Changelog

Version: 2.1.0
Date: 2026-08-04
  Arena Scaling, Nauvis and Spectator Hotfix:
    - Uses 25x25 chunks for 2-3 Kingdoms, 50x50 for 4-7, 75x75 for 8-9 and 100x100 for 10 Kingdoms; Core radius and finite chunk bounds scale safely with the selected size.
    - Uses the canonical Nauvis space-location map-generation settings instead of mutable scenario defaults, preventing mixed off-planet terrain and entities in Native Nauvis arenas.
    - Extends normal play and base building to 120 minutes before the existing 60-minute Sudden Death phase; the leaderboard tiebreak now occurs at 180 minutes.
    - Replaces fixed spectator observers with a dynamic full-arena grid so spectators retain continuous live vision at every supported arena size.
    - Disables peaceful mode while retaining no-enemies mode, moves bridge turrets closer to each bridge and keeps them active so scripted enemy defences engage Kingdom players immediately.
  Gameplay and Testing Polish:
    - Moves the enemy bridge gun turrets inside the central circle and explicitly configures enemy-to-Kingdom hostility so they attack without waiting to be provoked.
    - Stops every Kingdom path at the front edge of its Core instead of continuing underneath and behind it.
    - Replaces the Sudden Death time-block composition with exact waves: 10 attackers at wave 1, +2 per wave through wave 13, 40 at wave 14, then +4 per overtime wave.
    - Uses small units for waves 1–5, medium for 6–10, big for 11–13 and behemoths from wave 14 onward; overtime also increases enemy attack damage/speed and shortens intervals to a safe minimum.
    - Spawns Sudden Death attackers inside the central circle on each Kingdom lane.
    - Gives oil wells deterministic fair yields between 600% and 2000%, never below their existing planned minimum.
    - Removes the legacy extra two burner drills and two stone furnaces so players receive exactly ten of each.
    - Marks Electronics, Steam Power and Automation Science Pack research complete for every force.
    - Adds an administrator-only 1–9 enemy-Kingdom slider after the administrator creates their own Kingdom, enabling 2–10 Kingdom arena tests.
  Leaderboard and Information Polish:
    - Places Biter Kills directly between Score and Power and refreshes active-round standings every five minutes.
    - Aligns Victory headers and rows in one compact scrollable table and removes the visible Kingdom column.
    - Updates the mod description, Mod Info and Server Info to document the current temporary native-sector round system.
  Native Planet Arenas:
    - Uses native planet map generation while disabling native cliffs, resources and enemies before surface generation; native trees, rocks, plants, ruins and decoratives remain.
    - Reduces Aquilo ocean coverage and supplies all Kingdom Core positions as native starting points so its sectors contain broad buildable snow and ice terrain.
    - Adds an irregular local land rescue around Fulgora and Aquilo Cores that only replaces liquid tiles, preventing Cores from spawning in oil or ammoniacal ocean.
    - Keeps Fulgora oil-ocean barriers around the central circle and between sectors while preserving every Kingdom path and bridge.
    - Accelerates chunk requests, tile overlays and resource placement, and replaces technical generation-stage text with one 0-100 percent loading indicator.
    - Removed per-chunk deletion of native resources, enemy units, enemy turrets and cliffs.
    - Keeps resource autoplace-control noise values finite while disabling resource entities through direct probability overrides, preventing Space Age decorative SpotNoise compilation crashes.
  Balanced Resource Bands:
    - Replaces randomly distanced outer resources with four deterministic progression bands per Kingdom sector.
    - Replaces oval outer deposits with deterministic multi-lobed natural patch shapes while keeping identical geometry and richness for every Kingdom.
    - Adds two Scrap patches per Kingdom on Fulgora, plus two Tungsten ore and two Calcite patches per Kingdom on Vulcanus when those Space Age resources exist.
    - Every Kingdom receives exactly three iron, three copper, three stone, two coal and two uranium patches plus three crude-oil clusters outside the classic 499K start fields.
    - Uses identical patch geometry, richness and oil percentages for every Kingdom; only local positions vary to fit the native sector terrain.
    - Uses proportional bands on 50x50 arenas and targets the requested 10/20/30/40-chunk progression on 100x100 arenas while preserving safe sector spacing.
  Fair Round Teams and Arena Size:
    - Supports 2 to 10 Kingdoms with exactly equal team sizes: all Kingdoms contain either one player or two players.
    - Allows odd totals such as 1v1v1 while rejecting uneven matches such as 2v1.
    - Uses 50x50 chunks for up to five Kingdoms and 100x100 chunks from six Kingdoms onward.
  Rules and Lobby Experience:
    - Requires every player to read and accept the Nexus information and server rules before creating, joining or readying a Kingdom.
    - Reuses the Nexus information-window structure with scrollable sections, explicit confirmation and persisted per-player acceptance.
    - Restyles Kingdom creation, color selection, previews and the Kingdom roster in the gold Nexus leaderboard presentation.
  Starter Loadout:
    - Keeps the pistol, 20 firearm magazines and light armor.
    - Adds 10 burner mining drills and 10 stone furnaces per player.
  Native Kingdom Sectors:
    - Divides every round into equal angular Kingdom sectors, with biome-specific water or lava borders running from the central arena moat to the map edge.
    - Keeps one curved Core-to-centre route inside each sector and stores the sector owner/angles in round state.
    - Removes the former 42-tile single-tile Core circle; native terrain now flows naturally around each Core.
    - Changes only the exact Core footprint and liquid tiles beneath classic starting resources, using nearby native land tiles.
    - Clears trees and rocks only in a small 12-tile Core safety area while leaving the surrounding biome untouched.
  Round Cleanup:
    - Dynamic-round defeats no longer run the legacy terrain-regeneration pipeline; the complete temporary arena surface is deleted after the round.
    - Clears stale Core reverse mappings and defeating flags so the reusable admin test Kingdom can spawn correctly in later rounds.
  Chat Identity:
    - Renamed the waiting-room chat identity from [SPAWN] to [LOBBY].
    - Kingdom chat now displays the Kingdom tag before the player name.
  Kingdom Starting Resources:
    - Retains the classic 21-tile circular patches with exactly 499,000 iron ore, copper ore, stone and coal per Kingdom.
  Match Start and Time Limit:
    - Waits until every Kingdom player has spawned, then shows a centered 3-to-0 countdown before enabling PvP.
    - Adds an in-world and player HUD timer: 60 minutes of normal play followed by 60 minutes of Sudden Death.
    - At 120 minutes the highest-ranked surviving Kingdom wins; destroying a rival Kingdom Core now awards 1,000 score while Threat weighting remains unchanged.
  Sudden Death:
    - Starts bounded enemy waves on every surviving Kingdom lane after 60 minutes.
    - Wave intervals shorten from two minutes to thirty seconds while unit counts and unit tiers increase.
    - Spawns wave units in small ten-tick batches and commands each group to attack its lane's Kingdom Core with normal enemy distraction.
  Central Arena Rules:
    - Blocks player, robot, ghost and tile construction inside the central combat circle while leaving every lane and Kingdom sector buildable.
  Two-Hour Technology Balance:
    - Disables Landfill, Foundation, Space Platform and Space Platform Thruster research and their matching recipes.
    - Makes Space Science craftable on Nauvis so the white-science endgame remains reachable without platforms.
    - Rebalances Car, Tank, Rocket Turret, Tesla weapons/turret, Atomic Bomb, Spidertron, Mech Armor and Railgun research for a two-hour match.
    - Replaces Space Age-only ingredients in Rocket Turret, Tesla, Railgun, Mech Armor and Spidertron recipes with costly Nauvis-available materials.
  Weekly Victory and Biter Statistics:
    - Adds a compact per-Kingdom biter/spitter kill table to the main leaderboard without changing Score or Threat.
    - Rebuilds the Victory tab as a compact scrollable weekly list of winning players, their Kingdom, final score and victory age.
    - Clears the round-winner list every seven days of server simulation and caps the active list at 500 entries.
    - Adds the admin command /nexus-sudden-death to immediately start a fresh 60-minute Sudden Death phase.
    - Makes /nexus-sudden-death and /nexus-round-reset available directly inside Nexus Chat for administrators.
  Compatibility and Performance:
    - Existing legacy/manual terrain restoration remains available outside temporary battle surfaces.
    - Reuses on_entity_died for biter statistics and performs only one hourly O(1) weekly-reset check.
    - Adds no new heavy on_tick processing.

Version: 2.0.85
Date: 2026-07-27
  Volcanic Map Centre:
    - Kept the approximately 448-tile-wide biome footprint while increasing the share of lava lakes, hot cracks and native Vulcanus folds, ash, pumice and soil tiles.
    - Removed Nauvis decoratives throughout the centre biome and replaced them gradually per chunk with Vulcanus lava fire, crack decals, rock decals, volcanic pebbles, pumice, sulfur and calcite details.
    - Expanded the two-Small-Demolisher patrol from the very tight cache orbit to an irregular route roughly 41-55 tiles from the chest.
    - Increased the fixed causeway slalom to up to 44 large volcanic rocks and Vulcanus chimneys, including obstacles close to the island and along the full approaches.
    - Preserved solid walkable causeway-to-island connectors so the richer lava layout cannot create an impassable seam around the reward chest.

