FemboyDominator

That's probably pocket change for the guy lol, it'd be more about the time commitment to run a game studio. He made the biggest M word server ever, and he sold the previous studio to a major gaming company. I doubt money's an issue.

Can't say I'm shocked given the slow updates and engine rework (or was it an engine change?). It's unfortunate that it's never going to see the light of day, but I've already found my M-word alternative, so quite frankly I'm not all that bummed about it either.

Can you ping the host at all? And I mean through command prompt, to the server's ip: ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx If you can ping them through command prompt, but can't join through the game, then it's likely just a matter of the firewall blocking the connection. If you're playing using a LAN emulator (Hamachi, Radmin VPN...) then you're gonna need to let the game access private networks. Windows usually pulls a window like this up when you're first launching a game, which my guess is where you left the networks unticked. In which case, you're gonna need to edit the firewall rules. The window won't show up again but you can still do it in the "Advanced settings" of Windows' network menu. Should be fine once everyone has it set to allow private network connections.

I reckon it's a result of them becoming self aware for a second. I mean, I sure wouldn't like it if I realized I'm a mangled shell of a man walking on all fours lol

One of the main things you will get from this is the clothier-exclusive recipes. It's mostly more refined clothing, like for exampled tailored gambeson armour (i.e. gambeson with less drawbacks due to being better fitted, I like to use it as my everyday protection since it doesn't slow you down) or reindeer herder clothes (very warm, great for the winter). The sewing kit, which is very good for fixing up your old clothes, is also normally clothier-exclusive i believe. Other than that you can craft some minor things from other classes like the Blackguard short sword, or the Malefactor's sling. Disabling class-based crafting restrictions also disables the little note in your handbook that actually lets you know a given recipe is exclusive, so it's a bit hard to tell which ones are newly available. I believe the Clockmaker's tuning spear still requires you to be a Clockmaker for it to actually function however, so keep that in mind. It's more of a display piece for other classes.

Kind of a weird take. A boss fight is just pacing. The climax of a given "chapter" and a final challenge. You need to challenge the player in some area to keep them interested. Combat just happens to be the focus or a main mechanic of most games. So if you want to challenge the player's combat skills (which they'd naturally be building during their playthrough), you pit them against a mechanically complex enemy or overwhelming odds... both of which can easily be considered a boss fight. It doesn't even have to be strictly combat. I'd call something like the Storm from Frostpunk a boss fight - because it's the climax of the story campaign and it challenges you in one of the game's main mechanics (surviving the cold).

Just do /worldconfig classExclusiveRecipes false and then go in and out of your world. No mod needed.