# HWS Connect | Changelog
**URL:** https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392
**Category:** 🖥️ HWS Connect
**Tags:** hwsconnect, hws-features, changelog
**Created:** [February 6, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392 "2017-02-06T19:20:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392/124 "2026-10-23T15:01:46Z")
# HWS Connect+ 6.8.0 Changelog
This update lets you start planned Universe routes in game, one jump at a time. OCD Trash is back, and item commands now queue safely instead of being lost to the chatbot cooldown.
## Universe: start a warp route in game
Use **Start ingame** on a planned route to bookmark each jump as you travel, until you reach your destination. You’ll get the bookmark sync item, and can use Skip or Stop while the run is underway.
- The run catches up if you arrive at a later jump than expected.
- **My position** and **Warp here** now use your live in-game system.
- Routes can reach Star Fragment systems hidden by the in-game map, but bookmarks only reveal public stars and your own unlocked fragments.
## OCD: Trash and queued commands
Trash once again sends items for deletion and asks you to confirm in game. Swaps, Trash, Send and saved GET lists now run through a queue, sending one command every 6 seconds.
- Trash everything staged, drop a staged stack on Trash, or drop an OCD cell to trash the amount that isn’t staged.
- The queue shows progress and a countdown, lets you cancel pending commands, and accepts more swaps while it runs. A single command still sends right away when the queue is idle.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392/125 "2026-10-23T15:17:47Z")
# HWS Connect+ 6.9.0 Changelog
Bounties are back as a real hunt: the Hunter Board is now the board of the new **Wanted** system, with holographic Wanted posters, fair bounty rules and an end to bounties as a cheap way to track people in PvE.
## Hunter Board: Wanted posters
Everyone with a price on their head now gets a Wanted poster: the reward, who paid into it, a red **WANTED BY HWS** stamp for an HWS bounty, and where the target was last seen, if you may know that. Online players get a pulsing dot. Prefer the old list? The table is one click away and the board remembers your choice.
- **Recently collected** above the posters shows who collected which bounty in the last days.
- **Where a target is** only shows for an HWS bounty, or for a player bounty of 50M+ on a PvP playfield, and never to the side that paid for it. Everywhere else it says Unknown.
## Placing a bounty: no refunds, a fee up front
A bounty is now a reward for someone else, not a tracker you get back. The dialog shows the **20 % HWS fee** and the total before you click RUN! (50M costs 60M), and tells you right away if the bounty can’t be placed.
- Minimum 1M. You and your faction can pay into the same target once per 24 hours, and after a bounty was collected there is a 6-hour pause.
- Whoever paid, their faction (also one they left less than 7 days ago) and their allies can’t collect the bounty. If they kill the target, the bounty simply stays.
- **Set Wanted zones** (the old Guilty zones) put an HWS bounty on everyone who enters, usually 50M. It shows your position to everyone and blocks EGS Stealth until someone collects it or you visit a **Clear Wanted** zone.
- Guilty and `egs:noguilty` are gone. Collecting 10M or more still gives the bounty hunter bonus.
- All the details: [Hunter Board guide](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-hunter-board/11555).
## Smaller changes
- The **Players** menu is now called **HWS Community**.
- **Online Players** lost its always-empty Playfield column. It never shows where anyone is.
- Dropdown lists stay readable in the dark theme.
- The HWS Assistant knows the new bounty rules.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2026, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392/127 "2026-10-24T09:01:50Z")
# HWS Connect+ 6.11.0 Changelog
This update brings the Universe map closer to what you see in game, lets bounty payers finish their own bounties, and gets Patreon daily loot claims moving again when one player’s claim runs into an error.
## Universe: the map matches the game
The Universe map now uses each server’s real star list, so stars such as Legan-e and Boratir appear where they are in game. Search results also show the right region for stars.
## Hunter Board: you can collect your own bounty
If you paid into a bounty, you can now collect it by killing the target. You get back your own contribution minus the 20% fee, the bounty ends, and the target gets the 6-hour protection pause.
- The bounty dialog explains that the paying side won’t see the target’s location, and that collecting your own bounty costs the fee.
## Daily loot: one bad claim won’t block the rest
Patreon auto-claims now keep going if one player’s EAH read or claim fails. That player will be retried on the next run, so one error won’t stop other patrons from getting their daily loot.
## Marketplace prices are live in game again
EAH can once again get live marketplace prices from HWS Connect+, helping it price structure sales, insurance and traders using what items really sell for.
- Patreon linking works again when the saved creator token has expired and a refreshed token is available.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2026, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392/128 "2026-10-24T11:17:25Z")
# HWS Connect+ 6.12.0 Changelog
Switch between the RE EU and RE NA Hunter Boards, or see both together. You can also pause automatic page refreshes by default, while keeping manual refresh available.
## Hunter Board: EU, NA or Combined
Choose HWS+ RE EU, HWS+ RE NA or Combined with the new tabs. Combined shows bounties from both servers, with each bounty marked by its server; if the same player has a bounty on both, you’ll see them separately. The board opens on your current server, unless you follow a player link to a specific board.
- Online indicators and the bounty dialog now use the server each bounty is on.
## Settings: pause automatic refreshes
The new **Auto refresh pages** switch in Settings → General is on by default. Turn it off to pause automatic refreshes on pages with live data; you can still refresh manually, or turn auto refresh back on for an individual page from its header.
- Dashboard live vitals keep updating either way.
- Settings now open on **General** by default, and the tabs have been reordered.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392/129 "2026-10-24T16:17:29Z")
# HWS Connect+ 6.13.0 Changelog
The Hunter Board now opens with both servers’ bounties in view. Watched players are easier to spot, and Wanted posters now show Steam profile pictures when available.
## Hunter Board: Combined is the starting view
The Hunter Board now opens on **Combined** , with RE EU and RE NA tabs one click away. If you jump to a player from Online Players, their bounty is highlighted in Combined on the server where it was placed.
## Hunter Board: watched players stay at the top
Players on your watch list now stay above everyone else on every tab, in both poster and table views, no matter how the table is sorted. Watch someone from their poster and they move up straight away.
## Wanted posters: Steam profile pictures
Wanted poster crosshairs now show the player’s Steam profile picture when available. If we can’t find or load a picture, you’ll still see the player’s initial.
The [Hunter Board guide](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-hunter-board/11555) is updated for the tabs, the watch list order and the pictures.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤
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### Author:  [@RexXxuS](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/u/RexXxuS)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-connect-changelog/4392/130 "2026-10-26T17:22:57Z")
# HWS Connect+ 6.14.0 Changelog
The Structure Viewer imports many more kinds of 3D models, in colour and with smoother hulls. HWS Residences are now set up automatically right after you buy one, and the Com Center has a new Inbox for messages from the HWS team.
## Structure Viewer: 3D model hull import, now in colour
**Import 3D model hull** (HWS Master+) now reads **STL, PLY, GLB and self-contained glTF** models. A model with vertex colours, material colours or a colour texture paints the hull with up to **32 of its own colours** ( **Use model colours** , on by default). Hulls fit much more smoothly, with fewer spikes and steps, and can be as big as the game allows: **250 blocks per axis**.
- **Fit hull shapes** now picks from 31 hull shapes besides the cube (slopes, corners, ramps, walls…). **Shape set** : **All available** (default), **Basic (cube, half block, slope, corner)**, or pick the shapes yourself.
- **Fine** is the new default fitting quality.
- The model is converted on the HWS server: the dialog counts the seconds and you can cancel. Model files up to 100 MB; compressed meshes and .gltf files that reference separate files are refused with a hint on how to export them.
- Guide: [HWS Structure Viewer](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/40206)
## Residence: set up automatically, plus your new Inbox
Buying an **HWS Residence** on **Support Us** no longer waits for an admin: a free copy of your version is set up for you right away, and your new **Inbox** tells you its coordinates. A version with no free copy left on a server is marked **sold out on this server**.
- Buying again while your Residence is active pays it ahead for more seasons. After each season reset you get your version again by itself, and the Inbox tells you where.
- If a Residence can’t be set up automatically, the Inbox says so and RexXxuS sets it up by hand. No ticket needed.
- **Inbox** : messages from the HWS team now appear at the top of the **Com Center** , in your site language. The envelope right of your Steam picture shows a red dot while a message is unread and takes you to it. Opening a message marks it read, or use **Mark all read**. With browser notifications on, you also get a push.
- Guides: [HWS Residence](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/hws-residence/14308) · [HWS Com Center](https://forum.empyrion-homeworld.net/t/40201)
## Fixes
- **HWS Trader** : items without a stack size (e.g. Hydroponics Bay (Pentaxid)) were priced and sent as amount 1, whatever you entered. The price now follows the amount, and the package carries the amount you asked for.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤
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