Redoing the MLP mod continues - all cutiemarks are in, but I am slacking off on finishing the mane hair colours - 95pct of the population still have white manes. I decided to side track into more interesting elements of the mod, such as re-doing special abilities and reactions. So some unicorns now have effective game impacting magic beyond 'telekinetic graspers' - Some can shoot minor blasts of magic, while a select few can fire more effective blasts, and the magical healer pony can provide a buff that (theoretically) doubles your recuperation rate. Also, entertainers can greet people with a hoof bump that leaves a positive thought. I need a few other good ideas for minor but useful interactions.
I've also rethought the weaponry and tools used by the ponies, focusing on weapons that would be possible to be somewhat effective if wielded in your mouth and swung using your neck muscles. So they use cutlass swords - curve bladed weapons that deal their effect through slashing more than cleaving. I've left spears in because you see them all over the show. I also gave them a truncheon weapon, which is little more than a stick to thump things with. I also gave them a 'chakka sling' which if you have ever been clay target shooting and used a hand sling to launch the target, you know what it is, but it is basically a stick with a socket at one end that you slot the projectile into, then you flick the sling to throw the weapon with greater force. The projectile is a bladed disk or possibly all those left over CDs you have.
I included a very powerful katana weapon, but the difficulty in making it should see it reserved for your favourite heroes. I am also pondering if to make some sort of 'mini-thunder cloud' weapon, but since I cant limit such a thing's use to pegasi (although I can tie it to alchemy that the other ponies don't have) I am not sure if I should, or even need to given that the chakka sling is available.
I cleaned up the existing straw and fleece reactions, so that they actually work, and am debating making some form of cloud production facility - although not sure if I should - both because it doesn't serve any real purpose and because again there is no way to limit cloud manipulation to just pegasi. If it just becomes a 'free infinite building material' that uses water rather than clay, then it is sorta meh. Still - I might include it just because of theme.
I am going to include some more aggressive civilizations to fight with, although I'll do them as a sort of add on module so you can choose to up your enemy count a la fort defence, or leave them out for happy pony utopia gaming.
And then there is still a thousand colour definitions to do. Sigh.