Dominions 3: The Awakening Demos

There are three demos, one each for the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

Dominions 3: The Awakening Hot Keys

This is a one-page hotkey list in pdf format (including the hotkeys not listed using the ? command).

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Dominions 3: The Awakening Missing Spells

This is a pdf file of 3 spells missing from the reference guide.

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The patch only works with the full version of the game. 

NOTE: New Linux Version released on June 2, 2008.  Fixes Network problem.  This is version 'b' for Linux only!

• Three new nations inspired by biblical and near eastern giant-myths.
• Hinnom, giants of primordial times and gruesome appetites.
• Ashdod, descendants of the ancient Nephilim.
• Gath, humans led by the last of the giants.
• New spell: Manifest vitriol - summon the green lion of alchemy.
• Shattered Souls - tartarians are insane and might act randomly.
• Some new longdead graphics.
• New modcommands: #speciallook, #hero6.
• Some new events.

Bug fixes and balance changes v3.17:

• Twiceborn no longer makes demons immortal.
• Hidden in sand and hidden in snow spell descriptions fixed.
• Shamblers cost reduction.
• Some unit stat fixes.
• Voice of apsu/tiamat restricted to own provinces.
• Astral/fire shield was overvalued by AI and sometimes overruled scripted spells.
• Recruitment queues was not cleared when castle was conquered.
• Seduction order could be copied to ordinary commanders.
• A non-flying seducer could flee with their victim to an underwater province where they both drowned

New Features v3.15:

• MA & LA Ulm sexier.
• Ulm Iron Faith: Black Priests in MA Ulm, Priest Smiths.
• Iron Faith spells: Iron Darts, Iron Blizzard.
• Iron Angel, MA Ulm summon to battle enemy sacreds and magical beings.
• Guardians got Black Halberds that stun enemy sacreds.
• Ghoul Guardians no longer sacred, but got Black Halberds.
• Halt Heretic: New ability on Iron Angel, Ulrich hero and Lord Guardians.
• Plate armors slightly better. Ulm plate armors more so.
• LA Abysia sexier.
• Slayer cult: Anathemant Slayers, common slayers noncapital.
• LA Anathemants got death magic.
• LA Smoulderghosts sacred.
• Warbreds: huge humanbreds bred for war.
• Late Abysian Hero
• Fossilized Giants, LA Abysian summon.
• Altered spell: Hidden in Snow more expensive and gives more units. Also more effective with luck, magic and turmoil.
• New spell: Hidden in Sand. Summons dust walkers if cast in a wasteland. More powerful in luck, magic and turmoil.
• Altered spell: Flight is personal.
• New spell: Gift of Flight.
• New icons: Halt Heretic, Animal Awe, Spy and Assassin.
• Avalon witch changes: Crones strat move 1, mother and daughter random nature/air.
• New national militia events for UW nations.

Bug fixes and balance changes v3.14:

• Scale spread bug fixed.
• Ermor domkill upped to proper levels.
• Old militia event made rare.
• Peshti got Kite Shields.
• Peshti Spearman strat move 2.
• Bogatyr strat move 3.
• Some more strat move fixes.
• Plague Scythe -> twohanded.
• Exarch and Kosheij got robes.
• Grid Druzhina cold res 50.
• Fivefold Angel stump attack instead of fist.
• Simargl Falchion -> bite.
• Simargl patrol -> 10.
• Bloodlord helmet.
• Rigor mortis no longer affects inanimates.
• nternal Alchemy works properly.
• Demonbred got correct age.
• Forester and Bakemono scout stealth fix.
• Moose Riders cheaper 45 -> 30.
• #coldpower mod command fixed.

New Features v3.14:

• A new late ear nation called Bogarus!
• Bakemono got a new scout. 
• New random events.
• Spell AI: Touch of madness and Berserkers avoids casters and archers to some extent. 
• Spell AI: No longer casts LoS on armorless units. 
• Modding: Increased maximum nbr of descriptions. 
• Modding: Max number of nations and nametypes increased. 
• Modding: New monster commands: #darkpower, #firepower, #coldpower, #stormpower, #fallpower, #winterpower, #summerpower, #springpower, #darkvision, #onebattlespell, #patrolbonus. 
• Modding: New item commands: #newitem, #descr, #weapon, #armor, #type, #name, #copyspr. 
• Modding: New spell command: #nextspell.

