It's unanimous, motion passed!

Thanks gang.

Are you still working on this great mod aBob? Don't want to push you but I'm really looking forward to some of your new features or has the 1.4 patch given you extra work?

Absolutely still working on it, next release with new spellbooks and COS compatibility is not far away.  I was waiting for 1.4 though also, so now that it's out i'll make the new D&W release compatible with 1.4.  

Will hopefully get a new version out within a week from now.

Excellent.  Definitely looking forward to this, and with COS compatibility - WOW, that will be awesome!   

Awesome! A new game next week with version 1.4, CoS and Demons and Wizards. wOOt!

OK new version 0.5 now available.  Lots of new stuff in here most significantly 4 new spellbooks.  Download link is in the original post.  

This is compatible with LH 1.4 and should be mostly compatible with Children of Storm.  Note that COS has not been updated to 1.4 yet but most things should be functioning more or less ok.

Big thanks to all those who helped out with this version, particularly Nightmurderer03,  ManiiNames,  NaytchSG, jeffqyzt2 and fsemprini.

Full changelog for 0.5:

v0.5
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New Stuff
- 4 New spellbooks (Nature, Shadow, Battle, Beasts)
- 4 New world resources
- 25 New Champions
- Added Angel Summoning IV to the Summoner Path which summons Serpah Angel (Kingdom) or Death Demon (Empire)
- Added monster lairs for Sprites, Treekin Giant, Skewer Wasp, Shadow Demon, Nightwing, Shadow Weaver, Cave Hoarder, Huntsmen, Stone Guardian, Wild Boar, Rogue Hergon.
- Added random items Wolf Ring, Stalker Ring
- Children of Storm Compatability
- Summoning spells that are not stackable now state "Not stackable" at the end of the description.
- Included fsemprini's Summoner Path graphics

Fixes
- AI should no longer cast spells against targets that are immune (eg. fire damage spells at fire immune targets)
- Champion Briganat sound pack fixed (no longer sounds like a male)
- Archangel graphics fixed

Balance
- Slight increase in cost for level 5 spellbook summons
- Increased mana cost and summon pool costs for Angels, Dragon, Shrill Lord
- Increased mana maintenance for all summons (most summons are now 1 mana maintenance rather than 0.5)
- Increased summon pool costs for group summons
- Added/modified minimum level requirements for various abilities in the Summoner Path
- Added Channeling IV ability to the Summoner Path
- Archangel slightly buffed (added Lightning Bolt and some extra combat abilities)
- Fallen Angel buffed (added BladeRush, Sweep, new Sidestep ability as well as Strength & Fast)
- Guardian Angel buffed (added Defender2, Revenge, and a new ability - Diamond Aura)
- Shadowbolt damage increased from 6 to 10
- Nature's Bounty no longer available from the Sorcery tech, it is a Nature level 1 spell
- Water Naja no longer poisoness but has a Quick Strike ability
- Summon Delin now lasts 5 turns (rather than 3), reduced cost from 500 to 400 mana
- Shard Bonding ability in the Mage Path now allows shard bond with more than one spell school but cost increased from 25 to 80 mana
- Angel of Retribution's Mace now does +1 tactical regen (in addition to the strategic +1 regen) to be consistant
- Death Demon has Move 3
- Included Parrotmath's Maul debuff mod
- A few other very minor balance tweaks

Wow great work once again abob! Downloading as I type this.

hey there Abob! 

Question, is your mod compatible with the necromancer revamped mod? 

Great thats its compatible with children of storm, but currently there mod hasn't been updated to work with the latest game update, so might have to switch it off for now. 

Is it just me or are clay pits no longer showing up on randomly generated maps?

Ever since I uprgrade to v0.5, I never see them anymore  (note: I don't use CoS, could that be the issue?).

I have them on my current map FE:LH 1.4/D&W v0.5, no COS.  I am running D&W and Parrotmath's snaking, militia armor and swamp tile mods.

Maybe there just aren't any near your starting location...

That's what I was thinking at first, but I re-rolled like 5-6 other maps just to test walking around in all of them to see, and I could never find one again. Even on dense resources, it shouldn't take more than a few turns to find at least one on any given random gen map.

If you want to check it, you could just use the executable command -cheat and then press ctrl+u to reveal the entire map and you can search for clay that way with the map revealed.

K just tried a few more maps with shroud revealed to check for sure, and no clay pits anymore   strange...

If I revert back to previous version of D&W they come back

Hmm... I am playing the 0.5d beta but I think that is the release version of 0.5 D&W...

FoShizNat - yeah you're right... something funny going on there, i'm checking it out thanks. 

Edit -> OK so they're working for me now.  I'm not sure why because I didn't really change anything.  What I did do though was turn off Mods (in the Options)... restart the game and check it was working (Clay Pits appeared)... then I turn mods back on, tried it again and it seemed to work just fine.

I'm getting Clay Pits on a Tiny map with D&W 0.5 running, all seems fine.

