Updates

Unreleased

Added

Command to toggle experimental shaders.
Faster Energy Regeneration while sitting.
Lantern glow for dropped lanterns.
Suggests commands when an invalid one is entered in chat and added Client-side commands to /help.
Moderator badge in the chat.
More aggressive scene culling based on camera position to improve performance.
Some chests requiring lockpicks or keys.
Unlockable door blocks.
Sprite rotation for Spots.
Better entity placement options for spots.
Camera zoom can now be locked, to prevent accidental zooming while rolling in combat. It comes with a keybind to enable/disable the setting, and an Auto/Toggle behavior setting. Auto behavior will only lock the camera zoom while movement and combat inputs are also being pressed.
Custom spots can be added without recompilation (only ron and vox files)

Changed

Bats move slower and use a simple proportional controller to maintain altitude
Bats now have less health
Climbing no longer requires having 10 energy
Castles will now be placed close to towns

Removed

Fixed

Doors
Debug hitboxes now scale with the `Scale` component
Potion quaffing no longer makes characters practically immortal.
Stat diff now displays correctly for armor
Lamps, embers and campfires use glowing indices
Non-potion drinks no longer heal as much as potions.
Added SFX to the new sword abilities
Fixed various issues with showing the correct text hint for interactable blocks.
Intert entities like arrows no longer obstruct interacting with nearby entities/blocks.

0.14 ^2023-01-07

Added

Setting for disabling flashing lights
Spectate mode for moderators.
Currently playing music track and artist now shows in the debug menu.
Added a setting to influence the gap between music track plays.
Added a Craft All button.
Server: Vacuum database on startup
SeaChapel, greek/latin inspired dungeon for ocean biome coasts
Entity view distance setting added (shown in graphics and network tabs). This setting controls the distance at which entities are synced to the client and which entities are displayed in. This is clamped to be no more than the current overall view distance setting.
View distance settings that are lowered by the server limit (or other factors) now display an extra ghost slider cursor when set above the limit (instead of snapping back to the limit). Limits on the view distance by the server no longer affect the settings saved on the client.
HQX upscaling shader for people playing on low internal resolutions
Pets can now be traded with.
Crafting recipe for black lantern
Added redwood and dead trees
Water will now move according to its apparent flow direction
Added screen-space reflection and refraction shaders
Added reflection quality setting
UI: Added a poise indicator to the player's status bars
FxUpscale AA mode for higher quality graphics at reduced internal resolutions
Graphics presets
Sword
Doors now animate opening when entities are near them.
Musical instruments can now be crafted, looted and played
NPCs now move to their target's last known position.
Experience bar below the hotbar
Bridges.
Tool for exporting PNG images of all in-game models (`cargo img-export`)
Calendar event soundtracks.

Changed

Use fluent for translations
First tab on Login screen triggers username focus
Certain NPCs will now attack when alone with victim
/kill_npcs no longer leaves drops behind and also has bug causing it to not destroy entities fixed.
Default present mode changed to Fifo (aka 'Vsync capped').
Old "Entity View Distance" setting renamed to "Entity Detail Distance" (since this controls the distance at which lower detail models are used for entities).
Present mode options renamed for clarity: Fifo -> 'Vsync capped', Mailbox -> 'Vsync uncapped', Immediate -> 'Vsync off'.
Item pickup UI now displays items that members of your group pick up.
Improved shiny water shaders
Tweaked armor stats
Move bag icon to skillbar
Improved inventory sorting by Category

Removed

Fixed

Fixed npc not handling interactions while fighting (especially merchants in trade)
Fixed bug where you would still be burning after dying in lava.
Workaround for rayon bug that caused lag spikes in slowjobs
Fixed crash due to zooming out very far
Client properly knows trade was cancelled when exiting to the character screen (and no longer tries to display the trade window when rejoining)
Cancel trades for an entity when it is deleted (note this doesn't effect trades between players since their entities are not removed).
Fixed bug where the view distance selection was not immediately applied to entity syncing when first joining a server and when changing the view distance (previously this required moving to a new chunk for the initial setting or subsequent change to apply).
Moderators and admins are no longer blocked from logging in when there are too many players.
FXAA now behaves correctly at non-1.0x internal resolutions
Pets no longer aggro on pet owners after being healed
Pets no longer lose their intrinsic weapons/armour when loaded on login.
Fixed npcs using `/say` instead of `/tell`
Camera jittering in third person has been significantly reduced
Many water shader issues have been fixed
Flee if attacked even if attacker is not close.
`/time` command will never rewind time, only advance it to not break rtsim

