It’s been a while, but I’ve finally gotten to the point where a new build seems warranted.
If you look through the commit history, you’ll see most of what’s been pushed over the last year and change mostly boils down to bug fixes or minor tweaks. I did manage to (hopefully) weed out an issue that prevented the game from starting or saving properly on OpenJDK versions of Java, which probably didn’t affect anyone but Linux users and people using Ninite to install Java on Windows.
In terms of actual features, there’s now a whole-ass calendar system in the game, complete with years and seasons. Like pretty much everything else I’ve added, it’s mostly just an extension of the engine at the moment - other than showing up above the usual day and time text, there’s no use of it in-game yet. Check out the bullet point in the first post for more info.
In the near future I’d like to have a mod out that actually makes use of most or all of the new engine code; I’ve been working on and off for a couple of years now on rewriting and expanding Nostordamus’ old mod, which will hopefully play a bit more nicely with some other mods out there. With the current situation being what it is, I’ve got a good amount of time to work on finishing up something releasable - more time than I’d like, frankly.
So, before I commit to releasing anything, I’d really like some feedback on how stable the general game is at the moment - even if there’s not much in terms of new features here, I’ve done a lot of under-the-hood work on how bodies work, with or without other mods interfering, and some of the new features that aren’t all that well-used haven’t been heavily tested. So if you want to set up a fresh install and maybe add some mods, play around for a bit and let me know what seems wrong, I’d appreciate it, although it’d help if you could let me know what mods you’re using on top of it.
So, without any further ado, you can get the current build here, and the image pack for 0.99 from here; if anything asks, the password is fmaster. You’ll need a fresh save file (the calendar system probably won’t initialize properly on existing files), and if you’re installing other mods, make sure you don’t overwrite anything in the dist folder (although this would probably only be an issue with Maternal-Reads’ mod).
I’m gonna get some sleep pretty quick here; hopefully I don’t wake up to a bunch of reports that the game crashed immediately, wiped your hard drive, exploded your computer, massacred an entire village, etc.