My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.6.0 ! See http://te4.org/

Your launcher should automatically update your game so no need to redownload it all.
If your launcher didn't self-update correctly, just redownload it from the homepage.

Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) or on Patreon !

Please do note this is *not* a full changelog of every little things. The 1.6 release contains so many changes and updates that it'd turn me mad organizing them into a semblance of changelog and it'd turn you mad reading it all (and if you want to turn mad you can just play Forbidden Cults expansion!).
The original unabridged log is about 3500 lines long.

Also included are updates to the three expansions: Forbidden Cults, Embers of Rage and Ashes of Urh'rok.

And if you use addons, make sure they have a version for 1.6 or disable them; you don't want problems do you? :)

• When a yeek exits the tunnels to the halfling complex and sees subject Z; a warning comes up from the wayist, urging you to flee
• When a shader is missing, it'll use a default fallback (prevents loading game with missing DLCs/addons)
• Classic UI can now cancel buffs by right-click
• Load quickhotkeys prior to loading the game to fix hotkey ordering for "restart the same character".
• Revised Anorithils
• Disable fatigue for positive and negative energy
• Updated/rebalanced some NPCs
• Revised Defilers
• Removed max level on all fixed artifacts. Material level already restrains them. This prevents some artifacts being near un-obtainable on higher difficulties
• Fixed an issue preventing users with a too long password from login in. Woops sorry :/
• Cunning techniques revisions
• Greatly revised Summoners
• Significantly revise 2H Assault
• Fix NPCs shoving the player
• Teleports now immediately maximize the AI's guess spread on your current location
• Ethereal Form uses highest of Dex or Mag for its defense bonus
• Rebalance Elemental Harmony
• Revise many artifacts, egos, randarts and items
• Revise Arcane Blade's Enhancement tree
• Reduce Arcane Destruction damage and fix type to Arcane
• Fix Glove display
• Fix Adept causing infinite talent levels
• Sustains will not disable at 0 Stamina or Mana anymore, as it is cumbersome and is easily prevented with a little regen anyway
• Fix Slings not having a base speed
• Add stairs up to Dark Crypt
• Fix Elemental Harmony allowing self damage
• Allow respeccing out of combat
• Add a talent autouse for being out of combat
• Multiple updates to combat damage log
• Fix light radius letting Players (but not NPCs) see beyond their max vision radius
• Resize and reposition how charges are displayed on effects
• Several talents that move the player would not function at all or would behave unusually if auto-accept target was enabled.
• Greatly revised inscriptions (runes & infusions)
• Greatly revised the early game combat to make melee start less painful
• Revise accuracy bonuses to have more impact and nicer breakpoints
• Revise shield/glove combat table tooltips
• Born into magic now actually gives 20% inc dam as advertised(up from 15%)
• Change Stone Vines' and Rockswallow's damage to Nature and removed speed malus from Stone Vines
• Revise some racial talents
• Round most talent masteries to 0.0 or 0.3
• Add many, many base character visual customisation options (beards, hairs, skin color, tatoo and so on)
• Implement support for cosmetic & "useless fun" microtransactions
• Revise Scoundrel and add it to the Rogue escort
• Redesign the Vim resource (no more ability refund; Vim regeneration on any kill scales faster with Willpower and now also scales with target rank; Bloodcasting is now baselined in the resource allowing you to pay Vim costs with 200% of the cost as life)
• Added an UI option to sharpen the map display
• Fixed a bug preventing steamsaw/guns from generating as egos for randbosses (amongst other things) (yes fear the gunsnakes!)
• Smallish revisions to Archmage
• Update Worldly Knowledge to only include most of the currently available escort/quest trees
• Remove defense penalty from block
• Miscelanous revisions to many talents
• Revise Antimagic
• Major AI update, smarter, better, maybe faster
• Fixed several screenshot issues
• Randomly generated humanoid npcs now use the same cosmetic features available to players, randomly
• Simplify SDL gamma calculation and restore default gamma on exit.
• Levelup dialog shows variable parts of talent descriptions (like numbers that go up as you levelup) in green even at talent levels 0 and 5, to better see which values will evolve
• Revision of Fears
• Stores now restock every 10 levels
• Prodigies are now gained at levels 25 and 42
• Add a bonus to stealth rating for Armor of Shadows
• Revise fixed bosses, now they can better levelup and learn new tricks too
• Revise Wyrmics
• Revise Doomed
• Revise Cursed
• Revise Stealth
• Revise Shadowblade
• Small revisions to Stone Warden
• Ban Dreamscape entirely from NPC use
• New scriptable map generator along with a variety of combinable algorithms for it
• Modules Markers, IMPORTANT: Removed unpausing the game when using energy in engine.Actor:useEnergy as this was badly misplaced, instead superload useEnergy inside your own player class to do it, look at example's module Player class for how to
• Tilemaps can be scaled, fliped, rotated; new Maze tilemap; Heightmap & Noise tilemaps can be normalized
• Revised many Prodigies
• To celebrate nearly 10 years of ToME, a new awesomely drawn custom player tile that comes from the very early days of the game
• Stun: Cooldown lock changed to half, damage reduction changed to 50%
• Confusion: Interaction with confusion immunity removed
• Increase resting rate dramatically
• Add 1 regen to Alchemist golem to reduce resting tedium
• Remove Munitions from Archer and re-add Poisons
• Remove useless trees from some classes
• Remove melee retaliation from many NPCs
• Zigur is now always present on the map but forbids entry to any magic user.
• Reenable Skirmisher on NPCs
• Yeeks in the shadow crypt will have .. a surprise
• Show known lore menu now has a search bar (search by lore id, name and category)
• Clicking on a lore entry in the "Show known lore" menu will display the lore in the usual parchment-like UI, for easier reading
• New keybind for automatic target accept option, no default binding
• Shimmer mirror now has a search box
• Various visual improvements
• Updated the way NPCs (randbosses) are assigned character classes
• Object requirements can now be any random flag of the wearer
• High Peak levels become smaller towards the end (but keep the same number of foes inside)
• Increased foes density in the Prides
• Escort quests will now spawn in the Infinite Dungeon (between levels 5 and 40)
• Fixed some Infinite Dungeon challenges
• Nerfed patrols a bit
• Revise Ghouls
• Nerf life leech stacking
• Can send talent links in the chat from the talent's right click menu or in the levelup dialog by pressing ctrl+l
• Revise shops system
• More Mummies! Rejoice!
• Revise archers
• *NUMEROUS* fixes and updates to a ton of things (can I be more vague? probably but it'll be hard ;) )

