Len's Island News

Hey all!

Time for another patch to fix some of the more prominent bugs as well as some more balancing tweaks across the game. It's worth mentioning that the dungeons are now a decent amount easier since the original update launch. We've made several tweaks across enemy damage, weapon damage, boss fights, and healing items, all which make the balancing more appropriate now.

We realise there are currently some issues with the achievements, we are working on getting those all sorted for the next patch.

The next patch will be a few days to a week out, as I will be including some new features in it. Such as an updated respawn system, and potentially looking into changing the building controls to allow more freedom of movement, among other things. We are just focusing on bugs and improving the player experience right now, before we get to work on the next phase of content coming in the next couple months.

~ Julian

[h3]+ New additions and changes this patch:[/h3]

• Added new machine parts recipe to smelter.
  
• Raised damage across all the Glaive attacks and abilities.
  
• Raised damage across all the Claymore attacks and abilities.
  
• Raised damage for leaping smash attack on the Hammer.
  
• Lowered damage across Sword abilities.
  
• Lowered chop/mine damage for shield and torch abilities.
  
• Halved the time Dozers are in their invulnerable rolling state time for.
  
• Regular Void Troll boss no longer throws molten dozers and instead throws regulars dozers. (The fight is now a bit easier)
  
• Updated mushroom grow times. (They were way too quick)
  
• Added new cave tutorial screen to remind new players they can build in the new caves.
  

[h3]! Bugs and issues resolved in this patch:[/h3]

• Fixed armor status effects stacking up incorrectly and having strange behavior.
  
• Fixed shields showing blank stat modifier in player window.
  
• Fixed "The Gods Have Spoken" sometimes giving errors causing strange behavior. 
  
• Lowered memory used by the map system.
  
• Fixed machines continuing to burn when inputs are empty when you leave them.
  
• Fixed issue with dragging resources to a full hotbar slot.
  
• Fixed inventory and hotbar items not updating when you upgrade or enchant them. 
  
• Fixed Iron Spear ability applying double damage.
  
• Disabled effect on egg sack spawners causing some GPUs to create light flickering.
  
• Fixed linked storage items carrying over to new save files.
  
• Fixed map rendering issues.
  
• Fixed missing cave map marker on plains island.
  
• Fixed Lightstone Torch crit indicator not showing.
  
• Fixed collision for various objects in the desert bazaar town.
  
• Fixed critical hit bonus for hardwood trees giving normal wood.
  
• Fixed not being able to enter escape menu when played is respawning.
  
• Fixed resource cost for anvil upgrade not showing when dragging from output to input.
  

Hey everyone!

Some big and small changes in this patch. Most notably, we've removed utility boxes from the game, and instead added the functionally straight into your backpack so you can switch out weapons and armor anytime, anywhere!

Some of the small changes listed below will also make hunting deer a fair bit easier, and some of the dungeons a bit easier, especially the ones with lightning fish. We also made some changes to peaceful mode, to make it a little more... peaceful.

~ Julian

[h3]+ New additions and changes this patch:[/h3]

• New Tools & weapons tab in main backpack inventory that shows your unlocked weapons and tools just like the utility box did. You can now equip and swap out weapons, tools, and armor anywhere without needing to drop them on the ground or go back to a utility box.
  
• Reworked the player tab in the backpack to include an inventory of all unlocked armor pieces.
  
• Reduced all incoming damage within peaceful mode to 50%.
  
• Added new hover info box in the main menu that shows the exact modifiers applied when creating a peaceful mode world.
  
• Mining outpost now only takes oil as an input, and output times and rates have been tweaked.
  
• Olive drops from olive trees have been boosted.
  
• Olive oil recipe changed to now require 3 olives.
  
• Bob haircut tweaked to look less... bad.
  
• Deer now get stunned for a short amount of time when hit, allowing them to be more easily hunted down.
  
• Lowered lightning strike damage from 25 > 15.
  
• Lowered fire damage tick from 2 per second to 1 per second.
  
• Removed the stun from lightning fish attacks.
  
• Raised gold cost for some runes.
  

[h3]! Bugs and issues resolved in this patch:[/h3]

• Fixed controls re-mapping bugs for gamepad scheme.
  
• Made trees less likely to damage the player when they shouldn't.
  
• Fixed the back of some pants clipping through skin.
  
• Fixed various issues with the mining outpost not working correctly.
  
• Fixed Void Rat spawners having annoying colliders that you can get caught on.
  
• Fixed some critted abilities not showing their hit effects.
  
• Fixed some machines not calculating their outputs correctly when entering the level.
  
• Fixed various map glitches and visual issues.
  
• Fixed lava and some water areas in the caves not rendering on the map.
  
• Fixed bits of the smelter not fading when under it.
  
• Fixed nav-mesh issues causing some enemies to float in the caves.
  
• Stopped player from being able to swap fuel and non-fuel input slots.
  

Hey everyone!

Look I know in the patch yesterday I said we wouldn't do one today.. but look we couldn't help ourselves. I've seen the feedback that the dungeons might be a bit too hard, so this is the first balancing patch to turn things down a tad, and we will see how we go.

Please keep the feedback and bug reports coming, and we will keep working to improve the experience as much as possible.

