Ylands News

Hey there Ylanders,

This week we would like to tell you about news from me and Nikki.

STREAM

Our first stream together was a blast. We played with Mythical Animals, enjoyed fishing together and started a server where all of us can build together. The server's name is SECRET STREAMERWORLD and you are all cordially invited to flex your creativity there. Please check the rules by the gate or mayor's office first. It was decided among the players that the name of our new founded city should be Fraikiville. Based on our beloved pet mascots: Nikkis's pupper Haiki and Anna's cat lady Frana.

Since we had so much fun with you all we decided to be streaming more regularly. For now, we'll be streaming about once every two weeks on a Wednesday, after some time, we'll have a look at what you enjoyed the most and reassess the streaming schedule based on that! Follow us on Twitch to not miss any of the streams: https://www.twitch.tv/ylands


COMMUNITY CORNER

The good news don't end there. We also started a new category of posts on our social media. We call them Community Corner. There, we will collect your input for the game. We will also use it as a platform to answer your questions and comment on your ideas. So look out for the Corner once a week to see which one of your ideas will become (virtual) reality.




Hope you enjoyed last week as much as we did.

Next week's Dev Diary will once again bring news about what we're working on in the game and what you can look forward to in 1.11.

See you on stream and...

...Stay Classy!

Anna

[h2]Highlights: [/h2]

• Disappearing ship parts fixed
  
• Minor Blueprints fixes
  
• Tutorial bugs fixed
  
• Fixed memory leak issues
  

[h2]Changelog: [/h2]


[h3]Fixed:[/h3]
[YLD-39511] Fixed: Mountain Talongoat bait recipe no longer requires a whole Heliconia plant (unobtainable). Replaced by Heliconia Seeds.
[YLD-39406] Fixed: Placing an item into the blueprint table should now correctly work in instances when the same item is required for both the Materials tab and as a (decorative) Item.
[YLD-39401] Fixed: Blueprint project table should now correctly recognize tools inside containers.
[YLD-39487] Fixed: A regression where older (for instance, created in Early Access) rented server games could not be deleted.
[YLD-33889] Fixed: A memory leak caused by the game screenshot in the upper right corner of the escape menu.
[YLD-39163] Fixed: Some texts were untranslated (in: exploration map, rented server management, video options).
[YLD-39355] Fixed: Loot container position correctly updates when a boat that has it on board sinks'.
[YLD-39362] Fixed: Excluded some EntityPrototypes from being spawnable by SpawnEntityGen.
[YLD-39181] Fixed: Reduced shader memory by variant stripping, cleared up the reference to massive colour arrays after use. On LowMemoryEvent don't run GC and UnloadAssets every time, variable 15s time.
[YLD-37940] Fixed: Search in inventory now correctly uses localized names of items.


[YLD-39362] Fixed: VS: It is possible to Spawn obsolete entities with scripts.
[YLD-39422] Fixed: VS: Right-click won't open the context menu in pivot edit mode.


[h3]Tweaked: [/h3]
[YLD-39407] Tweaked: Foliage from blueprints never grows up.
[YLD-39357] Tweaked: Trees from blueprints don't drop items anymore.


[h3]Added:[/h3]
Added: new version of Onboarding

Hey there, Ylanders,

first of all we want to thank you for all the feedback we got on Update 1.10: Ymproved Ylands. We love to see that so many of you enjoy the update. You may be wondering why there are two patches and why their release is planned so close to each other. This is important to mention, as it is all thanks to you (that is a good thing!). You reported issues and we got to fixing them right away, got a patch ready so that the most pressing issues, some of which happen to be fairly easy to fix, can be fixed as soon as possible. While we deal with everything that needs to happen for us to be able to release the patch (remember this Dev Diary? ) we continue working on fixing what needs fixing and start preparing the second patch.

While our QA caught many issues that have already been fixed before the update, you, our wonderful players, have helped us catch a few more pesky bugs and we are very grateful for that. The team is already hard at work and almost all of the reported problems are already fixed on our internal version of the game and will be coming to you in two patches very, very soon.

First Patch

As you may have noticed, there are some issues regarding ships. In the first patch, we are going to fix the "disappearing act" of some blocks, which certain players experienced, when disassembling their ship. This patch should be going live at the beginning of next week.

Second Patch

Patch number 2 will focus on issues related to Blueprints, in which we aim to fix two main issues. The first being that some of the Blueprints were not fully built after depositing all the necessary resources required by the Blueprint. The second being related to dropping tools in the middle of the building process.

All of these issues are connected and overlap. We are working on fixing all the issues reported by you, so please, continue giving us your feedback, continue reporting anything that doesn't seem right and we will keep in touch!

Thank you for your contribution, help and patience.
We love our community.

Stay classy!

Join us on stream!

We will have a little Q'n'A, look at some new features from the update but most importantly play together with you!

https://www.twitch.tv/ylands

Hey there, fellow Ylanders!

So something has happened to Blueprints in 1.10. Former Blueprints are now called Game Blueprints and former Compositions are now Creator Blueprints. Why? Because we felt Compositions and Blueprints had a lot of common functionality and when we added more variety to the former Blueprints it became obvious that merging those two together would make a lot of sense.


Long story short - Game Blueprints are simpler (as in no scripting etc.) and can be used in Adventure, Sandbox and Editor. Creator Blueprints allow capturing more sophisticated things and can be placed in the Editor only.



So what else has changed?





Players are now able to capture Blueprints in the Editor (without all of the previous workarounds...)! Just make a selection and open the "Save As Blueprint" wizard.


A LOT more things are now available for capture in a Blueprint (weapons, tools, items...trees!) and it takes a lot out of the guesswork about which assets you can utilize. For those who want to be really sure, there is a filter in the Entity Catalogue in the Editor.


And as for building the Blueprint in the game - you may notice that there are now two tabs in an active project table. Deposit material in one to build the walls, ship hulls, and car chassis (basically the parts that you can't pick up afterwards) and the other tab collects Items - all the things that you CAN carry around and might want to use as a decoration, for example. If you don't know a recipe for a part of the blueprint or you don't have the right tools to craft it, the project table will tell you and indicate which parts you can't build at the time. PC players can even Stop Building the Blueprint and keep what they built until that point.



Right now you can create just local Blueprints for your own use. In 1.11 you'll be able to share them with others and monetize them.



That's it for this week and we'll talk to you again soon. Until then - Stay Classy, Ylanders!