As the title says :)

As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta42 ! See http://te4.org/

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

Release highlights:

• New event/zone: the Dogroth Caldera and various associated subzones
• New class: Psionic / Solipsist: The world is but a mere projection of your thoughts you are all powerful! Or are you?
• Better levelup interface
• Reaver improved
• Rogues get a new Scoundrel tree
• Archmages get a new Aether tree
• New "minor" events; like special features in some zones
• Better shield graphics ahoy !
• Infinite Dungeon improvements
• Many bugfixes & polishing

Expanded changelist:

• Spinning beam trap has a max damage and will not trigger from pets
• Spinning beam trap now does not increase damage when stepped upon but instead switches damage type. All possible damage types now have a special effect
• Reavers's Corrupted Strength talent now also provides a free melee attack on spellcast
• Fixed levelup screen
• Teleport: Angolwen will not instantly teleport when cancelled
• Stat tooltips in the levelup screen display their effects in realtime
• If there is room on the screen a new pane will appear in the levelup dialog to replace the tooltip
• Summoner's summons are now based on mindpower, can crit and melee ones have dexterity increases for accuracy
• Overriding/removing/.. complex traps will correctly remove them
• Rare items ultra high powers is harder to get
• ESP on rares is more .. rare
• New achievements for many events
• New events
• Crystal Focus & Heart can not be applied on rare items
• Gems can not be put on rare items
• Old battlefield event can not be re-entered
• +all resist gems power reduced
• News tiles for the new artifacts & creatures of b41
• Fix the tier of alchemists lamp
• Fearscape orbital invasion platform is redder
• Events can not happen on stairs
• Fearscape restores coords even to dead actors
• Killing the Grand Corruptor after destroying Zigur is now correctly accounted for
• Fixed gnaw
• Fixed crosstier effects on gestures
• Fixed unarmed mastery physical power
• Many new musics
• Closing/Opening is talent tree is correctly remembered
• Fungal Growth will not trigger for small heal effects
• The Maze corridors are now 2 wide
• Lowered the size of the Maze a bit, but with the same number of foes
• Ardhungol levels reduced in size
• Targetting ignores map padding, making it betetr with an heavily loaded UI
• Bone Shield cost and cooldown much reduced
• Bone Shield number of charges increased a little
• Fix flame/shock hands
• Fixed scatter shot
• Fixed gloves speed display for brawlers
• Fixed sacrifice description
• Tooltip properly moves out of view
• Charsheet link is properly clickable
• Fix an other UID issue, the last one I hope
• Buffed Spellblaze Echoes, Feathersteel, Burning Star, Dragon-helm&Scale Mail of Kroltar, Temporal Augmentation Robe - Designed in Style, Zemekkys' Broken Hourglass, Trident of the Tides, Petrified Wood, Lifebinding Emerald, Lunar Shield, Duathdlen Heart, Pendant of Sun and Moons, Unsetting Sun
• Mousing over an item in the log will show the tooltip
• Ghouls exp penalty reduced to 25% from 40%
• Unlearning partially a talent will not make it un-autocast
• Levelup screen changed to have class & generic talents side by side
• In the levelup screen talents will grey out when unlearnable
• Pary frames now show if the party member can be leveled up
• Fix corrupted strength
• Fixes the 'Restart the same character' option in the death dialog from properly restarting your character if its name contains any non-alphanumeric characters.
• Outdoor events can not happen in the halfling ruins
• No traps will spawn on the last level of the halfling ruins
• Resists of 0 will not be shown in the tooltips
• Foo Masteries provide the correct amount of physical power
• Made mind, temporal, arcane, and conversion effects much rarer on randartifacts and rare objects
• Made mind conversion egos less common
• Nightmare horrors are rarer now and spawn at higher levels
• Sun Flare radius and description should line up
• Fixed Shattering Impact and damage conversion interaction
• Many new artifacts and a new unique horror
• Added an 'add' parameter to combatPhysicalpower and combatSpellpower
• Show correct talent level in inscription dialog
• Display sliding rock trap after it is triggered
