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Burgeoning Summer Growth
Hey folks, We have some nice updates to share. First, after several weeks on the beta branch, our performance patch is now ready for everyone. It includes lots of little fixes and some deep rewrites that result in a big…
Store30 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Beta Patch - April 24, 2026
211.38 - 'beta' branch Greatly improved performance on wet maps.
Announcement2 changesCompatibilityMaps - Caves of Qud
Beta Patch - Bethesda Susa performance improvements
211.37 - 'beta' branch Improved performance in Bethesda Susa. Fixed a bug that caused [redacted] to sometimes meander off the main map or into important quest locations. Fixed a bug that caused the Modern UI option to n…
Announcement6 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Experimental branch for testing our localization framework
Hey folks, We put up a new, experimental branch (lang-experimental) for testing a total rewrite of our text generation systems. This was done to support our efforts to localize Caves of Qud. We don't have any new langua…
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Beta Patch - March 1, 2026
211.36 - 'beta' branch Graffiti is now visible on walls with ornately engraved plaques. Merchants now allow you to trade with them you after you buy their entire inventory. Stairs in the Tomb of the Eaters are now more…
Announcement5 changesCompatibilityGameplay - Caves of Qud
Little Feature Monday
Hey friends, We posted a small update to the beta branch, which is the branch we've been using for all our new performance work. Here are the patch notes. 211.35 Repair now takes slightly lower precedence in menu priori…
Store7 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Caves of Qud on the go!
Hey friends, Qud has been officially Verified on the SteamDeck which means and we wanna see where you're playing Qud on the go. Tag us on socials or post to the Kitfox Discord with #QudintheWild with your most far out l…
Event2 changesGameplay - Caves of Qud
Beta Branch Bugfixes
211.33 - 'beta' branch Greatly improved pathfinding performance. Greatly improved performance when auto-moving to the edge of a zone. Improved pathfinding logic of creatures, causing them to take more sensible paths aro…
Announcement9 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Your Qud 2025 Wrapped: Patches, Platforms, Staying Weird
Here is your Caves of Qud year Wrapped, brought to you by a several snapjaws in a ironweave cloak. First, happy birthday to Qud! We launched 1.0 a year ago, and we've had a nice, long recovery from 15+ years of updates.…
Patch notes3 changesWorkshopCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Steam Awards, Mod Jam results, and port update
Hey everyone, It's Alexandra here from Kitfox with an assortment of game news while the team remains in the midst expansion, porting, and localization efforts. They've truly grown at least one extra arm to be able to do…
Store2 changesGameplay - Caves of Qud
20% off for today's Daily Deal + performance improvements on Beta
We posted an update with some significant performance improvements to the Beta branch. If you'd like to help us test, check it out! A lot of the UI and rendering code was refactored, so please be on the look out for iss…
Patch notes6 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Tech patch on beta branch
Hey all, We put up a new beta to test some forward-looking technical improvements to the codebase. Ideally, you should not notice any difference in play experience, but it would be helpful for some of you to test and co…
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Surprise Feature Friday - August 8, 2025
210.23 Phase spiders are now more reliably phased. Dream wrens found outside of Chavvah are now part of the birds faction. You now always start with a method of seeing in the dark when entering a waking dream. Waking dr…
Store17 changesFixGameplay - Caves of Qud
We’re growing a new mutation
Hey everyone, It’s Alexandra from Kitfox here with the latest news from development. The team continues to work on several limbs worth of upgrades to the game. Localization is moving ahead and there’s even work being do…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Caves of Qud
Maintenance Patch - July 28, 2025
210.22 Isahind and Warden Yrame now always have the appropriate freezing ray variants for their descriptions. The n-pointed asterisk can no longer be disassembled. Multi-turn charge abilities like Decarbonize, Run Over,…
Store15 changesFixGameplay - Caves of Qud
The Future of Caves of Qud
Hey friends, For a long time we hoped we could keep working on Caves of Qud after its 1.0 release. Not just porting and localizing to other languages (work that is well underway), but adding new layers of game to the al…
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