• Buffed Nethergates. Be afraid.
• When Kroshkkur is lost, the teleport spell to it is removed
• Update for 1.6 cosmetic options
• Fixed the books shader for some GPUs
• Reduce Chronophage speed bonus
• Tighten the radius rifts can spawn in
• Fix Entropic Wasting merge behavior
• Nerf From Below It Devours
• Change WTW speed penalty to spell and phys speed instead of global speed
• Replace Warborn with Drakeblood Strike
• Fuel Pain now removes infusion saturation.
• Fix Wrath of the Wilds description
• Adjust values on Drake-Infused Blood and increase penalty for phys
• Move Krog dual wield talent to Drake-Infused Blood
• Add an acid aspect to Drake-infused Blood
• Consume Whole now resets the cooldown of Digest
• Increase the damage on Dissolved Face
• Increase Reality Fracture rifts to 3 from 2
• Add a failsafe for The One that Hunts not despawning
• Significantly redesign the Hypostasis of Entropy fight
• Fix Terrible Sight not reducing defense
• Redesign Suspend to work as it was basically bugged to work anyway
• Dramatically increase the talent level of talents gained from Painful Agony
• Remove cooldown from Inner Tentacles
• Increase Digest execute requirement from 10% to 20%
• Reduce Digest cooldown to 12 from 15
• Reduce Consume Whole cooldown to 14 and clarify insanity gain
• Revise The Home Which Is Not
• Add a self destruct to the Worm that Walks pet
• Fix Monolith Armor deleting itself
• Fix Grand Oration AoE display
• Fatebreaker's damage redirect now lasts a full turn
• Nihil, Atrophy, and Jinx will now be removed if line of sight with the source remains broken for 2 turns
• Fix Atrophy triggering on sustains
• Reduce Entropic Gift insanity gain from 20 to 10
• Increase insanity gain of Netherblast from 8 to 11 and increase base damage
• Reduce cost of Spatial Distortion from 20 insanity to 10
• Reduce weapon damage of Defiled Blood to 10%
• Rearrange the order Doom prophecies are learned in to Ruin, Treason, Madness
• Increase damage on Prophecy of Ruin
• Increase the level range and remove material tier from some of the forbidden tomes
• Significantly revise and bug fix The Writhing Ring
• Reduce WO Worm that Walks global speed to 80% from 100%
• Fixed tentacle trees event to only be usable once and not block movement
• Fixed the Font of Sacrifice to correctly only offer 3 choices, not the debug version 20 ;) I hope you all enjoyed the bug while it lasted!
• Demented can be used in Embers of Rage campaign

