CHANGELOG.md

1.14

A fairly big update, featuring new feats, many combat and resurrection tweaks, and more.

Thanks to contributors Kissyboots, Matti Armston, Nathan Fenner, Nathan Stoddard, and co-maintainers flend and zenzombie.

Gameplay changes

• A discordant ally will no longer swap places with the player and can be attacked. Attacks require player confirmation and will not make the ally an enemy.
• Fixed an issue that prevented allies (e.g. kraken) from learning abilities from monsters that die in certain terrain (e.g. deep water).
• Allies can now spear attack over the player.
• Monsters with a spear or whip attack can no longer attack around corners.
• Jellies now die without splitting when hit with a slaying or quietus weapon.
• Resurrection altars now function differently for phoenixes and liches. The phoenix egg or phylactery will be revived instead, and the ability to turn into a phoenix or lich restored. Similarly, a vampire's ability to spawn vampire bats will be restored.
• If the player is seized by a submerged monster they can see (i.e. player is also submerged), it will now immediately surface so it can be targeted with staffs/wands.
• Overhauled feats:
  • Removed nearly impossible feats 'Pacifist', 'Archivist', 'Indomitable', and 'Ascetic'.
  • Added a new "Feats" menu option that shows a screen with all the feats and whether the player has achieved or failed them.
  • The 'Paladin' feat is no longer lost when the player is unaware of the monster, the player is seized, the monster is generated immobile (totems, turrets, etc.), or the monster is immune to physical attacks.
  • The 'Companion' feat now requires exploring only (approximately) 13 floors with an ally instead of 20. Exploration is measured by the number of newly discovered traversable squares while an ally is within one floor of the player.
  • The 'Pure Mage' feat now allows the player to attack with their fists. Good luck with that.
• Drinking a strength potion now causes weakness to be removed from a character immediately, so that receiving another weakening attack on the same turn does not completely negate the potion.
• Fixed a bug which treated obsidian as shallow water, allowing a kraken to both traverse it and sieze monsters or the player standing in it.
• Monsters that are summoned by allies (furies, phantoms, vampire bats) are no longer eligible for resurrection. Only the summoner will be resurrected.
• Destroying a phoenix egg or phylactery now counts toward weapon auto-ID.
• When arriving on a level with items "obstructing" the stairs, the player now appears by the stairs like normal, on top of the item, instead of being placed on a nearby free cell. A message is displayed describing the item.
• Fixed a bug where items in deep water could drift diagonally through walls. Items can now only drift to an available adjacent cell.
• Fixed a bug where shattering failed to destroy sentinels at the edge of the dungeon.

UI changes

• Players can now view summary statistics of games played by selecting the "Game Stats" option from the "View" menu. Statistics are collected only for games played since the menu option became available.
• The auto-targeting system now understands much more about whether the used item will have an effect, and skips target where it won't. This includes taking into account reflection, fire immunity, health (for domination and healing), negatable abilities, proximity (for beckoning), and weapon immunity.
• When using a known staff of tunneling, turrets and sentinels will now be auto-targeted.
• Fixed issues where auto-targeting leaked information about an unknown staff or wand.
• The monster details window now includes information about the effect of negation if the player has a known means to negate the monster.
• The monster details window now includes information about the effect of tunneling or shattering if the player has such a staff.
• When an inanimate monster (e.g. turret or totem) is negated, a combat message is now displayed and the sidebar will show the negated status.
• Fixed a bug where a closed door affected by descent would no longer be visible but would still block visibility. They now remain visible.
• Staves and wands that affect allies are now displayed correctly on the discovered items screen.
• If the player occupies a location with an item, the item is now shown in the sidebar. Additionally, the item is included in the description when inspecting the player's location.
• When inspecting a location, item descriptions now include details if space permits.
• A weapon of slaying now includes a note that the weapon doesn't degrade when attacking an acidic monster in the slaying class.
• Changed the ability description for some monsters to differentiate those that can sometimes reflect magic spells from those that always reflect spells back at the caster.
• Animations such as autoexplore and using a staff now run at a consistent speed.
• Change the color of the message when you try to pick up an item when your inventory is full, so it stands out more.

1.13

Thanks to great work by flend and zenzombie, we now have support for multiple game variants in CE, and have added Rapid Brogue! Select it in Play > Change Variant in the main menu.

