As always, rules for this thread:
-DO NOT post suggestions.
-DO NOT critique unreleased features. Wait until you've had a chance to try them before passing judgement.
With that out of the way, let's open with an in-game screenshot:
It's been a long time (over a month) since my last dev diary, but as you guys have probably noticed, I've been quite busy over that time. A plethora of hardcore modes basically reworking the entire early game experience, the port to 1.5, plus this latest round of optimizations.
I'm quite satisfied with the results of the latter, so I think it's about time for me to move back to focusing on gameplay and the "wrapping up" of BTW in general. This week, I plan on returning to a couple of small loose ends that I've left in the early game, and which shouldn't take me very long at all, and then shift my focus back to HC Villagers and get that taken care of.
HC Villagers is probably the last *major* gameplay change I have left to tackle on the mod (errr...total conversion), but I'm very much looking forward to the impact it will have on overall gameplay. I think you guys will be quite pleased with what I have planned there, and I think it will finally move villagers beyond the poorly integrated tagged-on addition to MC that they've always felt like.
Once I'm done with that, the only major task that really remains on BTW (other than the remaining bug fixes), will be to wrap up the "end game", which will tell the "story" (I feel dirty even using that word) of the transition between BTW and the Return to Home.
Guess that about covers it for now. Basically still busting my ass pushing forward to the point where I feel comfortable calling BTW complete :)