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hopefully the issues that have plagued us today will be fixed! It would be cool if the MP map fix could be an early hotfix as its impossible to sail and survive as things stand now. Today about 3 hours were wasted trying to find home bases ..and stuff after crashes from 114 errors and other ship glitches. What was supposed to be a short run to a nearby island ended up as a world wide expedition of the lost, because after each crash your map was wiped and you had no idea where you ..or your ship ..or body ended up! Three of us decided that when we got home tonight .. (we did but our ships didn't ) we would abandon any form of overseas exploration until after the hotfix happens , and then after we know it works. ( fingers crossed) To be honest, after today's frustrations with all the MP glitches, we were wondering if it was worthwhile to stay ..or move to another game. it was so frustrating! Hopefully the fixes will work , and hopefully we do not have to wait too long for 0.8 It couldn't be any worse for performance than 0.7, which is virtually unplayable as a mp game.

i have since been contacted by a friend of the person.... they had been stranded by the dreaded 114 error, and were seeking to re locate a missing boat and get to their island... the person involved went inthe wrong direction and grabbed a boat from my place... most likely in error... but i was there and they could have asked me ..i would have loaned it in those circumstances.. i have been rather edgey since some griefer broke into my place recently and actually made off with my boat .. it was locked but i will not say openly how they got around that! Boats and cars are are not safe even when locked! Something the devs should look into...

Maybe we should petition for unicorns and horses with sparkly manes and see rainbows after storms and have fairy's fly overhead dropping fairy dust each morning.. Really, a game has to appeal to the majority to attract the majority of players. I would like to see more female fashion clothing, where we can fashion bear skins into fur coats ..and upset the animal protectionists... or perhaps bikini swimsuits ... to upset the moral majority or maybe high heel shoes for us fashion conscious ones to wear while we build walls or plant crops etc. Regarding ratings .. different countries have different cultures and different ratings. Whats acceptable to one may not be to others. For the game to expand it has to be suitable worldwide, and it has to appeal to a worldwide audience. There will always be a minority that will object..., but we do have choices! I for one do not want to see Ylands full of tanks, mythical monsters flying dragons and armed commandos running around destroying all that others create. Its bad enough already in MP with some of the feeble minded griefers! As for telling the the game developers what I want, well i just have to join the queue to see what they are bringing in, and if its not what I want and its upsets me because they are ignoring my demands, then as they say, there are other games... Meanwhile .... Peace, unicorns and rainbows .... Psssst! in case you did not notice ...some of my comments were made with tongue firmly planted in cheek. pegi 7 or whatever?, as long as it remains popular and r that will encourage the developers to add more and improve the game more.

yes ... 5 114 errors in 1 hour.... not my idea of an enjoyable time....all within 4 minutes of finally getting in.. Hope they do something ....

I just played an hour of Ylands.... 45 mins was staring at a blue screen with a circle trying to connect.. ...5 mins was spent waiting for the screen to unfreeze...only to display the 114 error. The remaining 10 minutes was trying to play the game with my avatar moving 5 steps ...everything freezing for 1 minute ., then another 5 steps ..until the 114 message. A quick check shows i am the only one on line on the server..... Time to bash head against wall for five minutes then go to bed..

I encountered twins ... but they both had the same to offer and nothing i wanted!

Great time playing Ylands MP ... Only person on line ...suddenly everything slows ... movement becomes jerky ... then screen with stars.... wait 2 minutes ... log in screen appears with 114 message. Wait 4 minutes then try a rejoin connection successful ... blue sky ...wait 2 minutes ...circle appears. Go and turn on coffee pot for coffee...that will take 5 minutes... come back with coffee ... circle still there but loading oceans. bingo! there i am sitting down.. press w to stand up ...decide to return to base for safety .... take 10 steps ...freeze...check.. still only one on line.... wait unfreeze ... move jerkily with pauses ...ocean alongside is stationary the suddenly goes crazy with movement... been on ilne now for 2 minutes ... still only one on line ... take five steps ... freeze ...blue sky! ...go back to 2nd line of this post and repeat 5 times in 30 minutes. finally make it back to base... lock doors with spasmodic movements and log out for night . obviously playing mp at this time is just plain useless...

On the spawn point you see bodies face s down in the dirt, with just their backsides sticking up. Why? I suspect it is because the devs are going to introduce Bicycles! .... and we need somewhere to park them

admins need a cart behind a horse with sign on it that reads " bring out your dead" I visited spawn island today to see if any new arrivals were around who might need a free boat ride. Instead found 8 corpses close by ... two were heavily armed and possibly were engaged in a duel Might need to have a permanent undertaker stationed there..

