Version 2026.10.19 – The visiting update: over into your friends' ship, friends visible in space and a Sandbox without damage 🤝🚀

October 18, 2026

This update comes almost entirely from your reports. Justus and Lorenzo played together in a LAN world and simply couldn't find each other in space – not even right next to each other at the same anomaly or on a spacewalk. On top of that, a drop they had collected kept floating, and in Sandbox you could still suffocate. Lyxette built a huge base around a jungle village and asked us whether looting there was allowed, how the village could become part of her base and how to take a single stack out of the cargo hold. Thank you so much, Justus, Lorenzo and Lyxette! 🙏

🤝 Visiting your friends' ship. Until now, docking didn't really do anything. Now docking means: walking over. In flight or on a spacewalk you ask with K, and when your friend's ship floats parked in space, E takes you over. As a guest you can look around, chat and trade, but not build or mine. With U you go back into your own ship, which waits right where it floated. And before your friend's ship flies off, every guest is brought home first.

👀 At last you see each other in space. Ships on one side of the star system were drawn billions of blocks away – that's why Justus and Lorenzo were invisible to each other. That's fixed, and very likely the rare crash when locking a target too. A friend on a spacewalk now shows up as a figure in a space suit with their name, other pilots appear on your radar, and collected drops properly disappear again. 🧸 And Sandbox is now truly damage-free: no suffocating, not even out in space, no injuries, and animals, bandits and enemies in space leave you alone.

🏡 Neighbours say where they live. When a neighbour visits you and wishes for something, they now tell you which village they come from, and a gold heart on the map and compass shows you the way. Afterwards they walk home instead of vanishing in front of you. At the base core of your base, E shows who lives with you, and your residents keep their name and face, even when you rebuild a bed.

🏘️ Villages and big bases: in living villages the supplies now belong to the villagers – looting only works in ruins. Blocks you placed in a village yourself can be mined again, and the villagers' beds no longer count for your base. 📦 In the cargo hold, Take moves exactly one stack, or you choose how many you want, and data fragments, food and baits now stack up to 99. 🧑‍🚀 On a spacewalk beside a station, E at your hatch now takes you home, and at the cockpit of your floating ship E takes the helm straight away.

🎮 Everything also comes to your existing worlds. To visit each other's ship you both need 2026.10.19, and game and server should both be on 2026.10.19. The desktop game updates itself on start, and the browser version is always current. Have fun visiting! 🚀