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— The team

Yes, you read the title right! We are so excited to announce our latest Life is Feudal: Your Own update has dropped, filled with new features and tweaks, reworked luck mechanics and battle survival skill tweaks.
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Important features and tweaks

• Player owned horses that are left unattended in the world now take longer to decay (2 hours)
  
• Reworked three gathering abilities (Search for something Edible, Search for Materials, Search for Herbs). All of these abilities work the same way as the original gathering of alchemy ingredients worked. ‘Targeting’ the tile triggers the visibility of corresponding plants in the area, which you now manually gather
  
• Luck effects from different types of sources (jewelry, blessings and 5 ingredient foods) now have separate effect slots and stack separately
  
• Movable objects can now be damaged by projectiles without a siege damage attribute
  
• You can now rename unmovable objects
  
• You can now give names to movable objects on your claimed lands - making your guild items management easier for everyone
  
• Movable objects placed inside unmovable objects (warehouses, houses, keeps etc) can no longer be opened, looted or moved during JH raids. We’ve implemented this feature to prevent different types of exploits, which allowed players to squeeze into the warehouses and loot them while defenders were fighting elsewhere.
  
• Incomplete buildings and objects now take significantly longer to decay and disappear. You can use the ‘Inspect’ ability on incomplete buildings to see their durability and how soon they will decay and disappear.
  
• Reworked all shield visual geometry
  
• Players should slip and fall down when they step on top of other players or horses
  
• Minimum criminal status duration is now 10 seconds, giving you some time to hit the offender once or twice - make sure not to overdo it!
  
• 5-ingredient food is now boosted. Eating complex foods like this will grant you an ‘Inspired work’ and ‘Luck’ effect and the duration of the effects depends on the quality of the food.
  
• Resurrection sickness is now twice as long and healing effect duration is shorter, making it better to heal yourself now rather than dying
  
• Warnings while looting graves should now work properly and warn you only if you really will lose the alignment upon looting
  
  --- Luck mechanics reworked---
  
• Max luck on a character is now capped at 100 (originally 12)
  
• Luck bonus on jewelry is increased 5x- this will only work on newly crafted jewelry
  
• Luck bonus from skills at lvl 100 of training are increased up to 10
  
• ‘Bless with a God's Love’ luck buff is increased to 8.5 (up to 10 on 100 lvl of the Piety skill)
  
• 5-ingredient foods now provide up to 10 luck
  
• The chance to craft an exceptional item has increased from 0.01% to 0.1%
  
  
• Updated mature oak tree collisions so they can no longer form an impassable wall
  
• Added FoV and Particle Settings to the Video Options of the game
  
• Poisons tweaked so that they last longer (2 to 4 minutes) and the overall damage is also higher
  
• Weapon tooltips slightly improved
  
• Personal timers on horses are now properly ignored during JH
  
  --- ‘Battle Survival’ skill tweaks ---
  
• Added a 60 second cooldown after ‘Fatal Hp Conversion’ proc
  
• Skill raise from the ‘Fatal Hp Conversion’ ability was significantly increased
  
• Luck now properly affects the chance of doubling the amount of fatal Hard HP damage that is transformed into Soft HP
  
• Added a system message when the ‘Fatal Hp Conversion’ is triggered containing the information how luck affected this proc
  
• Shields on the back should now properly lose durability upon being hit
  
  --- Beta Branch---
  
  
• You can now choose between versions of YO that you want to play. If you want to stick to the latest update version, or choose the older one if you prefer. This can be done by right clicking on ‘Life is Feudal’- Properties - Beta.
  

Today’s patch is here to fix the client side crash when re-entering the game near a newly constructed, fancy Castle Gatehouse with Drawbridge! There is also fine tuning of the combat system balance - you can find a detailed description of the changes below.
:cool_lif:

• You can no longer ‘Apply a poison’ to 1.5H swords(56)
  
• Horse bumping formula update, the behavior is closer to previous patch settings (which you guys love so much!)
  
