Of Life and Land News

fascinating new survival city builder called Of Life and Land released on Steam this month: Of Life and Land is the debut game from new studio Kerzoven. In it, you build medieval settlements from scratch in remote, wild places...
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Hey settlers👋,
We are in the middle of the second week after release and have a few important fixes for you below. ⬇️
In addition, our workshop is filling up more and more with interesting maps: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1733110/workshop/

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Heavily improved how villagers construct buildings when many people have nothing to do.
  
• Improved mod upload when no data is given for certain fields.
  
• Reduce how many input items wind mills can stock in the input inventory.
  
• Fixed a very rare crash
  
• Fixed fireplaces stacking raw meat if there is no firewood.
  
• Added mill upgrades.
  
• Fixed side scrolling not being saved.
  
• Construction site: Swap through materials to even it out if many people have nothing to do
  
• Fixed a problem where the faction progression is not correctly send to the tutorial quest when loading the game while the previous step was not finished.
  
• Let wolves attack cows later and cats need less energy for fat conversion.
  
• Allow the pottery to get water from other sources than rivers, wells and creeks.
  
• Balanced fruit tree nutrient influence.
  
• Fixed an issue where stone was stored in statues.
  
• Farms / Gatherers: Reduce the group bias and add a bit more randomness where the people will pick up goods.
  
• Weirs are now returning the building materials to the community centre.
  
• Slightly balanced lakes and tablelands map
  
• Dirt from sweeping stations will now be dumped to different cesspits if they are not too far away.
  
• Do not over-fertilize plants on farms.
  
• Slightly buffing the charcoal burner.
  
• Quest: Investigations: Limit displayed number of items to the max needed items for the quest.
  
• Added missing iron armor item to the construction overview.
  

Hey settlers👋,
And again a patch with many fixes of things you have reported to us. Also a revision of when the simulation overlays are shown to you.
Thanks to everyone for the great feedback and reporting your problems, it helps us a lot to make Of Life and Land even better. 🥰

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Fixed two very rare crashes
  
• Fixed one crash when you inspect an animal, and this animal loses its group and tries to find a new group while you keep the UI open
  
• The map overlay is now automatically turned on instead of pressing the extra button first
  
• Automatically switch overlays for certain buildings where the environment data is important
  
• Automatically show ores on the minimap when you want to build a smelter
  
• Automatically show fish on the minimap when you want to build a fishery
  
• Mark reserve slots in UI as special slots in barns to make it more clear for what they are
  
• Main menu: Do not resume the game if the game was paused and you open the menu and close it again
  
• Beehives are not allowed to be built on water anymore
  
• Hunting: Stop attacking if you are dying yourself
  
• Hunting: Give up if you can not damage the target
  
• Reduced the number of babies are born for humans
  
• Extend twitch emote list with normal emojis
  
• Fixed that specialized characters (e.g. the Tutor) is linked correctly on save
  
• Fixed the achievement text display for Japanese
  
• Slightly balanced grass collection. The storage size is now bigger in early buildings
  
• Removed trading diffusion between trade routes. This mechanic is currently too unclear and the fun limited. There are only taxes/fees now
  
• Fixed a pause resume edge case when the main menu is opened and then closed while the speed is updated.
  

Hey settlers👋 ,
Today we continue with some small fixes and adjustments especially for the UI scaling. Thanks to everyone who reports bugs and leaves feedback in the Steam discussions. ❤️🦊

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Fixed three very rare crashes
  
• Improved the spacing and scaling logic of the UI, which allows to play the game at even higher UI scales nicely.
  
• Modding: Quests can now be prioritized in the UI
  
• Patched all reported localisation errors
  
• Balanced the marketplace storage size.
  
• Fixed a problem, where some animals are not displayed correctly when placed in the editor
  
• Improved the UI to make it more clear that a community center is needed to move people and material to different places.
  
• Added missing spaces to the discovery tooltip in the map UI
  
  

Hey settlers👋 ,
Yesterday several hundred of you played Of Life and Land, thanks for that!!! What a day! 🤯

[h3]REVIEWS:[/h3]
Now we would be very happy if you would let us know what you think of
"Of Life and Land" with a review on Steam! 😊
This will help us to get an idea of what you like and where you see room for improvement. 😇

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• We have fixed a few crashes. (Thanks for reporting!)
  
• Fixed an incorrectly loaded model with snow that was loaded in summer
  
• Improved hunger notification when people are forced to gather from the wilderness on higher
  
• levels, which makes them less efficient
  
• Made the flags in the top left bar a little bit bigger
  
• Allowed more dirt being squashed in the cesspit
  
• Cats now count as small animals
  
• Made the priority more visible for jobs for humans
  
• Made the schedule requirements more clear
  
• Hunter: Assigned rabbits as a default option
  
• Limited childrens bornrate
  
• Fixes stonemason hint, that they require a source of stone
  
• Increased default fireplace storage size
  
• Market place: Allowed tooltips for the items for other factions
  
• Pause in Main menu: Correctly set the speed to 0 if it was not resumed