Bug fixes and balance changes v3.14:

• MR bless bonus was sometimes displayed incorrectly, fixed. 
• Dominion sometimes spread in incorrect ways, fixed. 
• Legions of Steel bug fixed. 
• 'y'-screen bug fix. 
• Caster of Stygian Paths took 1 point of damage for each unit under his command instead of the units taking the damage. 
• Stygian Paths reported random number of lost on the way
• Ritual cating magic items could malfunction, fixed. 
• Bug preventing more than a hundred sprites or so in mods has been squashed. 
• Several minor fixes to monster stats and magic sites. 
• More magic sites enabled in caves. 
• Scathach got her magic and flight. 
• Hydra sacred all the way. 
• Dance of the morrigans fixed. 
• Setting 1920x1200 resolution didn't work properly, fixed. 

Note 
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Score graphs from old games will disappear when patching to version 3.14.

New Content v3.10 Mega- Patch :

• New nation: EA Fomoria. Enemy of Tir na n'Og. A nation of deformed seafaring Giants.
• New nation: LA Pythium, Serpent Cult. The dom2 theme revamped. Meet the mystery cults and soldiers of the limes.
• Nation remade: MA Mictlan, Reign of the Lawgiver. Sky priests, Moon Warriors, Jade Serpents, new heroes and a pretender.
• Nation Remade: MA T'ien Chi. New units such as apothecaries and geomancers, abilities on several of the old units, new longevity spells, Huli Jing summon, new sprites, conscription more useful.
• New heroes for Agartha, Sauromatia, Eriu, Jomon, Lanka, Marverni.
• Stone beings are now immune from stone sword petrification.
• New horrors
• New event spells: Monster Boar, Send Dream Horror.
• Iron Pigs gives Marverni Iron Boars
• Cave sites, deep sea sites and other sites with a total of 140 new ones
• New bandar summon: Rudra
• New Events
• New icons: diseased, plague carrier, reaper, heretic, healer, poison barbs, reinvigouration, fire power, cold power, storm power, dark power, fortune teller.
• Ko-Oni popytpe added.
• Fir Bolg popytpe added.
• Independent undead apes

Bug Fixes v3.10 Mega- Patch:

• Mac could crash when shift selecting units, fixed.
• Wrong type of local defence under water for some nations, fixed.
• Guru reincarnation bug fixed.
• Some 3.09 heroes with wrong names fixed.
• Monster mod command #reinvigoration didn't work, fixed.
• Weapon mod command #aoe didn't work, fixed.
• Mod command #clearsites didn't work as advertised, fixed.
• Mod command #clearmagic did not work properly on monsters with more than one magic skill, fixed.
• Fixed mod command #secondaryeffectalways.
• Fixed battlefield location on cave battlegrounds.
• Magic scale restrictions for random events didn't work, fixed.
• Magic units without magic leadership fixed.
• Undead units without undead leadership fixed.
• Shuten Doji friendly sleep fix.
• Shuten Doji sleep effect increase.
• Horticulturist no longer harvests his crops with firebrand.
• Tombwyrm & chariot summoning works
• Unholy bless fix.
• Bean Sidhe (undead) enc 0.
• Summon Bean Sidhe fix.
• Seer King enabled.
• Some PD fixes
• Some nation brief_descr fixes

Other Stuff v3.10 Mega- Patch:

• Edi's Great description-fixing.
• New screen resolution 1920*1200 supported.
• Raise dead didn't work properly with corpses from plagues etc. Fixed.
• Ammit -> commander.
• Rain Moddable
• 'Z' cannot be used to steal from mercs.
• Demonbreds not truly demons to disable their unthematic reanimation.
• Deva pretender increased undead leadership
• Magic items on dead people no longer prevents reforging.
• Golem cult statues got darkvision
• Male seducers now seduces females instead of males.
• Cost changes to several units including Shadow vestals, Jaguar warriors, Marverni warriors.
• Troglodyte reduced mr.
• All Mictlan troops forest survival.
• Tempest warriors lost ice prot.
• Indep grimoire slightly improved.
• Hydras remade with 9 heads.
• Maenad new sprite.
• Maenad forest survival.
• MA van home only. Gold cost increase.
• Animal and vegetable names
• Cave sites separated from mountain sites
• Cave province names
  
  
  And some other stuff...

