Len's Island News

Hey everyone,

We are now back after our short break over Christmas and New Years and we come baring the gift of a new patch! This includes various fixes for issues reported over the past week or so. There will likely be another patch later in the week as well.

Aside from patching the latest update, we are now beginning work on the next major update to come to Len's Island. This next update will be a massive one, similar to what the Uncharted Waters Update did to the game, so get ready!

~ Julian

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

• Fixed Wolf and Tiger not spawning during peaceful mode
  
• Fixed the decorator achievement not triggering
  
• Fixed some notifications not showing their text
  
• Fixed issue causing screen to freeze when changing keybinds
  
• Fixed various issues causing loading screen loops after warping
  
• Altered the pet idle sounds to make them less frequent and more varied in volume
  
• Lowered the harvest damage for all non-farming weapons, so it's not so easy to miss-click and accidentally harvest a crop with a sword
  
• Fixed issue causing the cat to sometimes not show until game reload
  
• Added colliders and checking zones to blank areas of the map if a chunk doesn't load, so you cant fall thru you map and cause further issues
  
• Raised the pet collection distance so they run a bit further to dropped items
  
• Fixed invisible colliders in some current/ocean areas
  
• Fixed issues with tree stumps not saving correctly
  
• Altered the parkour sections in the final tomb dungeon to make them generally easier with bigger landings, smaller jump gaps, and longer timing
  

[h2]! Known Issues:[/h2]

• We are still seeing some reports of people occasionally missing chunks of the map in their game worlds. If this happens to you please submit a bug report, as we updated our error logging so we should be able to fix this issue quickly as soon as we get more reports with info.
  

Hey all,

Just a quick patch to fix the issue causing some people to get stuck on loading screens. As well as some other small tweaks. We've been fixing bugs right up until Christmas so we are now going to take a couple of days off, so apologies if any issues still persist over the next few days. We will get to them once we are back.

~ Julian

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

• Fixed issue causing people to get stuck on loading screen sometimes.
  
• Added the Wreath and Festivus painting to Frank's shop.
  

[h2]! Known Issues:[/h2]

• Sometimes pets may not spawn in correctly, or the cat in the town will not show, Just go into the caves and come back, or exit to the main menu then reload and they will appear again.
  

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[h3]The Companions and Languages Update is now out! [/h3]

This major update adds four new pet companions to the game you can unlock, either with their own cool new abilities. Len's Island now has language support for Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, and Thai. We've also scattered many new collectible decorations around the map for you to find!



[h2]New Features & Changes[/h2]

• New dog companion that can be unlocked by completing the first dungeon
  
• New cat companion in Bridgewater town that can be tamed using a bait box
  
• New wolf companion only spawns during harvest moons and tamed using a bait box
  
• New tiger companion that only spawns in desert biomes and tamed using a bait box
  
• Dogs and cats will retrieve items off the ground for you, this includes fetching glass bottles on the beach, collecting dark essence, fallen tree logs, and helping you mine
  
• Wolves and Tigers will attack nearby enemies, stunning them for a short period of time and damaging them
  
• New Bait box item which you can store various baits in to attract animals and enemies
  
• Explorers Hat now shows nearby collectible items on the map when equipped
  
• Language support for Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, and Thai, with more languages to come.
  
• 12 new collectible decorations and pet items
  
• New farming planters (large pots that you can plant a single crop in)
  
• Hanging pots and window planter decorations
  
• Major memory usage optimizations across the game
  
• Various bug fixes
  

We're very excited to bring you these long-requested features. Happy holidays (or merry Festivus) to everyone and we will see you in the new year for a BIG year ahead of updates!

~ Julian

Hi all!

To celebrate the 2 year anniversary since our Steam release, we put together a special video showing how Len's Island started out 6 years ago as my solo project and transformed into what it is now.

It's been a crazy journey to make this game happen. I uprooted my life and dropped everything in an attempt to make my dream game. And somehow I managed to make it work.

Here we are 6 years later, with an awesome game that's getting better every day, and an awesome community to support it.

So thank you everyone, from the bottom of my heart, and from the rest of the team at Flow :)
- Julian

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Hello there,

We've been hard at work on optimizations and managed to make a couple of big breakthroughs.

The memory usage of the game has been significantly lowered.
Previously during stress tests I was able to get the RAM up to 8-9GB loading as much as possible.
After our recent changes, I was unable to get higher than 6GB RAM, with a usual standard of 4-5GB.
We are still working towards making this even lower, but this update carries a memory saving of around 2-4GB during gameplay.

This is a massive boost for older machines, and especially people with low RAM installed. As the previous builds could have led to game/pc crashes if it ever got too high.

We have also compressed a bunch of files. allowing us to reduce the game install size from ~6GB to 3.3GB.

~ Julian

[h2]! Performance Optimizations Made in this Patch:[/h2]

• Reduced memory usage significantly, lowering RAM taken by the game by 2-4GBs
  
• Reduced the the game install size from 6GB to 3GB.