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Build a space station factory from one hex, and fight with real space physics.
Not enough plays yet to compare build 30 with build 29: it needs 10 sessions on each (build 30 has 0, build 29 has 0).
Versions 168 to 173: a new enemy look, a countdown before attacks, Mark II to IV, and Part One closes at Chapter 10 with an ending
d26c59e V168 step 1: a steady 4/s RTG, 6000 cores, the third ring from chapter 4, big jobs wait for power, Hope's warning (PLAN-v168.md items 1-4)16bbcfd V168 step 2: the store fills the whole hex from the bottom; module names only on hover, selected or very close in (PLAN-v168.md items 5 and 20)cadfeb6 V168 step 3: Delete removes at once with an Undo, build mode ends after one module, Change job any time (PLAN-v168.md items 6, 10, 11)7d05d40 V168 step 4: X on the drone's job in hand, the queue cards lose Next, "Tug iron" (PLAN-v168.md items 12 and 13)4f3054c V168 step 5: a maker keeps what a drone is on its way to fetch (PLAN-v168.md item 8)98d17ae V168 step 6: the dock holds a stock of rounds, the docked ship reloads at once and charges faster, its card says what it waits for (PLAN-v168.md items 9 and 17)6755c52 V168 step 7: one rule for tugged rocks, one held rock an ore, the label always says why (PLAN-v168.md items 14 and 15)6388e81 V168 step 8: the production panel and FULL / STARVED marks; auto-slow for big moments (PLAN-v168.md items 18 and 19)fa8cca7 V168 step 9: the enemy look, Kraig's pick B: one red family, a silhouette per role at true size, white-yellow warnings (PLAN-v168.md item 16)e4b1eb9 V168 step 10: an enemy shows what it carries, a power core or a relic (PLAN-v168.md E1)a0aa239 V168 step 11: a countdown before every attack; Hope names each new kind of machine (PLAN-v168.md E2)446878e V168 step 12: scavengers pull back hurt and come back with a friend; raiders go for the nearest turret (PLAN-v168.md E3)8337bf5 V168 step 13: one threat at a time before chapter 6; a fight summary card after each fight (PLAN-v168.md E4)0f28cca V168 step 14: Hope's new and changed lines recorded in read b (PLAN-v168.md items 1, 3, 4 and E2)d945323 V168 step 15: v168 (devlog entry, screenshots, CURRENT.md and both notes' status tables)ac12823 V169: VERSION 169, devlog entry with two images, CURRENT.md, the v168 notes' status table, PLAN-v169.md as built, screenshotsaa45788 V170: VERSION 170, devlog entry with two images, CURRENT.md, the v169 notes' status table, PLAN-v170.md as built, screenshots635f5c5 V171: drones that keep up, Mark II/III/IV station and ship, belts across empty cells (VERSION 171; devlog, CURRENT.md, PLAN-v171.md as built, the notes' table, screenshots in mockups/v171). Not published.bf6802e V173, Part One: an ending at chapter 10 and a guided first few minutes (VERSION 173; Kraig, Oct 23 2026: "Close it as Part One at chapter 10")2529752 V173: dist/driftworks.html rebuilt from 576c8e3 (build ID "v173 576c8e3 2026-10-23 23:23", no uncommitted changes)Versions 166 and 167: a cinematic intro, power in one tank, slower belts and one pool of station drones
59698af Ship's hold keeps its colours by item when full, with a blue outline (Kraig's v165 playtest note 1); notes owed from v164 logged41d5212 V166 intro: the cinematic opening (PLAYTEST-NOTES-v164.md notes 2-3, Claude's sketch v2, approved)d648eb9 V166 step 1: power in one tank, the start's few shards close by (Kraig's v165 playtest notes 3, 6's cause and 12)3649625 V166 step 2: held rocks where a turret reaches, an ore at zero mined to the last round, the label says why (Kraig's v165 playtest note 6)22d48d3 V166 step 3: slower belts, 0.4 items a second at Mark I (Kraig's v165 playtest note 2)71033b3 V166 step 4: the PDC as one line that bends like a hose, twice the hits at range, tougher targets (Kraig's v165 playtest note 4)b94da54 V166 step 5: the ship's bar shows what a trip will use; the recorder counts modules plainly (Kraig's v165 playtest notes 8 and 7)07a2920 V166 step 6: the cinematic intro merged (v166-intro, 41d5212), its labels apart, Hope's new lines voiced in Kraig's picksaee1a17 V166 step 7: the hex outline is the store, the icon lights as the item is made, no rings (Kraig's v164 playtest note 5, his pick 3)cc38eb1 V166 step 8: v166 (devlog entry, screenshots, CURRENT.md and the v165 notes' status table)a9d01a2 V167 step 9: one pool of station drones, one queue; tug runs from it; the Second drone research (Kraig's v165 playtest notes 11 and 10)4864bce V166.1 hotfix: a core signal when power runs out with no core to get, and an empty station crawls at 15% (Kraig's v166 playtest note 3)5dbfad9 V167 step 9b: belts at 0.25, 0.5, 1 and 2 items a second (Kraig's v165 playtest note 2, its follow-up)4bf55ed Merge hotfix-v166.1 (4864bce) into main for v167: the core signal and the RTG's 15% floor (Kraig's v166 playtest note 3)6e446e5 V167 step 10: the drones' queue as cards, bottom left (Kraig's v165 playtest note 9)57d5e72 V167 step 11: repair runs take packs for every hurt module nearby (Kraig's v165 playtest note 10)ed5b999 V167 step 12: v167 (devlog entry, screenshots, CURRENT.md and the v165 notes' status table)Versions 164 and 165: the name Solhex, Chapter 10, The heart of the wreck, and real fonts
bcd8507 Rename the game to Solhex (Kraig, Oct 21 2026: "rename the game"): logo SOLHEX, title, devlog game name and slug, publish to /solhex; play recording also on /solhex/playfe1713b V164: chapter 10, The heart of the wreck: the passage into the biggest wreck, the sister pod's seed vault, the chamber's seam and the gate core, attack drones that draw fire, the escape and the siege, the core read (Kraig: "Yes attack drones before siege. Build it and I'll play test after it's done"); devlog entry and chapter; build889f371 V164 build after merge39a3727 V164 build after merging launch25a8a7e V165: power cores as stored power, the "?" signal, a lighter opening, the minimal top bar, the x4 tip, the new logo and type (Kraig's v164 playtest notes 1, 4, 6-10)527d28e V165: the real fonts (Archivo, IBM Plex Mono, embedded offline, 65 KB), Hope's four new lines recorded, the hidden x4 tip no longer shows top-leftVersions 160 to 163: Kraig's playtest notes, Factorio-style belts, a new station design and a new station look
bd4d090 V160: Kraig's playtest notes (the dark start, slower early makers, Fed rings, orders leave at once, docked gun, scavenger reach, chapter 4 assault, loud pings, early drone logistics, tugs, pause screen, heat gauge, Hope's repeat); devlog entry; roadmap: the engineer stays a story threada413461 V161: Factorio belts, module rings, the calm top bar, job rows and ordered-job ghosts, ship repair packs and a slower free mend, slower Mark I belts, Hope's v2 script and voice; devlog entry; buildbde4097 V162: the station architecture (the dock holds only ore, 500 to 4000 of each; no storage bins; made items stay in their makers; belts 1/2/4/8 a second); the turret goal card no longer mentions an ammo storage; devlog entry; builda06482e V163: the new station look (Kraig's pick: clean industrial slabs, bold belts by product, a thin yellow power wire, his two circles, dots only for problems, names close in, a simple map far out); devlog entry; buildea938ba V163: a module with no job gets no status dot (its "?" says so; v162 made every old storage bin one), a data center with no research picked an amber dot, not red; devlog images re-shot; buildVersions 157 to 159: a speed and phone pass, a new working name (Hopewake), and Chapter 9, The alloy field
bdab0b3 Speed pass: the station's still layers, glow sprites, clipped big rings; the sim's module list cachedaa2cab6 Phone pass and the controls card631b321 Pacing pass: a lighter decode, quicker motors; GOAL= goal diagnostics in the test playerfcb9428 V157: the polish pass (merge polish): faster drawing and sim, phone layout fixes, the controls card, a light pacing touch on the decode and motors218a728 V158: renamed Hopewake (a working name; stored names stay); the slower Mark I on for Kraig's playtest (the test player measures at 1); the free-form test retired (tag freeform-test-2026-10-20)0618e89 Chapter 9, The alloy field: the ruin's outer part a field of solid wreck, alloy, plating, the drone bay, dormant machines6a35dd3 V159: chapter 9, The alloy field (devlog entry, build)Versions 154 to 156: Chapter 8, The crossing, and two new enemies, the swarm and the lancer
f976cb7 Chapter 8, The crossing: the liquefier, the gimballed engine on the edge, the move (turn, burn, coast and flip, brake), the chase, the new field and the gate-builder ruin302cdfe Merge branch 'ch8': chapter 8, the crossing (the liquefier and LOX, the engine on the edge, the turning station, the 14 km flip and burn, the chase, the ruin at arrival)f35fa33 V154: chapter 8, the crossing354eff0 Merge branch 'ammo': the dock holds no ammo, with chapter 8 (S.ov 24)2c0b9f3 V155: the dock holds no ammo (merge ammo): the drone ferries rounds to the ship, turrets fed by belt or drone; mk1Slow built, offa4f414b The swarm and the lancer: two new enemy units (chapter 7, chapter 8's chase, free play)572c4e9 V156: the swarm and the lancer (merge units)Versions 151 to 153: data card tiers, the carrier to kill, Hope re-recorded, and dragged belts on the hex grid
