Veloren

[0.18.0] - 2026-01-23

Added

• State of the window is saved between game launches.
• Barns that can spawn at the edge of towns.
• One new dungeon track and two new town tracks.
• You can now engage NPCs in two-way conversation.
• NPCs can now be hired for a short time.
• Pairs of Airships now travel between designated sites.
• Added ability to jump off walls.
• All metal lineage armor sets have helmets.
• Added /goto_rand command for admins to teleport to random position.
• Town road variations.
• Gamepad bindings can now be viewed in the 'Controls Settings' menu.
• New instruments: Rhythmo, Starlight Conch, Timbrel of Chaos, Viola Pizzicato.
• Time estimate to erosion.
• The ability to ask NPCs for directions to nearby establishments.
• Type /wiki to open the Veloren wiki or /wiki [topic] to search for a specific topic.
• Adding a space after chat mode commands changes chat modes.
• New and more granular options for the /kit command.
• Beds now regen health when mounted.
• Setting dropdown for SFX channel capacity.
• New Buccaneer entity spawn at the Pirate Hideout, including a new T2 obtainable buccaneer set.
• Serverside gizmos for debugging things like pathfinding.
• A potion which permanently changes the characters body type.
• Internal settings for audio samplerate and buffer size.
• Added fire gigas.
• Consumables drop their container after getting consumed.
• Added separate settings to toggle rain effects.
• Pirates sometimes going to raid towns.
• Croatian language support.
• Made space for airship travel agent at docks.
• Hired adventurers will now go to taverns in towns while the employer stays in the town.
• New hide lineage armor set known as Serpentscale.
• Added more varieties of house-building materials
• New LoD models for all five AirshipDock plots.
• Structures now support a Choice() block to allow for randomized spawns.
• Added DiscardTransparency experimental shader.
• Added Minimap options for Scale, Show Coordinates and Colored Player Marker.
• Simple quest system
• Quest: Escort a merchant
• Quest: Slay a monster
• Add separate wall jump button
• Added elephants
• More and improved fire particle effects
• Added Cloth Armor Lineage helmets and new Cotton Armor Set.
• New glider for Fire Gigas crafting drop.
• Support for directional lanterns
• Rebind controller buttons in-game.
• Adds a cyclable hotbar for improved controller support.
• Close button for dialogues.
• A new tutorial system that introduces mechanics during gameplay without breaking immersion
• Added more sprite effects
• Arthropod footsteps
• Added new bench and door sprites
• Bow

Changed

• Axe balance tweaks.
• Mountability now depends on mass, with the exception of ships and humanoids.
• Hammer skill icons.
• Renamed 'Bag' control setting to 'Inventory' and changed default keybind to 'i'.
• Improved interaction HUD consistency and prioritized important interactions over others.
• Sword balance tweaks.
• Vampire Castle chests are now the same as Haniwa chests.
• Increased kelpies' swim speed.
• Crippled balance tweaks.
• Track assignment for dungeons.
• Mineral ingot sprites recoloured.
• Hammer balance tweaks.
• Minor balance change to Terracotta Statue blast attack.
• Poise bar is shown by default.
• Purple Geode is dropped again, now from Basilisks.
• Updated velorite and fragment item models to match mining sprites.
• Tavern changes, cellars, better layout, more rtsim behaviour related to taverns.
• Town layout improvements, lantern pole sprites at the sides of roads, more smooth paths.
• Reworked climbing controls.
• You now need to hold the give up button to give up.
• Dealing damage to an npc reduces sentiment, helping a downed npc increases sentiment.
• Metal lineage armor model updates.
• No longer show names of most sprite interactions.
• Animation fix for flamekeeper and forgemaster: the ring of fire attack spreads outwards AFTER their weapon strikes the ground.
• Wolves are deadlier.
• New messages of the day for singleplayer worlds.
• Nerf npc aimbot.
• Minor improvements to NPC pathfinding to reduce illegal pathing around obstacles.
• Updated rat model.
• Recipes now have relevant quality (colour) ratings.
• Changed how RtSim handles repopulating NPCs. Instead of instantly creating a new one when one dies, it has a queue with a minimum time before trying to repopulate.
• Sitting at a campfire is now required to set your spawn point.
• Automatic item merging only applies to inventory events.
• Parry now has the same precision power as backstab.
• Improved safety railings on airships to mitigate surprise skydiving.
• Updated tradable recipes and balanced some prices.
• Merged craftable lanterns into a single recipe.
• Updated campfire and bed interaction texts.
• Witch and Pirate sets (T3 and T1 respectively) are now obtainable and have been given new models, alongside Twig Set being changed out for Adventurer Set.
• Updated Tidal Warrior model.
• Emitted sfx now take into account both player and camera position, instead of just camera position, when determining volume.
• Danari horns are now showed when wearing a hat or helmet.
• Debuff icons have been updated to be more vibrant and identifiable.
• Made hammer skills descrptions clearer.
• Updated airship docks to add more space between docking platforms.
• Airships now travel along routes of many docks rather than out and back between two docks.
• Airship docking time is reduced from 90 to 60 seconds.
• All hide lienage armor sets now have helmets.
• Increased gem spawn rates in caves; each gem node has a specific biome in which they generate more frequently.
• Cliff town airship docks now have extra space around the dock to preclude taller cliff buildings from interferring.
• Collars now require 2 tin ingots instead of an iron ingot, and their quality attribute has been changed to common instead of moderate.
• Barns can spawn some items.
• Significantly increased the frequency/number of recipes dropped from dungeon chests.
• More attacks and interactions can be aimed while mounted.
• Minimum camera clamp angle is now 0 degrees.
• Sprite and entity materials have been overhauled and improved
• Cloth Armor Lineage model updates.
• Removed bloodsteel ingots from Vampire Castle mini-boss loot.
• Chest and mining drops now have a shorter ownership timeout.
• Tweaked attack timings and orientation rates for a variety of entities.
• Builds for Linux are now with compressed debuginfo, this should reduce the size of the game on disk.
• Changed default controller controls.
• Re-ordered controls list to group related actions.
• Airship movement is according to timing of route schedule, no longer autonomous.
• Added height to City airship docs located near sloping terrain for airship docking clearance.
• switch to Naga for default Shader compiler instead of shaderc
• Changed doors on DefaultAirship vehicle
• Changed lanterns and bench on Skiff vehicle