0.13 ^2022-07-23

Added

Chat commands to mute and unmute players
Waypoints saved between sessions and shared with group members.
New rocks
Weapon trails
Hostile agent will now abort pursuing their target based on multiple metrics
Admin command to reload all chunks on the server
Furniture and waypoints in site2 towns
Text input for trading
Themed Site CliffTown, hoodoo/arabic inspired stone structures inhabited by mountaineer NPCs.
NPCs now have rudimentary personalities
Added Belarusian translation
Add FOV check for agents scanning for targets they are hostile to
Implemented an LoD system for objects, making trees visible far beyond the view distance
Add stealth stat on Bag UI
Water caves
Modular weapons
Added Thai translation
Skiing and ice skating
Added loot ownership for NPC drops
Bamboo collectibles now spawn near rivers
Chest sprites can longer be exploded
Smoke varies by temperature, humidity, time of day and house
Added loot ownership for drops from mining
Added an option for experience number accumulation.
Added an option for damage number rounding (when greater than or equal to 1.0).
Added sliders for incoming/non-incoming damage accumulation duration.
New ambience sounds
Slider for ambience volume
Weather generated on server is sent to clients, and seen on clients as rain/clouds.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese Translation
Lightning storms
More varied ambient birdcalls
Cave biomes
Updated the Polish translation

Changed

Improved site placement
[Server] Kick clients who send messages on the wrong stream
Reworked Merchant trade price calculation, Merchants offer more wares
Enable new giant trees, changed what entities spawn at them
Stealth is now shown as a percentage in Stats Diary UI
Stealth effects from sneaking and armor are evaluated independently. Armor now has effects even when not sneaking
Zoom-in effect when aiming bow is now optional
Non-Humanoid NPCs now pick up consumables when less than full health and use them to heal up.
Changed module component modifier costs to the following scheme, based on base material:
- 1 -> 2 -> 5 -> 10 -> 15 -> 25
Damage from the same source dealt in the same tick will now be grouped up.
Critical hits are now shown differently in the damage numbers.
Fall damage and some (extra) buffs/debuffs now show up in the damage numbers.
Optimized sprite processing decreasing the startup time of voxygen (and long freezes when trying to enter the world when this hasn't finished).
Metadata added to music files. Listen to the soundtrack more easily!
Overhauled caves: they're now a multi-layer network spanning the entire world

Removed

Removed the options for single and cumulated damage.

Fixed

Fixed bug that would sometimes cause taking a screenshot to panic because a buffer was mapped at the wrong time.
Players can no longer push waypoints around
Sites will now also be placed near the edge of the map
Fix a bug causing NPCs to jitter on interaction and randomly run away.
Harvester boss arenas should be more accessible and easier to exit
Fix agents not idling
Fixed an error where '{amount} Exp' floater did not use existing localizations
Fix villagers seeing cultists and familiar enemies through objects.
Menacing agents are now less spammy with their menacing messages
Fixed the title screen FPS cap not applying when the background FPS limit was set higher than 60 FPS
Fixed an issue where the hurt animation would "jump" whenever you lost/gained health.
Fixed a bug where multiple damage sources in the same tick would show up as a singular attack.
Fixed an issue where, if the same amount of healing and damage was received in the same tick, nothing would be shown.
UI sfx now play from UI instead of from camera (allowing stereo sfx)
Most sfx now correctly play when camera is underwater
All sounds now stop upon quitting to main menu
Combat music now loops and ends properly
Modular weapons now have a selling price
Closing a subwindow now only regrabs the cursor if no other subwindow requires it.

0.12 ^2022-02-19

Added

Added a setting to always show health and energy bars
Added a crafting station icon to the crafting menu sidebar for items that could be crafted at a crafting station
Added a setting to disable the hotkey hints
Added a credits screen in the main menu which shows attributions for assets
Shrubs, a system for spawning smaller tree-like plants into the world.
Waterfalls
Sailing boat (currently requires spawning in)
Added a filter search function for crafting menu, use "input:______" to search for recipe inputs
Added catalan (Catalonia) language translation
Sneaking with weapons drawn
Stealth stat values on (some) armors
All new dismantling interface found at your nearest dismantling staion
Wearable headgear, including hood, crown, bandanas
Bomb sprites (can be exploded with arrows or other explosions)
Campfire waypoints in towns
Arbitrary volume entities
New outfit for merchants
Nightly linux Aarch64 builds are now produced (distribution via airshipper will follow soon)
Worldgen wildlife density modifier in features.ron
Rivers now make ambient sounds (again)
Added a setting to see own speech bubbles
Added an option to allow players to remove keybindings
Piercing damage now ignores an amount of protection equal to damage value
Slashing damage now reduces target's energy by an amount equal to damage dealt to target post-mitigation
Crushing damage now does poise damage to a target equal to the amount mitigated by armor
UI to select abilities and assign to hotbar
Position of abilities on hotbar is now persisted through the server
Interation hints now appear for sprites and entities
Players can now mount and ride pets
Experimental shaders, that can be enabled in Voxygen's settings (see the book for more information)
Keybinding customization to set waypoint on Map
Added arthropods
A 'point light glow' effect, making lanterns and other point lights more visually pronounced
Generate random name for site2 sites
Shader dithering to remove banding from scenes with large colour gradients
Convert giant trees to site2
Add new upgraded travelers
Wallrunning

