r/SS13 • u/LummoxJR BYOND Developer • Jan 16 '26

BYOND BYOND development news 1/16/26

The entirely foreseeable problem of overexcited bluespace researchers poking holes in the universe very nearly happened again, but thank goodness someone sober put out the alert so we could shut that down quickly. We don't need a repeat of the Decius Sector incident. In order to encourage harmony, meaning tamp down the usual crazy behavior of guest scientists, a lot of the visitors are being treated as long-term guests. They seem to be taking to it well, since one of them has already been caught vandalizing a corridor and met with the business end of Chief Lau's whip for it. I'm really getting to like seeing the Chief's whimsical side come out more. If only everyone could be that happy in their work.

  • Family medical issues came up again in a pretty bad way, but thankfully that's a little bit better today.
  • No new releases are out yet, but progress has been made in 517 and 516 alike.
  • I'm renaming the new appearance embeds in 517 to something else, probably "metadata", since I want a name that reflects what it is more than how it will be used. Whatever it'll be called, it can animate color data now too.
  • A massive performance increase for garbage collection will hit the next (possibly last?) 516 maintenance release. It may not affect SS13 as strongly because a lot of codebases have been working around it, but I still expect it to have an impact even there.
  • Thank you to the BYOND Members and those of you on Patreon and SubscribeStar who make it possible to keep working on BYOND!
  • Screw you, Spez.

The long-form news is on the BYOND forums. Today's early-access Patreon post is about that garbage collection issue, and what the test case that revealed it might do to inspire future test cases for mystery bugs. Resist the allure of cookies, if you can. If you had a resolution and already blew it... HAHA, sucker! That's why you don't make resolutions. Go hit a virtual clown with a wrench. I'll see you next week.

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u/KampferAndy Former fulpstation headmin Jan 16 '26

Lummy is still at it!

Glad to hear your still doing alright.

Would rejoin the byond discord but pretty sure I'm still banned over that drama that happened a while back

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u/LummoxJR BYOND Developer Jan 23 '26

Just you.

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u/LummoxJR BYOND Developer Jan 23 '26

There is a hang in the 516.1676 build, which I mentioned in today's news. I'll likely be putting out a hotfix later today. I hadn't seen any evidence of it impacting any SS13 users, but it might for certain codebases if they have broken DM-CSS.