• Fixed Dead Hide
• Fixed Solid Shell
• Bosses in tier1 zones will not try to escape (following 1.6 change)
• Steamgun Mastery & Psyshot talenst give Shoot talent when learnt
• Update escorts to 1.6 standard
• New artifact: the Laser Powered Giant Smasher
• Added correct attachement spots for Orcs. How the hell did I miss that!
• Update for 1.6 cosmetic options
• Shoes of Moving Quickly now have a player doll tile
• Much more fitting door opening sound for doors in the GEM and the Palace of Fumes
• Tinker escort in the infinite dungeon will give a teleporter to the tinker's cave
• Set Kruk Cloak as a cosmetic item
• Update for ToME 1.6 combat training talents
• Disabled Sawrd
• Fixed size category of the pre-endbosses
• Fixed Nimbus of Enlightenment
• Tinkers in Age of Ascendancy campaign start with the tinker's cave on the worldmap
• When Tinker's Cave is placed, it's location is now random like any other zone encounters, to prevent it being over-rideable or orveridden
• Sawbutchers start with known Steamsaw tinker
• Gunslingers and Psyshots start with known Steamgun tinker
• AAAs can not be sent to Kruk from other campaigns

• Wheel of Fate marked as not usable by NPCs
• Bosses in tier1 zones will not try to escape (following 1.6 change)
• Rogroth and the Planar Controller can equip their artifacts
• Bleak Outcome debuff expires when the source is killed
• Clarify the range of Fearfire Mantle
• Fixed Overwhelming Fear lost message
• Plaguefire explosions will only affect foes

DarkGod turns evil: Microtransactions, but the good kind!

So let's say it upfront: no pay2win to be seen in there!

Now that this is said let's get into more fun details. So if there is no pay2win, what will there be?
Many things! Mostly fun and/or cosmetic stuff as could be expected:

• Additional Online Item's Vault space. Any purchase of the game, expansions, donations, ... already provides vault space, but this is for even MOAR!
• Various cosmetic themed packs. These will include shimmer appearances for most items, plus sometimes/usually additional cosmetic options for playable races. "But DarkGod, I want to have racial cosmetic options without giving you more money!" Well, fear not for 1.6 does bring in a ton of those for free anyway. The more, the merrier! Oh and do not go around thinking you'll expansive cosmetic items one by one! No my good minions, a pack is about 2€ and usualy contains are 50 items appearances and a whole set of racial customization options!
• Community events! Now for something a little different. In Tales of Maj'Eyal community events are temporary stuff that are sent by the server to any currently playing character. The server randomly sends two of those, called the Bearscape and the Lost Land of Poosh, to players automatically. There are many more, like seasonal ones, or ones only I can push when I feel like it. Now players will be able to acquire the ability to trigger either the Bearscape or Poosh themselves, in addition to the random server pushes that are not changing. But wait there is more! They are still community events, so whenever somebody buys and triggers one, all players currently online will benefit!
• I don't like pay2win. I really really don't. So instead of doing pay2win, I've decided to add a pay2die system instead! If you think your character is too strong, that nothing can kill you as you stride effortlessly through the toughest of foes, just buy this option and get a few level 500 god-level horrors randbosses summoned on you! Death is guaranteed! You can even boast online by showing off what horrible horrible creatures are about to kill you!