Changed

Made dungeon tiers 3, 4, and 5 more common
Put date at the begining of the log file instead of the end to allow MIME type recognition
Tweaked CR and exp calculation formula
Sprite spawn rates
The Interact button can be used on campfires to sit
Made map icons fade out when near the edge of the map display
Roughly doubled the speed of entity vs terrain physics checks
Updated client facing error messages to be localizable strings
Nerfed some skill values
Tweaked critical chance of legendary weapons
Agents using fireball projectiles aim at the feet instead of the eyes
Explosions can now have a nonzero minimum falloff
EXP on kill is now shared based on damage contribution
Dungeons have somewhat proper scaling. The higher the dungeon the harder it gets, Cultist staying unchanged while Mino is now at its level.
Parallelized entity sync system on the server
Item color backgrounds are now lighter
All items that used the PNG file format now have a VOX file instead
Yeti loot table modified
Phoenix feathers are now Legendary quality
Green/Red lantern now shine their respective color instead of the default lantern color
Poise damage dealt to a target that is in a stunned state is now converted to health damage at an efficiency dependent on the severity of the stunned state
You are now immune to poise damage for 1 second after leaving a stunned state
Removed or reduced poise damage from most abilities
Made the hotbar link to items by item definition id and component composition instead of specific inventory slots.
Made loot boxes drop items instead of doing nothing in order to loot forcing
Refactored agent code file structure
Changed the way light strength is rendered by moving processing from shader code (GPU) to CPU code
Bumped tracing-subscriber to resolve [RUSTSEC-2022-0006](https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0006)
Made /home command a mod+ exclusive
Friendly creatures will now defend each other
Creatures will now defend their pets
[WorldGen] Change path colors
Render item drops instead of placeholder textures
Arthropods are rebalanced
Slight hat item rebalance (hats are more specialized and befitting of their rarity rank)
Harvester boss buffed in stats

Removed

Removed unused PNG files
Removed bomb_pile

Fixed

The menu map now properly handles dragging the map, zooming, and setting the waypoint when hovering icons
Falling through an airship in flight should no longer be possible (although many issues with airship physics remain)
Avoided black hexagons when bloom is enabled by suppressing NaN/Inf pixels during the first bloom blur pass
Many know water generation problems
Trading over long distances using ghost characters or client-side exploits is no longer possible
Merchant cost percentages displayed as floored, whole numbers
Bodies of water no longer contain black chunks on the voxel minimap.
Agents can flee once again, and more appropriately
Items in hotbar no longer change when sorting inventory
Lantern color changes when swapping lanterns
NPCs no longer wander off cliffs
Guards will defend villagers instead of simply threatening the attacker
Seafaring ships no longer spawn on dry land

0.11 ^2021-09-11

Added

Added a skill tree for mining, which gains xp from mining ores and gems.
Added debug line info to release builds, enhancing the usefulness of panic backtraces
NPCs and animals can now make sounds in response to certain events
Players can press H to greet others
Ability to toggle chat visibility
Added gem rings with various stat improvements.
Animations for using consumables.
New danari character customizations
Bald hairstyles for humans and danari
AI for sceptre wielders and sceptre cultists in Tier 5 dungeons
HUD debug info now displays current biome and site
Quotes and escape codes can be used in command arguments
Toggle chat with a shortcut (default is F5)
Pets are now saved on logout 🐕 🦎 🐼
Dualwielded, one-handed swords as starting weapons (Will be replaced by daggers in the future!)
Healing sceptre crafting recipe
NPCs can now warn players before engaging in combat
Custom error message when a supported graphics backend can not be found
Add server setting with PvE/PvP switch
Can now tilt glider while only wielding it
Experimental terrain persistence (see server documentation)
Add GPU filtering using WGPU_ADAPTER environment variable
Explosions no longer change block colours within safe zones
The 'spot' system, which generates smaller site-like structures and scenarios
Chestnut and cedar tree varieties
Shooting sprites, such as apples and hives, can knock them out of trees
Sprite pickup animations
Add VELOREN_ASSETS_OVERRIDE variable for specifying folder to partially override assets.
Cultist raiders
Bloom Slider

Changed

Entity-entity pushback is no longer applied in forced movement states like rolling and leaping.
Updated audio library (rodio 0.13 -> 0.14).
Improve entity-terrain physics performance by reducing the number of voxel lookups.
Clay Golem uses shockwave only after specific fraction of health and other difficulty adjustments.
Made strafing slightly slower
Food now has limited regeneration strength but longer duration.
Harvester boss now has new abilities and AI
Death particles and SFX
Default keybindings were made more consistent
Adjusted Yeti difficulty
Now most of the food gives Saturation in the process of eating
Mushroom Curry gives long-lasting Regeneration buff
Trades now consider if items can stack in full inventories.
The types of animals that can be tamed as pets are now limited to certain species, pending further balancing of pets
Made server-cli admin add/remove command use positional arguments again
Usage of "stamina" replaced with "energy"
Glider dimensions now depend on character height
Glider dimensions somewhat increased overall
Dungeon difficulty level starts at 1 instead of 0
The radius of the safe zone around the starting town has been doubled
NPCs can sometimes drop no loot at all

