I've Improved World Generation and Moved to UE5 for my Voxel Game 

Wishlist Lay of the Land on Steam :) store.steampowered.com/app/2776090 Support development and play the game early: www.patreon.com/Tooley1998

This game is gonna be EPIC! Buying the game would be worth it just to walk in its world and explore.

As a fellow dev I am really proud of you bro! Keep it up!

there is something special about this project, it could really be successful with proper game design and systems

Some random ideas: - Make the weapon/hand shake when the player got damage (maybe also camera shaking) - Add random small stones/rocks on grassland (to get more color variety into grasslands) - Idk how hard this would be but: Volumetric fog

I just love the fact that I can be here to witness the progress of your game. I can't wait to play the final version.

Having the items laying on the ground is brilliant; almost like a voxel Skyrim or BotW. Two things stood out to me that could make it feel a little more polished: - On slopes, the roads should be a bit more horizontally flat, like they've been cut/worn into the ground so they don't just look painted on. Hills make the path more interesting, but if a cart is on it, it shouldn't need to tilt side to side very much, if that makes sense. - The texture on the inventory UI is a bit noisy. It's a strain to tell what was in most slots. The background of (at least) the slots should be quite subtle so the item doesn't need outlines or such to make it stand out. I realize that's not very important, but it'd go a long way to make a demo feel more fleshed out. It looks amazing so far; looking forward to further updates!

I'm following this since the first ever video. Crazy how much this project grew and improved. I was already amazed back then, but now its a million times better! keep up your great work Tooley! ❤💪

Do you plan on adding modding API in the future? It would be epic to see what all sorts of stuff a community would make! Even if you don't, the game still looks amazing anyways.

0:37 This was so magical, when you come out of the door. The perspective and everything!

I can already see many big streamer playing this in a couple of years if everything goes alright

A suggestion: You should make an automated process to incorporate player made bulidings and geography into world generation, like steam workshop but you don't need to subscribe to each one, to keep the mystery. So that as long as this game have a community, there's always something new to discover, and exploration never gets boring.

So many cool things happening here. Looking forward to diving in one day!

Love the simplicity nature of this, I know you're going to add more, but keep this feeling. It invokes strong minecraft alpha / beta vibes. Love it!

just discovered this project and i think its super cool. hope the end product is as fun as it is pretty

Amazing work man! You clearly have that mix of dedication, skill, and passion to make something great here

This looks SUPERB good imo. The shaders and the unique voxel style are plain awesome!

this game only looks better with time. so excited to play it, whether it'll come out in months or years

Did your performance increase with the move to unreal engine, have you thought of trying to leverage nanite instead of voxel octrees ?

I'd suggest adding a little bit of anticipation to the wand's animation (moving it slightly backwards before attacking) to make it look more impactful and less stiff. Other than that, this looks fantastic! Can't wait to try it when it releases 😊

Looks like the future will be increasingly detailed voxel games. I can see many RPGs taking place in such an environment, and as the world generation and textures become more intricate and realistic we will see most games shift towards it.

Amazing as always, i really love this game

Super cool, very ambitious. Suggestion for later since I don't think it's a priority atm but add human enemies as well! Only having undead/creatures can make it feel a bit lonely kind off? I don't know how to describe it but it would make the world feel a bit more alive. Im guessing you have thought of it though as Im guessing there might be friendly NPC's at some point.. Anyway great work, hope you have success with it!

Looks Spectacular, love the small glimpse of the deer the world seems so alive! Keep up the great work!

this is really cool and im very sad this isnt more popular

This game looks really cool also the intro music to this video was so relaxing and fitting

how much knowledge you would need to create and code something like this is what captivates me most, this is incredible

This looks great! I am excited to play this!

Блин, выглядит круто, надеюсь, что играть будет также интересно. Главное, чтобы объекты по типу лагерей и храмов не слишком часто повторялись, в такой игре, да и в подавляющем большинстве других важно разнообразие.

To improve the feel of your game you should add explosive barrels on the watch towers like in BOTW and have the enemies break physically when they die. Also I would love to see the addition of maybe a teleport spell or even dodge roll? (not sure if thats something you have in mind), but I also think some cool physics based weapons would be nice, like a blade that you can throw and then with draw to pull enemies in a direction, like off a tower, into a trap or towards you, and even some different magic spells like freeze, acid, shield and that sort of thing, also commented this on another vid but: You should change the inside of the trees to a tougher, harder to chop and lighter coloured material for the inner wood, and then have an easily cuttable outer layer of bark. Anyway good luck, game looks great.

It is such an inspiration to watch you. It's been only two years since I know about this project but it looks so good already. Amazing job

Amazing progress!

hey, i have had this idea for your game for a while now. so lets say you walk into a ruin, right now the enemies stay in their "idle" position, so how about instead they switch to the "suspicious" when a player enters the ruin, which makes them walk around more and if one of their allies dies, they go over to the ally's position and swich to "highly suspicious", where even if they spot a glimpse of the player, all of the enemies in the ruin will immediatly run over to the player and attack them. i think this can add a sense of stealth to the game and make it more challenging.

