veloren v0.17.0

[0.17.0] - 2024-12-28

Added

• Added reworked Cultist Dungeon
• Petting animals tamed by you or someone else!
• Updated furniture sprites.
• Added Abyssal rings
• Sprite models can now change depending on sprite attributes.
• Dwarven-Mine update and activation.
• Craftable orichalcum helmet
• Protocol to query game server information (player count, version, etc.) and make ping tests.
• Unlockable recipes
• Localization support for prompt dialogs, diary sections, trade and group invitations, command descriptions.
• Added Freezing Potion
• Clear command to delete chat messages.
• List unlocked recipes from recipe scroll items in tooltips
• Hydra.
• NPC animations in plugins, multiple types of plugins
• New model for admin vroom glider.
• Transform death effect used by the Vampire castle boss
• Balanced Terracotta, Dwarven mines, Haniwa and Vampire castle dungeons and other balance changes
• Craftable kora instrument
• Added "recipes" to /kit command.
• Karkatha boss and Soldier Crab mob for Sahagin Island dungeons
• Added Golemite armor
• Silent spectator mode for moderators.
• Glider courses
• Reworked Myrmidon dungeon
• Wild Legoom and Goblin mobs
• Bloodservants, Strigoi, and Scarlet Spectacles added to Halloween event
• IP Bans
• Wild Cactid mob.
• Npcs can catch you stealing.
• Button to show unknown recipes.
• Water splashes and river particles.
• Custom furniture for Coastal Houses.
• Airship docks for desert cities, coastal towns and mesa towns.
• Health tracking for NPCs in unloaded chunks.
• More snow covered variants of grass and flowers
• A downed state, at the moment of death humanoids survive with 1 hp, and have to be helped up.

Changed

• Fireworks and bombs are (again) available from chests (Sahagin and above).
• Increased brinestone armor recipe cost and repair cost.
• Hammer skill tree overhaul
• Recipe for orichalcum ingots changed to use new alchemical ingredients
• Refresh of voxel models for orichalcum armour
• Toned down the health of most wild entities.
• Rocksnapper received new abilities and AI
• Rebalanced cultist dungeon loot tables; among other things, the drop Ankh of Life from Mindflayer is now 25x more frequent.
• Improved Mindflayer anticheese measures.
• Recipe pricing with NPCs.
• Broad entity and loot updates to Gnarling Fortifications
• Reworked spacing and labels in crafting menu.
• Reworked design of repair equipment interface in crafting menu.
• Help command can be used on client commands too.
• Sword animations.
• Beam collision.
• Complete Taiwanese(zh-Hant) translation
• Require multiple hits to mine ores
• Ban expiration dates are now shown on the ban screen.
• Revamped armor stat scaling, akin to weapons.
• (un)equipping sceptres and staffs changed to default sound
• Sprite deletion timeouts added for spider webs and Harvester vines
• RiposteMelee attacks have a recovery phase after missing
• Switched from Rodio to Kira
• Ambient noise now gets filtered when underwater.
• Renamed Site Savannah Pit to Savannah Town
• Replaced building Savannah Pit with Savannah Town Airship Dock
• Server authoritative physics forces now persist across server restarts.
• Defensive basics block instead of parry.
• Add line in recipe tooltips to show if a recipe is already known

Removed

• Obsolete localization keys
• Help Window option in interface settings

Fixed

• NPC path-finding, especially for merchants and travellers is now less dumb.
• Moderate buff to wild large bipeds, to bring in line with other balancing
• Loot protection for solo players and NPCs works again
• New cultist dungeons are less overly abundant, sahagin dungeons spawn again.
• Cultist dungeons now always have exactly one portal which leads to the boss room.
• Image-export for wiki now produces correct images of items as they look like in-game.
• Limit the minimum vertical scaling value in the world generation UI to 0.1 to prevent an overflow
• Wood log and worker/linen clothing pricing.
• Charm recipes can now be found in the Potions tab of the crafting menu
• Black minimap when some terrain blocks are deleted.
• Text overflow and flickering in the crafting menu.
• Crash when deleting entries from the server list.
• Active buttons in repair equipment interface when missing requirements.
• Ability to send trade requests to every entity.
• Naming of entries in controls settings.
• Percentage values in descriptions of potion sickness and agility potion.
• Potentially fixed graphical issues with the vulkan backend on AMD windows platforms.
• Default audio settings button now works properly.
• Positional audio is less glitchy.
• Thunder sfx (corresponding with lightning) is now controlled by ambience volume.
• Moderator badge alignment.
• Reduced generation of towns/cities without workshops or houses.