Removed

Enemies no longer spawn in dungeon boss room
Melee critical hit no longer applies after reduction by armour
Enemies no more spawn in dungeon boss room
Melee critical hit no more applies after reduction by armour
Removed Healing Sceptre as a starting weapon as it is considered an advanced weapon
The ability to pickup sprites through walls

Fixed

Crafting Stations aren't exploadable anymore
Cases where no audio output could be produced before.
Significantly improved the performance of playing sound effects
Dismantle and Material crafting tabs don't have duplicated recipes
Campfires now despawn when underwater
Players no longer spawn underground if their waypoint is underground
Map will now zoom around the cursor's position and drag correctly
No more jittering while running down slopes with the glider out
Axe normal attack rewards energy without skill points
Gliders no longer suffer from unreasonable amounts of induced drag
Camera is now clipping a lot less

0.10 ^2021-06-12

Added

New Skills for Climbing: Climbing Speed and Climbing Cost
Pickaxes (can be used to collect gems and mine weak rock)
You can now jump out of rolls for a slight jump boost
Dungeons now have multiple kinds of stairs.
Trades now display item prices in tooltips.
Admin designated build areas
Indicator text to collectable terrain sprites
You can now autorequest exact change by ctrl-clicking in a trade, and can quick-add individual items with shift-click.
Buy and sell prices in tooltips when trading with a merchant now have colors.
Attacks now emit sound effects from the target on hit.
Crafting menu tabs
Auto camera setting, making the game easier to play with one hand
Topographic map option
Search bars for social and crafting window
RTsim travellers now follow paths between towns
"Poise" renamed to "Stun resilience"
Stun resilience stat display
Villagers and guards now spawn with potions, and know how to use them.
Combat music in dungeons when within range of enemies.
New Command: "kit", place a set of items into your inventory
Added --sql-log-mode profile/trace parameter to veloren-server-cli
Added /disconnect_all_players admin command
Added disconnectall CLI command
One handed weapons can now be used and found in the world
Players can now opt-in to server-authoritiative physics in gameplay settings.
Added `/server_physics` admin command.
Sort inventory button
Option to change the master volume when window is unfocused
Crafting stations in towns
Option to change the master volume when window is unfocused
Entities now have mass
Entities now have density
Buoyancy is calculated from the difference in density between an entity and surrounding fluid
Drag is now calculated based on physical properties
Terrain chunks are now deflate-compressed when sent over the network.
Missing translations can be displayed in English.
New large birds npcs
Day period dependant wildlife spawns
You can now block and parry with melee weapons
Lift is now calculated for gliders based on dimensions (currently same for all)
Specific music tracks can now play exclusively in towns.
Custom map markers can be placed now
Fundamentals/prototype for wiring system
Mountain peak and lake markers on the map
There's now a checkbox in the graphics tab to opt-in to receiving lossily-compressed terrain colors.
/buff command which allows you to cast a buff on player
Warn the user with an animated red text in the second phase of a trade in which a party is offering nothing.
/skill_preset command which allows you to apply skill presets
Added timed bans and ban history.
Added non-admin moderators with limit privileges and updated the security model to reflect this.
Added a minimap mode that visualizes terrain within a chunk.
Chat tabs
NPC's now hear certain sounds
Renamed Animal Trainers to Beastmasters and gave them their own set of armor to wear
ChargedRanged attacks (such as some bow attacks) use an FOV zoom effect to indicate charge.
Add chest to each dungeon with unique loot
Added a new option in the graphics menu to enable GPU timing (not always supported). The timing values can be viewed in the HUD debug info (F3) and will be saved as chrome trace files in the working directory when taking a screenshot.
Added new Present Mode option in the graphics menu. Selecting Fifo (i.e. vsync) or Mailbox can be used to eliminate screen tearing.
Quality color indicators next to recipe names in crafting menu
New cave visuals: Ridges, pits, new sprites, colors
Veins in caves to dig through to uncover ore
Armor material system with 6 armor sets each in hide, mail and cloth categories
New armor stats including max energy, energy reward, critical hit damage
Meat drops from animals
New ores, plants and hides to be looted from the world and processed into craft ingredients
Added more crafting stations, loom, spinning wheel, tanning rack, forge

