Ylands News

Hey there, Ylanders!

Remember those mysterious "Milestone scenarios" that we wrote about in the Yland Hopping dev diary? They are mysterious indeed, but they won't stay that way much longer because 1.7 is on its way to you! While we work on making this update marvelous, we wanted to let our wonderful creators know that we have not forgotten about them - on the contrary!

To remind you what these Mystery Ylands will be all about, let us just say that it is a form of game progression that is coming to Ylands. You will be encouraged to explore far and wide, collect Exploration Points and then use those to access special ylands that contain a quest of sorts (we won't say more to not spoil them for you!). And because there is so much talent among our players, we thought it would be super fun to showcase it using the Creators Competition, which you have been asking about and we have been working on!

The next Creators Competition will be all about Mystery Ylands and our jaws dropping to the floor when we see what you can do. We would love for you to be able to create these Mystery Ylands and put your brains in the most creative gear possible because not only will we have winners of great prizes (details coming soon!), but thanks to the capabilities of the editor part of Ylands, we will be able to make your creations an official part of the game.







And we won't end there! Not only will we have a Mystery Ylands competition, we would like to incorporate Random Encounters into the contest so that you can use your compositions in a more individual manner if you don't feel like creating an entire yland. And once again, there will be winner and prizes, but also the Random Encounters that will make it into the game itself.

We cannot wait to see what you will surprise us with this time around! Is there anything else that you would like us to think about when planning the future of creator competitions? Let us know!

That's it for now so you know what to do!

Here's a reminder, just in case...

Stay classy, Ylanders!

🔍 MARVELOUS MYSTERIES 🌴
The newest update coming to Ylands is... well... MARVELOUS 🤩

❕ Join the developers in showcasing some of the new features, answering your questions and giving away some free stuff ❕


❓ WHAT: Live stream with a cool giveaway
❓ WHEN: July 2 at 5pm CET (check your time zone!)
❓ WHO: Aleš, Nikki, Equi, Rudy & Naru


See you soon and until then...
Stay classy!

Hey there, Ylanders!

As you probably know, the 1.7 update is coming very very soon. But how soon, you may be wondering. Well, let's not beat around the bush and get straight to all the announcing we have to do!

First things first, the 1.7 update will be named after the Mystery Ylands feature, which we told you about in Dev Diary #175. We are excited to share that it is called Marvelous Mysteries!

And when will it drop? The new update will be going live on July 8! We hope that you're as excited as we are for the update which is packed with new features, fixes and quality of life improvements. We have been collecting feedback from our players and adding it to the game, so we hope that you will especially enjoy things like less cluttered crafting, revised toolbox (yes! more slots inside!) and many more!







To tell you more about these new features, discuss their future and reasons behind their implementation, we will also be sharing them with you during our live stream event! The event will be held on our Twitch channel on July 12 at 5pm CET (check your time zone!). During the stream, you will get to meet some of the developers who will talk about new features, see videos and live play of the newly updated parts of Ylands, win the Exploration DLC for your or your friend, win a goodie pack with some very cool Ylands themed items and ask questions about the new features.

And before we say goodbye this week, we have some incredibly exciting news to share about our players. Two of our players, who met through Ylands all the way back in 2017, are getting married this upcoming weekend in Australia! Congratulations on your wedding and we wish you to stay happy, healthy and classy together!

That's it for this week and we cannot wait to see you all tuning into our stream in two weeks!

Stay classy, Ylanders!

Hey there, Ylanders!

Being able to survive on a remote yland is not easy. What does make it easier and more fun is what you surround yourself with. But since you're starting with but a few resources around you, all there's left to do is craft everything you need! And Ylands has oh-so-many recipes to choose from! So many that one may actually get lost in the sea of items, blocks and decorations. Which is why we took your feedback and turned it into a whole new crafting system!

The crafting system will now include two kinds of recipes: core recipes and optional recipes. Core recipes will be learned by progressing through, what we call, a crafting tree. Optional recipes, on the other hand, will encourage ylanders to travel and explore more because these recipes can only be found visiting random sites. All the recipes that you already know and use will not disappear, so you don't need to worry about that!

Another thing that will change based on your suggestions is the UI. In the new and improved version of crafting, you will be able to see groups of items such as building elements, tools, weapons and so on. We hope that this will help with navigating the crafting menu and make for easier and faster crafting. To make the crafting menu navigation even easier, newly learned recipes will be highlighted so that you don't forget about them and try them right away!





What you've been asking for and what 1.7 will also bring to Ylands' crafting is hotbar crafting. Any recipe that doesn't require a crafting station can now be crafted into the world straight from the hotbar. How great is this for building blocks!

That's all for today and we will continue bringing news about all the fun things coming to Ylands with the 1.7 update!

Till next week! Stay classy, Ylanders!

Hey there Ylanders!

As we promised in the last Dev Diary, we're bringing more information about the 1.7 update! Since we've been disclosing a lot about Exploration and all of its new features and fixes, we thought it was about time we showed you, our talented creators, a bit of what 1.7 will bring into Editor.

It may sometimes be time consuming when you're trying to fill an yland with a large number of items to make it look populated. And since we want you to be able to fully unleash your creativity rather than spend time placing every single plant manually, we have created a tool, which will help you span a large amount of objects over your terrain or any other surface in a pattern you choose. We call this tool an Object Brush.





The tool will come with a set of predefined patterns you can choose from such as the taiga forest or a cool rock formation. In order to not restrict your creativity in any way however, the Object Brush tool will allow you to define your own patterns, which can be used to create whatever you can imagine!

The Object Brush will also allow you to change the brush size, brush shape and whether you would like it to snap to a specific terrain such as water, terrain or entities.

We can't wait to see all the ways in which our creators will use this tool, because just like with any other feature, we hope to be surprised by the creative uses they come up with!

As we're nearing the release of the 1.7 update, we are very excited and we hope you are too!

That's it for this week so stay safe and stay classy, Ylanders!