Your home is now part of your progression

Housing has grown from a place to log out into a persistent base of operations. House owners can establish farm plots in their rooms, and the game now recognizes those spaces as part of everyday life in the galaxy.

From field and hunt to finished goods

The farming, butchering, Provisioner, and Chemist systems now form a connected crafting loop. Gather ingredients, turn them into useful goods, and make your profession part of the player economy.

Substances now have consequences over time

Alcohol, spice, tobacco, and cannabis have been rebuilt around a clearer lifecycle. The first use gives the intended benefit; the downside arrives on its own timetable.

• The initial effect is applied on consumption and is named after the recipe that created it.
• The comedown begins only when the initial effect expires, rather than arriving at the same time as the benefit.
• Repeated use builds exposure and tolerance. Dependence begins only after the configured threshold is reached.
• Withdrawal starts after a dependent character has gone without the substance for its configured abstinence period.
• Heavier accumulated use produces stronger withdrawal. Taking another dose suppresses active withdrawal but does not cure dependence.
• Prolonged abstinence gradually reduces exposure and eventually clears dependence. Threshold-level dependence requires at least 20 real hours to recover.

Try drink, use, or smoke with a crafted substance and watch bonuses or affstats for its named effect. Consumable effects are now bounded so high crafting skill improves quality without producing extreme bonuses or penalties.

Combat enters a more deliberate era

A broad combat audit has been implemented to bring mobs, players, abilities, conditions, and build choices into the same balance model. The goal is forgiving early combat and meaningful danger after the tutorial range.

Target: forgiving below level 10, challenging from level 10 onward, and no routine same-level one-shot victories.

Builders get better instruments

Staff can now inspect and repair the world’s content using tools that expose the same numbers the game uses in play.

Cleaner commands, clearer effects

• bonuses lists the active modifiers applied to your character, with aligned columns and source descriptions. Non-stacking applies use the greatest effective value.
• Recipe and crop lookup accepts player-friendly names, spaces, and unambiguous abbreviations while preserving full IDs for compatibility.
• Eating, drinking, smoking, using spice, and applying medical goods now produce descriptive roleplay messages instead of generic “you use it” output.
• The Force power formerly called Force Light is now Force Radiance, removing its keyword conflict with Force Lightning.
• Crafted food, drinks, smokeables, and spice identify their recipe in status displays instead of showing !UNUSED!.

Reconfigure your destiny

Genetic reconfiguration is now available through the Black Clinic Surgeon in the Novania Genetic Research District on Arkanis. Change your race while keeping your class, levels, skills, feats, and stat allocation intact.

Incompatible armor and weapons are moved safely to inventory, compatible gear stays equipped, health is preserved proportionally, and a successful procedure begins a 30-day recovery period. Staff can clear a player’s recovery timer with resetreconfigure <player>.

Respecs now have a safe rebuild path

After confirming a respec, characters no longer have to find their way back through level-zero character generation.

A smarter, more persistent economy

The auction house has been rebuilt around MySQL-backed object persistence, so listings and their objects survive restarts reliably.

Try the expanded form: list (category|wear slot|all|mine) [keywords].

Combat now rewards initiative

Every combat round, initiative position now affects hit rolls, damage rolls, and Armor Class. The size of the swing scales with the number of combatants.

2 combatants: +1 / −1  •  3: +1 / 0 / −1  •  4: +2 / +1 / −1 / −2

That means winning initiative matters immediately, while falling behind creates a real tactical disadvantage.

Crafting has clearer careers

Artisan skills have been consolidated into 15 canonical, player-facing disciplines. Old saved ranks are migrated to their appropriate replacements during login.

• Arms Tech and Armor Tech are now separate disciplines, with weapons and armor using their own craft rolls.
• Obsolete overlapping aliases have been removed from the skills list.
• Crafting, industrial projects, class and racial bonuses, guild practice, harvest modifiers, and legacy assembly rules now use the same canonical skills.
• Artisan focus behavior has been corrected: an Arms Tech focus can support its intended related disciplines without making every craft use the wrong skill.
• Materials placed in a crafting station persist through a crash, so a failed process no longer destroys the station’s inputs.

Travel and space tools expand

Companions and belongings are safer

When a charmie dies, its belongings now transfer automatically to its owner. If the owner cannot carry them, the items are placed in the room instead of disappearing.

This closes a painful edge case for players who rely on companions for gear storage and combat support.

Builders can do more in game

Roleplay administration gets stronger

Roleplay reward auditing now detects suspicious reward patterns and alerts staff for review. Reward records include the information needed to investigate abuse without making ordinary roleplay harder.

