Caves of Qud news & patch notes

Hey folks,

We have some nice updates to share. First, after several weeks on the beta branch, our performance patch is now ready for everyone. It includes lots of little fixes and some deep rewrites that result in a big performance bump, so hopefully your next adventure is buttery-smooth, whether you're playing on a high-end machine, a potato, or something in between.

These optimizations also apply to the Nintendo Switch, where they are currently live. So if you haven't played there for a while, your performance should be much improved.

Caves of Qud vinyl: pre-order yours now!

We're ecstatic about this one. We've partnered with indie label Stumpy Frog Records and digital artist Saint Vulture to put the Caves of Qud original soundtrack on vinyl. It's a triple LP with over two hours of our atmospheric OST and gorgeous, original artwork on the gatefold. Preorders are available RIGHT NOW!

No matter whether you're mutated or implanted, there is no better way to experience the otherworldly, cozy-but-occasionally-harrowing vibes of Qud than through a needle in a groove of an unscratched data disc \.

"Burgeoning" mod jam in July

In July — just a few weeks away! — the next Caves of Qud mod jam begins, with the general theme of burgeoning (both the mutation and the concept). So start brewing up ideas and get ready to dig in, even if it's just a single new piece of tile art or a new creature design. If you need help getting started modding, head over to the Kitfox or Caves of Qud discords and ask for resources. There are plenty of modding vets who have navigated those waters and will point you in the right direction. Sign up for the jam here.

Summer Sale

The game is currently on discount for the Steam Summer Sale! So if you have any friends who haven't yet experienced the joy of mutation, now's a great time to buy Qud as a gift, whether it's to celebrate Pride month, stay cool during the summer months, or for any other reason.

That's all for now. Until next time: live and drink, friends.

-Freehold & Kitfox

Patch 211.45

• We made several performances improvements.

  • Greatly improved pathfinding performance.

  • Greatly improved performance when auto-moving to the edge of a zone.

  • Improved pathfinding logic of creatures, causing them to take more sensible paths around obstacles.

  • Greatly improved performance on wet maps.

  • Improved performance in Bethesda Susa.

• Merchants now allow you to trade with them you after you buy their entire inventory.

• The looker now indicates the number of objects in the square in the top command bar if there is more than one lookable object.

• We added new target picker graphics for various activated abilities that improve visibility.

• The default keybind for force attack up and down (Ctrl+ < or >) have been swapped to match movement binds.

• Digging tools in the offhand are now preferred over primary non-digging weapons when attacking diggable objects.

• You now properly melee attack wallbound creatures instead of the wall when a digging tool is equipped in your primary hand.

• You can now tap your throw bind again in the throw targeting window in order to throw.

• Autoget now ignores nuggets if the "Autoget nuggets" option is disabled, even if "Autoget trade goods" is enabled.

• Repair now takes slightly lower precedence in menu priority.

• Added a debug option to allow world seeds to be input during game creation. It's experimental and won't fully work yet.

• Ruins that claim they have becoming nooks now always have becoming nooks.

• Reality stabilization no longer causes individual limbs and equipment (like horns) to vanish from a creature without that creature itself vanishing.

• Equipping multiple force bracelets now gives multiple abilities to toggle each independently.

• Tri-hologram bracelets no longer reset your targeting position for each hologram.

• Cooking with wild rice or canned Have-it-All now picks a random effect from the correct pool of effects rather using the pool of the ingredient you first cooked with this play session.

• Temporary food items no longer stack with non-temporary food items and become permanent.

• Build codes using mods that aren't loaded should more reliably work.

• Graffiti is now visible on walls with ornately engraved plaques.

• Added marble tiles around the pools in Bethesda Susa.

• Stairs in the Tomb of the Eaters are now more consistently reachable.

• The \ now always have a becoming nook on the bottom floor.

• You now get notified that you gain a \ when you \.

• Tau's crystalline items now have more hitpoints.

• Fixed a bug that caused autoexplore to attempt interacting with objects buried under solid walls.

• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to undervalue or ignore their equipment when considering paths through acid pools.

• Fixed a bug that caused the Modern UI option not to be shown.

• Fixed a bug that caused 'whip up a meal' for creatures without the cooking skill to fail.

• Fixed a bug that caused Amnesia to throw exceptions if it was ever removed.

• Fixed a bug that caused unreal objects to be affected by temperature radiation.

• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes be unable to open your equipment after glitching yourself with warm static.

• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes lose your inventory after glitching yourself with warm static.

• Fixed a bug that caused you to bump into obstacles on the destination when moving to zone edges.

• Fixed a bug that caused \ to sometimes meander off the main map or into important quest locations.

• Fixed a bug that caused nullphase objects to freeze in cold areas.

• Fixed a boot issue on MacOS.

• Fixed various typos.

• \ EmbarkBuilderModule now has a GetRequiredMod() method you can override to pop up an error if your mod is not enabled when loading a build code that uses it.

• \ Fixed a bug that caused the NOT operator in conversation expressions to add an extra literal.

• Greatly improved performance on wet maps.

• Improved performance in Bethesda Susa.
• Fixed a bug that caused to sometimes meander off the main map or into important quest locations.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Modern UI option to not be shown.
• Fixed a bug that caused whip up a meal for creatures without the cooking skill to fail.
• Fixed a bug that caused Amnesia to throw exceptions if it was ever removed.

