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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…
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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…
Store4 changesGameplayBalance - Caves of Qud
Beta Bugfixes - July 4, 2025
210.21 - 'beta' branch Fixed a bug in zone building due to placing quest items on villagers or lair owners that lack inventories. Isahind and Warden Yrame now always have the appropriate freezing ray variant for their d…
Store15 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Patch 1.04 is here!
We've merged all the changes from the last few months of our beta branch into mainline. Full patch notes below. Soon we'll be updating the beta branch with some architecture changes to prepare for localization. If you'd…
Store84 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Beta Update - May 14, 2025
210.8 - 'beta' branch The score screen now displays the correct number of lairs you found. Switched the icons of Steady Hand and Steady Hands. Clarified that some abilities let you jump over creatures in Jump's skill de…
Announcement19 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Beta Update - April 25, 2025
210.6 - 'beta' branch Particle effects now respect visibility and won't render on top of objects that stand over them. Improved performance when many particle effects were active onscreen. Improved performance when the…
Store14 changesFixCompatibility - Caves of Qud
Beta Update - April 18, 2025
The 210 sequence will be leaving 'beta' soon, kick it around and see if anything breaks! 210.5 - 'beta' branch Options that require a game restart to take effect will now prompt you to do so upon exiting the menu. Creat…
Store16 changesFixCompatibility