• Remove blurring effect as soon as confusion is cured
• Fix the wrong "block" and "attack speed" compare color
• Change talent info when current talent level is 0 (not learned)
• Fix Spit Blight description
• Levelup screen shows both base & current stats
• Added temporal resistance to the Girdle of Preservation
• Paradox will no longer increases when anomalies can't occur
• Fixed confusion immunities effect reducing confusion power
• Fix Tornado casted on a target with Gloom/Sanctuary
• 4 new achievements for killing certain bosses first
• Fixed a bug where some parts of the UI could disappear out of screen
• Particle effects will always appear on top of actors, even for moddable tiles actors or for tall actors
• Particles can have shaders attached
• New shader-enabled damage shield effect
• Fix levelup tooltips
• Charge Leech description will not include random crits
• Added 3 hooks (Object:descCombat, Object:descWielder, Object:descMisc)
• All Last Hope weapon merchants can train martial combat
• Fix farportals lightnings
• Lichform quest is now considered completed in Infinite Dungeon & Arena campaigns
• Lichform also grants Celestial/Star Fury at various power
• When Mind damage is saved against it still deals half of it
• New artifact available only in the Infinite Dungeon: the Potion of Martial Prowess which can teach shoot & the combat training tree
• Arcane Eye level 5 correctly sees throught stealth & invis
• Fix scrollbar positioning
• Tooltips will autoscroll when too big
• Tooltip can be "locked" by pressing shift+l
• Scrolling is "smoother" in long textzones or lists
• Various misc UI improvments
• New artifact in the Infinite Dungeon to learn antimagic
• New psionic class Solipsist - Create and destroy with your thoughts, manipulate and enter the dreams of others, overcome the world with the power of your mind
• Ressource bar shaders will only load as needed, speeding up game load
• Disruption Shield uses the new shield shader effect
• Aegis works on Disruption Shield
• Demon/Naga invasions can not happen in Reknor
• Fearscape/Dreamscape can not be used on the sorcerors in the charred scar
• Fearscape/Dreamscape correctly restore minimap
• Fatigue is correctly not factored in for sustains
• New rogue tree: cunning/scoundrel
• Two new high level artifact daggers
• Complex traps are never auto-activated, they all need a trigger
• No traps on the last level of the High Peak
• Removed many traps from vaults that had too much
• Mindslayer shields upgraded to the new shader
• Level 20 mindslayer tress brought back to level 10
• Psi-archery removed
• Fearscape Invasion zone will look better on map borders
• Hourglass counter now has a description depending on the counter
• Improved the look of wildfire/tempset/uttercold/crystaline focus visual effects
• Eel-Skin lightning scales with mindpower and triggers on wild-gifts
• Summertide phial does not grant arcane stuff anymore
• 'Building' generator is now working
• Prevent temporary terrains from overriding one an other or "loosing" the default terrain
• Master Summoner now has a particle effect
• Archmages, Mindslayers, Necromancers and Summoners birth screen particles updated
• New jungle ambient sounds
• Desert sounds & ambience for some zones
• Faster auto-explore
• Dungeon ambient sounds to some zones
• New event: the Dogroth Caldera will sometime appear on the worldmap. What do you dream of finding inside ?
• Many new creature sounds
• Defense reduction from Block will not let off-guard effect trigger
• Many new "minor" events. A minor event is a simple feature on a level, usualy with a field of effect. Like a font of life in the trollmire that increases life/stamina/equi/psi regen around it
• If a foe fails to appear in the antimagic arena, it will try again
• Infinite Dungeon will now also have events
• Death message is now shown after the damage message
• Fix Shadows in the shadow crupt
• *Perhaps* fix the particle error log spam
• New archmage high level tree: Aether, an advanced arcane tree. Lock by default but given to all archmages
• Version scheme changed for the tome module, now uses the same version as the engine (aka 0.9.42 instead of 3.9.42)
• Golem picking up gold is given to the alchemist
• Reavers free melee blow only works on active talents, not sustains
• Fix black entity icon in tooltips

Have fun!

