Davy Jone's at Monsterdale Fashion week ...

I love it when a plan comes together!

I'm nearing the end of my playtest & troubleshooting for the Grimmtosa update to the save file. All the little things I wanted to see are really coming together.

• We had lots of speeches and lively debate in Grimmtosa castle - I've added the debating station from Discover university to the castle. Club venues seem to be "sticking" and more stable now.

• I've added some gameplay objects: a fizzing station, recycler and fabricator to the Spring Palace and added "staff" for this palace: a tailor, an inventor, an advisor (Blanche White, aristrocrat) and a lady in waiting to take care of young Merri, now living with her evil sorceress stepmother and her father's ghost (she needed some friendly people in the castle with her).

• Davey Jones showed up for the "Pirate fashion display" at the "Costume Shop for Fall" venue. It was hilarious, and my little witchy dress from last years Simblreen / Plumboween was on display too and some witches were trying it on. I nearly fainted from happiness.

• For some reason, children keep showing up at the Treehouse where Tinkerbell & Peter Pan are living and planning for their fairytale wedding - it made me think of the lost boys. Jack Stalkaxer from "Jack & the motherplant story" as seen in the July Fantazine showed up too, and we asked him to be ringbearer. Fairy Godmother will be presiding over the wedding of course!

Some persisting problems:

• Community lots & venues breaking. My advice is to wherever possible, keep venues "stable". If you change the lot type too many times, that's when the lot becomes corrupted easily. This happened in Port Sulani where we have a long standing problem with the game refusing to take pirate clients to one of the brothels /venues. I demolished it and made it residential. It's an empty lot now. My advice would be to keep it residential.

• Monsterdale staff fixes don't "stick" any more. They are reliably showing up in new career outfits the next day regardless of what day of the week, prom or other events. Mr Mutant Hamster, Snowy Monster and Cleaning bot show up in EA's version of what High School staff should look like. More on this later. Good news: staff and monsters showing up to school seem to be a reliable core group of monsters and teens from the game, which is nice that the game isn't constantly making new random townies to attend Monsterdale High. I'm thrilled for that part at least.

When should we expect the updated save file?

• Today! (I just released it! Yay!) I'm nerding out over providing a sim share file to place in your mods folder to assist you with what sort of folk will show up in each kingdom / world. It's a last minute detail I want to add for this update to the save. Almost there, but curation takes time.

• One more visit to the magic realm ... promise! Just one more. I want to be sure about the sages of magic and their stability.