BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: The Doorway Release and Locale Hardening
Merges for v2026.9.13 focused on editors showing real doors, beds and props plus an in-game door hologram, and fixing raw placeholder tokens in Japanese and Chinese oxygen-tank text. The pattern is closing the gap between what authors see and what the game builds, while hardening checks to prevent recurrence.
Duration: PT2M11S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-09-22T04:01:25Z
- Audio duration: PT2M11S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026.
The big takeaway is truth in placement — editors and the in-game preview now show the door, bed or prop you will actually get, not a generic cube.
Our first theme is the doorway work in P R 1983, which closed eight related issues. Until now, ship, station and town editors previewed everything as a single green or red cube and wrote one cell per click. That hid real behavior: a door is authored as one marker, but the game hangs a door up to seven wide by…
Related to that, eight settlement templates were shipping doors as solid block cells — a wall in every new world. That fix converts them to markers and opens the doorway, and removes door blocks from the town and ship palettes, keeping them in the station editor only as hull airlocks.
Second theme is localization reliability in P R 1974, reported by community member Camembert1001. Japanese and Chinese oxygen tank descriptions showed a raw conditional token the game does not support — it only does plain replacement. The fix restores plain numbers and hardens checks: all locale tooling now shares…
P R 1984 wraps both in version 2026.9.13, updating the changelog and what's-new feed.