Patch notes

2026-10-28 Windows, build 3 (18.6 MB) · Linux (16.1 MB) · HD images (691 MB, unchanged)

NoX Core is now open source: github.com/mordentral/NoXCore (GPL-3.0).

Build 3

• Solo campaign: after dying and loading the autosave, your spells are no longer greyed out and you can pick up, use and talk again.
• Solo campaign: a solo game now plays only on this computer, on a free port, so a server or another game already using port 18590 can no longer take your join (which showed as "join refused" and dropped you back to the menu). A game you host moves up a port if 18590 is taken, as the original does, and says so in the console.
• Fixed a crash when loading a game after playing one.
• Campaign NPCs no longer get the friendly dot over their heads (the solo campaign shows none, as in the original).
• Talking to things, picking things up and using them follow the original's targeting exactly: the thing's own extent, the same distances, a Use hand for a mimic still pretending to be a chest, and no pick-up hand while you're dragging an item.
• Mods: lines, tooltips, drag, mouse-up and wheel, windows without a frame, click-through and HUD windows, and labels over things in the world.
• Deep Delve now runs on its own spell book: the passive tree gives your spells, abilities and creatures. Earth's first spell is Meteor; Magic Missile and Pixie Swarm unlock at level 1, with a bigger first node; spells cast at the level the tree gives them.

Build 2

• A Linux download, for 64-bit Linux with glibc 2.39 or newer (Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, current Arch). Unpack it and run ./noxcore; point it at your game files with --game-dir if it doesn't find them. The HD images work on Linux too; the HD movies don't yet.
• Conjurers can charm creatures again in arena and CTF games: every network game starts with the full creature guide, as in the original.
• Mods can now control which spells, abilities and creatures players have. In such a game NoX Core players see only what they've been given in their book, bars and summoning list, and summon those creatures without needing Summon Creature.
• Deep Delve: conjurers get a fourth branch in the passive tree, Beasts, which gives summons from the bat up to the stone golem; a warrior's new ability goes straight onto the bar.
• A creature added to your field guide without a fanfare now shows in your book, as on the original client.

Deep Delve (work in progress)

• An action-RPG mode for NoX Core players, written as a mod: Game Modes and Host Custom list it. A town with a stash, a vendor and a passive skill tree that gives your spells and abilities; act 1, seven generated areas with waypoints, a town portal and a boss; monsters in tiers and loot by rarity; a character kept between games.

Mods

• Mods can show windows with pictures and sounds from their assets folder, and answer keys and both mouse buttons.
• Weather for mods: rain, snow, storms and wind. Options, "Weather Effects": On, Reduced or Off.
• A mod can be for NoX Core only; players on the original game who try to join are told why.
• Mod projects in the Map Editor (the Mod menu): make a mod, write its scripts with checks as you type, test it with Play Mod (it reloads when you save), preview its windows and export it as a zip. The Game Mode Mods videos show how.
• More for scripts: saving data between games, items with chosen modifiers, events for kills, damage, pickups and equipping, generated maps with teleport pentagrams and lights, timers, and granting spells, abilities and creatures.
• The example mods arena_ref and ctf_ref are gone: Deep Delve takes their place. If you unzip over an older build, delete mods\arena_ref and mods\ctf_ref.

Content packs

• Packs can add new object types based on existing ones; a new weapon or armour piece works and looks like the one it's based on. Joining a game whose packs add types needs the same packs, and you're told which.

Game list

• Games that need a newer NoX Core are marked "Update needed", with an explanation instead of a failed join. Joining games on the original game is as quick as before.

Safer and faster

• A map script that loops forever is stopped instead of freezing the server.
• A server can no longer make your game read or write files outside its maps folder, and damaged or hostile files and network data are refused instead of crashing the game.
• A game you host takes about a third less time per frame.

Fixes

• Trap glyphs fade with distance as in the original.
• Delve: barrels hold the gems they were meant to (a wrong name kept them empty).

