Yes. The game works that way so that you have a separate savegames for every mod combination.
You need to go to Start -> Mods (Wrench icon) -> My Mods -> Select the mods you want to play with -> press Play -> Yes reload

(dAAAmn that's a lot of actions)

I have subscribed to the mod and nothing has changed. Do you have to start a new game to use it?

@Squircle
With basic (old graphics) game - yes.

The mod was last updated in 2016. Does it work with the current version of the game?

@eddheadrules
Inside, in the place of Desoulator.

Is that before or after the cave with the knights and dragons?

@eddheadrules
you need to go to the Library town location, and pages will work there almost the same way skulls work at hermits, but pages are unique for each weapon.

Got a page from the book of artifacts, but I have no idea what to do with it.....

@ Hy60koshk
Thank you!
Awaiting now for Skill Increase for Deluxe version :)

Deluxe version is finally out. Raw AF tho, yet fully playable to the point this one was!

@Shiny The Devil Cat
I've just fixed the issue I had... two month ago O.o
So yeah, I hope, I'll roll something out in a couple of days.

HD version of this mod, please!

Obviously I know you won't update with HD arts just yet. So I expect there will be some snags. So I decide to just wait and see. Besides, I'm now prioritized on other games than this.

Okay, I've looked into it, so for you to be able to play the mod and update it after with no (or at least without serious) troubles, I'll release a dull-ported version soon.
By *dull-ported* I mean that I only make it work on DE. Some flavours might be bugged (currently I have a problem with the Void Orb) and 90% of custom assets will be pixelated (since they're simply resized).

It's ok, consider that I haven't been playing this game in months after I finished it.

@BBK, ScubaSteve
Currently I'm working on the russian localisation for VA-11 Hall-A and all my "hobby time" goes there.
For now I can't even say when I'll start to work on the update for this mod. Considering my IRL problems, I'm afraid, it might even take a year until I update it. Sorry.

Steam Workshop support has arrived, are you ready to update?

Will this be updated now that the mod tools have been released??

Yeah, sorry. And merry Christmas to you too :)

Ok thanks for your work and merry christmas!

@Jackaljavi
I have a lot of work to do, so I doubt I'd get on it in next 2 month, even if there will be no technical issues by the time.

Ok, thanks for the info :). You can do your mod for the DX version?

@Jackaljavi
When you run the game, Steam asks whether it should run Deluxe, OpenGL Deluxe or Legacy version. This mod (same as nearly every mod out there) supports the Legacy version only.

HD, i don´t know how to run the classic game.

@Jackaljavi
HD or Classic?

Hey i just bought recently the game and loaded your mod. But when i start a new game the game crashes and a pop-up window appears saying that town is missing attribute name.

@Nubokoschk, as this is my 1st time to install this, I waited it until the HD version came. It looks improved, but I can only tell being more pixels. That's ok, when the time is right and when Steam Workshop support is back, then I know you'll on it again. Anyway, just to ask you as an experiment.

@BBK
Well... only a few pieces of armor this far. I'm not sure how will it work with better quality than original textures have, so I wasn't working on it seriously since I dont know how hight the quality of my work should be.
But, since you're asking, I'll be posting all the progress starting tomorrow ;)

@Nubokoschk It seems Steam Workshop Support isn't coming for who knows how long, but anyway, have you updated the artworks? At least can you give us a preview?

@BBK
Updated the description

Deluxe Version just recently released, so I got the feeling you're going to update the item arts. Got to compensate for that before the Deluxe version gets to support mods again.

@emmanuel.anne
Now it should be playable

@emmanuel.anne
> collocatum duodecimum a very strange battle
ooops, sorry, this location shouldn't ever be displayed to the player, I must've missed it while was clearing the mod files.
Well, it seems I have to update the mod once more =)

Ah just found a real bug : collocatum duodecimum a very strange battle when you click on it there is no difficulty selection, just this name with below the message "there must be something interesting in this place"... If I click "begin", then I get a black screen with some kind of gray label on the top right of the screen : "More" (white on gray), but I can't click it. At this point, the game seems frozen, keys have no effect, I can only exit...

