Of Life and Land News

• Fixed an issue where the game could crash in the editor when inspecting the animal data while there was no animal data generated yet.
  
• Fixed an issue where the time slider could not be set to x120 (x1200) speed with a custom hot key binding.
  

Of life and Land has been in Early Access for just over a year now, and it's about to cross over the finishing line as Metaroot and Kerzoven have announced the 1.0 launch for May 16th.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/peaceful-nature-simulation-city-builder-of-life-and-land-launches-may-16/

• New Starting Maps: The Lakes and The Hills are now available in the Kerzoven scenario!
  
• New Item: Soap 🧼 Crafted at the Apothecary, soap boosts hygiene and is used in cleaning upgrades and sanitary buildings.
  
• Cesspit UI: Shows what’s happening and how it works.
  
• New Warnings: Get alerts when food is scarce, including tips to troubleshoot.
  
• Guild House Tips: More helpful information about child and adult education policies.
  
• Pause Quests & Tasks anytime to better control your village flow.
  

• Smarter cleaning behavior: Villagers now care more for their own homes.
  
• Glassworks now produce more glass with the same resources.
  
• Eggs are now larger and more nutritious.
  
• Enhanced construction UI and quest indicators.
  
• New season hints, comfort tooltips, and animal age bar charts!
  
• Range indicators for the Finn torch, windcatcher towers, barns, and hunters.
  
• Balanced item prices to fit with updated recipes.
  
• Editor improvements: Subgroups, loading info, and better logic structure.
  
• Multiple crash fixes and UI improvements for better stability.
  
• Localized diplomatic UI and better trade log sorting.
  

• Added Kerzoven scenario with The Lakes as starting map
  
• Added Kerzoven scenario with The Hills as starting map
  
• Added cesspit UI showing what is going on and how it works.
  
• Added soap to the game. It can be crafted by the Apothecary and is used for cleaning upgrades and hygienic buildings.
  
• Added warning when the food is scarce and information about what the problem could be.
  
• Added more information and tips to the guild house policies.
  
• Added possibility to pause a quest or task anytime.
  

• Improved the introduction text
  
• Fixed an issue where Villagers with T6+ could satisfy the delicacy need if they were very hungry (they still eat at the kitchen / fireplace but do not change the delicacy need state).
  
• Localized locked statement in diplomatic relations.
  
• Added sub groups to the logical places in the editor to make it easier to read.
  
• Improved item view UX
  
• The glassworks now produce much more glass with the same amount of ingredients.
  
• Eggs now have twice the size and nutritional values.
  
• Buffed cleaning a bit.
  
• Improved the description of the weir and how it works.
  
• Improved construction UI order.
  
• The quest process marker count is only shown if there is more than one subtask.
  
• (Modding) Added option to add extra info in the loading info box.
  
• Fixed an issue where the tab key was not working when a button in the Item UI had the focus.
  
• The forester can now as well care for trees.
  
• People are now more intelligent about cleaning their own home.
  
• Added season hints to the player UI.
  
• Fixed cleaning crash if there was no home to clean.
  
• Improved the trade log to always sort the new entries by date.
  
• Fixed stack overflow on recursion in the quest detail view.
  
• Fixed a problem where the animation could be read before it was ready.
  
• Activated filter setting to reduce aliment offset when UI size is a non-integer offset.
  
• Added a bar chart for animal age distribution in the census view.
  
• Balanced all item prices according to the new recipes.
  
• Fixed a crash where the item UI tried to open the marketplace UI and crashed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game could freeze for a short time when an animal died while it was pooping.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when the class category count is updated while someone is born.
  
• Improved the performance when playing short audio effects.
  
• Added comfort tooltip in the home UI.
  
• Added more hints on where to get chickens from in Risenna.
  
• Added range indicators for the Finn torch, windcatcher towers, barns and hunters.