Versefiles Companion

A small Windows program that follows the log Star Citizen writes while you play and keeps a journal: contracts, the blueprints you received and which contract gave them, rewards, sales and purchases, travel, med bed visits.

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One file: double-click it once. It installs itself for your Windows account, puts a "Versefiles Companion" shortcut on the desktop and in the Start menu and removes the downloaded file - from then on start it from the shortcut. The window opens on Home: "Start RSI Launcher" and your numbers of this patch, the last seven days and all time, counted on your PC from LIVE and HOTFIX. On the first start the companion reads your earlier sessions from logbackups, then follows the game. Close the window and it keeps running in the tray - right-click the icon to exit.

When you accept a contract, it shows what Versefiles knows about it in a small panel over the game for twenty seconds - what it pays and how long players take, the steps, where other players got stuck, the blueprints it can hand out and your own record - and again for each new step: first as it was, a second later with the new step. Alt+Shift+P brings it back - for that the companion only checks whether exactly this combination is held down, and keeps nothing of it. It needs the game in borderless mode, never takes the focus and does not touch the game. Switch it off, or only the new steps, under "Settings" in the window. With a key, the blueprints of a contract that you own already are ticked. And when a game starts, the panel says once that the companion is ready - which session it follows and where your journal goes. With several contracts open, the one that moved last comes first and the others follow one line each below it; pressing Alt+Shift+P again shows the next one in full.

It keeps itself up to date: it asks this site for a newer version at start, every six hours and right after the game closes, and installs it by itself then - never in the middle of a game, and only a version signed by Versefiles, checked on your PC before anything is replaced. "Install now" in the window does it at once. Switch it off under "Settings" in the window. Still on version 0.5.0 or older? Download it once more by hand - those cannot update themselves yet.

It is a readable script, not an .exe: open it in any text editor before you run it. Windows may ask whether to run a file from the internet.

What changed

One entry per companion version, newest first. Click a version to read it. Versions above 0.15.1 are test versions — switch "Get test versions first (beta)" on in the companion to get them.

0.15.1 2026-10-15 the download above

• Companion 0.15.1 is now the version for everybody. Until today it was the test version: the home page in the style of the RSI Launcher, "Start RSI Launcher", your numbers of this patch, the last seven days and all time, and one key for the journal and game data. Copies that update themselves get it on their next check; the download on the companion page is this version too. Version 0.13.1 and later install themselves on the first start and put a shortcut on the desktop and in the Start menu — the companion page now says so.
• Companion 0.15.1 (beta) works with that one key. Its settings no longer ask for an import key, and the Game data tab is always there. Without a key, it asks for yours. With a key that may not upload game data yet, it says so, and "Check again" picks up an admin's yes without a restart. Once allowed, it shows the game data view as before.
• Companion 0.15.1 (beta): an item's type now comes from the game where our rules only guessed. When the companion reads the game data, an item the game itself attaches as a utility turret is now a "Utility Turret" — in this patch the ROC Mining Arm, which the class name had made a "Turret". The site has kept it out of the ship components since 1.61.1; from the next game data upload on, its own page says what it is, too. The companion also reads, straight from the game files, how many points each reward step of an event needs; the event pages show them since 1.62.0. How many points a contract earns is still nowhere in the files.
• Companion 0.15.1 (beta): the big button says what it opens: START RSI LAUNCHER. It always opened the RSI Launcher, never the game itself, and now says so; the tray menu too. The button that opened the journal folder is gone.

0.15.0 2026-10-15

• Companion 0.15.0 (beta): the home page in the style of the RSI Launcher. The companion's home page now sits on a Star Citizen wallpaper from CIG's official fan kit, with the launcher's look: a "Game environment" box showing the installed version as the launcher does (e.g. LIVE · 4.10.2-live.12913470), a START GAME button, tabs for this patch, the last 7 days and all time, and your numbers on cards over the picture — now with the places you have been as a card of its own. The bar on top carries the views and, on its own on the right, whether your journal reaches Versefiles. START GAME and the tabs work from the keyboard too. The wallpaper travels inside the companion, so nothing new is downloaded or sent.

0.14.1 2026-10-13

• Companion 0.14.1 (beta): the home page's tiles no longer cut numbers off. Ten hours of play and more now read as whole hours ("85 h"), a million aUEC and more as "12.3 M" — before, "99 h 59 min" lost its last letter. While a game runs, the time played now keeps counting instead of waiting for the next event, and a fault on the home page can no longer stop the companion from following the game. The companion also no longer adds the patch name to what it uploads, so "nothing new is sent" holds to the letter.

