Dead Lands

*This is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*

**Dead Lands** is a setting inspired by the gothic horror action-RPG game called *Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night*, which was developed by Koji Igarashi’s *ArtPlay* and published by *505 Games*.
It's the default setting for the Dead Lands campaign and the Trade Routes challenge.

## Raw Fury description

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Dead Lands brings Kingdom to a dark gothic world. But do not fear, you’ll be able to play as the heroine Miriam and three other characters from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, each with a powerful trait.Raw Fury
## Gloomy atmosphere

Since launch, monarchs have been building their Kingdoms in the classic medieval and feudal Japan inspired settings. Now things are about to get darker and creepier with Dead Lands, a completely new setting that will change how kingdoms are ruled. Taking place in a gloomy gothic world with eerie mounts, building a kingdom has never been more frightening than this.

## Switching playable characters

*Main article: Monarchs (Dead Lands).*
For the first time in *Kingdom*, players will not only be able to change which mount they roam around on while they explore and expand their kingdom but they’ll also be able to switch between four different Monarchs, each with a unique powerful trait. These four new monarchs in Dead Lands all come from *Bloodstained*.

New rulers will start out as the shardbinder Miriam, and during their journey unlock the demon hunter Zangetsu, the summoner Gebel, and the alchemist Alfred.

## Other changes

* New mounts: gamigin, beetle and golem *(shown above)*
* Unavailable mounts: griffin, draft horse, warhorse
* Previously existing mounts recolors
* Chickens replace rabbits in plains
* Coins display skulls
* Moon phases are more apparent
* Island selecting map changed, displaying more details than before, and is sliding from island to island instead of one map where you select
* Doggo is now more wolf-like
* New greedlings' masks
* The starter horse is zombified
* Enlisted (by a knight) archers now have bandanas and crossbows
* Bug where knights and squires would appear from the wrong DLC/mode fixed
* Somehow archers' aim worsened
* AI improved (especially suicide builders walking outside at night)
* 14 new songs specific for the Dead Lands campaign.

## Video guides

Dead LandsTips for the new mounts and monarchsMounts (Dead Lands)Guide for the new mounts

## Gallery

Key art: Miriam riding a gamiginThe Miriam's abilityGebel and the golemAlfred, beetle & dogA co-op sampleDead Lands launch trailer
## Fully dark forest bug

The deep forest environments may be fully dark to the point of not allowing players to see portals, coin and gem chests, and mount habitats, nothing, no matter the time of the day or the night. They can only see the few objects that have self illumination, like vagrant camps, and some typical Dead Lands vegetation with auto/bioluminescence. Greedlings, that have a weak light on their "face", are very hard to spot. The game may become unplayable due to this bug, that has been around at least since Never Alone update - 1.1.9, on April 2021. This is different from the 2020 bug that made the entire land dark, and seems to have been fixed.

## History

Dead Lands was introduced with update 1.1.0 as a free DLC on 28 April 2020 on all platforms the game is available for. It was launched simultaneously with mobile version of the game.

## References

1. ↑ *Bloodstained* wiki.
2. ↑ Free update Dead Lands makes Kingdom Two Crowns darker, on *Kingdom* official site. 29 August 2019.
3. ↑ The cover illustration is drawn by ArtPlay’s Mana Ikeda.
4. ↑ Dead land forest too dark. *Steam*. 6 July 2021.
5. ↑ Dead Lands pitch black issue/bug. *Reddit*. 3 May 2020.