Desertification makes 10 blood slaves, and costs 0 movement, meaning one can infinitely use it to produce blood slaves.

I'd suggest making it produce 5 slaves and cost 1 movement (Equal to savannafication), and give savannafication a 1 movement cost as well, to slow down the territorial expansion slightly.

I'd also suggest giving monks a way to reclaim deserts/savannah in order to counter being utterly terraformed to death as baron (and possibly voice of El as well).

I seem unable to make ant hills, or do any of the ant summoning rituals despite being on a desert/ant hill tile.

Originally posted by Devil's Advocate:

I seem unable to make ant hills, or do any of the ant summoning rituals despite being on a desert/ant hill tile.

I can make the hills but the summoning is still not working.

Unable to make Desert Palaces with High Priestess, when I was finally able to summon Baal he panicked and died 2 fights later... Seems a heavy investment just to have him be killed by low level fear casters.

The Desert Palace issue was: Line 848 'addstring "Master Hashishin"' amended to 'addstring "(&)Master Hashishin"' for fix. Updated description: Line 850 'descr "The Priestess orders the construction of a new temple from which Ba'al's will can be done. Must be at least 5 tiles from nearest Desert Palace and adjacent to an Oasis. Requires ownership of a Master Hashishin."' As it previously didn't inform your need for an Oasis. Suggestions for what I did to fix it~

1.) Not immune to fear in vanilla. Bad luck.
2.) Not surprised something got missed, there's 12000 lines.

Yeah I saw that for Baal once I dug around a bit. Silly game devs~ Scourge Lord has a problem summoning the Fire Ant Queen as well. (In the combo mod Line 5394 'newmonster "Fire Monster Ant Queen"' amended to 'newmonster "Monster Fire Ant Queen"' fixed it.) I'll start posting on the combo mod since my next play through will be there. Ty for all the amazing work! Honestly I can't imagine being so interested in the game without your overhauls.

Should've known there'd be a transcription error.

The scourge lord in this is really fun! One of the reasons why I disliked playing as him in vanilla is because he only builds down, never up. The oases and desert palace really help. My main complaint is that the ants are too powerful, I'm not saying I don't want the ants, I love the ants, I'm saying that every turn getting an armored spellcaster for 750 life force is far too broken, even 1500... 3000 life force it'd still be easily worth it.

There are two pyramid of power rituals. Since you can demolish a pillar of power, I don't see the point of the original ritual.