Stone Soup 0.31 (20240119)
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Highlights
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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 nearby.
  - Polymorphing monsters no longer heals them.
  - Monsters no longer use up charges when zapping wands.
  - Monsters can no longer use scrolls or potions.
* Some monsters now have special dialogue after killing the player.
* Flying skulls have been removed.

Species
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* Ogres have been renamed to Oni.
  - They heal twice as much from potions, and launch a 'drunken brawling'
    melee attack against all adjacent foes when drinking healing potions.
  - Some apts have been improved or tweaked.
  - They now have Horns 1.
* Armataurs:
  - At XL7 and higher, armataurs now regenerate HP and MP when rampaging.
  - Their 'double potion' effect has been removed.
  - Their max HP is reduced.
* Felids now get an extra life at XL 1, and don't lose XLs on dying.
  They also have higher base health, but no longer have fast movement.
* Tengu now have inherent Acrobat (+15 EV after moving/waiting) at XL 1.
  They now gain +4 EV at XL7 instead of a 20% EV bonus and fast movement.
* Humans now heal while exploring, but their XP apt is now average.
* Mummies now get their first necromancy enhancer at XL 1, not 3.
* Vine Stalkers now get regeneration at XL 1, not 4.
* Djinn now use all magic skills, instead of only Spellcasting. Djinn can
  only choose to train all magic skills or none.
* Ghouls start with an additional +4 Int and +1 MP.
* Formicids can no longer be involuntarily shafted.
* Meteorans have been removed.

Spells
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* Poison Magic and Transmutations have merged into a new Alchemy school.
  - Poisonous Vapours has been replaced by Mercury Vapours, which can now
    inflict Weak on the target and other creatures nearby, but has short range.
  - Sticky Flame is now L4 Fire/Alch (was L4 Fire/Conj), does much more
    damage, but can be shaken off by non-forced movement.
  - Ignite Poison is now L4 Fire/Alch (was L3 Fire/Poison/Tmut).
  - Leda's Liquefaction is now L4 Earth / Alch (was L4 Earth / Hexes)
  - Sting is now Conj/Alch (was Pois/Tmut), and has more range and damage.
  - Fulminant Prism is now Conj/Alch (was Conj/Hex).
* New spells:
  - Jinxbite (L2 Hex): deals additional Will-checking damage to foes attacked
    while its duration lasts, but also halves the caster's will.
  - Sigil of Binding (L3 Hex): creates two magical traps nearby, which
    temporarily bind hapless victims in place.
  - Brom's Barrelling Boulder (L4 Earth/Conj): creates a boulder, which crushes
    and knocks back foes and explodes when hitting walls.
  - Martyr's Knell: L4 Summ/Necro. Summons a shade that absorbs damage taken
    by other allies. Becomes a flayed ghost on death.
* Replaced spells:
  - Fugue of the Fallen (replacing Wereblood): Now L3 Necro (was L2 Tmut),
    triggers on ally kills as well as the player's, inflicts pain on nearby
    foes at max power, caps at +7 (was +9), and no longer gives minor healing.
  - Blazeheart Golem (replacing Guardian Golem): Now L4 Summ/Fire (was L3
    Summ/Hex). Now has slow, powerful, self-damaging melee, and blows up one
    turn after dying. Only functions when the player is adjacent.
  - Dimensional Bullseye (replacing Portal Projectile): targets a foe and
    teleports all shots fired at other foes to also hit the chosen unfortunate.
  - Curse of Agony (replacing Agony). Hexed foes have their health halved after
    each of the next two melee attacks the caster lands against them.
  - Bombard (replacing Iron Shot). Sometimes knocks back the caster.
  - Sculpt Simulacrum (replacing Simulacrum). L6 Ice/Alch (was L6 Ice/Necro).
    Creates simulacra of an adjacent foe after a few turns.
* Call Canine Familiar now summons inugami, dog spirits which scale with power.
  Recasting the spell heals the dogs and gives them a free cleaving attack, but
  if the inugami is defeated, it can't be resummoned for some time.
* Passwall is now L3 Earth (was L2 Earth/Tmut). It now has fixed range and gives
  temporary AC.
* Petrify can now chain its effect on up to two other adjacent foes, but has
  its range reduced to 6.
* Summon Ice Beast is now L3 (was L4).
* Plasma Beam no longer has limited range, but does 10% less damage.
* Arcjolt now initially arcs to foes within two tiles of the caster.
* Static Discharge now does more damage, but checks half AC instead of none.
* Hailstorm does more damage at low power and less at high power.
* Swiftness now works in water.
* Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot now drains the user much less.
* Borgnjor's Vile Clutch (and Fastroot) now work on invisible enemies.
* Borgnjor's Vile Clutch does less damage.
* Blastmotes now explode when waited in.
* Spellforged Servitor requires conjurations to be <=20% fail (was 50%).
* Many summons now have a shorter duration.
* Removed: Beastly Appendage, Spider Form, Ice Form, Blade Hands, Statue
  Form, Dragon Form, Storm Form, Necromutation.

Tiles and Other Art
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* New art for existing game elements:
  - Monsters:
    * Ancient liches.
    * Blink frogs.
    * Deep elf death mages.
    * Dragons.
    * Rakshasas.
    * Shrike simulacrula.
    * Barachi and Oni (decorative).
  - Unrands: Eos, Sniper, Starlight, Dragonskin, Ratskin and the Thief.
  - Short sword and eveningstar artefacts.
  - All bardings.
  - Volatile Blastmotes (spell icon and clouds).
  - Dragon form.
  - Many mutation icons.
  - Stone walls and floors in the Depths.
  - Dithmenos's altar.
  - The Orb of Zot.
* New Eustachio splash screen.
* Player body variants are randomized at the start of each game.

Stone Soup 0.30.1 (20230630)
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Bugfix release
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* Fix zooming on local tiles
* Many other bug and documentation fixes

Stone Soup 0.30 (20230505)
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Highlights
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* New background: Reavers, spellswords with powerful but situational
  Conjurations.
* Palentongas reworked into Armataurs, with innate rampage and an affinity
  for potions.
* A variety of exciting new spells for warriors and wizards alike.
* Many new and reworked artefacts, both random and fixed.
* Lugonu made more available and tempting to unfortunates cast into the Abyss.

Branches, Environment
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* It is now possible to enter the Vaults without holding a rune. However,
  a rune is still required to leave.
* Slime walls now apply corrosion to the player, rather than dealing damage.
  Jiyva's Oozemancy ability still deals damage as before.
* Thunderstorms now deal much more damage.

Character
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* New background: Reaver.
  - Reavers are warrior-mages, primarily focused on melee combat but with
    situational Conjurations for tough situations.
  - Reavers begin with two new spells, Kiss of Death and Momentum Strike,
    as well as a revised version of the Hailstorm spell.
* Species rework: Palentonga -> Armataur.
  - Like Palentongas, Armataurs are large, scaled mammals, wearing bardings
    instead of boots.
  - Armataurs lose the Rolling Charge and Curl abilities. They gain Rollpage
    (innate Rampage) and long tongues, which double the effects of potions but
    slow down scroll reading.
  - Armataurs' aptitudes have been adjusted.
* Background changes:
  - Monks now start with an orb of light.
  - Warpers replace Gell's Gravitas with Vhi's Electric Charge.
  - Hedge Wizards have Conjure Flame replaced by Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot.
  - Fire Elementalists have Conjure Flame replaced by Volatile Blastmotes.
  - Ice Elementalists have Hailstorm replaced by Summon Ice Beast.
  - The 'Arcane Marksman' background has been renamed to 'Hexslinger'.
  - Removed the Abyssal Knight background.
* Miscellaneous species changes:
  - Mummies gain innate Faith, giving them extra piety gain.
  - Large species move at normal speed through shallow water.
  - Formicids can now shaft themselves in the Tomb of the Ancients.
  - Species size no longer affects SH.
  - Pale draconians' breath is no longer usable twice as often as others'.
* rF- and rC- are added to the 'bad mutations' pool.
* All players regenerate an extra 0.2 HP/turn.
* Will is now capped at `+++++`.
* It is now possible to stack two levels of Harm.
* Reaching the end of the Zot clock now causes a smaller amount of permanent
  max HP loss (similar to Borgnjor's Revivication), rather than temp HP drain.

Gods
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* Lugonu:
  - Banishment is now available at ** piety (from ***), has a lower failure
    chance, and causes malmutation when resisted.
  - When the player suffers the wrath of another god, Lugonu now responds by
    banishing some number of hostile monsters nearby.
  - Lugonu's altars are more common in the Abyss, and the piety bonus for
    converting to Lugonu in the Abyss has been increased.
  - The Bend Space ability has been removed.
* Ashenzari:
  - Skill boost reduced.
  - Trap detection moved to 4* (was at 0*).
  - Removed Astral Vision (automatically seeing through walls).
* When worshipping at a faded altar, the player is given a preview of three
  gods the altar might belong to.
* Xom's mutation gifts are no longer limited to a small pool of options.
* Gozag's corpse-to-gold effect now blocks enemies from creating simulacra,
  and the duration of the distraction effect is no longer based on corpse size.
* Fedhas protects trees from being set on fire by the player.
* Okawaru's Heroism and Finesse abilities cost more piety.
* Hepliaklqana's Knight now attacks 50% more slowly.
* Good gods will now suppress evil clouds from Condenser Vanes.

Interface and Options
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* Two new menus that unify all equip and unequip actions:
  - The Equip menu (`e`) combines wield, wear, and put on commands for equipping
    weapons, armour, and jewellery, respectively.
  - The Unequip menu (`c`) allows to unwield, take off, or remove any equipped
    item.
  - Tab toggles between equip and unequip.
* Character overview ('%') screen:
  - Displays much more information about items, moving niche statuses downward.
  - No longer shows .s for low Stealth values.
* Damage ratings are now shown via @, including those for unarmed combat.
* An indicator is now displayed when movement would cause a Rampage.
* Bumping a foe while holding a ranged weapon shoots instead of bashing.
* The piety cost of divine invocations is now shown more clearly.
* Spells' maximum damage is now displayed in their descriptions.
* Unrands (pre-defined artefacts) have a distinct colour by default.
* Almost all unrands with special behavior now have a corresponding inscription.
* Many weapon brands now provide more quantitative damage information.
* Up to 100 waypoints can now be placed (up from 10).
* New show_blood option allows disabling blood spatters and bloody corpses.
* Webtiles muting commands are reworked into a block mechanism; see `/help` in
  webtiles chat for more details.

Items
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* New brand: Heavy.
  - Heavy weapons have +80% base damage and +50% attack delay.
  - Both melee and ranged weapons can be Heavy.
* Elemental evokers:
  * Lightning rods now do 50% more damage.
  * Elemental evokers now recharge faster in the early game and slower later.
  * Each elemental evoker can now generate at most once in a given game.
  * Jiyva jellies can no longer eat elemental evokers.
  * Condensation Vanes and Tremorstones can no longer both generate in one game.
  * Phials of floods have their range and effect duration reduced.
* Evocable invisibility and blink no longer have an MP cost.
* Spells have been reshuffled between books, and a new Maxwell's Memoranda book
  has been added.
* Shield penalties are now reduced by Str rather than by players' size.
* Orb, scarf, and magical staff artefacts can now appear.
* Orbs of energy now give -Wiz in exchange for a chance to refund MP when
  spells are cast, with no chance of backlash.
* Scrolls of butterflies now blow back nearby creatures and create many more
  butterflies. They now alternate with scrolls of summoning instead of fog.
* Rings of evasion are now +5 (were +4).
* All ranged weapons can now generate with electrocution, antimagic, and
  draining brands. Venom ranged weapons no longer appear.
* Ranged weapons are now quieter.
* Longbows, arbalests and hand crossbows have had their stats slightly tweaked.
* Throwing weapons now deal extra damage when they break.
* The spectral brand now matches the player's accuracy and damage, the latter
  reduced by 30% (ala cleaving).
* Short sword attack delay reduced.
* Removed the 'vorpal' brand.

Monsters
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* New monsters:
  - Sleepcap: native to the early Dungeon, sleepcaps may inflict sleep on hit,
    making the player take massive damage from whoever attacks next.
  - Skyshark: appearing in late Lair and early Shoals, skysharks become
    enraged on drawing blood - first becoming Mighty, then Berserk!
* Demonic Crawlers lose the Warning Cry ability and elemental resistances in
  exchange for higher damage and very fast regeneration.
* Doom Hounds' Howl is now resistible by Will.
* Many monsters do somewhat less damage.
* Walking Tomes are now unable to cast while silenced.
* Ironbound Frosthearts' Creeping Frost spell is now fully resistible by rC.
* Fleeing monsters will no longer avoid harmful clouds.
* Monsters, notably Asterion, can now use spectral weapons.

Spells
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* New spells:
  - Kiss of Death (L1 Conj/Necro): does high draining damage to an adjacent
    enemy, at the cost of significant max HP drain to the caster.
  - Momentum Strike (L2 Conj/Tloc). Redirects the caster's momentum for a
    damaging attack that doesn't require line of fire, but locks the caster in
    place for some turns after a hit (and cannot be recast until this expires).
  - Cigotuvi's Dreadful Rot (L2 Necro/Air/Pois). Rots away the caster's flesh
    to create a cloud of deadly miasma on their tile.
  - Volatile Blastmotes (L3 Fire/Tloc). Creates an explosive cloud on the
    caster's tile, usable as a land mine or tricky tool.
  - Vhi's Electric Charge (L3 Tloc/Air). Launches the caster at a nearby foe
    and launches a crackling melee attack, phasing through creatures en route.
  - Arcjolt (L5 Air/Conj). Electrocutes everything adjacent to the caster,
    everything adjacent to those creatures, etc, etc, in a chain.
  - Plasma Beam (L6 Fire/Air): Fires a bolt of lightning and another bolt of
    fire, both at the most distant foe.
* Hailstorm moved to L3 (from L4) and can now miss.
* Call Imp now always and only calls a spear-wielding cerulean imp.
* Manifold Assault moved to L4 (from L5) and does half as many attacks with
  UC as with a weapon.
* Lesser Beckoning moved to L2 (from L3) and is now better at low power.
* Battlespheres now fire when any destructive spell is cast, not just Conj.
* Ozocubu's Refrigeration's damage has been increased.
* Slow no longer has bonus hex power.
* Irradiate now only has a 50% chance of malmutating affected creatures.
* The Scorch, Simulacrum and Static Discharge spells have been weakened.
* Removed: Conjure Flame, Corpse Rot and Lightning Bolt.

Tiles and Other Art
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* New tiles for player draconians.
* More icons for mutations.
* Several new splash screens.
* A new icon for Monstrous Menagerie.
* New art for many monsters, including Prince Ribbit and X-shaped simulacra.
* New art for many unrands, including the Elemental Staff and Wrath of Trog.
* New holiday-exclusive tiles for Sigmund, ogres and hats.

Unrands
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* New unrands:
  - The Hermit's Pendant, an amulet of faith that sets the wearer's Invocations
    skill to 14 and their Evocations skill to 0.
  - The Consecrated Labrys, a holy axe with sInv, Flight, and an enchantment
    that grows larger while more dangerous enemies are in view.
  - The Slick Slippers, which make all damaging melee attacks trample their
    wearer backward. They provide immunity to constriction, engulfing, etc.
  - The Force Lance, a Heavy +5 lance (ala Wyrmbane) which has a 1/3 chance of
    knocking back foes when landing a damaging blow.
  - The Storm Queen's Shield, a +5 kite shield of rElec and flight which
    fires electrical retaliation at those it blocks.
  - The toga "Victory", a robe which gains AC, Int and Slay as the wearer
    slays dangerous foes, but loses everything if they drink or read near foes.
* Orbs:
  - The Staff of Dispater is now an orb with +AC and *Corrode.
  - The Staff of Battle is now an orb. It now enhances all destructive spells
    (matching Vehumet's categorization), but de-enhances other spells.
  - The Staff of Wucad Mu is now an orb, with double the MP refund chance of a
    normal orb of energy.
* Devorpalization:
  - Sniper is now +27 and Heavy (was +9 and Vorpal).
  - The Dark Maul is now Heavy (was Vorpal), and has its base stats adjusted.
  - Other formerly Vorpal unrands have been adjusted individually.
- The Mad Mage's Maulers lose Int-3 and RegenMP, gain -Cast and MPVamp (gain
  MP from damage dealt), and deal twice as much damage when spending MP.
- The Ring of the Hare is now +10 (was +8).
- Majin-Bo is now one-handed and deals much more damage in melee.
- The sceptre of Asmodeus is now an eveningstar that summons demons on-hit.
- The Elemental Staff now provides weaker resistances.
- The Lochaber Axe now causes HP Drain on unequip.
- Removed Morg.

Stone Soup 0.29.1 (20220911)
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Bugfix release
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* 20+ bug and documentation fixes
* Improvements to linux packaging support infrastructure

Stone Soup 0.29.0 (20220825)
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Highlights
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* New Meteoran species - powerful, but with heavy time pressure.
* Ranged weapons have been extensively redesigned and streamlined.
* Necromancy and Kikubaaqudgha have been overhauled and powered up.
* Many backgrounds have extra consumables to handle early tricky situations.
* The Abyss is deeper and more rewarding.

Branches, Environment
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* The Abyss has been reworked.
  - Piety and experience are once again awarded in the Abyss.
  - When the abyssal rune generates, it's announced and appears on the map.
  - New decorative 'runelight' features now indicate the rune is close by.
  - The Abyss is now 7 levels deep, with the depths beyond A:5 continuously
    swarming the player with dangerous foes.
  - When entering the abyss by any means, the player is sent at least as deep
    as their previous deepest abyss depth.
* Dungeon shafts try not to send the player directly into monsters' sight.
* All descents of new stairs and hatches are now fast, not just one per floor.
* The Lair is now 5 levels long (was 6).
* Zombies and skeletons are removed from normal Dungeon spawns.
* Temple sizes now range from 6 to 21 altars, with a small chance of rare
  temples with 0, 1, or 22 temple-god altars.
* The Zot clock now only instantly kills the player if they're extremely badly
  drained. Otherwise, it applies very heavy draining and refreshes the clock.
* 'Hell effect' events fire on entering floors, instead of on a timer.

Character
---------
* New species: Meteoran, stars fallen to earth in human form. Features:
  - Strong attributes and very strong skill aptitudes.
  - Exploration healing, regaining HP and MP when viewing new territory.
  - Passive mapping of the dungeon around them.
  - Hunted by darkness: only 600 turns per floor until Zot catches them
    (instead of the usual 6,000).
* Many backgrounds start with new consumable items:
  - All 'mage' backgrounds now start with a potion of magic.
  - Gladiators add a single throwing weapon (javelin, large rock, or boomerang)
    to their starting kit.
  - Monks start with a potion of ambrosia.
  - Hunters gain a scroll of immolation.
  - Brigands get an additional poisoned & curare dart.
  - Chaos Knights start with a piece from Xom's chessboard.
  - Artificers trade their chesspiece for five iceblast charges.
  - Wanderers get an additional random potion or scroll.
  - Abyssal Knights start with more piety and standing on the abyss exit.
  - Transmuters start with a potion of lignification.
  - Warpers start with two more dispersal boomerangs (a total of 7).
  - Enchanters start with a second potion of invisibility.
* Ranged weapon skills and starts are streamlined (see also "Items" below):
  - The Bows, Crossbows, and Slings skills are combined into a single Ranged
    Combat skill. Most species have aptitudes equal to their best previous
    ranged aptitude.
  - Hunters always start with a shortbow, and no longer have a short sword.
    They have higher dexterity and lower strength and intelligence.
  - Arcane Marksmen always start with a +1 sling.
* Necromancers start with the new spell Necrotize instead of Animate Skeleton
  and Pain.
* Some species were tweaked:
  - Merfolk polearms aptitude is decreased to +3, and long blades aptitude
    increased to +2.
  - Mummy necromancy enhancers now arrive at XL 3 and 13.
  - Demonspawn demonic touch damage is doubled.
  - Formicids' base dexterity is increased by 3.
  - Formicids can again wield giant (spiked) clubs.
  - Palentongas' base strength is increased by 2, and their roll attack noise
    is reduced by two-thirds.
  - Spriggans can no longer wield triple crossbows.
 - Some mutations were tweaked:
   - Positive stat mutations now give +4 to the primary stat and -1 to the
     other two, instead of only giving +2 to the primary.
   - The -Scroll and -Potion mutations are now regular 2-tier mutations in
     the bad mutation pool. The Ru sacrifice corresponds to the 2nd tier.
   - Teleportitis and Berserkitis are reduced to 2-tier mutations
 - Deep Dwarves are removed.

Gods
----
* Kikubaaqudgha is overhauled:
  - Corpse Delivery is removed and replaced with Unearth Wretches, which
    summons paralysed, 1 HP, 0 Will monsters that die in a few turns.
    Necromantic fodder...
  - Torment no longer requires a corpse sacrifice.
  - The pain brand can be applied to ranged weapons.
* Lugonu's Bend Space is adjusted. It no longer does damage, and makes a better
  effort to blink monsters away from the destination.
* Uskayaw grants piety for damaging enemy summons.
* Ru's Sacrifice Experience now only takes one XL (was two).
* Various Ru sacrifices (including Experience) have their piety values tweaked.

Interface and Options
---------------------
* Common menu navigation commands are mapped via `CMD_MENU_...` commands, and
  can be rebound by `bindkey` options (local tiles/console only)
* Keycodes for rebinding keys are now the same across all builds.
* Keybinds, macros, and keymaps now accept human-readable key names for many
  special keys (e.g. "F1", "NP." for numpad `.`, etc.)
* Numpad keys can now be bound separately in all builds.
* Improvements to specific menus:
  - The `F`ire menu now allows selecting any item with a targeter. This includes
    items that don't show the targeter by default but do have a useful targeter,
    such as scrolls of fear.
  - In menus for equipping and using items, a toggle allows switching between
    item type.
  - In most menus that list items, or allow describing a menu entry, entries can
    be described without changing the menu mode by using the `'` key, or by
    right clicking (tiles only).
  - Item type hotkeys in the inventory now scroll, instead of select.
  - The `*` menu for Firing is now used to select items to toss away.
* The branch overview menu now shows zot clock values when they are low.
* `tile_sidebar_pixels` option: allows resizing local tiles sidebar icons.

Items
-----
* Ranged weapons are streamlined (see also "Character" above):
  - Launchers no longer use ammunition.
  - Launcher attack delay is increased by armour penalties.
  - Fustibali are removed. Hunting slings are renamed to slings.
  - Launchers have had their stats adjusted across the board. In particular,
    hand crossbows are made much rarer and more powerful.
  - Launchers all use the Ranged Weapons skill.
* Launcher, long blade, and short blade damage scale with Dex instead of Str.
* New concept: "alternate items". Some item types are grouped into 'sets',
  and only one type from each 'set' can generate in a game. Background
  starting items ignore this.
  - New item: scroll of butterflies, which summons a large cloud of
    butterflies. Alternates with scrolls of fog.
  - New wand: Light. Fires a damaging bolt of blinding light, blinding on hit.
    Alternates with acid and quicksilver.
  - New wand: Quicksilver: Fires a quicksilver bolt, dispelling magical effects
    from targets it hits. Alternates with acid and light.
  - New wand: Roots: Fires a 3x3 ball of roots, constricting enemies in the
    radius. Alternates with iceblast.
  - Wands of paralysis now alternate with wands of charming.
* New item: scroll of poison. When read the scroll of poison fills every
  unoccupied space on the screen with poison clouds for 10-20 turns.
* New unrands:
  - The +8 trishula "Condemnation" {holy, Anguish Fly rN+}. Inflicts 4-8 turns
    of Anguish on those hit, making them take damage when dealing it.
  - The +3 mountain boots {steadfast, rC+}. Prevents the player from being
    involuntarily moved by physical means (trampling, shafts, harpoons, etc.).
  - New unrand: the +5 lochaber axe, which cleaves through all foes in reaching
    range. Uses the higher of the player's Polearms and Axes skill.
* Items can have vault-redefined skins. Yuif now has hammers again (renamed
  maces). Sigmund and Reapers' scythes are now renamed halberds.
* +MP items remove MP when they are taken off.
* Stones always mulch when thrown.
* Unrandart tweaks:
  - the Glaive of the Guard is reduced to +5.
  - the arbalest "Damnation"'s explosions now do 2d14 damage (was 3d14).
  - Gyre & Gimble are increased to +12.
  - The Woodcutter's axe is now a battleaxe.
  - the amulet of Vitality now gives two pips each of Regen and RegenMP, and is
    now evil.
* Scrolls of holy word are removed.

Monsters
--------
* New uniques:
  - Amaemon the Diabolical Poisoner, a poison-themed demonspawn unique
    appearing with a band of orange demons in mid-D, early Lair, and Orc:1.
  - Lodul the Thundrous, an ironbound thunderhulk sent to patrol outside the
    Vaults. Appears in late D with a band of fellow ogres.
  - Zenata, Seeker of Sheza. Summons dancing weapons and casts Resonance
    Strike, doing extra damage when constructs are adjacent to the target.
    Wields a valuable weapon. Appears searching Vaults:1-4, Elf, and Crypt.
  - Parghit the Mighty, an "alt-timeline" version of Pargi with extremely high
    regeneration and enchanted golden dragon scales. Appears in late Depths and
    Zot.
  - Josephina the Ice-Lich, an "alt-timeline" version of Josephine with
    Seracfall and a band of simulacra along side Ghostly Fireball. Appears in
    Depths, Zot, and Crypt.
  - Grunn the Punished, an "alt-timeline" undead version of Grum, with a pack
    of doom hounds. Appears in Depths, Crypt, and Zot.
  - Vv the Exile, an fire/ice spellcaster with Creeping Frost, Eruption, and
    Pyroclastic Surge. Appears in Depths, Crypt, and Zot.
* Monster move energy is no longer randomized.
* Monsters gain a 1/3 chance to gain a free attack on a player moving away from
  them. Wu Jian martial attacks & rampaging give immunity, and monsters that
  don't move fast enough to follow you can't attack.
* New monster: starflower, a stationary plant with harpoon shot and reaching
  distortion melee. Found guarding valuable places in the abyss.
* Gnoll shamans are renamed gnoll bouda, and have a new spell set.
* Animated Armour now flies.
* Monster wand power is reduced.

Spells
------
* Necromancy reworked:
  - New Spell: Necrotize (L1 Necromancy). Necrotize deals damage identically to
    the old Pain spell, but additionally gives the monster a short-lived status
    that causes it to animate as a skeleton on death (if it has a skeleton).
  - Animate Dead reworked: for a duration after being cast, the dead have a
    power-dependent chance of rising as allied zombies. The zombies are
    permanent until the player leaves the level or re-casts Animate Dead.
  - Simulacrum is now a smite-targeted spell that gives an irresistible status.
    Monsters that die with this status spawn a power-dependent number of
    simulacra.
  - Corpse Rot is now Level 4 Necromancy/Poison/Air. For a duration after being
    cast, dead monsters have a chance of producing deadly miasma.
  - Death Channel cannot be re-cast while active.
* Sandblast no longer uses stones as ammo. Instead, it takes half again as long
  to cast as a normal spell. Its range and accuracy are increased.
* Airstrike's damage bonus from empty space around the target is doubled.
* Irradiate now causes dangerous contamination in 3-4 casts (was 4-5).
* Flame Wave and Sticky Flame now do roughly 25% more damage.
* Ozocubu's Refrigeration and Freezing Ramparts now check AC, but do more
  damage. Refrigeration also now does reduced damage to creatures adjacent to
  others, but no longer applies -Potion to the caster.
* Hex miscasts now only slow the player, instead of also cancelling effects.
* Removed: Animate Skeleton, Pain, Excruciating Wounds.

Tiles
-----
* Some mutations now have associated art.
* Many more status effects (e.g. Dazed, rF-) now have associated icons.
* Monsters with Reflect (e.g. from a shield) now display an icon.
* All species now have new statue form tiles.
* Many new alternate tiles for Djinni and Nagas.
* The Lernaean Hydra now has unique tiles when skeletonized.
* Borgnjor's Mausoleum and Tukima's Studio have new environmental art.
* Runed door tiles have been reworked for greater visibility.

Stone Soup 0.28.0 (20220203)
----------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New Cinder Acolyte background, followers of the dying god Ignis.
* The Hells burn with new fury, filled with new monsters and effects.
* Yredelemnul completely redesigned; Okawaru and Jiyva significantly changed.
* The Spider's Nest respun - many new monsters and maps lurk within.
* Magical orbs added as a new category of off-hand equipment.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* You will learn to fear the Hells!
  - Branch-wide persistent effects:
    + Dis: ongoing -8 Corrosion.
    + Cocytus: potions cannot be used.
    + Gehenna: scrolls cannot be used.
    + Tartarus: willpower halved.
  - Timed effects are now the same for all Hells: temporary mutation, hp
    drain, attribute drain, and noise.
  - Floors 1-6 of each hell sub-branch are considerably smaller, and place
    only one pair of stairs.
  - Each hell subbranch's spawn tables are adjusted to produce more depth
    appropriate monsters and less chaff. (See also 'Monsters'.)
* Six new Wizard's Laboratories are added: Eringya's Formal Garden, Tukima's
  Studio, Yara's Duelist Academy, Borgnjor's Mausoleum, Maxwell's Workshop, and
  Alistair's Party Mansion.
* Abyss:
  - The Abyss no longer generates random items, and kills in the abyss grant no
    experience or conventional piety. (Uskayaw and Yredelemnul continue to
    grant their special kinds of piety).
  - Collecting the abyssal rune of zot grants two XP potions worth of
    experience.
  - The chance of an Abyss teleport sending the player deeper is increased, as
    are the rune, stair, and exit generation rates.
* Sewer maps have been re-balanced and randomized, and two new sewers added.
* Bailey maps have been re-balanced and randomized, and three new baileys added.
* Spider has two new end maps, an "Endless Swarm" map featuring broodmothers
  and a "Bug Friends" map featuring all non-spider insects.
* Spider is a normal noise level again.
* Artefacts can now generate on D:2-3.
* Ziggurats no longer require runes of zot to enter.
* Exploration-based shaft traps can now happen a maximum of once per branch.

Character
---------
* Backgrounds:
  - New background: Cinder Acolyte, an Ignis zealot. Starts worshipping Ignis,
    along with Scorch and a -1 flame branded weapon of choice.
  - Fire Elementalist's starting spells are revised, and are now: Foxfire,
    Scorch, Conjure Flame, Inner Flame, and Flame Wave. (See 'Spells'.)
  - The Enchanter background no longer starts with the Corona spell, and instead
    starts with a potion of invisibility.
  - The Fighter background now starts with a buckler instead of a kite shield.
  - The Abyssal Knight background now starts with 5/2/5 Str/Int/Dex (was 4/4/4).
* Player-chosen attribute increases now happen every 6 XLs, starting at XL 3,
  and increase a stat by 2. Demigods are unchanged.
* The experience cost of high-level skills is reduced.
* Late game XP gains are reduced.
* Formicids now dig at normal movement speed. Each cell dug causes HP drain.
* Each level of the evolution mutation now provides exactly two 'good' random
  mutation, activating once per XL.
* New bad mutation: devolution. Mechanically similar to evolution but dispenses
  bad mutations and activates once every 1/4th of an XL.
* New Demonspawn Mutations:
  - Weakening Stinger: gives a tail aux attack. Level 3 blocks the cloak slot
    and applies Weak on hit.
  - Demonic Touch: adds AC-ignoring damage to off-hand punch attacks. Level 3
    blocks the glove slot and applies Vuln (halved Will) on hit.
* Aux attacks now trigger with a chance based on XL.
* The chance to offhand punch now starts at 5% and increases to 50% with
  Unarmed Combat skill.
* Strength 0's regeneration reduction is replaced with -Regen in monster LOS.
* Intelligence 0's 4/5 chance to fail scroll reading is replaced with -Scroll.
* Wanderers have more useful starting skills and new item possibilities.

Gods
----
* New (non-temple) God: Ignis, the Dying Flame.
  - Ignis altars do not generate normally, Ignis can only be worshipped from a
    faded altar or from the new Cinder Acolyte zealot start.
  - Ignis worshippers normally start at 5* piety.
  - Ignis has no piety gain and no piety decay.
  - Ignis grants the following:
    - Passive rF+ (fire resistance).
    - 'Fiery Armour': +7AC and fire damage to melee attackers for its duration.
    - 'Foxfire Swarm': Conjures foxfires on every open space in radius 2, which
      launch one-shot fire attacks ala the 'Foxfire' spell.
    - 'Rising Flame': After 2-4 turns, sends the player through the ceiling (up
      one floor). Can only be used once.
* Yredelemnul:
  - Piety now solely based on the number and strength of allied zombies in
    sight.
  - Passive reaping: slain living, demonic, and holy monsters have a chance to
    automatically rise from the dead as undead allies.
  - Zombies cannot leave the level and expire when the player leaves the level.
  - Yredelemnul grants the following active abilities:
      - 0*: Recall Undead Harvest: recalls undead allies to you.
      - 2*: Dark Bargain. Trade 2 zombies for a long-duration undead summon.
            Scales with invocations.
      - 4*: Drain Life. Same as previous drain life, but also costs 3 zombies.
      - 5*: Bind Soul. Formerly known as 'Enslave Soul', but also costs 4
            zombies. A bound soul is permanent and can follow the player
            between floors.
  - Removed animate remains/dead and injury mirror abilities.
  - Kills by Yredremnul allies now grant full experience.
* Okawaru becomes the god of single combat.
  - New ability: Duel, granted at 5*. The Duel ability smite-targets a single
    non-summoned enemy in LOS (which must be threat level "tough" or higher),
    and transports them and the player to an Arena portal vault. Winning the
    duel opens a gate to return from the portal vault, and the player will be
    forcibly teleported back after a short duration.
  - Finesse is moved to 4* (from 5*).
  - Worshippers may no longer have allies of any kind.
* Jiyva:
  - New active 'Oozemancy' 3* ability. Temporarily turns nearby walls within
    radius 4 into slime-covered walls that do acid damage to adjacent monsters.
  - Mutations now changed in bursts: existing mutations decay, then new ones
    are added several levels at once.
  - Piety now granted solely for exploring, and only outside the Slime Pits.
  - Now grants passive regeneration of HP and MP at a high rate.
  - Passive rCorr is now granted at 2*, and jelly spawning on hit at 5*.
  - Removed: attribute shuffling, the 'cure mutation' ability, and healing/mp
    restoration from jelly item eating.
* Elyvilon:
  - Pacification grants full XP and works on intelligent plants.
  - Lifesaving is now completely passive, with an extra piety gated chance on
    top of the basic good god lifesaving chance and a cooldown.
  - Purification is moved to 1* and reduced in cost.
  - Greater Healing is renamed to Heal Self and moved to 3*.
  - Lesser Healing is removed.
* Cheibriados permits berserk while suppressing the extra speed.
* Cheibriados now slows poison on worship and grants bend time at 1*.
* Ashenzari's passive trap protection and item identification is moved to 1*.
* The Shining One now gives Divine Shield at 1* and Cleansing Flame at 3*.

Interface and Options
---------------------
* WebTiles now has a clickable action panel, similar to the local tiles
  inventory panel. This UI element by default shows tactically-relevant
  consumables, and comes with a number of configuration options (see the
  various `action_panel...` options, or right-click on the X).
* Mutation descriptions can now be inspected in the mut(A)tion menu.
* Most abilities now have targeters (similar to spell targeters). These are
  configurable via the `force_ability_targeter` option, and spell targeter
  configuration is moved to `force_spell_targeter`.
* Many improvements to menus and popups:
  - Arrow key navigation and selection is available in many more menus. This
    can be disabled with the new option `menu_arrow_control` for the classic
    roguelike experience. Shift-arrows replace arrows as the binding to scroll
    by a single line. (Console users: not all terminals support these keycodes
    on default settings.)
  - The quiver menu has a mode that uses hotkeys from the items/spells/abilities
    it is showing.
  - The stash search menu more clearly differentiates items that can be
    traveled to, and has a number of interface improvements. The closest
    (travelable) search result is always available via the enter key.
  - Description popups have been improved and actions in these popups are
    now activatable using the mouse on webtiles.
  - Improvements and bugfixes to many other menus.
* WebTiles mouse support is expanded.
* WebTiles supports virtual keyboards on touch devices, configurable via the
  `tile_web_mobile_input_helper` option. There have also been a number of
  improvements to rendering on touch devices. (Caveat: these changes are aimed
  at tablets, not phones.)
* Console:
  - A new console option `bold_brightens_foreground=force` lets bold be applied
    to bright foreground colors even in 16-color mode.
  - A popup accessible via ! in the help screen shows current terminal and
    console settings, and attempts to indicate misconfiguration. (PuTTY users
    may find this particularly helpful.)
* A small number of options are automatically saved across games based on their
  value in the relevant in-game user interface. These include
  `default_manual_training`, `quiver_menu_focus` (for the new quiver menu
  modes), and several of the action panel settings, which can be edited by
  right-clicking on the panel close button.
* On MacOS local games, a game menu option will reveal the rc file in the
  Finder.
* The inventory-full autopickup prompt now has an "(A)lways ignore" choice.
* Webtiles chat can be closed, as well as opened, via F12.

Items
-----
* New item type: orbs, occupying the shield slot.
  - Orbs give no SH and impose no shield penalty, but always come with an ego.
  - Orb egos are all new:
    * Light: a radius 3 halo.
    * Wrath: *Rage (20% chance to berserk on melee hit).
    * Mayhem: chance to frenzy a monster in sight after a kill, causing them
      to wildly attack friends and foes alike ala the Discord spell.
    * Guile: reduces Will by ++ for both the wearer and those they try to hex.
    * energy: gives a source of passive channeling, which gives a chance to
      refund the MP of a cast spell and a chance to backfire. Backfires cause
      confusion or Int drain. Scales with Evocations.
* New glove ego: infusion, spending 1 MP per melee hit to add extra damage.
* New unrand: the +3 Mad Mage's Maulers {Infuse+∞ RegenMP Int-3}. These use all
  available MP to give proportional bonus damage to a melee hit.
* New unrand: the dreamshard necklace {*Dream}. On receiving a lethal or
  near-lethal hit, the dreamshard necklace shatters, averting the blow, healing
  the player, releasing dream allies, and fog. Otherwise does nothing.
* New "early-game" unrandarts, unlikely to appear after the early game:
  - Delatra's gloves. These gloves heal the wearer for drinking unknown potions
    and give the wearer MP for reading unknown scrolls.
  - The woodcutter's axe is a vorpal +8 war axe that always swings at 10 aut
    regardless of skill and speed modifiers.
  - The staff of the Meek is a +7 quarterstaff of protection that gives extra
    AC when below 55 HP.
  - Throatcutter is a +7 long sword of draining with a 1/3 chance to instantly
    kill foes that are below 21 HP.
* Shields and armour:
  - Shield penalties scale linearly with skill, completely disappearing at skill
    27. The size of the penalty depends on the shield's encumbrance rating and
    species size factors.
  - Shields are no longer affected by Str, only Dex.
  - Armour and shields no longer impose to-hit penalties.
* Riposte is removed from long blades and base damage is increased.
* The skill requirements for minimum delay for executioner's axes and bardiches
  are reduced to 24; for triple swords the requirement is reduced to 22.
* *Rage now causes berserk on 20% of hits. This chance stacks linearly among
  items and with the berserkitis mutation. Certain unrands grant a higher
  chance.
* Evokable berserk is removed as an artefact property.
* The generation of throwing ammunition is reduced.
* Wand generation is reduced.
* The electrocution brand triggers 25% less often.
* One '+' of regen is reduced to 0.8 HP/turn (was 1.0 HP/turn).
* MPRegen amulets are buffed to 0.4 MP/turn (was 0.25 MP/turn).
* The archery ego is renamed to 'hurling' and now only applies to throwing.
* Unrandart tweaks:
  - The staff of Battle now triggers the battlesphere on melee hits (in addition
    to the usual spell trigger).
  - The robe of Clouds' thunder cloud ability is now passive, placing storm
    clouds on enemies within range 2 each turn.
  - Leech no longer has *Rage, and now has Harm and Drain.
  - The necklace of bloodlust now gives a 50% chance to go berserk on hit.
  - The Zealot's sword now gives a 20% chance to go berserk on hit (up from
    5%).
  - The hat of the bear spirit gives a 20% chance to go berserk on hit,
    increases the bonus HP from going berserk, and reduces the slow duration
    after. It no longer has rN+.
  - The ring of the Mage is now a ring of Wizardry and Archmagi.
  - The autumn katana loses Clarity and gains a chance to manifold assault on
    hit.
  - The glaive of Prune turns the wielder into a prune when paralysed,
    petrified, or asleep, halving the damage received for the duration.
  - Lear's Hauberk is reduced to +18 (was +27).
  - The trident of the Octopus King loses +Will.
  - Wucad Mu now counts as 1.5 sources of channeling. This means it is 1.5x as
    likely to refund MP, and the probability of backfiring is reduced.
  - The robe of Misfortune loses Contam and Drain.

Monsters
--------
* New unique: Mlioglotl. A unique horror with the power to corrupt the level,
  changing terrain and summoning other abyssal horrors, as well as cause fear.
  Appears in the S-branches and rarely in the abyssal lair end.
* New Hell monsters (with subbranch):
  - Wendigo, collapses simulacra into painful iceblasts (Coc)
  - Nargun, hits hard and petrify (Coc)
  - Quicksilver elemental, with antimagic and quicksilver bolts (Dis)
  - Crystal echidna, throws barbs and crystal bolts (Dis)
  - Creeping inferno, which explodes into a Fire Storm (Geh)
  - Stoker, keeps at range and calls creeping infernos (Geh)
  - Searing wretch, a hard hitting fighter that strips fire resistance (Geh)
  - Tainted leviathan, a giant with a ring of miasma and mesmerise (Tar)
  - Putrid mouth, a ghost with poisonous melee and miasma breath (Tar)
* New Spider monsters:
  - Pharaoh ants are undead that drain and bind souls on death.
  - Steelbarb worms are fast, regenerate, resist fire and apply barbs in melee.
  - Jorogumo are tough, ensnare, cast bolt of draining and have hornet poison
    melee.
  - Broodmothers summon spiders and bite to summon spiders.
  - Culicivora join spider packs with a vampiric bite and heal other.
  - Sun moths are holy with a single tile halo, sticky flame, and energy bolt.
  - Radroaches are armoured roaches that cast irradiate, greatly contaminating
    the player.
* New monsters: walking tomes, which summon living spells that cast themselves
  at the player. Appear in Depths and the Tukima's Studio wizlab.
* Demonspawn warmongers' Sap Magic effect now causes a short term -Cast after
  casting a spell.
* All derived undead retain their reach, constriction, and trample attacks.
* Red Devils now apply barbs on hit, instead of hopping back.
* Wretched Stars only apply one temporary mutation per use of corrupting pulse,
  and use the spell less often.
* Demonic and holy monsters are now susceptible to fear, berserk, alistairs
  intoxication, and ballistomycete spores.
* Monsters have a chance to break a door permanently when opening it. This
  chance is higher if the monster is berserk.
* Classed draconians have a fixed colour per job.
* When Dowan dies Duvessa goes berserk permanently; when Duvessa dies Dowan
  gains haste permanently.
* If Jiyva dies Dissolution's summon eyeballs is replaced with a cantrip.
* Kills by and of player-frenzied monsters now grant XP.
* Ironbound Beastmasters are removed.

Spells
------
* Kills by summoned allies now grant full experience.
* Spell summon caps are reduced:
  - Summon Small Mammal, Summon Hydra, and Monstrous Menagerie are capped at 2.
  - Haunt is capped at 8.
  - All other summon spells except Summon Horrible Things and Dragon's Call are
    capped at 1.
* New spell: Summon Cactus Giant (L6 Summonings). Summons a giant which attacks
  very slowly but has enormous spines, impaling melee attackers.
* New spell: Scorch (L2 Fire). Hits a random enemy within 3 tiles, dealing fire
  damage and (if damage is dealt) applying short term rF- to the foe.
* New spell: Flame Wave (L4 Conjuration/Fire). Burns adjacent creatures, then
  when channeled by hitting '.' (like Searing Ray), repeatedly hits enemies in
  an increasing radius.
* New spell: Enfeeble (L7 Hexes). Enfeeble irresistibly applies weakness and
  antimagic to a single foe. Targets that fail a Willpower check are also dazed
  and blinded.
* New spell: Anguish (L4 Hexes/Necromancy). All enemies in sight must pass a
  Will check or gain the new Anguished status effect. Whenever Anguished
  monsters deal damage, they take the same amount of damage right back.
* Yara's Violent Unravelling can now unravel summons, killing them immediately
  and turning them into explosions. It is now smite targeted.
* Inner Flame is now smite targeted.
* Corpse Rot now scales with spell power, placing more clouds per corpse and
  reaching up to range 2 with sufficient clouds.
* Death Channel now works on demonic and holy creatures. It also now works on
  corpseless living creatures.
* Metabolic Englaciation has a minimum slow duration when successful.
* Eringya's Noxious Bog now places a bog under the caster, as well as on cells
  with only one adjacent wall. The caster is now immune to their own bog.
* Slow is now level 1 with a lower power cap.
* Searing Ray and Storm Form have reduced power scaling.
* Storm Form's blinkbolt ability is now always LOS range.
* Passage of Golubria now has a range that scales with spell power.
* Blink now has a cooldown that scales with spell power.
* Lesser Beckoning's power cap is reduced to 100 and range reduced to 5.
* Bolt of Magma, Corona, Shadow Creatures, and Invisibility are now monster
  only.

Stone Soup 0.27.1 (20210820)
----------------------------

Bugfix and balance release
--------------------------
* The frequency of D:1 jackals is reduced.
* Sigmund and Robin are nerfed gently.
* Maxwell's Capacitative Coupling now has LOS range.
* 80 other fixes, tweaks, copy-edits, and interface improvements.

Stone Soup 0.27.0 (20210730)
----------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New species: Djinni.
* Many new spells and spellbooks.
* New monster sets and end maps for many branches.
* Ashenzari completely redesigned and reworked.
* Cursed items removed.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Altar changes:
  - A faded altar places with a very high chance on D:1-3.
  - A single random altar to a Temple god places with low chance on D:2.
  - Other guaranteed Temple god altars have been shifted to D:3-10, from D:2-9.
* Shops can now place on D:1-3.
* Dungeon, Depths, Vaults, and the Vestibule of Hell spawn tables are adjusted
  to produce more depth appropriate monsters and less chaff.
* Branch ending maps:
  - New "Abyssal Woods" Lair ending featuring demonic trees and abyss-themed
    monsters.
  - The "Jungle Book" Lair ending has been redesigned to have an undead theme
    featuring necromancers and undead animals.
  - New "Lost City" Shoals ending featuring a ruined temple theme with
    minotaurs and sphinxes.
  - New "Storm Temple" Shoals ending featuring electricity-themed monsters and
    many possible layouts.
  - New "Quicksilver Temple" Snake ending featuring quicksilver dragons.
* All Ice Cave maps have been rebalanced to have more varied layouts,
  monsters, and loot.
* Many new vaults featuring unrand items, shops, and ecumenical altars, as
  well new monster and decorative vaults for many branches.
* New terrain: demonic trees. Demonic trees appear in the Abyss and Pan and
  can be placed by vaults. They behave like trees, but when burned produce a
  single cloud of chaos instead of a spreading forest fire.
* Net traps trigger less often.
* Storm clouds no longer make noise.
* After completing one Ziggurat, the player is immune to the malevolence of Zot.
* Swamp is now loud, so noise travels less far.
* Guaranteed demonic rune vaults announce the presence of the demonic rune.
* Gadget shops are removed.
* Ossuaries no longer have dart and spear traps.

