Ylands

Bohemia Interactive

Released: Dec 5, 2019
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 09:29 GMT

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16 Dec 2025Developer post
Patch 2.4.2
Critical Fixes: Fixed: game getting stuck during loading on mobile if your last visited yland was a sharegame on PC Fixed: loot container sometimes being inaccessible after the ship it was on sunk Fixed: players losing all their loot if they died on board of a ghost ship (or any
15 Oct 2024Developer post
2.4.1 Patch Changelog
Highlights NPC conversation bubbles - You can now read all text in conversations much more slowly and still get the main point. Claiming more vehicles bug - You can now claim all the vehicles for which you have available slots. Random Encounters in ancient ruins - Our bad! Now yo
Highlights

NPC conversation bubbles - You can now read all text in conversations much more slowly and still get the main point.
Claiming more vehicles bug - You can now claim all the vehicles for which you have available slots.
Random Encounters in ancient ruins - Our bad! Now you can actually get rewards from ancient ruins!
FIXED
[YLD-53877] Fixed: Cut scenes on Story ylands are 2 times faster.
[YLD-53890] Fixed: Vehicles will be only auto claimed on construction when there are available free slots.
[YLD-53891] Fixed: When deleting an yland in a region other than the one the player is currently in, the exploration map refreshed with data from the region the player is currently in - instead of the one they're looking at.
[YLD-53951] Fixed: Issue when companion would be set free and indices of elements in the UI rm menu would not match db indices of companions.
[YLD-53961] Fixed: Recipe for cobalt ingot is now in correct workstation.
[YLD-53896] Fixed: Editor: Naming custom variables/functions with the same name as dev properties/functions can cause problems.
Fixed: Drop from animated furniture.
Fixed: "Laugh" emote is not available in the radial menu.
Fixed: Placeholder emote definitions are visible in the radial menu.
Fixed: Some Ancient Random Encounters have an inaccessible Encounter Secret.
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25 Sep 2024Developer post
Update 2.4 - FLEET FRIENDS
Ahoy Ylanders! Are you ready for the latest update? We are, and we hope you'll find it enticing since this update is bringing something MORE to the game! More vehicles! One ship simply doesn't cut it. Every adventurer knows that. Finally, the solution is here! Now you can claim f
25 Sep 2024Developer post
2.4 Fleet Friends - Changelog
⭐Highlights⭐ Claiming more boats and vehicles You said you wanted to flex with your stylish ship or car and we heard you. Now you can claim more than one and switch among them as you see fit! You can get the limit expanders via store/radial menu. Multiplayer setup simplification
⭐Highlights⭐
Claiming more boats and vehicles
You said you wanted to flex with your stylish ship or car and we heard you. Now you can claim more than one and switch among them as you see fit! You can get the limit expanders via store/radial menu.
Multiplayer setup simplification
Playing with your friends is now easier than ever, as we have streamlined the multiplayer game setup and made it more user-friendly. Multiplayer sessions can be created directly from the Region Map in Adventure mode and can seamlessly be changed to any type on the fly.
Rented server behavior changed
Rented servers can now be purchased for 7 days to make them more accessible. Additionally, they can function as a travel server. When traveling to a different scenario, the server owner can swap the current scenario with the destination scenario on a single Rented server slot. This makes group travel much more convenient.
Animal Taming Improvements
We made some small changes to the way animals are tamed. Baits now have to be deployed instead of just placed, attract animals more reliably and all the animals take the same amount of time to actually eat the bait (heartfelt sorry to all rhino tamers).
More companions
Even more types of animals can now become your companions and it's easier and more fun to tame them. You can also expand your companion slots to hold up to 30!
Aggressivity and baiting indicators
We have changed the old aggressivity and animal baiting indicators to new, flashy variants. These also direct you outside of your field of view, so you can be aware of those pesky badgers in time this time.
Avatar Portrait
Let the world see how great you look! Your avatar portrait now reflect what cool clothing you wear.
Open Tech Tree with "P"
Did you ever want to quickly access the Tech Tree? We know you do and so you can now do that via the "P" key.
EDITOR improvements:

Custom scenario localization: added UI to simplify localization key editing, importing and exporting.
Custom Interactions are now Custom Actions.
New Game Logic called Action which can be referenced on objects.
Up to 3 Custom Actions can be defined on an entity (including items held in hand).
Added ability to use animations for Custom Actions.
Game Logic objects can now be snapped to vehicles in the editor (this does not apply to Game Blueprints).
Drag and Drop to reorder items in NPC and Container inventories.
New Assets
ACTORS

Animated Furniture
Jötunnlin
Mutated Golem Alpha
Mutated Hyena Alpha
Mutated Tiger Alpha
Mutated Puma Alpha
Mutated Wolf Alpha
Mutated Bear Alpha
Mummy Warrior
Automaton Enforcer
Automaton Sentinel
APPAREL

Mountaineer Armor set
Lantern Backlight
Light Bulb Backlight
TOOLS & WEAPONS

Mythical Fishing Rod
Alien Hand Drill
Monofilament Knife
DECORATIONS

Stone Plank
Copper Plank
Steel Plank
Mason Statue
Lady Automaton Statue
Sir Automaton Statue
Engineer Statue
BUILDING

Tall Mast With Sails
Spanker Sail
Copper Blocks
Roped Log Joints
Wooden Ship Window (2 variants)
Steel Ship Window (2 variants)
Trash Bin
Roof Blocks (Steel, Straw, Wood)
Completing various missing block sets
ANIMATIONS

