This Land Is My Land
This Land Is My Land Live Reddit AMA!
To say thank you for your suggestions and feedback that helped shape our brand new Survival Update:
We’re hosting our first live AMA and key giveaway on Reddit at r/Steam today, March 26, at 3pm CET/ 2pm GMT!
Bring your burning questions about our recent Survival Update, and we will give 5 keys away, 1 for the best question and 4 other random questions of our choosing (We’ll DM the codes on Reddit after the AMA session).
So gather around camp and shoot us some questions (or arrows :P), and let’s get rolling!
Don’t forget you can also join our tribe on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord.
The Game-Lab Team
Survival Update
To enhance the experiences of such threats, we’ve crafted brand new survival features that will challenge the seasoned survivalist in you*. We also read your smoke signals sent to us from across the plains of Discord, Steam, and social media and have used them to implement further game changes and improvements listed below.
* Please note that all new survival features can be toggled in the new resistance creation window.
Realistic Needs
Thirst, Hunger, Fatigue, Illness—these basic human needs will come into play as you make your way across the frontier: Hunt, source, and craft food to satisfy your hunger and rest near any lit campfire. Protect yourself from and make remedies for a variety of diseases that existed in real-life 19th century America.
Realistic Damage
Heavy bleeding?! Broken limb?! After high demand, Realistic Damage is now available to add another level of realism and danger to your “This Land Is My Land” experience. Every character, including the chief, will suffer from combat aftermaths on different body parts and various effects such as shock and infections, where each will require quick action to overcome them or die. We’ve also added lungs, heart, and testicles to enemies, and when you hit these parts, they will cause extra damage and deal heavy bleeding.
New Treatment System
Many exposed and hidden threats lie and wait in the new world; Realistic Damage brings debuffs from enemies' shots, and eating raw meat or drinking dirty water could leave you with Typhoid or Parasites! Recover from various illnesses, wounds, and injuries with our brand new Treatment System, using bandages, medicines, and more that are available to you all over the frontier. You'll have to fight to live in harmony with the new earth...
Realistic Nights
Whether you want to ride across the moon-lit plains or crouch stealthily in the shadows, the new toggleable Realistic Nights mode adds another layer of immersion to the game. Turned on, this will make nights in-game quite dark and realistic, improving immersion for the most hardcore player.
Alcoholic Drinks
A new type of settlement was added—Brewery. It produces a different kind of alcoholic drink that can be pretty useful in light of new features and can bring quite impressive side effects. Said effects are only available in the new Realistic Needs and Damage modes.
Caches with Loot
Many treasures can be found across the new world for those who are willing to explore them. Caches filled with loot are now more prominent throughout the map, and you can find them by exploring or interrogating enemies. During the interrogation, the enemies will tell you where the loot is buried near the settlement.
New Types of Bears, Wolves, and Boars
Bears, wolves, boars, oh my! There are now new types of bears, wolves, and boars to encounter that can be slain and looted for new and exciting items!
Customize Your Resistance
You can now choose the type of resistance you want to lead with our brand new Resistance Creation Menu! Select from the existing presets that range from Classic to Immersive Hardcore Realistic Survival mode, play at your own pace and preference, or check the options under settings and personalize your experience. World Bosses will bring new challenges, experiences, and items.
And much more!
Here are some additional features added to the game that has been asked for by our community:
- The option to choose the size of your game world.
- Varying enemy reaction times from Default, to Fast, to Realistic.
- The option to enable/disable Tutorials and Tips.
- The option to enable/disable Fast Travel.
- The ability to save your game/rest while near any lit campfire.
- Realistic HUD option which makes the game more immersive.
- The option to enable/disable the Detection Indicator. Disabling the detection indicator makes the game more realistic and challenging.
- An added world seed setting—so you can create your own unique resistance by entering a set of letters and numbers in the corresponding field. You can share the world seed with your friends and play in similar game worlds.
- The crawl under the enemy fort wall feature is back!
- New enemy speeches have been added.
- The prices of some items in trading posts have been changed.
- The weight of all items has been changed to make it more realistic.
- Now in the camp's "Orders" section, you can specify the number of warriors who will stay to defend the camp while the rest of the warriors will execute gather/mission orders for that camp.
- In hardcore mode, after death, you will see the following statistics: how many days you lasted, number of lands retrieved, number of skill points earned, number of enemies interrogated, how many enemies you intimidated, and kill count.
- Now in the tab menu, you can see the effects of recently used food/drinks at the bottom.
- You can drink and collect water near the water jugs in Realistic Needs mode if you are in a friendly or neutral camp. You can also drink and collect water near buckets and barrels in many enemy settlements. From rivers, you can drink/collect both clean and dirty water.
- Multiple new animations have been added.
- Numerous new settlements have been added.
- Fixed a bug where the functions of interacting with the world and enemies were not displayed in some players' game worlds.
- Many more bug fixes, improvements, and tweaks!
Sneak Peek at Future Content
We’re also delighted to reveal a sneak peek into some of the things we’re working on next!
Base Building System
Many of you have asked us if This Land Is My Land will have a base-building feature; we heard you! In the next major update, you will build your Native American camps using the new base-building system.
Women In This Land Is My Land
Due to popular demand, we are now looking into adding women into the game, though we are yet to decide to what extent; we have taken the community’s input to heart and are swiftly acting on it. There are many aspects to work on for such a feature, from new animations to model designs, so please understand this will take a bit of time until it is ready.
Trains And More Related Features
We are also adding a train to the game that players can interact and see in their maps. So stay tuned for more information on this exciting update.
Lastly, we would like to thank everyone who took part in the closed testing of this update, the players who helped translate the game to different languages, and the community for all the feedback and patience! We worked on this massive update of This Land Is My Land for all of you! We are already excited about the ones to come in the future!
Want to know more about our latest update or share your feedback with us? Then join us on our Discord server to say hello to our team and the rest of the community and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Till next time!
This Land Is My Land Team at Game-Labs
Steam Cloud Support Now Enabled!
We have a short announcement for you; you can now use the Steam Cloud to backup your This Land Is My Land save data!
To enable or disable this feature, do the following:
- From the Steam Library, right-click on the game and select Properties.
- Under the Update tab, the Cloud Synchronization setting can be toggled.
You can choose to disable this option at any time you like. Thank you!
Enter This Land Is My Land’s Scenic Screenshot Contest
Good day, Chiefs!
We are inviting each and every one of you to look around your land and appreciate its beauty! This is This Land Is My Land’s Scenic Screenshot Contest!
You can get a chance to win amazing prizes by taking screenshots that shows the game’s landscape, environment, and also settlements/camps.
Here are the rules:
- Minor edits such as shaders, colorations, and cropping are allowed. No edits that add elements or are large changes.
- It must be uploaded to the Discord channel: #screenshot-submissions.
- Contents must follow Steam community guidelines and Discord rules.
Entries will be judged on the following
- The overall quality of the screenshot.
- Composition of the image.
Be one of the winners of the following:
- First place: 3 game codes and the image shared on social platforms
- Second place: 1 game code and the image shared on social platforms
- Third place: 5 in-game items of your choice (within reasons. i.e., You cannot ask for 1,000,000 tokens) and the image shared on social platforms
So be ready to press F12 to take your high-resolution screenshots, explore your land for scenic spots, and may the spirit of beauty and luck be on your side!
May the best Chief win!
Minor Update: Improvements and Multiple Bug Fixes
New minor updates and bug fixes are posted today!
Improvements
- Improved enemy and AI activities.
- Some animation enhancements.
Multiple bugs fixed, including often reported ones such as:
- The inability to take items while inventory has plenty of space.
- Inability to learn the crafting recipe for a couple of weapons.
- The horse that goes underground after fast traveling.
