Travel News

• Enhanced user age handling:
  • New user setup now asks the user for their birthdate.
  • If the user is 18+, they are also asked if they wish to show 18+ servers. This should help 18+ servers be more discoverable since many people don’t think to look in the filters to enable them.
  • If the user is less than 18, then 18+ servers will not be shown in the hub list and 18+ filter cannot be modified.
• Fix high cpu usage some users experienced

Space Station Multiverse now supports keypair authentication! This completely decentralized authentication method will allow you to authenticate yourself with MV Engine servers.

Creating a key is simple, only requiring you enter your desired name and hit continue:

The server browser will show which servers support either key auth and/or guest mode:

(Due to a technical limitation, the bookmarked server page only shows account support info for MV engine based servers. We are able to show this on the server browser page due to an update to the MV Hub.)

It is recommended you back up your key in the new key configuration menu:

MV Engine has been similarly updated to support key auth, as well as includes some new functionality server operators may find useful. See the new MV Engine information for details.

Hub Requirement Changes

Due to the recent WizDen auth block, SSMV users can no longer connect to servers that require WizDen auth. This has lead to the situation where the hub was filled with many unconnectable entries. In addition, the block error returned by WizDen hub was causing error output on the hub list.

To resolve this bad user experience, the following two changes are being made:

1. The WizDen hub has been removed from the default hub list
2. MV Hub now automatically denies servers that do not either have guest mode enabled or use MV Engine:

Engine	Auth Mode	Status
WizDen	Disabled (Guest Only)	OK
WizDen	Optional (Guest or Account Allowed)	OK
WizDen	Required (Account Only)	Blocked
MV	Disabled (Guest Only)	OK
MV	Optional (Guest or Key Allowed)	OK
MV	Required (Key Only)	OK

The intent of this change is that all servers displayed by MV by default should be connectable by MV.

I am hearing reports that WizDen auth server appears to be blocking SSMV at this time. (Example from the Discord)

If you wish to use a WizDen account, you should expect that you will likely need to use a different launcher going forward.

I am aware that other alt launchers are not blocked, however, SSMV will not be making any attempt to evade the user agent ban.

You can still use guest mode on servers that have it enabled.

I will be looking into developing SSMV Auth in future — it will probably take a bit. I would like to develop SSMV Auth in such a way that it’s at least partly decentralized and can’t be weaponized by any individual or group. Also, because auth is in engine code, this likely means a server will not be able to do both WizDen auth and SSMV auth and will unfortunately have to choose one type of auth (though I need to research this more).

((This is essentially the beginning of the hard community split. More details to come…))

Update: WizDen appears to have also blocked the BlepStation server from using SS14’s Auth Server, even when using stock WizDen launcher.