31f784c Data card tiers: basic, advanced and field cards; a data center's Mark is the tier it reads3eddaa9 The carrier fights until it's killed and chapter 6 needs it dead; Hope re-recorded on ElevenLabs Eleven v4; the build ships AAC voice and terser-minified code (11 MB to 4.3 MB); the old ch7 branch cleared192c153 Merge branch 'cards': three data card tiers (basic, advanced, field), data center Marks read up to their tier, a small store per tierb73a5f6 V151: card tiers, the carrier to kill, Hope on Eleven v4, AAC + minified build, the ammo-in-the-constructor hintf739e36 V152: the drone ferries ammo from a constructor to the docked shipe314b97 Hex, plus dragged belts: belts any distance (1 ore per 10 m, slower the longer), never through a module, crossing on a bridge; map labels without overlaps, merged missile and foe labels; one-time tips for Marks, storage, pipes and long belts4e5b29e Merge branch 'belts': hex plus dragged belts (any distance, cost and time by length, blocking, bridges), map label culling and merged missile labels, hints for Marks, storage, pipes, tugs and long belts5d06a3d V153: dragged belts on the hex grid, map label culling, first-time hintsVersions 146 to 150: tug drones, Chapter 7 (the field runs dry), and liquids and gases by pipe
3b75de0 Tug drones: the station's own drones push rocks in when the dock runs short (flip and burn, held in a turret's ring, chipped for the gravity well); Auto mining no longer opened by relics; S.ov 20; dist rebuilt161f084 V146: tug drones (merge tugs): the station pushes rocks home with flip and burn; the turrets chip them into the gravity welle645f84 Chapter 7, The field runs dry: the field gauge, the comet, the fuel chain, the course plotteda55ebcd V147: chapter 7, the field runs dry (merge ch7new): the field gauge, the comet, ice to water to oxygen to fuel cells, the course plotted202db53 V148: fluids (water, oxygen) go by pipe only, module to module, never the dock or the drone; pipes drawn as pipes; the bot's chapter 4 window 5-30 mine93411e V149: liquids and gases (water, oxygen): both by pipe; gas pipes thinner, in puffs7f0275a V150: storage holds any item, liquids and gases too (pipes to and from it)Versions 137 to 145: the sentinel's ambush, the storm attack, the carrier, and Mark II to IV upgrades
ec16fc3 V137: the sentinel is a red Unknown contact; the goal card's threat box no longer flickers9cb1101 V138: turret 10 rounds, half a round a second reload; rock impacts about twice the damage, a little tougher74402a2 V139: one log top left (Hope, alerts, updates, research done), hover to scroll; the research box shrinks with nothing to pickb66f1dc V140: the sentinel's ambush (two missile corvettes with salvos and a laser drone; Hope's line); drone logistics automatic, no switches75ff888 V141: a brief dust front in chapter 3, before the storms matter133854b V142: the drone mends small dents and works an aging queue; the recipe list folds once picked; the log loses its box, newest on top5a5a585 V143: Hope's line off the goal card (it's in the log, even silent); None available when there's no research00eaf77 V144: the storm attack (sensor contacts, then raiders and a striker out of the dust; Hope's two lines); a rock's direct hit knocks a module out from chapter 4; fewer range rings4b2d404 Isotope cores: 8 a second for 12 minutes of fuel (about the old core's power, spread longer); dist rebuilt4bd2f84 The carrier (great storm raid, wave 2: drones and three-missile salvos; Hope's line); two strikers a raid wave; rocks inbound carry the ore the dock is short of (from the turret goal); the drone patches a knocked-out module from ore when there's no pack0e5548b Merge branch 'marks': Mark II-IV per module and belt (speed and storage tracks), Tougher hulls as hull only, isotope cores as stacking fueled04192 V145: devlog (Marks, the carrier, ore-matched rocks, ore patches)Versions 125 to 136: the story (a title scene, the opening, 17 voiced logs), an order queue, and starting as the ship that places the dock
