Hard Hoof

## 0.5.0-alpha.1

**Hard Hoof is now one jar.** Core, Tech, Portals and Adventure ship inside a single jar. Remove the old separate Hard Hoof jars before you install it.

**Computers**
- The Terminal runs VoltOS: a windowed desktop with Files, Editor, Terminal, Storage, System and Help apps, floppy and hard disks, and Tab completion.
- Volt, a small programming language for your own programs.
- Server racks: Server Rack, Valve Chassis, Transistor Chassis and a Console. Chassis take CPU, memory, drive and network card parts.
- Upgradable Terminals: fit a CPU, memory and a network card in the Drives drawer.
- Parts carry the name of the company that made them.
- Networking: Network Cards, Routers and the Exchange. Build local networks, get a public address, and connect bases.
- Accounts: first-boot setup, logins, several users, screen lock and company domains.
- Research Lab: per-player research that unlocks blueprints and ready-made programs.

**Electronics**
- The Small Electronics Lab etches boards from blueprints and salvages old boards into parts.
- Microcontrollers: burn a Volt program onto a chip, then chain up to four in a Microcontroller Frame.

**Power and factories**
- New twin-lead power cable, dyeable when insulated. The Coal Generator shows where its energy goes.
- Electric Furnace I.
- Item Pipes, powered Item Tanks, the Item Controller, and the Assembler, which crafts whole chains from storage.
- Steam power: Water Pump, Fluid Pipe, Boiler and Steam Turbine.
- Fluid Tanks and the Fluid Controller.
- Data Cable connects Terminals to machines across a factory.

**Adventure**
- Character progression: Adventure XP, six stats, a character sheet and a vitals HUD.
- Backrooms Level 0, a new dimension (/backrooms).
- The Slumber Party novelty item.

**Portals**
- See-through portals with seamless crossing between dimensions (operator tools for now).

**Interface**
- Every machine screen was redrawn in one style, with a help button that opens the field guide.
- A readability pass: brighter text, clearer slots, screens that fit at GUI scale 3.

**Changed**
- Blueprints replace the hand-drawn gate editor. A NOT gate you proved in the old lab becomes the Digital logic research.
- The Terminal recipe now takes two Logic Boards.
- Sodium was removed from the companion pack.