Hey folks,

We put up a new, experimental branch (lang-experimental) for testing a total rewrite of our text generation systems. This was done to support our efforts to localize Caves of Qud. We don't have any new languages to test yet; we just want to test the framework. If you're interested in helping out, keep reading!

We'd just need players to play the game and see if anything is off, particularly with text. It's best if you play without any mods enabled. UNLESS you yourself are a modder and want to test your mod's compatibility. In this case, try playing with just your own mod enabled.

Though we will create automatic backup files, we recommend manually backing up any saves you plan to upgrade. The upgrade is one way to this newer version and may be incompatible with future releases of this branch.

The patch includes a lot of modding impact and also some small new usability features. Patch notes below.

Live and drink.

212.17

• You can now add items to your ability screen and hotbar. To do so, interact with the item and choose "add custom ability".

• You can now hold Shift to access the next page of your ability hotbar.

• Disease progression messages are now colored in the message log.

• Companion encumbrance is now visible on the Trade screen.

• The Wait menu now acts more like other dialog menus.

• Programmed recoilers now more accurately reflect their target zone's name when the zone shares a parasang with a named location.

• Holding Shift now causes the scroll wheel to go faster on the Trade creen.

• Soup sludges now react with cloning draught on the ground.

• \ The internal string format is now UTF16. This means any characters you were using from CP437 in your .cs files need to be converted. ConsoleLib.Console has a CP437 class with helpers. XRL.Language.TextConstants has helpers for getting the correct unicodes for symbols, and TextConstants.xml has the correct unicodes for XMLs.

• \ The XML files from mods now also support loading UTF-8 characters (though default to parsing as CP437 still). To enable this feature for your files, use Encoding="utf-8" on the root node of your XML.

• \ Many new XML file types have been added.

• \ Many old XML file types are now more mergable.

• \ GameText, ReplaceBuilder, and VariableReplacers have been supercharged with a lot of new tech.

• \ New utilities to test VariableReplacers have been added to the Histographicnomicon in the Modding Toolkit and are also available via wishes "testreplacers" and "testlangreplacers".

• \ There is now an ExampleLanguage folder in StreamingAssets that has example files for localization.

• \ There is now an XRL.Language.Strings interface for fetching static or template strings with _S and _T.

• \ Many APIs now use our own TextBuilder instead of the C# StringBuilder. It should be API-equivalent.

• Graffiti is now visible on walls with ornately engraved plaques.
• Merchants now allow you to trade with them you after you buy their entire inventory.
• Stairs in the Tomb of the Eaters are now more consistently reachable.
• The looker now indicates the number of objects in the square in the top command bar if there is more than one lookable object.
• The default keybind for force attack up and down (Ctrl+ < or >) have been swapped to match movement binds.
• Autoget now ignores nuggets if the "Autoget nuggets" option is disabled, even if "Autoget trade goods" is enabled.
• Equipping multiple force bracelets now gives multiple abilities to toggle each independently.
• Cooking with wild rice or canned Have-it-All now picks a random effect from the correct pool of effects rather using the pool of the ingredient you first cooked with this play session.
• Temporary food items no longer stack with non-temporary food items and become permanent.
• Build codes using mods that aren't loaded should more reliably work.
• EmbarkBuilderModule now has a GetRequiredMod() method you can override to pop up an error if your mod is not enabled when loading a build code that uses it.

Hey friends,

We posted a small update to the beta branch, which is the branch we've been using for all our new performance work. Here are the patch notes.

211.35

• Repair now takes slightly lower precedence in menu priority.

• Added a debug option to allow world seeds to be input during game creation. It's experimental and won't fully work yet.

• Ruins that claim they have becoming nooks now always have becoming nooks.

• The \ now always have a becoming nook on the bottom floor.

• Reality stabilization no longer cause individual limbs and equipment (like horns) to vanish from a creature without that creature itself vanishing.

• Digging tools in the offhand are now preferred over primary non-digging weapons when attacking diggable objects.

• You now properly melee attack wallbound creatures instead of the wall when a digging tool is equipped in your primary hand.

• You can now tap your throw bind again in the throw targeting window in order to throw.

• You now get notified that you gain a \ when you \.

• Tau's crystalline items now have more hitpoints.

• Fixed various typos.

Also, today we are celebrating the launch of Caves of Qud on Nintendo Switch! It's out now in North America, Europe, and Australian regions! Watch the out now trailer and visit the Nintendo eShop to buy.

As always, thanks for supporting us. Live and drink.

-Freehold and Kitfox Games

Hey friends, Qud has been officially Verified on the SteamDeck which means and we wanna see where you're playing Qud on the go. Tag us on socials or post to the Kitfox Discord with #QudintheWild with your most far out locations. Speaking of portables, we are excited to finally announce that Caves of Qud will be releasing on the Nintendo Switch February 16th! Watch the release date trailer showing console gameplay.

What else is going on?

