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New with v1.7.4:
New content:
Added the Warden of Yendor, a slow but invulnerable creature that will permanently stalk you after you take the amulet.
Added whips as a new weapon type with a unique attack pattern (now shared by salamanders).
Added flails as a new weapon type with a unique attack pattern.
Added rings of reaping, which recharge your staffs and charms in proportion to the melee damage you inflict.
Added commutation altars, which swap the enchantment levels between two items, as a possible vault in depths 13-26.
Added resurrection altars, which raise your most recently deceased ally from the dead, as a possible vault in depths 13-26.
Added glass dewars, which release large quantities of gas when broken.
Added scrolls of discord and scrolls of sanctuary.
Added a new legendary ally: the mangrove dryad.
Added two new quest rooms and more dungeon flavor.
Added an alarm trap, which aggravates monsters from up to half of the radius of the level.
Gameplay changes:
Maces and war hammers take two turns only when your attack hits; misses take only one turn.
Daggers do 5x damage upon a sneak attack instead of 3x.
Weapons generally have been rebalanced: daggers require 12 strength instead of 10; maces and war hammers deal less damage per hit; axes, war axes and war pikes deal slightly more damage; and weapon damage overall has slightly less variance.
Stealth radius starts at 7 instead of 6. Stealth radius is fixed at 1 when you are invisible. When visible and not resting, stealth has a lower bound of 2.
Rings of transference provide 5% recovery per enchantment level instead of 10%, but now work on all direct damage (including thrown weapons, lightning and firebolts) instead of only melee damage.
Turrets and totems other than mirror totems will fire on you only if they are within your stealth radius.
An item vault will not spawn more than one of the same item type.
Weapons of slaying and armor of immunity are effective against a class of monsters instead of just a single monster type.
Monster mutations are more common in the deeper epilogue depths.
Poison deals escalating damage with each additional dose.
The food clock is slightly more generous at deeper levels.
Weapons, armor, staffs, rings and charms can be found, rarely, with higher natural enchantment levels.
Goblins, ogres and dar will try to avoid attacking in corridors when they’re in groups.
Scrolls of aggravate monster will cause monsters to hunt you from across the level.
Empowerment fully heals creatures and cures status ailments.
Traps are present much earlier in the dungeon, but are pre-revealed on these earlier depths.
Bridges collapse systematically when any portion is burned.
Allies do not flee from mirror totems.
Fleeing enemies will sometimes try to hide in secret rooms.
Monkeys are less common.
Decreased the recharge delay of the charm of recharging at higher enchantment levels.
The effect of wands of slowing lasts for 50 turns.
Obstruction crystals will darken one turn before vanishing, and obstruction crystals in which creatures or the player are embedded will vanish one turn after being exposed to air.
Invisible creatures standing in gas can be targeted by other creatures’ projectile attacks.
Corrosion by acid will remove good runics from weapons and armor when their enchantment value reaches zero.
Vampiric monsters won’t regain health from you if you have runic armor of immunity that is effective against that monster type.
Captive monsters can’t submerge.
Non-aquatic grappling monsters can hit levitating monsters.
Items that fall through a hidden trap door while in view will reveal the trap door.
Wands of empowerment auto-identify when used.
Allies won’t defect if you hurl another monster against them with a weapon of force, although they will still take damage from the impact.
UI changes:
Added percentage displays to the item discoveries screen, which reflect how likely an unidentified item of a given category is to be a particular type. (No percentage is listed for potions of strength or life or scrolls of enchanting because those items’ prevalence is dynamically adjusted so that roughly the same number are found at roughly the same pace between games.)
When color effects are disabled, there is a visual indicator of light level, and allies are displayed in white for greater visual distinctiveness.
Exploration mode indicates where it will take you before activating, and is interrupted when you see a key or locked door.
Pathing will not indirectly reveal changes of terrain in areas that are out of view.
Added a relabel command to change the reference letter of items in your pack.
Mousing over an item you remember seeing elsewhere on the level will reveal item kind and quantity as well as item category.
Objects that can be seen directly are listed in the sidebar above objects that can be seen via telepathy/clairvoyance/omniscience.
Added failsafes to guard against accidentally blinking into lava.
Monster mutations are no longer displayed while you’re hallucinating.
Nets, webs and nausea won’t interrupt auto-explore; nor will the reappearance of a monster that was in view when exploration/travel began.
