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SOME INFO ABOUT THE UPCOMING UPDATE

PATCH 1 OF UPDATE 7

Update 7: Doubling the Content
Please read everything on the update post (click link above)

"Wanna gamble? ..."

What's new?

• 7+ New Locations
  • Hawton Mine
  • An Ice Cave
  • Odul Aela's Dungeon
  • Ancient Ruins (Inner Part)
  • Transition Part I & II
  • Snowy Landscape
  • Above the Waste
  • Ashes
• A New Enemy Type -- Chthonic Crystals
• Completely Reworked the Previous Content
  • Changed 'Shard Quest' -- Quest will be initiated by picking up the first shard; Quest progress will update only when all segments are found; No NPC-interaction required to complete the quest.
  • 'Balanced' the fun items -- The Rusty Knife increases experience gain by 250%; The Bomber requires expensive special ammunition to not annihilate the holder (don't exploit this!); I'm Attractive makes you extremely squishy, but attractive; Illuminated Hat does what it does; Sword In Stone got tuned down; Removed Don't Touch Me, Smelly Pants (You can still sniff the filthy peasant) and Flashy Shoes.
  • Denial Play-Through -- You may now access the Redemption Hub when you are higher than level 85 for a high fee, but you won't be able to receive iron bits from the Lectern of Wisdom anymore, so you might actually save your iron bits to be able to buy anything there.
  • Added new level rewards to the Lectern of Wisdom -- Besides some new higher level rewards, all Talismans (Relics) have been added as rewards.
  • Balancing of existing quests, including the Lectern of Questing.
  • Environmental improvements -- as in Music; Sounds; Weather; Expanded the Yamuna Forest a bit; Changes to the Graveyard and Entrance to the Catacombs.
  • Dialog & Text rewriting and improvements -- Renaming of many NPCs; Rewriting of nearly all dialogs and quests, leading to less cringe and better readability.
  • A new NPC added to Edge of Eternity. Pet it.
  • Changes to enemy encounters / placements -- Relocating and removing many encounters, for example Alkamos; Making encounters less chaotic and drastic; Reduced the difficulty of the first area.
  • Chests -- Balancing loot from chests and adding many new ones to the world (~10-15 new variations; an example: jewelery boxes); Hidden One-Shot chests added (currently 11).
  • New Quest -- a small new quest given by the Woman at a Campfire, now named Yosefine (will reward Mistborn Talisman, since you could not acquire it till now).
  • Quite a lot of other changes and fixes

Read up more on the update post.

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Update 6: Expansion Update
Please read everything on the update post (click link above)

What's new?

Spoiler!

• New Location -- Underground Fortress
  • The Underground Fortress is a small extension to the current hub, Edge of Eternity
  • New merchants with all items which were added with the new expansion, Ashes of Malmouth, are located there, as well as the new faction merchants and an illusionist
• New way to play!
  • You can now easily switch to the main campaign with your character created within Nydiamar
  • Use the second mod entry at the main menu, called 'NydiamarMainCampaign', to switch campaigns
  • Restart the game before switching the campaign! (the correct world map only loads after a restart)
• Changes to the World
  • Increased the level cap to 100. This is optional -- you still can play a level 85 character as before
  • Updated all items and enemies to their current version (as in: they now include all balance patches / changes which came since last year and are now up-to-date)
  • Updated many textures and assets placed in the world with new ones from the expansion (as well as music)
  • Balanced some enemy encounters, new encounter in the Tomb
  • Dialog changes / improvements & more chests in the world, as well as some changes to loot / drop rates (better chance to drop uniques on Ultimate)
  • Some fixes, including Vision Quest Sphere & Canister Skill (which accidentally got the nuke effect from 'Bomber')

The expansion 'Ashes of Malmouth' is now required.

You need to disable reflections (set them to off in the options)!

Read up more on the update post.

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Update 5: Tomb
Please read everything on the update post (click link above)

"It's dark down there ..."

What's new?

Spoiler!

