I AM ALIVE!
Seriously, the first two days I didnt even have water or electricity here, and now, finally, after 10 days, my internet arrived. Still have to wait 2 weeks till my gas is turned on again. Sorry for the wait.
Now, I do have an Alpha lying here, but it is hilariously unfinished. I really couldnt find any time at all for DF, and my absolute priority right know is A: Preparing my trip to North-Africa, and B: Designing my new website and finding sponsorship. I wont abandon DF, so no worries, but I cant give it as much time as I wanted to in the first place. I will prepare an upload for tomorrow, ~24h from now you have the alpha version to play around with. It will include the custom dfhack for the "Magic", the python GUI (either the version I have atm, or a better one from Roses/Arclance/Zenerbufen, if they can manage to send me one), the html-manual which is about 75% done (mostly missing are building guides and/or info about not-yet-existing features) and the mod itself. I have 90% of the buildings and reactions done, 50% of the races, most simple stuff, tools, items, designes, inorganics, bodys, plants, trees... I am currently importing more creatures and see that I can kick out the unbalanced ones, and restrict the ones I use to better fitting biomes.
I also played a short test fortress (nice to play on a big screen, with constant 150fps) and already noted, that automatons still arrive without weapons... apart from that most things seem to work flawlessly.
Again, I am back, the mod is not dead, but it will take longer then anticipated. What I can offer is this: Delegation. If people are willing to help, someone can design on of the races, another person the weather, another one this and that, while I concentrate on the difficult things, like hidden cults and diseases and all those fancy interactions and exploding ammo
and the community here can really add to the rest. This is only an offer, but I know that there are many people here who want to help, or write for this mod. I even got a message about a "human race plugin" and oliveroski was working on a "lizard race plugin"