• Horses also receive damage from impact
  
• Cavalryman 90 level bonus from unsaddling is working properly now
  
• Hits in player’s head damage increased by 20% ( 1.5 -> 1.8 from basic)
  
• Added duration (2 seconds) for ‘Inspect’ ability (id=208)
  
• Marble and Slate roads can now be terraformed
  
  Horses:
• Riding Horse and Female Riding Horse
  Impact damage multiplier increased from 0.3 to 1.0
  HP regeneration rate (per sec) reduced from 0.48 to 0.13
  
• Simple Warhorse
  HP regeneration rate (per sec) reduced from 0.64 to 0.26
  
• Spirited Warhorse
  Impact damage multiplier increased from 0.3 to 1.0
  HP regeneration rate (per sec) reduced from 0.64 to 0.16
  
• Hardy Warhorse
  Mass reduced from 900 to 800
  HP regeneration rate (per sec) reduced from 0.8 to 0.32
  
• Heavy Warhorse and Royal Warhorse
  HP regeneration rate (per sec) reduced from 0.8 to 0.38
  
  Ranged
• Sling
  Accuracy reduced from 1.4 to 1.9 (less is better)
  
• Sling Stone
  Damage multiplier reduced from 3.7 to 3.4
  
  Melee
• Nordic Sword
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 1.92 to 2.25
  BasePrefireAnimTime increased from 0.8 to 1.0
  
• Knight Sword
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 2.2 to 2.3
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.78 to 1.9
  
• Light Sabre
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 1.1 to 1.16
  BasePrefireAnimTime increased from 0.8 to 0.9
  BaseFireireAnimTime increased from 0.8 to 0.9
  BaseRecoilAnimTime increased from 0.5 to 0.65
  
• Scimitar
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 1.3 to 1.35
  
• Falchion
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 0.92 to 0.98
  
• Bastard Sword
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 2.4 to 2.51
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.4 to 1.7
  
• Big Falchion
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 1.0 to 1.1
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.5 to 1.8
  
• Gross Messer
  Thrust damage multiplier increased from 1.1 to 1.17
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.4 to 1.75
  
• War Axe
  Swing damage multiplier decreased from 2.16 to 1.94
  BaseRecoilAnimTime increased from 1.0 to 1.1
  
• Battle Axe
  Swing damage multiplier decreased from 2.24 to 2.05
  BaseRecoilAnimTime increased from 1.0 to 1.1
  
• Nordic Axe
  BaseRecoilAnimTime increased from 1.0 to 1.1
  
• War Pick
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.2 to 1.31
  
• Zweihaender
  BasePrefireAnimTime decreased from 1.3 to 1.2
  BaseRecoilAnimTime decreased from 1.3 to 1.1
  
• Flamberge
  BaseRecoilAnimTime decreased from 1.2 to 1.1
  
• Bardiche
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.28 to 1.5
  
• Broad Axe
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.36 to 1.6
  
• Glaive
  BasePrefireAnimTime decreased from 1.3 to 1.2
  
• Guisarme
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.12 to 1.3
  BasePrefireAnimTime decreased from 1.2 to 1.1
  
• War Scythe
  Swing damage multiplier increased from 1.36 to 1.41
  
• Bec de Corbin
  BasePrefireAnimTime decreased from 1.2 to 1.0
  
• Spear
  BaseRecoilAnimTime increased from 0.8 to 0.95
  
• Boar Spear
  BaseFireAnimTime increased from 0.7 to 0.8
  
• Lance
  Damage multiplier increased from 1.8 to 2.0
  
• Jousting Lance
  Damage multiplier increased from 2.4 to 2.65
  
• Decorated Jousting Lance
  Damage multiplier increased from 2.4 to 2.65

Minor visual fixes

— The team

This patch is devoted to a fix for the recently discovered dupe while harnessing a horse to a trade cart. We’ve included some more changes and fixes into this patch too! :cool_lif:

• All damaged buildings no longer have doors/gates. You do not need to destroy a whole building in order to get inside now.
  
• Implemented a heraldry change cooldown to prevent in combat heraldry mimic
  
• Combat update (overall damage balance update, durability losses, stun probabilities)
  
• Forestry abilities levels change
  
• Magic with fields and crops fixed(no more different aging speed of different tiles)
  
• Trebuchet now loses durability, its accuracy depends on player intelligence

• Fixed an inventory dupe with a trader cart
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by a /claimrule command
  
• Players should now properly appear on their beds after homecoming
  
• Fixed sudden death while jumping on the top of the drawbridge

-The team

Just a quick ninja patch to fix some recently added bugs.

• Fixed a serious bug where a guild leader could leave the guild and leadership would not be properly transferred to the other guild member
  
• Fixed a bug where, after harnessing and unharnessing the horse, the Trading Cart inventory visually disappeared
  
• Fixed NULL guild tag issue
  
• Minor art fix for the gatehouse bridge model

-The team

***(Hotfix) A small patch has been issued that should fix a bug that caused Guild Monuments to disappear after certain actions with a guild and its members.***

FINALLY!

