v2026.10.19

🐳 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:2026.10.19
# or the rolling tag:
docker pull ghcr.io/marceld23/blocks-beyond-the-stars-server:latest

Setup & configuration: SELF_HOSTING.md §10.

The visiting release. Docking now means a visit: dock with a friend in space and walk over into their ship.
Friends finally see each other in space — next to the same anomaly, on a spacewalk and on the radar — and a drop you
collected no longer keeps floating as a ghost. Sandbox is really damage-free now, also on a spacewalk. Neighbours
who visit your base say where they live, the base core lists who lives with you, and the cargo hold lets you take
a single stack. In villages the villagers keep their supplies, and blocks you placed yourself can be mined again.
Behind almost all of it are Justus, Lorenzo and Lyxette: Justus and Lorenzo played together and couldn't
find each other in space, and Lyxette built a huge base around a jungle village. Thank you! 🙏

ℹ️ Compatibility: the save version stays at 4, the terrain generation stays at 26 and the network protocol
stays at version 11. Everything comes to your existing worlds. Game and server should both be on 2026.10.19; to
visit a friend's ship, both players need 2026.10.19. Two things change in existing worlds: a base built around a village
that counted the villagers' beds loses those extra residents on its first check (with the normal "moved out" news), and
supply caches in intact villages now belong to the villagers.

🤝 Visiting a friend's ship (#2722–#2725)

• Docking means walking over. In flight or on a spacewalk, K asks your friend to dock and U undocks. Once you
  are docked and your friend's ship floats parked (they stepped inside or are on a spacewalk), E takes you over into
  their ship. If your friend is at the helm, the game says so and E asks them to let you come over.
• As a guest you can look around, chat and trade (T), but not build, mine or use their ship's stations. U,
  the pause menu or walking out of the hull takes you back to your own ship, which waits parked where it floated. The
  host sees who is visiting and can send a guest home with U.
• Guests go home first: before the host's ship moves (the helm, a launch, a ship switch, an undock), every guest is
  brought back to their own ship.
• Docking now also works with a friend who walks around inside their parked ship.
• Fixed: after quitting while walking inside your floating ship, stepping out of the landed ship on the planet
  turned into a spacewalk, and other pilots saw a ghost ship (#2722).

👀 Together in space (#2707–#2711, #2720)

• Ships on one side of the system were drawn very far away. Every ship, trader, drone, raider and drop at a negative
  X position appeared billions of blocks off — that is why the kids couldn't see each other even next to the same
  anomaly. Fixed; this was very likely also behind the rare crashes when locking a target (#2428, #2450).
• No more ghost drops (#2708): collected drops, rescued pods and salvage capsules now disappear, and the pickup
  beam and the capsule effects play again.
• A friend on a spacewalk (#2709) shows as a figure in a space suit with their name, and their floating ship stays
  visible.
• The radar shows other pilots (#2710) as named blips, and at the rim when they are far away.
• Docking and trading only work when you are really together: both in flight in the same place, or both on foot in
  the same place (#2711, #2720). Before, trading didn't even check that you were on the same world.

🧸 Sandbox is damage-free (#2712)

• No damage of any kind in Sandbox: no suffocating (also on a spacewalk), no lava, fire, fall, hunger or weather
  damage. Animals, bandits, machines and giants leave you alone, enemies in space don't hunt your ship, and speeders and
  boats take no hull damage.
• Explorer and Creative keep all their rules. /god now also blocks fall damage and bad food.

🏡 Neighbours and residents (#2713–#2718)

• Visiting neighbours say where they live and where to hand in their wish, tell you when they walk home and, when you
  board your ship, walk off instead of vanishing in front of you.
• A wish knows its village: a gold heart on the map and compass points to the giver's village, and the mission shows
  "Village: X · 120 m" with a Navigate button. This also works for wishes you already hold.
• Beds and residents: the first settler's news says that every bed brings one more resident, and you get a message
  when a resident moves out because no bed is free.
• Residents stay who they are: name, face and memory belong to each resident, so rebuilding a bed or moving the base
  core no longer swaps people. A resident who moved out comes back when their bed does.
• Who lives here: E at the base core lists your residents — role, what they are doing, where they are and their
  bed.
• In multiplayer, base life now runs on every world with players, not just one.