Changed

Admins can now grant normal players plots to place blocks within
Diamonds are now much more than twice as expensive as twigs.
Permission to build is no longer tied to being an admin
Separated character randomization buttons into appearance and name.
Reworked mindflayer to have unique attacks
Glowing remains are now `Armor` instead of `Ingredients`.
Generated a new world map
Overhauled clouds for more verticality and performance
New tooltip for items with stats comparison
Improved bow feedback, added arrow particles
Retiered most sceptres and staves
Loot tables can now recursively reference loot tables
"max_sfx_channels" default now set to 30
Merchants now have stacks of stackable items instead of just one per slot
Bag tooltips only show slots now
Removed infinite armour values from most admin items
Item tooltips during trades will now inform the user of what ctrl-click and shift-click do
International keyboards can now display more key names on Linux and Windows instead of `Unknown`.
There is now a brief period after a character leaves the world where they cannot rejoin until their data is saved
Certain uses of client-authoritative physics now subject the player to server-authoritative physics.
Dodge roll iframes and staff explosion are now unlocked by default, with points refunded for existing characters.
Dash melee now stops after hitting something. Infinite dash also now replaced with dash through.
Collisions, knockbacks, jumping and drag are now physical forces applied to the entity's body mass
Turning rate has been made more consistent across angles
Gravity has been lowered so that physics can work more reasonably
Jump has been decreased in height but extended in length as a result of the new gravity
Fall damage has been adjusted with the new gravity in mind
Projectiles now generally have a different arc because they no longer have their own gravity modifier
Increased agent system target search efficiency speeding up the server
Added more parallelization to terrain serialization and removed extra cloning speeding up the server
Energy now recharges while gliding
Debug Kit is split to "admin_cosmetics" and "debug"
Potion Kit is renamed to "consumables" and gives potions and mushroom curry
Cultist Kit gives cape, rings and necklace in addition to armour and weapons.
Reworked minotaur to have unique attacks.
Wiring is now turing complete
Better active/inactive master sound slider logic
Cultist Husk no longer drops weapons and armor
Animal Trainers now spawn in tier-5 dungeon and not in tier-3
Reworked clay golem to have unique attacks.
Merchants now use `/tell` instead of `/say` to communicate prices
Entities catch on fire if they stand too close to campfires
Water extinguishes entities on fire
Item pickups are shown in separate window and inventory-full shows above item
Reworked bow
Switched to the `wgpu` graphics library giving us support for vulkan, dx12, metal, and dx11 (support for opengl is lost for the moment). This improves the graphics performance for many users.
Reworked sprite rendering to vastly reduce the CPU work. Large sprite view distances are now much more performant.
Optimized rendering of quads (most of the graphics in the game) using an index buffer, decreasing the number of vertices that need to be processed by 33%.
Moved the rest of screenshot work into the background. Screenshoting no longer induces large pauses.
Reworked tidal warrior to have unique attacks
Reworked yeti to have unique attacks
Widened recipe name list in crafting menu
Reworked animal loot tables
NPC hitboxes better fit their model.

Removed

Removed command: "debug", use "/kit debug" instead
Gravity component has been removed
In-air movement has been removed
Energy cost of deploying the glider has been removed
Removed steel and cultist loot tables

Fixed

Server kicks old client when a user is trying to log in again (often the case when a user's original connection gets dropped)
Added a raycast check to beams to prevent their effect applying through walls
Flying agents raycast more angles to check for obstacles.
Mouse Cursor now locks to the center of the screen when menu is not open
Social window no longer moves when group is open
Combat rating no longer takes buffs into account
Minimap icons are now displayed in both map modes
Server now denies any running trades when a user exits to the character selection screen.
Sfx volume changes now also change the ambient sounds volume
Staff fire shockwave ability no longer has an unlimited vertical range
Skillbar buttons correctly account for skill points when checking if player has enough stamina for the ability.
Burning Debuff icon is now displayed correctly.
Villagers in safezones no longer spam messages upon seeing an enemy
Wolf AI will no longer circle into walls and will instead use the power of raycasts to stop early
Squirrels are no longer immune to arrows at some angles.
/spawn command's auto-complete now works for species names
Mindflayer AI now correctly summons husks at certain HP thresholds.
Far away NPCs respond to being damaged by a projectile
Fixed terrain clipping with glider
Fixed an issue where prices weren't properly making their way from econsim to the actual trade values.
Fixed entities with voxel colliders being off by one physics tick for collision.
Airships no longer oscillate dramatically into the sky due to mistaking velocity for acceleration.
The login and character selection screens no longer cause high GPU usage when the framerate limit is set to Unlimited.
Deadwood will now attack targets who are at different elevations than itself.

0.9 ^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)
RtSim airships that fly between towns.

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

0.8 ^2020-11-28

Added

New level of detail feature, letting you see all the world's terrain at any view distance.
Point and directional lights now cast realistic shadows, using shadow mapping.
Added leaf and chimney particles
Some more combat sound effects
Beehives and bees
Fireflies
Fullscreen modes now show two options (exclusive and borderless)
Added banlist and /ban, /unban, and /kick commands for admins
A new dungeon boss (venture there and discover it yourself)
Adaptive stride setup for more dynamic run behavior
Theropod body
Several new animals
Item quality indicators
Added a jump/burst attack for the bow to the skillbar
Gave the axe a third attack
A new secondary charged melee attack for the hammer
Added Dutch translations
Buff system
Sneaking lets you be closer to enemies without being detected
Flight
Roll dodges melee attacks, and reduces the height of your hitbox
Persistent waypoints (start from the last camp fire you visited)
NPCs use all three weapon skills in combat
Speed stat to weapons which affects weapon attack speed
Saving of the last selected character in the character selection screen
Autoselecting the newly created character
Deselecting when the selected character is deleted
Upscaling support
Added "Persist Combo from Combo Melee State" when rolling mid-combo
You can no longer spam hammer and bow special when stamina is 0
Biome and site specific music system
Ambient SFX emitted from terrain blocks
Campfire SFX
Wind SFX system
Added Norwegian language
Roll can now interrupt attacks
Birch forests
Willow forests
More significant temperature variation across the world
Initial implementation of real-time world simulation
Travellers that explore the world
HDR rendering
Map site icons
Map panning
Innumerable minor improvements to world generation
Variable dungeon difficulty
Aurora Borealis (localised entirely within the kitchen)
Block-based voxel lighting
Animals now have customized attacks and AI

