This is mostly a bug fix update. Most importantly it fixes a bug where the game could crash when setting up ship battles.

General

• Ship battles could crash the game, fixed
  
• Better at finding good start locations
  
• Fix for sage guild's library income bonus not working
  
• Upgrading some guilds to level 3 made them lose some recruitment bonuses
  
• Apocalyptic Riders weren't able to reform properly
  
• Self Proclaimed King was stupider than he should be
  
• Too high chance of getting the Arcane Dragons, fixed
  
• Stat and typo fixes

This update mostly fixes some problems from the Guildmaster update, but there is also one new magic item added.

General

• New magic item: Thousand Medicine Bowl
  
• Sweep from e.g. Zweihander didn't work
  
• Fix for guildmaster not starting at the coast
  
• Guildmaster will no longer start with a ship if not on a coast
  
• Fix for Pegasus recruitment
  
• Fix for Pegasus Rider recruitment message appearing unnecessarily
  
• Cloaking a square will now hide name on map also if any
  
• Void ships can now only be recruited in ports
  
• Arcane Dragons now also spawn boost properly
  
• Fix for cultists leaving their gateway
  
• Sound effect for Guild Portal
  
• Stat fixes

This update brings a new playable class to Elysium, the Guildmaster. By establishing different types of guilds in towns, he will get benefits depending on what type of guild it is. E.g. the shipwrights guild will enable the construction of better ships and the assassins guild will enable assassination contracts. Ships have been tweaked as the guildmaster is a ship using class and it is now much faster to travel by sea than on land. There is also some new stuff for the Demonologist, the Dryad Queen and the Kobold King as well as plenty of bug fixes and tweaks.

General

• New playable class: Guildmaster
  
• New type of items: Soul Contracts
  
• Soul contract ritual for Demonologist
  
• New terrain: Mausoleum
  
• Traveling on a boat now only cost 1/2 AP per step for the sailors
  
• New monster: Gryphon (old gryphon is now known as great gryphon)
  
• Kobolds' main dragons might get spellcasting abilities
  
• Better handling of overpopulation
  
• Increased max size of battlefield
  
• New independent groups
  
• Kelp forests could be destroyed into a plains, fixed
  
• New battle map for fights in an oasis
  
• No ports in small lakes
  
• Can now change spells for greedy commanders
  
• Can no longer tunnel in combat on frozen water squares
  
• Units will no longer go berserk from disease damage
  
• Game could crash during world creation, fixed
  
• Can now chop down spider thickets
  
• Elemental event could carry over from one game to next, fixed
  
• Arcane tempest no longer affects terrain or boats
  
• Destroying pillar no longer consumes AP from underlings
  
• Change commander by ctrl-right click now updates text too
  
• Net & web can no longer affect immobile units
  
• battle crash bug fixed
  
• Ant hills can no longer be blessed
  
• Crusade and Inquisition now takes veils into account
  
• Maps and teleport scrolls are now less common
  
• Use current dir as fallback if failing to create proper save dir
  
• More type of special forests/jungles can now be chopped down
  
• Independents with burned down forests could kill dryad queen during world creation
  
• Lifeless units couldn't equip heart of life, fixed
  
• Merchant could come ashore in bridges and fords, fixed
  
• Juggernaut is now more aggressive
  
• Dryad Queen can now get a Blood Bull from the Blood Orgy ritual
  
• Size of default game window larger on high DPI screens
  
• Fixed follow dead leader bug
  
• Animate Tools can now be done on iron only locations too
  
• Motte and Bailey didn't contain any lifeforce, fixed
  
• Bone Imp got pierce resistance
  
• Tip fixes
  
• Typo and stat fixes

AI

• AI better at using ships
  
• Dwarf AI improvement

Modding

• New ritual commands: turncastcount, castcount
  
• New item command: nodrop
  
• New monster/item command: voidship, farsightsea
  
• Mods are now properly reenabled after returning to main menu
  
• Fix for terraingroups together with magic items
  
• Fix for terrain groups -40 and -41

This is a mostly a modernization update, it fixes some bugs and makes sure the game runs well on modern systems. The largest change is for Macs where new M1+ Macs are now required to run the game by default. Users with older Macs can still run it via wine/crossover or by opting in to the legacy private beta in steam (password: legacylegacy), that will remain on version 5.30.

