v0.11.0.0

• Partially work around regression in libsdl2 2.0.16 (https://github.com/LambdaHack/LambdaHack/issues/281); to also avoid deformed boxes around tiles on the game map, please switch to a different SDL2 version
• Deduplicate UI code for exiting game, with extra style points
• Create monadic test harness and use it for UI and other unit tests
• Validate empty content and fix other soundness issues revealed by unit tests
• Add extra hints in –more and similar lines when tutorial is on
• Show full history at SPACE press and let second SPACE close it
• Spawn insects in the swamp
• Remove slot letter display in menus and instead display subtle bullets
• Repurpose item slots to item roles
• Redo display and control of main menu and its submenus
• Make Teletype frontend a bit closer to playable
• Switch right pane item description display from mono to prop font
• Ensure score not zero if victory
• Add a custom SDL cursor, working around a bug in SDL2 bindings
• Gut out most content symbols; weren’t used even in lore menus after all
• Add a flag to disable the costly optimizations (that give 15-25% speedup)
• Add faction kind content and redo game mode content to use it
• Display seen faction lore
• Simplify and fortify faction and client assignment code
• Make a few unique items that were identified meta-game identifiable instead
• Fix persistence of meta-game discoveries in save files
• When assigning a faction, first try the group actor was picked from
• When assigned faction is dead, don’t spawn the actor
• Don’t use benign weapons on projectiles not to lose the fun
• Make the unique harpoon worth saving for a unique foe
• Spawn enemies closer and fix too random spawning location
• Improve display of item’s range
• Warn when SDL game windows is resized not via config file
• Ban or force sleep on levels
• Protect against unset or primitive OS locale
• Add temporary hearing aids
• Disallow generating a door beside an opening in room’s wall
• Permit smaller caves and validate cave content more accurately
• Try harder to generate escape from dungeon in a level corner
• Avoid exit/escape confusion in content names and descriptions
• Add Gauntlet game mode and Machinarium spaceship level
• Don’t require identification for cooked plants
• Make Bob speak less often and explode more often
• Make Bob’s monologue less repetitive
• Make oriels lit, until there is any game-play fun in having to go to them
• Make loot in initial caves more consistent
• Rule out giant octopus on initial levels to teach simple tactics better
• Give player more time to hunt bees before they die
• Fix raid heroes not having genetic flaws contrary to description
• Many fixes, refactorings, tweaks and balancing changes

v0.10.3.0

• Work around regression https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1076 by making the scalable square font the default as the map font; the tiny map fonts, for which there is no such workaround, won’t work for anybody with freetype 2.11.0
• Enable display of details in right pane in many menus
• Switch mouse wheel to move selection now that it changes right pane display
• Make the line where messages wrap configurable in config file
• Remove rarely used options from config file and code
• Prepare client-server for delays when operating over the network
• Reveal all map at game over and make it explorable
• Don’t run with -threaded, increasing speed by a couple dozen percent
• Don’t show messages during enemy turn (except when under AI control)
• Spawn many actors at once with probability correlated to spawning at all
• Gut out Ubuntu Font Family fonts
• Add a few tutorial messages, reword some in-game texts
• Move with CI from Travis to GitHub Actions (but GHA can’t keep up as well)
• Make place content directly define legends instead of overriding them
• Add a warning that crosshair is out of flinging range
• Add ANSI display to SDL2 frontend; remove vty, hcurses and GTK frontends
• Make Teletype frontend more usable (input, speed, overlays)
• Remove sight malus from light sources to avoid micromanagement
• Keep convenience settings between new games
• Add an option to mark FOV area with grey background
• Refactor and clean up a lot of the code
• Unhardwire various constants (hat tip to Jamie)
• Fix a couple of bugs and improve documentation
• Add whole new kinds of tests (even greater hat tip to Jamie)

