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Persistence

Restoring a Player on Another Moon

May 14 2026 Jubaleth ASHES OF THE UNBOUND, UNREAL ENGINE, MULTIPLAYER, PERSISTENCE

Saving a player at planetary scale is not the same as saving a transform. By 13–14 May, Ashes of the Unbound had dedicated-server persistence and a hierarchy of celestial coordinate frames. Joining those systems exposed …

Versioning Save Data as Ordered Chunks

April 13 2026 PERSISTENCE, ARCHITECTURE, UNREAL ENGINE

Persistence became an explicit, versioned protocol instead of a reflection pass over whatever objects happened to exist.