As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta39 ! See http://te4.org/

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

A big release, get it while it's hot!

Release highlights:

• Full rework of wands system; now split in wands, totems and torques; collectively known as charms
• New weapon kind: mindstars. Akin to staves but for wilders, psionics and afflicted. Designed to be dual-wielded, a new talent tree can even make psionic blade from them
• Many balance & quality of life tweaks
• Many antimagic buffs
• New trees: Corruptions/Torment; Wild Gift/Fungus; Wild Gift/Mindstar Mastery
• Random elites are now wandering the game, beware!
• Dommed rework/buff
• Reavers buff
• Shields grant a Block talent
• New "ingredient" system; you start collecting ingredients before needing to take the brotherhood of alchemists quest

Expanded changelist:

• Fix Arcane Supremacy set
• Fix log lines option
• Fix drag&dropping Prox Halfling Foot in the hotkeys
• Middle-click on the big map will make it disappear
• New artifacts
• Amulets of Mastery now always provide bonus to a tree the player has/can learn
• Fixed quest description of the apprentice mage
• Talent errors are more explicit
• Fixed the "getTarget" bug after a talent bugs
• New weapon kind: mindstars. They are raw natural gems infused with the power of nature, kind of like staves. They are one-handed and can be dual-wielded. Offhand mindstar is not subject to normal offhand penalty
• Replaced Body of Stone's physical and knockback resistance with acid and stun resistance.
• Slightly increased Earthquake's damage.
• New talent: Earth/Mudslide
• Doubled the cooldown of Earthen Missiles to make it less abusable. The damage was increased
• Headless horrors will properly lose elemental resists when the eyes are killed
• Heart of the sandworm queen no longer tells undead they've learned the harmony tree
• Rewrote, rebalanced, and added many weapon egos
• Two-handed wepaons now have a small eqo multiplier
• Daggers now have a small ego penalty
• Gaping maw is now anti-magic
• Withering orbs and allettas diadem now psionic
• Halfling foot now arcane, hareskin sling now nature
• Stop talent now properly accounts for paradox level
• Foresight now properly senses actors
• Greater weapon egos generally less powerful
• Lesser weapon egos generally more powerful
• New anti-magic egos
• Resolve equilebrium and stamina regen more in line with other forms of regen for these resource types
• Added costs to ranged egos
• Set many artifact material levels to be more in line with their level range (should improve drops)
• Buffed many artifacts
• Reduced infravision given by many items
• Infravision and heightened senses no longer stack
• Fixed cease to exist double paradox cost
• Resist penetration no longer affects targets with negative resists
• Reloading will auto-trigger when auto-explore is activated
• Spacetime tuning and gather the threads will now only break on spell cast
• Blood lich rarity is now more in line with other liches
• Fixed anti-magic tree description
• Fixed quivers & pouches rarity
• Fixed killing NPCs with special death scripts on the fearscape
• Combat:attackTargetWith hook passes a dam parameter to know how much damage was dealt
• Typos
• Using an artifact digger should work again
• The Room of Death should not be empty even for low level chars
• Waitbars should look better on windows
• Time Prison mana cost reduced by 20
• Time Shield is now instant cast, the dot duration increases with talent level and while active all newly applied status effects are reduced by a %
• Error repor window has a close all buton, can be closed with Esc and tells if the error is new
• Rewrote, added, and rebalanced many staff egos
• Fade From Time now reduces all status effect durations (good or bad)
• Voice of Telos has new effects (check it out!)
• Increased Quiver of the Sun capacity to 12
• Wards (activatable staff ego that protects against damage)
• Staff's now give a bonus to elemental damage equal to their combat damage
• Most staves now allow the wearer to switch elemental properties using the command staff talent
• Base staff spellpower increased
• Increased base archery projectile speed
• Travel speed in general is now additive (making it in line with the tooltip)
