Iceblade has posted a short update to the Forgotten World website, bringing news of the editor the team are working on:

Speaking of making Forgotten World, more work has been done for our editor: basic water viewing (just wow, what a huge difference visually) and rudimentary object placement. Although it is only rudimentary from an interface perspective, I can place any object I want, I just have to know its default flags/properties, model IDs and Type IDs (most of which I have listed in one file or another). Baby steps… but this is a pretty significant baby-step.

Of course, this means I now have no excuse to delay fixing almost every bug I have noted.

Just so; cleanup of Ultima 9 must commence forthwith!

Iceblade also re-iterates something that Dungy noted previously:

…for those interested, the U9 transcript at the Codex Wiki I have been working on has been completed. In other recent Wiki news, a lot of pages have been added about Ultima 6 Project including detailed maps, walkthroughs, and npcs. The wiki contributors have really been accomplishing some amazing work the past few months.

Indeed, you really need to check out the Ultima 9 transcript at the Codex of Ultima Wisdom when you have a few minutes. It is just an epic piece of work, and masterfully arranged to show the flow of each NPC’s conversations.