Updates

A page about all the updates in Veloren.

0.8

Future Update

0.7

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