_A light to keep the night away_

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

Fortress and Cube World.

In January, another [Veloren Reading Club was

recorded]([veloren-reading-club-4])!. The `entity_sync` system was refactored to

be parallel. This was the largest bottleneck during the last release party, and

this fix will allow us to more easily surpass the 200 player mark on the server.

Work has been done to improve dagger animations. Sounds for flowing rivers are

now more bubbly sounding. Work is happening to get the OpenGL renderer to work

with WGPU for Veloren, as the project transitioned to Vulkan, but wants to keep

backward compatibility for older GPUs.

Skiing and ice skating have gotten to a playable state. The mounts system was

overhauled to make it more ergonomic to work with, you can [watch a video of

that here][veloren-mounts]. Several shaders experimental shaders have been

added, along with a "point glow" which help lanterns look better. With these new

shaders, swimming underwater is a whole new experience! A tracking issue was

created for worldgen issues that will help coordinate direction for some large

systems in the future.

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

[#152][veloren-152],

[#153][veloren-153],

[#154][veloren-154],

[#155][veloren-155],

[#156][veloren-156].

[veloren]: https://veloren.net

[veloren-mounts]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJpeOJT78TI

[veloren-reading-club-4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2WDBMjkh8

[veloren-152]: https://veloren.net/devblog-152

[veloren-153]: https://veloren.net/devblog-153

[veloren-154]: https://veloren.net/devblog-154

[veloren-155]: https://veloren.net/devblog-155

[veloren-156]: https://veloren.net/devblog-156