A Major Update is HERE: Localization, Enemy Bosses, New Weapons, and More!
It is an exciting time for us all as we announce a major update we have been working on. This Land Is My Land is a game driven and fueled by passion, and we genuinely appreciate the emotion our community shows when it comes to mechanics and features. You give us the motivation to make this game as polished as possible.
With that said, here are the inclusions of patch 0.0.3.14532 for This Land Is My Land. Be sure to stay on the lookout for more news and future updates!
New Localization: French, German, Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian
With the help of our responsive and attentive testers who helped us a lot by fixing our texts, you can now play the game in six different languages: English, French, German, Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian.
We also have a system that allows any player to help us improve our localization by fixing errors if they are found. To help us improve our localization, you can suggest your own translation by simply copying the .lng file and changing the text to any language you prefer. Also, as always, players can contact us on our Discord server or report issues and help us to fix them through F11 or Discord support tickets.
Improved Visuals, AI Behavior, and Overall Game Performance
Though it is far from being final, we worked on the game's overall performance and improved it for a better game experience. Animations are greatly improved and AI behavior is enhanced for a more natural response from enemies and allies. These kinds of improvements are always on the team's table to polish the basic gameplay, so expect more down the line.
Gameplay and Basic Mechanics Upgrades
We heard you, and we worked on some of the things that you pointed out.
- First, we removed the Skill Point (SP) cost when you need to get "unstuck" using the menu button. We changed that so that players can get back to the game without any cost during the unfortunate times where you might get stuck in the world.
- New search filters are implemented to the craft tab so players can easily find the items they need to be crafted.
- Now on the HP bar, you can see the current health, which will be displayed in numbers.
- Horse bond level now grows faster, hay bait now gives more health to your horse, and your bonded horse's health regenerates.
Major Game Additions
We added a lot of good stuff in the game that you will enjoy.
- Many new settlement varieties and activities have been added.
- There are several new weapons available in the world. You can now use Nagashiko Arsenal 1868 Teppo, H.W. Lancaster & Co Model C Rifle, Lee-Shneider Wheel Gun No.2, Vinceta de 42mm Mortar, and 42mm Grenades in the game.
- There are new boss items that have also been added, such as the Pike, which you can obtain from one of the bosses and sell to the traders for an attractive price.
- We also introduced world enemy bosses or non-obligatory enemies which appear in the late game. They will all pose different challenges and unique opportunities for you.
- And one more thing, two new items have been added to the Craft section: Campfire and Long-lasting Campfires! These campfires can be used as outposts, that is, now you can craft campfires and place them in a convenient place, except for settlements. You can fast travel from an established campfire to any friendly camp or outpost with a fire lit, and you can also fast travel to any established campfire if you are near a friendly camp or outpost with a fire lit.
General Fixes and Improvements
We are aware that some bugs hinder players from enjoying This Land Is My Land, we are continually working to fix them.
- We optimized and fixed the random freezes experienced in the game.
- We also fixed the issue of players being unable to kill or eliminate mounted enemies.
- We fixed the "Add Order" issue which caused to have only Options A, B, C in the list of items.
- Players can now have an unlimited number of resistances and no longer be limited by a few saved games where you can continue the adventure. This way, you can fully immerse yourself in the rich gameplay of This Land is My Land.
More Updates Are Coming!
The items above are just the start, and we plan to provide notable fixes to the game continuously. Expect more things to come that are based on your feedback. We are committed to delivering a game that lets you experience unique gameplay. We genuinely appreciate your support and feedback.
We love hearing from you, so be sure to join our Discord server and say hello to our team and fellow Chiefs.
This Land Is My Land Team at Game-Labs
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Enemy Boss: The Ninja
Fueled by his fascination and passion with martial arts that he got from these books, on his 20th birthday, he decided to travel across the globe to Japan. There, he sought a master that can teach him to be a true warrior.
