So, apparently, Astral Balance can be resisted by the unit it is supposed to be benefiting.

Thanks mang <3

In the tome of Witchcraft, the unit Witch has a little issue, when doing naval battles, instead of a ship appearing, its just an invisible unit, I can still use it perfectly fine, its just a visual issue, would be nice if you could fix :)

Is it just me... or is Seelie, like, REALLY good? Army wide hastened for multiple turns, strong CC buff for caster units, all faeries are very good at their jobs, and a guaranteed blind? Even the SPI may not be draft or knowledge, but it IS mana, and mana is always useful.

Dunno, it isn't blatant, but I at least am thinking the hastened duration should be lower and the blind spell should still allow resistance.

@Sheor
I fixed the explanation of ravenious mark, so now it´s super clear what type of unit is effected and what not.

Hey, I'd ask either way!

Tbf, I DID briefly check, and unseelie DO have an association with stormy weather! Real problem is this game needs actual weather effects (I can dream, right?)

I'd need to check myself. Realistically your concern is valid, and forest is a given and snow is more important since it IS a shadow-leaning fey tome. I suppose what I really should do is tell you to split them into four tomes, one for each fairy.

@Daverin2112
I think I spoiled you by treating you too well xP
Just joking, but sorry I don´t really see that coming.
-theme wise it´s not really fitting to the fey folk. for the "bad" fey (unseelie) maybe swamp would be ok and river to the good ones (seelie). But would need to deepdive a bit into scottish folk tales to varify, as at least in my germanic background fairies are just forests and flowerfields ^^"
-But more important is the balance: stalagmites was ok as it´s just mountains in underground, so no real additinal region. But here it would add a 3rd to 4th region for the SPI, that´s way too universal. Couldn´t find one in my quick check: is there actually a SPI that covers rivers?

Hey Sindir, another request; can the Tome of Unseelie SPI also count for river and/or swamp terrain? Preferably the former, the added synergy with a Storm Giant -> Stormborne play would be neat.

@asamorodov
Sorry that will not happen.
It´s super easy to fix this problem with just deleting one of the rpk of the doubled tome as I explained in the Mod describtion.
Also there is no case of "missing the event" of an update. If this mod got an update and the rpk of the tome is recreated, you´ll just notice a second tome of tides in the game. Then just go and delete it again. This will not break your current match in any way - this can just be done in general most tome mod changes and adds etc. can be done during a play through without any danger.

Woot woot! Hurray for questionable but mechanically satisfying decision making!!!

Thank you so much for updating Astrology! I have an Mystic Earth Giant hiding out in an abandoned toy shop underground, and the update helps cement the flavor I wanted.

@Daverin2112
Just was trying to test out adding tome lore audio to the tomes... but didn´t worked, very frustrating. So good I can do something easy here.
First I was kinda like: nah would this still fit the theme.
But as a dwarf fanboy I´ll just take your reasoning and deliver ;) FIXED!
In worst case they´ll see some gems in the ceiling, they falsely considere stars.
Tome will still work because of Placebo Effect haha!

@Sindir Hey, another Astrology oddity. It applies to mountains, but does not apply to underground Stalagmites.

I can quite imagine you are fine with keeping it this way due to theme, but wanted to confirm if intended behavior. I dunno, maybe they can see a reflection of the stars if they are close enough to the ceiling of the underground! XD

Is it possible to extract Tome of Tides to separate mod?
Because it's hard to check that this mod is updated if I use "Elemental Tomes - Revived" as well.
It's too easy to miss the event and this forcing me to choose between two mods I don't want to do.

I'm thinking Sindir snuck the text change in, too, because it reads exactly the types it shows categories for, now.

Sorry, I’m not explaining myself very well.
I completely understand that you want to stay true to the theme of the book it makes sense and fits the role-play aspect.

What I meant is that visually, for someone who relies only on the spell’s description, they won’t understand why it doesn’t work on their celestial dragon or on a large elemental, etc., since it isn’t specified that elementals, celestials, and so on are excluded.

I hope you see what I mean :)

I just have a build that is mostly Materium but starts with a punch of Astral for affinity tree, and Astrology actually is pretty dang well situated as a starter tome (good buff, a summon even if a bit unique, healing, and a guaranteed research post), and so I was lke "Oh noooo."

Actually already quite cuz wasn't expecting that fast a fix, but its all good! XD Thanks for saving me for a goofy substitute!

@Daverin2112 Fixed! You can just continue with your playthrough and it should count now.
I start to understand why the original creator called his mod BETA,
there are so many cases where entries are just missing. I just don´t get how no one noticed it for so long (including myself as this tome is the only of this mod I use myself xD).
so kudos you did Daverin!

Don't have much to go off of, but I am playing a game with Astrology and the Astral Observatory is not counting as a Research Post for purposes of building an Academy.

@Sheor
Changing texts is (sounds silly) one of the most time intensive things to do xD
So as I think it explaines what the enchantment is doing in a thematically good way, for now I leave like it is. (also the type of effected units under the describtion is there too)
The excluding is with purpose.
F.e. a mechanical Dragon ist not eating living stuff and can´t feel hunger. A celestial giant shouldn´t bow down to his hunger.
Hope you understand what I mean... I want to keep the intention of the mods theme alive.
The change to "large targets" destroys that and softens the borders too much.

Indeed, it seems to be working fine (I’m playing a giant leader to test, and it works on him too). However, the description of “Ravenous Mark” still looks a bit “messy,” but the important thing is that it functions properly.

