ROOT · Network OS 1.6.0

ROOT · Network OS 1.6.0 expands the bunker into an operating business: staffed customer contracts, a much larger research atlas, planned maintenance and clearer day-to-day decisions.

Build a business that keeps running

• Customers now send enquiries. Accepted contracts reserve capacity and need an agent to provision them before they earn revenue. Terms, renewals, cancellations, complaints and expansion requests make capacity planning matter.
• Income depends on delivered services. Operating costs, spare-part deliveries, expensive room/floor construction and paid central-utility conversions give expansion lasting consequences. A failed server affects its own capacity; shared power, cooling and network dependencies determine wider outages.
• Recruit robots from a rotating roster with independent strengths and drawbacks, assign their work and preview the costs and benefits of upgrades. The interface includes 64 original robot portraits.
• Organize operating plans into focused sections for contracts, service priorities, staffing and reserves. Review spending and scheduled work before committing.

Make longer-term choices

• Explore 96 technologies across eight research branches, plus five repeatable tracks. Research takes lab time and reserves some project throughput. Opposing specializations involve trade-offs; changing direction has a real cost.
• Track 25 achievements on their own page, including difficult long-term milestones. Current credits, lifetime earnings and recurring net income per minute are explicitly distinguished.
• Use the notification bell for pending decisions, customer requests, rewards and activity. The dashboard shows actionable details with compact paging instead of nested scrolling.

A clearer interface and bunker

• Grouped navigation, themed dropdowns, better modal spacing, compact buttons and responsive layouts improve both the web interface and the 3D console. Research-node details open next to the task in a dialog; completed technologies show their lasting effects.
• Original artwork illustrates events, jobs, research, achievements and room construction. Room equipment, central-cooling connections and cable trays have been refined, along with doors, displays and signage.
• Walk and sprint 50% faster, with collision-safe movement and a visible sprint hint. The sidebar logo now stays visible when navigating a long menu, including smaller Electron windows and zoomed layouts.
• New installations get a first-run introduction. Existing installations receive these release notes once after updating; both remain available in the guide. English/German localization and offline summaries have also been corrected.

Downloads and existing saves

• Windows installer: ROOT-1.6.0-windows-x64-setup.exe — includes update controls.
• Linux installer: ROOT-1.6.0-linux-amd64.deb — includes update controls.
• Portable: Windows EXE or Linux AppImage — update manually and retain the adjacent ROOT-data folder.
• SHA256SUMS.txt contains the download checksums. latest.yml, latest-linux.yml and the blockmap are used by installed editions for updates.

Existing saves are migrated without a reset; installed profile locations remain unchanged. Export a backup before updating if you may want to return to 1.5.1: the older release cannot read the new save format. Desktop and browser profiles remain separate. Packages are unsigned. See the desktop guide for setup and update behavior.

This release also includes the build-dependency security fixes merged since 1.5.1.

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Deutsch

Version 1.6.0 erweitert den Bunker um einen richtigen Geschäftsbetrieb: Kundenanfragen mit Einrichtung durch Agenten, Vertragslaufzeiten und Kündigungen, geplante Wartung, Ersatzteile und kostspieligen Ausbau. Einnahmen hängen von tatsächlich erbrachter Leistung ab; Ausfälle folgen den betroffenen Servern und gemeinsamen Versorgungseinheiten.

Neu sind außerdem 96 Technologien in acht Forschungszweigen, fünf wiederholbare Forschungsreihen, 25 Erfolge und ein wechselnder Bewerberpool mit 64 Roboterporträts. Das Dashboard zeigt konkrete Aufgaben; die Glocke bündelt Meldungen. Menüstruktur, Dialoge, Abstände, Übersetzungen und Originalbilder wurden überarbeitet. Im Bunker sind zentrale Versorgungsanschlüsse und Kabelpritschen verbessert, das Laufen ist schneller und das Logo bleibt auch im kleinen Electron-Fenster sichtbar.

Bestehende Stände werden übernommen. Vor dem Update eine Sicherung exportieren, wenn du später zu 1.5.1 zurückkehren möchtest: die alte Version versteht das neue Speicherformat nicht. Installierte Ausgaben haben eine Update-Funktion; portable Ausgaben werden manuell ersetzt, wobei ROOT-data erhalten bleiben muss.