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- Phase spiders are now more reliably phased.
- Dream wrens found outside of Chavvah are now part of the birds faction.
- You now always start with a method of seeing in the dark when entering a waking dream.
- Waking dreams now wait until you return to the main gameplay screen to end, so for example your dream does not end in the middle of a conversation.
- Juking now counts as movement for the cooling effects of blaze tonic.
- Burgeoning and Temporal Fugue no longer play the gain follower sound effect for each summoned creature.
- You now only ask the wild-eyed water merchant about Mamon Souldrinker if you have Raising Indrix.
- The game now recognizes ciderer Erah as a proper noun.
- The Barathrumites are now called if you get in .
- The flowers in are no longer flammable.
- Quest objects are now more consistently reachable.
- Tents made out of creature skins should be improperly capitalized less often.
- Removed an outdated section in the help files about different melee weapon types having different penetration values.
- Fixed a bug that allowed Fix-It spray foam to repair permanently broken objects.
- Fixed a bug that caused waydroids in adjacent zones to be hostile even if you had a droid scrambler.
- Fixed a bug that caused adjacent scrambled waydroids to count as hostile for the purpose of calculating wildfire for missile weapons.
- Fixed a bug that prevented item-based quest steps from completing when you obtained the item via tinkering.
- Fixed a bug that caused interactable quest objects to sometimes spawn in cells with other furniture, rendering them hard to see or interact with.
- Fixed a bug that caused nocturnal apex durations to be half as long as intended.
- Fixed lots of misspellings and other errors in generated text.
- Fixed lots of misspellings and other errors in non-generated text.
- Fixed a pronoun issue with Asphodel.
- Skills marked as ExcludeFromPool are now excluded from warm static rolls.
- Attempting to register for string events on XRLGame or using a handler other than IPart and Effect now outputs a warning.
- A GenericCommandEvent can now be queued for next action manager segment using GameEventCommand.
- A map of mod "Exclusions" can now be defined in manifest.json directories, skipping the directory if any of the listed mods is active.
- The DroppedEvent now has a static Send method.
- Fixed a bug that caused AwardingXPEvent to only propagate to game systems.
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