Warprocket Bombardier TEST v0.1.73-dev

TEST v0.1.73-dev is uploaded on Workshop item 3794172730.

This is a diagnostic release for the missing hose, not a claimed visibility fix. Crunch's PR #21 follow-up and both matching v0.1.72-dev logs show hose creation and death cleanup without the expected simulation sample. The spawn crash appears resolved in those host sessions; the invisible-hose cause remains unresolved.

The update records rejected live transforms, lost visuals, solver/frame failures, distance limits, the first completed pose update and native bone readback, plus update/write counters on cleanup. Reporting is bounded per owner. Physics, gravity, damping, endpoint profiles, rig, materials, safety guards and animation ownership are unchanged.

For the next test, restart after the Workshop update and confirm [doomrocket:LOAD] v0.1.73-dev. Enable TEST only. Spawn one Engineer, observe and move around it for at least ten seconds, then kill it. Attach the complete console log even if the hose remains invisible, and state what was visible. The maintainer analyzer is py -3 tools/analyze_hose_log.py <log> --expected-version 0.1.73-dev; it distinguishes controller progress from visual acceptance.

Validation: clean BuildOnly and final rebuild, exact committed package parity, native material splice, all 325 Python tests plus ragdoll regressions, and hosted QA before/after PR #22 merged. No in-game visibility fix or acceptance is claimed.

Verified 2026-09-16 03:03 UTC: exact-item upload start, new manifest 992911228893621231, and finish OK. Independent Steam metadata matches the title, public visibility, manifest and 96,242,858 bytes.

Source/tag commit: b8069454e07ec3d19c6edc40c02dc065eaecaf62. Root bundle SHA-256: 5251f95ab1900ba1b3167550a53e7ac3b7099a9575367dbea0a48c4f93fa048b.

Public alpha v0.1.56-alpha remains unchanged. Publication only; no game-folder deployment.