Espero que os guste este nuevo mapa, cuando lo tenga en una fase más terminada, lo subiré a la Workshop para que podáis visitarla.
Gracias.
Un saludo.

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Hello everyone.
I present to you the new map I am working on, SPA_Yland.
This map is an adaptation of the SPA_LIFE map, unifying all its buildings on a single island.
The following has been added to this Island:
- New constructions.
- SPA_LIFE constructions improved.
- More kilometers of roads.
- Vehicles.
- Boats.
- NPC’s

I hope you like this new map, when I have it in a more finished phase, I will upload it to the Workshop so you can visit it.
Thank you.
A greeting.

If you've been wondering how to create a great server and manage it well this is the video for you!

I updated my old House-on-the-Hill.

Besides this truck, I've also uploaded a bunch of cars and other random stuff to the workshop over the past week or two, so take a look if you're curious! I've tried to price things as low as it will let me (with a couple exceptions).

Maybe we need another kind of large mast with sail.Like this one on the latter twin-mast catamaran.

LINK TO ASSET:

https://workshop.ylands.com/asset/1213

PICS AT THE BOTTOM:

LINK TO DEVELOPMENT DIARY AND FIRST SHIP:

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After more than a month of work. She's finally ready to share in her first rendition!

She has 2 decks, 32 guns, scripted cannon fire, survival friendly reloading, and even a rangefinder (in more detail below)!

Comes fully equipped with :

Rigging with double stacked sails ( 2 masts for the price of one!)

Saloon with kitchen,

Fore + Aft Storage,

Fully stocked armory,

Furnished gun deck,

and Captains Quarters.

a ton of code!

Don't hesitate to leave feedback. This isn't the final version, just the first I am comfortable sharing!

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THE TECH

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There are 4 mechanics built into the ship.

1) Broadside, at the pull of the lever she will fire that side in a full secession!

the shots are delayed slightly for each gun, this is mostly based on more realistic engagements against moving targets but this can, of course, be changed in the script.

2) Reloading system: simply place cannonballs in the pictured chest and the cannons will consume however many they need to load themselves with. Be sure to keep extras in there as they will try to reload themselves after you let off a broadside!

RELOAD DEMO: (note  the long range on left lever, close range on the right side)

3) Rangefinder: Two modes. first is a standard flat plane. use it for closer engagements. the upper cannons have been aimed up ever so slightly to match the range of the main guns. thus they will all hit a concentrated point! The latter is a long-range Arc.  Use it to scare off your enemies from afar or even shell a yland from the safety of the water!

SHORT DEMO:

LONG DEMO:

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PICTURES

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Many of you find the Ylandium refinery too loud and annoying.
We are currently fixing that and will include that fix in the game soon.

Tamed should be able to attack by our side!
No, that is something we don't plan to add, the player is already really strong as it is.

To be able to change the size of things (in the Editor mostly).
No, because it would have a huge impact on performance, and could break AI and other things. Objects have boundaries and other sizes would break it.

We would like to see more weapons in the game: Machine gun, M1 Garand, and more guns in general!
Not our focus, the implementation of a submachine gun caused many problems already, also we don't want to be an FPS military game, that's other BI titles  Check Arma or Dayz.

Please change the controls as follows: I for inventory, TAB latest tab.
We did that in the last patch 2.0.5.

Add auto sort for inventory, seed box, and containers
This feature is being tested by our QA as we speak.

Create a Trading Yland
We created C.A.G. Port as we promised on the last stream. If you want more info just join our Discord.

Didn't find an answer to your question or suggestion? Check the previous Community Corner entries where we talked about underwater building, bicycles, submarines, and much more. If it isn't there either, it might mean we are working on it at the moment, we are yet to discuss it or are keeping it for later

Thank you for all your awesome ideas, you excited and loyal players motivate us to work hard on our game every day! 
Until next time (most likely later today on Discord).... Stay Classy!

Anna
Community Manager 

  for this time I will only add it here, it is just a small sample of what I am preparing for the competition .. hopefully you will like it, and I hope that you will be looking forward to the final creation .. until then, I maybe add,  a few next videos..