• Travel speed on bows now works
• Fixed ranged project on bows
• Added ranged project to Withering Orbs
• Epoch's level is now in line with the rest of Daikara
• Epoch's Curve is now a guaranteed drop
• Epoch's clones can no longer multiply
• Epoch's cooldown on Multiply increased, making the second clone come much later in the fight then the first
• Changed how Teluvorta's handle teleport; should make getting stuck in the Temporal Rift less likely
• Weapon of Light, Shield of Light, and Hymn of Moonlight no longer deactivate when they don't have enough energy to trigger
• Fix Poison Gas Trap
• Fix flickering black screen bug
• Summoning (Advanced) correctly learnable at level 10
• Weaponset2: Quiver will not provide worn benefits
• If enough lumberjacks are saved they also provide a digger as a reward
• Reloading after saving on the eidolon plane will work correctly when returning to the previous level
• Right click on the resources move handle lets you configure resources visibility
• Plot & Quest items are also auto-pickedup now
• Reverted Quantum Feed and Strength of Purpose to b37 values
• Damage Smearing no longer takes a turn to activate
• Invigorate reworked; stamina regen reduced but it causes talents to refresh faster while active
• When appropriate, the target of the reward of a quest is selectable (like for escort rewards)
• The Alchemist Golem can not learn Harmony
• Quests that add a location to the map now reveal the location on the map
• Crit chance is bound to 0-100% range
• Flamespit description fixed
• Failing to wear an item will not consume a turn
• Negative health is correctly hidden in the new UI
• Surge of Undeath correctly adds to accuracy
• Summon talent now forces a max 2 level OOD
• New option in the main menu: reset interface positions
• The Grand Corruptor will speak to the main player
• Randbosses talent scaling should not get out of hands anymore
• On spell, on melee and on ranged talent procs can only happen once per turn
• Doomed cunning at birth now matches the description
• Mindslayers have one more cunning at birth (bringing total bonuses in line with other classes)
• Mindslayer knockback abilities can no longer hit twice
• Fixed many mindslayer talent descriptions (they scale off mindpower)
• Mindslayer gem bonuses now apply to mindstars as well
• Greater telekenetic grasp now applies it's level five bonus at talent levels beyond 5 (only matters in the Infinite Dungeon)
• Mindslayer auras now scale better at higher levels, deal less spike damage at low levels, have a cooldown of 10, and cost less psi to spike
• New artifact: Blood-Edge
• Four new random undead uniques
• Burning Hex now also increases the talents cooldowns
• Epidemic is a very potent disease and so is not affected by disease immunity. It also lwoers disease immunity on the targets
• Meditation can not lower equilibrium bellow the sustain values
• Static Field now shows how much damage was done
• Probability Travel now applies a debuff when used to pass a wall that will prevent an other wall passing for X turns (based on distance and talent level)
• Shady Cornac man going away wont fail the achievement for saving derth inhabitants
• New generic tree for Reavers & Corruptors: Torment
• New Wild Gifts/Fungus generic tree. Kind of like a nature based Aegis tree. Available to wyrmics
• Fix bug with the Eternal Night set
• Hydra summoning eldritch eyes can no longer spawn more then one hydra at a time
• Autocasting talents will not trigger when confused/terrified
• Toggle movement mode bound to shift+b instead of just b
• Enabling/disabling stealth will activate the visual effect right away
• Shadowstrike now works as a crit damage bonus
• Sacrifice at the endgame will really kill the main player, not a copy
• Fixed arrows speed
• New achievement: Fear me not!
• Fixed mouse-over for chat frame
• Aura of Silence do not apply on the user, to prevent brainlock
• Shielding talent now only increases shield strength. Shield duration only ever increasaes by max 1 at level 5
• Aegis/Heal renamed to Aegis/Arcane Reconstruction
• Fix Repulsion
• Randarts correctly use the same arcane/antimagic rules as egos
• Fix Outmaneveured
• Orc babies & youth in the breeding pits can be female or male
