# veloren v0.17.0

- Product: veloren (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren)
- Vendor: veloren
- Date: 2024-12-27
- Version: v0.17.0
- Original notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.17.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/veloren/releases/v0.17.0

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- **added** — Reworked Cultist Dungeon
- **added** — Ability to pet animals tamed by you or someone else
- **added** — Updated furniture sprites
- **added** — Abyssal rings
- **added** — Sprite models can now change depending on sprite attributes
- **added** — Dwarven-Mine update and activation
- **added** — Craftable orichalcum helmet
- **added** — Protocol to query game server information (player count, version, etc.) and make ping tests
- **added** — Unlockable recipes
- **added** — Localization support for prompt dialogs, diary sections, trade and group invitations, command descriptions
- **added** — Freezing Potion
- **added** — Clear command to delete chat messages
- **added** — List unlocked recipes from recipe scroll items in tooltips
- **added** — Hydra boss
- **added** — NPC animations in plugins, multiple types of plugins
- **added** — New model for admin vroom glider
- **added** — Transform death effect used by the Vampire castle boss
- **added** — Craftable kora instrument
- **added** — Recipes option to /kit command
- **added** — Karkatha boss and Soldier Crab mob for Sahagin Island dungeons
- **added** — Golemite armor
- **added** — Silent spectator mode for moderators
- **added** — Glider courses
- **added** — Reworked Myrmidon dungeon
- **added** — Wild Legoom and Goblin mobs
- **added** — Bloodservants, Strigoi, and Scarlet Spectacles to Halloween event
- **added** — IP Bans
- **added** — Wild Cactid mob
- **added** — NPCs can catch you stealing
- **added** — Button to show unknown recipes
- **added** — Water splashes and river particles
- **added** — Custom furniture for Coastal Houses
- **added** — Airship docks for desert cities, coastal towns and mesa towns
- **added** — Health tracking for NPCs in unloaded chunks
- **added** — More snow covered variants of grass and flowers
- **added** — A downed state where humanoids survive with 1 hp at death and have to be helped up
- **changed** — Fireworks and bombs are again available from chests (Sahagin and above)
- **changed** — Increased brinestone armor recipe cost and repair cost
- **changed** — Hammer skill tree overhaul
- **changed** — Recipe for orichalcum ingots changed to use new alchemical ingredients
- **changed** — Refresh of voxel models for orichalcum armour
- **changed** — Toned down the health of most wild entities
- **changed** — Rocksnapper received new abilities and AI
- **changed** — Rebalanced cultist dungeon loot tables with Ankh of Life from Mindflayer now 25x more frequent
- **changed** — Improved Mindflayer anticheese measures
- **changed** — Recipe pricing with NPCs
- **changed** — Broad entity and loot updates to Gnarling Fortifications
- **changed** — Reworked spacing and labels in crafting menu
- **changed** — Reworked design of repair equipment interface in crafting menu
- **changed** — Help command can be used on client commands too
- **changed** — Sword animations
- **changed** — Beam collision
- **changed** — Complete Taiwanese translation
- **changed** — Require multiple hits to mine ores
- **changed** — Ban expiration dates are now shown on the ban screen
- **changed** — Revamped armor stat scaling, akin to weapons
- **changed** — Equipping and unequipping sceptres and staffs changed to default sound
- **changed** — Sprite deletion timeouts added for spider webs and Harvester vines
- **changed** — RiposteMelee attacks have a recovery phase after missing
- **changed** — Switched from Rodio to Kira
- **changed** — Ambient noise now gets filtered when underwater
- **changed** — Renamed Site Savannah Pit to Savannah Town
- **changed** — Replaced building Savannah Pit with Savannah Town Airship Dock
- **changed** — Server authoritative physics forces now persist across server restarts
- **changed** — Defensive basics block instead of parry
- **changed** — Add line in recipe tooltips to show if a recipe is already known
- **removed** — Obsolete localization keys
- **removed** — Help Window option in interface settings
- **fixed** — NPC path-finding, especially for merchants and travellers
- **fixed** — Moderate buff to wild large bipeds, to bring in line with other balancing
- **fixed** — Loot protection for solo players and NPCs
- **fixed** — New cultist dungeons are less overly abundant, sahagin dungeons spawn again
- **fixed** — Cultist dungeons now always have exactly one portal which leads to the boss room
- **fixed** — Image-export for wiki now produces correct images of items as they look like in-game
- **fixed** — Limit the minimum vertical scaling value in the world generation UI to 0.1 to prevent an overflow
- **fixed** — Wood log and worker/linen clothing pricing
- **fixed** — Charm recipes can now be found in the Potions tab of the crafting menu
- **fixed** — Black minimap when some terrain blocks are deleted
- **fixed** — Text overflow and flickering in the crafting menu
- **fixed** — Crash when deleting entries from the server list
- **fixed** — Active buttons in repair equipment interface when missing requirements
- **fixed** — Ability to send trade requests to every entity
- **fixed** — Naming of entries in controls settings
- **fixed** — Percentage values in descriptions of potion sickness and agility potion
- **fixed** — Potentially fixed graphical issues with the vulkan backend on AMD windows platforms
- **fixed** — Default audio settings button now works properly
- **fixed** — Positional audio is less glitchy
- **fixed** — Thunder sfx corresponding with lightning is now controlled by ambience volume
- **fixed** — Moderator badge alignment
- **fixed** — Reduced generation of towns/cities without workshops or houses

##### [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

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren/-/releases/v0.17.0]_