v0.10.2.0

• Make GLASS_HAIL less deadly and less noisy visually
• Advertise the C-Tab command instead of A-Tab
• Tweak some wearables rarity
• Make intruder’s explosions less deadly
• Disable testing ubuntu fonts, because they can’t be distributed in Debian
• Be more consistent about moving corrupted files aside
• Make torches a bit more common
• Help AI not to leave a scout guarding the stash
• Ensure some gems in escape scenario
• Prevent occasionally few gardening tools
• Make explosions definitions small and symmetric again
• Fix heroes starting on exit in escape scenario
• Reword some scenario texts
• Change organ symbols to avoid ‘eat’ when activating them
• Make gardening tools less common, but keep metal pipes
• Fix ‘Letting Go’ message, because it could get activated
• Hack buckler definition once more
• Hack shield definitions to help AI understand their value
• Explain in Q&A why sometimes timeout weapons are never used
• Fix backstories, because they can be manually triggered
• Replace the special periodic activation handling with effect conditions
• Fix the healing necklace better used from the backpack
• Replace the special effect handling under ranged with effect condition
• Reduce and describe the micromanagement of bucklers and shields
• Fix Letting Go not identifying even at death
• Fix typos in content texts
• Update documentation files
• Add a group for exlusively tools; unused ATM
• Fix small oil explosions never getting anywhere
• Reword initial scenario texts
• Talk about the relevant lore command in manual
• Signal that lore command is sometimes context-sensitive
• Simplify desertedAirlock description
• Reword a virtue description
• Make embeds easier to recognize knowing their tiles
• Don’t end stairs with a path
• Don’t describe the goal tile when performing mouse goto
• Declare the codebase lens-free
• Explain why whiskey not drunk, but smashed only
• Improve initial level descriptions
• Reword backstoryNeutral3
• Avoid distributing test.exe in Windows packages
• Fix comments about easy stairs vs hard stairs
• Fix intruders not exploding on death
• Fix Heavy Eyes preventing reaching level 4
• Remove savefiles if config file too old
• Use lz-string.js externs for minification
• Update LambdaHack.cabal.flattened
• Make focused explosions more likely to hit nearby actors
• Let one more common embed provide bad missiles
• Hlint the codebase
• Provide an excuse why the flask from fire cabinet is not identified
• Make barrels less common in raid tutorial
• Explain the flags of genetic flaw
• Avoid ‘you are less more tidy’
• Help the raid scenario opponent survive a little longer
• Prevent too many torches in raid, causing blindness
• Use MinorAspects flag for backstories
• Do not include the default config file that Windows users can’t read anyway
• Read config file in UTF8 mode even on Windows
• Prevent premature identification of ‘Letting Go’
• Prevent premature identification of backstory items
• Update the copyright year
• Update manual wrt backstory items addition
• Add a comment about geneticFlaw not in CONDITION group
• Reorder actor and organ content
• Give the new alien a unique and glaring colour
• Shorten a backstory name to pass validation
• Make sure the backstory descriptions are actually a backstory
• Register the recently added backstory items
• Add bravery virtue
• Add alcoholist backstory item
• Add three more backstories and unify names
• Add two more vices
• Use question marks in verb effects
• Try to amass explosive monsters on arena levels
• Add an alien with an explosive organ (fixes #108)
• Add the explosive flotation bag organ
• Make sure hero professions are not randomly changing
• Hardwire the player team continuity token
• Unify and shorter backstory group names
• Flesh out initial backstory items
• Change the symbol of backstory items
• Use the flavours specialized for stories
• For now, assign heroes a backstory from a mix of all categories
• Mock up categories of backstory content items
• Add the first backstory organ
• Make sure heroes spawned in safari mode are properly numbered
• Add a few more hero names
• Mark the personal genetic flaws as meta game persistent, as they should be
• Express variety of genetic flaws as multiple content items
• Add team continuity across scenarios to content
• Make buckler and shield attacks and messages not so spammy
• Fix bucklers too powerful and shields too weak when UnderRanged activates
• Describe the new challenges in the manual
• Make shields more common and attractive to AI
• Add UnderMelee and tweak the Old Gorget
• Add a potion of melee deflection
• Buff shields with ranged deflection
• Add deflection temporary conditions
• Explain the pointman/leader discrepancy
• Write key names as on the keyboard, button names as in the button
• Unify pluralization of skills and challenges
• Mark some game modes as tutorials
• Split a list in manual in many paragraphs for better in-game display
• Keep the rest of the manual in content
• Simplify an address in manual not to spill over 80 columns
• Hint in config file to disable the special movement keys
• Hint that stealth if possible and AI vs player symmetric
• Limit mentions of ‘playing’ not to break immersion
• Change ‘scenario’ to ‘adventure’ to be more immersive
• Add a scenario lore menu
• Mention that scale needs to be configured for high dpi displays
• Add the fullscreen option to the UI config file
• Don’t configure the unused data directories when invoking cabal
• When installing don’t create the now empty GameDefinition/fonts/
• Don’t limit jobs to 1 now that cabal shows errors fine
• Don’t embed the fonts in the web frontend version
• Get rid of datafiles from .cabal
• Kill the font license files that are duplicated in COPYLEFT file
• Get rid of the now unused fontDir option
• Embed game-supplied font files
• Version config file
• Write the homepage address in full in Main Menu; fixes #98
• Make historyMax divisible by screenful
• Don’t let ESC clear messages in aiming mode; was confusing
• Add Discord and Matrix addresses to the manual
• Add links to discord and matrix chat
• Tweak unique entities in content, adding ‘the’ as needed
• Add extra config options for messages
• Customize messages more comfortably
• Simplify restarting client
• Adjust weapon colours slightly towards colour meaning table
• Name the robot until somebody comes up with a better name
• Semi-retire the Allure gitter
• Reflect changes in highlighting in the manual
• Avoid unfortunate line gluing in main menu text
• Wrap messages after 53 columns
• Lower cminStairDist for shallowRogue now that margins forbidden
• Fix a missing mouse command description
• Update documentation to the config changes
• Add Debian desktop files, as per packaging policy
• Fix screensavers broken by UI faction not being the first
• Fix ‘open main menu’ command of Dashboard
• Comment the config file some more
• Gut out Ubuntu Family Fonts from Debian package, because non-free
• Beautify CREDITS
• Rank the fontsets differently
• Make the fontset tests more random
• Permit text usage in tests
• Settile on ‘auxiliary fonts’ instead of ‘long text’
• Update config wrt engine changes
• Molify Debian’s lintian
• Fix license name
• Legalize all the long text fonts even more
• Legalize all the long text fonts
• Add the ubuntu font family set of long text fonts
• Add another set of long text fonts
• Add new long text fonts based Adobe Source
• Remove old long text fonts
• Explain the communication overhead concept
• Fix Allure.cabal.flattened test component
• Parse config at compile time
• Let foes occupiy exit in escape scenario, etc.
• Add missing cskip specifications
• Bring back SPACE as clearning messages
• Update the default config wrt changes to RET keybinding
• Don’t mention the spaceship in outdoor stairs description
• Make the brawl scenario 2-level
• Use the increased expressiveness of initial actor generation
• Make long poles a bit more common and tweak content a bit
• Don’t confuse the player when trying to convey the actor is malfunctioning
• Reword ESC description again
• Add a random item to each hero starting inventory
• Tweak details of the content a bit
• Update command docs to command help changes
• Let only ESC clear messages
• Prevent AI-inaccessible areas inside shuttles
• Make spacesuits and tools more common, but later on
• Avoid ‘jewelry case of gain jewelry’
• Move SPACE to CmdAim category
• Document that MMB and RMB cycle detail level
• Bind SPACE to cycle detail level in aiming mode
• Advise role-playing
• Fix calling gameover an ‘endgame’
• Advise to replay initial scenarios
• Let the Welded Robot speak periodically
• Don’t spoil the normal storyline in the hint about blowtorch
• Add a comment that blowtorch is safe from item polymorphing