• Virulent Disease now tries to choose smartly which disease to apply (one that is not on the targe yet and that will reduce a stat that is high. So an
• archer type target will always ge the dex disease first).
• Virulentt Disease damage & stat reducion buffed
• Darkfire cost and cooldown reduced
• Many corruption spells are now able to crit, including diseases.
• Corrupter metaclass renamed to Defiler
• Cyst Burst now spreads all plague tree diseases at once (rotting, decrepitude, weakness and epidemic)
• Mana Clash and Resolve can now crit (mind)
• One With Nature is now instant cast
• Virulent Disease is now instant cast
• Many wild gift powers can now crit (mind); including breathes
• Removed animal encounters in the west
• New "wall" projection type
• Fixed a display issue with Psi cost and fatigue
• Rebalanced luminous horrors
• Dying at the endgame should still let your read the endgame text
• Thalore will not get escorts on Old Forest 5, since it does not exists anymore
• Wands have been redesigned into a new cooldown, chargeless system. All wands are now on the same cooldown, when activating one all are on cooldown for X turns
• Darkness (and other block_sight objects) now prevent projected attacks. (LOS check in Actor.canProject and Actor.on_project)
• Various tweeks (shortened ranges, lowered hate costs, altered damage, etc)
• Added a number of secondary buff/debuff effects to talents: Gesture of
• Malice lowers resistance, Madness increases Mind damage, Darkness allows faster movement, Force of Will increases crit damage, etc.
• Replaced Unnatural Body's Seeth and Repression with two talents that boost power as you take damage.
• Fixed criticals, they work and are applied to all affects.
• Gestures allow use of mindstars and provide some bonuses from them.
• Shadows scale better with leveling and don't rely on defense/evasion (they have a new fade ability that prevents damage for a turn when they are first hit)
• All activable egos use the new charm system with a global cooldown. Artifacts keep their own cooldown.
• Blank wands can be no more
• New "charms" category of items. Wands are arcane charms, Totems are natural charms and Torques are psionic charms
• Entity:addTemporaryValue can use "highest" and "lowest" merge algorithms
• Pausing the level loop for player input correctly pauses & restarts at the right position in the actors list
• DualWield/Precision is now instant and takes less stamina / cooldown
• Weapon & shield/Last Stand now takes less stamina / cooldown and the life bonus is increased
• Pinning Shot limited to 5 turns at most
• Buff Spell Shield
• Buffed Shadow Cunning
• Shadow Ambush also dazes 2 turns
• Corrosive Vapour changed to Glacial Vapour, mana cost reduced
• Illuminate blind durations fixed to 3/4, at level 4 it starts dealing damage
• Phantasmal Shield cost severely reduced
• Fixed stats inherit between base template and npcs
• New hook in Actor:actBase called "Actor:actBase:Effects", to hook on stuff like thunderstorm, ..
• Gestures are now generic points
• Doomed start with two mindstars equipped
• Random elites are in! Each level (except the very first one) can contain random elites. Less powerful than random bosses, should spice things up!
• Reavers now get access to Vim tree. Allowing them to get Vimsense & Leech for vimregen
• Fungus tree is now offered by Myssil after finishing a quest for her
• Antimagic escort rewards chagned to many different (and otherwise unlearnable) generic trees
• New generic talent tree: Wild Gift/Mindstar Mastery. Available from random zigur escorts and summoners start with it locked
• New "ingredients" system. When you do an action (like killing a monster) you can gain a special ingredient which is automatically added to you ingredients list. Ingredients are now part of the normal inventory and are weightless.
• The Brotherhood of Alchemists quest has been updated to use ingredients system; this means you will start collecting needed parts before taking the quests, without risk of loosing some.
• Death in explorer mode will not be reported in chat
• Shields now possess block value. Wielding a shield grants the Block talent that will block the next attack and allows for a counterstrike.
• Riposte talent doesnt provide a free attack, instead it boosts counterstikes
• Little buff to Kryl-Feijan

Have fun!