• New Location -- The Tomb
  • The Tomb is located at the Old Graveyard. I hope you enjoy smashing urns.
• Changes to the World / Polish
  • Rewrote some dialog
  • Changed some of the background music and sounds
  • Changed some lighting and 'colors' of some areas
  • Balanced some enemy encounters
  • Added a stash and an anvil (for crafting) to Edge of Eternity
  • Some other minor things ...

Read up more on the update post (which is more detailed and offers some pictures).

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Update 4: Strange Well
Please read everything on the update post (click link above)

"I name it 'Immortal Bastard' ..."

What's new?

Spoiler!

• Strange Well -- A challenge dungeon
  • The dungeon offers three unique challenges. Each one is required to be completed to unlock the final area. Successfully surviving the final event unlocks the treasure room, which yields a huge amount of loot. Those are the challenge rooms:
    • Elements
    • Haze
    • Bamboozled
• Added the so called 'Head-Start' option
  • It lets you start with level 15 or level 45 instead of level 1
  • Each option nets you some uniques and materials to start out
• Reworked the 'You want to be overpowered' option
  • You will now receive custom equipment with modified 'over the top' skills
  • Some armor comes with different variations (visually) to offer a bit of customization
  • Everything is modular, so you can remove equipment, and therefore skills
• Changes to the World / Polish
  • Changed some areas slightly (more details and better pathing)
  • Changed the (mini-)map of some areas (to be 'hidden')
  • Balanced some enemy encounters
  • Rewrote some dialog, corrected some spelling errors
  • Added (modified) chests to the world
  • Fixed the 'Start with level 1 / 15 / 45' lectern
  • Fixed teleporter in Enyas Vision (again)
  • Changed some other minor things, which I won't name ...

Read up more on the update post (which is more detailed and offers some pictures).

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Update 3: Ancient Ruins
Please read everything on the update post (click link above)

"Sand --- it’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere"

What's new?

Spoiler!

• New Locations
  • Catacombs I - Main Hall
    • Introduction to the Catacombs
  • Desert & Ancient Ruins
    • Large new open map, with one Completion Quest and 2 Events
  • Quest specific version of the Outpost --- Enyas Vision
    • A new unique quest, which leads to an alternate version of the Outpost and the Yamuna forest
• A new way to play Nydiamar!
  • Start out with level 1 and level up on your own by playing the mod
  • Alternate Edge of Eternity version, with faction merchants and other things
  • 5 unique (3 of them are repeatable) quests with rewards
  • 1 repeatable fetch quest to ease the leveling progress
    • Choose your reward-type on your own, e.g. get rewarded with 5 levels instead of 3 random epic items or materials
  • Gain every ~10 levels some rewards, e.g. Devotion points or faction reputation
• Overhauled Enemies
  • Many enemies are now going to ambush you --- Compositions are random and less predictable
  • Balanced enemy compositions
  • Certain encounters are only going to happen on Elite or Ultimate
  • Only one version of the mod from now on (but I could add different ones again, if requested)
• ... some minor tweaks and a lot of polish ...

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Update 2: Polish

"And then me came, the Skeleton"

What's new?

Spoiler!

• Changes to the World
  • Added more details to the Prelude location and Edge of Eternity
  • Changed lighting in the second area to be fixed / not changing (looks better)
  • Added some notes & lore, to make the world more interesting
  • Added music to all locations
  • Added & changed some enemy compositions
  • Added two new items to use for fun - Sword in Stone & Don't touch me
• Added all items of epic quality - now all legendary & epic items, as well as every mat and augment, are included
• There a three versions now: level 85 (~ main game), 93 (~ challenge-dungeons), 110. You can set your own in the source.
• Added a finished character as a download, so you don't need to build a fresh character up to actually be able to play the mod
• ... and some other minor things

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Update 1: Prelude & Enemies

"And suddenly, the door has opened ..."

What's new?

Spoiler!

