TotalImmortal, one of the developers working on The Ultima 6 Remake (an Exult-based remake of — what else? — Ultima 6) pinged me on Discord to announce a major milestone in that long-running project’s development: working cannons (specifically, on ships). Sprites were contributed by the ever-so-talented Grant W. Chapman.

A more complete list of changes coming in version 1.3 of the remake includes, per TotalImmortal:

• fixed conversation breakage of Sherry
• fixed Valor rune quest so the attributes aren’t messed up (training and experience) during the swap
• changed Leodon’s shape to new one made by Ideal Dragon
• various conversation errors, misspellings etc.
• fixed healer code to allow for resurrecting party members with new body shapes (Sentri, Gwenno, Leodon etc)
• Manrel code – daffodils don’t disappear, no longer temporary

No word yet on when this update will be released; from what I gather, it’s currently being tested by a handful of select volunteers. There are some changes coming in a future Exult release that may need to reach the main branch of that project first.