks now slip behind their foes
  before meleeing.
- Tengu reavers now have rMsl.
- 'Wizard' has been renamed to 'occultist' and has a new spell set.
- Worms have turned into ribbon worms, doing less damage but ensnaring.
- Great orbs of eyes have a new spell set, and are slightly stronger.
- Cacodemons now Vitrify instead of casting Slow/Confuse.
- Killer Klowns now Vitrify instead of Polymorphing.
- Monsters which cast Energy Bolt now instead cast Bolt of Devastation,
  which applies Will/2 temporarily.
- Concentrate Venom (from naga mages and Amaemon) is more effective.
- Naga ritualists are much more powerful.
- Nagas' spit is now more powerful.
- Deep Elf Elementalists now cast LRD instead of Awaken Earth.
- Deep Elf Death Mages are tougher and summon many more lost souls.
- Red very ugly things now do direct fire damage instead of sticky flame.
- Sun moths have a different spellset and melee attack effects.
- Wargs are now notably stronger and faster.
- Abominations' speed is no longer randomized.
Attacks of opportunity have been reworked.
- Monsters now have a chance to attack when moving into melee with a player
  who just moved away. Previously, this triggered immediately when the
  player moved away, didn't use any of the monster's time, and couldn't
  trigger for monsters slower than the player.
- Monsters have a slight chance to fall behind or catch up while following
  the player.
Other behavioral changes:
- Giant monsters can now be ensnared by webs and nets.
- Jellies can no longer be netted or constricted.
- Allied undead no longer become angry when damaged.
- Allies match your speed when no foes are nea...

This release includes some bugfixes for menu-related crashes.

Fix zooming on local tiles
Many other bug and documentation fixes

Debian packages for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.30.0.

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Stone Soup 0.34.0 (20260205)

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Stone Soup 0.33.0 (20250502)

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Stone Soup 0.32.1 (20240925)

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0.32 "Gods and Makers"

Stone Soup 0.32.0 (20240829)

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0.31 "The Alchemy of Forms"

Stone Soup 0.31 (20240119)

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0.30.2 bugfix release

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