Exploring Emote
Sad Emote
Job Done Emote
Bossy Emote
Impatient Emote
Yawn Emote
Air Heart Emote
Sniffing Emote
Yeehaw Emote
Chicken dance
Additions / Removed
[YLD-41660] Added: Popup with ship details will now display the preview of the ship in question.
[YLD-53382] Added: Info about number of container slots / power of engines + masts / usable power by vehicles to a crafting menu.
[YLD-40159] Added: VS: Transform direction / Inverse transform direction script tiles.
[YLD-40295] Added: VS: Rotate around script tile.
[YLD-52404] Added: VS: Relation lines between objects when you use just variable/function from script of another object.
[YLD-52500] Added: VS: You can now set custom functions to be displayed vertically by default. (one argument per line).
[YLD-52501] Added: VS: Global storages can now have attached Logic storage in editor.
[YLD-53214] Added: VS: Add Enable custom camera .
[YLD-53246] Added:: VS: Remove diacritics script tile.
[YLD-53257] Added: VS: Weld entities script tile.
[YLD-53612] Added: VS: Is Local Player Ready script tile.
[YLD-53640] Added: VS: On local player ready event for single player games.
[YLD-52823] Added: Editor: Option for scenario settings to disable stamina feature (to have infinite stamina).
[YLD-53496] Added: Editor: Export button for Data set GL so it is easier to review which data you have currently imported.
Added: "TINY" landscape preset that fits into default universal area.
Added: You can now see visual of ship in ship UI.
Added: Automaton statues.
Tweaked
[YLD-53183] Tweaked: Explore: when you learn a new recipe from RE then you will see its image in notification.
[YLD-49741] Tweaked: Wind direction in new map will point from player position to center of the map.
[YLD-52452] Tweaked: GUI: inconsistent behavior of pets/costumes tab when you have nothing selected.
[YLD-52796] Tweaked: The free-placing indicator will no longer bounce when it's hiding. It's sad you no longer need it, after all.
[YLD-53028] Tweaked: Usable items for blueprint are now shown first in the project table UI.
[YLD-53232] Tweaked: /unstuck command now always acts like the mode 1 (/unstuck 1), modes 0/2/3 were removed and the syntax is just /unstuck.
[YLD-53702] Tweaked: The white panther in the Druid House random encounter is no longer friendly, just indifferent.
[YLD-52268] Tweaked: Editor: You can now use decimal comma ',' in properties window for decimal numbers.
[YLD-52766] Tweaked: Editor: Spot light's angle is now limited to 175°. It is not working well above this value.
[YLD-52934] Tweaked: Editor: changing property sliders for Light game logic now have immediate visual effect.
[YLD-53585] Tweaked: Editor: .ylands file name do not use |ct| anymore. Instead there is a valid English translation.
[YLD-52641] Tweaked: VS: String literals now supports multiline input.
[YLD-53038] Tweaked: VS: Text variant of VS script now does not add number in the end of each variable/function identifier.
Tweaked: Smaller Mythical Animals now run closer to the bait instead of walking at the beginning of the scripted encounter.
Tweaked: New monsters were added to random encounters (mummy warrior, animated furniture, jotunlinn and automatons).
Tweaked: Since you can have more companions now we create separate categories for tamed animals and companions in radial menu.
Tweaked: Axes which cannot be used in crafting are no longer stored in toolbox.
Tweaked: New mutant alphas replaced the old alpha bear which spawns during night in adventure.
Tweaked: Any new multiplayer game has turned OFF PvP by default.
Tweaked: Players with visitor coop rights can no longer summon animals.
Tweaked: Bronze Plank is now made in Copper Caster.
Tweaked: Crickephant animations removed overscaling of it's trunk due to scales on Trunk03 joint.
Tweaked: Removed minimal required dig strength for Rock voxels.
Tweaked: Better hand and spine movement in player Pet Ostrich animation.
Tweaked: Better spine movement in Player Pet Rhino animation.
Tweaked: Exposed emotes for editor updated.
Tweaked: Polished player movement in Bear Pet animation.
Tweaked: Bear Combat Walk is matching Combat Idle for better transitions.
Tweaked: Big Cat's Combat Walk has pose more closer to Combat Idle resulting in cleaner transitions.
Tweaked: Increased spawn rate of eggs in bird nests.
Tweaked: Propeller Pack discovery node no longer costs Exploration Points.
Tweaked: Elemental weaknesses of enemies are more significant.
Tweaked: Temperate made little bit less grindy.
Tweaked: VS: Switched positions of Enum and Variable main categories.
Fixed
[YLD-21272] Fixed: Respawning on a different yland temporarily shows weather from previous yland.
[YLD-29710] Fixed: Drinking tea and coconut drinks should have proper sound now.
[YLD-49357] Fixed: Connecting certain types of unsupported controllers should no longer confuse the input system.
[YLD-49723] Fixed: Map generating: surface cave is sometimes connected to a sea cave.
[YLD-52324] Fixed: Store BP section header layout (button icons overlaping button borders).
[YLD-52578] Fixed: Free-placing indicator on mobile should correctly size to fit its contents and will now be located on the left side of the screen.
[YLD-52757] Fixed: Droping BP camera will disable the related actions.
[YLD-52919] Fixed: Equip command now checks also inventory containers when used.
[YLD-53013] Fixed: Incorrect hands in profile window after being in creative and equiping costume.
[YLD-53166] Fixed: Lowering hardness of rock so players can flatten/smooth terrain.
[YLD-53341] Fixed: Recipe for mud moloch bait has correct seed now.
[YLD-51376] Fixed: Editor: Plus button in value slot of array tiles in CT doesn't update correctly based on array's data type.
[YLD-51990] Fixed: Editor: Undo does not work correctly for moving child groups with Custom tool's script.
[YLD-52145] Fixed: Editor: Object storage variables don't reflect type change in properties of objects with assigned storage.
[YLD-52988] Fixed: Editor: Updating script module can cause delete some function calls.
[YLD-53200] Fixed: Editor: Camera transitions between static cameras could behave not as expected.
[YLD-53479] Fixed: Editor: Active FPS camera in Creative/Adventure mode affects visibility of player in custom game with a custom camera.
[YLD-53581] Fixed: Editor: Player can still jump using W in game using side scroller camera even though jumping is disabled for him.
[YLD-53646] Fixed: Editor: There is a label with animal name next to animals for animals which are set to be not interactable.
[YLD-52609] Fixed: VS: Update/Fixed updates triggers even if game is paused.
[YLD-53339] Fixed: VS: Function with recursion can cause crash when saving the game.
[YLD-53032] Fixed: Blueprints: "Active" on "use blueprint" button isn't present on PC.
[YLD-53163] Fixed: Mobile UI: Incorrect string in profile window : add credentials.
[YLD-53238] Fixed: Terrain: Player respawns under the terrain when dying on specific position.
[YLD-51585] Fixed: GUI: Full inventory icon disappears after reconnect.
[YLD-51662] Fixed: GUI: Cannot use craft more in certain cornercase.
[YLD-52221] Fixed: GUI: Delete account button is not functional after you close ''are you sure'' dialogue (the popup now closes upon changing your mind).
Fixed: You are stuck in loading if you close steam overlay quickly with escape (this is driven by Steam backend and there's nothing we can do to properly fix this, so we added a Cancel button to the specific loading overlay).
Fixed: Several encounters were missing tasks and could not be finished properly, should be fixed now.
Fixed: Several random encounters have inaccessible secrets, should be fixed now.
Fixed: Fortress library mystery yland should no longer remove your unique items like Cosmic ray shooter.
Fixed: Camera is no longer faster in editor when you are in energy mode.
Fixed: Many phones including iphones 13-15 should now her proper audio.
Fixed: Some hats missing the Head tag.
Fixed: Recently played games search does not filter the files correctly.
Fixed: Garden Fence recipes in Wooden Fence group.
Fixed: An issue where secondary action trigger mapping for gamepad input devices was ignored.
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12 Sep 2024Developer post
EXPERIMENTAL Build - Update 2.4
Ahoy Ylanders, We've been hard at work on the upcoming update, which we titled Fleet Friends. And before we release it, we bring you the experimental build! Available only to Steam users, the Experimental build offers you guys a chance to: test upcoming features & changes rep
Ahoy Ylanders,
We've been hard at work on the upcoming update, which we titled Fleet Friends. And before we release it, we bring you the experimental build!
Available only to Steam users, the Experimental build offers you guys a chance to:

