That is awesome.

It is truly awesome that you few can do things like this that so many of us can benefit from. I wish I could mod (code?) like this. As Hf stated, will it be able to branch, have multiple concurrent steps? I have quests in mind but they might be too epic for my xml capabilities.

The plan is to support whatever the quests can do in the game.

I've heard rumblings that the "elemental editor" mentioned in the xml may be released to us, so i'm waiting for more info before i sink too much time in this.  

However, I would like to get this out soon...before the release is the goal.

Hope we get something official, it would be a real boon tothe community. But if not, I hope we can make one ourselves. Good luck!

Even if not a quest editor in the purest form of the sense, I'm sure Derek has some spreadsheet quest "editor"

I've started this up again with the idea of it being a Quest Wizard, meaning it will guide you through making a quest, instead of just an editor.   We'll see.  I'll post screenshots and an alpha to try soon.

The quest locations will need tiny snapshots of the tiles, so the player sees more than a line of text when he's selecting it. When the tile editor is released, if you are still developing this, I'll help you make those snapshots if you want them.

Yeah.   I'll be developing this in stages.  Initially, I don't imagine it will be very friendly, but we'll get more and more friendly as we go along.   I want to have pre-populated fields that the user can choose from, but I also want to make sure I can support modded/added monsters, locations, etc.   For those I won't have anything pre-populated, so they'll have to be manually entered in.    In any case, I'm sure I'll need lots of encouragement and help.   Thanks for the kind words.   Now back to work. 

So I actually know a fair amount of xml and windows coding and will have some time starting next week if you would like some help. I don't know what your building in, but I have experience in ASP.NET, VB, C Sharp, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, C/C++, HTML, CSS and various db work.

If you have some time, maybe we can figure out what would be beneficial for you, assistance wise.

isStartingPoint is for certain goodiehuts that receive special consideration when it comes to placement. They can be placed particularly close to your spawn location. It ensures you have a certain amount of "easy" monster lairs to fight right away within a walkable distance.

Radius of -1 means anywhere?

Sorry, just assumed everyone could read my mind.  

For example: