I've Finally Added Building to my Voxel Game - Lay of the Land

Wishlist Lay of the Land on Steam
store.steampow...
Support development and play the game early
Patreon: / tooley1998
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tool...
Gday everyone. I'm super excited to announce that building is now in the game!! Finally. This was huge update and was the most complex thing in terms of game design I have ever done. Thank you all for the support :)
Building:
You can now build using a variety of voxel tools.
Shapes:
There are various procedural shapes that you can use to quickly build with. These include: Box, Capsule, Cylinder, Cone, Hexagon, Hexagonal Cone, Path and Sphere.
Prefabs:
There a many prefab objects that you can build with. These include: Slopes, Windows, Fences etc.
Props:
You can decorate your builds with a variety of props. These include: Tables, Chairs, Barrels, Crates, Candles, Couches, Doors, Beds, Bookshelves and more.
Resource Collection:
Resources can now be harvested using their respective tools. E.g hammer for stone, axe for wood etc.
linktr.ee/tool...

[@Tooley1998]

*Wishlist Lay of the Land on Steam :)* store.steampowered.com/app/2776090 *Support development and play the game early* Patreon: www.patreon.com/Tooley1998 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tooley1998

[@dimitri0404]

Maybe it would be handy to for players to make their own models, and (if they have the materials) place them. That way if they design a really intricate wall/floor/roof/decoration, they would be able to save it and easily replicate it.

[@ueaj4576]

Does this game have a separate client & server?

[@kakaodieb]

If i sub can I play right now?

[@dimitri0404]

@@kakaodieb I think you have to donate to patreon or Kofi

[@kakaodieb]

@@dimitri0404 yeah sure. i meant to subbing to the patreon :D

[@SeesWithButtonEyes-ib5kl]

I can already see it now “I built all of Skyrim in Lay of the Land”

[@freon8933]

Build the entirety of the Black Mesa Research Facility in Lay of the Land-

[@TheoP-qq6sv]

Yeah I was getting Hella Skyrim vibes from the music and ambience too.

[@HaiderJavaid-lh7un]

“I built THE EARTH in Lay of the Land”

[@terminok2015]

SAME! I kept thinking this would be so cool to remake oblivion towns and ruins in.

[@Marscael24]

The building community is salivating by the buckets.

[@DWatso]

Great wanting, confirmed.

[@judgsmith]

Confirmed

[@Smallest_Man]

I am swimming in it my guy

[@IronDragonGroup]

Lost in the sauce.

[@kagemushashien8394]

Indeed

[@sarahstewart4684]

They made chisel and bits into a whole game unironically though this looks awesome and im hyped

[@martinsanchez3458]

Although chisel and bits has a higher resolution, this game seems way more flexible in the things it can do, and the complex geometries are done for you

[@baballerz4339]

Check out Vintage Story, made by the same creator of the TerraFirmaCraft mod. It has chisel & bits in base game too!

[@maskedredstonerproz]

​@@martinsanchez3458 well let's be fair, chisels and bits are 1 cubic pixel, this, is bigger

[@raremc1620]

​@@baballerz4339Don't know where you got the information that it's made by the same creator, but it is not. Vintage Story just takes inspiration from TFC

[@baballerz4339]

@@raremc1620 Turns out I misread the info I had looked at lol. Thanks for making sure I stop spreading misinformation! So yeah, not the same creator from TFC, but was inspired by TFC. Apparently the original mod was called "VintageCraft" and they became fed up with the limitations of Minecraft.

[@jpting_]

You better be beyond proud of yourself because this is stunning! Even ignoring the fact that you've literally created the entire game itself, your building skills are beautiful!

[@Tooley1998]

Thanks so much!

[@superslash7254]

Not just that, Tooley also worked out async for GPU acceleration. It seems basic but actual proper multithreading is a nightmarishly difficult thing to do properly. It's why minecraft to this day is still only a couple threads.

[@Duxen8956]

@@superslash7254 What do you mean? The GPU always runs in async mode, that's the point of a GPU

[@TheUserOfName_TBOTUkN]

Dude Your just speaking out of my intire soul

[@cashmonet6910]

@@Duxen8956 im fairly sure games need to specifically code for it though, otherwise it just uses one thread

[@SolTheIdiot]

As a Minecraft builder who wishes for more thin builds I'm deeply intrigued by this, and i also noticed the storage by the thousands, neat.

[@volotex6911]

Have you tried the Chisel and Bits mod? Or Little Tiles?

[@SolTheIdiot]

@@volotex6911 I'm scared for my potato pc

[@dylancrosby2451]

Play enshrouded man

[@_GRiM1]

have you tried Enshrouded?

[@SolTheIdiot]

@@_GRiM1 i do not know what enshrouded is.

[@FXTRT1-1]

Pleeeeease for the love of god. NEVER abandon this masterpiece! This is the first thing i saw of this game, and im already hooked. Keep it up man! looks so stunning

[@Banaaani]

This is exactly what gaming needs right now. People who solve extremely difficult technical and UX related problems out of passion, those that even AAA studios can't solve. This wouldn't be possible without really good optimization. Having a fill tool and ready shapes are really good decisions for building. Good stuff, really looking forward for this game.

[@dranorter]

Well said.

[@Zhiiiiiiiend]

AAA studios can solve them, they're just too out-of-touch that they don't bother to.

[@kint5379]

@@Zhiiiiiiiend Too lazy to try hard to do anything other than have dollar signs in their eyes

[@lieusa]

​@@ZhiiiiiiiendAAA studios are busy destroying fanbases and franchises for more money

[@Megalodab8793]

Real shit

[@BlitzAttacker]

No joke, no meme. I'm gonna say it, it's actually Minecraft 2, even better than i could have imagined. Some Terraria and even Cube World vibes too. Please, keep us posted. I'm fully invested in the progress.

[@Schplibb]

check out vintage story, very much like this game and its already out with a large playerbase.

[@starp6650]

@@Schplibb vintage story is a totally different thing, this is minecraft improved to a new standard, vintage story takes a ton of inspiration from minecraft being a lookalike, this changes the mechanics enough with voxels to be considered a new thing, a completely different game that resembles minecraft gameplay wise

[@deezboyeed6764]

Actually vintage story takes inspiration directly from a minecraft mod called terra firma craft.​@starp6650

[@Ands14es]

Cube World.. now that is a name I have not heard in a millennium

[@antidote5125]

In its current form, I don't think so. Minecraft is extremely easy to pick up and play and build *something* decent, relatively quickly, that's part of the mass appeal. Working with smaller block sizes, that seem to require a lot more resource collection, and then needing to scroll through like 12 options to get the block shape you want every single time makes building a lot more arduous. The greater level of detail you can achieve will attract plenty of people, but there's a trade off with ease of use here, and that'll turn a lot of others away.

[@generalsalami8875]

It'd be awesome if you could save blueprints of structures that you've built before. You could funnel resources into this 3d blueprint. Upon putting all the resources into the blueprint, it'll begin to automatically construct itself. So that players can't abuse this & just build a mansion in a second, the construction should take time, in accordance with the quantity of resources needed & the blueprint's scale over large distances.

[@_MrEric]

This would just turn the game into a building simulator, imo keeping the building mechanic being manual will make each building feel more special and not "that building might be a copy pasted version of another but a little bit different" but at the end of the day it's just my two cents.

[@defectiveparts8604]

​@@_MrEricAlso as nice of a theory it is, it would required every type of block in the print to be called out, so unless you have exactly those blocks it would be useless, as otherwise you would have to program each block to be part of family and every section of every blueprint would have to be tied to a family of blocks, but what if you have more than one block from the same family? It would break it, so in actuality, it would be a massive headache to implement and to keep updated. They would have to be exact prints every time, you wouldn't be able to say swap types of wood etc without massive efforts put into the feature.

[@hartianx1698]

Like Empyrion: Galactic Survival

[@winniethepooh1520]

@@defectiveparts8604 maybe they can add blueprint mode for that purpose. Like a creative mode, for to create and change blueprints and save them.

[@defectiveparts8604]

@@winniethepooh1520 That does sound to be the most efficient solution, shoving most of the work onto the player is an option as well, yes.

[@KingGurke98]

Those building tools look immensely useful! But also like a lot of menu diving. Maybe the ability to save your own prefabs, or to copy/paste could solves that.

[@a_soulspark]

+ quick switching rather than a menu with buttons you ned to click would make it more fluid (e.g. a radial menu, controlled either through mouse or shortcuts of 1, 2, ..., 9 keyboard keys to quickly select options)

[@Tooley1998]

Yeah im not happy with the ui. It will be improved in the future

[@OscarLouw]

@@Tooley1998 The ability to select and copy/paste/extrude shapes in the world would be awesome. Like once you built that one roof arc you could just select the shape and extrude it out to make the whole roof.

[@Kvikling]

I can already see steam workshop full of custom prefabs.

[@Throckmorpheus]

@@OscarLouw Ooh yeah an extruding tool would work really well. Like in that part where he was making a fence with the cylinders, instead of placing each one by hand he could like multi-select the base of each one and then extrude it up. Beyond that I think the most important thing would be easy keyboard shortcuts for stuff like rotations (to avoid the thing that happened when he was making the roof where he had to cycle through like five rotations every time he switched between the outer and inner slope) and switching between related shapes like the normal slope, the slope corner the slope point etc. Just the less steps you need to take to perform a common action the better. (Possibly also with stuff like the slopes you could just have one slope option and then let the player modulate the height/steepness somehow? Like if you're doing those shapes procedurally you might as well expose some of the variables more directly. Though idk how you'd set up a control scheme for that which could be shared between all the different shapes)

[@crazyitalianguy000]

Bro is cooking the game that is objectively the most worthy of the title of Minecraft 2 and thought we wouldn't notice. KEEP IT UP

[@LukaszHost76]

Literally, his work is amazing, this is like, top-of-the-line development studio quality

[@lieusa]

Minecraft walked so Lay of the Land could run

[@Chevifier]

Its even has the same aesthetic XD

[@Xozkov]

everybody (nobody) knows that vintage story is the true minecraft 2

[@JoeKingPL]

No!, GO! BE! YOND!

[@Soraphis91]

0:15 not sure if possible ... but make leafs receiving fall-damage, so they break on their own? (maybe even with some delay, so that the tree actually "bounces") really really nice job on the building system! also nice build!

[@GodGid85]

Would be awesome. Maybe something like the leaf-voxels knowing if they are touching Wood, Air or other leafs - If not -> (slowly) disappear, voxel by voxel.

[@trashtuber6021]

I suggest adding a ticking sound every time you’re moving a prefab around and when adjusting an unplaced object’s dimensions, it would add some extra satisfaction and intuition to building.

[@withoutdaysofficial]

This!

[@captaincole4511]

YES

[@hugobillerit4861]

And also adding an option to disable this. I would personally find this annoying after hours of building

[@captaincole4511]

@@hugobillerit4861 Also a good point

[@onionjam]

I've been building in minecraft for the past 14years, your game is cleary what minecraft should have become and I'm really into your work and wanting to play it.

[@sopitas_141]

Minecraft is better at building, it just has few options for block variants. Minecraft has the advantage that blocks have states, only with few to build variety. This game is amazing because it gives you more access to building features, things that Minecraft doesn't have.

[@fxarachnid4764]

I think that the appeal to Minecraft’s building is the simplicity. It inspires you to get creative when you want to make something more complex.

[@mesnyankin89]

@@sopitas_141 basicaly what i see is just that minecraft have bigger cubes and no ability to build with this helpful building tools. So you have to build like a dumb cube by cube. That wastes more time. What he build here took 10 minutes, in minecrat in would have taken 40-60 for the same building i guess. i am not a pro minecrafter, so i do not build fast. I just played a bit long time ago.

[@HugoGojibiter]

Strongly disagree on that one. This looks like a lot of fun, but it’s a distinctly different building experience to Minecraft, and Minecraft just shouldn’t be this

[@SolTheIdiot]

​@@mesnyankin89the building here definitely took over 10 minutes, this one has alot of micro details which leads to longer building times, however both are great systems, i've always yearned for thinner walls, curves etc in building, and finally something could work like how I've waited.

[@Pookie_The_Man]

Saw this video 2 days ago and played it for the first time today. Absolutely incredible! I can’t wait to see where you take it. You really do have something special here

[@damnielsadraque]

pls, dont abandon this you can make a huge difference in the industry

[@SarkeaSarkea]

frfr

[@davidaugustofc2574]

He'll make a new industry

[@Professor_Utonium_]

Maybe it could be titled something like Treecraft or Minevoxels....

[@wegMachMeister]

@@Professor_Utonium_ why? making your own identity is better

[@DelbertTheFifth]

​@@Professor_Utonium_It's better to be known as a different game than a game that's entirely representing Minecraft.

[@bjorn2535]

Multiplayer would go CRAZY, imagine those Minecraft simulating a 100 player civilization videos but in this game.

[@captaincole4511]

Those videos are dumb but multiplayer would be absolutely epic in this game

[@eksprolek2924]

​@@captaincole4511 true but imagine stoneworks in this game

[@bjorn2535]

@@captaincole4511 They’re dumb but fun to watch. It’s kind of fun watching a bunch of people decide to do the most random shit ever in a block game and then dying.

[@captaincole4511]

@@bjorn2535 I do like the tons of players aspect of it I agree

[@TheSpinia]

Imagine the lag

[@dariusz.9119]

This is actually Minecraft 2.0. I hope this game will gain a lot of traction and sell millions of copies. You definitely deserve the success of the successor

[@FristajloPL]

Woooow! I'm stuned by the fact how detailed can be the construction. We are all used to blocky builings from Minecraft and clones, but your game redefines buildings in voxel worlds. Amazing work!

[@WasatchWind]

You should see the kind of crazy stuff people make in Vintage Story 🙂 Gives a pretty good indicator of how crazy people will go with this

[@Tooley1998]

Thanks so much :)

[@aykutakguen3498]

reminds me of little tiles / chisel and bits

[@kagemushashien8394]

Imagine multi-player, the community, and the mini games...

[@bofuuu]

i agree! look up chisels and bits/little tiles and effortless building if you ever do want this type of construction in minecraft though :)

[@timelordsalad]

This game just keeps getting better and better! I definitely can’t wait until it’s finally released

[@SnickerFreeces]

check out vintage story if u like games like this. Ima be playing both their good

[@Wolvendeath3594]

It's like Minecraft and Vintage Story had a child, when it comes to the building system. So far it's amazing.

