I completed the third (and second last) ship for this project. It is a cog, a larger ship than the previous ones and also slower but more space. This type of ship made the bulk of the fleet capacity.
I did another render of the port scene with updated glass material:
Created the first building for the next scene - a ship yard. This is a shed that may stand completely in the water or perhaps the shore.
I got around to finish the second part for the shipyard scene. This time it is a pier created in compose-able component fashion, in the hope, it can be reused by others. That’s the main reason I slapped a CC-0 license on it when posing it at BlendSwap.
I updated the ship yard shed. Fixed the materials on the beams and built in a door into the side. So now I can use the same model from two sides for different purposes:
I took the broken bucket from the Durian project and applied Cycles textures to it. I have to confess, that I based my texturing work on the BI model by Modelyna (http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/1347)
For all the tools, the building is now completed as well.
Now with a bit more tools this now looks like a blacksmith:
With this last building I could finish the ship yard scene.
Something in the scene is very big, so the scene cannot be rendered in GPU due to lack of memory. However with my new maschine the CPU rendering with 8 cores is way faster than the 1 core rendering I had to content with for the first scene 
I created a walkthrough of the game as it is of now:
Well done on posting your recent progress update, considering that the first post was February 2012. 
It’s looking good.
By the way, I put this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flw0kE7UJnU in the background while watching. Adds to the ambiance. 
I just finished the update on the tavern interior, when I noticed I haven’t posted that one yet here. So here is the rendering before the rework:
Finished the tavern scene last night:
Next scene is the interior of the city hall:
Now, here is the direct comparison of the market place in the old version:
And the new version:
As the first rendering was from the beginnings of Cycles I had to replace the light plane with a sun lamp and change the layout and camera position/angle a bit, so that the cathedral can be displayed with more than the the front portals.
One of the next scenes (blacksmith interior) also needs a character, so I created the blacksmith:
yes the face looks good. the hair looks good, but the beard looks funny… also his body hair makes him look like half man half bear… Maybe change the thickness of the body hair?