Version: 2.0.84
Date: 2026-07-27
  Volcanic Map Centre:
    - Expanded the centre into a roughly 448-tile-wide Vulcanus-style biome with broad ash fields, hot fracture zones, lava pockets and a gradual Nauvis transition.
    - Added a second Small Demolisher; both guardians patrol the same close route around the Mech Armor cache and start on opposite sides.
    - Existing defeated guardian slots are never resurrected; the new second guardian is created once during migration.
    - Added solid overlapping bridge throats between every winding causeway and the central island so lava seams can never block walking access.
    - Preserved and expanded volcanic rock and chimney slalom obstacles along all four approaches.
  Random Crash Sites:
    - Replaced the fixed crash loot with a broad materials, logistics, module, ammunition, weapon, armor, equipment and Space Age loot catalogue.
    - Every bonus item receives its own chance calculated from bundle value and the earliest science/research tier that unlocks its recipe.
    - Railguns have an exact 0.001 percent jackpot chance per crash site; unavailable optional items are skipped safely.
    - Every crash still contains two to four modest salvage picks so the rare event is never completely empty.

Version: 2.0.83
Date: 2026-07-27
  Changes:
    - Added the public /center command to native Factorio console and Nexus Chat. It posts an exact clickable GPS ping for Nauvis position 0,0.
    - Reduced the volcanic caldera footprint and moved the Small Demolisher patrol closer to the central reward island.
    - Moves a living Small Demolisher onto the compact patrol path without replacing or healing it; a previously defeated Demolisher is not resurrected.
    - Added a deterministic one-time slalom of volcanic rocks and Vulcanus chimneys along all four winding approaches, making quick car runs substantially harder.

Version: 2.0.82
Date: 2026-07-27
  Spectator Visual Cleanup:
    - Changed the invisible spectator observer radar to a free void energy source.
    - Disabled no-power and no-network status icons so no yellow lightning icon follows administrators or appears above players, Kingdom Cores or the Caldera Cache.
    - Removed obsolete runtime energy injection from spectator observers.
  Volcanic Map Centre:
    - Replaced the four ruler-straight causeways with four independently curved volcanic approaches.
    - Each road follows a deterministic multi-wave centreline with gently varying width and rough natural edges.
    - Bumped the centre design version so existing 2.0.81 terrain is gradually rebuilt into the new shape.
  Compatibility:
    - Preserved the demolisher patrol, central Mech Armor cache, Discord relay, Spawn force and Kingdom performance behaviour from 2.0.81.

Version: 2.0.81
Date: 2026-07-27
  Admin Spectator Vision:
    - Removed Kingdom copy_chart imports that could immediately reapply black fog to the dedicated Nexus Spectator force.
    - Spectators now chart all generated chunks directly and mirror newly charted/generated chunks without sharing vision back to Kingdoms.
    - Added temporary invisible live-observer radars around every spectating administrator, connected player, active Kingdom Core and the map centre.
    - Observer radars exist only while an administrator is spectating and are destroyed when the last spectator returns to Spawn.
  Volcanic Map Centre:
    - Replaced the old circular centre landmark with a 256-tile-wide volcanic caldera that blends gradually into the original Nauvis terrain.
    - Added lava, hot volcanic cracks, ash, pumice, basalt causeways and a protected central reward island.
    - Calculates one deterministic closed patrol route and uses the same equation to shape the visible demolisher track.
    - Creates exactly one small demolisher assigned to that custom territory and route; it is never automatically respawned after death.
    - Added a neutral indestructible centre cache that every Kingdom may open, containing exactly one Mech Armor and never refilling after collection.
  Compatibility:
    - Space Age content is runtime-guarded; the mod still loads when the optional Space Age dependency is absent.
    - Preserved Discord, starter inventory, Spawn-force and Kingdom performance behaviour from 2.0.80.

Version: 2.0.80
Date: 2026-07-27
  Discord Attack Relay Fixes:
    - Kingdom Core damage now bypasses the optional zone-claim lookup and always queues an attack alert for two valid Kingdom forces.
    - Added attacker-force fallbacks through the damage event cause, source and last user for projectile and scripted weapon edge cases.
    - Fixed the host relay skipping the first live event when attack-alerts.jsonl did not exist before the service started.
    - The installer now pre-creates the JSONL path and initializes its read position before starting the relay.
    - Added /nexus-discord-test for administrators to verify the complete Factorio-to-Discord path without attacking a Kingdom.
    - Added explicit Factorio and systemd journal logs for queued and successfully delivered events.
    - Existing attack cooldowns are cleared once during this update so the fix can be tested immediately.
  Compatibility:
    - Preserved the 2.0.79 starter inventory rules and all prior Spawn, Spectator, map-centre and performance behaviour.

Version: 2.0.79
Date: 2026-07-27
  Fixes:
    - New Kingdom players now receive exactly 2 burner mining drills and 2 stone furnaces.
    - All carried, equipped, cursor and queued crafting items are cleared before the one-time starter kit is granted.
    - Returning to SPAWN now removes items from the previous Kingdom so repeated Kingdom creation cannot duplicate starter equipment.
    - Removed pistols, firearm magazines, iron plates, wood and respawn equipment from the Nexus starter configuration.
    - Disabled crashed-ship starter containers so no extra ammunition or materials are available at a new Kingdom spawn.

Version: 2.0.78
Date: 2026-07-27
  Changes:
    - Added a dedicated Spawn force for every player waiting in the Kingdom-selection area.
    - Added a separate Nexus Spectator force for administrators with full generated-map and Kingdom chart vision.
    - Spectator chart data is one-way and cannot leak rival vision back to normal Kingdoms.
    - Added a circular natural-terrain landmark at the true Nauvis map centre, processed gradually per chunk.
    - Preserved all 2.0.75 creation/removal performance improvements and the integrated Discord attack relay.

Version: 2.0.77
Date: 2026-07-27
  Integrated Discord Component:
    - Bundled the Discord attack forwarding installer inside the Nexus Kingdoms ZIP under host-tools.
    - Nexus Kingdoms is the only Factorio mod and the only package that must be uploaded.
    - Removed the need for a separately downloaded Nexus Discord relay archive.
    - Retained the compact @here Kingdom <victim> is under attack by Kingdom <attacker>. message.
    - Retained one shared 60-minute cooldown for each pair of fighting Kingdoms.
  Compatibility:
    - Preserved all 2.0.75 Kingdom creation and gradual removal performance improvements unchanged.
    - Preserved the accepted no-ruins cleanup behavior unchanged.

Version: 2.0.76
Date: 2026-07-27
  Discord Attack Alerts:
    - Simplified the relay event to only the defending Kingdom, attacking Kingdom and one ready-to-send message.
    - Discord now sends: @here Kingdom <victim> is under attack by Kingdom <attacker>.
    - Removed player Discord-ID registration, administrator linking and all personal mention data.
    - Increased the attack-alert cooldown from five minutes to 60 minutes.
    - Uses one shared cooldown per two-Kingdom pairing, so immediate counterattacks cannot create a second alert.
  Compatibility:
    - Preserved the 2.0.75 staged Kingdom creation and gradual low-lag Kingdom removal behavior unchanged.
    - Ruins remain disabled as part of the accepted removal-performance behavior.

Version: 2.0.75
Date: 2026-07-27
  Kingdom Creation Performance:
    - Creates the final validated Kingdom force immediately instead of creating a temporary player-named force and merging it during the last spawn stage.
    - Preserves final spawn position, charting, colour, tags and the new-Kingdom announcement without the force-merge pause.
    - Removed the global all-Kingdom entity-source rescan from on_forces_merged.
  Kingdom Defeat and Removal Performance:
    - Replaced four normal entity deaths every 30 ticks with at most two silent bulk removals per simulation tick.
    - Caches up to 256 force entities per query so a large Kingdom no longer performs a new surface-wide search for every tiny batch.
    - Uses occasional lightweight collapse explosions instead of invoking loot, corpse and death-event processing for every structure.
    - Territory removal and force transfer now update only affected zone chunks, borders and labels instead of rebuilding every rendering in the save.
    - Sole-owner Restart Player now uses the same gradual Kingdom collapse and spawn-restoration pipeline instead of the legacy large-radius synchronous cleanup.
    - Added /nexus-delete-kingdom <Kingdom name or owner> and /delete-kingdom for administrators.
  Discord Attack Alerts:
    - Attack JSONL events now identify the attacked player when available and prioritize that player's registered Discord mention.
    - Added entity, surface and position details for the secure host-side Discord relay.
  Moderation and Balance:
    - Admins and the Moderator permission group can use /kick and /ban directly in Nexus Chat; moderators cannot target admins or other moderators.
    - Increased Tesla Turret range from 40 to 45.
    - Increased automatic inactive Kingdom retirement from three days to seven days.

Version: 2.0.74
Date: 2026-07-27
  Hotfix:
    - Corrected the Space Age Cliff Explosives recipe ingredient from the nonexistent empty-barrel prototype to the valid barrel item.
    - Restores successful data-stage loading while retaining the 2.0.73 performance changes.