9d4d4d5 V125: panel subtitles wrap; the dock panel shows only what matters yet (power once the RTG wakes, Drop all with cargo, Fly home when away, the belt hint with a module)526f155 V126: Hope's voice lines queue instead of interrupting each otherf5405b7 Story batch: log fragments, the wreck salvage beat, the living title, the openingd116019 Merge main (v125, v126) into story6a5df07 Story batch: DESIGN.md section, LORE.md fragments list; Hope's voice stops for the opening5a86d36 V127: merge story (title scene, the opening, 17 voiced log fragments and the Logs list, wreck salvage); ammo belted to the dock until Drone logistics; iron plates in chapter 15e1d553 V128: the ship's order queue (Shift+right-click points, rocks and home; numbered stops on the map)b5a2d45 V129: a salvaged wreck's label fades a minute after salvagef86efae V130: the turret goal starts with a rock inbound (announced at once, ~4 min out); Hope's turret line re-recordedb079640 V131: Hope's terminal subtitle (her words type out top left as she speaks; machine logs in amber)ca1d86e V131: version stringd9c8b5c Build.py: VERSION comment back6022c74 Start as the ship: the pod alone, Place the dock (ghost, flight, the unfold), the sleeper in the dock, the dock's hull and the one game over, the lost ship rebuilt in the dock, the start spread out; Hope's 7 lines; docsa386679 V132: dock ammo stops at 40; turrets fire on owed power; the ship's gun all the way round69e3fcb Merge branch 'shipstart': start as the ship, place the dock, the sleeper, dock hull and game over, ship rebuild, iron spreaddfc75d0 Ship waits docked to top up battery and ammo before an order; auto mining no longer leaves half charged; the off-screen stuck marker is gone9ea1150 Research costs about twice the cards, tiered by importance: Vanguard signal 30, Solar power 40df29804 V136: the PDC and turret fire as a tracer spray; the goal card's Ping button works; v135's research costs; bot limit 120 minVersions 119 to 124: the dock's dying RTG, isotope cores from enemies, drone logistics, strikers with homing missiles and adaptive hints
50b57ab The dock's 60 battery, pings that charge from the station, the Long-range array finds the silicon, the gravity well is research, a net power chipb5ccdc9 V119: merge power-sense (a 60 dock battery, pings that charge from station power, the Long-range array finds the silicon, the gravity well is research, the power chip is charge + net); the share of the station's use fixedfa11cc0 Sight from the dock: 400 m alone, 1.2 km with a working sensor (1.5 km with the array); rocks inbound and enemies show and are announced only once seen, with faded last-seen marks; the guns track only what's seen15734c4 V120: merge sight (the dock sees 400 m, a sensor 1.2 km, the array 1.5 km; nothing live outside sight; rocks inbound announced when seen)49cd7bb The dock's dying RTG: burners retired, isotope cores (guard, patrol, sentinel, scavengers, five wrecks a map), the module switch, S.ov 17a9b9790 V121: merge rtg (burners retired; the dock's dying RTG; isotope cores from the guard, patrol, sentinel, scavengers and five wrecks; module on/off)295e4f7 Drone logistics: a chapter 5 research; Drone supply switches per item input (never ore); the drone fetches one at a time, slowly, last in its queue; bubbles on the map; the test player's circuit wire by dronedbb5e60 V122: merge dronelog (Drone logistics: per-input supply switches, one item a trip at half speed, last in the drone's queue)8cea339 Strikers: a gate-builder machine that hangs back 300 m, fires one slow homing missile at the station or the ship and runs; the PDC and turrets shoot missiles first; MISSILE INBOUND marker, whine and Hope's line; one with the chapter 4 patrol, half of chapter 5's encounters, one per chapter 6 raid wave; invariants 28; scenes missile, mslpdc, strikerrunb02b8be V123: merge strikers (one homing missile each, PDC and turrets shoot missiles first; in the ch4 patrol, ch5 encounters and ch6 raid waves)18510be Lightning round: 6 wafers, an earlier first brownout, adaptive hints (chapters 1-3), Expanse-style missiles with a fuel budget, Hope voices every goal07589ac V124: merge honing (adaptive hints ch1-3; missiles with a fuel budget and blast; Hope voices every goal; wafers 6; first brownout late ch2)Versions 104 to 118: Hope as the ship AI's voice, ambient music, smooth motion, and combat and station power you can see
