Editing Horn of the Abyss (Changelog) (section)

=== Gameplay ===
[+] Added the Airship, similar to a boat, that allows heroes to fly, as well as the Airship Yard object that allows building Airships (generally not available on RMG templates)

[+] Ancient Altar returned to scenario editor and made a visited object: fighting 25 Haspids for the Horn of the Abyss (banned in RMG by default)

[+] Added a new artifact: Sleepkeeper; grants creatures immunity to mind magic (banned by default)

[+] Added a mechanism that prohibits powerful dead heroes from coming to the tavern. Powerful heroes can only come if no other heroes are available

[+] Erased heroes in the tavern now have movement points, mana, and a number of other parameters updated (as in case of death)

[+] Tavern heroes now have their current army movement points updated (no 2000 heroes)

[+] Stables bonus reduced from 400 to 300 movement points

[+] When spell research is enabled, the Town Portal and Dimension Door do not drop in the normal guild slots without research, but are guaranteed to drop if 3 research attempts have been made before

[+] Hit-n-run ban built into HotA: in two-hero combat, the attacker is forbidden to retreat in the first round of combat after casting a spell

[+] Summoning Earth and Fire Elementals now has the power of [2/2/2.5/3] * SP

[+] Lifted the ban on summoning different types of elementals in the same combat

[+] Wall of Fire: Power damage multiplier increased from 10 to 15

[+] Luna: specialization bonus reduced from 100% to 25%

[-] Conflux: Upg. Magic Lantern now requires the Garden of Life, but does not require the University of Magic

[+] Reduced Imp Cache value from 5000 to 1500

[+] Changed the number of Steel Golems in the Experimental Shop: 20-40-60-80 instead of 25-50-75-100

[+] Changed the Tomb reward from 500-5000 to 1500-4000 Gold
[+] Changed the healing power of the First Aid Tent: 20-25 / 40-50 / 60-75 / 80-100 according to the skill level

[+] Lizardmen: Fight Value: 115 -> 137, AI Value: 126 -> 151

[+] Lizard Warriors: Fight Value: 130 -> 174, AI Value: 156 -> 209

[+] Leprechauns: Fight Value and AI Value: 208 -> 190 (inadequately large coefficient via ability removed)

[+] Changed the standard number of Sea Dogs on the map: 12-18 -> 12-20 (like all Level 3 upgrades; due to this, they can no longer be generated in certain weak guard spots)

[+] Cyclopes can now attack the castle gate if the gate hex has allied creatures standing on it

[+] Wall shooting disabled in the Cyclopes' Alternate Action mode

[+] Bone and Ghost Dragons now transform into Bone Dragons in the Skeleton Converter

[+] Optimized the behavior of AI-controlled shooters in close combat

[+] The Diplomat's Mantle allows ignoring the hit-n-run ban (only for surrender). AI also knows how to use this

[+] Correct ability to surrender with a Diplomat's Mantle in a town if there is no way to retreat added for the AI

[+] AI now does not consider a broken wall to be a reason to give up defending the castle if there is a moat (except when an enemy is already standing in the moat, ready to enter the castle in 1 turn).

[-] Improved AI cast assessment for the Berserk spell

[-] The 6lm10a template now has 5 presets with different road settings, which provides for an acceptable balance and diversity of the road network

[-] h3md1 template: external Taverns, Shrines of Magical Mystery, heroes Solmyr, Aislinn, Thant, Vidomina, Deemer, Ciele, Leena, Giselle banned

[-] 8xm12a template: size of white zones reduced from 20 to 15, old double links removed, links to the center made double. Shrines Of Magical Mystery banned

[-] Mini-Nostalgia template: Dragon Utopia settings are as in 6lm10a: frequency 200, maximum per zone 1 (gold zones: no restrictions). Shrines Of Magical Mystery banned

[-] Apocalypse template: Wanderer's Boots and Shrines of Magical Mystery banned

[-] mt_Diamond, mt_Jebus, mt_TeamJebus, mt_Andromeda, mt_Antares templates: Shrines of Magical Mystery and the hero Giselle banned

[-] 6lm10a, 8mm6a, Spider, Nostalgia, Kerberos, 2sm4d(3), Diamond, Boomerang templates: Shrines of Magical Mystery banned
 
[+] Updated the mt_Firewalk template to v2.0 (but no campaign heroes, Navigation heroes, or Giselle)