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Well, it's now at 59% as you can see on the Beta Progress Checker screen that I just updated.

Also, even though external mod support is no longer planned for BFNS Ultimate, it's at 100% now, since that functionality is now planned to be achieved by the multiple selectable floor designs when making custom floors in the under development Floor Maker for Beta 1 (with each floor design with maybe a few original exceptions planned to be based around/inspired by a certain Baldi's Basics game/mod/fangame with what objects and areas you'll have available to place while building your custom floor), and also due to the modular way they are being set up, it will make it easier for me to add more floor designs that are selectable in future updates after Beta 1, including potentially even player suggested ones, which should end up being a better solution overall and encourage players to really experiment with creating floors in the different designs.

In addition to that change, the Beta 1 preview is now planned to be released when the overall progress is close to 80%, not 50% as originally planned, since it makes more sense for most of the core mechanics and gameplay to be finished for Beta 1 before releasing the preview version. Given the current rate of development, that means the Beta 1 preview may now come out in a few months from now, although longer development times or delays could still occur, but with the foundation work going well, I'm feeling more confident now that a Beta 1 preview might be able to finally be released during that upcoming time period. I really don't want to rush anything and have been taking my time to make sure the new additions and content work as expected and have good performance, which should lead to a better final Beta 1 release update experience overall.

Another thing that I've started work on since Progress Update 17, is creating an environment around the grid where you'll be building custom floors, because since it's now in a first person editing perspective, it means I can do more with it than was possible with the top down perspective used in Alpha 6 and earlier versions. Here's a teaser of that work, and a setup room is also planned for the Floor Maker, which is where you'll enter the grid from, and be able to change settings for custom floors like the skybox (replicating that functionality from Alpha 6's Floor Builder), as well as switch floor designs and save/load custom floors.