• Edge of Eternity
  A hub where merchants, some training dummies, respec- & dismantle-NPCs and a riftgate are located. The merchants are offering everything you need to build a completely functional level 85 character:
  • All Legendaries
  • All Enchantments
  • All Mats
  I think that's a great opportunity to test builds for the actual main game.
  What's not included, are Epics. So, I don't know if they are required, but I may create a shortcut from Edge of Eternity to the hub of the "bad" playthrough, where you can get your Epics.
• Enemies
  I guess that's the big deal. Both areas are now filled with enemies. A lot of them. Mostly packs of heroes, nicely separated from each other. Some bosses here and there, like Alkamos, casually chilln' (get it) in the Abandoned House.
• New starting location -- The Prison
  This is going to be the really short "Prelude" or Introduction to the rest of the mod. You get to make a choice, by defining "your former self". This choice currently doesn't have any effect, and it doesn't matter which portal you take - both are leading to the same location.
  I plan to offer two different playthroughs of the mod: Basically a "good" and a "bad" one. The differences may be:
  • Difficulty. E.g. you won't have access to Legendary items
  • Locations. You may be able to visit different locations, which are excluded in the other playthrough. E.g. you may only be able to access the Catacombs/Labyrinth by the alternate entrance, which will be harder to get through
  • Dialogue & Quests. E.g. you may get the dynamite to destroy the barricade directly from Beauregard, instead of searching for it
  • Story. Well, maybe a different story, if there's going to be one
  Both choice-descriptions are not final.
• New Enemy, called "Your field of view", which summons "Bad pathing"

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N Y D I A M A R

Current Features of Nydiamar

• At least 3 to 6 hours long!
• Fast and easy to build a character due to higher drop and experience rates
• Hub, where you can buy equipment and test your build on unfortunate training dummies
• A detailed world, with currently following locations:
  • Prelude
  • Edge of Eternity & Underground Fortress
  • An Abandoned House
  • Cruesle Canyon
  • An Outpost
  • Yamuna Forest
  • The Hawton Mine
  • The Lorshade Mine
  • A Strange Well
  • Flooded Mountain Woods
  • A Graveyard, of course
  • The Tomb
  • The Catacombs
  • Odul Aela's Dungeon
  • Nehada Desert & Ancient Ruins
  • Transition Part I & II
  • Snowy Landscape
  • An Ice Cave
  • Above the Waste
  • Ashes
  • ... and some minor ones
• 2 different play-throughs
  • Start out with level 85 / 100 and consider an endgame build to beat Nydiamar -- you can buy directly all relevant items available in the game
  • Start out with level 1 / 15 / 45 and progress by your own through quests and just playing the game
• Working riftgates with a custom map
• Fun items to have fun with
• 6 unique quests with great rewards, as well as a Lectern of Questing with simple bounties

*snip* ... since I already reached the char limit (30000) for this post, I moved some information to a different one.

About the different ways to play Nydiamar and how to start. Please read this before playing.

I recommend you to start out with level 15 by using the 'Head-Start'-option on Normal (eventually Veteran) difficulty. This is a great way to enjoy Nydiamar without being overwhelmed by the new mechanics, locations and overall difficulty.

If you decide to start a level 85/100-play-through, do it on at least Elite. Ultimate offers a great challenge and is recommended to experienced players.

If you don't care about leveling and farming or don't want to consider a solid build, you have the option to make yourself literally invincible and 'cheese' through the content. Preview.

You can easily switch to the actual campaign of Grim Dawn (and back), and continue playing there. Everything carries over. You need to restart the game before you change the mod, so the world map loads correctly.

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DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION (Size: 385 MB) (Patch 1 included)



-- Extract the folder to your 'mods'-folder in your installation directory. --

The expansion 'Ashes of Malmouth' is required.

Multiplayer is not supported for now and probably won't work at all.

Create a new character (always better, but not necessary).

The mod may be occasionally (really) performance demanding.

There are minimum requirements to the settings. Make sure you set your settings to at least those in the picture or higher. These are absolutely required.

This is the source of Nydiamar, like in the brackets stated. Enjoy lurking around. Don't judge me.
DOWNLOAD (Source) (Size: 568.5 MB (Download) / ~2700 MB (Unpacked))

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Some pictures for your pleasure
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Tree of Eden

Abandoned House

Cruesle Canyon