• Add a hint about the puzzle to the manual
• Make the torn spacesuit even more common
• Name or prepare for naming all uniques
• Give all uniques their last words
• Add extra hints in the signboards on first level
• Reorder consistenly mode kind component definitions in the file
• Make hints about the first puzzle more obvious and more common
• Make torn spacesuit more common again
• Add a couple of late spawn-only actors
• Mark some actors as common among late spawns
• Factor out victoryOutcomes
• Shorten a field name to avoid >80 length lines
• Make terrain names harder to confuse with items
• Properly in-game document the screensaver scenarios
• Add missing scenario motivation blurbs
• Make the tools slightly less abundant at the start
• Tweak the scenario meta notes
• Rework game rules desccription similarly as in LH
• Add bulbousBullfrog to credits
• Add a comment to the default config with an example for rebinding a key
• Hint in-game about how stairs work
• Encourage interaction with terrain in outermost level
• Clarify that nominal values of burning and wounding are used
• Drive the point home that spacesuits differ
• Drive the point home that tools are used for crafting
• Be more explicit in the crafting tip
• Ensure the position of the boss is reported as worth visiting
• Document crafting in-game and in the manual
• Explain why octopus copes on land
• Add cabal.project.local.testing for ‘make fastCrawl’
• Avoid building all exes
• Add scenario rule notes to be displayed instead of full notes
• Use hex character literals to simplify notation
• Add make target to test minified JS for node
• Make the safari easter egg less common as a screensaver
• Disable compiling from source in brew-sdl2-osx travis build, due to OOM
• Tone down and speed up animations of the deadliest explosions
• Make space for vertical dormitory rooms
• Make the dormitories more realistic given how tiny they are
• Make all ignition blasts yellow
• Hint in ambush description that somebody turned off power
• Spread evenly the loot in ambush scenario
• Make sure the initial entrance doesn’t appear in ambush scenario
• Make safari scenario harder now that aliens are buffed up
• Improve module haddocks for content
• Give the player more ammo in ambush scenario
• Make zoo easier to create an ambush position in
• Make sure burning bush eventually transforms to a dark floor tile
• Make escape cave easier to put on fire
• Hide unneeded content group name patterns
• Add short-caves debug game mode
• Bump too rare places
• Use the JS splitmix optimization
• Tweak CI link in README in case it matters
• Make firefighting items more common outside of fire cabinets
• Add a Q&A about autoexplore (only relevant to Allure)
• Make sure all non-seeing actors are described so
• Move ClientOptions.hs to adhere to the convention about module hierarchies
• Meld LH and Allure content
• Don’t have noctovisor neavly guaranteed
• Add items for detecting enemy stashes
• Reflavour the stuck doors trap
• Tone down spotlight
• Explain the goofy handling of recharging in stash
• Prevent exploiting deposit boxes ad infinitum
• Make detection radiuses uniform, for ease of use
• Make residential decks better connected
• Add a couple more escape items
• Adjust the SDL test to run without installing fonts, as Debian requires
• Make the jewlery caches and deposit boxes much more lucrative
• Make necklace explosions even less likely to block the way
• Make octopus more common now that it’s more interesting
• Make jewlery cases less disappointing for experienced players
• Let blasts destroy ice pillars
• Fix a pair of fire projectiles first igniting, second dousing a tile
• Add Q&A about hearing
• Make military knife again likely to appear in crawl dungeon
• Let stuck doors be forced, inducing flight
• Shorten brawl scenario note to fit on the screen with square font
• Remove the confusing damage from bomb’s weight impact
• Prevent exploit of getting cords from torches made out of rags
• Move most tools to first 4 levels and laboratory
• Fix crafting in water impossible when refrigeration coil equipped
• Make hearing maluses less harsh
• Make firefighting cabinets more common, particularly on outermost level
• Fix too high melee armor of a spacesuit
• Permit transformation of weld vis cold source, not only blowtorch
• Enable crafting with water sources in fire tiles
• Add some more tools and torn suits
• Boil waste container to safely remove refrigeration coil
• Differentiate the names of small fires and not the count
• Don’t create the same 2 spacesuit parts when dismating a torn suit
• Make crawl loot number randomness much less wild
• Make tools more common on first two levels
• Add cord as a bonding tool and wick
• Have more tools at outermost level
• Make thornbush a bit rarer, because it doesn’t exlode, so is boring
• Make arena deck of double height, with trees
• Avoid dark fences around lit interiors with no pillars in staircase defs
• Shorten other item group names
• Shorten hammer and shield group names
• Use the DECON abbreviation to shorten messages
• Fix patterns for hammers
• Mention in hammer description that crafting replaces handles
• Fit workshop crafting description into one screen
• Don’t risk crafting scrap from hammers and axes
• Display cooking after crafting in embed description
• Factor out extraWaterAssocs
• Equip rags by default; newbies don’t find them anyway
• Mention in octopus description that it has high noctovision
• Consistently create on the ground all items looted from terrain
• Balance removing hunger via organ hits
• Add random variety to crafted items to enable min-maxing
• Move some item definitions and rebase them
• Remove a trailing space in mode description
• Don’t get two rags out of a torch that took one to produce
• Reflect keybindings change in the start scenario menu
• Increase the timeout of jumping pole
• Prevent AI from hasting twice in a row
• Add recharging and discharging self to a couple of weapons
• Get rid of DropBestWeapon
• Adjust to engine changes to charging effects
• Let the rhino charge via pushing
• Let all drones charge via pushing
• Fix a mixed up organ name
• Prevent the new organs from being dropped
• Differentiate dragon and alligator by removing the pushing from the former
• Add jumping organs
• Move ink sac to equipment so that it can be explicitly triggered
• Make octopus’s ink weaker but lasting longer
• Add the ink sac octopus’s organ
• Permit meleeing with construction glove
• Let burning oil explode even on direct hit on actor, not only on the floor
• Re-classify a couple of weapons
• Fix razorwire fence
• Make killing thornbush even more optional than before
• Move to-dam bonuses from organs to actor definitions
• Increase timeouts of animal organs to at least approach human weapon timeouts
• Prevent sharp harpoon from being generated often and shallowly
• Make armadillo into a proper tank
• Touch up aliens actors
• Prevent razor from excluding other weapons
• Move the defition of lip to the proper place
• Give tentancle a cooldown
• Make clawing horror an early but mostly harmless armorless tank
• Reorder organs
• Balance organs
• Add two organs from LambdaHack
• Remove cooldown from two weapon kinds
• Sometimes generate tools in threes
• Generate torn spacesuits in bunches
• Generate less items, particularly at shallow levels
• Reorder items inside several item groups
• Overhaul noise caves
• Let some tools appear together
• Designate some scouts for slack tactics factions
• Add comments explaining why dL dice positive or negative
• Adjust to crafint depth-neutral and tweak content a bit otherwise
• Make the max HP maluses not so easy to ignore
• Rebalance armor bonuses
• Rebalance to-hit bonuses
• Fix hammer stats and tweak a few others
• Make Smithhammer interesting
• Make it easier to use permanent tools
• Make it possible to undo weapon crafting
• Make axe worse than pipe
• Make item-modification scrolls and torn spacesuits more common
• Make cooking fruits less tedius, remaining defs
• Place much more oil spills on the exit deck
• Make cooking fruits less tedius
• Let the player see if enemies carry even special lights, etc.
• Don’t suggest that opening a deposit box destroys it
• Improve name of a couple of item groups
• Tweak frequency of detection items, etc.
• Don’t let the alien boss waste time unequipping gems
• Sometimes add a lift staircase to laboratories
• Make more rooms dark to help with stealth
• Make Laboratory deck less annoying by decontaminating only upwards
• Fix weapon order of Smithhammer
• Make it more common for aliens to carry light
• Make using and crafting harpoons more worthwhile
• Add workshop to a couple more places
• Make it more likely there is workshop in laboratory
