How do you do Exploration Multiplayer?

[Dilly]

I'm trying to do multiplayer with friends in the new exploration mode and don't know how it works you guys know?

[LustrousTroll]

you need to travel in any cardinal direction on the map until a pop up happens that says you can now travel to different ylands when travelling to a yland there will be two differences mostly colour blue is a single player island at start which can then have mp turned on after generation is done and you can access the pause menu. the second is the mp island. which connects you to an already generated yland which i assume has mp already turned on essentially its just a single player island someone generated and enabled mp.

for friends in mp. i would assume each of you would need to travel to that point on the map you want to explore/generate most if not all you should load in on that map. if someone doesnt load into the map you can always invite them through the friends list i believe.

[LustrousTroll]

some type of system to determine friends or not should be implemented to take priority over random generation. like if your friends island is on the most northern peninsula and you know thats where he generated his yland you can click on it and you wont generate a random yland the game will go through a quick check something like

game: map tundra;isl4 sp/mp;
game: map tundra;isl4 sp;
game: check friends;
game: friends near;
game: send prompt 1;
Prompt1: //you see a familiar stack of smoke would you like you investigate//
game: if investigate; yes "game" load "friendref";
friendref: //game// Bob/tundra:isle4 "load";
game: //loading// "game" bob/tundra:isle4;
game: //loaded//

[fbnaia]

When you are in exploration mode, press escape on your keyboard, you will see a section called "direct join", a set of 10 numbers.

You can give your friends that numbers via ylands chat or steam chat. You enter those numbers Multiplayer lobby, at the search box.

Also, you can press 'M', and go to region map, you click the share button, and it will take you to the social tab with a list of your friends to share your map to join.