test upcoming features & changes
report any bugs & provide early feedback (#experimental_build room on our Discord server is a great way to do that)
HOW TO TRY THE EXPERIMENTAL BUILD

Go to your Steam library and right-click Ylands
Select Properties, click the "Betas" tab, and enter "YExperimentalPublic" as the password (excluding the double quotes)
This will unlock the "i_will_back_up_my_saves" branch. (Please note that you don't need to back up your saves anymore this is just the name of the branch).
After selecting the branch and confirming it, Steam will begin downloading the new experimental branch
SUPER IMPORTANT INFO!

Any progress you make on the experimental build DOES NOT carry over to your live game!!!
When you start playing experimental, we will now copy your live progress into experimental for you. You can try your actual progress in the new update right away (remember that you are playing in a separate environment so it will not affect your progress on live by any means).
What WILL be copied: - Adventure mode progress, - All editor scenarios and tools, - Non-protected workshop scenarios and all the blueprints you have uploaded to the workshop - All your purchased blueprints - All your local blueprints
What WILL NOT be copied: - Sharegames - Rented servers (if you want any of those maps on experimental, you will need to turn them into singleplayer maps before you start experimental for the first time) - Any workshop assets with global user data (leaderboards, game sets, etc)
Do not copy any local files! Any TAMPERING with local data can lead to irreversible loss of progress!!!
Not all features that will be released in the full release are necessarily available in the Experimental build. It is possible that some features available in the Experimental build might be changed, balanced, or removed before the full release.
...with that out of the way...onto the good stuff!
Highlights
Claiming more boats and vehicles
You said you wanted to flex with you stylish ship or car and we heard you. Now you can claim more than one and switch among them as you see fit! You can get the limit expanders via store/radial menu.
Multiplayer setup simplification
Playing with your friends is now easier than ever as we streamlined multiplayer games setup and made it more user-friendly. Multiplayer sessions can be created directly from the Region Map in Adventure mode and can seamlessly be changed to any type on the fly.
Rented server behaviour changed
Rented servers can now be purchased for 7 days to make them more accessible. Additionally, they can function as a travel server. When traveling to a different scenario, the server owner can swap the current scenario with the destination scenario on a single Rented server slot. This makes group travel much more convenient.
Animal Taming Improvements
We made some small changes to the way animals are tamed. Baits now have to be deployed instead of just placed, attract animals more reliably and all the animals take the same amount of time to actually eat the bait (heartfelt sorry to all rhino tamers).
More companions
Even more types of animals can now become your companions and it's easier and more fun to tame them. You can also expand your companion slots to hold up to 30!
Avatar Portrait
Let the world see how great you look! Your avatar portrait now reflect what cool clothing you wear.
Open Tech Tree with "P"
Did you ever wanted to quickly access the Tech Tree? We know you do and so you can now do that via the "P" key.
EDITOR improvements:

Custom scenario localization: added UI to simplify localization key editing, importing and exporting
Custom Interactions are now Custom Actions - New Game Logic called Action which can be referenced on objects - Up to 3 Custom Actions can be defined on an entity (including items held in hand) - Added ability to use animations for Custom Actions
Game Logic objects can now be snapped to vehicles in the editor (does not apply to Game Blueprints)
Drag and Drop to reorder items in NPC and Container inventories
New Assets
ACTORS

Animated Furniture
Automaton Enforcer
Automaton Sentinel
Jötunnlin
Mutated Golem Alpha
Mutated Hyena Alpha
Mutated Tiger Alpha
Mutated Puma Alpha
Mutated Wolf Alpha
Mutated Bear Alpha
Mummy Warrior
APPAREL

Mountaineer Armor set
Lantern Backlight
Light Bulb Backlight
TOOLS & WEAPONS

Mythical Fishing Rod
Alien Hand Drill
Vibro-knife
DECORATIONS

Stone Plank
Copper Plank
Steel Plank
Mason Statue
Robot Statue
Engineer Statue
BUILDING

Tall Mast With Sails
Spanker Sail
Copper Blocks
Roped Log Joints
Wooden Ship Window (2 variants)
Steel Ship Window (2 variants)
Trash Bin
Roof Blocks (Steel, Hay, Wood)
Completing various missing block sets
ANIMATIONS

Exploring Emote
Sad Emote
Job Done Emote
Bossy Emote
Challenge Emote
Impatient Emote
Yawn Emote
Air Heart Emote
Sniffing Emote
Yeehaw Emote
Chicken Dance Emote
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16 Aug 2024Developer post
Dev diary #333 Biome vegetation
Ahoy Ylanders! Welcome to another entry in our developer diary! Today, we’re excited to take you on a journey through the lush, diverse vegetation that breathes life into the world of Ylands. Our team of 3D artists has worked tirelessly to craft the unique plant life that populat
02 Aug 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #332 Office Pets of Bohemia Interactive
Ahoy Ylanders! The summer holiday season is in full swing, people are having a great time outside the office, but do you know what makes them excited to come back to work? It's our furry colleagues! We figured we might introduce some members of our team who you probably don't kno
19 Jul 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #331 Testing Elven Expeditions
Ahoy Ylanders! As you probably know, it takes a while to create a video game. Once it is done, there is still a long way to go as the testing begins. The story ylands are basically like small games within Ylands and testing them before the experimental is released can get quite i
05 Jul 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #330 Hands Down, One of the Funniest Bugs
Hello Ylanders! Today, we want to share one of the bugs we've encountered in our game. As developers, we sometimes come across bugs that are more funny than frustrating, and today was one of those days. While testing costume changes in the profile window, we discovered that when
01 Jul 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #329 Guardian of Caves
Ahoy Ylanders! Today, we spoke with our Art department about what's coming to Ylands! And we bring you a short peek into the brand new guardian of Arid caves! Conceptualizing the Arid Hyena The creation of our new hyena creature for the Arid region in Ylands started with the need
21 Jun 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #328 Trailer - Behind the scenes
Ahoy, Ylanders! Today, we're diving into the creative process behind our latest trailer, which features an exciting live-action segment. We want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we bring our trailers to life, blending in-game footage with real-world scenes. Concept Eve
18 Jun 2024Developer post
2.3.1 Patch Changelog
⭐ HIGHLIGHTS ⭐ Tutorial gameplay tweaked, finally everyone can jump across the first ditch in the starting chapter Audio is not broken anymore once you finish the Elmwood's Outpost story General bug fixes FIXED Fixed: There is no music in game after disconnecting at wrong time fr
⭐ HIGHLIGHTS ⭐

Tutorial gameplay tweaked, finally everyone can jump across the first ditch in the starting chapter
Audio is not broken anymore once you finish the Elmwood's Outpost story
General bug fixes
FIXED
[YLD-52720] Fixed: There is no music in game after disconnecting at wrong time from Story Land.
[YLD-52785] Fixed: VS: Custom tools: get/set obsolete position/rotation script tiles do not work with preview objects.
[YLD-52717] Fixed: VS: new Set position tiles do not work correctly with animated single entities/GLs and Move to script tile.
[YLD-52710] Fixed: Editor: Group templates supports Event listeners, Position animators and Rotation animators again.
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14 Jun 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #327 Designer smoke signals
Ahoy Ylanders! Today, we are not going to discuss game development as it is. Instead, Štěpán, our designer will delve into a bit of bureaucracy and will talk to you about interdepartmental communication, which may seem straightforward but there are challenges and many layers of c
07 Jun 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #326 Good UI
Ahoy Ylanders, The term "GOOD GAME UI" doesn't necessarily imply that the user perceives a smart or enhanced user experience. In fact, the best UI is achieved when the user does not think about it at all. Allow me to briefly outline our UI process for you in this diary. The initi
Ahoy Ylanders,
The term "GOOD GAME UI" doesn't necessarily imply that the user perceives a smart or enhanced user experience. In fact, the best UI is achieved when the user does not think about it at all. Allow me to briefly outline our UI process for you in this diary.
The initial phase of designing a new UI feature always involves extracting as much information as possible from the feature designer. This primarily entails understanding their vision and the intended user experience. The subsequent phase typically involves research and brainstorming. If similar features exist in other games, I review those UI visualizations and distill the vision into simple wireframes and sketches, based on those precedents, to avoid reinventing the wheel. These preliminary mockups (which I refer to as "grayboxes"), utilize mainly text and gray boxes to represent buttons, headers, tabs, text areas, scroll areas, etc.
I use shades of gray because, for conveying UI ideas, nothing more in this phase than contrast and size is essential. These elements resonate universally. Colors I usually incorporate later, recognizing that color perception varies among individuals.If any ambiguity persists after discussing the mockups and the flow or user experience remains unclear to anyone, we turn to Figma prototypes - For those unfamiliar, Figma is a brilliant tool for facilitating idea communication among designers, UI programmers, and UI artists.
Anyone can test the feature in a working prototype within a few hours. Once the design is crystal clear, I commence creating visual mockups tailored for the various platforms we support. This phase involves collaboration with the art director to ensure alignment with the visual style. Screen design is influenced not only by diverse display sizes (resolutions and aspect ratios) but also by the method of control:

