Hello again endless void of the dead internet!

A great deal has happened since the last update, both on the server and IRL. Itemized list:

1. I quit my job as a research engineer in aerospace so I could have more free time; doing contract work now on the side to pay the bills.
2. Almost finished with my Masters!
3. Business hasn't kicked off like I wanted it, but such is life.

And for the server:

A massive amount! Who would've guess that free time directly correlates to progress on goals and dreams?

The majority of the time for the past 2 months and well over 500 hours has been developing a resource pack for the server! Starting from scratch, both content-wise and knowledge-wise. 1.21.4 has truly been a groundbreaking update for Minecraft resource packs. We have:

Custom Item Textures! With animations!

Custom Tooltips!

Custom Weapon Textures, with custom durability, reach, attack, and even BDcraft-made enchantments through our datapack!

Custom Armor, with custom durability and defense/armor toughness values as well as unique player effects through our datapack! They can even be trimmed! (trimmable custom items was a beast to develop).

Custom UI! And Server Links! (the most complicated part of all of this, surprisingly).

Custom Server Login Text and made a dedicated port for the server with the website's name!

Very extensive work with finalizing plugin configurations and setup!

GUI's for everything!

An Exchange system for our custom materials refining/gathering (in-progress).

Star Elves are almost done.

Alchemy is past the ideation phase.

Plugins have been fully documented.

So I have been quite busy. Next on the chopping block is finishing the plugins. A number of things such as the chat system, characters/persona and item editing need to be reworked, and so they will consist of self-development. No telling how long that'll take for a rookie dev like myself. But that's what I said about the datapack and resourcepack so we'll see!

See you again in maybe 6 months!