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Red ..yes on the P1 na server..... theres 2 bases side by side, mine and Eviltwin's ..they are joined underground by a plethora of underground tunnels and storage chambers...a co operative effort. Basically, all the surrounding cliff /hillsides are hollowed out into underground caverns .. theres room and a nice bay on the other side for anyone else to build and " join" in. Also theres so e really deep monster filled caverns down deep ... enter if you dare!

Honey Chicken's Australorp base, with fort Scratchie on the right cliffs, overlooking the bay, defending against the colonel and his marauding herbs and spices

It is also symptomatic on the P! gaming servers.... we see an influx of new arrivals ..and when they find its hard to grief, they leave. I often see someone arrive,,, they runaround trying to hit offline players, then run from building to building trying to enter... anything that is not secure they steal or destroy, then they get on ships and try to steal/sail them ... and when that fails they then pick someones doorway .. sit there to block the entry and go offline ...never to return. Its something we have to put up with, and on un-moderated public servers it would be worse.

Currently about 3 of us are trying to log in and we cannot... we get the same message "unpacking data etc ...( screenshot attached) I have had 6 goes at logging in ..same message. waiting 6 minutes each time and no response... Prior to this, we lost social chat in the game ...we could hear the blips but there was no text appearing anywhere. no log files attached ...as we cannot get in! looks like an early night .... sigh!

Sadly, it seems that you will have to do a new ship. I can confirm that the hotfix does not apply to ships already affected and all you can do at this stage is push it to the shore with another ship and leave it. Have fun watching griefers try to steal it

a bugged ship apparently cannot be dismantled /destroyed .... i tried to deconstruct one with both a annihilator ..and a demo hammer without success ... so crafted another ship and pushed the bugged hull entirely inside a pb .... and again no success in trying to dismantle or destroy. Looks like these hulls are as indestructible as some of my cooking failures!

How about the females undies being a two piece ? .. Regarding the changes..... Look to where the money is. They say if all the Chinese wore their sleeves one inch longer, the demand for cloth would outstrip the worlds supply. So it is with games etc, if Ylands is a big success in these Asian countries, the sales profits etc would make the rest of the world pale into insignificance. I understand the changes..its to attract the majority, and typical business practices. If you are going to sell bikinis an you live in Antarctica, expect your market to be in tropical warmer countries and cater for them ...and also vary the styles to suit conservative and also more "liberal" countries.... Otherwise you lose profitability, Big sales in China / Asia will ensure funds to hire more developers etc to improve the game.

The small boats work well ..i saw one that was modified with a deck and barrels like pontoons around the side ( used for storage) ... its only the rafts and ships that have issues ... which is rather amusing at the moment, when you see a griefer steal your ship that's been affected by the bug, and after being unable to steer or control it, jumps overboard and becomes shark food

There are already several threads mentioning this problem ..and there's a response from Ales advising of a fix / hotpatch due any time ..as soon as its checked.

maybe in the meantime give us rideable dolphins we can domesticate ? Thanks for the response.... we will hang in there .... ;0

Note that i am being silent . I have reported and sent logs about this issue ...and find its not worth it when there's nothing happening in response. People are asking me in private if "do you think the game is going to continue, or have they abandoned it? " ...as we are getting little to no feedback and some are getting edgy about the games future..

So i built a ship ... i laid the hull and necessary superstructure to make it work then returned it to near my pier to add enhancements. I placed a bed on the deck ..and it disappeared... oh well whats new? - built more superstructure and added engines and tried to sail ...ship would not move ... saw the bed on the ocean floor ..it was acting like an anchor, welded to the ship. I managed to remove it ... then once again tried to move the ship .. !!!!!! etc .. ship had apparently drifted close to the pier and welded itself to the pier... ( i could tell this because lamps and crystals place on the deck had " moved .." ..actually they had not, the ship had moved! Faced with a dilemma. either deconstruct the ship and start again ..or remove the pier..and see if that works . I tried... the ship was in construction mode but i cannot deconstruct it , or the pier it is "attached" to ...using either a hammer, demo hammer or annihilator.. I managed to use a hammer to remove all the superstructure, including ladders but the aft and the hull will not yield.... Every time i struck the aft section with a hammer to "deconstruct ' it ..it stays there and adds wood and nails to my inventory! ..and i run out of inventory space. I gave up ... logged out in frustration and have included the logs etc hoping you cry over them as much as i did! output_log.txt output_log_clean.txt

Encountered the sound stutter on 3 separate islands.... on one i could hear a barrier hum chopping in and out and sounding more like intermittent radio static. .i thought it was just my computer / connection but others nearby reported it to ... thinking the same as me. So there seems to be an issue with the sound effects... and it does not seem like its at the user end.

