Scattered Evil 1.8 released – Korax' Heritage

Scattered Evil 1.8 is now available on SourceForge and ModDB.

Purchase a luxurious mansion in a prime urban location that comes with a staff of servants
Unless playing with RPG complexity turned Off, you receive a property sorely in need of improvements, allowing you to unleash your inner decorator
Travel the breadth of the province to buy, steal or otherwise acquire various pieces of furniture and artwork

Press a key and up pops the map of the region or city you are currently in (provided you have that region or city map in your possession), automatically showing your current position on the map
If you don’t have a map of the current region or city, the newly added province map is displayed instead, showing your current position in the world (there is also a switch in Gameplay Options to always show the province map)
Configurable option whether map scrolls should show annotations
The collection of maps in the Journal is newly called the Atlas and it now always contains at least one map at game start (the province map)
Configurable option whether maps in the Atlas should show the current player location
Most Coach Stations now sell maps of the region or city they are located in
Added souvenir stalls at city entrances, selling city maps

Three new dungeon maps: Gonos Fortress, Isle of Ancient Kings, Tomb of Ancient Kings
Updated questlines for class leaders in Thystes Fortress and Thystes Cathedral, now once again requiring the player to travel to a dungeon
New monster type: Afrit Dominator (see the Bestiary for details)
AI and attribute tweaks for several existing monsters

New unified look for the Main, Game and Option menus and their submenus
Pressing J while the Journal is open will now close the Journal, no matter what subpage is open

New and updated 3D models including climbable rope, animated rotisserie chicken and the Crown of Ancient Kings
Status Marks are now available (you can turn them on in the Gameplay Options menu). They show up both in the player HUD and over monster’s heads for things like Berserking, Poisoned, Terror, Mana Burn etc.
Berserker now has a new non-fighter-specific icon, since both the player and some monsters use the same ability
Added a new artifact status icon for torches
New system for tracking hidden mini quests, allowing a rapid expansion of small tasks that reward EXP (targeted at Old School RPG complexity)

Monsters now use the correct sound when poisoned
Artifact status icons are now positioned and animated correctly
Fixed the issue of pressing J while the Journal was open spawning a second Journal instance in the background
Fixed the issue of some of the sailboat routes transporting the player to the wrong destination