Altera (formerly "Altered era/ruleset", for Wesnoth 1.18, 1.16, 1.14, 1.12 and 1.10)

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version 0.9.0 is published for BfW 1.18.x as "Altera" (only) and for BfW 1.14.x and 1.16.x as both "Altera" and "Altered era/ruleset"

Version 0.9.0 of "Altered era/ruleset" is last version in this branch, all newer vesions are going to be released as "Altera" only.

'Altered era/ruleset'' branch is now deprecated in favor of its newer branch named "Altera" and attaching .zip archives of its older releases to forum posts that announce release of each version (note that versions from 0.3.0 to 0.5.2 cause Wesnoth 1.14.0 and later to hang because included era has very long description).
"Altered era/ruleset" used to be 'stable' branch of 'Altera' intended as a backup in case an update to "Altera" happen to introduce too many issues.

add-on servers for BfW 1.10.7 and 1.12.6 are now closed for uploads but Altera still supports both of them - download Altera from add-on server of any newer version of BfW and manually copy it to 'add-ons' folder of older version of BfW

changes:
- added ninth "Altered" race/faction - boggarts (called orcs in mainline), all units of this faction have good mobility and defense on frozen terrain (lesser defense for mounted units) and mostly gravitate towards melee (while still having plenty of ranged units)
- added "harming misses" rule (disabled by default): after each miss a fraction (quarter by default, adjustable with separate slider in era options) of attack's base damage (rounded down) is inflicted right after miss animation, this rule is mutually exclusive with "damaging misses" rule (both can now be enabled and disabled via shared "Combat Mode" dropdown list in era options), under BfW 1.10.7 it is available in separate era that used to enable "damaging misses" rule (with fraction of damage inflicted on miss being set to 25%, "damaging misses" rule is no longer available under BfW 1.10.7 except by editing Altera's .cfg files)
- fixed: "nonzero damage" rule was sometimes erroneously triggered at the end of combat encounter if circular attack special was present on attacks used by combatants
- fixed: "nonzero damage" rule did not award experience to victorious combatant when damage dealt according to it was enough to kill the opponent
- fixed: when corruption rule was disabled then income UI indicator was empty and error messages were shown on screen
- fixed: "apporaching misses" rule was broken under BfW 1.10.7 (caused reduced defense for melee attackers on many terrain types)
- fixed: lurks() abilities did not recognize some rare combined terrains as part of their terrain category, for example lurks(shallow) did not recognize sunken castle terrains as shallow water
- fixed: AI units that advanced because of experience gained from "random insights" rule used to get no benefits from such advancements except when they changed their unit type
- added side-specific UI preferences to disable showing extra info in general UI indicators (turn number, income etc) and their tooltips and in UI indicator for unit's abilities (also disables showing unit's abilities one per line above list of unit's attacks), these UI preferences can also be toggled with hotkeys ('[' and ']' by default)
- minor changes unrelated to functionality:
under BfW 1.10.7 its separate era that enables "damaging misses" rule is renamed to "Altera (full)"
renamed "damaging misses" rule to "half-hit misses"
fixed typos in descriptions of some rules and era options
clarified descriptions of "(recall)" random maps with warning about all sides in these maps being set to network players by default