Changed

The world map has been refactored to support arbitrary sizes and compute horizon maps.
Veloren's lighting has been completely overhauled.
The graphics options were made much more flexible and configurable.
Many shader optimizations.
Voxel model creation was switched to use greedy meshing, improving performance.
Animation and terrain math were switched to use SIMD where possible, improving performance.
The way we cache glyphs was refactored, fixed, and optimized.
Colors for models and figures were adjusted to account for the saturation hack.
Overhauled world colours
Improved projectile physics
Improved overhead aiming
Improved first person aiming
Figure meshing no longer blocks the main thread.
Overhauled persistence layer including no longer storing serialized JSON items in the database
Overhauled representation of blocks to permit fluid and sprite coexistence
Overhauled sword
Reworked healing sceptre
Split out the sections of the server settings that can be edited and saved by the server.
Revamped structure of where settings, logs, and game saves are stored so that almost everything is in one place.
Moved hammer leap attack to skillbar
Reworked fire staff
Overhauled cloud shaders to add mist, light attenuation, an approximation of rayleigh scattering, etc.
Allowed collecting nearby blocks without aiming at them
Made voxygen wait until singleplayer server is initialized before attempting to connect, removing the chance for it to give up on connecting if the server takes a while to start
Log where userdata folder is located
Switched to a Whittaker map for better tree spawning patterns
Switched to procedural snow cover on trees
Significantly improved terrain generation performance
Significantly stabilized the game clock, to produce more "constant" TPS
Transitioned main menu and character selection screen to a using iced for the ui (fixes paste keybinding on macos, removes password field limits, adds tabbing between input fields in the main menu, adds language selection in the main menu)
Made settings less likely to reset when the format changes
Adjusted some keybindings
Consumables can now trigger multiple effects and buffs
Overhauled overworld spawns depending on chunk attributes
Improved cloud and water shader quality

Removed

MSAA has been removed due to incompatibility with greedy meshing.
Removed a saturation hack that led to colors being improperly displayed.

Fixed

Fixed a bug where leaving the Settings menu by pressing "N" in single player kept the game paused.
Fixed a bug where the closest item would be picked up instead of a selected item.
Fixed a bug where camera zoom in and zoom out distance didn't match.
Fixed a bug where a nearby item would also be collected when collecting collectible blocks
Fixed a bug where firing fast projectile at a downwards angle caused them to veer off at a higher angle
Fixed a bug where ui scale in the login menu was not updated when changed in-game
Fixed a bug which caused campfires and other stuff to duplicate
Significantly improved water movement AI to stop entities getting stuck
Prevented entities, sprites and particles being lit when not visible to the sun

0.7 ^2020-08-15

Added

Display item name over loot/dropped items
Added Lottery system for loot
Added context-sensitive crosshair
Announce alias changes to all clients
Dance animation
Speech bubbles appear when nearby players talk
NPCs call for help when attacked
Eyebrows and shapes can now be selected
Character name and level information to chat, social tab and /players command
Added inventory, armour and weapon saving
Show where screenshots are saved in the chat
Added basic auto walk
Added weapon/attack sound effects
M2 attack for bow
Hotbar persistence
Alpha version Disclaimer
Server whitelist
Optional server-side maximum view distance
MOTD on login
Added group chat /join_group /group
Added faction chat /join_faction /faction
Added regional, local, and global chat (/region, /say, and /world, respectively)
Added command shortcuts for each of the above chat modes (/g, /f, /r, /s, and /w, respectively and /t for /tell)
Ability to wield 2 × 1h weapons and shields (Note: 1h weapons & shields are not currently avaliable, see !1095 for more info)
Zoomable Map
M2 attack for hammer
Spawnable training dummies
New quadruped_low body for reptile-likes
Added new animals
Better pathfinding
Bombs
Training dummy items
Added spin attack for axe
Creature specific stats
Minimap compass
Initial crafting system implementation
Protection stat to armor that reduces incoming damage
Loading-Screen tips
Feeding animation for some animals
Power stat to weapons which affects weapon damage
Add detection of entities under the cursor
Functional group-system with exp-sharing and disabled damage to group members
Some Campfire, fireball & bomb; particle, light & sound effects.
Added firework recipe
Added setting to change resolution
Rare (unfinished) castles
Caves with monsters and treasure
Furniture and decals in towns