9fd644b V104: Hope is the ship AI's voice through chapter 2 and the guard's lines (Kraig: pick one)add286d V105: ambient music pieces that come and go (Kraig: Minecraft, Homeworld)37d69ef V106: smooth motion at x1, blending moving things between sim ticks when drawing (Kraig)cecc23a V107: the AI voice fades in and out, crossfades when interrupted, with a faint room tail (Kraig)d53b9d6 V108: the goal card opens on a click, not on hover, so its button stays put (Kraig)af952c2 V110: close combat you can see (PDC 200 m, enemy weapons scaled, the PDC ring always shown while selected, the pull field labelled); v109: the relic drifts where it fell1559ae8 V111: the station's power you can see (pulses along the beams, module rims, the station's use); STATION and SHIP labels select them, the home button gone1aff642 V112: the PDC ring fades in only with a threat near (an enemy or an incoming rock) or while firing4c3db25 V113: one support rail and one thin power line; the pulses only on the line, fainter091e3b1 V114: the station's pull field (only what the dock can take); the PDC fires at anything in its ring, ranges x0.8 (PDC 160 m); the power chip reads made / used855dea6 V115: the research card holds still (fixed rows, hover for details, Change research always there and opens upward with a Researched drop-down)49b0cea V116: the turret and the ship's PDC barrel turn toward the next target before firing (the turret fires only once lined up)a76622a V117: recipe rows at a glance (icons for the recipe and the switch cost, one line each, a hover card)196019d V118: the drone holds its heading while it works (no spinning on its module); a steady mending glowVersions 102 and 103: steel, circuits and motors, research upgrades, a bigger map and threats in chapters 4 to 6
2449c87 Step 4: the parts, upgrades in place and the factory balance (tests, scenes, DESIGN.md)1aeafed V102: step 4 (steel, circuit, motor; research upgrades in place with ranks) and the factory balance pass581ea8f Step 5: the bigger map and the threats in chapters 4-6 (patrol, sentinel, storm raid)33f9b87 V103: step 5, the bigger map and the threats in chapters 4-6 (patrol, sentinel, storm raid); no auto-speedVersion 101, the defence update: hulls, repairs, incoming rocks, a turret and encounters
798a9da Step 3, the defence update: hulls, repair packs, storm damage and the shield, rocks coming in, the turret, encounters, relics, station heat, chapter 4's beat, the idle hint389f11b V101: merge step 3, the defence update (hulls, repairs, incoming rocks, turret, encounters, relics, storm shield, station heat, idle hint)Version 100: the copper ambush and close combat with the ship's point defense
024139e Step 2: the copper ambush, close combat with the PDC, lasers and the hit model, mining taps, honest flight1beb478 V100: merge step 2 (copper guard, PDC combat, lasers, mining taps, honest flight); mining at twice the old rate; ch4 window 5-25Versions 81 to 99: sight, drifting rocks and the sensor ping, a new ship on an electric drive, brownouts and a power bar
7bdbdd8 V81: the ship's on-map cargo bar in its items' colours (Kraig)b3c05e1 V82: the researched list only while picking research (Kraig)f31a0c4 V83: auto mining leaves with cargo the full dock can't take, to fetch what the station needs (Kraig's playtest)436d7c7 V84: an alert when the ship is stuck at a full dock, with a button to drop just the stuck cargo (Kraig)40c1d47 Sight, drifting rocks and the sensor ping (Kraig's plan, Oct 18 2026)862b99a Merge sensor-ping: sight, drifting rocks and the sensor ping (step 1)286d444 V85-86: step 1 live (drift, sight, ping); auto mine shows its next ore (Kraig)287807e V87: the new ship (Kraig picked option 1, nose rounded, no antenna lines) on an electric drive; tracers from the PDC mount626bf04 V88: iron ore is Fe ore (the bar stays iron) (Kraig)1370931 V89: belts pick a module's recipe when only one fits; unaffordable recipes read as orders; construction first (Kraig's playtest)793fdd7 V90: the bottom toolbar dims until hovered (Kraig)86f14e9 V91: low and no station power: browned-out modules, a pulsing dock and power chip, and an alert with the fix (Kraig)878cf1e V92: Q places the copied setup; paste onto unbuilt blueprints; 'ordered' label (Kraig)9dd7247 V93: Efficient drive, a chapter 5 research: burns cost 20% less battery (Kraig)989cb60 V94: a lighter storm veil that scales with how dark the storm is (Kraig)e914a41 V95: no belt logs on module and dock panels (Kraig)8f138e7 V96: the power bar shows supply vs demand in green/yellow/red, with a charge line once batteries exist (Kraig)a7704cd V97: no speed toasts; the paused/x4 indicator at the bottom (Kraig)f4f89a2 V98: the title's Continue text no longer runs under the Enter hint (Kraig)24d7594 V99: from Kraig's full playthrough: signal decode 20 cards (was 30); pointer capture can't throwVersions 75 to 80: research you can read, and a first test of the ship AI's voice
e10d6e8 V75: research progress to a tenth of a card; data centers show the card being read (Kraig picked 2)abe396b V76: no zoom buttons (Kraig)3da10e5 V77: the Items tip shows totals only (Kraig)2e48ee6 V78: Mergers and Splitters are offered from chapter 5 (Kraig)6bf9411 V79: modules show what they make, their type as a corner badge (Kraig's plan)e61c37f V80: a test of the ship AI's voice on the first three goals (Insight and Hope, Settings > AI voice)Versions 62 to 74: playtests recorded from the public page, music for each chapter, the ship's range outline and many small fixes
828b5ca Dist: rebuild v61 with the Phase 0 save and crash changes31906d9 V62: an ammo constructor holds two jobs' worth, so a partial load never stalls it (Kraig's playtest)7a18c98 V63: snap crumbs left by sliver loads to 0; the room check allows for rounding (Kraig's playtest)36080d5 V64: the public play page records playtests to kraigadams.com (strangers' feedback); feedback prompts; test/pull_playtests.pybbdace8 V65: a Build button in the toolbar; the sensor goal offers Place module (Kraig's playtest)4c87311 V66: each chapter opens with its own music phrase and its name fading in and out (Kraig)ada1659 V67: out, the frigate's outline is its range from here on its battery; the label says if it gets home (Kraig)0c6442f V68: the ship's hold bar in its items' colours; frigate is ship in all player text (Kraig)ca05a86 V69: the station bar keeps only the base ores; one Items chip lists the rest on hover (Kraig)add5acb V70: the STARHEX wordmark is the menu button (Kraig)b70b385 V71: the screen dims under a chapter's title (Kraig)645ad1a V72: research info cards on hover; Mergers and Splitters are two 20-card researches (Kraig)087817b V73: drag-select again (ship only when it's in the box), right/middle-drag pans; Auto mining stands alone (Kraig)9c2653a V74: research-done message shorter and up for 9 s (Kraig); devlog times correctedVersions 60 and 61: a title screen, menus and settings, then a first combat test
1560106 Interface pass: title screen, pause menu, settings, how to play, one icon set, panel headers, button kinds7c6c08e V60: the interface pass (title, menu, settings, icons, panels, buttons); DESIGN and devlog677bc05 V60: dist rebuilt on main7710422 V61: a combat test: one hostile drone off to the side, the frigate's hull, the chaingun fights backa2db825 V61: dist rebuilt on combat7d774c3 V61: the combat test on mainChapter 6, Storm season: station batteries, storms that grow and the great storm; colours by production chain
667491e Chapter 6, Storm season: Station batteries, battery modules, the reserve, storms that grow, the great storm6587e5f V58: chapter 6 checks, the test player through chapter 6, DESIGN log and devlog entry1c1b3ab V58: Chapter 6 · Storm season on main; devlog current9b201c9 Visual pass: colours by production chain, modules tinted by what they make, a glyph per job, animated modules, belts, engine plume and RCS puffs (v59)b9699f5 Dist: v59 buildcfe578e V59: dist rebuilt on mainChapter 5, Sunlight: the near iron runs dry, solar power, silicon from far out, and a build drone that stays home
3bf7c05 Chapter 5 · Sunlight (v49): research Solar power and its long-range scan, the long-range battery and the relay's draw, hard silicon, power-hungry wafers, solar panels, running on solar alone, dust storms; the done card, interface, drawing, checks and the DESIGN logeefcd21 Dist: the v49 build8bb6c01 Devlog: v48 (the chaingun) and v49 (Chapter 5 · Sunlight); dist rebuilt91d2613 V50: the frigate reloads ammo from anywhere on the station (Kraig's playtest: "amno isn't loading into the frigate")19d5146 V51: the build drone lives at the station and builds while the frigate is out (Kraig, Oct 18 2026)6a6988a V52: the chaingun fires at its target rock while flying in; the dock's emergency cell ends a dark-station dead end (Kraig's playtest notes)a65c216 V53: a job with one recipe picks it; unset belts with one fitting item set themselves (Kraig's playtest)3dbf67e V54: the ammo store holds exactly one ore run (Kraig's playtest note)2be73e5 V55: research off the top bar, finished research on the card, cheapest first (Kraig's playtest note)a97018d V56: a mouse drag pans the view; no selection box (Kraig's playtest note)e311ef9 V57: from his playtest: ammo goal 10, a warning when research is starved of cards, richer recordingVersions 47 and 48: pacing, sound, and the chaingun with a pull field
