01 Changelog
Development history grouped by date. Most recent changes first.
- OffscreenCanvas Web Worker — The entire renderer and VFX engine now run in a dedicated Web Worker thread via OffscreenCanvas. Main thread only handles WebSocket messages, input, and HUD — render times (25–57ms) no longer block gameplay. Zero edits to renderer.js; all Worker compatibility via shim layer. Automatic fallback for older browsers via
?noworkerURL parameter. - Zone Encampment System — Each overworld zone now has a named encampment with a central campfire, animated fire glow, rising ember particles, and a “Safe Zone” designation. Encampments block combat and allow resting, just like the warehouse safe zone. Camp name and status rendered as floating labels above the campfire.
- Zone Encampment NPCs — 32 named NPCs across all 8 biome zones — each encampment has a combat quest giver, gather quest giver, delivery quest giver, and a vendor. NPCs have unique names, personalities, and role-colored indicators. Press E to interact: vendors open the shop, quest NPCs offer dialogue. Four jungle NPCs have full animated spritesheets (Ranger Maya, Old Thornwell, Scout Kira, and camp vendor Roots).
- Encampment Scene Sprites — AI-generated top-down camp scene artwork via FLUX.1 pipeline for each biome encampment. Jungle, cave, magma, frozen, dock, flood, maintenance, and server camp scenes with tents, workbenches, crates, and biome-specific props.
- World Map Art — New cross-section world map artwork generated via FLUX.1 img2img pipeline, showing the full elevation profile from surface jungle through underground caves, magma depths, frozen peaks, dock coastline, and ocean depths.
- Portal Fast-Travel System — Diablo-style waypoint portals placed at each zone encampment and in the warehouse. Walk onto a portal to discover it permanently, then open the World Map (M key) to teleport between any discovered portals. Three visual states: stone platform (undiscovered), blue flame braziers (discovered), and white energy column (standing on it). AI-generated portal sprites with full particle VFX.
- World Map Window — Resizable floating window (M key) showing a cross-section elevation view of the entire game world — surface zones, underground caves, magma depths, frozen peaks, coastline, and ocean. Discovered zones are clickable for portal teleport. Pan and zoom with mouse. FLUX.1 AI art pipeline generating the final illustrated map.
- 8 Overworld Zones — Eight new explorable biome zones beyond the warehouse: Jungle, Cave Network, Magma Depths, Frozen Peaks, Dock District, Flooded Ruins, Maintenance Tunnels, and Server Farm. Each zone has procedurally generated terrain (cellular automata for organic biomes, room scatter for industrial), pathfinding roads, encampments, boss arenas, and unique enemies. Zones are connected in a linear chain with a side branch. Content is still being built — zones are currently closed off while encounters, quests, and NPCs are added.
- Zone Map Generation — New procedural zone generator with two terrain algorithms: cellular automata (large organic chambers for jungle, cave, magma, frozen, flood) and room scatter with winding corridors (for dock, maintenance, server). A* pathfinding creates roads through natural cave openings. Floor obstacles scatter wall pillars inside open chambers for visual variety.
- Zone Enemies — All 8 biome zones populated with unique enemy types (37 enemy variants + 8 zone bosses). Each zone has 4–5 themed enemies with level scaling based on zone level range.
- Context Action Hints — A new reusable hint system renders contextual prompts below the player sprite when conditions are met. Standing on a portal shows “M — World Map Teleport” in a styled pill. The system supports any future context-sensitive hints.
- WebSocket Desync Fix — Major networking overhaul: state messages reduced from 398KB to 21KB through inventory delta compression. Server now uses periodic 66ms flush (~15 updates/sec) instead of event-driven broadcasting. Playable on integrated GPUs that were previously choking on large messages.
- Plasma Whirl — The Plasma gadget has been converted from a one-shot sweep into a held 360° whirlwind. Seven chaotic energy orbs orbit the player on tilted ellipses, trailing dense white and purple particles. Damages all enemies within range in every direction while held. Same DPS as other held gadgets — the value is full-circle coverage while moving.
- Incursion Shutdown Cascade — Biome pressure now triggers escalating consequences across the warehouse. At 80% pressure, all shipping NPCs evacuate to the break room — Rick, Jen, Dave, Mr. Patterson, Eddie, and Marco all flee the shipping zone and huddle in the kitchen with panicked dialogue. At 90%, vendor prices spike 25% due to supply chain disruption. During an active incursion, ticket XP drops 30%. Sealing or clearing an incursion triggers a 10-minute Recovery Boom: 2x shipping rep, +25% ticket XP, and a vendor discount.
- EMP Pulse VFX Overhaul — EMP blast now expands tile-by-tile in staggered wavefronts with cyan-blue energy wash, glitch flicker, and jagged electric arcs between affected tiles. Replaces the old circular ring effect.
- Gravity Well VFX Overhaul — Gravity Well now shows tile-by-tile dark distortion spreading outward, a pulsing purple-white singularity core, 10 orbiting debris particles with glow halos, and dense inward-spiraling particle effects.
- Arc Welder VFX Overhaul — Lightning bolts now render with 4 layers (wide haze, blue glow, bright core, white-hot center). Chain-jumping fixed to properly hop between nearby enemies. Idle crackle shows short ground scatter instead of erratic wiggle.
- Seismic Hammer Particles — Seismic slam now spawns 12 wavefront dust particles, 8 upward debris chunks, and 4 lingering smoke clouds on impact. Previously had zero particle effects.
- Particle Density Slider — New slider in Settings > VFX tab lets you scale particle effects from 10% to 200%. Below 100% probabilistically culls particles for performance. Above 100% spawns bonus particles for visual richness.
- Biome Pressure System — Every biome now builds pressure over time (0–100%). Neglected biomes build faster. Completing a tunnel run relieves pressure by 15%. The biome picker at the tunnel gate shows live pressure percentages with color coding so you can prioritize the biomes that need attention.
- Biome Incursion — When a biome hits 100% pressure, it breaches into the warehouse. Biome-specific tiles, hazards, and enemies physically expand outward from the tunnel gate in a growing zone. Up to 8 incursion enemies spawn (20% elite chance, mini-boss after 5 minutes) scaled to playerLevel+5. Kill incursion enemies to relieve pressure, or channel-seal the breach at the gate with E key (30 seconds, interruptible by damage). The incursion auto-ends when pressure drops below 50% from kills. Only one biome can breach at a time.
- Source Run & Breach Core — Entering a tunnel for the currently breaching biome triggers a Source Run: double enemy density, a 15-minute timer, and a destructible Breach Core at the exit. Destroy the core with melee and gadgets to instantly end the incursion, reset pressure to zero, and earn bonus XP, gold, score, and 3 loot drops. The core has its own HP bar scaled by level and party size.
- Seismic Hammer — New melee-enhancing gadget (3 tiers: Lv20/40/65). Equip in a gadget slot and every melee hit triggers a ground-slam AoE that damages all nearby enemies. Dark crack VFX with forking branches radiates from the impact point. Can also be activated directly with the gadget key.
- Sonic Pulse — New cone knockback gadget (3 tiers: Lv18/38/62). Fires a directional blast that pushes enemies backward 3–5 tiles, stuns them, and deals bonus damage if they slam into a wall. Blue-white expanding arc VFX with screen shake.
- Cryo Nova Overhaul — Cryo Nova now features tile-by-tile freeze spread, ice pillar eruptions, and crystal VFX. Screen shake on activation (was broken since launch). Visual overhaul across all three tiers.
- Shredder Material Eject — The industrial shredder now physically ejects crafting materials as ground pickups on the east side instead of silently adding them to inventory. Gray debris spray during the grind, arc animation on eject.
- Login Error Display — Wrong password now shows “Incorrect password” on the loading screen and redirects to login after 3 seconds. Per-username rate limiting prevents brute force attempts.
- Pallet Rework — Station pallets now track box counts (3 per pallet). On foot, pull individual boxes off with C key. On forklift, pick up the entire pallet. Delivery quests reworked to full 3-step flow: forklift pickup → drive to packing station → unload, pack & ship all boxes.
- Industrial Shredder — New 6×6 shredder station at the receiving dock. Feed enemies, boxes, or pallets into it with C key. Watch the enemy sprite wobble and sink into the grinding gears before being shredded into crafting materials.
- Blood Splatter VFX — All enemy combat damage now sprays blood. Droplets launch outward in arcs and land as persistent ground splatters that last 5 minutes. The shredder produces extra-gory blood spray. Fight your way through the warehouse and leave a trail of evidence behind you.
- Receiving Dock Automation — Two new NPC workers bring the receiving dock to life. Forklift Eddie unloads pallets from the delivery truck and drives them to staging tables. Marco picks them up and stocks warehouse racks across the entire floor. Watch the full cycle play out in real time.
- NPC Break Room Dialogue — After finishing a delivery cycle, Eddie and Marco park their forklifts and walk to the break room. If you’re nearby, you’ll overhear them complaining about management, warehouse creatures, and a certain microwave that makes the prestige vendor very angry. Walk close enough and they’ll talk to you too.
- PA Loudspeaker Announcements — Warehouse-wide dispatch announcements now appear as a top-of-screen banner with a speaker icon when trucks arrive and depart the receiving dock.
- Ghost VFX — Defeated enemies now produce a ghost death effect — a palette-tinted humanoid silhouette that rises and fades, matching the enemy’s colors.
- Shipping Line — A fully operational shipping line in the warehouse. Conveyor rollers carry boxes east along the main line, with four vertical feeders connecting packing stations to the line. Boxes auto-ship at the end terminal for gold and reputation.
- Packing Stations — Four stations with pallet stacks nearby. Pull a box from a pallet, carry it to a station, and load it up. Four-slot combiner interface lets you pack items, materials, and... other things. Pick a destination from the dropdown and hit PACKAGE to seal the deal.
- Shipping NPC Crew — Four animated workers patrol the shipping zone. Two pickers retrieve boxes from warehouse racks and deliver them to the line worker, who carries each one to the conveyor. A shipping manager supervises the area and has opinions about your work ethic. They all have things to say if you get close enough.
- Creature Capture — Stun or freeze any enemy, then pick them up with the new Grab command. Carry them around the warehouse and watch them squirm. Drop them at a packing station to load them into a box. What happens when the box ships to a specific biome? Enter that biome within 5 minutes and find out.
- Shipping Reputation — A new reputation track for the shipping zone. Package boxes, complete deliveries, and impress Mr. Patterson to rank up from New Hire to Legend. Higher tiers unlock new dialogue and delivery contracts.
- Delivery Quests — Talk to Mr. Patterson to volunteer for shipping duty. He'll assign you boxes to pack and ship within a time limit. Rewards scale with your reputation tier.
- Grab Action — New keybind (C) and action bar button for picking up, carrying, and dropping objects in the world. Works with shipping boxes, pallet boxes, and incapacitated creatures.
- Reputation Decay — Zone reputation now decays at a slower rate across all zones, keeping your vendor discounts and unlocks relevant for longer play sessions.
- Break Room Microwave — Interactive cooking station in the safe zone. Drag items into 2 slots and press COOK. 30+ recipes including single items, 2-item combos, and wildcard patterns. 10-second cook timer visible to all players. Produces new consumables (Suspicious Soup, Hyperdrive, Ghost Mode, Attack Drone), crafting materials (Overclocked Circuit, Purified Shard), and a hidden joke chain. Cursed items can be purified, weapons and armor broken down into Residue for reforging. Cooking non-recipe items triggers an explosion with fire VFX and percentage-based damage. The Prestige Vendor goes aggro when you blow up the microwave — chases the culprit with homing fireballs, then walks over to fix it. 32 new pixel art item icons for all microwave outputs. Full drag-drop support for microwave slots.
- V2 Floor Tiles — 73 single-square floor tiles (128×128 PNG each) with per-zone mapping. Context-aware selection for office rooms, warehouse zones, outdoor areas, and tunnel biomes. Early render pass draws floor textures before entities.