To be perfectly clear: this is just a way for people who want to support the game to do so while getting a few cosmetic/fun stuff out of it. The game itself is free/cheap and will keep on being so because making my game accessible to more people is something I truly believe in. Also I'm an evil god of darkness, thus I want to reach as many minions as possible; you know to eat their souls and stuff... :)

The first three cosmetic packs are now available: Pyromania, Iron Throne Couture and Plumpkin Daper!

A huge thanks to all those contibuted to help make this release the biggest release ever!
Have fun in Eyal!

The wiki and an old changelog imply that cornacs are supposed to get extra talent points at certain intervals. The wiki could be read that an extra talent point of each type should be granted at birth and at every tenth level. The old changelog isn't very specific (it's the 1.5.0 changelog for refernce), but does say that cornacs should start with an extra generic point and get extra points of both types as they level. No newer changelog that I remember reviewing mentions additional cornac balancing.

See, in game I don't notice a difference between what a cornac got and what one other race got as far as talent points at level ten. A cornac does appear to get an extra talent point at birth (I don't remember which type it was--I should write stuff down).

What exactly are cornacs intended to get as bonus talent points, and at which levels? It would be nice to have the wiki reconciled with the game, if the game is accurately reflecting the intended number of points. The old changelog makes me wonder about that. But, then, is some addon causing a problem? But I have no addons that should affect that--the one I have that I know affects cornacs doesn't seem to change what happens to them on level up unless it's some loading conflict I haven't found.

I need to go mess with the debug stuff some time when it's not late at night, and count up what a few characters actually get when forced to level 50 right away. It's tough to imagine a problem of this kind would go unnoticed, and the wiki IS notoriously unreliable--that itself is a shame. Spoilers ought to have version notations, be as quantitative as possible, and be unambiguous. I guess with a small community it's tough to keep a wiki up-to-date.

My minions,

One more beta for you minions! Go grab beta7:
You'll find all the downloads on https://te4.org/beta-test

Please, try to keep all bug reportings on ToME's official forums at http://forums.te4.org/ as it is hardly feasible for me to survey 10 different location for bugs.

The current DLCs will still work in 1.6 so you can test with those but they will each get a small update at the same time as the final 1.6 release to update how they process melee talents to be inline with the new 1.6 way.
NOTE: DO NOT ENTER the Caves of Hatred in Embers of Rage. It needs updating of embers to work with 1.6.

Please only use official addons/DLCs when testing.

Changelog from beta6:

• Show known lore menu now has a search bar (search by lore id, name and category)
• Clicking on a lore entry in the "Show known lore" menu will display the lore in the usual parchment-like UI, for easier reading
• Fix Shadowgrasp
• Nerf instant damage wands/torques
• Fixed Aether Beam being disarmed
• Updated Pure Aether
• Fix Stormshield tooltip
• Update starting Manasurge inscriptions
• Fix Glowing Chests having disappointing loot
• Nerf Assassin Lord
• Shadow Grasp no longer movies enemies if they're adjacent
• Increase stamina/equilibrium gain on Resolve
• Fix difficulty double dipping talents that grant other talents and causing undefined behavior
• Soothing Darkness also multiplies the stamina regen by 5x on exit
• Removed the level 10 limit on stores; but players start with 0 money
• Coming back from the Eidolon plane does not free you from zone-wide effects
• Improved Aether Avatar description
• Void Star power is now a bolt
• Fixed low level manathrust to actually be a bolt
• Fix first prodigy level in the Infinite Dungeon
• Fixed bug with weapons masteries providing physical power bonus when not learnt
• Counterstrike has a visual effect
• Essence of the Dead now works on Freeze, turning it into a ball that also makes targets wet
• Reduced cooldown and increased projectile speed of Congeal Time
• Visual effect to Congeal Time debuff
• Some more memory cleanups (for Possessors mainly)
• More misc fixes

Now go test it out my minions!

My minions,

One more beta for you minions! Go grab beta5:
You'll find all the downloads on https://te4.org/beta-test

Please, try to keep all bug reportings on ToME's official forums at http://forums.te4.org/ as it is hardly feasible for me to survey 10 different location for bugs.