Targeting indicators for identified wands and staffs are colored to match the bolt of the wand/staff to reduce instances of accidentally throwing staffs.
Explosive creatures have an intense orange glow.
Added easy mode activation to the action menu.
Item descriptions reveal what depth the item was found on, and item descriptions for staffs reveal how many turns it typically takes to recover a charge.
Bug fixes:
Fixed a crash when a vampire summoned bats.
Fixed a crash when exploring goblin warrens.
Fixed a bug that could cause certain door-opening pressure plates to be walled off from the level.
Fixed a bug that double-counted weakness status penalties against the player.
Fixed a bug that allowed monsters to escape from webs and nets faster than the player.
Fixed several sources of out-of-sync errors during replays and saved game reloading.
Spectral clones of explosive or infected enemies created by armor of multiplicity do not explode or infect upon death or expiration.
Split clones of mutated jellies will properly inherit any mutation effects of their progenitor.
Fixed several bugs with replay UI.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused polymorph to do nothing (when the randomly chosen polymorph type was already the type of the monster).
Fixed a bug that permitted allies to cast bolts at reflective opponents.
Fixed a bug that caused polymorphed monkeys/imps with a stolen item to continue fleeing.

New with v1.7.3:
⁃ Redesigned the stealth system to promote transparency and tactical interest. Monsters now have a flat 25% chance per turn to notice you if they are within your “stealth range,” which is a product of light level, invisibility, whether you spent the previous turn resting, rings of stealth and the natural weight of your armor. Your stealth range is listed on the side bar and may optionally be displayed on the map. Hunting monsters will lose track of you if they are farther away than triple your stealth range (or more than two spaces away if you’re invisible).
⁃ Redesigned ally progression to make allies feel less compulsory and capricious. A charge from the new Wand of Empowerment will permanently increase the combat abilities of a monster and allow it to absorb one ability from a fallen enemy. Allies that are empowered and subsequently negated will be able to re-learn their lost abilities. Allies no longer progress in strength or abilities from “exploration experience.”
⁃ Score upon victory is determined exclusively by gold, the amulet and lumenstones; other items are not counted. To compensate, the amulet is worth 35,000 gold instead of 10,000.
⁃ Implemented conduct challenges, which are listed on the death and victory screens as appropriate (but otherwise do not affect the game or score).
⁃ Scrolls of recharging no longer affect wands.
⁃ Food generation is slightly more generous, and somewhat less predictable.
⁃ Sneak-attacking with a runic will either double the proc chance or increase it halfway to 100%, whichever is less.
⁃ Added a new trap: the net trap.
⁃ Added a new charm type: the guardian charm.
⁃ Added a new quest room: the goblin warren.
⁃ When equipping armor, the armor value will rise from zero over several turns to discourage frequent armor swapping.
⁃ Wands of domination and plenty are less common.
⁃ Added axe and spear attack patterns to certain monsters. Spectral weapons from multiplicity inherit the attack pattern of their parent weapon; nagas and dragons attack all adjacent opponents like axes’; and goblin attacks penetrate like spears’.
⁃ Negation charms have limited range, which increases with the enchantment level of the charm.
⁃ Pressure plates are no longer activated by items floating onto them or by aquatic monsters in water.
⁃ Grappling monsters have more health.
⁃ Nerfed the jellymancer build by preventing split jellies from inheriting their progenitor’s learned abilities or attributes.
⁃ Reflected bolts won’t turn allies against you.
⁃ Submerging monsters cannot have the “explosive” mutation.
⁃ Damage from poison, caustic gas, steam, burning, mutuality and reprisal now ignore magical protection status.
⁃ Poison damage pops up temporary alerts similar to health alerts.
⁃ Added a “view dungeon seed” item to the menu button at the bottom of the screen.
⁃ Summoners can continue to summon while they are fleeing.
⁃ Polymorph erases mutations.
⁃ Drinking a potion of descent will cause you to fall unless you are levitating, irrespective of the terrain you are standing on.
⁃ Pit bloats are a lighter shade of blue.
⁃ Bloodwort pods no longer appear in the side bar; only the stalk is listed.
⁃ Accumulated gold is described on the game over screen.
⁃ Poisonous attacks won’t affect inanimate creatures.
⁃ Guarding and worshiping monsters will mill about more randomly.
⁃ Spectral blades aren’t listed in the side bar unless highlighted by the cursor.
⁃ Centaurs and spiders will launch their projectile attacks whether or not the enemy is reflective.