Version: 2.0.73
Date: 2026-07-27
  Radar Intelligence Performance:
    - Replaced the force-wide hourly radar intelligence scan with the native radar sector-scanned event.
    - Only active powered Kingdom radars enqueue work, and only when a sector finishes scanning.
    - Added a persistent observing-Kingdom/surface/chunk cache so Nexus never analyzes the same radar chunk twice.
    - Added queue deduplication and a hard budget of two radar sectors per tick.
    - Removed full-surface machine, power, train, turret, pollution and radar scans from the scheduled intelligence path.
    - Updated /nexus-radar-scan to process a bounded queue batch and report cache statistics instead of launching a blocking world scan.
  Robot Limits:
    - Removed the Nauvis construction/logistic robot limiter, its rolling scheduler job and /nexus-check-bots command completely.
    - Kingdoms may now operate unlimited construction and logistic robots on every surface.
  Territory Performance:
    - Removed the all-registered-building scan that ran once for every new claim chunk during building placement.
    - New buildings now create the local 5x5 claim area first and register/link themselves only once to nearby claims.
    - Unsupported-claim cleanup uses a bounded local building search only after a source is destroyed.
  Kingdom Creation Performance:
    - Split final Kingdom placement into nine separately profiled stages over multiple ticks.
    - Enemy cleanup, liquids, resources, shared structures, random entities, starter turrets, crash-site setup, welcome rendering and Core creation no longer run in one simulation update.
    - The loading screen remains visible and reports finalization step progress until the player is actually spawned.
  Kingdom Lifecycle Performance:
    - The hourly inactivity scan now uses tracked join/leave activity and connected-player lists instead of walking every historical force member.
  Leaderboard and Grace Timer:
    - Added every Kingdom member, including the creator, to the member panel with total online time in HH:MM format and preserved player tags.
    - Renamed the temporary creator countdown to GRACE PERIOD and added a shield icon.
  Cliffs and Cliff Explosives:
    - Enabled non-zero cliff generation settings for all planet prototypes and active surfaces; this affects newly generated chunks.
    - Cliff Explosives now unlock directly after Explosives, require only Automation and Logistic science, and use grenades, explosives and empty barrels with no calcite.

Version: 2.0.72
Date: 2026-07-26
  Terrain Restoration:
    - Rebuilt former-spawn restoration around the official on_chunk_deleted and on_chunk_generated events instead of relying on generated-state polling alone.
    - A chunk is now counted as restored only after deletion is confirmed, regeneration is requested, and the generated event has completed while spawn shaping is still suppressed.
    - Manual legacy restoration now detaches the nearest stale OARC unique-spawn registration before regenerating terrain, preventing the old moat/tree circle from being recreated immediately.
    - Automatic defeat restoration also removes any surviving stale spawn registration before processing the former spawn footprint.
    - Existing in-progress 2.0.70/2.0.71 restoration records restart once through the event-confirmed workflow; completed legacy circles can be retried safely with /nexus-restore-spawn-here.
  Kingdom Zones:
    - Tightened automatic expansion: after the first zone on a surface, the new building's own chunk must be inside or directly adjacent to existing connected territory.
    - Remote radars and outposts can no longer use the future 5x5 footprint to jump several chunks and create a detached zone island.
    - Rejected remote buildings are no longer registered as zone support sources.
    - Connected-component audits now anchor Nauvis to the actual Kingdom Core and other planets to the largest connected landing-base component.
    - Kingdom labels are calculated only from the retained connected component, so a legacy detached island cannot pull the name into the middle of the map.
    - The bounded connectivity audit now automatically starts a fresh cycle every ten minutes instead of running only once after an update.

Version: 2.0.71
Date: 2026-07-26
  Terrain Restoration:
    - Fixed former Kingdom spawn circles not disappearing: LuaSurface.delete_chunk completes on a future tick, so regeneration is now requested only after the engine confirms the old chunk is no longer generated.
    - Added a terrain-await-delete phase with retries instead of falsely counting a still-existing chunk as restored.
    - Suppresses the OARC spawn-shaping hook for every chunk currently being restored so a stale spawn registration cannot recreate the moat/tree circle during regeneration.
    - In-progress restoration jobs from 2.0.70 are safely restarted once with the corrected future-tick workflow.
    - The admin /nexus-restore-spawn-here command uses the same corrected queue for legacy circles already left behind.
  Kingdom Zones:
    - Automatic zones can now expand only when the new 5x5 claim area overlaps or directly touches the Kingdom's existing connected territory on that surface.
    - A distant radar or outpost on the same surface no longer creates an isolated zone or pulls the Kingdom label into the middle of the map.
    - Each Kingdom may still establish one initial zone per surface, so the first buildings at a landing site on Gleba, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Aquilo or another world create a valid local territory seed.
    - Added a bounded legacy connectivity audit that checks four Kingdom/surface pairs every ten minutes and removes old disconnected claim islands without a startup spike.

Version: 2.0.70
Date: 2026-07-26
  Interface:
    - Removed the 16-Kingdom capacity text from Server Info; the capacity warning is now shown only in Spawn Options when all sixteen slots are occupied.
    - Changed the creator permanence/PvP warning from blank-line-separated paragraphs to one normal line break after each sentence.
  Kingdom Defeat:
    - Replaced the visible incoming atomic rocket with an invisible impact-only projectile that retains the complete vanilla nuclear explosion action.
    - After the bounded structure collapse finishes, restores the former spawn footprint to deterministic map-generator terrain by deleting and asynchronously regenerating only the chunks intersecting the old land/moat circle.
    - Terrain restoration is globally staggered to at most one chunk per second and never calls the blocking force_generate_chunk_requests function.
    - Chunks occupied by an online or offline player character are deferred and retried later instead of deleting a player beneath the map.
    - Corrected the legacy 20-chunk regrowth release radius to the actual configured Kingdom spawn footprint.
    - Added the admin-only `/nexus-restore-spawn-here` tool for one-time restoration of spawn circles already left behind by older releases; occupied chunks are safely deferred.

Version: 2.0.69
Date: 2026-07-26
  Hotfix:
    - Fixed the second non-recoverable startup error caused by the internal OCFG spawn-distance defaults still being 50-100 while the runtime setting prototypes were 100-200.
    - Updated OCFG gameplay.near_spawn_distance to 100 and gameplay.far_spawn_distance to 200 so config validation succeeds before Nexus enforces the live server values.
    - No save, world-generation or gameplay changes beyond allowing the server to finish loading with the intended regular-player 100/admin 100-200 configuration.

Version: 2.0.68
Date: 2026-07-26
  Hotfix:
    - Fixed the non-recoverable startup error in EnforceNexusSpawnDistanceRange.
    - Expanded the near/far spawn-distance setting prototypes to accept the admin 100-200 chunk range used by Nexus.
    - Added non-fatal protected writes for Nexus-enforced runtime settings so a future stale setting constraint is logged instead of preventing the world from loading.
    - No gameplay, save or world-generation changes beyond restoring the intended fixed 100/admin 100-200 spawn-distance configuration.

Version: 2.0.67
Date: 2026-07-26
  Kingdom Capacity and Lifecycle:
    - Added a hard maximum of 16 active Kingdoms, matching the sixteen available Kingdom colours.
    - Disables Create Your Own Spawn when all slots are occupied and tells waiting players to ask an existing Kingdom for permission to join.
    - Added an hourly lightweight inactivity scan; a Kingdom is retired when every member has remained offline for three days.
    - Server Info now explains the 16-Kingdom limit, three-day inactivity retirement, creator permanence rule and 24-hour PvP protection.
    - Players returning after an inactivity retirement receive a dedicated KINGDOM REMOVED notice explaining why their Kingdom is gone and may immediately create or join again.
    - A defeated or retired Kingdom releases its public slot, colour and territory immediately while its physical structures continue through the bounded collapse queue.
  Creator Permanence:
    - The 60-minute persistence rule now applies only to the player who created the Kingdom; members who joined another Kingdom never schedule or announce early-leave deletion.
    - Added a private top-screen KINGDOM PERMANENCE countdown, visible only to connected members of that temporary Kingdom until the creator completes sixty total online minutes.
    - Reformatted the initial IMPORTANT warning with blank lines between each sentence for readability.
    - Announces to the Kingdom when the creator requirement is complete and removes the temporary timer.
  New-Kingdom PvP Grace:
    - Corrected the protection duration to a true 24 hours of server simulation time.
    - Protection is now fully mutual: a protected Kingdom cannot attack another Kingdom and cannot be attacked by one; biters remain hostile.
    - Declare War cannot bypass protection, and damage restoration remains as a safety net if another script temporarily changes force relations.
    - Added an energy-shield icon after protected Kingdom names in the leaderboard, with a tooltip showing the remaining time.
    - Announces the grace period to new members and announces to the Kingdom when protection expires.
  Defeat, Audio and World Recovery:
    - Restored a real atomic-rocket finale at the Kingdom Core.
    - Marked the Kingdom Core as a military target with high selection priority so Space auto-targeting and hostile turrets can select it.
    - Delays Game lost until defeated players have returned to SPAWN and delays Game won until the Core-death event has completed, improving audibility.
    - Reduced gradual collapse to one global batch of at most 4 entities every 30 ticks (approximately 8 entities per second across all defeated/retired Kingdoms).
    - Structures use normal entity death in small batches, preserving ordinary death explosions and ruins while inventories and fluids are emptied first to prevent huge item-spill spikes.
    - After collapse, the former spawn is released to the existing 48-hour conservative regrowth timer so abandoned terrain can eventually regenerate without synchronous chunk deletion.
    - Removed the public Map cleanup done message; scheduled regrowth completion is log-only.
  Spawn Creation:
    - Regular players no longer see a distance selector and always spawn exactly 100 chunks from map centre.
    - Administrators retain a private, server-validated 100-200 chunk selector.
    - Added a Cancel button to the asynchronous Kingdom-generation screen; cancellation safely releases generated terrain to normal regrowth and returns the player to Spawn Options.
  Enemy Expansion:
    - Kept the existing 25 percent reduction to enemy-base frequency in newly generated chunks.
    - Enabled expansion and reduced minimum and maximum enemy expansion cooldowns by 25 percent so biters establish new bases somewhat faster.

