Version 2026.10.20 – The tidy-up update: animals keep their distance, friends across the whole star system, a landing map without waiting and a gamepad that rumbles 🧹🐘

October 18, 2026

This time we tidied up. Our list still held lots of old bugs and open questions – and now we've sorted them all out in one go. On top of that came two things we noticed ourselves while playing: big animals standing right inside each other, and a landing map that stayed dark for a long time.

🐘 Animals keep their distance. Every animal on the ground now keeps its distance from the other animals, whatever kind they are. Awake animals step aside, sleeping ones shuffle apart in their sleep without waking up, and new animals never appear right inside another one. Big herds spread out a little more because of this – and the herds of giant animals still arrive complete.

🗺️ The landing map is there at once. On worlds from 2026.10.14 on, the landing-pad chooser first showed only the pads on a dark panel, and the terrain came late or not at all. Now the map appears at once: coarse first, sharp a moment later – in the browser too. And new worlds are even created a little faster.

🚀 In space and on the road: you can now lock onto your friends anywhere in the star system. An arrow at the edge of the screen shows the direction and the distance, even when your friend just took off from another planet. The Travel tab shows the real star system, with every planet, moon and station where it really is, and loot floating in space is still there after the server restarts. ❄️ On new ice worlds nothing stands on the seabed under the ice any more: villages, ruins and the starter wreck too now stand on solid ground or on stilts above the ice. And every station has its own quartermaster in every world.

🎮 Your gamepad rumbles. When you switch on Vibration in the settings, you feel hits, your shots, explosions, hard landings and broken blocks in the controller – this works on Windows. The monorail no longer jumps when the train turns round at the end of the line, your footsteps sound right on the ship, and the block in your hand is no longer upside down. 🎨 Your body paint now looks exactly the way you painted it. Heads-up: pictures you already painted on your torso or helmet switch sides.

✨ Almost everything also comes to your existing worlds – only the new ice worlds and stations come with new worlds. Game and server should both be on 2026.10.20. The desktop game updates itself on start, and the browser version is always current. Have fun exploring! 🚀