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Learn about vigilant mode.

Voidrunner v1.6.0 is the ship's computer: the first fixes from the v1.5.0 playtest. The game now does the small bookkeeping a pilot used to do in their head, and it stops making you press a key to read what just happened.

What's new

  • Return buys the obvious amount (#36).
    • Refuel: Return fills the tanks to what fits and what you can afford. The prompt says so: "Enter buys 9 for 54cr".
    • Repair: Return accepts the offer.
    • Market purchase: Return buys what your contracts still need. With no contract need, Return still cancels, so a slip never fills the hold.
    • Escape always cancels. Irreversible actions, such as abandoning a contract or a hull refit, still need a deliberate Y.
  • The market connects the dots (#37).
    • NEED: a column, shown while contracts need cargo, counts what your deliveries still require after what's aboard. A line under the table names where each goes.
    • PRICE MEMORY: a table points to up to five better prices the ship saw at other stations, with how many jumps away and how old each price is. Cargo a delivery is waiting for is never suggested for sale.
  • A status line instead of "Press any key" (#38).
    • Where: an action's result now rides in the next page's bottom border, beside the session clock. ● means done, ▲ refused, ◆ just said. A result too long for the border takes a row or two above it.
    • How long: it stays while you're on that screen and goes when you move on. An accepted contract is reported on the board you return to.
    • No more waiting after accepting, tracking or abandoning a contract, after a contract refusal, or after a rescue tow. The tow now joins the journey results on the Command Deck.
  • Fixes: dumping contraband now says what it did; before, its message was wiped at once. Tracking a contract now names which one.

NetBBS: saved data unchanged; runs on NetBBS 7.31.0 or later.

Upgrading

Replace voidrunner.py. Nothing else changes. The release still carries netbbs.json, unchanged since v1.5.0, and SHA256SUMS.

What's next

  • #41: more ship's-computer hints, such as a "due here" alert at a delivery target and a warning before selling promised cargo.
  • #39: glanceable data sheets and a wide layout for dense screens.

Validation

  • Tests: 3,029.
  • CI: Python 3.11 and 3.13 on Linux and Windows.
  • Code review: Claude reviewed both PRs (#40, #42) over five rounds. Two real bugs in the status line's lifetime were found, fixed and pinned by tests that fail without the fixes.
  • Release files: both assets match SHA256SUMS and are byte-identical to the tag.

Full changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0

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