Chapter 6: Reality Thread 10 – Ground Control

What Reality Thread 10 is

Reality Thread 10 ("Ground Control", Chapter 6) is Earth2's next major E2V1 release: version 0.6.10.0 plus the updates that followed it, up to 0.6.10.2 at the time of the article (November 14, 2026). Reality Thread 9 brought the Command Deck online. This release connects the decisions Players make about their land and resources with the experience of being inside E2V1: find a resource, prepare a property to read it, choose where to store it, and take a Cydroid out to survey, explore or battle. E2V1 is still in active Pre-Alpha.

How to use this page

• This summary orients readers and links to the official RT10 post. The official article has 38 segments with screenshots; this page covers the main themes only.
• Do not treat this file as patch notes. Earth2 may revise numbers, timings and requirements after publishing, and some features need the matching client and, where applicable, a game-server update.

Headline features

• Mentar Console — property, resource, Jewel, Cydroid and Character management inside E2V1, opened from the profile picture in the HUD. It also reaches Items, Quests and the Skin Store. Earth2 says it improved the backend so account requests respond faster than the old website workflow.
• Your Next Steps and guided tasks — each property shows what is ready and what is missing, and the What do you want to do? page offers 54 guided tasks that highlight the next control to press. The guides do not carry out actions for the Player; steps that would spend funds are flagged with a warning.
• Properties browser and folders — filters for tier, class, tile size, resources, contents, setup status and empty Cydroid or Jewel slots. Private folders (with subfolders) can hold a shared resource split, such as a Focus on one resource, applied to eligible properties, with a review before anything changes.
• Sand, wood, fresh water and salt water — terrain-derived resource readings now exist for all four, generated for the whole globe from Earth2's own E2V1 world data. Salt water uses the same Jewels and Cydroids as fresh water (Blue). Prospecting needs a suitably fused Cydroid: Green for wood, Sandy for sand, Blue for water. Only trees count towards wood.
• Jewels — plan a Mentar or Cydroid arrangement and compare the result before saving, find Jewels already slotted elsewhere, and craft Jewels. A Brilliant-quality Jewel in a Mentar now removes interference and gives every eligible reading resource a 100% allocation, plus an O.U. boost by tier (+10% Tier 1, +100% Tier 2, +200% Tier 3). Only the highest-tier Brilliant in the Mentar counts.
• The Jewel Bazaar and Recent Activity — basket purchases in the crafting workspace, and a way back to properties you were working on, Cydroid sales and Pilot responses.
• HoloBuildings — storage shows up in the world as holographic buildings, switched on from Map Filters.
• Surveying and cargo — hold R near the ground at low speed to survey tiles, then view saved surveys on the map. O.U. cargo can be loaded onto or unloaded from a Cydroid during flight, using the property beneath it.
• Pilot Feedback — after a raid, Pilots can rate the Cydroids they flew so Owners can improve them.

Halloween

The Halloween system, Halloween Spins and all 38 seasonal Cydroid skins went live on October 31, 2026, the day Reality Thread 10 originally launched. The 2026 Halloween season runs from October 31 to November 25 (UTC). Skins are managed through My Skins and the in-game Skin Store. A skin changes how a Cydroid looks only; it does not change its permanent fuse or add a resource bonus. Browse the Halloween 2026 Cydroid skins on E2 University.

Also in the release

• Flight and raiding — launches connect to the selected Cydroid's flight session, with one owned open-world flight active at a time. The supported squad ladder is raised to twenty, with better squad matching.
• Everyday improvements — clearer previews, warnings before a change affects a property's resource allocation, more useful map controls and filters for owned properties, and a scan for Horde spawn points.
• Wallet and Characters — E-ther, staking and Essence appear in the wallet, and Characters have a place in the property console.
• Instant Charge — an Essence-paid charge option for eligible owned Cydroids in the console, with 100% of the Essence used burned.
• The Mentar Console in more languages.

Access

Access is staged. Alongside Testers and the badge holders already flying, Landholders with the Custodian of Plots badge, awarded for holding at least 5,000 tiles, are being brought in. Earth2 said access should be granted within 3 hours of the article being published. New badge holders are asked not to buy an expensive computer just to start: Earth2 is working on a way to play E2V1 without high-end equipment, but availability and timing are not confirmed.

Official announcement

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