Community & Dev Log

Development log

• 2026-09-20

  Admin console, command palette, building wear — and the federation begins

  A new tabbed admin console lands in the lobby and in-match: a live dashboard with per-room tick rates and stall warnings, server + database health and sanity checks, user roles, feature-vote aggregates, evaluation stats with mapgen-fidelity results, AI leaderboards and the feedback inbox. Under the hood the tick loop consolidates scans and sheds ambient work under overload; buildings accrue wear and can be repaired by engineers (auto-repair toggle included). For players: Ctrl+K opens a searchable command palette, keys are remappable in settings, a procedural ambient bed follows the game clock, the first real art assets ride the new manifest pipeline, and a curated five-scenario learning path guides new players. First federation plumbing links servers into a shared world mesh — control plane only for now.

• 2026-09-18

  Edge walls, the soul vault, and prototype toolbars

  Walls are now true edge-based structures — fence lines node to node with gates, breach combat and AI integration. Soul vault UX: bound/free souls, empty bind slots, soul details. EmberSim and EmberFrontier toolbars, always-on 🐞 feedback button, camera terrain clamping, rivers enforcing multi-spring origins.

• 2026-09-17

  EmberHeroes lands: souls, heroes and dungeon floors

  The whole P2α loop shipped: soul types and the vault, binding, the hero layer with XP/perks/equipment, direct unit control, death-and-extraction write-back, portal shards — and procedurally generated dungeon floors (both grids) with monsters, loot, chained depths and co-op. Plus the EmberSim megaplan and the Aztherion story campaigns.

• 2026-09-16

  Scenario engine, campaigns and server persistence

  A data-driven scenario-v1 engine (triggers → effects → objectives) with story campaigns and a built-in editor — plus a big i18n sweep and server-persisted profiles, saved games and friends.

• 2026-09-15

  Rivers, boat-ways and bridges

  Rivers became real water infrastructure: springs and tributaries, lakes and carved channels, boat-ways for inland couriers, and bridges as buildable structures — plus the map editor's water-level slider and profile refinements.

• 2026-09-12

  Production sounds, worker progress and Settlers research

  Every production building got a fitting sound and worker progress bars became toggleable. Detailed concept documents for Settlers II, III, IV and New Allies were added to guide the ruleset mixes.

• 2026-09-10

  Colony logistics and the Charring Kiln

  Sea colonies now receive generic settlers from the home colony. Added the Charring Kiln (Köhlerei) producing coal from logs.

• 2026-08-22

  Day one: first prompts, first lines of code

  The project started here: a pnpm monorepo, the plugin API, the triangular node map system and the first Three.js terrain renderer — followed the same day by the network protocol, the A* pathfinder, the transport system and the first buildings. Every feature on this site grew from that seed.