b2c1303 V47 (part): pacing measure, recorder pace and play-time fix, test/pacing.js report; mining tuned to the station (laser, drone, hold 42)952426b V47: juice (sweep, belt, research and warning sounds; belt flash; rings for builds, research, goals, chapters, upgrades)3f88fb4 Chaingun (part): loose chunks, pull field, chaingun bursts with ammo, ammo recipe and dock refill, new chapter 1 goals, v4 save migration; render, sound and UIa710bd9 V48: the chaingun. Pull field and loose chunks tuned, chaingun checks (pull, full hold, no ammo, bursts, ammo made and loaded, haul loop, v4 saves), the test player on the new chapter 1, scenes, goal hints, DESIGN.mda71e159 Merge v47 (pacing, juice) into the chaingun branch; battery 72 / 145 for the chaingun's all-flight copper tripFirst full run: a new name (Starhex), support beams, a sensor, research that eats data cards and ship upgrades by research
4cb786b Rename the game Starhex (was Driftworks): page title, devlog name and address, notes; stored names unchangedb7b807c V36: support beams between touching modules (Kraig's playtest note); STARHEX wordmarkab3861a V37: copper hidden until a chapter 2 sensor; frigate round-trip reach outline (Kraig's playtest notes)dfbb189 V38: Q makes a buildable ghost of the module under the cursor, setup included (Kraig's playtest note)77f1058 V39: bigger battery 135, just one copper round trip (Kraig's playtest note)e7499b8 V40: steady top bar with live hover details (Kraig's playtest note); clamp battery over the new cap on loade138912 V41: the frigate docks over the dock's centre; all six sides free to build (Kraig's playtest note)01bcd1c V42: Drop inventory on every module and the dock; the frigate's button renamed (Kraig's playtest note)1174f10 V43: a module's job is fixed once picked; the job list hides (Kraig's playtest note)6a72f38 Extra smelters and constructors cost 3 plates, like burners (Kraig, Oct 18 2026)d7f186c V44: ship upgrades are research (base battery 110 reaches copper), copper only via the sensor, auto mining research, extra smelters/constructors cost 3 plates (Kraig's playtest notes)b88be92 V45: research eats data cards at the data centers; the lab and compute are gone; chapter 3 ends with the first research (Kraig's design note)c79b6db V46: polish batch (research chip, pick-next toast, half refunds, short goal cards, drag belts) and pacing (copper closer, battery 100, cheaper data center, 30-card signal)Versions 34 and 35: Chapter 4, Signal. Decode a signal from the vanguard and keep the station powered
c4cf09e Rebuild dist (v34 bot, build 68d87c5); devlog draft entry for v34, awaiting Kraig's approval6eae07e Rebuild dist (v34, build fc09dd0); devlog draft entry updated for fair shares and orders, still awaiting Kraig's approval5a2f35f Dist stamped from a clean fc09dd0 (no + mark)07589ba Build v35: dist/driftworks.html (chapters 1-4)Chapter 3, Compute: data cards, the data center, heat and radiators, chained burners
1db693e Driftworks chapter 3, research: data cards, the AI data center and its radiator, mergers and splitters, bigger storesaf69763 World sounds fade with distance from the camera; the frigate docks and arrives on its own heading, no final spin0142ba7 Driftworks chapter 3 · Compute: heat per data center and automatic heat links, chained burners, compute stored per data center, the lab and research card, even brownouts, job costs, zoom-based module detail, a factory hum592e7bf Group select (shift-click, box), group move with 60° turns, remove with full refund, copy/paste setups, blueprints built in the order placed, full dock keeps cargo aboard, drop cargo from the frigate panel, copper-trip station task (Kraig, Oct 16 2026)bf16c67 Rebuild distDocking with thrusters, and Chapter 2: the copper line