Character
---------
* New species: Djinni, floating spirits formed from smokeless fire.
  - Djinni have no MP; their spells cost HP instead.
  - Djinni cannot learn spells from books; they learn spells as they level up.
  - Diinni cannot train spell schools; they use the Spellcasting skill alone.
* Demonspawn mutation changes:
  - New facet: malevolent magic. This facet gives a chance to paralyse enemies
      in a radius around the player equal to the mutation rank whenever a spell
      is cast. At the highest rank, this also applies to wands.
  - New facet: corrupting presence. The first two ranks of this facet give a
      chance to corrode, and then malmutate when the player damages a monster.
      The third rank gives an active ability Word of Chaos that blinks away
      every monster in los and may also disable them.
  - The Black Mark facet is revised to a disabling facet, offering a hex
      enhancer at rank 1, followed by black mark at rank 2, then a permanent
      radius 1 silence annulus around the player at rank 3.
  - The Hurl Damnation facet now gives "Demonic Will" at rank 1, providing
      Will+ and dealing damnation damage to monsters that try but fail to hex
      the player, and torment resistance at rank 2.
  - Mana link is re-ordered, providing MP Regen in the first rank, and spirit
    shield in the second. The third rank, mana link itself, is unchanged.
  - Foul stench provides stench at every rank as well as miasma immunity.
  - Later ranks of the spiny facet are now much more impactful.
  - Ignite blood ignites blood at every rank, with power scaling with rank.
  - Demonic Guardian now summons a guardian when the player takes damage. The
    tier of the guardian scales partially with experience level.
  - Icemail provides a condensation shield worth 4SH at the first rank, and
    ice mail AC spread over the next two.
  - Most types of scales mutations are now Demonspawn only.
  - Iridescent scales and passive freeze are removed from the Demonspawn pool
    and are available as random mutations for both demonspawn and other species.
* Poison damage applies much more quickly.
* Strength now gives a simple, linear bonus to damage.
* Hidden stepdowns on dexterity and evasion are removed, making characters with
  large amounts of dexterity and dodging skill more effective. As a result,
  Spriggans' dodging apt is reduced to +3 and base dexterity reduced by one.
* New good mutation: noise dampening, which halves noise in the players LOS.
* Bone plates, thin skeletal structure, and sturdy frame no longer conflict.
* The blurry vision mutation is removed; Ru's -Scroll mutation can occur as a
  random mutation in its place.
* Shoutitis and No Potion Heal are reduced to 2 levels from 3.
* Wisp form no longer blinks randomly.
* Guaranteed damage reduction is now a property derived from AC, with
  higher AC values from any source guaranteeing a certain base amount of
  protection from melee damage and mundane projectiles.
* Most sources of flight (including species, transformations, and equipment)
  are permanent and neither expire nor can be cancelled; reasons to land have
  also been removed.
* Berserk ending no longer causes paralysis.
* The blink mutation is removed.
* Other species changes:
  - Demigods' stat gains on level-up are doubled. Their base stats are reduced.
  - Gnoll base stats are reduced to 7/7/7.
  - Palentonga HP apt is reduced to +0.
* Mage and Warrior-Mage starting spell changes:
  - Air elementalists no longer start with Lightning Bolt.
  - Arcane Marksmen no longer start with Leda's Liquefaction.
  - Earth Elementalists no longer start with Lee's Rapid Deconstruction.
  - Summoners and Ice Elementalists no longer start with Summon Ice beast.
  - Venom Mages no longer start with Ignite Poison.
* Halflings are removed.

Gods
----
* Ashenzari is completely overhauled.
  - At regular intervals, Ashenzari provides the player with a choice of curses
    to apply to their equipment. These grant a skill boost based on the type of
    curse accepted, increase the player's piety, and prevent the player from
    un-equipping the cursed item.
  - At any time, the player can choose to shatter a cursed item, destroying it
    and losing associated piety and skill boosts.
  - Ashenzari grants the following benefits:
    - Scaling with piety: skill boosts from curses, item and monster detection,
      passive mapping.
    - 0* Item identification, portal detection, and exploration trap protection.
    - 2* See Invisible
    - 3* Clarity
    - 4* Seeing through walls within a size-2 radius, scaling to radius 4 at 6*.
* Ru sacrifice changes:
  - Several piety values are rebalanced.
  - Sacrifice Experience, in addition to removing one XL, now causes future XLs
    to be more expensive as if the player was still at their old XL.
  - Sacrifice words & drink now give bonus piety when taken together.
* The player and Hepliaklqana ancestors can fire through one-another.
* Hepliaklqana only grants an ancestor once the player reaches 1* piety. The HP
  penalty for worship is also delayed until 1*.
* A new Jiyva mutation allows players to engulf foes in ooze in melee.
* Makhleb's Major Destruction now fires all bolt-type spells and is stronger.
* Makhleb's passive heal on kill is reduced in strength.
* The Elixir card no longer heals allies and always regenerates both health and
  magic, with duration scaling with power.
* The Foxfire card is renamed to the Swarm and now summons bees.
* Okawaru no longer punishes betraying allies.
* Trog's Berserk ability has a piety-scaled chance to fail.
* Heavenly Storm grants bonus EV and is a bit quieter.
* Yredelemnul accepts nonliving worshippers again, and permits the use of
  statue form.
* Cheibriados no longer hates quick blades.
* Zin's Sanctuary no longer applies holy word.

Monsters
--------
* New Slime monsters:
  - rockslime, a high-AC, flame-resistant slime that tramples and hits hard.
  - quicksilver ooze, a magic-immune ooze with engulfing and antimagic attacks.
* New Vaults monsters:
  - ironbound frostheart, which freeze enemies that are adjacent to walls.
  - ironbound thunderhulk, which blast distant enemies with lightning from
    above. (They can't hit nearby enemies, however.)
  - ironbound beastmaster, which speed up their lindwurm and dire elephant
    companions.
* Snake monster changes:
  - New monster: salamander tyrant, a volcano-stoking spellcaster with a
    weakening gaze.
  - Naga mages cast 'concentrate venom' (allowing venomous allies to inflict
    asphyxiating curare) instead of Force Lance.
  - Naga and naga warriors have increased base damage.
  - Naga warriors cast battlecry.
  - Nagaraja cast Dimension Anchor instead of Teleport Other.
* Oozes are renamed endoplasms, and cast freeze (but are weaker).
* Phantoms now blink their attack victims with them on hit, and have less HP.
  They no longer blink randomly.
* Ancient Liches have been split: they now focus on conjurations, while new
  Dread Liches specialize in demon summoning and paralysis.
* Deep elf mages have likewise been split into pyromancers and zephyrmancers.
* Every other spellcasting monster now uses just a single set of spells.
* Psyche has a new spellbook with Polymorph, Chain of Chaos, Invisibility, and
  Cantrip.
* Air elementals no longer have a tornado, instead gaining Stunning Blast. This
  inflicts 1 turn of paralysis on hit, though rElec makes this less likely.
* Big kobolds are re-named kobold brigands. Kobold brigands always spawn with
  darts, either poison or curare.
* Monsters' melee attack speed is no longer slowed by the weapons they wield.
  Many early-game monsters have had their base damage lowered to compensate.
* Monsters with ranged attacks now have unlimited ammunition. (Except nets.)
* Dancing ranged weapons can now appear (in specific circumstances).
* When Boris spawns on the orb run, he comes hasted and with a brilliance aura.
* Draconian knights and Fannar no longer cast Ozocubu's Armour and have
  higher base AC.
* Worker ants, soldier ants, queen ants, leopard geckos, eyes of draining,
  and death oozes are removed.

Interface and options
---------------------
* Ranged targeters now display accuracy.
* Monster to-hit chance is now shown in xv.
* The in-game macro creation and editing interfaces have been greatly improved:
  - The old interface has now been fully menuized, so editing all happens within
    the menu, and is designed for a smoother process.
  - A new quick-entry menu for macros is available, bound to ctrl-e.
* An in-game menu is available on the F1 key for access to saving, help, and
  macros.
* Form information is shown in the `A` view.
* The shopping list can now be opened by a range of currency symbols.
* Wait-to-cast spells (Searing Ray, and the new Maxwell's Capacitive Coupling)
  now fully work with autofire when quivered; autofire will trigger the wait
  command as appropriate.
* Spells and potions can be quivered and have informative targeters where
  relevant.
* Other miscellaneous quiver UI improvements:
  - Two new options for controlling the quiver: `fire_order_ability` and
    `fire_order_spell`. These give you full control over non-items when cycling
    the quiver.
  - Berserk is now excluded from the fire order by default, and won't autoquiver
    on Berserker starts.
  - Changing a quivered item's letter will not remove it from the quiver.
  - Improvements to inscriptions: @Qn inscriptions on items are supported at
    the Q menu. Behaviour of !Q, =f, and =F has been improved.
* Portal and zot alerts are now included by default in `runrest_stop`, and zot
  clock alerts force-interrupt all delays.
* The "allow_extended_colours" console option now defaults to true, since
  modern terminals uniformly support more than 8 terminal colors.
* New local tiles option, `tile_window_ratio`. This lets the initial window
  size be constrained by an x:y ratio, providing better defaults for ultra-wide
  monitors.

Items
-----
* Spellbook changes:
  - Spellbooks generate more frequently and are always identified.
  - 30 new types of fixed book are added.
  - Fixed books now only have 2-4 spells each (down from 4-6 each.)
  - Randomly generated spellbooks also have fewer spells.
  - Mage and Warrior-Mage classes no longer start with a specific spellbook.
    Their starting spell sets are based on the book they previously started
    with, but with changes as described above in the "Characters" section.
* Cursed items no longer generate. Ashenzari is the only source of curses.
  - The *Curse property on unrands is removed. the Scythe of Curses and obsidian
    axe now have *Drain. The property is removed from the Necklace of Bloodlust.
  - The obsidian axe can no longer be unwielded while mesmerised.
  - Mundane negative-enchant items no longer generate. (Negative enchants are
    still possible on randarts, or in certain vaults.)
* Wand changes:
  - Wands of random effects are replaced with pieces from Xom's chessboard,
    which apply a random effect to a random visible enemy when evoked. They
    recharge with XP.
  - Wands of disintegrate are renamed to wands of mindburst. They no longer
    affect mindless creatures.
  - Wands of enslavement are now called wands of charming.
* Equipment is identified once the player is in reach, without needing to be
  worn.
* All sources of regeneration now heal 1 HP per normal turn (formerly 0.4).
  - Trolls now have slightly more inherent regen and slightly less AC.
  - Vine Stalkers gain their full innate regeneration earlier.
* The spectral brand has been redesigned. It now triggers on every attack,
  creating a spectral copy of the weapon which makes an additional attack (if
  there's open space next to the wielder and in reach of their target). The
  copy vanishes once the player does anything other than attack. This effect no
  longer depends on Evocations skill.
* Shields slow melee attacks much more at low Shields skill levels.
* Other unrand changes:
  - Vampire's Tooth's enchantment is reduced to +8 (from +11).
  - The amulet of the Air loses EV+5 and gains an Air magic enhancer.
  - Bolts fired by Damnation only explode and mulch on hit.
  - The staff of Wucad-Mu refunds MP more often, and refunds MP even when it
    backfires.
  - The Wrath of Trog now extends berserk and gains Rampage.
  - The Robe of Folly now provides permanent brilliance, but sets Will to 0.
    It also gets +8 Int (from +4) and +4 enchant (from +3).
* Manuals, like spellbooks and runes, no longer take up an inventory slot.
* Broad axe's base delay is returned to 1.6, from 1.7.
* Rare scrolls, books, manuals, and enhancer staves can now spawn early.
* Hats and gloves can now get the stealth ego.
* Archmagi can now appear as an artefact property on randart robes.
* The *Slow artefact property now stacks.
* Scarves of shadows are no longer spell de-enhancers.
* Rings of attention, rings of stealth, rings of teleportation, amulets of
  inaccuracy, scrolls of remove curse, scrolls of random uselessness, and
  boots of running are removed.

Spells
------
* New Spell: Storm Form, a level 7 Transmutations/Air spell that transforms
  the player into a raging, lightning-filled tempest:
  - Melee attacks are electrified and strike all adjacent foes. Damage
    increases with spellpower and unarmed combat skill.
  - Grants the ability to Blinkbolt: launch yourself towards a foe to inflict
    heavy damage, also damaging any monsters along the way.
  - Grants increased evasion, rElec, and poison immunity. The evasion
    increases with spellpower.
  - Melds all equipment except jewellery.
* New spell: Animate Armour, a level 4 Summon/Earth spell which draws out the
  spirit of the caster's armour to fight alongside them. The heavier the
  armour, the more powerful the spirit.
* New spell: Manifold Assault, a level 5 translocations spell which attacks
  random foes in sight with the attacker's wielded weapon. Spellpower increases
  the number of foes that can be struck with one cast.
* Absolute Zero has been redesigned. It's now called Maxwell's Capacitive
  Coupling, a level 8 Air spell. When cast, the player must wait in place for
  a random number of turns (reduced by spellpower) until the capacitor
  finishes charging, which instantly vaporizes the nearest monster.
* Chain Lighting has been redesigned. It is now level 9 and is dramatically
  more powerful, arcing between visible foes for massive damage that partially
  ignores AC and rElec.
* Tornado has been renamed to Polar Vortex. It is now a Level 9 Ice spell, and
  its damage has been increased by 33% but is partially resistible by rC.
* Other spell level adjustments:
  - Ozocubu's Refrigeration is now level 7 (from 6).
  - Freezing Cloud is now level 5 (from 6).
  - Static Discharge is now level 2 (from 3).
  - Swiftness is now level 3 (from 2).
* Airstrike no longer gets bonus damage against flying creatures (including
  the player). Instead, it deals bonus damage based on the number of empty
  spaces next to the target.
* Stone arrow damage is increased.
* Wereblood now heals 1d3 when an adjacent monster is killed.
* Tukima's Dance can now be used on monsters wielding ranged weapons.
* Poisonous Vapours now directly poisons the target, rather than making a cloud.
* Hailstorm now affects icy creatures.
* Monstrous Menagerie no longer summons harpies.
* Ozocubu's Armour and Frozen Ramparts now end under any location change.
* Blade Hands' stealth penalty for Felids is removed.
* Hydra Form, Summon Demon, and Summon Greater Demon are removed.

Stone Soup 0.26.1 (20210203)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* ctrl-attack again no longer works while confused.
* Console display flickering is reduced.
* It is no longer possible to obtain infinite nets from net traps.
* Various vault placement balance adjustments and teleport closet fixes.
* 95 other fixes, tweaks, copy-edits, and interface improvements.

Stone Soup 0.26.0 (20210108)
----------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New species: Palentonga.
* New background: Delver.
* Food and hunger are removed.
* Swamp has many new monsters and other changes.
* Spells, wands, and abilities can be quivered, fired, and autotargeted with an
  extension of the ranged quiver/autofight interface.

Monsters
--------
* New Swamp monsters:
  - Will-o-the-wisps, unearthly gases that launches powerful Foxfires.
  - Goliath frogs, licking foes from afar with their acidic tongues.
  - Eleionomae, swamp nymphs that travel through and heal from trees.
  - Bloated husks, filled to explosively bursting with putrescent gas.
  - Bunyips, fast-moving, hard-hitting, screaming mysteries.
  - Fenstrider witches, terrifying hex-hurling toxic sorceresses.
* Bog bodies cast much more powerfully and have a stronger cold attack.
* New (?) monster: boulder beetle, rolling quickly to deliver huge hits.
* Insect glyphs have been reorganized.
* Pikel's slaves have been rethemed to lemures. They now disappear upon
  Pikel's death.
* Spiny Frogs are renamed Cane Toads, for a more authentic Australian
  experience.
* Pandemonium lords' possible spells and melee flavours have been expanded.
  They can now sometimes generate a ring of dangerous clouds.
* Monsters' blood scent and web sense have been removed.
* Crocodiles, porcupines, hippogriffs, and hungry ghosts are removed.
* Monsters don't forget about the player while the player is off level.
* Most plants, fungi, and other plant like things that don't attack now wither
  in 3-5 turns after they're hit. The exceptions are bushes and briars.
* Monsters that formerly had rot-inducing melee attacks now have drain attacks.

Character
---------
* Hunger (and eating) are removed.
* Drain now temporarily reduces max HP instead of skills. Rot no longer exists
  as a mechanic.
* New species: Palentonga, six-limbed scaled mammals with a rolling charge.
* Deep Elves' Bows aptitude is increased to +3.
* Kobolds now have the Nightstalker 3 mutation, reducing LOS and providing
  bonus stealth. (Demonspawn can no longer gain Nightstalker.)
* Ghouls heal on kill instead of by eating chunks. They also no longer rot
  over time.
* Centaurs are removed.
* The Charms skill (and the Skald background) are removed.
* New demonspawn mutations: sharp scales & big brain.
* Transmuters no longer start with arrows, and Wereblood replaces Sticks to
  Snakes in the starting book.
* The Wizard background is renamed "Hedge Wizard", gaining a dagger and a
  less int-focused set of starting attributes. The Conjurer background takes
  Wizards' old attributes.
* The Assassin background is renamed "Brigand".
* New background: Delver, starting on D:5 with a variety of escape tools.
* Artificers now start with better defensive skills, no weapon skill, and a
  club in place of the short sword and short blade skill.
* Banishing monsters grants full XP.
* Contamination decays three times faster.
* Wanderers have a chance to start with any of the misc evokers.
* Evocations skill no longer grants MaxMP.

Items
-----
* New scarf ego: Shadows. Scarves of shadows reduce line of sight by 1; this
  stacks with other LOS altering effects; as well as act as a negative spell
  enhancer.
* New weapon ego: Spectral. The spectral ego appears on [giant [spiked]] clubs,
  quarterstaffs, lajatangs, and two-handed randarts of any base type. On hit
  the ego spawns a spectral weapon to fight along side the user whose strength
  scales with Evocations skill.
* New boots ego: Rampaging. Boots of rampaging cause the wearer to take an
  extra step for no cost---only when moving in the direction of a foe. The
  rampaging ego can also appear on any kind of artefact armour.
* New misc evocable: Condenser Vane. A condenser vane is an XP-charged evoker
  that creates clouds around hostile monsters (skipping allies). The cloud
  quality scales with evocations.
* New item: potion of attraction, which pulls nearby enemies closer.
* Unrandart Changes:
  - The Salamander Hide Armour no longer gives *Rage, it now is a fire spell
    enhancer with rF++, rC--, flame cloud immunity, and a ring of flame clouds
    effect.
  - The ratskin cloak is changed from +Rats to *Rats, spawning rats when the
    player is hit.
  - Wucad Mu no longer provides evocable channeling. Instead, with a chance
    depending on evocations, it refunds the MP cost of the spell. There is a
    chance of confusion or intelligence drain (which scales on spell cost and
    evocations skill) when a spell is refunded.
  - The cloak of the Thief is changed from +Fog to *Fog, creating fog when the
    player is hit.
  - The Majin-Bo loses Archmagi, and instead gives a chance for any cast spell
    to be vampiric, healing the caster for damage done to living creatures.
  - The shield of Resistance is now a +2 kite shield {rF++ rC++ MR++}.
  - Glaive of the Guard now has both the spectral weapon and electricity egos.
    It no longer has sInv nor +Rage.
  - Cloak of Starlight gains *Dazzle, which sometimes dazzles foes like the
    Dazzling Flash spell on successful dodge. It no longer has rElec and rC+.
  - The Sword of Power is now +5, vorpal, and sometimes fires a powerful but
    low-accuracy damage beam with a chance based on the player's current HP.
* Phantom mirrors and boxes of beasts now recharge with XP.
* Wands of polymorph now show what monsters might become when targeted.
* Amulets are now slow to equip (like armour), and many amulets no longer have
  attunement logic. Faith, Regen, and MPRegen retain their swap drawbacks.
* Bardings are merged into a single item type.
* Staves of earth deal higher damage, but with the shrapnel effect of being
  affected 3 times by AC.
* Staves of conjuration deal bonus irresistible damage that checks AC.
* The full contents of item piles are revealed on sight.
* Potions of stabbing, wands of clouds, and staves of energy, summoning, and
  wizardry are removed.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Swamp's levels are now smaller, and many weak monsters no longer appear.
* Crimson and shadow imps are now much less common in the Dungeon. White imps
  and ufetubi take their place.
* Shadows and wights no longer appear in the Crypt spawn list, replaced with
  flying skulls, necromancers, and wraiths.
* Spider is now quiet.
* The malevolent force of Zot will find players that tarry far too long in one
  place.
* Gauntlet monsters now generate awake, and those other than the minotaur
  don't pick up loot.
* Net traps are now permanent and the nets always mulch.

Spells
------
* The Charms skill and school have been removed.
  - Ozocubu's Armour is now Ice only, Swiftness is now Air only, Death's Door
    is now Necromancy only and Level 9.
  - Excruciating Wounds is now Necromancy only, prevents unwielding your weapon
    for the duration, and applies a Wizardry penalty as well as noise.
  - Battlesphere is now Conjurations only, and its targeting has been adjusted
    to work with all Conjurations school spells other than Servitor.
  - Song of Slaying is now Transmutations and renamed Wereblood; the noise is
    reduced somewhat.
* Animate Skeleton and Animate Dead creations now have strength scaling with
  spellpower; Animate Skeleton has a power cap. Both creations have a shorter
  lifespan. Additionally, these spells can't be cast if corpses are not nearby.
* Animate Skeleton now animates the nearest skeleton, and does not require you
  to stand on the corpse.
* Frozen Ramparts has its effect end upon player movement.
* Death Channel spectral things have a shorter duration and fade if Death
  Channel expires.
* Infestation scarabs have a shorter duration.
* Vampiric Draining's damage is no longer limited by how much it heals.
* Eringya's Toxic Bog now places bogs in all squares within a range of 4 where
  there is no adjacent solid feature.
* Beastly Appendage now melds helmets and boots, and gives two levels of both
  Horns and Talons (octopodes keep their tentacle spike) instead of randomly
  choosing.
* Irradiate now checks monster AC but does slightly more damage.
* Alistair's Intoxication prompts when nothing in view can be affected, always
  applies Vertigo when successful, and has a higher power cap.
* Conjure Ball Lightning's scaling with spellpower has been simplified.
* Beam spells and wands no longer have their range reduced by hitting things.
* All temporary allies dismiss when you leave the level.
* Translocations miscasts now inflict -Move which prevents walking in addition
  to translocating.
* Aura of Abjuration, Darkness, Infusion, Recall, Ring of Flames, Shroud of
  Golubria, Spectral Weapon, Sticks to Snakes, and Summon Butterflies are
  removed.

Gods
----
* Gozag no longer gives a free potion petition on worship.
* Nemelex's deck gifting begins at higher piety.
* Nemelex' Shaft card is removed, and the Exile card no longer has a chance
  to self banish.

Interface
---------
* The "quiver" feature is generalized and can now hold spells, evokables, and
  abilities. The `f`ire interface can be used to target any quiverable
  action, and quiverable actions can be autofired via shift+tab/`p`. Existing
  autofight ranged settings such as autofight_throw are generalized to handle
  new quiverables. The `]` key swaps between the two most recent quivered
  actions. See the options guide for more information on new and updated
  options: autofight_throw, autofight_stop, automagic_stop,
  fail_severity_to_quiver, launcher_autoquiver, fire_order. See the manual
  section 4, subsection "Attacking and firing" for a summary of the relevant
  key bindings.
* Launchers can now be fired independently of the quiver; use `v` to target
  (like reaching weapons) or regular autofight commands to autotarget.
* Static targeters are added for spells and abilities that indicate which cells
  will be affected, along with a new option to configure which of these are
  shown while casting, force_targeter.
* Player wand damage, spell damage, and spell accuracy is now displayed in the
  UI.
* Viewing a monster with `xv` now shows to-hit chance with your current weapon.
* Monsters' spell damage is shown in `xv`.
* Examining cells with multiple interesting things now gives a selection menu.
* The "view stack/pickup key" `;` can be pressed twice to force autopickup even
  in unsafe situations.
* The `^x` view description is now available from all targeting prompts, and
  when used while targeting lists valid targets in range.
* Any floor can be annotated from anywhere in the `!` interface.
* Spellpower is now displayed as a percentage of max spellpower.
* Macro updates: Macros/keybinds can be viewed via the `~` menu in-game. RC file
  keybind settings support escape codes.
* Updated uption: travel_open_doors now has a setting that tries to avoid
  opening doors during autotravel.
* New option: travel_one_unsafe_move. Setting this option to true causes
  auto-travel to make one move towards its goal before conducting the usual
  safety checks.
* New option: monster_item_view_features. This is a regex list option, features
  that match patterns on this list will be displayed in the `^x` view
  description.
* New option: always_show_zot. When enabled, the remaining time until Zot finds
  the player is always shown, rather than when there are only 1000 turns left.
* New options: tile_overlay_col and tile_overlay_alpha_percent control the
  appearance of the message window in local tiles.

Lua
---
* Three new hooks, chk_ability_choice, chk_spell_choice, and c_message can be
  used to answer the ability and spell menu prompts and to react to messages.
* A new api is introduced for targeted fire of spells, items, and abilities as
  a less brittle alternative to sending keys. See lua functions:
  crawl.do_targeted_command, spells.cast, item.fire, you.activate_ability,
  you.quiver_valid, and you.quiver_enabled.
* Other new functions: you.memorise (memorise a spell by name),
  spells.power_perc (get spellpower for a spell as a percentage)

Stone Soup 0.25.1 (20200717)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* Artefacts from acquirement now leave a note in morgues.
* Scarf of harm is fixed.
* Foxfire will no longer attack out of LoS.
* Stacking from empty Nemelex decks is no longer possible.
* Wizlab entry now generates a milestone / note again.
* Fix a bug where cloud generators triggered on load when no time had passed,
  leading to a different cloud arrangement from saving + reloading.
* Seeded play fixes for seed instability in a few cases, as well as crashes
  related to seed stability and pregeneration code.
* Several speedups for dungeon rendering, especially in zigs.
* Sprint 3 cloud generators have been retuned.
* Improvements to the behavior of restart_after_save (on by default in 0.25.0).
* Using [] in map view from stairs to view other levels now correctly finds the
  matching stairs.
* Crashes to do with annotation, off-level map view, and custom flashes have
  been fixed.
* It is no longer possible for a bug to cause the player to drown or fall into
  lava, emergency flight will be activated instead.

Stone Soup 0.25.0 (20200612)
----------------------------

Highlights
----------
* Spells in many schools have been redesigned to make the schools more
  distinct.
* Acquirement scrolls have been despoilered, offering the player a choice of
  generated items.
* Effects from spell miscasts, god wrath, death curses, and Zot traps have
  been overhauled for consistency and simplicity.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Potions of cancellation now appear as loot in Ziggurats.
* Boris can now spawn after the player picks up the Orb of Zot.
* Forest fires and the Tornado spell can no longer destroy temporary trees
  made by Summon Forest.
* D:1 Level spawns can no longer generate within LOS distance of the player's
  starting position.
* Many arrival vaults have been reworked to allow better player tactics.
* A new Swamp ending themed as a conflict between Yred and Fedhas that
  includes an undead version of the Lernaean Hydra.
* Ziggurats now have level set featuring many player ghosts.
* Zot traps have had their effect flowchart simplified and focused.
* Abyss exits that spawn from earning xp can spawn after the initial spawn,
  instead of every subsequent spawn being a downstair.
* Troves can now ask for scrolls of fog or scrolls of fear.

Character
---------
* Monsters summoned by the player now dismiss when they become hostile.
* Players can now renounce their religion while silenced.
* All Evocable items can no longer be used by the player while confused.
* Formicids can no longer cast Swiftness.

Gods
----
* Trog no longer gifts ranged weapons nor ammunition, gifting only melee
  weapons. These weapons can only have egos of plain, vorpal, flaming, and
  anti-magic.
* Trog now hates use of all magical staves and pain weapons.
* Elyvilon's Divine Protection now always protects exactly at 5* piety instead
  of protecting at a value between 5* and 6*.
* Fedhas now protects plant allies from collisions and from ranged attacks by
  other allies.
* God conducts for harming allies now apply to spells and items that place
  harmful clouds.
* Nemelex abilities can no longer be used while silenced.
* Nemelex card revisions:
  - The pain card no longer summons a flayed ghost, instead it torments at high
    power (the card user is spared).
  - The cloud card now produces black smoke around enemies in sight, to better
    fir with the deck of escape.
* Wu Jian has been tweaked:
  - Wall jumps are now only activated via the 'a'bility menu.
  - Whirlwind attacks no longer pin
  - Heavenly Storm now starts with a slaying bonus of 5, capped at 15, and
    increases by 1 for each martial attack.
* Xom no longer inflicts miscast effects.
* Xom demon summoning is increased in power.
* Wrath changes
  - Trog's "firey rage" is now a fireball, instead of a fire miscast. Trog no
    longer uses rot as retribution.
  - Lugonu's "translocation wrath" no longer uses translocations miscast.
    Instead, the player is either teleported to monsters, banished, or set upon
    by Abyss summons.
  - Cheibriados' wrath no longer uses miscasts. At very high tension, in
    addition to sleeping and slowing the player, Chei makes a lot of noise. At
    low tension, miscasts are replaced by stat damage.
  - Fedhas' wrath no longer uses elemental miscasts. These are replaced by a
    choice of corrosive bolt, primal wave, or thorn volley.
  - Yredelemnul's wrath no longer uses necromancy miscasts, in their place Yred
    fires a bolt of draining.
  - Kikubaaqudgha's wrath uses death curses in place of necromancy miscasts.
* Vehumet is less likely to give duplicate gifts.
* Xom is stimulated upon worship at a faded altar.

Items
-----
* Scroll of Acquirement rework:
  - Offers players a choice of five fully generated items.
  - Three of the item categories are randomly chosen and the other two are
    always gold and food (for species that eat).
  - Generated items are always useable and not hated by the player's current
    god.
  - The Miscellaneous category for evocable items is no longer available.
* New Potion of Stabbing that gives a 50% chance to upgrade weak stabs (e.g.
  distracted monsters) to strong ones (e.g. sleeping monsters).
* Tin of Tremorstones, a new multiuse evocable. Tremorstones have 3 charges
  which recover over time with XP. When used, it creates a number of radius 2
  explosions (the number scales with evocations skill) near the center
  of present monster that are triple-affected by AC (like LRD). The explosions
  are randomly skewed and may hit the user. Most useful for players with good
  armour.
* The chaos brand now has might and agility effects, no longer causes miscast
  effects, and its cloning effect can create friendly and neutral monsters.
* Potions of Brilliance now provide a stronger universal spell enhancer and
  remove spell hunger. They no longer provide an Int bonus nor wizardry.
* Potions of Might no longer provide a bonus to strength.
* Scrolls of Magic Mapping now reveal any floor traps on the level.
* The -Tele property no longer appears on artefact weapons and jewellery.
* Ordinary shields have been renamed to kite shields and large shields have
  been renamed to tower shields. This helps make equipment descriptions less
  ambiguous.
* The vorpal weapon ego no longer has distinct adjectives for each weapon
  class. Now all such weapons are described as 'vorpal'.
* Unrandart changes:
  - New unrand: Cigotuvi's Embrace, a +4 leather armour with rN+, rRot and
    *Drain that automatically gathers corpses to increase AC. The AC decays
    slowly over time but decays more quickly as more corpses are added.
  - Boots of the Assassin are now called the hood of the Assassin and use the
    headgear slot.
  - The demon blade Leech gains *Rage/+Rage and loses its AC-3 and EV-3
    properties.
  - The Elemental Staff now acts as an enhancer for all elemental schools,
    with enhancement applying independently for each school.
  - Warlock's Mirror can now reflect piercing ranged weapons.
  - The Staff of Olgreb now has a chance to deal poison-arrow flavored damage
    on hit, based on evocations skill. It no longer has an additional chance to
    cast Venom Bolt on top of casting OTR when evoked. It now grants poison
    immunity to monsters wielding it.
  - The Dragonskin Cloak now provides rCorr instead of sticky flame
    resistance.
  - The scythe of Curses no longer curses items in inventory, and now applies
    death curses instead of necromancy miscasts.
  - The plutonium sword still applies transmutations miscasts, but gains a
    chance to polymorph the target on hit (since this is no longer a miscast
    effect for monsters).
  - The brooch of Shielding is now a guardian spirit amulet with SH+8.
  - Bloodbane has been removed, having been merged into Leech.
  - Maxwell's Etheric Cage has been removed.
* Phial of floods now applies a silencing "waterlogged" debuff to all monsters
  in the flooded area and no longer summons water elementals.
* Staves of poison now do resistible poison damage on hit like other staves
  instead of just having a chance to poison.
* Distortion branded weapons no longer teleport foes.
* Distortion unwield effects no longer cause a translocations miscast. Instead,
  they either teleport the player to monsters, banish the player, or cause
  severe contamination.
* Regeneration items only activate after attuning to the player at full HP,
  identical to the amulet.
* Scarf egos are revised: cloud immunity and spirit shield are removed, harm
  and invisibility are added. Harm scarves do not drain the player when
  removed.
* Amulets of reflection now always give +5 SH and must attune to the player at
  full HP. Reflected missiles, poison, and banishments now correctly award
  piety.
* Cloak egos are revised: invisibility is removed, preservation (providing
  corrosion resistance) and stealth are added.
* The Harm property can now appear on randart armour, and does not incur a
  drain penalty on removal.
* Stat rings are now always either +6 or -4. AC, EV, and Slay rings are now
  always either +4 or -4.
* Removed: potion of agility, staff of power, crystal ball of energy, sack of
  spiders, lamp of fire, fan of gales, wand of scattershot, amulets of the
  gourmand, amulets of harm, amulets of rage.

Interface
---------
* The seed selection dialogue has been ported to webtiles and is enabled on
  select servers.
* auto_butcher has been changed to default to `always` (from the previous value
  of `very hungry`).
* A new option, auto_butcher_max_chunks, prevents automatic butchering with more
  than that many chunks in inventory. Its default value is 10 for non-ghoul
  characters.
* explore_auto_rest now defaults to true.
* New morgue section: screenshots. When notes are taken with : an ascii
  screenshot is additionally saved and can be added to morgues.
* The console monster list now displays monster status information and whether
  or not the monster is wielding a launcher or polearm, or has a wand
* The ^x summary display now shows monster status information
* A new option, monster_item_view_coordinates, can be set to true to display
  player-relative coordinates in the ^x display.
* The auto-travel trail displayed with show_travel_trail can now be customised
  in console (both for glyph and colour).
* The "visited status" of stairs and transporters can now be indicated both by
  glyph and by colour in console.
* Allies now show sleep and confusion status tiles.
* A new option, game_scale, allows for global pixel scaling to make dcss more
  usable on large and/or high-resolution monitors. (Values in the range of 2-4
  will be helpful for upscaling for 2k-4k monitors.)
* The behavior of `tile_filter_scaling=false` has been improved to work on all
  tiles in the game, for better pixelated effects.
* Webtiles now supports showing save info in the lobby; see CAO for this feature
  in action.

Monsters
--------
* New unique: Maggie, a younger version of the unique Margery, who appears
  just before and in Lair. She has a steam, acid, or swamp dragon scales, Bolt
  of Fire, and Mesmerize. Only one of Maggie or Margery will place in a game.
* Margery now always gets Fire, Shadow, or Storm dragon scales as a
  counterpart to Maggie's armour.
* Both Maggie and Margery have a small extra chance of spawning with a
  pre-enchanted Wyrmbane (1 or 2 points of enchantment, respectively).
* Monsters such as spiders no longer have a clinging ability.
* Mummy death curses are no longer necromancy miscasts, and instead have their
  own effect table.
* New monster: nameless horror. Nameless horrors are produced by summoning
  miscasts. They are giant, tanky, have an antimagic attack and abjuration as a
  natural ability.
* Hepliaklqana ancestors and demonic guardians can no longer be enslaved or
  frenzied.
* Summoned monsters can now get the inner flame status, both from the spell and
  the scroll.
* Monsters now try to avoid blocking the line of fire of monsters behind them.

Spells
------
* Spell in many schools have been redesigned to make the schools have better
  differentiation, more positional considerations, and better UI. The
  descriptions below describe the schools' individual focus and any new,
  changed, and removed spells in each school:
  - Fire spells have directed explosions or set things on fire:
    + New L1 Conjurations/Fire spell Foxfire that conjures two foxfire
      projectiles that quickly hone in on their target, each doing a bit more
      than half the damage of Flame Tongue.
    + Conjure Flame now creates embers on the player's position that turn into
      a flame cloud a turn later. The embers smother if a monster steps on them.
    + Inner Flame now creates a flame cloud under the affected monster
      whenever it takes damage in addition to the usual explosion it makes
      when the monster dies.
    + New L6 Conjurations/Fire spell Starburst that fires 8 range 5 bolts in
      the principle directions.
    + Removed spells: Flame Tongue, Throw Flame, Bolt of Fire.
  - Air school spells bounce, are pointy, or are hard to direct:
    + Airstrike damage now scales so it's greater the more unoccupied squares
      there are surrounding the target.
    + Summon Lightning Spire now places the spire randomly.
  - Earth spells are directed:
    + Borgnjor's Vile Clutch now is a range 6 always-penetrating beam instead
      of a smite-targeted 3x3 explosion.
  - Ice spells are diffuse and subtle:
    + New L3 Ice spell Frozen Ramparts that makes all walls within radius 2
      become covered in ice, damaging monsters that walk by. Damage bypasses AC
      and slows cold-blooded animals.
    + New L4 Conjurations/Ice spell Hailstorm that fires a ring of ice beams
      from radius 2 to radius 3, not affecting radius 1 squares. Monsters with
      rC+++ such as ice beasts are immune to this effect.
    + Ozocubu's Refrigeration does 33% more damage on-average and no longer
      harms the caster.
    + New L9 Ice spell Absolute Zero that instantly freezes to death the
      closest monster in range, leaving an ice block. A random closest monster
      is chosen as the target when there are ties. The spell is range 5 and
      very loud, with noise attenuated by power.
    + Removed spells: Throw Frost, Throw Icicle, Bolt of Cold, Glaciate.
    + As a result of these changes, Ice Elementalists no longer put starting
      skill in Conjurations.
  - Conjurations are pure magic with good accuracy in some way:
    + Iskenderun's mystic blast now makes a range 5 explosion around the
      player that damages and pushes back monsters, potentially colliding them
      with features and other monsters.
    + Dazzling Flash replaces Dazzling Spray. Makes a flash centered on the
      player of up to radius 3 that can blind monsters in the affected area.
    + Searing Ray now fires all its rays at the chosen target, adjusting
      the rays as the target moves. If no target is chosen, the spell
      repeatedly fires in the chosen direction. The rays all penetrate and
      each has the same damage and to-hit. The ray damage is adjusted to have
      the same overall damage distribution as before this change.
    + Spellforged Servitor now gives only one spell to the servitor. This is
      the highest level servitor-compatible spell the player has from the
      following sets, in order of preference: L4 and higher ranged damage
      spells, cloud spells, and low-level or short-range spells.
    + Force Lance is removed.
  - Poison spells poison things or perform some kind of alchemy
    + Sting is now a range 3 Poison/Transmutations spell using the same
      partly-resistible beam type previously used by Poison Arrow.
    + New L6 Poison/Transmutations spell Eringya's Noxious Bog that creates a
      temporary toxic bog trail as the player moves. The bog terrain applies
      the same partly-resistible damage flavor as Sting as well as the
      movement and combat penalties of shallow water.
    + Removed spells: Venom Bolt, Poison Arrow
    + As a result of these changes, Venom Mages now put starting skill in
      Transmutations instead of Conjurations.
  - Necromancy has balance adjustments to make the school not so strong and
    to begin to move it closer to a melee support school:
    + Corpse Rot now creates miasma clouds in a ring around the player, making
      one cloud for each corpse in LOS, but with lower duration.
    + Agony and Dispel Undead are now range 1, and Dispel Undead is now L4.
    + Regeneration and Bolt of Draining are removed.
* The Young Poisoner's Handbook now contains Ignite Poison.
* Confusing Touch is now level 3 and checks MR instead of monster hit dice.
* The player is now immune to the melee-fumbling effects of liquefied ground
  made by casting Leda's Liquefaction. The slow movement applies regardless of
  flight status and the spell can be used while flying.
* Firestorm and Ignition now can burn trees, and Fireball burns trees in all
  squares of its explosion.
* Call Imp no longer bases the type of imp summoned on spellpower.
* The Confuse spell has been removed.
* Spell miscast effects have been simplified to give contamination and a single
  per-school effect, scaling with spell risk and level. The new effects by
  school are:
  - Charms and Hexes: debuff and slow.
  - Summoning: durably summon a nameless horror (new monster).
  - Translocation: dimension anchor.
  - Transmutation: extra contamination for the player, malmutate a monster.
  - Conjuration: irresistible AC-ignoring damage.
  - Elemental schools: school flavored damage (Earth uses fragmentation
    damage).
* The Deflect Missiles spell has been removed.
* Tukima's Dance can no longer be used if the player sacrificed Love.
* Lesser Beckoning and Teleport Other now turn allies hostile.
* Eldritch Tentacles from malign gateway can no longer attack out of LOS of the
  player, and arrive sooner after the gateway is opened.

Development
-----------
* The WebTiles server has seen a major overhaul and now supports python 3 as
  well as Tornado 5+, as well as numerous other backend/technical improvements.
* The catch2 testing framework is now integrated into the project and is
  enabled in our CI testing.
* GitHub actions have been configured to replace Travis CI testing.

Stone Soup 0.24.1 (20200322)
--------------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* A remote code execution vulnerability has been patched.
* The UI has received some bug fixes and improvements.
* Pinned monsters can no longer trample.
* Some vaults have been tweaked.
* Fedhas protection is now extended to piercing attacks done by all allies.
* Fedhas summons' duration is now correctly capped.

Stone Soup 0.24 (20191024)
--------------------------

Highlights
----------
* Vampire species simplified
* Thrown weapons streamlined
* Fedhas reimagined
* Sif Muna reworked

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Incremental pregeneration:
  - This mode generates the dungeon in a stable order for all games regardless
    of the path taken by the player, meaning that the behaviour of seeds for
    online and offline games should now be the same.
  - Games using the same seed will see the same dungeon if they are
    incrementally pregenerated without requiring the long initial generation
    time of full pregeneration as introduced in 0.23.
  - Incremental pregeneration is the default mode for new games.
  - Servers can now enable seed selection without heavy CPU cost.
* A Trove map requiring many uses of digging has been removed.
* Identification scrolls are no longer used as a potential Trove cost.
* Transporters in vaults now correctly place in the Abyss.
* Fog generation in the Desolation of Salt portal now happens far less often
  per turn, greatly reducing slowdown from high CPU usage.
* Random traps no longer place under items placed by vaults.

Character
---------
* Formicids can now use their dig ability on diggable statues.
* Manticore barbs now can only be picked out if the player can move, isn't
  confused, and isn't asleep.
* Net traps now always trigger when the player steps on them.
* Vampiric weapons no longer have a hunger cost upon wield.
* Vampire simplification: Player vampires no longer eat or drink blood, and
  have exactly two blood states.
  - Alive: Regenerates quickly, normal HP modifier, no undead bonuses, no
    batform, can transform and berserk normally.
  - Bloodless: No regeneration with monsters in sight, -20% HP, stealth bonus,
    undead resistances, batform, no other transformations or berserk.
  - Blood states are transitioned by an ability which costs delay; becoming
    bloodless incurs no penalty, becoming alive causes a temporary frail
    mutation.
  - Bat form causes stat drain.

Gods
----
* Fedhas reimagined:
  - Piety is gained exclusively from kills instead of through corpse decay.
  - Fedhas abilities now create plant allies directly as temporary summons
    instead of creating permanent allies using plants. All abilities cost
    piety instead of food.
  - New abilities:
    * 2*: Active 'Wall of Briars' ability to surround the player with briar
          patches. Hostile monsters will attack briars to reach you, taking
          damage.
    * 3*: Active 'Grow Ballistomycete' ability to place a ballistomycete at
          any location within radius 2. The ballistomycete will fire spores
          that seek out foes and make a 1-radius damaging explosion that
          additionally confuses living creatures.
    * 4*: Active 'Overgrow' ability to destroy any non-permarock walls in a
          3x3 area, replacing them with plant allies, mostly wandering
          mushrooms or burning bushes and sometimes ballistomycetes or oklob
          plants.
    * 5*: Active 'Grow Oklob' ability to place an oklob plant at any location
          within radius 2.
  - Fedhas no longer hates any necromancy spells, and allows worship by undead
    species.
  - Removed abilities: Fungal Bloom, Reproduction, Growth, Evolution, Rain.
* Sif Muna reworked:
  - Piety gain is exclusively from kills.
  - 'Channel Energy' is available at 1* piety instead of 3*.
  - 'Forget Spell' is available at 3* piety instead of 4*.
  - New 4* 'Divine Exegesis' ability to cast any spell in your library
    regardless of skill training. Receives a spell-power bonus based on
    Invocations skill of 1.5 times the spell-power received from equivalent
    levels of training in the spell's schools.
  - The Divine Energy ability and Sif's miscast protection are removed.
* Trog and Okawaru now can gift unbranded boomerangs and javelins.
* Jiyva's Slimify ability now works properly on skeletons, zombies and
   simulacra.
* Torment can now trigger Jiyva jelly spawns and Xom butterfly spawns.

Interface
---------
* The 'X' key map mode has zoom support, defaulting to 60% zoom.
* Sealed off clinging and sensed monsters no longer stop autoexplore.
* Equipment melding no longer stops autoexplore and autotravel.
* Armour, jewellery, and weapons can be worn/wielded from the floor.
* Summoner monsters are now highlighted when the cursor is over one of its
  summons.
* Traps are now shown in the ctrl-x listing and are indexed in the stash
  tracker.
* Scarves are now properly shown on player tiles.
* Species and background selection menus now have tiles.
* Updated visual theme for main menu, high scores, and related screens.

Items
-----
* New unrand: Staff of Battle, a staff of conjuration that spawns a
  battlesphere when a hostile monster is in view.
* Unrandart changes:
  - The Storm Bow now has a penetration effect.
  - Gyre and Gimble now has the protection brand, enchantment of +7, and no
    longer has Dex-3.
  - Piercer has been removed, its effect having been merged into Storm Bow.
* Weapons with the holy wrath ego can now be cursed.
* Randart rings no longer generate with both rCorr and *Corrode.
* Throwing weapons have been streamlined.
  - Blowguns are removed, needles are replaced with throwing darts.
  - Dart effects scale with Throwing and Stealth skill.
  - Darts of sleep, paralysis, confusion are removed.
  - Darts of frenzy are renamed datura-tipped darts.
  - A new dart brand, atropa is added. Atropa-tipped darts cause brief
    confusion and longer-lasting blindness in the target.
  - Tomahawks are renamed to boomerangs and always return.
  - Javelins always penetrate.
  - Steel and silver are merged into a single brand, called silver. Silver
    ammunition applies the maximum of vorpal bonus damage and the old silver
    damage bonus.
  - Poison, returning, penetration, and exploding are no longer available
    brands for tomahawks and javelins.

Lua
---
* Monster AC, EV, MR, MaxHP, and descriptions are now exposed in the CLua
  monster.info class.
* A new function 'defeat_mr()' to determine the chance that a given spell
  defeats a monster's magic resistance.
* There is a basic seed explorer available in scripts/seed_explorer.lua.

Monsters
--------
* Monsters can now use wands of clouds, iceblast, and scattershot.
* Monsters clones created by Mara and rakshasa have the intended reduced HP of
  the original monster instead of several times that value.
* A monster having the Dig spell no longer allows it to cast spells out of
  LOS.
* Azrael and draconian scorchers can use Call Down Damnation when not at
  low HP.
* Player ghosts can be shafted.
* Golden Eyes no longer have randomized spellpower for their gaze.
* Monster airstrike uses the same formula as the player, reducing damage
  variance.
* Pikel's slaves no longer drop corpses nor items.

