Moving Forward

Hey guys, time for a little TFC sitrep.

First of all, I want to say hello to all of our new fans who've been flooding in recently. We hope you enjoy the mod and stick with us going forward.

Now onto where things stand and where they are going.

MC v1.7

Currently we have a functioning 1.7 branch. This means that we can properly generate worlds but a lot of content is still very broken. However my current thoughts are not very positive when it comes to actually going to 1.7 with Build 79. As I am sure many of you who've tried 1.7 already realize, 1.7 tends to be a performance killer for many folks. Personally I have a very nice gaming rig so actual FPS isn't an issue. What IS an issue however is the terribly slow chunkloading times. If this cannot be solved than I can say that we will certainly not be moving past 1.6.4 for the foreseeable future. I've created a poll and discussion thread to hear what you guys think about this over here.

Build 79

As for actual content in 79, I don't want to get into too many specifics. A few things that we can hope to get into 79 however include:

• Rewritten barrels that can be used for liquid OR solid storage with a special bonus for food.
  
• Expanded Fishing and Trapping
  
• Rewritten Sluice <-This was one of the first things that I ever programmed for MC
  
• Changing how animals/mobs spawn so that they no longer use the terrible vanilla system.
  

As is usual these are subject to change and in now way represent the entirety of what we'll be working on in 79.

Build 78

I'm fairly proud to say that Build 78 is one of our most stable builds yet. This is in no small part due to Kittychanley routinely forcing us to actually fix these bugs and even fixing a few herself. Some work has already been completed on a 78.14 patch and I'm hoping that we can say that's the final hotfix. Although we'll continue to hotfix if truly needed.