veloren/veloren v0.18.0

on GitLab

[0.18.0] - 2026-01-23

Added

• State of the window is saved between game launches.
  
• Barns that can spawn at the edge of towns.
  
• One new dungeon track and two new town tracks.
  
• You can now engage NPCs in two-way conversation.
  
• NPCs can now be hired for a short time.
  
• Pairs of Airships now travel between designated sites.
  
• Added ability to jump off walls.
  
• All metal lineage armor sets have helmets.
  
• Added /goto_rand command for admins to teleport to random position.
  
• Town road variations.
  
• Gamepad bindings can now be viewed in the 'Controls Settings' menu.
  
• New instruments: Rhythmo, Starlight Conch, Timbrel of Chaos, Viola Pizzicato.
  
• Time estimate to erosion.
  
• The ability to ask NPCs for directions to nearby establishments.
  
• Type /wiki to open the Veloren wiki or /wiki [topic] to search for a specific topic.
  
• Adding a space after chat mode commands changes chat modes.
  
• New and more granular options for the /kit command.
  
• Beds now regen health when mounted.
  
• Setting dropdown for SFX channel capacity.
  
• New Buccaneer entity spawn at the Pirate Hideout, including a new T2 obtainable buccaneer set.
  
• Serverside gizmos for debugging things like pathfinding.
  
• A potion which permanently changes the characters body type.
  
• Internal settings for audio samplerate and buffer size.
  
• Added fire gigas.
  
• Consumables drop their container after getting consumed.
  
• Added separate settings to toggle rain effects.
  
• Pirates sometimes going to raid towns.
  
• Croatian language support.
  
• Made space for airship travel agent at docks.
  
• Hired adventurers will now go to taverns in towns while the employer stays in the town.
  
• New hide lineage armor set known as Serpentscale.
  
• Added more varieties of house-building materials
  
• New LoD models for all five AirshipDock plots.
  
• Structures now support a Choice() block to allow for randomized spawns.
  
• Added DiscardTransparency experimental shader.
  
• Added Minimap options for Scale, Show Coordinates and Colored Player Marker.
  
• Simple quest system
  
• Quest: Escort a merchant
  
• Quest: Slay a monster
  
• Add separate wall jump button
  
• Added elephants
  
• More and improved fire particle effects
  
• Added Cloth Armor Lineage helmets and new Cotton Armor Set.
  
• New glider for Fire Gigas crafting drop.
  
• Support for directional lanterns
  
• Rebind controller buttons in-game.
  
• Adds a cyclable hotbar for improved controller support.
  
• Close button for dialogues.
  
• A new tutorial system that introduces mechanics during gameplay without breaking immersion
  
• Added more sprite effects
  
• Arthropod footsteps
  
• Added new bench and door sprites
  
• Bow
  

Changed

• Axe balance tweaks.
  
• Mountability now depends on mass, with the exception of ships and humanoids.
  
• Hammer skill icons.
  
• Renamed 'Bag' control setting to 'Inventory' and changed default keybind to 'i'.
  
• Improved interaction HUD consistency and prioritized important interactions over others.
  
• Sword balance tweaks.
  
• Vampire Castle chests are now the same as Haniwa chests.
  
• Increased kelpies' swim speed.
  
• Crippled balance tweaks.
  
• Track assignment for dungeons.
  
• Mineral ingot sprites recoloured.
  
• Hammer balance tweaks.
  
• Minor balance change to Terracotta Statue blast attack.
  
• Poise bar is shown by default.
  
• Purple Geode is dropped again, now from Basilisks.
  
• Updated velorite and fragment item models to match mining sprites.
  
• Tavern changes, cellars, better layout, more rtsim behaviour related to taverns.
  
• Town layout improvements, lantern pole sprites at the sides of roads, more smooth paths.
  
• Reworked climbing controls.
  
• You now need to hold the give up button to give up.
  
• Dealing damage to an npc reduces sentiment, helping a downed npc increases sentiment.
  
• Metal lineage armor model updates.
  
• No longer show names of most sprite interactions.
  
• Animation fix for flamekeeper and forgemaster: the ring of fire attack spreads outwards AFTER their weapon strikes the ground.
  
• Wolves are deadlier.
  
• New messages of the day for singleplayer worlds.
  
• Nerf npc aimbot.
  
• Minor improvements to NPC pathfinding to reduce illegal pathing around obstacles.
  
• Updated rat model.
  
• Recipes now have relevant quality (colour) ratings.
  
• Changed how RtSim handles repopulating NPCs. Instead of instantly creating a new one when one dies, it has a queue with a minimum time before trying to repopulate.
  
• Sitting at a campfire is now required to set your spawn point.
  
• Automatic item merging only applies to inventory events.
  
• Parry now has the same precision power as backstab.
  
• Improved safety railings on airships to mitigate surprise skydiving.
  
• Updated tradable recipes and balanced some prices.
  
• Merged craftable lanterns into a single recipe.
  
