Updates

A page about all the updates in Veloren.

0.8

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

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 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

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

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 privilages

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

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

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