- Biome Floor Overlays — 11 transparent overlay textures composited over floor tiles for depth effects. Multi-tile 3×3 clusters with contiguous sampling. Includes magma cracks, cave moss, cold frost, ice cracks, flood puddles, and warehouse markings.
- Inventory Layout Overhaul — Stats and equipment paperdoll now in a left sidebar column with the item grid filling the full right side. All icons enlarged to 64px cells with 48px item images. Resizable inventory window with drag handles on all edges and corners. PNG item icons on drag ghosts.
- Action Bar Item Icons — Gadget, weapon, consumable, and relic slots now display PNG item icons instead of unicode emoji. Quick-swap picker rows also show PNG icons.
- Mobile Inventory Performance — Touch interactions (tap, long-press) no longer trigger full inventory re-renders. Selection highlight is CSS-only. Eliminates icon flash on tap.
- HUD Action Bar — Floating bottom-center panel with 7 gear slots (weapon, gadgets, consumable, relic, rest, interact) and 7 utility buttons. Radial cooldown overlays, drag-drop from inventory, quick-swap picker for gadgets with right-click or long-press. Zoom +/− buttons. Touch mode combat toggles on gear slots.
- Steel-Blue Gunmetal Theme — Full UI theme overhaul. Green accents replaced with steel-blue (#4488bb). Panel backgrounds, borders, titlebars, settings, tooltips, and context menus all updated. Rounded corners on all panels.
- Pre-Warm Loading Screen — Steel-blue progress bar on first login with phase labels (Connecting, Loading State, Warming Caches, Uploading GPU, Ready). Eliminates first-frame rendering stutter by pre-computing caches before gameplay starts.
- Login Spawn Protection — 7 seconds of invulnerability on login that covers the loading screen. White-cyan radial glow VFX while active. Cancelled immediately when the player attacks or fires a gadget.
- Companion Screen Upgrades — New Action Bar tab showing equipped gear with live cooldown indicators. Interactive Tickets tab with full ACCEPT/ABANDON buttons that trigger GPS breadcrumbs in the game window via cross-tab BroadcastChannel commands.
- Tile Sprites — 17 AI-generated pixel art sprites replace ASCII symbols for gameplay tiles: locked doors, keycards, spike traps, barriers, relic shrines, oil spills, gaps, conveyors, planks, water, ice, lasers, alarms, electric hazards, crumble tiles, pressure plates, and surveillance cameras (rotatable). All with magenta chroma-key transparency.
- Relic Quick-Swap — Right-click the Z (relic) action bar slot to swap between owned relics with active abilities, similar to gadget quick-swap on G/V slots.
- Gadget Quick-Swap Tier Fix — Quick-swap picker now correctly shows only the highest tier of each gadget family (MK3 over MK2 over MK1), sorted by damage.
- Vendor & Prestige Spacing — Shop vendor and prestige vendor evenly spaced along the safe zone wall. Both auto-open when walking within 1 tile. Gate and tunnel exit also interact from 1 tile away.
- Forklift Combat Overhaul — Forklift ram damage tripled. Enemies now block forklift movement so you can ram them repeatedly (and they can hit back). Reduced idle glow to keep the forklift sprite visible.
- Chat History — Chat window now preserves full session history (5,000 lines) instead of resetting on state updates. All tabs (All, Quest, Party, World) retain their messages. Only clears on disconnect.
- Look Mode Expansion — UHJK snap targeting now includes all hazard tiles (spikes, oil, water, ice, conveyors, lasers, alarms, pressure plates, crumble tiles). Tile descriptions shown for all targetable objects.
- Office Building Scaling — Office biome enemies now scale to tunnel-level HP and damage formulas, matching the difficulty of regular tunnel biomes.
- Quest Item Icons — Generated 6 missing pixel art icons for quest requirement items and the action bar Rest button.
- NPC Dialogue System — Bosses now taunt players with AI-generated lines via local LLM (Ollama). Bosses respond to nearby allchat, and swap meet vendors eavesdrop on conversations with dry IT humor. Enemy death quips added for 47 enemy types.
- NPC Text-to-Speech — Boss taunts, chat responses, and vendor quips are spoken aloud via browser speechSynthesis with 5 distinct voice profiles (boss, system, human, digital, vendor). Toggle and volume controls in Settings.
- Chat Bubbles — When players or NPCs talk in allchat, their words appear as floating speech bubbles above their heads for 5 seconds. White text with black outline, word-wrapped, with a subtle rise animation and fade-out.
- Companion Screen — Second monitor support via BroadcastChannel. Open from Settings > Layout to get a companion window with live inventory grid, zoomed-out minimap, party HP bars, scoreboard, and active tickets. Updates at 4fps.
- Renderer Performance — 3D wall fillRect calls reduced ~65% via step-2/3 column iteration and mid-range LOD tier. Light lookup cache eliminates string allocation and redundant lookups. Contour outline range reduced.
- Per-Biome Autotile Atlases — All tunnel biomes now have dedicated wall atlas textures. Cave biomes (cave, magma, ice, cold, flood) use transparent void borders for organic edges. Sci-Fi Panel style for server, rack, datastream, dock. Stone blocks for maint.
- Ceiling Overhang Depth — Transparent ceiling overhangs on north-side edge walls create 2.5D depth illusion. Entities visible through the translucent layer.
- Screen Wake Lock — Screen stays awake during gameplay via the Wake Lock API. Re-acquires automatically when switching back to the game tab.
- Duplicate Tab Prevention — Web Locks API prevents the same account from connecting in multiple tabs simultaneously. Second tab shows a clear warning message instead of creating a ghost player.
- CPU Pressure Monitoring — Compute Pressure API monitors CPU stress and caps LOD recovery under heavy load. Pressure readout shown in Settings panel. Ultra quality bypasses all LOD throttling.
- WebSocket Compression — perMessageDeflate (RFC 7692) enabled on WebSocket connections. Fastest compression level with 200-byte threshold to skip tiny packets like fast position updates.
