I can say that the mod is definately not dead. 2.4 is taking a little longer due to real life stuff. Nothing to worry about.
Between the releases since 2.01 were approximately 2 weeks, up till 2.31 Basic. That's
fast, especially since each version brought quite some changes and fixes. 2.4 asked for a little bit more work, but that's not the only reason why it's taking a bit longer. The past two weeks I haven't been able to do much on the mod due to real life stuff. For example, today I had to work for the whole day (like tomorrow), and in the evening I went to my grandparents. My grandmom made
snert, yay! And I now got her recipe, so I definately gonna try it out one of these days. For the people who don't know what snert is: it's
Dutch pea soup. This is a typical Dutch winter meal, with a lot of meat in it. It takes several hours to make. It's so thick you should be able to stand a spoon upright in it. Here's an image from wikipedia on how it typically looks like:
Anyway... Here are some things that still need to be done for the next version:
- I'm working at the moment on adding more sound effects.
- Caba pointed out to me how to fix the naked lords on feasts. I want to fix that the coming week

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- I want to do some
mipmap fading.
- Also I'd like to check on the face textures, and compare the different ones available.
- I'd like to start working on a few new companions, but this has no priority, so maybe I'll postpone it to 2.5.
- Some more scene editing (I don't know yet which ones)
- There are some small things I want and need to look into.
Ow, and I also really need to work on my next Me, Floris update. I'm a bit late with that one.
So to answer your question: 2.4 is coming along nicely, altough with a little delay.