Work continues on the first of several future expansion packs which will also be paired with a free update. The team is also busy actively developing a mobile port and localization efforts. Build Club We're also working on the revival of a beloved community event called Build Club where we create share and play custom builds. And it's also the origin of the fan-favourite mopango. We'll have more info about how you can participate soon! Secret art project! If you're into once-in-a-lifetime collabs, keep an eye out, we're working with the amazing Saint Vulture on a special collectible, you can also check out their game here: Here's a little sneak peek: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/7472163/c3e9f7d417f19cef8650f929e3917132a30a3dcf.png Live and drink. - Kitfox + Freehold

• Greatly improved pathfinding performance.
• Greatly improved performance when auto-moving to the edge of a zone.
• Improved pathfinding logic of creatures, causing them to take more sensible paths around obstacles.
• Tri-hologram bracelets no longer reset your targeting position for each hologram.
• Fixed a bug that caused unreal objects to be affected by temperature radiation.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes be unable to open your equipment after glitching yourself with warm static.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes lose your inventory after glitching yourself with warm static.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to bump into obstacles on the destination when moving to zone edges.

Here is your Caves of Qud year Wrapped, brought to you by a several snapjaws in a ironweave cloak.

First, happy birthday to Qud! We launched 1.0 a year ago, and we've had a nice, long recovery from 15+ years of updates. But we still managed to make a lot of progress towards our long-term goals.

In 2025, Caves of Qud wrapped:

• Patches: 13

• Bugfixes: 232

• Hugo Awards Won: 1

• Console versions announced: 1

• Languages localized: 0.25

• Girshlings licked: ???

• Mods currently in the Steam Workshop: 1112

• T-shirt designs for sale: 5

Yep! In fact, we’ve been patching the Beta branch regularly with some deep performance optimizations, so if you’re curious to try a buttery-smooth experience, wander into the Beta branch and let us know if you encounter anything off.

Meanwhile, our Switch port is coming along (release date still pending), the expansion pack is in the works, we're tinkering on our localization experiment in Turkish, and there’s more excellent merch coming in the new year.

We’re spinning a LOT of plates, and we appreciate your continued patience while all of these efforts come to fruition.

Mod of the Year: Hearthpyre 

We wanted to take a moment to highlight Hearthpyre, a base-building mod, and one of the best Caves of Qud mods period. It's made by Armithaig, who has since joined the Freehold team and is responsible for the tech implementation of a vast array of features, including: golem and mech interiors, much of what's atop the \, complex dynamic quests Reclamation, If Then Else, and Landing Pads, most of our recent modding enhancements, and many of the late-game visual effects.

Armithaig got their gamedev start in the early 2000s modding games like Morrowind, Freelancer, and Dungeon Siege. With Hearthpyre they wanted to let folks live in the little nooks and homes that exist across Qud. Go check it out if you haven't already.

Get an extra discount on: 1000xRESIST

We love this game! 1000xRESIST is one of the best-written games of the past several years, and if you own Qud, you can get it right now for an extra 10% off. That's on top of the game itself being on sale right now. If you like novel science fiction settings with powerful resonant themes (like Qud), then we highly recommend 1000xRESIST. Grab it below!

That’s a Wrap!

However you celebrate this time of year, warm or cold, we wish you plenty of beverages to imbibe and loved ones to hold in your many arms.

Live and drink,

Everyone at Freehold & Kitfox

Hey everyone,

It's Alexandra here from Kitfox with an assortment of game news while the team remains in the midst expansion, porting, and localization efforts. They've truly grown at least one extra arm to be able to do all that!

Nominate Qud for the Steam Awards 2025

The Steam Award nominations are now open! This year, Caves of Qud is eligible for MOST of the award categories, so make sure you vote for as many as you feel is appropriate. Maybe Story-Rich Game, Soundtrack, or Steam Deck? Sit Back and Relax for the sicko voters???? You can nominate for all the awards here: https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/nominations/2025

Mod Jam results

The latest Qud mod jam just concluded with a new batch of creative mods inspired by the theme "reanimated Monster Mash". You can download the mod pack and check out the monstrous entries yourself. We hosted a showcase stream with librarianmage, Sol, Alexandra, and Jason, where we celebrated all the entries. Watch to the end to see a final showdown with all the mods! You can watch the VOD on the Kitfox Youtube:

Switch port announcement

Hey folks, Jason and Brian here. Unfortunately we have to delay the switch release of Caves of Qud until January. The port took a little longer to meet our bar of excellence than we were hoping for. And given Caves of Qud's long development timeline, what matters most to us is releasing the best possible version of the game, even if it means delaying a month. The good news is we're confident about the January timeframe. So, we will see you on Switch soon.

That's all, friends. We'll have another general Qud update next month. Until then, live and drink.

-Kitfox and Freehold Games

We posted an update with some significant performance improvements to the Beta branch. If you'd like to help us test, check it out! A lot of the UI and rendering code was refactored, so please be on the look out for issues in those areas.

Also, Caves of Qud is the Steam Daily Deal today! Get it for 20% off, and tell someone you know!

A few patch notes below. Live and drink, friends.

• Greatly improved UI performance.

• Greatly improved map rendering performance.

• Greatly improved line-of-sight calculation performance.

• Fixed a missing bind for deleting game saves.