Version: 2.0.66
Date: 2026-07-26
  Fixes:
    - Fixed the non-recoverable GUI error after clicking `I Understand`.
    - Spawn Options now opens and raises its top-level `gui.screen` frame instead of calling `bring_to_front()` on the nested content frame.
    - Preserves the mandatory welcome gate while allowing the Spawn Options window to open normally afterward.

Version: 2.0.65
Date: 2026-07-26
  Changes:
    - Removed the redundant ADMIN kick/ban panel and `/kick`/`/ban` routes from Nexus Chat; moderation remains available under Server Info > Admin Controls.
    - Fixed Railgun Turret shots at the 100-tile edge by extending railgun ammunition's damaging line action from the vanilla 50 tiles to 110 tiles while keeping turret targeting at 100 and reload at 8 seconds.
    - Added Space (white) science to Power Armor Mk2 research.
    - Changed fog memory to a true 24 hours and added a staggered full chart reset every 24 hours, with the first post-update pass beginning after 10 minutes.
    - Full fog resets clear stale explored map knowledge for one Kingdom every 30 seconds, then immediately restore owned claims, the Core area and current player surroundings.
    - `/nexus-refresh-fog-all` now queues the same staggered reset instead of clearing every Kingdom synchronously in one spike.
    - Made the Nexus I Understand window a mandatory gate before Spawn Options; stale serialized Spawn Options can no longer cover or bypass it.
    - Replaced the black spawn-generation minimap with a Nexus loading image, live chunk progress bar and updating estimated countdown.
    - Kingdom creation now closes Spawn Options, welcome, color picker and other setup dialogs immediately on click, before location search, so only the loading screen remains until teleportation completes.

Version: 2.0.64
Date: 2026-07-26
  Defeat Recovery:
    - Fixed the offline-defeat reconnect path: players whose Kingdom Core was destroyed while they were offline now receive a complete SPAWN rebuild on their next join.
    - Restores the main force, holding-area permissions, Global Nexus Chat and the create/join Kingdom interface before showing the defeat notice.
    - The Begin Again button now explicitly reopens the Kingdom selection interface as a final safety check.
  Victory and Defeat Audio:
    - Plays the Factorio Miscellaneous `Game lost` sound for connected members of the defeated Kingdom.
    - Plays the Factorio Miscellaneous `Game won` sound for connected members of the Kingdom that destroyed the enemy Core.
  Turret Balance:
    - Increased Tesla Turret range from 30 to 40 tiles.
    - Increased Railgun Turret range from 40 to 100 tiles.
    - Set the Railgun Turret base reload cooldown to 8 seconds (480 ticks).
  Gradual Kingdom Collapse:
    - Removed the five-minute wait before defeated structures begin disappearing.
    - Replaced the large cleanup batches with one global batch of at most 12 entities every 30 ticks, shared across all defeated Kingdoms.
    - Removed the real atomic-rocket detonation at the Core and replaced it with a visual-only explosion to avoid an area-damage spike.
    - Defeated forces are put into cease-fire immediately so surviving turrets cannot continue fighting during the gradual collapse.
    - Removed the immediate full-map chunk cleanup after defeat; empty terrain is left to the normal conservative 48-hour regrowth cycle.
    - Added completion timing and removed-entity totals to `[Nexus Performance]` logs.

Version: 2.0.63
Date: 2026-07-26
  Admin Spectator Mode:
    - Added a Spectator Mode section to the SPAWN Kingdom-selection screen; it is visible to all players but usable only by admins.
    - Admins enter a non-interactive spectator controller on Nauvis and receive a persistent RETURN TO SPAWN button.
    - Returning safely restores the holding-area character, Global chat identity and Kingdom-selection GUI.
  Administration:
    - Added an ADMIN button to the Nexus Chat header with a compact online-player kick/ban panel and optional reason field.
    - Ban requires a second confirmation click to reduce accidental bans.
    - Added `/kick <player> [reason]` and `/ban <player> [reason]` support directly inside Nexus Chat for admins.
  SPAWN Chat:
    - Fixed the holding_pen permission group blocking the custom-input action used by the Nexus chat key.
    - Existing saves now repair the holding_pen permission group during configuration migration.
    - Players entering SPAWN are explicitly reset to Global chat so stale Kingdom/Allies channel state cannot silence their messages.
    - Nexus Chat remains available while an admin is using the spectator controller.

Version: 2.0.62
Date: 2026-07-26
  Discord Phase-out:
    - Added `Discord Server: https://discord.gg/3U2byn35Zn` directly below Map Info in the Server Info tab as a selectable copy field.
    - Kept the legacy scenario-owned `/discord` command registered for existing-save multiplayer compatibility, while redirecting both Nexus Chat and native console usage to Server Info.
    - Removed the obsolete five-minute Discord setting poll; suppression now runs only during initialization, migration or an explicit setting change.
  Vehicle Combat and Fog:
    - Removed the player-movement vehicle privacy handler that uncharted every driven car/tank chunk for rival forces.
    - Removed full-surface car/spider-vehicle privacy scans and chart-time vehicle searches.
    - Vehicles now use normal Factorio fog-of-war visibility, preventing black trails and reducing combat-time chart churn.
  New Kingdom Performance:
    - Replaced synchronous/expanding-radius spawn generation with a centre-out queue that requests exactly one chunk at a time.
    - New Kingdom creators remain in the holding area while bounded generation continues instead of blocking the simulation and risking a timeout.
    - Added profiler/timing logs for location search, force creation, chunk-generation duration and final spawn placement.
    - Configuring a new force now updates only relationships involving that force instead of rewriting every existing force pair.
  Runtime Performance:
    - Shared one closest-Kingdom lookup across enemy, resource and spawn shaping for every generated chunk.
    - Replaced repeated square-root distance calculations in chunk generation, enemy-spawn handling and distance rejection with squared comparisons.
    - Moved the leaderboard rolling step to a minimum 10-minute interval and reduced the rotating scheduler to one bounded slice per job turn.
    - Reduced regrowth scanning to two chunks per tick, one player refresh per 10 seconds and one spider refresh per second.
    - Attack alerts now check their five-minute cooldown before making a territory lookup.
  Admin Spawn Range:
    - Regular players remain limited to 50-100 chunks from map center.
    - Administrators receive a private 50-300 chunk slider and server-side submission clamp before creating a Kingdom.

Version: 2.0.61
Date: 2026-07-25
  Chat:
    - Added `/r <message>` to reply directly to the last whisper contact in Nexus Chat.
  New Kingdom Protection:
    - Added a 24-hour PvP grace period beginning when a new Kingdom Core is created.
    - Declare War does not bypass protection; hostile Kingdom damage and cease-fire changes are blocked until expiry.
    - Biters and other enemy-force PvE attacks remain unaffected.
    - Existing Kingdoms are migrated as mature and do not receive a fresh grace period.

Version: 2.0.60
Date: 2026-07-25
  Robot Limits:
    - Reduced the Nauvis allowance to 2,000 construction robots and 2,000 logistic robots per Kingdom.
    - Robots on other planets, surfaces and space platforms no longer count toward or get removed by the Nauvis cap.
  Kingdom Persistence:
    - Confirmed and hardened the five-minute reconnect grace period for Kingdom creators below the 60-minute playtime threshold.
    - Rejoining during the grace period now gives a private confirmation that pending cleanup was cancelled.
    - Added a clear creator-only warning immediately after the Kingdom Core is established explaining the 60-minute requirement and five-minute reconnect window.
  Chat:
    - Added `/whisper <player> <message>` and `/w <player> <message>` directly inside Nexus Chat, including player names with spaces or quoted names.
    - Private whispers are shown only to sender and recipient and are retained in their Nexus Chat histories.
  Random Crash Event:
    - Replaced full territory-claim centroid scans with cheap Kingdom Core positions.
    - Crash sites now rotate among different Kingdom pairs, avoid recently used pairs and locations, and use varied positions in unclaimed space between Kingdoms.
    - Reduced the event's requested generation area to a compact 3x3 chunk region to limit hitching.
  Discord Reminder:
    - Changed fresh-world Discord invite defaults to disabled and added periodic enforcement so old save settings cannot restore the legacy `/discord` chat reminder.
  Compatibility:
    - Retained Factorio 2.0 compatibility.

Version: 2.0.59
Date: 2026-07-25
  Multiplayer Compatibility:
    - Fixed the join-blocking "mod command handlers are not identical" error introduced in 2.0.58.
    - Stopped removing the scenario-owned `/discord` command at runtime; doing so changed the server's level command table after clients had loaded it.
    - The legacy Discord invite is now safely blanked and its welcome reminder remains removed, while the command handler stays registered for existing-save compatibility.