⁃ Centaurs and arrow turrets can hit turrets, won’t attack creatures embedded in obstruction crystals and won’t lose their ranged attack when negated.
⁃ Shattering will free dormant creatures trapped within.
⁃ Guardians hit harder, and monsters avoid them better.
⁃ Potions of purple gas and pink jellies are referred to as caustic rather than poisonous.
⁃ Monsters that learn to fly will lose the ability to submerge and will no longer be constrained to liquids.
⁃ Weapons known to have runes of acid mound slaying won’t warn against attacking an acid mound.
⁃ Creatures launched by weapons of force will damage (in addition to being damaged by) the enemy that they slam into.
⁃ Fleeing monsters won’t become aware of your location if you’re invisible unless you’re next to them.
⁃ Thrown items won’t hit submerged creatures.
⁃ Runic armor with an unknown enchantment level won’t give away its enchantment levels from its description.
⁃ Gouts of flame appear when monsters are consumed by lava, similar to items.
⁃ Fixed message color issues when one ally kills another discordant ally.
⁃ Tweaked negation order of operations so negating an infected golem won't release spores.
⁃ “(Off balance)” status indicators appear only when a monster is hunting.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused certain creatures to flee at the start of a level.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused the vampiric trait to increase a monster’s max health over time.
⁃ Fixed some edge case bugs that resulted in malformed machine rooms and bridges.
⁃ Fixed bugs related to naming items.
⁃ Fixed bug that caused discordant monkey or imp allies to flee forever if they steal an item while discordant.
⁃ Fixed
⁃ Fixed grammatical flaws related to choosing between “a” and “an”

New with v1.7.2:
⁃ The download includes a “seed catalog” file that details which items may be found on the first five depths of seeds 1-1000 as an optional benefit for players who want to try certain items.
⁃ Cursed items will no longer appear in vaults.
⁃ Rare monsters on deeper depths will appear with mutations, which can affect the monster’s stats or abilities.
⁃ The food clock is significantly tighter.
⁃ Allies’ power progression is slightly slower.
⁃ Summoned allies reveal themselves to you telepathically, as do normal allies that have traveled with you for some time and monsters under the influence of a staff of entrancement.
⁃ At the “You die... --MORE--” prompt, pressing ‘i’ will reveal your inventory with all items fully identified.
⁃ An enemy’s status will display as “(Off balance)” if you will get two turns before the enemy’s next turn.
⁃ Added a new key room.
⁃ Poisonous melee attacks will stack, and poisonous monsters will not flee when you are poisoned.
⁃ Attempting to move while seized by a grappling monster that you can see (krakens, bog monsters) will not cause you to lose a turn.
⁃ Allies that don’t regenerate won’t flee at low health.
⁃ Staffs recharge with a slight degree of randomness so players will not be coerced into counting turns to derive the charge level of an unidentified staff.
⁃ Positive unidentified rings will function as +1 rings so players will not be coerced into spoiler-induced trickery to ascertain their precise enchantment level.
⁃ Teleportation will try to move the player at least a certain pathing distance from where she started.
⁃ Allies will more reliably flee from monsters when appropriate instead of casting spells, and monsters that maintain distance will more reliably flee from allies.
⁃ Increased the total number of lumenstones generated from 23 to 25.
⁃ Addressed an exploit known as stair-dancing by allowing monsters moving between depths to displace any monster or player already standing at the entrance to the destination staircase.
⁃ The player no longer takes 50% damage on depth 1.
⁃ Allies no longer continue to increase in power past depth 26.
⁃ Fixed certain subtle gameplay changes by synchronizing the player’s turn timing more closely to environment updates.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused some charms’ recharge durations and enchantment profile to be incorrect (resulting in an overly powerful charm of recharging).
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused protection status on the player to wear off too slowly.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused staffs recharged by a scroll or charm of recharging to take a long time to recover subsequent charges.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused the inventory display to occasionally misalign the detect magic glyphs.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause certain bridges to terminate in water.
⁃ Fixed a bug that allowed the player to blink onto the staircase tile.
⁃ Fixed a bug that prevented guards of captive monsters from approaching their captive to attack it.
⁃ Fixed a bug that allowed fire-immune allies to cast firebolts from within explosive gas.
⁃ Fixed several bugs related to the “call item” command.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused flying monsters to avoid poisonous lichen in some contexts, even though it cannot harm them.

