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The following is a set of patch notes from the recent update to Life is Feudal which features all throwing weaponry (apart from Naptha Grenades) and Trebuchets! Prepare for the real siege to begin! Dear players! Unfortunately this April patch does not contain all of the initially planned features. We have had to postpone the World loading optimizations feature because it affects very sensitive core program mechanics and we want to spend more time on polishing and testing. On the brighter side, throwing weaponry and trebuchets are here! Later in May we plan to implement explosive naphtha grenades and explosive trebuchet charges - our first AoE (Area of Effect) weapons! Patch notes (ver. 0.3.7.2):  Implemented the first siege weapon - Trebuchet . Make sure you have at least 50 Intelligence in order to use it effectively ;) You can read more about its mechanics on our Wiki[lifeisfeudal.gamepedia.com]  Implemented throwing weapons: knives, axes and javelins.  Bugf...

Single Handed Blades or also known as "Blades Mastery" as a skill, are very basic weapons, you probably seen from a lot of medieval/sword slashing movies that single handed blades are very favourable: this is because they are lightweight and just like the game they too, are lightweight. In Life is Feudal, they are the simplest weapons to craft only requiring  Thick Leather  and  Metal Bars . However, how effective are these weapons in the game? Well, they are; depending on the stats of your character. If you have high Strength and high Agility you will swing fast and hard! These weapons also allow you to stay lightweight which means your speed when running stays high enough to catch intruders running! Types of Single Handed Blades you can craft Knight Sword:  The Knight Sword is a basic straight sword with no real great damage properties. However, Blades have two forms of damage: Slashing and Piercing. Mix both of these together and you have a very versatile ...

Rope is one of the most important materials in Life is Feudal as it allows you to build advanced structures, create practice weapons and also build your well for that useful water bag for bone glue! However, it seems very far away from getting early game! I am going to show you the fastest way to get it planted in possibly one sitting of playing the game: Around 4-6 hours. These are 6 steps to gaining ropes: Step 1: So you entered the game with either 60 farming or none at all. That's cool, get gathering plant fibers, flintstones and branches and make a primitive shovel. Start plowing the green grassed areas. This will take time and possibly a lot of determination but trust me you will reap the rewards when you finally achieve level 90 farming. Step 2: Now that you have level 90 farming, quickly grab up some more plant fibers, flintstones and branches to make a sickle! Start gathering wild plants! To do this go to some forest soil and right click it -> Farming -> Gather...

If you were thinking of getting Life is Feudal, now is the time! They have a discount of 33% off the game so hurry while this deal lasts! Steam link:  Purchase here ! I will see you on the battlefield! 

Missile Weapons As of the December patch in 2014 when crossbows got the bug fix, people have been perusing missile weapons and that's great. However... Some do not understand why when they draw their arrow back it simply flops to the floor OR it doesn't go as far as they think it should be going. However many people understand the requirements for them and simply don't know which would be best to either defend, offend or land battle with. So this post is going to go into a little depth to show which form of missile weapon is best used for which scenario. First lets look into how to get these Missile Weapons: First you need your throwing weaponry to 60 , you can set this on your character creation before entering a Server. You will have the ability to use a Sling which is an early primitive throwing weapon: if used in collection of a a group, it can be deadly. Second you need to have someone or yourself the ability to tan hides and also Tailor as you will nee...

Training the right way So once we all get to that point where we can create training weapons such as the training sword, the bastard sword etc, we all want to train with them! However, Since training dummies and Archery targets training abilities aren't implemented, we need to find another form or method to train! Idea 1 The first idea is to find animals: peaceful or aggressive. However this can have repercussions due to the fact that if you are level 0 - 30 in the weapon of your choice, your attacks are slowed. This is to simulate that you do not know how to use the weapon! So Fighting a bear or wolf with a wooden sword is not recommended. Idea 2 This is when players start turning to each other to help level your characters weapon training. Again this has repercussion, we all know the fabled training glitch where you can randomly critical hit your friend for 200 blunt damage killing them instantly: therefore them being mad and possibly asking to leave the guild/group. I...

Life is Feudal Vlog update Steph from the Life is Feudal Team has created another Vlog and talks about some of the top asked questions from the community to the Life is Feudal Dev Team. Steph from LIF answers them all in depth and discuss's where they will be implmented in both LIF: Your own and LIF: MMO. Big thank you Steph also mentions a Community Spotlight which I have been featured on and I have to say a massive thank you to the LIF Dev team, Steph and other contributors. It's a massive honour to have a spot on the spotlight and to have been thanked and mentioned by the Team. I will continue this blog way into the MMO and also into the future of Life is Feudal. Many Thanks!

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In this post I will be sharing my recommended Skill sets for the best advantages in-game. These skills will also increase your speed at which you do specific actions: Farming/Building/Smithing etc. These skill sets will also be very useful if you are in low Skill cap servers so you can specify a skill tree to level on effectively! Smithing Tree:   Prospecting: 60 Mining: 60 Smelting: 90 Forging: 100 Armour Smithing: 100 Carpentry Tree Forestry: 100 Logging: 60 Carpentry: 100 BowCraft: 100 Herbalism Tree Natures Lore: 100 Gathering: 100 Herbalism: 100 Healing: 90 Construction Tree Terraforming: 60 Construction Materials Preparation: 90 Construction: 100 Masonry: 100 Architecture :90 Farming Tree Farming: 100 Animal Lore: 90 Procuration: 60 Cooking: 90 Tailoring: 100

 Three Skills down and 2 to go on my Grinding Skills tutorials! I will now be covering the Carpentry tree where you can gather/plant sprouts, cut trees down, refine logs to make furniture and turn boards into bows! In this post I am going to go over my own experience grinding up the Carpentry tree skills: Forestry Logging Carpentry Bowcraft Warfare Engineering (Not implemented) Forestry:  To effectively level up your Forestry skill, it's probably recommended you enter the character creation stage and set it to 60 be default to collectively bypass it: but for those who do not, the best method I have found is collecting Sprouts from individual trees! Yes this does take a little time but gathering branches only levels me by 0.5/2.0 skill which is very slow. As opposed to gathering sprouts which levels me almost 5.0 skill points up, it's twice as fast and more effective. I would highly recommend getting your forestry to level 90 to have the ability to plant Oaks, e...

 So far I have covered a range of trees from: Construction and Farming. I am now going to cover the Smithing skill tree where you can find ore in the land, Mine it out of the ground, Smelt in up into metal goods and then forge metal tools/weapons and armour! In this post I am going to go over my own experience grinding up the smithing tree skills: Prospecting Mining Smelting Forging Armour Smithing Prospecting:  To start grinding up your prospecting skill, it isn't to start looking for Iron. First you want to gather as much flint stones up as possible. These will serve you better when you go to craft your first primitive tools! This should level you too at least level 30-40 so from here you can start to prospect for Iron/Copper ore (these are the two most abundant ore types). As soon as you reach level 60 in prospecting you should have already found Iron/Copper ore by this time. Now you can craft a pickaxe and this brings up to the nex...

After thousands of man hours and gallons of coffee we have finally achieved a MAJOR breakthrough in our graphics engine. We are proud to introduce an Improved Graphics Mode © ! Due to its experimental nature, you need to activate it manually by pressing Alt + "i" on your keyboard. Enjoy! Patch notes (seriously. ver. 0.3.4.0): Implemented Improved Graphics Mode © Fixed a bug with maintenance not occurring in certain conditions (trees and crops do not grow etc.) You can use kiln bellows without a Smelting skill now Traps and Snares are fixed and should work properly now and not decay too quick You can now select objects that lie in shallow water Alignment loss for same guild/group members should no longer occur Other minor bug fixes P.S. To turn off Improved Graphics Mode © press Alt + “-” on your keyboard. P.P.S. We have received numerous reports that tanning tubs are not working in certain cases - we are still unable to reproduce the bu...