veloren v0.15.0

[0.15.0] - 2023-07-01

Added

• Command to toggle experimental shaders.
• Faster Energy Regeneration while sitting.
• Lantern glow for dropped lanterns.
• Suggests commands when an invalid one is entered in chat and added Client-side commands to /help.
• Moderator badge in the chat.
• More aggressive scene culling based on camera position to improve performance.
• Some chests requiring lockpicks or keys.
• Unlockable door blocks.
• Sprite rotation for Spots.
• Better entity placement options for spots.
• Camera zoom can now be locked, to prevent accidental zooming while rolling in combat. It comes with a keybind to enable/disable the setting, and an Auto/Toggle behavior setting. Auto behavior will only lock the camera zoom while movement and combat inputs are also being pressed.
• Custom spots can be added without recompilation (only ron and vox files)
• Setting in userdata/server/server_config/settings.ron that controls the length of each day/night cycle.
• Starting site can now be chosen during character creation
• Durability loss of equipped items on death
• Reputation system: crimes will be remembered and NPCs will tell each other about crimes they witness
• NPCs will now talk to players and to each other
• NPCs now have dedicated professions and will act accordingly
• NPCs other than merchants can be traded with
• NPCs will seek out a place to sleep when night comes
• Merchants now travel between towns
• Travellers and merchants will stay a while in each town they visit and converse with the locals
• Resource tracking: resources in the world can be temporarily exhausted, requiring time to replenish
• Airships now have pilot NPCs
• Simulated NPCs now have repopulation mechanics
• NPCs now have unique names
• A /scale command that can be used to change the in-game scale of players
• Merchants will flog their wares in towns, encouraging nearby character to buy goods from them
• NPCs will now tell you about nearby towns and how to visit them
• NPCs will migrate to new towns if they are dissatisfied with their current town
• Female humanoids now have a greeting sound effect
• Loot that drops multiple items is now distributed fairly between damage contributors.
• Added accessibility settings tab.
• Setting to enable subtitles describing sfx.
• Item drops that are spatially close and compatible will now merge with one-another to reduce performance problems.
• Airships can now have sprites, which can be interacted with.
• Some sprites can be sat on.
• Pet birds can now sit on the player's shoulder as they explore the world.
• Adlet caves
• Durability free areas (/area_add <area_name> no_durability ...)
• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• Added additional confirmation when trading for nothing.
• Esperanto translation
• Item quantity sort in player inventory.

Changed

• Bats move slower and use a simple proportional controller to maintain altitude
• Bats now have less health
• Climbing no longer requires having 10 energy
• Castles will now be placed close to towns
• Sword
• Rescaling of images for the UI is now done when sampling from them on the GPU. Improvements are particularily noticeable when opening the map screen (which involves rescaling a few large images) and also when using the voxel minimap view (where a medium size image is updated often).
• Towns now have a variety of sizes
• The game now starts in fullscreen by default
• Default audio volume should be less likely to destroy ear drums
• Creatures flee less quickly when low on health
• All /build_area_* commands have been renamed to /area_*, and you will have to pass an additional area type
• Collision damage can now be applied in horizontal axes, in addition to the vertical axis
• Items will vanish after 5 minutes to minimise performance problems
• The language identifiers used by the i18n translation system have been converted to IETF BCP 47 (RFC 5646) language tags.
• Improved particle performance for lava and leaves
• The wander-radius of entities can be defined in their .ron config now
• Dwarven-Mine themed dungeon
• Multiple item types can be dropped from enemies and chests now
• Readable signs
• Plugins now target wasm32-unknown-wasi and all wasm cfgs are gone
• Slightly reduced quantities of ingredients needed to craft cooked foods
• Improved and cleaned loot tables for T1 and T2 dungeons as well as large cave monsters (Good bye, Bowls and Stones!)
• Added coastal towns

Removed

• Plugins can no longer prevent users from logging in

Fixed

• Doors
• Debug hitboxes now scale with the Scale component
• Potion quaffing no longer makes characters practically immortal.
• Stat diff now displays correctly for armor
• Lamps, embers and campfires use glowing indices
• Non-potion drinks no longer heal as much as potions.
• Added SFX to the new sword abilities
• Fixed various issues with showing the correct text hint for interactable blocks.
• Intert entities like arrows no longer obstruct interacting with nearby entities/blocks.
• Underwater fall damage
• The scale component now behaves properly
• Multiple model support for dropped items (orichalcum armor)
• Made rtsim monsters not go into too deep water, and certainly not outside the map.
• Fixed bug where npcs would be dismounted from vehicles if loaded/unloaded in a certain order.
• Fixed a slow leak on the server where Uid -> Entity mappings weren't cleaned up.
• Clients going back into the character screen now properly have their old entity cleaned up on other clients.