Changed

Improved camera aiming
Made civsim, sites, etc. deterministic from the same seed
Improved animations by adding orientation variation
new tail bone for quad_small body
slim the game size through lossless asset optimization
Lanterns now stop glowing if you throw a lit one out of your inventory
Fixed a crash caused by certain audio devices on OSX
Bow animations now show held arrows
Fixed a bug where walk/run sfx played while a character rolled/dodged
Energy regen resets on last ability use instead of on wield
Fixed unable to use ability; Secondary and ability3 (fire rod) will now automatically wield
Gliding is now a toggle that can be triggered from the ground
Replaced log with tracing in all crates
Switch to a new network backend that will allow several improvements in the future
Connection screen fails after 4 minutes if it can't connect to the server instead of 80 minutes
Rebuilt quadruped_medium/quadruped_small animation and assets
Disabled destruction of most blocks by explosions
Disable damage to pets
Made pets healable
Rebalanced fire staff
Animals are more effective in combat
Pathfinding is much smoother and pets are cleverer
Animals run/turn at different speeds
Updated windowing library (winit 0.19 -> 0.22)
Bow M2 is now a charged attack that scales the longer it's held
Fixed window resizing on Mac OS X.
Dehardcoded many item variants
Tooltips avoid the mouse better and disappear when hovered
Improved social window functions and visuals
Changed agent behaviour to allow fleeing
Waypoints now spawn on dungeon staircases

Removed

Wield requirement to swap loadout; fixes issue with unable swap loadout outside of combat
Disclaimer wall of text on first startup

0.6 ^2020-05-16

Added

Added music system
Added zoomable and rotatable minimap
Added rotating orientation marker to main-map
Added daily Mac builds
Allow spawning individual pet species, not just generic body kinds
Configurable fonts
Configurable keybindings from the Controls menu
Translation status tracking
Added gamma setting
Added new orc hairstyles
Added SFX for wielding/unwielding weapons
Fixed NPCs attacking the player forever after killing them
Added SFX for collecting, dropping and using inventory items
New attack animation
Weapon control system
Game pauses when in single player and pause menu
Added authentication system (to play on the official server register on https://account.veloren.net)
Added gamepad/controller support
Added player feedback when attempting to pickup an item with a full inventory
Added free look
Added Italian translation
Added Portuguese translation
Added Turkish translation
Added Traditional Chinese translation
Complete rewrite of the combat system into a state machine
Abilities like Dash and Triplestrike
Armor can now be equipped as items
Fireball explosions
Inventory supports stacking
Many new armors and weapons to find in chests
Fleshed out "attack" animation into alpha, beta and spin type attacks
Fleshed out range attack into charging and shooting animations for staff/bow
Customized attack animation for hammers and axes
Added German translation
Added a silhouette for players when they are occluded
Added transparency to the player when zooming in
Made armor and hotbar slots actually function
Added dragging and right-click to use functionality to inventory, armor & hotbar slots
Added capes, lanterns, tabards, rings, helmets & necklaces as equippable armor
6 new music tracks
Added basic world and civilization simulation
Added overhauled towns
Added fields, crops and scarecrows
Added paths
Added bridges
Added procedural house generation
Added lampposts
Added NPCs that spawn in towns
Added simple dungeons
Added sub-voxel noise effect
Added waypoints next to dungeons
Made players spawn in towns
Added non-uniform block height
Added /sudo command
Added a Level of Detail (LoD) system for terrain sprites and entities
Added owl, hyena, parrot, cockatrice, red dragon NPCs
Added dungeon entrances
Villagers tools and clothing
Cultists clothing
You can start the game by pressing "enter" from the character selection menu
Added server-side character saving
Player now starts with a lantern. Equipping/unequipping a lantern has the same effect as the /lantern command
Added tab completion in chat for player names and chat commands
Added server persistence for character stats
Added a popup when setting your character's waypoint
Added dungeon arenas
Added dungeon bosses and rare boss loot
Added 2 sets of armour. One Steel and one Leather.

Changed

The /give_item command can now specify the amount of items. Syntax is now /give_item <name> [num]
Brighter / higher contrast main-map
Removed highlighting of non-collectible sprites
Fixed /give_exp ignoring player argument
Extend run sfx to small animals to prevent sneak attacks by geese.
Decreased clientside latency of ServerEvent mediated effects (e.g. projectiles, inventory operations, etc)
Started changing the visual theme of the UI
Merge of the Bag and Character-Screen
Merge of the Map and Questlog
Overhauled icon art
Asset cleanup to lower client-size
Rewrote the humanoid skeleton to be more ideal for attack animations
Arrows can no longer hurt their owners
Increased overall character scale
/sudo player /tp is short for /sudo player /tp me
The /object command can create any object in comp::object::Body
The /help command takes an optional argument. /help /sudo will show you information about only the sudo command.

