What I've been doing! (Oct 2023)

Hello everyone! Apparently patreon's been making some changes and we have free members now, I would just like to say welcome! I'd like to outline what I've been working on lately and where we are going.

To start, I've actually been spending a majority of my time in the last few weeks working on Patreon rewards. This will continue until I've accomplished several tasks which I will outline here:

- Doc Sheet of all music (and timestamps) ever used on (most) PippenFTS videos. This one has been a pretty insane undertaking, pretty easy for half of my videos of which I still have the project files ever since I got a 14 terabyte harddrive last year for video-making, where you can still see all the songs. I've filled all of those out now and I'm left guessing and hunting and remembering for the older half of my videos. But progress has been steady. Once its done, access to this folder containing the list will be made available to **Tier 2** Patron members and upwards. I figured Tier 2 needed an upgrade. I take music selection very seriously and I probably spend way too much time on it when making videos. This is the Patreon reward I'm primarily working on at the moment so it will be available the soonest on this list.

- Getting a new host for Tier 4 Masterworld server. This is something that's been taking a long time because I'm first getting the financial infrastructure for my business all setup which has been taking some time with mailing and so on. As long as the server is not up, Tier 4 for a limited time will have access to the Tier 5 reward of being able to download the Masterworld. That's been made available on discord, I'll double check that and also make it the case on Patreon.

- Combining Seattle 1,000 and Seattle 10,000. Making the combined masterworld has been (define) easy so far only because all the locations are very far away from eachother. With two locations close to eachother, the region files overlap and it becomes an almost impossibility for someone like me to be able to combine it. When I inquired up the grapevine in BuildTheEarth, they didn't have a solution either, other than an insane grind of thousands of schems to put one map into the other. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm trying to sort out the math right now for all the teleports and schem commands so that this process can begin, probably after music is finished. Once combining these two maps is complete, the new Seattle10k can be put into Masterworld so that Queen Anne is finally a part of it.

- Making a Vanilla version of Masterworld. This will require a bit more work than just converting the file. I'll need to change many heights of the various maps, reconfigure the teleport books to match their new heights and recombine all the maps together in order to make a vanilla version work.

These are the tasks I'm working on right now in order. Once all of this required work is finished we can start moving in new directions. I want to add Patreon Exclusive videos (some will be Tier 1 and up, some will be free), I want to add a Tier 6 and Tier 7 (more on that later).

I'm also relaunching survival on PippenFTS so those rewards will be integrated into this Patreon. Soon I will also be launching completely new channels outside of the realm of Minecraft, which means more integrated rewards related to that content.

That's about it! Thanks everyone for joining! For everyone who joined for free, enjoy the comingsoontm free rewards :)