Ylands News

[h3]Patch 1.9.0.2 release notes[/h3]

• The Exploration option in the main menu was overlapping
  
• Tutorial's bugs fixed
  
• The translations string could be seen in the chat
  
• Ship engines won't turn on in several cases
  

Additions
[YLD-36592] Added: A new touch button for switching between sails and engines when the ship has both. The mobile button will work with a simple tap, the PC binding will still use a right-mouse hold.
[YLD-36629] Added: Drop item hotkey binding for inventory.
[YLD-36986] Added: When clicking an ingredient in the workstation screen's recipe, the player is now actually provided with some info.
[YLD-36986] Added: Non-craftable items' warning about the item being found in the world will now also show the description for the item, providing the player with a bit more info on where to find it.
[YLD-37005] Added: Unequip button to inventory's right panel, the logic for swapping equip and unequip buttons.
[YLD-37009] Added: Drop function for animal milking/shearing with full inventory.
Added: Separate actions for switching to engines and sails to allow for separate predicates and icon binding - for touch only, the desktop will still have the previous toggling through the hold.
Added: Text note about not working on protected scenarios into "Others can download and edit" editor setting on-hover hint.



Tweaked
[YLD-36435] Tweaked: Mobile: Updating removes friend/clan options in the chat system.
[YLD-36682] Tweaked: Sails are now transparent when the player is behind them.
[YLD-37054] Tweaked: Editor: you get now error when you try to playtest the game with an empty Entity template or Game logic template.
Tweaked: Increase oxygen coral occurrence in UW biotopes.
Tweaked: Compositions for vendors now contain indestructible entities to prevent deconstruction.



Fixes
[YLD-34704] Fixed: Random encounters: cave encounters spawn without any entity.
[YLD-35621] Fixed: Missing names and colons in GAME chat and CLAN chat
[YLD-36276] Fixed: The client could sometimes not reconnect when he tried to respawn while having his pet summoned.
[YLD-36409] Fixed: No more problems with connecting exploration games with sandbox games.
[YLD-36424] Fixed: Harvested oxygen coral plant instantly change to fresh one when placed.
[YLD-36443] Fixed: Some animals cannot be placed on the first try.
[YLD-36562] Fixed: Pipe Block's 3rd channel is now colourable.
[YLD-36573] Fixed: The custom instruction parameter doesn't inherit the custom colour of its parent tile.
[YLD-36647] Fixed: Floating hints should have all elements correctly vertically aligned (e.g. the holding text etc.).
[YLD-36682] Fixed: In some scenarios, sails are not transparent.
[YLD-36739] Fixed: If you redeem explore DLC, you will get a costume and pet after restarting the game (now it happens immediately).
[YLD-36767] Fixed: There is no error when referencing objects from Group referenced with Group template which is marked to destroy the group on export.
[YLD-36768] Fixed: Animators do not work in Random Encounters.
[YLD-36779] Fixed: Item description in mobile inventory can no longer be scrolled out of the screen.
[YLD-36790] Fixed: Fish Net Grip.
[YLD-36911] Fixed: Leopard shark is slower than the rest of the sharks.
[YLD-36941] Fixed: Pulsing/Glowing Mushroom Trees and Pulsing/Glowing Polyporus Trees don't react to wind at all.
[YLD-36960] Fixed: Redundant 3rd colour layer of the harvestable Brown Kelp plant.
[YLD-36968] Fixed: When the air tank is equipped from the vicinity, the air is not refilled.
[YLD-36978] Fixed: Some strings in Skill Editor in the Editor are missing translation.
[YLD-36993] Fixed: Combat music should stop now properly when teleporting.
[YLD-36995] Fixed: Locked Oxygen Harvester can be normally used.
[YLD-37001] Fixed: Marble block 1x1x2 wrong loads.
[YLD-37015] Fixed: Insufficient glow of harvestable Red Kelp plant.
[YLD-37077] Fixed: Underwater cave REs spawn in the middle of the room instead of the floor.
[YLD-37148] Fixed: Account link: create new account button does nothing if you are not in the home window.
[YLD-37279] Fixed: Loot containers not spawning in deep water (voxel -2 or less).
[YLD-37285] Fixed: Sometimes ships are teleported away after they are spawned into the world.
[YLD-37287] Fixed: /r command to reply was not working.
[YLD-37288] Fixed: Whisper command remembers the wrong user.
[YLD-37302] Fixed: Exploration 2: Mutated alphas are defeated when they are despawned during the day.
[YLD-37482] Fixed: Correct NPC names in chat
[YLD-37484] Fixed: Hint for dropping an item will not be present on the Cube screen.
[YLD-37504] Fixed: Random Encounters: Crates of REs in underwater caves may be inaccessible due to clipping into terrain
[YLD-37938] Fixed: Untranslated texts found in the Exploration mode news popup.
Fixed: Several bugs in the tutorial.

[YLD-36824] Fixed: Editor: Global variables created in the referenced entity in Template GL.
[YLD-37026] Fixed: Editor: Exception after deleting entity with a faulty script and using the Game Log search bar.
[YLD-37124] Fixed: Editor: Exception after placing some entity into NPC's inventory.
[YLD-37268] Fixed: Editor: animated GLs/Entities as part of Group template prevents playtest.