The current DLCs will still work in 1.6 so you can test with those but they will each get a small update at the same time as the final 1.6 release to update how they process melee talents to be inline with the new 1.6 way.
NOTE: DO NOT ENTER the Caves of Hatred in Embers of Rage. It needs updating of embers to work with 1.6.

Please only use official addons/DLCs when testing.

Changelog from beta4:

• Fixed the possessors bug (for real I hope)
• Fixed a bug with some negative & positive spells cost erroring out

Now go test it out my minions!

My minions,

One more beta for you minions! Go grab beta5:
You'll find all the downloads on https://te4.org/beta-test

Please, try to keep all bug reportings on ToME's official forums at http://forums.te4.org/ as it is hardly feasible for me to survey 10 different location for bugs.

The current DLCs will still work in 1.6 so you can test with those but they will each get a small update at the same time as the final 1.6 release to update how they process melee talents to be inline with the new 1.6 way.
NOTE: DO NOT ENTER the Caves of Hatred in Embers of Rage. It needs updating of embers to work with 1.6.

Please only use official addons/DLCs when testing.

Changelog from beta4:

• Fixed (hopefully) the savefile bloating happening for (mostly) Possessors
• Reduced Fire Breath damage to more sane levels
• Shimmer mirror now has a search box
• Fixed keywords on charms
• Buffed Pulverizing Auger
• Reorganized Water & Ice trees and buffed the early spells
• Fixed the black line appearing at the bottom of the screen on some resolutions
• Fixed Sunburst
• Fixed a death bug
• Fixed some weird recursions
• Fixed a bug in AI displace code
• New keybind for automatic target accept option, no default binding
• Misc fixes

Now go test it out my minions!

My minions,

One more beta for you minions! Go grab beta4:
You'll find all the downloads on https://te4.org/beta-test

Please, try to keep all bug reportings on ToME's official forums at http://forums.te4.org/ as it is hardly feasible for me to survey 10 different location for bugs.

The current DLCs will still work in 1.6 so you can test with those but they will each get a small update at the same time as the final 1.6 release to update how they process melee talents to be inline with the new 1.6 way.
NOTE: DO NOT ENTER the Caves of Hatred in Embers of Rage. It needs updating of embers to work with 1.6.

Please only use official addons/DLCs when testing.

Changelog from beta3:

• Revision of the Predator tree
• Revision of Blighted Summoning
• Positive and Negative energies are subject to fatigue again but only for costs, not gains
• Updates to Anorithil
• 2H penalty debuff does not go away when dying
• Made Eldritch Shield and Earthen Power trees interract with the Block talent
• List of talents affected by Body of Stone is now moddable by addons
• First Prodigy point is now at level 25
• Talent Category point of level 36 moved to 34
• Fix Aether Beam not respecting Spellcraft
• Many misc fixes

Now go test it out my minions!

I was thinking about cat points.
Cat points. Cat. Cats. What are the cats in the game?
And then I had an idea. Yes.
Killing Pumpkin should give 1 cat point, as well as an immortal revengeful cat ghost that sometimes appears at most inconvenient moments in the heat of a combat to exact revenge at you. And disappears once the combat ends.

*haunting, chilling meows of a wronged cat from beyond the grave*

My minions,

One more beta for you minions! Go grab beta3:
You'll find all the downloads on https://te4.org/beta-test

Please, try to keep all bug reportings on ToME's official forums at http://forums.te4.org/ as it is hardly feasible for me to survey 10 different location for bugs.

The current DLCs will still work in 1.6 so you can test with those but they will each get a small update at the same time as the final 1.6 release to update how they process melee talents to be inline with the new 1.6 way.

Please only use official addons/DLCs when testing.

