General

• New game setting for automatic/easy scouting. This allows inspection of enemy armies without having a nearby observer, and disables the scouting logic limiting available information.
• The following Wizard Racial Traits now unlock city religious building dedications: Faerie, Celestial, Demon. The corresponding 'Worship' cult is available
• Corrupted province data in custom maps can now be fixed by loading and saving the maps in the editor
• Custom Map input field is now clickable
• Provinces are now highlighted when editing provinces in the Editor
• The tool tip on Favor/Wroth in the Deities panel is now limited to 10 lines of change history.

• Medium Mana Node now gives 6 Mana per Turn, and costs 450 Mana to Bind.
• Channeling nows give +1 to +5 Mana per Turn based on the size of the Mana Node.
• Animate Weapons can no longer be cast during the first turn of battle
• Shardstorm and Boulderstorm now log whether they applied the modifier or not (and were also tweaked slightly)
• Magma Elementals no longer have themselves as a requirement for research
• Added missing Mastery bonuses to the following Research: Ravenous Symbiote, Aquatic Symbiote
• Added Orb of Seeing Golem Trait - Scouting +2, +1 Ranged Attack Skill

• Reworked the calculation and display of Melee and Ranged Skill for unit attacks.
• If all units in an Army have Flying, it ignores terrain type movement costs
• If all units in an Army have Flying or Limited Flying, it halves terrain type movement costs (but now below 1)
• Non-Major Faction AI no longer has the mysterious ability to attack already destroyed/disbanded armies
• Army roles now give passive XP to characters below level 3
• All Army offices now gain XP from battles (Quartermaster only on victory)

• Greatly increased XP from dungeon expeditions
• Increased base travel speed by 200% for purposes of dungeon expedition travel speed
• Character traits now affect expedition movement speed: Cautious -15%, Lazy -20%, Energetic 20%, Reckless 10%, Survival 25%, Tracking 50%, Rogue +25%
• Character movement speed is now based on race, but is minimum 4

• Excavation Projects now actually have an effect. Ruins have also been made more common so there is actually something to excavate. You can get some resources and/or research progress from excavations. There is a risk of angering Deities. If Sinister or Deadly wilderness is chosen there is also a chance of unleashing monsters.
• Workers are now unassigned on the conquest of a site
• Outpost into settlement upgrade now uses culture from workers if the overseer has a special culture. Special culture characters are no longer blocked from being overseers (they still need civic or survival)
• The sum of Religion power in a City can no longer add up to more than 100%
• Added a new cultural City building, Warrior Lodge: Inner Circle, which unlocks Elite units
• Added a new cultural City building, Grand Arena, which has a significant Unrest reduction (requires Arena)
• Added new cultural City buildings related to hunting: Hunting Lodges, Fur Market, Bone Carvers
• Tweaked a number of City building stats
• City religious buildings dedicated to Mysticism are now available if the Culture has the Mysticism trait
• City religious buildings dedicated to Eldritch Cultism are now available if the Culture has the Madness trait

• Quick start options are now only shown when relevant (ie when quick start is enabled)
• Quick start: Removed 7 opponent option (as it was causing crashes)
• Fixed a number of bugs in religious building availability checks for Cities - it will now include those represented by unaligned and city-friendly Religious-type character, those with positive cultural affinity and those with 3%+ power in the city.
• Fixed an editor crash related to the river tool
• Fixed golem attribute calculation to handle temporary stats underflow/overflow
• Fixed custom golems being recruited with type: train and not type: create
• Fixed a number of units not contributing to mastery progress and a few new cases
• Fixed a crash related to battle spell casting
• Fixed emissary XP being incredibly strange and unfair
• Fixed skirmishers deploying strangely
• Fixed missing mouse wheel-scroll in the Mastery grid
• Fixed an issue with some custom maps (the editor could leave remnants of empty provinces)
• Fixed an issue with using Steam workshop mods when not having a mods folder
• Fixed "missing upkeep" spam messages
• Fixed Orichalcum-infused armor not applying effects correctly
• Fixed the Turn counter being shown in editor mode
• Fixed character clan affiliation not being saved correctly
• Fixed military window recruitment options not being shown correctly in Queue Mode
• Fixed Paving the Way and Veins of Civilization incorrectly calculating shortest path disregarding hypothetical future bridges
• Fixed an issue where emissaries could become "sticky" and keep the office even when assigned to another task
• Fixed an issue where two categories of conditional unit stat modifiers were not applied
• Fixed an Achievement not triggering if conquering the seat of power of a Warlord if it was a Fortress
• Fixed Conflagration of Souls not working properly
• Fixed recruitment modifiers having double cost, which gave some unexpected and incorrect "cannot afford this" prompts when recruiting
• Fixed a number of spelling errors and incorrect tooltips