Updates
Patch notes for Voxel Hounds, newest first.
October 2026: Friends, the Market and a bigger battlefield
New
- Friends list. Add pilots by callsign, see who's online, searching or in battle, and invite friends straight into your party.
- The Market. Earn credits in every battle and spend them on paint skins that repaint your HOUND for everyone in the battle. Your nation's flag and chassis colors always stay, so teams are easy to tell apart. Premium skins and supporter memberships are available too. Everything for sale is cosmetic.
- Phone and tablet support. Touch controls with a floating joystick, drag-to-aim and a FIRE button that aims while held, a compact garage, and separate matchmaking so touch players face touch players.
- Deploy countdown. Battles now open with a five-second countdown so every HOUND starts at the same moment.
- Ping meter in the top-left corner of the battle screen.
Changes
- New nations. The three sides are now fictional countries with their own flags: the Republic of Vestra (blue), the Korvan Dominion (red) and the Solmark Union (green). Your nation choice and progress carry over (blue, red and green are unchanged).
- The battlefield is 20% wider (480 m). Spawns, comm towers, ruins and rock formations are spread out to match.
- The radar is smaller, leaving more of the screen for the fight.
- Callsign badges were redesigned, and the kill badge now shows your total kills.
- Callsign changes are now a paid item; your first callsign is still free, and your rank, level and items all stay when you change it.
Fair play and stability
- New server-side anti-cheat: impossible movement, firing and ammo use are refused, and hidden enemies are no longer sent to your browser at all.
- Fixed several ways a malformed request could interrupt the server.
Earlier in 2026: Ranked, parties and accounts
- Ranked mode with tiers from Iron to Grandmaster, placement matches, a season ladder and season badges.
- Parties for up to three pilots who always fight on the same team.
- Accounts with unique callsigns, email recovery, and progress that follows you to any device.
- In-battle chat with a language filter, plus reporting for abuse and cheating.
- Pilot levels and prestige, with an animated experience bar on the results screen.
- Balance: machine guns were strengthened, and each sniper rifle now weakens its HOUND by 5% ("sniper strain"), after testing showed all-sniper builds were too dominant.
- Self-destruct for HOUNDs that have lost every weapon.
- Undo and redo in the garage, and a clear explanation when a design can't deploy.
Launch
Voxel Hounds launched with the garage, three nations, three chassis, four weapon types, comm towers and radar, and AI pilots so a battle is always available.