Thanks to other contributors andkem, brturn, nathanf, nstoddard, and omar-polo.

• Rapid Brogue is now part of Brogue CE!
• Re-designed the main menu.
• Lumenstones are worth 500 gold on death, instead of 0.
• The rapier lunge attack works against invisible enemies when you are telepathic.
• Levers are now indestructible via shattering and tunneling, which would leave some vaults impossible to open.
• Autoexplore no longer walks through dangerous gases when wearing unidentified respiration armor.
• Items falling from the previous level will now trigger any traps they land on.
• Items and monsters falling from the previous level will no longer fall into reward rooms.
• Fixed an issue where unidentified rings could have higher bonuses than they would have once identified.
• Fixed an issue where unidentified positive rings would be 1 enchant lower than they should.
• Update rapier description to use 'triple damage' instead of 'treble damage'.
• Added a -vn command-line option to play a replay headlessly.
• Fix the default enchantment value being ignored in wizard mode.
• Fixed the dungeon version number in the seed catalog.

1.12

A small non-gameplay update. Enjoy!

Thanks to contributors flend, glob, nstoddard, and zenzombie.

• Added a wizard mode menu action for creating an item or monster.
• Monster death messages are now printed in the correct order. For instance, "The dart killed the bloat" is now printed before the message about the bloat bursting.
• Fixed an issue with beckoning bolt paths. This could cause mirrored totems to instakill the player and made it difficult to target enemies behind obstacles.
• Autoexplore now avoids items on candle-lit altars outside of vaults.
• Changed the graphic and description of statues that can be broken with shattering, to clearly distinguish them from regular statues.
• "Quit without saving" is now "Quit and abandon game"; "Suspend game and quit" is now "Save and exit".
• You are now prompted when stepping onto a chasm tile with Mangrove Dryad vines on it, since you fall through them.
• Removed the commands for opening saved games and recordings from within a game, as they could be used for save scumming. (Both can still be done from the main menu.)
• The --print-seed-catalog option no longer creates unnecessary .broguesave files.

1.11.1

• Fixed replay out-of-sync error from throwing an item.
• Fixed wand of plenty description still referring to halving HP.

1.11

A new gameplay version featuring some ally buffs, a new auto-ID system, and UI improvements. Replays and saves are not compatible with 1.10.x.

Thanks to contributors Alex Kahn, Antony Boucher, L-french, nathanf, nstoddard, RojjaCebolla, Vivit-R, ash-nolan, bleakley, kiedtl, withinwheels, and zenzombie.

• Wand of plenty no longer halves the max HP of cloned monsters.
• Resurrection altars now prioritise allies by number of times empowered, instead of by most recent death. In the case of a tie, they choose the monster type which is found deepest in the dungeon.
• The game now automatically identifies items where it is possible to deduce them from the discovered items screen.
• Potions of hallucination are identified when thrown if all benevolent potions are either identified or magic-detected.
• Increased absorption runic's minimum absorbed damage from 0 to 1.
• When the player is telepathic, correct monsters are shown when also hallucinating.
• When "display stealth range" is on, lit and dark areas are shown more clearly.
• Items which were taken from a vault now have a note indicating this in their item description.
• Identified +0 armor is prefixed with a +0, just like weapons.
• Autopilot is stopped when an item is stolen or a health alert is displayed.
• The automatic throw/cast path-adjusting tries to avoid unknown cells.
• Fixed that commands that use the control key (such as Ctrl+S for long search) not working in the terminal version.
• Fixed a bug which prevented a discorded ally from returning to normal after losing a stolen item in deep water.
• Fixed a crash that can happen when an explosive monster dies from poison or burning damage.
• Fix a bug which prevented sacrifice monsters from spawning on depth 21.
• Fixed over-cautious pathing through deeper dungeon levels when revealed by magic mapping.
• Fixed the sidebar to correctly show that negated status is removed on polymorph.
• Speeding up recording playback now also speeds up animations.
• During extra-slow recording playback, mouse and keyboard now respond instantly.

1.10.1

• Fixed an out-of-sync error when loading a game with a 64-bit seed.
• (For distributors) Added an experimental --data-dir option for specifying the location of game resources.

