Crucible Version 0.9.2 - V14 Alpha 3

Hello friends, and welcome to Crucible 0.9.2! I've been really busy since the last release, but finally had time to focus on Crucible this weekend and I accomplished a lot!

This update focuses somewhat on exploration of the world outside of combat encounters: a brand new Hazard system gives Gamemasters a flexible way to throw environmental challenges at the party, from extreme heat and cold to suffocation and falling, all backed by a draft Exploration rules chapter that I am eager to expand in releases to come.

On the tactical Combat side of things, you'll find automated Swarm mechanics, a much friendlier Action Use Dialog, the ability to safely undo movement with Ctrl+Z, and a long-requested Forced Movement toggle for moments where a creature is required to move as a side effect of some other action.

This update also introduces the first built-in foreign language localizations for the Crucible system (UI translations only, not compendium content) with Polish, Russian, and German being contributed by community members fluent in those languages.

Thank you all for your continued support, feedback, and bug reports - they help make every Crucible release better!

Contributors

Many thanks to the following contributors who added features or improvements as part of this release!

Highlights

The main highlights of the 0.9.2 release include:

A new Hazard system with a powerful HazardDialog and a Configure Hazard macro lets Gamemasters quickly set up environmental challenges that affect the whole party.
A draft Exploration rules chapter introduces formal mechanics for environmental hazards, body temperature tiers, and the new Suffocating condition.
Thermal Vision is now a first-class detection mode, automatically applied by talents and ancestries that grant it.
Torch and Lantern automation finally make light sources behave the way you'd expect, with Lanterns consuming Lantern Oil and Torches as self-consuming consumables.
Automated Swarm mechanics change the way Swarm adversaries fight, making them feel meaningfully different from a single creature.
A new Forced Movement toggle and Ctrl+Z movement undo give Gamemasters and players much better control over the flow of combat.
Three Languages with new built-in localization support: Polish, Russian, and German.
Numerous bugfixes and quality-of-life improvements throughout the system.

New Features

Environmental Hazards and Exploration

Added a powerful HazardDialog that allows the GM to configure and manage environmental hazards affecting the party, similar to a Group Skill Check. #896
Added an Exploration rules page in the system documentation featuring draft rules for Environmental Hazards. #934
Added a Configure Hazard macro to the System Macros compendium pack so a GM can quickly set up a hazard from the hotbar. #982
Added a new Suffocating condition that deals damage over time to both Wounds and Madness. #971
Formalized TEMPERATURE_TIERS for use by both environmental challenges and creature body temperatures. #963
Allowed each Taxonomy and Ancestry to configure the body temperature of that creature type. #964

Vision, Lighting, and Tool Automation

Added a Thermal Vision detection mode for use in Crucible core talents and Ember's Ashka Lineage. #940
Automated the application of Thermal Vision so it activates the corresponding detection mode when appropriate. #967
Added support for Tool actor hooks, allowing equipped Tools (such as a Torch or Climbing Spikes) to modify actor attributes when carried. #969
Automated the new Torch consumable as a tool with an active effect that produces a token light source. #780
The Lantern now consumes Lantern Oil charges, providing a meaningful tradeoff with the self-consuming Torch.
Added automation for several new Equipment items: Gem of Illumination, Focusing Pearl, Electrocharge Ampoule, Frostdrop Phial, Gem of Conjured Flame, and Omniglot Decoction. #910

Movement and Action Use

Added a Gamemaster-only Forced Movement toggle which allows moves that incur no action cost (e.g. tidal wave or Aqueous Transmission), with corresponding System Rules documentation.
#897
Undoing (Ctrl+Z) movement now restores Action Points and Free Movement allowance, properly reverting and deleting the originating movement action. #898
Comprehensive Action Use Dialog improvements: #918
Self-anchored, non-rotatable regions (pulse, aura) now auto-place their preview without requiring a Place Region click. #951
The Use Action button is now disabled when selected targets are invalid. #952
Clicking Use Action without first placing a region or planning movement now prompts for that placement on use. #953
Changing the spellcraft components (rune, gesture, damage type, inflection) no longer deselects targets that remain valid. #950
Improved the mechanics of the Delay action: a delaying combatant now acts before other combatants at the chosen delayed Initiative, with ties resolved by original pre-delay
Initiative. #937
Added the new Investiture default action, which allows actors to activate the Investment state of their equipped items. #954
Added a framework for item Investiture mechanics and corresponding rules content explaining Investment and Investiture. #894
Added an aura target type for self-anchored persistent areas. #903
Treat certain default actions (cast, strike, reactiveStrike, investiture, recover, reload, rest) as automatic favorites, displaying them on the actor sheet by default if available.
#956