[@user-sf9vz4ym9d]

you should add an in-game prop designer where props are built and colored voxel by voxel, and have custom props uploadable to the workshop. it would make it customizable and engage the community

[@dodonooblord6224]

If it was me I would instantly make a pednis

[@personeater747]

Isn't that what the detail mode shown in video is?

[@mal0561]

⁠@@dodonooblord6224in the workshop straight up designing it… and by it… i mean my pednis

[@user-sf9vz4ym9d]

@@personeater747 perhaps. Game would benefit greatly from workshop in that case

[@racingraptor4758]

It would be cool if those models could be later on imported somewhere so they can be animated and aded as new creatures or enemies

[@caligusto]

This is every minecraft and teardown fan's dream come true, would love to see copy/paste (for tiling a roof pattern) and the ability to click and drag the prefab shapes! Wishlisting immediately :)

[@WerrinLotsuvhats]

Imagine the ability to create blueprints for things you use often. like custom fences and stuff!

[@boulouakoulousekchefdespet2060]

bro this game makes me feel like the old yt videos "what minecraft will look like in 10 years", Amazing job, keep it up man

[@biologicalsubwoofer]

Finally someone with common sense who understands that building block by block takes way too much time. Thank you!

[@kakaique2000]

This reminded me of the first time playing minecraft, an entire new world, a whole new universe just waiting to be explored, a feeling that I've never had again

[@SargR]

Oh another suggestion/feedback! It could also help streamline the process of building at 6:41. When selecting the shape of a window, you place it's first point/corner with the first click, then you just look to where you want it to fit in the opposite corner (like resizing an image) that automatically scales(or just switches between the premade sizes you currently select in the ui). kinda like the drag and click building like you were doing with the base of the structure, but more specific for placing resizable flat-ish things like windows, fences, beams, (maybe doors)etc so you could just select the shape of the window, and not have to open the ui over and over for every window size in our builds, it'd just make things a bit more convenient i'd think

[@Tooley1998]

That's a great idea thanks :). This is just the first iteration of building. There are so many things to improve.

[@a_soulspark]

yes! so basically having the ability to build lots of the same shape by just clicking on start position and dragging till the end position, rather than having to pick the size in the menu... though there is some ambiguity sometimes. for example, if you drag when placing a Window shape, should it place one big window with long frame or multiple small windows with separate frames? ┌───┐┌┬┬┬┐ └───┘└┴┴┴┘ (perhaps you could have a modifier key, e.g. Ctrl, to alternate between the two)

[@SargR]

@@a_soulspark if i were to guess they'd probably be separated into the different shapes of windows you can select in the ui

[@SargR]

@@Tooley1998 it's already looking fantastic and it has so so much potential!

[@JoelLinus]

You are basically talking about a draw mode, which is most certainly needed

[@SaynYT]

I usually don't like games like minecraft but this is just genuinely impressive stuff. I don't think I've ever seen anything this advanced. You should be seriously proud

[@bandiddums]

I didn't expect to enjoy watching someone build with voxels this much but I watched through basically the entire video with more focus than I have during a month of school lol

[@lotion5238]

Probably because school is fucking lame

[@SpicyMelonYT]

After looking over hundreds of voxel engines over years and years, what I see here is what I have been looking for! Visual Quality High Voxel Count Voxel Physics Beautiful Atmosphere Vertex Waving in Wind And including everything else, It is very obvious that you are our champion in the voxel community. Well Done!

[@Magnos]

Back when Teardown got a "Creative Mode" i thought it was finally gonna be THE game for building creative stuff. Sadly it turned out more of a small toy than anything serious. But THIS? Damn i'll abandon my minecraft world for this, you can make such beautiful things with this Voxel-Density

[@SpicyMelonYT]

@@Magnos Yeah exactly. I also like that there is still a higher sized grid system. For instance, when I was making my voxel engine (not even close to as good as this), I wanted to make sure that I can both have tiny voxels BUT ALSO that by default you place and dig and build in 16x16x16 blocks so that its a bit easier then trying to do anything with little 1x1x1's. And so this guys engine looks like it does all that. Tiny voxels, but also 5x5x5 blocks and I am sure all sizes are possible. I really hope there is modding support at some point.

[@withervii]

I goes through the same thing dude!!

[@zorlgoc224]

When the tree falls, having the leaves crumple/get deleted around the point of impact would make it feel much more realistic, and less 'floaty'. Looks really good though! Excited to see where it goes

[@theishiopian68]

Imagine how good this would be with multiple people making a town together

[@snowpirate2652]

LAN support would be sick as well, being able to kick back on the couch with a bunch of friends playing this all night together.