• Fixed an issue in high-latency environments that caused a bunch of waits to be issued after releasing the movement stick on gamepad.\

• Phase spiders are now more reliably phased.
• Dream wrens found outside of Chavvah are now part of the birds faction.
• You now always start with a method of seeing in the dark when entering a waking dream.
• Waking dreams now wait until you return to the main gameplay screen to end, so for example your dream does not end in the middle of a conversation.
• Juking now counts as movement for the cooling effects of blaze tonic.
• Burgeoning and Temporal Fugue no longer play the gain follower sound effect for each summoned creature.
• You now only ask the wild-eyed water merchant about Mamon Souldrinker if you have Raising Indrix.
• The game now recognizes ciderer Erah as a proper noun.
• The Barathrumites are now called if you get in .
• The flowers in are no longer flammable.
• Quest objects are now more consistently reachable.
• Tents made out of creature skins should be improperly capitalized less often.
• Removed an outdated section in the help files about different melee weapon types having different penetration values.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Fix-It spray foam to repair permanently broken objects.
• Fixed a bug that caused waydroids in adjacent zones to be hostile even if you had a droid scrambler.
• Fixed a bug that caused adjacent scrambled waydroids to count as hostile for the purpose of calculating wildfire for missile weapons.
• Fixed a bug that prevented item-based quest steps from completing when you obtained the item via tinkering.
• Fixed a bug that caused interactable quest objects to sometimes spawn in cells with other furniture, rendering them hard to see or interact with.
• Fixed a bug that caused nocturnal apex durations to be half as long as intended.
• Fixed lots of misspellings and other errors in generated text.
• Fixed lots of misspellings and other errors in non-generated text.
• Fixed a pronoun issue with Asphodel.
• Skills marked as ExcludeFromPool are now excluded from warm static rolls.
• Attempting to register for string events on XRLGame or using a handler other than IPart and Effect now outputs a warning.
• A GenericCommandEvent can now be queued for next action manager segment using GameEventCommand.
• A map of mod "Exclusions" can now be defined in manifest.json directories, skipping the directory if any of the listed mods is active.
• The DroppedEvent now has a static Send method.
• Fixed a bug that caused AwardingXPEvent to only propagate to game systems.

Hey everyone, It’s Alexandra from Kitfox here with the latest news from development. The team continues to work on several limbs worth of upgrades to the game. Localization is moving ahead and there’s even work being done on the first Expansion Pack. You can also expect to see a little patch this week with some bugfixes! Today we have exciting news from the porting side because today we’re announcing that Caves of Qud will be available on the Nintendo Switch by the end of the year! And it’s the start of the Kitfox Festival today so Caves of Qud and the entire Kitfox catalogue are on sale! Tell your friends (especially those who don’t have Qud yet, because what are they even doing???) Lastly, our friends at A Sharp also just announced their brand new procedural adventure game, Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists. If you're into tense tactical battles and kaleidoscopic, mythological world explorations then this might be for you. You can watch the announcement trailer here and wishlist the game on Steam now: Happy festivaling + live and drink. -Alexandra

• Isahind and Warden Yrame now always have the appropriate freezing ray variants for their descriptions.
• The n-pointed asterisk can no longer be disassembled.
• Multi-turn charge abilities like Decarbonize, Run Over, and Wrecking Charge now render each turn spent charging.
• Fixed a bug in zone building due to placing quest items on villagers or lair owners that lack inventories.
• Fixed a bug that caused some ability bar buttons to not function when clicked with the mouse.
• Fixed a crash when a burgeoning cooking effect triggered on gaining new followers.
• Fixed a bug that caused several effects like flying, sprinting, or wading to sometimes alter your tile in the UI.
• Fixed a bug that caused golems that were overkilled by several times their base hitpoints to be reshaped with 0 hitpoints.
• Fixed a bug that caused mutations to be displayed with their class name when selecting an atzmus.
• Fixed a bug that caused the gear from the Great Machine to disarm natural weapons.
• Fixed a bug that caused secrets in multi-tile world terrain such as the Rivers Svy and Opal to not match the interests of any factions, such as fish.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect or null values to be displayed instead of a creature's immature person term.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'Her' and 'Their' pronouns to sometimes be displayed instead of the substantive 'Hers' and 'Theirs'.
• Fixed a bug that caused the quest 'Reclamation' to soft-lock by pouring warm static on warleaders.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to permanently be rendered below other objects after being enclosed.
• Added a TierScaling flag to XP events, which when disabled skips scaling XP awards by level difference to the creature killed.

Hey friends,

For a long time we hoped we could keep working on Caves of Qud after its 1.0 release. Not just porting and localizing to other languages (work that is well underway), but adding new layers of game to the already 17-year layer cake — things like new types of playable creatures, underground villages, new mechanics, and expanded lore. As we’ve hinted here and elsewhere, the success of the launch is allowing us to do just this! And now that we’ve had some time to take a rest, reflect on the release, and think through how we want to structure our future releases, we’re happy to share today the broad shape of our plans, even if details are yet to come.

Expansion Packs

We’re going to be focusing development into a few big expansion packs that’ll come out one by one over the next few years. Each expansion pack will be paired with a big update to the base game. The base game updates will be free, and the expansion packs will be purchasable as DLC. The first one will likely come out sometime next year. We have at least three sketched out, but time will tell what they look like beyond the first.

FAQ

What will go into the base game vs. the expansion packs?

This’ll be a call based on what makes sense, whether we feel the feature being added is core to the game (a better version of what already exists) or part of a new set of non-vanilla features. Both the expansion pack and its paired base game update will have a lot of stuff in them, though.