It's worth mentioning that I do read through every comment here on Steam and Discord, and wherever else I can find someone yelling stuff about Len's Island. I read through it all, good or bad. I've read through some comments that are very very kind and some absolutely shocking walls of text screaming at me (that have also been very useful to make the game better when I set aside my feelings). Please don't see this as an invite to start yelling at me haha, but I want it to be super clear that I understand, and consider everyone's opinions and ideas. Especially the passionate ones.

The whole point of why Len's Island is so special, is the fact that so many genres, and so many kinds of players can all meet in the middle and enjoy the same game. Though that recipe is not easy to make.
Some of you wish the dungeons we're even harder, some wish there were no dungeons, some are too busy fishing to care. Everyone exists inside the same game, and it's my job to find a way to make that work. So please keep all the feedback coming, so I can keep making it work :)

~ Julian

[h3]+ New additions and changes this patch:[/h3]

• Cursed Braziers now light enemies on fire within a radius, this can be a tool to make clearing areas of the cursed dungeons a little easier.
  
• Lowered backpack retrieval costs to be 30 gold for both Alex and Druid NPCs.
  
• Reworked the visuals for the iron and titanium nodes to make them more clearly recognizable in the dark.
  
• Lowered Void Rat egg sack spawners HP from 250 to 200.
  
• Lowered Void jump bite and swipe dmg 15 > 12.
  
• Lowered Void Rat attacks dmg 25 > 20.
  
• Lowered Electric Void Fish explosion attack dmg 50 > 40
  
• Lowered Electric Void Fish lightning attack tick rate from 10/second to 6.5/second
  
• Made Electric Avenue encounter slightly easier.
  

[h3]! Bugs and issues resolved in this patch:[/h3]

• Fixed UI bug on repairable bridges.
  
• Fixed death respawn loop caused by dying in mid air.
  
• Fixed Lightstone torch incorrectly upgrading into backpack lamp and disappearing. (They are two separate items).
  
• Fixed revive ability not correctly working.
  
• Fixed hunger skills incorrectly stacking.
  
• Fixed various skills on skilltree displaying incorrect information,
  

Hey!

Sorry for the bumpy start with this patch everyone.

For anyone that opened the game during the few minutes the bad patch was up, this next patch will fix your save files from not showing and unlock them.

Unfortunately (or fortunately for some) if you opened the game during the 0.6.02 patch, your skill-tree will be reset when you log back in. All of your skill points will be refunded and you can spec the skill tree back up with the same skills you had. It just might have moved some of the weapons around on your hotbar, which you can access from your storage as per usual.

We have been working pretty tirelessly to patch the game and sift through feedback to make everything runs super smooth. Throughout that process a bug slipped through our fingers that caused this issue. So the next patch will likely be a few days out, once we have got some proper rest and have the time test the heck out of our fixes to make sure nothing gets through again. We are just a small handful of developers making a very big and complex game, so it can be a little tough to keep up at times like this. Thank you all for your patience and kind feedback though, we really appreciate it!

We also added some new backpack retrieval options! We heard some feedback from players feeling the difficultly of the dungeons a little too harshly. So we've now given Alex (at the 1st town) the Druid (at the 2nd town) and the Sorcerer (at the 3rd town) the ability to go collect your backpack for you, for a small fee. This can help if you're struggling during a section of the game and would rather just pay a little gold, mushrooms, or dark essence to get your backpack back.

[h3]+ New additions and changes this patch:[/h3]

• Added new backpack retrieval services to Alex and the Druid. They collect a dropped backpack in the world for a small fee.
  
• Added 3 new custom map icons for mining locations.
  
• Added Lightstone dust and stone drops to lightning projectile tower.
  
• Made the shipwreck armor locations a little more noticeable.
  
• Increased healing from mushroom stew and lowered its crafting cost.
  
• Lowered falling tree damage to player.
  

[h3]! Bugs and issues resolved in this patch:[/h3]

• Fixed bed respawning in the caves not working and causing player to sometimes fall thru map (sorry for anyone that experienced this).
  
• Fixed player being able to die during level changing.
  
• Fixed visual glitches from egg sacks and other prefabs using particles that make crazy colors fill the screen.
  
• Fixed one of the hunger skills not saving.
  
• Fixed music not fading when changing levels.
  
• Fixed save file duplication issue.
  
• Fixed the backpack spawning in the air on death.
  
• Fixed issues causing the Void Troll to not respawn.
  
• Fixed clay vendor from 2nd town not working.
  
• Added missing steak pie recipe to the pantry and other storage containers.
  
• Fixed repairable bridges not properly loading after being rebuilt.
  
• Fixed enemies not moving in the tomb entrance level.
  
• Fixed various spelling and grammar mistakes across item names and NPC dialogues.
  
• Fixed constantly respawning machine parts crate on desert island.
  
• Fixed issues with cursing the tomb levels and them not resetting properly afterward.
  
• Fixed blueprints not disappearing from purchased decoration items.
  
• Fixed Titanium ore showing x/7 instead of x/8
  
• Stopped coal form showing x/10 in storage
  
• Fixed some dungeon warp alters not being enabled by their chest unlock.
  

Please keep the bug reports coming if you find any issues!

~ Julian

Hey, quick notice that we've rolled back to 0.6.01 patch, some stuff broke and we are fixing it right away. Sorry!

If you happened to load the game for the few minutes the bad patch was up, you will need to wait until the next patch to load those save files. We will have a fixed patch up in an hour or so!