Lay of the Land 0.6.0 The Combat Update

Hey everyone,

The combat update is here. I've spent the last month overhauling the combat in the game as well as adding farming, more food, artifacts, armour, better visuals and more.

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

You will need to create a new world.

Combat/Movement Improvements

There have been many improvements to movement and combat. The player can now crouch to make it harder for enemies to hear/see them. You can now swim in water. In combat you can now use a dodge to avoid attacks and there is now a stamina system (sprinting and dodging use and require stamina).

Certain items such as weapons now have durability and will break when durability reaches zero. Items can be repaired at an anvil.

Also the entire game has been rebalanced around the new combat systems.

Artifacts

You can now find various ancient artifacts around the world. Each artifact has a unique function that enhances your combat abilities.

Armour

You can now use armour to reduce the damage you take from enemies helping you survive.

Food

Eating different foods now also give temporary buffs. E.g tomato increases max health, lean meat increases heath, mana and stamina regen rate etc.

Farming

Farming has been added to the game. You can now plant different seeds that will grow and produce food which you can harvest.

Visuals

The game now uses a full PBR pipeline for the materials in the game. Each material now has color, specular, metallic, roughness and normal maps. Also many textures have been adjusted/had their colors tweaked.

Changelog

Combat/Movement

• Increased/balanced health values of player and ai to accommodate combat updates

• Stamina

• Sprinting now uses stamina

• Can now only sprint in forward directions

• Dodging

• Crouching

• Swimming

• Critical hits now boost knockback

• Weapons now have durability and will break when durability reaches zero. Repair a weapon at an Anvil

• Arrow damage now scales with arrow speed

Artifacts

• You can now find special artifacts in structures that give the player a special ability

• Steam Thruster: Allows the wearer to use short bursts of steam to double jump and jump higher

• Reflection Amulet: Wraps the user in magical energy, reflecting incoming projectiles

• Magnetic Gloves: Projectiles fired by the wearer are not affected by gravity

• Wool Boots: The users footsteps are silent when crouched

Armour

• You can now find and use metal armour to help reduce damage received from enemies

• Copper Leggings, Chestpiece and Helmet

• Steel Leggings, Chestpiece and Helmet

Farming

• Can now plant crops from seeds which can be found in structures

• Tomato Seeds and Plant

• Carrot Seeds and Plant

• Egg Plant Seeds and Plant

Food

• Eating food now gives enhancing status effects

• Raw and Cooked Lean Meat (Regeneration)

• Raw and Cooked Fatty Meat (Strength)

• Tomato and Cooked Tomato (Toughness)

• Carrot and Cooked Carrot (Endurance)

• Eggplant and Cooked Eggplant (Constitution)

Status Effects

• Regeneration: Increased Health, Mana and Stamina regen rate

• Strength: Increased Melee and Ranged (non magical) damage. Increased max voxel dig amount.

• Toughness: Increased Max Health

• Endurance: Increased Max Stamina

• Constitution: Increased Max Mana

AI

• AI now have hit animations when they take damage

• AI now ragdoll on death

Useables

• Anvil

Magic

• Spell beams deal more damage

• Spell beams cost less mana

UI

• New Health/Mana/Stamina UI

• New Player Equipment UI

Visuals

• Added full PBR maps to all voxel materials

• Many texture color changes

Misc

• Can now gather Basalt

• Added Basalt Bricks

• Added candles to mage tower stairs

• Can now rotate items when placing them

• Reduced frequency of weather

• Increased length of day/night cycle to 30 mins

• Reduced rain opacity

• Increased width of beaches

• Can now craft thatch from tall grass

• Vegetation can now only be placed on grass, dirt or sand

• Can now hold lanterns and candles in off hand

• Bears and Kangaroos now drop fatty meat

• Deers and Emus now drop lean meat

• A dirt layer now generates under grass

• Can now craft dirt from grass

Fixes

• Fixed voxel critical hits

• Fixed stretching of render caused by changing resolutions

• View distance now scales max num voxel updates allowed per frame. Should prevent player outrunning mesh gen

• Fixed glass not working properly with voxel physics

• Fixed large stutter when pausing

• Fixed thatch having incorrect surface type

• Many more fixes

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_0.6.0_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_0.6.0 folder

• Double click LayOfTheLand.exe

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