veloren v0.9.0

[0.9.0] - 2021-03-20

Added

• Plugin can now retrieve data from ECS
• Added chat commands for inviting, kicking, leaving, and promoting in groups
• Aura system
• Campfire resting heal
• Initial support for game plugins, both server-side and client-side
• Reflective LoD water
• Map indicators for group members
• Hot-reloading for i18n, sounds, loot lotteries, and more
• Initial support for alternate style keyboards
• Flying birds travel the world
• Plugin system now based on Wasmer 1.0.0
• Added 4x Bag loadout slots, used for upgrading inventory space
• Added an additional Ring loadout slot
• The inventory can now be expanded to fill the whole window
• Added /dropall admin command (drops all inventory items on the ground)
• Skill trees
• Lactose tolerant golems
• 6 different gems. (Topaz, Amethyst, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby and Diamond)
• Poise system
• Snow particles
• Basic NPC interaction
• Lights in dungeons
• Trading system (bound to the R key by default, currently only works with players)
• Support for dual wielding (not accessible as animations still needed)
• Support for modular weapons.
• Saturation buff (healing from food) now queues
• Coral reefs, kelp forests, and seagrass
• Talk animation
• New bosses in 5 lower dungeons
• New enemies in 5 lower dungeons
• Added on join event in plugins
• Item stacking and splitting
• Procedural trees (currently only oaks and pines are procedural)
• Cliffs on steep slopes
• Giant tree sites
• Reset button for graphics settings
• Gave weapons critical strike {chance, multiplier} stats
• A system to add glow and reflection effects to figures (i.e: characters, armour, weapons, etc.)
• Merchants will trade wares with players
• Airships that can be mounted and flown, and also walked on (/airship admin command)

Changed

• Doubled range of ScaleMode slider when set to Custom
• Glider can now be deployed mid-air at the cost of some stamina based on fall speed
• Translations are now folders with multiple files instead of a huge single file
• Default inventory slots reduced to 18 - existing characters given 3x 6-slot bags as compensation
• Protection rating was moved to the top left of the loadout view
• Changed camera smoothing to be off by default.
• Footstep SFX is now dependant on distance moved, not time since last play
• Adjusted most NPCs hitboxes to better fit their models.
• Changed crafting recipes involving shiny gems to use diamonds instead.
• Cave scatter now includes all 6 gems.
• Adjusted Stonework Defender loot table to remove mindflayer drops (bag, staff, glider).
• Made humanoid NPCs use gliders (if equipped) when falling
• Changed default controller key bindings
• Improved network efficiency by ≈ factor 10 by using tokio.
• Added item tooltips to trade window.
• "Quest" given to new players converted to being a short tutorial
• Items can be requested from the counterparty's inventory during trade.
• Savanna grasses restricted to savanna, cacti to desert.
• Fireworks recursively shoot more fireworks.
• Improved static light rendering and illumination
• Improved the tree spawning model to allow for overlapping forests
• Changed sunlight (and, in general, static light) propagation through blocks to allow for more material properties
• Overhauled the sceptre
• Make the /time command relative to the current day
• Spatial partitioning via a grid for entity versus entity collisions was added which can more than halve the total tick time at higher entity counts (> ~1000)
• Improved efficency of entity versus terrain collisions (they now take less than half the time)
• The loading screen will now display random animations

Removed

• SSAAx4 option
• The Stats button and associated screen were removed
• Levels
• Shiny Gems (replaced with diamonds)

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that would cause a server crash when a player levelled up or fired a projectile in very specific circumstances
• Fixed a bug where buff/debuff UI elements would flicker when you had more than one of them active at the same time
• Made zooming work on wayland
• Fixed AI behavior so only humanoids will attempt to roll
• Fixed missing GameInputs (sneak, swimup, swimdown) in controller mapping
• Fixed missing controller actions (dance and crafting)
• Fixed a bug where the stairs to the boss floor in dungeons would sometimes not spawn
• Fixed waypoints being placed underwater
• Objects and golems are not affected by bleed debuff anymore
• Fixed RtSim entity memory loss
• Mandated that merchants not wander away during a trade
• Fixed the villager conception of evil by encouraging them to react violently to characters wearing cultist gear