Archaeology Kit 2.0b6, Patreon Preview

This is the version 2 release candidate (finally!). New in this build: artifact system support for Copperdale, bug fixes. Apologies to anyone who went to the trouble to dig on Sixam, found evidence of ancient astronauts, but ended up with an empty dirt clump. Fixed that.

I also hid the Komorebi Watercolor painting from now from being found. If you already have one, it will remain, but due to the issues with getting it on the archaeology bench for authentication, I don’t want to keep having it found. Reminder, if you want to instantly authenticate any relic, whether it is on the bench or not, you can use the shift-click cheat menu on the artifact itself, and choose Authenticate Immediately.

If you just joined recently, you can get a rundown of all of the new features by checking out all the past version 2 beta test pages. I’ve tried to make sure that there’s ‘in game’ documentation in the form of explanatory notifications, notebook entries and actual Tutorial Lessons as well. Go to a museum, introduce yourself to the Museum Docent, and Ask About the Simsonian Institute to get started on the mission-career features of the mod.

I’m feature-freezing this until I release version 2 publicly. Probably about a week if nobody finds any problems with this build. I still have a whole list of ideas, and even started to add some new things, but want to open it up since it’s been so long since I started talking about it. I'll put them in version 2.1 someday. :D

2.0 Release Change Log

• 6/23/2022, 2.0b, First beta preview release
• 6/26/2022, 2.0.1b, Beta preview release, added Send Away for Authentication interaction, more Moonwood Mill integration, added the ability to sell artifacts to Museum Docents.
• 7/7/2022, 2.0.2b, New Sulani cultural artifacts, relic bug fixes and improvements, improvements to museum docent situation, improvements to Study for Historical Insights interaction, Brindleton Bay mission objective label corrected
• 7/17/2022, 2.0.3b, Fixed Ancient era mission objective for Forgotten Hollow, further work on archaeology dig social event and museum docent interactions, increased chance of finding relics on specific lots from 1:25 to 1:15, some missions moved from level 2 to 3 in the museum archaeologist mission career, additional bug fixes
• 7/22/2022, 2.0.4b, Converted Yacothian Armor and Komorebi Scroll to relics, finished drafts of three tutorial sections, bug fixes to relic interactions, as well as additional ones
• 7/27/2022, 2.0.5b, Minor fix for patch 1.90.358, added DeathEater trait for vampires who read the Ordinary Necromancy relic
• 8/7/2022, 2.0.6b/RC1, Added support for Copperdale in region artifact mapping and local history interactions, bug fixes

As always, feedback is greatly appreciated!