cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18729442

Dive into Odd Realm, a mystical colony sim set in a land of fantasy! Lead your settlers to construct a thriving haven, navigating unpredictable seasons, elusive bandits, unseen horrors, and fabled gods. Every choice etches your colony's destiny, igniting a saga of adventure, peril, and triumph.

Dive into Odd Realm, a mystical colony sim set in a land of fantasy! Lead your settlers to construct a thriving haven, navigating unpredictable seasons, elusive bandits, unseen horrors, and fabled gods. Every choice etches your colony's destiny, igniting a saga of adventure, peril, and triumph.

Wife just sent me this link. Considering Debbie is dumping buckets on us North Carolinians right now, it helps to know where flooding is and might occur. I thought this map was super interesting personally.

Everyone please stay safe! Remember, if you're driving and can't the road through the water, don't risk it.

Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software.

Basically it's Twitch, or any streaming platform such as YouTube Gaming or whatever it's called now, that you can run on your own hardware. Control your platform and your content where you make the rules as to what you can/can't do.

There's a growing community and you can find folks streaming all kinds of things in the directory:

https://directory.owncast.online/

I know some folks think it's not possible to run something like that as it'd require tons of PC resources, but I've run an Owncast Stream with 70+ active open connections to the server on a $8/month VPS.

The install can be as simple as a VPS that will spin up an Owncast instance for you, or as "difficult" as pulling the Owncast script and running it and it just automatically sets everything up. It's probably the easiest software installation I've done in a long time and I've been in IT for 15 years.

I also run the [email protected] community so if anyone has any questions please don't hesitate to poke me there or Matrix or come check out a stream, I'm usually hanging out on someone's stream somewhere. :-D Or don't hesitate to ping me on any one of the platforms in my bio.

0.16 Release

Veloren is finally releasing 0.16! It has been 9 months since 0.15 was released so there has been a lot of work put into this version.

If you're reading this before 18:00 GMT on March 30th, make sure to join the release party. On the side, you can also watch the release party dev stream, where we'll be chatting with devs about what went into this version.

To join, you can download the game for free at veloren.net and create an account, then launch the game and hop on the default server. See you there!

We'll also be having a vote on discord for the new map to use for the official server in the coming days. Be sure to check that out! New in this release

Here are some of the changes in this release:

New axe skill tree.
Two new dungeons, haniwa catacombs and terracotta ruins.
Some new structures: airship docs, taverns and desert arenas.
We got a cool new mesa biome, where the mountain towns are built now.
Caves got a really cool update, with new cave biomes, be sure to check them out!
We are finally using a new wgpu version which allows people to run the game using OpenGl.
Plugins have gotten updates and it's now supported for servers to have plugins which are shared with the client when joining.
Map generation UI for singleplayer in voxygen.
Many balancing changes.
New models and shader changes so the low level of detail terrain will look a lot better.
While gliding you can now encounter updrafts.

Changelog

As always, there are always more changes than we can add to a single post! You can check out the full changelog here.

Thanks to this versions contributors (in random order):

Laura, Monty Marz, Yusuf Bera Ertan, Animoe, Gemu Peachems, Talha Qamar, BigKhan, Xiretza, Keegan-JW, Marcel Märtens, Tim Vincent, Woeful_Wolf, Youssef Fahmy, Pybit, Uniior, Haijo7, TelepathicWalrus, Treeco, JimmyDdotEXE, Benoît du Garreau, Dmytro Kovalchuk, Froggy, Hugo Famechon, Neras, Illia Denysenko, HEIEnthusiast, Joshua Barretto, Javier Pérez, Sorann753, JCoxeye, David Fisher, danielkenji83, Syniis, crabman, Igigog, Jaroslav Lichtblau, Francesco Vasco, Darren Salt, Otto Richter, Py bit, Thomas S, flo666, Justin Shipsey, Dominik Broński, Marcel, Avi Weinstock, Ben Wallis, Raul Wagner Costa, Stefan Glorch, Nadja von Reitzenstein Čerpnjak, Isse, Gaxrodi, walpo, Sam, Joaquin Tornello, Christof Petig, PopeRigby, nectical, RunRobDog, jshipsey, juliancoffee, Hrom, tygyh, Samuel Keiffer, Youser Nayme, Michal Sroczynski, Evgen Kot, UncomfySilence, 心慌慌脸红红, Brandon Dyer, uniior, James Hiew, laundmo, Sanctorum Thomas, do-no-van, Imbris, evgenkot, Scott Bronson, flo, João Capucho, DaforLynx, Jeffrey Cox, James Melkonian, Michał

Since the last release we have started using weblate for tranlsation contributions, those contributors are listed here (in random order): tidare, Vuizur, juliancoffee, AldanTanneo, guillermytho, Paw, marcelodemonn, Nylux, Vybearz, 5Litt, DiXiao, ezamux, Jasmia, Timm, thomas-babord, zoli111, leca, Renkal, macintosh, zerocraft, GeroinEX, RyanOrigins, Vallley, mapemka, tdehtyar, alextecplayz, Nifou, Axegaik, jadedctrl, loglizzy, Sinari, Dutchy5, aleeo, DominicF96, FruityHarriott, evgenkot, Witch, alexjhr, valebest26, fvasco, karinator, walpo, bov, jiangyi, Sovenok-Hacker, thatevilman, fnetX, SomeTr, Ixniyevonn, mozz, Positron832, dyegomb Support the Project

As always, feel free to support the project on Open Collective. It allows us to keep our servers running, and launch great release parties like the one for this release!

Veloren Open Collective

Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?

PLEASE don't use Telegram! I personally recommend Matrix as it's totally FOSS, you can self host, there are tons of front end clients to choose from. Or even use Signal. I have my own issues with Signal, the fact they don't allow third party clients, you can't self-host, they have a proprietary shim in their stack that only they know what it does, they were pushing crypto, etc, but at least Signal is better than this garbage.

VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users... For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?