When I’m not feeling in the mood to explore as a Victorian pioneer, I used to enjoy striding new sands as a Renaissance Conquistador!

Sadly I’ve noticed that all former skins for weapons and armour cannot be crafted in the Exploration Mode.

Would it be possible to reintroduce them as separate craftable alternatives to the standard iron armour? This would be a simple change that would bring some more diversity to Exploration. Diversity that is greatly needed.

thanks guys!

Rob

In order to really customize the game, and perhaps recreate “boss fights,” it would be nice if you could scale certain npc creatures to make them bigger. I feel like there is a missed opportunity there and I hope a future update may consider this.

Some of you may have seen my previous suggestion regarding Craftable Player-Written books.

I'm a player who very much enjoys writing notes as both guides and to put on a 'notice board' outside my house. I think the concept of writing in Ylands is one that can be taken further.

My suggestion is that once a Written Note has been prepared, it can be locked and sealed as a Scroll.

This does a number of things:

1) Editing of the note is disabled.

2) If enabled, the author may choose who is authorised to open and read the scroll.

The mechanic to Seal a note in to a Scroll would be simple. All a player needs to do is possess something to seal it, such as a Rope of Resin.

If implemented I think this would be little gem of a feature that would really enhance the Ylands experience, especially in Explore mode!

Give me an upvote if you like the idea! I'd love to hear your feedback also. To the Devs, let me know if this is a viable feature in the games coding. ?

Thanks guys!

Rob

With 2023 coming to a close I must say it's been a blast playing Ylands again and I'd like to leave a suggestion that could make 2024 a year of further awesomeness!

It's fair to say that Ylands is a nautical game, and as such a large percentage of maps are ocean. Whilst there has been great strides to diversify and populate the ocean floor, there is still limited reasons to dive down there for prolonged periods of time. With this in mind, I would like to propose adding the ability to build air-tight structures under the waves! I am aware of the difficulties this would pose regarding water physics but I am confident that with some already existing features, this could be achieved. So how can we possibly build a working airtight colony on the sea floor?

Water Physics - Air Tight Spaces

The first major issue is how to build and define an airtight space? What we really need to do is find a way to create an area where the 'Lung Capacity', 'swimming', underwater visuals and 'lack of gravity' no longer apply. Once we have the ability to crate a cube or sphere where this effect can be applied, then we can work on what conditions would need to be met in order to spawn this area.

This means that there would be no dramatic overhaul of the current water physics and we would be able to create habitable spaces under the water!

Structures - Building a Base

So how do we build something that's suitable to create our Airtight Space? Can we build an enclosed structure from the conventional blocks already avaliable to us or do we need more purpose-built modular items (eg, corridors, halls etc.).

We also need to consider structures with a purpose such as airlocks and windows, how do we account for their operation and what powers them?

Suggestion summary

So Id like to see is the ability to tackle a truly hard challenge - the conquest of the ocean floor. Battling the naturally harsh environment and even harsher wildlife, creating a self-sufficient base under the waves would be a truly inspiring achievement which would rejuvenate Ylands into the next year.

Players who decide to colonise the ocean floor would be able to exploit the seabed for rare minerals and establish unique farms that would be unavailable to surface dwellers.

But beware, there are significant dangers presented to living under the sea. Complex bases require a stable power supply (Ylandium/steam/geothermal). Base oxygen supply could also be woven into the experience, making survival an even greater challenge. Lets not forget the local intelligent life also! The Atlantians wont take kindly to Ylanders encroaching into their domain (Lore development, raids)

*Screenshot of Anno 2070. A game where you can colonise the ocean floor.

I'd be grateful to hear any feedback from both developers and the community to see if this suggestion could 'Hold Water'!

A few more switches and levers would be a nice addition too...

2.Curved blocks made from the already great options we have available. I recall we got basic blocks that included a curved block, seeing this expanded would be great

3. Hooks, I know we can use umbrellas etc but I think having a hook we can craft would be better

4. Chains and shackles that can be crafted.... fantastic items in game. But with how few I find, it hinders building in game

5.The ability to move water or add water. Being able to make rivers/lakes or wells in game would be cool.

6. Enemy at random encounters that are riding animals

7. Legendary enemies... where after dealing with x amount of a certain type of enemies a legendary version of it can be fought. Which after defeating drops a collectable which can be added to a shelf... kinda like fall out does with the bobbleheads... but instead of just finding them you have to earn them.

8. Npcs that are crewmen/women on ships that can repair the ship or fire cannons

I'll leave it at 8 as in the past my suggestions have fallen on deaf ears.

Since coming back I've really enjoyed the exploring side of ylands.. as I always have.. especially with mates.
Your under water bios are bloody awesome. How you've spread out the resources on different bios.

How more resources are used in how you build items... it used to be half of the things you could collect were useless... not so much now.

The newer random encounters have a lot more detailing in there builds... this makes exploring more enjoyable.

Ghost ships.... ooo yeah loved this... Yo and I managed to find out that theres more than one way to skin a ghost ship.

Story mode.... hmmm great concept... if I'm being honest needs a lot of work.
I'll make a separate post another time on just this subject. But for replay ability players need choices that vary. For e.g when we first wash up on shore... we have 3 people offering to help... but we can only choose 1 to help... they could all lead to a similar path... but have a different way of getting there.... or a more evil or passive way.
It's not very clear why we're helping old mate out... maybe having a goal/reason for helping him.
As an e.g your help him find components for a time machine... and to do so you need to search different ylands and do missions like you kind of have now.

The english translation's not bad but the grammar definitely could use some improvements.

I feel Ylands is heading in the right direction and will be watching with a keen eye on future updates.

My suggestions aren't meant to be a dig at the team, but hopefully some positive and constructive. feedback.

Have a great Christmas and New Years 

Chief

Sandy

The Natives are represented with stereotypical clothes and tents. Everything about them is obvious stereotypes of Native Americans.
I'd say it's a bit insensitive.

Note: I just pick the picture from Google, anyone who made it, thanks! your model is so great and cute! here is the creator page.  

I'm laughing so hard while posting this, so if my words doesn't correct. Please let me know..