Lay of the Land 0.19.0 The Snowy Mountains Update Part 2

Hey everyone,

The Snowy Mountains Update Part 2 is here and brings a new structures, new enemies, new spells, new weapons and artifacts, a new cave biome, many fixes, many improvements and more.

I hope you enjoy the update and thank you all so much for the support and I hope you enjoy the game :)

Structures

There are 6 new structures to find in the Snowy Mountains Biome. These range from ancient keeps to abandoned towers and contain new loot for you to find. The new structures are:

• Bastion Ruins

• Lumbermill Ruins

• Church Ruins

• Tower Ruins

• Keep Ruins

• Altar Ruins

Enemies

There are 4 new enemies that you can find in the Snowy Mountains

Goul

These creatures love to throw whatever they can get their hands on at you and also pack a deadly punch.

Beetle

Look out for these nasty critters as they have a deadly has attack and pack a nasty bite.

Remnant

These undead creatures can wield a variety of weapons including Shuriken's, Wands and Swords.

Snowflake

Be on the lookout for these spiky creatures they have a frosty magical attack and don't take kindly to strangers.

Spells

Frost Ball

This spell fires a ball of icy energy dealing high damage and leaving a frosty residue .

Frost Ray

This powerful beam spell deals a high amount of damage and inflicts an icy effect on your enemies.

Leap

This is a new early game spell that allows you to leap great heights. Just be sure to stick the landing ;)

The Levitate spell has also seen an upgrade allowing you to out rip chunks of the world and hurl them at enemies.

New Weapons

There is a new weapon tier in the game: Titanium. This metal can be found underground in the Snowy Mountains and will be the highest tier in the game.

Shuriken's have been added. This throwable weapon is made using a mould in a smeltery and deals higher damage than a bow and arrow but is more expensive to create.

Also, there are 2 new artifacts to find.

Gas Mask: Helps you to breathe in poison gas, but only for a short period of time.

Iridium Ring: Reduces the chance of being set on fire or frozen.

Ice Caves

The Ice Caves biome can now be found in the Snowy Mountains. These frigid caverns are filled with glowing mushrooms, icy obstacles and provide easy access to Titanium Ore.

New Music

The game now has all new music that has a much more whimsical and happier tone really tying the game together.

Combat Balance

The game has had a large balance pass making combat a bit easier for new players while still keeping a good level of challenge.

UI/QOL Improvements

There have been a large number of various improvements to many aspects of the game improving overall player experience and usability.

How to Install and Play

Windows

• Download the .zip file attached to this post

• Place the .zip file into the folder where you want to install the game

• Right click the .zip file and click Extract All

• A window will open. Click Extract

• Open the LayOfTheLand_0.19.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

Linux

• Download the .zip file attached to this post

• Place the .zip file into the folder where you want to install the game

• Extract the .zip file

• Add LayOfTheLand.exe to Steam as a Non Steam Game

• Right click it in your library and select properties, then compatibility

• Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool. Proton 9.0-4 is recommended but Proton Experimental should work as well

• Launch the game

Changelog

Structures

• Bastion Ruins

• Lumbermill Ruins

• Church Ruins

• Tower Ruins

• Keep Ruins

• Altar Ruins

Enemies

• Snowflake

• Remnant Mage

• Remnant Swordsman

• Remnant Shuriken

• Beetle

• Goul

• Cinders are now more susceptible to ice damage

• Snowflakes are more susceptible to fire damage

Ice Caves

• Ice Cave Generation

• Ice Stalagmite/Stalactites

• Yellow Glowing Mushrooms

• White Glowing Mushrooms

Magic Spells

• Frost Ball

• Frost Ray

• Leap

• Levitate will now rip voxels off the world that you can throw if it doesn't hit a physics object

• Levitate is now unlocked at the start of the game just like Magic Missile

Status Effects

• Frosty: Reduces movement speed and damages target over time

Weapons/Tools

• Reinforced Wand

• Titanium Axe

• Titanium Sword

• Titanium Shovel

• Titanium Dagger

• Titanium Hammer

• Titanium Shield

• Titanium Arrow

• Titanium Boomerang

• Copper Shuriken

• Iron Shuriken

• Silver Shuriken

• Titanium Shuriken

• Titanium Helmet

• Titanium Chest Armour

• Titanium Leg Armour

Weapon Upgrades

• Sapphire. Effect: Icy, can slow the Target down with frost

Artifacts

• Iridium Ring

• Gas Mask

Useables

• Reinforced Smeltery

New Music

• All new soundtrack

Voxel Materials

• Titanium Ore

• Titanium Plate

Items

• Tungsten Coil (boss drop)

• Mycelium Binding (boss drop)

• Frost Ball Rune

• Frost Ray Rune

• Leap Rune

• Titanium Axe Head

• Titanium Sword Blade

• Titanium Dagger Blade

• Titanium Hammer Head

• Titanium Shovel Head

• Titanium Shield Plate

• Titanium Chest Armour Plate

• Titanium Leg Armour Plate

• Titanium Arrow Head

• Shuriken Mould

Combat/Balance

• Attacks that hit the player and apply knockback no longer stop the players movement velocity making it easier to escape melee enemies

• Increased player base health regeneration rate

• Increased shield spell mana cost

• Various balance tweaks

UI/QOL

• Removed player outline from inventory equipment ui and added health/mana/stamina stats

• Added a crosshair hint when creating a custom prefab that is too large

• Improved useable placement preview

• Increased overall ui opacity

• Improved map icons

• Improved durability progress bar on item slots

• Can now click on crafting recipe ingredients to show the crafting recipe for the ingredient if it has one

• Can now quickly move an item to a hot bar slot by pressing the key to equip that slot while hovering over an inventory slot with the mouse

• Made health/mama/stamina bar a little brighter

• Can now move when changing tool/weapon dig mode

Misc

• Added equipped item swap animations

• Added seeds to more loot tables

• Added particles to digging with a hammer

• Made rain and dust particles more transparent

• Slightly reduced player held items vertical movement animation intensity

• Removed voids from fortress ruin walls and added tower interior

• Increased speed of fire voxel particles

• Increased player melee attack animation finish blend time

• Increased day length to 30 minutes. Night length remains 10 minutes.

• Sigil pieces can now stack

Fixes

• Fixed being unable to drop object with levitate spell using the aim key

• Fixed ai missing ice footstep sounds

• Fixed jar of fireflies light still being visible when item is not equipped

• Fixed fog being included in map ui rendering

• Fixed incorrect map icon scaling at different resolutions

• Fixed arrow still being visible after being fired from bow

• Fixed egg plant crop meshes not aligned to voxel grid

• Fixed ai swimming

• Fixed conductive item modifier using mana even if there is no target to chain lightning to