Lay of the Land 0.12.0 The Caves Update

Hey everyone,

The Caves Update is here and brings a whole new layer to the game (literally). It's not just caves however, this updates brings many other new changes, additions, fixes and improvements.

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

Caves

Caves are here. You can find entrances to these labyrinthian caverns dotted around the landscape. They provide easy access to ores and other resources.

Each biome has its own unique cave biome.

Crystal Caves

Found in the Mystical Forest these caves feature large glowing crystals of various vibrant colors.

Lost Caves

Found in the Outback Canyons these sandstone caves feature frequent pockets and pillars of sand/gravel, vines hanging from the ceiling and the dry remnants of long dead vegetation.

Wet Caves

Found in the Mushroom Swamp these caves are filled with roots, vines, frequent pools of water and various plants that have made this damp environment their home.

Metalworking

Metal items such as weapons and tools are now craftable through the use of a Smeltery. The Smeltery is used to melt down metal ore and to cast metal components by pouring the molten metal into moulds of various shapes.

Horses

Rideable horses are now in the game. Now you can traverse the world with your 4 legged companion. They can be found in all biomes except the Volcano and can be tamed/named by feeding them food such as carrots, grass etc. Tamed horses will not despawn or wander very far from where you leave them.

Overhauled Interaction System

The games interaction system has been overhauled. You now physically interact with objects such as campfires, anvils etc to perform actions instead of using a generic UI system.

I have also made usability improvements to the crafting system to reduce the number of actions needed to craft items.

New Music

The game now has all new music. All the music in the game is now fine to use in your videos/streams of the game without being copyright claimed.

Hardware Raytracing

The game now supports the hardware raytracing path for lumen global illumination. This improves the quality of global illumination and can even improve performance over software raytracing in some scenarios on newer GPU's such as Nvidia 40 series or newer.

Hardware Raytracing can of course can be disabled.

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_0.12.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

Linux

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

Changelog

Caves

• Cave Generation

• Crystal Caves Biome

• Wet Caves Biome

• Lost Caves Biome

• Underground Strata Generation (pockets of dirt, sand etc)

• Ore Generation

AI

• Horse (tamable and rideable, feed horse grass to tame and regenerate their health faster)

• Support for tamed creatures

• Support for rideable creatures

• New ai spawning system that allows for monsters to spawn underground and for ai to respawn over time if they are killed and the player is not moving through the world

Useables

• Smeltery. Used for the refinement of ores and the production of metal items.

• Fig Door

• Doors now always open away from the player

• Doors no longer require iron to craft

• Many more items can now be used as fuel in the Kiln/Smeltery

Interaction/UI

• Can now craft directly from inventory by mousing over placed items and pressing the crafting key

• Overhauled interaction system with useable (campfires, kilns etc). Items are now placed on the useable similar to the crafting system. e.g physically place raw food into a campfire to cook.

• Items are now repaired by placing them on an anvil and hitting them with a hammer

• Can now pick up items directly off useables

• Can now pick up dropped items directly from inventory with left click.

• Can also shift click dropped items/items in useables directly into inventory

• Crafting recipes in the guide are now sorted better

Items

• Arrow Head Mould

• Arrow Head (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Axe Head Mould

• Axe Head (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Boomerang Mould

• Chest Plate Mould

• Chest Plate (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Dagger Blade Mould

• Dagger Blade (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Hammer Head Mould

• Hammer Head (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Helmet Mould

• Leg Plate Mould

• Leg Plate (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Metal Plate Mould

• Shield Plate Mould

• Shield Plate (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Shovel Head Mould

• Shovel Head (Copper, Iron, Silver)

• Sword Blade Mould

• Sword Blade (Copper, Iron, Silver)

Voxel Materials

• Red, Green, Blue, Orange Crystal

• Raw Marble (can be made into Marble using a Kiln)

• Marble Bricks

• Copper Ore (Mystical Forest)

• Iron Ore (Outback Canyons)

• Silver Ore (Mushroom Swamp)

Sounds

• Sounds now have reverb in enclosed areas of materials such as stone, metal etc

• Cave ambience

• Crystal shimmer ambient sounds

• Falling rock ambient sounds in caves

Music

• New music

• All music in the game is now fine to use in videos/streams without copyright claims

Raytracing Support

• Hardware raytracing support

• Improves global illumination quality

• Can potentially improve global illumination performance on Nvidia 40 series or newer

Voxel

• Voxel physics performance improvements

• Voxel type data is now tightly packed halving voxel type data memory usage and improving cache coherency

• Sand simulation performance improvements

• Moving sand voxels will now remove vegetation

• Voxel physics queries will now remove floating vegetation

Misc

• Optimized weather effects

• Adjusted light produced by fire to be less saturated

• Increased size of bounds useables/items pickups check to see if they should simulate physics

• Decreased steam thruster sound volume

• Improved visibility at night/dawn/dusk when weather is not clear

• Slightly tweaked sunlight/skylight/fog colors

• Increased density of mist from flowing water

• Crafting recipes are now unlocked if the player picks up their produced item not just the ingredients

• Various memory and performance optimizations

Fixes

• Fixed slow deer run animation

• Fixed equipped items clipping through walls

• Fixed items not switching to their broken state mesh when broken

• Fixed voxel meshes sometimes not updating on the edge of voxel edits

• (potentially) Fixed objects sometimes falling through ground as the player traverses the world

• Fixed voxel meshes sometimes being cleared before their higher or lower LOD has actually been rendered. This mostly manifested as a flicker when traversing the world

• Fixed infinite item exploit where you could hit a voxel object such as an oak barrel with a tool without breaking it to gather a few voxels then picking it up again, placing it down again and repeating.