Spells
------
* The HP from Death's Door is fixed at time of casting rather than being
  updated continuously, hence being subject to changes in spellpower.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now properly triggers ally conducts when cast.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now applies direct damage and poison status in a way
  that considers the time of each turn.
* Shroud of Golubria's spellpower is now capped at 50.


Stone Soup 0.23.2 (20190330)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* Various seed-related bugfixes and improvements:
  - Seed input now supports pasting, and is autofilled from the last game.
  - The seed input box now has an extra digit.
  - The game seed is saved correctly and will no longer show as 0 for games
    started after this fix.
  - Seed stability for floating point calculations: for most configuration the
    main dungeon should remain unchanged, but 32 bit systems (and 32-bit builds)
    should now be much more stable, among others. Slime will likely differ.
  - Seed stability for rc options: certain rc options affected the generation
    of some layouts, leading to divergent seeds.
* AK starts will no longer crash when exiting the abyss in pregen games.
* Gozag bribe branch in pregen games now works correctly when entering a
  previously unvisited level.
* Meatsprint is now difficult again.
* 37 other bugfixes and improvements in total.

Stone Soup 0.23.1 (20190228)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* Vampiric attacks by the player against allies created from Sticks to Snakes
  and the Ratskin Cloak no longer restore HP or give vampires satiation.
* Damage from Ozocubu's Refrigeration has been increased to the correct
  amount.
* Placement for the uniques Aizul, Bai Suzhen, Donald, Jorgrun, and Mara has
  been fixed so they can place throughout their intended level ranges.
* The chance of Boris to respawn has been lowered to match previous rates.
* Yellow draconians now correctly receive their rCorr mutation at XL 7.
* 45 bugfixes, adjustments, and cleanups in total.

Stone Soup 0.23 (20190207)
--------------------------

Highlights
----------
* Trap system overhaul
* New Gauntlet portal to replace Labyrinths
* Nemelex Xobeh rework
* Nine unrandarts reworked and the new "Rift" unrandart added
* Support for seeded dungeon play

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Trap system overhaul:
  - Traps that generate on the ground are always revealed.
  - Exploration has a chance to trigger a "trap effect" independent from
    terrain traps. The possible effects are alarm, shaft, and teleport near
    monsters.
  - Monsters only trigger traps in sight of the player.
  - Alarm traps now always Mark the player whenever they are triggered in LOS.
  - Net traps now try to net the player whenever they are triggered in LOS.
  - New trap: dispersal trap. When triggered, every actor in sight of the trap
    is blinked.
  - Trap placement in Ossuaries, Zot:5, and Tomb has been overhauled. In Zot:5
    and Tomb, all mechanical traps save for net traps have been removed.
  - Grate traps (triggered by pressure plates) have been removed.
* New Gauntlet portal to replace Labyrinths:
  - Gauntlets have the player choose a path through several combat arenas,
    each of which contains (sometimes exotic) monsters and loot.
  - Access to each arena is one-way using transporters. Teleports and Passage
    of Golubria are disabled.
  - All paths lead to a minotaur who guards a pile of treasure and the exit.
  - Gauntlets are found where Labyrinths previously generated.
* Support for seeded play:
  - A new option for pregenerating the entire connected dungeon based on a fixed
    seed has been added. This takes a bit of time, but ensures that any
    playthroughs of a particular seed will use the same dungeon.
  - This option is not yet available for online play, but can be used offline.
    See the manual section "Seeded play" for details.
  - The dungeon RNG has been separated from the gameplay RNG to allow this
    feature to work.
  - Each game seed generates a unique dungeon (including layout and
    monster and item placement) that is always the same for the same version
    of crawl, as long as levels are generated in the same order.
  - If you see that two games with the same seed generate a different dungeon,
    please report this as a bug!
* New vaults: early thematic item shops and monsters guarding manuals, as well
  as new ghost vaults for many branches.
* Translucent doors that can be seen through when closed have been added.
  These are used in most runed door vaults and in some Elf layouts.
* Two new dungeon layouts enabled, one for Dungeon and one for Lair.

Character
---------
* The player can no longer be put to sleep when paralysed or petrified.
* Tengu Permanent Flight becomes immediately available at XL 5.
* Tengu EV bonuses are no longer applied to +EV from equipment.
* Wanderer starting spell libraries are announced along with equipment.
* Wanderers that start with exactly one level 1 spell start with it memorised.

Gods
----
* Nemelex Xobeh rework:
  - Decks are are accessed through abilities and no longer exist as items.
  - Nemelex offers three abilities: "Draw Escape", "Draw Destruction", and
    "Draw Summoning", which provide card effects.
  - The deck abilities do not have rarities; card power levels are determined
    by invocations and piety alone.
  - Nemelex periodically adds cards to the three abstract decks.
  - Triple Draw works on the three decks as before, offering a choice of three
    cards. The piety cost is increased.
  - Deal Four deals four cards from a deck and has a reduced piety cost.
  - Stack Five constructs a player-ordered stack of five cards drawn from any
    of the three decks to be drawn later. Creating a new stack discards the
    old. The piety cost is the same as old stack five.
  - The Velocity card no longer hastes enemies, instead always slowing them
    with a chance proportional to power.
  - The Storm card has been revised. It now performs a wind blast followed by
    one to nine electrical explosions.
* Elyvilon's Heal Other's is adjusted:
  - The formula depends only on monster type, not specific monster maxhp.
  - Player Ghosts and Pandemonium Lords are now immune.
  - The targeter displays the pacification chance.
* Ashenzari protects followers from exploration-based trap effects.
* Qazlal's cloud immunity is extended to elementals created with Elemental
  Force.
* Fedhas' protection of plants from player spells is extended to LOS-wide
  attack spells.
* The acid damage from Makhleb's Minor Destruction has been reduced.
* Exploration-based piety is no longer granted for the Temple, deep water, or
  lava.
* Monster conversion for Beogh, Gozag's Bribe, and Jiyva is attempted upon
  sight instead of on the turn after the monster enters LOS.

Interface
---------
* Spell damage message punctuation has been adjusted to reflect damage done
  using the same scale as melee damage.
* Damage brand message punctuation has been similarly adjusted.
* Monster descriptions in 'xv' display spell ranges.
* The Religion screen '^' gains a fourth pane for gods that need Extra
  information:
  - Ashenzari displays information about bondage status.
  - Beogh displays a list of named followers, with gifts.
  - Gozag displays bribe information.
  - Hepliaklqana displays ancestor upgrades.
  - Nemelex Xobeh displays deck information.
  - Wu Jian displays information about martial attacks.
* The Hepliakqana ancestor reaching full health interrupts resting. The exact
  behaviour of this interrupt can be configured by rest_wait_ancestor.
* The new display_chars cloud_weak, cloud_fading, and cloud_terminal indicate
  remaining cloud duration in console.
* WebTiles users can use a "Forgot Password" link to reset their password
  via a link sent to their registration email address. This feature is not yet
  enabled on most official servers.

Items
-----
* Unrandart changes:
  - New Unrand: the +8 demon trident "Rift" {distort, reach+}. A distortion
    demon trident with a reaching range of 3 and smite-targeted attack.
  - The Singing Sword's sonic damage effect is stronger, can trigger at low
    tension, and triggers only on-hit. It also gains the vorpal brand.
  - The Spriggan's Knife converts all stabs to sleep-tier stabs and loses
    Dex+4 and MR+.
  - The Robe of Misfortune is +5 {*Contam *Corrode *Drain Harm *Slow EV+5} and
    is now always identified.
  - The Sceptre of Torment is now a +7 eveningstar of pain, and its torment
    does not affect the wielder.
  - The Arc Blade's effect now casts static discharge only once at very high
    spellpower. The weapon's enchantment is now +8.
  - Finisher gains a chance to instant-explode the target and loses Str+3.
  - The Robe of Clouds is now +3 {+Thunder rCloud rElec}, providing evocable
    storm clouds in place of its old mist.
  - The Skin of Zhor gains a passive Metabolic Englaciation effect and SInv.
  - The Storm Bow no longer occasionally creates rain clouds.
  - Unrandarts with melee effects that could anger nearby allies give a proper
    warning.
* Wand charges for wands of digging, enslavement, flame, paralysis, polymorph,
  and random effects have been reduced.
* Butchering a corpse always leaves a skeleton.
* The blowgun targeter now displays the chance to affect the target.
* Stash search can now search by handedness.

Lua
---
* The custom `require` used in clua and dlua has been renamed `crawl_require`.
* A new function `spells.path` has been added to the `spells` module to provide
  access to the targeter from clua.

Monsters
--------
* Monster weapons, armour, and wands are identified and revealed to the player
  when the monster is first seen.
* The shambling mangrove Grasping Roots ability now performs smite-targeted
  constriction instead of applying a 'Roots' status.
* Jorgrun gains the Grasping Roots spell and can now spawn in Swamp.
* Killer Klowns now have a pie throwing ability that damages the player and
  effects them with one of Vertigo, Silence, -Potions, Stat drain, rF-, or
  polymorph to bat, pig, or wisp form.
* Killer Klowns have highly enchanted, branded clubs instead of the Klown
  melee flavor, and no longer have fast regen.
* Orb run spawns are more frequently near the player and more dangerous.
* Pandemonium lords' spell sets and attack brands are revealed.
* Monster summons disappear whenever the summoner changes alignment from being
  charmed/uncharmed, pacified, or slimified.
* Confused monsters now get a 1 in 3 chance to move normally, like players do.
* Giant monsters no longer tear through webs.

Spells
------
* Confusing touch works with a weapon wielded

Stone Soup 0.22.2 (20190327)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* Fix a crash on startup when there are seeded games (from 0.23) in a shared
  save directory.
* Let Barachim telefrag at their full range.
* Don't let ball lightnings climb stairs.
* 52 other bugfixes and cleanups in total.

Stone Soup 0.22.1 (20180916)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* Support for distributing player ghosts files with releases. Now local games
  will have a starting set of ghosts available for ghost vaults.
* New tiles for Azrael, shock serpents, dream sheep, mana vipers, and the Robe
  of Vines.
* An additional set of Gnoll player dolls tiles.
* Fix WebTiles menus for older versions of Firefox.
* 81 bugfixes, adjustments, and cleanups in total.

Stone Soup 0.22 (20180810)
--------------------------

Highlights
----------
* Player ghosts now only appear in sealed ghost vaults
* New spell library interface
* User interface revamp for Tiles and WebTiles

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Player ghost vaults:
  - Ghosts now only appear in vaults sealed by runed doors or transporters.
  - The ghost is always visible from outside the vault through clear walls.
  - Dozens of new ghost vaults with a variety of themes. All contain loot, and
    many place other monsters with extra loot.
  - Each level from Dungeon:3 onwards has a fixed chance of placing a ghost
    vault in most connected branches.
* Players on Abyss:1-4 will sometimes be drawn a level deeper, with the chance
  increasing based on XL and decreasing based on current depth.
* The Hall of the Hellbinder WizLab has fewer higher-tier demons.
* Two-headed ogres are less common in earlier dungeon levels.

Character
---------
* The player can use wands in all forms.
* The player can't order allies while confused.
* The MP-powered wand mutation allows use of wands at 0 MP and is now
  considered a good mutation.

Gods
----
* Dithmenos revamp:
  - Dithmenos's Shadow Step ability no longer requires the target monster to
    be 'still' and has an HP cost of 8% max HP.
  - Dithmenos no longer has an anti-fire conduct and allows use of fire-themed
    spells, items, and abilities.
  - Dithmenos is now an evil god, hence is hated by the good gods and holy
    monsters.
* Fedhas' Sunlight is now the 1* ability and Evolution is now the 2* ability.
* Makhleb's Major Destruction has its range increased to 7 and Minor
  Destruction has its range reduced to 5.
* Yredelemnul's Enslave Soul ability is now smite-targeted.
* Trog no longer has a Burn Spellbook ability.

Interface
---------
* In the Tiles minimap, the exploration horizon has a distinct colour.
* WebTiles chat improvements (server support may vary):
  - The player can use `/mute' and `/unmute' commands on chatters.
  - The `/mutelist' command shows the current mute list.
  - The chat window has a minimize button that removes message notification.
  - The `/hide' and `/hide forever` commands minimize/remove the chat window.
* Wands of digging now have a targeter showing the dig range.
* Updated visual theme for Tiles and WebTiles.
* Tiles and WebTiles informational screens now show tiles where appropriate.

Items
-----
* New Amulet: the Amulet of the Acrobat, which boosts the wearer's EV by 15
  for non-attacking movement and rest actions.
* The Mace of Variability is reworked to sometimes create arcs of chaos that
  harm nearby monsters, but not the wielder. The enchantment is now a fixed +7.
* The Vampire's Tooth is now a +12 quick blade instead of a +4 dagger.
* Maxwell's Thermic Engine no longer has rC- and rF-.
* All fog types from Scrolls of Fog now spread like grey and black fog.

Monsters
--------
* Player ghosts can now follow the player through stairs.
* Minotaur monsters have increased health, defenses, and HD. They also spawn
  with armour and either tomahawks or javelins.
* Swamp worms and Iron Giants now have Harpoon Shot: a range 6 ability
  that fires a shot which pulls the player adjacent.
* Harold has better melee damage and armour, and he places earlier. His Bolt
  of Fire and Blink spells are replaced with Harpoon Shot and Sentinel's Mark.
* Jorgrun has Iron Shot instead of Shatter and places earlier.
* Ilsuiw spawns on Shoals:2-4 instead of nearly always spawning on Shoals:4.
* Engulf status from Water Elementals now blocks god abilities but no longer
  slows movement.
* The Barb status from manticore barbs now counts any non-movement actions
  towards removing the status.
* Swamp worms no longer spawn submerged in water.
* Sojobo, air elementals, ball lightnings, and twisters have resistance to
  Tornado instead of resistance to all wind attacks.
* Shock serpent retaliation now properly checks rElec.

Spells
------
* Spell Library:
  - Spells from books are automatically added to a global library upon pickup.
  - Library spells can be memorised from anywhere through the 'M' screen.
  - Spellbooks are destroyed after their spells are added to the library.
  - Vehumet won't offer you a spell you already have in your library.
* Borgnjor's Vile Clutch constriction damage is reduced by 25% and the spell
  is no longer in the Necromancer starting book (the Book of Necromancy).
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction can no longer destroy walls.
* Ozocubu's Armour now expires immediately upon movement.
* Spellcasting success rates no longer use a step-down, making L9 spells
  slightly easier to cast.
* Passwall now has better range scaling, a lower max spellpower and a targeter
  to show its range.

Stone Soup 0.21.2 (20180805)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Shock serpent retaliation now properly checks rElec.
* No more errors on autofight commands when using ranged weapons or polearms.
* Fix a bug that led to Ru sacrifices not consistently giving promised piety.
* Fix many cases of "mid cache bogosity" errors involving Beogh followers.
* Training xl estimates in item descriptions are now more accurate.
* Compilation under Msys2 is now *really* fixed.
* Autotravel will no longer try to take shortcuts through hell.
* 70 other bugfixes and cleanups.

Stone Soup 0.21.1 (20180201)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------
* Dith shadow mimic of launcher attacks no longer copies the enchant and ego
  of the launcher.
* Monsters lose constriction by Borgnjor's Vile Clutch when they are moved by
  any means.
* Formicids can now manually cancel digging, allowing them to use Wu Jian's
  Wall Jump ability after digging.
* Wu Jian's Wall Jump ability now works under silence.
* New splash screen art.
* Numlock on Windows systems no longer causes unpredictable repeating
  movement.
* Alt-F4 no longer causes freezing in Tiles on Windows systems.
* Resizing the local Tiles window during prompts no longer causes crashes.
* SDL 2 contrib updated to 2.0.7, which fixes compilation under Msys2.

Stone Soup 0.21 (20180105)
--------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New species: Gnolls
* New god: Wu Jian Council
* New spell: Borgnjor's Vile Clutch

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* The rate at which unique Pan lord levels appear in Pandemonium is increased.
* Transporters now have a 'landing site' that indicates their destination.
* The Hellbinder and Cloud Mage Wizlabs have been revamped to give greater and
  more varied challenges as well as improved loot.

Character
---------
* New species: Gnolls, with extremely high aptitudes for all skills, but
  an inability to focus: Gnolls always train all skills equally, regardless
  of whether they have the requisite items or spells.
* Ogres now have better aptitudes in shortblades, longblades, and axes.

Gods
----
* New (temple) god: Wu Jian Council
  - Grants free 'martial' attacks from certain movement actions:
    * 0*: Moving toward an enemy triggers 'Lunge', which attacks the enemy and
      does extra damage.
    * 1*: Moving between tiles adjacent to a monster triggers 'Whirlwind',
      which attacks all adjacent foes and 'pins' them, preventing one turn of
      movement.
    * 2*: Moving against solid obstacles triggers a two-turn Wall Jump, moving
      two tiles in the opposite direction and attacking any adjacent enemies.
      This ability can also be triggered via an (a)bility, and the movement-
      based mode can be disabled using `wall_jump_move = false` in your rc
      file for more careful play.
  - 3*: Active 'Serpent's Lash' ability, granting two free movement actions,
    of which any martial actions will never miss.
  - 5*: Active 'Heavenly Storm' ability, creating opaque clouds and increasing
    your martial prowess while you continue to use 'martial' attacks.
  - Piety is gained through defeating foes.
* Gozag Potion Petition no longer offers haste/berserk potions for species
  that can't haste/berserk.
* Zin blocks 100% of mutations at 6* piety. At that piety level, potions of
  mutation now only remove mutations and don't cause piety loss.
* Zin no longer has a mutation removal one-time ability at 6* piety.
* Makhleb's Minor Destruction has slightly lowered range, and Makhleb's Major
  Destruction has slightly increased range.

Interface
---------
* Players can now set training targets for skills.
  - Press = on the skill screen, select a skill, and enter a skill level.
  - Training of that skill is disabled when it reaches the specified level.
* Water species except for merfolk autoexplore/travel through shallow water.
* Diagonal shift-running now stops properly at doors.
* Draconian players now show their hat tiles in Tiles/WebTiles.
* New 'tc_forbidden' RC option to set colour of squares forbidden by travel.
* New xp_by_level morgue table to track XP sources on a per-level basis.
* New -force-map objstat/mapstat option to always place a given map on each
  level.
* New objstat fields for tracking monster numbers/XP from vaults.
* Many new tiles for artefact weapons and monsters.

Items
-----
* Wands of the same type merge charges upon pickup and wands have no cap on
  charges.
* Wands identify charges upon pickup and are destroyed when their last charge
  is used.
* Items in a doorways no longer prevent closing doors in most instances.
  - Items get pushed out of the doorway when the player closes the door.
  - Doors refuse to close only if the items would fall into deep water or lava.
* Potions of mutations remove fewer mutations on average and are a bit rarer.
* Fan of Gales now disperses clouds at the user's location.
* Un-equipping an item currently giving you invisibility now gives extra
  contamination.
* Rods of lightning XP-recharge even when only partially used and only grant a
  power bonus for shots over consecutive turns.
* Scarves are never made as artefacts.
* Wands of random effects include malmutate in the set of possible effects.
* Permanent food has been simplified.
  - Rations are now the only type of permanent food, replacing bread and meat
    rations, fruit, and royal jelly.
  - Ration item generation and well as the herbivore and carnivore mutations
    have been balanced to keep available nutrition the same as before.
  - Fedhas abilities that formerly required a piece of fruit instead require
    two rations.
* Removed:
  - Wands of confusion and lightning.
  - Scrolls of recharging.
  - Mutagenic chunks.

Monsters
--------
* Monsters no longer spawn after level-generation in most places.
  - This also eliminates the "super OOD" timer that could generate
    exceptionally hard monsters after a long time on the level.
  - The number of monsters created during level generation is increased
    slightly to compensate.
  - Pandemonium and Abyss are unaffected by this change.
* A fraction of the monsters generated with a level are created awake,
  but never near stairs.
* Air elementals now have a Vortex ability, which creates a short-range,
  short-duration tornado effect.
* Player ghosts have normal speed regardless of species, never have a chaos
  ego on their melee attack, and no longer generate in portal branches.
* Pandemonium lords can no longer have the Shatter spell.

Spells
------
* New spell: Borgnjor's Vile Clutch (L5 Necromancy/Earth); calls forth undead
  hands from the earth over a smite-targeted area to constrict hostile monsters.
  Appears in the Necromancer starting book, the book of Unlife, and the book of
  Dreams.
* Shatter's damage has been simplified to use one of three dice values for
  susceptibility, and can now slightly damage insubstantial monsters. Intrinsic
  player/monster susceptibility takes precedence for damage over flight status.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction now gives each material type a fixed explosion
  damage and size that doesn't increase when a wall is destroyed.
* Removed:
  - Control Undead.
  - Cigotuvi's Embrace.

Stone Soup 0.20.1 (20170701)
----------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Restore 5 base damage to kick aux attacks, which had been missing since
  0.16.0.
* Don't let equipped weapon accuracy affect throwing accuracy.
* Ignore negative relative window sizes in fullscreen mode. Not ignoring these
  settings caused fullscreen issues on Windows platforms in particular.
* 41 other bugfixes and cleanups.

Stone Soup 0.20 (20170525)
--------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New species: Barachim
* New spells: Poisonous Vapours and Ignition
* New scarf items: Armour for the cloak slot with new egos
* New evocations: Wands and an evocable based on spells formerly found on rods

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* The Slime Pits treasure vault walls are breached when the Royal Jelly dies.
* Web traps created in play (by e.g. jumping spiders) are destroyed on
  escape.
* The Tomb of Ancients now has one-way escape hatches with return hatches
  nearby instead of stairs.
* New transporter dungeon feature: a one-way portal to elsewhere on the level.
  Currently used in a number of new loot vaults.
* The last levels of Cocytus and Gehenna never require flight to reach the
  rune.

Character
---------
* New species: Barachim, with an powerful innate Hop ability and good
  aptitudes balanced by slow movement and an increased base LOS radius.
* Ogre aptitudes have been adjusted, trading M&F skill for spells.
* Mummies' spellcasting aptitude has been increased to +2, from -1.
* Deep dwarves have an innate ability that heals them and has a chance of
  permanently reducing their MP. Their old recharge ability has been removed.
* Loud noises no longer break mesmerization or fear.
* Various 'badform' (e.g. wispform) special cases have been removed.
* Several abilities that triggered exhaustion now have their own cooldown
  timers.
* Removed:
  - High elves.
  - Mottled draconians.
  - Vestigial Lava Orcs/Djinni. Saves will load, but (after a prompt) will be
    converted to Hill Orcs/Vinestalkers.

Gods
----
* The Shining One:
  - Cleansing Flame is more effective against non-evil enemies.
  - All bonus-damage 'stab' attacks are prevented.
  - Poison is no longer forbidden.
* Minor Elyvilon wrath effects removed; enemy lifesaving strengthened.
* Nemelex's wrath reclaims all decks, rather than sabotaging them.

Interface
---------
* The species selection menu has been reworked to have a more useful
  conceptual organization, with species grouped into "simple", "intermediate",
  and "advanced" categories.
* Noise from the last turn is displayed in the top-right, replacing gold.
  (Gold can still be seen with % and $.)
* Terminal colours now work properly on a wider range of terminals by default.
  However, as a consequence the default background map colour is dark blue.
  To get dark grey, depending on your terminal you can set
  `bold_brightens_foreground=true` or `allow_extended_colours=true` in
  your rc file.
* New equip_bar option that replaces the noise display with a display of the
  glyphs of your equipped items (console only).
* Monsters' melee attacks, including estimates of potential damage, are
  now included in their descriptions.
* The player's odds of succeeding with melee confusion attacks is displayed.
* auto_butcher can be configured to trigger on different hunger levels.
* Stash searches now hide distant duplicate matches of more vanilla
  weapons, armour, and ammo by default. Searches results are now first
  ordered by items' descriptive names, rather than by the whole string
  including determiners.
* Red draining is now divided into red and magenta; magenta is the worst.
* The mouse can be used in webtiles (now enabled by default, previously a
  secret option).
* Local versions have much-improved support for custom sounds; see
  https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/4270d38ebf63 for details.
* SDL Tiles now no longer disables screen savers.

Items
-----
* New item type: scarves, occupying the cloak slot.
  - Scarves give 0 AC and cannot be enchanted, but always have an ego.
  - Scarf egos: Cloud Immunity, Spirit Shield, Resistance, rMsl.
* Evocations:
  - New wand types: Clouds and Scattershot.
  - New misc item: the Lightning Rod, a 4-charge XP evocable.
  - Wands scale better with Evocations.
  - Wands can no longer be zapped while confused.
  - Wands of disintegration no longer destroy terrain.
  - Wands of digging can now destroy statues.
  - Wand and miscellaneous acquirement merged into 'evocations'.
* Unrandarts:
  - New unrand: Maxwell's Thermic Engine, a freezing/flaming double sword that
    increases in power with each swing taken.
  - The Ratskin Cloak's stats have been tweaked, and it can now summon rats.
  - Amulet of Bloodlust: Slay+6 (was +3), MR++ (was MR+).
  - Shield of Ignorance: Now +10 {Int-4, rN+}. *Curse, AC+4 removed.
  - Sword of Jihad: renamed to Zealot's Sword.
  - Sceptre of Torment only torments on-hit, rather than randomly.
  - The Captain's Cutlass no longer chops off hydra heads.
  - The Ring of Shaolin is renamed to the Ring of Phasing, and the bow of
    Krishna "Sharnga" is renamed to the longbow "Zephyr".
* Potions of cure mutation, beneficial mutation, and mutation have been merged.
* All types of food take one turn to eat.
* All types of manuals are pre-identified.
* Weapons:
  - Giant Spiked Clubs have had their base delay lowered slightly.
* Removed:
  - Wands of heal wounds, haste, teleportation, and slowing.
  - Rods.
  - Discs of Storms.
  - The Hat of the High Council, the Scimitar of Flaming Death, and the Dagger
    of Chilly Death.
  - Beef jerky and pizza.

Monsters
--------
* Draconian callers -> stormcallers, which Smite, Summon Drakes, and Upheaval.
* Mottled dragons -> acid dragons.
* Two-headed ogres are significantly stronger.
* The 'draining' effect once again lowers monsters' MR.
* Various unique monsters give better rewards for defeating them.
* Monsters such as alligators get a larger movement speed increase when using
  their Sprint ability.
* Maurice and Ijyb now always have wands, and Ijyb first appears a bit deeper
  in the Dungeon.
* Draconian ghosts will no longer have negative energy breath.
* Removed:
  - Mottled draconians.
  - Draconian zealots.
  - Hill giants.

Spells
------
* New spell: Poisonous Vapours (L2 Poison/Air); creates an extremely short-
  duration poison cloud on a targeted creature. Appears in the VM book.
* New spell: Ignition (L8 Fire). Drops a weakened Fireball on every monster in
  line of sight. The caster and their allies are unaffected.
* Gell's Gravitas is now Translocations only (was Tloc/Hex).
* Portal Projectile is now Tloc/Hex (was Translocations only).
* Swapped Portal Projectile and Gell's Gravitas in the Wr/AM starting books.
* Book of Conjurations: Battlesphere replaced with Force Lance.
* Book of Air: Repel Missiles replaced with Airstrike.
* Confusing Touch is less effective, especially against high-HD enemies.
* Sandblast consumes stones directly from inventory, but no longer functions
  without ammo, and cannot consume large rocks.
* Removed:
    - Delayed Fireball.
    - Poisonous Cloud
    - Repel Missiles.

Modding/contribution support
----------------------------
* A number of guides from contributor Cerol on how to change key components
  of the game (first debuted in r/dcss and r/roguelikes) have been added to
  the documentation. These can be found at:
    - crawl-ref/docs/develop/background_creation.txt
    - crawl-ref/docs/develop/god_creation.txt
    - crawl-ref/docs/develop/mutation_creation.txt
    - crawl-ref/docs/develop/species_creation.txt

Stone Soup 0.19.5 (20170228)
--------------------------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Fix save compatibility when loading games from version 0.18.
* Macros now work in map mode in Tiles.
* Autopickup is now smarter about whether items are permanently or temporarily
  useless.
* 22 other bug-fixes and cleanups.

Stone Soup 0.19.4 (20170130)
--------------------------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Fix mouse lag experienced by trackpad users on Mac systems.
* Fix to allow the Temple entrance to place as part of a vault instead of
  always by itself.

Stone Soup 0.19.3 (20170121)
--------------------------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Work around an AMD driver bug where the game crashes when loading 512x512
  images.

Stone Soup 0.19.2 (20170120)
--------------------------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Fix a long-standing Tiles mouse lag bug. Now there is no lag when updating
  cursor information upon mouse movement to a new tile.
* Fix to allow helmets as armour acquirement gifts.
* Fix to prevent Infestation death scarabs becoming hostile when killing their
  host in an explosion.
* 24 other bug-fixes and cleanups.

Stone Soup 0.19.1 (20161123)
--------------------------------------------

Bugfix Release
--------------

* Demon tridents are two-handed for small races, as intended.
* Allow Dith shadow to attack diagonally and to reach.
* Many other bug-fixes and cleanups.


Stone Soup 0.19 (20161031)
--------------------------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New gods: Uskayaw the Reveler and Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
* New portal: the Desolation of Salt.
* Sif Muna and Nemelex Xobeh have been dramatically reworked.
* Long blades have a new passive effect, 'riposte'.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* New timed portal vault: the Desolation of Salt, appearing in Elf and Vaults.
  - Six new enemies, including swarms of fragile golems with supporting allies.
  - Open terrain layout with large, opaque clouds to use as cover.
  - Many powerful artefacts resting within ancient ruins.
* Volcanoes are now much more dangerous, but offer better rewards.
* Lair is now six floors (formerly eight).
* Slime is now five floors (formerly six).
* The Slime treasure vault's walls disappear entirely on their master's death.
* Webs are no longer destroyed after creatures escape from them.
* Beogh will no longer smite creatures that destroy orcish idols.
* Lair and Orc no longer have ambient noise.
* Storm cloud damage is more common and much less severe.
* Non-opaque clouds created by the player vanish instantly when out of LOS.
* The Orb's translocation restrictions now apply throughout the Zot branch.

Character
---------
* Flight or transformations expiring over deep water or lava no longer causes
  instant death. Instead, they cause heavy drain over time until reaching land.
* Potions, scrolls and books can be used while still on the floor.
* Resistances granted by rN (to e.g. Pain effects) now scale with rN, only
  reaching full immunity at rN+++ (instead of at rN+).
* Monks can now choose a weapon to start with.
* Corrosion slaying penalties now affect unarmed & auxiliary attacks.
* Spriggans can wield any weapons that kobolds and halflings can.
* Kobolds and halflings rebalanced toward & away from casting, respectively.
* Hidden "stealth factors" for species and forms are gone.
* Vampire blood level effects have been simplified and reworked.
* Bat form can quaff potions and open doors.
* The undead always take stat damage if mutated, instead of sometimes rotting.
* Temporary mutations only have a 50% chance of affecting the undead.
* Mummy self-restoration has been removed.
* The 'sustain abilities' effect has been removed.
* Sickness no longer has a chance of damaging stats.
* Issuing orders to allies no longer makes noise.
* Climbing stairs takes slightly longer, but doesn't penalize EV.
* Clarity provides immunity to sleep and fear.

Gods
----
* New temple god: Uskayaw the Reveler.
  - Piety gained by dealing damage to enemies.
  - Piety decays extremely rapidly over time.
  - 1*: Stomp: deals damage to all adjacent enemies.
  - 2*: Line Pass: instantly travel through a line of enemies, confusing some.
  - Solo Time: on reaching 3*, briefly paralyse all visible enemies.
  - Pain Bond: on reaching 4*, all visible enemies begin sharing damage
    taken with each-other.
  - 5*: Grand Finale: blink into and instantly kill target monster.
* New temple god: Hepliaklqana the Forgotten.
  - Grants a permanent customizeable ally, respawning on a delay after death.
    The ally automatically grows in strength as you level up.
  - Piety granted for exploration.
  - 0*: Recall: interlevel recall for your ally.
  - 2*: Remember Life: permanently make your ancestor a Hexer, Knight or
        Battlemage.
  - 3*: Transference: swap your ancestor with any creature in LOS, or yourself.
  - 4*: Idealise: heal your ancestor & temporarily increase their AC, damage
        and spellpower dramatically.
  - 5*: Transference drains enemies adjacent to the target.
* Sif Muna changes:
  - The 1* Channel Energy ability is replaced with Divine Energy, which allows
    the player to cast with insufficient mp, causing temporary -Cast.
  - At 3*, grants "Channel Magic", trading piety for a fast MP regen status.
  - Book gifts now begin at 5*, instead of 6*.
  - Sif grants piety for both learning magic and killing enemies.
* Nemelex Xobeh changes:
  - Now gifts decks of escape, destruction and summoning.
  - Drawing from decks and using Nemelex abilities now uses invocations,
    not evocations.
  - Identify scrolls can no longer be used on decks.
* Beogh's water-walking always lasts until the player is on land.
* Beogh no longer increases the benefits of armour and shields.
* Dithmenos's Shadow Step can no longer be used on allies or while immobile.
* Fedhas appreciates all corpse decay, and rots all corpses when the player
  leaves a level. Toadstool generation is an ability, instead of a 'p' effect.
* Qazlal's cloud immunity applies to all clouds, not just the player's.
* Jiyva's jelly paralyse ability has been removed.
* Many divine abilities have had their hunger costs removed or increased.
* Most gods that like killing are less particular about what you kill.
* Piety decay over time has been streamlined and adjusted for most gods.
* Gods that hate specific monsters no longer prevent you from enslaving them.
* Pakellas has been removed.

Interface
---------
* Most targeters will be more intelligent when trying to maximize enemies hit.
* In tiles, monster attitude is indicated with coloured auras instead of icons.
* The (p)rayer command is gone; pray at altars with > or <, as with shops.
* Descriptions of monsters with multiple spellsets show which spells you've
  seen them cast.
* Monster descriptions list their average max HP.
* New auto_butcher option, which butchers edible corpses during autoexplore.

Items
-----
* Fixed artefacts:
  - Firestarter and Frostbite now provide immunity to their cloud types.
  - The Octopus King trident's enchantment bonus for wearing Octopus King rings
    is now +2 (prev. +1).
  - The Staff of Olgreb now has a fixed +9 enchantment.
  - The Sword of Zonguldrok no longer creates hostile dead or curses itself.
  - The arbalest 'Damnation' doesn't provides resistances, and does more damage.
  - The morningstar Eos takes Brilliance's halo, and no longer has -Tele.
  - Fencer's Gloves no longer increase Sbl/Lbl skill or provide +EV/AC, but let
    the player riposte with any weapon (details below).
  - Wyrmbane now has rC+ instead of +Rage.
  - The greatsling Punk has a unique 'acid' brand, instead of freezing.
* Evocations:
  - Wands of random effects can no longer produce digging or disintegration.
  - Boxes of beasts and sacks of spiders have a fixed chance of destruction
    per-use, instead of a hidden charge count. They now stack.
  - Fans of gales & lamps of fire no longer summon elemental allies.
  - Phials of floods impact damage significantly reduced.
* Players using long blades sometimes riposte when dodging attacks, launching
  instant, automatic counterattacks.
* Weapons of protection give a temporary +7 AC on hit, replacing a passive +5.
* Creatures that could be butchered for enchantable hides instead, with the
  same chance, leave behind the corresponding armour when killed.
* Amulets of harm now increase damage dealt more than damage taken, and are no
  longer evil.
* Elemental enhancers no longer penalise spells of the opposite element.
* Jewellery acquirement creates twice as many randarts.
* The *Confuse randart property is now *Slow.
* Books can no longer be destroyed to forget spells.
* Rods are created through misc. acquirement instead of staff acquirement.
* It's no longer possible to acquire ammunition.
* Renamed:
  - dragon armour -> dragon scales.
  - greatsling -> fustibalus.
* Removed:
  - All decks and their cards, except for those gifted by Nemelex Xobeh.
  - Dragon and troll hides.
  - Sword of the Doom Knight, Amulet of Cekugob, and "Brilliance".
  - Amulets of dismissal.
  - Rings of sustain abilities.
  - Stones of tremors.
  - The evasion weapon ego.
  - The Akashic Record.
  - Artefact blowguns.

Monsters
--------
* New monsters
  - Bai Suzhen, a late-game draconian unique that casts Summon Hydra. When
    severely injured, she becomes a dragon ringed by storm clouds.
  - Meliai, bee priestesses that sting and smite in trios.
  - Dream sheep, pack monsters that put their enemies to sleep.
  - ...and the residents of the Desolation of Salt.
* Uniques:
  - Urug and Jory's weapons are now much nastier for their depth.
  - Mennas always spawns with a sacred weapon.
  - Donald can now cast Haste and Might.
  - Asterion's Spectral Weapon has been replaced by Greater Servant of Makhleb.
  - Xtahua can now roar to cast Paralyse.
  - Nergalle can no longer enter Death's Door.
  - Gloorx Vloq can no longer cast Black Mark.
  - Various uniques have had their genders changed.
* Zombies, skeletons, and simulacra no longer hide damage taken, and display
  the full names of the monster they were created from.
* Battlecry has been simplified, affecting all monsters of the same genus.
* Blood Saints's Legendary Destruction now casts two spells at a time.
* Necromancers gain Bind Soul, reviving slain monsters as simulacra.
* Ghostly Fireball is now completely resistible by rN and causes draining.
* Obsidian statues can Mesmerise.
* Wizards and Ogre Mages have split up and re-arranged their many spell sets
  to arrive at three sets each, with minimal overlap.
* Spriggan air mages can no longer cast Control Winds.
* Hellions no longer have fire resistance or cold vulnerability.
* Deep elf archers no longer fire their bows in melee.
* Death scarabs no longer trail miasma, but are somewhat tougher.
* Tzitzimitl melee slows and rots victims, instead of creating miasma.
* Ushabti gain Dispel Undead and Warning Cry, and their clouds are now miasma.
* Friendly monsters will no longer open doors.
* Jellies no longer eat unseen items for non-Jiyva worshippers.
* Turtles no longer withdraw into their shells when injured.
* Giant eyeballs charge up their paralysis-stare 50% faster.
* Statues are now stabbable; obsidian & orange crystal statues gain sInv.
* Renamed monsters:
  - Giant newt -> frilled lizard.
  - Giant frog -> bullfrog.
  - Giant gecko -> leopard gecko.
  - Giant leech -> tyrant leech.
  - Giant eyeball -> floating eye.
  - Giant spore -> ballistomycete spore.
  - Giant orange brain -> glowing orange brain.
  - Greater naga -> nagaraja.
* Removed monsters:
  - Anubis guards.
  - Boulder beetles.
  - Chaos champions.
  - Griffons.
  - Putrid demonspawn.
  - Salamander stormcallers.
  - Sheep.
  - Wasps.
  - Norris.
  - Maud.
  - Wiglaf.

Spells
------
* New spell: Infestation (L8 Necromancy), appearing in the Necronomicon.
  Applies 'infested' to monsters in a large, smite-targeted area; a friendly
  death scarab erupts out of the victims when they die.
* New spell: Lesser Beckoning (L3 Translocation), which pulls a single target
  adjacent to the caster.
* All temporary allies are incapable of attacking out of LOS, not just summons.
* Confusing Touch is level 1 (was level 2).
* Cigotuvi's Embrace only degrades over time, not on-hit.
* Irradiate causes significantly less contamination when cast.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance causes less damage, but doesn't poison the caster.
* Simulacrum's duration is significantly shorter.
* Spells formerly in the Akashic Record have been redistributed elsewhere.
* Various other spellbooks have had minor adjustments.
* Removed: Cure Poison, Haste, and Warp Weapon.

Stone Soup 0.18 (20160504)
--------------------------------------------

Highlights
----------
* New god: Pakellas the Inventive.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Killing monsters in the Abyss eventually spawns exits and down-stairs.
* Ziggurat portals no longer appear in Pan.
* After clearing multiple ziggurats, enemies found in later ziggurats will be
  considerably more dangerous.
* The Orcish Mines are now two levels, and generate fewer plain orcs. Gold
  generation is doubled to account for the shorter branch.
* The Elven Halls now contains elementals and dancing weapons (in addition to
  the ones normally found in the Hall of Blades).

Character
---------
* A new mutation: Sturdy Frame, reducing base ER by 2/4/6 and thus making
  heavy armour easier to wear. Can be a demonspawn mutation.
* Formicids now have 0 Throwing aptitude (was -2).
* Taking a known shaft now has a 2/3 chance of shafting one floor and 1/3 of
  two floors.
* Breath abilities are no longer mutations and are now unique to draconians
  and nagas.
* Throwing speed now works like weapons do, making it somewhat slower.
* Weapon types no longer have distinct strength weights. Strength now only
  gives a bonus to damage, and dexterity only gives a bonus to accuracy.
* Formicids can no longer dig while in most non-Formicid forms.
* Statue Form now gives somewhat more AC.
* Early-game attribute loss is recovered significantly more quickly.
* rElec now reduces damage by two-thirds, rather than three-quarters.

Gods
----
* New temple god: Pakellas the Inventive.
  - Grants MP on kills and passive wand charge identification. MP gained while
    full will eventually be turned into potions of magic.
  - Blocks MP regeneration and hates channeling.
  - Gifts wands, rods and miscellaneous evokables.
  - 1*: Quick Charge: uses a portion of current MP to recharge a wand or rod.
  - 3*: Device Surge: spends variable MP to apply power enhancers to your next
    use of an evocable item.
  - 6* capstone: Supercharge: sets a rod to +10 (18/18), or sets a wand's
    capacity to 50% above normal for that wand type.
* Ashenzari now allows followers to curse items with an ability that consumes
  a scroll of remove curse, instead of using prayer to create curse scrolls.
* Beogh no longer allows corpse sacrifice.
* New Beogh 6* ability: Resurrection, reviving & converting dead orcs.
* Followers of Elyvilon can pacify insects (again).
* Monsters buffed by Gozag's wrath now remain buffed as long as they live.
* Jiyva altars in Dungeon no longer appear as early.
* Okawaru's abilities now cost less piety, but don't last as long at low
  Invocations skill.
* Finesse is no longer blocked by stasis.
* Piety given for a Ru sacrifice is more explicitly stated.
* Sif Muna now grants miscast protection at 2* and amnesia at 4*, rather than
  the other way around.
* Xom now chaos brands more weapon gifts, and can chaos brand ranged weapons
  again.
* Yredremnul's Enslave Soul can now affect demons & holy beings.
* Abandoning Yredelemnul now destroys your zombie minions.
* Zin's Recite is now only interrupted if the player is silenced or
  incapacitated (or goes berserk).

Items
-----
* New items:
  - The amulet of dismissal, which may teleport away enemies that damage the
    player, but causes a brief combat penalty when equipped.
  - The amulet of reflection, which grants a few points of shielding that
    act as a shield of reflection.
  - The amulet of harm, which increases damage dealt to and by the wearer by
    25%.
  - The amulet of magic regeneration, which increases MP regeneration after a
    warmup period.
  - The ring of resist corrosion, replacing the amulet.
  - Wands of acid, which cause significant damage and corrosion.
  - Wands of iceblast, which cause a partially irresistible explosion of cold.
  - A figurine of a ziggurat, which can be evoked to create a ziggurat portal.
    Appears on Zig:27 of all ziggurats and in the Tomb:3 loot.
  - Unrand: The +8 frozen axe "Frostbite" {freezing cloud, *Noise +Fly rC+}, an
    executioner's axe that may create freezing clouds on those it strikes.
  - Unrand: The +3 Warlock's Mirror {reflection}, a buckler that allows
    reflection of piercing effects and enchantments, among other things.
* The Etheric Cage now multiplies gained contam, instead of generating it.
* Sniper can no longer miss, and is now +9 (formerly +15).
* The robe of vines now grants slightly less regeneration.
* The Majin-Bo now speaks occasionally.
* The captain's cutlass now causes bonus damage when disarming.
* The amulet of Cekugob is now an amulet of dismissal.
* The brooch of Shielding is now a +8 amulet of reflection with no AC or EV
  bonus.
* Wearing an amulet of regeneration has no effect until the next time you are
  at full health.
* A new property can now generate on random artefacts: Fragile, which destroys
  the item when it is removed.
* Amulets of faith now grant a 25% bonus to piety, not a 33% bonus.
* Scrolls of enchant armour & enchant weapon no longer remove curses.
* Potions of ambrosia now bypass clarity.
* The evocable teleport property +Tele is removed. Rings of teleportation now
  only have the *Tele teleportitis effect.
* Potions of cure mutation are slightly more common.
* Potions of degeneration now cause 1-3 damage to every stat.
* The Damnation card has been renamed to Exile.
* Poison needles' effects scale with Throwing skill and weapon enchantment.
* Arrows, bolts and sling bullets no longer have brands.
* Removed items:
  - Amulets of resist mutation, stasis, warding, and corrosion.
  - Wands of cold, fire, frost, magic darts, invisibility, draining, and
    fireball.
  - Rods of destruction and of the swarm.
  - Ring of invisibility.
  - Potions of poison.
  - Needles of slowing.
  - Lanterns of shadows.

Monsters
--------
* New monsters:
  - Spark wasps, electric swarming insects appearing in Spider and Depths.
  - Iron giants, with the ability to throw you towards their pack of allies.
  - Doom hounds, who can howl to create a pack of dangerous creatures.
  - Deep elf archers, with skill in archery and hexes.
  - Deep elf elementalists, with mastery of elemental magic and the ability to
    turn rock into earth elementals to dig out entrenched foes.
  - Dart slugs, slow-moving, squishy gastropods with a ranged dart attack.
  - Howler monkeys, fast and extremely loud creatures, often found in packs.
  - Rime drakes, small flying lizards which breathe Flash Freeze.
* Shadow Fiends are now Tzitzimimeh, made somewhat stronger and given attacks
  that surround their targets in a ring of miasma clouds.
* Hellfire has been renamed to Damnation, and no longer melts ice.
* Chaos champions lose Chaotic Mirror and instead gain Call of Chaos, an
  ability which applies (usually) positive status effects to nearby allies.
* Mnoleg gains Call of Chaos (as above), Random Bolt, and Dig.
* Gloorx Vloq gains Summon Executioners and Black Mark.
* Liches and Ancient Liches no longer have a long list of random spells,
  and return to a new set of fixed spellbooks.
* Salamander stormcallers' chant does not need to be continuous; they now
  only need to try to cast Fire Storm at their target three times for it to
  trigger.
* Entropy weavers' corrosion is now instant and smite-targeted, but only
  applies one level of corrosion.
* Ice devils are now tier 4 demons, and are weakened slightly.
* Hellwings now have the swoop attack formerly possessed by blue devils.
* Shock serpents' discharge now only strikes whatever hit it.
* Salamander mystics lose Localised Ignite Poison.
* Deep elf high priests & sorcerers can no longer cast Summon Demon.
* Natasha, deep elf knights, and salamander stormcallers can no longer cast
  Conjure Flame.
* Banishment from powerful monsters can now send you deeper into the Abyss
  than Abyss:1.
* Deep elf mages are now stronger and have new spell sets, including spells
  previously cast by deep elf conjurers and summoners.
* The Sap Magic effect from demonspawn warmongers now has three fixed levels of
  success rate penalty, rather than scaling continuously. Each spell cast while
  under the Sap effect has a fixed chance to increase the penalty level.
* Demonspawn corruptors' Corrupt Body spell is now a single-target version of
  the same spell used by wretched stars. These spells both now try to apply
  multiple levels of a single random temporary mutation instead of giving many
  different kinds.
* Ancient champions and death knights no longer have the Haunt spell.
* Swamp worms are now amphibious and generate submerged, emerging to attack the
  player and never resubmerging.
* Deep elf high priests now have an Aura of Brilliance spell that affects all
  allies in their view, making them cast spells more frequently and with more
  spell power.
* Hell hogs now have Fireball, replacing Sticky Flame.
* Giant eyeballs are now normal speed, but must stare thrice to paralyse.
* Maurice can now steal from the floor as well as your inventory.
* Natasha no longer becomes weaker upon revival.
* Death cobs now drain speed, rather than causing hunger.
* Monsters that drain speed can now do so even to creatures with rN.
* Corroding monsters now reduces their AC by 8, rather than halving it.
* Needles no longer strike unaware monsters more powerfully.
* Removed monsters:
  - Octopode crushers.
  - (Plain) spiders.
  - Salamander firebrands.
  - Blue devils.
  - Brain worms.
  - Deep elf fighters, conjurers, priests, and summoners.
  - Trapdoor spiders.
  - Fire drakes.

