netrekfp

Play it live: https://www.lab1702.com/fpnetrek/

Netrek from the cockpit: classic Netrek rules on the classic flat 100000×100000 galaxy, but instead of a 2D tactical view you look out of your ship at 3D planets and ships floating in space. Planets are huge up close, shrink to a dot as you fly away, and vanish past ~25k units. Press m for the galactic map.

A radar minimap in the top-right corner shows planets and ships within 20k units, north-up.

Planet names/positions, ship stats, and combat formulas are taken verbatim from the Vanilla netrek server source (quozl/netrek-server).

Run

go run .

or with Docker:

docker compose up -d

then open http://localhost:9701 (WebGL required). Up to 128 players, 32 per team.

Runs standalone or behind a path-stripping reverse proxy — the client resolves its WebSocket relative to the page URL. Caddy example:

example.com {
    redir /netrekfp /netrekfp/ 301
    handle_path /netrekfp/* {
        reverse_proxy localhost:9701
    }
}

WebSocket connections are same-origin only (Caddy preserves the Host header, so the above just works). If your proxy rewrites Host, set NETREKFP_ORIGINS to a comma-separated list of allowed origins (e.g. https://example.com), or * to disable the check.

Bots: the join screen has bot controls — +F/+R/+K/+O add a bot to a team, − removes one, BALANCE tops up the two most-populated teams to 4v4 (T-mode-ready in one click), CLEAR removes all bots. Bot AI is modeled on lab1702/netrek-web: threat assessment, torpedo dodging, lead-aimed torps and spreads, target scoring, planet defense, and a full T-mode planet game (bomb, pick up, take). Bots count toward T-mode player counts.

Rules

Standard Bronco netrek at 10 Hz: SC/DD/CA/BB/AS/SB/GA ship classes, phasers with range falloff, max 8 torps with proximity fuses, shields, weapon/engine overheat, repair mode, fuel/repair/agri planets, orbit-bomb-beam army play, planet capture (enemy → independent → yours), cloak, det.

T-mode starts when ≥2 teams each have ≥4 players and runs 30 minutes, or until fewer than 2 teams have 4+. Genocide ends the round early: take a populated team's last planet and its remaining ships are destroyed, the win is announced, and the galaxy resets (T-mode restarts if enough players remain). Either way, stats are discarded when a round ends. No database, nothing persists.

UI chrome (join screen, HUD, panels) follows the lab1702 design system (web/lab1702.css — terminal-phosphor tokens, l7-* components); the netrek team colors and all in-game rendering are historical and deliberately outside the system.

Controls

Input	Action
right-click	set course toward pointer
left-click / t	fire torpedo toward pointer
middle-click / f	fire phaser toward pointer
p	player list: 4 team columns, sorted by kills
Enter / shift+Enter	team chat / all chat (Esc cancels)
0–9, =	warp speed (= is max)
s	shields
o	orbit (warp ≤ 2, near planet)
l / left-click on map	lock nearest planet: autopilot handles speed and course, orbits on arrival; any manual speed/course cancels
b	bomb (orbiting enemy planet)
z / x	beam armies up / down
c	cloak
d	det enemy torps
R	repair mode
m	galactic map
\	bot management panel
Q	self destruct (10 s fuse; any other action cancels)
Esc	quit ship (or close bot panel)

You need kills to carry armies (2 per kill, 3 per kill in an Assault ship).