Veloren is a free, open-source multiplayer voxel action-RPG built in Rust, inspired by Cube World and Minecraft, with crafting, dungeons, and mounts.
Veloren is a free, open-source, multiplayer voxel role-playing game built and maintained entirely by a volunteer community. It combines open-world exploration, real-time combat, crafting, and cooperative multiplayer in a procedurally generated fantasy setting.
Development began on May 28, 2018, drawing inspiration from games such as Cube World, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Dwarf Fortress. Unlike those titles, Veloren has no commercial publisher; it is developed in the open on GitLab and GitHub under the GNU General Public License version 3, meaning the code, artwork, music, and other assets are all freely available and modifiable.
The project is coordinated by roughly 20 active core developers plus around 20 additional artists, writers, and composers, with more than 150 total contributors credited across its history. It remains under active, pre-1.0 development, with regular development blog updates.
Veloren's world is procedurally generated and fully simulated, spanning mountains, deserts, jungles, and other biomes that players can explore on foot or by taming and riding creatures as mounts.
Combat is dynamic and weapon-based, supporting multiple playstyles, while towns let players interact with NPCs and craft equipment, and dungeons offer boss encounters and loot for cooperative play.
Players can also mine underground cave networks for resources, and the game supports both public multiplayer servers and self-hosted LAN servers for private play with friends.
Veloren is completely free to download and play, with no purchase price, subscription, or in-app purchases of any kind, consistent with its status as a community-run open-source project rather than a commercial game.
Because the game and its assets are open source under GPL-3.0, players can also build and run their own custom servers or modify the client without paying any licensing fee.
Yes, Veloren is completely free to download and play, with no purchase price, subscriptions, or in-app purchases.
Veloren is made by a volunteer, open-source community; development began on May 28, 2018, and it has no commercial publisher.
Veloren is inspired by Cube World, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Dwarf Fortress, blending voxel exploration, combat, and crafting.
Yes, Veloren's code and community-made assets are licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
Veloren uses a custom voxel game engine written in Rust, organized as modular crates.
Yes, Veloren supports both public multiplayer servers and self-hosted LAN servers.
No, Veloren is still in active, pre-1.0 development, with the community regularly releasing updates and new content.