BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: Tank-Spider Release With High Details and Base Pads
Version 2026.11.2 shipped as the tank-spider release, bundling a desktop-class High graphics preset, base landing pads and unified build categories, plus multiplayer reliability fixes. Save version 10, protocol 11, and terrain generation 32 ship with player-reported fixes and performance gains.
Duration: PT2M23S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-11-02T05:00:14Z
- Audio duration: PT2M23S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Monday, November 2nd, 2026.
The team shipped version 2026.11.2, the tank-spider release, packaging a major graphics upgrade, new base and building workflows, and fixes for large multiplayer sessions.
First, graphics fidelity and correction. PR 3067 elevated the High preset to desktop-class with sharper shadows, parallax on rock and metal, a grass carpet with flowers, room reflections, scorch marks and craters, extended far view, and volumetric sunlight, each behind its own graphics setting. Playtesting caught…
Second, building and basing. PR 3080 lets players build up to four landing pads within 48 blocks of a base core, with per-pad permissions for self, allies, or everyone, and landing-map integration, while cutting new-world pad search from roughly 15 seconds to about one second with threaded sampling. PR 3113 replaces…
Third, multiplayer reliability. PR 3053 fixes voice chat dropping about 70 percent of frames with a token bucket, adds a five-second server-wide cooldown for explicit saves, forwards missing hosted-world settings in fleet compose, and corrects presence wipes above 64 viewers and observer leaks on the star map.
What's next: update clients for…
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