Hotifx (ID 16521) is now live!

Patch notes:

• Fixed Miner achievement, was impossible to unlock

• Fixed Rainy close call achievement, was impossible to unlock

• Fixed crash when trying to manually disable a building that cannot be disabled (e.g. Summit Temple)

• Fixed crash when connection to the Steam fails during awarding an achievement - showing error message in such case

• Fixed crash on trying to delete already deleted transport route when clicking route's "Cancel" button very quickly two times

• Fixed camera position when jumping to lift towers through error messages

• Added filter name for Mr. Plow filter

Moreover, we're aware of some rare, but serious issues with the game freezing when recalculating its inner systems. This runs very deeply into the game's core systems, so while we did come up with a fix, it has not been tested thoroughly yet. So, if you're experiencing such issues or just feel brave, you can opt in for the experimental Steam beta branch, where we've uploaded this fix. To do so, click RMB on Laysara in your library, select the Properties... option and in this window:

Select Betas tab and enter an access code: 888HolyYak888. Click Check Code, and you should be able to select the experimental beta branch from the dropdown menu above.

The experimental hotfix ID is 16526.

To see if you have the latest patch, check the ID of your current game version by holding Left Alt in the Main Menu. If it's not the latest ID, restart Steam - this will force it to detect the update.

Hotifx (ID 16506) is now live!

This hotfix addresses only one issue: for new players, ALL scenarios were blocked (greyed out), even the tutorial ^^' The tutorial mission on Hopespark Hill will always be available now!

Sorry for the trouble, our bad!

To see if you have the latest patch, check the ID of your current game version by holding Left Alt in the Main Menu. If it's not the latest ID, restart Steam - this will force it to detect the update.

Hello there!

Today, we’re excited to share with you our third major content update for Laysara: the Tunnels Update!

The main thing we’re introducing is, of course, tunnels - with a brand new scenario for showcasing them! But this update is also packed with other changes, like:

• Steam achievements

• A last-chance mechanism preventing unexpected game-over screens

• No more wacky bridges and shafts going through cliffs

• Hotkey for enabling/disabling buildings (TAB by default)

• Button for cycling over source buildings of markets

• Marking scenarios as completed on the scenario selection screen

• …and tons of other smaller stuff! (see full patch notes below)

Let’s have a closer look at what this update brings!

We can finally reveal that the tunnels are the end-game long-distance transportation mechanics that we’ve been preparing for you!

They actually work quite simply: each tunnel (or to be precise, the tunnel entrance) building allows you to send or extract resources through the underground to wherever you want on the mountain!

But why do I even need another transportation method? Are carts and yaks not enough, one might ask? Well, they both have one pretty significant downside: the number of carriers they employ (be it Artisans or Yaks) grows with the number of transported resources and the distance they’re being transported over. This means that if you wanted to transport something more than just a couple of units of salt across a few zones, you end up with a lot (and I mean A LOT) of carriers, and there was nothing you could do about it - up until now!

The tunnel (or to be precise, the tunnel entrance) building has a fixed cost - no matter how many resources you’ll transport in or out of it, the number of employees required to run it won’t grow. Sure, it still requires quite a few workers and takes some space, but for really long transport routes with numerous transported resources, it’s more effective than the army of carriers - and by a long shot.

As mentioned before, we’ve prepared a brand new scenario to introduce you to this new mechanic.

Embark on an expedition to Snowfury Summit, where the risk of avalanches lurks around every corner. It’s the perfect place to familiarise yourself with tunnels and get a refresher on other tricks to maximise your town’s efficiency!

We’re super happy to tell you that Laysara now has 43 achievements, with a few more probably coming with the 1.0 launch. We originally planned to prepare them for the full release, but you were crystal clear, you didn’t want to wait - so, no more waiting! Let’s go and catch them all!