After countless sleepless nights, frustration, desperation and strokes of hysterical laughter, we’ve managed to merge the four separate types of entities into one: a horse, a player, a cart and movable objects. The result of which has been highly anticipated by many players and is called: Horse-drawn carts!
Now you can fetch large amounts of items and certain movable objects around the map in an efficient and immersive way. Who knows, maybe you will not need a home anymore and can play as a nomad with all your stuff fitting into one cart? It is Your Own decision, after all! ;)

Also, we’ve implemented a new large set of castle wall models and new keeps! Recipes for building these are now available to you. These new walls should be more efficient and provide a wider angle of fire for the defenders’ archers. New keeps can now be built on top of your guild monument to provide an additional layer of protection for the “heart” of your guild.

We also would like to remind you that this major feature was one of the most voted features suggested by our players. We encourage you, our players, to visit this page and browse through the existing features, vote for them, discuss with others and even suggest your own ideas here[lifeisfeudal.com]!

Lastly, we’ve transferred all the current changes and features from the beta branch to the main/release branch. This means that you will be able to play with these features without a need to switch to the beta branch. The full list of features that are transferred from the beta branch and added with the current patch:

• Horse-drawn carts have been added. You can build a cart, place a riding horse nearby, harness it to the cart. Inventory items AND movable objects can be put inside and pulled out via the context menu options
  
• Optimized and reworked the guild code. Added new ‘Guilds’ button in the Character window - which is where you can now create, manage and invite new members to your guild. The political and a Rights system is currently shown via console commands only. Please, take a look here, if you want some politics on your server!
  
• Implemented ‘Personal Claim’ system
  
• Tuned Volley ability to be easier to use and be more effective (especially against tight formations). Volley ability can be used only if the strength of player is more than `STR need` parameter of a bow
  
• Implemented impact damage that is caused by a horse that tramples a player
  
• Critical weight influence on hit, parry and shield animation speed changed
  
• Armor durability damage buffed. 0.1->1. weaponDurabilityDamage buffed 0.1->0.3 weapon_fracture_min__in_durability_damage 0.1->0.3
  
• Berserker skill abilities now raise the skill faster
  
• Added new type of resource — 'Simple Cloth'. Novice armors require simple cloth instead of linen now. Added new recipes to “Nature's Lore” skill: 'Wristbands', 'Primitive Boots'. 'Bandage' now craft with simple cloth.
  
• Hunters (skill lvl 60) now can craft a hat from fur
  
• All clothes now provide a small amount of damage mitigation
  
• 1h and 2h sword combos work with one-and-a-half swords now
  
• Tweaked almost all special attacks' damage scale. Nerfed some overpowered special attacks (which were found in the beta branch)
  
• "Another Hole" combo sequence changed to less spammable (OH-R(L)S-OH instead of OH-OH-OH)
  
• Increased the number of bind slots in houses and keeps
  
• 3 story plaster house now uses the same number of tiles as the wooden version
  
• Capacity of the 'Warehouse' is now the same as the capacity of Wooden 'Warehouse' (5000 stones)
  
• Added hudless screenshot key in global key map
  
• Implemented the ‘Horse decay’ system in order to minimize excessive server load, which was caused by hundreds of unattended horses being stashed in the attics of residential buildings. A horse without a rider or any interaction within 30 minutes will appear sleeping/laying on the ground, and after an additional 30 minutes, it will ‘run away’ and disappear completely from the gameworld. This mechanism is DISABLED by default. Server admins may to enable this setting by modifying the: $cm_config::Decay::HorsesDecayTimeMinutes preference
  
• Implemented a server-side setting that gives the ability to enable or disable all inventory items being dropped on the ground when a player uses the Homecoming Prayer skill ($cm_config::HomecomingDrop = 0;)
  
• New tooltips system implemented - you can now see detailed information about items, character stats and active effects
  
• Claim radius is now shown in tiles (1 tile side = 2 meters)
  
• Guild claim rendering distance has been lowered
  
• Guild land maintenance price has decreased
  
• Tweaked tree growth algorithm. Trees that are planted by players will now grow faster
  
• Removed ignore parry on 90 lvl Spearman
  
• 90 level Spearman is now required to fight with spear and shield. Also added special attack after knocking down an opponent
  
