Patch Notes

The pathfinder no longer leaves the journal lying around

• Autopilot now lands where you sent it. The course plotter used to occasionally hand the autopilot a route that didn’t actually finish at the destination (or whose middle legs weren’t in jump range from each other), so a ship would set off across the galaxy and then halt at an intermediate system. The pathfinder was leaking dead-end attempts into its result while it was still searching for the real route.
• Same algorithm, fixed plumbing. Greedy best-first with backtracking is still how the plotter chooses each hop; it just no longer commits forward steps to the output until the full path is found and ends at the destination you asked for. Dead-ends are also now remembered properly, so the plotter doesn’t pick the same bad branch twice in a row.
• If no route exists, you get a clean error. Worst case, the plotter now returns a clean “No route to destination within current range” instead of a stub course that strands the fleet halfway.