Gah, sorry for yesterday's absence, folks, but my utilities were in a state of rebellion (power outage in the AM, water troubles in the PM) and by the time that and my usual work were done, I was bone tired and generally zonked.
General responses:
Thanks for finishing the mansion, Dakk! That one's going to be silk production. Once I decide where to put it, we're going to have an inn/tavern/restaurant for proper feasting, so we'll have a place for all that excess straw soon enough.
Everybody who is/wants to be part of the village should sign up at our private forums (in my sig), as I've been attempting to keep instructions up there. As kilakan evidently found out, I have to edit your permissions before you can see anything, though.
Unfortunately the only types of booze available at the moment are wine and beer (and wine outclasses beer except in a few extreme corner cases). We'll probably see more booze once the inventory system is retweaked, though.
Java aside, the client is pretty much completely non-optimized because the devs have taken an 'if it's not completely broken, don't worry about it at all' approach to most stuff thus far. Good luck getting it to run.
Oh, right. I noticed kilakan was evidently working the mine. I would really appreciate it if people only did that once they get to full Industry on the Personal Beliefs slider. That way the ore gets a much better chance of actually becoming usable, and we get max payoff on the pain in the ass it is to use our mine. Then again, I appreciate you taking initiative (I haven't seen the road, but thank you for doing it! We could certainly use some). Using the mine without full Industry isn't a huge deal, but eh. If you really want to, go ahead, but I'd prefer you wait.