v2026.11.5

🐳 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:2026.11.5
# or the rolling tag:
docker pull ghcr.io/marceld23/blocks-beyond-the-stars-server:latest

Setup & configuration: SELF_HOSTING.md §10.

The floor-picker release. Lifts take you to the floor you choose, devices show the names you give them, and a
lift gate keeps everyone out of the empty shaft. Drawbridges no longer crumble like mined rock. Traders land at your
Market base and say where they parked, and they land and lift off like your own ship. Painting your avatar leaves
no blue gaps, brush strokes have no holes, board jobs tell a story, and there are wooden planks in three sorts.
Many of these came from Lyxette, from Ben, Marie and Justus of the school club, and from Verena — thank you!

ℹ️ Compatibility: five new blocks — the save version rises to 11 (block ids shift; worlds of 2026.11.4 are
converted when they first open, and an older game should not open them afterwards). The terrain generation stays at
32 and the network protocol at version 11 (new fields only). As always, keep game and server on the same version:
the desktop game updates itself at start, and the browser is always current.

🛗 Lifts: choose the floor, give names, a gate at the shaft (#3171, #3172, #3174)

• Choose a floor: press E on the stop where the platform waits — or simply E while you stand on the
  platform. A list of the lift's floors opens (the highest on top, yours lit); Go takes you there, up or down.
  Name gives a floor a name that the list shows. A stop where the platform already waits now says so instead of
  doing nothing.
• Names you can see: a device's name is now shown when you look at it and as the title of its menu. It is saved with
  Enter and when you close the menu, not only with Save; an empty field removes it.
• Lift Gate: a knee-high energy barrier you place on a floor beside the shaft (workshop, lift blueprint: two from a
  crystal, two iron plates and a cable). The lift opens it while the platform waits at that floor and closes it when the
  platform leaves; it never closes on anybody. One block high, so the call button across the shaft stays in reach.

🌉 Machines move blocks, they don't mine them (#3173)

• A drawbridge going in and out, a piston, melting snow and the lift clearing its shaft no longer show the mining
  crumble and its sound. A block you break by hand still crumbles. Lamps switching no longer knock.

🛬 Traders at your Market base (#3175–#3177)

• A Market base's free landing pads on Me + allies or Everyone now take traders (never Only me). If none is
  free, a trader only uses a public pad within about 250 blocks of the base — otherwise it does not come this time,
  and VEGA tells you once why: your own ship stands on the pad, it is built over, it is set to Only me, another ship
  holds it, or the base has no pad.
• Honest messages: when a trader lands away from you, the message, the radio hail and VEGA say how far and which
  way instead of "nearby". Without a Market base a trader still takes the nearest free pad, however far.
• Weather snow and water on a pad no longer count as "built over".
• Traders land like your ship: a glint with a contrail crosses the sky after "look up!", then the hull sinks on
  its engine fire, swirls up dust and vents steam. It lifts off heavily and climbs away with a boom. Other pilots' ships
  land and launch the same way.

🎨 Painting without gaps (#3178, #3179)

• The tops of the shoulders, the wrists, a bent elbow and the cuff in first person no longer show the blue base
  colour — they take the colours of your painting.
• Fast brush strokes no longer skip pixels, and the outer pixel row is as easy to hit as the others — in the face,
  body and block painters.

📜 Jobs with a story (#3180)

• Delivery jobs on the boards tell who needs it and why, and the giver thanks you when you hand it in and says what
  came of it — 56 stories for stations, settlements, your base and the ship's radio. A station's job no longer speaks of a
  "settlement". On servers with the AI helper, it tells the same story in its own words.

🪵 Wooden planks (#3181)

• Wooden planks, light wooden planks and mahogany planks — four from one log, by hand, under Blocks & Walls.

🧰 Ship modules from Crafting (#3182)

• The Crafting category is now called Ship parts. It points to the Ship tab, where modules like the jump generator
  are built, with a button that takes you there; a search also lists matches in the other tabs.

🌍 Languages

• All new texts in all 14 languages.