How much will expansion packs cost?

Still TBD, but since they will be big updates that take a lot of development time and energy to make, we plan on pricing them accordingly (i.e., definitely more than the Pets of Harvest Dawn pet pack).

Speaking of, what about future pet packs? Originally our plan was to release a cycle of pet packs — Harvest Dawn was the first. Now we think it makes sense to just add more pets to the one pet pack, possibly paired with the timing of each expansion pack release. Everyone who owns the Harvest Dawn pet pack will get the new pets for free. We -may- slightly increase the price of the pet pack in the future to reflect this; we haven’t decided yet.

What will happen to Dromad Deluxe?

The Dromad Deluxe bundle (base game + OST + Pets of Harvest Dawn) will eventually rotate out to make room for new bundles. So if you want your main menu dromad badge, get the bundle before it goes! We’ll post a warning closer to when it makes its exit.

r/Fantasy AMA

This Saturday, July 19th at 10 AM PST, we’ll be hosting an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) on r/fantasy. Come by and ask us a question, about expansion packs (maybe we’ll answer) or anything else!

Hugo Awards

And if you are a Seattle Worldcon member or attendee and eligible to vote for the Hugo Awards, please consider voting Caves of Qud for Best Game or Interactive Work! Deadline to vote is July 23rd, 11:59pm PST.

Thank you, friends. We’ll have more to say about expansion pack #1 later on, and a few more surprises coming soon. As always, live and drink.

• Fixed a bug in zone building due to placing quest items on villagers or lair owners that lack inventories.
• Isahind and Warden Yrame now always have the appropriate freezing ray variant for their descriptions.
• The n-pointed asterisk can no longer be disassembled.
• Multi-turn charge abilities like Decarbonize, Run Over, and Wrecking charge now render each turn spent charging.
• Fixed a crash when a burgeoning cooking effect triggered on gaining new followers.
• Fixed a bug that caused several effects like flying, sprinting, or wading to sometimes alter your tile in the UI.
• Fixed a bug that caused golems that were overkilled by several times their base hitpoints to be reshaped with 0 hitpoints.
• Fixed a bug that caused mutations to be displayed with their class name when selecting an atzmus.
• Fixed a bug that caused the gear from the Great Machine to disarm natural weapons.
• Fixed a bug that caused secrets in multi-tile world terrain such as rivers Svy and Opal to not match the interests of any factions, such as fish.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect or null values to be displayed instead of a creature's immature person term.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'Her' and 'Their' pronouns to sometimes be displayed instead of the substantive 'Hers' and 'Theirs'.
• Fixed a bug that caused the quest 'Reclamation' to soft-lock by pouring warm static on warleaders.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to permanently be rendered below other objects after being enclosed.
• Added a TierScaling flag to XP events which when disabled will skip scaling awarded XP by tier differences to killed creatures.

GAMEPLAY & UI

• Added a new advanced option in the Prompts section: 'Show popups when you dismember or decapitate someone'.
• Added a new advanced option in the Debug section: 'Strip color formatting from UI text'.
• Added new directional keybinds to autowalk to specific edges of the map.
• Added a fallback font for the modern UI with many previously missing international unicode characters.
• Search text is now cleared when reopening the options or control bind menus.
• Search on the Skills screen now searches all skills, including unexpanded categories.
• Options that require a game restart to take effect now prompt you to do so upon exiting the menu.
• Creatures with photosynthetic skin now bask in the sunlight.
• The endgame score screen now displays the correct number of lairs you found.
• Switched the icons of Steady Hand and Steady Hands.
• Clarified that some abilities let you jump over creatures in Jump's skill description.
• The legendary mecha in Reclamation is now loved by the Putus Templar.
• Walls created via 3D cobblers or step sowers no longer inherit your phase.
• Love tonic effects should more reliably expire when old zones are loaded.
• Restocking merchants should more reliably dispose of unimportant items sold to them.
• Particle effects now respect visibility and won't render on top of objects that stand over them.
• The message for blocking now includes what shield you blocked with.
• Minorly improved performance across the board.
• Improved performance when many particle effects were active onscreen.
• Improved performance when you hold a light source at night.
• Improved performance when you move.
• Increased the render layer of the still chime.
• Windows builds are now 64-bit.
• DLC is no longer subject to the 'Enable mods' option.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to prioritize hostiles farther away, resulting in them frequently getting blocked in narrow passages.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes ignore stationary hostiles that were shooting at them.
• Fixed a bug that caused some epilogue conversations to be inaccessible when marooned.
• Fixed a bug that caused Jab to sometimes not work with chimeric hands.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to lose your followers when recoming at Gyl.
• Fixed a bug that caused custom time clocks to not display in other planes.
• Fixed a bug that caused water rituals with followers to skip awarding reputation for loved factions beyond the first.
• Fixed a bug that caused some control binds on non-English keyboard layouts to render incorrectly.
• Fixed some dynamic language when describing unknown jewelry.
• Fixed a typo in tongue twist.
• Fixed dynamic grammar issue with hindren scout's description.
• Fixed a bug that caused tooltips to get stuck open.
• Fixed a bug that caused tinkering line items to be unclickable.
• Fixed a rare bug in zone generation due to random baetyl rewards not generating properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to have multiple primary limbs if you regenerated a previously dismembered primary limb.
• Fixed a bug that caused 3D cobblers to ignore walls of the same type, even if they were visually different.
• Fixed a bug that caused the poisoned effect to sometimes ignore immunity.
• Fixed a bug on the Windows builds that caused prompts for opening Player.log to instead open an unrelated folder.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mod manager to close after a popup was dismissed.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mod manager to still receive key input while a popup was displayed.
• Fixed a bug that caused important items to be traded or stored when toggling all items to trade.
• Fixed a visual bug in the popup frame decoration.
• Fixed a bug that caused rare sultan statues to appear with missing textures.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'Melee attack nearest enemy' to walk on top of plants like dreadroots.
• Fixed a bug that caused items placed next to the golem mound to report as valid for construction but fail when asking Klanq to build it.
• Fixed a bug that caused Girsh Qon to lose the use of her shave flaps when absorbing the chord of Agolgot.
• Fixed a bug that caused Girsh Qon to confuse herself if under your control.
• Fixed a bug that caused various messages involving pariahs, such as those for petting, to become malformed.
• Fixed a bug that caused the individual steps for 'The Golem' quest to not complete when providing materials.
• Fixed a bug that prevented opening the character status screen if you had a mutation with an invalid variant.
• Fixed a message that referred to the wrong object when attacking a creature that blinks away on damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused disabling the zone transition autosaves to instead save on every transition.
• Fixed a typo in "Chiliad Creature Hoof" which prevented the blueprint from loading.
• Fixed a bug where the teleport animation didn't respect tile flippedness.
• Fixed a bug where Ornate Tables would change colors when items were placed on them.
• Fixed a bug where enclosed objects could appear above their encloser.
• Fixed a bug that caused some historic regions to generate without articles.
• Fixed a bug that caused common phrases for "cooking" to not generate.