2026-10-27

Fixes

• Mana obelisks: in games NoX Core hosts, an obelisk's picture no longer gets stuck at the wrong charge. After a far player's Drain Mana ray touched it, it could keep its old look for good while its mana and sound still worked.
• The rolling boulders turn as they roll, as in the original (they showed one fixed picture).
• Monster generators show their damaged looks as they're hurt, and the animation over them, as in the original.
• With no red potions, the health potion slot takes meat, else a red apple, as in the original, shown with its own picture. Each potion slot's number is its first stack's, as the original shows.
• Co-op Campaign, and quests with more than one player: a player in a conversation, a shop or a story scene no longer vanishes for the others, players on the original game included. (The original game stops sending a player while they're held still, which no one saw alone.)

2026-10-26, build 2

Faster

• Hosting is much lighter: a host's work per frame is 35 to 53% less (big maps, the Delve, Undead Tide), and drawing the world is about a third faster.

Host Custom and mods

• Host Custom lists the game modes the way the game list shows games: the Delve, Undead Tide, the Co-op Campaign, Quest and the Map Editor first, marked "built in", then any mods you install. Pick one to see its settings.
• The main menu's Game Modes is the same list, for games on this computer only.
• Host Custom > Map Editor hosts a shared map-building session; players on the original game can join and play, but not edit. The editor's own File > Host a Session does the same. The walkthrough videos that go through these menus are re-recorded.
• Mods: the mods folder beside noxcore.exe holds game modes written as scripts. Mods are only ever installed by hand; nothing is downloaded. Two come with this build, Arena (reference) and Capture the Flag (reference): they play like the original modes and show how a mode is written.
• Delve and Undead Tide records are kept only by the games the NoX Core servers host (the leaderboard); games you host keep none.

Delve and Undead Tide

• Delve: heat, Renewal and regenerating elites act once per beat, as designed. Before, they could act many times a beat, depending on the host's speed.
• A Delve level that can't be built no longer ends the game: it carries on with the last map.
• Two players with the same name in the Tide's lobby are no longer taken for one.

Co-op Campaign

• A difficulty on Host Custom's Co-op row: Easy, Normal (as before), Hard and Nightmare.
• Experience for kills goes to the whole party.
• A character brought from multiplayer starts with an empty spellbook; a campaign character keeps its own. A player who joins part-way through gets the party's lowest level and every spell the party knows (spell bars are filled by hand).
• The story's rewards go to everyone: spells, abilities, gold, gear and potions. Keys, War01A's letter and the Oblivion staves stay single.
• You see your friends' health bars, as in the original game's Quest.
• When the host talks during a story scene, everyone sees and hears the conversation; only the host's answers count.
• Fixed: after talking to Horvath in Wiz03A, the party could be left on a black screen.
• A friend joining with a character of another class is told why before being let go.

Single player

• The spellbook and spell bar show only the spells you know (they listed every spell outside Quest).

Smaller

• The smooth Force Field stays centred on you as you run and turn.
• A very long server message is cut at 254 characters instead of garbling what follows it.

NoX Content Editor (replaces the NoX Image Editor)

• noxcontent.exe, for advanced users. Besides the images and HD images, it edits the game's tuning numbers, monsters, sound sets, weapons, armour and enchantments, object types, texts, sounds and dialog, characters, rules and the map cycle.
• Changes are saved as content packs in mods\<pack>\content\, which noxcore.exe loads when it starts. It never writes into your game folder.
• Each change says who sees it: gameplay numbers reach everyone in games you host; looks (images, sounds, texts) only players with the same pack. Changes that would break the game for players without the pack are refused. CONTENT_EDITOR.txt, in the download, says more.
• Play buttons for sounds: on the Audio, Dialog and Sound events lists, beside spells', abilities' and walls' sound fields, and for the game's own sound next to a pack's.

