Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25118285-20170717214401

Okay guys, good news: I can talk about some of the update plans in more detail now! On ourDiscord server yesterday, we devs had a spontaneous QnA/ramble session in our voice chat. I highly encourage you join the server to see announcements and stuff like that. So without further ado...

The archeology update (which may be broken up into several smaller updates because of the shear amount of content we have planned) will add around 10 ancient civilizations to the game. You'll be able to explore different structures, wield ancient weapons, play ancient instruments, etc. Also included will be books and scrolls with stories and poetry from each culture and new art (similar to the stone tablets) that will showcase more lore and cool stuffs. The strange message  that was posted a few days ago hinted to the Atlantean-style culture we'll be adding as a part of this. You can also expect to see expanded Aztec and Egyptian/Pigmen cultures, among others.

The paleontology update will be a rehaul of the current fossil system. Instead of finding fossil ores that drop bio-fossils, you will find complete skeletons that you will have to mine with a special tool (not yet named). We also plan to add in more exciting poses for the fossil models, and possibly even a minigame. This update will likely contain quite a few new prehistoric creatures.

The time machine update will, of course, finally add the dimension we call The Past! This dimension will be sort of like an alternate-universe in which all of our prehistoric creatures will spawn together (in their suitable biomes, of course). I'm not sure if there will be any other content in this update beside the dimension and new biomes (and blocks/plants to fill them!), but I can tell you that no, we won't be having any sort of "butterfly effect" in which modifying The Past will result in changes in the overworld, since this is like an alternate dimension, like I said.

Now, as I've been saying, we haven't officially decided which of these updates will come in what order, but I can tell you that the paleontology update will definitely come before the time machine update. This will let us get enough mobs in to actually fill the dimension. I hope you guys are excited! We certainly are. I'll be posting the previews we released on Discord in the comments soon.  