Life is Feudal: MMO News

Good day, Feudalists!
If you have been around during our last AMA, then you probably know already, that we planned to switch to a new F2P model, that would give even more opportunities for newcomers. And finally, we’re excited to announce that, starting today, every new member of our community shall receive a Ticket to Abella and a 3 days of Premium subscription. We hope that it will bring more new players to the adventures and journeys on Godenland. We also would like to take a moment and say a heartfelt thank you to all our veterans, who were supporting daily, from the begging of LIF history — you guys… are breathtaking. And we will do our best to develop LIF further, improve and extend Feudal experience for all our players!

This week’s patch has been heavily influenced by your suggestions from the last AMA session. Thanks to all the participants, we’ve gathered a decent amount of information to use in order to improve the experience our game brings to you.
Here’s the list of changes:

• Game mode switched to a new F2P model — each new user will receive 1 Ticket to Abella and a 3 days of Premium subscription to his Premium shop inventory after registration
  
• Added a new object in the Starting Villages — Traveler’s Idol, which allows you to teleport to a guild monument (via Guest Code) or to another village. Each teleport has its’ own cooldown of 48 hours;
  
• Knoolls will now randomly spawn in the game world. While you won’t be able to tame them, you can still benefit from such encounters — some folks say their treasures are valued by the Crown…;
  
• Significantly reduced the time it takes to level up the skills after level 90
  
• Increased the drop value of loot from natives in their villages
  
• Randomized starting servers on Newbie world
  
• Alchemist’s Outfit has been renamed to Herbalist’s Outfit. Required skill is now Herbalism lvl 60 (instead of Alchemy lvl 60)
  
• Cook’s Outfit is now available on Farming lvl 60 (instead of Cooking lvl 60)
  
• Engineer’s Outfit is now available on Construction lvl 60 (instead of Warfare Engineering lvl 60)
  
• Outfits now grant bonus to every skill on the skill branch they’re used by (for example, Blacksmith’s Outfit now will give bonus not just to Forging, but also to Kilning, Armorsmithing and Weaponsmithing). They will now also grant an “Inspired Work” effect
  
• Increased the production rate for most of the outposts
  
• Significantly increased the chance of a quality raise for domestic animals and grown crops
  
• Decreased the amount of time required to cast most of the abilities. Here’s the list of those that remained untouched.
  
• Increased the default Trading Post container size to 150 stones;
  
• Increased the amount of ammunition and potions that can be brought onto the Arena

• Fixed the visual bug in Decorated Rags skins that caused the disappearance of a part of a leg on the female characters
  
• Fixed the issue with being able to target objects through the walls while running. Opening containers and interacting with outpost totems through the walls should no longer be possible.
  
• Fixed an incorrect amount of experience gained when hitting a training dummy with a ranged weapon
  
• Fixed the outpost totems: they can no longer be pushed by placing a movable object near them or grant experience when being hit
  
• Fixed the incorrect Sun’s position: now it should point exactly towards South at noon.

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!

This week we want to start our devblog with a great thanks to all players who joined the big AMA discussion last Friday. It was hot, interesting, inspiring and very productive for the team. We’ve gathered a lot of useful feedback and case studies during that discussion. We took seriously numerous your requests to make progression easier, so now we consider several options of solving this problem. Also, we can reveal that we are planning to make a series of updates based on players’ suggestions from the AMA. And the first “post-AMA” update will be released next week. You may expect rework of Working Outfits, increasing progression of t3 and t4 armor and quite interesting feature (let it be our little surprise >:) that will make exploring of Godenland forests much more interesting.

And if you missed the AMA but want to hear the news and participate in the buzz - check the link for the recording of the Official broadcast!

This week we’ve also made a bunch of important techworks on the Newbie Island as part of our preparations for upcoming F2P mode, that was announced during the AMA. So, prepare yourself! - gather up your friends, colleagues and even granny and prepare for a big feudal adventure! Stay tuned, we will announce all the details about the F2P mode in the near future.