• Updated campfire and bed interaction texts.
  
• Witch and Pirate sets (T3 and T1 respectively) are now obtainable and have been given new models, alongside Twig Set being changed out for Adventurer Set.
  
• Updated Tidal Warrior model.
  
• Emitted sfx now take into account both player and camera position, instead of just camera position, when determining volume.
  
• Danari horns are now showed when wearing a hat or helmet.
  
• Debuff icons have been updated to be more vibrant and identifiable.
  
• Made hammer skills descrptions clearer.
  
• Updated airship docks to add more space between docking platforms.
  
• Airships now travel along routes of many docks rather than out and back between two docks.
  
• Airship docking time is reduced from 90 to 60 seconds.
  
• All hide lienage armor sets now have helmets.
  
• Increased gem spawn rates in caves; each gem node has a specific biome in which they generate more frequently.
  
• Cliff town airship docks now have extra space around the dock to preclude taller cliff buildings from interferring.
  
• Collars now require 2 tin ingots instead of an iron ingot, and their quality attribute has been changed to common instead of moderate.
  
• Barns can spawn some items.
  
• Significantly increased the frequency/number of recipes dropped from dungeon chests.
  
• More attacks and interactions can be aimed while mounted.
  
• Minimum camera clamp angle is now 0 degrees.
  
• Sprite and entity materials have been overhauled and improved
  
• Cloth Armor Lineage model updates.
  
• Removed bloodsteel ingots from Vampire Castle mini-boss loot.
  
• Chest and mining drops now have a shorter ownership timeout.
  
• Tweaked attack timings and orientation rates for a variety of entities.
  
• Builds for Linux are now with compressed debuginfo, this should reduce the size of the game on disk.
  
• Changed default controller controls.
  
• Re-ordered controls list to group related actions.
  
• Airship movement is according to timing of route schedule, no longer autonomous.
  
• Added height to City airship docs located near sloping terrain for airship docking clearance.
  
• switch to Naga for default Shader compiler instead of shaderc
  
• Changed doors on DefaultAirship vehicle
  
• Changed lanterns and bench on Skiff vehicle
  

Removed

• NPCs will no longer randomly ambush players.
  
• Combat music temporarily removed.
  
• Hotkey hints
  
• Bags and other superficial equipment no longer cost resources to repair
  
• Removed natural glow from gem deposits, and increased Velorite glowiness to compensate for the resulting darker caves.
  

Fixed

• Realignment of tree and entrance for Haniwa Catacomb sites.
  
• Riders no longer lag behind mounts.
  
• Can no longer ride while dead.
  
• Realignment of airship dock signs in forest towns.
  
• Fixed rotation of Bloodmoon Relic.
  
• Captains no longer turn towards sounds or targets.
  
• Soldier Crabs no longer spawn under the floor at Sahagin Island dungeons.
  
• Minimap zooming can no longer exceed limits when zooming with hotkeys, making the behaviour consistent for using the interface buttons or the hotkeys.
  
• Fix "Uid was not mapped to any entity" errors.
  
• Fixes sprite orientations and placement.
  
• Caves now show up in the map again.
  
• Fixed airship dock position.
  
• Fixed throwables pickup sound.
  
• Re-oriented LoD model for Haniwa Catacombs.
  
• Made it easier to interact with sprites on moving airships.
  
• Fixed mismatches in some armour item drop models.
  
• Gnarling Chieftain's totem summons now face their target.
  
• Game should no longer crash when encountering bad audio device configuration.
  
• Audio backend tries to switch to a lower samplerate when detecting an abnormally high one.
  
• Fixed music tracks playing straight after one another sometimes.
  
• Fixed some summons taking control of the boss.
  
• Desert area wildlife is back to spawning in hot temperatures.
  
• Ambience (e.g. wind) loops properly.
  
• Can no longer get bags with items still in them into the inventory by "using" another bag.
  
• Npcs don't get angry if you kill a monster infront of them, and can get happy if you saved them from it.
  
• Map markers are kept between character selection screens.
  
• Using "/clear" now works when chat is not shown.
  
• A server crash when loading some myrmidon arenas.
  
• Fixed agents spamming healing items, causing them not to heal.
  
• Fixed agents not picking up their items.
  
• Fixed the issue where cliff town airship docks were sometimes missing.
  
• Elusive bridge trolls are no longer at risk spawning in terrain.
  
• Npc pathing.
  
• More beds heal
  
• RTsim airships now stay at flying height except when docking.
  
• Adjust airship's propellers and rudder offset
  
• Fix offset of BenchCoastal sprite
  
• Adjust marine vehicles center alignment
  
• Various sprite lighting issues
  
• Spatial SFX no longer pop at the very start of their sound.
  
• AppStream metadata for Veloren is now fully valid.
  
• Not being able to target ores when zoom out.
  
• Dark/black in-game environment rendering problems when using Naga shaders and lighting mode A or B, on some systems.