Forge Beta: 3-14-2015 ver 1.5.37

[Chris H.]

Forge Beta: 3-14-2015 ver 1.5.37


14514 cards in total.


Release Notes

Fix bug in default preferences causing game to crash.


- New Dragons of Tarkir cards -
We have added a branch to our SVN for the new cards that are currently being scripted. These cards are not yet available in this build of forge. Please be patient and they will soon become available.


- Canceling Delve now refunds exiled cards -
If you cancel casting a spell after selecting cards to Delve, the selected cards will no longer get exiled.


New Dragons of Tarkir branch Cards

Dragons of Tarkir branch Cards list | Open

Acid-Spewer Dragon
Aerie Bowmasters
Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
Anticipate
Arashin Foremost
Artful Maneuver
Atarka's Command
Aven Sunstriker
Blood-Chin Fanatic
Boltwing Marauder
Collected Company
Crater Elemental
Cunning Breezedancer
Den Protector
Descent of the Dragons
Display of Dominance
Dragon Tempest
Dragon Whisperer
Dragonlord Atarka
Dragonlord Dromoka
Dragonlord Kolaghan
Dragonlord Ojutai
Dragonlord Silumgar
Dragonlord's Servant
Encase in Ice
Enduring Scalelord
Epic Confrontation
Foe-Razer Regent
Gudul Lurker
Harbinger of the Hunt
Haven of the Spirit Dragon
Hidden Dragonslayer
Ire Shaman
Kolaghan's Command
Lightning Berserker
Marang River Skeleton
Mirror Mockery
Narset Transcendent
Necromaster Dragon
Ojutai Exemplars
Ojutai's Command
Ojutai's Summons
Pristine Skywise
Profound Journey
Radiant Purge
Roast
Ruthless Deathfang
Sandcrafter Mage
Sarkhan Unbroken
Sarkhan's Triumph
Savage Ventmaw
Shaman of Forgotten Ways
Shieldhide Dragon
Shorecrasher Elemental
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
Silumgar Assassin
Silumgar Butcher
Silumgar's Command
Sprinting Warbrute
Stormcrag Elemental
Stormwing Dragon
Stratus Dancer
Sunbringer's Touch
Sunscorch Regent
Surge of Righteousness
Swift Warkite
Thunderbreak Regent
Warbringer
Zurgo Bellstriker

New ORI branch Cards

Liliana, Heretical Healer


Known Issues

Issues list | Open

- Fate Reforged cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Fate Reforged cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

- Commander 2014 cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Commander 2014 cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

- New Khans of Tarkir cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Khans of Tarkir cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

- Continued Work on Conspiracy -
Conspiracy is one of the strangest sets that have been released in some time. Currently, we have a few of the "Draft matters" cards scripted, although you'll find that they won't quite be available to you (unless you add them manually into a draft deck). Hopefully we'll get the appropriate functionality in so we can start including them in boosters and allowing you to add Conspiracy type cards straight to your deck the way you do every other variant card. We'll make sure to point out when all of these kinks have worked themselves out.

- The Mac OS application version -
We can now package Forge as a Mac OS application. You can double click the Forge.app icon to launch the forge application on your Apple computer running Mac OS. This application will automatically increase the java heap space memory for you as it launches. This version does not require the forge.command file and it does not need to start the Terminal application as part of the start up process.

The Mac OS X app version apparently requires the Mavericks OS and is not compatible with earlier OS X versions. People with earlier OS X versions should use the Windows and Linux version and launch forge on their Mac by double clicking on the included "forge.command" file.

- Magic 2015 cards -
It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

- Conspiracy cards -
Forge now includes many of the new Conspiracy cards. It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

- Commander 2013 cards -
It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

- Born of the Gods cards -
It may take a few days/weeks before these new card pictures become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Card Pictures" button. The LQ set pictures tend to take a few more weeks/months to process before they become available for downloading via the "Download LQ Set Pictures" button. Please be patient. The Forge devs are not involved in maintaining the servers that house these pictures.

There is a known issue with the cost reduction for cards that have color-locked X in their mana cost (e.g. Drain Life, Soul Burn). Cost reduction will not apply correctly to these cards if the amount by which the cost is reduced is greater than the amount of colorless mana in the mana cost specified on the card (e.g. 1 for Drain Life, 2 for Soul Burn). Fixing this issue likely requires rewriting the way announced color-locked X is interpreted and paid (most likely it has to be represented with colorless mana shards but still locked to the colors required by the card).

Several people have noticed that the cards displayed on the battlefield will fail to be displayed when the number of cards on the battlefield increases. Maximizing the human panel can help to re-display the cards.

Some time was spent turning the static ETB triggers into the proper ETB replacement effects they should be, mainly to interact correctly with each other. This work is not yet finished. As a result there is currently some inconsistencies with "Enters the battlefield with counters" (Not incredibly noticeable).

