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Lay of the Land 0.15.0 The Magical Movement Update
🕑 Added 2025-09-11 06:21:43 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
The Magical Movement Update is here and brings combat improvements, animation improvements, new magic spells, new building materials, visual improvements and performance optimizations and more.
I hope you enjoy the update and thank you all so much for the support and I hope you enjoy the game :)
Combat and Animation Improvements
Melee Combat now has an improved feel and better fluidity. Many of the animations for the Player and for Creatures have been improved. You can now move and change spells/off hand items at the same time keeping the flow of combat going. Combat now is also a bit easier in general now but can still be challenging.
New Spells
There are 2 new spells to find and unlock. The Shield Spell creates a forcefield of magical energy keeping out projectiles/attackers allowing you to heal and attack safely from inside the shield. The Detonate spell fires an explosive magical projectile that destroys everything in an area. It is especially useful for blowing holes in walls. Note: Runes for new spells wont appear in loot chests in worlds created in 0.14. Use the GiveItem command to manually unlock these spells in old worlds.
New Building Materials
A few new building materials have been added. As highly requested there is now a set of Concrete materials of various colors that feature a fairly uniform texture. You can now also craft Mud Bricks from Mud increasing the variety of brick colors in the game.
Visual and Performance Improvements
Level of Detail fading has been added to reduce visual pop-in during traversal. This significantly improves the experience of moving throughout the world and improves immersion. This update also brings many performance optimizations. The games GPU VRAM usage has been significantly reduces and memory bandwidth usage reduced. There have also been a number of optimizations on the CPU side as well.
How to Install and Play
Windows
Download the .zip file attached to this post
Place the .zip file into the folder where you want to install the game
Right click the .zip file and click Extract All
A window will open. Click Extract
Open the LayOfTheLand_0.15.0 folder
Double click LayOfTheLand.exe
Linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8lfMfjMVAE
Changelog
General
AMD FSR Super Resolution Support
Updated to UE 5.6.1
Combat
Improved feel and fluidity of combat with new animations
Can now move and switch off hand item or change selected spell at the same time. Time also now slows when in those menus
Combat in general should also be a bit easier now
Animations
Improved Player Movement Animations
Improved Player Sword Animations
Improved Player Hammer Animations
Improved Player Axe Animations
Improved Player Dagger Animations
Improved Acid Ball Animations
Fixed Acid Ball missing hit reactions
Improved Centipede Animations
Fixed Centipede missing hit reactions
Improved Cinder Animations
Improved Crawler Animations
Improved Emu Animations
Improved Roller Animations
Improved Scorpion Animations
Improved Shroomling Animations
Improved Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Animations
Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Death Animation
Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Ranged Variant Reload Animations
Improved Spider Animations
Improved Willy Willy Animations
AI
Improved Skeleton/Mummy/Reclaimed Attack Behaviors
Improved Spider Attack Behaviors
Adjusted Willy Willy Attack Behavior to be easier to fight
Adjusted Roller Behavior to be easier to fight
Monster’s eyes stop glowing on death
Magic Spells
New Shield Spell
New Detonate Spell
Note: Runes for new spells wont appear in loot chests in worlds created in 0.14. Use the GiveItem command to manually unlock these spells in old worlds.
Improved Summon Spell
Voxel Materials
Concrete (White, Black, Red, Green, Blue, Pink, Purple, Orange, Yellow)
Mud Bricks
Items
Shield Rune
Detonate Rune
Performance
New octree render data structure that improves traversal performance and reduces stuttering on lower end pcs.
Significant VRAM and memory bandwidth optimizations
Improved tick parallelization
Various other optimizations
Misc
LODs now fade in/out as they transition
Increased max box dig area for all tools
Temporarily disabled Vulkan support as it is currently broken
New Calm music track
Fixes
Fixed z-fighting on character meshes
Fixed z-fighting on vegetation
Fixed foliage not getting removed properly when building
Fixed building preview not updating until one frame after building
Fixed oak tree sapling growth rate
Fixed on fire status effect not getting removed properly when character enters water
Fixed crafting amount text missing from crafting ui options
Fixed being able to activate steam thruster while riding a horse
Fixed flammable item modifier applying its effect on every hit instead of a 50% chance of applying
Fixed thatch missing building sounds
Comments
Tooley1998
no multiplayer will not be coming unfortunately
Can1ina
is there a way to play multiplayer?
