The summer is over and like every year, modmakers returned to the forums to bring joy to all Diablo 2 mod players with new releases. It was quite a busy week on the scene, so let's proceed to the news without further delay:
THE NEWBORNOne of the relatively new mod here in the Phrozen Keep, Legacy of the Horadim, has been updated again this week. The new release is beta v1.3 and it includes several bugfixes with the cube recipes. Grab your copy here and don't forget to visit Quatl's non-hosted mod thread and share your opinion!
THE SENIOR CITIZENAnother new release
TrueMage continues to update the Battle for Elements mod, now up to v1.34. The new features and bugfixes list is very long as usual, so I won't post it here, but it includes (and isn't limited to) new automap for Tristram, new magical properties and reworked uniques. Refer to the readme for more information. You need to have v1.33 in order to upgrade with the new version. Here is the download link too. You want to discuss anything related to this mod? Then go ahead and post it in the Battle for Elements forum.
THE ANCIENT ONEIt appears that one of the versions of the immortal XyRAX mod by Nefarius was missing from our file center, so it was re-added. The download in question is XyRAX 15.0 with patch 15.6 for Diablo 2 LoD v1.09 and it has all the monsters rebalanced, demon portals, new bosses and much, much more! Be old-school and give XyRAX 15.6 a run, you won't be disappointed
Grab a copy here.
KNOWLEDGE IS EVERYTHINGNefarius proceeds with his quest of reworking the Knowledge Base of the Phrozen Keep and add all lost articles back from when the site was born. This week, he brings us the following new items:
From the 1.00-1.06 days:
Adding a New Helm by Fusman
Original Titlescreen Tutorial by Nefarius
Set Items Tutorial by Perfect Cell
Making Palettes by Phrozen Heart
ItemType Table by JBouley
And from the 1.08 days:
Enabling Rare and Unique Charms by Phatose
Using the /time switch by bjhampe
Colormaps Explained by Paul Siramy
Also, Nefarius added some new fileguides that, for one reason or another, never made it into our Knowledge Base. Here they are:
MonType.txt FileGuide by Nefarius
MonSounds.txt FileGuide by Nefarius
AutoMap.txt FileGuide by Red Havoc
And a new tutorial too:
Adding New Music by Mentor
I guess now there is no excuse for anyone to learn modding Diablo 2!
THE WEALTHNews from the OT Lottery - this week the winner is DarthDevilous, who won his fourth victory in the lottery and is now $12850 richer. Congratulations!
Check out the previous winners here and participate, if you dare 
THE NEW HIRELINGAnd more Phrozen Keep OT news, the forum is under new management from several days ago. Round of applause for AdiTT who is the newest administrator of the Off Topic forums! Now go there and post, otherwise she will be angry and trust me, I know very well how bad that is
That's it for this week, you can now go and download, read, play or do whatever you do on this site.
