Module Changes

Puffy

8558

Storm Horns CARES reviewed and revamped
Some more decoration added to some Storm Horns areas
Ants quests loot and monsters reviewed, some new secrets added
The Delzuld and Braerwinter have had their estates updated to reflect recent player driven efforts

Puffy

8560

New rumours added to all town NPCs
New merchant stalls added to Immersea and Eveningstar
Eveningstar has been updated to reflect some regular PC investment
Couple of minor fixes with CARES layouts around the mod

Prof. Misclick

8561 via Puffy

Updates to Ranger Store. Thanks for the contributions to the community!

https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65606/expanding-the-ranger-only-store

Strife and Discord

V8563:

Spell Changes:

Protection from Elements duration changed to be more aligned with Resist Elements. New duration will now be 1 Hour / Level and not 24 hours
All movement skill Spells(Toad Leap, Spider Climb, Worm Wiggle, Feline Balance and Trout Backstroke) were added to the Rangers spell palette at 1st circle

Bug Fixes:

Trinity Fauna Related Changes:

Summons and Animated dead hechmen should no longer be harvestable

General Changes:

Added additional item appearances for builders to play with (Courtesy of @Puffy the magic chipmunkette)
Code support for some new @Echo secret projects

Echo

8564

Changes

new stuff (5 areas, 5 quests WiP)
adjusted % chance for harvestable creatures on goblin valley, calantar's orcs, and hillmarch ogre quests
removed duplicated flasks from alchemy shop
removed stacked scrolls from scribe shop
made enchanting oil, minor stackable
added new map pieces to the Wyvernwater areas: if you have any map pieces, PM me to find you IG to replace with the new/updated maps
new creatures added

Echo

8565, 8567-8570

Edits to jewelry

updated descriptions so they are correct
replaced knowledge: history with religion and nature where appropriate
updated forums with the above

Bugs fixed

https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65888/studded-leather-armor-missing-from-elk-recipes
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65883/copper-phenalope-necklace-game-forum-recipe-mismatch
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65884/copper-fire-agate-necklace-game-forum-recipe-mismatch
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65890/not-all-ingredients-consumed-on-successful-bronze-amethyst-ring-crafting
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65895/bronze-feldspar-necklace-missing
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65852/smelling-salts-recipie-ig-doesnt-match-forum
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65882/bone-charm-grease-casts-wrong-spell
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65771/creatures-that-drop-double-items/14
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65879/fear-aura-on-dreaded-ship-captain-in-aunkspear-pirate-quest

Misc:

fixed description of panther hood (said wolf)
Lowered fox from level
increased the size of the Tiny Fire Elemental slightly
removed old ore placeables from some areas
removed old graveyard dirt placeables from some areas
added some new creatures
more work on new project

Echo

8571-8572

bugs fixed
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65771/creatures-that-drop-double-items/18
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65925/bronze-feldspar-and-amethyst-necklaces-identical-stats
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65929/grizzly-hood-not-created-after-successful-crafting
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65935/gold-oynx-ring-description-error
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65934/cure-panther-armor
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65931/lighthouse-mechanism-on-wyvernwater-isle-broken

added a couple new bounty hunters that are seeking specific items
fixed owlbear quest party minimum

Puffy

8574

Court House updated for Peace Officers
Minor bugs and tweaks done to the Noble Houses
Fixed Eveningstar's non glowing torches
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65982
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65906
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65907
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65986

Puffy

8577

Updated road CARES with some tweak humanoids
Frost Orcs updated with new appearances and minor tweaks to strengths/weaknesses

Strife and Discord

V8578:

Bounty System Related:

Fixed an issue with Book appearances breaking in the turn-in UI
Fixed HoA/Farmer Bounty Hunters' Bounty board not matching what the Bounty Hunters actually accept
UI will now support longer bounty item names more seamlessly

Trinity System Related - Fauna:

Added animation and emote when skinning corpses, so you dont look like a clutch

Survival System Related:

Flint used on a stack of twigs should no longer eat the entire stack but only use one twig
Twig stack used on itself will should no longer eat the entire stack but only use 2 twigs. Same would apply if you use one stack on a different stack

Puffy

8585

New lore features themed around the Storm Horns Plotline, focused on gnolls and orcs
New lore added based of recent player efforts
Some shady stuff added
Some lore about wanted NPCs added
Rumour NPCs updated with new rumours, town settlements have their own theme

Strife and Discord

Version 8587:

As of this version Familiars will be more in-line with Animal Companions, meaning:

Familiar Summoning Cooldown:
You will not be able to summon your familiar as soon as you unsummon it and will wait until a cooldown period has ran out. Any time you will try to summon your familiar within this cooldown, you will receive an error message as well as spell failure visual effect.

