_A merchant paused in their travels_

[Veloren][veloren] is an open world, open-source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf

Fortress and Cube World.

In November, Veloren started a new initiative to help new developers learn more

about the codebase; the Veloren Reading Club. You can watch the

[first][veloren-reading-club-1] and [second][veloren-reading-club-2] sessions

now. Hats were merged, and a major rewrite of the server-hosting section of the

book happened. New textures were made for item drops. Some concept art was

created for what massive cities could look like. Dynamic weather was added, and

you can [watch that in action][veloren-rain-storm].

Experience sharing went through a large overhaul to evenly distribute EXP gained

across groups. The difficulty of dungeons was adjusted to be more balanced for

new players. Persistence was added to skills, and measures were put in place to

help with future migrations to new skill trees. Work was done on site2, the

system that is used to generate structures in a procedural way. This will help

make the variance more dynamic by adding more parameters that can be adjusted.

In December, Veloren will release 0.12, hopefully with some holiday spirit!

November's full weekly devlogs: "This Week In Veloren...":

[#144][veloren-144],

[#145][veloren-145],

[#146][veloren-146],

[#147][veloren-147],

[#148][veloren-148].

[veloren]: https://veloren.net

[veloren-144]: https://veloren.net/devblog-144

[veloren-145]: https://veloren.net/devblog-145

[veloren-146]: https://veloren.net/devblog-146

[veloren-147]: https://veloren.net/devblog-147

[veloren-148]: https://veloren.net/devblog-148

[veloren-reading-club-1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXwYEe_LWo

[veloren-reading-club-2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8XayRvVBEs

[veloren-rain-storm]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwfaohynvc