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Dear Players,

Thank you for your unwavering support! This year, Len's Island is eligible for the Steam Awards, and we would be honored to have your nomination! 🙏

• Fighting, farming, exploring, and building are always better with friends

• Cooperative gameplay that strengthens friendships

• Whether your friend gets eaten by a shark or you get electrocuted in a thunderstorm, there's never a dull moment when playing together

  If you love playing Len's Island and exploring the islands with friends, please vote for us in the Better With Friends award!

If you are willing to support us, please go to the Nominate Section at the top of this announcement (or on the Store Page).

Please nominate us for:

• Better With Friends Award

Every single vote fuels our passion to keep creating, updating, and perfecting Len's Island.

Whether it's a nomination or a review on the store page, we appreciate you being part of our community.

Thank you for being with us. Let's make a splash at the Steam Awards together! 🚀

Hey all, it's been a while, I hope you're well!

We have been preparing a fun update for December, and thought it best to put out a patch now to fix some bugs and make some meaningful changes to the camera system.

I'm still open to making further changes to the camera if needed, but I think we have nailed it now.

~ Julian

• Inverted the default camera tilt, as it was the opposite of what most people are used to (you can still invert it back in the game settings)

• Added smooth-scrolling to camera zoom so it's not bound by only 3 zoom levels

• Changed the smoothing settings and sensitivity levels for the camera

• Added new sliders in settings to adjust camera sensitivity and zoom sensitivity

• The camera now adjusts when you tilt to look at the horizon, making it easier to see into the distance while moving around.

• Slightly altered the FOV of the camera

• Fixed interact objects such as beds, chests, campfires, etc, becoming locked and not clickable

• Fixed an exploit where holding down the attack input after starting the press during the crit window of a tool would result in all subsequent attacks being crits

• Optimised enemy loading speed to improve frames in the dungeons while lots of enemies are spawning

• Fixed moving farm plots in edit mode not working correctly

• Several changes to help prevent cases where character data can become corrupt

• Added distant black fog in the caves

• Fixed the Cane Torch not properly fading away in buildings

• Fixed the chest on the desert island not being interactable

• Tweaked the cell loading calculation to work better on capped frame rates

• Made grapes and passionfruit display as perfectly ripe on the new UI when in their sparkle stage

• Fixed Tesla towers needing to be interacted with after loading to activate (even though they had fuel)

• Updated compendium pet "unlocked" counter to include bear

• Stopped the chicken coop output slot from showing in UI

• Stopped animals bunching up on bits of navmesh (e.g. from pet bed) before the cellObject navmesh is finished generating

• Stopped foundation farms from being placed on top of decorations if they were snapping to another construct

• Fixed many issues with moving farming items (e.g. water towers, farms, etc.)

• Stopped quests from showing notifications again after every load

• Improved frame rates during chunk loading when using a framerate cap or vsync

• More small improvements to rendering performance.

• Fixed the camera lock setting not saving correctly and resetting whenever changing scenes.

• Fixed Bear cub duplicates from spawning.

• Fixed an issue causing interactable objects to sometimes not be selectable.

• Fixed the new bear cub quest title not translating

Since the 1.0 launch, we’ve been actively gathering your feedback and ideas, and taking note of ways we can continue improving the game. In this update, we've introduced a variety of community-requested features, quality-of-life improvements, and balancing changes that better the Len's Island experience. Discover what's changed in the latest Community Feedback update:

We've changed how the camera works in Len's Island. You can now freely orbit without the soft-lock. Combined with the increased load distance in the settings, you can now see much further into the distance to appreciate the world and discover distant islands. If you don't like the unlocked camera, no worries, you can re-enable the camera lock in the settings menu.

We've made many improvements to chunk loading, including enhancing its performance and adding chunk load distance and speed settings in the game menu. You'll find that the game's performance around large buildings and farms has significantly improved, creating an even smoother experience. This also gives you the option to see islands much further into the distance, although please keep in mind that longer load distances will affect performance.

We made some big performance improvements to large houses and farms. We re-wrote the optimisation systems that handle structures, making larger structures load far smoother and also impact performance far less when you're nearby.

Are your chests filled with random resources and looking like a mess? We've added a new sorting button to all storage items to make it easier to keep your resources in order.

We heard you wanted an easier way to make edits to your base. Now, instead of having to delete and re-place build items, you can use the new 'Move' button to pick up the building item and place it in a new area.