MODDING & DEBUG

• Steam workshop mods now check for updates and prompt downloads if you've declared a version in your manifest.json.
• You can now add HistorySpice.json files to your mod, which will merge with the base HistorySpice.
• Added LoadBefore and LoadAfter to manifest.json, which can influence mod load order without creating dependency cycles.
• The XRL namespace is now checked for type name conflicts, which should prevent cases of silent incompatibilities between mods.
• Map files in subdirectories now merge together by their ID. If no ID is defined, the relative path is used.
• The game is now restarted when the mod configuration is changed to fully unload old mod data.
• Mod approval has been replaced by a one-time option to opt-in when installing a script mod for the first time.
• We added some new features to manifest.json.
  • Mod dependencies can now be declared, allowing your mod to require and be loaded after others.
  • Separate subdirectories can be loaded depending on what version of the game is running, allowing further mod compatibility.
  • Subdirectories can also be loaded only if a certain mod is present, allowing optional interwoven features.
  • Defining a manual LoadOrder is deprecated, in favor of dependencies.
  • Refer here for usage: wiki.
• You can now add a 'Textures' folders for your sprites anywhere in your project, respecting your manifest.json directories.
• Added an alert to the main menu if enabled mods are missing dependencies.
• Added a new GetBleedLiquidEvent, which defaults to the old BleedLiquid tag or property.
• XML files loaded by root now print an info block of file counts to the Player.log.
• Crystallinity is now added via its mutation entry, allowing its class to be changed.
• You can now define a 'Reputation' xtag for various state used by the GivesRep part, such as 'LovedBy', 'LikedBy', 'NotDislikedBy', etc.
• Conversation parts now have a disposal step after the conversation is over and no more events will fire.
• Combo options can now define a separate display value using '|', e.g. '0|None'.
• Adding an invalid object to cybernetics population tables no longer prevents world generation, instead logging an error.
• Various methods on Tinkering_Disassemble have been made public & static.
• Added an OptionFlag attribute, which can sync an option's value to a field or property.
• Added a Options.HasOptionValue method to check if an option has a player-configured value.
• Fixed a bug that caused displayed version numbers using the upgrade operator to be parsed as a color code.
• Fixed an exception when specifying invalid attribute requirements for powers.
• Fixed a bug that caused custom clock images to fill the available space in the status bar.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the wrong extrinsic attack to be removed when processing a melee action.
• Fixed a bug that caused the default values of options to be ignored when used as conditions for manifest.json directories.
• Added 'shimmering' wish that gives you the effect of eating Eater's flesh.

• The score screen now displays the correct number of lairs you found.
• Switched the icons of Steady Hand and Steady Hands.
• Clarified that some abilities let you jump over creatures in Jump's skill description.
• Added a new advanced option 'Show popups when you dismember or decapitate someone'
• Added new directional keybinds to auto-walk to specific edges of the map
• Fixed some dynamic language when describing unknown jewelry.
• Fixed a typo in tongue twist.
• Fixed dynamic grammar issue with hindren scout's description.
• Walls created via 3D cobblers or step sowers no longer inherit your phase.
• The high mecha in Reclamation is now loved by the Putus Templar.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to prioritize hostiles farther away, causing them to frequently get blocked in narrow passages.
• Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes ignore stationary hostiles that were shooting at them.
• Fixed a bug that caused some epilogue conversations to be inaccessible when marooned.
• Fixed a bug that caused Jab to sometimes not work with chimeric hands.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to lose your followers when recoming at Gyl.
• Fixed a bug that caused custom time clocks to not display in other planes.
• Fixed a bug that caused water rituals with followers to skip awarding reputation for loved factions beyond the first.
• Crystallinity is now added via its mutation entry, allowing its class to be changed.
• You can now define a 'Reputation' xtag for various state used by the GivesRep part, such as 'LovedBy', 'LikedBy', 'NotDislikedBy', etc.
• Adding an invalid object to cybernetics population tables will no longer prevent world generation, instead logging an error.
• Fixed a bug that caused custom clock images to fill the available space in the status bar.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the wrong extrinsic attack to be removed when processing a melee action.
• Added 'shimmering' wish which gives you the effect of eating earer's flesh.