- Progressive Web App — PWA manifest, service worker, and offline fallback page. Installable from the browser with themed icons and standalone display mode.
- Autotile Wall System — Procedural Sci-Fi Panel wall textures for the warehouse with automatic edge detection and seamless transitions between wall configurations.
- 3D Contour Wall Faces — South, east, and west wall faces now follow the atlas tile's panel contour shape instead of flat rectangles, giving walls a more detailed and organic look.
- Smooth Player Movement — Player movement is now smooth and continuous instead of tile-by-tile. Diagonal movement normalized so all directions feel the same speed. Wall-sliding lets you glide along walls instead of stopping dead.
- Transparent Wall Depth — Edge walls now have a semi-transparent top face rendered above entities, giving walls a sense of height. Walk behind walls and see your character through the transparent layer.
- Server Performance Overhaul — Major server-side optimizations: spatial culling removes off-screen entities from updates, delta compression only sends entities that changed, and static data is cached per zone. Significantly lower bandwidth and CPU usage.
- Textured Floor Tiles — All floor surfaces now use AI-generated pixel art textures instead of flat colors with dots. 49 unique floor textures across warehouse zones, outdoor areas, office building rooms, and all tunnel biomes. Each zone has 2-3 tile variants that mix for natural variation.
- Zone-Specific Floors — Every area of the game now has a distinct floor type. Warehouse zones (concrete, carpet, rubber gym mats, hospital safe zone, server panels), outdoor (asphalt parking lot, jungle dirt), office building rooms (cubicle carpet, conference wood, bathroom tile, manager carpet, hallway VCT), and all 12 tunnel biomes each with unique textures.
- Warehouse Furniture Sprites — Furniture sprites now render on top of floor textures with proper z-ordering. Multi-tile sprites no longer clip or leave black gaps on textured floors.
- Website Redesign — Homepage rebuilt with new layout. Wiki pages consolidated under cleaner navigation.
- Square Tiles — Map rendering converted from rectangular to square tiles. All maps regenerated at correct proportions for a cleaner look.
- 3D Cube Walls — Walls now render as extruded 3D cubes with shaded faces and thin base shadows, replacing flat colored blocks.
- Sprite Feet Anchoring — All entity sprites (enemies, bosses, NPCs, vendors, players) now anchor at the feet, placing them firmly on the ground instead of floating at tile center.
- 3D Wall Depth Sorting — Sprites properly render in front of or behind walls depending on position, creating natural visual depth.
- Projectile Sprites — 5 projectile types now have unique visuals: spam, corrupt, BSOD, and malware use pixel art sprites with rotation. Firewall uses procedural animated fire orbs.
- POI Ground Labels — Warehouse points of interest now display drawn text labels on the floor instead of single ASCII letters.
- Warehouse Rack Sprites — Warehouse pallet racks now render as tiled sprites with loaded/empty bay variants and steel frame overlays.
- Zone Gate Improvements — Building entrances and tunnel exits now use larger trigger zones. Office exit spawns further out to prevent accidental re-entry.
- Jungle Zone Enemies — 6 new enemy types roam the jungle paths outside the warehouse. They scale to your level on contact and respawn when you leave the area.
- Jungle Building Entrances — All 5 buildings in the jungle now have animated portal entrances with glowing particle effects and building name labels on the rooftops.
- GPS Quest Pathfinding — Accept a ticket and cyan breadcrumb dots appear on the ground, guiding you along the shortest walkable path to your destination. Works across the warehouse, outdoor, and office zones. Persists through zone transitions, death, and reconnect.
- Outdoor Zone Open to All — The warehouse exit doors no longer require admin access. All players can explore the jungle.
- Parking Lot Details — Fire hydrants, dumpsters, manholes, benches, puddles, and other parking lot objects now render as detailed procedural drawings.
- 8 New Enemy Sprites — Jungle Raider, Vine Stalker, Mutant Scout, Pack Hunter, Security Guard, Rogue Sysadmin, Lab Subject, and IT Director all have custom pixel art spritesheets.
- Office Ticket System — Jungle building tickets are fully playable: GPS breadcrumbs guide you to furniture objectives inside office buildings, target furniture glows green/gold, and pressing E spawns a boss and advances the ticket. A yellow objective hint in the ticket panel describes the current target.
- Door Light Beams — Warm light beams fan out from warehouse exit doors, making them easy to spot.
- Office Building Interiors — Jungle buildings now have full procedural interiors with conference rooms, cubicle farms, server closets, break rooms, copy rooms, bathrooms, and a warehouse section. Rooms are furnished with AI-generated furniture sprites in a post-apocalyptic aesthetic.
- Office Enemies — 4 new enemy types patrol office buildings: Corrupted Technician, Security Guard, Lab Subject, and Rogue Sysadmin, plus the IT Director boss.
- Swap Meet Vendor Characters — All 15 bazaar NPCs now have unique AI-generated character sprites with distinct personality-driven designs.
- Animated Tunnel Portals — Tunnel entry and exit gates now display an animated portal sprite instead of a static ASCII character.
- Full Enemy Sprite Coverage — All 40+ enemy types now have pixel art spritesheets with walk and attack animations. 20 spritesheets with color-tint variants cover warehouse, tunnel, biome-specific, and ticket boss enemies. Bosses render at 1.5x size.
- NPC Vendor Sprites — Vendor and prestige vendor NPCs have 8-directional breathing-idle spritesheets. Vendors turn to face you when you interact with them.
- 128 Item Icons — AI-generated pixel art icons for all weapons, armor, gadgets, and consumables. Displayed in inventory grid, paperdoll equip slots, and as ground drop sprites.
- Biome Environment Sprites — 33 procedural canvas sprites for tunnel decoration: mushrooms, crystals, tentacles, trees, tesla coils, server racks, and more. Each biome has unique decorative elements.
- Jungle Overworld — Outdoor map expanded with a post-apocalyptic jungle surrounding the parking lot. Snaking paths connect 5 building clearings. Dark nighttime color palette with fog and atmosphere.
- Jungle Canopy Overlay — Semi-transparent canopy leaves render over entities at path edges with gentle sway animation, creating a layered depth effect.
- Outdoor Position Persistence — Players now spawn back at their outdoor position when logging in.
- Canvas Drawn Tiles — All biome walls, floors, water, ice, oil, and spike tiles now render using native canvas drawing instead of text characters. Sharper edges, consistent sizing, and better performance.
- Canvas Drawn Sprites — 13 biome-themed decorative sprites (mushrooms, tentacles, crystals, pillars, trees) drawn directly on canvas with animation support. Each biome has unique environmental decorations.
- Player Pixel Art Sprite — The player character now renders as a pixel art sprite with 8-direction walk, attack, and hit animations, replacing the yellow @ symbol.
- Enemy Pixel Art Sprites — All 18 warehouse enemies and tunnel enemies now have unique pixel art sprites with walk and attack animations, replacing colored ASCII characters.
- Enemy Smooth Movement — Enemies now interpolate smoothly between tiles instead of snapping.
- Enemy HP Bars — Enemies now display horizontal HP bars above their sprites.
- Split HP/Stamina Arcs — Player HP and stamina shown as separate arcs on the left and right sides, replacing the full-circle ring.
- Zoom Control — Press +/- to zoom in and out (0.5x to 3.0x). Press 0 to reset. Persisted between sessions.
- Swap Meet Vendor Stalls — Outdoor vendor booths now render as canvas-drawn structures with colored awnings.
- Double-Wide Corridors — All tunnel generators now enforce a minimum 2-tile corridor width for less claustrophobic navigation.
- Per-Set Ground Item Glow — Each of the 15 item sets has a unique glow color when dropped on the ground, visible at a glance before picking up.
- Floating Party Window — Draggable floating window with clickable INVITE, ACCEPT, and DECLINE buttons. Persistent draggable party HP bar with panel snapping.
- Floating Ticket Window — Draggable ticket browser with hover details, clickable ACCEPT/ABANDON buttons, and resolution choice buttons for multi-option tickets.
- Floating Scoreboard & Prestige Windows — Leaderboard and prestige cosmetics vendor are now draggable floating windows with clickable actions.
- Window Focus System — All windows share a unified focus system. Only one captures keyboard input at a time. Click outside to defocus and play, Escape closes only the focused window.
- Outdoor Zone — New persistent area outside the warehouse with a parking lot, street, swap meet vendor booths, building-mounted lights with directional cones, sweeping surveillance cameras, and environmental details. Dark, post-apocalyptic atmosphere with drifting fog and flickering lights.
- Zone Isolation — Full combat and state isolation between warehouse, outdoor, and tunnel zones. Players in different zones cannot interact.
- Tunnel Wall Sprites — Biome-themed decorative sprites along tunnel walls: glowing alien mushrooms, tentacles, crystals, and themed trees. Wall-edge flora grows along the base of tunnel walls.
- Swap Meet Vendors — 15 NPC vendors in the parking lot, each representing one item set with their items displayed on the ground around them.
- Mobile Touch Buttons — Added TKT (tickets) and PTY (party) buttons to the mobile touch utility bar.
- T7 Elite & T8 Mythic Gear — Two new gear tiers. T7 Elite items unlock at level 100+ with unique perks, T8 Mythic at level 160+ with stronger perks. Both drop from appropriately-leveled enemies.
- Procedural Gear — At level 225+, gear scales infinitely with new tiers every 75 levels. Procedural items have generated names and roll 1–3 random perks.
- 9 Gear Perks — High-tier gear can roll perks: Lifesteal, Crit Chance, AoE Splash, Stam Efficiency, Cooldown Reduction, XP Boost, Fortify, Scavenger, and Elemental damage.
- Set Keyword Naming — Every set piece now has its set name in the item name (e.g. “Cerberus Core Router”), making set membership instantly recognizable.
- Tier-Scaled Set Bonuses — Equipping higher-tier set pieces scales set bonuses: T7 gives 1.5×, T8 gives 2×, and procedural T9+ scales higher.
- Grid Inventory — Complete web client inventory overhaul. Paper-doll equipment layout with stats panel. Scrollable item grid with tier-colored borders and glow effects. Drag and drop to equip/unequip. Right-click context menus. Hover tooltips with full item details. Per-slot filtering. Touch support with long-press context menus.
- Floating Inventory & Vendor Windows — Inventory and vendor are draggable floating windows. Both can be open simultaneously — drag items between them to buy and sell. Green border indicates which window has keyboard focus.
- Safe Zone Vendor Access — Press E anywhere in the safe zone to open the vendor. Auto-closes when you leave.
- Active Relic Distinction — Active relics display a lightning icon, purple glow, and “Z” badge. Passive relics remain pink. Only active relics can be dragged to the relic equipment slot.
- Floating HUD Panels — The sidebar is now 6 independently draggable panels: Stats, Equipment, Gadgets, Combat Log, Chat, and Menu. Panels snap to each other’s edges. Combat Log and Chat can be resized by dragging edges or corners. Positions and sizes saved between sessions.
- Tunnel Kill XP & Score Buffed — Tunnel kill XP, tunnel exit score, and boss kill score all increased to better balance tunnel vs ticket progression.
- Warehouse Kill XP Buff — Normal enemy XP increased by 29% and boss XP by 27%, closing roughly 43% of the XP gap between warehouse play and tunnel grinding.
- Ticket Completion XP Buff — Ticket quest XP flat bonus increased by 20%, further closing the gap between ticket and tunnel XP rates.
- Race Spectator Page — New page at /race/ with split-screen view and live score overlay for spectating bot races.
- Tunnel Gold Drops — Tunnel enemies now drop gold on kill, scaling with enemy difficulty. Previously, tunnels gave zero gold from kills.
- Tunnel Completion Bonus — Clearing a tunnel now awards a gold bonus on top of existing XP and score rewards. Tunnel exit score also increased.