Spells
------
* New spell: Yara's Violent Unravelling (L5 Hexes/Transmutations). Dispels
  all cancellable effects on the target and, if any were dispelled, causes
  a damaging explosion of mutagenic energy around the victim.
* Hydra Form now has a fixed number of heads.
* The Infusion spell has a lower power cap, scaling more quickly to the same
  damage bonus as before.
* Song of Slaying now increases its slaying bonus with every kill, but caps at
  +9 total.
* Tukima's Dance's power multiplier has been reduced.
* Spectral Weapon now bases the strength of the summoned weapon on spell power
  instead of weapon skill.
* Alistair's Intoxication is now level 5 and gives Vertigo status instead of
  confusing the player or draining Int, and can sometimes affect rPois
  monsters.
* Monstrous Menagerie is now level 7 (was 6).
* Shadow creatures is now level 6 (was 5).
* Passwall is now level 2 (was 3).
* Ozocubu's Armour now slows movement slightly while active.
* Removed spells: Stoneskin, Condensation Shield, Mass Confusion, and
  Phase Shift.

Interface
---------
* Earth elementalists now have their stones start on b.
* Characters starting with a primary ranged weapon now have their melee weapon
  on b by default.
* New autofight_warning option, to combat accidentally holding down tab.
* An option is added to the butchering prompt to allow butchering only
  (e)dible corpses.
* Auto-eat now triggers for ghouls if they are rotted.
* The religion screen now shows all god powers, with currently accessible
  powers (per level of piety) being highlighted.
* Many previously hardcoded forced mores are now optional and present in the
  default init.txt.
* New character dump option: skill_gains, which shows when skills were gained.
* A s(T)atus effect lookup has been added to ?/.

Stone Soup 0.17.1 (20151210)
----------------------------
* Fix insect monsters never berserking. This bug prevented queen bees from
  berserking their hive bees and moths of wrath berserking insects in Spider.
* Prevent the Gell's Gravitas spell from moving monsters into deep water or
  lava.
* Fix resting to stop properly when MP don't regenerate.
* Properly warn when a beam might poison a monster while worshiping the Shining
  One.
* Put hunter's swords in slot 'a' or 'b' at game start to allow easier
  switching between ranged and melee weapons.
* Put EE starting stones on the 'b' slot.
* Update the manual for 0.17.
* Many other bug fixes for game crashes, to vaults, and to in-game text.

Stone Soup 0.17 (20151106)
--------------------------

Highlights
----------
* Square line of sight.
* Shorter Lair rune branches.
* New rune vaults for many branches.

Branches, Environment
---------------------
* Snake, Shoals, Swamp and Spider are now all 4 levels long, down from 5.
* Levels no longer have -cTele.
* Shadow Traps have been removed.
* Slime wall damage no longer varies by depth.
* AC now applies before resists for cloud damage.
* Ghostly flame clouds have been renamed to spectral mist clouds.
* Troves no longer ask for items that the player character's species cannot
  use.
* Pandemonium now spawns primarily tier 3 and above demons.
* New altar type: 'ecumenical altars', which allow the player to worship a
  random god.
* New WizLab: Lehudib's Moon Base, where the player can fight the legendary
  Moon Troll.
* Tukima's Studio and Eringya's Formal Garden WizLabs have been removed.

Character
---------
* All races have had their evocations aptitudes reduced by one point.
* MP scaling has been reworked & simplified; MP aptitudes have been adjusted.
* Heavy armour no longer penalizes unarmed combat & throwing speeds.
* Rot is now healed first, instead of last; effectively, rotting reduces the
  effectiveness of healing until cured. The Rot status is also gone, with rot
  taking place immediately.
* Stat loss is no longer regenerated over time; instead, it's restored by XP.
* The deterioration mutation is now only 2 levels, and has a chance of causing
  stat loss whenever the player takes damage, rather than over time.
* Being at 0 in a stat no longer causes direct damage to the player.
* Undead stat gain: Mummies get one of Str, Int, or Dex every 5 levels, and
  Vampires get either Int or Dex every 5 levels.
* Vampires can now drink from anything that has blood, regardless of their
  chunk type.
* Headbutt aux attacks no longer apply a small stun and the hooves aux kicks no
  longer bypass AC.
* Unarmed attacks no longer have a speed penalty when attacking with a shield.
* Cleaving attacks now function even under confusion.
* Control-attacking & manipulating doors are no longer permitted under
  confusion.
* Confusion will never cause characters to stumble into deep water/lava.
* Corrosion can affect characters not using weapons or armour, and applies -4
  to both armour and slaying (instead of -5/-3).
* Multi-turn actions, other than climbing/descending stairs, no longer reduce
  EV by 5 for their duration.
* Poison-immune characters (e.g. gargoyles, mummies) no longer take poison
  damage.
* Draconian Fighters no longer start with extra equipment.
* Teleportitis only triggers when it would land the player in LOS of
  enemies. It triggers slightly more frequently as a result, but no longer
  triggers in Labyrinths or the Abyss.
* The 'spiny' mutation is now dramatically stronger.
* Powered by Death is now triggered by kills, instead of corpses.
* Black Mark no longer gives vampirism; its other effects are now stronger.
* Clawed attacks no longer have bleeding-over-time damage effects.
* There's now a distinct hunger state of Fainting and appropriate warning
  messages for when the player is so low on nutrition that they might become
  paralysed.
* The Breathe Flames and Spit Poison mutations are now mutually exclusive.
* Demonspawn can shoot through their own demonic guardians.
* Ability scores now cap at 125, up from 72.
* Some species now have lower Throwing aptitudes:
  - Centaur, Halfling, and Kobold go from +3 to +1;
  - Ogre, Spriggan, Tengu, High Elf, and Deep Elf go from +1 to 0;
  - Hill Orc and Gargoyle go from 0 to -1.

Geometry
--------
* All range-based mechanics now treat diagonals identically to orthogonal
  directions. Line of sight, spell range, and other effects are now visually
  'square'. Many of those, including line of sight, are now slightly shorter.

Gods
----
* Gozag:
  - The fee for entry has been reduced, especially early on.
  - Gold distraction is now an effect centred on the player that's refreshed
    whenever they find (make) new corpse-gold, rather than being centred on
    the gold piles themselves.
  - The cost of Potion Petition is more variable and higher initially, but no
    longer increases with use.
  - Friendly bribed allies are now permanently allied, but restricted to the
    branch from which they came.
  - Corpseless monsters now drop gold.
  - Gold that lands in deep water/lava teleports into the player's pockets.
  - Amulets of faith no longer have any effect.
  - Bribes now work on any intelligent monster in the branch, with bribe
    susceptibility based on HD and a scaling factor by branch. Unique Hell or
    Pan lords can't be bribed.
  - Bribes now trigger on monsters coming into view, rather than on level
    entry.
  - Call Merchant now always places shops at the player's location.
* Ru:
  - New sacrifice: Sacrifice Eye, similar to the effect of amulets of
    inaccuracy (and stacking with the amulet).
  - New sacrifice: Sacrifice Resistance, providing rC- rF-.
* Beogh's smite damage now scales better with invocations.
* Okawaru's Finesse no longer gives contamination.
* Lugonu and Trog no longer accept corpse sacrifices.
* The Shining One no longer blesses allies' weapons and armour; the Summon
  Divine Warrior ability is now slightly cheaper.
* Cheibriados' slouch damage is now based on monster movement speed.
* Ashenzari now gives the Scrying ability at 1* piety, boosts skills at 2*, and
  grants SInv at 3*.
* Zin's Vitalization no longer provides nutrition, and now has a small MP cost.
* Jiyva's Slime Prayer now lasts longer and has a small MP cost.
* Sif no longer requires worshippers to know spells.
* The player now no longer needs an altar to use the following abilities, which
  are accessible from the ability menu: Zin's Donate Gold, Kiku's Bless Weapon
  and Gift Necronomicon, Lugonu's Bless Weapon, and The Shining One's Bless
  Weapon.
* Gods no longer protect worshippers from Beogh smiting or TSO cleansing
  flame.
* Qazlal's wrath now causes noise 50% of the time before other possible
  actions, and can no longer inflict Deformed Body.
* Notes are now generated whenever you reach a piety rank for a god for the
  first time, instead of on abilities being gained.

Items
-----
* New items:
  - Maxwell's Etheric Cage, a helmet giving rElec, +4 MP and a large boost to
    MP regen, at the cost of causing intermittent light contamination.
  - the Robe of Vines, a +5 robe with massive regeneration but which renders
    the wearer unable to heal by external means.
  - Kryia's mail coat, +7 scale mail which amplifies the effect of healing
    items (and grants rC+ to boot).
* Poisonous chunks and rot chunks have been merged into 'inedible' chunks,
  which are only edible by ghouls. Some monsters have had their meat cleaned.
* Unrandart changes:
  - The Cloak of Starlight is now +2 and gives Stlth--.
  - The fencer's gloves now give a bonus to Short and Long Blades skills.
  - The Sceptre of Torment is now a staff.
* The box of beasts now produces a new type of variable creature, 'mutant
  beasts', instead of chimeras.
* The Orb of Zot now turns all controlled blinks into uncontrolled blinks while
  carried.
* Warding now applies to ranged attacks.
* Troll leather armour now provides regeneration to trolls.
* Staves of summoning no longer have a chance of abjuring on hit.
* Staves of power now give a flat +15 mp, rather than scaling with your MP; they
  no longer store MP when swapping.
* For the player and for monsters, curare needles no longer have an effect that
  prevents the use of abilities relying on breath.
* Scrolls of Holy Word now apply the Daze status effect instead of stunning
  enemies.
* "Sustain abilities" has been renamed to "sustain attributes".
* The Storm card no longer summons twisters.
* The Placid Magic card is no more.
* The Sack of Spiders makes more appropriate types of spiders at lower and
  higher levels of Evocations and fewer orb spiders overall.
* The Rod of Clouds makes acid clouds more often and storm clouds less often.
* Removed items:
  - The Cloak of Flash.
  - Potions of decay.
  - Potions of restore abilities.
  - Rings of teleport control.
  - The Book of Control.
  - Hammers.

Monsters
--------
* New monsters:
  - Salamander stormcallers, appearing in the late Dungeon and the Vaults. They
    chant for a few turns before calling down a Fire Storm on their victims.
  - Entropy weavers, appearing in Spider, Vaults, and Depths. They chant for a
    few turns before corroding their victims' equipment terribly.
  - Juggernauts, terrifying giants that lurk in Depths. They move quickly and
    deliver fantastically punishing blows, but must rest after each attack.
* Death cobs have been greatly strengthened and their attacks increase your
  hunger, even when guarded by AC.
* Hungry ghosts' hungering effect now apply even when their attack damage is
  reduced by AC.
* XP and placement for many uniques has been adjusted; in general, uniques have
  been removed from depths at which they're no longer threatening, and their XP
  has increased considerably.
* Jellies no longer eat items the player has seen.
* Monsters will now pick up all scrolls & potions, not just ones they use.
* Poison now has a 1/3 chance of affecting rPois+ monsters (up from 0/3).
* All nonliving monsters now have rPois+++.
* rElec++ has been removed; monsters that previously had it now either have
  rElec+ or full immunity.
* Non-magic-immune monsters are now always confuseable.
* Unrelated monsters can now swap with each other.
* Ghouls no longer cause rot with their attacks.
* Monsters no longer eat corpses.
* Revenants no longer ignore silence.
* Phantasmal warriors' attacks no longer pierce shields & armour.
* Death knights now have agony & haunt in addition to pain mirror.
* Worms are less vulnerable to some forms of kiting, having more regen in
  exchange for less max hp.
* Air elementals can no longer 'submerge' in air.
* Fire elementals no longer fly (though they can still cross lava). They can
  now enter shallow water.
* Queen ants are now faster.
* Liches and Ancient Liches can no longer cast Shadow Creatures.
* Many monsters have lost the 'teleport self' spell: (ancient) liches, wizards,
  giant orange brains, hellwings, smoke demons, ogre magi, Mara, and Boris.
* Various 'high-intelligence' monsters no longer have immunity to drowning
  while confused.
* Basic mummies no longer have death curses.
* Alligators now come in pairs.
* Jorgrun is no longer a deep dwarf, and now regenerates normally.
* Deep dwarf ghosts now regenerate normally.
* Hell beasts no longer have randomized speeds.
* Salamander mystics, firebrands, and stormcallers now all have normal land
  move speed and fast swimming speed.
* Polyphemus can throw his yaks at the player.
* Blocks of ice are now susceptible to LRD and Shatter.
* Demonspawn warmongers now have Haste Other instead of Grand Avatar, and can
  spawn with a shield.
* Demonspawn blood saints no longer have ephemeral infusion, and no longer
   damage themselves when casting Legendary Destruction.
* Orange crystal statues now have Shadow Creatures and both they and obsidian
  statues are faster at casting their spells.
* Monsters can no longer have the Inner Flame spell.
* Hellwings no longer have the Teleport Other spell.
* Monsters can no longer have Animate Dead nor Simulacrum spells.
* Monsters that worship Dith or Yred (including allies of the player) are
  immune to the umbra accuracy reduction.
* Monsters can no longer have a flee ability (polar bears, black bears, and
  krakens).
* Derived undead (skeletons, zombies, spectres, and simulacra) now do 80% of the
  damage of the base monster and inherit the energy use pattern of the base
  monster.
* Derived undead created by spells or items are temporary, falling apart after
  some time. Yredelemnul still creates permanent undead.
* Removed monsters:
  - Unborn.
  - Ravens.
  - Giant mites.
  - Baby alligators.
  - Boring beetles.
  - Goliath beetles.
  - Wandering mushrooms only generate through Fedhas or the monster Summon
    Mushrooms spell.

Spells
------
* Enslavement is replaced by Tukima's Dance in the Enchanter starting book, and
  by Gell's Gravitas in the Arcane Marksman starting book. Tukima's Dance no
  longer appears in the Book of Enchantments.
* Animate Skeleton and Animate Dead now create temporary undead that expire
  after some time.
* Ignite Poison is now level 3 Fire/Poison/Transmutations; it no longer ignites
  items or poisonous creatures, only poisoned creatures and clouds, but does
  dramatically more damage to the former, especially at low power.
* Gell's Gravitas is now level 3 and smite-targeted; it can now target empty
  space, but no longer confuses monsters.
* Summon Guardian Golem is now level 3.
* Aura of Abjuration is now level 5, and has been moved from the Grand Grimoire
  to the book of Summonings.
* Monstrous Menagerie has been moved from the books of Summonings and Beasts to
  the Grand Grimoire.
* Summon Mana Viper has been moved from the book of Hinderance to the book of
  Summonings.
* Sticks to Snakes no longer requires wielding arrows.
* Apporting the Orb of Zot now causes the orb run to begin.
* Cigotuvi's Embrace is now stronger with small numbers of corpses, and
  considerably weaker with huge numbers.
* Freeze no longer has a stun effect.
* Death's Door sets player exhaustion when canceled with Borgnjor's
  Revivification.
* Ozocubu's Armour and Stoneskin no longer give additional bonuses to Ice Form
  and Statue Form, respectively.
* Casting Malign Gateway no longer drains player Int.
* Casting Haunt no longer cause sickness.
* High level spellbooks no longer restrict learning from them based on skill
  levels.
* Corpse Rot now affects all corpses in LOS.
* Darkness is now level 6.
* Controlled Blink is now level 8.
* Removed spells:
  - Abjuration.
  - Control Teleport.
  - Enslavement.
  - Flight.
  - Sure Blade.
  - Singularity.

Interface
---------
* The level map viewer (X) now allows you to examine monsters, items & features
  (with 'v'), just as the normal examine mode does.
* The inventory descriptions for weapons & shields now shows the skill required
  to reach minimum attack delay / remove attack delay penalty, respectively.
* The rune menu now shows you all runes and their locations before they are
  found, including the Orb of Zot.
* New ability_slot option, which allows you to specify default letters for
  abilities.
* The 'a'bility command shows the menu by default; to get the old behaviour,
  use the option "ability_menu = false".
* The auto_eat_chunks option is now true by default, so hungry characters eat
  chunks while resting, travelling, and exploring.
* Allow searching for jewellery, dragon armour/hides and magical staves using
  abbreviations for their granted properties.

Technical
---------
* Compilation under Cygwin is now supported.

Stone Soup 0.16.2 (20150811)
--------------------------------------------
* Give FeEE players stones at game start.
* Display base attributes in the '@' display.
* No longer revoke Zin's sanctuary when a confused ally attacks you, and allow
  confused allies in your sanctuary to get away with attacking hostiles.
* Ranged and confused player attacks as well as the Tornado, Static Discharge,
  and Singularity spells now all break sanctuary.
* Fix a bug where players who lose the big wings mutation while flying with no
  other source of flight would continue to fly. They now stop flying and get an
  emergency flight evocation if wearing a ring of flight.
* Fix a bug where a player with the confused status could cancel accidental
  attacks when wielding a weapon inscribed with "!a".
* Fix a bug where monsters with phase shift got 8 more EV than intended.
* Fix a bug where players could take a shaft and land in inescapable areas.
* Have Dithmenos' spell-shadowing attack use the same targeting as the player
  attack that triggered it to avoid it doing things like hitting allies.
* Fix a mouse bug in the Tiles version where Ctrl and Alt modifiers would be
  set when clicking despite those keys not being pressed.
* Fix the Tiles version failing to run on OS X.
* In the Objstat debug mode for counting items and monsters, the output format
  has been streamlined to generate one file per table with data from all levels
  in each table.
* Fix a bug in Objstat where items in shops weren't counted.
* Other minor bugfixes, and cleanups to in-game descriptions and help text.

Stone Soup 0.16.1 (20150322)
--------------------------------------------
* Major bugfix release. Because of the first two bugfixes listed below, it's
  strongly recommended that all 0.16.0 users upgrade to this version.
* Fix a bug where all player melee damage was effectively doubled. This only
  affected player melee damage, not player ranged or spells, or monster damage
  at all.
* Fix a bug in sprint where controlled blink was blocked as if from the stasis
  effect.
* Artefacts with the Contam property are no longer marked as chaotic and hence
  hated by Zin, since Zin wouldn't give penance for using e.g. weapons with
  this property anyhow. There's now a warning under Zin when Contam items are
  removed, since this does incur penance.
* Monsters no longer avoid walking on shadow traps.
* Fix the build for the Android port of DCSS.
* Other minor bugfixes.

Stone Soup 0.16 (20150311)
--------------------------------------------
* New gods: Gozag Ym Sagoz the Greedy and Ru the Awakened.
* Zot Defense has been removed.

Branches, environment
---------------------
* The tides in Shoals now only shift between shallow water & land; deep water
  is neither created nor destroyed. The tides move 15 times faster than before.
* Ziggurats now only require two runes to enter, down from three.
* Every time a player clears a ziggurat (exits from the top floor, Zig:27), all
  subsequent ziggurats become significantly harder.
* A Hall of Blades area (not branch) is now guaranteed on Elf:2.
* Abyssal stairs can now appear in the Abyssal Knight starting abyss.
* Clouds of draining now require rN+++ for immunity, up from rN+.
* Clouds of miasma now apply the 'Rot' status, rather than causing rotting
  directly.
* New trap: "Shadow Trap", which summons a small group of hostile creatures
  from the local area when any non-summoned creature steps on it.
* Traps no longer care about whether the player is flying.
* The 'disarm trap' command has been removed.

Character
---------
* Demigods now gain two stats of their choice on on every third level, in
  exchange for no longer getting one random stat on every second level.
* Demigods now have innate Sustain Abilities.
* All species can now choose 'unarmed' when playing backgrounds that allow a
  weapon choice.
* Ghouls now gain as much healing from normal chunks as they previously got
  from rotting flesh, and always cure a point of rot when eating a chunk.
* Vampires now bottle blood with 'c', and can do so from the first level.
* Butchering/bottling now only takes a single turn.
* Wanderers now receive a randart spellbook instead of starting with a Level 1
  spell memorised.
* Wanderers can start with one elemental evoker or a box of beasts instead of
  a wand.
* Wanderer starting equipment is noted in the game log.
* Felids no longer have a jump-attack ability, which has been removed.
* Worshippers of Kikubaaqudgha and Nemelex Xobeh will now have titles unique
  to those gods displayed when their highest skill is Necromancy or Evocations
  (respectively).
* Gargoyles can no longer cast Statue Form.
* Removed Death Knight and Healer backgrounds.

Monsters
--------
* The Great Lords of Pandemonium (Cerebov, et al) will reappear on later floors
  of Pandemonium if their rune is stolen, unless and until they are slain.
* The Serpent of Hell is considerably tougher; it now has three heads which
  can attack and/or breathe separately, and can also summon backup.
* Mnoleg now has more and more exciting attack types.
* Mimics now cackle and vanish (forever) when discovered.
* Curse skulls now move - fast!
* Iron devils have been upgraded to rust devils, which do less damage but
  corrode with their touch.
* Insubstantial wisps are now more fragile & less numerous, but have Static
  Discharge.
* Seraphim are now considerably stronger, and have a new spellset. They can
  now (very occasionally) appear on the orb run.
* New monsters:
  - Robin of the Strong Arm, appearing in the early Dungeon. An unusually
    strong hobgoblin, with a personal army of hobgoblins and goblins. She
    happily hurls the latter at her enemies.
  - Caustic shrikes, appearing in Depths. Metallic birds that travel in flocks,
    attacking with acid-dripping claws that sear through armour & flesh alike.
  - Shard shrikes, appearing in Cocytus. Batty monsters that come in flocks and
    spit deadly ice shards at their foes.
  - Elemental wellsprings, appearing in Cocytus. They fire powerful waves of
    water which produce hostile water elementals - but deplete their own
    'health' in the process.
  - Bennu, the divine phoenix, appearing in Tomb. Attacks with draining and
    holy; when killed, explodes into ghostly flame and instantly returns to
    life (once).
  - Ushabti, funerary statues, appearing in Tomb. They exhale long lines of
    draining clouds, and rumble deeply to alert far-away foes.
  - Anubis guards, living fanatics appearing in Tomb. They're conditioned to
    be immune to torment, and breathe draining, dispel undead, and howl to
    alert other guards.
  - Death scarabs, swarming insects appearing in Tomb. They trail miasma and
    have a vampiric bite that also drains speed.
* Renamed monsters:
  - Silver statues -> obsidian statues.
  - Green rats -> river rats.
  - Orange rats -> hell rats.
  - Yellow wasps -> wasps.
  - Red wasps -> hornets.
  - Mermaids -> sirens.
  - Sirens -> merfolk avatars.
  - Meatsprint lost souls -> wretched souls.
* The Royal Jelly now leaks a large number of jellies when polymorphed.
* Ghost crabs have been moved from Crypt to Swamp.
* The "misshapen and mutated" status (from Malmutate and the new Irradiate
  spell) is now temporary, but more significant.
* Player ghosts & spellforged servitors can now have more than six spells.
* Player ghosts now have their weapon brands displayed.
* Hellwings can now cast Cigotuvi's Embrace, and start with it active.
* Xtahua's breath now creates a cloud of flames, like red draconians'.
* Tiamat can now be any colour of draconian, except grey.
* Fannar can now cast Condensation Shield.
* Frederick is now a demigod; his armour has been upgraded & his spellset has
  been tweaked.
* Sense invisibility has been simplified; monsters that had it now have see
  invisible + blindness immunity instead.
* Item-eating monsters such as jellies no longer eat items you have seen,
  except for followers of Jiyva.
* Magic immunity no longer confers confusion immunity to monsters.
* Many monsters are no longer magic immune: notably, most plant enemies, eyes,
  mummies, and angels.
* Polymorphed monsters now return to their original shapes in death.
* Liches (and ancient liches) now choose their spells randomly from a large
  set of possible spells, instead of having fixed spellbooks.
* All non-permanent summoned monsters are now unable to use stairs.

Spells
------
* New spells:
  - Singularity (L9 Translocation), which summons a singularity & sucks in all
    nearby enemies, severely damaging them in the process.
  - Gell's Gravitas (L5 Hexes/Translocation), which pulls nearby creatures
    toward the target, causing damage if they collide & occasionally confusing
    them.
  - Hydra Form (L6 Transmutation), a short-duration form that attacks all
    adjacent foes & devours slain foes for nutrition and healing.
  - Irradiate (L5 Transmutation/Conjuration), which deals heavy damage &
    malmutates nearby enemies, but also contaminates the caster.
  - Cigotuvi's Embrace (L5 Necromancy), which turns all corpses in LOS into
    armour for the player.
* Dispersal now affects a wider radius & has a chance of confusing its victims.
* Force Lance is now L4 Translocation/Conjuration, and is more accurate and
  better at knocking enemies back.
* Ice, Dragon, Tree and Fungus forms no longer meld octopode rings.
* Spell miscast effects have been hugely revamped.
* Monstrous Menagerie has had its summon cap reduced by one.
* Twisted Resurrection and Forceful Dismissal have been removed.

Items
-----
* Chunks are now only separated by edibility (normal, poisonous, mutagenic...),
  rather than source monster type.
* Rotting chunks are gone; corpses rot directly into skeletons.
* Cleaving attacks (from axes and Hydra Form) try to hit all adjacent enemies,
  rather than being blocked by walls.
* Enemy-held weapons now have their brands ID'd on sight.
* Wand changes:
  - Zapping wands that don't have their charge count identified wastes several
    charges.
  - Wand type is auto-identified on pickup.
  - Many weak wands have had their max charge count increased.
* New items:
  - Gyre & Gimble, a pair of quickblades linked by a chain; they take two hands
    to use, but each attack made with them strikes twice.
  - Shadow Dragon Armour: as heavy as Storm Dragon Armour, but has Stlth++++
    in place of rElec.
  - Quicksilver Dragon Armour: slightly heavier than Mottled Dragon Armour,
    with much better AC & MR+, but unenchantable. (Always +0.)
  - Phantom mirrors: one-use evocables that create a temporary friendly clone
    of targeted monsters.
  - The Iron Rod, which fires a spray of shrapnel in a wide arc. Extremely
    effective against agile, low-AC enemies, but ineffective against armoured
    enemies or at a distance.
  - The Akashic Record, a new high-level Translocations book.
  - Potions of ambrosia, which give substantial health & magic regeneration for
    a short period, but also confuse the user; if the confusion ends, so does
    regeneration.
* Regeneration has been moved from rings to amulets.
* Corrosion resistance can now occur on artefact armour.
* Artefact generation has been generally reworked.
* Scale mail now only has 10 ER, down from 11.
* Unrand changes:
  - The Ring of Vitality is now the Amulet of Vitality.
  - The captain's cutlass is now +5 (was +10) and can disarm enemies.
  - The Hat of the Alchemist is now -2 (rElec rPois rF rC rN MR rMut rCorr).
  - Maxwell's Patent Armour now gives rCorr rElec instead of rF+ rC+.
  - The arbalest Hellfire has had its explosion damage roughly doubled.
  - The dark maul has had both its base damage & enchantment increased.
* All food other than rations, chunks, and royal jellies now takes one turn
  to eat.
* Potions of blood no longer give nutrition for non-vampires.
* All short blades now do piercing damage.
* Weapons other than short blades & felid claws are all now equally good at
  stabbing.
* Light armour now has a small spellcast success penalty.
* Elemental evocables now charge & discharge on a type-by-type basis, rather
  than individually for each item.
* The Box of Beasts and Rod of Shadows are now considerably stronger.
* The lantern of shadows now drains MP while in use, and ceases to function
  once its wielder runs dry.
* Steel ammo no longer has a decreased mulch rate.
* Large rocks no longer have randomized range.
* Renamed items:
  - Cutlasses are now rapiers.
  - Bastard swords are now double swords.
  - Claymores are now triple swords.
  - Cloaks of darkness are now cloaks of invisibility.
* Removed items:
  - Boots of jumping.
  - Potions of confusion, porridge and coagulated blood.
  - Blessed Blades.
  - Rods of Striking.
  - Tomes of Destruction.
  - The book of Wizardry.
  - The Spear of the Botono.
  - The blowgun of the Assassin.


Cards
-----
* All characters can now evoke decks from the inventory.
* If one's god would disapprove of a card's effects, they will block the
  blasphemous effects in question as it is drawn.
* New cards.
  - Elements, which summons three beasts of the four elements.
  - Rangers, which summons two or three ranged-missile users.
  - Placid Magic, which removes all status effects and applies heavy antimagic
    to all creatures in sight, including the user.
  - Water, which creates temporary pools of shallow water & summoned elemental
    allies.
* Revamped destruction cards:
  - Storm has replaced rain and swiftness with summoning air elementals, or
    thunder clouds alongside a wind blast.
  - Pain has lost Torment and can now summon a flayed ghost to instantly apply
    its flaying effect to living targets.
  - Venom has lost Sting for earlier Venom Bolts and Poison Arrows, but at low
    power will briefly make the user vulnerable to poison.
  - Degeneration now applies a temporary malmutated effect to targets, along
    with polymorphing them to creatures with lower HD. Undead are dazed.
  - Vitriol now can provide Corrosive Bolts at higher power.
  - Orb bursts will now attempt to home on monsters they might reasonably hit.
* Revamped battle cards:
  - Potion has strictly-negative effects taken out, and will also apply its
    effects to allies if possible.
  - Blade now solely gives a cleaving status (which does not stack with the
    reaching of polearms or the original cleaving of axes, but will otherwise
    apply to all forms of weapon / unarmed attack.)
  - Helm can apply Stoneskin or Shroud of Golubria effects to allies at high
    power.
  - Elixir gives a small amount of temporary vitality to your allies, alongside
    its restorative effects to the user.
  - Shadow gives the darkness status (reduced LOS) instead of invisibility.
  - Dowsing is now significantly stronger in duration and range.
* Revamped summoning cards:
  - Pentagram now summons a more constrained set of demons (stronger at
    lower power and weaker at high power), and an additional accompanying
    hell hound, rakshasa, or pandemonium lord.
  - Dance has replaced its short swords with quarterstaves and its dire flails
    with executioner's axes. It also has a chance of summoning a randart.
  - Foxfire has lost butterflies and gained ravens.
  - Repulsiveness can now summon both an ugly thing and a very ugly thing, and
    always summons at least one friendly ugly thing if any hostiles are made.
* Revamped emergency cards:
  - Cloud surrounds all hostile monsters with varying types of clouds,
    instead of randomly scattering clouds in all valid places in sight.
  - Shaft now randomly places shafts under other monsters as well.
  - Tomb can now raise rock walls on stone stairs and deep water.
  - Velocity will always apply an overall-positive effect (with allies present).
  - Banshee now drains victims, in addition to causing fear.
  - Solitude can now cause Disjunction at high power.
* Wild Magic now affects enemies instead of the player, and restores magic for
  each enemy so affected. It has moved from the Deck of Punishment to the Deck
  of Wonders.
* Dowsing is no longer in the deck of battle.
* Decks of war have lost their set of destruction cards.
* The Cloud card has moved from decks of destruction to decks of emergency.
* Removed cards: Metamorphosis, Herd, Bones.

Gods
----
* New god: Gozag the Greedy. Gozag is a temple god, with an altar either in
  Temple or on D:2-9.
  - Charges a service fee for joining, dependent on the amount of gold that
    has been generated in the game.
  - Does not have piety.
  - Defeated enemies turn to gold; these gold piles distract nearby
    creatures, causing them to sometimes not act.
  - Potion Petition: purchase one set of potion effects. The first use is free.
  - Call Merchant: fund a merchant to set up shop somewhere near to areas
    of the dungeon you have explored.
  - Bribe Branch: send money to the inhabitants of a branch to turn them
    temporarily neutral or incite them to join you.
* New god: Ru the Awakened. Ru is a temple god, with an altar either in
  Temple or on D:2-9.
  - Periodically offers the player a choice of three permanent sacrifices in
    exchange for piety; all abilities scale with piety; piety never decreases.
  - Leaving Ru leaves all your sacrifices in place, but incurs no wrath.
  - 1*: Enemies may fail to attack you or even attack each other instead.
  - 2*: Enemies that hurt you may be punished with status effects.
  - 3*: Draw Out Power: restore health and mana to yourself, break free of webs
        and constriction, and cure confusion and petrification. Inflicts minor
        self-drain and short exhaustion.
  - 4*: Power Leap: Blinks you three tiles and deals high AOE damage at your
        destination. Inflicts medium exhaustion.
  - 5*: Apocalypse: Deals very high damage to all monsters in LOS and inflicts
        statuses. Inflicts heavy drain and exhaustion.
* All gods now treat followers' kills the same as the player's, for purposes of
  piety gain.
* Makhleb and Okawaru no longer support corpse sacrifice.
* Dithmenos now specifically hates fire; Corona and related effects are now
  permitted to Dithmenos's worshippers.
* Nemelex Xobeh:
  - Draw One and Peek at Two are no more.
  - Cards have been changed thoroughly over once more.
  - Nemelex now grants destruction decks again.
* While following TSO, enemies will no longer be distracted by your allies.
* TSO's Divine Shield no longer benefits from Shields skill.
* Zin:
 - Hell effect protection halved; now capping out at 50%, down from 100%.
 - Recite now more effective at very low Invocations.
* Elyvilon:
  - Followers can no longer pacify monsters by zapping wands of Heal Wounds.
  - Piety gain is now solely from exploration.
  - Abilities have been reworked:
    - 1*: Lesser Self-Healing (now called 'Lesser Healing')
    - 2*: Greater Heal Other (now called 'Heal Other')
    - 3*: Purification
    - 4*: Greater Self-Healing (now called 'Greater Healing')
    - 5*: Divine Vigour
* Gods that hated eating various types of creature (Beogh and the good gods)
  now hate butchering those types of creatures. Penalties for violating these
  conducts have been raised significantly.

Interface
---------
* Some effects (Shatter, banishment, etc.) now display animations.
* Monster AC, EV, and MR are now displayed as bars in their descriptions.
* Monster spell descriptions can now be examined through their descriptions, in
  the same way as books & rods.
* Odds of hex success is now displayed when targeting monsters, or when
  examining their spells.
* The screen now flashes on attempting to autoexplore with monsters in view,
  indicating where the relevant monsters are.
* Stealth is now displayed as a bar in the % screen. (The old 'stealth words')
  are still visible with @.)
* A third page has been added to the god description (^) screen, listing causes
  and effects of divine wrath.
* Xom now has a 'mood' meter, in the same place other gods have piety meters.
* Control-direction no longer tries to open or close doors.
* Derived undead (zombies, skeletons, &c) now have their full names displayed.
* Corrosion now visibly (temporarily) reduces weapons' enhancement bonuses.
* Monsters no longer appear on the minimap.
* The weapon, species, and background options allow these aspects to be
  specified in the init file, causing one to be randomly selected; a new combo
  option allows entire sets of the above to be specified, again with one being
  randomly selected.
* Added explore mode, which is a limited version of wizard mode, where the
  only benefit gained is the inability to die. No extra information is
  displayed (like in wizard mode), and no extra commands are available. As
  with wizard mode, explore mode games are not scored. Enter explore mode
  using '+'.
* ?/ has been generally improved, and a new ?/c(L)oud lookup has been added.

Stone Soup 0.15.2 (20141018)
----------------------------
* Assorted crash fixes, bug fixes, and display cleanups.
* Always weight formicid weapon acquirement towards two-handed weapons.
* Allow in-game updates to the mon_glyph option to change the glyph.
* Allow the option syntax of mon_glyph = <mon1>:<mon2> in order to set the
  colour/glyph of one monster using the base values of another monster.
* In tiles, the tile_player_tile option allows you to specify an arbitrary
  monster tile to display for your character. The options tile_weapon_offsets
  and tile_shield_offsets can be used to adjust the player weapon and shield
  location when using these custom tiles.
* For use with tile_player_tile: the old orb guardian tile, a new monster
  vampire tile, and weapon/shield offsets for various monster tiles.

Stone Soup 0.15.1 (20140915)
----------------------------
* Assorted crash fixes.
* Monsters don't benefit from player throwing skill.
* Monsters no longer flee at random on re-entering a level after a short time.
* Several messages correctly no longer appear for out-of-sight monster
  actions.
* Dithmenos' stealth bonus works properly again.
* Several spell icons that missed the initial 0.15 release.

Stone Soup 0.15 (20140828)
--------------------------
* New god: Qazlal Stormbringer.
* Nemelex Xobeh and decks in general have had many changes.
* Ranged combat has been rewritten from the ground up.
* Inventory weight limits have been removed.
* Item destruction is no more, and corrosion has a more severe but
  temporary effect.

Branches, environment
---------------------
* The Hall of Blades has been cut.
* Crypt is now three levels (was five).
* Some areas of the Tomb layout can now vary.
* Mechanical traps no longer drop ammo.
* Most randomly-placed teleport traps now disappear after one use.
* Troves asking for items require that item to be unequipped.
* The Abyss no longer sometimes blocks blinking.
* Mutagenic fog now causes large amounts of glow instead of mutating directly.

Character
---------
* Inventory item weight and player burden states are no more.
* Cross-training now gives a direct bonus to cross-trained skills, rather than
  decreasing the XP cost of learning them.
* Anti-training (for opposite elemental schools) has been removed.
* Formicids can no longer throw large rocks.
* Tengu now gain permaflight at XL14 (was 15).
* All non-undead forms can eat and drink normally.
* All forms can butcher.
* Wisp form can read scrolls and cannot blink on demand.
* Teleportitis cannot be controlled.
* Wanderers have tweaked starting kits with generally better items.
* Player clinging (seen only in Spider Form and with the boots of the Spider)
  is no more.
* Kobolds, hill orcs, and ogres are no longer saprovorous.
* Kobolds no longer have disease resistance.
* Halflings have rebalanced stats and aptitudes, shifting them towards defense.
* Ogres and centaurs no longer have a fast metabolism; halflings no longer
  have a slow metabolism.
* Centaurs are no longer herbivorous.
* Vampires:
  - always get the full effect of all potions;
  - can always mutate; and
  - always get the full effect of all mutations.
* Some Demonspawn mutations have been modified:
  - The Foul Stench facet gives rot immunity earlier and separately instead of
    saprovore.
  - Facets which gave potion/scroll item conservation now give freezing/fire
    cloud immunity earlier and separately.
* The hoof mutation no longer gives extra damage or a stealth penalty for
  players wearing boots.
* Player rPois now gives a consistent 2/3rds resistance to poison effects; this
  is lower than the previous resistance to poisoning, but higher than the old
  resistance to direct poison damage. "Strong poison" effects no longer punch
  through rPois, and paralytic stings (wasps) can now slow through rPois.

Monsters
--------
* Many enemy glyphs have been adjusted. See 0.14_monster_glyphs.txt.
* Monsters will no longer pick up items that the player has seen. Allies won't
  pick up items at all.
* Corrosion affects all of your equipment, but only temporarily, and the chance
  to corrode equipment does not consider item enchantment.
* Draining effects no longer permanently reduce monsters' stats ('hit dice');
  instead, they apply a temporary status which reduces hit dice for the
  duration.
* Monsters no longer fall asleep after long periods of time.
* New monster: ghost crabs, found in Crypt. They breathe ghostly flames that
  call dangerous specters into existence.
* New monster: torpor snails, found in Lair and Spider. Their enemies are
  slowed on sight, somewhat like ancient zymes.
* Enemies are more intelligent about using area-of-attack spells such as
  Symbol of Torment and Chain Lightning even when you are not in sight.
* Komodo dragons now bite harder but don't sicken the player.
* Purple ugly things deal extra damage in lieu of a sickness attack.
* Deep dwarf death knights are now just death knights.
* Manticores now move as fast as the player, and have an unlimited number of
  spike volleys.
* Base draconians can become nonbase draconians with experience.
* Undead and nonliving enemies regenerate as fast as other enemies.
* Silver statues and orange crystal statues are immune to disintegration,
  but have less health and AC and have their abilities converted to spells
  such that they spam less; this implies OCS confusion can be resisted.
* Bog bodies no longer randomly rot.
* Undead monsters will now fall to pieces in deep water, instead of hiding
  invisibly.
* Curse skulls are now immobile, again.
* Lost souls now make enemies into ghosts instead of specters.
* Spriggan riders now ride wasps.
* Ugly & very ugly things are now dramatically nastier.
* Cherub's hymns can buff any allies, not just those with higher HDs.
* Killing holy monsters no longer invokes cleansing flame on the perpetrator.
* Ghouls and necrophages can no longer equip weapons or armour.
* Mimics no longer mimic doors, statues, fountains or hatches.
* Each unique now has a special title, shown when you first see them or in the
  description screen.
* Removed enemies: vapours, thorn lotuses, giant goldfish, silver stars,
  flaming corpses, grizzly bears, spriggan enchanters, phoenixes, shedu,
  plague shamblers, giant slugs, elephant slugs, giant fireflies, brown oozes,
  pulsating lumps, big fish, sharks, lava worms.

Spells
------
* Dazzling Spray replaces Invisibility in the book of Maledictions (the
  Enchanter starting spellbook). Invisibility in turn replaces Apportation
  in the book of Burglary.
* Casting Ozocubu's Refrigeration now prevents the player from using potions
  for several turns instead of destroying potions.
* Spider Form now moves at normal speed, and no longer gives clinging.
* Tukima's Dance now animates weapons held by monsters. The weapons will fight
  against their former owners. It is also now level 3.
* Confusing Touch now has a short, non-stacking duration which discharges
  entirely when it successfully confuses an enemy. While it's in effect, your
  attacks do no damage. It's been moved to level 2.
* Sublimation of Blood no longer uses chunks; it now only draws from the
  caster's HP. Fedhas now permits its use.
* Simulacrum now works on a single corpse at the caster's feet, creating
  several simulacra from it.
* Monsters casting Simulacrum now affect all corpses in LOS, producing half as
  many simulacra as the player version of the spell.
* Many spells, which used player skill, now use spellpower instead: Death's
  Door, Passwall, Sticks to Snakes, Ozocubu's Armour, Condensation Shield,
  Stoneskin, Statue Form, and Ice Form.
* Shatter is now always full-LOS-ranged, instead of depending on Earth skill.
* Statue Form no longer gives -10 EV.
* Death Channel lasts twice as long.
* The Book of War Chants is no more.
* Removed spells: Fire Brand, Freezing Aura, Lethal Infusion, Poison Weapon,
  Summon Elemental.

Items
-----
* Item destruction is no more.
* Ranged combat has been rewritten based on melee attacks - AC and EV
  has more of an impact, attack delay is more predictable, and Throwing
  should be more viable as a ranged option as compared to bows and crossbows,
  among other changes.
  - Slings have been split into two weapon types; the basic type has been
    renamed to 'hunting sling', and a new, rare 'greatsling' has been added.
  - Crossbows have been split into three types. The hand crossbow returns as
    a starting weapon; the basic crossbow has been renamed to an 'arbalest';
    and a new, rare 'triple crossbow' type has been added.
  - (Plain) bows have been renamed to shortbows.
* Weapon enchantment & slaying bonuses have been merged into a single number,
  giving both +accuracy & +damage. Scrolls of enchant weapon I, II, and III
  have all been merged into a new "enchant weapon" scroll. The scrolls are
  rarer, but always succeed.
* Shields have been rebalanced. All non-shield-enchantment sources of SH have
  been halved, and the effectiveness of SH at blocking attacks has been
  doubled, to make the utility of a point of SH roughly equivalent to a point
  of EV. In effect, this is a small buff. Non-bucklers can now be enchanted
  past +3.
* Multiple changes to unrandarts:
  - The blowgun of the Assassin returns; it has a chance to affect the target
    more than normal blowguns.
  - New unrand: the +8 orange crystal plate armour {Archmagi, Int+3 Clar
    SustAb}.
  - New unrand: the +6 Majin-Bo {vamp, Archmagi, MP+6 Int+6}. A quarterstaff
    that takes HP every time you cast a spell.
  - The dagger of Chilly Death now sometimes flash-freezes enemies, slowing
    their movement, and the scimitar of Flaming Death now sometimes applies
    sticky flame to its victims.
  - Leech is now +8, with -2 to all stats (instead of -1), and -2 to both AC
    and EV.
  - Skullcrusher is now +3 with +7 strength.
  - The Trident of the Octopus King now starts at +8 and gets an additional +
    for each Ring of the Octopus King worn. If anyone reads this & gets it to
    +10 or higher in an actual game, send screenshots!
  - Punk is now a +7 greatsling {Freeze, rC+}.
  - Sniper is now a "heavy crossbow", a triple crossbow with 27 base delay.
  - The Mace of Brilliance is now the +1 Eveningstar "Brilliance".
  - Many other weapon artefacts have had their enchantments tweaked.
  - Maxwell's Patent Armour now gives rF+ rC+ instead of Conservation.
  - The Shield of Resistance, Shield of the Gong, and Large Shield of Ignorance
    have had their enchantment levels adjusted.
  - Removed unrands: the boots of the Spider.
* Branding changes:
  - Scrolls of brand weapon will no longer make temporary brands permanent,
    but can now randomly apply any brand to an unbranded weapon.
  - Blessed weapons can be rebranded.
  - Rebranding a distortion weapon no longer causes a distortion effect.
  - Branded non-artefact weapons can now be given a temporary re-brand.
  - Damage from the electrocution brand has been reduced slightly.
  - Draining now triggers somewhat less often, but will cause monsters to be
    temporarily drained whenever it does fire.
  - The dragonslaying brand is no longer generated. (Wyrmbane still has it.)
* Food changes:
  - Honeycombs have been renamed to royal jellies; they don't restore
    abilities.
  - Potions of blood cure a point of ghoul rotting.
  - All types of fruit have been merged together into one gooey, messy item
    type.
  - Brown (contaminated) chunks are gone, replaced with normal ones.
  - Cheese, sausages, and ambrosia are no more.
* New item: potion of cancellation, which removes enchantments & contamination
  on the player.
* Scrolls of vulnerability have been simplified; they now just halve MR for all
  creatures in LOS.
* Cancellation-type effects (from the potion, quicksilver dragons, etc) now
  reduce transformation durations to one turn, rather than cancelling them
  immediately.
* Identify scrolls now always identify a single item.
* Jewellery automatically identifies once equipped.
* Amulets of inaccuracy are always cursed.
* New rings of stealth and loudness, which positively/negatively adjust
  a player's stealth.
* Amulets of rage no longer have a tiny chance of extending berserk duration.
* Sacks of spiders now place webs directly onto enemies, rather than spreading
  them randomly around the area.
* Cleaving hits the full eight squares around a player, when not blocked by
  walls.
* Putting on or taking off armour now always takes five turns.
* Scrolls of magic mapping now show 100% of the map.
* Gloves of archery no longer penalise melee.
* Sustain abilities effects no longer stack.
* Amulets of resist corrosion now give only 50% corrosion resistance, from 90%.
* Potions of resistance now grant corrosion resistance.
* Staves of air now activate extra melee damage as often as other elemental
  staves.
* Flying creatures no longer have a 2/3rds chance of dodging thrown nets.
* Weapons and armour which aren't visibly enchanted no longer have enchantments
  higher than +0.
* Corpses and skeletons are stationary, and can't be picked up nor apported.
* Other removed items: darts, rings of hunger and sustenance, amulet of
  conservation, cloak of preservation, potions of strong poison and paralysis.