0.14.0 2026-10-13

• Companion 0.14.0 (beta): a home page with "Start game". The companion now opens on a page of its own: one click starts the RSI Launcher, or brings it to the front if it is open already. Below that are your numbers for this patch, the last 7 days or all time — contracts done, time played, sessions, aUEC earned and your success rate, then blueprints and places, quantum jumps, deaths, medbed treatments and CrimeStat changes, refinery orders, sales and purchases. Everything is counted on your PC from the companion's own journal, LIVE and HOTFIX only, and nothing new is sent anywhere. Starting the companion a second time now brings its window to the front.

0.13.2 2026-10-07

• Companion 0.13.2 for testers (beta). The button "Versefiles…" in the companion's window is now called "Settings", and so is the window it opens. In the taskbar the companion now shows as "Versefiles Companion" with its own icon instead of as Windows PowerShell; shortcuts made by 0.13.1 are brought up to date when 0.13.2 first starts.

0.13.1 2026-10-05

• The companion gets its own icon and no longer keeps a console window open — for testers first, in Companion 0.13.1 (beta). Started by a double-click, it now runs without the black window that used to stay open beside it. On its first start it installs itself into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Versefiles\Companion, puts a "Versefiles Companion" shortcut with the new icon on the desktop and in the Start menu, and removes the file you downloaded; from then on you start it from the shortcut. It installs only a version signed by Versefiles and never puts an older version over a newer one. Everybody gets 0.13.1 once it has been tested.

0.13.0 2026-10-04

• A beta channel for the companion. New companion versions now go to testers first and reach everybody only once they have been tested. The first test version is Companion 0.13.0. With it comes a tick under "Versefiles…", "Get test versions first (beta)", for anybody who wants to try new versions early; they may still have faults. Your companion gets 0.13.0 by itself once it has been tested.

0.12.2 2026-10-03

• The companion no longer goes down with a second contract. From 0.12.0 on, the overlay could come up empty when it switched to another contract, and the hotkey could then close the companion. It happened whenever the contract shown had steps you had not reached yet, such as a fresh one with a walkthrough. A contract the site does not know got its name back as well; it showed a blank title before. Companion 0.12.2.

0.12.1 2026-09-30

• The overlay finds the right mission more often: the game writes a contract's internal name a line before "Contract Accepted", and the companion used to drop it and look the contract up by its title alone. Now it keeps the name for the acceptance that follows. Companion 0.12.1.

0.12.0 2026-09-30

• Several contracts at once in the overlay. The companion follows every contract you have open, not only the last one you took. The one that moved last stands in full at the top — a new step of any of them brings it there — and the others follow one line each with the step they are at. Press Alt+Shift+P again while the panel is up to see the next one in full; after the last one it closes. Started during a game, the companion picks up the contracts already open from its journal. Companion 0.12.0.

0.11.2 2026-09-29

• The overlay gives the time players need as a span: "12–18 min (median 14)" — the middle half of all runs and the median, as the mission page states it. The extremes would say less: one contract left open over lunch stretches them. Your own line adds your fastest run. Companion 0.11.2.

0.11.1 2026-09-29

• The overlay's reward and time now show up for real contracts. Most contracts pay by a formula, so the game files name no figure — there the overlay now says what players were paid, as their logs record it, once three players have done the contract. With your companion key it also shows your own time and the reward you got last, next to how often you did it; your own figures need no three players. Companion 0.11.1.

0.11.0 2026-09-29

• What a contract pays and how long players take, in the overlay. Right under the title the companion's overlay now says the reward and how long players need from accepting to completing — so a contract without a walkthrough still shows something useful, along with its blueprints. The time is the middle of the measured runs and appears once three players have run the contract, as on the mission page. Companion 0.11.0.

0.10.0 2026-09-29

• Blueprints you own are ticked in the overlay. With a companion key, the blueprints a contract can hand out show which ones you have already — received in the game or marked by hand on the site — with how many of the pool are yours; the ones still to get come first. Companion 0.10.0.

