Homestake v1.4.0 — HOMESTAKE - CHANGELOG

HOMESTAKE - CHANGELOG
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HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.4.0
Release Date: October 22, 2026
SOLO EDITION AND FIRST PORTAL PACKAGE

ADDED / CHANGED
- Packaged to the Tronsoft Games Package Specification v1.6.7 as a solo game (game_type "solo", one human player, three computer settlers).
- Setup now offers one human seat; the other three seats are computer settlers with a skill choice each (Cadet, Staff or Ace; Staff by default).
- The verdict screen now states Victory or Defeat and your finishing place.
- The advisor now weighs your food and power when it ranks open plots, as the computer settlers do: a player who followed its grant picks went hungry on 12% of turns, now 2%.
- The advisor now names plots worth surveying for crystite (marked ? on the map). In testing, a player who follows the advisor card wins about 8 games in 10 against Staff opponents and about 1 in 3 against Ace.
- Computer settlers survey for crystite before chasing a skree bounty, which makes every level stronger (Ace now beats Staff in about 83% of games).
- The computer settlers moved into their own script (js/ai.js) and sound into js/sound.js.
- Charter records are dated in local time.

SAVE COMPATIBILITY / BREAKING CHANGES
- Hot-seat play (several humans sharing one screen) is removed: specification v1.6.7 does not allow a hot-seat game to be published as solo. Saves from 1.3.x resume with their first human settler; the other human seats are played by Staff-level computer settlers and the colony log names them.

KNOWN ISSUES
- All sound is synthesised in the browser; some browsers stay silent until the first click or key press.
- Saves are kept in this browser only.

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HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.3.1
Release Date: October 22, 2026
REVIEW FIXES

ADDED / CHANGED
- The depot keeps food and energy in stock: surplus spoils only after the market, and computer settlers sell surplus to the depot.
- Computer settlers plan land and drays around their own food and power (hungry turns fell from 45% to 2%).
- Computer bidders never bid above a plot's value to them.
- New game can be cancelled and pauses the game; How to play pauses the trading floor; Ctrl and Cmd shortcuts are left to the browser; keyboard plot cursor; charter records no longer duplicate on resume.

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HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.3.0
Release Date: October 22, 2026
LAND MARKET, ANIMATION AND ADVISOR

ADDED / CHANGED
- Any settler may list a plot for the next land auction.
- Settlers visibly lead drays out; computer turns play step by step; production results appear hex by hex.
- Advisor card, pace and motion settings, plot highlighting from the settler list.

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HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.2.0
Release Date: October 21, 2026
THE TRADING FLOOR

ADDED / CHANGED
- Live auction for every good, with the sealed-order market kept as an option.
- Skree bounties, fortunes chart, colony outlook and charter records.

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HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.1.0
Release Date: October 21, 2026
HEX MAP

ADDED / CHANGED
- The map of Vesh is ruled in hexes; walking and neighbour bonuses use hex distance.

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HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.0.0
Release Date: October 21, 2026
INITIAL RELEASE

ADDED / CHANGED
- Initial release as a single HTML file.