Removed

• NPCs will no longer randomly ambush players.
• Combat music temporarily removed.
• Hotkey hints
• Bags and other superficial equipment no longer cost resources to repair
• Removed natural glow from gem deposits, and increased Velorite glowiness to compensate for the resulting darker caves.

Fixed

• Realignment of tree and entrance for Haniwa Catacomb sites.
• Riders no longer lag behind mounts.
• Can no longer ride while dead.
• Realignment of airship dock signs in forest towns.
• Fixed rotation of Bloodmoon Relic.
• Captains no longer turn towards sounds or targets.
• Soldier Crabs no longer spawn under the floor at Sahagin Island dungeons.
• Minimap zooming can no longer exceed limits when zooming with hotkeys, making the behaviour consistent for using the interface buttons or the hotkeys.
• Fix "Uid was not mapped to any entity" errors.
• Fixes sprite orientations and placement.
• Caves now show up in the map again.
• Fixed airship dock position.
• Fixed throwables pickup sound.
• Re-oriented LoD model for Haniwa Catacombs.
• Made it easier to interact with sprites on moving airships.
• Fixed mismatches in some armour item drop models.
• Gnarling Chieftain's totem summons now face their target.
• Game should no longer crash when encountering bad audio device configuration.
• Audio backend tries to switch to a lower samplerate when detecting an abnormally high one.
• Fixed music tracks playing straight after one another sometimes.
• Fixed some summons taking control of the boss.
• Desert area wildlife is back to spawning in hot temperatures.
• Ambience (e.g. wind) loops properly.
• Can no longer get bags with items still in them into the inventory by "using" another bag.
• Npcs don't get angry if you kill a monster infront of them, and can get happy if you saved them from it.
• Map markers are kept between character selection screens.
• Using "/clear" now works when chat is not shown.
• A server crash when loading some myrmidon arenas.
• Fixed agents spamming healing items, causing them not to heal.
• Fixed agents not picking up their items.
• Fixed the issue where cliff town airship docks were sometimes missing.
• Elusive bridge trolls are no longer at risk spawning in terrain.
• Npc pathing.
• More beds heal
• RTsim airships now stay at flying height except when docking.
• Adjust airship's propellers and rudder offset
• Fix offset of BenchCoastal sprite
• Adjust marine vehicles center alignment
• Various sprite lighting issues
• Spatial SFX no longer pop at the very start of their sound.
• AppStream metadata for Veloren is now fully valid.
• Not being able to target ores when zoom out.
• Dark/black in-game environment rendering problems when using Naga shaders and lighting mode A or B, on some systems.