Forgotten Places of Arcanum (A:WIP) Current Version: 6.0 (December 14, 2008) CHANGELOG ******************************************************************** Forgotten Places v. 6.0 Released December 14, 2008 - Corrected a flaw in the backgrounds listings. - Corrected gold reward at the Tarant warehouse. The rat had the gold. - Reset the art on the Fireking Medalion. - Fixed a typo in Ol' Fred's Dialog. - Added the Wolfsbane Estate for the Thieves' Quest. - Added an orange brick building to south Tarant. Restored stock art! - Added the background corrections done by Viqsi. - Added the trading post of Marcyona - just below the Lethe Wyvern Sighting. - Added human-sized fletchers. - Changed a pair of gravestone listings in the Fan Fens. - Added Interlude by Ben Houge to the music list. - Added the trading post of Merchants' Faire to the north lands. - Added the trading post of Cotswold - southeast of Vooriden. - Corrected a glitch with three of the new schematics. - Corrected some graphical issues with the Old Mine. - Added a new thieves' quest to Thaddeus Mynor. - Added map-marking to The Atlas of Arcanum. - Added The Tempter of Fate. Buy, sell and exchange Fate Points. Forgotten Places v. 5.1 Released October 22, 2008 - Reset the effects limits from 0-399 to 0-499. - Added 16 new backgrounds created by The_Deathsangel. - Adjusted Harm from 3-40 damage to 3-20. - Adjusted Fireflash from 15-45 damage to 15-25. - Adjusted Stone Throw from from 1-50 damage to 20-50. - Adjusted Minor Heal from 5-30 to 10-50. - Adjusted Major Heal from 40-80 to 50-100. - Adjusted Bolt of Lightning from 20-70 damage to 50-100. - Reset the art used by Madam Lil's package. - Reset the internal listing for the Schreck's Pistol Schematic. - Added a "prototype" Schreck's Multibarrel Pistol to the cabinet. - Reset Weldo Rubin's leveling scheme. - Solved some conflicts with old scripts and the hopbots. - Corrected an overlooked link in Faithe's dialog. - Corrected a typo in the backgrounds. Forgotten Places v 5.0 Released October 18, 2008 - Added the complete Unofficial Arcanum Patch 081004 and the patch. - Restored the permanency trick for Reflection Shield. - Added the Dark Elven Helm to the Well of Lost Souls. A Dark Helm with the original buggy scripts! - Added the Personal Teleport system to the white magic shop in Tarant. Artwork by ChrisBeddoes, backstory by TONGSyaBASS, scripted by Drog Black Tooth, assembled by rroyo. - Added a Half-Ogre smith suggested and named by FourHorsemen to Tarant. - Added 10 new backgrounds created by The_Deathsangel. - Added the Halfling Riddle expansion by ninja_felix and Drog Black Tooth. - Added four Tesla Pistols created by theorel. 10 - 40 electrical damage. - Added some new portraits. - Added Darkform's Meca Plate mod to Maxim's labratory. - Added the Charged Axe Schematic to the Quality Smith in Tarant. - Reset Stringy Pete and a pirate skeleton for more accurate hit points distribution. - Removed large NPC items from the Bond house in Tarant. - Reset the Kill on Sight flags for the Fire Elementals at the Uncharted Cave. - Reset the description for the Screaming Shield. - Changed the sound effect for silenced weapons to a quieter, movie-styled one. - Reinstalled Krupps' Ranged Weapons Mod Beta 12. - Fixed the problem with the half-ogre thief in the Caladon sewers. - Replaced the wrapped package time-bomb art with the time-bomb from Fallout. - Made a small change to the Iron Clan. - Added Mother Tilley to the Boil. - Added a Create Kerosene schematic to Blackroot. - Moved the Create Electrolyte Solution schematic to the Tarant junk dealer. - Added a Create Arrows schematic to the Dernholm junk dealer. Art by T'e'MHbIu. - Added the Arbalest and schematic. A crossbow made by Thorn and T'e'MHbIu. - Fixed the Leahbo innkeeper dialog again. Forgotten Places v 4.4 Released: July 12, 2008 - Corrected a script error for the general merchant in Vormantown. - Reset Harry Baules' night stand so he goes to bed. - Added a dying flag-set to Merow Vortahm. Forgotten Places v 4.2 Released: June 25, 2008 - Correction of the townmap for the Uncharted Cave. - Fixed Yoki Tagamie's -4 int responses. - Located and fixed an overlooked flag-setting path in Lasou Vlafa's dialog. - Fixed a problem with the dark brown cow at Hardin's Pass. - Renamed the man and half-ogre at the new free house to James Bond and Jaws. - Replaced missing toggle-off scripts for Brandybuck. - Renumbered the Vormantown scripts to avoid conflict with stand-alone mods. - Locked the merchants' containers in Leahbo. - Implemented Darkform's leveling suggestions. 