Version: 2.0.58
Date: 2026-07-25
  Fog of War:
    - Added `/nexus-refresh-fog` for admins to erase only their Kingdom's chart memory without deleting or regenerating chunks.
    - Added `/nexus-refresh-fog-all` to rebuild fog for every active Kingdom at once.
    - Fog resets clear obsolete fade overlays and then restore each Kingdom's own claimed territory, Core surroundings and currently occupied area.
  Chat:
    - Players waiting at the Nexus spawn now chat as a gold `[SPAWN]` identity followed by their white player name.
    - Added an ALLIES channel button that delivers messages to the sender's Kingdom and every mutually allied Kingdom.
    - Alliance chat uses a distinct green `[Allies]` prefix and automatically falls back when the Kingdom no longer has allies.
    - Removed the legacy `/discord` reminder from the welcome text and actively removes a legacy custom `/discord` command when present.
  Leaderboard:
    - Replaced long Allied-with and At-war-with text beneath each row with compact green-wire and red-wire icons plus counts.
    - Full ally and war lists remain available in the Diplomacy tooltip.

Version: 2.0.57
Date: 2026-07-23
  Performance:
    - Replaced repeated full-surface leaderboard entity scans with cached prototype lists and LuaForce entity counters.
    - Kingdom Power and Industry now use maintained O(1) per-prototype force counts instead of scanning every entity on every surface five times per Kingdom.
    - Changed the fog-memory refresh interval from ten to thirty minutes, reducing chart-overlay maintenance frequency while retaining the full forty-eight-hour fade.
  Enemy Balance:
    - Disabled destroy-based and pollution-based enemy evolution; global evolution now advances only through the existing time factor.
    - Reduced the enemy-base frequency for newly generated chunks by twenty-five percent while preserving enemy-base size.
    - The enemy-base reduction is applied once per compatible surface and is not multiplied again on later configuration changes.

Version: 2.0.56
Date: 2026-07-23
  Leaderboard:
    - Prevented an active rolling leaderboard refresh from being overwritten by the next hourly cycle start.
    - Moved leaderboard processing to a dedicated two-minute schedule instead of the shared rotating maintenance queue.
    - Reduced each background leaderboard step to one Kingdom to limit server hitching.
    - Added clear start, progress, skip and completion log messages for leaderboard refresh cycles.
    - A ten-Kingdom world now normally completes its background refresh in about twenty minutes.
  Fixes:
    - Removed the unconditional false ERROR log after cancelling a shared Kingdom join request.
    - Missing join-queue entries are now logged only as a normal informational condition.

Version: 2.0.55
Date: 2026-07-23
  Fog of War:
    - Replaced the immediate ten-minute rival-territory scrub with a gradual forty-eight-hour map-memory decay.
    - Rival territory that is no longer under real player or radar vision now receives a progressively darker chart-only overlay.
    - The darkness is recalculated every ten minutes, giving up to 288 visual fade steps across the forty-eight-hour period.
    - Revisiting or restoring radar vision to a chunk immediately removes the dark overlay and resets its memory age.
    - Only after forty-eight continuous hours without real vision is the chunk returned to fully uncharted black map space.
    - Existing charted rival territory receives a fresh forty-eight-hour grace period after updating.

Version: 2.0.54
Date: 2026-07-23
  Leaderboard:
    - Added a conquest icon and destroyed-Kingdom count beside a Kingdom name after its first confirmed Kingdom Core destruction.
    - Added victim names to the conquest tooltip.
  Victory History:
    - Added a Victory tab directly after Kingdoms, displaying the archived top five Kingdoms from previous worlds.
    - Added admin export/import commands and remote interfaces so the external monthly reset script can carry Victory history into the next save.
    - Added a bounded twelve-season archive.
  Fog of War:
    - Added gradual map-intelligence decay for rival claimed territory after direct vision is lost.
    - Fog cleanup is processed in small rolling batches to avoid a single large UPS spike.
    - Direct scouts and currently visible chunks retain normal vanilla vision.

Version: 2.0.53
Date: 2026-07-23
  Map Size Management:
    - Enabled the integrated regrowth cleanup system by default for new and existing Nexus worlds.
    - Empty explored chunks now age for 48 hours before they may be removed and regenerated later when revisited.
    - Protected all claimed Kingdom Zone chunks and every chunk within 20 chunks of an active Kingdom Core.
    - Cleanup rechecks Nexus protection immediately before deleting a chunk, preventing queued stale removals.
    - Player structures remain permanently protected while world-eater mode stays disabled.
    - Existing 2.x saves automatically enable the cleanup once during the 2.0.53 migration.

Version: 2.0.52
Date: 2026-07-23
  Chat Interface:
    - Added an admin-only EDITOR button to Nexus Chat for toggling map editor mode without using the native console.
    - Added Nexus Chat handling for /editor, /help, /players, /admins, /time and /evolution.
    - Unsupported slash commands now show a clear message explaining that Factorio does not expose a safe way for mods to forward arbitrary built-in console commands.

Version: 2.0.51
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Lowered Nexus Chat slightly so its lower edge aligns more closely with the game window edge.
    - Increased the history area upward by another 16 GUI pixels, giving the chat more vertical reading space without changing its width.

Version: 2.0.50
Date: 2026-07-23
  Chat Interface:
    - Raised Nexus Chat a few additional pixels from the bottom edge to match the requested placement.
    - Increased the chat-history area by 32 GUI pixels so more previous messages remain visible.
    - Kept the panel anchored to the left side and preserved the working non-blocking Tab completion.

Version: 2.0.49
Date: 2026-07-22
  Fixes:
    - Nudged Nexus Chat slightly upward from the absolute bottom-left screen corner.
    - Added a small lower display-pixel offset so the panel sits just above the corner, matching the requested reference placement more closely.

Version: 2.0.48
Date: 2026-07-22
  Fixes:
    - Corrected Nexus Chat lower-left docking again so the frame uses the physical display height minus the GUI-scaled panel height.
    - The complete chat window now sits exactly in the screen corner with no intentional left or bottom gap and fully overlays the vanilla ammunition and armour HUD.
    - Forced all outer frame margins to zero before applying the docked position.

Version: 2.0.47
Date: 2026-07-22
  Fixes:
    - Corrected Nexus Chat corner positioning to use Factorio GUI-scaled coordinates instead of raw display pixels.
    - The complete chat frame, including its text input, now remains visible and sits flush against the bottom-left corner without an intentional gap.

Version: 2.0.46
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Moved Nexus Chat to the true lower-left screen corner so it deliberately overlays the vanilla ammunition and armour panel.
    - Removed the previous loadout-height reserve from the docking calculation while retaining resolution and GUI-scale repositioning.
  Controls:
    - Changed player-name Tab completion to a non-consuming custom input so the normal Factorio map control is no longer blocked when Nexus Chat is closed.
    - Tab completion still activates only when the Nexus chat text field exists and is open.

Version: 2.0.45
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Corrected the lower-left docking calculation so Nexus Chat no longer overlaps the vanilla loadout panel.
    - Reserved the complete visible chat-frame layout and the weapon/armour HUD height at the player's current GUI scale.
    - Disabled automatic frame centering before applying the calculated docked position.

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Version: 2.0.44
Date: 2026-07-22
  Changes:
    - Docked Nexus Chat directly above the vanilla bottom-left weapon and armour panel.
    - Corrected chat positioning to use the physical display height while respecting GUI scale.

Version: 2.0.43
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Moved the Nexus chat panel further down so it connects directly to the lower-left HUD instead of floating near the middle-left of the screen.
    - Reduced the bottom clearance to a minimal edge gap while retaining resolution and GUI-scale repositioning.
    - Renamed the visible Local chat channel to Kingdom, including its button, message marker and tooltips.

Version: 2.0.42
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Fitted the Nexus chat panel into the complete lower-left space above the character and ammunition HUD.
    - Increased the visible history area while keeping the panel compact and aligned to the screen edge.
    - Chat history now reliably opens at the newest message using an immediate and one-tick deferred bottom scroll.
    - Increased the displayed recent-history window from 40 to 60 messages.
  Player-name Completion:
    - Added Tab completion for partial player names typed at the end of the Nexus chat input.
    - Completion is case-insensitive, supports optional @ prefixes and includes connected plus known offline players.
    - Repeated Tab presses cycle through multiple matching player names.

Version: 2.0.41
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Channels:
    - Added persistent Global and Local channel controls to the Nexus chat window.
    - Global chat reaches every connected Kingdom; Local chat reaches only connected members of the sender's own Kingdom.
    - Local messages receive a visible [Local] marker in chat history so they cannot be confused with global messages.
    - Players without a Kingdom remain on Global chat and cannot select Local until they join or create a Kingdom.
    - Native fallback chat relay now follows the same saved Global or Local preference.

Version: 2.0.40
Date: 2026-07-22
  Features:
    - Added Kingdom member management to the Kingdoms leaderboard. Kingdom owners and server admins can kick non-owner members, including offline members.
    - Kicked players are returned to the holding area and receive the normal create-a-Kingdom menu plus a clear kick notification.
  Performance:
    - Rolling maintenance jobs now rotate one job per minute instead of firing many different jobs throughout every minute.
    - Each rolling turn processes two bounded slices, keeping expected Kingdom maintenance within the hourly cycle while removing the recurring 10-30 second script cadence.
    - Kingdom Core tick processing now exits immediately when no creation or cleanup work is queued.
  Fixes:
    - Shared-spawn member arrays are compacted when a player leaves or is kicked, preventing stale membership holes.