• Lancers can’t attack on low speed anymore
  
• Added durability checks while interacting with inventory and constructed objects. You will no longer see an ability in the context menu if durability requirements are not met
  
• You can deconstruct incomplete buildings on enemy claims during Judgment Hour. Speed of deconstruction depends on the amount of resources that were invested into that particular building
  
• Properly implemented the swimming skill. It can now be skilled up and allows you to swim longer distances
  
• Armor effects now properly scale with the armor quality
  
• Archer Stand and Defensive Fence now set up immediately in a complete state
  
• Added ‘Load of Mortar’ recipe. Grants the ability to make large amounts of mortar at once, but with increased use of resources
  
• A bunch of crafting recipe tweaks

• Fixed geo substance duplicating via inventory overweight
  
• Player collision capsule is disabled when a player is dead
  
• Fixed multiple messages here and there in order to better explain the situation and what is happening
  
• Slightly optimized netcode
  
• Optimized guild lands drawing algorithm
  
• Optimized server to database communication
  
• Fixed client crash on claim removal
  
• Fixed inability to use Sacrifice when a monument is being upgraded
  
• A few server crash issues have been addressed
  
• Optimized collision models of some objects. This should boost servers performance slightly.
  
• Fixed an exploit making some players invulnerable
  
• Fixed a situation where a character was dismounted from a horse after stun. Now a dismount will only happen if a character is knocked dow.
  
• Now renaming, opening and dropping bags and similar containers is working properly
  
• Ranger skill abuse with pavise fixed
  
• Fixed ability to draw a spear on horseback
  
• Fixed terraforming related substance dupe
  
• You can no longer add fuel to damaged devices
  
• Fixed the quality cap on metal types in the case of chainmail armor crafting
  
• Fixed /stuck exploit, which would allow players to get inside a fortified perimeter
  
• Fixed incorrect food quality multiplier calculation. Now the value of the multiplier is recalculated with hunger increase
  
• You can gather silkworm cocoons from medium mulberry trees

-The team

Hey everyone,

In today's patch, we want to take a second to say, 'hello!' to the small group of people who were concerned that LiF:YO had been forgotten about. Well, of course, we would never do that and are excited for today's updates. See for yourself in the patch notes or take a look on the beta test branch for more info!
Please read the end of the post if you’re unsure how to activate LiF:YO Steam beta branch.

• Optimized and reworked guild code. Added new ‘Guilds’ button in the Character window - which is where you can now create, manage and invite new members to your guild. Political and rights system is currently exposed via console commands only. Please, take a look here, if you want some politics on your server ;)
  
• Implemented ‘Personal Claim’ system
  
• Implemented the ‘Horse decay’ system in order to minimize excessive server load, which was caused by hundreds of unattended horses being stashed in the attics of residential buildings. A horse without a rider or any interaction within 30 minutes will appear sleeping/laying on the ground, and after an additional 30 minutes, it will ‘run away’ and disappear completely from the gameworld. This mechanism is DISABLED by default. Server admins may to enable this setting by modifying the: $cm_config::Decay::HorsesDecayTimeMinutes preference
  
• Implemented a server-side setting that gives the ability to enable or disable all inventory items being dropped on the ground when a player uses the Homecoming Prayer skill ($cm_config::HomecomingDrop = 0;)
  
• New tooltips system implemented - you can now see detailed information about items, character stats and active effects
  
• Claim radius is now shown in tiles (1 tile side = 2 meters)
  
• Guild claim rendering distance is lowered
  
• Guild land maintenance price decreased
  
• Tweaked tree growth algorithm. Trees that are planted by players will now grow faster
  
• Special attack damage multipliers boosted
  
• Removed ignore parry on 90 lvl Spearman
  
• 90 level Spearman is now required to fight with spear and shield. Also added special attack after knocking down an opponent
  
• Lancers can’t attack on low speed anymore
  
• Added durability checks while interacting with inventory and constructed objects. You will no longer see an ability in the context menu if durability requirements are not met
  
• You can deconstruct incomplete buildings on enemy claims during Judgment Hour. Speed of deconstruction depends on the amount of resources that were invested into that particular building
  
• Properly implemented the swimming skill. It can now be skilled up and allows you to swim longer distances
  
• Armor effects now properly scale with the armor quality
  
• Archer Stand and Defensive Fence now set up immediately in a complete state
  
• Added ‘Load of Mortar’ recipe. Grants the ability to make large amounts of mortar at once, but with increased use of resources
  
• A bunch of crafting recipe tweaks

• Slightly optimized netcode
  
• Optimized guild lands drawing algorithm
  
• Optimized server to database communication
  
• Fixed client crash on claim removal
  
• Fixed inability to use Sacrifice when a monument is being upgraded
  
• A few server crash issues have been addressed
  
• Optimized collision models of some objects. This should boost servers performance slightly.
  