1x stock for 1 - 10, 1.5x for 11 - 20, 2x for 21 - 30, 2.5x for 31 - 40, and 3x for 41 - 50. - Added map-marking to zen and surly Virgil dialogs. - Reset the Dernholm junk dealer's dialog. He was using inventor. - Leveled up skills and weaponry for the guards and bodyguards in all areas my hack has maps for. - Filled in missing floor tiles in Gaylin's place. - Pawnshop inventory is no longer stealable. - A small reworking of the Spider Cave. It now ends at level 1. - The packing crates in the Tarant warehouse with the mech spiders are now scenery. - Added descriptions to some marked areas. - Disabled the map-marking for Caytr Freeport. - Remodeled the Well of Lost Souls. Forgotten Places v 4.0 Released: June 6, 2008 - Added the Vormantown module. - Added a multitude of bug, dialog, and scenery fixes from various sources. - Replaced the sound clip used for the halflings with the complete song "Concerning Hobbits". - Added team a's nighttime toggle-off to allow the halflings to "go inside" at night. - Added a new hobbit-hole behind the market. - Added T'e'MHbIu's Manual View Patch. - Added the most recent version of Virgil's dialog with a map-marking cheat. - Removed most of the unnecessary items from the Molochean Hand. - Reset the Vortahm to use stock spells, thus allowing your followers to rejoin you if charmed. - Added a townmap to Vaselan. - Removed the Sword of Sickness and Crushing Hammer from the Shrouded Hills Gypsy's initial inventory. - Reset the Shrouded Hills Gypsy to the stock game inventory. - Added a Divine Fire Pistol to Ashbury. A magickal gun with 20-30 normal damage + fireball! - Reset the Kill On Sight flags for the Poison Arachnids at the Iron Clan. - Reset Hamfist's portrait. - Altered the XP level-up amounts. Starting at level 12, the amounts needed were increased to 1.75% of original. Forgotten Places v 3.0 Released: April 3, 2008 - Added the forgotten female dialogs for Cerdo, Schratt, and Peri. - Replaced the overwritten Machine Plate benefits. - Added townmaps for most of the new areas. - Added secondary scripts for the residents of Brandybuck. - Added three new hobbit-holes to Brandybuck and a shortcut to the west side across the big field. - Pulled most of the new portraits due to popular demand. - Boosted the Bogarath to level 50. - Added the first new location to the Island of Cattan : The Plainwicke Plantation. - Reset the dressers in the fancy room in the Shrouded Hills temple basement to just scenery. - Added two new start-up splashes for a total of six. - Added ships to get you to and from Cattan. - Added a mountain range across the western tip of Cattan to isolate Monaco and Bone Hill from low-level players. - Darkened the new shoes to more realistic levels. - Initial reworking of Leahbo for inclusion into the "Free Bany quest" - yet to be done. - Added a merchant in trouble to the south end of Black Root. Forgotten Places v 2.2 Released: October 24, 2007 - Removed the modified protodocs from the Krupps bug fixes and the antigravity bread. - The level 127 hack is gone. There was a conflict between it and the Molochean Hand hack. - Several corrupted files were rebuilt or replaced. - Adjusted the inventories of the Molochean Hand hack and the Orc Bandit Hacks. Forgotten Places v 2.0 Released: September 29, 2007 - Added all the bug-fixes needed for the A:WIP(1) release. - Added the backgrounds hack. - Added a new start-up splash. - Added four new adventures - Bear Trap, Spider Cave, Acererak's Tomb, and The Halfling Merchant Rescue. - Added the Halfling village of Brandybuck, including eleven new buildings. - Added a new merchant class - Fletcher. - One new Halfling follower - Wrinko Minna. (Bow, prowling, lock pick). - Weldo Rubin now has a melee/thief leveling scheme. (Bow, prowling, lock pick). - Franklin Payne's strength boosted to 18. - Althea, the Shrouded Hills Librarian, now has her own initial dialog. - The Atlas of Arcanum - A list of all places in the game - has been moved to the Tarant Library. - Frigo Furbottom's dialog modified. Forgotten Places v 1.0 Released June 3, 2007 - Added the Cargo Hold hack. - Added the Inventory hack. - Added The Malochean Hand hack. - Added The Orc Bandit hack. - Added Krupps All-In-One hack. - Added The Medical Arachnid fix. - Added The Orc Bandit Leveling fix. - Added 174 portraits. - Added Most of ChrisBeddoes new art. - Added 2 new schematics. - Added 3 new sound effects. - Added the Ancient Trail. - Added a new trail from Old Blind Master. - Added Vaselan. - Added the Well of Lost Souls. - Added Leahbo. - Added 3 small Vendigroth port ruins. - Added Adia & Vorakia. - Added Lynchbany. - Added The Big Woods Lodge. - Added Electrolyte Solution schematic. - Added Create Sheet Metal schematic by Grossenschamm. - Added Create Dwarven Ore schematic. - Added Create Dwarven Steel schematic. - Added Create Vendigroth Sheet Metal schematic. - Added Create Vendigrothian Large-Bore Rifle schematic. - Added Create Vendigrothian Padded Gloves schematic.