Good afternoon fine folks,

It has certainly been a very busy week in terms of development, perhaps a lot more than has been the case in recent months. I just wanted to give you folks a quick run down of whats changing in the coming updates. I'll also be taking some down time from today until Monday. So updates,development and testing should resume on Monday.

[Item Pickup UI Elements]
Today's update has this already in place , when you pickup items or gather resources a UI icon will pop up in the bottom right of screen. The design and animation is open to change and debate.

[Functional Quick Slots]
As of today's update these are only cosmetic, however once I have the back end side of things setup you'll be able to equip tools and weapons.

*Note*
In preparation for this you won't be able to gather dates to eat but you'll be able to gather stone and wood (albeit without any tools in hand :S)

[Host Game Menu]
As of today's update there are no real options for hosting other than hosting a LAN or Internet game. Next week's update will add a 'Host Game' Menu that will allow you to set a custom server name and player limit. While there aren't many options at the moment, they will be expanded in the future to allow hosts to modify drop rates and other things related to world and game behavior.

[More Placeholder Animations]
With the ability to equip tools and weapons comes the need for new animations and animation states.

[Conclusion]
That's it for this weeks round of updates , I'm going to take off for the weekend and get some rest. Please do feel free to share your thoughts and have a great weekend ( Weekends start on Thursday around my neck of the woods :D ).

Best Regards
MrNexy