• Particle effects now respect visibility and won't render on top of objects that stand over them.
• Improved performance when many particle effects were active onscreen.
• Improved performance when the you hold a light source at night.
• Improved performance when you move.
• Increased the render layer of the still chime.
• Fixed a bug that caused important items to be traded or stored when toggling all items to trade.
• Fixed a visual bug in the popup frame decoration.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to have multiple primary limbs if you regenerated a previously dismembered primary limb.
• Fixed a bug that caused 3D cobblers to ignore walls of the same type, even if they were visually different.
• Fixed a bug that caused the poisoned effect to sometimes ignore immunity.
• Fixed a bug on the Windows build that caused prompts for opening Player.log to instead open an unrelated folder.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mod manager to close after a popup was dismissed.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mod manager to still receive key input while a popup was displayed.

• Options that require a game restart to take effect will now prompt you to do so upon exiting the menu.
• Creatures with photosynthetic skin will now bask in the sunlight.
• Fixed a bug that caused rare sultan statues to appear as missing textures.
• Fixed a bug that caused 'Melee attack nearest enemy' to walk on top of plants like dreadroots.
• Fixed a bug that caused items placed next to the golem mound to report as valid for construction but fail when asking Klanq to build it.
• Fixed a bug that caused Girsh Qon to lose the use of her shave flaps when absorbing the chord of Agolgot.
• Fixed a bug that caused Girsh Qon to confuse herself if under player control.
• Fixed a bug that caused various messages involving pariahs, such as those for petting, to become malformed.
• Fixed a bug that caused the individual steps for 'The Golem' quest to not complete when providing materials.
• Fixed a bug that prevented opening the character status screen if you had a mutation with an invalid variant.
• Fixed a message that referred to the wrong object when attacking a creature that blinks away on damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused disabling the zone transition autosaves to instead save on every transition.
• Fixed typo in "Chiliad Creature Hoof" which prevented the blueprint from loading
• Fixed bug where the teleport animation didn't respect tile flippedness
• Conversation parts now have a disposal step after the conversation is over and no more events will fire.
• Combo options can now define a separate display value using '|', e.g. '0|None'.

• The build library is now synced to Steam Cloud.
• Auto light/douse torches is now toggled on again by default.
• Horns now benefit from the Jab skill when used for secondary attacks.
• Thrown weapons equipped in a non-thrown-slot hand now display their melee properties, rather than their thrown properties.
• The penetration estimate of missile & thrown weapons now respects their respective penetration caps.
• You are now prompted to stop traveling if your HP falls below the warning threshold.
• Fixed an issue with the ordering of certain tomb murals.
• Fixed a bug that caused some sub-limbs to stay permanently dismembered even after their parent limb was regenerated.
• Fixed a bug that caused some bodies to never recover the use of their missile weapons after dismemberment.
• Fixed a bug that caused hostile creatures with a short kill radius to not react when shot from range.
• Fixed a bug that caused the turbow to not apply its penetration bonus.
• Fixed a bug that caused the displayed penetration value of thrown weapons to be lower than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused the psychal fleshgun to double its penetration bonus from Ego.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to never forget secrets even with Amnesia.
• Fixed a bug that caused the mouth of Shug'ruith to always be built straight down.
• Fixed a bug that caused liquid stains to be included in water ritual reputations.
• Fixed a bug that caused water ritual options to be selectable even when you did not have the required reputation.
• Fixed a bug that caused a southeast pointing arrow to be displayed on the western map border.
• Fixed a bug that caused you to acquire the Change Grip ability regardless of equipping properly or not.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Cleave skill to apply a -2 penalty to AV per hit instead of the intended -1.
• Fixed a bug that caused Hook and Drag to display popups when other creatures failed to use it.
• Fixed a bug that caused faces dismembered during domination to not modify reputation.
• Fixed a bug that caused the conch of the Aji to grant its ability when equipped in the thrown slot.
• Fixed a bug that caused Stopsvalinn to give its ability when improperly equipped.
• Fixed a bug that caused quest objectives to pick up items to complete when just looking at them.
• Fixed a bug that caused flying with cathedras to impede other movement abilities and remove cooldowns when teleporting.
• Fixed a bug that caused the tile of farmers to be overridden.
• Fixed a bug that prevented music from playing in Brightsheol.
• Fixed a bug that could cause an object to be attached with invalid parts, preventing the game from being saved.
• Fixed a bug that caused some zones to build very slowly.
• Fixed a minor inconsistency between XP being awarded from turning in Resheph secrets vs. turning in Sheba books.
• Fixed message ordering of space time vortexes appearing.
• Added an alterable Icon to ConversationUI, also accessible via BeginConversationEvent.
• Added a RenderNodeEvent to conversations, which can temporarily override the rendered icon and title.
• Variants to the Hooks for Feet mutation now use their blueprint's display name in the mutation description.
• Undefined tables in Mods.xml now properly initialize an empty table list.
• The RenderEvent has been extended with new parameters to alter rendering in specific contexts.
• The quest 'O Glorious Shekhinah!' is no longer hardcoded to a specific zone ID.
• Sultan statue tiles have now been extracted to a weighted population table: SultanShrines_StatueTiles.
• Creature attitude info can now also be enabled via the 'Show attitude info on objects' option.
• Journal note attributes are now separated for readability (these are only visible when the object internals debug option is turned on).
• Fixed a bug that prevented the game from recognizing you were marooned in .

