A new round of 0.5 builds are available from Live Builds page. Here’s an overview of what has changed in this version.

New Features

Spellmaker now shows gold and spell costs. Spells will remain free to buy and cast for testing purposes.

Casting spells now deducts spell points from player, but can continue to cast spells at 0 spell points for testing purposes.

Crime & Punishment updates with more work on Court UI in progress (Allofich).

Implemented Drain Attribute, Paralyze, Levitate effects. Check these Twitter links for short videos of Paralyze and and Levitate in action.

Started work on Heal Attribute effects and resistance back-end. Currently only Heal Strength is available, will build more soon.

Can now open spell book from character summary UI.

Using smaller SoundFont “TimGM6mb.sf2” by default to reduce distribution size.

Can now use custom SoundFont by placing .sf2 file in StreamingAssets/SoundFonts and setting SoundFont=filename.sf2 in settings.ini.

Active spell effects are now saved/loaded.

Allow mods to save/load data (TheLacus).

Updated player headbob, smooth crouch, and other movement mechanics (MeteoricDragon).

Implement town NPC dialog to include “Where Is > Person” queries (Nystul).

Implement spell icons for active spells. Includes tooltips while game is paused.

Updates to ensure default materials always have glossiness 0 and metallic 0 and alpha channel available. This is groundwork for using later Unity versions.

Attacking civilians with offensive spells is now considered assault. Killing civilians with offensive spells is considered murder.

Bug Fixes

Fix bug with loose file asset injection (TheLacus).

Fix bug where player could not delete spells from spell book.

Fixes for enemy turning (Allofich).

Fix mobile NPCs “skating sideways”. Still some mobile NPC pop-in to resolve.

Fix guild membership lost after loading a game (Hazelnut).

Fix weather manager causing a crash after loading interior save, and preventing future saves.

Fix enemies shooting bow too much (Allofich).

Fix %god macro causing a crash in popup dialog. This would become evident when player could not complete quest or rest after bug occurred.

Fix certain quest NPC placement tracking to support dialog system.

Fix certain town quests starting and ending instantly due to travel time not being calculated (merchant and commoner quests are still in progress).

Fix bug where player could melee attack at bow range after changing hands from a bow attack.

Fix travel map border not disabling when zooming in.

Minor quest fixes.

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