Discover the new black bear lurking in the Len's Island cave network! Once tamed using a bait box, they'll make themselves useful by harvesting nearby wild fruit and vegetable bushes!

Additional UI has been added to the crop system to show its name, maturity, and watering status to give you a better indication of how your crops are progressing in your farm.

Many improvements have been made to translations across all languages, driven by community requests.

We’ve got some exciting events happening this month!

We’ll be at Gamescom this week! Julian, the creator of Len’s Island, will be at the Fireshine booth in the Indie Arena on Thursday and Friday from 2–4 pm. Stop by to say hello, ask questions, and play Len’s Island at the booth.

We're planning the next major update live on stream! In the last week of August, Julian will also be hosting a livestream on our YouTube channel to talk through plans for the next major update. It’s a great chance to share your feedback and ideas directly with the dev team. Subscribe to the Len's Island YouTube Channel and keep an eye on our Discord[discord.gg] for all the details.

Hey everyone! Welcome to another Community Wrap-Up. We’ve got some exciting development news to share, and a bunch of amazing community content that’s been catching our eye, so let’s jump right in.

Since the 1.0 launch, we’ve been actively gathering your feedback and ideas, and taking note of ways we can continue improving the game. We’re excited to announce an update launching this weekend, packed with community-requested features, quality-of-life improvements, and balancing changes. Stay tuned, we’ll be revealing all the details very soon!

We're planning the next major update live on stream! In the last week of August, you can watch lead developer Julian live on the Len's Island YouTube Channel as he plans the content coming in the next major update. Don't miss a chance to share your feedback, insights, and suggestions directly with the developer. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel and join the Discord [discord.gg]for more details!

Come meet the devs and play Len's Island at Gamescom! Julian, the creator of Len's Island, will be hanging out at the Fireshine booth in the Indie Arena between 2-4 pm on Thursday & Friday, ready to chat and answer all of your Len's Island questions! You can also play Len's Island at the booth during the event. Be sure to stop by and say hello!

Congratulations to Foruna for winning the Garden Build Challenge with their creative island base that includes a Len’s Island sign made entirely from crops! Love building in Len’s Island? Join in on the fun and share your creations over on the Len’s Island Discord! [discord.gg]

Ever wondered what surviving 100 in-game days in Len’s Island looks like? Check out this awesome video by Rogue, as they battle bosses, build epic bases, and take on the ultimate 100-day challenge in their latest YouTube video!

This build by Stripysocks is absolutely wild! Who would've thought you could use building pieces to create a full-on airship?!

Community member Axevalla's extravagant pagoda build is nothing short of epic. We can only imagine how long it took to create. One thing’s for sure: Voidling raids don’t stand a chance against this mighty fortress!

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].

• Fixed bug that allowed quests to auto-complete on load without giving rewards.

• Fixed an issue that could make the quest UI not populate correctly.

• Fixed lighting issue and optimised lighting performance.

Hey all, so sorry this happened but a bug slipped thru the last build which caused load issues. These load issues would roll back town levels and crops most notably, and sometimes some other stuff too.

This has been fixed and will no longer happen, but if you loaded the game over the past 12 hours and got some rollbacks, all we can do is manually fix them ourselves. If you lost any progress from this bug, please submit a bug report and share your save files and email https://noteforms.com/forms/lens-island-bug-report-form?notionforms=1. In the report, tell us what you're missing and how you would like it returned. I will then manually add back in any lost town levels, or crop resources, etc, and send back your save file to your email.

Sorry again, hopefully it's the last time we ever have a bad bug like this. We will do whatever we can to help anyone affected and continue your progress.

• Fixed bug with the item drops that could cause some parts of the save file to not load correctly. Then, if the game was saved after that point, it would override and wipe town levels, crops, and some other save data.

• Item pickups on the ground now despawn after 1 hour of playtime (this helps avoid performance issues when large amounts of items are scattered on the ground).

• Killing bosses and lighting keystones give XP to everyone on the server.

• Fixed boats turning into helicopters when turning upside down, still possible to bug the physics, but it's now a lot harder.

• Fixed a bug that could cause trees to despawn temporarily if resource multiplayer was set to 2x.

• Chat messages, such as 'died', 'connected', and 'disconnected', now translate.

• Fixed boss names and outpost names not translating.

• Fixed an issue causing quests to sometimes not load in the correct state.