# veloren v0.16.0

- Product: veloren (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren)
- Vendor: veloren
- Date: 2024-03-31
- Version: v0.16.0
- Original notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.16.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren/releases/v0.16.0

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- **added** — Esperanto translation
- **added** — Complete Spanish (Spain) translation
- **added** — Item quantity sort in player inventory
- **added** — Using Block (Alt key by default) in Defensive Stance now feels stronger
- **added** — Recipe for twigs from wooden logs
- **added** — First version of multisalvage that allows to obtain more than one piece of material from salvage
- **added** — Combat music toggle
- **added** — Spawn rtsim wyverns that travel the world, providing dragon scale loot drops
- **added** — Hardwood in tropical forests, frostwood in cold forests, and iron wood on the top of giant trees
- **added** — Recipe for shovel, which is used to dig in mud and graves
- **added** — Recipe for a new leather pack
- **added** — Key binds for zooming the camera (Defaults: ] for zooming in and [ for zooming out)
- **added** — Ability to make pets sit, they wont follow nor defend you in this state
- **added** — Portals that spawn in place of the last staircase at old style dungeons to prevent stair cheesing
- **added** — Multiple singleplayer worlds and map generation UI
- **added** — New arena building in desert cities, suitable for PVP, also NPCs like to watch the fights too
- **added** — Loading screen now displays status updates for singleplayer server and client initialization progress
- **added** — New Frost Gigas attacks and AI
- **added** — Allow plugins to add weapon and armor items
- **added** — New voxelised LoD shader effect

##### [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, Dread

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.16.0]_