My I suggest changing the name of 'Ylands" to "the 114 network layer error experience" ..with the tag line " how to enjoy 75% of your game time staring at a circle on a light blue screen" Really, in the last hour i have had 6 crashes due to this error ...its a risk exploring as you are likely to end up drowning falling form your boat, and losing everything. Plus not having a working map. in MP.. you can sail in circles. The MP game gets to be unplayable ...

When i first arrived a newbie guy asked for a lift on my raft and we eventually landed where i decided to set up a base. This guy ran around exploring and started feeding the pumas luckily for him he respawned each time in sight of my base, and after several attempts recover his stuff. So i crafted him a miners helmet ..with light .. so at least he could see what was eating him He set up a bed roll, was given a duplicate front door key so he could seek refuge when not on line until he started his base. Well after day 2 he never moved again! Just either stood there or lay there on his bedroll ..not really an inconvenience. So what do i do now, as i suspect he wont be coming back on line.? Well i could deconstruct the floor etc and dump him underneath into the ocean ...but then i lose a really good miners helmet I could use him as crossbow practice... loot the corpse and then dump it into the ocean ... and be branded a griefer should he return But then at night sometimes hes standing there, and the miners light turns on at night time... so i decided to have a unique floor lamp! I have now crafted some clay flower pots , planted prunella seeds in them and let him stand there and illuminate the base interior! Not quite a statue of David ... ( with crafted fig leaf ..) but at least useful, and a talking point for guests will update this pic when the plants are flowering in the pots

And here is the same view the next day

I have visited temperate and tropical and found on each iron, coal, some copper, once gold on the surface flint and some saltpeter. and clay and flint Sulphur and copper mainly on arid regions ..and sometimes gold in caves or around the edges of cave openings. You can be lucky and find iron and coal together. To a degree it seems Its all depending on the roll of the dice when the islands created..

Next one i see i might plant a snapdragon seed in their .... heheh

I believe by using alchemy you can craft a strength potion.. ( think of Popeye the sailor man's favorite food..) take the potion and two hits and its pulverized... i have not tried it but it is mentioned in one of the youtube "how too" by keralis ( i think) Also if you have your Protection barrier active, anything inside that field can be deconstructed with a single hit and its components are returned to your inventory. This is a survival game. ...and its a lot easier than being lost in the wilderness in real life!

rejoining now for a while .. there are thunderstorms forecast and clouds on the horizon so don't know how long i can be on..

Was reading this forum while my dinner was cooking .... so i joined in and there was BB's ship! Moored near my base... I took out a small survey craft to loo for bodies..... nothing !? so i returned to base and opened door up for any survivors to seek refuge.. Will be back in in about 15 minutes..

I encounter this spinning thing whenever i am in an area where i am to close to the collision physics of a scripted moving object... eg ships bow .. and horses sometimes. Could this be an explanation? avatar physics colliding/meshing with an objects physics?

I encountered 2 vendors in mp .. the first time i approached there was one in the booth , but 2 days later there were identical twins propositioning me

I have got into the habit of making duplicate keys and placing them in a container and hiding it somewhere i can easily locate, but where others wouldn't look. That way if i suffer a fate such as this, at least i can get back into my base, or in the case of a ship, unlock it and sail home.

It was a dark and stormy night .. and i espied in the fading light the glow of a lantern on a sea vessel of sorts. It was getting closer, gradually but then stopped! I fueled up my rescue craft, " The Flying Chicken" and prepared to steam out to met it, perhaps perform a rescue mission for some intrepid sailor surrounded by sharks. The light had stopped moving ...was the sailor looking for Nemo? ..it was just visible as a small raft with a light on the front. Then there was a dreaded lag spike and my avatar froze...i checked to see who was online ... only me? The freeze ended and I rushed onto my ship and swept the seagulls off the poop deck and looked for that light .. in the strengthening dawn i saw nothing. It had disappeared. Strangely enough, i had a shark arrive and try to climb aboard my dock. It looked well fed ... I wonder?

Wolf or bear undertakers?

Was using hammer to remove some stone blocks just outside the PB limits....and took a break " to go fishing" ..... opened directory and equipped myself with the fishing pole, however on closing inventory my hammer was still in my hand and the fishing pole has disappeared from inventory ... and its not on the ground. Similar instances happened when building my ship ..i had used the hammer, then crafted some beams, equipped myself with the beams and proceeded to place them ... i aligned them up and selected place and the beam disappeared ... and in my hand was the hammer! all 5 of the crafted beams also disappeared from inventory. Anyone else having this or similar issues? The ship, by the way is in a dock that's within the PB range... and i am playing MP.

Rob the body and then bury the corpse... wear gloves and say a bear did it

Aha ... in a couple of hours after i load the coal bunkers, and have had rl breakfast i am going to risk a high speed run back to spawn island.. if successful without network errors, will hang there for a while, and then offer transport to any interested new arrivals ( and BB , if she is interested and there) back to my island. I can add additional seating to the "flying Chicken"