[@Nick-eu3ot]

It would be cool if you could choose the direction of the swing. This could allow for more precise cutting of wood and gathering of resources. Very cool game

[@ReeceRacc]

i agree

[@deltainfinium869]

VR Support?

[@BritishTrainspotting]

Perhaps the default keybind would be left click to swing from left to right, and right click for right to left? Or slightly moving the camera before you swing in the direction you want to swing will control it?

[@thehistorical5928]

Looks quite exciting, I hope you add some king of explosives and weaponry as you move through development as it would be sick with all the individual voxels exploding or getting launched away

[@gatodecarro]

Something I noticed that could be improved it adding some sort of windy interaction to the blades of grass and tree foliage. That by itself would make the greenery of the game all that much more beautiful

[@nederliver]

bro your game is like minecraft and teardown together

[@lockyaw]

Perfect combination if you ask me, those are the two truly great voxel games!

[@kagemushashien8394]

But better, there is still work to be done, but if he wants to out-market those 2, he needs to REALLY dive deep into good imagination and innovation, consider what Minecraft does best, do better, consider what it doesn't do, do (with reason of course), consider what is wrong with that game, avoid that.

[@nederliver]

If he will add multiplayer, it will be a Minecraft replacement

[@nederliver]

@@lockyaw btw minecraft actually isn't voxel game, it look like but it using polygons

[@kagemushashien8394]

@@nederliver You can say it's a BIG VOXEL Game.

[@Laserspeedstuffs]

This is a very impressive toolkit to give to players. It immediately created the wishful thinking how amazing it would be, in a game like this, to be able to create and save your own decorative box in some kind of ingame editor (like a very detailed workbench or something) to create blueprints to place for objects, so you can make blueprints of your own created furniture that you can then build with the necessary ressources, the same way that there seem to be premade things like the bookshelf, candles, chests etc. Maybe even with the function of the preexisting items.

[@mrblumbo6404]

I feel like this is a game designers DREAM, amazing voxel simulation with whole pallettes to explore, id love to just be designing and implimenting dungeons and various structures with the building. Genuinely amazing work ive been exploring your other videos and it's amazing! Keep up the amazing work

[@prophetzarquon1922]

Yes! I really want to be able to share the space (& conditionally the build tools) with friends!

[@SaltSpirits]

a game designers dream is… someone else’s game? not sure you know what a game designer does

[@mrblumbo6404]

@SaltSpirits Probably phrased it wrong lol (i understand a game designer is the games creator), but I was just trying to say how I'd love to design and develop structures, dungeons, etc. with the existing well made tools, if i was working on this game :)

[@Jimmyzation]

We need some crowdfunding to make this game a reality for everyone, with a smoother gameplay, more building options, more creatures and more features to overall boost the creative minds and let them flow. This game has such an amazing potential to be a "spiritual sucessor" to Minecraft. It's not the first time I'm seeing this game make an appearance and it will certainly not be the last. I sincerely want to see this dream of a game become a prosperous reality. Good work mate! You're doing some fantastic work and making the community crazy to play this.

[@little_lord_tam]

I like how non disruptive you made terrain editing. Keeps a natural looking shape and all

[@ConnosBee]

It would be interesting to have a building schematics system where we could save our designs to reuse them in future constructions. Nice work! I love your game and the devlog too. I'am waiting for the release

[@empdisaster10]

Just the music you have alone makes me want to play this game. This honestly makes me feel like how minecraft did when i first saw it and i really want to see what you do with this!

[@mayankmuthannamonnanda9030]

The ambience, the music, the graphics, the textures, all are so perfect that it feels it was custom made for my brain to feel comfort! Thanks a lot! Your are extremely talented... I wish you have the best of luck with this project!

[@gob233]

good choice to make the flattening elevate and lower all points around the center to the center point instead of equalizing the era like some games tend to do

[@madamepepperoni6544]

Fr. Drives me absolutely insane when i work with something like that. It makes flattening absolutely maddening, it feels more like making big slopes.

[@derflerp538]

I remember seeing the early tests for Teardown before it was Teardown and thinking this is the game we were going to get. Thank you for renewing that sense of hope!

[@notapplicable7292]

I am constantly obsessed with the tech behind this game. So many subtle systems at work

[@DerPinguim]

That looks fucking awesome. A new Vintage Story competitor when it comes to building. I think that game is still more detailed, but this seems easier and the overall game looks prettier

[@manana1444]

Agreed, having option like 1:56 in VS would drastically speed up building more complex shapes and structures. Save a lot of hair if you have somewhat complex design that gets reused a lot.

