Developer snapshot 2026-07-23

Preview snapshot for players who want the newest features before the next stable release. Expect rough edges; your save files stay compatible whenever possible, but back them up first.

Changes since the previous snapshot

Added

• An armed exit now counts itself down. Once your signal is on, the exit calls out again at two miles, one mile, and half a mile. No more hearing about an exit once, five miles early, and never again until you have missed it.
• Delete a career's cloud backups. Each career in the Cloud backup menu now has a Delete item that removes every kept backup of that career from your orinks.net account, after a spoken confirmation. Your saves on this computer are never touched, and a career that is still on this computer with cloud backup turned on simply starts a fresh backup the next time it saves. Handy if a save was backed up by mistake, such as someone else's career you had copied onto your computer.
• Copy your delivery summary to the clipboard. The delivery complete screen has a new item, just before Continue, that copies every settlement line as plain text so you can paste the whole run into a message or a forum post. The game confirms out loud once the text is really on the clipboard, and tells you if the copy did not take.
• Share notable deliveries to your own Mastodon account. A new Settings, Online option posts a short public summary, with the FreightFate hashtag, when a delivery earns you an achievement, a level, or a perfect streak milestone. Routine runs are never posted. It is off until you turn it on, and linking your Mastodon account happens in your browser on orinks.net using the same sign-in as driver setup; the Mastodon account item walks you through it and can check whether the link took.

Changed

• Everything online now lives in one Online menu on the main menu. The drivers board, orinks.net account setup, Profile sharing, cloud backup and restore, Mastodon sharing, and Discord presence moved out of Settings into a single Online menu, so restoring a save on a new computer or checking who is hauling no longer means hunting through settings categories. The board sits first because viewing it shares nothing about you. Choosing Online inside Settings still works and opens the same menu, and every toggle keeps the familiar Enter, Right, and Left arrow controls.
• Test builds now introduce themselves as development builds. The main menu welcome and the update screen used to read a bare version number that looked like a stable release. A nightly or source build now says, for example, "version 1.8.6 development build", so you always know which kind of build is talking. Stable releases sound the same as before, and version numbers no longer skip when a stable release comes out.

Fixed

• Driving past a pickup or delivery entrance no longer goes silent. Arriving at a facility used to announce itself once; if you rolled on -- easy to do with cruise re-engaged -- the game said nothing more for the rest of the drive, and the delivery quietly went late. Now the gate repeats its instruction every ten seconds while you are still moving, cruise drops each time so the truck is never held at speed past a dead end, and the S key answers with the gate itself -- "At the receiver. Stop to dock." -- instead of a speed limit that stopped mattering when the route ended.
• Each extracted copy of the game now keeps its saves strictly to itself. Previously, a copy of the game could look one folder up on its first run and adopt the saves it found there, so keeping two versions side by side, for example a stable install next to a test build, could make one copy take over the other's careers, and deleting a save in one copy could make it disappear from the other. A copy of the game now only ever reads and writes the saves folder inside its own game folder, so you can test as many extracted copies as you like without them touching each other.
• The road tells you the truth about the terrain. Stretches that were quietly called mountain in flat country -- the East Texas piney woods, the Hill Country's gentle dips -- now read as the flat or rolling ground they really are, so the status readout no longer puts you in the mountains where no Texan would. The real climbs you brace for still call out as mountain grades, and every famous grade -- the Grapevine, Monteagle, the Siskiyous, the run up to the Continental Divide -- keeps its name. Thanks to nromey, PR #107.