Elemental Mod for MM7 -- v4.0 open beta

[Tomsod]

Spent knives can be repaired, in all the same ways a broken item can be repaired. This will degrade the item, much like with recharging wands.

My mod's elemental.*.lod archives should naturally be the last (it goes roughly alphabetically). You can also directly see or download these files on github.

[rampage77t]

Downloaded and testing, the new dungeon in Bracada Desert is not available yet right? Why does the game close when trying to enter there

[Tomsod]

Downloaded and testing, the new dungeon in Bracada Desert is not available yet right? Why does the game close when trying to enter there

Welp, here's the first critical bug! Quick solution for now: install MMExtension, somehow it helps. I'll try to fix it properly tomorrow.

[Lone_Wolf]

While creating party I noticed something odd :

In vanilla racial weak attribute takes 2 bonuspoints to raise attr +1 and good attributes take 1 bonuspoint to raise attrib +2 .

Elemental 4 still does the first, but good attributes are only raised +1 per bonus point .
I couldn't find a mention for this in changelog , is this intentional ?

MMextension 2.2 extracts the values that set this to data/tables/Class Starting Stats.txt , no idea which .lod it comes from .

[Tomsod]

Alright, turns out I've been coddled by MMExtension and the new map doesn't work properly without it. Download the updated mod DLL and place in in ExeMods instead of the old one to fix a number of related issues, including Lloyd's Beacon and Town Portal glitches.

Unfortunately, the bug that crashes the game upon entering the new map will persist unless you start a new game. To fix existing games, either install MMExtension (2.2 or 2.3) as above, or use MMArchive to open the saved game file and put this genie.dlv inside it.

Sorry for this! I've noticed that genie.dlv was absent in the saves, but it didn't seem to affect anything. Turns out without MMExt, it very much does.

While creating party I noticed something odd :

In vanilla racial weak attribute takes 2 bonuspoints to raise attr +1 and good attributes take 1 bonuspoint to raise attrib +2 .

Elemental 4 still does the first, but good attributes are only raised +1 per bonus point .
I couldn't find a mention for this in changelog , is this intentional ?

MMextension 2.2 extracts the values that set this to data/tables/Class Starting Stats.txt , no idea which .lod it comes from .

If you change these attributes by several points, you'll notice that sometimes they're 1:1 and sometimes 2:1 or 1:2. That's just rounding, in fact strong attributes are either 7:5 or 6:5 and weak ones are 7:10. The catch is that it also applies to barrels, black potions, altars and so on, instead of just the new game.

[Lone_Wolf]

Got it, you may want to add a note in the changelog that the stat rating changes also affect party creation.

Agility is my fav atrtibute and I decided on human paladin, goblin thief, elf ranger & elf sorcerer.

Paladin will do spirit & mind magic, Ranger body and earth. sorcerer air/water and escpecially fire .
Thief is for the non-magic utility as they'll prob have very few sp.

I do intend to use ID Monster & Thievery and will play on hard all the time.

[Tomsod]

Good luck! Elf sorcs are extremely fragile so you'll want to stack aggro (aura of conflict etc.) on your other characters. Goblin thief may be able to throw an occasional fireball if you stack +SP items or possibly a soul stealing weapon. In the late game you can focus the paladin on light magic (since you have three fighters, heroism etc. is good), and sorc may become a lich for dark. (Although dark is not that much better than GM elemental magic, so having an archmage supporting the rest with GM light is also an option.)

[rampage77t]

I don't know if it's because I installed it wrong, but since I installed the MMExtension in the stables they take me to areas that I shouldn't, for example from the Harmondale stable I can go directly to the Altar of Wishes, or even to Deyja, and it takes me to the center of the map instead of taking me to the stable on the map in question. This makes it difficult to advance in the game because it forces me to travel on foot, and when I want to travel to the Evenmorn Islands there is no boat that takes me.

[raekuul]

This is similar to issues that came up with MMMerge and one of the development versions of MM6 MAW; when you install MMExtension it will overwrite anything with conflicting names that's supplied by the mod, so you would need to install MMExtension first and then install the mod on top of that.

Tomsod: this sounds like you'll need to do like MMMerge and include MMExtension with the mod install.

[Lone_Wolf]

Elf sorcs are extremely fragile

Yup, my typical compensation for that was to multiloot morcarack for of the troll/of the golem/of earth item (whichever came first), but that's not possible in this mod .
avlee well & BD altar are now even more important then before. Guess I'll also try special orders early.

The racial bonus skill for elves, goblins and dwarves has an undesired side effect : it replaces the weapon skill for the class they choose.
This especially hurts dagger & spear users as those 2 skills are not available on emerald .

Maybe add the racial bonus skill as 5th skill like you do with humans/learning ?