[@viniciusschadeck4992]

Vintage Story not looks funny, i mean, i'am a old minecraft player, and vintage story looks a downgrade in the most important aspects to me, freedom, because on vintage story you had class and not matters how good the rest are, if you choice the wrong class, you are fucked for ever, not matters how small the difference between class could be, i hate this mechanic really hard for soo many time, due to losted time, that i can't play anything that you had hard class system, where is not attached to gear only items or crafting tables... Terraria does a really nice job of progression using only itens, you can reach new level try a lot of combinations and is it, every level unlocks new itens to combat, new furniture as well, everthing runs smooth on terarria progression... Better than minecraft and for sure classless mechanics LOL

[@Chicky_Lumps]

​@@viniciusschadeck4992 Uh, it's recommended to turn class recipes off in single player. Really nothing is locked behind the class system except slight stat variations.

[@BamaTears]

​@@viniciusschadeck4992skill issue

[@viniciusschadeck4992]

@@BamaTears sure, i can't play a fucking stupid game that has no difficult at all, because of skill issue, sure...

[@G1brown]

I've just now discovered your channel, and I don't know what this game is like beyond this revolutionary building system, but I'd imagine it'd make a great MMO RPG where the main focus isn't to become as powerful as possible, but rather to do whatever you want. Servers could work differently, too. Instead of being able to simply create a world you can choose from one of few other servers. That way, people could work together to build things that affect the entire community of the game, rather than just a small group of friends. It's a new and abstract kind of idea for a game, but it would make for a great one.

[@baballerz4339]

ECO does exactly this, although compared to this game, the building is ass lmao.

[@SaltSpirits]

“revolutionary” lmao

[@buffete3753]

I cant wait to see you finish your game !

[@eurofeature]

Wow. It is hard to belive we got a game this good, developed by one guy, before Hytale

[@trashtrash2169]

Hytale isn't real, lol, it's probably a donation scam.

[@KingGurke98]

Well, we don't have it. Yet?

[@technoboop1890]

@@trashtrash2169 bait

[@jonatanesoloweyjonatanesol2879]

lol

[@harrasika]

​@@trashtrash2169 lol. And where are they accepting those donations you speak of? They are owned by a massive corporation now; they don't need donations.

[@ThyTrueNightmare]

Bro this build is beatiful, I could easily see myself making villages and what not. If it has custom maps, Mod support or even just customizable NPC's and Quest options, I could see myself make adventure maps for this, it would be so awesome compared to what you can do in minecraft

[@HDTomo]

This is your reminder to add this to your wishlist in the pinned comment because this is actually fire

[@therabbidt]

WE MAKING A WHOLE MEDIEVAL FANTASY CITY WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bradysullivan4672]

I hope you allow the community help create content. With a proper modding community this game could be immortalized. This looks fantastic man.

[@degariuslozak2169]

This feels like the Minecraft we never got. Feels so nostalgic and looks so smooth, combine that with the soundtrack and this game is pretty much perfect. Definitely should have a copy paste feature, where you can copy certain structures and paste them somewhere else, to make things flow better when building

[@Noizzed]

This game will blow up in popularity in the future, your work is outstanding

[@mad-mason0319]

this looks absolutely beautiful. something to be proud of. the moment you started building i was like. IM BOUTTAA CUUUUUUUUUUHHHH. the amount of work and detail you put into this. and the amount of detail you can put into builds with this building style is truly limitless. Minecraft is awesome but THIS is on a whole nother level. no. a whole different building

[@KingTalion]

this looks like the kind of game I would have died for when I was younger. Still definitely interests me even if my preferred game genre has changed over the years, but I'm sure that this has the potential to be the perfect game for some

[@jujuteuxOfficial]

have you thought about adding some kind of optimisation using node links? like for the tree you cut at the start, you can check each damage you deal where it is, then check for nearby links and if they have been broken, so you don't have to check the entire tree, just a local check most algorithms using a similar kind of voxel destruction are far from linear time and thus gets extremely slow on larger structures, and even having just 2 links separating the structure in two can reduce the time by an order of 4-8x having a tree that's evenly segmented can thus allow you to remove any noticeable lag.

[@terminok2015]

This has been in my recommended for a while, I'm glad I finally watched it! Definitely going to get it when it's released

[@exosproudmamabear558]

I suggest instead of menu oppening in the middle you can go for opening right or left side of the screen and keybind most of the functions to make it easier

[@Xumbasa]

This

[@MrFlexNC]

Please be the first voxel game that adds destruction when too much force is applied, like a tree that collapses before it is fully cut because it cant hold its own weight anymore. It is such an underrated feature. I know it is hard to do but would add so much value

[@MrAcerulez]

Very neat, so much detail can go into it. My only suggestion is that when you click and drag to place material down it shows a number on the UI of how much material or how many blocks are being placed.

[@Janoww]

I don’t know how to describe it in a better way, but you should make the sunlight be able to light up rooms, for example at 6:27 the room is completely dark even though there are windows

[@lFunGuyl]

Dev's nightmare right here 😬

[@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD]

The sun is directly overhead at that point so it would be much darker than outside. You can see about ten seconds later when sunlight shines through the window

[@Janoww]

@@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD because of the furnace and the torch, not because of the sunlight

[@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD]

@@Janoww check again, look at the floor at 6:40

[@Janoww]

​@@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD at 6:40 there is a patch of light on the floor coming through the window, but the rest of the room is lit only by the oven and the torches, if it hadn't been for them the room would have been completely dark.