1.10

A new gameplay version is here! Features some new mechanics, rebalancing, UI improvements, and bug fixes. Replays and saves are not compatible with 1.9.x.

CE's scope has been changing since we released 1.9. Originally, we weren't considering making many original or notable changes to the gameplay itself. But now that the project is more mature, and importantly Pender (Brian) is involved in development, we are now open to these kind of changes. Other than that, the project is just the same - community-focused and trying to make a great game even better. Enjoy!

Thanks to many contributors: Andy Bayer, Antony Boucher, zenzombie, bleakley, Byron Altice, Jon Knapp, Konstantin Mikhailov, Nathan Fenner, RojjaCebolla, SanatMishra, anaseto, austen0, flend, pender, and withinwheels.

Notable changes

• It is now possible to fall through chasms into deep water, without damage. Falling into shallow water or bog deals half the damage as hitting hard floor. Items falling through chasms may now land into deep water, another chasm, or lava.
• Rebalance Staff of Obstruction builds by (1) preventing crystals from persisting on cells occupied by creatures, and (2) allowing hunting monsters to remain hunting as long as they are close enough and can see the player, even if impassable transparent terrain is between them.
• Cautious monsters now enter corridors if they have been attacked recently and are below 50% health.
• Allies will no longer attack or cast spells at sacrifice targets.
• Aiming at a target now automatically aims for or avoids enemies/allies/walls, depending on the projectile type. This removes most of the need to aim for a cell beyond your intended target to get the best result. It also applies to spells cast by enemies!
• Increased average damage for flails by 0.5, and flails now have a 2.5% (up from 0%) chance to be runic.
• Added a sanctuary tile in front of spark turret vaults to prevent allies from destroying the turrets.
• Scrolls of sanctuary can now be used on brimstone and obsidian.
• Added a hybrid graphical mode that uses text for creatures and items but graphical tiles for everything else.
• The sidebar and monster details now prominently display that a monster has been affected by negation.
• The message archive is now larger, and can be navigated with the up and down arrow keys. Holding shift scrolls one line at a time, holding control jumps to the end.
• Pressing "w" will hot-swap between recently equipped gear, enabling weapon/armor/ring juggling.
• "Untempted" feat has been added, for picking up no gold.
• "Mystic" feat has been renamed to "Ascetic".

Bug fixes and other changes

• The save game feature is now out of beta!
• Fixed a bug causing the game to crash when polymorphing a lich or phoenix.
• Seeds are now 64-bits, going up to 18446744073709551615! There are now 2 billion times more dungeons to explore!
• Wands of negation auto-ID if the bolt has an effect. A combat message is shown for any monster affected by negation.
• When wearing known respiration armor, don't warn when stepping on immune gas traps.
• Staff descriptions now report the number of turns since their last use.
• Fixed a bug where summoned minions could spawn with a carried item which was then deleted, making it unavailable for future monster drops and leading to differences in available items for players playing the same seed.
• When throwing a potion, auto-targeting is now enabled only for potions known to be malevolent. When throwing a melee weapon, auto-targeting is now disabled.
• Fixed a bug with machine rooms where events (such as guardian movement) could trigger twice.
• Dungeon generation on ARM processors is now the same as with x86.
• Fixed doors sometimes being generated adjacent to one another.
• Fixed a bug that caused negated weapons and armor to remain illuminated when out of line of sight.
• Fixed a bug which slightly delayed the reset of stuck status after blinking or teleporting in or out of a web/net. Adjacent monsters at the destination were afforded a free hit while the player was "dangling helplessly" in error.
• Repeated messages now sometimes collapse together with a count.
• Use 24-bit colors when the terminal supports it (curses build).
• Brogue now starts with a reasonable window size on ultra-wide monitors.

1.9.3

Major graphical improvements on all platforms, some long-awaited bug fixes, and the usual general QoL.

Thanks to contributors Andy, Anthony, bleakley, SanatMishra, withinwheels, and zenzombie.

