# veloren v0.11.0

- Product: veloren (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren)
- Vendor: veloren
- Date: 2021-09-10
- Version: v0.11.0
- Original notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.11.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren/releases/v0.11.0

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- **added** — Skill tree for mining that gains experience from mining ores and gems
- **added** — Debug line info in release builds to enhance usefulness of panic backtraces
- **added** — NPCs and animals can now make sounds in response to certain events
- **added** — Players can press H to greet others
- **added** — Ability to toggle chat visibility
- **added** — Gem rings with various stat improvements
- **added** — Animations for using consumables
- **added** — New danari character customizations
- **added** — Bald hairstyles for humans and danari
- **added** — AI for sceptre wielders and sceptre cultists in Tier 5 dungeons
- **added** — HUD debug info now displays current biome and site
- **added** — Quotes and escape codes can be used in command arguments
- **added** — Toggle chat with a shortcut (default is F5)
- **added** — Pets are now saved on logout
- **added** — Dualwielded one-handed swords as starting weapons
- **added** — Healing sceptre crafting recipe
- **added** — NPCs can now warn players before engaging in combat
- **added** — Custom error message when a supported graphics backend cannot be found
- **added** — Server setting with PvE/PvP switch
- **added** — Ability to tilt glider while only wielding it
- **added** — Experimental terrain persistence
- **added** — GPU filtering using WGPU_ADAPTER environment variable
- **added** — Explosions no longer change block colours within safe zones
- **added** — The spot system which generates smaller site-like structures and scenarios
- **added** — Chestnut and cedar tree varieties
- **added** — Shooting sprites such as apples and hives can knock them out of trees
- **added** — Sprite pickup animations
- **added** — VELOREN_ASSETS_OVERRIDE variable for specifying folder to partially override assets
- **added** — Cultist raiders
- **added** — Bloom slider
- **changed** — Entity-entity pushback is no longer applied in forced movement states like rolling and leaping
- **changed** — Updated audio library from rodio 0.13 to 0.14
- **changed** — Improved entity-terrain physics performance by reducing the number of voxel lookups
- **changed** — Clay Golem uses shockwave only after specific fraction of health and other difficulty adjustments
- **changed** — Made strafing slightly slower
- **changed** — Food now has limited regeneration strength but longer duration
- **changed** — Harvester boss now has new abilities and AI
- **changed** — Death particles and SFX
- **changed** — Default keybindings were made more consistent
- **changed** — Adjusted Yeti difficulty
- **changed** — Most food now gives Saturation in the process of eating
- **changed** — Mushroom Curry gives long-lasting Regeneration buff
- **changed** — Trades now consider if items can stack in full inventories
- **changed** — The types of animals that can be tamed as pets are now limited to certain species pending further balancing
- **changed** — Made server-cli admin add/remove command use positional arguments again
- **changed** — Usage of stamina replaced with energy
- **changed** — Glider dimensions now depend on character height
- **changed** — Glider dimensions somewhat increased overall
- **changed** — Dungeon difficulty level starts at 1 instead of 0
- **changed** — Doubled the radius of the safe zone around the starting town
- **changed** — NPCs can sometimes drop no loot at all
- **removed** — Enemies no longer spawn in dungeon boss room
- **removed** — Melee critical hit no longer applies after reduction by armour
- **removed** — Removed Healing Sceptre as a starting weapon as it is considered an advanced weapon
- **removed** — The ability to pickup sprites through walls
- **fixed** — Crafting stations are no longer explosive
- **fixed** — Fixed cases where no audio output could be produced before
- **fixed** — Significantly improved the performance of playing sound effects
- **fixed** — Dismantle and Material crafting tabs no longer have duplicated recipes
- **fixed** — Campfires now despawn when underwater
- **fixed** — Players no longer spawn underground if their waypoint is underground
- **fixed** — Map now zooms around the cursor's position and drags correctly
- **fixed** — No more jittering while running down slopes with the glider out
- **fixed** — Axe normal attack rewards energy without skill points
- **fixed** — Gliders no longer suffer from unreasonable amounts of induced drag
- **fixed** — Camera is now clipping a lot less

##### [0.11.0] - 2021-09-11

###### Added

- Added a skill tree for mining, which gains xp from mining ores and gems.
- Added debug line info to release builds, enhancing the usefulness of panic backtraces
- NPCs and animals can now make sounds in response to certain events
- Players can press H to greet others
- Ability to toggle chat visibility
- Added gem rings with various stat improvements.
- Animations for using consumables.
- New danari character customizations
- Bald hairstyles for humans and danari
- AI for sceptre wielders and sceptre cultists in Tier 5 dungeons
- HUD debug info now displays current biome and site
- Quotes and escape codes can be used in command arguments
- Toggle chat with a shortcut (default is F5)
- Pets are now saved on logout 🐕 🦎 🐼
- Dualwielded, one-handed swords as starting weapons (Will be replaced by daggers in the future!)
- Healing sceptre crafting recipe
- NPCs can now warn players before engaging in combat
- Custom error message when a supported graphics backend can not be found
- Add server setting with PvE/PvP switch
- Can now tilt glider while only wielding it
- Experimental terrain persistence (see server documentation)
- Add GPU filtering using WGPU_ADAPTER environment variable
- Explosions no longer change block colours within safe zones
- The 'spot' system, which generates smaller site-like structures and scenarios
- Chestnut and cedar tree varieties
- Shooting sprites, such as apples and hives, can knock them out of trees
- Sprite pickup animations
- Add VELOREN_ASSETS_OVERRIDE variable for specifying folder to partially override assets.
- Cultist raiders
- Bloom Slider

###### Changed

- Entity-entity pushback is no longer applied in forced movement states like rolling and leaping.
- Updated audio library (rodio 0.13 -> 0.14).
- Improve entity-terrain physics performance by reducing the number of voxel lookups.
- Clay Golem uses shockwave only after specific fraction of health and other difficulty adjustments.
- Made strafing slightly slower
- Food now has limited regeneration strength but longer duration.
- Harvester boss now has new abilities and AI
- Death particles and SFX
- Default keybindings were made more consistent
- Adjusted Yeti difficulty
- Now most of the food gives Saturation in the process of eating
- Mushroom Curry gives long-lasting Regeneration buff
- Trades now consider if items can stack in full inventories.
- The types of animals that can be tamed as pets are now limited to certain species, pending further balancing of pets
- Made server-cli admin add/remove command use positional arguments again
- Usage of "stamina" replaced with "energy"
- Glider dimensions now depend on character height
- Glider dimensions somewhat increased overall
- Dungeon difficulty level starts at 1 instead of 0
- The radius of the safe zone around the starting town has been doubled
- NPCs can sometimes drop no loot at all

###### Removed

- Enemies no longer spawn in dungeon boss room
- Melee critical hit no longer applies after reduction by armour
- Enemies no more spawn in dungeon boss room
- Melee critical hit no more applies after reduction by armour
- Removed Healing Sceptre as a starting weapon as it is considered an advanced weapon
- The ability to pickup sprites through walls

###### Fixed

- Crafting Stations aren't exploadable anymore
- Cases where no audio output could be produced before.
- Significantly improved the performance of playing sound effects
- Dismantle and Material crafting tabs don't have duplicated recipes
- Campfires now despawn when underwater
- Players no longer spawn underground if their waypoint is underground
- Map will now zoom around the cursor's position and drag correctly
- No more jittering while running down slopes with the glider out
- Axe normal attack rewards energy without skill points
- Gliders no longer suffer from unreasonable amounts of induced drag
- Came

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.11.0]_