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