67bdfa8 Chapter 2 copper line (copper smelting, copper wire), chapter-complete momentf13c592 Driftworks chapter 1 lock-in: upgrades move to chapter 2, reveal as taught, AI line per goal, per-chapter counter, Rocinante frigate0df64a3 Chapter 1 ends at the first plates; the copper run opens chapter 2 after the upgrades4f36e7a Driftworks chapter 2: copper and wire in the top bar, edge marker to copper during the run402d75e Simpler, smoother Rocinante; pick a blueprint belt's item aheadecafdee No power stalemate (station starts at 200, docked drone work is free); goal 7 is make 100 power518826e Goal 3 completes on the first unload (the shuttle could leave before the old check saw it)12a0bd0 Auto mode waits for enough charge for the whole sortie; manual orders warn when the battery looks short8639527 Starting battery 80 reaches iron but not copper; the bigger battery is what opens the copper fieldBelts, jobs and recipes: belts between touching modules, every module starts empty, and background music
1aa8df4 Neutral modules you give a job; belts between touching hexes, 2 per side, set by hand (direction + item); belt hexes removed29aa619 Belts start pointing from selected to target (R flips), one per side, goal 8 is produce 10 iron, modules hold 10 output, upgrades cost platesb333802 Belts carry what their ends imply (no item picking), with the reason when nothing fitsfdf62d1 Chapter 1 refreshed (nothing goes back to the dock; upgrades take from module stores); belts drawn as centred tubes with items inside509ebc1 Background music (V1's generative score), design pass (dock, job tints, meters, goal card, panels)3d631ef Belts start empty; you pick the item from only the options that fitc678399 Belt blueprints build themselves when they can; jobs and belt items can be picked ahead3a4918d Modules need a recipe you pick, only real options offered; thrusters for short hops, corrections and smooth dock and rock arrivalsBuilding the station: start with just the core, a locked hex grid round the dock, and belts as hexes
bdc63f3 Start with just the core, dock side-on, build modules and link them with belts06ef3be Auto-hauling off for now (a later upgrade); you fly every tripa25e5a5 Move modules; belts stretch live and detach past 120 m0c0a4fa Locked hex grid with placeholder cells; the core is now the dock77db79d Belts are hexes, buildings hand items to what they touch, build adjacent only, grid only while building, the constructor makes iron plates9c834ad A rock order shuttles to that one rock until it's mined out, then waits dockedControls like an RTS: a free camera, select and right-click orders, a harvester loop, pause and 4x speed
0d6b86c Free god-mode camera (WASD/arrows pan, no follow, no Home/Frigate views)89720b4 No start card or menu; New game works (two taps, no blocked confirm dialog)e3a4601 RTS controls (click or box-select the frigate, right-click to send it, click empty space to deselect)bad8776 Harvester loop (a rock order keeps hauling until another order), Esc deselects3c34afc Space pauses, F toggles x1/x4, no jump-to-ship keyWave 1, as Driftworks: fly out, mine iron, haul it home and wake a derelict's burner and smelter; iron buys a bigger hold, then copper
7d6378a Driftworks wave 1: a bare-bones playable test of the station and frigate loopca7f8ef Chapter 2: iron buys a bigger hold and battery, then haul copper from the far fieldMeasured by the ShipGames recorder in every build: anonymous, no names or cookies. A session counts once the player presses something; bots and rapid repeat plays are left out.
Tug drones, pipes, the crossing and the alloy field, under two more names, Hopewake and then Solhex. Chapter 10 reached the heart of the wreck. After two more rounds of playtest notes, Solhex closed as Part One at Chapter 10, with an ending and a guided first few minutes.
A long run of small fixes from Kraig's notes, then the copper ambush and close combat, hulls and repairs, the ship AI's voice (Hope), the dock's dying RTG, homing missiles, a title scene with voiced logs, and starting as the ship that places the dock.
Compute, then Chapter 4's signal. Kraig played chapters 1 to 4 end to end and sent notes as he went. The game got a new name, Starhex, a sensor, research that eats data cards, the chaingun, solar power, storms, and a title screen.
On Jumpgate's second day Kraig rethought the moving factory: one home that stays put and a frigate that flies out to mine and haul. It got its own name, Driftworks, and a first playable ten minutes later. Then RTS controls, a hex station built from just the core, belts, jobs, recipes, and a copper line.
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