Fearyourself has posted a brief update to the Back to Roots website to give us all a glimpse into what progress he has made with the project. He doesn’t have any new videos or screenshots to show off, but significant developments have nevertheless been made:

I’ve been continuing the port out of my flat file format into XML and have almost finished. Out of 280 files that describe players, monsters, etc. Only 30 remain in the flat format and 26 are the Ultima 4 spell descriptions.

I’m going to write a script to port them as well and I should be finished today with the porting. Then, I will have to play the games a bit to make sure that no bugs have crept into the games, which most likely has happened. It is always the case with such a big change.

He’s hopeful that before the month is out, he’ll have something to show us all.