v0.9.6 - Sept 14th, 2021 Build
Pre-release
Pre-release
A smaller release with fewer major highlights, but with a slew of bugfixes by the community.
- The addition of the Less Boring Knights patch from Sporkhack, allowing Knights to also be chaotic, a couple of mechanic changes to knight jumping, riding, lance combat and other extras.
- A new artifact: The Pickpocket's Gloves. Chaotic aligned Gauntlets of Dexterity that grants Searching and Stealth while worn. In addition, increases the chance of successfully #borrowing from a creature by 20.
- Added missing attack types to the Datalog for users of the EXTENDED_INFO define in config.h
- Ported over randomized creator deities in the intro text (from Unnethack)
- Giants can now wield two-handed weapons (except bows and crossbows) with one hand, and in addition get Two-Handed Combat as a racial skill
- Necromancers digging into a grave now have a chance of automatically making the resulting zombie/mummy tame/peaceful
- Scroll of Clouds now has a proper "read while confused" effect, as well as a new Cursed effect
- Scroll of Consecration now has a proper "read while confused" effect
- A ton of bugfixes by the community, including the raise zombies segfault (issue #29)
Full changelog with details can be found here.