A short-ish update was recently posted to The Ultima 6 Remake’s Facebook page, in which the team offer up some details about their preparations for an update to the project’s website:

Bringing things together for another site update soon. Crowley has made several new shapes I’m putting in that I’d like to show screenshots of. Grave shapes are made, and functional – use shovel on grave, dig it up, coffin revealed in the grave, with body. Another interaction – cut trees with a knife, get kindling, double click kindling to build a fire, place a frying pan 1 tile next to the fire, double click raw meat, automatically places it on frying pan and cooks it with a small chance of burning the food completely (similar to the UO cooking system). Campfires will start to burn out and get smaller until it burns out completely. I always thought it would have been cool to build your party a campfire out in the wilderness, and now we can!

It’s amazing what you can do with Exult, isn’t it?