We also heard your feedback about the game being too easy to lose. In Laysara, it’s quite common to get entangled in the never-ending process of reorganising your city and find yourself with no money left just before making it all work again - or just simply miss the info about funds running out. And we didn’t even touch upon the avalanches…

So, to give you just a little more slack and a chance to recover, from now on, when hitting the bottom of your coffers, instead of the game over screen, you’ll see this message:

After continuing, you’ll get some funds that’ll hopefully buy you enough time to figure things out! But if you fail to do this and hit zero again, this time the game will be truly over… So I’d say staying on surplus and avoiding getting low on money is still highly advisable!

For all power-gamers out there: yes, this “last-chance mechanism” can work multiple times in a single playthrough, as it resets after achieving a positive money balance again. If you want to check if you’re still in danger of losing, just open the money tooltip and see if the Artisan is panicking more than usual.

If you want to familiarise yourself with this new behaviour, we encourage you to take a look at the rebalanced Blink of an Eye challenge. Especially on boosted difficulty, this is now a truly masochistic kind of fun.

Alright, this post is already getting horrendously long, so if you want to know the full extent of the changes, you can consult the patch notes below - but first, let us address one more thing.

Those of you who are observing our Early Access road keenly won’t be surprised that this content update is the last of the major ones for Laysara’s EA, as our roadmap currently looks like this:

So, there’s light at the end of the tunnel (sorry, I couldn’t resist :D)! The future plans are really straightforward for us: the campaign. It’s already in the works, so we’ll be launching it alongside the 1.0 version of the game later this year. There are still some things that we’re cooking behind the scenes, which affect the timing, so we don’t have a fixed release date just yet - but we’ll let you know when we do!

But for now, we hope you’ll have fun checking out the Tunnels Update! Thanks for all your support <3

Cheers!

Quite OK Team

Main changes:

• Tunnel Entrance building introduced

• Scenario on Snowfury Summit added

• 43 achievements added

• Added “last-chance mechanism” preventing from unexpected game over screens

• Placing deformed bridges or shafts going through cliffs is no longer possible

• Added a shortcut for manually enabling/disabling buildings (TAB by default)

• Added a lookup button to cycle over source buildings of markets

• Marking scenarios as completed on the scenario selection screen

• Summit Temple’s objectives now also require a positive money balance!

• Manually disabled buildings no longer get enabled if hit by an avalanche - they get destroyed!

Tweaks:

• Buildings no longer get unselected when entering far camera mode

• Better visualisation when demolishing shafts and bridges

• New warning building status: using a lot of carriers (Artisans or Yaks)

• New icon with tooltip on Food Market’s UI panel signalling a situation where foods that are being delivered in the theoretically right numbers can’t compensate for the ones that are missing

• The monetary penalty for an overloaded Lift Station Base increased from 50 to 150 AGAIN - last time we did this, it didn’t actually change anything…

• Camera rotation is now being saved in non-standard camera modes

• Clarification in the weather breakdown objective’s text that you may need to get new inhabitants into the town to meet the requirement

• If a building is disabled, no resources will be sent to it

• In the money tooltip, Artisan will no longer complain about not taking donations if there’s no possibility to build the Donation Spot building (some challenges)

• Some cleaning up in Photo Mode UI

• Map info panel: not showing info about import/export resources when Trading Post is disabled (some challenges)

• Added a few new loading screen tips

• Some unnecessary buildings blocked in the Ultimate Insight challenge

• Salt icon filtering fixed

Bugfixes:

• Resources are now being properly sent to Trading Posts over a chain of Post buildings

• Houses are no longer trying to get need’s effects from manually disabled buildings

• Rounding error in Food Market’s UI panel fixed

• If you rebind the toggling of far camera to another key than MMB, holding LMB/RMB is no longer required to move in far camera mode

• Fixed a rare bug with shaft’s footbridge sometimes being too short

• Fixed a rare bug with “Continue” button on objectives panel being shown twice after 

• Fixed a rare bug with Post buildings incorrectly dividing resources into target buildings

• Shafts are now properly restoring their enabled state after load

• Fixed a rare bug with resource icon on Trading Post’s board being invalid

• Fixed a rare bug when the game assumed it was a loaded game after starting a new game

• Fixed snow caps showing their UI panel when they shouldn’t in a few places

• Fixed a rare bug when UI panel will close when clicking on it’s decorative elements

Hello there!