[@WasatchWind]

The building system is amazing. I also really love that you need to actually chop the branches off the fallen tree. I hope that the progression to get stuff doesn't feel too easy - so that if you see someone with a beautiful castle it really feels like an accomplishment. I also hope that there's interesting stuff to do in these buildings. I feel in Minecraft like I'll build an awesome base, and then just have nothing to do in it. Understand though that I'm coming at this after getting really into Vintage Story - where the progression is harder, and may not be for all players. I think that difficulty though, like I mentioned, adds more to actually do in your homes and other buildings. In Vintage Story you _need_ shelter to survive cold weather. Food is important, so you'll have more of a vested interest in making a nice kitchen, and it's really fun to bake pies and stuff. I wish you luck. There are a LOT of Minecraft like voxel games being made on KZbin right now, and I hope you'll be able to carve an interesting niche. I also hope with all these projects you and others are making, that great mechanics aren't discarded just because "someone did it first." All this said, I'm really excited to see where this goes!

[@viniciusschadeck4992]

Please, not make the game hard to accomplish stuff in labor way... I mean, mojang keep fucking up afk farms, it make me more and more bored at it... Any time they make a new cool stuff to build, it was mostly only on creative, because in survival is impossible to get a big amount without cheating, and i hate even using F3 (ON JAVA EDITION) imagine to play using cheats, not way, soo i prefer drop the entire shit in a single dive

[@WasatchWind]

@@viniciusschadeck4992 I like some process to it so that it feels like something takes more effort. The Minecraft community being so inundated with super technical ugly farms is really disinteresting to me.

[@viniciusschadeck4992]

@@WasatchWind its just happens because mojang forces players with bad mechanics to farm... it moves the comunity to use bad design to keep the rate high... I'am a person that try to balance both. My farms has a good enough ratio and good design somehow at least... But because of the issue that is get enough resources anyway, in survival it is not well decorated... My iron farm produces equal to any flying 3 villagers with a zombie farm, but i can build arround it a entire house, or even others structures, because i not just abuse of iron golem spawn mechanics, but also put effort to make it possible to build arround without making the farm break. I do the same with all possible farms, some you have to hide the effective system to be more beuaty, but some are actually really easy to blend with a nice building... My bee farm is literally under a garden open air and it works flawless, because bees had some hiden mechanics that aim to flower arround, also can't go further away the hive also, avoid water, also avoid rain and night... you can use ejectors to share to bottle up honey, you blend a redstone under the region with be hives and you can make it really nice and beuaty... But, it really sacrifice space, soo most player that want honeyblocks have to had a giant farm to have those in large ammounts, because the mechanics of producing honey bottles are really bad and slow. Slime farm is a even harder to deal with, because you can't build anywhere, you have to force the location, same with crystal and others, shamefull forcing player to locations, is the worst reasson i want to move to another game, but can't because sincerely i no found any good enought game, any time i saw levels or classes it already remove all my interest... I'am checking hytales for years already, but without releasing, is not a today option, this game looks pretty nice, and vintage story has class, i just can't play, not matter how small effects the game gives to each class, i felt totally bad about it. I prefer valheim instead, but valheim has a dark vibe that is too much for long time playing, also the game is impossible to beat solo, at least i just reach a certain point, and few friends of mine has the quality of play the same game for long, we always start something and play until real life get in and eventually we forget about the game much early than the end of content or story LOL

[@BCGCasual]

This is so frickin cool dude, I love the way it works and the textures too. I was smiling the entire first 5 minutes away.

[@Gwilo]

this is beyond amazing. beyond excited for this game!

[@alantyto3627]

My god this is genuinely astonishing. This has the potential to be infinitely cozy and grand at the same time. So well done, the house design included! I'd say this building system is well balanced so as to both allow more creative freedom and not overwhelm. And the graphics are so pretty! Keep it up, the game looks amazing. Best of luck with your work!

[@janvrabec3401]

DO NOT SELL OUT YOU CLEARLY KNOW BEST!! WHAT THE GAME NEEDS TO BE LIKE. IT'S GODLIKE I WOULDN'T BELIVE IT 10 YEARS AGL

[@zon6939]

i hope all the best for you and this project!

[@beizelby5867]

Great looking game, awesome work with the voxels!! Multiplayer would also be nice :)

[@blockobama9005]

Having to make this game work well on servers with only 2-4 people would already be an incredibly difficult task due to its complexity in its voxel system.

[@CrafterVSWild]

I've been testing the game yesterday for like 5+ hours and it really reminds me of when I played Minecraft for the first time in 2011, it has the same great potential and I know for sure you can make it a game that a lot of people will know of! Keep up the updates, I'll be glad to test then !

