It's the end of March, which means another Community Wrap-Up!

In case you missed it, we released a big patch over the weekend, which included significant balancing changes and a performance boost. You can check out the patch notes here.

Now, to kick-start our March Community Wrap-Up, let's take a sneak peek at some new content coming to Len's Island 1.0...

We've been working on some exciting new areas for you to explore in the caves at 1.0, including a new slime biome. These locations are filled with slime, a valuable new crafting resource collected by mining slime piles. Always keep on high alert in this biome, as you never know what enemies are lurking in the shadows.

Who is Len? Why did they end up on the island? And what's the deal with no shoes? We'll be answering these burning questions in 1.0! Len has always been a bit of a mystery, so we'll be giving more insight into the story behind Len's Island, and we wanted to share some new artwork that will be coming with the big update.

What's going on in this image? Let us know what you think in the comments.

We held a vote on X[x.com] to find out what 1.0 feature you're most excited about. We couldn't list everything new, and co-op multiplayer would be the obvious choice, so we asked you to choose from Chickens, Bows, Slime enemies, or the Final Boss.

To our surprise, you chose Chickens!

Get ready to capture, raise, and gather new resources from your very own chicken farm in Len's Island soon. You'll find chickens free-roaming around the islands, and you can place chicken coops around your home base to give them places to sleep and breed.

As developers, it'll forever bring us joy watching the community play our game, Len's Island. We enjoyed seeing 20 Minute Gamer's past stream where they explored the islands, built their home, mastered farming, and saw some speedy tree growth!

We're always impressed by the screenshots found on the Len's Island Discord[discord.gg] and Steam Community. Check out this image by Delacroix - they captured the perfect moment during a boss fight, throwing a special attack that almost looks like a force field. Talk about good timing!

As always, if you made something cool or saw something cool, we'd love to see! Tag us on X[x.com] or share it on Discord[discord.gg].

Hey everyone!

I have a surprise patch for you all. No new content, but some significant balancing changes, and a significant performance boost :)

As we have been getting the 1.0 version ready, we have noticed the early-game balancing being a bit off. It was a little too grindy and difficult at the start, so I have introduced some of the balancing changes we are implementing for 1.0. These changes keep the core experience and mid-late game the same, but you'll find it a bit quicker and easier to get started in a new game.

The performance changes are pretty big. We've always had some fps dips around the towns and bigger islands. We were able to double fps for most players around the towns and large islands with this update, and overall boost fps by around 30% over the entire overworld. The performance savings will differ for everyone, but overall, your fps will now be consistently higher!

P.s. We will have some more info about 1.0 and multiplayer to share in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

~ Julian

• Increased default hotbar slots to 6, removed some of the hotbar skills from the skilltree
  
• Halved resource cost for all basic building pieces
  
• Reduced resource cost for bed, workbench, and campfire
  
• Lowered blue berry sell price and doubled the blue berries dropped from bushes
  
• Slightly lowered damage for void and voidling attacks
  
• Lowered crafting cost of iron weapons from 3 iron to 1
  
• Lowered crafting cost of anvil stone and iron
  
• Made hunger drain 30% slower
  
• Made full belly healing a 30% quicker
  
• Made all stones destroy in 1 less hit

• Reworked chunk loading system. Overall improved fps by ~30% on most islands, and now over 50% fps boost around towns

• Fixed multiple load screen errors
  
• Fixed resource notifications sometimes being slightly incorrect
  
• Fixed the frozen status effect from the winter islands sometimes not going away after leaving the area
  
• Fixed controller navigation breaking in the menu when a user has no save files in list
  
• Fixed some errors leading to game crashes