Cards
-----
* New cards.
  - Fortitude, which gives Damage Shaving and a bonus to strength.
  - Storm, which can make shallow water, a tornado, or cause swiftness.
  - Cloud, which spawns dangerous clouds around the user and on hostiles.
  - Degeneration, which polymorphs nearby monsters into weaker ones.
  - Shaft, which creates a shaft under the player. This is an old effect of the
    Flight card.
  - Illusion, which summons an illusion of the player.
* Revamped cards.
  - Velocity card now hastes the slow and slows hasty rather than simply
    speeding up the player.
  - Potion card has a new list of effects.
* The Mercenary card can generate base demonspawn instead of spriggan riders.
* Decks of war now contain the Dowsing and Potion cards.
* Decks of dungeon are no more.
* Removed cards: Experience, Sage, Water, Vitrification, Trowel, Minefield,
  Shuffle, Warp, Portal, Frost, Flame, Spark, Flight, Battlelust, and Genie.

Gods
----
* New god: Qazlal Stormbringer. Qazlal is a temple god, with an altar either in
  Temple or on D:2-9.
  - Piety on kills.
  - All followers are immune from their own clouds.
  - 1*: Storm Shield: you passively generate elemental clouds around you and
        gain bonus SH, and gain RMsl at 3*; you also generate a lot of
        noise.
  - 2*: Upheaval: blast a small nearby area with elemental forces.
  - 3*: Elemental Force: turn nearby clouds into elementals.
  - 4*: Elemental Adaptation: taking elemental or physical damage sometimes
        temporarily grants you resistance against that element.
  - 5*: Disaster Area: blast the entire area around you with elemental
        forces.
* Nemelex has been revamped.
  - Nemelex only gives piety for exploration rather than item sacrifices or
    deck usage.
  - Peek at Two now reveals the top cards of a deck but cannot be used with
    other Nemelex abilities.
  - Nemelex now only gifts decks of war and escape.
  - Various cards have been changed, added, or removed. See the Cards section
    for details.
* Beoghites can now gift items directly to their followers at high piety.
* Beogh will now improve allies' equipment, and outright gift weapons, armour,
  and ammo to orcs who lack them.
* Followers of good gods no longer get a chance to turn holy enemies neutral.
* Zin's Recite no longer prompts for a book, instead affecting all monsters
  in sight with the strongest effects that would impact them.
* Ashenzari now counts Felids as fully bound when all of their jewellery slots
  are cursed.
* Sif Muna wrath can no longer cause amnesia.
* Gods that give missile gifts can do so sooner.

Interface
---------
* Monsters with special melee attacks (e.g. poison, fire) have this noted in
  their descriptions.
* Unique enemies are now announced by their proper titles when first appearing.
* Ctrl-T now displays the weapons that enemies are carrying, in console.
* New tile_show_player_species option; when enabled, uses the monster tile
  instead of the player race one.
* Ability and spell icons have been reworked.
* There are status lights for Might, Agility, and Brilliance.

Stone Soup 0.14.2 (20140827)
----------------------------
* More crash fixes.
* Some text fixes.
* Transformations no longer allow the character to wield too-large weapons.
* The tutorial skill screen now allows skills to be toggled again.
* Artefact and non-artefact rings are now distinguished properly when swapping
  rings.

Stone Soup 0.14.1 (20140428)
----------------------------
* Several crash fixes.
* Fire dragons correctly grant bonus Dithmenos piety.
* Ranged attacks from invisible monsters correctly turn off autopickup.
* Good gods punish the player properly for negative energy clouds.
* Natasha no longer revives after being pacified, and does not get a new
  item when reviving.
* When playing a race with permanent flight ability, it is now possible to
  remove an item granting flight over dangerous terrain.
* Wanderers do not occasionally get more MP than other backgrounds.

Stone Soup 0.14 (20140409)
--------------------------
* The lower half of D is now a new branch, the Depths.
* Two new species: Formicids and Vine Stalkers.
* A new deity: Dithmenos the Shadowed.
* Greatly revised monster sets in the Lair branches.
* Greatly revised summoning spell sets.

Branches, environment
---------------------
* The main Dungeon is now fifteen levels.
* A new branch: the Depths; entered from the end of Dungeon, it is five levels
  long and contains the entrance to the Realm of Zot.
* The Vaults are now entered from D:13-14 and need a rune to enter.
* Abyssal stairs appear more frequently, and are fixed with depth.
* Ziggurats require only three runes to enter; an entrance is guaranteed
  in Depths, but still spawn as normal in Pan.
* Portals are no longer closed when carrying the Orb of Zot.
* The Horn of Geryon is no longer necessary for entering Hell branches.
* Labyrinths contain more enemies, and the minotaur is normally awake.
* More Ziggurat enemy sets.
* Crypt endings now contain some pieces of thematic loot: draining and/or
  pain and/or vampiric weapons, rings of positive energy and amulets of
  warding, one of several unrands, the Necronomicon, or evokers/staves.
* Easy ice cave portals now appear only in D, Lair, and Orc; hard ice cave
  portals appear in Elf and rotating Lair branches.
* Portal timers have been generally shortened and made more consistent with
  each other; additionally, the shorter timer started upon first seeing them
  has been removed.
* The layout of the last level of the Vaults has been changed, with all four
  subsections being open at each corner.
* Gadget shops and wand shops have been merged; the resulting gadget shops
  now also sell rods.
* The price of items in shops has been recalibrated.
* Pandemonium exits occur more frequently as the player obtains runes from
  Pandemonium.

Character
---------
* New species:
    - Formicids possess four strong arms to use large weapons together with
      shields, in addition to strong natural digging abilities and a permanent
      stasis effect.
    - Vine stalkers regenerate quickly, but cannot heal with wands or
      potions; they possess innate spirit shield and an anti-magic bite.
* Felids have an innate jump attack ability, allowing them to jump over
  other monsters and attack their target in a single turn.
* Felids can use wands.
* Demonspawns' negative energy facet has the second level of rN replaced by
  "black mark," which gives melee attacks a chance to heal the player and apply
  a bad status to the victim.
* The first two levels of the slow healing mutation only affect rates of
  healing when enemies are in sight (half and no healing for those levels
  respectively). Stat regeneration and the third level of the mutation
  are unchanged.
* Fast/slow movement mutations no longer occur randomly.
* Recommended backgrounds and species have been adjusted; in particular,
  backgrounds can recommend species that don't necessarily recommend that
  background and vice versa (e.g. CK -> Tr may be recommended whereas Tr -> CK
  is not).
* Poison damage is now deterministic.
* The antennae mutation gives invisible monster indicators for every invisible
  enemy in LOS.
* Merfolk can now be mesmerised by mermaids and sirens.
* Artificers, Wanderers, Assassins, and Venom Mages no longer start with
  knowledge of potions and scrolls they don't possess.
* Fighters and Gladiators start with higher-tier weapons.
* Fighers start with a potion of might.
* Demonspawn icemail now restores all at once, instead of gradually, and is
  not disrupted by casting fire spells.

Monsters
--------
* Guardian serpents no longer have Teleport Other; instead they get
  Blink Allies Encircle.
* Lom Lobon can now cast Tornado.
* The plain "dragon" is now known as "fire dragon".
* Dragons, drakes, crabs, and acid blobs no longer flee at low health.
* Jellies once again split.
* Monsters are subject to summon caps.
* Summoned creatures are dismissed upon the death of their summoner.
* Word of Recall is now subject to a breath timer, and can be interrupted
  by causing a breath timeout (with e.g. curare).
* Minotaurs appearing naturally outside of labyrinths now come with
  equipment.
* Abominations don't heal naturally; those created from spells can heal
  by melding further with crawling corpses and macabre masses.
* New enemies:
    - Fauns, who hex the player before attacking from afar, and their larger
      brethren satyrs, who can empower their nearby allies.
    - Wind drakes, who can breathe powerful blasts of wind and airstrike the
      player.
    - Thorn lotuses, plants adrift on the water that pepper the player with
      thorns fired from afar.
    - Thorn hunters, who fire volleys of thorns and create briar patches to
      impede their foes' movements.
    - Dryads, who turn the forest against you by casting Awaken Forest like
      spriggan druids and summoning snaplasher vines that pull their enemies
      around.
    - Water nymphs, who passively form a pool of water around themselves
      and strike down the player with said water.
    - Shambling mangroves, slow-moving, tough plants home to a nest of ravens
      or wasps.
    - Raiju, which can attack by transforming themselves into a bolt of
      lightning.
    - Worldbinders, abyssal enemies which summon low tier enemies from other
      branches.
    - Shock serpents, who build up electrical energy for a static discharge;
    - Mana vipers, snakes with an antimagic bite;
    - Naga sharpshooters, who snipe at the player with Portal Projectile;
    - Naga ritualists, who can amplify poison in enemies and also cast
      Olgreb's Toxic Radiance;
    - Salamander mystics, with Bolt of Magma, Haste Other, a single-target
      version of Ignite Poison, and Iskenderun's Mystic Blast;
    - Salamander firebrands, whose attacks cause a ring of flames to appear
      around the target.
    - Octopode crushers, who can throw both the victims they constrict as well
      as icicles.
* A new set of enemies based on demonspawn, appearing in Pan.
    - Base types:
        - monstrous (auxiliary attacks and more HP);
        - gelid (rC++ and icemail - bonus AC which dissipates on fire damage);
        - infernal (rF++ and fire attacks);
        - putrid (rPois, gains HP on nearby kills);
        - torturous (augmentation, powered by pain, and spines).
      - Classes:
        - blood saint (Legendary Destruction, which casts random powerful
          conjurations, and Ephemeral Infusion, which temporarily heals
          nearby allies);
        - chaos champions (Chaotic Reflection, which inflicts a random hex-like
          effect on itself and the target, and Random Bolt as per the rod
          of destruction);
        - warmongers (Grand Avatar, essentially a hybrid battlesphere and
          spectral weapon which triggers on sufficiently damaging attacks of
          nearby allies, and Sap Magic, a hex which hinders spellcasting success
          progressively as spells are cast);
        - corrupters (Plane Rend, which summons high tier enemies from other
          branches, and Corrupt Body, which inflicts a small set of temporary
          mutations);
        - black suns (Black Mark, which empowers nearby allies with various
          draining attacks that heal on hit, and previously existing spells
          Bolt of Draining, Malign Offering, and Dispel Undead).
* Adjustments to lair branch enemies:
    - Spriggan druids' Druid's Call now calls 2-3 creatures out of LOS nearby
      and does not invisibly might creatures; instead, nearby creatures
      are healed and frenzied on their death. Stone Arrow also replaces
      Sunray in their spell set.
    - Siren songs' pulling effects are now irresistible if the player is
      already mesmerised.
    - Siren songs call drowned souls, weak temporary enemies with a drowning
      attack.
    - Manticores' spines now embed themselves in targets, causing damage while
      moving until a few turns is spent doing nothing to remove them.
    - Harpies no longer steal food or eat food off of the ground.
    - Plain salamanders have been weakened, and all salamanders can slither
      around on land.
* Adjustments to other enemies:
    - Quokkas are speed 12 (making them effectively identical to grey rats).
    - Boggarts are more durable.
    - Rakshasas gain a monster spell "Phantom Mirror", which summons
      a clone of a nearby allied monster with half the hit points, with
      a 50% chance of swapping the clone for the original; this replaces
      their previous self-cloning abilities. They can now also cast
      Iskenderun's Mystic Blast and will summon two clones of themselves
      at 50% HP as a one-time effect.
    - Giant orange brains get Mass Confusion instead of Confusion.
    - Spriggans in general now merely have fast movement speed instead of
      fast speed in general, more damage and less EV.
    - Spriggan air mages have Haste (replacing Shock).
    - Deep elf demonologists summon more greater demons instead of minor
      demons.
    - Draconian knights have fewer but distinct spell sets focusing on
      ice and necromancy.
    - Gargoyles and molten gargoyles now have Stone Arrow and Bolt of
      Magma respectively, and generate with mace-type weapons.
    - Metal gargoyles are now war gargoyles - fast and with the ability to
      fire metal fragments at targets.
    - Crystal golems are now crystal guardians - less health, but with the
      ability to fire crystal bolts that bounce off of all walls and deal
      either fire or cold damage on a per-bolt basis.
    - Ravens and eldritch tentacles no longer eat corpses.
* New uniques:
    - Asterion, a minotaur of Makhleb who flings Major Destruction and
      can employ Spectral Weapon with his demon weapon;
    - Natasha, a felid ex-familiar with minor spellcasting abilities;
    - Vashnia, leader of a squad of naga sharpshooters with translocational
      ability to match.
* Moths of suppression, rock worms, lava fish, lemures, jellyfish, grey rats,
  spiny worms, giant amoebae, deep dwarf berserkers, agate snails, giant
  centipedes, rotting devils, clay golems, and stone golems are no more.
* Ball lightnings are no longer permanently confused, instead seeking out
  targets like giant spores.
* Killer Klowns have a different set of possible damage brands: strong
  poison, pain, drain speed, fire, cold, electric, and anti-magic.
* Flying enemies are no longer immune to throwing nets.
* Geryon can fly once again.
* Antaeus gains Flash Freeze, an ice conjuration which impedes the target's
  movement for three turns.
* Player ghosts can retain and cast dazzling spray, which has a chance to cause
  a confusion effect against the player.
* All pandemonium lords now see invisible.
* The Enchantress now appears as a normal unique in the Depths.
* Josephine has a new spell set - Ghostly Fireball, Dispel Undead, Vampiric
  Draining, and Animate Dead - and rN+++.
* Lamia has been de-throned.

Spells
------
* Resisting an enchantment now displays a message showing how difficult in
  general the target will be to enchant, rather than how well or how poorly
  they fared on that particular resistance roll.
* New spells:
    - Summon Lightning Spire (L4 Summoning/Air), which places a lightning
      spire up to two squares away from the player; it replaces Summon
      Scorpions in the book of Callings.
    - Summon Guardian Golem (L4 Summoning/Charms), which creates a golem
      that protects the player with Injury Bond and occasionally explodes
      on death; appears in the book of Callings.
    - Summon Forest (L5 Summoning/Translocations), which summons a dryad
      and temporarily converts terrain near the player to forest; it
      is in the Book of the Warp.
    - Summon Mana Viper (L5 Summoning/Hexes); it appears in the Book of
      Beasts.
    - Monstrous Menagerie (L6 Summoning), which summons a manticore, some
      harpies, a lindwurm, or a sphinx (at high spellpower); it appears in
      the book of Beasts and the book of Summonings (replacing Summon
      Ugly Thing).
    - Forceful Dismissal (L6 Summoning), which ends all player summons
      and damages enemies next to them; it appears in the Grand Grimoire.
    - Aura of Abjuration (L6 Summoning), a less powerful but per-turn mass
      abjuration effect; it replaces Mass Abjuration in the Grand Grimoire.
    - Spellforged Servitor (L7 Conjuration/Summoning), which summons a
      servitor with a subset of the player's most destructive conjurations;
      it replaces Fireball in the book of Wizardry.
    - Glaciate (L9 Ice/Conjurations), which fires a great blast of ice in
      a cone, turning slain monsters into blocks of ice and Flash Freezing the
      survivors; it replaces Ice Storm in the Book of Annihilations.
    - Dragon's Call (L9 Summoning), which for its duration of effect summons
      dragons near targets at the end of LOS (at the full spell cost per
      summon); replaces Summon Dragon in the Book of the Dragon.
* Sticks to Snakes only works on missiles (arrows and javelins) now.
* Conjure Ball Lightning has been reduced from level 7 to 6, and the
  duration of the ball lightning has been lowered.
* Metabolic Englaciation has been reduced from level 6 to 5, and the slow
  duration is cumulative across casts.
* Bolt of Draining has been reduced from level 6 to 5.
* Fulminant Prism has been reduced from level 5 to 4.
* Iskenderun's Battlesphere has been increased from level 4 to 5.
* Ozocubu's Armour now has an encumbrance cap of 4, rendering it no longer
  usable with mottled dragon armour.
* Song of Slaying has an increased duration and grants more slaying, but
  is subject to a lower power cap.
* Swiftness now induces a period of sluggishness after it expires, and
  can't be stacked.
* Several special cases for LRD damage types have been removed; ice, bone,
  stone and rock (including petrified enemies) all result in the same
  explosion.
* Orb of Destruction now only appears in the Book of Power (was also in
  Annihilations).
* Call Canine Familiar now only summons one canine, and does not summon
  jackals.
* Repel and Deflect Missiles now expire on a per-deflection basis rather than
  being a duration.
* Portal Projectile is now a duration, rather than firing individual
  projectiles.
* All clouds caused by the player will dissipate much faster outside of your
  line of sight.
* Orbs of destruction don't explode if they collide with another orb of
  destruction before travelling more than a short distance.
* Removed spells: Dig, Summon Scorpions, Song of Shielding, Polymorph, Ice
  Storm, Demonic Horde, Summon Ugly Thing, Summon Dragon, Mass Abjuration.

Items
-----
* The Orb of Zot no longer takes up an inventory slot.
* Weapons are identified immediately on wield.
* Wands are identified immediately on zapping.
* Elemental evokers now recharge one at a time, with the one closest to
  full recharging charging first.
* Items on the ground are no longer subject to item destruction.
* Mottled dragon armour now has an encumbrance rating of 5 (was 4).
* The jumping ego (available only on boots) gives a jump attack ability
  like that of felids.
* The reaching brand for whips is no more.
* Enchantment-like effects of chaos projectiles are now irresistible.
* Spears, daggers, clubs, and hand axes are no longer good for throwing.
* New "tomahawk" item: a throwing missile, usable by all non-felids, between
  darts and javelins in damage.
    - Small race hunters and arcane marksmen may select tomahawks.
* New "potion of lignification" - induces tree form.
* Small species can use throwing nets.
* Throwing nets do not degrade: instead, they have a chance to be destroyed
  like other projectiles.
* Multiple changes to unrandarts:
    - Piercer gets the penetration brand (was vorpal).
    - Boots of the Assassin return in a new form: they now detect monsters and
      allow short-blade-quality stabbing with any weapon (or unarmed).
    - Hellfire now shoots hellfire bolts, dealing hellfire-branded damage and
      exploding.
    - The Elemental Staff is reworked considerably - it grants rElec, rF++,
      rC++, MR++, AC+5, and randomly deals elemental-branded attacks based
      on the user's Evocations skill.
    - The skin of Zhor now grants rC+++.
    - Leech drains HP on all hits (instead of 3/5 for other vampiric weapons).
    - Sniper is now a +15 vorpal crossbow with a slower rate of fire.
    - Snakebite is now a +5 venom whip that applies a curare effect on two out
      of five hits.
    - The Singing Sword is now a bastard sword.
    - The shield of the gong is now +27 with -5 EV.
    - The ring of Shadows now has an umbra instead of +4 EV and -4 Acc.
    - New unrand: "macabre finger necklace" - gives warding and an extra ring
      slot.
    - New unrand: "boots of the Spider" - gives clinging and jump attack.
    - New unrand: "dark maul" - a very large, very slow two-handed weapon using
      the Maces and Flails skill.
    - New unrand: "hat of the High Council" - spellpower at the expense of
      spell success rates.
    - New unrand: "arc blade" - a cutlass which inflicts discharges of static
      electricity on targets it hits.
    - New unrand: "Spellbinder" - an antimagic demon whip which inflicts
      miscasts on magic-using targets.
    - New unrand: "lajatang of Order" - does silver damage (like the ammunition
      brand) and grants resistance to mutation.
    - New unrand: "Firestarter" - a +7 great mace {flame, rF++} which protects
      scrolls from fire damage and inner flames targets it hits.
    - The blowgun of the Assassin, Bullseye, and Lehudib's Crystal Spear (the
      unrandart) are gone.
* Potions with known type that would have no effect can no longer be quaffed
  at all.
* Potions other than potions of porridge and blood no longer give nutrition.
* All gauntlets and bracers are now gloves.
* All caps and wizard hats are now plain "hats".
* Great maces deal slightly less damage and are much less available than
  before.
* All scrolls now identify on read.
* The last healing potion is automatically identified assuming knowledge that
  it is a healing potion.
* Magical penetrating projectiles now pierce shields.
* Ponderous items reduce movement delay by -1 (was -2), to match running
  items.
* Electrocution weapons no longer cause discharges on targets in water.
* Wearing body armour / rings no longer requires removing cloaks / gloves
  first.
* Scrolls are destroyed less frequently by sticky flame.
* Gold dragon armour, crystal plate armour, and plate armour have had their
  encumbrance ratings reduced (27 -> 25, 24 -> 23, and 19 -> 18 respectively).
* The speed brand now grants 2/3 weapon delay and no damage reduction (was
  1/2 delay and 10% damage reduction for melee weapons).
* Racial equipment is no more.
* Many changes to rods:
    - The rod of destruction now fires random bolts instead of having a pre-set
      selection.
    - New rod: rod of ignition, which fires a bolt that explodes a fireball on
      every target hit in a line.
    - New rod: rod of shadows, which summons Shadow Creatures from a depth in
      the dungeon roughly equivalent to the user's skill with Evocations,
      drawing out-of-depth spawns after 15.
    - New rod: rod of clouds, which creates various clouds based on power,
      with high skill giving several new types of clouds.
    - The rods of warding, venom, demonology, fiery destruction, and frigid
      destruction are gone.
* The Horn of Geryon has been reworked into an XP-charged evokable, summoning
  1-4 hell beasts whose friendliness depends on evocations power.
* Renamed items:
    - Sabres are now cutlasses (and the captain's cutlass has been adjusted to
      match);
    - Double swords are now bastard swords;
    - Triple swords are now claymores;
    - Potions of speed are now potions of haste.
* Scrolls of vulnerability are now more common.
* Curse scrolls and potions of blood no longer randomly generate.
* All curse scrolls now accept targets (as though the player was worshipping
  Ashenzari in previous versions).
* Magic resistance-granting items now grant fixed increments of magic
  resistance (indicated on the % screen).
* Removed potions of slowing.

Cards
-----
* The Elixir card now heals over time instead of instantly.
* The Alchemist card is in decks of escape, but not wonders.
* The Bargain card has been removed.
* The Trowel card is in decks of wonder and only creates portals.
* The Battlelust card now deals primarily in might and agility at high power,
  with the delayed berserk effect now occurring at lower power.

Gods
----
* A new deity: Dithmenos the Shadowed.
  - A temple god; guaranteed an altar in Temple or somewhere on D:2-9.
  - Accepts kills of most dungeon enemies, particularly those associated
    with fire or light.
  - Dislikes use of fire and light.
  - 1* piety grants an umbra which expands with piety.
  - 2*: Shadow Step - step adjacent to an immobile target creature no further
    away than your umbra.
  - 3* piety causes the player to occasionally bleed smoke on taking
    sufficient damage.
  - 4*: Shadow Mimic - the player's shadow sometimes mimics melee and ranged
    attacks and targeted spells (so long as they're not self-targeted).
  - 5*: Shadow Form - invisibility, resistance to many effects associated
    with darkness and 50% damage resistance at the expense of skill drain,
    a 50% reduction in melee damage output and significant reduction in
    spell power.
* Gods no longer forgive the player for disliked effects of known wands
  of random effects and weapons of chaos.
* Trolls of Cheibriados hunger considerably more slowly.
* Cheibriados' Bend Time is available to all followers (was 1* ability).
* Zin and Okawaru no longer care about the deaths of allies.
* Okawaru no longer suppresses the demonic guardian Ds mutation.
* Xom effects respect clarity and sustain abilities.
* Xom's confusion now caps at 20 turns.
* Zin's Recite shows what will be affected by all of the relevant recitations.
* Lugonu followers no longer suffer distortion unwield effects.
* Yredelemnul gifts vampires instead of freezing wraiths.
* Yredelemnul armies have a maximum combined total of three profane servitors
  and bone dragons.
* Yredelemnul's servants are no longer angered when read-identifying a scroll
  of holy word.
* Nemelex no longer gifts decks of dungeons, and deck gift types are now
  independent of sacrificed item types.
* Jiyva's abilities no longer use Invocations.
* Divine wrath is now contingent on XP gain and cannot be waited out.
* Okawaru, Trog, Makhleb, Yredelemnul, and Kikubaaqudgha wrath now scales
  better with player XL.
* Vehmuet wrath now employs actual conjurations instead of miscasts.
* Makhleb wrath can now hurl destruction at the player instead of being
  limited to servant summoning.
* All skills eventually trainable by divine abilities can be trained
  immediately on worshipping that god (Invocations for many gods, Evocations
  for Nemelex, Necromancy for Kiku, and Shields for TSO per Divine Shield).
* Ashenzari now generates 1-3 curse scrolls per remove curse scroll.
* Innate abilities hated by your god are now marked as such.

Interface
---------
* "Automagic" functionality similar to autofight has been added through the
  options automagic_enable, automagic_stop, and automagic_fight; it can be
  used to automatically cast spells in a specified slot in combat.
* Different types of magical traps are coloured differently.
* Unnaturally hard rock walls have a new default glyph.
* The % screen has a new layout.
* You are prompted to continue wearing/unwearing armour when a monster comes
  into view.
* "pickup_mode = multi|single" is now "pickup_menu = true|false", with true
  being the default; "pickup_menu_limit" has been introduced to handle
  the old "auto:X" settings.
* The "auto_list" option has been removed.
* The WebTiles spectator box sorts names and links online player profiles.
* URLs occurring in WebTiles chat messages are hyperlinked.
* New default minimap colours.
* Examining a monster now displays the speeds at which it takes actions if
  those actions are slower or faster than its normal speed.
* arena_delay, which controls the speed of arena play and animations, is now
  available outside of arena mode as view_delay.
* Monsters get invisible monster indicators for one turn after they become
  invisible to the player.
* The shop screen layout has been revised.

Stone Soup 0.13.2 (20140404)
----------------------------
* More crash fixes.
* More message improvements.
* Long inscriptions in inventory are trimmed.
* Inscriptions can show unicode.
* Branch entrances can no longer be blocked by traps.
* Autoexplore no longer mysteriously gets stuck.
* Explore horizon no longer hides detected items.
* Wanderers cannot start with both a shield and two-handed weapon equipped.
* Avoid giving double piety for some collateral kills.
* Monsters now use the correct number of charges when zapping rods.
* Fixed various issues with inspecting unknown squares.

Stone Soup 0.13.1 (20131128)
----------------------------
* Several crash fixes.
* Several message improvements.
* Spectral weapon and battlespheres behave better with stairs.
* Wind blasts can no longer push monsters through walls.
* Shadow creatures band members don't count towards the summon cap.
* Awakened trees and flaying ghosts respect sanctuary.
* Unfinished monsters shouldn't spawn anymore, and are identified if they do.
* You can check \ when reading scrolls of identify.
* clua/gearset works again.
* Vampires can't use lich form anymore.
* A tome of destruction evoke-fest exploit is no more.
* Monsters can't swap weapons while berserk.
* Fixed several bugs related to removed or disabled species/backgrounds.

Stone Soup 0.13 (20131011)
--------------------------

0.13 highlights
---------------
* A new race: Gargoyles.
* A reimagined Skald background.
* A thorough rework of the monster set in Crypt.
* Improvements to many evokable items.
* A new item: sack of spiders.
* Massively overhauled layout generators.
* Summoning school: per-spell limits and no stair following or pulling.
* New Sprint map: linesprint.

Branches, environment
---------------------
* A new Sprint map: "|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||" by st (otherwise known as
  linesprint).
* Branches now have exactly one exit stair (except the Dungeon, which can,
  but is not guaranteed, to have more).
* Many new layouts have been added to most branches, including unique layouts
  for branches that didn't have them; and numerous tweaks and improvements
  to existing layouts.
* Vaults can now be placed at the centre of some layouts prepared to accept
  them there.
* All portal vaults entrances that time out are now announced.
* Temple overflow altars can now contain multiple altars.
* New shop type: gadget shops, which sell evokable items.
* Mechanical traps do not spawn outside of vaults.
* Zot trap effects are now only a subset of the full set of miscasts, and
  have some new unique effects - draining of wand charges and Word of Recall
  (as per ironbrand convokers).

Character
---------
* A new race: Gargoyles, with low natural HP but an impressive host of
  resistances and the ability to fly at XL14.
* Sludge elves are no more.
* The Skald background gets a reworked spellbook with four new spells:
    - Infusion grants additional melee damage costing MP with each strike;
    - Song of Slaying grants an incremental slaying bonus with every monster
      killed (of sufficient threat level);
    - Spectral Weapon creates an allied spectral clone of your weapon
      which strikes enemies in melee when you do.
    - Song of Shielding has a similar effect to Spirit Shield, trading HP
      loss for MP loss.
* Priests are no more.
* The nausea status from eating contaminated chunks has been removed;
  contaminated chunks now give less nutrition for characters that can't
  handle them.
* Stabbing skill is no more; stabs now depend upon the average of the
  character's stealth and weapon skill.
* The Traps skill is no more; all characters detect traps as though they
  had (XL/3) Traps skill.
* Chaos knights start with a +0 chaos weapon instead of a +2 normal weapon.
* New tier 2 demonspawn mutation - "magic shield", giving spirit shield
  at level one, improved magic regeneration at level two, and regenerating
  mana in place of health as a function of current magic level at level
  three.
* Deaths to acid, self-targeting, and sticky flame now credit
  the appropriate monster/spell.
* Draining a stat to zero can no longer directly kill the player; instead,
  further stat drain damages the player. The effects of a stat being at zero
  (fainting, slow actions, etc.) persist.
* Ogre hunters and artificers now start with a club instead of a short sword.
* Teleport control is a duration, which expires after time or use. It still
  is disallowed on some levels.

Monsters
--------
* New/reworked Crypt monsters:
    - Wraiths, shadow wraiths, and eidolons drain speed instead of XP.
    - Eidolons deal more melee damage and can cast bolt of draining.
    - Phantasmal warriors can temporarily reduce their target's magic
      resistance and can blink closer to their foes.
    - Flayed ghosts gain a smite-targeted flaying attack, dealing
      temporary damage that scales with XP and goes away when the flayed
      ghost is killed and/or enough time passes.
    - Ancient champions, formerly a vault-specific monster, are now
      full randomly-generated monsters, coming with a band of skeletal
      warriors 50% of the time.
    - Vampire mages cast vampiric draining more often, and have slightly
      higher HD and HP; they also come with a band of vampires.
    - Rotting hulks are now plague shamblers, capable of inflicting a
      "retching" status effect that prevents food consumption; they
      generate a cloud of miasma on death.
    - Spectral things move at their full base monster speed.
    - Deep dwarf death knights gain slightly better attack power and
      starting equipment, and now come with a band of undead.
    - Flying skulls get a slight HP boost and a larger attack power boost.
    - Ghouls inflict rot half as often.
    - Curse skulls are capable of out-of-LOS movement, similar to wandering
      mushrooms, but preferring to place themselves where a player needs to
      move the most to actually reach them.
    - New monster: revenants, possessing a ghostly fireball attack and
      capable of creating clouds of ghostly flame, which do not harm
      undead and occasionally summon spectral things.
    - New monster: lost souls, who sacrifice themselves to heal nearby
      undead creatures or assume the shape of a nearby killed living
      creature; they can be summoned by deep elf death mages.
    - Necromancers don't come with necrophages, but do some with simulacra.
    - Unborn deep dwarves are now just unborn.
    - New monster: jiangshi, who move in short bursts (like sixfirhies) and
      possess a vampiric melee attack.
* New forest-themed monsters:
    - Spriggan assassins and enchanters, who attempt to disable the player
      with blowguns and hexes respectively before moving in for the kill.
* Other new monsters:
    - Tengu reavers, skilled with both steel and spells; appearing in the
      late dungeon and in Vaults.
    - Deathcaps, summonable by curse toes - tougher wandering mushrooms
      with Drain Life.
* New unique: Sojobo, king of the tengu.
* Jory now spawns normally in the late dungeon, instead of being limited to
  vaults.
* Adjustments to some tier 4 demons:
    - Orange demons' sting has a 50% chance of inflicting a Weakness status,
      which reduces the player's attack damage.
    - Blue devils have a swooping attack, where they can immediately move
      adjacent to the player and attack from up to four tiles away.
    - Red devils can now hop backwards from adjacent foes to make use of their
      now-guaranteed polearms' reaching attacks.
* Adjustments to the elementals:
    - Water elementals have an asphyxiation attack which lasts as long as
      their target is next to them, and have slightly increased AC and HP.
    - Fire elementals (and fire vortices) deal pure fire damage.
* Updated spell set for several monsters:
    - Draconian shifters:
        - Banishment is dropped.
        - A new monster spell: Dimension Anchor, which temporarily prevents
          teleportation, blinking, and Phase Shift.
        - A new monster spell: Blink Allies Encircling, which blinks nearby
          allies around the target.
        - Controlled Blink is replaced with Blink Away as an emergency spell.
    - Spriggan air mages:
        - Drop Swiftness.
        - New spell: Control Winds, which manipulates clouds (including
          putting out fores fires immediately), and improves allied
          ranged weapon accuracy.
    - Spriggan druids:
        - Drop Summon Caniforms.
        - New spells: Haste Plants, which hastes nearby plant-like enemies,
          and Druid's Call, which calls wildlife from elsewhere on the level
          to aid the druid.
    - The Enchantress:
        - Banishment is banished.
        - Gains Dimension Anchor (see draconian shifter entry above), Strip
          Resistance (lowers the magic resistance of the target), and Mass
          Confusion.
    - Curse toes:
        - No more Summon Undead.
    - Deep elf summoners:
        - Summon Demon replaced with Summon Vermin, which summons orange
          rats, spiders, and some other things.
    - Deep elf priests/high priests:
        - A new spell "Malign Offering", which steals HP from the target
          to give to their allies.
    - Deep elf mages:
        - Entirely new spellsets:
            - Freeze, Throw Icicle, Summon Ice Beast;
            - Bolt of Magma, Stone Arrow, Petrify;
            - Iskenderun's Mystic Blast, Slow, Venom Bolt, Blink;
            - Flame Tongue, Throw Flame, Sticky Flame, Fireball;
            - Magic Dart, Force Lance, Iskenderun's Mystic Blast,
              Iskenderun's Battlesphere.
    - Deep elf conjurers:
        - Only one spellset (bolt of fire, bolt of cold, lightning bolt,
          bolt of draining); the spell set with sticky flame has been
          removed.
    - Gloorx Vloq:
        - No longer has Invisibility as an emergency spell.
* Speed adjustments to several monsters:
    - Speed 8: spiny worms, snapping turtles, guardian mummies (all previously
      speed 9).
    - Speed 10: jellies (previously 9).
* Shadows can now turn invisible, allowing them to move faster and
  land a guaranteed stab attack on enemies.
* The retribution effect for killing an apis now inflicts Weakness on
  the player, instead of healing nearby hostiles.
* Giant fireflies can now signal nearby awake monsters in a manner similar to
  shouting.
* Vault wardens can seal stairways in addition to doors.
* Zombies no longer appear excessively out of depth in the early dungeon.
* Orb run monster spawns no longer include weak monsters, and now include
  Orb Guardians.
* Monster actions are now taken in order of speed, rather than any given
  monster taking all of its actions at once.
* Removed monsters:
    - Laboratory rats.
    - War dogs (replaced by wolves with essentially matching stats).
    - Deep dwarf scions, necromancers, and artificers.
    - Deep elf soldiers.
    - A large number of vault-specific monsters.
* Imps and other weak monsters no longer appear in Pan.
* Nergalle appears earlier in the dungeon.
* Lamia no longer comes with a band of minions.
* Creatures other than natural creatures can now be frenzied; this causes
  them to attack anything in sight. The berserking effect of frenzy (might
  and haste effects) is limited to natural creatures.

Spells
------
* New spells:
  - Searing Ray, a level 2 conjuration replacing Force Lance in the
    Book of Conjurations that deals damage over several consecutive turns.
  - Discord, a level 8 hex that attempts to frenzy all monsters in sight.
* Summon Small Mammals now only ever summons one mammal, and is renamed to
  Summon Small Mammal as a consequence.
* 100% of teleports on the orb run are delays (up from 50%).
* Haunt adjustments:
    - Summons now fixate on their target.
    - Flayed ghosts are no longer summoned.
    - Friendlies are no longer targettable.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance now poisons continuously over several turns (and
  deals impact damage); it also ignores the caster's poison resistance (if
  any).
* Dragon Form is pure Transmutations (was Tmut/Fire for all but Draconians).
* Force Lance is now level 5 (was level 2), with boosted range and damage
  to match.
* Fulminant Prism now caps at 200 spellpower.
* Swiftness can be cast in water; it doesn't operate in water, but it
  grants the status (which operates as expected when out of the water).
* Summons caps are introduced. This acts on a per-spell basis, each spell
  has a fixed numerical limit for the number of summons active at any time.
  Going over this limit means your oldest summons will expire in a very
  short number of turns. Applies only to non-necromantic non-permanent
  summons.
* Temporary summons will no longer follow the player down stairs.
* Temporary summons expire when the player moves to a different level.

Items
-----
* The elemental evocation items have been reworked:
    - All no longer depend on elemental magic skill or nearby terrain, can
      summon multiple elementals, and have an XP-based recharge timer.
    - The lamp of fire fires up to three trails of flame in a given direction.
    - The fan of air elementals is now the fan of gales, and blows back
      nearby enemies.
    - The stone of earth elementals is now the stone of tremors; it causes
      rubble to fall from nearby rock, stone, or permarock walls to damage
      creatures adjacent to them, and has a chance to shaft creatures;
    - A new elemental evoker item - the phial of floods; it generates a wave
      of water which temporarily leaves a pool of water behind, and summons
      water elementals.
* The dependence of armour penalties on strength has been adjusted; there
  are no longer magic strength numbers for lowest possible penalties.
* Potions of gain <ability> have been replaced by potions of beneficial
  mutation, which grant the player a single beneficial mutation.
* Scrolls of vorpalise weapons are now scrolls of brand weapon, and can
  rebrand weapons that already have a permanent brand affixed.
* Scrolls of immolation have been reworked to inner flame everything in
  LOS.
* Lear's chain mail is now Lear's hauberk - a +27 chain mail that covers
  all armour slots other than shields and cloaks.
* The staves of energy eliminates 100% of spell hunger again, and includes
  the now-gone staff of channeling as well.
* The staff of power scales with your maximum magic power.
* Box of beasts has been reworked:
    - Has a fixed, random number of charges between 5 and 15 inclusive.
    - 1/3 chance to fail on usage with no bad effects.
    - When successful, generates a chimera; a new monster with three heads.
      Each head can be a different beast, picked from a list which provides
      better/stronger beasts at higher Evocations skill. The heads determine
      the attacks and abilities available to the monster.
* New "sack of spiders" item:
    - Fixed charges between 5 and 15 inclusive.
    - On evoking, creates webs around you and releases spiders.
    - Number of webs and type/number of spiders scales with evocations.
* Splint mail has been removed; chain mail is now 8 AC to compensate.
* Needles of sickness have been removed.
* Manuals do not need to be read to be activated; they're always on while in
  inventory.
* The rod of striking now functions as a melee weapon - it expends charges
  to deal additional damage in melee.
* Boots of running have a -1 movement delay (was -2).
* The lantern of shadows' rate of shadow spawning scales with evocations,
  and the resulting shadows now wander instead of following the player.
* New unrand: the +4 moon troll leather armour {Spirit MP+5 Regen}.
* Adjustments to unrands:
   - Arga is now a broad axe.
   - The shield of the gong no longer has guardian spirit; it is otherwise
     unchanged.
   - The knife of accuracy and boots of the Assassin are no more.
   - The lightning scales are now +6 (was +3).
* Hammers do not generate outside of vaults.
* Rings of teleport control must be evoked to work.

Gods
----
* Yredelemnul no longer gifts rotting hulks / plague shamblers.
* Orcs encountering an orc priest for the first time are offered the chance
  to convert to Beogh on the spot.
* Recite no longer paralyses the player; the player can take any action
  that doesn't involve the mouth while reciting.

Interface
---------
* For online play, explore_delay and travel_delay are instananeous by default.
* Dungeon features with variable-colour tiles now display those colours in
  tiles (e.g. walls in the Abyss, the Elven Halls, and the Pan disco hall).
* Examining a monster will display the spells monsters of its type are
  capable of using.

Technical
---------
* A port to OpenSolaris (Dyson/Illumos).
* MSVC compilation once again possible (Visual Studio [Express] 2012)

Stone Soup 0.12.3 (20130923)
----------------------------
* Silver stars deal full damage to unclean monsters, not un-unclean ones.
* Unidentified cold resistance is no longer leaked on the draconian 'A' screen.
* Arena mode works better with restart_after_game.
* Local tiles ability icons check for berserk like the 'a' menu always has.
* The down arrow key works correctly in the webtiles help browser.
* Player ghosts no longer incorrectly get acid resistance when saved and
  restored.
* Exiting unique Pan lord levels without the rune gives a warning.
* Certain vaults don't trap people who teleported in.
* Merfolk unmeld boots correctly again.
* Vehumet's extension of Dazzling Spray's range has been corrected.
* Autotravel won't try to go through monsters trapped in nets.
* A couple of clinging into water fixes.
* Some off-screen messages are properly suppressed.
* The last place high score is shown correctly.
* A load of crash fixes: LRD at the map edge, G ctrl-P (parent branch) in
  the Dungeon, 0-hp starcursed masses, chaos bounces, loading levels with
  scrying active, deporkalating transiting monsters, etc.
* Mac universal builds work again.

Stone Soup 0.12.2 (20130601)
----------------------------
* Fixed multiple issues on big-endian systems.
* Lowered optimization level on OS X, to work around toolchain bugs.
* If you have two unknown rings, auto-id on just one will work.
* The Abyss shouldn't spawn lava/deep water under your feet anymore.
* Allowed wielding vamp weapons while in a non-eating form.
* Fixed blind monsters being able to use scrolls.
* Randomly generated items don't spawn under plants.
* No more unconnected small closets in the Lair.
* Jellies won't munch on Ziggurat loot.
* Sage effect ends once it's no longer relevant.
* Updated default explore stops.
* Make autoexplore silently ignore sacrificables again.
* Webtiles speed-ups.
* Documentation fixes.
* Misc crash fixes.

Stone Soup 0.12.1 (20130505)
----------------------------
* Fix a Dazzling Spray + Battlesphere crash on Windows.
* Add a missing cloak of the Thief ability tile.
* Add a mention of cursed blunt butchery in 0.12 to this changelog.

Stone Soup 0.12 (20130501)
--------------------------

0.12 highlights
---------------
* Axes have a cleaving attack, hitting up to 7 enemies around you.
* The Vaults branch is five levels deep, with a distinct layout and several new
  types of guards.
* Abyss has multiple levels of increasing difficulty, more varied terrain, and
  many new thematic monsters.
* Conjurers get a new starting book of offensive non-elemental spells.
* Beogh and Yredelemnul let you recall allies across dungeon levels.
* Major changes to Vehumet.
* Friendly summons no longer attack out of sight.
* Secret doors are no more.

Branches, environment
---------------------
* The Hall of Blades layout has been adjusted, and now contains two weapons
  with "interesting brands" instead of just one.
* The Abyss is revamped yet again. It now contains five (still infinite)
  levels of increasing difficulty. Each level is composed of regions with
  different layouts, most of which are more static than before. The rune
  appears only at the third level and below, more frequently at deeper levels.
* The Abyssal rune always appears in a vault, never lying around on the floor.
* Having the Abyssal rune greatly increases the generation of Abyss exits.
* Many Ziggurat floors have more fine-tuned monster-sets, and a few monster
  sets have been replaced entirely.
* Three new Sprint maps: "Thunderdome" by evilmike, "The Pits" and "Arena of
  Blood" both by st.
* The Abyss no longer exists in Sprint.
* New layouts for Cocytus, Gehenna, Snake, and the main Dungeon.
* More layouts allowed in Zot.
* New Lair branch ending vaults, and many other new vaults.
* More decorative vaults are now placed.
* "Special rooms" (kobold/orc rooms, beehives, morgues, jelly pits) have been
  adjusted, now appear at more appropriate depths and layouts, and no longer
  place doors.
* A new "special room" - the mythical zoo, with standard high fantasy beasts.
* New "runed door" feature: won't be opened by auto-explore or by monsters.
  Becomes a regular door when opened.
* Alarm traps only trigger once, but make monsters swarm towards you for some
  time.

Character
---------
* Stalker is removed.
* Berserkers may choose their starting weapon.
* Gladiator no longer starts with a buckler, gets more Dodging to compensate.
* Traps are spotted (or not) deterministically based on skill level and a
  few other factors: spending more time does not help.
* Levitation and controlled flight are no more - all flight is controlled.
* Flying no longer increases carrying capacity.
* Tengu receive their movement speed bonus when flying, regardless of burden.
* Black draconians gain permanent flight (like Tengu but without the speed
  boost) at XL 14.
* Removed the hidden special cost of Spellcasting, Stealth, Evocations and
  Invocations. Aptitudes adjusted.
* Experience aptitude uses the same scale as skill aptitudes. This scale is
  coarser than the old one, so most races now require slightly more or less
  experience to gain levels than before.
* Deep Elves are better at Earth magic than Air.
* Hill Orcs are better at Axes, worse at gaining levels.
* Tengu are better at gaining levels.
* Levels 1 and 2 of the teleportitis mutation teleport you only a limited
  distance.
* The augmentation and powered by pain Demonspawn mutations have been improved.
* You can butcher while wielding a cursed or otherwise unswappable blunt
  weapon.

Monsters
--------
* Removed: ant larvae, bumblebees, blessed toes, rock trolls, wood golems.
* New monster: moth of suppression. Generates an aura that prevents evocation
  and suppresses the magical effects of wielded/worn equipment.
* New abyssal monsters:
    - Wretched star: bestows temporary mutations.
    - Tentacled starspawn: has constricting tentacles and a nasty attack.
    - Ancient zyme: causes sickness when near the player.
    - Lurking horror: stalks like a wandering mushroom, then explodes for
      torment.
    - Starcursed mass: proliferates when ignored, re-merges when damaged.
      Has a smite-targeted psychic scream that becomes more powerful as
      more masses become visible.
    - Apocalypse crab: breathes clouds of chaos.
    - Thrashing horror: moves like a bat, tramples, and frenzies.
    - Spatial maelstrom: incorporeal vortex that turns walls into spatial
      vortices.
* New deep troll specialist monsters, appearing in late-D deep troll packs:
    - Deep troll shamans: cast Might Other and Haste Other on their
      accompanying deep troll packs.
    - Deep troll earth mages: cast Dig and LRD to allow the rest of the deep
      troll pack to pursue their opponent.
* New vaults monsters:
    - Vault sentinels, with a signal horn that generates a lot of noise and
      the Sentinel's Mark spell which alerts all creatures on the level to
      the player's location.
    - Vault wardens, with the ability to close and seal doors near the player
      for a time or until they are killed.
    - Ironbrand convokers, with the ability to recall other monsters on the
      level to their location. Also cast Might Other.
    - Ironheart preservers, with the ability to take some damage in place of
      an enemy the player is currently attacking.
* New uniques:
    - Jorgrun, a deep dwarven earth elementalist.
    - Lamia, queen of the nagas.
* Friendly summoned monsters do not attack things unless the player has line
  of sight to both the summon and the victim. Glass does not count as line of
  sight for this purpose.
* Summoned monsters do not cast spells that create permanent allies.
* Only a select few monsters flee at low HP.
* Ereshkigal has more HP, and can now cast Silence and Major Healing.
* Changed monsters: Frances, Joseph, Polyphemus, bone dragons, soul eaters,
  vampires, vampire knights.
* Rotting corpses no longer spawn toadstools for non-Fedhasites.
* Monsters can now use wands of digging, and cast Dig in more circumstances.
* Allies summoned with the Mercenary card can pick up and use equipment.

