BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: The Landing Release Ships
Version 2026.11.4 landed as the landing release, unifying landing, lift-off and docking into one cinematic scene. Playtest hardening, spaceport and lift logic fixes, and a Unity security patch rounded out the day.
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: 2026-11-04T05:00:15Z
- Audio duration: PT2M11S
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Good morning, it's Wednesday, November 4th, 2026, and this is BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
The lead story is consolidation: a week's landing work shipped as version 2026.11.4, PR 3169, and almost everything merged yesterday either polishes that cinematic flow or tightens the world rules around it.
First, seamless landing hardening. PR 3157, from Marcel's playtest, makes the pad chooser open immediately with a spinner and reading indicator while the server searches pads, with retries and timeouts. It also starts the descent on the pad pick rather than waiting for the world build, and hides cinematic…
Second, believability fixes for bases and buildings. PR 3150 addresses built-over pads: if a landing square holds player-built blocks, traders now skip it, automatic selection skips it, and manual selection is refused, with a one-time notice for admins building there. In the same change, a closed energy fence now…
Finally, release hygiene and security. PR 3168 moves the editor to 6000.6.8f1 for Unity's eMudhra certificate compromise and Brotli decoder fix, and PR 3170 ships the release notes in twelve community languages.
What's next: watch landing telemetry for timeouts and refusals under…
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