Touch display (mobile, tablet)
Mouse + Keyboard (PC)
Controller (Xbox, PlayStation)
Controller + touch display (Switch)
Each platform comes with its own set of rules and requirements, necessitating seamless and predictable accessibility for every aspect of the feature. For instance, standardized text sizes differ between mobile and PC, while mobile touch buttons are typically substituted with controller hint icons on consoles, and so forth. Subsequently, we create Unity Engine UI layouts based on the visual mockups. And let the UI programmers do their magic. Then comes the polishing phase – replacing placeholders, animating buttons, localizing texts, incorporating hover elements, adding subtle visual effects, fine-tuning transitions, etc. Following that, QA tests and optimization ensue. This phase often involves resolving numerous bugs, glitches, and incorporating implementation feedback from playtests.
A particularly challenging scenario (my private nightmare) arises on Switch with russian language. Switch is using large standardized texts and other large UI element sizes with long texts alongside controller hints.
That's it for today. Thank you and
Stay Classy!
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04 Jun 2024Developer post
Update 2.3: ELVEN EXPEDITIONS
Ahoy Ylanders! After the exciting news of last week: We are back with another announcement: Update 2.3 is live now and packed with content! Are you ready to get your ELVEN EXPEDITIONS started? Random Encounter Objectives You don't just get rewarded when you encounter a Random Enc
Ahoy Ylanders!
After the exciting news of last week:
Watch on YouTube
We are back with another announcement: Update 2.3 is live now and packed with content! Are you ready to get your ELVEN EXPEDITIONS started?
Random Encounter Objectives
You don't just get rewarded when you encounter a Random Encounter, now you get an objective instead! And to make sure you know what to do and how much of the doing is left there is also brand new objective progress tracking! We hope the exploration will be even more fun now.
Luring lighthouse
A new chapter of the story takes you to the Monsoonal region where strange things started happening. Could this have something to do with the arrival of elves into the region? It is up to you (and Horatio Reginald Elmwood, of course) to find out what's going on!
Gamepad support
FINALLY! You can play Ylands with a gamepad, including an aim-assist support to help you during combat.
New Random Encounters created by community
Ros Bobb has been given a makeover by our community. In each region, you can find new stalls, galleries, and houses made for Ros Bobb!
Quality of life improvements
You may now use the free-placing feature for your blueprints, it can be freely rotated and snapped to ground at your will. And a few more things here and there :)
EDITOR improvements

Polished ease of use of input fields throughout the editor.
Merged Terrain and Advanced Terrain Tools and split Game Logics into Basic Logics and Script Logics.
Custom Enums are now a standalone Visual Script Category.
Custom Localizations basic workflow introduced - create your own localization tables for custom games.
Positions and Rotations in Visual Scripting reworked to be more intuitive.
New Project Browser makes searching and opening Editor Scenarios much easier.
Are you curious about other new features, fixes and additions? See the Changelog for update 2.3 here: https://ylands.com/community/topic/32843-23-elven-expeditions-changelog/
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04 Jun 2024Developer post
2.3 Elven Expeditions - Changelog
⭐Highlights⭐ Random Encounter Objectives We improved random encounters so now you are able to keep track of RE objective progress. We hope it will motivate you and your friends to explore ylands even more now. Luring lighthouse A new chapter of the story takes you to the Monsoona
⭐Highlights⭐
Random Encounter Objectives
We improved random encounters so now you are able to keep track of RE objective progress. We hope it will motivate you and your friends to explore ylands even more now.
Luring lighthouse
A new chapter of the story takes you to the Monsoonal region where strange things started happening. Could this have something to do with the arrival of elves into the region? It is up to you (and Horatio Reginald Elmwood, of course) to find out what's going on!
Gamepad
You can finally play Ylands with a gamepad, including an aim-assist support to help you during combat.
New Random Encounters created by community
Ross Bob had a makeover by our community. In each Region, you can find new stalls, galleries, and houses made for Ross Bob!
Quality of life improvements
You may now use the free-placing feature for your blueprints, it can be freely rotated and snaped to ground at your will. Medieval House in Random Encounter 103 contained obsolete variants of paintings so we replaced them with pieces done by a more talented painter.
EDITOR improvements:

Polished ease of use of input fields throughout the editor.
Merged Terrain and Advanced Terrain Tools and split Game Logics into Basic Logics and Script Logics.
Custom Enums are now a standalone Visual Script Category.
Custom Localizations basic workflow introduced - create your own localization tables for custom games.
Positions and Rotations in Visual Scripting reworked to be more intuitive.
New Project Browser makes searching and opening Editor Scenarios much easier.
New Assets
ACTORS

Highland Cow
Pinewood Owlbison
Magic Gardener
Ancient Hunter
Ancient Huntress
Territorial Merman
Territorial Mermaid
Infested Elf
Infested She-elf
Animated Knight Armor
Animated Samurai Armor
Drowned Deckhand
Drowned Canonneeres
APPAREL
Rhinoceros Armor Set
Gunslinger Armor Set
Starcharter Clothes Set
Moonseeker Mask
Voidsmith Mask
Fardreamer Mask
TOOLS & WEAPONS