Ales: We have a roadmap which we will show you soon. For this year we have planned 3 updates so far - 1.12, 1.13, 1.14. Energy is planned for 1.14. We decided that when we're going to do it, We're going to do it right. We want to make energy more interesting, fix annoying issues, and add new devices. It might not be good news as to when it comes but the updates before that are already full of good things.

Anna: We really do read your feedback. Sometimes you won't see your feedback addressed as a separate issue but that doesn't mean we're not talking about it. For example lot of you suggested that you would like to be able to change the weather in Creative Mode, we would like to try to include that in the Energy Update as some sort of weather-changing station. Of course, we will first have to see if it fits in the update.

Who's gonna ask Ales about bicycles and make him roll his eyes?

Ales: Yeah... I wouldn't want to be the one to push our team to implement them, or to be around the people who have to implement them

Are you still planning to add car claiming?

Ales: As you know you can summon ships. We would like to add an option to claim and summon more ships. That goes along with the option to summon cars which we are also currently discussing.

What about adding map markers?

Anna: Yes we want to do it as soon as possible. It is one of our priorities.

Ales: The current plan is to have a look at the by the end of the 1.12 development process. So maybe it could be in 1.13.

Planes and flying cars?

Ales: We have floating ylands which is something we planned to release a long time ago. We left that one open and we still have the technology. We are able to generate floating ylands. It is linked to many other features like AI that still need more fixes. When we do something big in ylands it will probably be floating ylands and flying machines. However, it is not planned for this year. We have a lot in store for you this year and hopefully, once you see it you will understand. We decided to go down into the sea, dungeons and the next step is up.

Will there be smaller letters and signs?

Ales: Have you been to our meeting? You are asking us exactly what we discussed today . Today I asked our team about smaller letters, I myself am annoyed by the big letter we have. We are definitely doing this.

Will you share the roadmap for 2023?

Ales: Yeah maybe in about two weeks after we do some small changes.

Haven't you thought about letting us work with terrain on shores and seabed again?

Ales: Those who have been playing Ylands for a long time remember that this option used to be there but it was too demanding CPU-wise. We do not have that option in any planned update yet but in the future, we want to add a system that water would fill the gap instantly. It wouldn't look too cool but it would prevent those awful-looking holes around the shore.
We need to discuss it further tho if it doesn't break something.

Saddlebags?

Ales: We have been planning them for a longer time. We considered doing this by having a container slot in the animals. There are some issues tho. First of all, should differently sized animals have different amounts of container slots? But then players could use animals just like containers, summon them and send them away. Should the animals have one shared container? We also discussed it with animators and in the end, we felt we should show some sort of saddlebags, however, that added more work. Possibly this year but no promises.

What we are doing right now we are looking into how containers work, and how we could improve those. We are trying to merge some junk objects so they don't take up so much space. When 1.12 comes out you will see a lot of changes and we will see where to go from there.

Will there be an option to give server rights to a specific group of people or individuals rather than all your friends or clan?

Ales: Yes that was the plan from the beginning. It is even in the design document for the feature. Due to time constraints, it never made it into the game. This is something we can definitely add and ask programmers how difficult would it be to add it as soon as possible.

Could we have someplace to share custom tools?

Ales: Oh yes. I also want to add it, it's such a huge and amazing feature so we want to give you a place to share it. Maybe in the shop just like Blueprints.

NPCs like merchants as decoration in Adventure.

Ales: We talked about having a population in Ylands. To be able to fill the cities with NPCs that would live there. We would like to implement that one day. 

Thank you all who joined and come around next time to ask your questions.
Stay Classy!  

This is the home page for all Broccoli Tree House Custom Tools, a collection of useful tools to help with building complex creations in the editor (which can be blueprinted into explore).
This project started before Custom tools were added to ylands my plan is to recreate the old ones with the new system and then continue to make new tools. Each tool's description explains how to use it, if you need more help feel free to DM me here or on discord (O1iver#5816). 

An example of some boat hulls by YoHasLego that used the mirror tool to create the other half.

Tools

Mirror Tool

This tool is used to mirror objects over a plane. See this post for why you might need to do this (This is the old version of the tool but the introducing the problem section is still relevant).
It is limited to entities, game logics and groups that are symmetric about at least one plane. (It can still give satisfactory results without the last condition)
Knows issues: Properties such as indestructible and pickable wont be transferred to the new entities. 

