A3_Melle

If you place a lantern on a raft this happens: The lantern becomes a floating object above the water.

Thank you for the information @Aleš Ulm I'll keep my eyes open for the mod support updates

Picture of the map, and you can see perfectly where i have been "exploring". Wenn you look close enough you can see the seagulls flying on the left side, meaning land is near. a minute later land was in sight

Do have a question about this wich I hope I can get a answer on: will modding be separated from steam or will it be more like ARMA3 with steam workshop support. I know from my A3 experience that the steamworkshop with the A3 launcher (to select mods or play vanilla and presets for gameplay improvement) really is a great tool and hope the Ylands team will make a sort of same "Ylands launcher" so the mods can be downloaded on steamworkshop and activated wit the launcher. And even the big mod makers for ARMA3 (who first were against using steamworkshop) are more and more turning to the steamworkshop.

Well did not try that (was the small boat not the ship) thanks for the tip, did try to place a lantern on a raft, this is now floating above the water (spooky) will post some screenshots of it later today.

Also did my first big sailing expedition on explore mode....... found several other Ylands with caves and several resources (No coal yet) and also a real pirate chest wich I digged up after founding a set of coins and spade to mark the location to dig Also found this nice ice Yland where I ended up falling down in a "hole" dead on impact, so need to restart from my original Yland again getting supplies to build a new ship, gear, clothes and so on. The birds above the sea are really a big indicator that land is near, land will only show up wenn you get near it so be patient PS @Devs : maybe boats can get a "onboard" chest, a bigger chest for bigger boats and smaller chest on the little boat.

Did you adjust your video settings the last time you played? we have noticed that saved games wont load wen you started the map on "ultra/high"settings and than lowered it and re-start with lowered settings in stead of high/ultra settings.

Yes the sea is foggy from time to time but also the map is "blured/foggy" wenn you have not been in that area yet.

Good question! I just wanted to sail around my Yland also for new resources(coal mainly), but I do have a map, undiscovered parts will stay "fogged/clouded" on the map once you are in the area it will show up, that will make it a bit easier for me to do a recon and get back to my main Yland.

Did the "loading" screen not continue? Like stopping at +-33%?

Same with walls, wenn you stand to a wall in a cave and move the 3rd person camera around you can see if there are any tunnels underground in the part you are looking

Did you launch as administrator? I also have had that problem in the past start as administrator and it could update again.

Just some examples from last night: Fog on the beach: (really nice feature!) Outside on the shore: without and with a torch Next is in the cave (way below sea level and deep inside, were fog actually would not be) First 1 with a lantern the 2nd pic is with a torch, same location/time but the lantern does not have the fog effect (yet).

That's the new fog system And agree it is a bit thick, did do some testing: with torch the fog works, and I think it is set to altitude x to fog, wenn I get on a hill the fog is gone(looking down to the beach and you see the fog on the beach) and wenn I go lower (even in caves) the fog works (even at the bottom of the cave way below sea level). The fog does not show with other light sources (lanterns, blue crystal) on with "fire based" source, checking out the flashlight wenn I have a chance soon.

Hi you might want to check this topic:

Like @Aleš Ulm says on the other topic: Did you adjust your video settings? like you started the map in "ultra" and during the game set it lower, ended the game and restarted it in the lower settings? i had that problem: set my video settings to high/ultra and the map loaded again.

i noticed that wen you start a explore map on Ylands it goes online as a MP server wen you don't even start a MP server by the regular multiplayer menu. Now i don't know if it is on purpose but maybe it is an idea to create a "option" to select if you want to go "public" or not, like the options you have to do wen you "host" a mp server in the MP menu. I can not let my son play Ylands explore (survival) at the moment as i don't like the idea of a 5 year old playing Ylands and everybody can join in without any "parent control", and it stops me from playing my own explore maps as i already had a "thief" stealing all my supplies i searched for to build my new house (got them back eventually wen the person died after leaving the server).

Yes! Played a bit last night with a safe feeling knowing other players would not pop in for a suprise visit

Indeed the local MP was turned on, is kinda strange that I never have played MP on that map and it did get activated, the new test map I started had the function disabled, so it does not start up out of its own.

I also had the copper problem on 1 of my Ylands, it should be available somewhere but digged alot around and could not find it, did find the most awesome and biggest cave on Ylands I have ever seen, started a new map and it was in plain sight on a mountain, it does have a distinctive color (red-ish).

I have never played MP with explorer mode. I will check the file wenn I get home after work and disable it wenn needed.

Thank you!

Sorry for the 2nd post about this, but it was in the wrong section.

For the 2nd time this evening i went to start up my Yland explorer map, for the 2nd time i had someone joining in while i did not start to "host" a game trew the MP menu. 1st time Zuuluu entered my "server", and the 2nd time WJ joined in (a trail player) and i asked if he/she could see me on the MP list and said that is how he/she joined, he/she asked if she could take some good, fine by me but leave a bit behind so i don't get without supplies (food and tools), he/she emptied my chest as far as possible and took off, not knowing here "body" would stay in the server with all the goods killed the player and got my stuff back

And is it automatically on MP mode, or people can join? just had a run in with Zuuluu on my, what i thought, single player explorer map.......