Do you have an ETA date for V5 yet?
Not yet, but I'm hoping to have the public beta ready within a few weeks at most. A lot of the features are mostly done, it just all depends on any issues I run into along the way and how many things will be added. Here's my progress thus far, just to give an idea:
Backpack / Small Container Support - Mostly done, just need to fix some bugs and finish the models.
Hybrid Item / Brick Planting Support - Basically done.
Item Swapping, Transferring, Auto-Stacking and Dropping - Done. Also added a toggle option for allowing stacking of items.
Auto-Sorting - About 80-90% complete.
Crafting and Forming - Basically finished, just need to add support for shapeless crafting, add the final recipes and include recipe management (drafting).
Encumbrance - About 95% finished.
Item Durability and Degradation - Finished.
Locks, Keys and Lock-Picking - Finished, just need to model the final items.
Furnace and Crucible - The furnace is finished, the crucible is about 50% complete.
Anvil / Item Modding - About 10% complete.
Loot Events and Shop Support / Currency - Not started.
Hunger, Thirst and Ailments - Not started (optional).
Desk and Display Bricks - Not started.
Final Sounds and Animations - Not started (optional).
Armor Support - Not started (optional).
Vehicle Storage - Not started, but fairly easy to add.
Settings Management GUI - Not started, but loading custom settings for items is working.
Personal Inventory Option (?) and Crafting Window - Not started.
I knew it. the feature makes some sense since some RPGs don't have backpacks.
What I though of was that you could keep the feature, but there would these tick boxes that youi can use to set the size of "backpack" players will have.
Oh, you mean for the text-based backpack. If that feature would be useful then I can include it again for v5. I'm just concerned it may somewhat over-complicate the add-on, which was a problem I ran into in v4. It might be better to add a separate, server-based add-on for that instead.