New with v.1.7.1:
⁃ Certain terrain features (locked doors, stairs, altars, etc.) are noted in the sidebar, and like monsters and items, can be selected from the sidebar by mouse or with the tab key for pathfinding and targeting.
⁃ The dungeon generation code has been rewritten from scratch, and the dungeon is generated with several new basic room shapes.
⁃ The lighting state of the player’s location (lit/unlit) is displayed at the top of the side bar.
⁃ New armor runic: the Armor of Respiration, which renders you immune to harmful gases.
⁃ New weapon runic: the Weapon of Force, which flings enemies backward and damages them if they hit something along the way, in proportion to the distance that they traveled.
⁃ New terrain feature: bloodwort plants, which grow seed pods that release healing gas when struck.
⁃ The rapier deals slightly more damage, requires 15 strength, and will perform a triple-damage never-miss lunge attack if you are one space away from an enemy and step directly toward it. Runic effects on rapiers are also more likely to trigger.
⁃ Brief flashes of light are displayed to indicate discovered secrets and other events.
⁃ The deepest dungeon depth is now 40 instead of 100, and it contains a reward for players skillful and insane enough to reach it.
⁃ Groups of monsters will now swarm their enemies more intelligently.
⁃ Plate armor now grants a base armor value of 11, down from 12.
⁃ Natural crystal formations reflect magical bolts.
⁃ Removed scrolls and charms of fear.
⁃ A type of item will automatically become identified if it is the last type of that item category not to be identified.
⁃ All item types in a vault will auto-identify as soon as you enter the vault, obviating the need to sequentially pick up and drop each such item.
⁃ When monkeys steal darts or other stackable weapons, they will steal only half of the stack at a time as long as you have more than three.
⁃ Charms are less common.
⁃ Swamp gas will explode only if it’s completely surrounded by swamp gas, fire or terrain that obstructs gas. Otherwise it just burns.
⁃ Weapons of multiplicity can summon up to 7 images and armor of multiplicity can summon up to 5, in each case based on their enchantment level, up from a maximum of 3.
⁃ Diagonal movement is permitted around all terrain except for walls and obstruction crystals. In other words, you can now step diagonally around statues, caged altars, wooden barricades, etc.
⁃ Vaults are no longer generated with destructible corners, which previously allowed a player with tunneling/shattering and blinking to rob vaults without unlocking them.
⁃ Tossing an item into lava will result in a one-cell gout of flame, which can ignite flammable gas clouds.
⁃ Items carried by monsters are now always identified in the monster details display.
⁃ Attempting to move while confused and next to lava will prompt the player for confirmation, as will attempting to drink a potion that is known to be bad.
⁃ Saved games load about twice as quickly.
⁃ Allies and other monsters are less likely to clip through walls in a variety of contexts, including upon summoning and when moving between depths.
⁃ Enemy monsters are again willing to cast offensive spells at allies that have learned reflection.
⁃ Wands of plenty are now generated with 1-2 charges, like wands of domination, instead of 2-4 charges.
⁃ Polymorph will no longer generate liches or phoenixes, to avoid odd outcomes with phylacteries and phoenix eggs.
⁃ Phoenix eggs have twice as much health, and phoenixes do more damage.
⁃ Negation will clear the “reflects magic” status from monsters.
⁃ Fixed several potential causes of out-of-sync errors.
⁃ Fixed a few bugs related to vault generation edge cases.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause the player's armor value to display as negative, even though it cannot go below zero.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could mess up dart/javelin quantities.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption when items that had been ‘c’alled long names auto-identified.
⁃ Fixed a bug that allowed you to spend a scroll of identify on a charm.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused the duration of entrancement to be shorter than it should be.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause the upward stairs on depth N to become discovered (and, potentially, could cause recordings or saved games to go out of sync) if you took the downward stairs to depth N+1 and then back up to N.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused weakened monsters to hit more accurately instead of less accurately (though their damage output and defense were correctly lowered).
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause high-level charms of protection to provide too much shielding and potentially destabilize the game, and rebalanced the charm of protection to offer more benefit at lower enchantment levels.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused monsters to wander back and forth repeatedly (by rewriting the wandering code from scratch).
⁃ Changed the open source license under which Brogue is distributed to AGPLv3.

New with v1.7:
⁃ Removed experience from the game to reward exploration instead of combat, in part to avoid discouraging character builds that survive by avoiding or incapacitating monsters instead of killing them.
