BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: The Black-Gold Oil Release
Version 2026.10.9 centers on making oil findable with tar seeps, full-height pockets and a long-range scanner echo, paired with a server-side gadget reach fix and a crash fix for VEGA tips.
Duration: PT1M53S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-10-08T04:01:04Z
- Audio duration: PT1M53S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's October 8th, 2026.
The lead story is progression. Oil gates lubricant, and lubricant gates the jump generator, drill tier, speeder, fabricator and clone tank — but pockets were rare, deep, and invisible to the short-range scanner. Yesterday's work shipped the fix as version 2026.10.9, the black-gold release.
First theme: oil you can actually find, in PR 2380. The team traced tiny pockets to a generation bug where the pocket height read bits the chance roll had already cleared, capping every pocket at four cells. That is now terrain generation 22, with full-height pockets and surface tar seeps — a chimney, patch and…
Second: trust and stability. PR 2381 closes a server exploit where the gadget handler never checked distance, so a modified client could pump, blast, freeze or sample from across the map. All target-acting gadgets are now refused beyond within-reach distance, at no energy or cooldown cost. PR 2369 fixes a crash…
What's next: expect world generation churn in testing, update any gadget tests that fired from long range, and verify localized VEGA lines compose cleanly.
That's it for today. Thanks for listening.
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