How to play - New Updates v4

Welcome to Land Idle

Documentation and Tutorial for (v4) 

A new update is here, which adds a few features

Felt was a good time to share 'How to play the game’.

A list of Shortcuts are in the bottom of this Document. 

Land Idle - is a game where you buy Land and build up a Kingdom; or Empire To do this you need to purchase Land, at the start of the game, you are very limited in how much Gold you have. 

Two paths lie before you, Forest or Wheat Farm; each is the same, as showcase in the Gif below,

You buy Land, first one cost 100g

Next you need to hire Workers - but labor cost Wheat and you don't have any to start with.

You need to go to the Market, but that's not ready yet, so just click on the Buy icon.

[The Buy Icon, will buy whatever the building needs, one resource per building, to operate the building]

[Each Territory has 5 Icons, [Hire] [Sell] [Buy] [Mike] [SrSp]

(The last too are just for fun, maybe to add in Hero Workers or something)

[These Icons are per Land – probably need to separate out the Land UI more]

Once you have enough Wheat 1-5 you can hire a Worker.

To hire a Worker, click on the 'Hire Button'.

This seems tedious and so you can click on the Hire Icon – Which will use the Resources you have to hire, but can run out, and will wait until you have enough.

Once you have a Worker, he will plod away every Second of real time to make Goods.

To Expand you need Gold and to make Gold you need to spend and Earn gold. Purposefully all of this is automatable.

Click on the [Sell] Icon per Territory to sell anything extra.

If its Wheat, or Stone you may want to save it

Market doesn’t change the price.  So, buy and sell for free!

Once you have enough you can build a 2^nd Land for about 200 Gold, then 300, and 400, and so forth.

 Expand into new Tiers with Stone, and even Heroic Tiers of Lands

Here is that in a gif, from an older version, but remains about the same.

https://gyazo.com/75ee002eaed9ada82d83c530b74e31c9

After a while, you will need to manage what you are buying and selling.  If you can’t get any wheat, stop auto-hiring and stop selling and stop buying the wheat fields. Tooltips are your friend.

[Wheat, Wood and then Stone, are the basics and NEED those the most]

 Knowledge is the End-game resource and by that point you should have a.

Keyboard Short Cuts

What do all the Buttons and Commands in the Game Do.

(MOST of this is development Information and future Plans)

(Pressing I will bring up the Market’s Inventory, Pressing I again will close it.)

G – Show Hide tooltips

L – Scale Land up and Scale Land down (1x  scale vs 2x scale)

I – Market Information/ Inventory

O – Buy Goods from the Market, and Sell them

P – Buy Labor from the Market and Sell them

(Not working, or may not be intended in the future)

V – The Current Trade Idle – Land Map

C – Brings up a Character information Idle Game

X – Brings up an Idle Combat Game (Grey background Only) Z – Brings up a different idea for UI game (Nothing comes up)

FEW other shortcuts are in the Game (Will be removed at SOME point) Nothing to see here, play the game as Intended.

 Version Changes for v0.4a – (Not exhaustive) – Alpha

[Please note the game is VERY unbalanced, but will drastically change over time]

(SOMEWHAT thinking – like you can’t buy two Land and not be able to do anything)

Added in Information Market Windows

Rebalanced cost of Land – 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000

[Post 1k MIGHT change it up]

Added in a Scaling factor so your gold is based on bot buying two lands.

[Wanted a way to set a few lands purchasable]

Whats Next:

The Blue Icons in the Top right, are meant to take the place of Shortcuts

Would like to do a YouTube video sharing some details.  Prob be unspoken.

Would love to not show all the Land, until you can buy them.

Would like to have a way to Hide Stone, Heroic and skip that step if you don’t the Resource.

Want a way to Trade again, and Maybe trade/train Labor

Combat game, and Kingdom Manager games would be fun to implement.

Quest, Items, and MANY other ideas. What we are Thinking: Eventually you could use the 300ish gold to Buy a Hero and watch him duke it out in the Dungeon for gold instead.

New in this DevLog – 25 less uses of the word I

[The formatting is funky - its Partly do the way Itch does their logs.