That’s not all!
This week we prepared something very special for Godenland settlers brave enough to carry out one risky assignment from the Crown and take part in «Secret of Chieftains’ Elixirs» event! Our skillful scouts who have spent countless sleepless nights in the dark wilderness near the camps of mysterious natives, recently provided the Crown with very interesting information. It seems that Chieftains of these vile pagans are quite practiced in herbalism and enchantment, and hold secrets of some very valuable herbal elixirs. Court alchemists can’t wait to investigate those obscure potions.

That is why Crown announced a reward for those who will bring the recipe and ingredients for this elixirs. Brave warrior or a group of glorious adventure seekers will receive a total reward of: x5 Death Insurances (20), x5 Inspiration Boosters and 5,000 God’s Coins for if they bring mysterious recipe and its ingredients to High Overseer Arrakis (Arrakis#4855), vicar of the Crown on Godenland. And do not try to deceive the vicar by buying a scroll and herbs from the first hoe who met you on the path!
To prove that the recipe and its ingredients were taken from a chest of Knool Chieftain and to receive your reward you should:

• Bring a screenshot of your character or the team at the Native village near the Chieftain’s chest.
  
• Bring the elixir recipe of potion (or “Blueprint”) and all the contents of Chieftain’s chest
  
• The successful team that takes the Bard-Streamer with them will receive an additional reward of 1,000 God's Coins.
  
• You can tell Arrakis about your discovery through Discord.

For all those who dare to embark on this perilous journey - we will publish a map, where according to the information from Crown’s scouts, dwell the Chieftains who keep the mystery of elixirs. According to rumors Chieftain's will start gathering herbs for their elixirs on 14/07/2019 at 18:00 UTC.
Good luck in your search, brave men!

And now it’s time for a community spot!


Attention, attention! It is rumored that a new tournament is being prepared at the Coliseum.
It is planned on 27-28th of July, and organizers are looking for heralds-volunteers who will be able to announce the tournament program in different languages during the event. If you can suggest any other help it also warmly welcomed. If you are interested - contact Greenfire#1594 or Moralitas#8153 and join the event server: https://discord.gg/tTPFJmR

— The Team

Hey, Feudalists!
This week we’ve introduced the update with the several important tweaks and fixes. Patch included long-awaited fixes for captured outpost claims, trade orders without delivery and several other technical improvements. Outpost upgrade cooldown should now start after completing the upgrade. There is also some good news for PvP players - we’ve increased the rewards for top-3 arena contestants. Feel free to let us know how you like these improvements.

You may ask 'What's next?' To that, we say - Let’s discuss it together! We invite everyone who wants to shape the future of Life is Feudal world with us to an AMA session scheduled today - July 5th at 20:00 CEST / 18:00 UTC. Bring on your most insidious questions to Bobik - leader of the project and the mastermind behind Life is Feudal!

Join LiF AMA Discord-server: https://discord.gg/3nwv8Ru and take part in community & devs discussion about the future of Life is Feudal.

And now it’s time for a community spot!
Last week, residents of Godenland took part in a wonderful event - First Feudal Olympics. We are happy that guilds have put aside their differences and a lot of brave warriors participated in the event. We want to say special thanks to Mirti and Fireskye and the team of Coliseum builders who made the Olympics Games possible.
And now, we want to share the best moments of Feudal Olympics with you.

• DAY 1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/32NpJjk2V6xzzqGz9
  
• DAY 2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2oUghjUyVadYYhyU8

Now Coliseum and its surroundings are a Crown land, waiting for new tournaments and warriors! We are happy to say that already received several requests from players after last Olympics for new events! Stay tuned for the upcoming news, or contact us yourself and we will help you to organize your Feudal event!


We have one more feudal community activity to share today. This week, Bandits Clan announced a screenshot contest to capture the best moments of feudal life! Results will be announced on July 22, hurry up to participate!

— The Team

This week we’re bringing you some of the long-awaited fixes for problems with outpost claims, as well as a bunch of technical improvements.

