hey Hyperfire thats great! 7Zip worked I got them all. I will test them out a bit and I am sure I will use one set or the other. If they change fast enough I may be able to get rid of even more hiccup because the light outside the skybox wont flash through when they change. So i can take out the duel color changes before n after the boxes switch...speeding up the transition.

ill let ya know here later. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

EDIT:Yo Hyper...great news!
I decided to go with the optimized 512x512 but I scaled them down to 384x384. Most of them were around 100KB in size and they transitioned in game pretty fast. I then ran them through the Gimp "selective gaussian blur" to enhance them from the stretching...they turned out real nice and that reduced their size even more to 40-60K. This has made the hiccup practically unnoticeable while actually playing. Thanks for optimizing the skies folder bro...really helped the "tick" alot!

Hyper,
There are commands that allow you to change a texture through script...but it does not work for water. I have 4 different water texture in the gfx folder I had tried to get them to change with the seasons and weather...but they would not change so I believe it is in the source code.(.exe)
I could only set the single water texture and it can only be called "water.jpg".

As far as buildings, you CAN make sections that the player could put together...any building model added is treated all the same as the rest. Meaning the player would set them, rotate them into position, then click build. They would have to build them in "flat areas" OR you can make 2 different sections to choose from if the player wanted to build on a hillside. Another way would be using the "alter object" command in a script. Where you would have say 3 models, the player builds the first stage....then he could hit the building with his hammer x amount of times and the building would be replaced with a stage 2 model. Then repeat this for as many additions as you wanted the player to have.

Think about the current "forge/water rock" you hit it 50 times with a hammer and it changes to a "hollow rock". ("alter item" script command) Or the "build site" itself...you hit it with required hammer and use items and it changes to the building when done.

last...you can use script to force the player to build at only a certain location...such as you can only build a treehouse at x tree. Or a raft can only be built in water. Or the grill only over a fire pit. I am pretty sure you could use script to check terrain "x,y,z" and if it is a hill your "house section" would turn "red" and the player could not build there. To many things to list here but YES you can make sections of houses to build together.

Dragon,
Hi nice to meet you...if you did not download the new update you may have some bugs. The early version of 12-25-2013 was pretty bad. Download the new update.

I will have to test some things...i dont understand why you would have those bugs with the forge...or the mine. thank for the report...will look into it. Did you yourself edit any of the files at all? Or enable the editor and map a custom map? no works with custom maps.

Drag,
oh no another mine bug that thing causes so many problems I may have to take it out all together even though it's cool. That is an original Massive Mod aspect of the game. But it has been such a pain!

Hyper,
Fire Arrows (Branch + Feather + Wool) Ill have to edit the wooden arrow...it's supose to be a branch o.0

Can you look into that lag spike some more? See if you can come up with any more details as to when, where, or how it might be happening? Was it only 1 time? or is it repeating every x amount of time...or at the same "time" hour ingame?...anything?

Adoelaws,
1branch + 10chord = net
Right-click your mouse to catch the chicken/rooster like you do a butterfly, or insect. Take it to the Chicken-Coop and simply "drop" it out of your rucksack. If your inside 100ft range of the coop they will stay idle, outside 100ft they will just run off again. I will add details to the diary/guide

I never messed with the ability to set the Map to a button after I put that in. You have to make the map first, goto the OPTIONS/CONTROLS and set it to a key. If you did not make a map though, it will not let you set it to a key.

ssev,
You got the last 01-01-2014? with the bonus fixes? I will check it out...grrr@bugs

Hyper,
btw...im not losing quality when I downsize the skybox images. It is the fact that I made them smaller in size AND the fact that that the engine has to "stretch" such a small image over the big sky. When an image is stretched it loses quality. Same as if you take a small image and scale it large it looks blurry -vs- scaling a big image smaller it loses no quality, and stays clear.

I actually do not like what i did to the sky images, and will revert back to your 512x512 optimized set, next upload.