* The new religion code is now live. The change contains more spells, the ability to link casters, the need to keep your alignment in check by for instance taking confession or holding sermons. Most functionality is like before though. In order to reduce the incitament for everyone to become a priest, priests gain basic body and mind characteristics slower.
* Some changes were implemented to make it easier on newbies like large anvil weight, fireplace heating and less-than-20 skillgain speed.
* Bugs with vehicles/boats and entering caves were fixed so mounts and vehicles shouldn't get stuck or disappear. You've heard it before but this time should be different.
* Champions can take more damage.
* Secondary weapon attacks had a bug which made them attack too often. This has been fixed so test it out on something harmless.
* A lot of other small changes and bugfixes were introduced that should have a positive effect on the game.
* The reason that this is released a few days before christmas is so that we have time to detect any really bad bugs before the holidays. In any case, this update will fix more bugs than it causes.
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* When you lead or ride creatures they no longer should suffocate in rock