These Weeks in Veloren 240

This month has been very active with many contributions from many contributors! The blog post is being published a bit delayed but hopefully you still enjoy reading the recap :)

- Crab, another TWiV editor

Contributor Work

Thanks to everyone who contributed this month: @uniior, @isse, @skygrango, @Gemu, @Supa, @isse, @fnetX, @floppy, @horblegorble, @Papinha, @imbris, @xMAC, @crab, @do-no-van, @Christof and @Thibagon !

Thanks to all translators who contributed on weblate this month: @fnetX, @Janez, @polauf, @bov, @Jungso, @nokoe, @metamuffin, @CodeVlogs, @Enlive, @coffee-compiler, @2b33rs, @Zughy, @kanym, @evgenkot, @lucius_pilgrim, @Paw, @guillermytho, @Positron832, @Sinari and @Akumo33.

Merged work

Vampire Castles, by @floppy

A new vampire-themed T4 dungeon, the worldgen is impressive as always :D

MR: !4473

Transform on death effect, by @crab

NPCs can now be configured to transform into another entity on death, the vampire castle boss and fake terracotta cursekeepers are already making use of this for multi-stage bosses!

MR: !4581

LoD object rotations, by @isse

Originally intended to be used for procedural glider course LoD models, this allows rotating LoD models in steps of 90 degrees. Currently only trees are randomly rotated, but we also want to make other plot LoD models rotate correctly in future, such as the Haniwa dungeon wich is one of the most notable ones.

MR: !4589

Jet engine model, by @horblegorble

The Vroom admin glider added by @juliancoffee finally has it's own model now!

MR: !4452

/spot command, by @isse

Another command making testing changes easier 🎉. It works similar to the /site command, but as spots are not named this command takes a spot kind instead and teleports you to the nearest one.

MR: !4597

Hardcore characters, by @do-no-van

Think veloren is too easy and want something more challenging? This is for you! Players can now choose to make new characters hardcore, dying now means loosing your character.

MR: !4571

Kora instrument, by @floppy and @Supa

MR: !4585

/kit recipes command, by @uniior

This command mostly helps with testing, but if you're playing on singleplayer and aren't satisfied with the recipe system you can use it there too. Other ways of obtaining recipes that don't require grinding dungeons are also being discussed :)

MR: !4598

Karkatha, by @floppy and @Gemu

The Sahagin dungeon got a new boss, Karkatha 🦀. Tidal Warrior was moved one floor below and is now a miniboss with a reworked skill set.

MR: !4590

Player counts in Airshipper, by @crab

As announced in an earlier blog posts, Airshipper has now released player counts in the server browser! This should make it easier to find a server geographically near you with active players.

There's still a handful of server which haven't activated the new query system on their servers yet, if you're a server owner on the server browser list reading this, please check out the blog linked above.

MR: airshipper!160

Overriding game assets from Airshipper, by @juliancoffee

I've added a special field in Airshipper settings that allows you to set VELOREN_ASSETS_OVERRIDE (https://book.veloren.net/players/env-vars.html#veloren_assets_override) to make it more visible and hence useful to more people.

Additionally, you can now click on a little book icon near this text and environment variables field to go to the link I put above.

MR: airshipper!162

Beam collisions, by @Papinha

A neat trick to make it appear as if particles collide with terrain, only enabled for beam particles for now due to the cost of having to do one raycast per-particle.

MR: !4562

Entity balance, by @necti

Improved the balance of most dungeon entities, as well as sword, axe and hammer abilities.

Welcome @necti as our new Balance Lead 🎉

MR: !4586

Golemite armor set and loot table balancing, by @necti

A new armor set was added, crafted with items dropped from Terracotta and Haniwa enemies. Loot tables were also rebalanced to no longer allow easily skipping progression.

MR: !4600

NPCs in plugins, by @Christof

Another great addition from @Christof to make plugins more useful! Entities, their models and animations can now be defined in plugins. Here's an example plugin making use of this: plugin/examples/anim.

MR: !4351

Require multiple hits to mine gems and ores, by @crab

This was already announced a while ago, and has finally been merged. Thanks a ton to @Gemu and @Supa for the models, and to @floppy for creating the new pickaxe SFX!

Every ore/gem now has a specific number of hits it can take before breaking, every one or two hits (depending on the quality of the ore) the sprite will go into a next 'stage', changing the model and having a chance to drop an extra item (increased by the corresponding mining skill).

MR: !4266

More changes:

• Adding missing changelog entries, by @horblegorble
• Cheesing fixes for the Vampire castle, by @floppy !4588
• Dependency upgrades, by @xMAC !4580 !4582
• Taiwanese translation work, by @skygrango !4592
• Fixing errors in translation files, by @Thibagon and @fnetX !4528 !4576
• Fixing server crashes caused by the /buff command, by @crab !4594
• Updating tracy-client to the latest version, by @imbris !4578
• Fixing how buff strength is displayed, by @horblegorble !4574
• Updating the contribution guidelines, by @isse !4529
• Improvements to the sprite manifest, by @imbris !4577
• WGPU fixes and re-enabling shaderc optimizations, by @imbris !4579
  Fixes an issue on some windows systems with AMD graphics using the Vulkan backend, if this caused any regressions please open an issue on GitLab or report it in the discord.

Ongoing unmerged work:

The myrmidon dungeon is getting a rework:

@juliancoffee is working on adding LootSpec to SpriteCfg. This will allow specifying separate loot tables for the same sprite kind in worldgen, making it easier to handle keys or other special drops in dungeons without creating more sprites !4354

@do-no-van is reworking throwables, they can now be equipped and used like other weapons! !4593

@Hromina is working on adding @Green12's snow sprites into the game

Screenshots

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