veloren v0.16.0

[0.16.0] - 2024-03-30

Added

• Esperanto translation.
• Complete Spanish (Spain) translation.
• Item quantity sort in player inventory.
• Using Block(Alt key by default) in Defensive Stance now feels stronger.
• Recipe for twigs from wooden logs.
• First version of multisalvage that allows to obtain more than one piece of material from salvage.
• Combat music toggle.
• Spawn rtsim wyverns that travel the world, providing dragon scale loot drops.
• Hardwood in tropical forests, frostwood in cold forests, and iron wood on the top of giant trees.
• Recipe for shovel, which is used to dig in mud and graves.
• Recipe for a new leather pack.
• Key binds for zooming the camera (Defaults: ] for zooming in and [ for zooming out).
• Added the ability to make pets sit, they wont follow nor defend you in this state.
• Portals that spawn in place of the last staircase at old style dungeons to prevent stair cheesing.
• Multiple singleplayer worlds and map generation UI.
• New arena building in desert cities, suitable for PVP, also NPCs like to watch the fights too.
• The loading screen now displays status updates for singleplayer server and client initialization progress.
• New Frost Gigas attacks & AI.
• Allow plugins to add weapon and armor items.
• New voxelised LoD shader effect.
• Allow plugins to add recipes and item images.
• SnowGlitter experimental shader.
• Crafting recipe for Cloverleaf glider.
• Burning Potion that applies the Burning effect to the user.
• Precision.
• A few new commands, /tether, /destroy_tethers, /mount and /dismount.
• A way to target non-player entities with commands. With rtsim_id: rtsim@<id>, with uid: uid@<id>.
• Shorthand in voxygen for specific entities in commands, some examples @target, @mount, @viewpoint.
• Added hit_timing to BasicMelee abilities.
• A tavern building where NPCs go to relax.
• Toggle for walking instead of running (Default: I).
• Added day duration slider configuration on map creation UI.
• Potion of Agility.
• A way for servers to specify must-accept rules for players.
• A flag argument type for commands.
• The ability to turn lamp-like sprites on and off.
• Added Autumn Forests, Cherry Blossom Forests, and Maple Trees.
• Added reworked dungeon: Haniwa Catacombs.
• Added dungeon: Terracotta Ruins.
• Sand and crystal cave biome.
• In commands that reference assets you can now use #name and press the Tab key to cycle through assets with that name.
• Allow moving and resizing the chat with left and right mouse button respectively.
• Missing plugins are requested from the server and cached locally.
• Support for adding spots in plugins.
• Added real colours to LOD trees and rooftops, unique models for most tree kinds, and models for several buildings
• /aura command
• Friendly Fire and Forced PvP auras to desert city arenas

Changed

• Axe skill tree overhaul.
• 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!
• Defensive Fell Strike's dmg raised.
• Defensive Cascade's more effective against parried foes.
• Defensive Riposte's buildup duration raised a bit.
• Capabilities of strikes to parry & block now more reliable.
• Defensive Disengage now more responsive and can block melee.
• Deflect no longer parry melee hits.
• Changed recipes for some bags to make them more horizontal.
• Increase inventory slots on some bags to improve early game experience.
• Made helmets, necklaces, rings, twig armors and some gliders salvageable.
• Tweaked stats on some foods so they generally increase a tiny bit more HP.
• Reduced idle time after consumption from 5 to 4 seconds.
• Reduced interaction time for harvestable and collectible items to smooth the gameplay.
• Gliders no longer drop from cave creatures.
• Tweaked Archaeos, Basilisk, Dreadhorn, Dullahan, Mammoth, Ngoubou, Ntouka and Roshwalr loot tables to be a bit more rewarding.
• Removed weapon and armor drops from standard NPCs.
• Tweaked dungeons mobs and chests loot tables to be more balanced and rewarding.
• Changed iron ore to iron ingots in the instruments' recipes.
• Changed gold ore to gold ingots in the brinestone armor set recipes.
• Updated windowing library, Wayland may work better.
• Portal model has been updated by @Nectical.
• Chat command responses sent by the server can now be localized.
• Frost Gigas spawns in cold areas (but isn't forced to stay there).
• The ability limit for non-humanoids has been removed.
• Improved running, wielding, and riding animations.
• Fixed offset of items carried on backs when wearing cloaks and backpacks.
• Linearize light colors on the CPU rather than in shaders on the GPU.
• You can no longer stack self buffs.
• Renamed "Burning Potion" to "Potion of Combustion".
• Render LoD terrain on the character selection screen.
• Camera no longer jumps on first mouse event after cursor grab is released on macOS.
• Updated wgpu. Now supports OpenGL. Dx11 no longer supported.
• Changes center_cursor to be reset_cursor_position so the cursor is effectively grabbed.
• Plugin interface based on WASI 0.2 WIT, wasmtime executes these components.
• Balance changes; Smoother entity progression consisting of larger variety in (effective) health pools, DPS, entity flee_health alterations, and minor weight distribution changes for entity spawns.
• Made power of weapon tiers scale non-linearly.
• Sword Changes; Pommel Strike has been nerfed -> increased energy cost, increased durations, and decreased poise damage. Heavy Sweep has been nerfed -> decreased poise damage and stun vulnerability damage. Pillar Thrust has been altered -> decreased maximum base damage with an increase in stun vulnerability damage.
• Weapons block are based on poise.
• Wooden Shield recipe.
• Overhauled the visuals of several cave biomes.
• Dropped items now merge dynamically (including non-stackables).
• You no longer need to unlock health, energy and roll skills to get to max.
• Rolls now don't skip recovery, and instead have increased buildup during ability interrupts.
• Changed default world map

Removed

• Medium and large potions from all loot tables.
• LoD pop-in effect.
• Removed Dullahans from Halloween event.
• Random critical hits.

Fixed

• Fixed wild roaming cyclops loot table to not drop the quarry key.
• Dungeons now have an outer wall, preventing them from intersecting with caves or leaving holes in sides of mountains.
• Location names are displayed in character selection dialog.
• You can no longer write messages to old groups after being kicked and not having updated your chat mode.
• Location names are now also correct after editing and creating characters.
• NPCs wont pick up recently dropped items (if not hostile towards you).
• Fixed "low fps" of different shaders caused by low floating point precision when using time.
• Fixed bug where airship captains would mass generate after using /reload_chunks.
• Fixed French translation "Énergie Consommée" -> "Regain d'Énergie".
• Fixed Perforate icon not displaying.
• Make cave entrances easier to follow.
• Renamed Twiggy Shoulders to match the Twig Armor set.
• No longer stack buffs of the same kind with equal attributes, this could lead to a DoS if for example an entity stayed long enough in lava.
• Nerfed Earthsplitter.
• Burning buff is now contagious.