API Changes

Added a new prepareToken actor hook that allows talent automation to alter properties of Token data. #966
Added a new prepareMessage action hook that allows specific actions to customize the presentation of their chat message content. #958
Refactored the Rest and Recover action flows to use the full Action event stream, allowing hooks to modify resource and effect changes that accrue during a rest or recovery. #867
Improved CrucibleActor##updateSize to be more frugal for performance and to assign {depth: size} for better V14 support. #973
HUD-toggled status effects now run through the full generator function, supporting related statuses, damage-over-time effects, and other generator features that were previously
unavailable when toggled from the Token HUD. #980
Removed the Ember 0.5.0 compatibility shims; added a small set of talent shims for Ember 0.5.1 forward-compat. #968
Added a dedicated method for recursively allocating and constraining resource changes to an actor.
Added integration with Dice So Nice for damage type customization, exposing DiceTerm.options.type and Roll.options.type so users can configure dice appearances per damage type and
per skill. #919
Improved Initiative Report message integration so modules like Dice So Nice (Force Actor Dice Appearance, Disabled for Initiative Roll) can react to initiative rolls. #932
Improved Group Skill Check rendering with Dice So Nice, smoothing the experience of temporarily hiding group check results until the check has been fulfilled. #931

Content Updates

Added automated Swarm mechanics that tactically change how Swarm adversaries behave in combat. #909
Added the missing Fiend creature type to the Taxonomy Physiology Category selector. #908
Imported adversary talents and equipment from Ember content conversion into the core system compendiums.
Additional system compendium updates pulled in from Ember content conversion.
Added data-no-toc to headers in embedded talent cards so they no longer contribute additional structure to the Table of Contents of Journal Entry Pages within which they are
embedded. #972
Ensured item, action, affix, and talent descriptions are HTML-enriched everywhere they may appear (including image captions and inline previews). #886
Clarified the Throw Weapon description: the +2 banes only apply when the weapon being thrown does not have the Thrown tag. #915
Clarified that Backstab does not require a mainhand weapon and may be performed with the offhand. #935
Clarified in System Rules that flanking bonuses apply only to melee attacks. #936
Clarified the wording of the Bard's Laughing Matter action to specify that the triggering attack must deal no damage and cause no effects. #938

User Interface

Enabled initiating an Actor drag operation from the Party sheet to transfer actors or place them into an area map. #902

Localization

Added built-in support for Polish localization. #930
Added built-in support for Russian localization. #929
Added built-in support for German localization. #928
Cleaned up tech debt around system constant pre-localization, standardizing on defineEnum() and preLocalizeConfig() syntax; the legacy Enum class is now deprecated. #965
Improved localization keys for plural forms across the system, including clearer wounds/madness defense labels.

Bug Fixes

Fixed chat messages for skill checks and attack rolls displaying full result details to non-recipients when sent in blind, GM, or self-whisper modes. #942
Fixed Penetrating Shot's scope to affect all targets, not just enemies. #944
Fixed buying two of a non-stacking equipment item during character creation causing one of the items to disappear when equipping. #948
Fixed Refocus action no longer working when the Talisman item was located in a different inventory section. #947
Fixed reversing an attack against a creature already at 0 Health incorrectly healing that creature. #945
Fixed migration of physical items containing deprecated properties (keen, reach, returning, reliable) leaving invalid entries on the item. #885
Fixed the talisman tag's canUse hook throwing an error by propagating the strike tag instead of assuming it. #881
Fixed status effects added via the Token HUD not appearing on the token. #882
Fixed ActionUseDialog throwing an error when there is no viewed Scene and target designation, region placement, or movement planning is required. #879
Fixed localization issues with ACTOR.GROUP.FIELDS.members.many, CostHand.few, and other plural keys in places where Intl.NumberFormat/Intl.PluralRules was used. #880
Fixed the Returning affix incorrectly causing returning weapons to be unequipped after a throw. #924
Fixed #equipItemAction failing to properly update the equipped slot. #939
Fixed Crucible development mode ID generation incorrectly allowing collision with or reuse of an existing Document ID. #907
Fixed creating a randomized item from an explicit base that already contained affixes erroring if the same affix was redrawn. #906
Increased the height of the requested-actors drop area in the roll dialogue to make it easier to drag a second actor below the first. #893
Ensured the Roll button in the roll dialogue always does something when an actor is selected. #892
Registered the party sheet as an active Application of each Actor member so it automatically re-renders (e.g. Party HP now updates after resting without requiring a sheet reopen).
#891
Stripped ownership data from owned Items configured during character creation so a player continuing creation of a Gamemaster-created Actor no longer encounters an ownership error.
#923
Display the unconstrained grid when working on canvas layers other than the Tokens Layer. #889
Use the actual distance rather than the formatted string distance in the Token Ruler so waypoint labeling no longer fails in certain locales. #926
Display in the Actor inventory explicitly when an item has quantity=0 and remains only as a placeholder. #970
Clean up stale flags.crucible.delay flags on actors when initiative is rolled for a new round or new combat. #974
Fixed clicking on a group roll from a journal entry not initiating the roll. #949
Fixed scoping issue with the _hadTokenHooks cache.
Fixed typos, targeting, and cost on the Aqueous Transmission spell.
Associate non-ephemeral regions with their originating effects so they are properly cleaned up.
Removed a legacy toggleStatusEffect override that conflicted with the new HUD-toggled effect generator path.

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