⁃ Potions of healing are now potions of life, and in addition to healing you, they permanently increase your maximum health. Their frequency is now tightly controlled, like scrolls of enchanting and potions of strength.
⁃ New item category: charms. Each can be activated periodically for a non-targeted effect. The duration over which the charms recharge as well as the intensity/duration of the effect increases with enchantment.
⁃ New quest room features and types which are intended to make the quest room system feel more organic and less systematic, some of which were inspired by Andrew Doull’s UnBrogue.
⁃ New potion, the potion of invisibility.
⁃ New weapon type, the rapier, which attacks twice as quickly as ordinary weapons.
⁃ New armor runic, armor of dampening, which renders you immune to explosions (though not to flame).
⁃ Reduced the frequency of treasure rooms to its former, pre-1.6.4 rate to reduce player decision fatigue.
⁃ Increased the accuracy progression of weapon enchantment (to a compounding 6.5% increase per point of enchantment instead of a constant +5 per enchantment) to remain competitive with armor enchantment, based on a quantitative analysis by Alex Mooney.
⁃ The items that monsters drop are all pre-determined at the start of the game, to prevent different players playing the same seed from finding different items. Monsters will also no longer drop food.
⁃ Depths from 30-33 have only two lumenstones each, and depths after that have only one lumenstone each.
⁃ The window on Mac OS X will resize smoothly, and can be run in full screen mode on Mac OS 10.7-10.8.
⁃ Fixed a bug that prevented hidden pit traps from being permanently discovered when you fell through them.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause allies and occasionally players and items to fall through the ground when activating extending bridges.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause a custom dungeon seed to generate a different pool of items and monsters based on the player’s actions on the prior depth.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused weakness status to erase allies’ level-up benefits.
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused polymorphed monsters to regenerate health quickly (unless they were of a type that didn’t regenerate at all).
⁃ Fixed a bug that could prevent phoenix eggs from hatching.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could cause out-of-sync errors when attempting to throw an equipped weapon, confirming at the confirmation box and then canceling during targeting.
⁃ Fixed an issue that could cause foliage and rings to appear as colorful emoticons under Mac OS 10.8 because of Apple’s new font selection routines. Many thanks to Joe Wreschnig and Dennis Gentry for their assistance in solving this issue.
⁃ Damage statistics in the monster info panel are expressed in terms of the monster’s current health rather than its maximum health.
⁃ If a weapon stack is divided into two or more stacks, and some of them are degraded by acid, enchanted or rust-protected, they will no longer stack with the weapons that were not degraded/enchanted/protected.
⁃ Monsters’ damage ranges are generally tightened, so that they will deal the same average damage with less variance.
⁃ Weapons of slaying will never miss their intended target, and will not be generated for bloats of any kind.
⁃ Enchanting a wand will add to it the minimum number of charges that a wand of that type can initially have.
⁃ Inanimate creatures cannot be weakened.
⁃ Goblin conjurer allies will no longer count blades from the prior or next depth toward their summoning quota.
⁃ Allies on the previous level and next level (in addition to allies on the same level) will gain experience from the player’s exploration, and exploration points will accrue for locations discovered via telepathy.
⁃ Reduced the frequency of monkeys in the interest of being less annoying.
⁃ Burning monsters will not ignite terrain while they are submerged.
⁃ Rewind with left-arrow no longer hangs replays when used more than 100 turns into playback.
⁃ Allies will no longer cast negation on entranced teammates, nor cast offensive spells of any kind at reflective opponents, nor try to engage bloats in melee.
⁃ Weapons of slaying will not miss their intended targets.
⁃ Disabling color effects with the backslash key will result in even blander graphics than before.
⁃ Jellies will not split if there are already 100 of their clones within one depth, so that the elusive jellymaster build will not cause crashes.

New with v1.6.4:
⁃ Fixed a bug that caused allies’ damage to increase dramatically over time.
⁃ Fixed a bug that disabled the warning dialog box when you tried to walk into flame while levitating.
⁃ Fixed a bug with playback controls when watching a recording.
⁃ Fixed a broken message when an ally absorbs centipedes’ weakness ability.
⁃ Magical glyphs connected to guardians will not appear in hallways.

New with v1.6.3:
⁃ When examining items, unequipped weapons will tell you the percent by which equipping the weapon would affect your accuracy and damage, given what you know about the item. Similarly, examining unequipped armor will tell you what your expected armor value would be if you equipped it.