Tutorial:

Download:

MIRROR TOOL [BTH] 0.3.1.zip

Added:

• the tool can now detect child groups
• option to ignore child groups

Fixed:

• UI buttons disappearing if only 2 unique objects were selected
• with mirror groups enabled:
  • preview group for selecting symmetry plane would spawn on confirm
  • Child groups would be spawned with incorrect position/rotation 

MIRROR TOOL [BTH] 0.3.0.zip
 

A collection of useful tools and scripts to help with building complex creations in the editor (which can be blueprinted into explore)

Above: An example of some things that can be created with these tools.

This is an open-source project to help make building certain things easier. I'd like to see you build that miniature rollercoaster without scripts?

My inspiration

During the season 2 creator competition (you can find my submission here) I was faced two times needing a helix, once for a spiral staircase and once for a worm gear, the first one I made manually and the second one with script. Manually was not fun, and my script was terrible due to time pressure, so I decided to improve it after the competition. Later in the competition, I was creating an airship and it would have been really useful to be able to mirror the hull, (I had to settle on a less preferable shape due to this not being possible in ylands).
A month later I have made good scripts for both of these problems(and more), but not everyone knows how to script so I want to share it publicly and also encourage other programmers to contribute.

A summary of how it works

For in-depth tutorials see below.
Generating structures with scripts is very powerful. If you want to place a generated structure in the editor it requires exporting the scenario, loading it as a game, loading that game in the editor and saving the structure as a comp (a bit lengthy but it can be well worth it). My first helix generator during the composition required the individual entities to be welded (so that I could spawn a group like a section of the rollercoaster and edit the pivot of this group) which causes problems when you want to make a composition/blueprint out of them, it also stops you from welding the whole structure as one.
Therefore the base of these building scripts is a custom group system that allows storing a set of entities and placing them at a given position/rotation. Most of the scripts make use of this, meaning that all entities spawned in are just entities, not welds)This custom group function is now redundant with addition of the group template logic but I am yet to update these scripts to accommodate for it properly.

Current Features(summary)

• Custom group system
  • create groups
  • copy groups to given pos/rot
  • set pos/rot
• Helixes
  • regular helix
  • helix along path
• Follow path
• Various Spheres and circles
• Mirror across any plane
• Laser measure tool

Upcoming Features

Here are some things I'd like to add but there is no guarantee I will.

• Elipse and ellipsoid generator
• rope generator
• n equidistant points on a sphere
• smoother version of follow path

Contribute

This is open-source, meaning it's encouraged that people to adapt and add to it. If you do not have the skills but you have an idea contact me and ill see about adding it.

If you have a building script or you made some changes that you think would help people, DM me here or on discord and Ill see about adding it to this main version.
Discord: O1iver#5816

Tutorials(WIP)

If you are using the Source version each Instruction/Function has a description of how to use it in the function definition.

• Custom Groups
• Laser measure tools
• Using generating structures (video)
• Creating Compositions of generated entities (Video)

Downloads

These files are also available on the workshop.

Latest Version:

BTH BUILDING SCRIPTS V1.1.0.zip

Older Versions:

BTH BUILDING SCRIPTS V1.0.1.zip

This I did test out the image of pinterest, later there will be more.

It is built only with bullets, I left some panels already made in the workshop https://ylands.net/asset/311

I had to be here 

I'm thinking of working on a small series of Scripted Compositions that could greatly expand on the core survival game aspect. It is my hope to make these Industry sets available for anyone to enhance their own survival/exploration experience. Who knows? Maybe it could be incorporated into Exploration as a permanent feature?  (...Cough... @Nikki Severin)

For a long time I have wanted to be able to make Beers and other alcoholic beverages; now I can! I've only spent a day wo rking on it but so far I have a basic functioning template to build on.

*Here's my Fermentation Vat and Wine Barrel!

Currently I have two working devices, the Fermentation Vat and the Wine Barrel. Players will select what type of product they wish to ferment (Bearberries, Raspberries or Blackberries). Once 20 of such berries is placed in the Vat, the process begins immediately with a very charming animation sequence. The process lasts for 72 in-game hours and will allow the player to draw a unique 'Wine Cask' upon completion.

*The colour of the wine is determined by the type of berry used.

