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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:2026.10.28
# or the rolling tag:
docker pull ghcr.io/marceld23/blocks-beyond-the-stars-server:latest

Setup & configuration: SELF_HOSTING.md §10.

The duel release, made from four wishes in one day's reports. Players can now fight each other on foot — but only
when the world says so: the world admin picks Off, Duels only, Crew vs crew or On, and a Friendly fire switch
decides whether allies can hit each other. Nobody loses anything to another player, and nobody dies in a duel.
The Codex has an Enemies chapter that fills in as you meet each kind. The giant tree is now mahogany, so a trunk
you mined by accident can be patched seamlessly. Builders in Sandbox and Creative go back to their ship without
waiting, and the planet-type page got "Only this", "All normal" and a % share per row. Thanks to Lyxette and
Justus.

ℹ️ Compatibility: nothing changes for saves. The save version stays 6, the terrain generation stays 29 and
the network protocol stays at version 11. There are no new blocks — the giant trunk just drops itself now. As always,
keep game and server on the same version: the desktop game updates itself at start, and the browser is always current.

⚔️ PvP and duels — players against players (#2972, thanks to Justus)

  • Off unless the world wants it: Justus wanted to switch weapons and friendly fire on and off in the world settings.
    The switches already existed, but nothing used them: players could not hurt each other at all. Now the world admin
    sets PvP in Tab → Character → World rules: Off (the default) · Duels only · Crew vs crew (players
    of different crews) · On. Friendly fire next to it decides whether allies and crew mates can hit each other too
    (default off). Both can be changed live.
  • How it works: look at another player with a weapon (or your fists) and attack as you would a machine. The crosshair
    turns red only on a player you may hit right now.
  • Safe places: nobody can be hit aboard a ship, in a space station, in space or on a spacewalk, in a speeder or train,
    in god mode or in Sandbox/Creative, or in their first 10 seconds after joining or after being defeated.
  • Kid-friendly: a player defeated by another player keeps every item, whatever the death penalty says, and
    respawns at the heal tank; everybody reads "X defeated Y".
  • Duels: the Alliances tab has a Duels section with a Challenge button for every online player. The other
    player can accept or decline. Nobody dies in a duel: whoever goes down first loses, gets straight back up and both
    read who won. Give up ends it, and so do leaving or 5 minutes.
  • PvP is set in the game, not on the world-creation page, which has no room left for it.

📖 Codex → Enemies (#2971, thanks to Justus)

  • A tablet with all the enemies: Justus wished for a page with every enemy, from UFOs and spaceships to drones, with
    damage, health and names. The Codex now has an Enemies chapter: space drones, UFOs, cruisers and raider ships in
    space, and scan drones, Guardian robots, hunters and robbers on the ground. Each entry shows the enemy's health,
    damage (and its stronger kind's), its loot, what it is and a tip how to beat it.
  • Meet it to fill it in: an entry reads ??? until the enemy has come within weapon reach of you, on foot or in
    your ship. The first meeting says "New Codex entry: …". The numbers are the game's own, so they are always right.
  • Side fix: robbers' close-range damage now uses each robber's own strength.

🌳 The giant tree is mahogany (#2968, thanks to Lyxette)

  • Patch it seamlessly: Lyxette wanted wood in different colours, above all a dark mahogany from the giant tree,
    because a trunk part mined by accident could not be repaired without a different colour showing. Mining a Giant
    mahogany trunk     now gives two Giant mahogany logs, which place the same trunk again — same colour, same grain.
  • One colour everywhere: the giant tree's bark is the same dark red-brown on every planet. Common trunks keep their
    planet's own colour, and the pale birch stays light.
  • Any recipe: a giant mahogany log is a log like any other, so every wood recipe takes it.

🏗️ For builders and world makers (#2969, #2970, thanks to Justus)

  • Back to my ship without waiting (#2969): in a Sandbox or Creative world, or when the world admin set you to
    Creative, the 3-minute wait on Back to my ship is gone. Use it as often as you like.
  • Planet types & frequency (#2970): Justus wanted to set how common each planet type is, and to put one at 100 % so
    only that kind appears. The page, now called "Planet types & frequency…", shows each type's share of the planets
    in %    . Only this on a row leaves just that type, All normal gives an even mix, and Reset goes back to the
    game's own mix. Your home planet stays a varied world. This applies to new worlds.

🛠️ For tinkerers

  • Enemy data (#2971): data/enemies.json (9 kinds, tiers normal/elite/camp) is what the server builds every drone,
    UFO, cruiser, raider ship, Guardian machine and robber from (GameServer.NewEnemy); the built-in EnemyCatalog
    defaults equal the old constants, and a test pins the file to them, so balance is unchanged. Meetings are
    PlayerState.EnemiesMet (persisted) and EnemyLog (NetCodec 306); the chapter is drawn by EnemyCodexText
    (Client.Core).
  • PvP (#2972): PvpRules.Refusal holds the rule table; GameServerPvp adds the guards and duels;
    GameServerSwing (cooldown, energy, damage) was extracted from AttackCombatEntity. Respawn.SparedByPvp keeps a PvP
    defeat free of loss. New messages PvpTargets (307), DuelIntent / DuelNotice (308/309); an older peer drops them,
    so no protocol bump.
  • Wood (#2968): giant_log is now an item of the logs group that drops itself ×2; FloraTints.Mahogany is fixed.
  • Planet mix (#2970): PlanetTypeMix (Client.Core) computes the shares and the two shortcuts.
  • For hosters: the WorldHost and report-host images were rebuilt for the shared-model changes and roll with this
    release; the AI backend image is unchanged.

Full Changelog: v2026.10.27...v2026.10.28

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