⁃ You get a free search every turn, as though you are always wearing a +1.5 ring of searching. In addition, secrets embedded in walls (secret doors, hidden levers) are 33% harder to detect.
⁃ Paralysis trap pressure plates are now physically separate from the locations that emit the paralytic gas, which means there are more hidden tiles that can be discovered to reveal the existence of a paralysis trap, and paralysis gas will generally take a turn or two to reach the player after stepping on the plate.
⁃ Several new quest rooms and improvements to existing quest rooms.
⁃ Stairs are generated in torchlit nooks in the walls of the dungeon.
⁃ Out of depth monsters generated in shallower depths are drawn from a narrower band of depths, making depths 2-5 easier, and some monster hordes (bog monsters and groups of vampire bats) are specifically prevented from spawning out of depth.
⁃ Portcullises that block poison gas trap rooms cannot be obstructed with items or creatures. Instead, a hidden lever will be generated inside of the room when the trap is activated that will lift the portcullis.
⁃ Fixed a bug that constrained possible quest room generation to certain depths.
⁃ Quietus and paralysis runics trigger slightly less often, and slowness runics trigger slightly more often. Slowness also lasts longer.
⁃ Hidden dungeon features (secret doors, traps, etc.) are revealed in omniscience mode during recording playback.
⁃ New cursed runic: armor of immolation.
⁃ New monster: dart turret.
⁃ Invisibility granted by a wand is now timed. The player can become invisible with a reflected bolt from a wand of invisibility, which is treated as being extremely stealthy.
⁃ Allies will now announce when they are ready to absorb a new ability.
⁃ Allies will more reliably resume being friendly after being affected by magical fear.
⁃ Allies can now absorb centipedes’ ability to cause weakness.
⁃ Creatures that can cast or breathe fire are now more careful with flammable terrain.
⁃ Pathfinding over harmful terrain while under the effect of a temporary status that provides immunity to that terrain -- for example, pathfinding over lava while temporarily immune to fire -- is handled much more intelligently.
⁃ Tweaked the rate at which allies’ combat abilities improve over time.
⁃ Dar blademasters have less defense; eels have more.
⁃ Transference benefits allies less.
⁃ Weakness lasts 50% longer.
⁃ Explosion tiles will disappear instead of promoting into gas fire.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause allies to attack you while they were attempting to escape from harmful terrain such as poisonous gas.
⁃ Fixed a bug that sometimes caused fleeing monkeys to leap into lava if the player was fire-immune, or into chasms if the player was levitating.
⁃ Fixed a bug that sometimes caused nausea to cause recordings to go out of sync.
⁃ Fixed a bug that occasionally generated bridges that lead into deep water.
⁃ Fixed a bug that could render gold invisible and unobtainable, though it would still appear on the sidebar.
⁃ Fixed an exploit that could allow summoner allies to summon an unlimited number of minions.
⁃ Axes and spears will no longer hit creatures embedded in obstruction crystals.
⁃ Monster cages will obstruct gas, so caged monsters won’t get steamed to death before you reach them.
⁃ Killing a shielded monster with a weapon of quietus generates the correct amount of blood.
⁃ Items will no longer float away from you if you are entangled in a spiderweb over deep water.
⁃ Messages that refer to monsters that cannot be seen (referred to as “something”) will be appropriately gender-neutral.
⁃ Unicorns have a more apt appearance.
⁃ Phylacteries will be destroyed by negation magic.
⁃ The help screen is more streamlined.
⁃ The version number is displayed on the title screen.

New with v1.6.2:
⁃ New games can be started with a custom seed by control-clicking “New Game” on the title screen.
⁃ Several new monster types that appear exclusively as allies, and a new quest room in which they appear.
⁃ New weakness status effect that can be inflicted temporarily by centipedes.
⁃ Equipped items are listed at the top of the inventory and separated from the remainder of the items by a one-line divider.
⁃ The names of unknown item types are displayed with purple coloration.
⁃ A few more pieces of information are included in item description screens.
⁃ Visible items on the floor are listed in the sidebar below monsters.
⁃ The variance of gold generated as a function of depth has been tightened substantially between games so that score better reflects depth (assuming that one finds all of the gold).
⁃ 10% of monsters are generated out-of-depth, from 1-5 levels deeper.
⁃ Explore and travel functions seek out weapons that you’ve thrown at enemies and items that have been stolen from you, and will otherwise avoid, when convenient, items that you’ve discarded or thrown.