• Minorly improved performance across the board.
• Fixed a bug where Ornate Tables would change colors when items were placed on them.
• Fixed a bug where enclosed objects could appear above their encloser.
• Various methods on Tinkering_Disassemble have been made public & static.
• Added an OptionFlag attribute, which can sync an option's value to a field or property.
• Added a Options.HasOptionValue method to check if an option has a player-configured value.
• Fixed a bug that caused displayed version numbers using the upgrade operator to be parsed as a color code.
• Fixed an exception when specifying invalid attribute requirements for powers.

• Added a fallback font for the modern UI with many previously missing international unicode characters.
• The message for blocking will now include what shield you blocked with.
• Fixed a bug that caused some historic regions to generate without articles.
• Fixed a bug that caused common phrases for "cooking" to not generate.
• Steam workshop mods will now check for updates and prompt downloads if you've declared a version in your manifest.json.
• You can now add HistorySpice.json files to your mod which will merge with that of the game.
• Added LoadBefore and LoadAfter to manifest.json which can influence mod load order without creating dependency cycles.
• The XRL namespace is now checked for type name conflicts which could previously cause silent incompatibilities between mods.
• Map files in subdirectories will now merge together by their ID, if no ID is defined the relative path is used.
• You can now add 'Textures' folders for your sprites anywhere in your project, respecting your manifest.json directories.
• Added an alert to the main menu if enabled mods are missing dependencies.
• Added a new GetBleedLiquidEvent which defaults to the old BleedLiquid tag or property.
• XML files loaded by root now print an info block of file counts to the Player.log.
• Fixed a bug that caused the default values of options to be ignored when used as conditions for manifest.json directories.

• Unity version upgraded to 6000.0.41f1.
• Windows builds are now 64-bit.
• DLC is no longer subject to the 'Enable mods' option.
• The game is now restarted when the mod configuration is changed to fully unload old mod data.
• Mod approval has been replaced by a one-time option to opt-in when installing a script mod for the first time.
• We added some new features to manifest.json.
  • Mod dependencies can now be declared, allowing your mod to require and be loaded after others.
  • Separate subdirectories can be loaded depending on what version of the game is running, allowing further mod compatibility.
  • Subdirectories can also be loaded only if a certain mod is present, allowing optional interwoven features.
  • Defining a manual LoadOrder is deprecated, in favor of dependencies.
  • Refer here for usage: wiki.

• Changed Make Camp so that only campfires you made are considered when checking for existing campfires.
• Psychic hunters now ambush you less often in .
• The pool of brain brine effects no longer includes adding skills or skill points if you already have every skill.
• Distracting holograms now have a higher render layer.
• Increased the render layer of lit campfires.
• Fixed the circle of light in the chord of Rermadon not displaying its resistance boosts.
• Fixed a bug that caused the golem to sometimes remain in a semi-piloted state after being destroyed, preventing player control.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rodanis Y to not receive power from Grit Gate's broadcast power station.
• Fixed a bug that caused social coprocessors to not be accounted for in some water ritual contexts.
• Fixed a bug that caused Spinnerets to not deactivate on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused your cryo clones to sometimes prevent the game from saving.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to repeatedly gain the reward for completing "A Call to Arms" from Otho by mentioning the slynth.
• Fixed a bug that caused dreadroots to be unable to travel on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that caused salt krakens to leave trails on the world map.
• Fixed a bug that prevented companions from satisfying the objective of spreading Klanq to their original faction.
• Fixed a bug that caused the cooldown reduction from Willpower to be uncapped when applied to Ultra Fire.
• Fixed a bug that caused items cloned via cryotubes to conflict in unpredictable ways when equipped together with the original item.
• Fixed a bug that caused Blinking Tic to teleport you outside vehicle interiors, inflicting large amounts of fall damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused conflicts between complex parties to not propagate opinions between the leaders, leading some members to remain neutral.
• Fixed a bug with hotkey inputs from the ability menu not being properly consumed when activating an ability.
• Fixed a bug with hotkey inputs from the ability menu that rarely caused an ability mapped to 'a' to be immediately used when entering the screen.
• Fixed an exception during missile weapon fire when a cell was fully drained during a multi-shot action.
• Fixed an exception thrown during explosive projectile impacts.
• Fixed a typo in the tutorial.
• Added some names to the credits. Fixed an exception in FromWebColor when passing in a color code starting with #. Added party leader and inherited feeling towards the player to the attitude menu.

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