The bug, idea, and typo workflow has also moved into the note system, with explicit open, in progress, and resolved states.

Copyover and operations, with better communication

Staff can schedule a delayed copyover with a command such as copyover 300. The game sends timed alerts to everyone online, while cancellation instructions are shown only to staff.

The first delayed-copyover alert now briefly explains what a copyover is, so players know why the world is preparing to restart and that their character state is being preserved.

Help that understands players

Help keyword parsing now treats dashed multi-word keywords as a single phrase that can be abbreviated or typed with spaces. For example, help genetic and help genetic reconfiguration reach the same entry.

New and refreshed help entries cover genetic reconfiguration, auction filters, copyover scheduling, roleplay flags, map radius, space sectors, and related builder tools.

Reliability across the galaxy

This update includes a broad crash, memory-leak, and dangling-pointer pass across communication output, combat, character loading, objects, mail, triggers, scripts, and space systems.

• Null and malformed communication formats are handled safely instead of overrunning output buffers.
• Character, object, trigger, and descriptor references are cleared or transferred safely as entities leave the game.
• Combat, equipment, loading, and persistence edge cases received additional defensive checks.
• The full automated test suite now covers the new persistence, space, roleplay-audit, and regression paths.

🚀 Space Industry and Starships

Space gameplay received the largest expansion in this update. Ship construction now has a complete multi-stage workflow covering industrial facilities, projects, contracts, financing, credit settlement, quality rules, outfitting, and commissioning.

Mining and refining are now playable end-to-end. Light prospectors and mining emitters can collect resources, which can then be refined and used in construction. Ship and module crafting now use minimum skill requirements and skill checks, with better results improving the chance of higher-quality work.

• Playable mining and refining from extraction through construction
• Persistent ship and module construction projects
• Contracts, financing, and credit settlement
• Crafting quality based on skill requirements and checks
• Purchasable and assignable ship-industry modules
• Menu-driven ship and module builder tools
• Operational hyperspace and taxi travel
• Group-based faction space missions

The new Starship Ace prestige class rewards experienced pilots who designate an owned vessel as their signature ship. Its abilities improve ship defense, gunnery, ship systems, and evasion.

Daily bonuses now also include pilot kills, space mining, and supply orders. Daily resets are handled by the game even for characters who were offline when the reset occurred.

🧬 New Character Paths

Three new class options are now available, adding new nontraditional and advanced ways to play.

Entertainer

Perform songs, dances, stories, instrumental pieces, and holo-spectacles in cantinas. Patrons can watch, listen, and tip performers. Audiences receive temporary buffs and rewards, while entertainers earn experience for successful performances.

Crime Lord

Build a criminal network, use contacts to locate targets, gain access to criminal resources, inspire fear, and summon loyal lieutenants. The class also includes multiple capstone choices supporting different leadership styles.

Starship Ace

Specialize in a signature ship and gain progressively stronger piloting and ship-combat benefits.

The first few qualifying advanced class and race unlocks on an account now use reduced account-experience prices. An obsolete remort restriction on creating Force-sensitive characters has also been removed.

🤖 Progression, Companions, and Everyday Play

Character progression and everyday play received a broad series of improvements.

• Character level history now has a ledger-backed view through levelhistory. The new rollback command previews the effects of removing recent tracked levels and requires a confirmation code before finalizing.
• Charmies and pets can persist between sessions, including their stats, gear, and affects. New dismiss and summoncharmies commands make them easier to manage, and dismissed charmies retain equipment.
• Equipment handling now accounts more accurately for free hands when using weapons, shields, and similar items.
• Housing storage chests now support the all keyword, including commands such as house chest deposit all.blaster.
• The optional autohit setting allows hit without a target to attack the first mobile in the room.
• Prompt customization has been expanded and the time command has been refreshed.
• Food and drink effects now appear in affect listings.
• Hide and sneak now correctly use the Stealth skill.
• Help keyword parsing has been improved, including support for longer keyword strings.
• New norpsay and norpemote commands support scripted, aliased, or triggered IC text that should not award RP rewards.

📡 Wider Communication

Intermud-3 support has been added. Once the gateway is configured, players can communicate with compatible MUDs through several new commands.

• i3chat for Intermud-3 channel chat
• i3channels to manage channel subscriptions
• i3tell for private cross-MUD messages
• i3mudlist to view the current Intermud-3 MUD list

🛠️ Stability and Builder Improvements

This update also includes a broad memory-leak and crash-fix pass across combat, space, objects, mail, triggers, scripts, and character systems. Autohit and several edge cases in item and industry handling received additional fixes.