Bug Fixes, Tweaks, Enhancements v3.08:

• New Nation: Tir na n'Og - Land of the Ever Young
• New Nation: Eriu - Last of the TuathaMod Squad!
•  New mod commands: #spreaddom, #nobadevents, #incunrest.
• Enforce some rules for #itemslots modding to prevent weird bugs in mods.
• #siegebonus didn't work (Fixed)
• #copyspell didn't work (Fixed)
• Dragonflies' strength changed from 0 to 1 and they can now inflict damage.
• Burden of Rime caused severe damage to diseased non-old people (Fixed)
• LA Atlantis could not continue fort construction (Fixed)
• (Fixed) Cave battlegrounds.
• Mod that modified a monster's magic skills could lock up the game (Fixed)
• #defaultmapzoom saved when editing maps.
• (Fixed) Cave symbol that disappeared in version 3.06.
• Some Tuatha and sidhe stat fixes.
• Some sidhe magic skill fixes.
• A few description fixes.
• Light weight scale mail increased res cost.
• Svartalf home only
• Can use monthly cast multiple site search spells of the same type.
• Some monsters were not always unparalyzed properly (Fixed)
• Ritual of Rebirth didn't work with 15 size Hall of Fame (Fixed)
• Wild Hunt and some more spells were buggy when attacking besieging armies (Fixed)
• Magic site fixes, armor fixes, age fixes, hero fixes, unit fixes.
• Y could be used to find undiscovered castles (Fixed)
• No looming devils underwater.
• Summon barghest and black dogs switched
• Province defense overflow fix
• Esc works when right side menu is hidden
• H-shortcut didn't work (Fixed)
• Marverni and me Man temples cost 200
• Mind hunt could crash the game. (Fixed)
• N?got gick fel: No space left on bg - bug fix (Fixed)
• Mirror image (and glamour) does not protect units from missiles or magic.
• Blade wind reduced # o e
• Flaming arrows increased path lvl.
• Sloth scale -> 15% / step
• Kala-Mukha warrior and Palankasha increased cost
• Ulm EA archers not stealthy.

Bug Fixes, Tweaks, Enhancements v3.06:

• Universal binary for Mac OS X.
• Fixed some typos.
• New spell for Man.
• Name fixes for late era T'ien Chi.
• Name fix for some Abysian humanbreds.
• Darkness did not work properly regarding  demons.
• Modding: new commands: #domsummon, #domsummon2, #domsummon20.
• Modding: new commands: #summon1, #summon5, #makemonster1-5.
• Modding: #copy renamed to #copyspell in manual as well.
• --noscoregraphs works.
• Dreams of R'lyeh could hang the game if cast upon a province with only mindless commanders.
• Hippocampoi Fields summoned a human soldier who immediately drowned, fixed so it summons a hippocamus instead.
• Miasma dominion affected C'tis income badly as well.
• Modding manual updated.
  Modding: Resistances can be modded to exceed 100%.
• Modding: can disable nation with #era 0.
• Modding: new commands: #seduce, #succubus, #charge.
• --mapsbcol didn't work. (FIXED)
• Defense commanders didn't receive mirror image properly. (FIXED)
• Dragon mastery ability could disappear unexpectedly. (FIXED)

Bug Fixes, Tweaks, Enhancements v3.04:

• New nation
• New map by Jason Lutes 
• Cave provinces supported
• New map command #allowedplayer
• Some typos fixed
• Iron Walls didn't work
• Seduction message fixed
• More special effects displayed in weapon info box
• New spell mod command to restrict spells to certain nations
• Modding manual updated
• Mod command #defmult1b etc, didn't work with value 20
• Fire Arrows didn't work for small bow, chakram or shuriken
• Can send larger maps over network
• Fix for map download on linux and osx
• Added some popups in random map creator
• Fixed Fata Morgana crashing
• Fixed memory overwrite bug
• Improved handling of corrupted turn files from dom3 server
• Doom horrors could eat people without any reason, fixed
• Monkey reanimation for Lanka, Kailasa, Bandar log and Patala
• Atlantian ME heroes enabled
• Deepthought agarthan EE hero enabled
• Traitor Prince R'lyeh hero enabled
• Mictlan heroes enabled
• Eagle priest removed from mid era
• Oni cost lowered
• Vetala touch of madness resistible
• Spectral shield for legionnaires and ganas
• Devala summon for monkeys
• Glutton icon
• Enchantment icon for rain fixed
• Demons can see in the dark
• Various minor stability improvements.