A recent contribution to the code base should fix some of the bugs that people noticed with cloning type abilities. At this time there is one remaining issue that we hope will be addressed in the near future:
Copies of cards that setup Zone Change triggers via addComesIntoPlayCommand and addLeavesPlayCommand will not function correctly.

The Forge archive includes a readme.txt file and we ask that you spend a few minutes reading this file as it contains some information that may prove useful. We do tend to update this file at times and you should quickly read this file and look for new information for each and every new release. Thank you.

The archive format used for the Forge distribution is ".tar.bz2". There are utilities for Windows, Mac OS and the various *nix's that can be used to extract/decompress these ".tar.bz2" archives. We recommend that you extract/decompress the Forge archive into a new and unused folder.

Some people use the Windows application 7zip. This utility can be found at http://www.7-zip.org/download.html. Mac users can double click on the archive and the application Archive Utility will launch and extract the archive. Mac users do not need to download a separate utility.

Contributors to This Release

Agetian
DrDev
elcnesh
excessum
Gos
-gz
Hellfish
jlands
Marek14
Myrd
Sloth
Sol
Swordshine
Xitax
Chris H


(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
(Thanks to the MAGE team for permission to use their targeting arrows.)
(Thanks to http://www.freesound.org/browse/ for providing some sound files.) 

The Forge 3/14/2015 Windows and Linux archive (requires java 7):
 

forge-gui-desktop-1.5.37.zip

(92.1 MiB) Downloaded 5484 times

Forge 3/14/2015 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application (requires java 7 and Mavericks OS X):

forge-gui-desktop-1.5.37.osx.zip

(92.14 MiB) Downloaded 344 times

 

[Chris H.]

I tried to upload the two archives as an attachment and received the following message:

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

[Chakan]

Where is the download?

Edit: Ah, got a forum problem?

[sagephoenix]

I tried to upload the two archives as an attachment and received the following message:

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

Didn't you use to host the file on a website. Cardforge or something like that?

[Chris H.]

Building and deploying release after release can become very taxing over the years.

Dave built a Maven based build and deploy system a few years ago to reduce the amount of work and time spent on my part. I was given a couple of Maven goals that were placed inside of two shell script. I would launch one of the shell scripts and either a snapshot or a beta archive would be created and uploaded to the cardforge site in an automated process.

Over the last year I have noticed that the snapshot build and deploy shell script would complete successfully but the beta build and deploy shell script would terminate early in a failure. This would prevent the beta archives from being uploaded to the cardforge site.

I would search my computer and find that the archives had been created on my computer. I would then have to repackage them as a zip archive and then attach them to the beta release message.

[sagephoenix]

Building and deploying release after release can become very taxing over the years.

Dave built a Maven based build and deploy system a few years ago to reduce the amount of work and time spent on my part. I was given a couple of Maven goals that were placed inside of two shell script. I would launch one of the shell scripts and either a snapshot or a beta archive would be created and uploaded to the cardforge site in an automated process.

Over the last year I have noticed that the snapshot build and deploy shell script would complete successfully but the beta build and deploy shell script would terminate early in a failure. This would prevent the beta archives from being uploaded to the cardforge site.

I would search my computer and find that the archives had been created on my computer. I would then have to repackage them as a zip archive and then attach them to the beta release message.

Ah, makes sense. I wondered what ever happened to that.

[Sloth]

I tried to upload the two archives as an attachment and received the following message:

Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached.

Did you try deleting attachments of old beta posts?

If it doesn't help, we should contact Goblin Hero.

[demeitri1]

where is the dl link?

[VladVoivode]

where is the dl link?

http://www.krazyweb.net/forge/

This contains a snapshot build of the most recent Forge. It's not listed under releases but until this attachment thing gets sorted, this is an option I would presume and admins please correct me if I am mistaken.

[jmlima]

Quick question, are suspend cards working again?

[oskarolw]

Quick question, are suspend cards working again?

They were in some 1.5.37 snapshot i tried.

[musicexam]

Not sure if a bug, or I've been away from the game for too long. How do I cast cards with alternative costs? E.g. I tried casting Force of Will and Gush with the alternative costs, but left- or right-clicking on it just shows the default cost payment in the prompt window.

[horsekateer]

Marchesa, the Black Rose does not have the proper rules text and effect in the game. She should read: "Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

The version in forge is missing the "under your control" part.

[elcnesh]

Not sure if a bug, or I've been away from the game for too long. How do I cast cards with alternative costs? E.g. I tried casting Force of Will and Gush with the alternative costs, but left- or right-clicking on it just shows the default cost payment in the prompt window.

Nope, definitely a bug. Fixed in the latest snapshot

(The answer btw is just clicking on the card )

Edit:

Marchesa, the Black Rose does not have the proper rules text and effect in the game. She should read: "Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

The version in forge is missing the "under your control" part.

Also fixed!

[jace 0844544820]

Where is the link to download