• Cooldown for outpost upgrade now should start once its’ upgrade is complete
  
• Increased the rewards for top-3 arena participants
  
• Jumping while riding a horse now costs 5 stamina of the mount
  
• Rewards for successful training now will only be applied to counselors for active players. It means, that trainee should not only reach the Mainland, but actively explore Abella
  
• Ability “Manage Object Rights” should no longer be available on Personal Monuments
  
• Added new premium crowns
  

• Fixed trade orders without delivery
  
• Fixed object permissions after outpost’s reclaim: they should now assign properly
  
• Fixed a rare case that could cause a major server crash
  
• Fixed a case that could cause client crash on start or disconnect sometimes
  
• Fixed quests window disappearing when receiving a “Help the Villagers” quest
  
• Fixed quest “Shack for Children” — it should now start properly
  
• Fixed water reflections
  
• Added a bunch of tweaks and optimizations on server side
  

— The Team

Hey, Feudalists!

This week our Dev team is concentrating on investigating and fixing a really annoying problem — disappearance of objects during the cross-server transitions. We are very thankful to our community for providing the evidence and detailed feedback about those cases. They became a core basis for our investigation. We are currently working on a solution for this problem. For this reason we’ve decided to take a few additional days for research and tests thus delaying the update. It is currently planned for the middle of next week. This update will also include number of other important fixes and tweaks. As we’ve mentioned in the previous devblog, some of them will be related to trade delivery, fixing captured outposts permissions and arena rewards. Stay tuned to the upcoming news!

During the past month we’ve received a lot of your ideas and suggestions about the game mechanics. That greatly helps our team of improving the game on a daily basis. That’s why we want to invite everyone who wants to shape the future of Life is Feudal world with us to an AMA session scheduled for 12 of July! Take your most insidious questions to Bobik - leader of the project and the mastermind behind Life is Feudal!

And now it’s time for a community spot!
This week we have a lot of awesome community news and we definitely want to share the best moments with you.

First of all, the First Feudal Olympic Games starts today at 18:00 GMT! During this Friday and Saturday the bravest warriors of Godenland will fight for the title of the best in 10 different {disciplines. For the entertainment of the noble public the beginning of this event will be marked by a brutal fight with wild beasts!

Come to see it yourself, and join the Feudal Olympics Discord-server: https://discord.gg/UTHAmfY


But that is not all, folks. Recently we had the pleasure of receiving a magnificent feudal fanart from Stivka, member of the Masons guild. Just look at this! We are very grateful for this work of art and wish Stivka further creative success!


As you may know, one of our veteran players, Device_RU has made a very useful website lifdamage.online — online tool, where you can get detailed in-game statistics for your LiF character. All you need to do is upload your logs to the website.

The development of the project is still ongoing and a bunch of new features have been added recently.

The website is currently offering following services:
- Full decoding of your combat operations in the loaded game log
- Godenland server battle map, where you can see how well have you fought compared to other players
- Statistics of Instanced battles, where you can compare the damage you've inflicted and received during the fight

What's new?
1) Added “KillBoard” section, where you can see the kill count of the most majestic Goldenland warriors
2) Added Weekly Arena Challenge, where you can become the best fighter not in the results of a single arena, but in a combination of fights in 20 arenas
3) Fixed errors that sometimes led to incorrect statistics calculation

Are you ready for the royal battle?
The project LIFdamage.online in cooperation with LiF team announces another global event in which any player can participate! The event will last throughout July. We will award the best players with prizes out of a total prize fund of 115,000 God's Favor (prizes from lifdamage.online), among which are:

1) Royal Outfit
2) Skin for the one-handed sword - Holur Scimitar
3) Skin for a two-handed sword - Tolkischwert
4) Skin for the Boar Spear - Hammerer Under a Tree
… And other prizes from the LiF team!

What to know more? Stay tuned to the news, we are starting the event at the 5th of July!

— The Team