Ylands News

Ahoy Ylanders!

We often ask you to look at an image or read some new information, but this week, this week is different. And that's because we want you to listen!

Let's set the scene. Just imagine you're on the beach of a beautiful yland, sun just starting to peek on the horizon, shashlik being roasted on the fire, coconut drink in hand, your ship anchored nearby and Track Number 2: Serene Sunrise starts playing... eh... what's Track Number 2 you ask? The answer is easy! That is the track that comes after Track Number 1: Adventure Awaits on the Ylands Original Game Soundtrack!

The Ylands OST is now available for you to stream on Spotify, Apple Music and other music streaming platforms! We are extremely happy to share this with you and make the wonderful music of Ylands easily available for you to enjoy whenever and wherever.




You may or may not know that the music was composed by a Czech composer Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer who hand picked the individual musicians who performed the tracks.

Because we enjoy making fun of ourselves, we'll share a funny story from the implementation of the soundtrack... At one point, we started receiving feedback from players that they heard someone talking when they were inside caves. We thought to ourselves: "That's impossible! We never recorded any dialogue for the game!" So we really dove deep into getting to the bottom of the mystery. And indeed, there it was. When you walked into a cave, you could hear the word "Super!" at times, which was kinda creepy. So we went to consult our sound department and it turned out that they left in a part of the track, where the conductor complimented the great job of the orchestra with a single word... "Super!"

That's it for today, Ylanders!

Stay Super... and Classy!

[h3]Highlights[/h3]

❤️ New time-limited pet (available Feb 10 - 17)
⚪ Improved behaviour of inventory and radial menu on-screen buttons
📝 New login/registration screen
📘 Tutorial UI improvements




[h3]Fixed / Added / Tweaked / Removed[/h3]

[YLD-42689] Fixed: Tutorial: Mobile: Health layout overlaps the hint box.
[YLD-42718] Fixed: "Gather Alchemy Ingredients" task name overlaps over its box.
[YLD-42411] Added: Flying Boar for Valentine.
[YLD-42530] Tweaked: Adjust character naming screen.
[YLD-42280] Tweaked: Errors during login/registration are now more specific.
[YLD-42544] Tweaked: Mobile UI: Inventory, Radial Menu, Chat a Pause menu should work on release.
[YLD-42497] Removed: The login screen upon the first start.

Ahoy Ylanders!

As we have moved from the designing phase to fully implementing 1.12 features, we will - as always - start sharing with you information about various new or improved features that you will be able to find in the next update.

Today we would like to mention two specific changes we made based on your feedback. 

The first one we already mentioned in the last Live Stream (which was a lot of fun as usual :) ). We know that sailing can get a bit tedious at times, so for 1.12 we're making some exciting adjustments that should make it more fun. The first one is - fishing on moving boats! Got a few moments to spare before you reach your destination? Take out your fishing rod and spend some quality time getting the pretty fish (and other stuff).

The second thing is more subtle but many will love it. For quite a long time some of you have complained about the camera not moving smoothly - which was especially obvious with higher fps. Well, we made some changes to the camera system and we're pretty sure you will notice the difference.

There's a ton of other cool stuff planned for 1.12 so stay tuned ... and classy!

Blueprint shop rules

• Appropriate name of the Blueprint
• clear name that represents what the Blueprint is (numbers can also be a name if the context of the Blueprint allows it)
  
• all the names have to be in English
  
• Purposeful use
• Blueprints that are not allowed are those that misuse the lack of knowledge of new players (such as propeller pack blueprint, where you need to insert a built propeller pack to build it.)
  
• No low effort Blueprints
• For example two blocks, creator cube, ....
  

Breaking the rules

• After breaking these rules if you do not continue in such behavior you may stay in the shop
  
• If you continually break the rule you will receive Blueprint shop ban
  

Ahoy Ylanders,

You have probably noticed that a new exciting section of our in-gam shop has appeared with Update 1.11 - Blueprints! You may remember from this Dev Diary, that the Blueprint shop is a great place to gift, buy and sell your wonderful creations. And since the launch of the feature, we have seen some truly magnificent pieces, which is what today's Dev Diary will be about.

Seeing all those incredible ships, buildings, cars, and many more different kinds of Blueprints, we realized that we wanted to show those to everyone which is why we will start regularly highlighting specific Blueprints. Each week, we will handpick a few of your creations and promote them on our social media along with a few details about the specific Blueprint. For now, we are mainly going to promote the creations of the members of our Creators Club (Not a member? Join here.) so that everyone can see their exceptional talents!




To make sure you get to see what some of these Blueprints look like in the game, we regularly look at some during our stream. We even have a special map to showcase the Creators Club Blueprints during each stream. You can already take a peak at what that looks like! https://www.twitch.tv

What are your favorite Blueprints? Have you uploaded and/or downloaded any yet? If so, let us know which ones!

That's it for today and we will talk to you again next week!


Stay Classy!