It's been three weeks since the Early Access launch and we've been working hard to ensure that the experience is as stable as possible in this period when the game is still quite young.

We have fixed dozens of bugs. While there aren't updates for every patch, we've gone from 0.1.0 to 0.1.14 That's 14 updates with fixes!

And now, although we are still working on fixing all the issues you are reporting, we are also combining our time with expanding the Farlands content, and the first major update, the 0.2, will arrive IN SEPTEMBER.

This update will mainly bring three things:

The missing tabs in the inventory.

That is the museum collections tab, the NPCs, the map and the messages system. Some of them will be in preliminary forms, but at least we will be able to unhook the “coming soon” sign.


Memory chips

Thinking about 0.3, which will bring interior decoration and house extensions, for now what 0.2 will have is the system for expanding the crafting machine. Using memory chips that you will be able to buy from vendors, you will unlock new furniture sets.


Cards, badges, backgrounds and icons
Along with all this, from 0.2, playing Farlands you will be able to get Steam trading cards, with which you can make badges and unlock backgrounds and icons. Let's see if you can get the reflective badge!

Of all the updates to come, this is the one with the least content of all. This is because we knew we would have to dedicate a good part of our time to fix the major issues, and because we were able to introduce some of the most important elements in 0.1 (the calendar, Larry & Barry and a few other things).

But from this point on, look forward to the next updates, because all of them will be loaded with new mechanics and content that you will be able to sink your teeth into.

Thank you all for your support and keep up the good work!

After a year and a half of development, and with the whole team equally nervous and exhausted, the Farlands Early Access is OUT NOW!

It comes with a base price of $14.99 and 10% discount (Price adjusted to different regions).

We are a small team, and the Early Access comes with its fair share of bugs, so if you feel like it, you can access the Farlands Discord to report everything you find, and in the next updates we'll be working on fixing everything!

You also have the soundtrack available, and a convenient pack with game plus soundtrack at a discounted price!

Thank you very much for your support and enjoy Farlands!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2252680/Farlands/

Below you will see a detailed list of all the updates coming during Early Access and what systems and content they will bring:

This roadmap is tentative and subject to change during development, community feedback is very important and it is possible that we will modify the order of updates, add/remove things and generally make changes during the Early Access period.

However, it should serve as an indication of what content Farlands will have in the final release, and what we will be working on at each point in Early Access.

The first version you'll be able to play of Farlands, version 0.1, will be a slightly more sandbox experience, as many of the game's core systems will not yet be in place, the first updates will mainly be bug-fixing patches.

The first Farlands update will be based on the calendar, which will start to show the days of the week. That will allow us to start working on the seasonal events and a few other things.

Along with this system, Larry & Barry will have the random stock that they promise in their event, and we will fine tune some vegetable stuff.

Finally, the main menu will show some of the tabs listed as "coming soon" and the expandable memory chip system will be added, to unlock new craftable recipes.

The third update will focus on house upgrades, which we will be able to do by talking to Grubert, the carpenter. And why do we want a bigger house if we can't decorate it? Well, don't worry, because together with the upgrade system, we will add the memory chips with indoor furniture.

In parallel, the tool upgrade systems, food recipes and of course, the ability to eat, and the weather (thanks to the previous update with the calendar) will be added.

This update will be a big one, because it will add the whole layer of social relationships with characters, events and dialogues depending on the level of friendship. Initially only the first events will be available with each NPC, and the rest will be added with each update.

Accompanying this system, another of the menu tabs will be unlocked, the messaging tab. Through which we will be able to send and receive emails with neighbors.

Alongside these systems, new furniture sets and story events will be added.

One of the important points of Farlands is "peaceful" combat, but that can't be done if there is only one enemy in the mines. In this update, new hostile mobs will be added and the second mine in Hafnir will be unlocked.

Additionally, new furniture, candidate and story events will be unlocked.

A new planet will be available! Vanadian, the desert planet, whose days last so long that depending on when you arrive, you will see a perpetual day or night.

Vanadian will come with new resources to collect, insects, fish and a merchant with his own stock of rarities.

Additionally, new events with neighbors, a new story event, and new furniture sets will be added.

If things go well up to this point, 0.7 will serve the team to clean up, fix and improve the systems that are already implemented, here we will use this update to iron out the rough edges and leave everything well rounded. But of course, it will also bring things for you:

As with every update, new events with neighbors, story events and furniture sets will be added.

And after polishing and cleaning, we return to the charge with new systems; the construction of stables and the space animal care system. After this update we will be able to build stables of different classes on the farm and adopt creatures that will give us resources with which to earn money.

Along with this, the same of the previous updates: New story events, with neighbors and furniture to go rounding out the experience.

And after all the progress that has been made in relationships with neighbors, the time has come for weddings. With a romanceable candidate with whom we have the relationship to the maximum, we will be able to get married and when we do it... things will happen.

Along with this, it will advance the story a bit more and some furniture and decorations will be added.