HD images

• The straight standing torch is back to the original art for now, as its HD version still wobbled. The leaning and wall torches stay HD.
• New HD pack later the same day: the player's idle and walk are back to the original art for now, as the HD versions weren't good enough. The taunt and war cry stay HD. Download the HD images again to get this; you only need the new video_hd.nxp.

2026-10-23, build 4

Co-op Campaign (new)

• Play the Warrior, Wizard or Conjurer story with up to three friends. Host it from Host Custom > Co-op Campaign: pick the class's story, then a new campaign or a co-op save to continue. Friends join from the game list with a character of that class (another class is refused, with the reason).
• Hosted through Westwood Online (logged in), the campaign is listed there for others to join, as the other games you host are (build 2; build 1 never posted it); hosted through Network, it's on your own network only. noxcore-log.txt says where it was listed. Leaving a campaign you host goes back to the game list you hosted it from.
• Only the host starts story scenes; everyone is told so as they join, and everyone sees the scenes and the chapter screens. As the host's scene begins, anyone far from the host is brought to it (build 3). The game waits for everyone to finish a chapter screen (the host can type ?skip).
• Anyone can talk to people at any time, players on the original game too (build 3; before, only the host could). Only a talk that can play a story scene is the host's: the story's people and the quest-givers whose talk leads to one. One player talks to an NPC at a time, so a talk's reward isn't given twice. In a guest's own talk, its price comes from the guest's purse and what the NPC gives goes into the guest's pack. The others see the talk's lines (NoX Core players in their console, original-game players as who is talking to whom).
• The party goes on together: the first one at an exit holds it for the others, and it opens when everyone stands on it, after 30 seconds, or when the host types ?go.
• A fallen player is back beside the party 10 seconds later, keeping everything; only the whole party falling loses, and then the host loads a saved game.
• Level-ups and menus don't pause the game. Monsters and their generators get tougher, and hit harder, with each player.
• Keys are shared by the party, and a leaving player's keys go to the host. Spell books, ability books and field guides come back for whoever hasn't had them.
• Experience from kills goes to the killer and gold to whoever picks it up; the story's own rewards (experience and gold for finishing a task) go to everyone in full. A player who joins late is brought up to the party's lowest level.
• Each save keeps everyone's progress: a friend who comes back gets the campaign's character again, even after the host loads a save. NoX Core players keep a copy as "<name> (Co-op)" in their character list; the one they joined with is left as it was.
• Friends on the original game can join too, with a quest character. Use a new one for each campaign, as the campaign saves over it. They don't see the widescreen bars, the map intros or the ending movie.

Map Editor

• A treasure item or gem now says it holds no gold (and what a shop pays for a gem); only Gold, QuestGoldPile and QuestGoldChest take an amount. The Amount's tooltip says that 0 lets the game pick one as the map starts.
• Closing an editing session hosted from Host Custom > Map Editor, or leaving its game, goes back to the game list (build 2). The Map Editor opened from Game Modes still goes back to the main menu.

Options

• Screen Resolution offers 1024 x 576 (widescreen) with every Nox install, not only the GOG one, and it works the same everywhere (build 4).
• A first start, with no settings saved yet, now plays at 1024 x 576 instead of 1024 x 768; a resolution you already chose is kept (build 4).

Website

• A new Features page: what NoX Core adds to the original game. The walkthroughs have a co-op campaign video.

Fixes

• Gold piles in some maps held a slightly different amount than in the original game.
• Co-op: a player still in a talk when the party went on through an exit arrived on the next map stuck in it (build 3).

2026-10-21, build 3

Build 3

• Map Editor: a Theme choice at the top right (Light, Medium, Dark). Dark is new, a near-black look with blue selection, and is now the default; Medium is the editor's previous look. If you had picked the light theme, it stays.