As for excluding the types you mentioned, won’t that cause issues when a unit has two types at the same time?
For example, Large and Elemental, or like the dragon leader who at some point gains an additional racial type besides Dragon.

@Sheor The unit requírements are a bit wired actually.
F.E. the demigiant requirement still is existing and working. but just not shown in the units overview anymore.
So I left the old ones there as they are still working and added the large target one, so everything is covered. But this way I also had to forbid elemental, construct and celestial, as this is not fitting themewise with them.
Still leave the explanation because it pretty well explains what it´s doing.
Everything should be fixed now in the new version

You should also be careful with the “dragon race” for the spell “Ravenous Mark” (Hunger), because in the description it’s no longer linked to “dragon.” I don’t know if that means it doesn’t work with dragons anymore. lol

@Sheor Haha you´re kinda right, but to be very honest with you I didn´t even noticed that the hero skills are still listed in the preview of a book, ups.
Imagining there might be players who enter the game after the cancelation of tome hero abilities it can be missleading, and yeah having it cleaner is nicer too.
Ok will change that, thx for pointing it out.
You´re welcome, hope you all have fun with it so the work is worth it ;)

Yes, now they’ve put “large target,” probably to make things easier I guess.

As for the hero abilities, couldn’t you just remove the visual part so they don’t show up in the book descriptions anymore, to make it cleaner? (I imagine you probably think it’s pointless.)

Anyway, thanks for the work you’ve done!

@Sheor
Hmm due to the giant kings DLC there might have been some changes to the types. The "half-giants" mentiones are (I think) ogres etc.that shoud be affected by the spell too (like the ogre summon in the tome). But gonna check this. I honestly have no clue of current unit types as I haven´t played since before the giants DLC ^^" just went into the game for mod fixing.
But looks like, as you said "large target" is the way to go.
With the hero abilities: no they don´t work and never will again, because Triumph Studios deleted the function of tome hero abilities long time ago.

Hi, The hero abilities granted by the books don’t seem to work, such as “Emergency Ration” from the Tome of Hunger (I only tested it with a giant leader).
Similarly, for the spell “Ravenous Mark”, the mod description says it applies to half-giants and giants, but in-game it only mentions half-giants.
It should actually apply to giants, since half-giants don’t exist.

Also, the “giant” race trait doesn’t actually exist; it should be “large target”, just like giant-slaying weapons that deal bonus damage against “large targets.”

Thank you for your work on this. I'm glad my report was helpful.

Oh is *that* what was happening sometimes? I use Witchcraft all the dang time and some fights just refused to autobattle without crashing, but manual would go fine. Id actually suspected Elemental Tomes bc it was against someone using those tomes, haha Glad that' fixed! I love this mod so much.

@originaljuke Thx for the bug report! Was the most nasty to fix ^^"
@QuiegVamaro @JakeSlayer the answer was directly under your questions, but yeah it was already working.

Anyway I hereby announce that all mentioned bugs are fixed now!
So the mod and it´s tomes should all be running smooth and are ready for your new play through.
If by any chance you still find any bug actually related to THIS mod, please let me know.
But now have fun!

I should clarify. Auto battle does fine. When I either manually fight, or watch the results of an auto-resolve the game crashes on that ability use.

When I use the witch's accursed link my game hard crashes to desktop. anyone else having that happen?

Still avaible in the griphon update?

Does thing work? I love the tome of hunger to rp as the ogre kingdoms from Warhammer Fantasy.

Oh nice i loved tome of witchcraft, made an entire leader based around that tome and tome of swamps from another mod, i thought this mod was dead sadly nice to see that's not the case

@A Big Hairy Monster Thx for the message, that#s a big relief ^^"
So all bugs collected so far are pretty minor, not game breaking stuff for Seelie Tome: Fairy Fires, Occult Accord and Astrology Tome: prediction: aid
Will fix them later

Loads fine under Griffon. Havent tested extensively, but Tides & Witchcraft worked fine too.

haha true, I should have noticed that, but didn´t played for too long myself ^^"
Anyway I know Lord Vectra will also fix his mods after the official release.
So the death knight tome will be fine soon - hmm so there is still hope there is not much to fix for me :D

@Silent Service: There is no tome of death knight in this mod. You must be mistaken.

sure it will be back ;)
Just a little bit later... I first have to check where problems accure after the release.
Though I really had some hope this time the new DLC wouldn´t crash all my work, but okaaaaay ._.

crashes on griffon update as soon as you try to look at tome of the death knight,...
great mod, hope it´ll be back once new dlc hits!

Have you considered changing the affinities for theTome of Astrology to Astral/Order? That way it would be in line with the upcoming Tome of Prophecy.

Dear author, hello. Occult Accord is marked as a unit enchantment in the spell book, not a transformation. Is there something wrong?

I'm so happy to help! Thanks for your quick response! :)

@HjAa
feels good to hear that, thx ;)
Also thx for the bug report, these tiny things are why I need you guys... It´s barely possible for me alone to find these kind of bug. Currently pretty busy IRL, so may take a while until it´s fixed.

I'm loving these, thanks so much! Came to report that Fairy Fires in the Seelie Tomb also does damage to friendlies, despite saying only to enemies. Thanks for you work!

No worries, I can always delete the file after updates

Thanks for the solution, Sindir :) I also use Elemental Tomes (because you can't have too many tomes :p) and the duplicate tome was the only annoyance. Thank you for your work.

@Mr.Horakhty
The 1 con for this solution is that the deleted tome .rpk likely will be recreated with every update of the mod... like now ^^"
But if all goes as planned there should be only 1 future update here, so not too bothersome

Thanks for the response and solution, much appreciated.