The Restoration Project is a mod for Baldur's Gate aiming to restore literally all unused sounds, as well as some minor cut characters or locations. In recent iterations it evolved into the younger, brasher sidekick of Unfinished Business.
II. WHAT THE MOD DOES
A. Restored Locations
This component adds, restores content to or tweaks some locations that didn't make it to the released version or had any missing content.
This component restores a few cut characters. Most of them don't have any real role, but serve as flavor.
The biggest and the most important component, it restores proper damaged, dying and morale break sounds to over 1600 characters. A few of them also have additional unused sounds for other occasions.
D. Restored Items
This component restores some items not added by any other mods.
This component restores two cut Wish options, them being:
This component restores XP rewards for doing minor things in ToB, for example:
This component restores random encounters both in SoA and ToB.
If you obtained Cernd's son peacefully, Deril will come back as a lich after three days, if Cernd is still in the party. After a short battle he'll run back to his house, where you can dispose of him permanently.
I. Minor graphic restorations
This component now restored various graphic data, mainly forgotten/replaced icons.
The location everyone visited at least once and wondered what the hell was going on with it, finally back in the game. Contains three rudimentary quests, you get there by clicking on the floor in the plane of air.
K. Better Item Import
With this addition, the Plane of Air djinn, also known as Malaaq, will hand you one additional weapon. What it will be depends entirely on what you carried with you when you imported the game. It could be a Flame Tongue, Bali's Axe, Longtooth dagger, Kiel's morgenstern, Root of the Problem, or something else!
L. Final Slayer Dream
Previous version of this mod kept the Slayer Test Area as a minor quest area with a dumbass requirement. It was pretty bad. With this component installed, the STA is finally a fully-fledged area, with a dream introduction and everything, just like Our Bioware In Heaven intended. Just sleep a few times after the dream in which Ellesime talks to you, and it will all be revealed.
M. Alternate Slayer change
Originally, the Slayer change was supposed to drain the party of their vital forces and cause horror in everyone witnessing it, until the player masters the Slayer in the Ancient Grove. This component restores this ability. It's optional, since some people could actually dislike this change.
III. INSTALLATION/UNINSTALLATION
To install, extract the contents of arpvX.zip to your main BG2 directory (on Windows) or Baldur's Gate 2.app/drive_c/[further path] (WINE-compatible macs), then double-click the setup-arestorationp.exe file, or setup-arestorationp.command if your computer is a Mac and follow the instructions on screen.
To uninstall, do the same.
IV. COMPATIBILITY
Quest Pack should preferably be installed after installing component G. Apart from that, ARP is fully compatible with every single mod, thanks to the magic of SmartCoding.
V. VERSION HISTORY
V1 (20 March 2013)
Initial release.
V1.1 (21 March 2013)
Fixed a bug that prevented the Restored Sounds component from being installed in English language due to a misplaced REQUIRE_PREDICATE.
V1.2 (27 March 2013)
The jokecloaks are now added in a way that doesn't break the drop tables for BGT users.
V1.3 (28 March 2013)
Kiser doesn't clone himself anymore.
Becky and Diane actually appear. (Those two bugs were linked in the most stupid way possible)
Added a German translation by Gast.
V2 (3 April 2013)
Restored three new encounters.
Restored two Wish options.
Restored blessed bolts.
V3 (18 April 2013)
Restored:
Two new minor characters.
Two random encounters.
One large area.
The ending to Cernd's quest.
Fixed XP rewards for things in ToB.
V3.1 (4 May 2013)
Deril might not die so easily during the first meeting.
Added a small reward for killing Deril.
You don't need to have the Fixpack installed (but why wouldn't you)
V3.2 (12 May 2013)
Wisp wrote some code that will make the mod less able to destroy absolutely everything. Thank you, Wisp!
V3.3 (22 June 2013)
The ogre actually spawns this time.
Conversely, Deril doesn't spawn in the druid grove and murder everyone anymore.
V3.4 (11 October 2013)
Prescribed testosterone to the Fanatic trying to burn Viconia.
Changed something so that Rielev's lines won't be in Polish all the time. Seriously Weidu can be the worst
V3.4.1 (17 November 2013)
Added BG2EE compatibility.
V3.4.2 (2 March 2014)
The guy at Nalia's dad's funeral actually says his lines!
V3.5 (12 April 2014)
Added the destroyed Saradush map icon.
Tweaked some dumb stuff.
V4 (22 April 2014)
Added the Plane of Earth to Chateau Irenicus.
Restored two random encounters.
Restored two items.
Restored eight minor characters in total.
Tweaked encounter probability.
V4.1 (16 May 2014)
Added the item import fix.
Nerfed the boots of lightning speed even more.
Fixed UB compatibility by removing the AG encounter.
Removed the German translation.
V4.2 (18 May 2014)
Added a new way to the second level of Yaga-Shura's house.
V5 (28 May 2014)
Added an alternate version of Slayer Change.
Retooled the Slayer Test Area to be triggered by a dream.
Restored two items of plot value.
Restored one banter and eight dialogue options of varying value.
V5.1 (28 May 2014, too)
Added two new demon encounters during the Planar Sphere quest.
Added a new dialogue to one of the other demons. Thanks for the info, Argent77!
V5.1.1 (1 June 2014)
Forked installs into regular and BG2EE version.
Made all new components work on BG2EE.
V6 (3 June 2014)
Remerged the installs and recoded the tp2 with code stolen from UB.
Restored a text screen appearing when sent to Spellhold by Desharik.
Restored the original Berserker's Enrage icon.
Restored Firkraag's taunts.
Restored a trap in Planar Sphere.
Restored a page in the Spellhold Spellbook.
Restored the possibility to speak with Falik.
Restored two hints in the game.
Restored an encounter in Windspear Hills.