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

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.

Does this game have a separate client & server?

If i sub can I play right now?

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

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

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

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

“I built THE EARTH in Lay of the Land”

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

Skyrim or Middle Earth.

Great wanting, confirmed.

Confirmed

Lost in the sauce.

Indeed

Can confirm. Came a bucket load just seeing it's versatility

you can already play this game it's called modded minecraft. Nothing about this game looks new or innovative. This dev is clearly super talented, I don't understand why they would waste their time making something so unoriginal

@@taco2p Bait used to be believable...

​@@taco2p Yes, but I believe the amount of mods needed to make the game look and act like this would probably break the game and not work at all for most devices. So, unless everyone randomly gets a gaming pc with extreme amounts of storage and good processors, I think making a game with those features from the ground up is more convenient.

​@@taco2p Lets go over how wrong you are. Firstly Voxel size and smooth terraforming like this is strictly impossible to replicate in a system like minecraft. Even if you could manage to pull off a mod capable of doing it it would run nowhere near this smoothly nor look as good. Second. This building system is using ENTIRELY CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACES. Just looking at the Prefabs area tells me that it would be all to easy in the core engine that this guy has built to add a custom prefab builder for those who are more creative. Thirdly this game JUST overhauled its own combat 1 month ago. The combat in this game VS Minecraft is MUCH smoother and looks way more responsive and varied than MC. @toolley1998 Keep this game going man I cant wait to play it fully realised!!

@@OtrovaiI am on your side about this game, but there are multiple Minecraft mods that directly counter your statement. Such as ‘Chisel & Bits’ and ‘Little Tiles’

Thanks so much!

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.

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

Dude Your just speaking out of my intire soul

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

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

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

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

​@@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

@@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.

If mojang was worth the money they somehow make, this WOULD have been minecraft by now. It's preposterous how averse to real game design that studio is.

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

@@volotex6911 I'm scared for my potato pc

Play enshrouded man

have you tried Enshrouded?

@@_GRiM1 i do not know what enshrouded is.

Well said.

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

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

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

Real shit

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

@@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

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

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

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.

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

Minecraft walked so Lay of the Land could run

Its even has the same aesthetic XD

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

No!, GO! BE! YOND!

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.

​@@_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.

Like Empyrion: Galactic Survival

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

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

+ 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)

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

@@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.

I can already see steam workshop full of custom prefabs.

@@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)

This!

YES

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

@@hugobillerit4861 Also a good point

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

Thanks so much :)

reminds me of little tiles / chisel and bits

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

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

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

​@@captaincole4511 true but imagine stoneworks in this game

@@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.

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

Imagine the lag

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

frfr

He'll make a new industry

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

@@Professor_Utonium_ why? making your own identity is better

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

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.

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.

@@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.

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

​@@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.

hoping to see some exploring or dungeons would be cool

If it was me I would instantly make a pednis

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

@@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.

I goes through the same thing dude!!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

@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 :)

Probably because school is fucking lame

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.

i agree

VR Support?

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?

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

Well, we don't have it. Yet?

@@trashtrash2169 bait

lol

​@@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.

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

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.

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

​@@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.

​@@viniciusschadeck4992skill issue

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

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.

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

@@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.

@@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

This

Dev's nightmare right here 😬

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

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

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

​@@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.

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.

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

“revolutionary” lmao

@@SaltSpirits did i stutter?

@@baballerz4339 haven't heard of it, but that concept definitely sounds fun

For Minecraft?

@@oz459 thinking about it though. Would be tough but I'll give it a try.

It went from "cool tech demo" to being "this is incredible WTF"

No we dont need Microsoft owning a game too similar to theirs, wont be surprised to see them mess with this game somehow.

I know right Minecraft needs to take some ideas from this guy