Ylands News

Hey there, fellow Ylanders!

Over the years Ylands has become a really large and sophisticated game. There are thousands of entities and recipes, dozens of features and game systems both big and small.

In fact, there are so many things in the game that quite often even people from the team stumble over something they didn't know because they weren't directly involved in the development of that feature.

"Hey, that's really cool! That's new, right? When did we add that?"
"Well... Like three years ago?"

It's more than likely that there are things that you, players, don't know as well. To remedy that we've started posting cool and interesting bits about the game on our social channels (we'll talk more about those the next week).

Soooo, we're wondering if there's anything that you found out after playing the game for some time. Anything counts - interesting mechanics, weird and funny quirks, random facts, or simply things that surprised you or made you smile.



Until next time...

Stay classy!

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🌍 Inability to save game caused by the usage of too many colors on the map.



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[YLD-40397] Fixed: Inability to save game caused by the usage of too many colors on the map.

Hey there, fellow Ylanders! 🌴

Unless you've stayed far away from Ylands for the last two years you know that the whole time we've been focusing on Adventure (aka Exploration). And because of that, we don't have enough time to work on another part of the game that keeps screaming for help - Playlands.

There were several reasons behind the creation of Playlands. Primarily it was meant to become a kind of social hub, where Ylands players would meet and just have some silly fun together in an optimized environment that allowed for a larger number to be present simultaneously. It helped us optimize the multiplayer code and gain a lot of experience while making the minigame in the Editor.

However, right now Playlands are pretty much dead. Partly due to their flawed design which makes it difficult for players to instantly play and enjoy any content, and partly because they're simply a remnant of times when Ylands was leaning more towards Roblox-kind of a platform game and those times are, fortunately, gone.

Could we make it work better, a more fun, intuitive and rewarding experience with what we learned since we introduced it?
Possibly.

Is it worth it / do we want to?
Not really. We believe that time is better spent improving Adventure and all that's related to it. Also, we have the powerful Editor and feel that making cool small games works better if they're part of the custom games ecosystem, instantly accessible by anyone willing to play them.




Long story short - in 1.11 we're removing Playlands. The minigames from it will eventually become available as separate custom games to play for anyone and so the love we put into them won't be wasted.

Playlands, however, are not just minigames. Players can gain points there which they use to select clothes they wear in other custom games. This functionality will be removed from Playlands and, later, made very likely part of the player's profile. In the meantime, we'll keep your avatars dressed as they were before the 1.11 releases.

Please note that if you're playing just the Adventure, the removal of Playlands will not affect you in any way.

Until next time...

Stay classy!

Hey there, fellow Ylanders! 🌴
There are some things that for a long time didn't work as we all would like them to and which we fixed. Then there are parts of the game that still need a massive amount of love. And today we'll talk about one.

The Energy. ✨
It does work. You can build generators and engines and link nodes and light up the darkness and... well, that's about it. There are indeed some cool things like logic gates (AND, OR, XOR and such) but that's not quite... fun.

When introduced Energy into the game we had big plans for various machines and things that would either help you do tasks better, faster or easier or things that would be simply fun to play with. And we would still like that. So what we need to do is get the Energy from "it works" to "it's so much fun to mess with".

Next year we're definitely going to do something about it and so it's high time we started thinking about it.

This is where you step in. Can you please let us know what you don't like about the Energy as it is right now (in addition to being able to hide the links :) )? What would you like to have us add to the game? Is there anything in other games you would like to see in Ylands?

Every idea is appreciated, so go nuts!

Until next week...

Stay Classy! 

Hi fellow Ylanders, 🌴

This week we want to tell you about one amazing virtual place called Streamerworld and the news that every citizen of its capital, Fraikiville, has been talking about lately. Streamerworld is our server, where we create and work together. You can easily join us by befriending AnnaYlands in Ylands. Our server is in the middle of Mayor elections and we want to tell you about the process and the campaigns. However we are currently in the middle of a battle with a very pesky bug on the server and are working our hardest to release a patch. That has put a strain on the elections and they have been postponed. The campaigns are still in progress tho.

[h3]Who is a Mayor?[/h3]

They are in charge of the ylands, helping devs catch bad guys and supporting the citizens. They have a main say in what to build on the most important spots. Mayor will sit in their office on the top of the main hill and will be able to decorate it to their liking. We will also bring this important person on stream sometimes and include them in many of our activities. Their term is now set for 6 months.

[h3]What do the campaigns look like?[/h3]

Our candidates can use just about anything to run their campaign - a video, statue or a blog post. They are only limited by the length of the material, which was set to two minutes.

[h3]What about the elections?[/h3]

They will take place on the next stream 19/10/2022 4PM CEST and will be anonymous.

Huge thank you to everyone who already participated in the campaigns and elections. It makes us immensely proud to see how creative our Community is. Last but not least, if you want to keep up with Fraikiville news, we can recommend this amazing TV Channel called Laurus Media that brings fresh reports from the spot.

Laurus Media Youtube

Thanks for being awesome, stay that way!

Until next week...

Stay Classy!