• Tone down poison
• Make the outermost deck a little more hectic
• Hint that shields require empty space behind enemies to push them
• Make buckler a weapon
• Make the fancy shield weaker but more common
• Give a fair warning about the rhino boss
• Reorder crafting recipes to make them yet a tad safer
• Avoid lit or filled rooms (except barrels) in exit level
• Balance arena cave and scroll of pushing
• Move keybinding content definitions to match display order
• Make signboards less common in arena cave and more in casino
• Ensure small caves have one or few stairs to prevent bloating them
• Adjust cave content specifications to the engine tweaks
• Make empty flasks less common deeper down
• Clean up comments in tile definitions
• Try to make the terrain transformation specs more readable
• Mark steel file with red, since it’s double-purpose
• Make blankets more common to help with light crafting
• Start with some empty flasks, some of the time
• Update the manual and keybindings printout
• Explain why the farm is freshly abandoned
• Reduce numbers of consumables now that some levels have more of them
• Add extra items to crawl levels based on their name/description
• Add ANY_FLASK group
• Introduce vials via the brawl scenario
• Customize the raid cave shape and places
• Make sure tools are not needed and stimpack not obtainable in raid scenario
• Introduce chips usage in the raid scenario
• Fix a bushy patch that can block starting actors
• Remove misleading comment about tiles being explorable
• Comment why a tile is not explorable
• Make impressing items easier to get
• Fix missing terrain in TREE_SHADE_WALKABLE_DARK
• Have lit bushes and dark floor in some dark places
• Permit auto-generated tiles to be lit in dark groups
• Comment tiles that are lit, dark or both
• Add greenery to shallow levels and more rooms
• Sometimes leave smoke after barrel explodes
• Prevent the visual senser being misinterpreted as food
• Prevent AI from wielding staves
• Make gardening tools slighly more durable, but rarer
• Set the main groups of items to equal weights and compensate
• Let all actors chase enemies from a longer distance
• Ensure few garden weapons in raid scenario and similar
• Tweak assignment of items to the rare item groups
• Rename or eliminate CURIOUS_ITEM
• Generate less survival items in short scenarios
• Add hints to crafting components’ descriptions
• Tweak weapons slightly, mostly ranged damage
• Clean up throwing stats of items
• Make edible bushes possible in one more room kind
• Make permanent weapons less common initially due to clubs and torches
• Add craftable clubs
• Make torch a destructible melee weapon
• Make torch and lamp even less common now that they are crafted
• Craft flasks of water, etc.
• Fix crafting in oil and fire
• Add missing content group definitions
• Craft torches and oil lamps
• Make harpoons better in melee than ranged
• Rebalance weak weapons
• Slightly simplify organ definitions
• Add variety to armor deducting rings
• Make boots auto-equip less disastrous for newbies
• Make the echolocator ping periodically
• Change the order of ordinary items for better display in menus
• Reassign colours and symbols to embedded items
• Make some actors deal low damage but with high hurt
• Add negative armor to one boss and some conditions
• Let some rings weaken armor
• Tone down items that grant armor
• Mark in dashboard where to find crafting recipes
• Make it harder to obtain long poles from loot
• Let the net drop more kinds of armor-like equipment
• Fix broken content validation
• Don’t confusingly refuse to display the pushing effect for shields
• Balance piercing missiles
• Make Rhino less of a pushover
• Update manual wrt damage calculation changes
• Avoid AI-unreachable spaces on the outermost level
• Make it cheaper to dissect a torn spacesuit, for early game
• Comment that transformations won’t generate warnings due to their position
• Make tools even more common
• Undo partially scaling down special terrain features at outermost level
• Craft torch in fire, not workshop
• Tweak terrain and items on the outermost level
• Make the order of caves slightly more random
• Make edible plants less common since they appear on bushes now
• Make the starting enemy groups larger to favour throwing flasks
• Generate flasks in bunches even at lowest levels to make throwing more fun
• Make sure throwing flasks, etc., have limited radius, for safety
• Make icy floor less annoying and escape puzzles harder to hack
• Avoid generating 2-stacks of early projectiles
• Don’t create equippable items in a stash
• Make the crafted and doubly crafted weapons rarer
• Fix lvl 2 description showing at game start instead of lvl 3
• Prevent heroe’s foes in crawl from camping stairs on lvl 2
• Dedicate flasks to throwing and vials to medicine
• Add fixed enemies at the start of crawl, but don’t spawn often
• Improve wording of a cave description
• Reduce randomness of effects to make them exploitable
• Prevent inability of taking off items that drain calm
• Update wrt macro key changes in the engine
• Disable brew audit that fails because line is too long
• Vary the number of gardening tools in the bunches
• Make craftable weapons less common
• (Almost) guarantee a fire axe, but (almost) only one
• Spawn friendlies and foes in deposit boxes
• Make the airlock supplies more random
• Create gardening tools in varied pairs
• Convey more of the shuttle story via unique embedded item, not other content
• Fix wrong game mode started due to only the first word inspected
• Prevent meleeing electric fence forever
• Port tests to tasty
• Make weapons used for crafting less common later on
• Prevent ‘you are more foo’ and immediately ‘you are no longer foo’
• Don’t let faucents slow and flash themselves
• Rename S_NITROGEN_MIST and S_FOCUSED_FLASH
• Have less particles in large oil explosions
• Make blindness less common, because it pervents player from seeing fun stuff
• Let Welded Robot establish a stash to make sure heroes be the blowtorch
• Use local gifsicle, with the assertion failure fixed
• Ensure unidentified hammers are equipped
• Tone down ranged damage of some durable items
• Replace permanent weapons with crafting even at low levels
• Make needles a bit less deadly
• Fix some Burn and RefillHP weapons becoming overpowered at range
• Simplify sharpeningAssocs
• Fix inaccessible fenceless dormitories
• Help AI replace the armor that decreases melee skill
• make cleaver weaker but more common
• Make billiard balls more common initially, less so later on
• Permit melee with gloves and helm in addition to boots
• Refactor and tweak garden weapons
• Fix gardening tools not fracturing
• Fix mixed up resistance conditions
• Describe how colours correspond to tile properties
• Prevent curing of genetic flaw via any condition removal
• Recolour transparent walls; cyan means inert, apparently
• Recolour barrels; not burning; no collision with trees
• Make the power node place more varied
• Fix AI not eating to remove hunger
• Recolour armors
• Ensure enough weak weapons at the start
• Add dormitories to the residential area cave definition
• Don’t spam decent weapons at low leves now that weak weapons abound
• Make projectiles more common so that shooter aliens are not overpowered
• Craft torches out of staves
• Add a rag tangle and obtain it from torn spacesuits
• Give cleanerRobot excessive armor to make hammers useful
• Clarify that chosen weapon needs not be optimal for a foe
• Make hammers much different from all other weapons
• Make a particular barrel yard place as common as others, not much more
• Fix some terrain not alterable with projectiles
• Mention that stats menu summarizes the organ menu
• Add sample cabal.project.local files
• Make the secret walls less boring
• Use VerbMsgFail effect to ensure failed crafting doesn’t change terrain
• Don’t report that an animal fondles its own meat
• Add alterable floor to more rooms
• Add alterable floor to more caves and trails
• Rework frequency of immobile robots
• Desynchronise vents a bit more
• On outermost level let some faucets ignite fuel spread by other faucets
• Make hammers a bit more common
• Make frozen trail less common now that geysers produce floor ice
• Make burning oil clear, as the symbol indicates
• Adjust small fire description to match also burning oil
• Adjust crafting embedded items to the new OnCombine semantics
• Tweak timeouts of mostly harmless large sticks
• Fix wrong use of AndEffect
• Update crafting recipes to used tools and destroyed components
• Safeguard some alien ammo and treasure against stash ransacking
• Re-add perfumes; AI heroes were being slaughtered without them
• Add a torn spacesuit for crafting
• Make electric fences a less lucrative source of weapon upgrades