And finally we come to update 1.0, which will allow you to complete the game, although it will not be the end of the development, as there will still be pending things that will be added after this update.

Here what we will have is a new planet, Darmstad, with the third mine of the game and its own set of oxygen mechanics. At the same time, the story will progress to the endgame and Farlands can be completed (although not 100%).

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

After this, we have a lot of things left to do: Steam achievements, story events up to 100% completion of the ark, a whole planet!

All these things will be added throughout the updates when we make adjustments to the roadmap, or after completing it, closing the last stages of development and completing everything we have pending.

As I said at the beginning, this roadmap is tentative, it is only an approximation of what we will be doing, and because of the way we work, many systems will be moving from one side to another in order to have a smooth development, both for us and for you.

Still, I hope you will join us in this adventure, and play Farlands along with us with each update, to see how things are progressing, and how the game is completed around us.

Thank you very much!

After the success of the demo, and as we announced at the Future Games Show, Farlands will be released in Early Access next Wednesday, July 24th, three weeks from now as of this post.

The whole team is excited and nervous in equal parts (some more nervous than excited).

When Farlands comes out, we will have been in development for only a year and a half, a record time for a project of this size. Consequently, many things will have to be refined and updated slowly.

Even so, we have a roadmap prepared with all the content and major updates that will be coming to Farlands during the Early Access period. Before we get started, we want to thank you for your patience and understanding for the turbulences that may occur during the development process.

Thank you all very much and we will share the roadmap with all the details soon!

The Farlands demo is no longer available, thank you all for giving our game a try!

During this week we have had more than 20.000 players downloading the demo, almost 15.000 new wishlists have been added and we have received more than 600 bug reports and suggestions (this last figure may not be so good ^^" ).

Now it's time to move on to the next phase, which is to prepare for the Early Access launch, which will arrive on July 24th, five weeks from now.

Since we are a small team, and the demo has aroused a lot of interest, I can already warn you that in those five weeks we will not have time to fix all the problems that have appeared during these days of play, but we will do our best and after the launch, we will continue working with the same attitude and dedication to correct all the problems and slowly make Farlands a game that we can be proud of.

Thank you all very much for playing, for your patience and for your support!

The Farlands demo has been available since we announced it last week, but it's now Friday and the Steam Next Fest is coming to an end in a few days. Which means that the demo... will no longer be available.

Oh no! Why?

Simply because we have to focus our efforts on the Early Access, which will arrive on July 24th.

During all this week we have received a lot of reports and suggestions that we have been studying conscientiously. Until today, we have released daily updates fixing the problems that players reported and escaped to QA, but from next week, we will not be able to continue with that dynamic.

If we focus on the demo, we won't get to Early Access with the level of quality we want, and if we keep the demo public, and we don't update it, and you will have to suffer some bugs and problems that we won't fix because we are focusing on Early Access.

As we don't want to have to juggle, and the most important thing is that the game comes out perfect, we have decided to take the demo down for the moment. There will be new opportunities to test Farlands in other more polished demos at a later date, once Early Access has been released.

Thank you all so much for the reception Farlands has received, and we'll keep you posted on updates until Early Access!

Farlands has been announced at the Future Games Show during the Summer Games Fest week. And in that announcement we have taken the opportunity to announce EVERYTHING:

On one hand, you already have the DEMO available, it will be playable during the whole Steam demo fest, and even after the event is over.

In the demo you will have 10 days of gameplay where you can do anything you want. It's hard to see what a farm game experience is like in a demo, but we hope you enjoy the experience.

And on the other hand, the Early Access release date for Farlands is:

July 24, 2024

As of this writing we have 6 weeks to go. Time that we will devote to bug fixing, polishing and doing everything we can to make the Farlands experience as smooth as possible, even from the beginning of the Early Access.

Thank you all for your support, and we'll keep working!

Thanks to ICOA (The Catalan Institute of Alternative Leisure), next 3rd and 4th of May, Farlands will have a small booth at Guadalindie in Malaga, a new fair focused on the world of independent videogames.

Farlands development is now in a tricky stage, so we can't prepare a demo just for this event, but we will bring the latest development build (and as polished as possible!).

So if you're local, want to say hello, or want to try Farlands before Early Access, this will be the perfect time. Also, we'll be bringing rewards for those of you who find bugs and manage to break the game.

See you soon!

In January 2023, we started working on Farlands, and to show the development process, we also started uploading a series of videos for the Hispanic community showing what we were doing.

This year, all those videos are being localized and translated so that non-Spanish speaking communities can also see the entire process of the Farlands development.

If you're interested in taking a peek behind the curtains, you can find those videos (and every trailer we make), on the Farlands YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@Farlandsgame

At the moment there are only two videos available explaining the initial ideas and how the development started. The rest of the videos will be uploaded at a rate of one video every 15 days until the localized version reaches the Hispanic version, after that, one video per month will be uploaded.

We hope you enjoy the series as much as the Hispanic community is enjoying it!

Thank you very much!