Lay of the Land 0.8.0 Temples & Castles Update Part II

Hey everyone,

The Temples and Castles Update Part 2 is here.

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

You will need to create a new world.

Custom Prefabs

Players can now create their own building prefabs using a Blueprint. You can copy/paste anything to speed up your builds. Also, each prefab is saved to their own file in the Custom Prefabs folder located in your world save. You can easily share/use other players prefabs by copying/placing prefab files in that folder.

Building Improvements and New Materials

Faster Roof Building. You can now place Slope prefabs in bulk similar to the Box Shape.

There are also new building materials such as more fabric colors, stained glass and smooth stone variants.

You can now plant trees. Saplings will drop when the leaves are stripped from a tree you have cut down.

Water/Lava Propagation and Buoyancy

Water and Lava is now no longer static and will new flow into empty areas. You can now gather and place water with a bucket.

Objects will now float in water/lava depending on what they are made of. E.g objects made of stone will sink while ones made of wood will float.

Structure and World Improvements

There is a new Giant Fossil structure in the outback canyons and some of the other structures in the Outback Canyons have been improved/adjusted.

New ambient effects have been added such as falling leaves and fireflies. These ambient effects will also react to the weather. E.g more leaves will fall and blow faster during storms.

Changelog

Building

• Added Player Created Prefabs (use a blueprint to create one)

• Complex Prefab Type (can have many voxel materials, however materials don't change to match equipped item)

• Improved building UI preview rendering

• Trees now drop saplings when their leaves fall off

• Slope Prefabs can now be placed in bulk. Similar to the Box Shape

• Added candle holder prefab

Voxel Materials

• Smooth Stone (made from stone in a kiln)

• Smooth Basalt (made from basalt in a kiln)

• Smooth Sandstone (made from sandstone in a kiln)

• Smooth Red Sandstone (made from red sandstone in a kiln)

• Blue Fabric, Orange Fabric, Yellow Fabric, Pink Fabric, Black Fabric

• Red Stained Glass, Green Stained Glass, Blue Stained Glass, Orange Stained Glass, Yellow Stained Glass, Pink Stained Glass, Purple Stained Glass, Black Stained Glass

Items

• Bone

• Black Powder

• Blue Dye, Green Dye, Orange Dye, Pink Dye, Purple Dye, Red Dye, White Dye, Yellow Dye

• Bucket, Water Bucket

• Paper

• Blueprint

• Oak Tree Sapling, Eucalyptus Tree Sapling

Props

• Empty Bookshelves

• New Couch Variants

Simulation

• Water Propagation

• Lava Propagation

• Objects can now float in water/lava if their material is buoyant

• Candles, Campfires and Lanterns now go out when they enter water

Structures

• Improvements to Temple Ruins, Outpost Runs

• Added Giant Fossil Ruins

Misc

• Added hint on where to find clay in crafting guide

• Added fireflies

• Added falling leaves

• Added copper and steel plate to more loot chests

• Added hint to bow tooltip on how to equip arrows

• Added console key binding

• Added bomb crafting recipe

• Added recipe guide to the Kiln

• Increased player inventory size

• Increase chest inventory size

• Cinders now drop black powder

• Spider webs no longer decay

• Deer, Bears, Kangaroos, Emus, Skeletons and Mummies now drop bones

• Migrated game settings to unreals built in system

• Added option to disable anti-aliasing

• Optimized voxel physics object memory usage

• Optimized world saving by only saving terrain maps on world creation to a separate file

• Improved asset loading for better traversal performance

• Improved box selection rendering

• Improved water gen. Water should fill rivers/lakes more consistently

• Improved lava gen. Lava now has a smoother falloff

Fixes

• Hot bar key hints now update with key bindings

• Crafting ingredient tooltips now update properly when their item changes

• Fixed crash when placing campfire spawned via commands

• Fixed lanterns and candles having collision when equipped

• Fixed ai attempting to attack a hostile if the hostile damaged the ai when the hostile is dead

• Fixed gaps between LOD levels

• Fixed steel shield missing from loot tables

How to Install

• Download the files attached on this post

• Place the downloaded files into the folder where you want to install the game.

• Double click LayOfTheLand_0.8.0_Installer.bat (if a Windows Defender Smart Screen window pops up, just click "More info" and then "Run anyway". If you're worried, you can see the code of the bat file by right clicking it and clicking edit to open it in notepad. The bat file is just extracting the zip files for you)

• Wait for the installer to finish

• Open the LayOfTheLand_0.8.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

Thank you for all the support and I hope you enjoy the game :)