BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: The Visiting Release
Version 2026.10.19 redefines docking as walking aboard a friend's ship, backed by spacewalk boarding fixes and village ownership repairs. The pattern across the week is safe visiting — guest state, ship poses, and settlement ownership were all tightened.
Duration: PT2M20S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-10-18T04:00:55Z
- Audio duration: PT2M20S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Sunday, October 18th, 2026.
The headline: docking is no longer just a status line — it now means physically walking over into a friend's ship. That's the core of version 2026.10.19, dubbed the visiting release.
First theme: space visits that actually work. In PR 2734, after co-op reports from Justus and Lorenzo, docking was redefined as a look-only visit aboard the host's parked ship. Guests are sent home automatically before the host flies, launches, switches ships, or disconnects, with regular checks to enforce it. That…
Second theme: villages and cargo respect ownership. In PR 2733, from Lyxette's evening report building around a jungle village, settlement loot caches now spawn only in ruins, and existing caches in intact villages belong to villagers and hide the loot prompt. Player-placed blocks in villages stay mineable, and…
Finally, PR 2721 cleared a backlog of co-op visibility issues — ships at negative X no longer render billions of units away, ghost drops are scanned out, Sandbox is damage-free including oxygen on spacewalks — and PRs 2735 and 2736 packaged it all as the visiting release with What's New feeds in fourteen languages.
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