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• 2020-12-18:
  • Added a high-score board that logs the outcomes of your games. Each time you die, quit, or win the game, an entry will be logged, and it will also show you your rank in the high-score board.
  • Introduced a new water-dwelling creature. Very dangerous!
  • Reorganized the current levels and tweak map generation parameters. Eliminate boring redundant levels, make existing levels more dangerous.
  • Fixed stacking order of gold ore so that it's always visible among piles of less important items. Should eliminate the tedium of hunting for that last piece of gold hiding under a rock!
  • New pre-alpha build!
• 2020-11-13:
  • Fixed a regression and a crash bug.
• 2020-11-12:
  • Streamlined UI and keyboard controls:
    • Equip/unequip/drop actions now unified into inventory view.
    • Remapped inventory key to Tab.
    • Simplified equip/unequip to single apply button in inventory view.
  • Implemented drowning mechanic.
    • You now have 8 units of air which is decremented each turn you spend underwater. Once your air runs out, you begin suffering drowning damage. Air is replenished upon returning to the surface of the water.
    • Added scuba gear item. Equipping this item provides an extra 30 units of air for deep-diving. Air in the tank is replenished upon returning to the surface of the water.
  • Improved AI.
    • Conical creatures will avoid water if they can; shelled creatures are amphibious and can survive in both air and water. Not 100% there yet; the conical creature AI will panic if already in water and fail to find a way out, so they will drown easily.
    • Creatures of different factions will now fight each other.
  • Fixed bug where gravity takes effect for an extra turn between every consecutive save/load.
  • Improved UI to show HP/air in yellow/red when they run below 50%/25%, respectively.
  • Reduced number of log messages for falling and other common, low-priority events.
• 2020-10-24:
  • Fixed tutorial level to suppress locked door message once player has found and activated the switch to open the door.
• 2020-10-16:
  • Expanded tutorial level to explain climb-ledge action, switches and doors, and falling.
  • Finished gravity bugfix for creatures that get stuck in midair. There should be no more such cases.
• 2020-10-10:
  • New developmental build!
  • Implemented event filtering and difference between visible and audible events. Now you will only see events that are visible to your character, or, if the event is not visible but audible, you will receive a message describing the sound. Audible events also have limited range; faraway events will not be perceived at all.
  • Added decorative vegetation of two grades: % sparse, which is mainly decorative, and % dense, which also blocks line-of-sight. Beware that sometimes gold ore might be obscured under vegetation, so be sure to examine everything closely!
  • Major bugfix to gravity system that sometimes caused objects to get stuck in midair, or shelled creatures getting stuck on ladders.
  • Various improvements to level generation algorithms.
  • Known bugs:
    • The gravity fix is not complete; there remains a rare case of conical creatures getting stuck in mid-air for 1 turn.
    • Vegetation can fall through pit traps, knock you on the head, and roll around.
• 2020-09-25:
  • Fixed terrain generation to reduce the number of ladders.
  • Added a level featuring locked doors and levers.
  • Reduced the number of redundant "you see ... here" messages.
  • Added equip (e) and unequip (r) commands.
  • Added a new slow-moving shelled creature that, if you defeat it, yields an item that grants protection against falling rock traps. (Don't forget to equip it after picking it up, though!)
  • Fixed various bugs.
• 2020-04-03:
  • Objects like gold and rocks now stack.
  • Added command to look at items on the current tile, keyed to ;.
  • Added drop command, keyed to d.
  • Added pickup command, keyed to ,.
  • Added an inventory screen. Press z to access it.
  • Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
  • Known issues:
    • In-game messages are often ungrammatical. A comprehensive language module is currently in the works.
    • Rocks sinking into water sometimes will get stuck and stop sinking.
• 2020-03-06:
  • Added very large last level. This is intended to be a future long-term map, so you're not expected to complete it. But this version still allows you to complete and win the game, so kudos if you actually manage to!
  • Fixed bug where rooms sometimes have multiple floors of different types where they're supposed to be the same.
  • Added falling rock traps.
  • Conical creatures are restored to their original 5 HP. Not so easy to off them now! On the other hand, they now stop chasing you if you're out of sight, so you can still lose them if you maneuver correctly.
  • Various bugfixes and improvements.
• 2020-02-14:
  • Add more story plot nodes. Now there's a sequence of gradually larger and more difficult levels.
  • Conical monsters can now climb ledges. Much harder to shake them off now!
  • FOV is now implemented, along with player map memory. Now you cannot see areas of the map you've not been to yet by panning. Panning will show you your memory of previously-seen parts of the map; however be aware that your memory of what was there may not necessarily reflect its present state!
  • In-game help screen will now page correctly if it doesn't all fit in your terminal. (Nevertheless, we highly recommend a terminal window with as high a resolution as you can manage in order to have an adequate view of your 4D surroundings!)
• 2020-02-07:
  • In-game tutorial to teach you the basics of 4D movement.
  • Tweak sinking mechanics: should be more consistent now.
  • Ladders no longer support weight if you fall on it.
  • Various bug fixes.
• 2020-02-01:
  • Water has been added. Each new game will have a random chance of getting rooms submerged or partially submerged in water.
  • Added in-game help screen. Press ? to open it.

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