EXPERIMENTAL Build - 1.10: Ymproved Ylands

[Nikki Severin 1148]

Hey there Ylanders!

Before we drop the full update release, as always, we have the experimental build for you to take a sneak peek into Update 1.10: Ymproved Ylands!  

Available to every Steam user, the Experimental branch offers you guys a chance to:

• test upcoming features & changes
• test your games & scripts
• report any bugs & provide early feedback

But first, a couple of things to be aware of:

How to try the Experimental Build

• BACK UP YOUR GAME DATA (see below)
• go your Steam library right-click Ylands
• select Properties, click the "Betas" tab and enter "ExperimentalIWillBackUpMySaves" as the password (excluding the double quotes)
• this will unlock the "i_will_back_up_my_saves" branch
• after selecting the branch and confirming it, Steam will begin downloading the new experimental branch

Important information

Now is a good time to very strongly urge everyone trying the experimental branch to back up all your game data (saves, scenarios, etc.). You can do that by:

• browsing to "<steam installation folder>/userdata/<your steam id>"
• copying the whole "298610" folder.

Keep in mind that the experimental environment uses a completely new user database, meaning that the game will require either playing as a guest or creating a new BI account (available through a link in the game) and then creating a new Ylands character.

If you leave your saves folder intact, you will be able to load your older saves and scenarios with these caveats:

• loading older saves will create a new character for you
• editing scenarios will result in the scenario having more contributors - the user from the live version and the user from the experimental version

For these reasons, we very heavily WARN AGAINST using any data created/modified in the experimental branch in the live version. Also keep in mind that since experimental and live environments are completely separate, you won't be able to see your friends playing the live version in the Social tab.

With that out of the way...onto the good stuff!

Please note: not all features that will be released in the full release are available in the Experimental build. New Blueprints are missing from Experimental but will be included in the full release!



 

HIGHLIGHTS
(once again, this is not the full list of new and improved features that will be released in 1.10!)

• FPS camera (beta)
  • After a long wait, the FPS camera is back. It's not perfect, still has some quirks and things that we will iron out in the upcoming updates, but it's about 90% done. So hit "C" and let us know what you think
• Exploration balancing
  • Resources are now spread all over the game world making you travel to other biomes as well - you can see what each biome contains on the world map. As you discover more about other places of the world you will find new interesting Random Encounters. In this update, we've mostly focused on bringing more content into arctic areas. It's the first step we're making while populating the world of Ylands with its backstory, creating its own long overdue lore that will be uncovered with each following update.
  • Among other things that are related to balancing (there are quite a few of them there), we can name the fact that various resources now require specific tool quality. So while some early resources can be mined with a basic pickaxe, for something rarer you will have to craft a better type of pickaxe.
• Improved fishing
  • Fishing is now more interesting - not only is the actual action more fun but there's a lot you can catch (as well as new recipes related to that). What depth you fish at, time of the day or even if it's raining affects what you get.
• Improved Radial menu
  • The radial menu now controls more intuitively. And since we found that a lot of new players have no idea there even is one, we've added a hard-to-miss radial menu hotkey hint (which you can disable in Game settings).
• Mythical animals
  • You can now run into some very specific Random Encounters that let you acquire one of the very unique animal companions. Those are sort of a puzzle, but if you manage to solve them, the result is surely worth all the work.
• Notice Board
  • Now you will never miss anything important because of the cool new Notice board! Look for the owl button in the Main Menu.
• Editor improvements
  • Creators will find some pretty handy improvements in Editor - like Visual Scripting multi selection and better object placing tools.

...all this and much, much more.