Alien Bow
Orichalcum Saw
Cow Bait
Pinewood Owlbison Bait
DECORATIONS

Chess Pieces
Checker Piece
Domino Pieces
6-sided Dice
Additional Roman Numeral Blocks
Elven Statue
Elven Carpet
Elven Painting
Elven Quipu
Elven Astrolabe
Asset Changes
Cave Mushrooms changed names and now can be cut down with a knife, plus they yield useful resources
Cave Plants changed names and now can be cut down with a knife
Additions / Removed
[YLD-47555] Added: Character actions that take longer for the character to do will no longer use the progress bar to visualize the progress, instead utilizing the hints with hold progress visuals. Floating hints should also no longer overlap the hotbar under specific camera angles.
[YLD-49572] Added: Created a Diary event condition for a new event guiding the player to create a Torch - NIGHTFALL NECESSITIES.
[YLD-50244] Added: Inventory can now display details of items in the hotbar (if the user navigates over them via gamepad).
[YLD-51145] Added: When placing BP that is not vehicle it is possible to switch to between grid/freeplacing.
[YLD-51809] Added: Completion Achievement for Luring lighthouse yland.
[YLD-49676] Added: VS: Get Recipe Node .
[YLD-49911] Added: VS: Alt+T keybind to switch between expression/statement variant of the same script tile.
[YLD-49933] Added: VS: ternary operator ? : (expression if then else .
[YLD-50188] Added: VS: + in Set variable script tile will add automatically tile of variable's type.
[YLD-50220] Added: VS: Format string ... script tile.
[YLD-50382] Added: VS: On shear/milk events.
[YLD-50864] Added: VS: Get Screen DPI script tile.
[YLD-51595] Added: VS: Warning when you use Get local player before local player is fully initialized/available.
[YLD-51628] Added: VS: "Reset fade" argument to Camera fade in/out script tiles.
[YLD-49913] Added: Editor: Items now shows both buy and sell price in properties window.
[YLD-49916] Added: Editor: Percentage resistance next to resistance value in properties window.
[YLD-50155] Added: Editor: Game logic template now supports "referenced" variant.
[YLD-50619] Added: Editor: You can multiselect in Object explorer with mouse by holding SHIFT key.
[YLD-50620] Added: Editor: "Public scripts" property to script modules so it is now easier to test/debug their exported version.
[YLD-50739] Added: Editor: You can now set "selected color" for buttons in Custom HUD/Window layout editor.
[YLD-51731] Added: Editor: Ability to disable "switching variants" while placing.
Added: Pinewood Owlbison Mythical Animal Random Encounter (Taiga Region).
Added: Winning competition entries based Ros Bobb (painting vendor) Random Encounters for each Region.
Added: Project Browser.
[YLD-49891] Removed: Editor: "Simple" editor view with text buttons in top header.
[YLD-49912] Removed: Editor: Highlight of group entities when group is edited.
[YLD-50413] Removed: Editor: Use Playlands equipment toggle from Player role.
Removed: Hostile Native Random Encounters. Replaced with a set of Ancient Hunter Random Encounters.
TWEAKED
[YLD-42904] Tweaked: Milk/Shear ready text overlaps animal's name.
[YLD-45540] Tweaked: Take all button in containers now adds items directly to inventory containers.
[YLD-49303] Tweaked: Alpaca light attack is a bit slower.
[YLD-49304] Tweaked: Unique Golem charge attack to other attack animations.
[YLD-49312] Tweaked: Golem light attack less twitchy on the end. Changed also combat idle pose to remove twitchiness.
[YLD-49313] Tweaked: Changed lizard light attack to be a little bit slower.
[YLD-49314] Tweaked: Crablin has a little longer Light Attack animation.
[YLD-49314] Tweaked: Ostrich Light Attack animation is a bit longer.
[YLD-49316] Tweaked: Penguin light attack is a bit slower.
[YLD-49317] Tweaked: Longer windup in Golem heavy attack animation.
[YLD-49318] Tweaked: Changed Lizard heavy attack to have more visible preparation.
[YLD-49322] Tweaked: Rhino Heavy Attack has a longer preparation phase (by 10 frames) and a different attack style to be easy readable.
[YLD-49331] Tweaked: Wolverine use Special Attack animation for Heavy Attack.
[YLD-49332] Tweaked: Golem special attack has a visible preparation.
[YLD-49778] Tweaked: Adjusted the priority of interactible entities when focusing entities, so that the ones that provide an interaction are focused more often that those without any interactions. One specific case where it should help is focusing the ladders on your ships.
[YLD-50598] Tweaked: Color of animal's/monster's text in chat is now same as color of NPC's text.
[YLD-50694] Tweaked: 3D selection tool previews selection more frequently now.
[YLD-50703] Tweaked: You can not reference entities from blueprints in scripts. (protection of those blueprints).
[YLD-50793] Tweaked: Optimized the Sort Inventory button. It should no longer allocate tens of megabytes of memory and should be substantially faster.
[YLD-50869] Tweaked: Removed the Unsummon button from the Pets screen. Previously it was showing everywhere, even on currently not-summoned pets which, while it worked, was confusing. Now the only place on the Pets screen where you'll still find the Unsummon button is if you click the currently summoned pet.
[YLD-51048] Tweaked: Wolf Pet animation slightly changed hand position to touch wolf on flat terrain. Dog pet point set closer so the character hands have contact with dog (only on flat terrain).
[YLD-51955] Tweaked: Hide previous notification if the new one is the same.
[YLD-51966] Tweaked: Steam pack descriptions so that the new lines are easier to read and do not overlap the images.
[YLD-52005] Tweaked: Collectibles that are part of Steam DLCs will now be displayed in the in-game shop upon purchasing a DLC.
[YLD-50187] Tweaked: VS: + button in Set array at index will now add script tile of array's type.
