What’s new in Homestake v1.6.0
HOMESTAKE - CHANGELOG
Entries from every release are preserved, newest first.
HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.6.0
Release Date: October 22, 2026
COLONY COMMAND AND PLANNING UPDATE
ADDED / CHANGED
- Personal cash, net worth and resource dashboard with forecasts tied to the current phase.
- Stored-energy warnings and estimated production guidance; future energy output is not treated as power for the same harvest.
- Colony progress toward the final charter survival target.
- Persistent selected plots and select-then-confirm free land claims.
- Food, Energy, Smithore and Crystite yield layers plus My claims. Unknown crystite deposits remain hidden until assayed.
- A checked one-step dray planner for empty owned plots, showing full cash/time costs, estimated yield and power warnings. It executes the normal purchase/outfit/install sequence without discounts or partial purchases on rejection.
- Manual dray controls remain; carried drays install or swap through the selected plot's explicit action. An explicit Survey selected plot action assays unknown land when no dray is being led.
- Buy shortfall and Sell surplus market presets, reserve/estimated-spend guidance, a visible auction countdown and keyboard-accessible price nudges.
- JSON charter export and cover-screen restore with a preview and explicit replacement confirmation.
- Native browser Full screen control.
- Revised tutorial, README and two-page manual update guide; the original eight core rules pages are preserved.
FIXED
- Successful development actions are saved immediately instead of waiting for a later phase change.
- Live-auction progress is checkpointed periodically; pending market orders and land bids are included in saves.
- Save failures are visible rather than silently reported as success.
- Selected-plot information remains available when the pointer moves to the side panels.
COMPATIBILITY
- Retains the existing tronsoft_homestake save namespace and supports earlier solo saves through migration.
- One human player and three computer settlers, with the same economic rules, costs, skill choices and scoring.
- The illustrated version 1.5.0 cover and portal artwork are retained.
- Autosaves remain local to this browser; JSON files support manual backup and transfer.
- Starting a new charter or confirming a restore replaces the current browser save. Cancelling setup or a restore preview leaves it intact.
INSTALLATION
Upload homestake-v1.6.0.zip through the Tronsoft Games administrator publishing interface as the existing solo Homestake game.
HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.5.0
Release Date: October 22, 2026
FRONTIER COVER AND OPENING-SCREEN UPDATE
ADDED / CHANGED
- Illustrated title screen with live title/version text and a warm copper-and-teal frontier landscape.
- Start new charter and Continue charter actions, with saved-charter status.
- Direct How to play and Field manual links.
- Return to cover from the Game controls saves and pauses the current charter, including AI turns and live-market timers. Continuing in the same session preserves pending bids and orders.
- Responsive opening screen, visible keyboard focus, isolated background controls and safe setup cancellation.
- Malformed saved data leaves the cover usable and is preserved until a player explicitly starts a replacement charter.
- New 600 x 900 portal cover, 1920 x 620 banner and 1920 x 1080 opening artwork.
- Updated tutorial, README, credits and manual opening-screen guide.
SAVE COMPATIBILITY
- The tronsoft_homestake save namespace and 1.4 save format are retained.
- Existing version 1.4.0 solo saves are supported. Core economic rules are unchanged.
- Land the colony starts a replacement save; opening or cancelling setup alone does not.
INSTALLATION
Upload homestake-v1.5.0.zip through the Tronsoft Games administrator publishing interface as the existing solo Homestake game.
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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.
Entries from every release are preserved, newest first.
HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.6.0
Release Date: October 22, 2026
COLONY COMMAND AND PLANNING UPDATE
ADDED / CHANGED
- Personal cash, net worth and resource dashboard with forecasts tied to the current phase.
- Stored-energy warnings and estimated production guidance; future energy output is not treated as power for the same harvest.
- Colony progress toward the final charter survival target.
- Persistent selected plots and select-then-confirm free land claims.
- Food, Energy, Smithore and Crystite yield layers plus My claims. Unknown crystite deposits remain hidden until assayed.
- A checked one-step dray planner for empty owned plots, showing full cash/time costs, estimated yield and power warnings. It executes the normal purchase/outfit/install sequence without discounts or partial purchases on rejection.
- Manual dray controls remain; carried drays install or swap through the selected plot's explicit action. An explicit Survey selected plot action assays unknown land when no dray is being led.
- Buy shortfall and Sell surplus market presets, reserve/estimated-spend guidance, a visible auction countdown and keyboard-accessible price nudges.
- JSON charter export and cover-screen restore with a preview and explicit replacement confirmation.
- Native browser Full screen control.
- Revised tutorial, README and two-page manual update guide; the original eight core rules pages are preserved.
FIXED
- Successful development actions are saved immediately instead of waiting for a later phase change.
- Live-auction progress is checkpointed periodically; pending market orders and land bids are included in saves.
- Save failures are visible rather than silently reported as success.
- Selected-plot information remains available when the pointer moves to the side panels.
COMPATIBILITY
- Retains the existing tronsoft_homestake save namespace and supports earlier solo saves through migration.
- One human player and three computer settlers, with the same economic rules, costs, skill choices and scoring.
- The illustrated version 1.5.0 cover and portal artwork are retained.
- Autosaves remain local to this browser; JSON files support manual backup and transfer.
- Starting a new charter or confirming a restore replaces the current browser save. Cancelling setup or a restore preview leaves it intact.
INSTALLATION
Upload homestake-v1.6.0.zip through the Tronsoft Games administrator publishing interface as the existing solo Homestake game.
HOMESTAKE
VERSION 1.5.0
Release Date: October 22, 2026
FRONTIER COVER AND OPENING-SCREEN UPDATE
ADDED / CHANGED
- Illustrated title screen with live title/version text and a warm copper-and-teal frontier landscape.
- Start new charter and Continue charter actions, with saved-charter status.
- Direct How to play and Field manual links.
- Return to cover from the Game controls saves and pauses the current charter, including AI turns and live-market timers. Continuing in the same session preserves pending bids and orders.
- Responsive opening screen, visible keyboard focus, isolated background controls and safe setup cancellation.
- Malformed saved data leaves the cover usable and is preserved until a player explicitly starts a replacement charter.
- New 600 x 900 portal cover, 1920 x 620 banner and 1920 x 1080 opening artwork.
- Updated tutorial, README, credits and manual opening-screen guide.
SAVE COMPATIBILITY
- The tronsoft_homestake save namespace and 1.4 save format are retained.
- Existing version 1.4.0 solo saves are supported. Core economic rules are unchanged.
- Land the colony starts a replacement save; opening or cancelling setup alone does not.
INSTALLATION
Upload homestake-v1.5.0.zip through the Tronsoft Games administrator publishing interface as the existing solo Homestake game.
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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.
----------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------
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.
----------------------------------------
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.
- Genre
- Game
- Developer
- Tronsoft Games
- Engine
- Standard
- Version
- 1.6.0
