This new version 0.7 of "The Testament of the White Cypress" includes many bugfixes and improvements. Read on further for instructions on using the download and a complete list of changes.
Extract the app from the .TAR.GZ archive, and open the app. If your mouse does not have a right button, you can use Control-Click. Also, when first starting the game, you may see a message about Cypress being from an "Unidentified Developer". Select "Open" again, and your preference will be saved. (You may wish to read Apple's notes on configuring Gatekeeper). To read the copyright information files referred to on the title screen, right-click to open the app's context menu, and choose "Show Package Contents." (Or, use the Finder's "Go To Folder" function by pressing Command-Shift-G, and open the app.) Inside the subfolder "Contents" you will find the text file COPYING and the Licenses subfolder.
- New frozen-forest and river crossing areas with dangerous thin ice.
- Cold and hunger are now fully functional. You can starve and/or freeze to death. Some areas are colder than others, and getting wet will quickly cause Geoffrey to begin freezing.
- Traveling and combat now cause hunger.
- Wolves are faster and more difficult to kill.
- Silver arrows do high extra damage on wolves.
- Wolf corpses can be turned into jerky with the new Cure Meat spell.
- Geoffrey can only camp once in each location; the camp auto-returns to you when traveling.
- Camping now requires firewood.
- The Scroll of Helping is open by default.
- Pop-up scrolls now cascade at the right edge of the screen when several are open.
- Geoffrey now begins his journey with a loaf of bread in his knapsack.
- New keyboard shortcuts: "M" for map, "I" for inventory, "S" for spellbook.
- Fixed inventory pop-up icon spacing.
- Fixed disappearing check-boxes.
- Fixed berry bush inventory crash.
- Fix arrow rendering issues.
- Geoffrey can no longer walk on top of pop-up scrolls.
- Only one description bubble is shown at a time.
- There is now a proper title screen.