Hey settlers After over a year in Early Access, the time has finally come! Of Life and Land will officially launch into version 1.0 on 16. May 2025!!! The full release brings you a new historical scenario about the Counts of Lenzburg, new buildings and decorations, tons of improvements and more! To celebrate the full release, the game will be available on Steam at 40% off for the first time!
To get ready, todays update brings tons of improvements: two beautiful new starting maps, a new hygiene system with soap, a cesspit UI, tons of polish, and smarter, more immersive village life!

New Content

• New Starting Maps: The Lakes and The Hills are now available in the Kerzoven scenario!
• New Item: Soap Crafted at the Apothecary, soap boosts hygiene and is used in cleaning upgrades and sanitary buildings.
• Cesspit UI: Shows whats happening and how it works.
• New Warnings: Get alerts when food is scarce, including tips to troubleshoot.
• Guild House Tips: More helpful information about child and adult education policies.
• Pause Quests & Tasks anytime to better control your village flow.

Improvements & Fixes

• Smarter cleaning behavior: Villagers now care more for their own homes.
• Glassworks now produce more glass with the same resources.
• Eggs are now larger and more nutritious.
• Enhanced construction UI and quest indicators.
• New season hints, comfort tooltips, and animal age bar charts!
• Range indicators for the Finn torch, windcatcher towers, barns, and hunters.
• Balanced item prices to fit with updated recipes.
• Editor improvements: Subgroups, loading info, and better logic structure.
• Multiple crash fixes and UI improvements for better stability.
• Localized diplomatic UI and better trade log sorting.

Patch Notes 2025.04.16

• Added Kerzoven scenario with The Lakes as starting map
• Added Kerzoven scenario with The Hills as starting map
• Added cesspit UI showing what is going on and how it works.
• Added soap to the game. It can be crafted by the Apothecary and is used for cleaning upgrades and hygienic buildings.
• Added warning when the food is scarce and information about what the problem could be.
• Added more information and tips to the guild house policies.
• Added possibility to pause a quest or task anytime.

• Improved the introduction text
• Fixed an issue where Villagers with T6+ could satisfy the delicacy need if they were very hungry (they still eat at the kitchen / fireplace but do not change the delicacy need state).
• Localized locked statement in diplomatic relations.
• Added sub groups to the logical places in the editor to make it easier to read.
• Improved item view UX
• The glassworks now produce much more glass with the same amount of ingredients.
• Eggs now have twice the size and nutritional values.
• Buffed cleaning a bit.
• Improved the description of the weir and how it works.
• Improved construction UI order.
• The quest process marker count is only shown if there is more than one subtask.
• (Modding) Added option to add extra info in the loading info box.
• Fixed an issue where the tab key was not working when a button in the Item UI had the focus.
• The forester can now as well care for trees.
• People are now more intelligent about cleaning their own home.
• Added season hints to the player UI.
• Fixed cleaning crash if there was no home to clean.
• Improved the trade log to always sort the new entries by date.
• Fixed stack overflow on recursion in the quest detail view.
• Fixed a problem where the animation could be read before it was ready.
• Activated filter setting to reduce aliment offset when UI size is a non-integer offset.
• Added a bar chart for animal age distribution in the census view.
• Balanced all item prices according to the new recipes.
• Fixed a crash where the item UI tried to open the marketplace UI and crashed.
• Fixed an issue where the game could freeze for a short time when an animal died while it was pooping.
• Fixed a rare crash when the class category count is updated while someone is born.
• Improved the performance when playing short audio effects.
• Added comfort tooltip in the home UI.
• Added more hints on where to get chickens from in Risenna.
• Added range indicators for the Finn torch, windcatcher towers, barns and hunters.