• Make it more likely that armor and some other items appear before lvl 12
• Generate more items now that a lot of crafting components appeared in the game
• Make barrel stacks more varied and more frequent
• Make barrel stack places more common
• Recolour faucets to match the colour of terrain they create
• Disable pathfinding through barrels and burning rubble
• Give the same on-screen colour to items with similar function
• Make the newly introduced items more common
• Make the workshop terrain more common
• Ensure item definitions are valid by having enough slots
• Don’t generate ready spacesuits and avoid hard to see BrBlack items
• Make most weapons less common now that they can be crafted
• Harvest long poles from dead electric fences
• Add two useless tools to harvest long poles from
• Require a tool to but the pipe diagonally before sharpening
• Avoid the exploit of turning staffs into pipes via crafting
• Improve some weapon descriptions and comments
• Make each water a sharpening workshop to avoid scrolling recipes
• Correct some item group patterns to be singletons
• Clean up and redefine patterns from ItemKindEmbed.hs
• Let hammers be sharpened and elongated
• Require identification for all hammers
• Comment why axes and hammers are not tools
• Avoid the no-brainer of durable tool use
• Rename POLE and LONG_POLE
• Add fire axe and craft poll axe from it
• Craft long polearms and flesh out related descriptions
• Don’t suggest that crowbar and cat’s paw can be sharpened or blunted
• Doubly sharpen pole cleavers to ox tongues
• Doubly sharpen cleavers to get daggers
• Rename the knife item definition to avoid confusion with the new dagger
• Reorder Allure item definitions
• Sharpen halberds
• Sharpen rapiers
• Sharpen shields
• Get pipes from garden tools and sharpen them
• Enable sharpening harpoons
• Add sharpening tools
• Resking honing steel to barebones exoskeleton
• Foretell future levels accessible with spacesuits
• Add some tools
• Rename BONDING_SOURCE to BONDING_TOOL
• Fix, partially, pluralization of spacesuit trousers group
• Update to the unified tile transformation syntax
• Fix redundant Equipable or Meleeable
• Switch to the simplied ConsumeItems definition
• Eliminate the exploit of throwing durable tools at the workshop
• Define the spacestuit
• Assemble full spacesuit from the set of all its parts
• Add a spacesuit boot
• Make Autozoom Contact Lens appear in a larger percentage of games
• Let workshop work from an adjacent tile as well
• Use the new parameter of CreateItem to dilute perfume and create rose water
• Use the new parameter of CreateItem in workshop crafting engine
• Add the first workshop item crafting recipe
• Add a workshop terrain
• Remove an obsolete way of putting oil tile on fire
• Add Discharge effect to content
• Open doors with concussion blast
• Avoid renewing terrain embeds, to avoid slowdown with faucets
• Make vents terrain transforming
• Keep underbrush fluorescent also inside places
• Clean up non-essential talter attributes
• Create frozen and water tiles from damp floor
• Let underbrush grow randomly inside some places
• Let oil float over water, etc.
• Add explosive barrels
• Extend and move terrain transformation abilities within content
• Use less stuck doors while AI remains stubborn
• Don’t create harpoons in bunches now that they are durable
• Revert “Make better projectiles out of weapons now that they break”
• Mark terrain transformations that are permitted with projectiles
• Make better projectiles out of weapons now that they break
• Make harpoon a weapon, but not auto-equipped
• Fix signboards requiring extra keystroke to activate
• Fix stuck doors often leaving AI helpless
• Add stuck doors to be opened by tools
• Fix unidentified embedded items impossible to trigger
• Describe the less obvious tile-altering item properties
• Add messages to dilluted OneOf effects
• Make the new tools and weapons twice more common
• Let strongest explosions breach stuff
• Describe the properties of the tools to help the player connect the dots
• Rename terrain patterns that denote possibly depleted resource
• Add tool items for altering terrain and improvised combat
• Make it possible to disarm jewelry traps
• Make edible plants grow on bushes
• Move extinguishers from walls to signboards to avoid uncovering all walls
• Make looting rubble worthwhile if weapons urgently needed
• Let actors trap down stairs with oil
• Wipe oil with a cloth
• Transform some tiles by pouring oil on them
• Make it harder to quench burning oil
• Separate singleton kind group names
• Rename HideAs to PresentAs for item kinds
• Switch texts to patterns for referring to content kind groups
• Make plants slightly less common and cleavers slightly more
• Make hunger twice as fast
• Permit PatternSynonyms
• Add a few sources of oil and fire
• Let oil spill burn
• Let signboards and pulpit burn
• Make the area of nitrogen mist smaller, but dense
• Let food thrown at lightly burning bushes get cooked
• Make meat a less perfect projectile
• Make the coil necklace not precious to freely use it
• Make underbrush more common now that it has no embed
• Get blakets and nitrogen out of walls
• Make nitrogen flask a separate item now that its explosions freeze water
• Quench fire with water and azbestos blanket
• Bring back Alter skill requirement for weld to help AI open it
• Make the spark necklace a source of cold
• Reverse order of weld modification items to help newbies understand
• Make weld durable to repeatedly depict sparking attempts to break the barrier
• Let ice be transformed into water and back
• Overcome weld with items instead of skill
• Simplify igniting greenery
• Update wrt addition of tiles altered by items
• Make sword-class weapons and exotic hammers more common
• Hint that the small fire is fine for cooking
• Make burning trees and rubble even less common on the outermost level
• Make it possible to cook plants
• Add cooked plants
• Update to binary AndEffect
• Give player more hints to start cooking
• Make burning bushes less common in crawl
• Move underbrushBurning to the right section
• Make it possible to also set bush and tree on fire
• In crawl get torches from burning trees more often
• Cook meat using a burning bush
• Let burning bush turn into burning underbrush
• Make it possible to set underbrush on fire and cook meat
• Explain away only pointman moving
• Bring hunger removal back in two places
• Fix hunger removed by some melee weapons
• Fix mercenaries using cutlery to fight
• Explain lack of tools, food and maps in crawl scenario
• Mention that all factions and actors are equal
• Reverse stars and underscores in HP bar in HUD
• Stress suvival in the game manual
• Let animals drop chunks of raw meat, for player consumption
• Mention clues and survival in backstory
• Fix medbot fissure not marked as benign
• Remove duplicated smell boost from walls (subtleFresco)
• Add a hidden wall reminding about the need to find food upstairs
• Pay for medbot healing with hunger
• Add pumpkin and let other plants remove hunger, too
• Add a hunger clock for humans and animals
• Mention leap frog in game manual
• Hint about leapfrog in brawl scenario note
• Make it easier to understand trying to go below the bottommost level is futile
• Handle the meta note about scenario separately
• Make sure tutorial scenarios have enough melee weapons
• Fix short scenario levels mistakenly thought to be relative to depth 15 not 10
• Update wrt door closing changes in the engine
• Reiterate win conditions in scenario descriptions
• Improve the descriptions for the reaction fire rings
• Mention in the manual that HP starts at half max
• Reformat game peculiarities list in the manual
• Overhaul the order and blurbs of game modes
• Make raid scenario squad-based
• Rework new game start menus
• Fix a corruption of backstory text
• Copy the list of distinguishing features from Allure homepage
• Restructure chronologically the game manual with verbs as section titles
• Get rid of ‘x-hair’
• Mark some text files as out of date
• Add a couple more paragraph breaks in content descriptions
• Reformat backstory for display in main menu
• Remove text data files
• Replace old OFL-licensed font with new ones
• Re-indent the backstory
• Comment about why animals rarely eat food
• Rename tactics to doctrine
• Get rid of the henchman notion
• Rename leader to pointman
• Update decontaminator now that personal inventories are gone
• Mention the ! key whenever KP_* is mentioned
• Fix countless typos
• Start using cabal-plan
• Fix and improve Makefile, cabal file and CI scripts
• Improve and update game manual and help texts wrt game changes
• Countless changes in the LambdaHack engine and the induced changes in Allure