Once the cooldown is over you will receive a message that you can summon your familiar again.

Familiar Lives Matter:
You can no longer let your familiar soak damage and then unsummon it and resummon it back at full health. Like Animal Companions the damage it suffered will be remembered and applied when resummoned.

This will be factored in until your familiar is healed or after rest/reset.

Reasoning:
For the sake of transparency I am also including here the reason why we did this.

Originally in vanilla NWN, you can only summon your familiar once per rest. This made them rather useless in CoA. To make them more useful we allowed you to summon them as long as they are not killed.

As a result mages were able to have an infinite amount of familiars to use, which was too good to be true.

Puffy

8588

The Pure Barbarian store now offers a dual-wielder feat item for Barbarians, in line with the items available for Rangers and Rogues

Puffy

8590

Updated Potion Soaked Dire Rat, STR was a bit too high for a lowbie
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/66216/potion-soaked-dire-rat
Updated Fox, AC was a bit too high for a lowbie spawn
Updated New Dawn info
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/66213/starting-area-info-flag
Thegard items no longer set as plot

Echo

8592

Shadowmire Isle cave - removed duplicate XP marker
Wyvernwater Isles - added trashbins at the ships
Floating placables here and there
Rat cured hide recipe was missing from cnrcuringtub - added
Rat leather recipe was missing from cnrhiderack - added
all cured hides and several leathers were marked as stolen, fixed
fixed xp marker accessibility in mouth o'gargoyles xp
replaced Bioware default creatures on some older quests with CoA ones
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/66245/potion-bottle-quest
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/66237/cannot-ae-lions
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/66221/hidden-peaks-exits
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65982/haunted-mansion-quest-no-xp-for-kills
slight adjustments to planting zone size in some areas
random typos fixed
maybe fixed connection between plungepool and waymoot - it worked going south but going north it took you to dhedluk

8593

Added a bounty hunter for the Arcane Guild
added some new items for AG bounty hunter
started updating loot on quests
Tilverton hidden triggers fixed (maybe)

8594

fixed a couple minor typos
changed the "rebel heart lake" placeable appearance to something visible
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/66262/house-of-ash-deity-detector-not-working
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65931/lighthouse-mechanism-on-wyvernwater-isle-broken/7 another attempt
added more loot variety to module-level, low monster, and undead chests
added some items to malar shop, will add more later

Strife and Discord

Version 8596:

New Asset Changes:

Added 22 new voicesets for players to choose from during character creation:

Male, Fallen Knight
Male, Gruff Warrior
Male, Arrogant Blueblood
Male, Fanatic Priest
Male, Impatient Adventurer
Male, Overconfident Paladin
Male, Reckless Beserker
Male, Veteran Soldier
Male, Shaman
Male On-Edge Adventurer
Male, Cocky Adventurer
Male, Haughty Bard

Female, Troubleseeking Bard
Female, Arrogant Blueblood
Female Veteran Soldier
Female, Cocky Adventurer
Female, Young Scout
Female, Overconfident Sorceress
Female, Intelligent Wizard
Female, Bored Adventurer
Female, Calm Assassin
Female, Impatient Adventurer

Added new Spell/Scroll icons (Courtesy of the amazing @TheMinionOfArabel ) as part of our work to redesign the Identify spell, which is still work in progress.

Echo

V8597

Fixed lighthouse lever conversation with much help from @Strife-and-Discord
new loot added to Fey Infested House
new loot added to historic farms quest
new Loot added to east way farm quest
new loot added to plumbers quest (8594)

Echo

V8598

new loot added to kobold quest
new loot added to wyrm cave quest
new loot added to pride of arabel quest
new loot added to shamrock garden quest
new loot added to undead monster drops
house of ash offers bounty for the new undead monster drop item,

Echo

8599

Bug Fixes only tonight

Strife and Discord

Version 8600:

(1) Player Portrait Pack Update:

Added 76 new portraits to our player portrait pack:

Dwarves: 9 Female ; 11 Male
Elves: 10 Female ; 11 Male
Halflings: 10 Female ; 11 Male
Human: 4 Female ; 10 Male

Many thanks to both @cpt_elrad_2nd and @SirWill360 , who contributed!

(2) Identify Spell Dead - Long live Lore:

We have changed the Identify spell to now be called Lore and allow you, much like Protection from Alignment, to choose what knowledge skill to boost.

In the case of Arcana/Nature/Religion, which require training - The spells will only boost your stats if you invested at least one point into them.

Many thanks to the amazing @TheMinionOfArabel for her artwork.