# veloren v0.15.0

- Product: veloren (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren)
- Vendor: veloren
- Date: 2023-06-30
- Version: v0.15.0
- Original notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.15.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren/releases/v0.15.0

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- **added** — Command to toggle experimental shaders
- **added** — Faster energy regeneration while sitting
- **added** — Lantern glow for dropped lanterns
- **added** — Command suggestions when an invalid command is entered in chat and client-side commands in /help
- **added** — Moderator badge in the chat
- **added** — More aggressive scene culling based on camera position to improve performance
- **added** — Some chests requiring lockpicks or keys
- **added** — Unlockable door blocks
- **added** — Sprite rotation for Spots
- **added** — Better entity placement options for spots
- **added** — Camera zoom lock to prevent accidental zooming while rolling in combat, with keybind and Auto/Toggle behavior setting
- **added** — Custom spots can be added without recompilation using only ron and vox files
- **added** — Setting in userdata/server/server_config/settings.ron to control the length of each day/night cycle
- **added** — Starting site can be chosen during character creation
- **added** — Durability loss of equipped items on death
- **added** — Reputation system where crimes are remembered and NPCs tell each other about witnessed crimes
- **added** — NPCs now talk to players and to each other
- **added** — NPCs have dedicated professions and act accordingly
- **added** — NPCs other than merchants can be traded with
- **added** — Pet birds can now sit on the player's shoulder
- **changed** — Bats move slower and use a simple proportional controller to maintain altitude
- **changed** — Bats now have less health
- **changed** — Climbing no longer requires having 10 energy
- **changed** — Castles will now be placed close to towns
- **changed** — UI image rescaling is now done when sampling from them on the GPU
- **changed** — Towns now have a variety of sizes
- **changed** — Game now starts in fullscreen by default
- **changed** — Default audio volume reduced to prevent hearing damage
- **changed** — Creatures flee less quickly when low on health
- **changed** — All /build_area_* commands have been renamed to /area_* and require passing an additional area type
- **changed** — Collision damage can now be applied in horizontal axes in addition to the vertical axis
- **changed** — Items vanish after 5 minutes to minimise performance problems
- **changed** — Language identifiers converted to IETF BCP 47 language tags
- **changed** — Improved particle performance for lava and leaves
- **changed** — Wander-radius of entities can be defined in their .ron config
- **changed** — Dwarven-Mine themed dungeon
- **changed** — Multiple item types can be dropped from enemies and chests
- **changed** — Readable signs
- **changed** — Plugins now target wasm32-unknown-wasi
- **changed** — Slightly reduced quantities of ingredients needed to craft cooked foods
- **changed** — Improved and cleaned loot tables for T1 and T2 dungeons and large cave monsters
- **changed** — Added coastal towns
- **removed** — Plugins can no longer prevent users from logging in
- **fixed** — Doors
- **fixed** — Debug hitboxes now scale with the Scale component
- **fixed** — Potion quaffing no longer makes characters practically immortal
- **fixed** — Stat diff now displays correctly for armor
- **fixed** — Lamps, embers and campfires use glowing indices
- **fixed** — Non-potion drinks no longer heal as much as potions
- **fixed** — Added SFX to the new sword abilities
- **fixed** — Fixed various issues with showing the correct text hint for interactable blocks
- **fixed** — Inert entities like arrows no longer obstruct interacting with nearby entities/blocks
- **fixed** — Underwater fall damage
- **fixed** — Scale component now behaves properly
- **fixed** — Multiple model support for dropped items
- **fixed** — Rtsim monsters no longer go into too deep water or outside the map
- **fixed** — Fixed bug where NPCs would be dismounted from vehicles if loaded/unloaded in a certain order
- **fixed** — Fixed slow leak on the server where Uid to Entity mappings were not cleaned up
- **fixed** — Clients going back into the character screen now properly have their old entity cleaned up on other clients

##### [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
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