General

• Oak Golem can now be created in Ancient Forest-like terrains too
  
• Fix for empty message window popping up at start of turn
  
• Less random pitch for some sound effects
  
• Soulless now have item slots
  
• Blood Burst is now armor negating
  
• Better placement of mirrors in forts
  
• Vortex of Stillness was incorrectly an Astrology spell
  
• CoE could fail to start if workshop mod directory was removed
  
• Mages now better at targeting spells with 2+ nbr of strikes
  
• Fix for server hang on astrology
  
• Setup on ship could lock up game
  
• Elder Thing could belong to wrong independent faction
  
• Network reliability fixes
  
• Typos fixed

Modding

• 64 bit damage numbers should work now

Linux

• Fix for crash when shutting down pulseaudio on exit

Mac OS X

• Now built for new ARM Macs (M1+)
  
• Mac OS X 13.0 or later required

Windows

• Improved support for recent versions of Windows

This is a bug fix update. Most importantly it fixes a problem where large units could fail to figure out how to cross the bridge when attacking in a Bridge or Tower Bridge location. Another bug was that non-area attacks could incorrectly hit the terrain under the target too, this could be fatal if a hard hitting unit was attacking someone on a boat and then killed the boat as well.

General

• Spell casters will no longer cast blessing on permanently blessed units
  
• Fix for non-area attacks also hitting terrain under target
  
• Fix for sound disappearing after pressing 'q' during summoning
  
• Pathfinding for large monsters on bridges could fail, fixed
  
• Mindless no longer affected by Mass Command spell
  
• Layout fix for large text settings
  
• Ritual window a little wider
  
• Square inconsistency bug fixed
  
• Increased joystick deadzone by default (1 -> 3 percent)
  
• Deadzone configurable via startup option (e.g. --deadzone=5)

This update fixes some bugs and minor issues and adds a few new capabilities for modders. The scrollbars in the game can now also be controlled by the Home/End keys to jump straight to beginning or end.

General

• Swamp Soul now destroys swamp on its first incarnation too
  
• Floating units on ships no longer displaces ordinary units
  
• Decaying units could damage swallower
  
• A group of commander could fly up even if only one of them could fly
  
• Don't put the Kobold's traps on ice squares
  
• Pale One castle battle map had too much grass
  
• Support for portrait mode resolutions
  
• Fix for battle log sometimes popping up after performing a special power
  
• Immortals who die will get rid of sentry mode
  
• Could steal units from stupid commanders
  
• Aquatic units will no longer drown in ports and bridges
  
• Decay spells will no longer target unaging units
  
• Bring up keyboard when entering player name on Steam Deck
  
• Scrollbars can be controlled with Home/End too
  
• Minor performance improvement for main map screen
  
• Typo and stat fixes

Modding

• New event command: reveal
  
• New terrain group -117 = infernal plane
  
• New ritual command: noplanereq

This update contains some new groups of independents that might defend Elysium as well as a new magic item that could be found. Apart from that there is also the usual bunch of tweaks and bug fixes.

General

• Fix for disguised apes showing their true appearance while moving
  
• Sea Dragon couldn't move properly in fights
  
• A few more possible independent groups for Elysium
  
• Tweaked the defenders of Desert Palace
  
• One new magic item
  
• Can now passwall diagonally as well
  
• Guard tower spawning was not disabled by non-empire independents
  
• Fix for statues getting the wrong name
  
• Frozen seas on the Primal Plane only cost 1 MP, fixed
  
• Some more buff spells now only affect friendly units
  
• Typo & Stat fixes

Network / Multiplayer

• North/South percentages didn't work in network lobby games

Modding

• Event variable used by rituals didn't work in network games
  
• cleareventvar didn't work

This fixes a bunch of bugs and adds 2 new magic items to be found. In previous versions a player could sometimes stop getting income if his allied partner was eliminated. This has now been fixed, but the fix might result in one turn with double income for an allied player in an old saved multiplayer game. But it will only happen once and then it should work as normal again.

General

• Two new magic items
  
• Fix for Agarthan cave walls looking like tunnels
  
• Fix for terrain veils not working when seen from the Sky Plane
  
• Mirror Images are no longer affected by damage they are immune to
  
• Typo & Stat fixes

Network / Multiplayer

• If the first allied player was eliminated the second one no longer got income, fixed

Modding

• Map editor was dark after resigning a game first, fixed
  
• Max nbr of translation 10000 -> 20000

This update consists of mostly bug fixes. Most importantly has some fixes for the new west/east clustering and the gamepad support that was added in the previous version.

General

• The Second Sun didn't return if killed on the sky plane
  
• Sinking of a ship no longer spreads to adjacent ships
  
• Fix for scrollbar on message screen resetting too often
  
• Incorporation can no longer steal HP from vegetation
  
• Increased deadzone for joysticks
  
• Don't use joysticks until they give a large reading once
  
• Fix for Holy Vengeance description
  
• Typos fixed

Network / Multiplayer

• Was not possible to return to Random class in network games
  
• It was not possible to give items to allies in hot-seat games
  
• Fix for west/east clustering taking almost forever on small maps
  
• Fix for trying to create a network game without any name

AI

• Fix for excessive AI ship building

Modding

• Fix for targetunitloc and ownsloctarg not setting location properly
  
• Disabled Open Mod Directory on the Steam Deck
  
• Enter Name box can be translated too