Developer posts and news about this game.
Script Panels Scripts can claim their own real display panel now, instead of only ever printing lines and reading one at a time - open_panel() grabs one from a script panel in your layout.cfg. The Layout Designer can build one visually and export the file. open_panel("log") claim
Bug Fixes sqli() no longer crashes a script when a target has no configured routes - returns a normal checkable result instead. Object literals, lists, and function calls can now be written across multiple lines. ls now shows real file permissions and ownership, matching what dow
This is the biggest update Blackdoor's had since launch, and it's less about any one feature than about the world stopping being so still. A server used to be a filing cabinet - it sat there with its files and its users until you did something to it, and nothing happened in betwe
New Action link syntax (open a firewall port, view server users, etc. from an HTML page) is now documented right in the Workshop editor when editing an .html file, instead of only existing in an external doc. A new editor= option in ~/.config/blackdoor.conf (simple or nano) - nan
New The mission editor's IRC Chatter sequences can be edited after adding them now, not just deleted and retyped from scratch. The mission editor's SERVER field is a real picker now, pulled from your own saved servers, instead of a free-text box. Publishing a mission now bundles
New String formatting: "%s connected on port %d" % . %s for any value, %d/%f for numbers, %% for a literal percent. rm_dir(conn, path) - recursively delete a directory and everything inside it. get_unix_time() - real wall-clock time, for benchmarking your own script's actual elap
New Backup copies of the 5 starter scripts now live on the drop box, under /tools/starter_scripts/. Broke your own copy? Grab a fresh one any time. publish
New exit() - halts a script immediately, even from inside a function. return only pops back to whatever called that function; exit() stops the whole script right there, at any nesting depth. raise("message") (alias: error()) - same idea, but marks the stop as an actual error inst
Bug Fixes Imported modules couldn't use any builtin or API function inside their own functions - calling log(), int(), str(), connect(), or anything else from inside a function defined in an import'ed module failed outright with "'x' is not defined." Modules now have the same ful
Thank you for supporting me. Having a launch date behind me instead of ahead of me is still sinking in. The full game is live - and it's a bigger launch than originally planned. A batch of content I was going to hold back for a free update landed in time, so it shipped with the g
Features Recovery shell for a deleted root filesystem - if you (or a script) rm -r your own machine's / directory, the terminal now drops into a bare recovery> prompt instead of leaving you in a broken, half-working state forever. Only basic navigation works until you run rest
Features Music, for real this time - the music command is live: view the playlist, music next / music prev to skip around, music to jump straight to a track, or music set to loop one track on repeat instead of rotating, for anyone who just wants one song. Tracks now play out in f
Features Customize your UI layout - ~/.config/layout.cfg (same idea as blackdoor.conf's theme customization) lets you rearrange every pane on screen. Just write "width height content" per line and panels place themselves automatically, left to right, wrapping to a new row as need
Blackdoor just hit 1,000 wishlists on Steam! Thank you - genuinely, it means a lot. This has been one person building this for way too many hours at a stretch, and every one of those wishlists is proof it wasn't just me who thought that sounded worth building. For anyone just fin
Features Discord Rich Presence - the game now shows what you're up to in Discord: connected to a server, on a mission, or freelancing in the terminal. Live chat content filter - messages sent in #lounge are now automatically filtered for inappropriate language. Steam Workshop pub
Features #lounge -> Discord relay - messages sent in the in-game #lounge IRC channel now appear in the Blackdoor Discord server in real time. One-way for now (Discord -> game coming later). network list - lists every server you have ever cracked, even if you have since remo
Bug Fixes connect() bypassed authentication - calling connect(ip, port) without credentials gave full filesystem access: list_files , read_file , download , write_file , delete_file , scrub_log , and decrypt all worked without cracking a user first. This was unintended. All files
New - Audit Leaderboards (Full game only - viewable in the demo, but daily and weekly audits require the full game.) boards.blackdoor.tools is now fully live. Daily and weekly audit boards track completion times - the same target for every player on the same day, ranked by how fa
New - Full Audit Contracts (Full game only - not available in the demo.) hexdump has started sending repeatable pen-test work. Once you're mid-campaign, a new contract type appears on the job board: Full Audit . Each audit is a fresh procedurally-generated target - different serv
Community patch - new NPCs, new scripting tools, QoL, and bug fixes. Thanks to 2dPrinter, Aluvard, _xp_, ItsGime, and delta for the repors. New Community NPCs Three new regulars have joined #lounge : 2dprinter , delta , and vince_kully . They show up in ambient chat, respond to e