BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: The Floor-Picker Release
A single player-report bundle drove version 2026.11.5, centered on lift usability, trader clarity, and creator polish. The release also carries a save migration and full localization that raise test and compatibility risk.
Duration: PT1M52S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-11-05T05:00:43Z
- Audio duration: PT1M52S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Thursday, November 5th, 2026.
The lead story is consolidation: one broad player-report bundle, PR 3183, became version 2026.11.5 in PR 3184, with release notes shipped in twelve languages in PR 3185.
First theme is lifts and moving blocks. The bundle adds a floor picker when you press E on a waiting stop or while riding, with the current floor highlighted, plus named devices and a new lift gate block that opens while the platform waits. For developers, the larger reliability change is a dedicated moved-blocks…
Second theme is a more believable economy. Market bases on open permissions can now take traders, with a 250-block cap, distance and direction in messages, and logging for why a landing was allowed or denied. Traders and other pilots now use the full ship landing cinematic with an approach trail, and all 56 board…
Third is creator polish with release cost. Avatar paint now wraps without blue gaps, brush strokes are gap-free with clamped pointers, wooden planks arrive in three sorts, and ship modules are reachable from Crafting. The trade-off: planks required save version 11, which shifts block IDs, plus 215 new keys across 14…
What's next: watch save…
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