There was a small problem with Monday's release that I recently discovered so I'm sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused for those of you who had downloaded the Monday's release. It is now fixed. About shadows: They always work for other people's characters but they only sometimes work for your own character. The exact reason for this is to be determined and I'm still working on it.
In today's fix npcs are starting to become possible, but there are as of now a little spazzy. If you want to find out what I mean you can create your own by using the new command "/addBot". The parameters of addBot can be found by typing "/help addBot". As a warning: if you give /addBot the wrong parameters the client might crash, but it does give you the possibility of having more fun. Most of the issues with npcs that are left are clientsided. I hope you enjoy the fix.
-Mark