Ylands News

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- New Basic Shapes Tool
- Able to make complicated structures with a click of a button
- Chocolate and Cheese buildings???

Hey there Ylanders!

You might have seen the Major General braving the jungle to find some ancient buildings made with basic shapes. Well these were made using the new Basic Shapes Tool and man is it fun to play around with 😁

It’s really simple to use. You choose your material (and there is a big selection of those…even chocolate blocks!) and then you choose the desired shape: Pyramid, Cube or Cylinder. After that, you can click on your desired location and drag around the mouse to get the right size. Then you click again and get your height. And you’re done!

But there are more ways to customise your shapes. You can also choose, which walls (when making a cube) you want to keep, or if you want a roof and floor. You can also play around with the cube thickness, row offset and pattern layout.

There really will be loads of possibilities and building all kinds of structures will become easy-breezy 😊

And that’s all for today, so stay classy, but most importantly, stay safe Ylanders.

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- New Camera Preview Feature
- Check out your camera angles without going in-game
- Animations also previewable

Hey there Ylanders!

Hope you are all keeping well out there. We are hard at work on update 1.3 and one of the many features coming in this update is Camera Preview. This will make working with the camera feature overall much easier and more intuitive because while before you had to go in-game to check out your camera angles, with Camera Preview, you’ll be able to do so in the Editor itself.



So, in the most basic situation, you’ll be able to select your camera and either press the camera preview button or the ‘C’ key to enter preview mode and thus see the camera angle from the proper POV. Another great addition to this is, that whenever you turn on camera preview, it will also set off an Animator test, so you’ll see, how your animations look in-game, or how the movement of the camera will actually look from the point of view of the player.



When the camera is tied to a player, be it side-scrolling, 3rd person, top-down and so on, the preview will also turn on character mode, in which you can try out, how it will work for the player. There will be even more additions to the camera preview that will make life for Creators easier when figuring out their next camera angel and we will all be Sven Nykvists in no time.

And that is all for today, so stay classy but most importantly stay safe Ylanders!

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Hey there Ylanders!

Hope you enjoyed Easter and our Easter themed mini-update, but we’re still working hard on 1.3 and we are still on track to release Watery Water in June! It hasn’t been easy in this climate, but the team has adapted to the current situation well and we are on our way to release one of the best updates yet.

But that’s not all, we are already working on update 1.4 too! And (if it’s even possible) it’s even more exciting than Watery Water! I won’t give away too much right now, but from the newly updated Roadmap you can see, that we have some cool features prepared for you guys 😉

In the next weeks, we’ll be talking predominantly about 1.3 but we’ll throw in some 1.4 hints in also, so look out for those.

And until then, stay classy, but most importantly stay safe Ylanders!

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- Big Fixes
- Egg Hunt in Playlands
- New Easter Assets
- Bunnymobile!


Hey there Ylanders!

You might have noticed, that Playlands is looking pretty EGGtastic today…sorry. Anyway, we released a pretty big hotfix with a lot of different fixes, but while we were at it, we also decided to add a few fun things into the game to Easter it up a bit 😊 Especially Playlands experienced a Spring makeover and it’s full of nice new decorations. But most importantly we have an Egg Hunt prepared for you in Playlands. You see, the notorious villain rabbit Rob-It has stolen all the pretty Eggs and hid them all over Playlands. It’s up to you to find at least five of these beautiful shiny eggs to receive a prize!



With the Easter update, we also added some new Easter-themed assets into the game. Most eye-catchingly the Easter Eggs themselves, which will make a great addition to any game (a Fabergé Egg Heist?) but that’s not all. A lot of traditional Easter food from across the world is making its way into Ylands and to round it all up, you can now pick up a new Easter Bunny costume in the Shop too! And he is a cutie 😍

And finally, you can’t have an Easter Bunny without his Bunnymobile! We made a fun little composition of an Easter car, which you can now add to your Custom Games and it is totally crazy. And if you saw our Dev Diary video, it handles…very well…though I might not put all my eggs in that basket. You can find the Bunnymobile here: https://workshop.ylands.com/asset/4632



And that’s it for now. Check out the Hotfix Changelog and have fun finding all those yummy Eggs Ylanders.

But most importantly stay classy and safe Ylanders.

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- New Rideable Animals
- You'll be able to ride Camels, Sheep, Boars and more!
- When you fall off your boat, it will stop
- Funny video

Hey there Ylanders!

We trust you’re having an exciting time with Astonishing Adventures. Have you found Elves or Goatmen? What is your strategy for defeating the feared mutant Golems? But do not fear! Astonishing Adventures might be out, but we’re already working on the next update. And while today’s feature isn’t…overly…serious, it is loads of fun 😁

So in update 1.3, we will be making a lot more animals rideable. You might’ve already seen the video and riding a pig is just a huge hoot 😂 But other animals will also be rideable. So, for instance, the fluffy sheep, awkward camels, stubborn goats, elegant deer, awe-inspiring rhinoceros and of course the fearsome ostrich are all going to be rideable with maybe even more animals joining the mix too 😊 All of these will also have different speeds, so races will be needed to find out, who’s the quickest 😁 Which animal are you most excited to ride?



In other news, we also have a quality of life improvement that a lot of you requested. I’m sure it happened to us all, we build a lovely boat and head off exploring. And then we see an Yland in the distant on starboard, so we head there and go just a little too much forward…and fall into the ocean. And off goes our pride and joy into the sunset, while we’re stuck swimming to shore. Well, not any more Adventures! If this happens to you again, the ship will stop! The ship will automatically stop if no one is on the ship. BUT! But if you fall off and your mate is still on the ship, it won’t stop. Then you’re at the mercy of your crew as any captain is 😑

And that’s it, for now, Ylanders, but watch this space for more cool news about the upcoming 1.3 update.

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