Hey there Townforgers!

We've put up an experimental merge-mining pool for Townforge Gold and Monero at: https://pool.townforge.net

It merge-mines mainnet Monero with current testnet Townforge, so while the Monero is real, the Townforge gold you'll get is only usable in current testnet.
You can mine either both Townforge and Monero and once, or either chain, your choice. It should work with a vanillla xmrig miner out-of-the-box. Please note that while we discover Townforge blocks easily, the current likelihood of catching a Monero block with our pool is small due to difficulty differences.

Couple screenshots of how my gaming desktop's performing:


I'm hoping to soon post a recap of the past couple weeks, in-game story/event scripts, as well as showcase an R statistical software package that I've been working on that interacts with the Townforge daemon RPC and should provide all the spreadsheet warriors a healthy chunk of data to chew on from gamestate, e.g. NFTs, game markets, events, etc. It comes with a browser interface built with R Shiny. R is great for data visualizations, statistics, etc, so I'm hoping this package will come in handy as a supplement to the game client.

Further, we've been seriously discussing a mainnet launch, though nothing final has been decided yet. But stay tuned.