[YLD-50976] Tweaked: VS: In explorer Search in dropdown is now set to "Script tiles" by default.
[YLD-51094] Tweaked: VS: Animals can have quite big reaction time to a Move to target script tile.
[YLD-49887] Tweaked: Editor: Teleporting player on maps with no terrain streaming now does not need to start loading.
[YLD-49918] Tweaked: Editor: Preview of placed object is now shown next to a mouse cursor.
[YLD-49945] Tweaked: Editor: 2D game logic icons and transform widgets are bigger on 4K screens.
[YLD-50004] Tweaked: Editor: Names of text sizes after adding new Medium large size.
[YLD-50005] Tweaked: Editor: Enum values like Text size / Audible distance are now sorted by their value (instead of sorting by name).
[YLD-50321] Tweaked: Editor: Colorized game logic icons in the game logic panel.
[YLD-50348] Tweaked: Editor: Animals with disabled interaction will not show shear/milk ready text now.
[YLD-50421] Tweaked: Editor: Sliders in properties window now work also in multiselection.
[YLD-50440] Tweaked: Editor: Scale widget is more responsive now in Basic shapes tool.
[YLD-50486] Tweaked: Editor: Position/rotation should get updated live when moving objects by drag and drop / using widgets.
[YLD-50582] Tweaked: Editor: Promote ENUMS sub-category to main category.
[YLD-51861] Tweaked: Editor: Error information about referencing objects which will be destroyed by Object templates on export.
Tweaked: Implementation in story section so that it's better equipped to detect whether the reward page should be displayed. The section code now also has some idea of where the chapters actually start.
Tweaked: Added source elements for Cave and Mushroom Roots thus making them blueprintable.
Tweaked: Cave Mushrooms renamed and rebalanced.
Tweaked: Changed Ostrich Charge attack animation to be less intense.
Tweaked: Changed Rabbit heavy attack animation now feels stronger. Changed distance of attack not to go through player.
Tweaked: Changed style of Wolf charge attack to be different from other attacks.
Tweaked: Changed Wendigo Charge Attack animation to be different to other attacks.
Tweaked: Different animation of Stone Guardian's Heavy Attack. More powerful and longer windup.
Tweaked: Different animation of Swipe attack for Ocean Spirit with more power.
Tweaked: Distance of all Rabbit attacks is shorter not to clip through player.
Tweaked: Doubled amount of Energy Coil produced from one recipe.
Tweaked: Elven bow's accuracy and draw time nerfed.
Tweaked: Engineer Vendor now also offers Sulphur Chunks and Rubber Slabs.
Tweaked: Farmer's Revenge spread and effective range significantly nerfed.
Tweaked: Flint Chunk gets more visible models.
Tweaked: Horse Charge Attack is different to heavy attack.
Tweaked: Horse Light Attack visually better transition to combat idle.
Tweaked: Longer Undead Heavy Attack, added side variants for Undead's Heavy and Light attack.
Tweaked: An Undead Charge Attack is different from a Heavy Attack.
Tweaked: New Hyena Charge Attack not a copy of Light Attack.
Tweaked: Penguin has longer Heavy Attack, different animation with more impact.
Tweaked: Potion Ingredient tag removed.
Tweaked: Relict and Encounter Secrets given the No Catalog tag to prevent confusion in editor.
Tweaked: Rhino Swipe Attack animation has more powerful head swing and is longer by 15 frames.
Tweaked: Slower Heavy attack (by 10 frames).
Tweaked: Stone Guardian has different Charge Attack not a copy of heavy attack.
Tweaked: Terrorbird different heavy attack with head, polished leg movement.
Tweaked: Terrorbird isn't floating above ground on flat terrain.
Tweaked: Terrorbird legs and finger movement in light attack is more polished.
Tweaked: Terrorbird Swipe attack is now with legs to be different from heavy.
Tweaked: Wendigo Heavy Attack has longer, more visible windup phase.
Tweaked: Wendigo Swipe Attack is longer.
Tweaked: Wolverine special attack is different to light and heavy.
FIXED
[YLD-19918] Fixed: Rake and Shovel animation made compatible with 2H holding for more natural look.
[YLD-29306] Fixed: Message System: whisper shows player's username in All message section.
[YLD-37944] Fixed: Scrolling the mobile inventory fully down before playing through the tutorial that has the player craft a stone axe no longer results in the tutorial flow being stuck until session reset.
[YLD-45920] Fixed: Blueprints might have some of their entities shifted when placed in universal scenarios (only applies to newly captured blueprints).
[YLD-48743] Fixed: Terrain Generation: weird cut off rocks appear on the edge of beaches.
[YLD-49520] Fixed: Ships: Camera starts moving by itself after traveling.
[YLD-49618] Fixed: Handbook rewards (manifested in Experimental): players with live progress still having unclaimed reward icon.
[YLD-49743] Fixed: NPC man/female cannot be selected as default value for entity type variables.
[YLD-49823] Fixed: Map generating: RE can be spawned on islets around the island.
[YLD-49859] Fixed: Portraits in social screen should no longer be offset and covering status icons.
[YLD-49867] Fixed: When players were charging an object that required inventory and was inside a container (e.g. a mining drill inside a toolbox), the inventory screen did not update correctly.
[YLD-49917] Fixed: Position of the text in the button of the research node is now correctly centered when using gamepad.
[YLD-49978] Fixed: Scrollbar in the mobile version of multiplayer settings popup is no longer super chonky.
[YLD-50154] Fixed: Layout in the feedback popup could get messed up when the input field got near to the character limit.
[YLD-50225] Fixed: You can not move properly when using rake.
[YLD-50227] Fixed: It should no longer be possible to close the crafting screen during the tutorial that teaches players how to craft the stone axe, which could get them stuck until session reset.