v0.9.5.0

• Fix NumLock disabled in the browser
• In screen reader frontend, highlight active menu line with the cursor
• Fix commited debug value of rwriteSaveClips
• Clone the main main menu commands as map mode commands
• Add C-RMB and C-S-LMB as alternatives of MMB
• Announce prominently MMB binding for describing map positions
• Break the misleading alignment of movement key help paragraphs and pictures
• Clean up the default config file, keeping compatibility
• Make scenario names longer and slighlty more informative
• Make Vi movement keys the default in addition to keypad and mouse
• Fix a bug where death prompt when autoplaying was capturing a keypress
• Let ESC from main menu return to insert coin mode, if applicable
• Make various small UI tweaks, especially to main menu and its submenu
• Let main menu lines have 35, not 30, characters
• Make the main menu ASCII art less intrusive (and easier for screen readers)
• Don’t invalidate the score file due to game minor (only) version bump

v0.9.4.0

• Tweak razor organs
• In vty frontend highlight actors more
• Clean up actor highlighting
• Add yell/yawn to minimal command set, remove swerving the aiming line
• Invoke yell/yawn exclusively with ‘%’, due tor Windows and terminal woes
• Move C-c command to C, not to mask C-c on console frontends
• Tweak and fix vty console frontends, for screen-readers
• React specially at gameover under certain special circumstances
• Simpliy assignSlot now that slots are auto-sorted
• Get rid of explicit item sorting; let lore and menu slots agree
• Make DetectExit non-modal
• Mark in a game end confirmation message that more treasure can be found
• Add a description to the escape embedded item
• Reword gameover text for raid scenario
• Be more verbose when confirming escape from the game
• Don’t claim to summon, when not possible on this level
• Fix missing ‘no longer poisoned’ when applying antidote
• Don’t ask confirmation for neutral (e.g., not IDed) items
• Fix ‘you fall down; you stand on a sword’
• Prevent selecting regions via mouse down in web frontend
• Deselect item if player declines to apply or fling
• Hand-hold the player, warning if flung item is beneficial
• Hand-hold the player, warning if applied item is harmful
• Rewrite the condition in UI applyItem check
• Improve the lobable item skill failure message
• Let mouse buttons describe tiles, etc.
• Unblock S-MouseButton in SDL2 frontend
• Always describe things under mouse button
• Make the message when hitting dead foe more varied

v0.9.3.0, aka ‘Double of everything’

• Make maximal level size twice higher
• Extend the spaceship to 15 decks
• Expand game content to fill the more numerous and often twice larger levels
• Vary size and position of levels
• Adjust help screens to twice higher display size
• Introduce message classes with configurable behaviour
• Create a new 16x16 font and use it everywhere; tweak smaller fonts
• Lock some levels or otherwise make ascending tricky
• Add cooldown to most melee weapons, display that in HUD, adjust AI
• Add per-scenario and per-outcome gameover messages in content
• Add duplicate and reroll item effects in preparation for crafting
• Add actor and item analytics as a preparation for XP gain quests
• Implement piercing projectiles that may share a tile with a big actor
• Increase the spawn speed now that monsters sleep a lot
• Introduce actors falling asleep and yelling
• Allow any level size and position
• Mention places when looking at tiles and add place lore menu
• Expand all kinds of content and rebalance
• Create and rework all item, cave and plot prose (Dan Keefe @Peritract)
• Make explosives in cramped spaces twice weaker
• Tweak player fling command
• Tweak equipping when equipment overfull
• Start cycling stores at equipment since that’s the one mentioned in help
• Overhaul CI scripts
• Restructure and clean up codebase
• Extend balance debugging tools, using item and actor analytics, places, etc.
• Drop the gameplay option that first death means defeat
• Avoid idle-GC between slow keystrokes
• Put content data into a compact region to limit GC
• Remove the border around web frontend game screen; seems unneeded now
• Don’t draw aiming line nor path in vty frontend
• Highlight xhair by cursor in vty frontend
• Highlight player by cursor in vty frontend
• Switch the default FPS to 24 for tradition’s sake
• Highlight current high score
• Remove most stopPlayBack, now spurious, because message classes used
• Overhaul cabal file: define common options, split into internal libraries
• Fix confusion of nub and uniq
• Rename short wait to lurk and many lurks to heed
• Show a red message when HP or Calm dip too low or when foe appears
• Lose Calm and so alert AI even at weakest non-zero HP draining attacks
• Enable screenshots while in menus
• Rename config options related to fonts
• Recolour aiming line not to clash with the red crosshair
• Exchange the functions of yellow and red highlight
• Tweak all colours, in particular to differentiate blues/cyans
• Cap bright colours at 85 CIELAB Lightness at D65
• Normalize dark colours to be between 42 and 57 CIELAB Lightness at D65
• Get rid of colorIsBold option; KISS
• Tint white in alternating lines with different hue for long text readability
• Don’t split lines at articles
• Set xhair to currently meleed foe to see his HP
• Display speed on HUD; tweak status lines in other ways
• Don’t show description of leader target in HUD; TMI
• Help AI flee in a consistent direction over many turns
• Expose the save backup command, for browser games
• Don’t display target info when item selected
• Let AI actors spawn even quite far from the player
• Auto-select all new team members, to help new players
• Replace O by zero on the map display; make zero distinct from O in all fonts
• Flesh out the initial ? prompt
• Add ‘I’ alias for pack-related commands, unless laptop key-scheme used
• Turn off movementLaptopKeys by default not to confuse new players
• Make sure AI attacks bosses even if distant and fleeing or non-moving
• Lower bonus HP at extreme difficulty
• Add a separate frame for each projectiles start
• Don’t go modal at the frequent and weak hidden tile detection effect
• Make AI pick closest stairs more often
• Let apply-unskilled actors activate embedded items
• Don’t boost damage by speed unless actor is projectile
• If everything else fails, let AI flee by opening doors
• Help AI actor prevent being dominated
• Make computing gameplay benefit to items more accurate
• Rename, clone and fine-tune effect Temporary
• Simplify code and content by getting rid of Recharging effect
• Let applying periodic items only produce the first effect
• Tweak item detection to help in skipping boring level portions and in stealth
• Invoke and display embedded items in the order specified in tile definitions
• Let lit trails illuminate colonnades
• Prevent an exploit for avoiding self-invoked firecrackers
• Don’t let AI attempt summoning if not enough Calm
• Improve item label bracket codes in menus
• Pick randomly destination stairs if teleporting level
• Display the number of items in store
• Summarize value of player loot in shared stash menu’s header
• Start history menu at the close-up of the last message
• Make fast-dying insects aggressive
• Overhaul game score DSL and particular scoring definitions in content
• Add and extend messages, e.g., tell if victim blocks and with what armor
• Extend and rework menu manipulation keys
• Remove specialized quaff, read and throw commands; KISS
• Split walls of text into more paragraphs and/or make them narrower
• Extend and update help and manual
• Don’t let AI waste time looting distant lone projectiles
• Make Enum instances of Point and Vector contiguous, hackily
• Make dominated actor drop all his items, for ID and in case he defects ASAP
• Try to find a non-waiting action, if better AI leader can’t be found
• Prevent summoning OoD actors
• Let animals eat food and add several foods
• Make Domination effect harder to activate
• Let only actors and items with SkOdor property leave smell and add perfumes
• Let spawning rate level out after a few dozen spawns
• Describe smell, if present in an inspected tile
• Let pushed actor fly after crashing a door open
• Show passing time and heard events even if no actors in the UI faction
• When movement impossible, describe the tile with SHIFT-direction
• Catch and steal projectiles when braced instead of when weaponless
• Let actors that are pushed perform any action in addition to movement
• Improve deduplication of messages
• When describing actor on map, tell if it has loot
• Represent being braced as having an organ; also add other pseudo-organs
• Overhaul hearing to facilitate triangulation based on sound cues
• Prefer to spawn aquatic actors on aquatic tiles
• Add swimming and flying skills and shallow water tile features
• Boost/drain skills via many new items
• Rework and extend skills and their effects as a preparation for XP rewards
• Enable specifying each side of outer cave fence separately
• Make definition of caves of a scenario more precise
• Specify more properties of levels in content
• Extend content validation
• Improve placement and fitting stairs and rooms on levels
• Don’t hardwire level size
• Simplify game rules content
• Change the format of game client content
• Fix an arbitrary delay in killing dying actors
• Fix arbitrary branch of a corridor chosen when running
• Fix bush patches blocking off a level’s corner
• Fix config file ignored at game reinit
• Fix running disturbed by flavours of walls
• Fix splitting lines one character too early
• Fix Calm drain from nearby foes occurring only every other turn
• Fix some AI looping movement, in particular when fleeing
• Fix running into own periodic explosions, e.g., from necklaces
• Fix ‘she painfullies collide’
• Fix AI with vector targets unwilling to change them
• Fix crash when attempting to fling at a target on remote level
• Fix wrong timestamps in history
• Fix, again, various kinds of frames intruding between fadeout and fadein
• Fix wrong pluralization of some item names, compound and exceptions
• Fix disabled items benefit recalculation after item kind learned
• Fix in many ways too close initial faction and item positions
• Fix performance in many ways and places, particularly for JS translation
• Fix missing perception updates, causing missed AI actions concerning us
• Fix uninitialized sarenas, which was probably causing resume to change state
• Fix weak AI actors fleeing even if enemy can’t melee
• Fix and optimize sifting free tiles for spawn/summon location
• Fix various cases of excessive summoning
• Fix recording of item first seen level
• Fix many problems with item descriptions and other messages
• Fix reporting of reduction and elimination of actor conditions
• Fix reading and interpreting old format config files
• Fix synced initial item timeouts and actor times, leading to artificial feel
• Fix actors erratically following their leader
• Fix lifts continuing as stars and the other way around
• Fix various 32bit overflows
• Fix other errors, probably not present or not visible in previous version

