Ylands News

[h2]⭐ Highlights ⭐[/h2]

Crafting - Some statues gave you more stones than their cost after deconstruction. Not anymore.
Handbook - Chilly Woes event fixed! You will no longer feel cold after finishing this event. Now, we let you craft and drink tea, which actually warms you up, instead of a soup which won't, since it seems to be a gazpacho.
Handbook - The detection of the handbook opening works properly now. It helps us to keep improving your handbook experience.


[h2]FIXES[/h2]

[YLD-47442] Fixed: Crafting: All eastern statues drop incorrect items after deconstructing.

[YLD-47572] Fixed: Handbook: Chilly Woes event directs the player to craft Stew which doesn't help against cold.

[YLD-47487] Fixed: Handbook: The detection of the handbook opening is not working properly.

[h3]Ahoy Ylanders,[/h3]

Let's talk about your problems! More specifically how we deal with any issues or ideas you report to us. You usually contact us with three main things.

[h2]QUESTIONS[/h2]

Questions are quite self-explanatory (pun intended). When you ask us about something, we answer. Obviously, we are not omniscient, sometimes we have to consult within the team what the correct answer is. I might be the Community Manager, but I don't know all the specifics and details about, say a programmer's work.

[h2]SUGGESTIONS AND IDEAS[/h2]

These are also fairly simple. I just copy-paste them into a channel on our work Slack. Once every two weeks I go through all of the ideas, and we inspect them within the team. What features and suggestions are the most wanted? How complicated they are and how will they affect the gameplay and fit into our plans? Based on that (and much more) we decide on their priority and start the implementation!

[h2]BUGS AND ISSUES[/h2]

Definitely the most complex things we communicate about. As I try to remind on our Discord (which you should definitely join) - always report issues through in-game feedback messages. See, to understand what really went wrong we need your "logs". Logs are note files filled with various information about your last game session. For example, it can tell us what went wrong before a game crashed, or that you can't place that one block in your house because there is an unfinished Blueprint somewhere underneath.

When you send us an in-game feedback message logs are automatically included. Once I get the game report, I send it over to Quality Assurance team. They look at it and tell me whether it is a bug, a mistake or if something else is going on. Then I usually contact the player whether we are able to fix it soon or how they can get out of that buggy situation.

With that said please do report any issues you run into and give us all the feedback and criticism you can. All of that helps us make our game better as many of your awesome ideas have made it into the game already! You can read about those HERE. 😊

The most frequent advice I give? Write /unstuck 0 in the chat!

Stay Classy!
​​​​​​​Anna Community Manager

[h3]Ahoy Ylanders, 🏝️[/h3]

we opted for more personal behind the scenes today.

While we are at work, we are building Ylands together, whether that means programming, drawing jackals or designing new features, we will get back to these behind the scenes some other time. What we wanted to share with you today is what we fancy doing outside of working hours!



[h2]TOP FIVE YLANDS DEVS HOBBIES[/h2]

[h3]1 Videogames[/h3]

Booom, breathtaking, right? You will find literally any game genre among our favourites. There is even one person who is over 250 hours in the Baldurs Gate 3 right now (cca month after it is released). Just in case you need a proof.

[h3]2 Board games[/h3]

Among ordinary board games, there is a special spot for Magic the Gathering and Pen and Paper RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons, but there is also occurence of miniature wargaming games like Warhammer.

[h3]3 Watching movies and series[/h3]

That would be the case when you wanna play a game, but you need to handle your popcorn instead of the "insert your preferable control device, we don't judge". Just kidding we love cinematography, some of us even studied it at the university.

[h3]4 Reading books and Sports[/h3]

Big battle for the fourth spot ended up... in a tie! There is decent amount of readers and sport enthusiats among us. Interestingly enough a lot of us likes to do both. Fun fact: we also have players of sports like curling or even quidditch!

