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Found this ship ..deserted? near my base .... anyone recognize it? And in the foreground is the " Flying Chicken" 3 steam engines + sail back up ..and its scary at full speed! ..but it can outrun sharks. Anyone for water skiing?

Yes .. mount some blue quartz crystals on a platform at sea level on the sides of your ship and place a wood block obscuring direct light back to you ...and the sea floor below is illuminated whilst sailing! .. handy if you need to swim and you have sharkaphobia!

It seems to be linked to using the hammer within PB range then moving outside and selecting something else.. I nearly destroyed my stove as the cooked meal i was about to collect... i realized i had my hammer in my hand still instead of the roasted fish ..and stopped just in time! Also when using the hammer, there's is a lag in changing it from your hand and replacing it with another object. I find it safer now to select something else first before selecting a crafted object/resource

A toolbelt similar to the key chain .. to hold hand tools like axe chisel hammer saw screwdriver... Also a new item a steel hammer to be craft able when you have a foundry. A steel hammer would have greater durability than the current iron hammer which needs constant replacement

New base under the 0.7 update... some night pictures and a screenshot of the ground floor interior / work station area . A living area is under construction on the 2nd floor

I try to use 1st person view to be sure i am hitting the correct place...but even so if my finger stutters a little... boing! a hole in the wall or floor.... or i forget i have a hammer in my hand and try to take food from the stove...

looks can be deceiving... not mine, and the dirt on the ceiling indicates its a buried room besides the painting on the wall is very unfamiliar. What you can do is put outward facing spikes in rows along the outside of the wall so they cannot get close to look and interact . might look ugly, but would dissuade people getting close to interact..

Whilst waiting for the 0.7 upgrade, i decided to try a public overseas server. ... I built a neat little place and was fitting the final walls when suddenly through an unlocked door some strangers rushed in. They didn't say a word, or acknowledge me, they just sat in my chairs and went offline/ They were still there the next day i logged on. Obviously this was a griefing crew. I don't think they were coming back Now, I always build my base on the sea over the water.... and with the aid of the PB and a hammer... i deconstructed the chairs, then the floor underneath them .. "they fallen inda water!" So then i replaced the floor, and rebuilt the chairs and with all doors and windows locked .. sat down with a lump of roasted meat and went offline Guess that's one griefing crew that got a shock ..if they ever logged back on . I suspect they did not, just went to another server and repeat the process to some other unsuspecting player. So, when you build your base, make sure there is a basement ..full of iron spikes ...or over shark infested waters ..and then no more squatters hanging around inside

The current size of the chat text causes near burnout of my glasses trying to read it! It would help us corneal opaque types to read it , if it was larger. Also admin server / warning messages ...(in red) do not persist long enough to be read and can be missed. An additional help for that would be an audible warning sound to catch our attention should we be slaving away with pick, shovel hammer and axe ..

Warning warning warning ... ooooo-aaah ooooo-aaahh Incoming shark missile ..prepare for evasive and defensive action ...

Whilst waiting for the MP server to awaken, i decided to check out the new features in a trial explore game .. very impressive and well done! No issues apparent and now very keen to get started in earnest

At the moment, Y lands requires the player to cultivate skills and knowledge, for both survival and advancement. I see suggestions to "change this or that" that would make the game "easier" ... but do we want that? Fix the bugs by all means , introduce new challenges and features, upgrade features animations etc ... But please please please... do not retrograde the game by lowering the current difficulty. I like the game as it is , others apparently do too. but if it gets to the stage that its no longer a survival/adventure/explore game ...and you start on an island carrying an atomic blaster and wearing Armour, and can build a shelter at the press of one key, and fly or teleport to other islands with no skill or effort required...... well then you will lose me as a player. Ylands is an adventure //explore / skill game. Please leave it as such ... from your roadmap i see that is your intention, so please do not yield to pressure and turn it into a low rate anime/ childs play style game Looking forward to new updates...and playing another 300+ hours of adventure skill and survival.

Sitting staring starry eyed at monitor, drinking coffee after coffee, waiting for server to come on line

This is my current dwelling ...my last under 0.6. Unfortunately its interior has squatters ...offline zombies occupying chairs etc. Now waiting for 0.7 and a new start and better security to keep the un-invited outside. Roll on 0.7 !!!!

Balloons... they can be powered by filling them with seagulls Just a crazy comment, but then a little crazy can have medicinal properties by creating laughter

I tried some MP servers. The first was an aussie one and it impressed me due to its continual maintenance, corpse removal, and attitude of its inhabitants. There were lag/latency issues but these were already known and affecting all mp servers, and also my isp connection was far from the best. I unfortunately got caught in one of the known glitches and couldn't log back in...but this and the glitch will be fixed with the 0.7 update. So waiting with excitement In order to get my "ylands fix" i tried another server... found it ok but as it was way overseas log in times l took ages... I built a base but fell victim to the dreaded falling through the ground glitch and respawned minus all my items. I could not locate them, I found my base but could not access all my locked chests and the basket with my duplicate keys was missing... ???? Also my PB would not recognize me ... (I respawned with no items in inventory whatsoever!) Ok - tried another one .... It was a pvte server and when i landed it was amidst a crowd of white undies clad avatars with names of various distasteful dictators,, like Adolph H Joseph L and other unsavory history characters . I knew this was not going to go well! I ran for my life !!!!! dodging cross bow bolts.. these guys couldn't hit a barn door with a bucket load of corn seed if they were standing next to it! I dodged and weaved and escaped only to be confronted by the owner wearing a propeller pack . He had a crossbow pointed at me and suggested i follow him to another Island I could have. Did i have a choice? So i was taken to a tiny temperate island and left there . there was a hut and some basic tools and food but no ores and other resources , or caves. I had no way of crafting a boat or replacing tools if they broke. it was obviously a prison island for the owners enjoyment ...confirmed when i checked on the server location.. a country not favorable for human rights and treatment of women. So i logged out of there ...i since noticed that that server is no longer available... so just a one off by someone who is technically a troll. Moved to another Pacific area server... seems ok, but there was no cotton or flax , its all been harvested... but i managed to find a single cotton plant they missed.... it was in a gully . I have since managed to re-introduce cotton, i have over 90 plants so far. But there's sure some wasteful inhabitants there ... a huge area of tree stumps wood pieces and un collected seeds! Also there's an spawn point with about 10 motionless zombies standing around. Its a fair enough place...will use it to hone building skills etc and get my " fix" until 0.7 arrives and i return to No.1