- Ticket XP Rebalance — Quest ticket XP rewards now scale more aggressively with player level. A level 30 player completing a standard ticket now earns ~114 XP instead of ~27 XP.
- Quest Work Markers — All quest work steps now happen at the POI tile itself instead of randomly scattered nearby.
- Combat Kill Log — All kills now show in the combat log with full reward breakdown: “Killed [name] (+score, +XP, +gold)” regardless of weapon used.
- Held Gadget Stamina Drain — Flamethrower, Arc Welder, Acid Sprayer, and Cryo Cannon now drain stamina while held. Running out mid-spray cuts the gadget off.
- PvP Combat Overhaul — PvP hits and kills now show damage feedback. Kill broadcasts announce PvP kills server-wide with the weapon used. Floating damage numbers on PvP damage.
- Spawn Protection — 6 seconds of invulnerability after respawning with a visible pulsing white-cyan shield glow. Attacking or using a gadget cancels it early.
- Graceful Server Shutdown — All player progress is now saved on server restart.
- Warehouse Boss HP Rebalance — Warehouse bosses now target ~15 second kills instead of ~30 seconds. Ticket bosses slightly faster at ~11 seconds.
- Level-Gap Scaling — Enemies 15+ levels above a player now resist crowd control (up to 80%) and take reduced damage (up to 85%). High-level enemies are genuinely dangerous.
- Gadget DPS Rebalance — Held cone weapons rebalanced for group clearing. Railgun buffed to 1.2x single-target DPS as the boss-killing specialist. Plasma Whip and Spark Pistol also buffed.
- Cryo Cannon Rework — No longer perma-freezes enemies. Freeze must fully expire before reapplying, creating a freeze/thaw cycle. Damage reduced to reflect its crowd control value.
- Look Mode Target Lock — In look mode, moving the cursor onto an enemy locks the view to that target and follows it as it moves.
- Level-Scaled Gear — Gear drops now scale with zone level. Higher-level enemies drop stronger versions of the same items. Enhancement bonuses and affix values also scale with drop level.
- Gear Level Requirements — Scaled gear requires a minimum level to equip, shown in the inventory and craft views.
- Ticket Completion Loot — Completing tickets now rewards gear based on step count. Multi-step tickets guarantee drops, and 5-step tickets give boss-tier loot plus a chance at a gadget.
- Dynamic Ticket Timers — Ticket timers now scale with player level, giving high-level players more time for multi-step tickets.
- Score System — Score gains now scale with player level across all activities. Eight prestige titles earned at thresholds from 10K to 5M, shown as permanent chat prefixes. High scores also unlock permanent shop discounts up to 20%.
- Prestige Terminal — New NPC near the vendor where players spend score on 25 cosmetic items: @ colors, glow effects, body auras, movement trails, name colors, and death effects. Also sells boost consumables.
- Ground Loot Glow — Dropped items glow based on tier and set. High-level drops sparkle with rising particles.
- Enhancement Cost Scaling — Enhancement costs and salvage yields now scale with gear drop level. Higher-level gear costs more to enhance but gains more per level.
- 3D Gadget Aura Effects — Firing any gadget now produces pseudo-3D energy rings that orbit your character. Each of the 9 gadgets has a unique style: flowing fire rings for flamethrower, jagged lightning for arc welder, blobby green drips for acid, hexagonal ice crystals for cryo, and more. Firing both gadgets shows both auras layered together.
- Gadget Lighting — Aura rings emit light that passes over walls, illuminating tiles on both sides. Ground-level gadget lights (flame, acid, cryo cone glow) now properly clip at walls instead of bleeding through.
- Health & Stamina Regen VFX — Green starburst pulse radiates from your character when healing. Blue starburst for stamina regen appears between the green dots, forming a 16-point star when both fire together.
- AI Bot Playtesting — Automated AI bots now run the game 24/7, grinding both tickets and tunnels to generate real gameplay data for balance tuning. Two bots race head-to-head across both content paths to measure XP rates, gold economy, and progression speed.
- Spatial Audio — Sound effects now pan left/right and fade with distance based on world position. Configurable mono mode for players who prefer it.
- Music Toggle — Separate music on/off button, independent from the sound toggle. Disabling music stops all MP3 downloads.
- MP3 Sound Effects — All 9 gadgets now have custom MP3 sound effects with multiple variants and spatial positioning. Held gadgets feature startup, loop, hit, and end clips with crossfade transitions. 12 melee hit variants and 6 player death sounds.
- Cryo Cannon — New held gadget: sustained freeze ray in 3 tiers (Lv16/36/68). Directional cone that freezes enemies with ice damage, stun, and water-to-ice environmental interaction. Works with the Cryo Specialist set bonus.
- Gear Enhancement — Enhance any weapon, armor, or gadget by spending salvage materials. Each level adds +1 DMG or +3 HP. No hard cap — cost scales per level. Enhanced gear shows a +N suffix. Salvaging returns 50% of invested materials.
- Ticket Boss Encounters — Working on tickets now spawns themed bosses at the POI from a pool of 56 IT-horror names (e.g. “PC LOAD LETTER Demon,” “47-Tab Browser Beast”). Multi-step tickets stack multiple bosses.
- Mobile Touch Responsiveness — Improved touch control responsiveness. Rest healing matches desktop speed. Movement acceleration reaches full speed faster.
- VFX Overhaul — Enhanced visual effects across gadgets: Arc Welder flashes and smoke, Acid Sprayer per-tile glow and wall splatter, Plasma Whip 4-layer beam with sweep shadows, Cryo Cannon ice glow with diamond crystals.
- Ambient Glow Effects — Tunnel gate glows with pulsing white-cyan aura. Forklifts emit warm yellow glow. Warehouse bosses emit menacing red glow. All fade with distance and respect fog of war.
- Shadow Improvements — Light raycasting now blocks through diagonal wall corners and locked doors, eliminating light leaking through tight spaces.
- MP3 Soundtrack — 52 original music tracks replace the procedural synthesizer. Every biome has its own soundtrack (3–7 variations each) with shuffle playback and 2-second crossfade transitions between zones. Boss fights have 6 unique battle tracks. Victory and level-up stingers layer on top of the current music.
