Finally part 1 of 2 of my exhaustive game play testing and overhaul is complete! Every time I go though all of my crafts, skills and items in the game I realize how much content I have in the game to actually test! It is a quite a lot of effort to go through everything and make sure everything is working, is balanced, and is fun!
This part of the overhaul was actually game play testing all of the mechanics in the game. Part 2 is implementing the large list of optimizations and content that was created while doing all of the game play testing. I have many items on this list, where completing them could take anywhere from a few minutes, to a few days for each item.
However, the silver lining in all of this is basically once this is done, the game will be completely ready for Early Access Release! I will of course be opening up the game for one more round of beta testers to play the game before I release it.
I have not announced a specific release date yet, but I hopefully will soon :)