🏘️ Villages and big bases (#2726–#2728)

• Villagers keep their supplies: living villages no longer offer "G: loot". Supply caches only appear in ruins, and a
  cache already saved in an intact village belongs to the villagers ("That belongs to the people of X.").
• Blocks you placed in a village can be mined again. The houses, the village floor and the plinth stay protected,
  and painting them doesn't change that.
• A base around a village: the villagers' beds and machines no longer count for your base, so your residents get
  your beds. A bed you place in a hut yourself still counts.

📦 Cargo hold and bigger stacks (#2729, #2730)

• Take a single stack: every card in the cargo hold has a Take button that moves exactly that stack into your
  backpack; with Shift it moves every stack of that kind. The detail pane offers "This stack", "All of this kind" and
  "How many?" (1, 5 or half). The crate screen moves the stack you clicked, and the game now tells you when your backpack is full.
• Bigger stacks: data fragments, food and baits now stack to 99 instead of 20. Medpacks stay at 20, AI memory
  fragments and access codes at 10.

🧑‍🚀 Spacewalks and the helm (#2702, #2703, #2705)

• On a spacewalk beside a station, E at your own hatch takes you home. A station or derelict only docks when you look
  at it or when your ship is out of reach. "Fly to your ship — N m" now measures to the hull.
• Undocking from a station you boarded on a spacewalk leaves your ship where it floated, instead of parking it against
  the station's hull.
• Inside your floating ship, E at the cockpit takes the helm instead of opening the map.

🌍 Texts

• All new and changed texts are available in all 14 languages, and the wiki article on alliances is reworded for visits.
• The "What's new?" notes of 2026.10.18 are now available in the twelve community languages too (#2701).

🛠️ For tinkerers

• Ship visits (GameServerShipVisits.cs): VisitShipIntent (NetCodec 304), WorldReset.ShipOwnerId,
  DockStatus.CanVisit, MoveIntent.WorldId; rules in ShipVisitRules (Client.Core). Visits are memory-only. See
  docs/developer/MULTIWORLD_AND_SYSTEM_FLIGHT.md.
• Space sync: RemoteEntityInterpolator.NoWrap (circumference ≤ 0 = straight lerp), SpaceEntitySync.CollectStale,
  SpaceRadarMath; NetSpacePlayer gains the ship pose and suit colours; one PlayersTogether check for docking and
  trade.
• Damage gate: GameRules.PlayerTakesDamageFor, a central DamagePlayer and HostilesIgnore.
• Residents: BaseResidentRecord.Seed/Key/Face, remembered departed residents, RequestBaseResidentsIntent /
  BaseResidentList (NetCodec 302/303).
• Villages and cargo: NetContainer.OwnedBy, OwnedContainerRefusal; FromSlot/Count on
  MoveCargoItemIntent, FromSlot on MoveContainerItemIntent (CargoStackPicker in Client.Core).
• All wire and save fields are additive: no protocol or save-version bump.
• For hosters: the WorldHost image was rebuilt with this release; the AI backend is unchanged.

🙏 Thank you

• Justus (as Layex) and Lorenzo (as Screelit) played together in a LAN world and reported that they couldn't
  see each other in space, not even next to the same anomaly or on a spacewalk, that a collected drop kept floating and
  that Sandbox still hurt. They wanted to be together in space — now they can even visit each other's ship. Thank you,
  Justus and Lorenzo 🙏
• Lyxette reported settlers who seemed to vanish after their small tasks, and then built a huge base around a jungle
  village: she asked whether looting there was intended, how to make the village part of her base, how to take a single
  stack from the hold, and for bigger stacks. Thank you, Lyxette 🙏

Full Changelog: v2026.10.18...v2026.10.19