Build 2: Map Editor fixes

• Typing in a Properties field and then clicking another object no longer puts what you typed on the new object (walls, waypoints and polygons lost the edit instead).
• Angles typed in degrees (a light's direction and cone) are no longer cut down to a few degrees; decimal fields keep their full value.
• Holding a field's - or + button counts up or down and makes one undo step (the wall panel's did nothing). The wall Variant slider previews as you drag and makes one undo step.
• A polygon's "Secret area" setting is kept when saving and reaches the other editors; accented letters in a new map's title are kept.
• A light's rotation speed can be negative, turning it the other way, as in the original game.
• A possible crash when approving or refusing an edit request is fixed.

Games hosted with NoX Core

• In a crowded fight a dying monster could freeze mid-death or vanish with no body, for every player. What didn't fit in one update now goes out in the next, as in the original game.
• Starting a new game, play-test or solo game no longer brings back the last one's scoreboard, victory banner, kill lines or half-cast spell.

Map Editor: scripting

• Every built-in function has a tooltip and a full description (right-click > Function Info): what it does, each parameter, edge cases and an example, and how often the stock maps use it.
• Right-click a function to favourite it or set its priority, and sort the list by priority, name, category or use.
• Typing inside a function's quoted argument offers the values it takes: effects, sounds, object types with their icons, spells, enchantments, text lines, your map's objects and waypoints. Ctrl+Space opens the list; Function Info lists them too.
• A name the game would ignore (a misspelt effect, an object that isn't on the map) is underlined with what will happen and what you probably meant.

Map Editor: sessions

• Moving or adding scenery that players draw from their own copy of the map (fireplaces, trees, doors, furniture) waits for Publish, for everyone at once; until then it's shown grey at its new place and as an outline at the old one.
• Walkthrough videos of the Map Editor, from the basics to scripting.

New HD image pack

• Animated sprites' outlines no longer wobble: standing torches, the edges of fireplaces and every other steadied animation.
• The thin black ring round items, weapons and armour lying on the floor is gone.
• Download the HD images again to get these; you only need the new video_hd.nxp.

2026-10-20, build 4

Build 4

• Map Editor: in a shared session, the map's script is edited by one person at a time. Typing takes it, everyone else's Script panel turns read-only and says who has it, it's let go 4 seconds after their last key, and the host can take it over.
• Map Editor: the colour pickers in Properties keep the colour you pick (a coloured light's colour went back to black).
• Map Editor: stopping out of a session's game after a cinematic no longer leaves the screen dark or the HUD hidden.
• New HD images: the Normal Sword no longer shows false serrations, and the alcove's bust is redrawn.

Build 3

• Joining a game no longer freezes the window while the map first appears: the first view is made over a few frames (it could take seconds on a busy computer).
• Games hosted with NoX Core match the original more closely: crates, tables and other boxes are pushed off walls; monsters face and dodge exactly as in the original; monster generators pick their spawn spots as the original does; solo ArcherBolts and arrow traps use the solo damage; wandering creatures make footsteps; the lesser fireball staff fires from you when a wall is in the way; meteor showers, Cleansing Flame and the Wall spell launch exactly as in the original; the minimap shows the right part of the map for the area you're in.
• Map Editor: editors in a session have a pencil by their name (greyed when idle), and the Session panel shows what each one is working on. Walls not yet published show red on the minimap, removed ones dark red.
• Map Editor: Play From Here starts you at the cursor in every kind of map and in sessions. A shopkeeper's stock list shows every item that can be carried, with its icon, and the filter finds items by their game names. Characters placed at a point in a session always land on open floor you can reach.

Build 2

• Network on the Online screen lists only games on your local network, as in the original, plus the servers in servers.txt; Westwood Online lists internet games once you've logged in.
• Map Editor: closing the editor while hosting a session asks once, then ends the session for everyone and goes back to the main menu (it kept going back to the game in the Map panel). The mouse pointer no longer stays frozen on the menus after leaving the editor.
• Map Editor: a Chat panel shows the session's in-game chat and sends yours to the players; its tab lights up with a count when a new line arrives while it's hidden.
• Map Editor: players walking around the map are drawn as their characters, with their armour, weapon and animation, not just their name (editors in a session need this build).

