Life is Feudal: MMO News

Hello, Feudalists.
This week the devblog will be separated in two parts.

Eternal sleep
We will start by sharing some grim news with you.
This day we want to say our farewells to Dannara “Cande”, late leader of ‘Cuervos de la Tormenta’ guild, who passed away recently. Her closest friends, Halcón and Javito, wanted to share a few words:

El Cruce and Cuervos de la Tormenta want to say goodbye to our friend Dannara (Cande) who passed away last week. Our most sincere condolences to her family and friends. A friend like her leaves us a very big void, but the pride of having been able to enjoy this game with such a wonderful person. Until always our queen, we love you very much.

Don't think I'm gone
If one day you visit my grave, don't cry,
Just imagine that I'm sleeping.
I will visit you with the dawn,
I will hug you with the wind,
I will kiss you with the rain,
And I will sing to you in silence.
Never think that I'm gone
because then...
Then I will have died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cju6nwtBwJg

You shall be remembered by your followers and the rest of the community.

Haldayspark and server issues
The last part of the week turned out to be very busy for the Life is Feudal team: due to an unexpected issue during our weekly server maintenance on Thursday we had to recover the data stored in our servers, which resulted in almost a full day of Godenland being down. Once again, we apologize for that.
On a positive note, we’ve used this maintenance to begin the Haldayspark, Aspid’s fest! As we mentioned in our previous dev blog, Gloom has a great influence on the world this time of the year. You’ve certainly noticed, most of your in-game activities now can occasionally provide you with Jester’s Charm. While being seemingly useless on its own, once covered in naphtha, they explode on contact with any living creature! The word is, wild Knools hold a great amount of them, and the Crown has promised to pay a hefty prize for every such bomb that has been brought for research.

Note: You need a Knife in order to craft Gloom’s Bomb.

About the upcoming event
The Crown is very interested in gaining knowledge on the other alchemical secrets that Knools possess. That is why another world-wide expedition is planned for the mysterious blueprints kept in the camps of these savage creatures.
Like in the previous expedition, this time Crown also plans on rewarding the most prominent champions of Abella. Each Ancient Scroll retrieved from a camp will be rewarded with x5 Death Insurances (20), x5 Inspiration Boosters and 5,000 God’s Coins, with groups themselves deciding on how to split the reward. Additionally, the successful team that takes the Bard-Streamer with them will receive an additional reward of 1,000 God's Coins
Information about approximate locations of the Knool camps will be announced tomorrow, Saturday 2019-11-02, at 19:00 UTC, which will mark the beginning of the expedition. Successful completion of this expedition will raise chances of a second one, day after (Sunday 2019-11-03), which, of course, mean more rewards!
Stay tuned for the news on our discord’s mmo_event_feed channel, where the detailed information and map will be published.


That’s it for this week dev news. We wish everyone a great weekend!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!

First of all, just letting you know that we are still very absorbed by the work on the much-awaited market fixes and improvements. We want to make sure that these changes will adapt properly and won’t cause any new issues, which is why it’s taking a bit longer.
Other things that we are preparing are the changes for Halloween that will take effect next week. This time, the Hermit monks bear horrid news: all the signs are showing, that this time it’s the Gloom who’s got to play with the fates of the mortal inhabitants of Abella! He’s filling the wild Knools with blood-boiling rage and an insatiable hunger for all those who seem to be a fitting sacrifice for their bloody rituals. Travelers should beware of their razor-sharp weapons and unholy witchery. However, the brave warriors who will decide to oppose them will see that gods not only punish but also reward those skillful and daring enough.


From the other news, we’re happy to let you know that we’re seeing increased activity from our volunteers involved in the crowd translation project. We would like to take a moment to thank you all for helping us grow internationally! And if you’re interested in translating the game to your native language, all you have to do is register on http://translate.lifeisfeudal.com/ and just start writing your suggestions which will be later reviewed and possibly implemented in the game.

Time for a community spot!
This week we’re bringing you an amazing LiF inspired 3D model, called Skull Lancer, which was created by user Mak#5166. It is still a work in progress, but we simply cannot wait to share it with you!