[YLD-50344] Fixed: Item notification will now correctly display custom colors of the picked up item, if it is painted.
[YLD-50609] Fixed: Particles not visible in inventory character preview.
[YLD-50617] Fixed: Gifting a blueprint from the Editor produces an error message if you didn't open the Shop first during the play session.
[YLD-50735] Fixed: Give players the collectibles that they were supposed to get from Handbook rewards.
[YLD-50813] Fixed: Integrity : broken terrain on particular explore map from 1.8.
[YLD-50834] Fixed: A handbook memory leak that would occur upon changing the active session (leaving a game into the main menu, changing a server etc.).
[YLD-50888] Fixed: Main menu: Back button leads from community games sub-categories to Main Menu.
[YLD-50909] Fixed: A null pointer reference when drag&dropping various corner-case stuff from your hotbar into equipment slots.
[YLD-51046] Fixed: Wolf clip into character when attacking too much.
[YLD-51054] Fixed: Wolf legs clip into eachother in walk, trot, run.
[YLD-51229] Fixed: Ship Wrecked Shenanigans event could not be completed if you already owned a ship after the first yland.
[YLD-51750] Fixed: Using saw on tree from BP will destroy original tree.
[YLD-52188] Fixed: The displayed cost for EP in the tech tree now shows correctly when discounted by partially unlocked nodes.
[YLD-52254] Fixed: Golem's lower body opens too much in Special Attack and Hit Reaction animations.
[YLD-52320] Fixed: Issue in hint sorting mechanism that could needlessly eat performance.
[YLD-50263] Fixed: VS: there is unnecessary ':' in chat window when showing bubble with hidden speaker.
[YLD-50664] Fixed: VS: Custom enum's names are shown in Upper case on script tiles.
[YLD-50901] Fixed: VS: Opening Transaction window from Dialog window does not work.
[YLD-50949] Fixed: VS: The Count instruction in visual scripting will no longer end in an infinite loop if it's starting from 1 and going towards -1 by increments of 1.
[YLD-50988] Fixed: VS: There is a wrong tile in context menu of variable of custom enum type.
[YLD-51374] Fixed: VS: Plus button of array setter tile adds a single value tile.
[YLD-51741] Fixed: VS: Changes to argument of copied function can affect argement of the original function.
[YLD-51816] Fixed: VS: Time trigger set to specific game hour fires when a scenario is launched in some cases.
[YLD-51968] Fixed: VS: Switch with all cases + default branch merged together breaks VS.
[YLD-52462] Fixed: VS: Count with does not work correctly in some situations. (when using language with decimal comma).
[YLD-42529] Fixed: Editor: It is not possible to change static camera position in properties window in Preview camera mode.
[YLD-49703] Fixed: Editor: Cut/paste of entities on vehicles does not work correctly.
[YLD-49822] Fixed: Editor: Trigger zones do not register some entities.
[YLD-50261] Fixed: Editor: It is possible to summon any animal with high base domestication level by any player.
[YLD-50317] Fixed: Editor: Objects in Object explorer are not sorted correctly when contextual search is active.
[YLD-50685] Fixed: Editor: Rotation and position changes to groups in hierarchy via custom tool script behaves incorrectly.
[YLD-50796] Fixed: Editor: "Death penalty" in Player role is not translated.
[YLD-51224] Fixed: Editor: Transform widget can be destroyed when you unload map part containing it.
[YLD-51257] Fixed: Editor: If you press RMB while editing shape in Shapes Tool then a gizmo deactivates (and cannot be reactivated).
[YLD-51659] Fixed: Editor: It is not possible to set Game time with "minutes" precision.
[YLD-51687] Fixed: Editor: Group templated do not ignore original group rotation. (the same way as Entity/GL templates do).
[YLD-51880] Fixed: Editor: Animated entities have wrong position in blueprint preview image.
[YLD-52405] Fixed: Editor: Updating Script modules with Image library does not work correctly.
Fixed: Alienflower should now be blueprintable.
Fixed: Current HP of some NPCs exceeds their maximum HP, resulting in looong healthbars.
Fixed: RE103 - Medieval House contains obsolete variants of paintings (replaced with pieces done by a more talented painter).
Fixed: Small twitch in Rhino's belly during light attack cleaned up.
Fixed: Vendor NPCs are not present in a newly created map until another day passes.
Original post
31 May 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #325 Gamepad has landed
Ahoy Ylanders! We have been hinting for some time that we are working on gamepad support. Well, we have finally managed to do it for next Ylands update 2.3. Ylands will have full gamepad support and it should be possible to play completely without mouse and keyboard. In this prog
24 May 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #324 Announcing an announcement
Ahoy Ylanders! We will keep it short today. We have an announcement to be made live very soon. The stream will be held on Tuesday, 28. 5. at 3 PM CEST here: This news is the result of a lot of hard work and answers repeated calls from our community. We look forward to seeing you
17 May 2024Developer post
Dev Diary #323 6 Player's creations in Ylands
Ahoy Ylanders! Today we are proud that we can show off 6 new homes for one of our vendor painter Ros Bobb! All of them created by our beloved community during competition on our Discord server: All of these are currently found on the experimental build, so feel free to try that o
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Dev Diary #322 Experimental Elven Expeditions
Ahoy, Ylanders! Here we go again, our beloved hardcore adventurers. The Classy Adventurers Guild calls for aid! As you know, the world can be a bit... wonky. It's not easy to find and fix all the wonkiness, and that's where you shine. Okay, let's get down to business. We would be