This is to announce the release of the release candidate for OctoberPlains.

This has a few changes from pre6, including some additional sounds, some early-game tools, some bug fixes, a bed (to set spawn and reset the day), and general balancing of durability, toughness, and drops.

Unless there are any serious bugs, game-breaking performance issues, or frustrating balance problems, this will be the 1.0 final release.

This means that work on phase 2 of the OctoberProject, OctoberPeaks, will get underway in the next week or so.

Note that these will start out as being fully compatible, even though the interface for OctoberPeaks will be completely different (a Minecraft-like immersive first-person world). The consequence of this is that things like movement and "facing direction" will feel very bizarre (since "facing" is not currently a concept and movement can only be made in cardinal directions).

So, give it a shot and let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Jeff.