- Mobile Touch Controls — Full touch control system for phones and tablets. Dual virtual joysticks: left for movement with speed ramp, right for directional combat aiming. Toggle ATK/G1/G2 modes. Utility row for inventory, chat, look mode, relic, and rest. Touch mode works on any device.
- Touch Overlay Navigation — Inventory, shop, and biome picker menus navigable via touch joystick. Biome picker has a tappable confirm button. Close buttons on all overlay panels.
- Procedural Audio Engine — Full WebAudio engine with 30+ synthesized sound effects. Gadget one-shots (Railgun crack, EMP discharge, Gravity vortex), continuous loops (Flamethrower roar, Arc Welder crackle, Cryo hiss), and ambient sounds all generated in real time.
- Sound Toggle — Quick “Sound: ON/OFF” button in the top HUD bar for all audio.
- Directional Attack Aiming — Attack messages now accept an aim direction, so touch players can attack where their combat joystick points.
- SSL/HTTPS — Game server available over HTTPS with a Let’s Encrypt certificate. WebSocket connections upgrade to WSS automatically.
- Death Fade — Dying triggers a fast fade to black followed by a slow reveal at the spawn point, hiding the respawn teleport.
- Entities Visible Through VFX — Enemies and players now render on top of visual effects like flamethrower flames, staying readable during heavy combat.
- Corner Assist & Wall Sliding — The server automatically nudges players around corners when moving near an opening. Moving diagonally into a wall slides along the walkable axis instead of stopping.
- Interactive Tutorial — 10-step guided tour for new players. Auto-starts on first login, also available via
/tutorial. Camera pans to key locations, live VFX demos for gadgets, multi-biome overview grid, and auto-advance between steps. - Screen Flash & Shake — Full-screen color flashes on gadget fire, damage, crits, and kills. Camera shake on explosions and heavy hits, scaling with damage. Both toggleable in Settings.
- Floating Damage Numbers — Damage numbers pop and scale based on amount, drift in the attack direction, stack when multiple hits land together, and wobble with glow on crits.
- Combo Counter — Kill streak counter appears when chaining kills in quick succession.
- Player Animations — Damage flinch on hit. Idle breathing pulse when standing still. Movement bob. Weapon trail arcs on melee swing matching weapon class.
- Light Map System — Per-tile lighting from multiple sources with distance falloff and additive color tinting. Static warehouse lights, per-biome tunnel lights with appropriate colors, and dynamic gadget lights that follow projectiles and cones.
- Dancing Color Noise — Brogue-inspired subtle color shimmer on lit tiles gives the world an organic, living feel.
- Floor Detail & Wall Debris — Subtle crack and dust details on floor tiles. Small debris characters near wall edges with biome-specific sets.
- Weather & Atmosphere — Per-biome atmospheric overlays: falling ash in magma, drifting snow in ice, rain in flood, digital noise in datastream, dust motes in caves.
- Bloom & Glow — Bright light sources and VFX emit soft bloom glow. Toggleable in Settings.
- Shadow Casting — Walls cast directional shadows onto adjacent floor tiles.
- Color Grading — Per-biome color grading as a final render pass: warm tones for magma, cool blue for ice, green for datastream.
- CRT Mode — Optional retro scanline effect with curvature and color fringing. Toggleable in Settings.
- Enemy Animations — Idle bob/sway/pulse per enemy type. Spawn fade-in over 300ms.
- Facing Direction Arrow — Green directional arrow beside the player showing current facing. Fades out 2 seconds after last movement.
- Inventory Equipment View — All 10 equipment slots shown with dedicated rows. Items sorted by stats. Set bonuses show equipped count and descriptions in detail view.
- Auto-LOD — Renderer automatically disables expensive visual features when frame times spike and re-enables them when headroom returns.
- Gadget DPS Balance Pass — All gadgets rebalanced within tiers. Railgun stamina cost halved and cooldowns reduced for burst-damage role. Plasma Whip damage increased.
- Acid Sprayer Rework — Now works like the Flamethrower: hold the button to spray continuously instead of single shots. VFX reworked to splashing cone with wavy streams, splatter blobs, and drip trails.
- Railgun Snap-to-Target — Railgun beam snaps to the nearest enemy within 5 tiles of your click. No more missed shots on off-diagonal targets.
- Spark Pistol Range — Chain range increased from 3 to 5 tiles to match Flamethrower reach.
- Melee Cooldown System — Per-weapon-class cooldowns: Wrench 0.8s, Pipe 1.0s, Taser 1.2s, Nail Gun 1.0s. Prevents melee from out-DPSing gadgets at high levels.
- Bump Attack — Walking into an enemy triggers a melee attack automatically.
- Repair Drone Buff — Heal rate increased from 3% to 5% max HP per tick.
- Smooth Cooldown Timers — Gadget, consumable, and relic cooldown timers now tick down smoothly in the HUD instead of jumping in server-tick intervals.
- Cooldown Bars — Color-coded cooldown bars render below the player character for melee, gadgets, consumable, and relic ability.
- Enemy Collision — Player stops at enemy edges instead of sliding around them. Walk into an enemy to bump attack.
- Consumable VFX — Repair Drone: green orbiting sparkles with rising heal numbers. Smoke Bomb: gray particle cloud anchored at cast position. Stim Pack: yellow speed streaks trailing the player.
- F Key = Melee Attack — F key triggers melee attack. H opens help.
- EMP & Cryo Oval Rendering — EMP and Cryo Nova VFX now render as ovals matching tile-space damage areas instead of screen-space circles.
- Relic Rework — Active relic abilities: Blink teleport, Decoy, Overcharge, and Temporal Anchor auto-revive. Select your active ability with the Z key. Relic evolution after 10 tunnel completions grants +50% stats, −25% cooldown, and upgraded names. 5 relic synergies for owning specific pairs.
- Set Visual Auras — Equipped 2pc sets show a subtle glow. 3pc sets show a bright aura matching the set’s color theme.