Bug Fixes, Tweaks, Enhancements v3.01:

• Great Lion size 3.
• Atlantian spearmen correct age and darkvision.
• Shark knight have correct resource cost
• Doom horrors less common.
• Indep lizard warriors base prot ->3
• Curse of stones affects only enemies in accordance with the manual
• Wands no longer gives Chest Wounds
• Sharpest tooth has correct stats
• Nagini seduction fix
• Polypal mother no longer ethereal
• Event gives city and not motte-and-bailey
• Mesmerize confuses/enrages target instead of enslaving
• Triton recruitable in coastal kappa province fixed
• Blessing can affect sacred undead.
• All era gians gets longdead giants and soulless with reanimation and similar spells.
• All era caelum soulless fix
• All era ctis undead fix
• Eater of the dead fix
• Darkvision fixed
• Some nation description fixes
• Tungalik dagger -> quarterstaff
• No uw conscription for tien chi
• Mod commands for sites: #gold, #res
• Mod command: #ressize
• Building of cave castle no longer produces simple hillfort
• #castledef, #maxage, #startage, #older mod commands work properly
• #owner fixed. Limit 25 removed
• Weapon modding #cold, #fire, #shock, #secondaryeffect, #secondaryeffectallways didn't work properly
• New weapon mod command: #poison
• Lava warrior also had prec and enc swapped
• Polypal Mother and some more are now female.
• Nethgul no longer tries to kill his wielder.
• More visible up/down arrow for scrolling commanders.
• Fixed bug with cheat detection and alchemist's stone.
• God epitet's could be cut off, fixed.
• Ardmon's Soul Trap didn't work as advertised.
• Tempest would crash the game if used in meele.
• Possible to enter site ou ydon't own, fixed.
• Max possible Dominion victory value increased.
• S?s and Kirke and Kurgi have correct name.
• Alcastor has correct priest lvl.
• No more free kappas in UW fortresses
• Watcher darkvision -> 100
• Hog knight is now mounted.
• Atlantis hero size -> 4
• Flame corpse construction works now.
• Azure mages are amphibious
• Leviathan only castable under water
• No longer possible to recruit city of tombs units if you're not ctis
• Helhirding only recruitable from site (and double display removed)
• Dwarven smith only recruitable from site (and double display removed)
• Stargazer no feet
• Burning one had prec and enc switched
• Bitch queen crone shape has nature 1
• Ram's Head got prot 2
• Tribe warriors increased to 10 gold
• Jaguar tribe slinger hide shield
• Druids had low stats and age - stats increased a bit
• Map editor fixes.
• GUI performance improvments.
• Improved spell modding.
• New mod commands #uwfort, #deepfort.
• Modding manual updated.
• Map edit manual updated.
• Guru gets rid of all afflictions when he gets a new body.
• Message for guru reincarnation into new body.
• Lure of the deep was castable over water, fixed.
• Modding command #nratt didn't work.
• When Charcoal Shield is replaced by the Champion's Trident, Fire Shield effect isn't removed. Fixed.
• 't' screen got top right exit button as well.
• On the F1 Nation Overview screen, clicking on a province name with a province number higher than 1000, causes a magic site description to be displayed, fixed.
• The Mummification spell available from Amon Hotep shows as no description available, fixed.
• Windows alt-tab improvements.
• Knights only attack in mid or late age
• 60 gold event -> 100 gold
• Merman scout cost -> 25
• Utg岤 cold preference -> +1
• Daidalos got hammer
• 10+ new gold generating events.
• Horror Seed spell could lock up the game.
• Correct game name in credits.
• No more snowfall events under water.
• Gateway fixed.
• VP crowns disappeared at edges, fixed.
• More than 1 VP / province wasn't displayed properly, fixed.
• Glamour ability doesn't give mirror images to PD units or leaders at the start of combat, fixed.
• If you use a 5 digit port for hosting a game the port number is not saved correctly, fixed.
• Starting a new game with a random map but with same name as last game resulted in a bad map, fixed.

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