New HD image pack

• About 140 more animated sprites no longer wobble or shimmer: candles, torches, the campfire, lanterns, braziers, fireplaces, portcullises, chests, the water barrel, windmills, gears, the ankh and more.
• The Wooden and Steel Shield Destroyed sprites are redrawn as broken shields instead of pebbles or rock.
• Download the HD images again to get these; you only need the new video_hd.nxp.

Games hosted with NoX Core

• A NoX Core host now sends what the original game's server sends, so these show for everyone, original-game players included: a staff's, quiver's or throwing stars' count on the bar as soon as it's worn; friendly summons' dot and blue ring and cursor (red before), and NPCs' and shopkeepers' too; players' pings on the scoreboard; mana obelisks darkening as they're drained, also while they recharge a staff.
• Capture the Flag: no second flag appears at the base while the flag is carried. Crates, chests and other things the game doesn't respawn no longer come back after 30 seconds.
• When the host leaves, everyone goes back to the game list at once. If a server stops answering, the original's warning icon shows after 2 seconds and its "not responding" window (Wait / Exit) after 22; while NoX Core waits for the server to confirm you've left, a notice counts down.

Gameplay

• Summon spells' icons darken and refill by the creature's real price, like any other spell (the original game never darkened them).
• Options > More: Exact Original Maths (on) rounds the game's maths exactly as the original game did, in games you host and in solo and campaign play. Without it, damage after armour, healing, carry capacity, experience and wear can differ by a point, and movement, missile paths and sight edges very slightly.
• Lights that shine in one direction, and which polygon's light you see where polygons overlap, match the original exactly. Maps without a light setting are as dark as in the original.

Map Editor

• Panels can be dragged out of the window onto another monitor (Editor Settings: Allow floating panels).
• Things move with the mouse while you drag them; Escape or right-click cancels.
• In shared sessions, walls and floors not yet published are shaded grey, and removed things show as dark outlines.
• New maps start lit; Map Info says where the map's light shows and which polygon's light you see instead. The Object List starts with In View ticked.
• Maps with names like !TakRP can be opened and hosted, and community maps with duplicated floor records open. Map names are limited to 8 characters, as the game's map lists show no more.

2026-10-19, build 4

Map Editor (new)

• Solo Quest on the main menu now opens a choice of Quest, Delve, Undead Tide and Map Editor. Quest is the original solo quest, unchanged.
• Make and edit maps: walls drawn with automatic corners and joins, floors painted with a brush that blends the edges between floor types by itself, every object and creature from a content browser with pictures, and every object's settings in a side panel (monsters, shops, doors, triggers, lights, teleporters, generators, waypoints, areas, groups and map info). Undo and redo for everything, copy and paste, prefabs, and a check that warns if the game would have trouble with the map.
• Map scripts: a script editor for the community NoxScript 3.0 language, and any existing map's scripts shown as readable code. F5 plays the map you're editing straight away; F2 comes back to the editor while the game keeps running, and script changes load into the running game without a restart. Players can't die while testing unless you allow it.
• Editing together with other players comes in a later build.

Build 4

• Hosting: a game you host is listed for players on other networks only when you've logged in with Westwood Online; after Skip Login or Network only your own network sees it. The Map Editor's Host window now says which, and noxcore-log.txt says where any game you host was posted and whether Westwood Online accepted it. Games with a password are listed as such, as in the original.
• Map Editor: cancelling the Host Custom > Map Editor window no longer crashes, and the script editor no longer reports "Invalid flags for IsWindowHovered".
• Map Editor sessions: from the Map panel editors can follow the players and jump into the game, play a private test without stopping the shared game, undo only their own changes, and see a list of the session's problems. Scores don't count while a map is being edited.
• Map Editor: Play From Here starts a play-test at the cursor, and solo and quest maps play-test in their real modes. The content browser has editable categories and finds things by the game's own names; NPCs and items are drawn in their colours; a quest map's intro picture can be picked; generators' inventories can be edited. A first look over a big map with the HD images no longer stalls.
• Lights that shine in one direction are drawn as cones, turning and sweeping as in the original game.