[@fluuki4850]

DO NOT ABANDON THIS.

[@TheGonzaDev]

This is WOW. Which game engine did you used? or did you just made one yourself lol?

[@crysthiangonzalezfuentes7181]

You stunned me with your multiple talents. A Modern Renaissance guy! I could imagine the potential for this game to actually create other games and build entire worlds

[@lockyaw]

Uhhh definitely make it so you can't get hurt from the stones you just cut "falling on you"

[@itsCronch]

This is really reminiscent of the Trove building system which I loved growing up. Looking forward to this! A suggestion I'd like to make is a "Smart" placement feature, like when you have two staired corners together, clicking or toggling this feature will auto change you to the correct corner piece rather than hand selecting it, just for ease of building. The progress you have made so far though is outstanding! Good work

[@monstrousmoss]

I really appreciate the prefab/shape options. it's like if minecraft and conan exiles had even more design flexibility

[@TheMadRatKing]

This entire game is incredible. The only thing i can suggest is a more consistent tool swing? Having it swing left, right, then straight when that has an actual impact on WHERE the tool strikes can be kind of annoying to work around if youre trying to hit a specific spot. Either make every seing straight forward, or some kind of way to choose which way you swing, and tool use will feel a lot better since theres more consistent control over it. Aside from that, the entire game oooks absolutely gorgeous, as does your build with it. Im amazed you made this yourself

[@Deimos_Day]

Enshrouded really changed building with their voxel system. Love to see people taking it further. Will def pick this up just to support the dev.

[@sidtheslug]

so many devs leave out certain building blocks which can make realising certain visions unbearably frustrating. you've done a great job of creating a comprehensive set of tools that cover every possible scenario, it makes me very excited to try it out for myself!

[@daniilzavadin5076]

Fuck, this building system makes so much sense. I honestly never envisioned an effective real (not just ‘block’) voxel building system, and the prefab mechanic reminds me so much of just an actual menu you would see in some voxel modelling plugin. This feels really intuitive, amazing work on the design and execution!

[@opafmoremedic]

This is amazing. One suggestion would be to allow players to make their own prefabs. It looks like you can do extremely small scale building, so why not allow them to build something in a specific area, like a workbench of sorts, to save it as a prefab forever. Take, for example, when you used the slope and had to keep rotating and flipping it over and over. If the player wanted to, they could place one normal slope, one flipped and rotated slope, and save it as a prefab. Then they could just place that over and over, making it way easier to build complex structures.

[@Decky-]

IMAGINE STEAM WORKSHOP WITH THIS!! THE POSSIBLITIES of this game would be endless, and great detail.

[@lautarovergara6094]

It's the first video I've seen on your channel, and it gave me a feeling that I haven't had since I played Minecraft for the first time, you're doing something incredible and I'm looking forward to the final result.💯💯💯

[@Mango_Blob]

if this gets multiplayer, cool weapons and bows, vehicles and interactables like cannons, especially magic, this will become the perfect medieval fantasy game out there

[@SilverTwinkle]

This alongside Vintage Stories chisel system are the two best building mechanics in any Sandbox game ever.

[@MoreNimrod]

I'm not a fan of how everything crumbles apart when you're gathering but I like how detailed the game is and how much you can build

[@lavacreeperking_4740]

Wow! You know how to make a game! Hypixel Studios could learn something fro you. You are making Hytale but, your game actually exists where as Hytale is only ever seen in a blog post two time a year and they have been working on it for 5-6 years. Not only that but they have a large team and resources to develop it but here you are doing what you are doing and you have early access versions people can play. Very impressive!

[@GrimarisGrey]

Duuuuude, a UI that lets you fine tune the parameters for shapes. I'm already sold, keep it up

[@VALLANCEGAMING]

I'm not a minecraft fan but I do really love basebuilder/survival games and I have to say, your build mechanics are unseen in any other game right now, keep it up! Wishlisted

[@agoosecalledxaro6679]

This is probably one of, if not the best building system in a game I have ever seen.

[@_Drion_]

This looks absolutely incredible. It's almost like what I've always hoped for. I do think that because it's a voxel game and the cubes are relatively small, that roof looks pretty damn tedious to build

[@Flipbug_The_Whimsical]

This looks very intuitive!! And super pretty. Hyped

[@lecroissant1337]

First we got Minecraft, then we got Vintage Story, and this young man tries to beat both of them with this voxel technique, great work mate 👏

[@limelime6285]

This is just amazing. It gave me this nostalgic feeling of seeing my first minecraft video but with a new game! Thank you!

[@shanewaslost4283]

Simply the greatest thing I have ever seen. There is no more in-depth or thought provoking voxel game.

[@michaelboyer82]

This is what I been looking for in a Minecraft style game. I'm going to get very addicted to your game thank you for making it.