Version: 2.0.39
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Restored chat history inside the Nexus chat window opened through the configured Toggle chat control.
    - The history keeps the last 120 messages received by each player and displays the newest 40 entries.
    - Rebuilt the chat as a compact framed panel with a title bar, close button, scrollable history and input field.
    - Anchored the panel directly above the lower-left character and ammunition HUD.
  Staff Chat:
    - Restored the Admin prefix to a fixed crimson color independent from the player's Kingdom color.
    - Moderator remains cyan, player names remain white and Kingdom tags keep the selected Kingdom color.

Version: 2.0.38
Date: 2026-07-22
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a non-recoverable Kingdom Core migration error caused by reading the removed LuaEntityPrototype.max_health field.
    - Kingdom Core health migrations now use LuaEntityPrototype.get_max_health() with the entity quality.

Version: 2.0.37
Date: 2026-07-22
  Chat Interface:
    - Reduced the custom Nexus chat input to roughly one eighth of the logical screen width, approximately one quarter of its previous length.
  Diplomacy:
    - Added the complete Allied, Friendly, Neutral, Hostile and At War status model.
    - New and migrated non-allied Kingdom relationships now start Neutral while remaining valid turret targets.
    - Three successful Nexus Trade Chest inventory exchanges automatically make both Kingdoms Friendly.
    - Three separate entries into another Kingdom's claimed territory automatically make the intruding Kingdom Hostile toward the owner.
    - Declare War and actual cross-Kingdom damage now set the attacker's directional status to At War.
    - Public leaderboard details now distinguish alliances from active wars.
  Nexus Trade Chest:
    - Renamed the player-facing Nexus Link Chest to Nexus Trade Chest.
    - Added rolling ownership registration and bounded trade-transaction snapshots without introducing a full-world scan.
  Map Cleanup:
    - Shortened the completed cleanup message to: Map cleanup done.

Version: 2.0.36
Date: 2026-07-22
  Staff Chat:
    - Changed the Admin prefix from fixed crimson to the player's selected Kingdom color.
    - Reduced the Nexus chat input to half of the logical screen width and kept it aligned to the left edge.
  Interface:
    - Restored the original simple Nexus header logo layout while retaining the close button.
  Map Cleanup:
    - Increased legacy forced map cleanup from thirty seconds to five minutes after the warning.

Version: 2.0.35
Date: 2026-07-22
  Interface:
    - Placed the Nexus header logo inside a dedicated inset frame.
    - Added a standard close button to the top-right of the Nexus menu.
  Staff Chat:
    - Changed the Nexus chat input to follow the player's configured Toggle chat control instead of the unrelated Enter/vehicle control.
    - Admin messages now use a crimson [Admin] prefix before the white player name; Moderator messages use cyan.
    - Added complete native fallback tags so staff rank remains visible even if another input path opens native chat.

Version: 2.0.34
Date: 2026-07-22
  Diplomacy:
    - Removed Set Friendly and Set Neutral from the Kingdoms diplomacy controls.
    - Alliance requests and Declare War remain available.
  Staff and Chat:
    - iluckie is automatically demoted from admin and assigned to the Moderator permission group on join.
    - Added exact-format Nexus chat opened with Enter so the sender and all recipients see the same Admin/Moderator prefix order.
    - Native player color changes remain blocked and Kingdom colors are restored automatically.
  Interface:
    - Moved the Nexus menu to the screen root at the top-left corner and added the Nexus logo to its header.
    - Removed the legacy Main Force by using the built-in player holding force and migrating existing Main Force members.
  Kingdom Core:
    - Removed the background routine that cleared Kingdom Core inventories, energy and rocket progress.
    - Kingdom Cores remain fully functional Rocket Silos and no longer destroy cargo prepared for launch.
  World Events:
    - Added a recurring Nauvis spaceship crash event every 24-48 hours between existing Kingdom territories.
    - Crash sites contain wreckage, fire, a dead character with randomized valuable loot and a global GPS announcement.

Version: 2.0.32
Date: 2026-07-20
  Mod Portal Packaging:
    - Removed all PowerShell, command and shell installer files from the Factorio mod archive so the release complies with Mod Portal executable-file restrictions.
    - The duplicate-version cleanup installers remain available as separate downloads outside the mod package.
  Diplomacy Interface:
    - Added clearly named Request Alliance and Declare War buttons directly in the Kingdoms tab.
    - Added Set Friendly and Set Neutral actions beside them for directional diplomacy management.
    - Declaring war changes only the declaring Kingdom's stance to Hostile and publicly announces the declaration with both Kingdom colors.
  Enemy Evolution:
    - Halved the enemy destroy evolution factor from 0.002 to 0.001.
    - The value is applied only on new-world initialization and mod configuration changes, without adding a repeating script check.

Version: 2.0.31
Date: 2026-07-20
  Performance and Scheduling:
    - Added a shared sixty-minute scheduler that spreads leaderboard, radar, zone visibility, diplomacy, robot-limit, Kingdom Core and migration work across separate minute/second slots.
    - Added named LuaProfiler log entries for every scheduled Nexus job so server owners can identify the exact task behind a Script Update spike.
    - Replaced several full-update scans with rolling per-Kingdom or per-surface migrations, including Kingdom Cores, research rules, diplomacy relationships, linked chests, legacy mines and Rocket Turret ammunition.
  Spawn Setup:
    - Reduced the maximum selectable distance from map center to 100 chunks while keeping the minimum at 50 chunks.
    - Removed Buddy Spawn, surface selection and team selection from the player-facing Kingdom setup flow.
    - New Kingdoms always create their own force on Nauvis; stale saved GUI values are overridden at submission.
  Robot Limits:
    - Added a maximum of 3,000 active/stored construction robots and 3,000 active/stored logistic robots per Kingdom.
    - Robot enforcement is checked one Kingdom per minute so a full server is covered within the sixty-minute maintenance window.
  Research:
    - Health research now unlocks directly after Modular Armor and continues to use only Automation and Logistic science packs.
    - Removed the complete Artillery research line and disabled every artillery recipe.
  Diplomacy:
    - Added directional Friendly, Neutral and Hostile policies plus mutual public Alliances.
    - Added alliance requests, acceptance and rejection controls to the Kingdoms tab.
    - Added a Diplomacy column and public ally lists to the Kingdoms table.
    - Attacking a friendly or allied Kingdom immediately changes only the attacker's stored stance to Hostile and dissolves the alliance.
  Update Installation:
    - Added double-click/PowerShell Windows client and Linux server update helpers that delete all packaged and unpacked older Nexus Kingdoms versions before installing the selected release.
    - The server helper also backs up old versions, restarts Factorio and prints version/error logs and container status.

Version: 2.0.30
Date: 2026-07-19
  Kingdom Zone Fog-of-War Privacy:
    - Rival Kingdom territory overlays are now visible only while the corresponding chunk is currently visible and not covered by fog of war.
    - Previously explored but currently fogged chunks no longer reveal enemy zone fills, borders or Kingdom labels.
    - A Kingdom's own members can continue to see their own territory overlay at all times.
    - Zone visibility uses lightweight cached rendering updates and chunk-chart events instead of scanning entities or shortening radar and leaderboard timers.

Version: 2.0.29
Date: 2026-07-19
  Research Balance:
    - Artillery research now additionally requires Production science packs.
    - Atomic Bomb research now requires Production and Metallurgic science packs.
    - Health research now consumes only Automation and Logistic science packs.

Version: 2.0.28
Date: 2026-07-19
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed the technology research ingredient format used for Car, Tank, Power Armor and Power Armor MK2.
    - Research science packs are now added as valid Factorio ResearchIngredient tuples, preventing the automobilism prototype loading error.

Version: 2.0.27
Date: 2026-07-19
  Scouting and Map Privacy:
    - Scouting warnings now measure an enemy player against the nearest border chunk of claimed Kingdom territory rather than the Kingdom Core or interior territory.
    - Border warnings use 300-tile and 150-tile distance bands and no longer trigger merely because a scout is somewhere near the centre of a Kingdom.
    - Player-death GPS announcements are isolated to a temporary private force so only the player who died receives the built-in death ping.
  Defeated Kingdom Cleanup:
    - Destroyed Kingdoms are queued for cleanup five minutes after their Kingdom Core falls instead of using the legacy 30-second forced cleanup.
    - Added concise global cleanup announcements and Kingdom-colored names for defeat and cleanup messages.
    - Defeated structures and vehicles are removed in bounded batches before old marked chunks are deleted.
  Combat Restrictions:
    - Atomic bombs now use a private ammunition category accepted by player and vehicle rocket launchers but not by Rocket Turrets.
    - Existing atomic bombs stored in Rocket Turrets are removed during migration and returned beside the turret.
    - Land Mine technology, crafting and placement are disabled; existing placed mines and carried mine items are removed during migration.
  Performance:
    - Territory support removals are debounced and processed in one coalesced batch after large explosions, preventing hundreds of repeated zone redraws when many enemy structures are destroyed at once.
    - Entity destruction for defeated Kingdoms remains spread across multiple ticks to reduce script-update spikes.
  Kingdoms Table:
    - Removed the redundant footer about hidden Military, Power and Industry details.
    - Added each Kingdom's live online capacity as an online/max value, such as 1/3 online.
    - Rebalanced hidden Threat progression so early military research and starter defenses remain LOW for longer, while advanced capabilities and combat achievements still reach the higher tiers.