We’re incredibly excited to see what else have you’ve got stored for us!

Have a great weekend!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!
We know very well that you are waiting for the next update and we can assure you that it’s almost here! As such, we can happily share that we are currently concentrating our efforts on reworking the market interface and fixing the transaction errors. We know how important global trade is, so our ultimate goal here, which we hope to reach soon, is to make the market more friendly, and stable of course. Next updates will be dedicated to making buying and selling goods more comfortable and free of current obstacles. Also, another important game mechanics that we are preparing are some tweaks and fixes for our combat system based on the feedback we received from you folks.
Aside from the game development itself, we are brainstorming on the next events that will entertain you and maybe inspire you to prepare something of your own. You should remember that we will be more than happy to support your endeavors if you have some awesome ideas for your own event. Make sure to contact us via discord if you want to or are already working on some interesting project.
Oh, and Halloween time is almost upon us, beware the crimson skies, blood moon and glowing eyes in the darkness.

Time for a community spot!
We obviously cannot miss this part where we highlight some of your interesting creations, be it a video, screenshot, a story or something else. This time we want to show off a couple of really nice looking screenshots made by Le Profyteur.
Make sure to send our way your best art so it could have a chance to find its place in our dev blogs along with your name!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1883181494
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1883181588

Have a fantastic weekend!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!
Our battle continues as we are constantly working on bugfixes and various game mechanics improvements. The next update with those tweaks and fixes is around the corner. Stay tuned.
Now, looks like you’ve been busy as well! We received reports about an enormous siege on the Merovingers guild. A several months long event that resulted in a battle with about three hundred people working towards their goal. May the spoils go to the victors and best of luck next time to those who lost this one. We hope to hear more of your amazing achievements on the lands of Abella!
We, ourselves, have been making an effort to entertain you a bit with one of our events. The Witch’s Dungeon event that we ran last week have gathered interest of many brave warriors who fought and bled in the dark cave underneath the Abella forests. It took nearly twelve hours for the champions to reach the main chambers where the devilish trophies were located. Three trophies in total brough three champions who received premium rewards for their efforts. Those heroes were: Nordea Maersk from The Terrowin Order guild, LittleArc Jager and Pelagios de Pelagiad from Made in Brazil guild. We want to thank everyone who participated in the event.

Oh, and if you are interested in how big that underground maze we created actually was, here’s a screenshot of its layout:

The maze has already collapsed, but don’t worry. There will certainly be more events to come, so keep an eye out on the mmo_event_feed channel on our discord.

And now it’s time for a community spot!
We’ve been receiving more of your amazing creations from very special places and moments which we absolutely must share with the world.

First, the screenshot of a small, but quite charming, growing settlement, sent to us by Dabakiel:

The second one is a video recording from Amaunet Phoenix, showing the coronation of West Slavs’ new ruler, King Wulfric:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ismroLgYuw0

Thank you for sending us all these materials. Keep them coming and we will, as usual, keep highlighting the best of them in our dev blogs.

We wish you a great weekend everyone!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!
Even though we don’t have an update this week, the team is working tirelessly on game fixes, tweaks and improvements that we will present you in the nearest future.

And to entertain you during these autumn days, we announce the beginning of the long-awaited “Witch’s Dungeon event”. You may expect that expedition map will be published in Discord on 28th September (Saturday), at 20:00 UTC. Good luck, and let the hunt begin!


For those who have missed the announcement, we’re going to remind you what’s it all about:

“Disturbing rumors swept through the lands of the Crown. The insidious natives, cramped by brave warriors on Godenland, are plotting something unholy. It seems that their witches have been devising their plans and came up with new sinister intrigues to bring death upon the good folk of Abella. One shepherd, grazing herd in the mountains, noticed how these unholy savages slipped by the accompaniment of growling wolf packs into the stinking bowels of one of the caves. Who knows what dark secrets are hidden in this underground maze? But the glorious inhabitants of Godenland just do not intimidate! Especially when a good reward is announced.”

A new horned helmet and 7 days of premium to anyone who brings the insidious trophy of the natives from that cave!

Have a great weekend everyone!
— The Team