[YLD-36571] Fixed: VS: Custom instruction variables do not have always the correct custom colour.
[YLD-37034] Fixed: VS: dynamic trigger zones can slow down clients.
[YLD-37128] Fixed: VS: array variables with specified type have wrong embedded tile in the menu.
[YLD-37130] Fixed: VS: there is an error when deleting the last switch branch.
[YLD-37228] Fixed: VS: Infinite exception when spawning from Group Template a group with delayed function in its child.
[YLD-37238] Fixed: VS: it is not possible to hide in properties previously shown global variables.

Hey there, fellow Ylanders!

We're working hard on update 1.10 and since update 1.5 it's always been about Exploration first. This is not going to change, but we understand that the ones who like to create cool contraptions or worlds in the Editor might feel neglected, which is why the past few updates brought a lot of Editor and scripting improvements as well.

So today we would like to let the Creators know, what the near future holds for them.

We are currently working on something we internally call "Custom Exploration". We've already mentioned it in our Dev Diaries, but let us remind you what it's all about.

We want to let Creators build ylands in the Editor (or in the Sandbox mode) that players will be able to visit with their ships from the Exploration world. This will result in much more than the ability to create a cool "home" for you with the help of cool things that only the Editor offers. We are going to add incentives for Creators to come up with cool experiences for players who want something more than what Exploration currently offers. At the same time, it will be something that is based on the core Exploration gameplay. You can think of it as Mystery Ylands... created by players for players, friends or strangers alike.






We will reward Explorers for sailing to these worlds and leaving notes and ratings for others if what they found is worth experiencing.

This feature was originally planned for 1.10, but we now see that the first version would be too rough around the edges and missing some of the cool things that make it interesting. So we decided to take more time working on it and will release it in 1.11 in a better shape and with more tools and documentation ready for the Creators. We will also be giving the Creators enough information in advance so that their creations can be available to players as soon as 1.11 is released.

The Editor and content creation will get much more love not just thanks to "Custom Exploration", but also thanks to Ylands EDU version, which is doing surprisingly well and which, in the end, seems to be something that the Ylands game will profit from even more than we expected. But that's a story for a different time :).

We're looking forward to talking to you the next week. Until then - stay classy!

Hey there, fellow Ylanders!

Let's talk about yet another thing that you will get to find in the next update because you asked for it ːsteamhappyː.

Several of you told us about how annoying it is you are not able to eat while exploring while riding a horse or, more importantly, hold a compass (so you can tell where you're going). This is something that wasn't initially even planned for 1.10 but since this suggestion keeps appearing, we decided to squeeze it in.





Oh, and did we mention that because you will now be able to hold items while riding you can travel through the darkness while holding a torch or a lantern?

Anyway, the moral of the story is as always - the more you talk to us, the better the game gets. Thanks for all your feedback!


That's it for today and we'll talk to you again next week. Until then stay healthy and classy, Ylanders!

Hey there, fellow Ylanders!

Firstly we would like to thank you for the huge amount of feedback we got based on the last Dev Diary. It's just awesome to see how much thought many of you have put into it!
Today we would like to share a bit more information about the Blueprints update we're planning for the next update. So far you your options to build something awesome and (re)use it in Exploration as a Blueprint were extremely limited. That shouldn't be the case anymore.

If all goes well, in 1.10 we'll introduce some rather big changes to Blueprints. Blueprints and Compositions will turn into two types of Blueprints (naming can change) - Explorer and Creator Blueprints.



Let us share a bit more about their specifics:

• Creator Blueprints are pretty much what Compositions were (and your existing Compositions, will, in fact, be considered Creator Blueprints). Within those you will be able to store pretty much everything you create in the Editor. However, those will be usable only in the Editor.
  
• Explorer Blueprints will be usable in both Exploration and the Editor. The biggest change when compared to pre-1.10 Blueprints is, that you can create those in the Editor and then use in your Exploration world. Also, they can contain much more than just building blocks. You can have a Blueprint of a house, filled with items, surrounded by a garden with flowers and trees.
  
• In 1.10 you will be able to use these only locally and we'll check if it all works as intended and improve it based on your feedback. In 1.11 we will add advanced options of sharing and monetizing for creators of both kinds of Blueprints.
  

Even though it will become much easier to create amazing Blueprints and use them in the Exploration, don't forget that they're still just that - something that requires your effort to get all the resources (be it materials or specific items) to build it. The more sophisticated the blueprint, the more effort you'll need to build it.

That's it for this week, as always, let us know what you think and on top of that...

Stay classy, Ylanders!

Hey there, Ylanders!

It's been a while since Ocean Odysseys was released and yet we still keep getting more and more feedback about the update - which is what we like to see!

Your feedback helps us make the game better and more enjoyable for you, and also us (the devs play Ylands too of course!).

So this week's Dev Diary will focus on making changes that may not be immediately apparent but will immensely improve the game. Let's talk about balancing and rebalancing.

A lot of the feedback you are sending our way has to do with a lot of different little elements, which is why we said that it was about time we took a sweeping look at Ylands and balanced some of its parts.






One such part, for instance is biomes. Biomes now offer little more than different flora and fauna but other than that they are quite similar when it comes to gameplay. This is something we're looking into and would like to give more meaning to the biomes and hint at what difficulty ylands you might expect in each biome, rather than give away the difficulty using the yland tier system. This is, of course, very much work in progress still, but we're excited to be exploring this direction.

Another crucial part of the game is crafting. This is yet another area where we feel we need some enrichment of the whole process. So currently we're looking at the possibility of more crafting stations and a more meaningful crafting process in general.

We also feel like the hunger and temperature systems deserve some love, which is why tweaks and reworks are being explored in this area.


What type of balancing would you like to see in ylands? Let us know!

And till next time...


Stay classy, Ylanders!