Version: 2.0.26
Date: 2026-07-19
  Map Privacy and Visibility:
    - Enemy cars, tanks and spider vehicles are no longer live-tracked through fog-of-war in previously charted chunks.
    - Vehicle privacy is enforced on movement, placement, entering/leaving vehicles and with a lightweight once-per-minute cleanup.
    - Nearby scouts retain normal vanilla vision, so enemy players and vehicles remain visible while actually inside visible range.
    - Rival Kingdoms are explicitly hostile rather than merely non-friendly, restoring normal enemy-player visibility at close range.
  Kingdom Zones:
    - Kingdom territory overlays and Kingdom names are visible to every player who has the zone overlay enabled, without sharing the underlying enemy map chart.
    - Replaced removal-time area rescans with exact per-building support tracking for each claimed chunk.
    - Removing the last supporting building now removes its unsupported territory immediately; overlapping buildings continue to support shared chunks correctly.
  Research Balance:
    - Tank research now also requires Production and Utility science packs.
    - Power Armor MK2 now also requires Military and Production science packs.
    - Power Armor now also requires Military science packs.
    - Land Mine research now also requires Chemical and Production science packs.
    - Car research now also requires Military science packs.
    - Land-mine damage reduced from 250 to 50.
  Land Mine Territory Rules:
    - Land mines can only be placed inside territory claimed by their own Kingdom.
    - Invalid placements are cancelled and refunded; existing mines outside their owner's territory are removed and returned during migration.

Version: 2.0.25
Date: 2026-07-19
  Performance and Update Cadence:
    - Kingdom standings now perform their full world scan every 20 minutes instead of every 15 seconds.
    - Opening the Kingdoms tab, joining the server and using /rank now use cached standings instead of forcing an immediate full recount.
    - Science-pack milestones reuse the same cached production data as the standings refresh, removing a duplicate world-wide statistics scan.
    - Radar intelligence scans every 30 minutes, physical scouting checks every 10 minutes and open radar panels refresh every 10 minutes.
    - Powered radar lists are now collected once per observing Kingdom per scan instead of once for every Kingdom pair.
  Radar Discovery Balance:
    - Reduced the maximum custom signal range from 4,000 to 3,000 tiles and the quiet-Kingdom base range from 1,000 to 600 tiles.
    - Added slower evidence accumulation with diminishing returns from additional radars.
    - Signal detection now requires accumulated evidence and identification requires substantially more evidence, preventing dense radar networks from exposing a Kingdom too quickly.
    - Existing Signal Detected and Kingdom Identified records are cleared once during migration; physically discovered territories remain stored.
  Kingdom Privacy:
    - Rival Kingdoms are forcibly kept non-friendly and chart sharing is disabled, while buddies in the same Kingdom remain unaffected.
    - GPS/map-ping chat references are no longer relayed through the global cross-Kingdom chat system.
    - On migration, previously leaked chart data is cleared from rival claimed chunks once.
    - Vanilla radar scans can no longer reveal rival claimed territory from a distance; the chunk is kept only when a scout from that Kingdom is physically within 500 tiles.

Version: 2.0.24
Date: 2026-07-19
  Player Control Recovery:
    - Fixed an intermittent dedicated-server issue where a player could appear at a newly created Kingdom but remain unable to walk.
    - The Kingdom setup window is now destroyed before synchronous spawn generation begins, preventing a focused name field from retaining movement keys.
    - Removed automatic keyboard focus from the Kingdom name field.
    - Normal permissions and the character controller are now restored after every Kingdom teleport, reset/rejoin edge case and final Kingdom Core spawn adjustment.
    - Returning players outside the holding pen are automatically repaired when they join the server.

Version: 2.0.23
Date: 2026-07-19
  Hidden Kingdom Intelligence:
    - Power now exposes only the Kingdom Power value. Its hover text is: The Current Strength of a Kingdom.
    - Industry now exposes only its total value; drills, furnaces and production-building counts remain hidden.
    - Threat now exposes only its severity label. Military research, unlocked weapons, armour, vehicles, ammunition, turrets, online strength and PvP history are not shown separately.
    - PvP remains a hidden Threat factor and still contributes to total Kingdom score without exposing a separate PvP value or breakdown.
  Research-Based Threat:
    - Threat now detects researched or otherwise unlocked combat capabilities instead of crafted or owned items.
    - Added firearms, normal/piercing/uranium ammunition, shotguns and piercing shells, grenades, flamethrowers, gun/laser/flamethrower/rocket/Tesla/artillery turrets, rockets and explosive rockets, cars, tanks, cannon-shell variants, combat robots, all armour tiers, artillery, Spidertron, railguns and other Space Age weapons.
    - Repeated weapon-damage, shooting-speed, explosives, flammables, laser, robot, artillery and railgun upgrades add hidden military risk.
  Radar Intelligence:
    - Added a gradual three-stage discovery system: Signal Detected, Kingdom Identified and Territory Discovered.
    - Powered standard radars scan every 15 minutes and can detect Kingdom signals up to 4,000 tiles away.
    - More radars and closer radar placement identify signals faster, while larger industrial Kingdoms produce stronger signals.
    - Signal strength considers active machines, power infrastructure, rocket and Space Age infrastructure, radar installations, pollution, moving trains and military infrastructure.
    - Hovering a Kingdom-owned radar opens permanent shared intelligence with direction and rough distance first, then Kingdom name/color and estimated distance, and finally first-discovery time plus last known exact distance.
    - Physical scouting permanently discovers territory at close range and warns the approached Kingdom at two distance bands.
    - Nexus radar intelligence never adds exact enemy map markers, reveals live player locations or awards leaderboard points; normal Factorio radar vision remains unchanged.

Version: 2.0.22
Date: 2026-07-19
  Nexus Menu:
    - Moved Kingdom standings into the existing Nexus menu and renamed the former Player List tab to Kingdoms.
    - Removed the separate Rankings button and standalone window, including automatic cleanup for older saves.
    - Simplified the layout to avoid duplicate summaries and duplicate PvP/Expansion columns.
    - Only Kingdom names use their selected Kingdom color; scores use neutral interface colors and Threat uses its own severity color.
  Scoring:
    - Expansion is now included in Kingdom Power at 1 point per complete 25-chunk zone.
    - Industry now equals the exact total number of mining drills, furnaces and production buildings, with no multipliers.
    - Turrets contribute their exact count to Kingdom Power, with no multiplier.
    - Kingdom Power now uses exact member, turret, science-tier and zone counts; military research is reserved for Threat.
    - PvP achievements are displayed under Threat while remaining part of the stable total score.
  Threat:
    - Removed the GUARDED tier. Available levels are LOW, HIGH, SEVERE, CRITICAL and EXTREME.
    - Threat includes military research, current online players, exact turret count and PvP history, while Industry remains excluded.
  Science Milestones:
    - Global milestones now trigger only when a Kingdom produces each science pack for the first time.
    - Only the Kingdom name uses the selected Kingdom color in the announcement; ordinary research is not announced.
  Spawn Defense:
    - Replaced the bridge-focused 12-turret layout with a symmetric 16-turret ring evenly covering the inside edge of the moat.
    - Turrets are offset in pairs around every bridge and remain on the land side of the water.

Version: 2.0.21
Date: 2026-07-19
  Rankings:
    - Rebuilt the leaderboard into English left-to-right categories for Score, Kingdom Power, Threat, Technology, Industry, PvP and Expansion.
    - Kingdom names, rank markers and category values now use each Kingdom's selected color.
    - Removed Activity and idle-time scoring completely.
    - Rebalanced scoring around current structures, research, territory and actual PvP achievements to prevent runaway early scores.
    - Added detailed hover breakdowns for members, online players, turrets, science level, research, drills, smelters, production buildings, kills, destroyed buildings, defeated Kingdoms and claimed chunks.
  Threat Level:
    - Added LOW, GUARDED, HIGH, SEVERE, CRITICAL and EXTREME military threat levels.
    - Threat is based on combat research, unlocked weapons, current online players, turrets, player kills and defeated Kingdoms.
    - Industry and general economic size do not increase Threat Level.
  PvP:
    - Added persistent tracking for enemy player kills, meaningful enemy buildings destroyed and Kingdoms defeated.
    - Destroying a Kingdom Core now credits the attacking Kingdom with a defeated-Kingdom achievement.
  Spawning:
    - First-time hosts and buddies now spawn at separate safe random positions 16-28 tiles from the Kingdom Core.
    - Normal respawns remain at a stable safe position below the Core, farther away from the Rocket Silo.
  Resources:
    - Nauvis starting resources now always use the fixed top-to-bottom order Coal, Iron, Copper and Stone.
    - Kept the existing deposit locations while removing random or unstable Lua table ordering.
  Nexus Link Chest:
    - Removed the temporary ground helper text; the chest description remains available in the entity panel.

Version: 2.0.20
Date: 2026-07-18
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed dedicated-server saves retaining the old 32-64 Spawn Options slider after a mod update.
    - Spawn Options windows are now versioned and rebuilt from current code during migration and player join.
    - Recreating the top-left Nexus GUI no longer leaves the separately saved spawn selector untouched.
  Diagnostics:
    - Added log confirmation when a saved Spawn Options GUI is migrated to the fixed 50-200 range.