• High DPI displays are now supported on all platforms (no more blurriness!)
• The window is now freely resizable, to perfectly fit any monitor up to 4K size; tiles and fonts auto-scale but stay sharp
• Added 6 new tile graphics: vine, net, lichen, glass pipes, and 2 more types of altars
• Fixed a bug that could cause monkeys with keys to jump into lava
• Discordant wandering monsters no longer target the player with bolts/spells from beyond stealth range
• Closing the window no longer hangs in some cases, and the game is properly auto-saved
• Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when entranced monsters move
• Explosive monsters no longer explode over chasms when they would die by falling
• Fixed issues with off-level monster pathing that could cause monsters to go into a corrupted state that cannot be attacked
• Fast/slow monsters now move the correct distance and to the correct spot when reloading a level
• Added seed and level into default save and recording file names
• Expected damage info in monster info boxes now accounts for the strength bonus from unidentified weapons
• When a mutated monster is negated, the mutation label is removed from the sidebar. Excludes agile and juggernaut mutations, since they cannot be negated
• Wands of invisibility auto-ID if they turn an monster invisible while the player has a telepathic bond
• Fixed crashes from pit bloat and gas interactions
• Added "go to previous level" key (<) to replay viewer
• Added new command line options to change settings on launch: --full-screen, --stealth, and --no-effects

1.9.2

A small bug fix release, with a few UI improvements!

Thanks to contributors Andy, Antony, and zenzombie.

Bug fixes

• Re-rendered the fonts again to fix blur and boldness issues
• Fixed a bug from 1.9.1 where dampening armor and slowing weapons had "abomination" in their name
• Fixed salamanders and other ranged-melee creatures with the grappling mutation attempting to seize their target from a distance. Now ranged attacks do damage as normal, while adjacent attacks seize
• Fixed walls discovered with the scroll of magic mapping not being smoothed out in tiles mode
• Fixed bolts from unidentified staffs or wands from being referred to by name when reflected
• Fixed the player's health bar showing a negative percentage when landing a hit with a transference ring equipped
• Fixed psychic emanations sometimes being described as the wrong size
• Wizard-mode replays and saves now work past the first immortal "death"

Other changes

• Added monster mutations to the seed catalog
• Recording playback can now be paused with the mouse or the Escape key
• Added brogue-cmd.bat file for Windows. brogue.exe does not print output when run from a command prompt window, so use this script instead if you want to see it, e.g. when printing a seed catalog
• A dialog is now shown when trying to play back a wizard game in regular mode or vice versa

1.9.1

This patch release contains quite a number of bug fixes and improvements, most noticably a re-rendering of the font files.

Since we fixed the wand of plenty, replays made in 1.9.1 will not play on 1.9. However, 1.9.1 will play recordings and load saves from 1.9, preserving the old behaviour. (We intend to maintain this backwards-compatibility within each 1.X series.)

This means that 1.9.1 and 1.9 are not completely interchangable, and you should upgrade if you wish to compare games with players on this newer version.

Thanks to contributors Antony, flend, SanatMishra, and zenzombie.

Bug fixes

• Fixed wand of plenty behaviour. Since CE 1.8, it incorrectly set the cloned monsters' max health to half the target's current health, instead of half its max health. Now the max health is halved properly and the current health is unchanged, but capped to the new max.
• Fixed the loading bars not showing on screen when loading a save or advancing a recording
• Fixed some input events being ignored during recording playback (and possibly in-game too)
• Prevented Alt+Enter fullscreen shortcut from causing an Enter input in-game
• The graphical tiles toggle 'G' now works during recording playback
• The '6' key now works like the other number keys in playback, instead of moving forward a turn
• Fixed even more causes of out-of-sync errors
• Fixed a rare crash caused by extremely long monster death messages
• Fixed some rare crashes during machine generation

Other changes

• Regenerated font files to improve legibility and contrast. This should hopefully be more of a return to form for Mac players, and a new improvement for Windows and Linux.

  If you want to change back to the old fonts, replace files font-4.png to font-15.png in bin/assets (or Resources/assets in the app contents on macOS) with copies from 1.9 or an earlier version.

• The seed catalog now contains more information, including items carried by monsters, legendary allies, resurrection altars, and commutation altars. Also, gold is aggregated per level, shackled vs. caged status is displayed for captive allies, and keys show which vault they will open.

