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Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands Alpha 0.1 Release

Feb 13, 2009
Wizardry Dragon
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Yes, you read the title right, the first public release of The Feudal Lands is available.

It’s available in a few formats:

  • WIN32 Installer – here (3.96 MB) – Made with NSIS and compatible with any version of Windows past 98.  Simply follow the prompts and it should install the mod properly as long as you give it the proper information.
  • 7Zip SFX archive file – here (5.71 MB) – The entire TFL repository compressed with the PPMd method for maximum compression in a SFX archive that can extract itself.  Unzip under a “mods” directory in your BG install.  IE. C:\ultima\bg\mods\ or /<home>/ultima/bg/mods/ etc.
  • RAR archive file – here (7.32 MB) – The entire TFL repository compressed with the RAR format, a popular Windows archiver. Unzip under a “mods” directory in your BG install.  IE. C:\ultima\bg\mods\ or /<home>/ultima/bg/mods/ etc.
  • Tarball archive file – here (6.2 MB) – The entire TFL repository compressed in a Tarball, popularly used by UNIX and LINUX operating systems. Unzip in a “mods” directory in your BG install.  IE. C:\ultima\bg\mods\ or /<home>/ultima/bg/mods/ etc.

I’ll add a .tar.gz file when cygwin decides to cooperate with me :-)   The downloads page will be updated shortly after this post goes live.

What’s in the Alpha Release?

  • A Completely New Realm: The Feudal Land’s namesake is fully mapped in the chunk form, the broadest form in Ultima VII mapping.  Even without all the items added, it offers an interesting new realm to explore.
  • Redesigned Spellcasting System: allowing NPC spellcasting and also new spells in the future. Currently only Jaana works in the spellcasting system, but Mariah and other companions will work in the future, when certain conditions are met.
  • Karma: the defining aspect of the Avatar has always been the Virtues, and you can always check the quality of your Virtue, or lack thereof, with the seer Chahiero at Castle Britannia.
  • Gypsy intro: The Feudal Lands re-implements the classical Ultima gypsy intro.
  • Properly Functioning Inns: inns will now require room keys to be returned and will clean rooms after the Avatar and his/her party have left.
  • Lock Lake Cleanup: once the Avatar has gotten the bill for the cleaning signed, Lock Lake willslowly get cleaned up by the townspeople of Cove.
  • Several New Item Interactions: the Quests & Interactions patch by Alun Bestor is included in the Feudal Lands and allows several new interactions with the world – forging swords, baking food, churning butter, and many more.
  • A Black Gate Keyring: the Keyring Mod by Marzo Sette Torres, Jr. is also included in the Feudal Lands and adds a quest to receive a keyring in Black Gate, as well as a new party member.

Cheers,

Wizardry Dragon

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Peter Dodge

This post was posted by Wizardry Dragon (Peter Dodge)

Peter M Dodge aka Wizardry Dragon is the Lead Designer of Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands. An avid programmer, he has been involved in deciphering the Usecode that powers the Ultima VII scripting since for several years now, and wrote the very first tutorial in programming it.

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  1. Marzo Junior  •  Feb 13, 2009 @23:07:20

    Until I figure out how I can upload a file to the downloads page here (or if I can even do it), or until Wizardry Dragon does it, a tarball of the v0.1 Alpha Release can be obtained here. This is equivalent to the 7Zip SFX archive.

  2. Wizardry Dragon  •  Feb 14, 2009 @0:09:24

    In the future you are able to upload content through the “edit post” section and “Upload Media” in Site Admin – though it may block certain kinds of content. I’ll put the tarball up on the server proper and append it to the post when I get up in the morning :-)

  3. Pinoy Dragon  •  Apr 25, 2009 @18:54:38

    Excellent! I’ve been following this since I heard about it a few years back. Cheers, and excellent work. I’ll be downloading this in a few minutes.

  4. Dragoon  •  Nov 5, 2009 @13:21:19

    Hey Wizardry Dragon,

    first of all: congratulations and thank you so much for making this!!! I’m such a big fan of U7 BG and SI and couldn’t believe, somebody is making such a great Mod! :)

    Now it’s even worse for me, that it won’t run. I got all the original Game-Files, the Mod and the right Exult Snapshot, but when I start Exult, I click on “show mods” right under “Ultima VII – the Black Gate & Forge…”, then I Click on Feudal Lands, to start your Mod. Now the Game starts normaly, but when I choose “create new Game”, there are graphic-bugs like many squares and stuff right after the red intro lava-thing. To the right is the shore/beach and everything with the sound works fine. I can even change the options and save the game, but nothing else happens. what is the problem? I really want to run your mod correctly!!! :)

    Here is a picture of the issue:

    http://images3.bilder-speicher.de/show.php?type=image_800&id=09110519504719

    Thank you!

    Cheers,
    Dragoon

  5. Wizardry Dragon  •  Dec 7, 2009 @3:39:46

    You appear to have a malformed copy of the game data. Try deleting the GAMEDAT folder under the install path of the Black Gate. If that doesn’t work, delete the map00 stuff in the mod directory, it shouldn’t be there, but that could be the other cause.

    Cheers,
    Wizardry Dragon

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