Changelog

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This changelog is generated straight from the project's git history — every feature, fix and improvement, dated and categorised. No marketing gloss; just the work, as it happened.

Logged updates

Active days

0.1.0

Current version

6 Jun 2026

Since

New Fixed Improved Visuals Packaging

15 Jun 20262 updates

Newmobile Capacitor iOS/Android — touch + forced landscape

Neweconomy 30-day mastery-arc calibration + Ens family recipes

14 Jun 20265 updates

Newforum Ship alchemy-only subset + rename Heredom→The Temple, NZ→Isles of Gold

Newphone Settings about/changelog/fullscreen + dev speed cheat; Tips support email

Packagingwin Add portable .exe target (double-click-to-play)

PackagingLocal no-CI all-platform installer script + build/signing guide

Newbrand Salmethic app icon + cross-platform icon pull-through

13 Jun 20264 updates

Packagingdist Electron-builder packaging for linux/win/mac

Newcomputer In-game forum archive + PDF library + bookmarks; launch screen + power app

Fixedcore Canonical cross-pass mint ORDER for fold-equivalence

Fixedaudit Seam compile-out, VLE mole-conversion, selector narrowing, fold-fuzz + coverage

6 Jun 202669 updates

Newdemo Playthrough trailer capture + recombine celebration + receiver-bottled fix

Improveddemo Phone-app sweep — $ consistency in Banking + tighter Settings/Tips text

Improveddemo Remove dead "market day" flavor + cellar/garden/quest label fixes

Improveddemo In-vessel "Grade now" readout + drop dead-end shop items

Improveddemo Crucible loads dried plants, op-aware vessel labels, every distillate bottle + full quality-dot consistency

Improveddemo Quality dots, shorter labels, flask contents, hide social layer + regression & screenshot suites

Newgarden Plant Remove verb + full-width planting picker

Newui Settings + Tips phone apps, and garden plant info

Newplatform Browser build target + IndexedDB save adapter

Visualsgarden Rework all plant visuals — distinct, soft, and vertical

Fixedlab Switch the hotplate off when a run ends (decant + boil-dry)

Newlab 500 mL beaker for the in-vessel ops + consistent vessel naming

Newlab Inspect shelf bottles directly at the overview

Newscenes Logical 16:10 stage, overview wheel-zoom, selection glow

Newcellar ADR 0011 — the cellar (3rd location), drying/aging, larder + shared weather

Fixedlab Bench popover floats above the piece's body, not centre-screen

ImprovedFill visuals for loaded lots + per-op load filters + setPower charge guards

VisualsCorrect per-op labware + soft back-glow selection (lab bench)

VisualsGarden refine — grapevine fruit + space-aware, non-overlapping plants

ImprovedFull from-scratch playthrough e2e + the fixes it surfaced

FixedBoil-dry salvages the beaker's distillate (flask breaks, collection is fine)

NewTodo quest-log app + close the 3 deferred E2E gaps + 500× speed slider

NewSkill effects — Lab Work + Gardening grade bonuses

NewLab danger — the flammable fire incident

NewThe monthly bill — a fold-safe watts→money meter

NewFermentables — grapes (garden) + shop sugar

NewThe hydrosol — steam-distil a herb

NewProvenance threading → named products + escalating pricing

ImprovedMeasure the ops + re-tune for coherence

NewVerify the full grown-herb chain (garden → harvest → dry → macerate → strain)

NewA distilled spirit is a usable `ethanol` ingredient, not just a sale bottle

NewStrain + recombination (the spagyric capstone — the loop closes)

ImprovedUnify distillation (substance-driven, no separate ethanol op) + polish the op picker

NewFermentation (Pass 9, the one rate-accumulation op)

NewMaceration playable surface (multi-input bench + dry verb)

NewMaceration engine + the dry step (the spagyric Sulphur)

NewEthanol distillation playable surface (spirit + ABV + shop)

NewEthanol distillation engine — real compositional VLE state

NewDissolution + coagulation (the paired Salt-branch in-vessel ops)

NewCalcination playable surface (bench flow + scene)

NewCalcination engine (the fork-closer, first in-vessel op)

NewGeneralized operation kit + 3 new engine blocks

NewSales redesign (one-off sell) + phone apps (messages/shop/health/notes) + wall-clock fix

VisualsPlayable garden polish + weather + day/night atmosphere + dev speed dial

VisualsFix bed re-selection + much better, space-aware plant art

NewGardenScene + plant inspector + species picker

NewGameStore plant/water/harvest wrappers

NewGrowth fold-pass — the garden engine + first ingredient producer

NewIngredient item model — the keystone engine block

ImprovedHUD polish + shed-room dressing (window, poster, floor bottles, plant, props)

NewPhone redesign + remove the heat-gun

NewBubbles, bulb-fill fog + rolling condensate droplets

NewSteam/clamp/drip refinements

ImprovedSteam/fog polish — build-up ramp, broad up-column + cloud, collar-over-fog

NewPlayer-driven distillation — event-time physics, honest live display, glassware overhaul + e2e suite

NewBench-native interaction overhaul + lab-alert hazards + QA pass

NewReal water-distillation physics + temperature model

NewObject-level interaction layer + diegetic temperature (greybox)

NewEconomy + relationships skeletons + v2→v3 save migration

NewGreybox room→desk→object zoom + multi-part rig

FixedHUD icon buttons inherit theme colour (phone icon was UA-default black)

ImprovedCrafted icon set + remove the Electron menu

NewPresentation layer — shared UI store, notification HUD, phone overlay, FOV gate

NewPhone UI shell — home OS + calendar core + Notebook/Messages/Calendar

NewPlayable split-pane shell (React phone + Phaser lab) — M2b.2 complete

NewIntegrate process engine into SimulationState + v1→v2 migration

NewAlchemy process engine core (pure, seeded, no persistence yet)

NewPersistence via IPC + offline reconciliation (M2b.1 complete)

NewTime loop + game store + tick hook