• Improved perfomance and decreased CPU usage

• You can now quit the program while loading a save, and cancel with the escape key

• You can now enter a turn number to continue looking back through a recording when you reach an out-of-sync error

• (For developers) You can now take control of recordings in debug mode by pressing 'P'

• Seed catalog generation now takes seed and depth range parameters at the command line (see brogue --help for details)

• Add a command line option to generate the seed catalog in CSV format

1.9

A new gameplay version! Not compatible with replays and saves from v1.8.x.

In this release, we tweaked or retried some of the changes made in v1.8 around allies and searching. We believe they are closer in spirit to the original game and represent a better compromise. There are also some new balance changes, and a lot of bug fixes.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed code, bug reports, or feedback since v1.8. Enjoy!

Gameplay changes

• The wand of empowerment is no longer guaranteed in vaults; a random wand is spawned instead
• Revamped the searching system. Instead of performing a strong search only after five consecutive turns of pressing 's', you now perform a weaker, single-turn search every time you press 's', with a stronger one on the fifth. (Control+s will perform five searches, stopping if interrupted, just like old 'S'.)
• Walking into secret doors and levers no longer reveals them
• Buffed staff of protection duration. At /N max charges, the duration is now 13 x 1.4^(N-2) instead of 5 x 1.53^(N-2)
• Nerfed charm of teleportation recharge time. At +1 it starts at the same value, but becomes 1 turn at +13 instead of +11
• Dar priestesses are now included in the 'Mage' monster class. A weapon of mage slaying will instantly kill them, and armor of mage immunity will provide invulnerability to their feeble attacks.

Bug fixes

• Liches/phoenixes polymorphed into other creatures no longer spawn phylacteries/eggs on death
• Fixed allies not having a lighter colour tint (this was broken by the addition of tiles in 1.8.3)
• Fixed a bug where discordant allies did not attack the player diagonally
• Fixed a dungeon generation issue which caused the key pedestal in falling-torch key rooms to be non-flammable
• Fix Ctrl+x (fast explore), Ctrl+A (fast autopilot), and Ctrl+{vi keys} movement not working
• Fixed an issue where fast-attacking monsters could attack the player before falling down a chasm or hole
• Fixed more causes of out-of-sync errors. (We think these are now very rare, so please let us know if you get one)
• Fixed the tile graphics for lumenstones and turrets being swapped
• Fixed monsters being shown as letters when hallucinating with graphics enabled

Other changes

• Numpad 5 (center button) no longer confirms when selecting a target
• Debug mode, or "wizard mode," is now available by default. Start the game with the -W/--wizard command-line option to play with teleportation, immortality and overpowered items

1.8.3

This release contains integration of Oryx's tiles, along with other UI and quality of life improvements. Gameplay is identical to all 1.8 versions.

Thanks to contributors kzved and flend.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where watching a replay to completion would cause a duplicate high score to appear

Other changes

• Oryx's graphical tiles are now fully integrated. They can be enabled by pressing 'G' or by using the in-game menu. Compared to v1.8.1 tiles pre-release, this fixes some incorrect tiles being used for various game elements. (Note: unlike original Brogue Tiles, tiles are available at all window/font sizes, but due to scaling they only look crisp at a certain size.)
• Improved the game's appearance on high-PPI/DPI displays. Also added some larger font sizes for better viewing on higher resolution displays in general
• The full identified inventory is now shown on the post-victory screen
• Pressing the PrintScreen key now saves a screenshot to the save directory
• Numpad 5 (center) can be used to confirm targetting

1.8.2

This release contains general improvements and some fixes to regressions caused by CE. Gameplay is identical to all 1.8 versions.

Thanks to contributors kzved, flend, Vivit-R and zespri.

Bug fixes

• Fixed the game screen going black after alt-tabbing while fullscreen on some platforms
• Fixed the weird scaling when going fullscreen on some platforms
• Fixed a rare bug on Linux where some item names would not show

Other changes

• The Mac release is now an app!
• Added a re-throw command (T), which throws the last item at the last-chosen monster
• The game window is now freely resizable, and the best-fitting font size is automatically chosen
• Restored right-click shortcut to show inventory
• (For developers) When building in debug mode, the cheats are now toggled by a --wizard command line option
• The WebBrogue back-end is now built-in, and can be enabled with a build option

1.8.1

This release contains some bug fixes and UI improvements. Replays and saves are fully compatible with 1.8.

