They say nothing makes a website look unmaintained like Santa Hats in the new year, so it’s time for a ComputerCraft status update: For the past month, I’ve been working solidly on a huge feature update for ComputerCraft that I’ve been unimaginatively calling ComputerCraft 1.6, I’ve been posting regular status updates on Twitter, but since not everybody reads that (though I recommend it!), here’s a rundown of the new stuff:

Additionally, I’ve refactored or rewritten huge parts of the codebase, the benefits to this are twofold: first up, old parts of the code that were buggy or error prone (because I was less experienced with Minecraft when I wrote them), are now a lot more stable. Secondly: cleaner code makes a happier programmer, hence all the fun I’ve been having adding new features!

TL;DR: there’s a lot of stuff, plus more to come. It’s great to be able to devote some serious time to modding again. Expect a release for Minecraft 1.6.4 and Minecraft 1.7.4 as soon as I stop adding features and start polishing things for release. Given all the links in this post, I’ll leave it an exercise for the reader to work out where the best place is to go for updates :p