legit awesome manual, you have pretty much every information you'll need inside the manual i was really surprised you dont even need the wiki it answers pretty much all of your question
This is still an early proof of concept, but this is something I've wanted to do for a while with my Arcanum CE Restored project.
In the video I'm standing inside a random room in Tarant. I hit F10 to enter the new Creation Mode, place a bed and a storage chest directly into the room, then save the changes and return to the game.
The chest isn't just visual either — after saving, I can actually walk over and use it normally in Arcanum.
The eventual goal is basically a modern in-game WorldEd replacement.
Instead of closing Arcanum, fighting with a 25-year-old editor, digging through files and then restarting the game, I want the workflow to eventually be:
Walk into an area → F10 → edit the world you're standing in → Save → keep playing.
Things I'm working toward include:
A ton of reverse engineering has gone into getting even this far because Arcanum's original WorldEd formats and runtime data are... interesting.
But the important part of this video is pretty simple:
That room did not have that bed or storage chest before I entered Creation Mode. I placed them while playing Arcanum, saved, and they became part of the game.
Still a long way to go, but this is the first time the idea has really started to feel real. Hopefully this can make modding and editing a bit more simple for users. Feel free to join the discord if you want to follow along with any of my Arcanum projects. We are still looking for more Voice Actors for our Arcanum Community Voiceover project and Graphic Artists or Video Editors who can help the team as well.
So I just bought, downloaded, and patched the game on GOG, and I downloaded the required files for the unofficial patch.
The problem? My game has the windows mouse cursor present, while the in game cursor is also there. The windows cursor stays in the same place, on the left center of my screen while the in game cursor moves normally.
Is this a normal issue, and is there anything I can do to fix this? My resolution is 1366 x 768, and I have the game in full screen.
Hey everyone,
I built something I think you might find useful:
[arcanumsearch](https://ankorn.github.io/arcanumsearch/)
It’s a semantic search engine covering 1,000+ documents from:
- Arcanum Fandom wiki
- Nexus Mods pages
- r/arcanum discussions about patches, mods, bugs, builds, etc.
Instead of matching exact keywords, it tries to understand the meaning of your query
Warning: the backend can go to sleep after inactivity. The first search after a while may take a bit longer while it wakes up — please be patient
It’s fully open source:
- Code: [github.com/ankorn/arcanumsearch](https://github.com/ankorn/arcanumsearch)
- Dataset: [Hugging Face dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/pameydorke/arcanum-cross-platform-queries-synthetic)
- Model: [Hugging Face model](https://huggingface.co/pameydorke/arcanum-cross-platform-retriever)
If you find bugs or want to contribute, issues and pull requests are welcome on GitHub
I’d love feedback — anything that helps improve the search
I just got a reply to a post that I made over 4 years ago. And it is a doozy! This is hero-grade content :) https://old.reddit.com/r/arcanum/comments/t85w97/double_secret_hidden_locations/
So I think it deserves a post of its own. Our friend u/techerrorcode is a miracle worker!
Body of Air is one of the best spells you can have at level 10 because it's comparable to paralysis, but elemental transformations are great for pickpocketing. An Air Elementalists have no reason to fear pickpocketing or reverse-pickpocketing during combat and Elemental transformations don't piss off shopkeepers. There are many ways to become overpowered in this and the Body of Air spell can make the toughest fights in the game reasonably easy. Feel free to pickpocket Stringy Pete and kill him with his arcane sword.
I wanted to make a video showing off the introduction conversation you can have with Vollinger with this new mod, I'm happy to see him talking in game. Originally it started with a rather silly idea but now we ended up here!
I just released the Vollinger Voice Over mod for the Windows version of Arcanum/UAP 2.0.2.
Vollinger now has 133 unique voiced lines, all recorded by Dar_Duck. We went through his dialogue and follower behavior so the voices aren't just random audio files dropped into the game -they're actually wired into normal conversations, story topics, follower commands, combat reactions, critical hits/misses, fleeing, near-death/death lines, moral reactions, greetings, training, rumors and more.
I also rebuilt his dialogue from the UAP 2.0.2 baseline, so the existing UAP fixes are preserved while the new voiced routes are added.
And just to make it completely clear: the voice acting is human-recorded and the Vollinger artwork is human-drawn. No AI voice and no AI-generated artwork.
The installer supports both Install and Rollback, doesn't need to patch the Arcanum.exe.
This release is for the Windows Arcanum + UAP 2.0.2, not Arcanum CE. I can upload the CE version if anyone wants it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/arcanumofsteamworksandmagickobscura/mods/39
Huge thanks to Dar_Duck for actually giving Vollinger a voice. After 25 years, it's pretty damn cool hearing him properly talk in-game. If you guy's enjoy this we might be able to get Dar_Duck to work on some other in game followers that never got a proper voice dialogue.
https://discord.gg/Sxuf4C6tY is the discord for anyone that wants to follow my projects or help.
*Still in search of voice actors for these followers below. Send me a message if you are interested and I will get you the lines you need.
MALE
Sogg Mead Mug — half-ogre; drunken melee fighter/bodyguard.
Dante — human; former Cumbrian church leader and magick fighter.
Chukka — ogre; Gilbert Bates's bodyguard and heavy fighter.
Jormund — dwarf; unusual magick-using dwarf wizard.
Waromon — Bedokaan/lizard-man; tribal warrior, archer, and minor mage.
Thorvald Two Stones — dwarf; Wheel Clan fighter exiled to Isle of Despair.
Perriman Smythe — human; Tulla-trained mage and healer.
Weldo Rubin — halfling; explorer, thief, and Vendigroth guide.
Doc Roberts — human; Shrouded Hills doctor, healer, and gunslinger.
Murgo — half-ogre; temple helper, laborer, and fighter.
Sebastian — human; Willoughsby agent and technological gunslinger.
Tollo Underhill — halfling; evil thief/assassin and Vendigroth expedition survivor.
The Bane of Kree — human; ancient barbarian warlord.
Kraka-tur — formerly human; ancient demi-dragon and Void exile.
Gorgoth — demon; ancient Void monster and melee tank.
FEMALE
Jayna Stiles — half-elf; technological healer and doctor-in-training.
Swyft — elf; young temporary escort travelling from Qintarra to Tarant.
Lady Druella — half-elf; noblewoman in the Melee/Dodge mastery quest.
Cynthia Boggs — human; Isle of Despair prisoner seeking escape.
Записал коротенькое видео про текущий статус проекта, планы и прочее.
Пока что сложно сказать, когда публичная играбельная демка будет, но к концу года, думаю, получится собрать что-то, чтоб другим дать.
Все исходники будут на Гитхабе: https://github.com/Suvitruf/unity-arcanum
Hi!
I've read in multiple sources that if you touch an unsuspecting automaton or arachnid, it will turn off and can be picked up and added to your party.
I am 100% that happened to me in the past, when an automaton would deactivate mid-battle. Although I don't remember it being connected to my character being sneaky.
So, I'm a master of prowling. My hope was that now I could get myself an army of automatons in Vendigroth.
However, I failed to deactivate one automaton, ever!
So, does anyone know how this game mechanic work? Is it purely random?
I’m starting up the game and for some reason the merchant screen keeps snapping to the top or bottom when I try to scroll down or up. Is there a way I can fix this or am I screwed?
I already downloaded the patches and got them working
Take a look! 📌 https://pin.it/2kqq67Gw2