Dominions 6.27

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