[h3]5 Making music and visual art[/h3]

Funny enough, music and painting/drawing/ etc... are also in balance in the Ylands team.


There is also a bunch of people like cosplayers, Rubic's cube solvers, slam poets, actors and, you would never guess this, hobby game developers! So that's us, come and meet some of us for example on our Discord.


See you there and Stay Classy!

[h2]Ahoy Ylanders, 🏝️[/h2]

Have we already mentioned how we like getting your feedback? Well, just in case, we love it! What we really revel in though, is implementing your suggestions! Here are the most impactful and/or recent of those that are already in the game.

• Returning the first-person camera
  
• Inventory sort button
  
• Ghost pirates ARRGHHH!
  
• I for inventory - TAB for latest tab
  
• Bigger stack size for resources
  
• Clay found in Tropical region (yea, it's caves but they are totally tropical)
  
• Bag for ammo, pew pew!
  
• Expanding usage variety of some containers (bye bye seashell jar)
  
• More variety of blueprintable items
  
• Less oppressive fog and rainy weather occurrences reduced
  

How do you like these changes so far, and how was Ylands life before these went live? Let us know in the comments or on our Discord.



[h2]What might come next?[/h2]

Whether it will be the next update or the one after that, we are always making sure to implement some of your ideas. These are next in the queue!

• Great return of clay to the starting yland.
  
• Suitcase! Finally, a proper inventory container for everyone's fashion desires.
  
• Aspiring lawyers and bureaucrats in the world of Ylands get ready, 'cause our eyes are set on the document folder inventory container!
  

If you would like to see the muuuuch longer list of what you have suggested, take a look at this recent dev diary about that very topic HERE.

Stay Classy!

[h3]Ahoy Ylanders![/h3]

Here and there we notice that some of new adventurers are not quite sure what Ylands is about. TLDR; Ylands is an adventure game. Whether it's sailing the high seas, exploring diverse ylands and vast underwater world or fighting in dangerous caves, building exquisite ship-bases, experiencing the story, creating wonders in sandbox creative mode and scripting in editor it is all there. Of course, you can always resort to slowly chilling through your days while growing crops, taming animals and watching beautiful sunsets. Alone or with friends, the choice is yours.

Since the forms and enjoyment of Ylands comes in so many forms, you just need to find your own, like other Ylanders! Read on and learn what they cherish the most!



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[h2]What Ylanders love on Ylands[/h2]

zenbubbha

"Moving into my first "Castle in the Sky" is my most memorable experience. Because I thought: "Here's a game that really rewards creativity and experimentation yet is structured enough that those creations can be found, explored, and used by other players just like any original game asset." That's a rare balance."



Thomas Lawrnece

"I love to play the game with all the feature, from the exploration with its beautiful places and editor for building new things and experiment. I love the fact that all the people are not toxic but gentle, want to enjoy the game all together and help others, and kind devs who are in my opinion the best devs I've ever met."

YoHasLEGO

"...Islands were pretty far apart at that time (early access), and we did not have the view distance like we have now. Spending days at sea, not knowing if you'll ever find another island. Those were the true adventures. (...) Nowadays I like to spend most of my time building in the editor. Not for minigames and such, but rather builds that could be placed in adventure. Being able to use them in this infinite adventure world, really gives them a sense of purpose."

spirit 2.2

"I stumbled on a multiplayer server called "World of Dreams: Journey to the 12 Kingdoms" that was created by Spyler and Christal and instantly became enamored of the effort they had put in the map. Here was a multiplayer server that had 12 ylands to explore, all with puzzles and monsters to defeat, and even the occasional boss monster. The structures they had created on these ylands were a sight to behold. It gave me inspiration knowing there was a lot more to the game than met the eye. The day I met Spyler and Christal and discovered a community of people that loved helping others is my most memorable experience, and I probably would not be playing the game these days if I had not discovered them."



What you love about Ylands and what you like doing in the game? Let us know in the comments or on our Discord server!

Stay Classy