• Fixed an exploit making some players invulnerable
  
• Fixed a situation where a character was dismounted from horse after stun. Now a dismount will only happen if a character is knocked down.
  
• Now renaming, opening and dropping bags and similar containers is working properly
  
• Ranger skill abuse with pavise fixed
  
• Fixed ability to draw a spear on horseback
  
• Fixed terraforming related substance dupe
  
• You can no longer add fuel to damaged devices
  
• Fixed the quality cap on metal types in the case of chainmail armor crafting
  
• Fixed /stuck exploit, which would allow players to get inside a fortified perimeter
  
• Fixed incorrect food quality multiplier calculation. Now the value of the multiplier is recalculated with hunger increase
  
• You can gather silkworm cocoons from medium mulberry trees

In order to check it out, you will need to switch to the beta branch. Full instructions are available here[docs.google.com].

-The team

Hey everyone,

We have located and executed a few nasty bugs that managed to get into our release build. Releasing those fixes now.

• Fixed a bug that showed blocked cells as green (unblocked)
  
• Reenabled bind of “V” button to look at your character
  
• Fixed 0 quality dung
  
• Fixed bugs that kept your body in the world, after you’ve performed a suicide
  
• Provided fixes of multiple issues with stables and other buildings construction processes
  
• You can perform a suicide only with bladed weapons. Text was changed accordingly.
  
• Tweaked mining skill descriptions in the skill book

-The team

Hey everyone,

Along with some other features, bugfixes and tweaks we’re glad to introduce the 30 sec logoff timer. There is no way for your enemy to disappear right before death, because they logged off instantly.

P.S. Check out our new company logo ;)

• Implemented 30 second timer during the logoff process. During that 30 seconds your character will be in game (even if you’ve closed your game or shut off the PC).
  
• Honorable Death - you can now type /suicide (or drag the appropriate icon from General Action skills to your hotbar) to kill yourself in some situations. The ability will take 10 seconds to cast and can be interrupted
  
• Camera positions tweaked for different player states. In some cases 'hold to rotate camera' key may need rebinding in control settings.
  
• Skinning of an animal carcass will drop all skinned results into your inventory and will remove the carcass from the world
  
• You will see an oxygen bar, while under water. Drowning will be more visible and easy to understand now
  
• You can now place all tamed animals into carts and warehouses
  
• "Sow Flax" ability now requires 30 skill level
  
• You can erect a monument on paved tiles now
  
• You can now eat preparations while mounted
  
• “Slow” effect can now be removed by an “Arghh!” ability
  
• Optimized server to database communication
  
• Slightly optimized netcode
  
• Added a new Bitbox logo intro
  
• Armor textures slightly tweaked and renewed
  
• In GM mode you can speed growth of crops in the targeted cell by typing /growcrops in the console
  
• Trebuchet now has lower projectile starting velocity. Inadequate siege projectile behavior also fixed.
  
• Grossmesser damage reduced
  
• Siege tent decay speed has been reduced
  
• New, improved Inspect skill

• Removed a /stuck exploit that allowed you to get inside houses while relogging on their roof
  
• Fixed several coop issues, both mechanics and GUI
  
• Removed a client side deadlock
  
• Fixed some of the problems with terraforming without a tool in your hands
  
• Primitive tools no longer stack bonuses of better equipment
  
• Rare alchemy/herbalism crash fixed
  
• Fixed a gameplay bug where you could cook on a broken campfire indefinitely
  
• Fixed improper birch log durability
  
• Homecoming cooldown can no longer be refreshed by relogging
  
• You can no longer flatten an already flat tile for additional skill gain
  
• Mining time for copper vs iron has been tweaked
  
• Chances to find rare minerals and gems at level 60 and 90 of Mining skill are as intended now
  
• Blacksmith outfit now grants a proper bonus to the skill
  
• Trebuchet max fire distance adjusted
  
• You can no longer track other player’s activity via the console
  
• Armorsmith and Ranger skills trivia updated to correctly describe the skills
  
• World selection button removed from the character selection screen

-The team