v0.8.3.0

• Add a hack to run SDL2 on the main thread, fixing the OS X crash
• Warn visually when impressed and Calm running low, risking domination
• Display actor as red when low Calm and impressed or when low HP
• Fix, complete and fine tune UI, AI and server skill and weapon checks
• Fix a bug where item aspects look different to clients than to the server
• Change the requirements for the main menu ASCII art
• Tweak loot and terrain a tiny bit

v0.8.1.2

• Fix typos detected by lintian
• Fix the code that runs in case of old async (bug introduced in v0.8.1.1)

v0.8.1.1

• no player-visible changes
• make it possible to compile with old async package
• rewrite copyright information according to Debian format
• make github display the correct main license

v0.8.1.0

• no player-visible changes
• significantly reduce RAM usage when compiling library
• update and extend CI

v0.8.0.0, aka ‘Explosive dashboard’

• display initial bits of backstory as a help screen and in-game
• rework greying out menu items and permitting item application and projection
• rework history collection; merge message repetitions more aggressively
• display HP in red when below (configurable) warning threshold
• tweak AI: actors remember they are fleeing; better leader choice, etc.
• add to content specialized explosive projectiles; tune the effects
• calculate loot score component based on fraction of dungeon loot collected
• don’t hardwire item price, but let it be specified in content
• let all valuables glitter in the dark to avoid complete level exploration
• teach AI to cure ailments and shake off impressions
• rework detection effects; add detection of items embedded in tiles
• automatically identify stolen items that only have minor effects
• let projectiles hit each other if fragile and substantial enough
• rework item kind identification code; change the way it’s defined in content
• make more item kinds (including some traps) secret
• protect paralyzed actors with a stasis condition to avoid infinite paralysis
• implement dumping screenshots in SDL2 and create animated GIFs in Makefile
• generate most common consumables less often, but in depth-scaled bunches
• make pushed actors alter tiles and trigger effects of embedded items
• validate and cross-validate more content; reduce content creation boilerplate
• make summoning more varied and prevent chain-summoning
• add many ways to conditionally sequence effects
• create large, merged rooms more often
• generalize the terrain altering player command (C-c, mouse)
• let RET, SPACE and ESC clear pending messages, if any
• add dashboard with links to all menus and info screens
• scale some organ and trap power with level depth
• simplify level-scaled dice roll semantics
• change scaled dice notation ‘dl’ to ‘dL’ for readability in-game
• rebalance items and decrease dice variety to unclutter backpack
• colour-code beneficial and harmful conditions in menu and in HUD
• display item lore (also for organs, embedded items, explosions, etc.)
• display embedded item descriptions as if they were tile descriptions
• tweak blast visuals, lower particle counts, beautify their spread
• tweak projectile visuals, e.g., display an extra frame when projectile dies
• add intro screen and work on other ways to convey story
• simplify a lot of code, including a bit of game rules
• fix some bugs, tweak content, speed up some AI bottlenecks

v0.7.1.0, aka ‘Ancient troubles’

• add amazing cave and item (actor, blast, organ) descriptions
• package for Windows as an installer and also as zip archives
• fix a crash from SDL frontend under some OpenGL drivers (no thread-safety)
• add WWW address to the Main Menu, for other sites that may run our JS blob

v0.7.0.0, aka ‘The dice are cast’

• decouple tile searching from tile alteration
• refrain from identifying items that are not randomized
• switch away from incapacitated leader to let others revive him
• make rescue easier by not going into negative HP the first time
• fix crowd of friends on another level slowing even actors that melee
• fix missing report about items underneath an actor when changing levels
• API breakage: change the syntax of dice in content
• API addition: introduce cave descriptions
• keep all client states in the server and optimize communication with clients
• improve item choice for identification and item polymorphing
• reset embedded items when altering tile
• replace atomic command filtering with exception catching
• reimplement dice as symbolic expressions inducing multiple RNG calls
• switch to optparse-applicative and rewrite cli handling
• add stack and cabal new-build project files
• improve haddocks across the codebase

v0.6.2.0, aka ‘Zoom out’

• make fireworks slower and so easier to spot
• make rattlesnake deeper but more common
• announce no effect of activation
• describe original and current faction of an actor
• highlight dominated actors
• mark organs with comma instead of percent and gems with dollar
• make the healing cave dangerous to prevent camping
• slightly balance various content
• by default move item the same as last time
• often spawn between heroes and stairs going deeper
• fix totalUsefulness computation for negative effects
• fix abandoning distant enemy target despite no alternatives
• fix slow pushing of actors
• fix a crash when many actors run towards stairs
• hotfix: Pass zoom keys through to the browser
• help players find the info about changing the font size
• depend on GHC >= 8.0 and new vector

v0.6.1.0, aka ‘Breaking one rule at a time’

