- add tons of new (unbalanced) items, actors and descriptions
- add a simple cabal test in addition to make-test and travis-test
- add items of Wonder and of Marvel
- add game mechanics, items and places to enable stealthy tactics
- add lots of shrapnel (explosions) and organs (body parts)
- expose a bit of the plot via new game modes and their order
- make walls lit by default to simplify exploration
- improve and simplify dungeon generation
- simplify running and permit multi-actor runs
- let items explode and generate shrapnel projectiles
- add game difficulty setting (initial HP scaling right now)
- allow recording, playing back and looping commands
- implement pathfinding via per-actor BFS over the whole level
- extend setting targets for actors in UI tremendously
- implement autoexplore, go-to-target, etc., as macros
- let AI use pathfinding, switch leaders, pick levels to swarm to
- force level/leader changes on spawners (even when played by humans)
- extend and redesign UI bottom status lines
- screensaver game modes (AI vs AI)
- improved AI (can now climbs stairs, etc.)
- multiple, multi-floor staircases
- multiple savefiles
- configurable framerate and combat animations
- experimental multiplayer modes
- a lot of gameplay changes induced by the engine overhaul and in particular the client-server rewrite
- this is a minor release, primarily intended to fix the broken compilation on Hackage
- changes since 0.4.6 are mostly unrelated to gameplay:
- strictly typed config files split into UI and rules
- a switch from Text to String throughout the codebase
- use of the external library miniutter for English sentence generation
- the Main Menu
- improved and configurable mode of squad combat
- missiles flying for three turns (by an old kosmikus' idea)
- visual feedback for targeting
- animations of combat and individual monster moves
- the Allure of the Stars game depends on the LambdaHack engine library