- 9 New Item Sets — 6 gadget sets and 3 utility sets with unique 3pc bonuses: burning ground, freeze shatter, EMP chain, rail pierce, gravity pull, glass cannon, scavenger drops, field medic party heal, nimble technician speed.
- Elite Enemy Modifiers — Tunnel enemies can spawn as elite variants: Shielded (damage shield), Enraged (faster, hits harder), Phasing (teleports), or Vampiric (lifesteals). More elites at deeper tunnel levels.
- Weapon Subtypes — Weapons now have distinct classes: wrench (1-tile melee), pipe (3-tile arc), taser (3-tile ranged + stun), nailgun (5-tile ranged).
- Forklift Overhaul — Forklift HP now scales with driver level. Critical HP warning at 30%.
- Web Client Launch — Browser-based client connecting via WebSocket. HTML5 Canvas renderer with full game map, entities, health rings, and HUD overlays. Keyboard and mouse input with simultaneous movement + weapon fire.
- 3D Wall Rendering — Extruded 3D walls with perspective, directional face shading, biome-colored lighting, and light bounce onto adjacent floors.
- Particle VFX Engine — Canvas particle system with additive blending. Real fire, lightning, cryo crystals, gravity vortex, plasma trails, acid clouds, and EMP rings. Particles bounce off walls with spark sub-particles.
- Persistent Fog of War — Explored tiles stay visible as a dim map outline after you move away. Three-zone visibility: bright center, smooth dim ring, and fading fog edge. Undiscovered areas remain black.
- Inventory, Shop & Chat — Full inventory overlay with color coding, detail expansion, filter tabs, and gear stacking. Shop with buy/sell/craft modes. In-browser chat. L-key look mode with cursor movement and tile descriptions.
- Party System — Party overlay with Tab invite, W/S scroll, X to kick/leave. Y/N for invite responses. Persistent party HP bar.
- Settings Panel — Toggles for 3D Walls, Quality, Particles, Screen Effects, Shake, Dynamic Lighting, Damage Numbers, Light Bounce, and Particle Bounce. All settings persist.
- Visual Effects — Death fade to black with “YOU DIED” message. Tunnel entrance warp VFX. Boss telegraph ground cracks. Torch ambient light with flicker. Biome hazard popups on tunnel entry.
- Overlays — Biome picker for tunnel selection. Ticket overlay with table layout and detail expansion. Arrow indicators for party members and tunnel entrance. Help screen and scoreboard.
- Login Page — ASCII art ENCORO IT banner with animated cyan color-wave and sparkle effect.
- Demo Mode — Demo mode connects to the real server with a custom sandbox tunnel. Full VFX and mechanics available.
- Wiki — Complete wiki with 11 pages covering items, combat, tunnels, progression, relics, sets, scoreboard, and changelog.
- Inventory & Shop UI — Table layout with columns for Name, Stats, Slot, Set, and Qty. Gear stacking, item color coding by rarity, filter tabs, and paginated rendering.
- Stamina & Combat Rebalance — Walking is free, sprint costs stamina, melee costs stamina, gadgets cost stamina. Melee retaliation (enemies strike back once on approach). Sprint toggle. Quick-use consumable slot (Q key). Level-scaled shop pricing. Gold drops from warehouse kills.
- Setpiece Rooms — 25 hand-crafted room templates stamped into tunnels with 2–4 loot items per room. Validated to never break path connectivity.
- Pre-Boss Corridor — Barrier gate before the boss arena with 2–5 waves of corridor enemies. Each biome has a unique environmental effect during the fight. All enemies must die to unlock the boss.
- Relic Shrines — 12 relics across 3 tiers (Lv10/30/60). Pulsing shrine tile in tunnel mid-section offers a choice of 3 unowned relics. Relics are permanent and persist across runs.
- Salvage & Crafting — Salvage gear for 3 material types. 10 crafting recipes in the vendor Craft tab.
- Equipment Set Bonuses — 6 equipment sets with 2pc/3pc thresholds. Set items render in light blue with equipped/owned indicators.
- Item Affixes — Gear drops can roll prefix/suffix modifiers with tier-based scaling.
- Quest System Overhaul — Ticket chains with branching choices. Zone reputation system with vendor discounts per tier.
- Boss Telegraph Lanes — 1-second warning with pulsing red tiles before boss attacks. Cone and AOE patterns.
- 6 Tunnel Generators — Snake, DFS maze, Hybrid, Cellular Automata, BSP rooms, and Drunkard’s Walk. Each biome has weighted probabilities for algorithm selection.
- Wall Texturing — Unicode block characters replace flat walls with per-biome textures and fog-of-war dim rendering.
- Acid Sprayer — New gadget with corrode debuff (+25–35% damage amplification). 3 tiers. Elemental combo system with flame and cryo interactions.
- Tunnel Hazard Tiles — Spikes, pressure plates, laser tripwires, ice floors, collapsing floors, alarm tiles, water tiles, and conveyors with biome-specific distribution.
- Locked Doors & Keycards — Keycards and locked doors with path-blocking validation. Door reverts if an alternate route exists.
- Look Mode — L key inspection cursor with smart snap to enemies, items, doors, and relics. Detail popup shows stats and descriptions.
- Biome Picker — Overlay for selecting tunnel biome before entry. Biomes unlock by player level.
- Boss Abilities — Improved boss attack patterns, telegraphs, and biome-specific abilities.
- Log Channel Filtering — C key cycles through log channels: All, Combat, Quest, Party, World.
- Ambient Narrative — Atmospheric narrative events triggered by zone and boss encounters. Biome-specific tone.
- Boss Intro Cards — Modal overlay on first boss encounter with name, biome, and tactical hint.
- Biome Color Palettes — Per-biome color profiles for walls, floors, and fog-of-war.
- Tutorial — 9-step interactive tutorial for new players. Auto-starts on first character.
- Initial Release — Warehouse map, combat system, vendor shop, ticket/quest system, tunnel generation with 11 biomes and boss fights, multiplayer server.