Builder workflow has improved as well. buildwalk now repairs or reuses logical connections when a new room would overlap an existing room on the automap, and the test-character command gives administrators a faster way to create controlled test characters.

Obsolete fantasy-era systems were also removed or renamed so the remaining systems use terminology that better fits the Star Wars setting. Additional help coverage, including the Armor of Abeloth Force power, has been added as these systems continue to grow.

🛸 A Living Space Experience

Space has always been an important part of the game, but it is becoming far more dynamic.

We have continued refining the entire ship system, making space travel smoother, combat more engaging, and starship management more reliable than ever before.

Ships now exist as persistent vessels within the galaxy rather than as collections of disconnected systems. This opens the door for more advanced gameplay while making everyday activities such as launching, docking, hyperspace travel, towing, and combat feel more polished and consistent.

NPC ships have also become a little smarter, with more ship AI improvements coming. Some will peacefully go about their business, while others may actively hunt their prey, creating more interesting encounters throughout known space.

Builders now have significantly improved tools for placing ships throughout the galaxy, allowing the universe to feel more populated and alive than ever before.

🪐 The Beginning of the Galactic Economy

Perhaps the biggest addition on the horizon is the new Space Industry system.

For the first time, players will be able to carve out careers that have nothing to do with bounty hunting or combat.

• Survey unexplored regions of space
• Discover asteroid fields and hidden resource deposits
• Mine valuable ores and rare materials
• Refine raw resources into industrial commodities
• Manufacture ship components
• Build specialized ship modules
• Construct entirely new player-owned starships

Rather than simply purchasing everything from NPC vendors, players will become a driving force behind the economy.

The new industrial system is designed to support all of these playstyles—and many more.

🚀 New Mining Ships and Industrial Equipment

Industry is not just another crafting profession. Dedicated mining vessels are here, each designed for different roles.

Prospector-class ships will excel at exploration and surveying, while larger industrial vessels will focus on extracting huge quantities of ore.

Specialized industrial equipment includes:

• Survey scanners
• Mining emitters
• Precision cutters
• Strip-mining arrays
• Collector systems
• Stabilization equipment
• Dedicated ore holds
• Compact onboard refineries

Even standard ships will be able to participate by installing the proper equipment, allowing every pilot to get involved regardless of their preferred vessel.

🔧 Craftsmanship Matters

One of the most exciting additions coming with industry is true player craftsmanship.

Instead of every manufactured item being identical, skilled engineers and shipwrights will have opportunities to create equipment that stands above ordinary production.

Superior craftsmanship will not simply create random bonuses. Builders will choose how they want to specialize their creations.

• A custom-built freighter might feature expanded cargo capacity.
• A fighter could emphasize handling and maneuverability.
• Mining equipment might be tuned for maximum efficiency or improved reliability.

This means master craftsmen can develop reputations of their own, with players seeking out specific builders known for producing exceptional equipment.

🌐 A True Player-Driven Economy

Industry is designed around cooperation. Different professions naturally feed into one another:

• Prospectors discover new resource sites.
• Miners extract raw materials.
• Haulers transport valuable cargo.
• Refiners process industrial commodities.
• Engineers manufacture modules.
• Shipwrights build ships.
• Traders connect buyers and sellers.

Construction contracts will also allow players to hire one another to manufacture equipment and starships, creating entirely new opportunities for commerce throughout the galaxy.

🏙️ Player Housing Begins

Life in the galaxy is not all about flying starships.

We have also implemented a brand new neighborhood housing system. Players can purchase homes within player neighborhoods, expand them room by room, customize room titles and descriptions, invite guests, and create homes that reflect their own style.

Storage has also received a major overhaul. Each house can contain multiple persistent storage chests capable of safely holding valuables, containers, and nested items, giving collectors and decorators far more freedom than before.

The system has been designed so homes only exist while occupied, allowing neighborhoods to scale efficiently without sacrificing persistence.

💽 Better Persistence Everywhere

A huge amount of work has gone into improving how the game saves information.

The new persistence system stores virtually every detail about your items and equipment much more reliably than before.

• Containers now properly preserve their contents.
• Banks can safely hold containers.
• Nested objects remain intact inside persistent storage.
• Objects survive server restarts more consistently.

These improvements may not always be immediately visible, but they provide the stable foundation needed for many of the larger features currently in development.

🤖 Smarter Ships, Better Performance

Ship interiors have also received a complete modernization.

Instead of every player ship permanently occupying world rooms, interiors are now generated only when someone boards the vessel.

This allows far more ships to exist in the galaxy while greatly reducing unnecessary resource usage.

For players, everything remains seamless: you board your ship, its interior is there waiting for you, and when everyone leaves it quietly unloads until it is needed again.