Of Life and Land News

• Fixed an issue where region discovery could stop at 70% if discovery work was completed first and items were used for other purposes in the meantime.
  
• The water has been made bluer to make it more distinct from the roads, and it looks prettier.
  

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• Physical 💩dirt and humidity simulation. (Trailer & Patch Notes)
  
• New trade focused scenario Risenna with 11 new maps (Trailer & Patch Notes)
  
• Two fully simulated animals that influence the ecosystem: 🐔Chickens and 🐟pike.
  
• Simulated education & retirement system: (Patch Notes)
  
• Lots of new buildings such as the guild house and several faith buildings.
  
• And many more content and improvements in over 20 feature updates.

• Castle buildings and single-city scenarios,
  
• A deeper trading system where your production choices impact others,
  
• Lots of new decorations to make your settlements feel alive: benches, signposts, flower buckets, letterboxes & more,
  
• Granaries, material storage, city walls, gates, towers and even stairs 👀 ,
  
• Voice acting for intros, and Twitch integration,
  
• Tons of polish, UI upgrades, visual improvements, and new achievements!
  

• Added new decorative buildings for your village (benches, signposts, flower buckets, letterboxes etc)
  
• Added granary (storage)
  
• Added material storage building
  
• Added a high weir to keep the water level even higher.
  
• Added fortification walls.
  
• Added towers.
  
• Added city gates.
  
• Added Twitch integration emote influence option.
  
• Added voice acting to the game intro and scenario intros.
  
• Added spillway barrier for rivers.
  
• Added the possibility of building stairs.
  

• (Modding) Added option to add string arguments to the subtext for EventEntities.
  
• (Modding) Added link to the item view as well to the item overview in the resource view.
  
• (Modding) Added more SFX tracks to play
  
• (Modding) Added option that the reject button can be green for decisions.
  
• (Modding) Added possible intro voice line.
  
• (Modding) Added the possibility to assign relative time tasks to AcceptTask conditions.
  
• Added click skip feature which uses the text markers instead of a constant time for a better experience.
  
• Improved the preconditions for weirs and stone gates to communicate better that they are not for the early game as you lack the resources.
  
• Added missing help mouse markings.
  
• Buffed the T3 immigration count.
  
• Boosted immigration bonus a bit for the number of children in your village.
  
• Improved the Risenna scenario quest display priority where many quests appear at the same time and need a decision.
  
• Added upgrade to the glassworks where you do not need coal anymore if you take it.
  
• Improved the small option layout in the inspection UI.
  
• Added option to select another target directly in the inspection UI.
  
• Added option to change the skin for buildings directly in the inspection UI.
  
• Set the default follow focus distance a bit further away to provide a better overview.
  
• Added more skins to T6 homes.
  
• Improved the map saving process to allow easier interpretation at runtime.
  
• Improved the icon for bushes and grass.
  
• Improved the visual water levels and allowed slight underground water flows for waterfalls.
  
• Fixed an issue where the alternative Kerzoven-B scenario had humans on the lakes map.
  
• Improved the open work positions tooltip in the player UI.
  
• If there are no unemployed people, the number of open workplaces is shown next to it.
  
• New work positions can now directly be assigned in the workers UI if they have free working slots.
  
• Made the building UI more clear by grouping the categories to the left and the selections to the right.
  
• Reduce the price for cheese and milk a bit.
  
• Added more Achievements.
  
• Set the maximum animation playback speed to the new animation scale.
  
• Fixed an issue where villagers tried too hard to explore a region and find the needed resources.
  
• Added pointing hand mouse skin to the upgrade patch to make it similar to other buttons.
  
• Removed the unused last environment tab.
  
• Improved the position calculation performance a bit.
  
• Improved the performance when humans try to catch an animal for the barn.
  
• Improved the performance when someone is searching for animals or people nearby.
  
• Added a chicken hunter for tablelands to take care of a possible chicken plague if they emigrate to the area.
  
• Set the default max FPS setting to 180 (adjustable in the options).
  
• Reduced the chickens health a bit.
  
• Improved achievements visuals.
  
• Localized Steam Achievements
  

• 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.