Can't wait to play it!! KEEP IT UP DUDE!

Man, i love ur game it reminds me of cube world and teardown. I would love to be an alpha teseter for you if you want me to. Keep up the amazing work btw some recomendations: base building( no distruction in your base), an other dimension could be cool, and bosses

This is incredible...wow

Absolutely Stunning!

The environment is absolutely stunning! Really pairs with the great sound design!

man youtube algorithm really pulled through on this one!!!! i NEVER comment on videos but this looks amazing!! especially since Hytale really isnt giving me any hope of coming out anytime soon ;-;

The game looks really nice! I suggest you add some background/ambience music however for the player, that would greatly improve it.

For LOD tearing on your chunks, i think you should be able to just generate a single extra downwards edge along each exposed face to prevent the see-through. Great work this is truly making me envious lol

Looks mighty fine, maybe you can add a system where you can place stuff, an option for pixel by pixel and an option for something whole, like a fence, a block, a voxel cylinder, or something of the sort, but make it fast, so players will pull of some neat stunts with it. Working with all those voxels proves you have ambition, and ambition to succeed, I'm looking forward to see it be done, I'm interested in what your making. Also I would like to propose a suggestion: have more enemies than skeletons, it will give the world a diverse skill level, it will be repetitive (an not the good one) to only slay skeletons all the time, and/or how about more skeleton types, like a big Dreadnought skeleton, or a Dynamite skeleton, if you get creative with that, your world will sing, but not overcrowd it at the same time to give the Barron world of the past feel, maybe night creatures, or creatures that were the reason why the world was abandoned, could lead to some interesting story telling. I'm also surprised on the water physics, how does your water work in your game? Proposal also, how about making the plants sway with the wind, having a different type of voxel that stretches with the wind, and can be walked through and the plants sway wherever the player is not, along with the tree's leaves if you could, much need a wind mechanism but it will give life to it.

What progress, looks amazing!

This is amazing! I just have one suggestion I kinda noticed was off, which was regarding the sword swing. I was thinking maybe speed up the animation of the first two swings by 2x or something like that in exchange for slightly increasing the cooldown after the final hit

looks great

This is really cool, you should be proud!

Breathtaking! I have to admit that upon a second watch, seeing sticks and pebbles with a drastically different voxel size than the terrain was jarring. Voxels with a 4x smaller edge length (64x smaller volume) makes them feel a bit out of place.

Really like it so far!

Well I get recommended this. It's amazing. I'm looking at getting into coding for the first time and this terrain is basically exactly what I want my game to look like. Slightly different but the voxel style.

I think an important thing to focus on, and you've got beautiful structures, is keeping a sense of unity to ruins and structures, on top of realism. Monasteries could be on their own, they probably would be self-sufficient but not other structures. BOTW seems pretty cohesive but it could be procedural, because the variety of structures work together, like smaller, or more broken down ones. And could you have a big civilization in a forest, or would the larger ones make more sense in a plains? Ruined villages and towns would be cool too.

I really like how Voxel games started as 3Dminer and Minecraft that could only render voxels as huge cubes about half the size as the player, and now games are being made rendering literally millions of tiny voxels at a time. fucking crazy.

This is amazing. I'm really interested in the technical details of that xD

Wow I just stumbled upon this and it is BEAUTIFUL!

looks epic man ! hope you keep up on it.

Mate just found this channel and project. Watched all of the vids and I gotta say this is awesome! And from what I gather you're a fellow Australian! G'day to you too. I'll certainly be following this project closely from now on, and praying that you don't fall off the face of the earth like John Linn and other similar projects. Something that came to mind; does that game have music yet, if not do you have any ideas for what you would like it to sound like? Let me know and I could throw you some demos for ambient background music. Keep up the good work!

I love watching these videos and seeing how the game is progressing. One thing that I think would be cool is when holding the wand some ambient synth-ish noise would be cool, like a humming kind of similar to the sound when a lightsaber is being used and wielded in star wars

I would kill to get even just a demo of this. As a fellow developer I am totally amazed. This is just beautiful

This game looks 🔥. Great job!

Wow! Looks amazing as usual! The atmosphere is great! IMO the only thing is the large cliffs, they feel a bit unnatural and too rugged...

Camps, road generation, bosses, and your approach to ruins are doing what minecraft has failed to do for a decade--introducing proper adventure into the game. I also see some possible breath of the wild inspiration here, and feel that is the exact right approach.

Would buy if a similar version would be released on the marketplace

Procedural graphics always look great when mastered. I wish more games used them plus I like future retro pixels

Incredible style! Looking forward on how you continue with this.

