HWS Connect+ 6.5.0 Changelog
Released October 21, 2026
This update adds trade routes to NPC sellers, makes the Orbital Factory handle a full OCD more safely, and brings a fresh look to the Skill Tree. Pages also remember your view, and there are improvements to the Garage, OCD, player stats and more.
Item Tracer: build a route to NPC sellers
If an NPC sells an item, you can now use Build trade route on its Item Tracer page to create a route through the POIs in your Registry that sell it. The route is ready to start in HWS Universe.
- Available to HWS Elite+. For HWS items, the existing HWS items access is also required.
- The route is named Buy \<item> and uses your selected route settings, such as maximum stops and shortest route or fewest jumps.
Orbital Factory: wait for OCD space instead of using Lost & Found
Items from the factory no longer go to Lost & Found when your OCD is full. Anything that doesn’t fit waits until space opens up, including refunds from cancelled or failed jobs.
You’ll see what’s waiting in the factory job list and on the OCD page. Waiting jobs have finished crafting and don’t occupy a factory slot, but they still count toward your job limit.
- If the preview shows that the output might not fit, you can choose whether to queue the craft anyway.
Skill Tree: a clearer, refreshed tree
The Skill Tree now has a glowing sci-fi look, with clearer states for picked, available and locked branches. The day-cycle rail also makes your progress and the next cycle easier to check.
- Branches you can assign a point to stand out in both tree and list views.
- Hovering over a branch no longer shifts the tree, and long labels in the phone-friendly list view wrap instead of overflowing.
Garage: see what makes a ship special
Use the new Info button on a ship for a breakdown of blocks that exceed build limits or aren’t placeable on that ship class.
Pages remember your choices
OCD, OAM, structures, garage, skill tree, inventory, Universe map, calculators, speedrun replays and most tables now remember your view, sort and filters in your browser. Come back to the page and it opens with your saved choices instead of resetting to the default.
OCD: clearer item details and safer backpack staging
- Blacklisted items now have their own Not allowed tab in OCD Categories, so you can search for them without scrolling through other categories.
- In backpack view, hovering an OCD item shows its fill against the category cap. The inventory-side tooltip still shows the move preview.
- Sending staged items clears the pickup, and staging can no longer leave ghost stacks behind if an OCD slot changes or empties.
Smaller changes and fixes
- Player stats: your sheet now shows the Base, Skills and Survival breakdown for maximum HP, stamina and food. Maximums stay in sync with skills, survival bonuses and active stimpacks.
- AI helper: suggestions are on by default. Type
co:off:AISto turn them off; your website settings for individual hint types still apply. - Marketplace and credits: sort offers by Auto Discount, see exact credit amounts on hover, or choose Show exact credits in Settings to display whole numbers across the site. Opening an offer’s chart no longer resets the listing or scroll position.
- Speedruns: the bookmark sync token now arrives in your backpack as soon as you start or join a run, and fast jetpack climbs and falls no longer appear as jumps in replays.
- Actions: fixed an issue that could show “Something went wrong” after an action such as claiming Daily Loot, even when it had succeeded.
Questions, bugs and wishes are welcome here or on Discord. Thank you for playing on HWS! ❤️