The new change doesn't affect the making of a sword, unless you like to hammer a lot of the blade before making the finished product. If I'm just making a straight sword without hammering nothing has changed except the times to heat the blade is a bit shorter now. It is the endless hammering on a blade for sword making practice that takes longer now.

I have to state that not only the procedure has changed but apparently also the ratio quality/skill. i used to be able to make perfect blades within 1 or 2 efforts. Now i'm not even able to do this within 20 efforts or more. (to be precise, i haven't made a single one since the change). I don't see the point in reducing people's skills. From my point of view this is very frustrating. I don't know how you all feel but i'm asking myself if it  makes sense to spend loads of time trying to become a good smith (or something else) if you can be downgraded to almost a beginner from one day to another. I understand the reasons for changing the procedure (more realistic and less "botable") but i can't see a point in reducing the skills. Maybe someone can explain this to me.

i have the same problem. My client crashes in different locations on different occasions. i haven't found any pattern yet, but the konsole window (my operating system is suse linux 10.3) always shows the same last lines as described above: <DisributeLeafObjects failed: !leaf _replaced This node contains the followinf objects: 0:.....> Has my client a problem or what can i do to get rid of this? I check almost every day for updates btw
Greetings, Woruell