⁃ Targeting will default to the last confirmed target when it remains a valid and appropriate target.
⁃ Throwing an item will auto-target a monster only if the item is a weapon or potion.
⁃ Calling an item a blank string (instead of pressing escape) will remove any existing inscription and revert to, e.g., “a pink potion.”
⁃ The “Direction?” prompt displays the item name and action in the row above the prompt.
⁃ New purely cosmetic “true color” mode that optionally disables lighting colors, toggled during play with the backslash key.
⁃ Coloration of locked doors is more distinctive, and water is a deeper blue.
⁃ Fleeing monkeys stop fleeing if they drop your item to water currents.
⁃ Allies will no longer cast negation at reflective opponents.
⁃ Allies can again absorb invisibility from defeated enemies.
⁃ Rings of regeneration have been nerfed at high enchantment levels, so that they will never permit full regeneration in less than two to three turns.
⁃ Hallucination potions that have been affected by detect magic will auto-identify when thrown.
⁃ Title screen colors are somewhat calmer.
⁃ Lots of bug fixes.

New with v1.6.1:
⁃ New main menu screen, new file selection dialog box when loading games and saved recordings, and other miscellaneous interface improvements.
⁃ Bug fixes.
⁃ Monsters with the “magical fear” status effect will no longer attack when cornered (though monsters fleeing for other reasons may still do so).
⁃ The curve by which the “darkness” status effect wears off is more back-loaded.

New with v1.6:
⁃ The “quest room” system has been expanded and enhanced to add further variety and interactivity to the dungeon. Some quest rooms can be generated in open areas, and the same system is used to create flavor terrain according to themes for particular areas.
⁃ The game is entirely playable by mouse control. A row of buttons has been added to the bottom of the screen to allow mouse access to all game commands. All commands remain accessible from the keyboard as before.
⁃ Buttons appear within item description windows to permit mouse-driven item actions (equip, unequip, apply, drop, throw, call).
⁃ Ascend and descend are no longer standalone commands (though the ‘>’ and ‘<’ keys will route the player to the stairs as before); instead, ascent and descent occurs automatically when the player steps onto the stairs.
⁃ The sidebar supports mouse interaction.
⁃ The “MORE” prompt is much less common, eliminating instances of “message-lock” when playing message-intensive builds (e.g. conjurers, jelly masters)
⁃ Multitudes of other interface improvements.
⁃ Pathfinding with travel and explore commands tries to route through spaces that are known to be free of traps, and attempts to avoid annoying terrain like spiderwebs.
⁃ Several new monsters, including pit bloats, goblin mystics, acidic jellies, underworms and sentinels.
⁃ New item: the Staff of Protection.
⁃ Potions of telepathy now reveal the terrain in the vicinity of distant monsters.
⁃ Allies’ monster description screen reveals when the ally is ready to learn a new trick.
⁃ Creatures recover from paralysis when they take damage, but any melee attacks against a paralyzed creature (including the player) are treated as attacks of opportunity, which always hit and deal treble damage. Paralysis potions contain half as much gas, but the paralysis status lasts twice as long.
⁃ Eels and other media-bound monsters are more aggressive.
⁃ Teleportation now tries to move the teleporting creature to a position that is outside of the field of view from the starting position.
⁃ When jellies split, they will not spawn on the far side of walls.
⁃ A confirmation prompt ensures that players won’t inadvertently degrade their weapons by attacking acid mounds and similar creatures.
⁃ The dungeon is larger by one row.
⁃ Runic weapons are somewhat less common, particularly among high-damage weapon types.
⁃ Poison from staffs of poison will stack with the target’s existing poison.
⁃ The sidebar will reveal when a poisoned creature has absorbed a fatal dose.
⁃ Reflection armor will auto-identify when the player reflects a bolt.
⁃ Monkeys are willing to steal cursed items, as the previous behavior coerced the player to engage in boring item identification rituals.
⁃ Incendiary darts will now ignite wall-mounted turrets when thrown directly at them.
⁃ The high scores screen accommodates five more entries.
⁃ Added a quit command to abort the game in progress and return to the high scores screen.
⁃ Pressing tilde during play will reveal the current turn number in addition to the dungeon seed.
⁃ Windows and Linux versions have full-screen mode (press F12 or alt-enter for full-screen).
⁃ Windows and Linux versions support key mapping.