Spells
------
* Removed: Fulsome Distillation, Evaporate, Cigotuvi's Degeneration, See
  Invisible and Insulation.
* New spells:
    - Force Lance (level 2 Conjuration). Fires a short-range single-target
      projectile that can knock monsters backwards.
    - Dazzling Spray (level 3 Conjuration/Hexes). Fires a spread of energy
      bolts that can blind creatures.
    - Iskenderun's Battlesphere (level 4 Conjuration/Charms). Creates an
      autonomous globe that shoots at enemies in sync with your conjurations.
    - Fulminant Prism (level 5 Conjuration/Hexes). Creates a time bomb at a
      smite-targeted location.
    - Disjunction (level 8 Translocation). Has a duration, during which it
      blinks away nearby monsters. Causes contamination.
* Conjurers have a new book with non-elemental spells (including the new
  conjurations).
* Spell memorisation failure is no more. As long as the failure chance is
  not 100%, the spell can be memorised. There is a warning prompt if the
  chance of a miscast is high.
* Some spellbooks have been reorganized.
* Condensation Shield's SH bonus no longer cares about Shields skill or
  intelligence.
* The blinking component of the Dispersal spell is irresistible.
* Venom Bolt and Bolt of Magma do more damage; Teleport Other works more often.
* Recall is now gradual instead of instant: one ally is recalled every 3-6
  aut.

Items
-----
* Axes have a cleaving attack: they hit up to seven targets with a single
  swing (all directions except directly opposite the direction of attack,
  but not if a wall is in the way). These secondary attacks do only 75%
  damage and do not hit allies. Base damage for the larger axes is reduced
  to compensate.
* One-handed maces and flails have been improved: flails and eveningstars get
  a one point damage increase, and morningstars get a +3/-1 damage/accuracy
  boost to replace spiked flails.
* The wand of polymorph other is now the wand of polymorph; use of it against
  the player will turn them into a random form (including several new forms -
  tree form, wisp form, porcupine form and fungus form).
* Scroll of unholy creation is replaced with scroll of summoning, which
  summons a few level-appropriate monsters.
* Removed items: spiked flail, potion of water, staff of enchantment, plain
  (non-magic, non-quarter-) staves
* Potion of decay rots HP immediately rather than giving the "Rot" status.
* Potions and rings of levitation are now "of flight"; boots of levitation
  are now "of flying"; and the +Lev artefact property is now +Fly.
* Amulet of controlled flight is removed; Amulet of the Air now grants
  passive Repel Missiles and inaccuracy instead.
* Amulet of inaccuracy correctly affects ranged weapons.
* Amulet of clarity prevents mesmerisation.
* Some rods were changed to have a more focused spell set.
* The "Contam" artefact property no longer causes contamination over time,
  but only when the item is unequipped.
* The "*Rage" artefact property triggers much less often (except for Wrath of
  Trog).
* Improved fixedarts: Spear of the Botono, Robe of Night, Cloak of the Thief,
  Robe of Folly, plutonium sword.
* The hand-and-a-half weapon category is gone; such weapons are now
  one-handed for normal-size races.

Gods
----
* Followers of worshippers of Beogh and Yredelemnul can now be recalled across
  levels.
* Followers of Beoghites now share experience when the player scores kills.
* Yredelemnul gives a small amount of piety for desecrating holy remains.
* Vehumet is overhauled: Now grants damaging spells one-at-a-time (available
  from the (M)emorization screen), partially based on your elemental skills.
  No longer supports summoning, accepts ally kills, or reduces spell MP cost.
* Zin's Imprisonment placement is much more forgiving, pushing adjacent
  monsters out of the way if possible.
* Lugonu's Enter the Abyss no longer reduces maximum HP or MP.
* Lugonu no longer gives piety for anything in the Abyss.
* Mobile Fedhas-granted allies follow you across levels en masse.
* New Xom effects: loud noises, blink monsters, enchant monster (petrify,
  slow, paralysis, enslavement; haste, might, invisibility), summon shadow
  creatures.
* Xom does not reduce stats as drastically, unless bored.
* Xom will not animate or swap weapons in the Abyss, and will not hostilely
  animate your weapon at all anymore.

Interface
---------
* Many updated tiles.
* A new Android port with touch-screen support.
* New options: auto_sacrifice, dump_on_save, item_glyph, monster_list_colour,
  tile_cell_pixels, tile_filter_scaling.
* Removed options: sacrifice_before_explore (now part of auto_sacrifice),
  annotate_item_class, annotate_item_dropped, autoinscribe_artefacts,
  show_no_ctele, menu_colour_prefix_class, menu_colour_shops, list_rotten.
* Player action counts and generated vaults are now included in dumps by
  default.
* List options can be prepended to with ^=.
* The "evil_eating" and "evil_item" menu-colouring prefixes are renamed to
  "forbidden".
* Explosion and cloud spells will try to target a spot adjacent to an
  out-of-range monster before falling back to the player's position,
  but will ignore plants.
* It is possible to restrict a ctrl-f stash search to the current level by
  prefixing it with "@".
* Swap the cycle ammunition commands. '(' = backward, ')' = forward.
* Webtiles supports real-time animations, toggleable via F10.
* Webtiles displays miniature health and MP bars on the player.
* Allies can now be ordered to retreat in a specific direction.

Technical
---------
* Numerous crash fixes.
* Crashes during level transition no longer result in broken saves.

Stone Soup 0.11.3 (20130505)
----------------------------
* Don't show "constrict 1" for nagas who don't have it yet.
* Properly show racial AC bonuses.
* Fix all monsters ceasing to act after you were banished.
* Fix massive piety/hp gains with Jiyva for partial ammo stacks.
* Don't crash with Xom if a stat is drained to 0.
* Other minor fixes.
* Fix build failures with gcc-4.8 and LTO crashes.

Stone Soup 0.11.2 (20130125)
----------------------------
* Crash fixes.
* Jellies no longer take damage from acid.
* The Royal Jelly spawns behave correctly on the arena, and after pacification.
* Handle forcibly closing the game a bit better (save corruption, crashes,
  possible cheating).
* No more false annotations in the Abyss.
* Octopodes can't grow claws on their non-existent hands anymore.
* Tile games did not always draw overlays properly.
* Invocation based titles were wrong on the high scores list.
* A number of other misc fixes.

Stone Soup 0.11.1 (20121116)
----------------------------
* A number of crash fixes.
* Option fixes: spell_slot=, runrest_ignore_monster-=
* Xom won't Inner Flame magic-immune monsters. Some were quite inappropriate.
* TSO won't get mad at you when a monster uses a staff of death.
* Boulder beetles stop rolling upon teleporting.
* Zombies get same eligibility for constriction as their base monsters.
* Slimify fixes: kraken tentacles (no longer slimeable) and monsters in/over
  water (will turn into water-capable jellies).
* You can't stop some of Xom's spells anymore.
* Gaining/losing mutations from Jiyva is less spammy.
* Non-good gods can punish their worshippers during penance, like in 0.10-.

Stone Soup 0.11 (20121001)
--------------------------

0.11 Highlights
----------
* A new branch: the Spider Nest.
* The Swamp branch is less annoying now.
* Missile enchantments are no more.
* Monster constriction vs the player has been overhauled.
* New monsters: Arachne, Fannar, orb spider, bog body, Hell Sentinel.
* Removed monsters: Jozef, bog mummy, midge, Pit Fiend, hairy devil.
* Lots of new vaults and tiles.
* Config file overhaul: lists require += when appending, you don't need to
  upgrade your config by hand anymore (after this last(?) time).

Branches, environment
---------------------
* New wizlab: Roulette of Golubria.
* A metric buttload of new vaults, including several new branch endings and
  a full-level vault for deeper parts of the main dungeon.
* A new Sprint map by st, based on the Ziggurat.
* Vaults are more common.
* There are three new level layouts for the dungeon and various branches.
* You don't lose portal vaults after being banished from one.
* Escaping the Abyss places you where you came from, but grants short-term
  immunity to most forms of banishment.
* Pandemonium: slightly fewer exits to the dungeon are placed, but there are
  many more exits through the abyss (which will return you to the Dungeon).
* The Elven Halls are only three levels deep.
* Branch difficulty doesn't depend on where their entrance was anymore.
* Traps of a given type deal the same damage no matter where they are.
* Axe traps got axed.
* Wax walls are no more.
* There are no more randomly generated secret doors, but they can still be
  found in vaults.
* The Swamp has an improved layout, with smaller and more compact levels, and
  more trees. It is also less misty than before.
* Swamp trees are now mangroves, and are opaque.
* Spider Nest: replaces the old spider portal vault, contains the gossamer
  rune of Zot.
* Games will have one of the Spider Nest or Snake Pit, and one of the Swamp or
  Shoals, guaranteeing one poison themed branch and one water themed one.

Character
---------
* Humans get slightly more stat increases.
* Nagas get constriction at XL13 now.
* Tengu can fly when transformed.
* Grey Draconians are better at Earth and worse at Air, get more AC, and
  no longer fumble in water.
* Felids are better at combat and Evocations, worse at Summonings.
* Felid pounces (sneak attacks) do more damage.
* The Evocations skill increases max MP.
* Forms without some sort of hands can't use wands/etc.

Monsters
--------
* Player ghost Sticky Flame autohits but is range 1.
* Berserk monsters are immune to fear.
* Plants don't feel torment. Oklob farms ahoy!
* Monsters attached to the ground are -TELE.
* Jellies, porcupines, flaming corpses won't get constricted.
* Magical staves work for monsters as something more than a mere cudgel.
* Monsters can use rings and amulets.
* Mindless monsters don't have any skills (zombies with pain weapons, etc.).
* New uniques:
    - Arachne, half-human, half-spider.
    - Fannar, an elven ice elementalist.
* Margery gets dragon armour.
* Monsters with arcane spells won't wear heavy armour.
* Donald can spawn in Labyrinths, and complains about them.
* Urug is drastically stronger.
* Mimics can be "inept", (no adjective), "ravenous" or "monstrous", with
  a progression of strength and abilities.
* New monster: orb spider. Shoots weak orbs of destruction at you.
* Removed: Jozef, midges, killer bee larvae, hairy devils.
* Porcupines get spines.
* Hell Sentinels replace Pit Fiends.
* Boulder beetles can roll as a boulder.
* Jumping spiders can ensnare you with webs in melee.
* Poison attacks from sea snakes and redbacks can only be partially resisted.
* Hit dice and damage have been increased for all spider enemies.
* Emperor scorpions are much stronger.
* Ghost moths have been nerfed.
* Vampire mosquitoes lose their sickness attack, gain a stronger vampiric
  attack.
* Swamp worms have better melee accuracy.
* Giant leeches are more dangerous.
* Bog mummies have been replaced with bog bodies: no death curse, stronger
  spells, can be decomposed via Fedhas prayer.
* Monsters who submerge stop fleeing.
* Umbras don't give bonuses to demons anymore.
* Monsters (and player ghosts) can cast Ozocubu's Refrigeration.
* Monsters cast emergency spells more often.
* Monster constriction has been overhauled. Escape is easier, blinking counts
  as two escape attempts (rather than always succeeding), and damage values are
  saner.
* A "damageless constriction" effect has been implemented for certain
  monsters, particularly mimics.
* The Royal Jelly is able to regenerate.

Spells
------
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction works in Slime now.
* Iskenderun's Mystic Blast often explodes, but can still safely be used at
  point blank range.
* Death Channel is level 6.
* Simulacrum works on beef jerkies, sausages and meat rations.
* Removed: Projected Noise.

Items
-----
* Artefacts can get distortion.
* Blowguns can get evasion.
* Wearing/removing armour can be aborted.
* Fixed artefacts with fixed appearance start identified.
* Weapons may corrode upon stabbing a jelly.
* Ambrosia gives more mp, but only as you digest it.
* Raw troll hides grant regeneration.
* Jewellery auto-ids when it shows an obvious effect.
* Ankuses, scrolls of detect curse, amulets of controlled flight, and rods of
  smiting are no more.
* Rods of striking are better.
* Staves of energy reduce spell hunger to 1/3 instead of eliminating it.
* Missile enchantments are no more, greatly simplifying inventory management.
    - Formulas have been changed to compensate, with skill filling the role of
      missile enchantments.
* All missile brands start visible.
* Visored helmets don't prevent bite attacks.
* Identifying weapons by use works instantly but requires a random (per
  item) level of skill.
* Unbranded items can't be glowing/runed unless they're cursed.
* New item: Lightning rod. Has a continuous effect across multiple zaps, and
  allows you to spray wide cones of electricity at your enemies.
* Randart weapons have a wider selection of names.
* Acquirement will not provide you with items your god hates.

Cards
-----
* Trowel works everywhere.
* Sage won't time out or be overwritten on a new draw.
* Removed: Spade.
* Map and Dowsing have been combined into one.
* Walls from the Tomb expire after a while.
* New: the Mercenary. Allows you to purchase allies.
* Warpwright teleport traps expire shortly.

Gods
----
* Trog accepts kills of holies.
* Abandoning Kikubaaqudgha rots all currently existing corpses.
* Kikubaaqudgha no longer guarantees getting all necromancy spells: instead,
  he gifts books with a random selection of spells.
* Banishing monsters grants some XP and Lugonu piety.
* New Xom effect: mass inner flame.
* Nemelex gives far fewer decks of summoning.
* Nemelex loses the Mark Four ability, gains Deal Four.
* Nemelex doesn't try to enforce "genuine" use of cards -- was too
  inaccurate.
* Xom can't gift permanent allies anymore.
* Xom grants far fewer item gifts.
* Xom acts drastically more often when you're in a tough fight.
* Elyvilon doesn't take piety when life-saving allies.
* Non-newbie Elyvilonites can't destroy non-unholy weapons.
* Fedhas' Sunlight stays in place.
* Okawaru gives almost no heed to kills and sacrifices of easy monsters,
  rewards toughest fights more.
* Concurrent god wraths don't dilute each other anymore.

Interface
---------
* Stash tracking, annotations, etc, work for portal levels.
* Mutation notes mention how it was gained or lost.
* Removed options: pizza, ood_interesting, rare_interesting, note_all_spells.
* New options: auto_drop_chunks, autofight_throw, dump_kill_breakdowns,
  show_travel_trail, sacrifice_before_explore.
* Webtiles chat is now logged (can be disabled via note_chat_messages).
* The show_gold_turns and show_game_turns options are now enabled by default:
  you will see how much gold you have, and how much time your actions take.
* Fake translations: dwarven, jägerkin, kraut, wide.
* Loads of new tiles.
* The unique Pan/Hell lords get special tall tiles.
* An in-game high scores browser.
* Picking up stackable items shows how many you picked up.
* Every item, monster, feature has a description.
* Many descriptions were improved.
* Autoexplore stops on items sacrificeable to your god.
* Rods appear as a separate item class.
* Autopickup settings can now be configured in-game, via the '\' key.
* Several improvements have been made to the tutorial.
* Lantern of shadows no longer makes the whole screen dark grey in console mode.
* Targeting prompts have been massively improved. Almost all area of effect
  spells are now supported, and bounce paths (e.g. from lightning bolt) are
  displayed.
* Some added or improved status indicators.
* Message filters are case-insensitive.
* Webtiles has experimental support for watching console games on servers
  running both webtiles and dgamelaunch.
* Local tiles now has an abilities tab.

Wizmode
-------
* &^P to polymorph into a form.
* &P to rebuild a level based on a vault.
* &^M to memorise a spell.
* &# to (partially) load a character dump file.

Technical
---------
* Local tiles can display non-ASCII characters, in default builds only
  Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Stone Soup 0.10.3 (20120614)
----------------------------
* Crash fixes.
* rPois- doesn't grant rPois+ for potions of poison.
* Clean chunks are no longer better than permafood when nauseated.
* The Flight spell is no longer cancellable (could cause a death when
  swapping a +Lev item above water due to incorrect assumptions).
* A warning when transforming would meld your last +Lev item.
* Backlash works for finding portals on the map screen.
* Remembered traps no longer lose their identity when out of sight.
* Certain rare monsters don't clutter tile displays with name tags anymore.
* show_game_turns labels its display as "Time:" not "Turn:".
* Greatly improved webtiles performance.
* Fixed miscompiles or compilation failures with GCC 4.7.
* A bunch of assorted minor fixes.
* Some new interface functionality:
  * can annotate remote levels (X[ then !)
  * picking a stack of items you already had some of shows how many did you
    just gain
  * shops show item slot letters assigned to your new purchases
  * enchantable missiles are listed in the wield menu if you have scrolls
    of Enchant Weapon

Stone Soup 0.10.2 (20120411)
----------------------------
* A bunch of crash fixes.
* A number of description updates, to match 0.10 changes.
* Allies cannot smite enemies through glass anymore.
* Reaching cannot be used while caught in a net/web.
* Fix a number of oddities with the shopping list.
* Fix multiple compiles often repeating work -- especially jarring for
  "make; make install".
* Unknown items in shop use a neutral tile colour, fixing an information
  leak (you can't learn the appearances this way anymore).
* Fix allies not using IOOD at all.
* A lot of other minor fixes.

Stone Soup 0.10.1 (20120315)
----------------------------
* Fix "non tried" question mark in tiles being sometimes missing.
* Fix grey draconians sometimes drowning.
* Fix Lua junk appearing in some monster speech.
* Fix the Slime:6 vault opening soon after banishing the Royal Jelly.
* Fix pressing <<<<<< getting you scot free from constriction.
* Fix slaying not working when using magical staves.
* A bunch of crash fixes.
* ... including the "hunter" hints mode being totally inoperative.
* Assorted Webtiles fixes.
* And a bunch of other minor ones here and there.

Stone Soup 0.10 (20120216)
--------------------------

0.10 Highlights
---------------
* New species: Octopodes, sentient land-capable octopuses.
* Skill training system reworked. Dancing is really gone this time!
* All polearms have reaching.
* Constriction (nagas, octopodes, some snakes, tentacled monstrosities).
* New version of the Abyss.

Branches, portal vaults, levels
-------------------------------
* Remove Hive. Guarantee some limited food supply in the dungeon.
* Completely reworked Abyss: it now morphs continuously over time, is mappable,
  and extends infinitely in all directions.
* Most abyssal runes are in special vaults.
* Escaping the Abyss returns to place of banishment.
* Ziggurats have much more colourful holy levels.
* Ziggurats: spriggan levels.
* Pan monster set tweaked.
* More Volcano portal vaults.
* Web "traps", can briefly entangle those caught.
* A "twisting cavern" map layout.
* Many vaults, including large altar vaults, Abyss vaults, Pan Lord maps,
  and several branch endings.
* A number of branches have a completely new set of tiles: Snake Pit,
  Labyrinth, Vestibule of Hell, Crypt, Dis, Tartarus, Cocytus, Pandemonium.
* The chance of getting a unique Pandemonium level increases for each level of
  Pan you visit.

Gods
----
* Ammo gifts can include large rocks and javelins.
* Lugonu accepts kills of demons.
* Cheibriados loses the "Make Ponderous" invocation, slows you down all the
  time depending on piety.
* Cheibriados can slow down Abyss morphing and Orb run monster spawns.
* New Cheibriados ability: Temporal Distortion, moves nearby monsters forwards
  in time a few turns.
* Cheibriados doesn't grant resistances anymore.
* Makhleb's powers use Health instead of Magic.
* Makhleb gives more Health for killing but no Magic anymore.
* Makhleb's Greater Destruction costs less piety.
* Zin followers pay mandatory tithe for piety. No more piety for waiting.
* Zin takes some gold upon conversion; this gives more piety than donation.
* Zin's Vitalisation is proactive, protecting from all bad statuses.
* Prayer to Zin doesn't provide feeding, Vitalisation gives satiation instead.
* Zin's Imprison duration increased.
* TSO: piety decays; gain piety for spotting non-evil monsters.
* Elyvilon: piety decays; piety for pacifications doubled.
* Elyvilon has piety loss for ally deaths instead of penance.
* Elyvilon doesn't grant piety for non-evil weapons past *** (even if you
  drop lower later!). Evil weapons get identified on sight.
* Deaths of plants and non-living beings no longer count as friend deaths for
  god conduct purposes.

Species
-------
* Octopodes: sentient octopuses that can wear eight rings.
* Draconians cannot wear body armour anymore, can wear gloves and boots.
* Centaurs can survive longer on vegetarian food.
* Felids gain lives every three levels.
* Minotaurs instinctively retaliate in melee.
* New Demonspawn mutations: Foul Stench, Ignite Blood, and Augmentation.
* Kenku are now called Tengu, and get more MP.
* Mountain Dwarves are no more.
* Minotaur and Hill Orc aptitudes are a lot better.

Character
---------
* Wild Magic mutation: reduced spell success, increased power.
* Evolution mutation: extra mutations as time passes.
* Always gain partial nutrition from brown chunks.
* Bad food causes nausea instead of sickness.
* Non-full carnivores cannot eat up to "engorged" without gourmand.
* A little score increase from runes for non-winners.
* Poison resistance is only 90% effective.

Spells
------
* New spell: Beastly Appendage (Transmutation 1).
* Flame Tongue has slightly longer range.
* Removed: Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Levitate.
* Abjuration becomes single-target. The old version (Mass Abj.) is
  available as a new level 6 spell.
* Swiftness and Flight no longer give an extra boost when cast together.
* Swiftness halves stealth and makes it harder to detect traps.
* Flight lowered to level 3, Dragon Form lowered to level 7.
* Dispel Undead raised to level 5.
* Summoned Ugly Things are now always friendly.
* Shadow Creatures don't last as long anymore.
* Tornado's damage has been slightly improved.
* Conjure Ball Lightning improved, ball lightnings explode when their duration
  expires.
* Mephitic Cloud and Evaporate don't guarantee a 3x3 cloud anymore.
* Recasting a transformation is no worse than the original cast.
* Animate Dead animates stacks.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction: prevent abuse, improve targeting.
* Summon Greater Demon only has tier 1 demons turn hostile over time.
* Spider form is susceptible to poison.
* Shatter doesn't work through walls, unless it manages to destroy them.
* No spells work through glass or trees anymore.
* Metabolic Englaciation slows down enemies.
* Twisted Resurrection is improved: corpses merge into abominations on their
  own without needing to be stacked.
* Alistair's Intoxication is less reliable, depends on spell power.
* Boost the effective power of some hexes: Corona, Slow, Mass Confusion,
  Cause Fear, Control Undead.
* Olgreb's Toxic Radiance is more effective at high spell power.
* Confusing Touch is less reliable.
* Inner Flame leaves clouds of fire when an affected monster explodes.
* Passage of Golubria creates two portals when cast, and allows more than two
  portals to exist simultaneously.

Backgrounds
-----------
* Arcane Marksmen are back, with a Hex-based spellbook.
* Artificers get a weaker staff and skills, but an extra wand.
* Transmuters lose Fulsome Destillation and Evaporate, gain Beastly Appendage.
* Necromancers lose Dispel Undead, gain Control Undead.
* Monks get ** piety upon taking on their first god.

Skills
------
* Non-integer values of a skill matter.
* Add skill training restrictions instead of requiring victory dance-style
  usage of unknown skills.
* Stealth skill is no longer heavily discounted.

Interface
---------
* Experience points are no longer shown directly, just a percentage to the
  next level.
* Throwable starting weapons are autoinscribed with "=f".
* Leaving an unique Pan level without the rune asks for confirmation.
* Uniques and player ghosts annotate the level on the overview screen.
* New character dump options: spell_usage, which counts spells you have cast,
  and action_counts, which also counts non-spell actions.
* Ctrl-W toggles weight display in inventory and dropping menu.
* Better ?/G and ?/B menus.
* Spell success adjectives are replaced with failure rate percentages. Failure
  rates are coloured based on potential miscast severity.
* Many new monster descriptions and quotes.

Monsters
--------
* Ignacio no longer uses Torment, and he'll appear repeatedly until killed.
* New monster: profane servitor - an angel corrupted by Yredelemnul (undead).
* New monster: blizzard demon - a cold/air rank 2 demon.
* New holy monsters: silver star, cherub, phoenix, paladin, seraph.
* Removed: giant toads, vipers, blue deaths.
* Renamed: Fiend -> Brimstone Fiend, Imp -> Crimson Imp.
* Reorganized demon ranks, moving easier 1s to 2s.
* Feature mimics may now masquerade as most features.
* Item mimics can move once revealed.
* Monsters will retreat when hit from behind an obstacle they can't walk
  around.
* Unique Pandemonium lords can hunt you on the Orb run if you've stolen
  their runes. Violate the 5th Commandment, not the 7th!
* Monsters cast emergency spells more often.
* Breath timeout for dragons, draconians, drakes.
* Most monster summoning spells toned down slightly.
* Monsters flee at lower health thresholds, and less predictably.
* Queen bees can send nearby killer bees berserk.
* Killer bee larvae turn into killer bees if they eat honeycombs or royal
  jellies.
* All abominations are now both demonic and undead.

Items
-----
* Slaying works like weapon enchantments.
* Acquirement allows choosing missiles.
* Nagas and Centaurs get far better chances to acquire bardings.
* Staff acquirement is more random.
* Miscellaneous item acquirement gives better decks.
* Weapon acquirement avoids useless weapon types.
* Misc items start identified when there are no doubts about them.
* The Orb of Zot has a slightly mutagenic glow and reduces stealth.
* The Crusade card can no longer give you permanent allies.
* All polearms have the reaching brand built in.
* Quarterstaves are split into two weapons: weak "staff" and good
  "quarterstaff". Gladiators and Priests get to start with the latter.
* Common two-handed weapons are easier to use effectively.
* Several new fixed artefacts: lightning scales, Black Knight's horse barding,
  ring of Vitality, autumn katana, shillelagh "Devastator", dragonskin cloak,
  rings of the Octopus King.
* The Sceptre of Asmodeus can be evoked for temporary charmed unabjurable
  demons (instead of random conjurations or hostile demons).
* Scrolls of enchant and vorpalise weapon are always identified upon use.
* Amulet of guardian spirit draws from HP and MP simultaneously.
* Remove crystal balls of seeing.
* Crystal ball of energy restores less MP but has less severe failure effects.
* Scroll of magic mapping detects secret doors.
* Tomb card is rarer.
* Portal card does not give instant teleports.
* Early weapons tend to be better.
* Rename potion of healing to potion of curing.
* Rename wand of healing to wand of heal wounds.
* Known properties of unique enemies' gear are pre-identified.
* Medium armour is better.
* Banded mail is no more, plate mail has been renamed to plate armour.

Webtiles
--------
* Monster list.
* Webtiles games create a ttyrec, allowing them to be watched from SSH.
* Scale cells for small screens.
* "Glyph mode" which shows letters instead of tiles.
* Tiles in menus; Menus are sized according to each spectator's window, and
  spectators can scroll independently.
* Improvements to the lobby: show gods, allow sorting on XL/Character/Level,
  and show milestones.

Zot Defence
-----------
* You can now choose which map to play on.
* Disable useless gods.
* Disable hunger, except for Vampires.
* Creating altar asks for god, at much higher ability cost.
* Start with some consumables (as in Sprint) to make the early game a little
  easier.

Technical
---------
* Tarballs use xz rather than bz2 compression.
* Wizard mode is compiled in by default unless you specify NOWIZARD=y.
* Custom shops can be used in vaults.
* Multithreading, currently only to speed up database loading.


Stone Soup 0.9.2 (20120124)
---------------------------
* A number of crash fixes.
* Fix new games overwriting existing saves in one case.
* Fix Temple overflow gods not being randomized.


Stone Soup 0.9.1 (20110904)
---------------------------
* Fix missing portals to Zot on D:27 with restart_after_game after Sprint.
* Fix most large special maps not being generated.
* Fix mad amounts of divine gifts in certain cases.
* Don't duplicate monsters when exiting the Abyss.
* Fix a lock-up on selecting a random character.
* A number of crash fixes.
* Some documentation amendments.
* Don't stop butchering on unimportant messages.
* Add a command "show runes" ('}') that was documented but not implemented.


Stone Soup 0.9 (20110812)
-------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.
Save compatibility with the 0.8 release is retained, although once a game is
loaded in 0.9, you can not go back to 0.8.

0.9 Highlights
--------------
* New skill training system. Experience pool and victory dancing are gone.
* Ashenzari: Remove passive XP boost, add a skill boost depending on level
  of boundedness and which equipment is bound.
* Rename Crusader to Skald, change starting book and skill levels.
* New spells: Inner Flame, Shroud of Golubria.
* Removed spells: Teleport Self, Berserker Rage, Resist Poison.
* New monsters: Ignacio (unique executioner), catoblepas, basilisk.
* New subgame: Zot Defence. Consider it of experimental quality, though.

Skills
------
* Skill training: skills are trained immediately when XP is gained. The skills
  trained are the ones that have been used recently (auto) or the ones which
  have been selected (manual).
* Skill costs: the XP to skill point ratio no longer depends on skill level.
* Magic school skills early game discount removed.

Gods
----
* Cheibriados gives full stat boost for fully ponderous, regardless of species.
* Jiyva is a little less likely to remove mutations.
* Improve Jiyva's stat shuffling, take skills and armour into account.
* Makhleb has a new flavour description.
* Nerf TSO's and Makhleb's HP and MP on kills.
* Trog specialises in antimagic weapon gifts, gives fewer artefacts.
* Trog dislikes it when you train magic skills.
* Yred takes statue kills and forbids Statue Form.
* Zin's Vitalisation is cheaper and cures petrification, stat boost stackable.
* Don't allow avoiding good god wrath by swapping via another good god.
* Ashenzari: Remove passive XP boost, add a skill boost depending on level
  of boundedness and which equipment is bound.
* Ashenzari: reduce reskilling XP penalty and some ability piety costs.
* Ashenzari wrath: reduce all skills for the duration of wrath.

Character
---------
* +3 base HP for all characters.
* Racial HP/MP gain is now displayed on a -3 to +3 scale (see ?%).
* Fighting gives less HP boost.
* All characters carry a bootknife to dissect corpses.
* Hill Orc Priests always take on Beogh.
* Berserkitis mutation triggers less often.
* Tweak starting skills for a few backgrounds (Fi, Gl, Wr, CK).
* Give Warpers a few more darts of dispersal.
* Let Gladiators start with a cap if they can't wear helmets.
* Start all Hunters with the same melee weapon.
* Start Artificers with quarterstaves, instead of letting Monks choose them.
* Rename Crusader to Skald, change starting book and skill levels.
* Conjurers don't need to choose a book (they always get an Air/Ice book).
* Felids: lose a level on death, gain at most nine lives, improved aptitudes.
* Draconians are more dextrous.
* Berserk speed-up reduced to that of haste (1.5 instead of 2).
* All species take the same amount of time to use stairs.

Interface
---------
* New command: 'D'rop last. Drops the item(s) last picked up.
* Auto-switch: bumping while wielding launcher switches to weapon in slots a/b.
* Auto-switch: firing while wielding melee weapon switches to launcher in a/b.
* Auto-explore tries to look at unreachable places.
* Search: allows searching for portals, and for waypoints (Ctrl-F 1, Ctrl-F *).
* Search: "branded" synonymous with "ego". Better help (Ctrl-F ?).
* Search: only show items in a stash matching the search.
* Search: allow searching for armour by equipment slot.
* New help for skills screen (m??).
* Change inventory colours for some potions.
* Auto-pickup chunks after Animate Skeleton.
* Allow toggling hit prediction with ':' in new targeting modes.
* Cloud glyph in 7-bit ASCII is '0', not '#' anymore.
* Prompt before leaving Ziggurat.
* Better butchering messages, less spam.
* Abort spellcasting in many cases where spells are guaranteed to fail.
* Display -cTele on the status line where controlled teleports are blocked.
* Allow redefining mimic glyphs, once identified.
* Show percentage progress to the next level, instead of number of XP points.
* Show 'chaotic' in monster status only when aiming silver ammo at them.
* Show 'mindless' in monster status only when using Ely's healing abilities.

Spells
------
* New spell: Shroud of Golubria (comes in Skald and Warper starting books).
  Prevents some melee damage, but likely to break against more damaging
  attacks.
* New spell: Inner Flame (comes in starting book of Fire Elementalists).
  Causes targeted enemy to explode in a fireball when killed.
* Removed spells: Teleport Self, Berserker Rage, Resist Poison.
* Tornado: radius starts low, increases over time, add cooldown, adjust damage.
* Tornado moves monsters within its radius around.
* Blinking with Tornado active reduces its duration, teleporting cancels it.
* Make Fire Storm, Ice Storm, Bolt of Magma and Throw Icicle more resistible.
* Increase Bolt of Magma damage.
* Give Summon Dragon a longer duration, summon two dragons at high power.
* Shock and Lightning will hit a creature at most twice; damage increased.
* Make LRD and Sandblast more strongly affected by monster AC again.
* Ranges of Throw Frost/Flame and of Bolt of Cold/Fire swapped.
* Increase Flame Tongue's accuracy and range a little.
* Sublimation of Blood takes spellpower into account.
* Apportation takes spellpower into account for all items.
* Statue and Dragon Form balance: give both some GDR, reduce unarmed damage.
* Statue Form: boost all melee damage, give 50% torment resistance.
* Increase Ozocubu's Refrigeration to level 6.
* Reduce Summon Ice Beast to level 4, Static Discharge to level 3.
* Maxwell's Silver Hammer works also on all weapons with bludgeoning damage.
* Poison Weapon works also on blunt weapons.
* Condensation Shield duration increased.
* Simulacra from the spell are no longer abjurable.
* Renamed books: Chemistry -> Alchemy, Zoology -> Beasts.

Monsters
--------
* Catoblepas: a new hard-hitting yak-genus monster with petrifying breath.
* Replace "gila monster" with "basilisk", complete with petrification.
* Ignacio, a unique executioner of Makhleb, spawns in Pandemonium.
* AI: monsters improve even signature weapons (e.g. Sigmund will use Finisher).
* AI: confused high intelligence monsters don't move if next to a deadly cell.
* Allow polymorphing demons into other similar-tier demons.
* Snapping turtles and Geryon reach diagonally.
* Give Shadow Fiends and Tormentors a pain-branded melee attack.
* Boost ghost moth damage, don't spawn them in Spider's Nests.
* Fix random pan lords not getting Symbol of Torment in their spell sets.
* Vampire bats are undead.
* Monsters with mutagenic chunks leaves corpses less often.
* Reaching over a hostile monster may hit the monster between you and target.
* Kenku monsters come with gear, may spawn in the Abyss.
* Rename "beast" to "hell beast".
* Rename "megabat" to "bat".
* Kobolds can (rarely) get crossbows.
* Pikel: fixed bugs with freed monsters.
* Adjust xp values for some monsters.
* Disable feature mimics.

Levels
------
* New branch endings: multiple Elf:5 maps, Zot entry vaults on D:27.
* Many other new vaults, including serial vaults, traps, Abyss vaults.
* Blink in the Abyss only blinks; does not teleport anymore.
* Baileys are more sane in loot and threat.
* Troves: fix some bugs, and additional quests.
* Vestibule of Hell has its own monster set.
* Don't place kobold/orc/jelly/bee special rooms in the Hells.

Orb run
-------
* Double the orb's weight.
* Disable controlled teleports once the orb is picked up.
* Orb run spawns are more likely to spawn near the player.
* Teleportation may need longer to kick in.

Items
-----
* Price reform: scrolls, potions, rings. Bad items cost more than 1 gold now.
* Cards: the Orb (new card), destruction cards buffed.
* Experience card gives less experience at low power.
* Scroll of identify shows top card when used on deck of cards.
* Picked up runes are no longer part of the inventory. They are listed in \.
* Randarts with the *Rage property trigger berserk less often.
* Modified spellbooks: Conjurations, Unlife, many elemental books.
* Bucklers provide less SH.
* Large rocks can (rarely) be generated on the dungeon floor.
* Ammo of dispersal only disperses if it does damage.
* Silver-branded ammo only does bonus damage to chaotic creatures.
* Reduce silver and steel damage bonus.
* Reflected missiles get their full range on the way back.
* Randart heavy armours tend to come with better enchantment.
* Wands and rods rely more strongly on Evocations skill.
* Long blades: nerf double swords, buff demon blades, remove katanas.
* Reduce demon whip and demon trident damage.
* Remove knives. Change Spriggan's Knife from knife to dagger.
* Make the Sword of Zonguldrok a double sword with the reaping brand.
* Give Undeadhunter a disruption effect against undead instead of holy wrath.
* Make Wyrmbane's enchantment increase whenever it kills a dragon.
* Give Scythe of Curses draining brand, inflict necro miscasts on its targets.
* Mace of Brilliance comes with a halo.
* Singing Sword does sonic damage at high tension.
* Bad unrandarts (Misfortune, Folly, Lear's) get a random appearance.
* Make potions of berserk rage more common.

Tiles
-----
* Display halo radius, fix information disparity between tiles and console.
* Don't allow casting spells in -CAST equipment by clicking on spell icons.
* Only flying pan lords have tiles with wings.
* Many new or improved monster, dungeon and interface tiles.

Options
-------
* Allow hiding the -cTele indicator with show_no_ctele.
* Allow automatically assigning specific spells to letters with spell_slot.


Stone Soup 0.8.1 (20110612)
---------------------------
* Fixes a number of crashes.
* Fixes stair colouring on the map being wrong.
* Jiyva's wrath won't summon giant spores, abusably by Fedhas.
* Fixes running not noticing new items.
* Ashenzari worshippers no longer can change armour under cursed cloaks.
* Glyphs not present in the locale won't cause display corruption in some
  cases (mostly LC_CTYPE=C).
* Fixes massive slowdown for resting felids.
* Removes (or reduce) chances for save corruption on MacOS X.
* Fixed Kikubaaqudgha's torment invocation not granting xp.


Stone Soup 0.8 (20110426)
-------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.
Breaks save compatibility with the 0.7 release.

0.8 Highlights
--------------
* New game mode: Zot Defence, a tower defence mini-game.
* New god: Ashenzari, god of divinations.
* New species: Felids, sentient cats.
* New spells: Malign Gateway, Tornado, Leda's Liquefaction, Summon Dragon,
  Summon Hydra, Darkness.
* Removed spells: Bone Shards, Tame Beasts, Portal, Alter Self, Extension.
* Split Enchantments into Hexes (harm foes) and Charms (self-buffs).
* Replaced Selective Amnesia spell with scroll and book destruction.
* Improved heavy armour.
* Makhleb and the Shining One are no longer available as starting gods.
* Shortened the Elven Halls.

Gods
----
* New god: Ashenzari, god of divinations.
* Fixed gods sometimes missing from the game due to some temple vaults.
* Except for Jiyva, prayer is now only used for (piety-gaining) sacrifices.
  Other effects are abilities.
* Killing monsters from god wrath doesn't give experience or items anymore.
* Gods ignore kills of dancing weapons, ball lightning and vortices.
* No instant divine retribution.
* Beefed up Cheibriados' wrath; no stat boosts during Chei penance.
* Eating with Chei doesn't give piety.
* Cheibriados warns you when putting on boots of running or amulet of rage.
* Armour keeps its ponderousness when melded.
* Invoking Elyvilon's protection is now an ability.
* Destroying weapons in Elyvilon's name is now a prayer.
* Elyvilon allows destruction of staves.
* Clarified Ely's healing/pacification messaging.
* Fedhas cares about trees burnt down in forest fires.
* Fedhas' corpse decomposition is now activated by prayer.
* Followers of Jiyva gain food, hp and mp on jellies slurping items.
* Jiyva no longer provides duplicate conservation and resist corrosion effects.
* Allowed the player more control over what items to sacrifice to Nemelex (on
  the '^!' screen).
* Kikubaaqudgha's invocations use Necromancy skill.
* Toned down Kiku's mummy death curse protection.
* Made corpses received from Kiku actually fit for reanimation; reduce number of
  corpses.
* Kikubaaqudgha protects followers from ordinary mummy curses.
* Okawaru: Might -> Heroism, increasing all weapon skills by 5, up to 27.
* Okawaru: Haste -> Finesse, doubled combat speed (melee and ranged).
* Okawaru now accepts kills of holy beings.
* Sif Muna punishes destruction of spellbooks.
* Sif Muna's miscasts don't decrease penance.
* Trog extending your rage doesn't cause glow.
* The Shining One no longer accepts item sacrifices.
* TSO non-holy summon extension at most doubles the current duration.
* Prevented starvation by Xom swapping you to a vampiric weapon.
* Yredelemnul's prayer (Injury Mirror) is now an ability.
* Injury Mirror can now reflect torment damage.
* Yredelemnul accepts kills of artificial beings (golems, gargoyles).
* Overhauled Zin's Recite invocation: much more powerful and interesting.
* Zin protects from Hell effects, chance depending on piety.
* Zin forbids shapeshifting spells and protects against Kirke's pig spell.
* Zin hates monsters with mutagenic/rot corpses.
* Spell failure while already in yellow glow angers Zin.
* Butchering forbidden corpses asks for confirmation.
* Some god welcome messages differ while under penance.

Character
---------
* New species: Felids, sentient cats.
* Increased GDR from body armour. New GDR formula: 14 * (baseAC-2)^(1/2).
* XP from monster kills is proportional to the damage dealt by player/allies
  out of total damage.
* No chain paralysis: When coming out of paralysis, you're immune for 1d3 turns.
* Removed Paladins, Reavers and Arcane Marksmen.
* Removed Chaos Knight of Makhleb.
* Split out CK/Lugonu -> Abyssal Knight, Pr/Yredelemnul -> Death Knight.
* Overhauled Draconians, now more interesting.
* Fixed dangerous clouds sometimes being considered safe for travelling.
* Fixed normal mutations possibly preventing getting them as a perma-mutation.
* Stop quick actions from letting you search faster.
* All sources of berserk are blocked at 'Very Hungry'. Berserk automatically
  stops when you hit 'Starving'.
* Remove experience pool limit; abbreviate the XP pool above 100K.
* Stalker background changed to Transmutation-based Stabber.
* Allow starting with a falchion for Fi and Gl, also restrict trident to these
  backgrounds.
* Differentiate Ha/Ko aptitudes: Kobolds are good at Summ/Necro/Hex, Halflings
  at Charm/Tloc.
* Halflings gain innate mutation resistance 1.
* Only cancel levitation once the last equipped +Lev item is removed.
* Nearing stat death causes paralysis, with increasing chances.
* Allow Merfolk transformations even in water.
* Retain talons, fangs and tail in appropriate transformations.
* Don't allow any headgear with Horns 3 or Antennae 3.
* Fix mutators and glowing occasionally giving good mutations.
* Balanced some Demonspawn mutations (Demonic guardian, Nightstalker).
* Remove Demonspawn breath mutations.
* Adapt exclusion radius to the Nightstalker mutation.
* New DS mutation Powered by Pain: restores MP when sufficient damage is taken.
* Demonspawn Fire and Ice facets are now mutually exclusive.
* Ghouls may now use food-cost abilities when starving.
* Ghouls and Vampires may evoke invisibility when starving/bloodless.
* Make hellfire ignore monster AC.
* Remove map-forgetting and spell-forgetting Divination miscast effects.
* Don't prevent blink from putting you in dangerous clouds.
* Don't train Stealth for pacified monsters.
* Allowed Merfolk/Kenku to blink over deep water.
* Allowed Kenku to stop flying.
* Apply terrain change to player when banished.
* Brought Merfolk HP down to Human HP levels.
* Boosted Mummy base MR 3 -> 5.
* Make LOS reducers multiplicative rather than additive.
* Potions/cards of experience give you a full level; similarly drain costs a
  full level.
* Make stat gain mutations work for satiated Vampires.
* Replace scroll reading penalty while brainless with 80% failure chance.
* A wielded ranged weapon will only 'clumsily bash' monsters, no matter its
  enchantment.
* Remove the satiation requirements from evokable invis.
* Disable ghost creation/loading in wizard non-debug mode.
* Better warning messages for form and levitation expiration.
* Consistently abort teleportation attempts when wearing stasis or -TELE.
* Give Ogres an extra +1 hp per level, and +3 apts in Fighting and M&F.
* Mention dietary and drinkary habits of mummies on the 'A' screen.
* Also meld wielded weapons.
* Disallow wearing hats in spider or ice form; allow wearing shields in statue
  form.
* Prevent ice form from picking items at the bottom of deep water.
* Overhaul combo recommendations.

Interface
---------
* New tutorial, split into different maps/lessons.
* Fix a crash when reloading a game after restart_after_game.
* Allow item interaction from the inventory.
* Messages for things coming into view even when not exploring.
* Bind Tab to autofight, shift-Tab to autofight_nomove.
* Autofight: fire at nearest enemy if wielding a ranged weapon.
* More status lights: transformations, post-berserk fatigue, temporary
  resistances.
* Timeout information for temporary resistances and see invisible.
* New background choice layout, grouped by category.
* Display piety on the main screen.
* Use inventory colours for stats area and % screen.
* New, more informative and mouse-operable skill menu ('m' screen).
* Don't consider places next to slime walls as "safe".
* Allow traveling across radius 1 excluded stairs.
* Don't generate cloud autoexclusions when immune.
* Don't prompt for cloud-excluded staircases.
* Make i_feel_safe() smarter about critters behind lava/statues/etc.
* Explicitly name inventory items that are getting destroyed.
* Display ghosts' xl rank, species and background when they come into view.
* In the console version, don't override monster colour when berserk.
* Fix exclusion LOS not being updated properly.
* Make shift-running respect exclusions.
* Allow ' to auto-switch from unarmed to slot b.
* Clear stack autopickup flag when dropping an item on top of it.
* List prompt choices explicitly, i.e. "(y)es or (n)o" rather than "y/n".
* Starting sub-menus: Escape brings back to main menu instead of exiting the
  game.
* Don't waste turns attempting known prevented scroll teleports/blinks.
* Inscribe item modification scrolls with "tried on foo".
* Disallow autoexploring while berserking.
* Don't mark level 1 upstairs and branch exits as unvisited.
* Colours for output of Ctrl-F.
* Re-enable highlighting of notes.
* Colour annotations in Overview.
* Colouring labyrinth messages.
* Add force_more_messages for bazaar and labyrinth announcements.
* Don't prompt for which ring to swap if one of them is cursed.
* When enchanting an unknown piece of armour, mark it as uncursed.
* Make the . drop/pickup selector respect quantity input.
* '*' inverts selection instead of selecting drop_filter, and ',' selects all
  instead of inverting.
* More information when missing.
* More information when MR is effective.
* Display on the HUD if you're both hasted and slowed.
* Add a toggle to the discoveries screen to display _un_known items.
* Check terrain before clouds for moveto check.
* Don't warn about entering excluded portals.
* Force a -more- on death.
* Autoinscribe randarts after death.
* Taskbar overlap is now automatically detected, and the window is placed just
  above it.
* Allow setting of the window size relative to the screen size.
* Fix Tab not working correctly in startup menus.
* Reinitialize message window and notes for restart_after_game.
* Don't waste a turn and/or magic when aborting various actions.
* For local builds, mention morgue location after hiscore or when doing a
  chardump.
* Extend and rearrange tutorial/hints mode command help.
* Better feedback when canceling various prompts.
* Split monster/feature quotes into another screen toggleable via '!'.
* Add several missing descriptions, improve some existing ones.

