This update adds new Thrones of Ascension as well the ability to autosort magic items in the treasury (press ctrl + a). There has also been the usual bug fixes, performance improvements, stat fixes and small improvements. The Utterdark and Haunted Forest global enchantments also got some tweaks, making them a little bit more useful.
General- Magic item treasury autosort (ctrl-a)
- 7 new thrones
- Increased max nbr of thrones to 30/20/10
- Utterdark now has more shade attacks
- Press 'b' to select all units with battle fright
- Disease res can now protect against disease spells too (including plague)
- Haunted Forest no longer affects plants
- Haunted Forest creates commander manikins from dead commanders
- Twilight removed the effects of some magic items too, fixed
- Battle inconsistency fix
- Extreme cold info was slightly off
- The new Praise special ability didn't work properly
- AI commander scripting tweak
- Shapechanged commanders will now lose disabled items too when killed
- Reanimators bless didn't give passive undead leadership, fixed
- Shift key for raid didn't work with sneaking commanders
- Fixed popup for site with no gem trace
- Damage that takes effect slowly over many days (e.g. homesickness) no longer triggers returning
- Spell AI is now less fond of Gift of Formlessness
- Lichcraft now removes any twiceborn enchantment
- Fleeing didn't work properly for lobster riders, fixed
- Reduced CPU usage during game setup for dedicated servers
- Reduced CPU usage during map upload/download
- Sleep clouds could affect mindless units
- Host target validation for rituals
- Improved performance for particle light effects
- AI no longer chooses fireshield blessing for EA Abysia and some other nations
- Mindless units can no longer get false damage when repelled
- Sleep clouds now takes undreaming into account
- Mindless units now immune to sleep clouds
- Hermit Sahir got some fire resistance
- Earthquake used caster's fatigue for def penalty instead of the target's, fixed
- Stat and typo fixes
Modding / Map Making- Muspelheim type modding commands for non-capital fort recruitment
- New monster/item commands: #battlesum1dX and #battlesumwarm
- New monster/item command: #enchantedblood
- #bugshape and similar didn't work, fixed
- #aibadlvl now takes communion into account
- Single commander can now use more item ritual items
- Fix for possible host crash when using mods with #summon.. command
- Lobby server safety check to ensure all required mods have been uploaded
- Fix for map editor and bridges