Intermittent sound noted too ..usually on islands with heavy usage/building...or whenever a rainstorm starts on a tropical island. Noticeable if wearing a prop pack. Rainstorms also see a dramatic drop in fps ...sometimes as low as 3 and you are unable to move..

also ... once you get a "wonky" ship there is no way to delete it .... and it ends up blocking your harbor ..all you can do is fit a helm, anchor and a small sail and try to sail it out into the open sea then abandon it ....it will not turn, just go straight ahead. I even tried a powder keg ( unsuccessfully ) to destroy one such faulty hull ... the US navy would love to have invincible hulls like that for its ships!

Refer to my ship construction woes thread ;( Lots are reporting this issue.... but some have no problems. There's obviously some bug in the way you build a ship ... guess we have to wait until the process is clarified and explained or fixed...

Given up on ships. I tried again, keeping it simple ,,, basic hull fore aft 5 engines helm anchor some lanterns and a small covered area with sleeping and seating facilities. Released anchor, and ship moved with the waves , so did everything else on the ship ...looked promising. lowered anchor then went to helm and E to assemble ship .... bang bang etc and all looked ok . released anchor and took helm ship moved and half the engines, lanterns and the covered area blocks went with the ship .. the rest stayed put! Ok so tried E to try and fix things ... and ship parts went everywhere... so then tried to deconstruct it all ...no go ... annihilator or demolition hammer useless .. Again, got a useless hull which will not accept anything to be built on it ... and from the reports in discord i am not alone. I hear even rafts are a disaster... inverting when placed in the water. Didn't bother with logs.. already sent some previously. ...and its the same issue. Sailing?....not worth trying...

first catch your bird .... ..would an eagle feather do ?

Well the new game on the P1 pve server has started and its got something that should weed out the real players from the one-off-ers. You spawn on a platform int the middle of the ocean surrounded by shark infested waters . You do have some basic items such as a map flint lighter, clothing etc. If you really want to play the game, then read the instructions .. rules etc posted nearby and then sit in a chair that's marked with the type of island .. , and you get whisked away to that island to start your adventure. Otherwise you just sit there until the cleaners come through at the end of the day and toss you out with the trash

The genius-ses at P! are deviously thinking of ways to purge spawn of the unwanted abandoned corpses that build up there. The area gets denuded rapidly and often huge structures are built by one off players that lag the area badly. The P1 team always put in some magical chairs that can whisk you away to another island , thus sharing the population load around the grid., but alas most do not use it, preferring to try and build at spawn and getting their building raided/destroyed by griefers. So whats planned? Well discussions are underway on how to persuade people to leave spawn ..and to set up a base somewhere else. Defaulters will be " de-spawned" after a certain period of inactivity. One is to place spawn on an un-hospitable island, with no place to build .. you have to use a magical chair to move to an island that supports life. otherwise you freeze to death ..and despawn. Another proposal being considered is that if you do move to another island, just sitting there counting your freckles will see you despawn if you do not have somewhere with a PB set up to protect yourself. And their are more suggestions being tossed into the hat for consideration. So what does this mean? ....simply read the notices , and get in a chair to go to another island... then asap start a base with your PB active. Else end up removed from the game. If you are one of those that use other players hard work, if you are offline without PB protection, you could end up losing all the stuff you made/stole/borrowed/ and end up in your undies back at spawn .... to start over again. Its going to be interesting to see whats implemented, and what the effects are. For those who are serious players and not in the game to simply "stir" ...it will make the game more enjoyable.

just think of the results of this ....less skin cancers and lunacy! ... but watch out for werewolves and vampires!

return of the /who command to see whose lurking... markers to indicate on spawn whose base is on what island ... starter kit to include a one off key to a chest containing dinghy construction materials so a new arrival can craft a dinghy and explore.... if they opt not to use the "uber" chairs admins to have access to day/night controls ...such as the "gun" ( that was cool!)... maybe additional npc's with stuff to help new starters establish. will probably think of more when brain gets revived with some morning coffee..

is it a bird? no ...... is it a plane ? noooo ... its .... super sea-urchin ! and remember the way some of the horses would "reproduce".... some in positions that make the PEGI rating insufficient... and then the two headed bears...and leopards.... and i cannot forget the "wolf-pig" .. what a way to die - when trying to get some bacon and it turns into a wolf!

Whats worse is when you build a stable or shelter for animals .....and after a while they end up on its roof ! I used to get a leopard camping under my building... I logged in one day to find it had "levitated" through the floor into the house. At least it solved the trespasser problem!

Ship construction is a bit of a mystery at the moment... the latest upgrades to ships etc seem to have created issues.... hopefully they can be fixed soon, as the game stagnates if you cannot sail anywhere..