Spells
------
* Split Enchantments skill and spell school into Charms and Hexes.
* Removed Bone Shards, Tame Beasts, Portal, Alter Self, Extension.
* New spell: Passage of Golubria (Tloc 5).
* New spell: Malign Gateway (Summ/Tloc 7).
* New spell: Tornado (Air 9).
* New spell: Leda's Liquefaction (Tmut/Earth 4), area slowing effect.
* New spell: Summon Dragon (Summ 9).
* New spell: Summon Hydra (Summ 7), summons short-lived 4-12 headed hydra.
* New spell: Darkness (Hex 7), decreases LOS radius by 2.
* Prevent passwalling into deep water/lava if it would kill you.
* Fix Lee's Rapid Deconstruction not obeying some checks when destroying walls.
* Fix casting cloud spells out of range, or on (and through) walls.
* Teleportation interrupts Passwall.
* Fix weapon grinding via Shadow Creatures in the Hall of Blades.
* Animate Dead no longer animates through walls.
* Don't prompt for casting auto-hit spells "in direction" of allies.
* Nerf Haste: multiplies speed by 1.5 instead of 2. Same factors apply to Slow.
* Replace Selective Amnesia with scroll of amnesia.
* Allow forgetting spells from books, destroying the book in question.
* Nerf sticky flame range to 1.
* Removed slower training for magic schools; doubled xp cost for opposing
  schools.
* Stop the player from vampiric draining known demons and undead.
* Disallow Fulsome Destillation while levitating.
* Implement a crude spell quiver. Store last spell cast.
* Add a toggle to the memorisation screen for the spell descriptions.
* Auto-id items of wizardry if you have spellcasting skills.
* Enable autotargeting for Vampiric Draining and Freeze.
* Make Borgnor's Revivification cost 2-11 *percent* of maxhp.
* Restore casting noise for target spells.
* Add noise level to spell description.
* Increased claw damage for Dragon Form, also allows trampling.
* For Draconians, Dragon Form changes into dragon of the appropriate colour.
* Animate Skeleton works on unskeletalized corpses and leaves chunks behind.
* Shadow Creatures summons only mobile monsters.
* Slightly bump Orb of Destruction (IOOD) damage.
* Allow Sticks to Snakes on staves and javelins, disallow on steel/silver stuff.
* Allow Tukimizing staves.
* New level 3 Air miscasts; buff Air miscasts.
* Buff Static Discharge: Higher damage and increased chance of arcing.
* Make Summon Butterflies require spell power for effectiveness.
* Heavily nerf orb apportation. Chance and distance depend on spell power and
  total distance.
* Make Death Channel spectrals temporary, let ally kills work too. Reduce to
  level 7.
* Make semi-controlled blink random if it fails to find a location.
* Evaporate no longer uses Throwing skill.
* Summon Swarm monsters are always friendly; lower it to level 5.
* While Ring of Flame is active, flame clouds are removed when you step on them.
* Make LOS-affecting spells work through transparent walls.
* Boost LRD damage.
* Apportation targeting: allow cycling with +/-.
* When apporting part of a stack, don't destroy the rest of it.
* Don't rot while under Death's Door.
* Death channel spectral monsters are not abjurable.
* Merge low spell success adjectives (Cruddy, Bad, Very Poor) into Very Poor
  (now 5-30%).
* Move spells around among various spellbooks.
* Reduce the chance of any book to be replaced by Power/Wizardry from 10% to 4%.
* Don't prompt for targeting self with clouds if you've got the matching
  resistance.
* Ensure Death's Door leaves you at least 1 hp.
* Make only heavy armour remove Ozocubu's Armour on wearing.
* Make large rocks do extra damage with Sandblast.
* Allow swapping to large rocks when Sandblast is memorised.
* Offer wielding coagulated blood for Sublimation of Blood.
* Make transformations affect stealth.
* Don't cancel Condensation Shield when blinking/teleporting.
* Don't hurt rC- players with condensation shield.
* Don't prompt for unwielding weapons branded with Warp Weapon.
* Don't let Mummies/Lichform cast Sublimation on themselves, do let them cast
  Passwall.
* Reduce Haunt duration.
* Increase Sandblast to range 2 without stones, range 3 with.
* Boost Stone Arrow damage from 2d12 at 50 power to 3d11.
* Change several spell levels to be more appropriate.
* Mention glow in Haste/Invis spell descriptions.
* Consolidate the books of Minor Magic into a single book.
* Include spell hunger in the chardump.

Monsters
--------
* New monster set: feature mimics.
* New monster set: holy monsters.
* New monster set: spriggans.
* New monster set: deep dwarves (in Abyss, Ziggurats).
* Several new monsters, including silent spectre, sky beast, porcupine, fire
  crab, bog mummy, and a few new spiders.
* New unique: Jory, mesmerising vampire.
* New monster spells: Cause Fear, Drain Life, Agony, Summon Elemental, Noxious
  Cloud.
* Fix a crash when looking up ghosts in the db search.
* Fix silence working on demons, orbs of fire, etc.
* Fix messages about monsters coming into view ignoring mislead.
* Fix monsters being capable of spellcasting while berserk, reading scrolls
  while silenced.
* Disallow various attacks on submerged monsters.
* Fix Aizul and Mara casting through allies.
* Fix rock worms aimlessly moving around in walls instead of attacking.
* Get rid of mummy death curses turning potions into decay.
* Don't give experience or items for killing monsters from god wrath or
  miscasts.
* Don't make a monster coming into view leave a trail on the edge of LOS.
* Give Asmodeus a permanent ring of flames, replace greater demon with fire
  summon, remove bolt of draining.
* Give Dispater Lehudib's Crystal Spear instead of Lightning Bolt.
* Give Geryon a reaching attack, make beasts trample.
* Give Lom Lobon antimagic attacks.
* Give Mnoleg blink and mutate attacks, summon eyeballs instead of greater
  demons, more hp.
* Give the non-spellcasting random pan lords (10% chance) a guaranteed melee
  brand, and a chance of greater speed.
* Compensate for the Haste nerf by slowing some monsters most players fight
  hasted.
* Huge monsters (dragons, elephants) can trample smaller ones, shoving them
  around.
* Krakens have multi-segment tentacles.
* Spiders and a few other monsters can cling to walls which allows them to
  effectively bypass water and other obstacles.
* Non-stupid monsters try to avoid slime walls.
* Allies animating dead is okay for hungry level 3 herbivores.
* Make monsters consider resistances along with AC for armour pickup.
* Only allow allies to pick up weapons, armour and ammunition.
* Boost ettins to hit as hard as dual-wielding stone giants. Move them deeper.
* Sheep can catch fire and spread it to other sheep.
* Polymorphed uniques may only cast spells if they can speak.
* Better movement AI for ranged attackers, now try to regain line of fire.
* Make yaks, death yaks, ugly things and slime creatures stick together when
  wandering.
* Try to make wandering band members stick around the leader.
* Make wandering band members path back to the leader.
* Let band leaders displace their followers.
* Allow friendly monsters to path to you across the level.
* Friendlies start following you again after killing target instead of
  wandering.
* Smart monsters use pathfinding to go around shallow water.
* Monsters floundering in shallow water move slowly and fumble attacks.
* Large monsters don't flounder in shallow water.
* Giant monsters can walk through deep water as if it were shallow.
* Make the royal jelly stay on Slime:6.
* Limit number of summons from lamp of fire and fan of air.
* Make skeletal warriors obey silence.
* Greatly improve cacodemons.
* Hungry ghost attack takes 25% of your nutrition.
* Prevent confused giant eyeballs from paralysing.
* Make aquatic monsters chase instead of submerging if they can.
* Friendly monsters told to 'wait here' don't follow through stairs.
* Merged slimes split on polymorph.
* Porkelated monsters can't cast spells either.
* Implement snail/turtle shells; withdrawing into such a shell adds extra
  protection.
* Print 'zot!' sound when a friendly monster triggers a zot trap outside LOS.
* Make zombified monsters retain their stats (at least, HD and HP).
* Boring beetles may now burrow along diagonals.
* No elephants in D and Vaults, slightly reduce their frequency in Lair.
* Remove bears, replace with grizzly or black bears where appropriate.
* Boost monster ghouls' health and damage.
* Monsters respect glowing when deciding whether to cast Invisibility.
* Ugly things may mutate if adjacent to a monster glowing with radiation.
* Make good and strict neutral monsters not choose nearby foes.
* Disallow armour mimics from taking the forms of hides.
* Fix monsters not getting the same bonuses from dragon hides as players.
* Naga/serpent glyph changes. (See 'settings/071_monster_glyphs.txt'.)
* Refactor monster vamp draining.
* Tweak Grinder's spells, weapon, and reduce depth (6-10 -> 3-6).
* Don't give Grinder a high-tier wand, nor Ijyb in Sprint.
* Don't hand out pain weapons to Grinder (pain attack flavour) and Pikel (whip
  of electrocution).
* Add paralysis and draining to the list of high tier wands.
* Don't consider plants/fungi 'interesting', no matter their rarity.
* Give every monster a globally unique id for proper attribution of clouds,
  poisoning etc.

Levels
------
* New game mode: 'Zot Defence'.
* Shorten Elven Halls from 7 -> 5 floors.
* Use a random Temple map if the original temple map is no longer available.
* Fix portal vaults not being deleted after leaving.
* Place escape hatches in all isolated Orcish Mines bubbles.
* Make entering portal vaults from Hell work correctly.
* Travelling to/from the Vestibule of Hell works now.
* Include "Ten Rune Challenge" Dungeon Sprint map, slightly tweaked.
* New sprint map by 78291.
* Prevent randomly teleporting into the Slime:6 loot chambers.
* Introduce serial vaults consisting of several themed mini vaults.
* Every random Pan vault now has a 1/9 chance of having a demonic rune in it.
* No banishment from hell effects.
* No more darkgrey walls/floors in Geh:7 or Gloorx.
* Ambient noise levels for dungeon branches (affecting stealth).
* Describe level 1 upstairs as "staircase leading out of the dungeon."
* Don't enable cTele by quaffing Elf fountains.
* Plain water fountains give no nutrition.
* Fix no-cTele announcements being affected by Translocations skill.
* Generate at most one labyrinth per game (~70% chance), at depth 10-20, never
  in Slime or Orc.
* Troves aren't timed anymore, and always require an item.
* Nerf troves: increased entry fees, reduced loot.
* Make troves handle manuals correctly.
* Don't generate outright useless troves for your species.
* Timed markers get a second timer, activated on sight.
* Extend unannounced portal timers to around 3000 turns.
* Don't open transparent secret doors with warnings.
* New noise propagation system, taking into account walls and doors.
* Fix good_item gold giving ludicrous amounts.
* Fix no traps being generated on Zot:5.
* Reveal teletraps triggered by a monster in sight.
* Replace hell exit stairs with portals.
* Boost alarm trap noise to 25.
* Two custom traps: basket of spiders, falling grate.
* Change temple_entry_steam to mist, which doesn't block autotravel.
* Allow vaults to specify shops, monster gods, wand charges.
* New temple maps, many with < 12 altars.
* Many great new vaults (entry vaults, serial, Lair/Snake branch ends, etc.)

Items
-----
* New items: scroll of curse jewellery, scroll of amnesia.
* Remove scrolls of paper, rods of discovery, crystal balls of fixation.
* Nerf the speed brand. Damage reduced to 90%.
* Increase the guaranteed damage reduction from armour.
* Body armour can be enchanted up to a bonus equivalent to its base AC.
* Enchant armour scrolls don't fail because of high bonus anymore.
* Antimagic weapon brand.
* Disable equipment corrosion from slime walls.
* Remove the robe of the Archmagi's experience penalty.
* Remove wizardry effect from Archmagi, allow it to enhance Tmut/Tloc spells.
* Autopickup weapons subjected to Tukima's Dance.
* Disallow blowing Geryon's horn when silenced.
* Fix breakage of blood potion stacks when partially eaten by jellies.
* Fix randarts with unknown base type sometimes not being eligible for
  ?identify.
* Fix rod pluses not being considered for ?identify.
* Fix misleading spell descriptions on rods; display average power.
* Disallow creation of randart demonic weapons with the holy wrath brand.
* Fix equipping sInv artefact not reactivating autopickup.
* Fix throwing nets becoming 'stuck' in certain situations.
* Fix permafood being coloured brown like contaminated chunks.
* Inscribe "was cursed" for items uncursed using ?enchant foo.
* Fix an information leak about magic resistance from unidentified items.
* Remove random staff ID over time: identify staff types on wield, just like
  weapons and rods do.
* Give staves and rods a chance to be generated cursed.
* Allow staves of poison to affect monsters with rPois; Olgreb is 1/4
  irresistible.
* Give the staff of death rN+.
* Give the staff of summoning warding, sometimes abjure summons on hit.
* Asphyxiation resistance blocks curare damage, but not slowing.
* Poison resistance protects against curare entirely.
* Add new chunk type that is both poisonous and contaminated.
* Remove +AC/+EV from randarts. Fixedarts still keep them.
* Auto-id gourmand for non-Mu non-full-herbivores (level 3).
* Allow cancelling some scrolls without consuming them.
* Allow (M)emorising from books on the floor.
* Reintroduce item stat loss prompts.
* Prompt before wearing or wielding a known-cursed item.
* Remove misleading messages about weapon str/dex weighting.
* Don't corrode ammo by clumsily bashing jellies with it.
* Don't acquire manuals or sage to utterly useless skills.
* Improve rods of striking: 1d5 -> 1d8.
* Do proper foe checking for rod spells that are direct effects.
* ?EWII may uncurse blowguns.
* Remove nutrition on hit for vampiric weapons.
* Make Evocations skill help with ball of seeing radius.
* Disallow use of staff of channeling when starving.
* Give missiles of flame/frost some bonus damage.
* Add noise to missiles.
* Make wield mass check apply to all items.
* Tweak some cards' probabilities and effects.
* More detailed corrosion resistance reporting.
* Mention butchery requirement for food in corpse description.
* Tweak blood potion descriptions to mention nutrition for non-herbivores.
* Disable generation of missiles and bows of reaping.
* Remove scrolls of recharging's effect on weapons of electrocution.
* Stop the generation of racial missiles.
* Make ball of energy stat loss now drains between 1 and 2/3 max Int.
* Improve some unrandart weapons: add brands, more damage.
* Improve Maxwell's Patent Armour: AC+15, +preservation ego, +MR.
* Improve Staff of Wucad Mu: remove miscast effects except for when channeling.
* Make potions of experience give some xp for skills as well.
* Fix acquirement hardly ever generating "plain" crystal plates and dragon
  armour.
* Make acquirement's "redundant armour" check consider things seen rather than
  worn.
* Allow acquirement of non-regular shields, weighted by skills.
* When using an unidentified potion or scroll, display its name in the message.
* New Demon axe unrandart: obsidian axe, adds a siren-like pull to nearby
  monsters.
* All weapons have min 7 delay, or better.

Tiles
-----
* Fix crash when searching the database for zombies.
* Fix mouseclick travel internally using the vi keys.
* Fix manuals being readable while berserk or "brainless".
* Fix tooltip leaking mimic information.
* For the message overlay, treat mouseclicks as relevant to the map (travel
  etc.) rather than the message history.
* Run pngcrush in non-debug builds if installed, shaving 700KB per download.
* Fix randomized animation of unidentified wand/missile.
* New tile tabs for common commands and for skill management.
* Space allowing, detach monster, spell and command tabs.
* Automatically zoom the minimap to fill available space.
* Generate a Windows Alert dialog on assertions.
* Allow mouseclick movement through exclusions and stationary monsters.
* Clicking on an enemy while wielding a ranged weapon fires at it.
* Fix the need to click on an enemy twice to fire or cast at it.
* Casting with ctrl+click casts the last spell if appropriate.
* Suppress tree descriptions on mouseover.
* Make sure mouseover descriptions are only triggered by mouse movement.
* Ctrl-mouseclick asks for quantity for drop/pickup.
* Add disturbance tiles for invisible monsters in clouds.
* More helpful and less obnoxious exclusion tiles.
* Reinstate the red haze during berserk.
* Add species-dependent lich/statue form tiles, capable of weapon display.
* Use poison icon for player doll, if poisoned.
* New title screens (Denzi, Omndra).
* Add tiles to the startup menu.
* Remove shield tiles from various shieldless monsters.
* New runed armour/weapon tiles.
* Fix randart item tiles never actually being used.
* Many great new monster tiles.
* Improved Swamp and Lair floor.
* New dungeon statue, blood, and Xom altar tiles.
* Reinitialise dungeon tiles if TILE_WALL_MAX changed between versions.
* Store vault-defined tile names in the save.
* Overhaul tiles_help.txt.

Technical
---------
* No setgid installs, due to many security issues; this means no shared
  scores or ghosts.
* Saves are stored in single files, with transactional protection against
  crashes.
* Don't include lua chunks in save files.
* Autosave at game start and in Sprint, to keep crashes from losing the game.
* Internal changes to handling monsters/LOS/map/UI, merged from NetTiles.
* Reduce idle clock threshold, fix several bugs in measuring play time.
* Except for public servers, ensure robustness against filesystem crashes.
* Special and non-special unrandarts use the same generation code.
* Reorder spell code by school and functionality.
* Simplify ghost I/O.
* Clean up the level generation code.

Options
-------
* Change the explore_stop option to use greedy_pickup_smart by default.
* New travel_key_stop option for whether keypresses should interrupt
  travel/resting.
* Default easy_exit_menu to false; make all keyhelp menus respect this option.
* Make autopickup_no_burden default to true.
* New console option: 'show_player_species' (default false), uses appropriate
  monster glyph.
* New option: 'show_real_turns' (default off).
* Tiles: New option: 'tile_layout_priority', for fully customizable tile tabs.
* Tiles: Replace 'tile_title_screen' (default true) with 'tile_skip_title'
  (false).


Stone Soup 0.7.2 (20110207)
---------------------------
* Fix crashes on entering new levels with restart_after_game = true.
* Fix crash with off-level map viewing.
* Fix a crash when Jiyva worshippers spawn jellies for non-monster-damage.
* Fix crash when trying to throw a quivered dancing weapon.
* Fix problems with Unicode locales other than en_US.UTF-8.
* Fix near-uselessness on ARM.
* Fix save corruption for too long player names.
* Don't trap teleporting merfolk in a couple of temples.
* Disallow targeting passwall at self.
* Fix stat boosting armour not losing bonus when melding.
* Fix weapon acquirement not considering some rare weapons.
* Disable Trowel card in portal vaults, labyrinths, Pan and the Abyss.
* A variety of other bug fixes.

Stone Soup 0.7.1 (20100724)
---------------------------
* Fix travel excludes not being saved.
* Fix map markers not being activated on game reload.

Stone Soup 0.7 (20100724)
-------------------------

0.7 Highlights
--------------
* Fix over-enthusiastic Armour nerf.
* New tutorial and mini-game (Dungeon Sprint).
* Removed instant stat death.
* Overhauled Demonspawn mutations.
* Aptitudes now on a scale +5 to -5.
* New starting menus, mouse-operable in tiles builds.
* Removed Thief and Death Knight character backgrounds.

Balance fixes
-------------
* Monster double actions due to energy randomisation always include a move.
* Greatly accelerate armour training when armour is heavy relative to skill.
* Make heavy armour guaranteed damage reduction percentage independent of
  armour skill.
* Heavy armour doesn't affect weapon speed anymore.
* Shields reduce attack speed.
* Nagas and worshippers of Cheibriados don't suffer from as much hunger.

Unsorted
--------
* New mini-game, Dungeon Sprint.
* New tutorial, old tutorial is now a hints mode.
* Aptitudes now on a scale +5 to -5.
* Track the source of poison for death messages.
* Magic mapping and Lugonu's self-banishment now work in Pandemonium.
* Ghouls can no longer starve; they just rot faster.

Interface
---------
* New starting menus, mouse-operable in tiles builds.
* New tiles monster list tab.
* Swap water and disturbance glyphs ('~' and '{').
* Show effective weapon speed in '@' character info.
* Player body size is now described on the "A" screen.

Game
----
* Walls in the Slime Pits are acidic.
* Changed shop distribution between branches.
* Removed instant stat death.
* Monster silence.
* Monster halos.
* New demonspawn mutations.
* Make Shoals monsters generate on land.
* Reduced missile enchantment effect on mulching.
* New maps.
* Fix old player ghost speech, and add player ghost speech fitting the
  ghost.
* Monster equipment can be corroded by acid.
* Lost stats are now recovered one point at a time.
* Magic contamination effects are more than twice as harsh.
* The Abyss may now include hand-made structures.

Gods
----
* Zin no longer objects to deaths of non-sentient allies, and takes
  collateral kills of unclean and chaotic monsters.
* Zin has a new power: Imprison.
* Elyvilon's Divine Vigour scales better in terms of power.
* Yredelemnul no longer gifts vampires.
* Sif Muna's piety is no longer unfair to skilled species.
* Nemelex no longer takes gold sacrifices.
* Fedhas can now evolve ballistomycetes into hyperactive ballistomycetes.
* Jiyva now gives the player conservation and unique slime-related
  mutations, and produces temporary friendly slimes instead of permanent
  neutral ones via the royal jelly effect.

Items
-----
* Scrolls of holy word do more damage to susceptible monsters.
* Blowguns no longer show damage, as they do none; accordingly, scrolls of
  enchant weapon II no longer work on them.
* Flame- and frost-branded darts no longer always mulch, and the steel brand
  is properly applied for thrown weapons.
* Demon tridents can be blessed by TSO.

Backgrounds
-----------
* Thieves and Death Knights are no more.
* Warpers receive darts of dispersal.

Monsters
--------
* Anacondas are now amphibious.
* Skeletal dragons are renamed to bone dragons.
* Manes are now iron imps, with stat tweaks.
* Imps lose see invisible while shadow imps gain it, and white imps resist
  poison but are vulnerable to fire.
* (Very) ugly things are no longer amphibious.
* Glyph change for demonic crawlers.
* Orange demons' poison can now drain any stat.
* Hell hounds, hell hogs and demonic crawlers now leave corpses.
* Hell knights have more HP and do more damage.
* Blink frogs have phase shift.
* New monsters: elephant, dire elephant, hellephant, spriggan, spriggan
  druid, spriggan firefly rider.
* New unique: Grinder the shadow imp.
* Wayne is now capable of laying a major smackdown.

Spells
------
* Call Imp is now level 2, takes spell power into account, and can summon
  iron imps.
* Call Canine Familiar replaces Summon Elemental in the book of Callings,
  and is removed from the book of Summonings.
* Summon Ugly Thing summons very ugly things less often at high power.
* Invisibility no longer works on glowing monsters.
* Extension only extends spells that you know.
* Death's Door only blocks healing, paralysis only for Revivification.
* Summon Ugly Things is level 6, Haunt is level 7.

Technical
---------
* LOS and areas recalculated on-demand.
* Asserts are enabled by default.
* Abstract tiles code from SDL and OpenGL.
* Cleaned up game selection code.


Stone Soup 0.6.1 (20100609)
---------------------------
* Fix instant starvation bug related to vampiric weapon butchery.
* Fix Cheibriados excommunication permanent stat gain.
* Reenable sound for mingw builds.
* Xcode, Visual C++ and clang build fixes.
* Fix save handling on BSD systems.
* Fix Lua markers not being reactivated after viewing other levels.
* Selected other bug fixes.

Stone Soup 0.6 (20100326)
-------------------------
Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

Breaks save compatibility with the 0.5 release.

IMPORTANT: The bugtracker has moved to http://crawl.develz.org/mantis/.
           Please report all bugs and feedback there. Thank you!

           The official website has moved to http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/.
           Announcements and development changes will be posted there.

           The source code is still hosted on SourceForge, but we now use git
           for version control. See docs/develop/git/quickstart.txt for more
           information.


0.6 Highlights
--------------
* Removed Divinations spell school.
* Three new gods: Jiyva, Fedhas, Cheibriados.
* Altars for dungeon gods may now appear on levels 2 to 9 instead of the Temple.
* New water based branch: the Shoals, sometimes replacing Swamp or Snake Pit.
* Overhauled AC/EV system. In particular, effect of Dexterity on EV is uncapped.
* Strength has a much greater effect on carrying capacity.
* Slime creatures and ugly things are more interesting and dangerous.
* Many cool new monsters, portal vaults and ammunition brands.

Gods
----
* New god: Jiyva, god of slime.
* New god: Fedhas, god of plants and fungi.
* New god: Cheibriados, god of slowness.
* Ecumenical Temple may randomly contain 6 to 14 altars.
* Dungeon gods not included in Ecumenical Temple get guaranteed altar on D:2-9.
* Sacrifice corpses with prayer ('p') rather than prayer and chop up ('pc').
* Elyvilon doesn't mind butchery during prayer anymore.
* Lugonu's Corruption is usable only once per level.
* Kikubaaqudgha gives torment resistance, hands out corpses and the Pain brand.
* Lugonu's Corruption only produces neutral monsters.
* Sif Muna doesn't accept worshippers who don't know any spells.
* TSO's wrath does much less damage.
* TSO's halo no longer makes the player easier to hit.
* Vehumet reduces mana cost and increases ranges of destructive spells.
* Xom is nicer about banishment and hostile monsters for low-xp followers.
* Xom has a small chance of reviving the player after death.
* Yredelemnul's gifts follow through stairways even if behind zombies.
* Zin protects the player against disease, rotting and miasma.
* Zin's Recite has no food cost and no longer causes monsters to go berserk.

Levels
------
* New branch: the Shoals. Greek-inspired, featuring merfolk, tides, and turtles.
  Games now select two branches from Shoals, Snake Pit, and Swamp to enable.
* Shorten Lair to eight levels.
* More interesting level layout for Lair and Swamp.
* New portal vaults: Bailey, Trove, Volcano, Wizard's Laboratory.
* Some escape hatches are replaced by (single-use) shafts.
* New wall type "tree"; two trees in a row block vision.
* Seal hell portals rather than Vestibule when the player picks up the orb.
* Loosen restrictions about which branches may contain uniques.
* Disallow mechanical traps in the Slime Pits.
* Limit alarm traps to 1-3 charges.
* Trap disarming prompts if you have less hp than the trap's maximum damage.
* New alternative branch endings for Hells, Hive, Swamp, Vaults.
* The pandemonium lords' levels get special announcements.
* Added milestones for all portal vaults and the pandemonium lords' levels.
* Many new vaults.

Ranged combat
-------------
* Removed hand crossbows and the Darts skill; moved blowguns to Throwing skill.
* New background: Arcane Marksman, combining Crusader, Warper and Hunter.
* New missile materials: silver, steel.
* New missile brands: dispersal, electricity, exploding, penetration, reaping.
* New needle brands: sleep, slow, paralysis, confusion, frenzy and sickness.
* Branded and enchanted ammunition is described as "runed".
* Branding spells will also affect launchers.
* On launchers, the protection brand is replaced with evasion, providing +5 EV.
* Except for Nessos, launchers of flame can't be combined with poisoned ammo.
* Removed Poison Ammunition in favour of Poison Weapon and temporary brands.
* More generous stacking of ammunition.
* Lowered mulch rate for branded ammunition.
* Poisoned ammunition is more effective.
* Rings of slaying also apply to missile launchers.
* Hunter starting ammunition starts out at +1; sling-based Hunters get bucklers.
* Slings are one-handed and no longer delayed by shields.
* Stones are three times heavier.

Items
-----
* Removed amulet of resist slowing.
* Removed distinction between light and heavy armour.
* Added scroll of silence.
* Added potions of brilliance and agility.
* Added shields of reflection.
* New amulets: guardian spirit, faith, stasis.
* Amulet of clarity prevents involuntary berserk.
* Lowered gold dragon armour's AC value.
* All randart weapons are now guaranteed a brand.
* The speed brand is only created randomly for artefacts, short blades
  and staves.
* Halved damage bonus of the vorpal brand to 12.5%.
* Armour acquirement is more likely to fill secondary slots.
* Non-divine acquirement tries to avoid handing out armour/weapons already seen.
* Book acquirement doesn't give manuals to spellcasting specialists anymore.
* Added wands as an acquirement option.
* Potions of resistance last longer.
* Weapons of holy wrath cannot be cursed.
* Improvements to whips and demon whips; the latter can be blessed by TSO.
* Reduce the chances for artefacts with only one stat property.
* Weapons of electrocution discharge in water.
* Removed some evokable properties (mapping/teleportation) from artefacts.
* Removing +Lev items cancels levitation and is disallowed over water.
* Clubs and spears get moderate stabbing bonus.
* Clubs may stun target upon successful stabbing.
* Vampiric weapons can only be wielded at full and cause hunger when wielded.
* Mummies and ghouls get no healing effect from vampiric weapons.
* Shields can be enchanted up to +3.
* Rods identify on wielding and use the Maces & Flails skill.
* Rod recharging no longer depends on player MP or being in inventory.
* Enchanting rods increases their recharge rate.
* Let same-type chunks stack, if their age is similar.
* Deep water doesn't destroy items, lava only flammable ones.
* Weapons with temporary distortion brand don't damage or banish on unwielding.
* Disallow sacrifice of runes, the orb of Zot, and the unused horn of Geryon.
* Autoinscribe items found cursed with {was cursed}.

Monsters
--------
* New Shoals monsters: merfolk/mermaid, siren, harpy, kraken, turtle, shark.
* New monster: ballistomycete, spawned by and spawning giant spores.
* A few other new monsters: toadstool, sixfirhy, golden eye, giant leech.
* New plant: bush, can be fired through, two or more block vision.
* (Very) ugly things get resistances and attack flavours depending on colour.
* Slime creatures can merge in corridors to become larger and more powerful.
* All spectral things can use stairs again.
* Display magic (or "hostile enchantments") resistance in monster descriptions.
* Monsters get more sensible experience values matching their difficulty.
* OOD (out-of-depth) monsters no longer appear in bands until many turns
  spent on the level.
* OOD monster generation increases sharply with time spent on a level.
* Monster respawns on any level in the main dungeon branches outside
  Hell and Zot decline with time spent on the level until eventually
  no further monsters will be generated on the level.
* Demons spawned during the orb run will actively seek out the player.
* Hydras pick new target for remaining attacks if their current foe dies.
* Make monsters forget player position if the player teleports away.
* Monsters go to sleep more readily when the player is off-level for
  a while.
* Implement and use monster spells "blink away" and "blink closer".
* Detected, unopened secret doors remain unknown to stupid monsters.
* Monsters may quaff potions of might and berserk rage.
* Bears go berserk, but mindless monsters can't.
* Confused monsters zap wands in random directions.
* Giant lizards are now called crocodiles and are amphibious.
* Greatly reduce number of monsters capable of submerging.
* Submerged monsters cannot be targeted or affected by beams anymore.
* Submerged monsters always unsubmerge if they can attack.
* Amphibious creatures don't get an attack bonus in water anymore.
* Monsters' sense invisible is more effective on invisible monsters,
  and less effective on invisible players.
* Hungry ghosts eat corpses.
* Bashing plants or fungi will only train Fighting/Unarmed Combat up to level 1.
* Several cool new uniques.
* Unique speech much more varied and interesting.
* Glyph changes for several monsters. See 052_monster_glyphs.txt.

Characters
----------
* Overhauled AC/EV system.
* Armour/Dodging/Stealth training depends on item mass.
* Strength effect on carrying capacity greatly increased.
* Base carrying capacity depends on weight of the player species.
* Wanderers have been overhauled and are much stronger.
* Increased Mummies' starting stats.
* Starting stats and equipment are no longer assigned randomly.
* Gain of Health and Magic Points on level up is no longer random.
* Many status effects and durations use delay rather than turn count.
* Round all aptitudes to multiples of 10.
* Nerf damage reduction of the player's elemental resistances.
* Distracted stabbing is more likely, but resulting damage bonus is lowered.
* Fighting is noisy depending on damage dealt, weapon type and brand.
* Decouple miasma resistance from negative energy resistance;
  rotting resistance implies both disease and miasma resistance.
* Regeneration only increases hunger while regenerating.
* Shield value SH transparently reflects blocking chance.
* Hellfire ignores AC, damage is toned down.
* Changed Magic mapping mutation to work passively.
* Sticky flame negates invisibility.
* Vampires can bottle blood via an (a)bility rather than by (c)hopping.
* When berserk, hit points are scaled to 150%, as was the case before 0.5.
* Add a time limit of ~200M turns, to safeguard against time wraps.

Interface: Dungeon exploration
------------------------------
* In the Abyss, allow travel via 'x' or mouseclick to cells within LOS.
* Autotravel doesn't cut corners and tries to avoid ambushes.
* Switched to line-of-sight exclusions.
* Exclusions within LOS can be set and removed with 'xe'.
* Exclusions are displayed on the overview screen ('Ctrl-O' command).
* Ctrl-O lists ranges of branches not yet found.
* Show explored depth for all branches in the overview screen ('Ctrl-O').
* Autoexclusions get removed again once the trigger monster is no longer there.
* Dangerous clouds that are generated by the dungeon itself ("fog machines")
  generate autoexclusions when seen by player.
* Treat non-adjacent mimics as safe for resting/travel.
* Allow viewing off-level maps from the 'X' overmap with '[' and ']'.
* Level features (e.g. stairs, gates, altars) are listed in the 'X' map.
* Disallow autoexplore and resting when starving.
* Disable autoexplore in labyrinths.

Interface: Other
----------------
* Fix wands not prompting when fired at allies.
* Add a shopping list ('$') to notify you when you can afford a listed item.
* New memorisation interface lists all spells contained in carried books.
* Autopickup turns itself back on when killing invisible backlit monsters.
* Greatly decreased message spam, especially when targeting.
* Add !a inscription to prompt when attacking with this wielded item.
* New Lua file autofight.lua which allows auto-attacking of the nearest enemy.
* Abort some teleportation attempts with -TELE without losing the turn.
* Food is never autoassigned to slot 'e' and potions are never autoassigned
  to slots 'q' or 'y'.
* If you know Evaporate, list possible clouds in potions' descriptions.
* Unidentified artefacts can now be found with "Ctrl-F artefact".
* Prefer swapping to a butchery tool to unequipping gloves.
* Allow more than 8 colours in Mac builds if the terminal supports it.
* Provide Dvorak vi key bindings, see dvorak_command_keys.txt.
* Allow overriding vi keys with "Unknown command", see no_vi_command_keys.txt.
* Colour experience pool according to fullness.
* Added an html version of the FAQ in the docs/ directory.

Spells
------
* Removed Divinations spell school.
* New spell: Orb of Destruction, homes in on target and explodes.
* Silence radius decreases with duration.
* Always prompt when attempting to cast non-helpful spells at yourself.
* Limit Summon Small Mammals to a maximum of two mammals per casting.
* Summon Small Mammals doesn't summon green or orange rats anymore.
* Reduced Poison Arrow's irresistible damage component from 60% to 30%.
* Semi-controlled blink causes glowing.
* Fulsome Distillation depends only on corpse type - RNG and rotting influence
  has been removed. Also doesn't prompt when only one corpse present.
* Tukima's Dance weapon strength depends on spell power and weapon weight.
* Summon Wraiths is replaced by Haunt, a smite-targeted summoning spell.
* Directed non-enchantment spells make noise when they hit something.
* Casting spells is noisy.
* Spell miscasts and hell effects are noisy.
* Call Canine Familiar only calls friendly canines.
* Condensation Shield is more effective.
* Improved Passwall interface.
* Allow Mummies to cast Summon Horrible Things.
* Ice Form can swim in deep water; be careful you don't drown!
* Disintegration is really messy.
* Display current power, range and food cost in spell descriptions.
* Useless and forbidden spells are coloured in spell menus.

Tiles
-----
* Added tabs to switch between inventory and clickable spells display.
* Autoexplore can be started by Shift-Left-clicking on the minimap.
* Re-added doll editing screen ('-' command).
* Display tiles in many more menus, including the database search (?/).
* New modifier keys for left-clicking on monsters or the player:
  * Shift-Left-Click: fire quivered ammo at monster.
  * Ctrl-Left-Click: cast spell at target (monster or player).
  * Alt-L-Click/Ctrl-Shift-L-Click: zap wand at target (monster or player).
  * When applicable, L-clicking on a monster within reaching range attacks it.
* Added a health and mana bar to the player tile.
* Added an icon designating berserk monsters.
* Added icons for chunk/corpse eating effects.
* Added icons for armour egos.
* Reuse dancing weapon icon for known mimics.
* Many new and/or improved tiles, for monsters and features.
* Add some animations when the screen is redrawn.
* Vaults can specify custom tiles for features or monsters.
* Tiles can be recoloured dynamically during compilation.
* Variant tiles of a set can be assigned weights.
* When waiting for input, suppress mouseover descriptions in the message area.
* Draw splash screen before loading maps and database, and output loading state.
* Tile dependencies are handled correctly, and tile sheets recompiled as needed.
* The Shoals branch is our testing ground for a smoother level layout.

Options
-------
* Changed: clear_messages = false. (Was: delay_message_clear = false.)
* New: option explore_delay = -1, to differentiate explore from travel delay.
* New: autoinscribe_cursed = true, for items found cursed.
* New: msg_condense_short = true, joins short messages into one line.
* New: show_more = true. With clear_messages, prints -More- for full messages.
* New: small_more = false. If true, gives one extra line to the message area.
* New: msg_min_height = 7, sets minimum size of the message area.
* New: messages_at_top = false, draws messages above the main map.
* New: explore_stop_pickup_ignore, pick up regexed items and continue travel.
* New, ASCII-only: use_fake_player_cursor = false, highlights player glyph.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_show_minihealthbar = true, draws hp bar on player tile.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_show_minimagicbar = true, draws mp bar on player tile.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_show_demon_tier = true, displays demon tier icons.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_better_transparency = false, better water masks.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_peaceful_col = lightred, colour for peaceful monsters.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_force_overlay = false, displays messages in an overlay.
* New, Tiles-only: tile_runrest_rate = 100, screen update rate while resting.
* New explore_stop options greedy_pickup_smart, greedy_pickup_thrown.
* Renamed: unix 'background' option to 'background_colour'.
* Renamed: character 'job' option to 'background'.
* Removed: target_los_first, target_oos, target_wrap, target_zero_exp.

Major bug fixes
---------------
* Fix branch ends rarely being generated without a rune.
* Fixed occasional permanent stat loss/gain with stat-modifying equipment.
* LOS is now symmetrical, fixing a variety of bugs.
* Fix teleport control occasionally not being enabled after picking up runes
  or the orb.

Technical improvements
----------------------
* Overhauled and improved the line of sight code, including a new,
  slightly more permissive LOS model.
* Overhauled and improved the targeting code.
* Rewrote the message window/message history code.
* Added several automated test cases in Lua.
* New and improved makefiles and updated xcode and msvc projects.
* Split up the contents of several large .cc and .des files into smaller files.
* Many new Lua wrappers to make Lua much more powerful in e.g. map creation.
* A wizard mode Lua REPL.
* Unique placement code has been moved to Lua and is directed via uniques.des.
* Add property hash to monsters, and use it generously for various monsters.
* The documentation file aptitudes.txt is autogenerated from the aptitudes code.
* Cleanup of included header files, greatly reducing compilation time.
* Unrandarts and fixedarts share the same, cleaner coding structure.


Stone Soup 0.5.2 (20091008)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

* Fixed tiles crashes with certain resolutions.
* Fixed Mac build sometimes not finding the graphics files.
* Fixed NSLayoutManager crash with OSX.
* OSX executables no longer require installation of fink.
* DCSS now builds on FreeBSD straight out of the box.
* DCSS now uses git for version control.
* Fixed Lee's Rapid Deconstruction having no effect at low levels.
* Fixed weird beam tiles for unknown beam types.
* Fixed Xom's infinite teleportation journeys.
* Fixed disconnected pan vaults.
* Fixed missile +1 enchantment not reducing mulch rate.
* Fixed some issues with melded equipment.
* Fixed casting of spells on slot 'I' being impossible.
* Fixed temporary unlinked item bug.
* Fixed monsters being unable to pick up or carry healing potions.
* Fixed mummy monsters drinking potions.
* Fixed stationary monsters floundering in shallow water.
* Fixed minivaults sometimes being placed without overlapping floor squares.
* Fixed friendly fire among monsters.
* Fixed insane damage dealt by Pain card.
* Fixed clawed butchering both removing gloves and unwielding weapon.
* Fixed submerged shapeshifters not unsubmerging properly.
* Fixed monster mephitic cloud not working against the player properly.
* Removed entry vaults with lethal fog generators for now.
* Get rid of out of depth eels in fountains.
* Greatly tweak ice cave vaults.
* Some other vault tweaks.
* All worms except brain worm and all wasps are now mindless.
* Demonspawn Troggies don't get Channeling anymore.
* Z does not show spell list automatically anymore.
* Added an option "darken_beyond_range" (defaults to true) for spell ranges.
* Default "force_more_message = You fall through a shaft" to true.
* Reintroduced out of sight mouseover descriptions for Tiles.
* Replaced post-explosion -More- prompt with a delay.
* In the ASCII version, colour silenced grids cyan.

Stone Soup 0.5.1 (20090728)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

* Improved performance for the Tiles version.
* Fixed crashes related to giant spores.
* Fixed Summon Horrible Things sometimes hanging or crashing.
* Fixed monsters refusing to enter or attack into grids on the map edge.
* Fixed minivaults not being placed.
* Fixed inconvenient electrical eels in entry vaults.
* Fixed summoning decks giving permanent summons at low power.
* Fixed erroneous "blocked line of fire" warnings.
* Fixed missing items in Tiles inventory menus.
* Fixed 'C' closing one out of several adjacent doors without prompting.
* Fixed Xom's repel stairs effect moving shops.
* Fixed Xom gifts not being destroyed in deep water.
* Fixed magic mapping bugs in the Tiles version.
* Fixed AltGr not being recognized in Windows Tiles version.
* Fixed Alt-Tab sometimes locking the Alt key on Windows.
* Fixed misbehaviour for temporary weapon brands and throwing.
* Fixed Blade Hands not counting as slicing while wearing melded gloves.
* Fixed berserking allies taking orders from 'ta'.
* Fixed random blinking sometimes placing the player in dangerous clouds.
* Fixed certain incorporeal monsters flying instead of levitating.
* Fixed server disconnects at --More-- prompts allowing to avoid retribution.
* Staff of earth damage is reduced by AC.
* Lowered damage output for elemental staves.
* Once entered, the gate to Zot remains open even without carrying runes.
* Add some fancy messaging when opening the gate to Zot.
* Prompt before moving when confused and next to lava or deep water.
* Check some abilities' requirements before rolling the success check.
* Consider armour properties in fatal stat loss check before transforming.
* Really allow uniques to retain their spells when polymorphed.
* Improve Yredelemnul's Enslave Soul, no longer uses random resistance checks.
* Mutation attacks disregard magic resistance again.
* Zin gets a power to once per game cure a follower of all mutations.
* Artificers start with 1 MP.
* Prompt before allowing TSO/Lugonu to bless your weapon.
* Vampiric Draining/Drain Life deal damage to summons again, but don't heal.
* Wielding stones for Sandblast now guarantees a range of 2.
* Change Portal Projectile range to full LOS.
* Limit the number of items a monster may pick up to two per turn.
* Unknown mimics are no longer stabbable.
* Turn autopickup back on if you gain see invisible, even temporarily.
* Polymorph other always polymorphs shapeshifters whose form isn't magic immune.
* Troll hide and armour count as light armour.
* Let ghouls wear gloves again.
* Wearing a visored helmet prevents biting attacks.
* Allow players to reroll already named random character combinations.
* Improved error messages when trying to load pre-0.5 save files or ghosts.
* Some new vaults.
* Add new milestones for the CAO tournament.
* Tiles: Re-allow selection of player dolls ('-' command).
* Add missing tiles options to the options guide (docs/, '?&' command).
* Improve tiles for escape hatches and disturbances in shallow water.
* Document tiles lags in tiles_help.txt and in the in-game FAQ ('?Q' command).

Stone Soup 0.5.0 (20090612)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

Breaks saves and bones compatibility.


0.5 Highlights
--------------
* New species and job: Deep Dwarf, Artificer.
* Removed three species: Gnome, Grey Elf, Ogre-Mage.
* Several cool new uniques and other monsters.
* Several great new portal vaults.
* Zombies and skeletons can no longer use stairs.
* Transformations meld equipment instead of removing it.
* Many spell ranges shortened.
* Much more useful monster descriptions.
* More convenient tiles version.

Levels
------
* New portal vaults (Sewer, Ice Cave, Minitomb, Ziggurat), and many new vaults.
* Self-changing labyrinths (mappable but subject to map rot).
* Teleporting within a labyrinth always sends you away from the exit.
* The Orcish Mines are completely interconnected via the branch bottom.
* Shortened Hive to two levels.
* Ghosts may no longer appear in the Ecumenical Temple.
* Traps remember how much ammunition they have.
* Branch descriptions mention depth and whether they contain a rune.
* Fixed KMONS not accepting comma-separated list of alternative monsters.
* Tweaked most of the oklob vaults to make them less dangerous.
* Allow bazaars outside of the main dungeon.
* For timed portal vault alerts, give directional feedback.

Characters
----------
* Removed Grey Elf and Gnome species.
* Merged Ogre-Mages into Ogres with completely new aptitudes.
* Added non-healing species: Deep Dwarves.
* Swapped Kobolds' aptitudes for Long Blades and Maces & Flails.
* Added Artificer job.
* Transformations cause worn equipment to be melded rather than removed.
* Overhaul nutrition values and duration for Vampires feeding on corpses.
* Vampires can no longer heal via potions of blood or non-fresh corpses.
* Vampires recover lost stats depending on blood level.
* Draining of the experience pool is reduced by life protection.
* Merfolk can swim in heavy armour, albeit with doubled armour penalty.
* Player and monster nagas no longer flounder or lose stealth in shallow water.
* Secondary unarmed attacks wake sleeping monsters.
* Pure spellcasters don't start with a weapon anymore.
* Tweak starting choice restrictions.
* Going into berserk rage doubles Health, ending it halves Health.
* Added the slow healing mutation, affecting hitpoints and stat regeneration.

Monsters
--------
* Disallow zombified monsters' use of stairs.
* New monsters: trapdoor spider, rock worm, flaming corpse, chaos spawn.
* Monster descriptions list resistances and some other attributes.
* Several cool new uniques.
* Many of the later uniques appear a few dungeon levels earlier.
* Polymorphed uniques retain their spells and speech.
* Reintroduce chance of orc wizards and priests in early orc bands.
* Most monsters of the same genus will attempt to surround the player.
* Implemented monster miscasts caused by Zot traps or mummy curses.
* Make all allies (including zombies) avoid Zot traps known to the player.
* Ghosts don't get holy wrath branded attacks anymore.
* Monsters will shout when woken, unless stabbed.
* Monsters will drink !healing to cure confusion, etc.
* Allies no longer mind being teleported by the player.
* Causing fear will make permanent allies flee but does not anger them.
* Retain the teleportation enchantment on polymorphed monsters.
* Make vampiric draining and torment alert and anger its target.
* Fixed draconians being able to strike 3 times per turn with their weapons.
* Account for randart shields when scanning monsters' inventories for randarts.
* Fixed monsters getting stuck in deep water after entering it while confused.
* Monsters behind glass but with a path to the player interrupt rest/travel.
* Monsters raised from the dead are equipped with their original equipment.
* Zombies/skeletons no longer drown, but will still avoid water.
* Fixed summoned monsters taking non-summoned items with them.
* Summoned monsters are no longer susceptible to Vampiric Draining.
* Make abominations resist poison.
* Butchered corpses sometimes leave skeletons.
* Finally fixed monsters acting before being announced as "coming into view".

Interface
---------
* New command for evoking inventory items ('V'), replaces wand zapping ('Z').
* Casting spells with 'z' aborts without prompt if no monsters are in range.
* Casting spells with the new 'Z' allows casting in any case.
* Changed quick save command to 'Ctrl-S' (was Ctrl-X).
* Change exclusion commands to e, E, Ctrl-E (was Ctrl-X, x, Ctrl-E).
* New monster/item view command ('Ctrl-X'), allowing travel to items, features.
* Store message history across saves.
* Some message condensation for identical messages.
* Added stat_colour option to highlight dangerously low stats.
* New option: Automatically set travel exclusions for statues and oklob plants.
* Switch off autopickup and autoswap if you see a monster turn invisible.
* Killing an invisible monster reactivates autopickup.
* Added ally pickup mode for items dropped by either player or allies.
* Shops use shopping cart behaviour.
* Wizard commands can be used from the wizard help screen.
* Allow quivering/firing of wielded missiles and wielded weapons of returning.
* With a full pack, check entire list of selected items to allow for merging.
* Eating prompts for chunks sorted by age and side effects.
* Added an option to make menu colours apply to shops.
* Use menu colours for announcements of items found while travelling.
* Pressing Esc at -More- automatically clears all queued -More- prompts.
* Added FAQ to help screen ('?Q').
* Purchases and donations are noted.
* The database search also prints armour base AC/EV and weapon plusses.
* Add spells and books to book/spell descriptions when searching the database.
* Ability and card descriptions are searchable in the database ('?/').
* Allow wishing for specific fixed and randarts in wizard mode ('o' command).
* Add food item based hunger descriptions to spells.
* "Glow" status is grey for harmless contamination, yellow for dangerous levels.

