Ylands News

Hey there Ylanders,

Some quick housekeeping 🧹!

Our Explorer’s Pack DLC is getting a new home in the Ylands in-game shop starting June 30th. This is a part of an overall streamlining of the Ylands experience that we’ll expand on more below. The DLC is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale, and will also be 20% off in the Ylands in-game store until the end of the Summer Sale event on July 8. If you already own the DLC, nothing changes for you! 

We’ve seen a lot of your feedback and we’re implementing many of the changes you’ve been asking for with our upcoming 1.7 update for the game. To ensure these new features are the best they can be, we’ve decided to push back the release date a week to July 8th. We know you’ve all been waiting for these changes, so we apologize for making you wait longer! This extra week will give us more time to polish these new elements and make the Ylands experience better for everyone!

This release date adjustment is a part of a larger plan to shift our focus on making the current version of Ylands the best it can be for you, our players! We’ll be revealing more details on this plan in the future, but the main thing is that our next 1.8 Update will be entirely focused on quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and an overall streamlining of the Ylands experience.

Back to the 1.7 Update. Since we’re making you wait and all, we thought it was only fair that we give you a tease of the updates we’re making based on your feedback!


Tool management should now be much easier with an extended toolbox space, so that you can fit all of the knives, axes and chisels in there! Yep, that’s right, you can now add those three items to your toolbox as well!






And don’t forget about the amazing Mystery Ylands! You will be able to unlock those using Exploration points you will be collecting on your travels, and when you solve the mystery, the yland will reward you handsomely with new recipes, more Exploration points and valuable resources.






Your feedback across all platforms has been heard, and our focus is giving you the features and updates you’ve been asking for. We appreciate your passion and your patience, and we’ll have more to share very soon!

Stay classy out there!

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!