Lay of the Land 0.11.0 The Mushroom Swamp Update Part II

Hey everyone,

The Mushroom Swamp Update Part 2 is here and its a big one. Probably the biggest update yet content wise. Apologies for taking so long this update's development wasn't all smooth sailing and I undertook a few refactors of gameplay systems that I didn't plan for.

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

Structures

There are 6 new structures to discover and loot in the Mushroom Swamp. These range from abandoned towers to run down cottages and all contain valuable items for you to discover. The new structures are:

• Encampment Ruins

• Enchanted Tower Ruins

• Fisherman's Hut

• Gatehouse Ruins

• Mystical Cottage Ruins

• Shrine Ruins

Enemies

There are 4 new enemies in the game that can be found in the Mushroom Swamp.

Acid Blob

Look out these nasty dudes have a gross habit of vomiting balls of acid on unsuspecting adventurers.

Centipede

Watch your step. These nasty critters are easily hidden by the forest floor and love hiding in dark places. Their bite can leave lasting effects.

Reclaimed

These undead creatures, reanimated by the swamp itself can wield a variety of weapons including Hammers, Poison Gas Bombs and Bows.

Shroomling

Don’t let their unassuming demeanor fool you. Look out, he’s got a knife. Also, that big bouncy head isn't just for show.

Spells

Acid Ball

This projectile spell leaves an acidic residue on impact which can deal damage over time.

Lightning Bolt

This powerful beam spell deals high damage and can chain to nearby enemies or to you if you’re not careful ;)

Weapons

Silver Weapon Set

Silver weapons are the new highest tier. They can be found in the Mushroom Swamp and deal more damage and can remove more voxels.

Poison Gas Bomb

Throw to release a toxic cloud of gas on impact.

Artifacts

Jar of Fireflies

This jar of little critters when equipped will light up the darkness.

Lead Glove

This heavy glove will increase the knockback of your melee attacks when equipped.

Performance Improvements

GPU Compute is now used for voxel physics queries. This greatly improves voxel physics performance, reducing potential for stuttering when many voxel edits are done in quick succession and many voxel physics queries are running simultaneously.

There have also been many miscellaneous performance improvements that will improve the general gameplay experience

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_0.11.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

Linux

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

Changelog

Structures

• Fisherman's Hut Ruins

• Mystical Cottage Ruins

• Enchanted Tower Ruins

• Encampment Ruins

• Gatehouse Ruins

• Shrine Ruins

Monsters

• Centipede

• Acid Blob

• Reclaimed

• Shroomling

Magic

• New Spell: Acid Ball

• New Spell: Lightning Bolt

Artifacts

• Jar of Fireflies

• Lead Glove

• Magnetic Gloves are now Magnetic Glove

General Gameplay

• Poison Status Effect

• Holding the use off hand item key (RMB by default) with shield equipped in off hand will now automatically raise shield after an attack is completed

• Using an item will now automatically lower shield if raised in off hand

• On Fire status effect now does 5 damage instead of 10

• Haste now increases bow draw speed and melee attack speed

• Increased variety of generic loot chests to better match the location they’re found

Building

• Bigger custom prefabs

• Added option for custom prefabs to have their position offset after placement. Useful to refine placement of large prefabs.

• Voxel materials that do not have an item (e.g leaves) will no longer be included in complex prefabs

Items

• All Steel items are now Iron items

• Silver Axe

• Silver Dagger

• Silver Hammer

• Silver Shield

• Silver Shovel

• Silver Sword

• Silver Arrow

• Silver Boomerang

• Silver Helmet

• Silver Chestpeice

• Silver Leggings

• Acid Ball Rune

• Lightning Bolt Rune

• Poison Gas Bomb

Props

• Fig Table 10x10

• Fig Table 10x20

• Fig Table 20x20

• Fig Chair

• Fig Barrel

• Fig Crate Small

• Fig Crate Large

Voxel Materials

• Silver Plate

Voxel

• Basic Gas Voxel Simulation

• GPU Compute is now used for voxel physics bulk voxel queries.

• Various memory optimizations

• Various traversal performance improvements

• Sand voxels should now behave more consistently

• Fire should now spread more consistently

• Various optimizations to update and visibility queries

Misc

• Modular status effect system designed to be easily moddable

• Unified item pickup/equipped item rendering. Items can now easily have sounds/particles associated with their pickups/equipped meshes.

• Added option to turn off automatic pickup of small voxel pieces

• Damage types can now tint the screen different colors when the player takes damage. e.g poison damage now tints the screen green etc

• Game will no longer autosave after loading a world that is not a new world, after death and after setting the players spawn at a bed

• Various combat rebalances

• Magic spell projectile particles are now allowed to deactivate instead of being destroyed immediately

• Made light produced from candles, lanterns etc less intensely orange

• Swapped hammer and sword attack distances

• TSR is now the default anti aliasing method

Fixes

• Fixed beaches not generating in mushroom swamp biome

• Fixed crafting tutorial showing incorrect crafting controls

• Fixed wand not glowing when firing beam spells

• Fixed explosions pushing objects that are behind cover

• Fixed bottom of candles having an incorrectly colored voxel

• Fixed hand crosshair showing instead of no interact icon showing when inventory is full and looking at a non interactable useable

• Fixed equipped kiln item rotation

• Fixed various items missing collision

• Fixed voxel assets occasionally overlapping with structures