@ Baz .... At this stage with the 0.7 about to roll out, best not to worry. Will be starting again fresh after that event, Currently i tried an experimental build on another server, and to my surprise i logged in and found 6 squatters sitting in my chars etc inside my dwelling ..I should charge rent! They are all offline and just sitting there in all my chairs ... this could be classified as a form of griefing ..but i not concerned ... with the server update they will be de-pixellated. Makes a note to oneself ... when going offline in future, make sure you have lockable doors on all entry points! Edited to add .. I did have a good experience..and recommend your server. The only issue is one that's on the "to fix" list and can happen to anyone anywhere. Regarding the latency, i point out my ISP is NOT the best... and i have a history of complaints about it ..unfortunately where i am "in the bush" i have no choice other than a wifi alternative..... that's being investigated

Either an Ocean liner sank offshore, or this is the start of a zombie invasion......

Correct Baz... the slowness in logging in was because you are way over there and i am way over here... A lot of ocean to cover, and my system here does need an upgrade...its ..not your servers fault. The "me" at the base had nothing! .. and the one at spawn? hmmm dunno about that! I apparently only died once! How i fell through the earth... was i got buried! ...and there was a solid roof overhead. that's the dreaded falling through the earth glitch and Ane responded about that. Byt the way your server was one of the good ones ... the bad and ugly was that one which doesn't seem to be around anymore.. it took ages to load and i suspect it was a home set up job with clockwork internals

they are east food when there ;-) also snap a screenshot of sitting on one like the guy on the bomb in "Dr strangelove ' It hasn't happened for a while but i often had one outside my home, looking in the window!

Name your ship "Lucy" At night it will look like "Lucy in the sky, with Diamonds.." Edited to add ..if you can find the bird and turn it into dinner, the ship most likely will drop .. mine did the same with a rabbit on board ... stood on it end.. ( the ship, not the rabbit! ). i found the wascally wabbit and terminated him ... ship recovered its normal position ..except stuck in shallow water!

FYI ... this bug can still occur... just happened to me on a dedicated NA server.. i was adding dirt then ... "boing" i tried y the unstuck command then got eventually the respawn screen ... which i duly clicked on the appropriate button.... only to have the scree go black, with old inventory items and hotbar visible and screen locked up ...waited 10 minutes, only was back to reality was via a shutdown and restart unfortunately that means my output log etc will be of no use... as it didn't appear to save anything. Going to try a re-connect etc...if successful will post here.

@Ane.... I retraced what i was doing when this incident occurred I was placing soil to extend land into the ocean to wards deeper water to place a ship. I was standing on the reclaimed land, and there was a stone platform/roof above my avatar, and i was adding dirt around and to the front of me. There was a connection lag spike it seems, as everything temporarily froze for 2 seconds.... then the dirt i was adding recommenced in a sudden rush. Soil built up under me and my avatar was forced upwards but obviously blocked by the roof above.. resulting in my avatar being buried in a "pillar of earth" It seems then that as i was technically underneath the surface, i started falling... and the rest is history! Hope this helps to explain the falling through the earth issue, and what can cause it. Also act as a warning to others ...watch out whats overhead when placing dirt!

@Energritz...... that was on a NA server. tonight. The previous incident was on your server saturday when i was on an island east of the spawn island ..i had sailed due east, made landfall, and was on my ship moored when the "host unreachable" incident occurred, I relogged to see my avatar falling etc.. and the dreaded snap message. I tried to respawn and managed to connect only to get the snap you died message again and a black screen Attempts to relog keep me returning to that screen and no chance to respawn. The options to click on do not do anything, No worries .. " I shall return" ......when 0.7 has arrived Edited to add... It was not your server at fault ...just my intermittent internet connection. As i explained earlier i am in a rural area, on a spur power line that drops out, and with a phone service the predates Edison. Our mobile coverage consists of megaphones and ear trumpets!

I managed to respawn and located my base... and found where i should have been when i "was terminated" ..it looks like while i was adding dirt to fill in a gully, there was a rush of dirt that "buried" me! Vanished without a trace! So out of curiosity i fashioned a stone pick and dug around to see if anything, like keys tools or whatever could be found. No luck I tried the 1st person look into the area to see if i could see my remains etc underground ... nope! So i decided that rather than start again for it to be wiped when the 0.7 arrives i will spend the next week annoying all and sundry in these forums .... and leave those abandoned bases to be discovered by pixel archaeologists in some other dimension.. I managed to get those logs ... hope they can be of help. output_log.txt output_log_clean.txt