0.9.0 2026-09-29

• Each new step of a contract shows. When the game gives you the next objective, the companion's overlay comes back by itself: first as it was, and a second later the step changes, so you see what moved on. In the list of steps from the game, the open ones are lit and the done ones dimmed. The same objective sent twice or a counter going up (0/12 → 4/12) does not bring it back. Switch this off on its own under "Versefiles…" in the companion's window. Companion 0.9.0.

0.8.1 2026-09-29

• In the companion's Game data view, a button that cannot be used right now — during a run, say — looks switched off: grey text and a grey frame. It used to keep its blue frame with dark, barely readable text. Companion 0.8.1.

0.8.0 2026-09-29

• One program instead of two. The upload tool is part of the Versefiles Companion now (0.8.0). With an import key — editors get one — the companion's window has a Game data view that reads the installed build and uploads it, and a notification says when your game has a build Versefiles does not have yet. A run goes on in the background: the journal and the overlay carry on meanwhile. The companion takes over the old tool's key and game folder by itself; an installed QuestGuideUploader.cmd updates itself one last time and then points to the companion. Without an import key the companion looks and works as before.

0.7.2 2026-09-28

• The key combination that brings the overlay back now works while you play: Alt+Shift+P instead of Ctrl+Alt+V, which never arrived while the game had the focus. The companion only checks whether exactly this combination is held down and keeps nothing of it; the keys still reach the game. Companion 0.7.2 — an older one installs it by itself once the game is closed.

0.7.1 2026-09-28

• The Versefiles Companion says when an update is ready: Install … now in the window installs it at once, even during a game, and Check for updates in the tray menu asks right away. It also asks right after the game closes, so a new version arrives the same evening instead of up to six hours later. Companion 0.7.1.

0.7.0 2026-09-28

• Mission info over the game. When you accept a contract, the Versefiles Companion shows what Versefiles knows about it in a small panel over the game for twenty seconds: the steps, where other players got stuck, the blueprints it can hand out and your own record. Ctrl+Alt+V brings it back. It works in every channel and needs the game in borderless mode; it never takes the focus or a click and does not touch the game. Nothing of it is stored — the journal still takes LIVE and HOTFIX only. Companion 0.7.0; a 0.6.x installs it by itself once the game is closed.

0.6.1 2026-09-27

• The Versefiles Companion shows its version in the window title and the tray, and the Versefiles account its key belongs to in the status line and under "Versefiles..." - so you can see where your journal goes. Companion 0.6.1; a 0.6.0 installs it by itself once the game is closed.

0.6.0 2026-09-27

• The Versefiles Companion and the upload tool update themselves. They ask this site for a newer version at start, and the companion every six hours as well. They install it by themselves: the companion only once the game is closed, never in the middle of a game. Installed is only a version signed by Versefiles, checked on your PC before anything is replaced, and the previous one stays next to it as a .bak file. Switch it off in the companion under "Versefiles...", in the upload tool with "autoUpdate": false in its config.json. Companion 0.6.0 and upload tool 1.0.0 are the first to do it, so download them once more by hand.

0.5.0 2026-09-26

• Companion 0.5.0: right after you give up a contract, a notification names the step where it stopped; a click opens My log to say why. The contract is sent at once, so it is already there.

0.4.0 2026-09-26

• The companion's "Hangar assigned" is now "Hangar request completed" — the game sends it for landing and departure requests alike. Companion 0.4.0.

Sending your journal to Versefiles

Optional. Without a key the journal stays on your PC (in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Versefiles\Companion). With a key from your profile page the companion sends it here, and you get:

• your log and blueprint collection on the site (My log),
• a list that ticks off the blueprints you receive (My list),
• for a contract you gave up: the step where it stopped, and one click to say why - the tray icon reminds you right after,
• and, counted from three players on and without names: what contracts really hand out, how long they take and where players give up, on each mission page.

Sent are the events of the journal. Never your handle, your account or character ids, your IP address or the names of other players - the companion does not record them, and the site keeps only the fields it knows. Delete everything any time on My log. Only LIVE and HOTFIX sessions count - HOTFIX plays on the live database. PTU and Tech Preview sessions stay on your PC. Privacy

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For editors: game data

The companion can also read the installed build - missions, items, places, the contract broker - and upload it to Versefiles: a "Game data" view appears in the window, and a notification says when your game has a build the site does not have yet. It takes the same key as your journal; a Versefiles admin allows that key to upload game data. This used to be a tool of its own, the QuestGuide Uploader; the companion takes over its game folder by itself. More on uploading game data