Veloren, the free and Open Source Multiplayer Voxel RPG, is Getting a Major Release Out
Do you want to try a new high-quality free and open source game? Veloren is an online voxel RPG that was inspired by games like Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Veloren was created in Rust, a fancy coding language. It has grown tremendously in the past year and is rapidly becoming the next big FOSS game.
This release contains a few of the following:
- Climbing Speed and Cost New Skills - Pickaxes can be used to gather gems or mine weak rock. - Jumping out of rolls can give you a slight boost. - Dungeons now offer multiple types of stairs. - Trades now display the prices of items in tooltips. Attacks are now accompanied by sound effects when they hit the target. Crafting menu tabs - Auto camera settings make it easier to play the game using just one hand. Topographic map option – Search bars for social or crafting window Villagers, guards and other players now spawn with potions and are aware of how to make use of them. - Combat music in the dungeons if they are close to enemies. - One handed weapons can now be used and found in the world - Players can now opt-in to server-authoritiative physics in gameplay settings. You can now sort your inventory by clicking the button. Crafting stations are now accessible in towns. The missing translations can be displayed in English. New large birds npcs Daytime dependent wildlife spawns and you can block and parry with melee weapons. Lift is now calculated for gliders based upon dimensions (currently identical for all) The tracks that are specific to a particular game can now only play in towns. - You can now place markers on maps that you have created mountain peak markers and lake markers are now visible on the map. A minimap mode is now available that shows terrain within one chunk. https://talkegypt.net/ Chat tabs - NPCs can now hear certain sounds
That's a small slice of the complete and long changelog for the 0.10.0 release.
Download from the Veloren site. There are many ways to download it including direct download using a launcher that keeps it up to date, Flatpak, Snap and more. If you decide to download it now there's a launch party on the official server which could be very enjoyable and the download is compact, which means it won't occupy much space.