Glad to see you are still progressing on the project. My suggestion is more color variation in the trees and grass/ground. Its a great green, but a little too much. Good luck on everything and I look forward to seeing more.

Looks like a crazy Minecraft MOD o

Looking really good man. Love seeing all the progress done. Would love to see more enemies possibly maybe a boss. But I am buying the game the second it releases.

This is awesome! I honestly would like to support you in some way for making this game, so want to get in and explore. How do you go about designing the buildings? Is there a tool you made to help design them or do you build them within the game?

Looks like you worked a lot on the light system, 👏🏻 congrats, its absolutely amazing

Keep up the great work, looks phenomenal! Already exited about the game! Any plans on creating a discord server or something for people interested in this project to talk and give quicker feedback? Btw how do you create all the voxel structures and world? Feels like it would take a huge amount of time to model everything individually in a voxel program?

Looks very good! Very minor suggestion: inprove the contrast of the chest UI text.

Hey, I'm not really updated and it's been a while since I watched your vids. I'm glad that you still improve to this day! Everything looks great, keep it up! And a question, will there be some sort of "lore" bits and pieces in the game? Seeing abandoned churches and stuff like that is very interesting.

Can't wait for the game to release. I hope you are also doing well in real life.

Good work!! Is an excelent voxel design and looks great the visuals and sound is so relaxing

idk how much it would change but i think that maybe if the tall grass was thinner and moved maybe with the wind it would feel more nature-y, i really love how the game looks!!

3:17 you should make the fire slightly eat random voxels from the wood, and leave it chared, not completely consume the wood and all connected voxels, just slightly damage it.

This is insane progress, can't wait to see more!

The only thing in my opinion which needs some more work(visually) is the UI, but everything else if visually stunning and all the mechanics look really fun to play with!!

would loved to see taller mountains, a lot of expansion, new env, enemies, col?. This game looks like fun with all the posibilities.

Love the chest animations but it’d be cool if you could only open the chest infront of it to show the realism. Also maybe making the poi’s unique every time you encounter them would be cool

I'm just watching your project development and need to say That's reaaaly impressive!!! Hope mine one will be also good too, but it requires a good vehicle desigh...

The music feels like a somewhat "remastered" track of of a realy early minecraft version.

Absolutely beautiful! I've been following your journey for quite some time and I'm seriously impressed wow. do you by chance have some tips or a codebase you could reference to explain this kind of voxel generation? you're the only person on the planet i've seen who has done something so similar to how I want to generate voxels

Looks amazing dude!

I think making the trees leaves and grass sway a little bit would make the whole world feel more alive I know making a voxel generation game engine or not is really difficult but If this is something you could do I think it would make everything look a bit more awesome other than that though this whole project looks so amazing

I need this game ASAP, it’s gunna be so good the wait will be worth it but ahh I want it soon lol

This is turning out to be a very beautiful game. I have a question, though it may be a bit too soon to ask. Do you plan to add support for a modding api? I think this will be the difference of a game standing the test of time or being a flash in the pan.

I love how its coming along so far! I just think that maybe the animations are a bit simple/slow, and could use some work, though you might already be aware of that😅but yeah! i think this is coming along greatly and i love it so much! i do agree with a comment i saw about adding seasons and think they would add MASSIVE levels of immersion! love your game as always and good luck with development!

This project looks incredible! Keep it up

Absolutely stunning, is there a discord or Patreon?

I though you made the renderer yourself but you use unreal, anyways that big work and i hope we could play your game one day :D

I just want to chime in another voice saying this looks amazing! Are you planning on adding more terrain variation like other biomes or is rolling hill forests going to be the gist?

i love this game. i just only wanna suggest something: if you look too far, grass starts to disappear and it looks not that good as could be, maybe you could add an option in the settings after turning this on you could see far grass but it would look worse than regular and it would be coloured with few darker colour as if there were shadows there. Also in past videos i heard bird songs with music, and i really hope you will add some 4 pixels or more birds, as for me i hate when you hear super realistic sounds in the game where there are no sound sources that make these sounds

It would seem you've solved the two biggest technical issues with minecraft: big voxels and short draw distance. You also happen to have made it look really good and have an extremely inviting atmosphere. Ah right, and unlike most of the other projects, it looks like you're well on your way to making it an actual game, not just an engine.

Hey man, this game looks really good!

Lovely environment, feels so cozy! Like a mix between Cube World and Minecraft

It gets more beautiful with every update!

this looks so cool! =]

New Gen Cube World? :o Looks awesome!

Looks super cool! One suggestion I'd have is more feedback on enemy hit, maybe a more obvious noise or color flash or particle effects; it was sort of hard to tell if you were hitting him with the fireball or not (and may make combat more satisfying).

Looks really good dude! keep up the hard work!