Items
-----
* New scroll: ?vulnerability, applying to all creatures in LoS including you.
* New weapon brand: chaos, available only via Xom and pandemonium lords.
* Introduce randart spellbooks with random spell selections.
* Book acquirements are much more random and may yield manuals.
* Missile enchantment decreases chance of destruction on impact.
* Freezing weapons can slow cold-blooded monsters.
* The staff of channeling trains Evocations.
* Potions of magic no longer increase maximal magic points and are more common.
* Item descriptions mention enchantment/charging limits.
* Randarts get their known properties autoinscribed.
* Randarts are noted as identified even if the plusses are still unknown.
* Eliminate RAP_ANGRY and RAP_BERSERK for launcher weapons.
* Ammo that IDs through throwing merges in your pack instantaneously.
* ?immolation doesn't burn scrolls anymore.
* ?summoning creates a permanent abomination.
* ?random uselessness autoidentifies.
* ?vorpalise weapon fixes temporary brands instead of Enchant Weapon III.
* Nemelex-gifted decks identify after drawing one card.
* Decks of punishment are no longer randomly generated.
* Removing rings of levitation or invisibility no longer cancels the effect.
* Identify the Horn of Geryon when wielding it.
* Skeletons rot away in inventory at the same rate as on the floor.

Gods
----
* Greatly improved Yredelemnul.
* Nerfed TSO/Beogh's blessings of followers.
* Xom is more active and more useful in combat.
* Cleansing Flame centers on the player and deals less damage.
* Killing a holy being is sometimes avenged by TSO.
* Split Elyvilon's healing powers into "heal self" and "heal other" versions.
* Evyvilon's Lesser Healing (for pacification) does not cost piety anymore.
* Move Divine Robustness from Zin to Elyvilon, replacing Incredible Healing.
* Make Zin's retribution-summoned plagues permanent.
* Sif Muna no longer gifts Kiku/Vehumet specific books, spells still possible.
* Trog accepts kills of demons.
* Trog's Hand provides magic resistance as well as regeneration.
* Vehumet accepts undead killing for you.
* Beogh no longer accepts butchery but likes prayer over orcish remains.
* Beogh accepts more kinds of kills.
* Beogh has a non-cannibalism conduct.
* Disallow shapeshifters in orc form to become Beoghites' followers.
* Offer card descriptions when using Nemelex's Triple Draw or Stack Five.
* Enable automatic note taking for Xom effects.

Tiles
-----
* Overhauled and improved tiles code, now using SDL.
* Added auto-sizing for font, map, and window sizes.
* Support for full screen mode and for small resolutions (800x480).
* Graphical menu improvements: some menus are clickable and show icons.
* Mouse clicks on the map when unsafe travel one square in that direction.
* Mouse-over item/monster descriptions.
* Added new and improved tiles: Pandemonium lords, draconians, randart books.
* Monster tiles include health bars.
* Added type-specific icons for jewellery, shops, and weapon brands.
* Vaults can specify floor and wall tiles in their description.

Miscellaneous
-------------
* Greatly reduced spell ranges (both player and monster).
* For most bolts, hitting a monster reduces range by one.
* Added arena mode to watch monsters fighting other monsters.
* Fixed crashes involving "invisible/unmoving" monsters.
* Crashes leave highly informative crash dumps.
* Poison Weapon is a level 2 spell.
* Extension will also extend temporary weapon brands.
* Lua errors report the line numbers of the actual code.
* Flying can be cancelled.
* Petrify is an Enchantment/Earth spell.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction deals great damage to petrified monsters.
* Removed stash_tracking option, always track all stashes.
* Rewrite and clean up of (among others) beam, trap, and mutations code.
* Store code revision in save files for easier bug tracking.
* Many useful new wizard mode commands.


Stone Soup 0.4.5 (20090114)
---------------------------

* Fixed infinite loop when attempting to create randarts named after gods.
* Fixed re-do command (`) wasting a turn.
* Fixed Swap card not checking for terrain.
* Fixed corpses not appearing in Tiles inventory.

Stone Soup 0.4.4 (20081220)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

* Fixed assertion failure upon high-scoring death.
* Fixed Crawl spinning in CPU-pegging loop on disconnect on death screen.
* Fixed time handling in dgl builds.
* Fixed semi-controlled Blink.
* Fixed '{' inscription.
* Fixed crash when wizmode-creating a nonexistent monster type.
* Fixed broken monster movement away from player.
* Fixed acquirement() giving Book of Bugginess.
* Fixed auto-swapping rings and amulets taking twice as long as normal.
* Fixed explosive tracers leaking information about invisible monsters.
* Fixed real/fake rakshasa identity being leaked in descriptions.
* Fixed =f inscription preventing wielding of stones.
* Fixed Spriggans being capable of wielding staves while wearing a shield.
* Fixed monsters being created with both a shield and wielding a two-hander.
* Fixed off-by-1 error when selecting starting weapon.
* Fixed bats being capable of opening/closing doors.
* Fixed Draconians getting redundant mutations.
* Fixed secondary unarmed attacks not waking sleeping monsters.
* Fixed incorrect high score calculation.
* Fixed backwards stealth check.
* Fixed recharged wands not being inscribed with zap counts.
* Fixed bad names for god-gifted unrandarts.
* Fixed crash related to running on Windows 98.
* Warn player if interlevel travel intends to take detours.
* Make multi-corpse sacrifices take 1 turn only.
* All 't' commands now take a turn.
* Shining eye now gives mutagenic chunks, eye of draining poisonous ones.
* Identify Holy Wrath brand on failed wield.
* Make Lichform discard holy wrath weapons.
* Properly disable traps in the Abyss.
* Don't allow monsters to polymorph into a unique.
* List new amount of charges when recharging identified wands.
* Don't prompt when swapping into dangerous terrain.
* Makhleb accepts collateral demon kills again.
* Only sharp weapons are now offered for butchering.
* Added an aptitudes hotkey for the book/weapon choice submenus.
* Properly allow monsters to pick up and use javelins.
* Don't apply menu colouring to Wp: and Qv: lines.
* Improved interrupted butchery behaviour.
* Saner autopickup exceptions.

Stone Soup 0.4.3 (20080731)
---------------------------

* Fixed lack of mouse actions in Tiles version.
* Fixed Evaporate not working with potions of water.
* Fixed Evaporate trailing clouds before explosion.
* Fixed buggy inscription prompt.
* For DGAMELAUNCH, use gmtime() instead of localtime().
* Only prompt for unsuitable weapons if you can see the target.
* Don't discard Stoneskin when using non-conflicting transformations.
* Allow examining items in end-game inventory and while browsing shops.

Stone Soup 0.4.2 (20080729)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

* Fixed defunct spell slot cap (and crash) with Selective Amnesia memorised.
* Fixed the game crashing if PlaceInfo somehow ends up buggy.
* Fixed runaway skill training.
* Fixed vampire draining not destroying small corpses.
* Fixed player being incapable of attacking some monsters.
* Fixed Elf:1 arrival sometimes being disconnected.
* Fixed picking up runes not enabling teleport control.
* Fixed items being created in walls.
* Fixed macros not working with 0.3.4 keymaps by introducing keybinding.
* Fixed x_ and other feature hotkeys not working in the Abyss.
* Fixed not swapping with a fiery monster into a fire cloud still moving it.
* Fixed firing at enslaved monsters being impossible.
* Fixed randart bardings masquerading as boots.
* Fixed claws/ankus not being handled by the weapon option.
* Fixed maps being unable to place monsters on shallow water.
* Fixed non-potion effects taking Vampire hunger states into account.
* Fixed repeatedly interrupted butchering making no progress.
* Fixed prompting because of inappropriate weapon despite being confused.
* Fixed resistances for lava creatures.
* Weakened monster Dispel Undead.
* TSO no longer minds if you attack an evil monster in an unchivalric manner.
* TSO no longer grants permanent followers, only prolongs their existence.
* Cleansing Flame won't harm monsters if TSO would be angry about that.
* Intelligent allies can now equip themselves even if non-permanent.
* Existing ghosts are now saved back if an undead player dies on their level.
* Restrict freezing cloud to high-damage cold beams, reduce their duration.
* Reduce number of times a beam can bounce.
* Abominations created by Twisted Resurrection count as undead again.
* Don't autoswitch to randarts with the curse property as a butchering tool.
* Count chunks and blood towards decks of summoning rather than wonder.
* Show monsters sensing/seeing invisible in their 'x' description.
* Self-hit prompts now respect the player's known resistances.
* 'allow_self_target = no' no longer prevents self-targeting for area spells.
* Added chunk colour to lua eating prompt.
* Added PCRE to the source tree.

Stone Soup 0.4.1 (20080717)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

* Fixed crashes related to mapmark.lua.
* Fixed crash when attempting to autoinscribe non-artefacts via '{'.
* Fixed Crawl looping infinitely upon "good random choice" for Thief/Wanderer.
* Fixed crashes when selecting an item with no appropriate items in inventory.
* Fixed DOS problems with long file names.
* Fixed Tiles not working on Windows 2000 and earlier.
* Fixed targeting prompts being ignored or having the wrong result.
* Fixed item quotes causing overlong descriptions.
* Fixed vampire bat jewellery exploit.
* Fixed secondary monster attacks being branded according to their weapon.
* Fixed runes not being counted correctly in scoring.
* Fixed kills by hell effects counting as player kills.
* Fixed persistent --More-- in wizard mode.
* Fixed cold/fire always destroying all potions/scrolls on the floor.
* Fixed Portal Projectile not handling throwing nets or branded ammo correctly.
* Fixed friendly pickup toggle being inappropriately disallowed.
* Fixed known bad potions being subject to autopickup.

Stone Soup 0.4.0 (20080714)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

Breaks saves and bones compatibility.


0.4 Highlights
--------------
* Many interface improvements.
* Greatly improved Tiles.
* Allow all sensible species/class combinations.
* Added Vampire species.
* Overhaul of the good gods.
* Smarter monsters.


Interface
---------
* Overhauled key settings of a number of commands.
  (See settings/034_commands.txt or press ?v while playing.)
* Added monster list for monsters in line of sight (ASCII only).
* Improved religion, skills, ability interface. (Commands are ^!, m?, and a!.)
* Overhauled (f)iring interface: abolish (t)hrowing, output quiver in status.
* Improved butchering interface.
* Allow selection of equipment slots from '%' overview screen.
* Added coloured HP/Magic bars.
* Many new tutorial information triggers.
* Allow searching item/monster/spell/... descriptions ('?/' command).
* Allow swapping (' command) to non-weapons that need to be wielded for spells.
* Fixed weapon swap ignoring {!w}.
* Added Ctrl-D as a synonym for '~' (defining macros).
* Added commands for repeating commands ('`' and '0').
* Added command to annotate level ('!' command).
* Stepping into lava/deep water is not possible anymore, unless confused.
* Ask for confirmation before stepping into dangerous clouds, or traps.
* Allow autotravel through clouds your character is immune to.
* Prompt when firing through allies, or doing a ranged attack TSO would punish.
* Make butchering respect distortion weapons.
* (W)ear and (P)ut on menus allow removal of equipped items.
* Arriving via stairs calls autopickup and lists items on square.
* Refuse to eat rotten meat for non-saprovorous characters.
* Added harmful effects (poison etc.) to chunk descriptions.
* Evaporate can now be cancelled during potion/direction choice.
* Portaled Projectile now allows choice of ammunition.
* Stash tracker now tracks decay of corpses/chunks, eventually removing them.
* greedy_explore now defaults to true.

Gods
----
* Overhauled the good gods: Zin/TSO completely new, Elyvilon more interesting.
* Greatly improved Beogh and Nemelex, and made Xom more interesting.
* Vehumet isn't evil anymore, and all boosts apply without prayer.
* Switch costs of Lugonu's self-banishment and leaving the Abyss.
* Removed autoprayer and option to stop prayer.
* Removed item sacrifices for all gods except Nemelex, TSO, Zin.
* Upon failed sacrifice hint on accepted item types.
* Divine summons will leave on penance, or turn hostile on abandonment.

Characters
----------
* Added Vampire species.
* Enable all sensible species/class combinations.
* Overhaul starting skills and equipment.
* Removed Glamour.
* Red/White Draconians gain heat/cold resistance at xl 14 (rather than 18).
* Mutations: Removed forgetfulness; introduced fur, shouting, +mp/-mp.
* Added +1 damage bonus for orcs and dwarves throwing racial gear.
* Fixed undead being unable to smite.
* Necromutation now gives torment resistance again.
* When transforming only remove armour you can't wear while transformed.

Items
-----
* Removed weapons of disruption, improved holy wrath.
* New weapon brand: dragon slaying, limited to Polearms.
* Fixed darts of flame/ice to actually work, add similarly branded javelins.
* Forbid (un)equipping of items with known potentially fatal stat drain.
* Make distortion only take effect on unwielding.
* Improved autotargeting for weapons of reaching.
* Disable random generation of weapons of orc slaying (allowed in randarts).
* Fixed cap acquirement misbehaviour.
* New scrolls: Holy Word, Fog.
* Removed scrolls of forgetfulness.
* Added potions of blood and coagulated blood.
* Scrolls of recharging and enchant armour now prompt for an item.
* Potions of restore ability also cancel breath delay.
* Staves and rods of the same type can now be recognized.
* Staves will autoID if your skill in the appropriate school is 4 or higher.
* Manuals are visibly different from spell books and don't prompt anymore.
* Improved artefact autoinscriptions.
* Several new pre-defined (un)randarts.
* Added message for returning weapons NOT returning.
* Equipped randarts can now actually cause berserk.
* Thrown potions of poison won't poison monsters anymore.
* Limit racial properties applying to only some fitting item types.
* Prompt when attempting to sacrifice important items.
* Fixed books in shops being noted as identified over and over again.

Monsters
--------
* New glyphs and colours for many monsters.
  (See settings/034_monster_glyphs.txt.)
* Beefed up demon lords.
* Draconian ghosts of xl >= 7 get the shadow dragon breath attack.
* Ghosts get Dispel Undead, Freezing Cloud, etc.
* Mummy curses now only decay a random amount of a stack of potions.
* Make Snorg go berserk.
* Angels and Daevas may appear randomly in the Abyss.
* Holy monsters may turn neutral if the player follows a good god.
* Unknown mimics are now consistently treated like items.
* Changed monster resists to have several levels, like the player's.
* Removed electricity resistance from several monsters.
* Daevas now resist negative energy.
* Fixed Oklob plants being confuseable.
* Lee's Rapid Deconstruction now works against skeletal dragons.
* Changed evil/holiness/intelligence/... flags for a number of monsters.
* Improved trap handling for intelligent monsters.
* Improved control over friendly monsters.
* Smarter pickup handling.
* Implemented patrolling and monster pathfinding.
* Fixed friendlies accidentally shooting the player.
* Fixed monsters firing/reaching through walls.
* Fixed summoned monsters sharing a square with the player.
* Monsters won't enter miasma if it harms them.
* Implemented Dispel Undead for monsters.
* Fix nagas/centaurs never being generating with bardings.
* Monsters may use wands of disintegration/polymorph other (mutate the player).
* Make paralysed monsters stabbable.
* Give a message for kills out of LOS.
* No experience for killing summoned monsters.
* Give half xp for enslaved monsters dying.
* Monster blink is now (mostly) restricted to their LOS.
* Introduced fish zombies.
* Fixed several spell/invocation attacks not waking monsters.
* Improved monster shields.
* More refined monster speech. (See docs/monster_speech.txt.)

Levels
------
* Added transparent wall types.
* Modified Slime Pits end, guarantee rune.
* Several new vaults.
* Fixed some levels having the wrong amount of stairs.
* Fixed wonky vaults on lava etc.
* Treat adjacent doors as one (large) gate, opening/closing together.
* Player minotaurs will now map labyrinths.
* Removed amnesia traps.
* Introduced shafts.
* Added blood spattering.

Tiles
-----
* Merged Tiles into Crawl code.
* Save files between tile and non-tile games are compatible.
* Added lots of new tiles, and corrected misdisplayed ones.
* wininit.txt is now autocreated, if missing.
* Adapted tutorial for tiles.
* Improved mouse-click inventory/dungeon interaction.
* Show travel exclusion in tile map and mini-map.
* Fixed Detect creatures revealing exact monster type.
* Mimics posing as autopickable items now get marked as such.
* Clicking on items now respects warning inscriptions.
* General improvement.

Miscellaneous
-------------
* New scoring system.
* Train Stealth by sneaking around sleeping monsters.
* Train Traps & Doors by setting off traps.
* Disallow self-banishment via Banishment spell.
* New spell: Summon Ugly Thing.
* Replace Paralyse spell with new spell Petrify.
* Better feedback on Detect Traps.
* Identify post-mortem inventory in morgue.txt.
* Dump command also dumps level map.
* init.txt/.crawlrc allow loading of external options/macro files.
* Changed stat display to be more compact and visually appealing.
* Overhaul of ghost structure.
* Overhauled and improved the documentation.
* Outsourced a lot of text into database files.
* Lots of additional bugs squashed.
* General code clean-up.


Stone Soup 0.3.4 (20080129)
---------------------------
* "Tele" status is shown when the player is about to teleport.
* Weapons of reaching cost no magic or hunger to use, do not train
  Evocations, and do not hit intervening creatures when the reach
  fails.
* Autopickup will attempt to pick up every item in the stack even if
  previous items cannot be picked up.
* Fired missile auto-id also identifies previously fired missiles on
  the floor.
* Escape hatches can be safely used even when confused or overburdened.
* Removed score bonus for escaping the dungeon without the Orb.
* Poison ammunition no longer works on sling bullets and throwing nets.
* Plants on stairs get branded.
* Drac and Ogre-Mage wanderers get shields instead of bucklers (which
  they can't wear).
* Weapon swap (') will also swap to miscellaneous items.
* (f)ire will ignore wielded items, fire_items_start defaults to 'a' again.
* Passwall now issues a warning when attempting to phase through rock + stone.
* Weakened chain paralysis effects from the monster Paralyse spell and
  giant eyeballs.
* Fixed poison-vulnerable monsters resisting curare.
* Fixed wands of draining not auto-identifying.
* Fixed necromutation not granting torment immunity.
* Fixed macros not being saved correctly if the key sequences include
  ASCII NUL.
* Fixed buggy labyrinth maps.
* Fixed bad entry levels.
* Fixed crossbow bolts not being randomly generated.
* Fixed messages for species unable to wear helmets and boots because
  of body shape.
* Fixed detect items not working if the level is magic-mapped.
* Fixed display glitches when using IBM graphics on Unix.
* Fixed monsters wielding angering randarts repeatedly going berserk.
* Fixed strawberry fields always appearing on Lair:3.
* Fixed some acquirement bugs.
* Report error messages after cleaning up curses when savefile is invalid.
* Fixed starting gear choices and kit for fighters.
* Fixed dolinks.sh script for builds on Unix.
* Fixed monster self-teleport taking 10x as long as intended.
* Fixed ice statue description.
* Fixed Crawl being unable to create directories on DOS.

Stone Soup 0.3.3 (20071202)
---------------------------
* Fixed crash when draconian callers try to summon drakes.
* Fixed crash when shadow creatures is cast in a labyrinth.
* Fixed crash when monster blinks onto trap and is killed by the trap.
* Fixed vampires boosting the player's maxhp.
* Fixed bad monster selection when shadow creatures is cast post-orb-pickup.
* Fixed buggy Xom mutations.
* Fixed nets not trapping monsters correctly.
* Fixed monsters being able to get past plants on level load.
* Fixed out-of-sight monsters raising dead in the player's line-of-sight.
* Fixed brand colours flooding screen in DOS.
* Returning weapons auto-id on use by monsters.
* Autobutcher respects !w inscriptions.
* Horns mutation changes helmet slot description to "restricted".
* Reintroduced Beogh penance for destroying orcish idols.
* Tutorial fixes.
* Errors in .crawlrc are reported at startup.

Stone Soup 0.3.2 (20071110)
---------------------------
* Fixed tiles crash when visiting shops in the stash-tracker's ^F listings.
* Reduced frequency of the Damnation card in common decks.
* Removed Batform from the Metamorphosis card.
* Fixed two broken entry vaults.
* Nets are easier to escape from / destroy, and more effective when used by
  the player.
* Beogh converts are better behaved, with less message spam.
* Fixed spell power display for clarity.


Stone Soup 0.3.1 (20071103)
---------------------------
* Fixed crash when targeting with show_beam = yes.
* Fixed Orb of Zot being generated in random vault.
* Fixed buggy handling of some mutations.
* Fixed penance message sequence.
* Fixed turn-loss when canceling prayer request.
* Fixed -morgue option not creating the morgue directory.


Stone Soup 0.3.0 (20071031)
---------------------------

Disclaimer: These are merely the highlights, not an exhaustive list of changes.

Characters
----------
* Removed Hill Dwarf and Elf species.
* Demigods lose fast metabolism, get better stat gain.
* Kenku can kick with their taloned feet, and can fly faster than
  normal when lightly burdened.
* Kenku and merfolk get an evasion bonus when in their element.
* Demonspawn get a bonus with demonic weapons.

Gods
----
* New god: Beogh, god of Orcs.
* Changed gods: Nemelex, Xom, Lugonu, Trog, Elyvilon, Okawaru.
* No need to pray to dedicate kills.
* Nemelexites no longer need a portable altar in order to sacrifice
  objects.
* Nemelexites are granted various deck manipulation abilites as they
  gain piety.
* [1761974] Trog gets a Burn Books ability.
* [1754125] Trog's Hand and Brothers in Arms replace Might and Haste.
* Elyvilon: Destroy Weapon ability replaces weapon sacrifices.
* Okawaru loses Minor Healing.
* Gods won't accept sacrifices of rotten corpses.
* Good gods no longer punish for unintended draining.
* Different messages now indicate piety gain for offered items.

Items
-----
* New missiles: javelins, sling bullets and throwing nets.
* Throwing weapons may be generated with the "returning" brand.
* [1756363] New potion: potion of resistance.
* [1744612] Introduced weapons of returning.
* [1789869] Items which the player sees a monster use become
  identified if they have an obvious effect.
* Artefact jewellery doesn't autoid anymore, instead "obvious" changes
  and abilities give a message.
* [1768865] Added inscription prompt when viewing items.
* Viewing via inventory listing won't leave the inventory.
* [1735752] Autoinscribe wands with zap count.
* Added autoinscriptions for items used by monsters.
* Warning inscriptions now actually work for all advertised commands
  ([1795568] !r now prevents scrolls from being read.)
* [1793698] In the item selection menu, pressing "." will toggle the
  selection of the item after the previously selected item.
* [1783003] More menu sorting methods, and fixed jewellery sorting bug.
* Book shops are less likely to stock duplicate copies.
* [1746014] Added command to cycle through ammunition when 'f'iring.

Monsters
--------
* Abominations created by Twisted Resurrection now count as undead.
* Increased spawning rate after picking up the Orb.
* Berserked monsters attack nearby enemies and ignore ally commands.
* Monsters confused by you that kill themselves or others now give xp.
* [1779770] Monsters taking stairs are created according to stair
  destination.
* Monster descriptions are shorter when looking at them with 'x' and
  targeting.
* Unflasked efreets are permanent
* Mummy priests and greater mummies now have high intelligence.

Levels
------
* Added portal vaults, specifically bazaars.
* Labyrinths look much different now.
* Changed rock stairs to escape hatches.
* New trap type: net trap.
* Added several new vault maps.
* Monster generation rate in the Vestibule drops with time spent in
  the Vestibule.
* Fixed sealed rooms being generated in the Vaults.

Interface
---------
* [1772497] runrest_ignore_monster can be used to ignore distant mosters
  when running, resting or exploring.
* Filter talk and sound channels from interrupting resting
* Filter information from examining your surroundings from message history
* Three new informational-only hunger states: near starving, very hungry
  and very full.
* Added pickup.lua for smarter autopickup
* Added trap_item_brand for traps hidden by items
* Added visible beam path for targeting
* Added warning when trying to fight wielding a non-weapon
* Interlevel travel also allows travelling to entrances of branches
* Polearms can be used to attack monsters submerged in shallow water using
  Ctrl+direction when adjacent.
* Added support for Unicode glyphs in Unix.
* Large viewport support for terminals larger than 80x24 if the
  view_max_width and view_max_height options are set.
* Quit prompt needs "Yes" to confirm.

Miscellaneous
-------------
* Crawl needs Lua - Lua 5.1 sources are included with the Crawl sources.
* Monster, spell and feature descriptions and monster dialogue are now
  loaded from text files.
* [1777426] Explosions can no longer pass through walls.
* Invisibility is more useful.
* User Lua scripts now have limits on CPU usage and memory use and are safer
  to use on public servers.
* Fixed DOS glitches.
* Game time reported by Crawl clamps time-per-move at 5 minutes.
* More fixes for Crawl to play well with dgamelaunch.


Stone Soup 0.2.7 (20070611)
---------------------------
* Pandemonium unique demons (Cerebov et al.) were not being generated, fixed.
* Banishment converted any dungeon feature under the player to floor, fixed.

Stone Soup 0.2.6 (20070606)
---------------------------
* Fixed travel cache corruption when visiting Abyss/Lab/Pan.
* Fixed clouds being hidden by submerged monsters.
* Fixed bogus item flags being set on distilled potions.
* Fixed kenku getting permanent levitation if already levitating when
  levelling up to XL 15.
* Fixed special damage messages being produced for monster vs monster fights
  that are not in LOS.
* Fixed monsters not being shown on the view until one turn after being
  generated.
* Removed "You mutate" messages, changed default colour for mutation channel
  to light red.
* Delays were taking more turns than intended, fixed.

Stone Soup 0.2.5 (20070512)
---------------------------
* Fixed broken travel cache.
* Applied Debian patch (Guus Sliepen).
* Fixed paralysis cancelling monster levitation.
* Combat grammar and out-of-sight combat message fixes.
* Small chance of sealed entry vaults eliminated.
* Moths of wrath regain rage attack.
* Fixed pulsating lump mutation attack.
* Waypoints can be deleted.
* Acquirement handles books of minor magic and conjuration correctly.
* Orcs and goblins may get blowguns.

Stone Soup 0.2.4 (20070408)
---------------------------
* Fixed another instance of monsters inheriting enchantments from other
  monsters.
* Fixed detect creatures and items not working.
* Fixed hydra decapitation not being credited correctly.

Stone Soup 0.2.3 (20070407)
---------------------------
* Fixed shapeshifter enchantment crash.
* Cleaned up monster enchantment handling loop to prevent further crashes.

Stone Soup 0.2.2 (20070406)
---------------------------
* Fixed crashes (enchantment timeout and bouncing beams).
* Monsters with AF_DISEASE can now sicken other monsters, not just the player.
* Jellies resist acid spit.
* DOS and Windows builds pause after displaying fatal error message.
* Monster kills are noted before the player is awarded experience for the kill.
* Monster-quaffed healing now cures confusion, rotting, poison and disease.
* Fixed buggy labyrinths.
* Bogus cantrips could be used by friendly monsters, fixed.
* Fixed bugs in spellcasting skill training.
* message_colour can now mute individual messages.
* Fixed item-jump hotkeys in targeting.
* Fixed buggy monster missile tracers.
* Undead/demonic monsters can't pick up holy brands.
* Player centaurs are faster (close to monster centaurs).
* Fixed bogus beam names for uniques' breath weapons.
* Fixed buggy targeting for Sandblast and Bone Shards.
* Ensorcelled hibernation lasts at least one turn.

Stone Soup 0.2.1 (20070402)
---------------------------
* Fixed electric golems getting too much damage against shock-resistant
  characters.
* Fixed vampiric draining targeting.
* Fixed monster dialogue grammar.
* Fixed EV penalty for nagas and centaurs.
* Fixed tutorial reporting corpse availability for corpses not in view.
* Fixed a possible buffer overflow when reading saves.
* Fixed sporadic crash when a poisoned monster with other enchantments dies
  from poison.
* Fixed description for staff of wizardry.
* Reinstated old behaviour of -macro option for Crawl compiled with
  -DDGAMELAUNCH (DGL_MACRO_ABSOLUTE_PATH).

Stone Soup 0.2 (20070401)
-------------------------
* Save and bones files formats changed, incompatible with 0.1.x.
* Added a game tutorial.
* More vaults and special level layouts.
* New evasion model (from 4.1.2).
* Revamped dungeon overview and character information screens.
* Targeting interface keymaps changed.
* 'v' examines monsters, items, etc., '?' gives help.
* -macro option now specifies a directory, not the macro file.
* Item colours changed.
* Deeper dungeon levels can have multiple player ghosts.
* Rods of striking also get magic reservoirs.
* Removed unpoisoned needles and blowguns of venom.
* Stash search also finds altars and portals.
* Mutation and species abilities cleanup.
* Sif Muna gives gifts on piety gain; Sif Munites do not need to pray.
* Low-HD monsters are less likely to give piety when killed.
* Fixed Pandemonium demons getting only magic dart.
* Character names can now include spaces, dashes and periods. On Unix,
  character names can also end with a digit.
* Adjusted beam to-hit calculation.
* Weapons animated by Tukima's Dance are now considered thrown for autopickup
  purposes.
* Crawl now tries to show error messages after curses cleanup, or before
  initialisation so that the user can see the error. :-)
* Reduced orange statue attack speed.
* Windows builds no longer use SHORT_FILE_NAMES.
* In-game help browser.
* Greedy explore now works in Pandemonium.
* Stash tracker now also tracks item inscriptions.
* Many item stacking bugs fixed.
* Artefacts are described as such when (v)iewed.
* The Hat of the Alchemist is now a real wizard hat, not a helmet.
* Fixed identify not clearing empty inscription.
* Fixed broken fear behaviour for monsters.
* Shop purchase asks for confirmation.
* Minor tweaks to some unrand artefacts.
* Gourmand contaminated -> clean effect is also gradual now.
* Searching is more effective.
* New god: Lugonu, god of the Void.
* Armour training tweaks.
* Full herbivorousness now happens only at level 3 of the mutation.
* Incremental butchering works now.
* Poisoned arrows are more likely to give snakes than before with
  sticks-to-snakes.
* Cannot shop while berserk.
* Fixed some monster movement bugs.
* Spriggans now start with slow metabolism and extra food, but are herbivores.
* Assassins have a chance of starting with a few curare-tipped needles.
* Rods are more common.
* stop_travel messages can also stop run/rest, if the message interrupt is
  disabled for run/rest.
* Better handling of monster-comes-into-view messages.
* Zin will reliably feed you if you have sufficient piety and are starving.
* Travel is no longer interrupted by submerged monsters.
* Travel is no longer interrupted by an invisible monster missing you.
* Blinking/teleporting monsters can no longer land on the player's square.
* Fixed Abyss banishment crash.
* Monster resists were not taking randarts into account in some cases.
* Better handling for travel_delay = -1.
* Monsters using draining or hellfire are M_EVIL and take damage from cleansing
  flame.
* Show monster paralysis status when examined.
* Carrying capacity shown in inventory menus is now maximum unburdened carrying
  capacity, not absolute maximum.
* Flying monsters no longer avoid mechanical traps.
* Items dropped onto an altar while praying will be sacrificed.
* Jellies can no longer eat artefacts.
* Enabling delay_message_clear uses a scrolling message window.
* Fixed bug where statues could move around.
* Added temporary pain-brand spell "Excruciating Wounds".
* Fixed duplicated scroll labels.
* Friendly monsters should not flee from the player.
* Fixed detect creatures revealing monster identities in notes.
* Fixed level-map crashes on large terms.
* no_dark_brand defaults to true, since the option is otherwise too obscure to
  find (and the problem it addresses is widespread on Unix terms).
* Added a synthetic cursor (use_fake_cursor = yes) for terms that cannot draw
  cursors on black/darkgrey spaces.
* Summon horrible things now produces temporary summons.
* Monster abjuration is weaker.
* Deflect missiles is less effective.
* Unseen horrors no longer resist electricity.
* Greedy explore now tries to handle mimics like the items they imitate.
* Dungeon builder guarantees that at least one downstair is reachable
  from the upstair on D:1, unless there is an enclosed entry vault.
* Hydras get their full attack round vs other monsters.
* Monsters fighting hydras can chop off heads if using suitable weapons/claws.
* Interlevel travel handles branch entries and exits more intelligently.
* Added wizmode &~ to instant travel to any level to test special levels.
* Messages can be coloured individually using pattern matches with the
  message_colour option.
* Monsters dying to friendlies' poison, or damaging clouds are now
  correctly attributed as collateral kills.

Stone Soup 0.1.7 (20061231)
---------------------------
* Fixed missing cursor in controlled-teleport screen.
* Fixed semi-controlled blink.
* Fixed the Shining One and Zin being angered by the deaths of their minions
  in combat.
* Fixed friendlies being angered by bolts that they are immune to.
* Fixed notes not noting zombies correctly.
* Backported greedy explore from 0.2.
* New Temple levels.

Stone Soup 0.1.6 (20061219)
---------------------------
* Fixed Pandemonium demonlords (Cerebov and friends) not getting the
  right runes.
* Added sartak's logfile patch and -scorefile option.
* Crawl can now read scorefile from stdin for use with -[vt]scores.
* Crawl can handle logfiles with -[vt]scores.
* Fixed hilight: brand being misapplied on curses.
* Shopping display cleaned up, less prone to breakage on nonstandard
  term sizes.
* Fixed inconsistent application of inscripted hotkeys.
* Fixed batty cursor syndrome on Windows and Unix.
* Added DGAMELAUNCH #ifdef conditional to make Crawl play better when
  run with dgamelaunch.
* Crawl now handles SIGHUP by saving the game and exiting.

Stone Soup 0.1.5 (20061205)
---------------------------
* Fixed crash when multidropping a worn cloak and worn body armour, in
  that order, with easy_armour enabled.
* Fixed labyrinths and the abyss being semi-mappable.
* Fixed item name corruption when displaying long names with ;.
* [1605400] Fixed inability to wield stuff when using auto_list and
  not carrying any weapons/staves.

Stone Soup 0.1.4 (20061128)
---------------------------
* Sif Muna piety no longer wraps around.
* LOS speedup.
* Level compiler now reads splev.des and vaults.des when Crawl starts up.
* [1603062] Fixed save_dir + LOAD_PACKAGE_CMD problems (sartak).
* Fixed more hiscores segfaults.
* List of saved games is sorted by experience.
* [1601205] */' now work to jump to stashes in the level-map.
* [1581184] Fixed rotting meat/corpses being visible outside LOS.
* [1601595] Lava smokes, swamp shallow water tends to mist.
* Fixed 1594106: innate abilities were not being dumped.
* Implemented 1601227, pickup_mode.
* [1601588] Hellfire, bolts of fire, and bolts of magma melt wax.
* [1601349] Fixed LOS not affecting square the player stands on.
* [1599883] Interlevel travel now makes a best effort to avoid excludes.
* Added tty colours to levdes syntax highlight script.
* Set shallowest depth for farm_and_country to 16.
* Implemented 1601230: sort_menus can now be of the form auto:5 (the default),
  in which case categories with >= 5 items will be sorted.
* Implemented 1601277: 'f' is an alias for 't' during targeting.
* [1601161] Adjusted statue stats.
* Monster enchantment power is now 4*HD instead of -1.
* Added draconian descriptions.
* Draconian shifters and callers are a little more powerful.
* Implemented 1601016: better menu titles for wield and throw.
* Implemented 1601061: better messages for extending might/invisibility.
* Player status now also shows burden.
* Clean up speed mutation messages for nagas.
* Let golden draconians know that they resist acid.
* Gold can no longer be dropped.
* [1597621] Auto-eat Lua only offers rotten chunks to the appropriate races.
* Fixed cursor behaviour on Windows.
* [1600189] Mummy restoration doesn't use mp or turn when it does nothing.
* Yellow draconians get rapid-fire spit again.
* Fixed 160093: too many shield interaction messages.
* Amulets of warding provides one level of negative energy resistance.
* Negative energy resistance cuts torment damage by 10% per level. Amulets of
  warding also confer one level of NE resistance.
* Implemented 1599765, no wield messages while autobutchering.
* Fixed 1599805 - Xom rekilling dead monsters with lightning.
* [1597595] Show inventory weight summary in drop menu.
* Macros are created and saved from ~.
* [1598730] Fixed monster inventory scrambling.

Stone Soup 0.1.3 (20061116)
---------------------------
* Updated documentation and reorganised the manual.
* Jewellery puton/remove interface can now automatically remove amulets and
  rings before wearing new jewellery.
* Rings/staves of wizardry give a bigger boost to spell success rates.
* [1594109] Fixed bad messages when trying to animate a weapon if no weapon is
  wielded.
* [1589854] Orange and silver statues are now monsters.
* [1593356] Fixed ghouls being able to mutate.
* Fixed undead decomposing from mutation only if wearing an amulet of resist
  mutation.
* [1593318] Rearranged skills display for ranged combat and unarmed combat.
* [1593089] Escape can be used to break out of sequential pickup prompt in
  addition to 'q'.
* Curare-tipped needles are more fragile than ordinary needles.
* [1592629] \ now shows item identification knowledge in shops.
* [1592521] Fixed the invisibility check for tracer beams to produce nicer
  results.
* Fixed beta 26 bug: Glow contamination has an extremely severe mutation rate.
* [1591152] Fixed macros being able to infinite loop.
* makefile.lnx renamed to makefile.unix.
* [1578169] More intelligent messages when monsters hit themselves.
* [1591105] Invisible monsters can no longer 'gesture wildly.'
* Added an option, increasing_skill_progress (default false), which if true
  makes skills display in increasing percentiles.
* [1591103] Fixed incorrect no-damage messages with vorpal brands.
* [1590656] Fixed bad claw message.
* [1591269] Dissection failure hints why without easy_butcher.
* [1585863] Added a level compiler.
* [1589868] Lightning grounds on metal walls; fire/cold reflect off green
  crystal.
* [1588662] Let the player know why they didn't pass out after berserking.
* [1589824] Long messages were being truncated.
* [1587182] Eliminated possibility of murky clear potions.
* [1588587] Amulets of resist corrosion also reduce acid damage.
* [1585820] Lowered skill penalties for player draconian colours.
* [1589141] Mimics can no longer push player off stairs.
* [1588831] Fixed poison frost/flame beams from blowguns being useless.
* [1581270] Amulet of the gourmand refactoring:
    - When hungry, only converts contaminated chunks to clean.
    - When not hungry, converts contaminated to clean, and provides nutrition
      based on how long it's been worn, the effects maxing at 200 turns with
      AotG. Maybe we should increase this further.
    - Rotten chunks will sicken susceptible races even with AotG.
    - Appropriate flavour messages for chunk taste.
    - Changed description of AotG.
* Beam code rewritten.
* Line-of-sight code rewritten.
* [1584969] Allow the user to cancel out of a spell at targeting prompt without
  losing the turn.
* [1581221] When taking a low-hp note, also mention what caused the hp loss.
* Chain lightning is a little more powerful.
* Shields can be worn/taken-off faster.
* Nemelex has a small chance of giving piety even for junk.
* [1586069] Fixed player yellow draconians not having a BWpn delay.
* [1585811] Fixed inability to generate fixedarts.
* [1585793] Increased frequency of altars and mini-temples.
* Fixed multidrop not remembering previously selected items that were
  not dropped.
* Okawaru is less eager to shower missiles on the player.
* Slightly upped MR for draconians and death drakes.
* [1571251] Added a character picker to select existing savefiles.
* [1580955] Fixed mesclr() not happening for keypad action in DOS.
* [1581536] Monsters won't break fleeing if hit by missiles.
* [1578124] Additional help for level-map.
* [1581418] Curse toes are now visibly different from curse skulls.
* [1581730] Monster draconians can now have a base colour + skill title.
* [1578847] Summoned unholies are hostile to worshippers of good.
* [1567659] Ammo can ID through use.
* [1574591] Wait for one second after hinting "a fine choice".
* [1576514] Bees could cause bad fight messages.
* [1578752] Better handling of init.txt locations.
* [1581210] Draconians go to Zot, deep elves leave.
* [1571320] Ghost names were being truncated badly.
* [1571272] Ignore rod-recharge MP fluctuation while resting.
* [1578875] Added JPEG's trapwalk.lua to the list of official Lua scripts.
* Changed autopickup default to be the same as in the standard init.txt.
* [1579636] Fixed notes being generated after death.
* [1565579] [1565575] Rods and missile launchers work with shields.
* [1574462] Fixed labyrinth files not being deleted correctly.
* [1577066] If all items on a square are squelched, the squelch is ignored.
* [1563661] Character dump section order is now configurable with dump_order.
* Updated keyboard help screen.
* [1575175] Fixed orcs getting elven and dwarvish equipment.
* [1575517] Fixed broken colouring on rod spell screen.
* Piety gain works normally in the temple again.
* [1571342] Fixed bad grammar for rotting meat.
* Stash-tracking defaults to "explicit", rather than "none".
* Accept g as an alternative key to go into the pickup menu.
* Superior submerge behaviour for monsters in fountains.
* Fixed acquirement giving bad items (specifically with barding.)
* [1571334] Fixed clumsy titles: "Master of Thousand Battles",
  "Master of Arcane".
* Lochaber axes now get correct combat messages.
* [1563548] Escape dumps you out of both menu and prompt.
* [1571278] Horn of Geryon monsters are defined as MF_CREATED_FRIENDLY and thus
  give no benefits when dying.
* [1571276] Altar cards don't look for a better spot.
* Import of (most of) 4.1's view code.
* Spriggans are told that they are fast.
* [1567636] Made the Orcish Mines entrance message more informative.
* [1568413] Conjurers and wizards get to choose their starting spellbook.
* [1567640] Uniques with less than 5 hit dice can't get top-tier wands in their
  starting inventory.
* [1563668] Travel respects easy_open.
* Added a better go-to-hell message when attempting to cast Swiftness in water.
* Berserkers now have stealth 0.
* 4.1 import: better messages when gaining skills, better '@' report.
* [1567625] Moths++.
* Ctrl-C is handled better on DOS and Windows.
* [1567688] Change Ogre starting weapon from club to ancus.
* [1567482] Capped wands of hasting at 9 charges.
* [1567674] Description change for wands of disintegration.
* [1567652] Empty wands are marked [empty].
* [1567641] Butchery asks you to pick a corpse before switching weapons.
* [1567621] Warning if corpse rots during dissection.
* [1567613] Removed CMD_OBSOLETE_INVOKE.
* [1564899] Added "Power" column for spells screen.
* [1566657] Rings of teleportation are now pricier.
* [1566759] Fixed merfolk getting duplicate messages when entering water.
* [1566652] Fixed control teleport being noted in the dump even if unIDed.

Stone Soup 0.1.2 (20060927)
---------------------------
* Fixed shift-running and /-running on Windows and Unix.
* Giant (spiked) clubs were wieldable by almost everybody, fixed.
* Fixed giant clubs not producing brown snakes with sticks-to-snakes.
* Refixed Sif Muna piety gain - was much too fast.
* Weapon properties are closer to 4.0.
* Included Elethiomel's key help page on ?

Stone Soup 0.1.1 (20060926)
---------------------------
* The Inscriptions patch joins the party (minus keybindings changes).
* Applied Matthew Cline's additions to the Inscriptions patch: more notes on
  monsters, auto-notes based on messages, etc.
* Jewellery names now note uncursed status correctly (if rather verbosely)
* Curare-tipped needles are rarer.
* The appropriate monsters resist curare effects.
* Okawaru no longer protects you from harm.
* Rods are generated with smaller mana reservoirs (max 14MP).
* Draconians are slightly weaker. Groups of draconians are smaller and more
  homogeneous.
* Sif Muna piety training is easier.
* Sif Muna now has Channel Energy; Vehumet does not.
* Okawaru is less aggressive about spamming missile gifts.
* Fixed Ctrl+move ignoring confusion.
* Fixed broken keypad handling in level-map on DOS.
* Fixed jelly pits appearing at low levels.
* Added % command to show resists and other useful statistics.
* Fixed bad flaming/freezing brands on missile launchers (reported by
  Rubinstein).
* Miscast effect explosions now always hit
* Fixed fireballs (and other explosions) being blocked by shields.
* Thrown needles are very inaccurate.
* Plain old elves are now of the correct intelligence.
* Scrolls of immolation can't burn themselves up.
* Player ghosts get MS_LEVEL_SUMMON if the player had Shadow Creatures.
* Fixed jelly-splitting bugs.
* Fixed splashed acid corroding items that shouldn't corrode.
* Revised wand pricing in shops.
* Fixed Book of Earth containing spells it shouldn't.
* Stuff dropped in lava/deep water will now sleep with the fishes. Er, be
  destroyed.
* Autoprayer will not pray at altars.
* Water elementals can now move around as intended and can be summoned on blue
  fountains.
* Vorpal launchers do a little more damage.
* Fixed monsters not benefiting from vorpal launchers.
* Fixed kill listing bugs on DOS.
* Quasits can now be generated.
* "Glow" status is now shown correctly.
* Demonspawn can get mutations while transformed.
* Monsters polymorphing into invisible monsters will be seen correctly by
  players with see invisible.
* You now cannot read-identify scrolls of paper if you have three levels of
  blurry vision.
* Acquirement grants more gold.
* Airstrike does more damage to flying monsters
* Shop items are coloured to indicate affordability.
* You can now cast spells in capital-lettered slots.
* Flying/levitating characters take half-damage from static discharge.
* Yellow wasps are less lethal.
* Items can be inscribed with =k to ignore them. Ignorance is rather powerful.
* Trolls cannot use claws for butchery when transformed.
* Putting on rings no longer prompts for left/right finger, rings always go
  onto left finger first if both fingers are available.
* 'v' now also displays launcher stats.
* Fixed bug with monsters trying to use blink as a beam spell when out of player
  LOS.
* 'A' screen now notes speed of centaurs and nagas.
* \ command display is now much tidier.
* Fixed horns mutation interaction with headgear.
* Summoner ghosts get regular summon small mammals, not vampire small mammal
  summon.
* Added death drake description.

Stone Soup 0.1 (20060918)
-------------------------
* Enhancer staves boost spell power only, not success rates
* Chain lightning (level 8) replaces Orb of electrocution.
* Miscellaneous spell level changes (Borgnor's, Silence, Simulacrum, Controlled
  Blink).
* Sif Muna piety increases only when training spell skills
* Okawaru gives gifts of ammunition.
* Detect creatures is somewhat inaccurate; level-map is cleared before DC.
* The Shining One doesn't protest his Daevas dying.
* The Shining One gives Cleansing Flame instead of Thunderbolt.
* Rods (apart from striking) have mana reservoirs and gradually recharge mana
  when wielded/carried.
* Shields are better.
* Warp brand is available once more.
* Curare-tipped needles are available in addition to generic poisoned needles.
* Monsters are never generated in LOS when a new game begins.
* Monsters can swap positions with other monsters of the same class.
* Missile launchers can be acquired/gifted by Okawaru.
* Fire/frost missiles are more powerful.
* Launchers support the vorpal brand.
* Throwing skill renamed to Ranged Combat.
* Ranged Combat now has no impact on ammo preservation.
* Added monster draconians and death drakes. Drakes are now all on 'l' instead
  of 'd'.
* Added lajatang, lochaber axe and longbow.
* Save/bones version number is now 0.x so stone_soup cannot load 4.0 saves.
* Monsters can cast poison arrow
* Naga melee damage upped slightly.
* Jelly pits
* Missile weapons are stronger.
* Evocations no longer increases max MP.