Build 3

• The program is now noxcore.exe (it was noxsdl.exe): delete the old noxsdl.exe when you update. Your settings carry over by themselves, the log is now noxcore-log.txt, and Windows will ask once to let noxcore.exe through its firewall. NoX Core and the NoX Image Editor have their own icons.
• Edit maps together: Host Custom > Map Editor hosts an editing session, listed as [EDIT]; others join from the game list and ask the host for permission to edit. Whatever one editor has selected or open is locked to the others. Everyone, original-game players included, can play in the map while it's edited: new objects appear live, and walls and floors (grey to NoX Core players until then) arrive when the host publishes. Editors see the players moving on the map.
• Map Editor: play-testing happens inside the map view, with Play, Pause and Stop buttons at the top (Shift+F1 frees the mouse). Zooming far out on very big maps is smooth. Walls are drawn solid (a view setting brings back see-through walls). Linked objects show what links to them. Object variables in scripts are off unless enabled in the editor's settings.
• The Game Modes window has the game's own big buttons, one per mode; the drop-down arrows in Options use the game's own arrow.
• Campaign: maps that check what you did on another map (the mine in chapter 3, the gauntlet, Horvath, the Weirdling) see it now; that progress was lost between maps before.
• Con04b, War06a and War07A: of two doors stacked on one spot, the one the original game uses now counts for sight and paths.
• Map scripts round their maths as the original does, and scores, character data and a few rarely used script functions work as in the original.

Build 2

• The main menu's mode button reads Game Modes (it was still labelled Solo Quest).
• The mouse pointer shows in the Map Editor (it was hidden whichever way you opened it).
• NoX Image Editor: the Catalog view compares the original and HD pictures side by side, as the Images view does, with animations playing in step in both.
• Map scripts can give each object its own variables (int object.name;). The editor warns that the original game crashes on them, so maps that use them need a NoX Core server.

New HD image pack

• All 42 creature portraits in the summon window are redrawn: cleaner detail, and the original's thin outline instead of a blocky black one.
• Monster generators no longer wobble as they pulse.
• The Ember Demon and Urchin are back to their original animations for now.
• No more dark dotted lines along tile borders where floors blend into each other (lava edges and others).
• Lamps, wall sconces, candelabras, braziers, fireplaces and glowing stones no longer wobble as their light pulses.
• Download the HD images again to get these; you only need the new video_hd.nxp.

Also new

• Delve and Undead Tide can be played on your own from the same menu (hosted on this computer only).
• Credits on the main menu work, as in the original.
• The NoX Image Editor (noxvideo.exe) is included: look at, extract and replace the game's images and the HD images, without touching your game folder.
• No more console window behind the game; DebugRun.bat shows the log when you need it.
• All of the game's numbers come from your install's gamedata.bin, so edited stats take effect. In solo play the stats page shows the solo numbers, as the original does, with its experience line.
• Map scripts free the text they make the way the original does, so very long games no longer show stale messages; a few rarely used script functions behave as in the original.

2026-10-17, build 1

Effects

• Force Field, with Smooth Effects on: the glass bubble sits round the middle of the body and stays round it while you run (it sat a little high, and slid off a running character).

Speed and tidying

• Drawing is about 5% faster (effects, the minimap, animations).
• Much of the program's code was tidied and simplified; nothing should play differently.
• Starting with --connect shows the host's name, as joining from the menu does.

Downloads

• The HD movies download is withdrawn for now: the upscale wasn't good enough. NoX Core still plays HD movies placed in an HDVideo folder next to noxsdl.exe, for a better version later.

Bots in #bot games

• When the game's owner stands idle for five minutes without a word and nobody else is playing, the bots wait: one stays, watching. Say anything in the game's chat, or move, to bring them back.