He spent ten years learning how to attack and defend with incredible skill and precision. His master, a cheerful but stern older man, gave him an extraordinary rifle that can hit a moving target even from afar. His wise master also enlightened him before his graduation, a unique meditation technique that a warrior can use to defeat his true enemies. By meditating by a river, a true warrior will see his enemy’s lifeless body float downstream. It is an ancient technique that is both deadly and peaceful.
Watkin came home from his travels from the East one day, and a devastating revelation struck his warrior’s heart. He found out that the bandit leader, Pugach, killed his parents on the road. They ambushed their carriage, robbed them blind, and shot them in point-blank.
Filled with rage and confusion, this young warrior can be seen day and night, meditating by the river, carefully listening to the sound of the water, and vigilantly waiting for Pugach’s body to float by.
Suppose you happen to see this weary warrior by the river, Chief, tread lightly. His eyes may be closed, but his aim is true.
Enemy Boss: The Dentist
A distinguished member of the society for Medicinal and Dental Advancement, Marty Mcflu is the owner of numerous dental cabinets scattered from the East to the West coast. Known for his contribution to modern medicine, particularly in dentistry, he became a well-renowned advocate of contemporary dental procedures and treatments.
Even his travels are well-noted, for he is known to go on a journey twice every year to pursue greater knowledge of dental surgery. On each trip, he will come back with significant innovations to better treat the ailing human body.
Some say that he travels across the seas to Europe to study and learn from the universities. Others speculate that he mostly bury himself inside a library going through countless books in search of knowledge. But the truth is far more sinister than the fiction.
In truth, he hires gunmen to accompany him in setting his “field cabinets” across our lands. His heartless henchmen capture our people, tie them like animals, and bring their beaten bodies to the doctor. “What for?” you ask. To be his living subjects! To see how much pain we can endure.
As Chief, it is your responsibility to save your people from the hands of this wicked man. Let the pain of The Doctor’s victims fuel our resistance and drive the root of evil away from our land.
Introducing Enemy Bosses: The Bandits
Led by a cunning and vicious man from somewhere in Eastern Europe named Stefan Pugach. Pugach grew in a small, impoverished village; he turned to a life of crime by robbing traders along the roads to fend for himself.
Once the law caught up with him, he managed to escape and continue his murderous rampage across the ocean to the New World.
Best avoid open crossroads and beaten paths, it is most likely that Pugach and his men are waiting to ambush you and your tribesmen.
Look around, listen to the ground, and sharpen your senses. The Bandits are watching your every move. No settlement is safe when the Bandits are nearby. These murderous men fear no one.
They are deep in the forest with their plundered wealth. They prey on the weak. If you ever run into these wicked men, as the Chief of your tribe, you must know how to hunt predators.
Enemy Bosses feature coming soon to This Land Is My Land's next major update.
Introducing World Bosses: The British Squad
We're currently working on a big update for This Land is My Land which we will tell you more about soon.
One of the upcoming features, which we are very excited to share with you, will be Enemy World Bosses.
First up, we have the British Squad.
The British Imperial Army sent Viscount Montgomery and his men to look for an American warrior roaming in our land. Montgomery and his men are armed to the teeth, determined to exact justice by hunting down Watkin Jones, the ninja. Now, a regiment of armed and dangerous men is devoted to enacting punishment to those who deserve it.
Now, this pack of rabid wild men in red coats is fueled by blind justice and roaming our land. Though most of his men are questioning his orders, Montgomery still inspires a patriotic grip on his company. By obeying his orders, they demonstrate their loyalty to the British Empire and the Crown.
Armed with muskets, this fearsome squad can and will fire at you from long distance. They are not afraid to let their weapons display their superior firepower to keep you and your tribesmen at bay.
If you choose to face them on the field, you must carefully plan your every step. You can fight them head-on, risk your people's lives or cut off the head and watch as the rest of the pack scurries around in confusion. The Resistance is on your hands, Chief!
Stay tuned as we introduce more of the other Enemy World Bosses next week.