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Lo, the fabled time of update is finally upon us. Below are patch notes. More may be added in the coming day or two.

First of all, it is no longer Christmas. The OOC room is back to normal, and Krampus is gone. He will return in the future, in hopefully a less buggy state.

Secondly, those of you who submitted portraits should be able to use them in game. You can find the correct image names in the portrait gallery.

Thirdly, read below for an update on future updates and server plans.

UI Update (MimiFearthegn)
Special thanks to Divine UI, Dethia shops, the stock image creators of the internet, Taurus Daggerknight, and everyone who gave opinions on usability / colors on Discord. Also thanks to Theorem for giving me lots of tooltips to add, and everyone who has taken pretty screenshots over the last few years.
-The UI has been reskinned to be more planescape like.
- Language window is now taller to accomodate knowing more than 8 languages
- Added clock to the UI
- Coinage update. Currency is now displayed as gold, silver, and copper instead of just gold
- New loading screens
- New tooltips

Height Adjuster (Edmaster)
There is now an NPC in the OOC room who can adjust your height. This should persist even when you change your hairstyle.

Miscellaneous Fixes (Edmaster)
- Kemo Portrait info is now stored in the database
- Psion progression bug fixed (Edmaster)
- Fixed War Mind Sweeping Strike and Diss. Weapons
- Dragon bug fixed - now they can only equip creature weapons in Dragon Form
- Fixed Epic Saves for Epic Spells
- Energy Weapon Fix
- Adjusted Smite Evil, Blackguard Smite, and Knight Smite
- DR Type changes for Psionics and Nature Warrior
- Half Outsider's Holy smite shouldn't Blind allies anymore
- Adjusted Warmind's ability to take into account the change to it being a 5 level class

Miscellaneous Fixes (Gadwin)
- Excluded background feats & stalwart defensive stance from restoration
- Bouldertanks should now sell spears (Gadwin)

Swashbucker Daring Charge updates (Pelicanicous)
- allow small shield in offhand
- if out of range reset the feat use so it can be retried right away
- allow creature weapons for daring charge

Area Changes (Wierwood)
- Updated Cloverbrook
- Updated the Outlands areas to add player houses
- Updated Temple of Hermes
- New Three Dragons area, with npcs and buyable rooms

New NWNX plugin (Daeglyth)
- Automatic failure for will and reflex
- AC Bonus vs. Damage Type fix
- Extra WildShape fix
- Bleeding Wound ignore DR fix
- GetEffectType fix
- Custom weapon finesse

Miscellaneous Other Things
- The stacking equipment equip/unequip code has been re-enabled, and is hopefully fixed (Edmaster)
- Sigis Journalist to OOC room (Mimi Fearthegn)
- Minor spelling fixes (Daeglyth)
- Outlands Portal is now in the Armory; portal registrar conversation updated (Mimi Fearthegn)
- Minauros portal will now let you return to Sigil (Mimi Fearthegn)
- Peddler stores have been differentiated, to handle how the new stores work better (Mimi Fearthegn)
- The missing 2dtexture loading screen should be gone, along with the bugged out loading screen tooltips (Mimi Fearthegn)

The following player houses have been added or edited:
- Reina
- Argent
- Dog House
- Grey's house
- Orphanage in the Outlands
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Posted by mimifearthegn »


So, this update has been a long time in coming. The UI overhaul was supposed to be in a January / February update, but I ran into some technical difficulties, and then real life got me.

Speaking of real life, some of you already know this, but Taurus and I have been gone because we have a new baby. She's four months old now, so my time is starting to free up again, and we can get back to more regular updates. Realistically, I think we are looking at updates every other month for the rest of the year, after which I will try to get back to monthly updates.

The UI overhaul is part one of a 2 part project. Part 2 is a redo of the store pricing logic across the module, to bring it more in line with the percieved value of items.

We also have some fun things planned for factions in the coming months, so stay tuned!
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Hotfix 7-26-22

- Kemo bio should transfer correctly now
- More shopping opportunities:
  • *You can exchange planar currency in the OOC room with the starting shop guy
    *Shamil & co. have a scroll buying shop
    *Minerva's scroll buying shop has been split off from her scroll selling shop
- Fixed some things in Grey and Kessa's houses
- Temple of Hermes small fix

The Kemo bio fix should already be active. The other items will be live after next reset.

I have something in mind to fix the shop sell tab slowness, but that will take a few more days.
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Hotfix 8/1/22

- The sell pane on the store UI is broken up into pages now. Performance should be much better.
- Potential fix for Dragon shield/armor check
- Potential fix for the dispel bug
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Update 8/18/22

- Support for npc events
- Desert Wind 3 buff
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