Changelog from beta2:

• Nerfed a bit the Weirdling Beast (it learns new classes at a bit higher level)
• Randelites/boss now won't try to escape/kite forever and ever
• Reduced the wants to escape & kite a bit in targets marked as ranged
• Increase the Willpower contribution to Vim gain
• Add life display to Blood Grasp
• Rush correctly autotargets if the option is on
• Passives that are spells, nature powers, ... will show as such in their descriptions
• Reduce sustain cost of Blood Fury
• Reenable Skirmisher on NPCs
• Fix Drake's Bane strength requirement
• Fix Bone Spike not proccing
• Fix Prothotipe's Prismatic Eye
• Redesign Windwall ego
• Improved shop jewelry crafting
• Improve some base gem stats
• Fixed Overkill bad interaction with some talents
• Temporal Hounds never flee
• Fixed Fearscape targetting
• Fixed the Assassin Lord not being visible at first, and added a little bonus surprise
• Fixed Telekinetic Leap
• Fixed Psiblades putting charms on cooldown and adding back stuff to the hotkeys
• Fixed Freeze duration reduction gainst friendly targets (it now works) and reduced it a little to not be completly insane
• Fixed Ice Shards to actually do bonus damage against wet foes
• Shivgoroth Form shows Ice Storm infos in its description
• Fixed Frost Treads and buffed the movement speed a bit
• Restore Dirty Fighting to unarmed damage
• Fixed dropping cursed sentry items
• Fixed Sook's shop
• Fixed Venomous Strike taking two turns
• Fixed Summoner's Turtle taunting, and now also auto-taunts when summoned
• Crused Sentry will try to find a free spot nearby to apepar if targeted directly at a creature
• Yeeks in the shadow crypt will have .. a surprise
• Secrets of Telos prodigy cant be taken by NPCs
• Aether Beam is not disarmable
• Fixed icon for Arcane Strike
• Amulets of healing got a new more in-theme icon
• Shadows of low level doomed rares do less damage
• Fixed some magic checks to enter Zigur
• Essence of Speed cost reduced a bit
• Circle of Sanctity range reduced a bit
• Moar fixes

Now go test it out my minions!

I haven't played in a really long time, so maybe it's my version or something that's the problem, but on the world map, normal grassland tiles just look like solid blue squares. Definitely doesn't look very natural to me.

My minions,

Version 1.6beta1 went rather well for a first beta with surprisingly few explody-parts but still, beta2 is here to fix them (and more)!
You'll find all the downloads on https://te4.org/beta-test

Please, try to keep all bug reportings on ToME's official forums at http://forums.te4.org/ as it is hardly feasible for me to survey 10 different location for bugs.

The current DLCs will still work in 1.6 so you can test with those but they will each get a small update at the same time as the final 1.6 release to update how they process melee talents to be inline with the new 1.6 way.

Please only use official addons/DLCs when testing.

Changelog from beta1:

• Fixed running on Linux's new Steam client
• Swift Shot and Bull Shot only lower cooldown when actually moving
• Repulsion only works on foes
• Dreadfell bosses & Shade of Telos cant roll wilders
• Fixed message upon gaining a prodigy at lvl 42
• Characters that know Antimagic can enter Zigur, no matter the rest of the conditions
• Reverted saves changes
• Fix The Fragmented Essence of Harkor'Zun
• Fixed Gates of Morning heavy armor shop
• Fixed imbued staff ego
• Fixed Daunting Presence gfx
• Greatly simplified Creeping Darkness code, it now simply blocks sight for all unless they have Dark Vision
• Running ignores glyphs
• Simplified (and likely fixed) Whirlwind code
• Fix confusing dialog when you don't give the mage apprentice an item.
• Some more safeties/sanity checks against old addons
• Fix a bug with Blach Mesh
• Fix some infinite recursions
• Fixed a bug with pathing
• Fixed ego ammo bugs
• Fixed temporal hounds on level change
• Fixed Obliterator
• Fixed error on some item on_melee_hit effects
• Better auto-error reporting
• Fix Fearscape error
• Add core.display.breakTextAllCharacter method to force text lines splitting to happen on any characters (useful for asian languages)
• Fix confusing dialog when you don't give the mage apprentice an item.
• Fixed Sharpen Display option
• Many other misc fixes
• Fixed Steam microtransactions code. If you attempted to test it and it failed, please retry now (note as long as you do not get a success message you've not been billed anyway)

Now go test it out my minions!