2026-10-16, build 1

Fixes from a pass over memory use and crashes

• Cleansing flames leaving your sight could make the game read freed memory (a possible crash).
• Games you host: kicking a player who had a vote of their own running could crash the server, and so could a lasting spell that set off a monster generator's script.
• Games you host: connections that never finish joining are dropped after 10 seconds, as in the original (enough of them could make the server refuse everyone as full).
• Closing the game after using the 3D view is clean.
• Without the HD images, the game keeps less image memory over a long session.

2026-10-14, build 7

Line of sight

• What you can see is worked out exactly as the original game does: a wall junction seen from one side no longer shows its hidden arm, half-seen doors and pillars show as they should, box-shaped obstacles block sight with their real shape, and an earthquake's shake no longer shakes what you can see.
• Soft Shadow Edge in Options works: the original's soft edge along the line of sight's shadow, on by default as in the original.
• Fade Objects in Options works, on by default as in the original: something you saw stays drawn for a second after it leaves your line of sight, fading out, before it's hidden. The map's scenery (furniture, doors, bushes, obelisks) fades too, effects on a fading thing go with it, and Ghosts are see-through by distance, as in the original.
• Things off screen or behind walls no longer show for a moment as you come into an area (mana obelisks did, with Fade Objects), and the pickup ring no longer shows on them. Effects, name plates, health bars, team names and the dots over your creatures appear, fade and go with what they belong to, as in the original; sparks that leave your sight go.
• Loose particles (sparkles, fire on something behind a wall) no longer show over the black.
• No more thin lit line between a shadow's soft edge and its black (beside pillars and columns).
• Walls, better than the original: walls just past the edge of the screen are drawn whole instead of cut off, a corner you see is no longer cut through its pillar, and low walls stay drawn across a door's shadow (the console's noxsdl walls classic on shows them as the original draws them).

Options

• The options menu changed: its settings panel has two tabs, General and More. More holds the ones changed least often: Soft Shadow Edge, Fade Objects, Render GUI and Frame Rate.

HD images

• A new HD pack (25,937 images): animated scenery (torches, flames, candles, lamps, gears, elevators, portcullises, fountains, water ripples, lava and mud), missiles and spell effects (fireballs, lightning, meteors, explosions, poofs), breaking barrels, bones and debris, and every monster generator. Floors meet with smooth HD edges (this build is needed for those).
• The floor never waits more than half a second for its HD art, and long sessions use less memory.
• The Great Sword has its serrated edge back. See-through parts (glows, the Death Ball's rim, water ripples) keep the original's colours.

NoX Core

• Capture the Flag: the flag icons left of the health and mana tubes, as the original shows them: each team's flag at home, carried or dropped, your own team's framed, with their tooltips.
• The weapon-swap key's letter sits in the weapon ring's tab again, and the HUD's key letters and counts are drawn at the game's own text size.
• With HD images, window borders and spell icons no longer show dark seams or lines at their edges at window sizes that scale them unevenly.
• Solo: ending a chapter while the game saved could freeze the game for good.
• Solo and games you host: arriving on a new map through an exit while running no longer leaves you frozen, running on the spot as if against an invisible wall (first seen on the wizard campaign's second map). Loading a save made there frees you. Things carried to the next map keep their place in the game's order, as in the original.
• Servers running the original game: with Smooth Movement or Smooth Network your own character runs at an even pace (the original game sends its place rounded, in steps of 6 and 8). Smooth Network suits these servers best: it also evens out their uneven timing.

Games you host

• Running into a wall no longer jitters, and Meteor's explosion shows again.
• Your own character moves evenly when running and stops without the small back-and-forth: the server tells noxsdl the exact place the original game's update leaves out (players on the original game get the same updates as before).
• Your own server no longer waits for your screen: a slow frame, loading the map as you join, opening Server Settings or the first map vote no longer hitches the other players.
• Leaving the game no longer freezes the window while the router's port is closed, and leaving a Delving Mode game no longer waits for its next levels to finish.