Field update

One rulebook, every unit

dWars v0.6.102 · 1 November 2026

Shells arm in flight, drones land before they recharge, each machine dies its own death - and damage aimed at your base lands again.

Changed

Shells and grenades arm as they fly. An unarmed round passes over terrain; an armed one stops at the first wall it meets, unless that wall belongs to the building it was aimed at. A grenade that comes down in open ground strikes the ground there.
Drones land before they recharge. Resting on the ground is a state a drone enters, rather than a guess from its speed and animation, so recharging, targeting, attacks from above and the rotor fold all agree on where it is.
Each machine dies its own death. Tanks, Rollers and turrets burn for two seconds, a base for three, Drones and Supply Bots for half a second, and each leaves a wreck for the rest of a ten-second hold.
A detonation spreads its fragments. A shell or grenade releases one fragment per tick in a scattered order instead of all eight at once, and the fireball comes from the round itself rather than a separate explosion.
Whatever pulses feeds your supply. The supply field is rooted by any unit whose state pulses, not only by one of type Base.
Turrets aim by traversing, and keep the heading you built them on. The build facing has its own field instead of borrowing the firing timer's.

Damage aimed at a base lands again. Spawn requests shared storage with the first unit slot's target list, which is a base's, so hits on that base were read as spawn requests and lost.
A Petrol Station's drop survives a full coin field. The station banks the energy for your team until a coin slot frees up.
A battalion with no movement point placed no longer reads as having an unreachable route. The empty leg counted against the map's own path-health check and held this build back.

Level play is consolidating on Nesa as its only hero. Elle's building orders move to her, and those controls are not designed yet.
Structure, upgrade and hero-skill prices remain provisional while the energy economy is tuned.
Nesa's order panel shows no prices, and an owned skill looks the same as one you have not bought.
Recordings made before 0.6.101 may not replay exactly, following the hero death, structure and ordnance changes.

A shell that doesn't know it's armed is only a rock. I'm told this is obvious. - Nesa