• major engine bugfix: fix redrawing after window minimized and restored
• major engine bugfix: hack around vanishing texture on Windows
• major engine bugfix: hack around SDL backends not thread-safe on Windows
• update wrt the only breaking API change: specify font dir in game rules content
• let the game use its own fonts, not fonts from the sample game in library
• tweak some item creation to occur in character’s pack, not on the ground
• slightly balance various content
• make sure the ‘resolution’ effect is not a drawback
• make artifact weapon rarities more regular
• avoid creating lit, open dungeon at the bottom, where foes have ranged weapons
• number scenarios in user descriptions

v0.6.0.0, aka ‘Too much to tell’

• add and modify a lot of content: items, tiles, embedded items, scenarios
• improve AI: targeting, stealth, moving in groups, item use, fleeing, etc.
• make monsters more aggressive than animals
• tie scenarios into a loose, optional storyline
• add more level generators and more variety to room placement
• make stairs not walkable and use them by bumping
• align stair position on the levels they pass through
• introduce noctovision
• increase human vision to 12 so that normal speed missiles can be sidestepped
• tweak and document weapon damage calculation
• derive projectile damage mostly from their speed
• make heavy projectiles better vs armor but easier to sidestep
• improve hearing of unseen actions, actors and missiles impacts
• let some missiles lit up on impact
• make torches reusable flares and add blankets for dousing dynamic light
• add detection effects and use them in items and tiles
• make it possible to catch missiles, if not using weapons
• make it possible to wait 0.1 of a turn, at the cost of no bracing
• improve pathfinding, prefer less unknown, alterable and dark tiles on paths
• slow down actors when acting at the same time, for speed with large factions
• don’t halve Calm at serious damage any more
• eliminate alternative FOV modes, for speed
• stop actors blocking FOV, for speed
• let actor move diagonally to and from doors, for speed
• improve blast (explosion) shapes visually and gameplay-wise
• add SDL2 frontend and deprecate GTK frontend
• add specialized square bitmap fonts and hack a scalable font
• use middle dot instead of period on the map (except in teletype frontend)
• add a browser frontend based on DOM, using ghcjs
• improve targeting UI, e.g., cycle among items on the map
• show an animation when actor teleports
• add character stats menu and stat description texts
• add item lore and organ lore menus
• add a command to sort item slots and perform the sort at startup
• add a single item manipulation menu and let it mark an item for later
• make history display a menu and improve display of individual messages
• display highscore dates according to the local timezone
• make the help screen a menu, execute actions directly from it
• rework the Main Menu
• rework special positions highlight in all frontends
• mark leader’s target on the map (grey highlight)
• visually mark currently chosen menu item and grey out impossible items
• define mouse commands based on UI mode and screen area
• let the game be fully playable only with mouse, use mouse wheel
• pick menu items with mouse and with arrow keys
• add more sanity checks for content
• reorganize content in files to make rebasing on changed content easier
• rework keybinding definition machinery
• let clients, not the server, start frontends
• version savefiles and move them aside if versions don’t match
• lots of bug fixes internal improvements and minor visual and text tweaks

v0.5.0.0, aka ‘Halfway through space’

• let AI put excess items in shared stash and use them out of shared stash
• let UI multiple items pickup routine put items that don’t fit into equipment into shared stash, if possible, not into inventory pack
• re-enable the ability to hear close, invisible foes
• add a few more AI and autonomous henchmen tactics (CTRL-T)
• keep difficulty setting over session restart
• change some game start keybindings
• replace the Duel game mode with the Raid game mode
• various bugfixes, minor improvements and balancing

v0.4.101.1, aka ‘Officially fun’

• the game is now officially fun to play, with a seal of the Galactic Council
• introduce unique boss monsters and unique artifact items
• add robots that heal the player, in particular as a mid-game reset for HP
• move spaceship airlock to level 10 and beef up spaceship crew
• let AI gang up, attempt stealth and react to player aggressiveness
• spawn actors fast, close to the enemy and in large numbers
• spawn actors less and less often on a given level, but with growing depth
• prefer weapons with effects, if recharged
• make the bracing melee bonus additive, not multiplicative
• let explosions buffet actors around
• make braced actors immune to translocation effects
• make actor domination yet less common and deadly
• use mouse for movement, actor selection, aiming
• don’t run straight with selected actors, but go-to cross-hair with them
• speed up default frame rate, slow down projectiles visually
• rework item manipulation UI
• you can pick up many items at once and it costs only one turn
• allow actors to apply and project from the shared stash
• reverse messages shown in player diary
• display actor organs and stats
• split highscore tables wrt game modes
• move score calculation formula to content
• don’t keep the default/example config file commented out; was misleading
• update vs the naughtily changed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.4.100.0, aka ‘The last interstellar thaw’

• update vs the unexpectedly thawed v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API
• unexpectedly add items with timeouts and temporary effects
• start campaign on level 3 and don’t spawn aliens until level 4
• rebalance campaign (probably still too hard)
• tweak skills of some factions and actors
• rename tablets to chips to make their vanishing easier to understand
• make colorful characters bold (if it resizes your fonts, turn off via colorIsBold = False in config file or –noColorIsBold on commandline)
• start the game with a screensaver safari mode
• improve keyboard handling on Windows
• add i386 Linux and Windows compilation targets to Makefile

v0.4.99.0, aka ‘Player escapes through airlock’

• balance game content a bit (campaign still unbalanced)
• fix a bug where doors can’t be closed
• assign AI tactics to players, in particular use follow-the-leader in safari
• specify monster spawn rate per-cave
• generally update content to the new v0.5.0.0 of LambdaHack content API

v0.4.14, aka ‘Out of cosmic balance’

• add tons of new (unbalanced) items, actors and descriptions
• add a simple cabal test in addition to make-test and travis-test
• add items of Wonder and of Marvel
• add game mechanics, items and places to enable stealthy tactics
• add lots of shrapnel (explosions) and organs (body parts)
• expose a bit of the plot via new game modes and their order

v0.4.12

• make walls lit by default to simplify exploration
• improve and simplify dungeon generation
• simplify running and permit multi-actor runs
• let items explode and generate shrapnel projectiles
• add game difficulty setting (initial HP scaling right now)
• allow recording, playing back and looping commands
• implement pathfinding via per-actor BFS over the whole level
• extend setting targets for actors in UI tremendously
• implement autoexplore, go-to-target, etc., as macros
• let AI use pathfinding, switch leaders, pick levels to swarm to
• force level/leader changes on spawners (even when played by humans)
• extend and redesign UI bottom status lines

v0.4.10

• screensaver game modes (AI vs AI)
• improved AI (can now climbs stairs, etc.)
• multiple, multi-floor staircases
• multiple savefiles
• configurable framerate and combat animations

v0.4.8

• experimental multiplayer modes
• a lot of gameplay changes induced by the engine overhaul and in particular the client-server rewrite

v0.4.6.5

• this is a minor release, primarily intended to fix the broken compilation on Hackage
• changes since 0.4.6 are mostly unrelated to gameplay:
  • strictly typed config files split into UI and rules
  • a switch from Text to String throughout the codebase
  • use of the external library miniutter for English sentence generation

v0.4.6

• the Main Menu
• improved and configurable mode of squad combat

v0.4.4

• missiles flying for three turns (by an old kosmikus’ idea)
• visual feedback for targeting
• animations of combat and individual monster moves

v0.4.3

• the Allure of the Stars game depends on the LambdaHack engine library