Len's Island News

[h3]We now have 4 big updates coming over the next 3 months! [/h3]

We've updated the official roadmap and packed more into the update schedule, all based on tailoring the game to your feedback and implementing your suggestions!

You can watch the video below as I go over all the details, we also updated the roadmap blog post on the website.

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I'd also like to thank you all for all of the ongoing support and suggestions. Especially the fantastic community members who have been helping with translations.

[h3]Click below to read the full roadmap on our blog.[/h3]

[h3]So what's around the corner for Len's Island?[/h3]

We’ve been working hard on a bunch of new content, and I thought it’d be good to show you what to expect from us in the next few months.

We have two updates dropping very soon: the first one is the Community update releasing in March and the second one is the Arctic update releasing only one month later, in April. We made a quick update video showing some more details below.

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[h3]Community Update - Releasing March 2024[/h3]
The Community Update combines the most requested ideas and feedback from the Len’s Island community into one game-changing update!

New Features

• New Camera Rotation and Zoom Levels will allow players to freely move the camera - a highly requested feature from the community!
  
• New Starter Guide to help new players get started in Len's Island. If each step is completed in a section of the guide, players will be rewarded with items to assist them on their journey.
  
• Additional Language Support will be released in this update. You will be able to play Len's Island in Portuguese, French, Russian, Japanese and Korean!
  
• Resource Mining Outpost Upgrading will allow players to purchase the mining outposts at a lower price and upgrade them up to three times to receive more resources.
  

[h3]Arctic Update - Releasing April 2024[/h3]
The Arctic Update will be the next to be released, bringing a massive new expansion to Len’s Island doubling the size of the map!

New Features

• New Biomes / Map Expansion
  
• Enemy Strongholds
  
• New modes of Transport
  
• Damascus steel weapons
  
• Enchanting Upgrades
  
• More farming/crafting progression
  
• A whole lot more!
  

That's all I'm allowed to show for now, there will be more update videos and posts as we draw closer. There's a lot to look forward to just around the corner, so stay tuned!

~ Julian

Hey everyone,

Just a small patch focusing on map markers and dungeon unlocks not performing correctly.

There might be a very small amount of people that still have a missing main dungeon marker, we will be putting out another small patch to fix this specific issue.

~ Julian

[h2]! Optimizations and Improvements:[/h2]

• Re-implemented GPU instancing on Mac for some performance gains
  

[h2]! Bugs Fixed and Changes Made:[/h2]

• Fixed some rare issues causing chunks to not load
  
• Fixed various issues with dungeon map markers not correctly showing unlock status
  
• Fixed keystone alter on spawn island not updating sigils correctly to show dungeon unlocks
  
• Patched item dupe bug with machine inputs and outputs
  

Hey everyone,

We have spent the past week optimizing the frame rate over the islands and fixing various issues.
During normal gameplay above ground, I found a consistent 10-30 frame boost after our changes. We are still working to improve performance around the towns, although these optimisation changes improve performance over the entire above-world, so the lower performing areas will also get a boost and not be as bad now. Expect even more performance improvements over the next few months. We will keep trying to squeeze as much out of the game as we can to make it better and better.

The plan now is two things, work on the next major update coming March/April, as well as work on another update sooner that will include some more languages, full Steamdeck support, and controller improvements. We want the foundation of Len's Island to be as solid as possible before the next major update and full release. So we will be spending a lot of time over the next few months generally improving all areas of accessibility, controls, and language support.

~ Julian

[h2]! Optimizations and Improvements:[/h2]

• Improved overall frame rate performance in the above-world in all areas by 10-30% depending on the machine
  

[h2]! Bugs Fixed and Changes Made:[/h2]

• Rain will now water all tree stumps automatically
  
• Fixed issues causing work chunks to sometimes not load and cause player to fall of the edge of map
  
• Fixed some tree stumps around the town/too close to buildings not re-growing
  
• Fixed issues with level reset areas, so if you ever get a loading issue and fall off the map, you will now respawn back on land and get any boats refunded, instead of just falling
  
• Fixed the new farming planter's not having their crafting cost correctly set
  
• Fixed issue causing the backpacks for sale to not be correct sometimes
  
• Made resources draggable to the hotbar
  
• Added watermelon to all generic storage containers
  
• Fixed dropdown UI in the settings menu not showing the correct labels
  
• Fixed the bridge in tomb dungeon not showing correctly too far message
  

Hey everyone,

So sorry about the bug we introduced last night, we woke up and fixed is as soon as we could.

You will no longer experience freezing when traversing the game world and laoding specific chunks. It has been fixed!

~ Julian