We’re coming to you today with an update on what we’ve been working on recently — and on top of that, a game update featuring two new challenges! You’ll find the full patch notes for this update at the end of this post.

We’ve added these new challenges:

Blink of an eye - I don’t want to spoil the fun of figuring it out, but let’s just say it’ll test you like no challenge has before! Finding the perfect strategy is essential, and every single coin counts.

Crop failure - In Laysara, you always produce food for your citizens, but what if that wasn’t an option? Could you balance your trading expenses and revenue if your survival depended on buying food? Try it out on Miner’s Gambit, a mountain that hasn’t been used in any previous challenge.

You can play the new challenges right now!

In other news: a few weeks ago, a community wiki for Laysara was launched! You can find it here: https://laysara.wiki.gg/

We’re delighted to have such dedicated fans who want to help other players by creating this wiki. Thanks so much, folks! If you want to contribute or just chat about the wiki, we have a dedicated channel for that on our Discord server[discord.gg].

We’re getting close to releasing the third and final major content update prior to the 1.0 launch, featuring a new transportation method and a brand-new scenario. What’s the new transportation method, you ask? We’ll reveal it in the next post! But here’s a hint: It will be the most efficient way to transport resources over long distances on a mountain, and that’s because it has a fixed cost - unaffected by distance or the amount of resources transported.

Do you have any guesses?

As mentioned, this will be the last content update during our Early Access road. After that, we’ll be focusing on the campaign and the 1.0 launch! We’ve already started working on it, so it won’t be long before you can enjoy Laysara in this exciting new game mode :)

That’s all for today, thanks for all your support!

Quite OK Team

• Two new challenges: Blink of an eye and Crop failure

• Added “Boost difficulty!” button to the Challenge completed screen, if the challenge was completed on non-boosted difficulty, and it doesn’t have a time limit

• Gold trading price changed from 100/70 to 90/60 (buying/selling price)

• Fixed a bug resulting in weather breakdowns occurring too rarely in Sandbox mode

• Fixed bug with powerful avalanche being stopped by two rows of barriers

• Fixed bug with status icons on Shafts not initialising properly after game load

• Coppersmith and Inlay Ornament Foundry are now available to build on Smothered Flame in Sandbox mode (were disabled by mistake)

• Lowlanders now have a demand for the Summit Temple on Splintered Soul (didn’t have it by mistake)

PS: To see if you have the latest patch, check the ID of your current game version by holding Left Alt in the Main Menu. If it's not the latest ID (16254), restart Steam - this will force it to detect the update.

• Loading screens turned back on.
  
• Summit Temple requirement for Tapestry on Celestial Rise changed from 30 to 24.
  
• Added some additional information to crash reports to us investigate some rare crashes.

• Sandbox: corrected the texts in the World Map button tooltip, so that it'll give you a proper reason for not being able to enter the World Map.
  
• Temporary turned off loading screens (so expect weird screen behaviours when loading maps) to narrow down potential causes of some rare, but still regular, crashes that do happen.

• Sandbox: "World Map" button on "Summit Temple completed!" screen will now be disabled if the current mountain has unresolved issues. This prevents pretty nasty bugs ^^
  
• Sandbox: Added missing dialogue sequence after raising 7th Summit Temple (not counting Celestial Rise). For now, the dialogue is in English only, we'll translate it to all languages in the future.
  
• Fixed debug information about save file version in our crash reporting system.
  
• Added more debug information to the crash report in a very rare situation when the game crashes while cancelling a transport route - to help us investigate the issue, of course.

• The objectives UI panel now expands when advancing to a "Raise a Summit Temple" objective, to make the instructions for this objective visible.
  
• Fixed issue with the game sometimes being detected as a VR game
  
• Label "New scenario" above Plain Rock scenario removed - it's been here for a while now :)
  
• Added some safety checks and more info into crash reports to help investigate a rare case of changing mountain in sandbox mode when it should be impossible.
  
• Added more info into crash reports to help investigate a rare crash during loading an invalid save file.