Game Update: August 3–17, 2026

🚀 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.