Version: 2.0.19
Date: 2026-07-18
  Spawning:
    - Hard-locked the player-facing Distance From Map Center slider to 50-200 chunks.
    - The Spawn Options GUI now repairs stale 32-64 scenario/save values each time it opens.
    - Primary, buddy and secondary spawn requests are clamped to 50-200 before location searching.
    - Added server-log confirmation whenever the fixed range is enforced or the Spawn Options GUI opens.

Version: 2.0.18
Date: 2026-07-18
  Spawning:
    - Expanded the selectable distance from map center from 32-64 chunks to 50-200 chunks.
    - Existing saves are migrated automatically to the new range.
    - The Nexus server rule now keeps this range fixed when stale runtime settings try to restore older values.

Version: 2.0.17
Date: 2026-07-18
  Chat:
    - Normal chat is now reliably shared between all connected Kingdoms.
    - Fixed older saves retaining a disabled shared-chat runtime setting.
    - Cross-Kingdom relays now preserve the player's chat color and colored Kingdom tag.
    - Messages are delivered directly to players in other forces to prevent force-filtering issues and duplicate lines.

Version: 2.0.16
Date: 2026-07-18
  Privacy:
    - Kingdom territory borders and map labels are now visible only to members of the owning Kingdom.
    - Rival Kingdom names and territory locations can no longer appear through unexplored map areas.
    - Territory visibility is refreshed immediately when a player joins or changes force.

Version: 2.0.15
Date: 2026-07-18
  Interface:
    - Merged the remaining legacy Server Features information into the styled IMPORTANT section.
    - Added Space Age, independent Kingdom research and enemy progression details with matching icons and colors.
    - Removed the separate Server Features heading and its duplicate legacy bullet list from the Server Info tab.

Version: 2.0.14
Date: 2026-07-18
  Bugfixes:
    - Kingdom creation no longer depends on the simulation tick advancing while a player waits in the holding area.
    - Requested spawn chunks are now force-generated and the delayed spawn is completed immediately after selection.
    - Pending delayed spawns from an existing save are force-completed automatically after updating.
  Changes:
    - Shortened the first two IMPORTANT welcome lines so they remain on one line at standard GUI scaling.

Version: 2.0.13
Date: 2026-07-18
  Bugfixes:
    - Permanently repaired sparse delayed-spawn queues that could leave players waiting in the holding area indefinitely.
    - Existing delayed-spawn queues are compacted automatically when updating the mod.
  Changes:
    - Reworked the first-join welcome window with current Nexus Kingdoms settings, icons and rich-text colors.
    - Removed the obsolete generic OARC scenario warning from the welcome window.
    - Added clearer delayed-spawn scheduling diagnostics to the server log.

Version: 2.0.12
Date: 2026-07-18
  Graphics:
    - Replaced the top-left Nexus controls icon with the new Nexus Kingdoms artwork.
  Kingdom defense:
    - Added twelve symmetric gun turrets to every new primary kingdom spawn, with three per side.
    - Each starter turret receives five firearm magazines.
  Nexus Link Chest:
    - Renamed the visible OARC Linked Chest to Nexus Link Chest.
    - Added an English description explaining matching private link codes between kingdoms.
    - Moved the chest below the Kingdom Core and player spawn, away from moat bridges.
    - Existing Nexus Link Chests are moved automatically while preserving their selected link code.
  Spawning:
    - Rebuilt spawn-location searching to scan many directions and progressively farther distances.
    - New spawns now avoid existing and pending kingdom locations and reserve enough room for the full island and moat.
    - Added forced chunk-generation recovery so players cannot remain stuck in the holding area when generation is delayed.

Version: 2.0.11
Date: 2026-07-18
  Graphics:
    - Replaced the mod thumbnail with the new Nexus Kingdoms artwork.

Version: 2.0.10
Date: 2026-07-18
  Notifications:
    - Removed the automatic announcements when a player creates their temporary team.
    - Removed the automatic joining and surface-change announcements.
    - Kingdom creation now announces: "A new kingdom has emerged" followed by the kingdom name in its selected color.

Version: 2.0.9
Date: 2026-07-18
  Notifications:
    - Added a consistent gold [NEXUS] prefix to all automatic in-game mod messages.
    - Message text now uses white as the default color for a cleaner, professional server style.
    - Existing colored names and highlighted rich-text elements remain supported.
    - Cross-force player chat keeps its normal player-chat appearance without a Nexus prefix.

Version: 2.0.8
Date: 2026-07-18
  Spawning:
    - New kingdom founders now appear directly below the Kingdom Core on their first teleport.
    - Removed the brief visual flash at the original center spawn position.
    - OARC per-player respawn data is synchronized with the Kingdom Core spawn before teleporting.

Version: 2.0.7
Date: 2026-07-18
  Kingdom Core:
    - Added a dedicated Kingdom Core Rocket Silo entity with the visible name "Kingdom Core".
    - Normal player-built Rocket Silos keep their original name.
    - Existing Nexus Kingdom Core silos migrate automatically when loading an existing world.
  Spawning:
    - Every kingdom force now uses a safe character spawn point directly below its Kingdom Core.
    - The host is moved below the core when a new kingdom is created.
    - New members joining an existing kingdom spawn below its core as well.

Version: 2.0.6
Date: 2026-07-17
  Changes:
    - Removed obsolete conflict declarations for the former standalone Nexus and OARC mods.
    - Nexus Kingdoms remains standalone; only Factorio base is required and Space Age is optional.

Version: 2.0.5
Date: 2026-07-17
  Kingdom Core:
    - Refined hazard concrete now matches the exact Rocket Silo footprint instead of creating a 13x13 platform.
    - Existing oversized foundations are trimmed back to the silo footprint during migration.
  Balance:
    - Artillery Turrets can now be crafted without tungsten.
    - Artillery Wagons can now be crafted without tungsten.
  Rankings:
    - Activity score now uses tracked active playtime instead of total online time.
    - Standing still or remaining idle no longer earns activity points.
    - Movement, building, mining, repairing, combat and direct interactions keep a player active.
    - Automatic train travel does not count as activity.
    - Rebuilt the rankings panel with a cleaner title bar, kingdom summary, medal colors, active-time column and scrollable rows.

Version: 2.0.4
Date: 2026-07-17
  Kingdom Core:
    - The Kingdom Core Rocket Silo is now fully operable and can launch rockets, while remaining non-mineable.
    - Added a 13x13 refined hazard concrete foundation beneath every new and existing Kingdom Core.
  Shared kingdoms:
    - Shared Spawn Controls announcements now display the colored kingdom name instead of the host player's name.
  Balance:
    - Rocket Turret research no longer requires Agricultural science packs or the Carbon Fiber prerequisite.
    - Rocket Turrets now use low density structures instead of carbon fiber so they can be produced without Gleba materials.
    - Artillery research no longer requires Metallurgic science packs.
    - Artillery shells use the Nauvis-compatible explosive cannon shell, radar and explosives recipe without tungsten or calcite.

Version: 2.0.3
Date: 2026-07-17
  Fixes:
    - Fixed Kingdom Cores not appearing when the spawn-created event ran before the final kingdom force was ready.
    - Kingdom Core creation is now queued and retried after spawn creation, host teleport and player reconnect.
    - Existing primary kingdoms automatically receive a missing core after updating.
    - Added the admin fallback command /nexus-create-missing-cores.
    - Added detailed server-log messages for successful placement and final placement failures.

Version: 2.0.2
Date: 2026-07-17
  Major features:
    - Added a central, non-operable Rocket Silo as the Kingdom Core for every primary kingdom spawn.
    - Destroying a Kingdom Core now defeats that kingdom, launches an atomic explosion and announces the victor.
    - Defeated kingdom structures and territory are removed, and all members return to the Nexus holding area.
    - Offline defeated members receive the defeat notice when they next join and may create a new kingdom.
  Interface:
    - Hid the generic Settings and Surface Settings tabs without removing their underlying configuration systems.
    - Removed Respawn Location controls from the player-facing Spawn Controls tab.
    - Rebuilt the Mod Info tab around the actual Nexus Kingdoms rules and objectives.
    - Moved the Nexus Rankings close button to the left of the title.

Version: 2.0.1
Date: 2026-07-17
  Changes:
    - Disabled shared map vision between kingdoms by default.
    - Territory claims now chart only for the kingdom that owns them, preventing enemy bases from being revealed automatically.
    - Territory chunks are removed automatically when no qualifying building of their owning force still supports them.
    - Existing buildings are registered during migration so removals continue to update territory correctly.
    - Changed the zone toggle message prefix from [Nexus Zones] to [Nexus].

Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2026-07-17
  Major features:
    - Integrated the complete multiplayer spawn system directly into Nexus Kingdoms.
    - Removed the required OARC dependency; players now install one mod.
    - Preserved custom kingdom names, colors, rankings and territory zones.
    - Removed public GPS coordinates from automatic spawn, buddy, secondary-spawn and reroll announcements.
    - Added compact default spawn distances: 32 chunks near, 64 chunks far, 5 chunks clear margin.
    - Replaced the OARC interface icon and portal thumbnail with the Nexus Kingdoms logo.
  Compatibility:
    - Requires a new world when upgrading from the previous split-mod architecture.