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

0.6

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 heights

• 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.