Thanks to contributors animal_waves and flend.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a playback out-of-sync error when walking into a secret door to discover it
• Fixed a bug where inspecting an out-of-sight lumenstone would say "you remember seeing a lumenstone from depth 0" instead of the depth it was found at
• Item quantities are now remembered correctly on leaving and revisiting a level
• Fixed description of remembered items when hallucinating

Other changes

• Recordings are now sorted by date descending (newest on top) and all dates (high scores, saved games, recordings) are now displayed as "YYYY-MM-DD"
• Fixed an issue with ring descriptions where an unidentified ring could be revealed as negative after reading a scroll of remove curse
• Added F12 and Alt+Enter as shortcuts for full-screen mode

1.8

This is the first release of Brogue: Community Edition! This update focuses on addressing the most common community complaints with 1.7.5 -- most notably, the balancing of allies. However, there are many other changes which we hope will improve the game.

Gameplay changes

• Wands of empowerment are now guaranteed to spawn in early vaults
• Wands of empowerment have been strengthened to a middle-ground between their 1.7.4 and 1.7.5 versions
• Wands of empowerment no longer increase the target's health regeneration rate
• The frequencies of various special ally-related rooms have been reverted to their 1.7.4 values
• Captive allies have been made more common
• Wands of plenty now reduce the the maximum health of the target and its clone by 50%
• Hidden doors and levers are now revealed when attempting to move into them. (This addresses an issue where players had to waste turns taking damage when trapped up against an obvious secret door by a monster)
• Goblin conjurers no longer have the spear attack pattern in contradiction with their attack message
• Magic-detected cells are now described with "you remember seeing here" when the item has been seen
• Changed the creatures hit as collateral from a spear attack to be the same as those hit by the sweep of an axe attack. (This reincludes hitting hidden monsters)

Bug fixes

• Allies can no longer learn abilities from the spectral clones created by armor of multiplicity
• Fixed incorrect percentages in the ring of wisdom tooltip
• Excessive input during playback no longer causes long pauses
• Fixed incorrect percentage health change info in sidebar
• Low health alerts no longer show on every turn when using autopilot or watching replays
• Fixed an issue causing the damage of staffs of firebolt and lightning to always be the average/expected value and have no variation
• Fixed many more causes of out-of-sync errors
• Fixed a bug which in some cases caused traps to be generated on cells with foliage, leading to odd behaviour
• Fixed a bug which in some cases caused staffs to appear in treasure vaults without their max charges being shown

Other changes

• The Mac version has been remade to be the same as the Windows and Linux versions. (Unfortunately, this means it has lost some Mac-specific polish, e.g. it is no longer an App. This will be improved in future releases)
• Turning on autopilot now requires confirmation
• The "blue" player-to-monster combat information is now displayed in ally tooltips (so you can more easily assess how much health they have)
• The sidebar now displays whether a monster is carrying an item
• The maximum seed able to be input in the main menu is now the same on all platforms (2^32 - 1 = 4294967295)
• Added a --print-seed-catalog command line option to recreate the seed catalog
• Various minor UI tweaks and bug fixes

1.7.5-flend1

This patchset to 1.7.5 incorporates all the gameplay-related changes made by flend in WebBrogue and their fixed Windows build. The changes have been implemented in the same way for compatibility.

Gameplay changes

• Changed which monsters are hit when spear attacking. Previously, all monsters on the attacked cells would be hit, including allies. Now the monsters hit are only those that would trigger a spear attack if they were there alone. (This excludes hidden monsters)

Bug fixes

• Fixed charm durations which were affected by bugs
• Monsters now have a 3% chance per turn to forget you, instead of 97%
• Reading a scroll of aggravate monsters no longer crashes the game
• Reverted some game calculations to the old math system. In particular, this fixes the weird potion of darkness FOV and the incorrect damage done by speed runics
• Staff of healing and ring of wisdom now show correct tooltip information
• Knockback from weapons of force now correctly damages creatures
• Fixed staff of firebolt/lightning damage and staff of haste duration values
• Fixed radii of charms of negation and shattering, and lifespan of guardian charm
• Various items no longer malfunction at high enchant levels
• Creatures splitting on depth 1 no longer crash the game
• Mutated jellies now properly keep mutations when splitting, and do not crash in some cases
• Throwing items no longer leaks memory