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Learn about vigilant mode.

🐳 Docker (dedicated server)

Run the dedicated server (game server + admin/portal/download UI, optional AI backend) on any OS with Docker:

docker pull ghcr.io/marceld23/blocks-beyond-the-stars-server:2026.10.16
# or the rolling tag:
docker pull ghcr.io/marceld23/blocks-beyond-the-stars-server:latest

Setup & configuration: SELF_HOSTING.md §10.

The leak-finder release. A small, quick follow-up to the village release, driven by Lyxette, who moved into a new
cave base on an ice moon the same morning and sent four reports: the storage crates and a base resident did not
react to E, and a big cave hall behind an Energy Door stayed without air. Both are sorted out. Crates and people
at your base listen again, and a room that leaks now tells you where the air gets out (#2612). On top come the
loose ends of the village release: conversations that end when you walk away, wishes you can hand over when a
neighbour visits, and F1 screenshots that show what you saw.

ℹ️ Compatibility: the network protocol stays at version 11, the save version at 3 and the terrain
generation at 24, so your saves and worlds carry over. Game and server should both be on 2026.10.16. The desktop
game updates itself on start, and the browser version is always current.

📦 Crates and people at your base listen again (#2613 #2621)

  • Storage crates, base residents and villagers react to E again wherever your base stands. Every world wraps
    around, and the line where it closes runs right through your home landing pad on every planet and moon, so a base
    built beside your ship sits on both sides of it. On the far side, E at a crate or a person did nothing, the
    "press E" hint didn't show, and aiming at your base core or a beacon could miss. All of that now works on both sides
    of the line. (G and H at a crate already worked.)
  • G at an empty crate says "The crate is empty." Before, it did nothing, and you could not tell whether the crate
    was broken.

🔍 Air leaks with an address (#2614 #2615)

  • Walk into a room that should hold air but leaks, and the game tells you where the air gets out: the block, its
    coordinates and how far above or below you, for example "the air escapes through Sand at 30/130/0, 10 blocks above
    you"    . For an open hole, it names the opening. It speaks up when the spot clearly looks like a room (behind an
    Energy Door or under a roof), names the leak nearest to you, and repeats each reason at most once every five
    minutes.
  • Sand, snow, dirt and geyser vents never seal; ice does. A cave ceiling of sand with the open sky above it lets
    the air out. Build a layer of stone, metal, ice or glass under the sand, and don't mine the sand itself: it
    slides down and opens a hole.
  • /basewalls names the leak too, with the same block and coordinates, and no longer contradicts itself: the line
    that said "enclosed" while the air was leaking was about animals, and now says so.
  • Aim at your base core: when other rooms have air but your spot doesn't, the readout adds "/basewalls tells you
    why"    . VEGA's hint on airless worlds now lists ice as sealing and snow and geysers as leaking.

🏘️ Village life, the loose ends (#2616 #2617 #2618 #2622)

  • A conversation ends when you leave it. Press Esc or Leave, or simply walk a few steps away: the panel
    closes and the person goes back to their day. While you talk, they stand still and look at you. Before, a
    conversation could stay open after you walked off, and after switching worlds a reply could even reach somebody
    else.
  • Hand over a wish at home: when a villager with a wish visits your base, their ! or ? comes along. If
    you already carry what they asked for, press E and they take it right there, no walk to the village needed.
  • F1 screenshots show what you saw: the HUD, the crosshair, on-screen hints, beacon and beam labels and light
    shafts are now in the picture, and the report form is not.
  • On hosted worlds with AI texts, a villager's greeting no longer mentions what another player did (greetings are
    shared by everyone at the same friendship level), a villager who knows you no longer greets you like a stranger,
    and VEGA's chatter keeps to the world's AI line budget.

🌍 Texts

  • The 12 new and 3 changed texts in this release are available in all 14 languages.
  • Better names in some languages: the lantern block and its item now match in Spanish and Polish, the grocer is a
    grocer in Polish and Japanese, the lamps have their right names in Russian and Ukrainian, and the helmet lamp in
    Spanish (#2620).

🛠️ For tinkerers

  • New WorldConstants.SameCell and a shared InteractReach in Client.Core (talk picker, crate lookup, base zone):
    every match between a server cell and a cell read off the client's scene goes through them. See
    docs/developer/WORLD_WRAP.md (#2613).
  • NPC conversations live on the player session under one validity rule (same world, same NPC object, wrap-aware
    reach). The client sends a leave as ChoiceIndex = -1 with the NPC id on the existing NpcDialogChoiceIntent;
    clients announcing the new dialogclose1 feature get the server's close. No new message, no protocol bump (#2616).
  • AI greeting requests are a pure function of their cache key (tier-representative standing, no per-player history);
    VEGA banter keys on its facts, takes the per-world AI line budget at VEGA priority, runs off the tick thread and
    drops answers with a stray placeholder (#2618).
  • For hosters: the WorldHost forwards BBS_WH_AI_LINES_PER_MINUTE to every world as BBS_AI_LINES_PER_MINUTE
    (unset = the server default 4, 0 = written lines only). See deploy/worldhost/.env.example and
    docs/developer/HOSTED_WORLDS.md (#2619).
  • The base air docs (docs/developer/BASE_LIFE_SUPPORT.md) describe the leak diagnosis: the sky column over every
    cell, searched outwards from the player, with a memo per column (#2614).

🙏 Thank you

  • Lyxette moved into a new cave base on an ice moon and, within hours, reported the crates, the base resident and
    the airless hall behind the Energy Door, with screenshots and the exact spot. That led us to a bug that had been
    hiding at every home landing pad since the summer. Thank you, Lyxette 🙏

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