Lay of the Land 0.10.0 The Mushroom Swamp Update Part I

Hey everyone,

The Mushroom Swamp Update is here and its a big one.

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

You will need to create a new world. While I intended to have saves be forwards compatible a critical issue was discovered with the world save format that required and extensive refactor of world saves. I am sorry for any inconvenience or frustration this has caused. Thank you for your understanding.

Mushroom Swamp Biome

In this dark and gloomy biome you'll find ponds filled with lily pads cascading down into streams. Huge fig trees loom overhead with giant mushrooms and vines underneath. Dense vegetation litters the ground. I wonder what kinds of creatures, nasty and nice will call this place home.

New Animals

There are two new animals you can find in the Mushroom Swamp. The Hippo and the Anteater. Hippos love chilling out in ponds and looking for some tasty grass to eat. Anteaters like to spend their days searching the forest floor for their next meal.

New Building Materials 

With the new fig trees comes a new wood type: Fig Logs and Fig Planks. The giant mushrooms are the source of a few new building materials. Their caps are bouncy and their glowing undersides can be dyed a variety of colors to light up your builds.

Improved World Generation

The world asset placement system as been completely overhauled. Objects like trees, logs, rocks and more should now look much more natural. Terrain now should also blend better between biomes.

Peaceful Game Mode

I have added a peaceful game mode with no hostile creatures for those who just want to explore, build and chill.

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_0.10.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

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

Changelog

Gameplay

• New peaceful game mode that disables hostile creature spawning

• SetGameMode command. 0 = Normal Mode, 1 = Peaceful Mode

• Better tree health. Their health no longer resets when a piece splits off.

• Small voxel physics objects are now automatically picked up by the player when they are walked over

• New status effect Haste: walk/run speed boost

• New status effect Dexterity: increased spell effects, decreased mana cost

Mushroom Swamp Biome

• Mushroom Swamp terrain generation

• Fig Trees

• Giant Pink and Purple Mushrooms

• Leech Vines

• Mushroom swamp biome ambient sounds

• New Music

Animals

• Hippo

• Anteater

Voxel Materials

• Fig Log

• Fig Leaves

• Fig Planks

• Pink & Purple Mushroom Cap (bouncy)

• Mushroom Stem

• Mud

• Red, Green, Blue, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Purple Mycelium (glowing voxels, craft with dyes to change color)

Items

• Fig Tree Sapling

Food

• Red Mushroom (Effect: Dexterity)

• Toadstool (Effect: Haste)

Vegetation

• Lily Pads

• Fern, Cover, Burdock

• Red Mushroom, Toadstool

World

• New Voxel PCG System

• Rocks now generate in clusters

• Rocks/logs etc can now spawn under tree canopies

• Dead logs now align to the terrain

• Improved vegetation cluster placement

• Roads will no longer create bridges over lakes

• Biomes now share base noise maps to improve blending

• Biome specific fog densities

AI

• AI will no longer attack you in ghost mode

• Most ai attacks now have knockback

• Certain animals can now wander into water (hippos)

Engine

• Upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.5.1

Physics

• Floating voxel pieces that are too small to make a voxel object will now turn into particles instead of disappearing

Voxel

• Improved voxel data structures to reduce memory usage and improve data query speed

• Refactored voxel data saving to allow for decompressed voxel data over 2gb in size.

Misc

• Vegetation overlapping with subtractive voxel edits such as digging now check the over they are resting on rather than just being removed

• Reduced the amount of time some ai will pursue a hostile after losing sight of them

• Change status effect indicators to progress bars

• Added descriptions to status effect indicator tooltips

• Thatch is now crafted from grass voxels

• Saplings are now automatically added to a players inventory when a tree is broken

• Can now sleep through weather

• Sleeping now will start the day at 7am instead of 6 am

• Added black powder to bomb loot chests

• Footstep sounds will no longer play when flying

• Added blur to background of ui panels

• Support for multiple terrain flattening zones for structures. Giant fossil ruin no longer flattens a large area

• Improved autosave performance

• Further improved game thread performance

Fixes

• Fixed missing control hint for up/down building offset

• Fixed nav mesh data gather stuttering

• Fixed incorrect chest, campfire and kiln inventory slot sizes

• Fixed being able to use items in off hand when in a ui

• Fixed crash when removing voxels from some props