Mount & Blade - v.900 Released

Hmm...getting close to v1.00. Here's the deal from the Mount&Blade forums:

Hi everyone,

Version 0.900 is finally ready. This version adds many new quests, a brand new map, lots of new villages and castles, books, AI improvements, gameplay changes and much more! As usual, we release this version to you, our forum community before the general public, because it no doubt has its share of bugs and glitches and with your help and feedback we hope to fix those.

I want to thank our community and our board of moderators and administrators for their continuous help and support and making the forums such a great place and the central attraction of this game project. And let me use this opportunity to say welcome and thank you to our new administrators and moderators, Merentha, Volkier, Okin, Instag0. You guys are so wonderful. I am so very happy and honored by having you on board.

All members of our team worked very hard for this version. Our art team painstakingly modeled and furnished many new and great looking environments, Cem has implemented many new features and also added some AI code at the last minute, making the AI so much more effective and fun to fight against. Tassilo keeps perfecting and polishing the sounds. And Steve not only helped this version but he will have an exciting surprise for you very soon.

Finally, many thanks to mtarini for developing the method for creating good looking mountain ranges. He has developed many great improvements as part of TLD map beautification project and has a special surprise of his own as well.

Now, if you are currently playing version 0.894, you can download and run the following patch (18.98MB) to upgrade to the new version:
from Filefront.
(Filefront will save the file as mountandblade_upgrade_0890.exe, but nevermind the name, it's the correct file.)

from Filecloud

from the Repository

Torrent by Jlgx50

otherwise, you can download the full installer below (118.47 MB):
from Filefront:

Please note that this version is not backward compatible with any previous version and you'll need to start a new game if you install it.

I wish everyone a great time playing version 0.900.