0.5 ^2020-01-31

Added

Added new debug item
Bows give experience by projectiles having an owner
Allow cancelling chunk generation
Include licence in assets
Added dropping items
Added initial region system implementation
Added /giveitem command
Strip Linux executables
Added moon
Added clouds
Added tarpaulin coverage
Added ability to jump while underwater
Added proper SFX system
Added changelog
Added animated Map and Minimap position indicator
Added visuals to indicate strength compared to the player
Added Scrolling Combat Text (SCT) & Settings for it
Added a Death Screen and Hurt Screen
Added randomly selected Loading Screen background images
Added options to disable clouds and to use cheaper water rendering
Added client-side character saving
Added a localization system to provide multi-language support to voxygen
Added French language for Voxygen
Added rivers and lakes which follow realistic physical paths.
Added a sophisticated erosion system for world generation which dramatically changes the world layout.
Added tracking of sediment vs. bedrock, which is visually reflected in the world.
Added map saving and loading for altitude and bedrock, with built in versioning for forwards compatibility.
Added a default map, which is used to speed up starting single player.
Added a 3D renderered map, which is also used by the server to send the map to the client.
Added fullscreen and window size to settings so that they can be persisted
Added coverage based scaling for pixel art
28 new mobs
Added waypoints
Added pathfinding to NPCs
Overhauled NPC AI
Pets now attack enemies and defend their owners
Added collars to tame wild animals

Changed

Controls pane in settings window now shows actual configured keys
Fixed scroll wheel and roll keys on OS X
Fixed near and far view planes
Improvements to armor names
Animation fixes to line up with true positions
Proper message for command permission check failure
Improved meshing
Improved dusk
Improved movement and climbing
Improved water rendering and chunk render order
Moved computations to terrain fragment shaders
Fixed title music
Made rolling less violent when changing directions
Fixed single player crash
Improved error information in client and server
Store items as RON files
Updated download info in readme
Fixed cloud performance
Fixed region display name
Fixed the bow fire rate
Healthbars now flash on critical health
Fixed ghosts when going back to character screen
Fixed not being able to unmount
Fixed non-humanoids being able to climb and glide
Made shadows and lights use interpolated positions
Changed "Create Character" button position
Made clouds bigger, more performant and prettier
Terrain meshing optimized further
Tree leaves no longer color blended
Actual character stats displayed in character window
Made significant changes to the noise functions used for world generation.
Improved colors during world generation.
Significantly reduced the use of warp during world generation.
Parallelized and otherwise sped up significant parts of world generation.
Various performance improvements to world generation.
Nametags now a fixed size and shown in a limited range
Non-humanoid skeletons now utilize configs for hotloading, and skeletal attributes.
Names of NPCs spawned in the wild now include their species.

Removed

Remove heaptrack as it is now deprecated

0.4 ^2019-10-10

Added

Added adjustable FOV slider
Added /explosion command
Added first person switch
Added single player server settings
Added admin check for commands
Started asset reloading system
Added SRGB conversion in shaders
Added adminify to give temp admin privileges

Changed

Collision and fall damage fixes
Switched to eventbus system
Improved seed generation, diffusion function
Switch to hashbrown in server/client
Improved colors and lighting
Replaced view distance culling with frustum culling

0.3 ^2019-08-04

Added

Added enemies
Added player info to debug window
Added server info
Game settings persist after closing
Added caves
Added random NPC names
Added tree roots, houses, basic lights
Added XP and leveling
Added build mode
Character customization, multiple races
Inventories (WIP)
Day/night, better shaders, voxel shadows

Changed

Fixed attack delay
Fixed disclaimer to show only once
Only send physics updates for entities within view distance
Fix for headphones and invalid device parameters
Fixed asset names for consistancy
Fixes animals jumping after their target no matter how far\
Improved SFX in caves
Better combat, movement, and animations
Many performance optimizations
Better world generation, more biomes

0.2 ^2019-05-28

Added

Hang Gliding
Pets: Pig and Wolf. They can be spawned with /pig and /wolf commands.
Name tags: You can finally know who is this guy with the blue shirt!
Single player: No need to start a server just to play alone
Character customization: It isn't fully complete but still allows you to look different than others
Music!
Major performance improvements related to the fact that we rewrote the entire game
0% chance to get a deadlock
Animations: You finally can move your limbs!
Combat: You can finally swing your sword that has been on your back. Enemies are coming soon, but you can always fight with other players
When a server dies the game no longer crashes - you will be just kicked to the main menu

Unreleased

0.14 2023-01-07

0.13 2022-07-23

0.12 2022-02-19

0.11 2021-09-11

0.10 2021-06-12

0.9 2021-03-20

0.8 2020-11-28

0.7 2020-08-15

0.6 2020-05-16

0.5 2020-01-31

0.4 2019-10-10

0.3 2019-08-04

0.2 2019-05-28

0.14 ^2023-01-07

0.13 ^2022-07-23

0.12 ^2022-02-19

0.11 ^2021-09-11

0.10 ^2021-06-12

0.9 ^2021-03-20

0.8 ^2020-11-28

0.7 ^2020-08-15

0.6 ^2020-05-16

0.5 ^2020-01-31

0.4 ^2019-10-10

0.3 ^2019-08-04

0.2 ^2019-05-28