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@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ font rendering
 command line
 
 	more commands pls
-	and show me their output
 
 persistence
 
@@ -29,6 +28,9 @@ persistence
 
 	store some kind of byte order mark?
 
+	world and player names should be normalized so they can safely
+	be used in path names
+
 networking
 
 	definitely needs throttling for the internets
@@ -36,6 +38,16 @@ networking
 	players stats (who's connected, their ping, and game-relevant
 	things) should be sent to clients
 
+	some method for authenticating a player might be nice
+
+	maybe stale and inexistent chunks should be visualized (e.g. by
+	drawing a semi-transparent box around them)
+
+	make a chunk data counting a little safer
+
+threading
+
+	(clientside) networking and disk IO are prime candidates for threading
 
 launcher ui
 
@@ -43,7 +55,7 @@ launcher ui
 
 entity ai
 
-	pathfinding, obstacle avoidance, better turning behaviour
+	pathfinding, better turning behaviour
 
 lighting
 
@@ -66,11 +78,10 @@ lighting
 
 gravity
 
-	maybe like light levels? should also store a direction with it in
-	that case. also, global gravity may be a world option.
-	no, per-block gravity vector is most probably too expensive.
-	better have the chunks store a few point masses (maybe blocks that
-	emit gravitation?) and calculate from that
+	now implemented as optional gravity emitter per block type
+	let's see how that pans out
+	maybe players should be given the option to switch between
+	walk and fly mode
 
 block attributes
 
@@ -93,17 +104,21 @@ world generator that is not boring
 	biomes seem too small, maybe that will become easier to tune when
 	there's a little more diversity between them
 
-entity/world collision
-
-	first draft of entity/world collision is implemented
-	it jitters and has some surprising behaviour
+	chunk generation takes too long, it's incredibly annoying
+	should look into speeding it up and executing on a different thread
+	compute shaders might be another approach, though that would require
+	opengl 4.3, block the gpu, and generally doesn't lend itself well to
+	threading (cpu wise). It also requires servers to load GL. maybe not
+	such a great idea after all
+	using interpolation between samples of simplex noise now (big thanks
+	to notch ;) ), I'll see how that fares or can be tweaked
 
 spawning
 
 	need a way to find a suitable location to spawn new players in
 	I imagine a "random block" function of ChunkIndex could be nice
 	(also for use with the AI spawner)
-	also, finding a spawn position for a player must no fail. after a
+	also, finding a spawn position for a player must not fail. after a
 	certain number of tries, the world must change to safely accomodate
 	the player.
 	chunk generation could be adjusted to make a little more room near the
@@ -117,3 +132,15 @@ spawning
 sprite/particle system
 
 	these could help make the world seem more alive
+
+items
+
+	items representing both blocks and non-blocks (such as tools, weapons,
+	armor), with a simpler physics simulation than entities, much like the
+	one for particles
+	they can be picked up by entities, so those should have one or more parts
+	in their skeleton to render them when they're "held"
+	players' inventories have to be changed so they select an item rather
+	than a block
+	item IDs could be the block ID for blocks, and anything from 2^16 up for
+	non-blocks