https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog Development log for StoonGame : Ember Worlds — a free browser-based multiplayer colony-building game. en https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-24 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every gameplay, balance and ops tunable moved into versioned config tables shared by client, server and headless sims — one precedence rule (env > ruleset > table > fallback), gated by behaviour-fingerprint diffs. The net-resilience pass shipped: joins retry on flaky links, terrain builds off the main thread (a 256² map join dropped 2.5 s → 4 ms of main-thread work), congested sockets get a resync valve, and map fingerprints stop same-seed collisions. The forum got an outage-proof replica on Cloudflare Pages + D1, so it keeps working even when the game servers are down. And a new animation/FX framework landed its first slices — the woodcutter finally swings his axe on screen. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-23 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT StoonGame crossed the home-network boundary: stoongame.com plus play./hub./node. are live through a Cloudflare Tunnel to a home Mac mini — the first time the game was served to the public internet. A net-experience campaign then followed the bytes: ambient animal updates now ride a 5 Hz cadence (~75% smaller), the join-time map baseline is built once per room instead of per player (23.6→0.6 ms per join), and map loading dropped from 4.4 to 2.6 s. Static bundles are prepped for Cloudflare Pages so even the download leaves the home uplink alone. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-22 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT A whole-day campaign ran the full stack — unit suites, browser e2e across device profiles, headless AI matches, a real-player session probe and a docker multi-node mesh. It caught — and fixed — an AI caravan retry loop, a recurring 40-tick analysis spike, and out-of-reach expedition targets (now bounded, with a reach ring in the UI). https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-20 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-18 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-17 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-16 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-15 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-12 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-09-10 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sea colonies now receive generic settlers from the home colony. Added the Charring Kiln (Köhlerei) producing coal from logs. https://stoongame.com/forum.html#devlog devlog-2026-08-22 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT 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.