With a fresh cask of wine in hand, the player can either store it in a Wine Barrel, or consume the entire Cask. Consuming the entire cask will eventually lead to dire consequences however. The benefits of storing Wine in a Wine Barrel will allow the player to draw up to 4 helpings per batch. The barrel colour scheme will change to match it's contents and it will also show how many helpings remain inside until empty.

The Future

This was an idea that I literally spent the morning toying with. I would like to build a robust brewing system that will incorporate a multitude of beverages. I would like each drink to have its own effects and drawbacks. Whilst not dramatically game-changing, it certainly adds another mechanic to an already expansive game!

Let me know what you think guys, I'd love to hear your opinions.

Rob

I've been experimenting a little the last few weeks with different car designs, which has resulted in a few that I'm pretty happy with!

My favorite has to be the jeep, which I made in two variants. The one not shown here is build upon the off-road chassis, but I prefer this one. Surprisingly it handles terrain almost as well, and is generally easier to drive.

Up next; an off-roading truck. It looks a bit goofy with the short wheel base, but I can't do anything about that unfortunately. It generally drives around rough terrain pretty easily.

Up next; A sleek convertible sedan. I call it the "Continental". My favorite to drive for some reason. It's really satisfying to have the wheels properly fit the inside the wheel-arches. This car is not built for off-roading (as you can imagine), and thus is pretty useless in exploration, but it's a cool collectible I guess.

And finally; a small roadster. This was the first one I made, and it's not as refined, but I like it nontheless. I also made plenty of color variations of this one as well as the Continental.

This week we will sum up Q'n'A we had with our Designer Prokop on Stream. We also asked Aleš some big picture questions over our company chat.

Molenusaczech: "Will there be a way to build underwater and drain the water? like a glass dome?"
Ales: "We would love to have that option in the game one day."

originalspiritchaser: "Did you help design the sunsets and sunrises?"
Prokop: "No, that's not what I do. It was done by Michal who doesn't work with us anymore. It does look amazing but it's not an asset design."

mello1223: "Do you have prescribed sizes for the things you add or is it just up to you?"
Prokop: "Well, it depends. When we think about new animals and other entities that need to move, the tallest thing collision wise should always be the player. So we don't want to make anything bigger when it has collisions. But it could be bigger and mountable just without collisions. We don't want to make too many small things either. We know you guys, the community would take that and use it a million times to build something... very precious but also very draining for the game FPS."

Prokop: "Did you guys find all secret stuff related to fishing?" 
originalspiritchaser: "Secret stuff? Can we catch a Creator Cube if we find the right fishing spot? LOL"
Prokop: "No . In the Codex there was a hint that in different depths, day times and weather it affects what fish you can catch."

mello1223: "fishing: yes, it's interesting, but the possibilities should be optimized a bit, something like more things for the zircon fishing rod, and less for the coral"
Prokop: "The zircon fishing rod doesn't pick up junk that much and has a bigger possibility to catch rarer fish."

jrock432176: "All I would say is that a little mini game or something to “fight” the fish to reel them in would be cool"
Prokop: "We were thinking about that a lot. However we don't have minigames for any other resource gathering and if we added them we would explode the game size."

Molenusaczech: "Will there be pistons/bearings/a way to move stuff using electricity or magic?"
Prokop: "I think that in the future and maybe even in the update we are currently working on you can see some stuff with magic however not like pistons or bearings. And electricity is on our list and we will work on that in the future."

bobo1098337: "anything you can tell us about the new Dungeons?"
Prokop: "Well as you can see the ghosts that are going to be included in the update... Maybe it's even connected to the dungeons... who knows... who am I to answer that ..."

                                                                                     

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us on Stream and to Prokop for finding time in his busy schedule to answer questions and have a look at your creations.
See you next time and...
...Stay classy
 

we bring you some more answers to your most demanded and popular suggestions.

Changing day and night in Creative mode.
Ylands team: That is something we want to implement soon.

Changing weather in Creative mode.
Ylands team: Yes, together with day and night.

Having different light levels and diameters for head lamp.
Ylands team: This is planned in the future.

To be able to claim and summon a car.
Ylands team: Definitely planned.

Being able to claim and summon more boats.
Ylands team: Yes! We want to implement this too.

Thank you for all your feedback and ideas. More from us soon!
Stay classy!