Ah also some small bugs when buying/equiping items sometimes they are wrongly displayed, like armors displayed as weapons for some characters but after that they work as expected so it's just a glitch at the time of the purchase/equiping of the item.

Really good mod, it makes the dragon pendants mod useless, good thing since it's really outdated now, the shoes are a lot of fun for barbarians and totally in line with the story ! I'd say all these items make the game easier in normal difficulty but I guess all the challenge begins in new game+ or new game++ ! (new locations with fights which are copies of the old ones but which allow to get still more new items !)

@NeoDraconis
It replaces an orb (if there is specified one in your inventory) with the one without flavours, so "deflavoured" one could be sold.
Ye, quite weird workaround
PS: sry, I'd have sent this comment 8h ago, but my inet provider decided otherwise =/

So what exactly is desouler supposed to do? I see things that say upgrade but nothing seems to happen when I click it.

I sent you a steam friends request, I wanted to ask you a few questions about merging the two mods.

@ScubaSteve
Eh. Did I really forget to update it?O.O Anyway, there was only one minor bug, so... nvm.
Well, ye, to combine the two mods shouldn't be a real problem (just merge each file carefully with collision correction).

Also im trying to combine this mod with the skill increase mod so i can use both. Any idea on how to do this?

Cant wait for the new version of your mod, although I think your a little late lol. Hopefully when DQ:HD comes out will all have alot more to mess around with in the game files.

Well, next week I'll update the mod to 1.11 (with all known to me bugfixes) and it'll be the last, final mod version (at least, until the release of DQ:HD).
So I'd be glad if you'll be really intrusive about bugs ^^

@author:
Thank you very much, your answer helps me alot about the game system.
And also, the Book of Secret, too.

@SK,
Ye, I forgot the other, more safe way of cheating with the items. Find the <inventory> tag (next to <progress>) and inside it add the string for the item you want to add to your inventory: "<item _class="[armor OR weapon]" type="[heavy:light:skull:sword:bow:staff:book:{in this mod also: berboots:deforb:offorb}]" level="[item lvl aka ID*]" owner="" alt="0"/>"

To be clear:
heavy, light, skull, deforb and berboots are armor;
sword, staff, bow, book and deforb are weapons;
item levels are nothing but an item id's that is used to identify the item within its type, to assign icons to items and to sort them in traders' lists. So "full"/"unique" identifiers in this game appear as item class + type + level (e.g. "weapon bow 2" and "armor skull 3").

@SK,
There's no legal way to retrieve the item that was set as a replacement for another reward that you've already got when won the battle first time, and that is the reason why I did such replacements only one or two times in the earliest versions of this mod.
However, you can edit your savegame file and set the level you want to replay as unpassed.
Not sure, but I think that to do so you need to remove the entry for the level in <progress> tag, which will look like "<pearl id="1_5_river_escape" diff="medium" status="perfect"/>". So you need to find and remove the string "<pearl id="[ID of the level you want to replay]" diff="[some difficult]" status="[pass status]"/>" in your save file OR edit it in a way like "<pearl id="[ID of the level you want to replay]" diff="easy" status="pass"/>".

"Book of Secrets" reveals the "???" location and gives some hints on puzzles, you can read more about it here: http://defendersquest.wikia.com/wiki/Book_of_Secrets

This mod is awesome. I want to ask a question, please:
In some battle which rewards gold and now replaced by item, if I have done that battle before and got the gold reward, now how can I get that new item?
I ask this because in the non-mod game, I can't get unique item twice by repeat battle.

And if anyone can, please tell me what the "Book of Secret" do?

Thanks.
I find that after i equip Book of Secret, in normal game i can see the Strange Monument, in NG+ i can't. And after i input the answer in Strange Monument in normal game, golden skull is not obtainable.

Okay, now it's fixed.

I'm playing G+, now i go to normal game and desouler there works.