BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: LAN Playtest Fallout and a New Ship-Building Release
A two-player LAN playtest surfaced ten multiplayer and UI bugs, nearly all fixed and shipped same-day in v2026.8.12 alongside the new player-built-ships feature; a background-execution setting turned out to be the root cause behind several of the worst symptoms.
Duration: PT2M19S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-08-13T04:00:59Z
- Audio duration: PT2M19S
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Good evening. It's August 13th, 2026, and today's story is one LAN playtest that drove almost the entire day's work.
The headline: a single misconfigured setting explains multiple bugs players hit at once. PR 967 traces the alt-tab freeze and a twenty-two-minute ghost session back to Unity's runInBackground flag being off — the game loop stopped on focus loss while the network thread kept running and queueing data. Turning that…
Second theme: small UX gaps causing real connection failures. PR 960 fixes a join-dialog trap where hosted LAN worlds listen on a different default port than official servers — the dialog now shows both. PR 961 fixes hotbar panels where Back and Close buttons were literally sitting on top of clickable slots.
Third theme: release discipline. PR 968 packages all of this into v2026.8.12, nicknamed "shipwright," alongside the headline feature — PR 952's player-built ships, letting players lay a keel, build a hull, and commission it at a helm block, with geometry-derived flight stats. A follow-up, PR 969, simply stamps the…
Worth noting separately: Ahmed's ongoing test-coverage series closed out three more contract-test PRs — noise generation, chunk modifiers,…
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