Don’t get where y’all are getting your information. Doing a search of posts will show that Richard has stated multiple times that he’s working out what Multiplayer should even be.
- “that should allow me to move much faster on some of the broader prototypes I’ve been working on (multiplayer, exploration, etc.).”
- “I’ve been thinking about multiplayer a lot lately, and I tend to agree a co-op version seems to be a much better fit for Stonehearth than a PvP one. Nothing to announce on this yet, though!”
Hell, this whole thread is about the subject with some of Richard’s feedback:
Stonehearth is designed in a sense that the Stonehearth.smod is technically a mod. So yes, you could disable them, but it’d be like removing everything from a car except the engine; it isn’t going to do anything but sit there then.
I haven’t heard anything on this front, but at the same time, I’m going to doubt they would do this. They support Humble Bundle as much as Steam, and tend to not favor one over the other.