BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: Trains Carry Villagers, Linux Fixed
Trains shift from decoration to transport with distance-based speed and villager passengers, while a Linux AppImage permission failure is fixed. Two releases shipped a day apart, each followed by What's New posts in twelve languages.
Duration: PT2M17S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-11-10T05:00:38Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Tuesday, November 10th, 2026.
The headline: trains are now transportation, not decoration, and Linux is installable again.
The big push is pull request 3454, the rail-travel release. Rail speed now scales with distance, with caps at 8, 16 and 24 blocks per second, up from fixed 4, 8 and 12, plus smooth acceleration, braking into stops, and limits in bends. That came from player reports that trains were too slow for far cities. Paired…
The same package cleans up world believability. Soaniri wildlife rolls in light blue and green, Mirun villagers dress as Sounders, wild ground animals no longer spawn in or wander into villages, and loading screens now show story lines with guaranteed display time.
Second theme: release reliability. Pull request 3452 fixes every Linux AppImage up to version 2026.11.14, which failed with permission denied on the console launcher. Artifact upload had stripped the execute bit, and packaging restored it on the player and server but never the launcher. The fix restores the bit and…
Finally, cadence. Versions 2026.11.14 and 2026.11.15 shipped a day apart — the first fixing arcade text blank in Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese…
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