Lay of the Land 0.15.0 The Magical Movement Update

Hey everyone,

The Magical Movement Update is here and brings combat improvements, animation improvements, new magic spells, new building materials, visual improvements and performance optimizations and more.

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

Combat and Animation Improvements

Melee Combat now has an improved feel and better fluidity. Many of the animations for the Player and for Creatures have been improved. You can now move and change spells/off hand items at the same time keeping the flow of combat going. Combat now is also a bit easier in general now but can still be challenging.

New Spells

There are 2 new spells to find and unlock. The Shield Spell creates a forcefield of magical energy keeping out projectiles/attackers allowing you to heal and attack safely from inside the shield. The Detonate spell fires an explosive magical projectile that destroys everything in an area. It is especially useful for blowing holes in walls. Note: Runes for new spells wont appear in loot chests in worlds created in 0.14. Use the GiveItem command to manually unlock these spells in old worlds.

New Building Materials

A few new building materials have been added. As highly requested there is now a set of Concrete materials of various colors that feature a fairly uniform texture. You can now also craft Mud Bricks from Mud increasing the variety of brick colors in the game.

Visual and Performance Improvements

Level of Detail fading has been added to reduce visual pop-in during traversal. This significantly improves the experience of moving throughout the world and improves immersion. This update also brings many performance optimizations. The games GPU VRAM usage has been significantly reduces and memory bandwidth usage reduced. There have also been a number of optimizations on the CPU side as well.

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_0.15.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lfMfjMVAE

Changelog

General

• AMD FSR Super Resolution Support

• Updated to UE 5.6.1

Combat

• Improved feel and fluidity of combat with new animations

• Can now move and switch off hand item or change selected spell at the same time. Time also now slows when in those menus

• Combat in general should also be a bit easier now

Animations

• Improved Player Movement Animations

• Improved Player Sword Animations

• Improved Player Hammer Animations

• Improved Player Axe Animations

• Improved Player Dagger Animations

• Improved Acid Ball Animations

• Fixed Acid Ball missing hit reactions

• Improved Centipede Animations

• Fixed Centipede missing hit reactions

• Improved Cinder Animations

• Improved Crawler Animations

• Improved Emu Animations

• Improved Roller Animations

• Improved Scorpion Animations

• Improved Shroomling Animations

• Improved Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Animations

• Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Death Animation

• Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Ranged Variant Reload Animations

• Improved Spider Animations

• Improved Willy Willy Animations

AI

• Improved Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Attack Behaviors

• Improved Spider Attack Behaviors

• Adjusted Willy Willy Attack Behavior to be easier to fight

• Adjusted Roller Behavior to be easier to fight

• Monster’s eyes stop glowing on death

Magic Spells

• New Shield Spell

• New Detonate Spell

• Note: Runes for new spells wont appear in loot chests in worlds created in 0.14. Use the GiveItem command to manually unlock these spells in old worlds.

• Improved Summon Spell

Voxel Materials

• Concrete (White, Black, Red, Green, Blue, Pink, Purple, Orange, Yellow)

• Mud Bricks

Items

• Shield Rune

• Detonate Rune

Performance

• New octree render data structure that improves traversal performance and reduces stuttering on lower end pcs.

• Significant VRAM and memory bandwidth optimizations

• Improved tick parallelization

• Various other optimizations

Misc

• LODs now fade in/out as they transition

• Increased max box dig area for all tools

• Temporarily disabled Vulkan support as it is currently broken

• New Calm music track

Fixes

• Fixed z-fighting on character meshes

• Fixed z-fighting on vegetation

• Fixed foliage not getting removed properly when building

• Fixed building preview not updating until one frame after building

• Fixed oak tree sapling growth rate

• Fixed on fire status effect not getting removed properly when character enters water

• Fixed crafting amount text missing from crafting ui options

• Fixed being able to activate steam thruster while riding a horse

• Fixed flammable item modifier applying its effect on every hit instead of a 50% chance of applying

• Fixed thatch missing building sounds