So although it seems strange maybe give that a go an let me know if it makes any difference?

Thanks.

I've haven't played necromancer revamped mod but from what i've read it sounds really neat.  Unfortunately some components won't be compatible (the Necromantic Compendium) as clarified by Dhuran:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/444576/page/4

I want to add some extra Necromancy stuff to D&W in the future, when I get to that point I'll talk to Dhuran because I'm hoping he might be up for letting me use some of his stuff as the start point 

Awesome update.  I'll have to take it for a spin.  Thanks for all your hard work on this.  You've made the game even more enjoyable!

Hey, abob thanks for looking into it. I tried toggling on/off mods like you did, but still no good...

On another note, what exactly do the Shadow/Nature/Beast/Battle nodes look like? Would it be possible to get a screenshot and are they super rare? I haven't seen any of those yet either throughout my testing.

Edit: In fact clay pits, the new special resources, or those +3 power shards resources don't spawn anymore even on the custom maps that come with the game (e.g. The Crucible etc...), let alone on random gen maps. Only time I can see them is on the pre-set scenarios (Relias, Fallen Enchantress, Morgan).

I've already tried changing up map settings like size, difficulty, resource density, terrain types, etc... to see if for whatever reason that might make a difference

Thus i began wondering if the clay pit / special resource location issues are related in any way to the integrity of my mod installation, although I just tried deleting completely and resintalling D&W 0.5 but that didn't help either.

Any other suggestions for debugging?

@FoShizNat - yep no prob lets try and figure out what going on.

First if you haven't already... maybe in your options under the HUD Information section turn on the checkbox to display icons over resources in the strategic view (the checkbox next to the pickaxe).  That will show a red padlock or a orange pickaxe over Resources depending on whether you have the technology that allows use of a particular resource.  It just makes it a bit easier to spot resources on the strategic map, because the red padlock really stands out.

When you're generating random maps to test this... try Medium size, everything on the default setting, and 4 opponents.  That should be enough to give you all resources.

The 4 custom resources in this mod are set to have 0.5 per player for each resource.  So if you have 4 players there should be 2 of each resource.  Clay Pits are not based on number of players but are fairly common (as you suggested) and you should get at least one pretty much every time on a medium map with default settings.  I'd expect at least 4 as a guess.

Enable cheats so you can uncover the map.  Sounds like you've already done that.

Can you confirm that you have copied the file JB_CustomShardsNewBooks_Core.xml from the install zip to the CORE -> data -> English directory as per the install instructions ?

If you've done all that and you can't see any of the 4 new resources, try downloading this file:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100348448/JB_CustomShardsNewBooks_Core.xml

Drop it into CORE -> data -> English, overwriting the file that came in the mod zip.  This debug version changes the CLOTH MAP icon for the 4 new resources to a yellow question mark icon.  It makes the new resources very obvious on the cloth map.  

Save that file, generate a new map, use Ctrl-U to reveal the map then zoom out to cloth mode and look around.  There should be 8 yellow question marks on the map if you chose 4 players.

If they're not there then something is really wrong.

The other thing for you to test.... have you turned off Mods and checked to see if the Clay Pits are appearing ok on random maps?

Let me know how you go with this.

Thanks Murteas, hope you enjoy it.  

Been playing quite a lot since you released the latest update Abob101. I've had tons of fun and think your additions are absolutely brilliant. Many thanks again for sharing this and for your continued work on this project.

One thing I did notice though is how hard it was to find the "right" mana shards. I sort of wish there was a way to convert one node to another, much like the Death Worship trait gives you the option to create death shards. Then again I got to admit that particular civilization trait is a lot more powerful with your mod installed.

Thanks abob for your brilliant work here.

Great mod abob101. I have been using ver.3 w/t no problems. After updating to ver. 5 I can't get the new icons to show up in the create character screen for nature, shadow, beast. & battle. Also can't get summoner path to show up on the paths. its there just no artwork. I have tried moving gfx files to the mods/gfx folder. thanks for your time and attention. Wonderful mod.

Excellent mod abob! Looking forward to seeing more updates.

@abob, hey thanks again for helping me check things out. I've tried everything you suggested in your last post but still not a single clay pit or shadow/beast/nature/battle shards to be found:

- Tried the re-rolling default map settings several times with the display icons over the strategic map

- Tried your debug version with the question mark icons

- I've followed the mod installation instructions exactly as written (plus deleted, re-downloaded, and installed again D&W 0.5)

- The only other mod I run is ProfessionsPlus, but i don't see that causing a problem. Nonetheless i've tried removing that, if for whatever reason that might be causing a conflict

- I have all the DLC content that has come out to date and it's all working fine

***Clay pits DO show up when i disable mods, so it's definetely some strange issue with the latest version of the mod. What makes it more weird is that everything else about the mod seems to be working fine - spells, animations, traits, new units etc...

So bizzare....hope i can get it running eventually cause all the content in this mod is so amazing