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Into the Planet's Flesh

Version 0.1.1

# Major New Features

## Pupa Web
- Unlocks from the Spawning Pit.
- Spawns worms that float in the sky, grant synergies, and something else...
- Buy upgrades for your worms that benefit your colony.

## Planet Watchdog
- The planet hits back.
- Reduces resource gathering by 90% while active.

## Mother's Stalk
- This one is slightly creepy.

## Other Additions
- Reworked the Environment Bar to use buff/debuff icons.
- Added Blood Fragment Fusion: fragments can pulse and merge into larger fragments, then return for increased value.
- Expanded unit production bonuses:
- Gatherers → Blood
- Burrowers → Chitin
- Balloons → Memory
- Launcher Fire → Ether
- Added Gatherer Frenzy as a Blood Hunk upgrade.
- Moved gather-related upgrades into Blood Hunk.
- Added a configurable desktop frame cap setting.
- Native desktop builds are now FPS-capped by default.

# Progression & Economy

- Changed unlock order:
- Mining Building unlocks first.
- A mining upgrade purchased with Biomass unlocks the Spawning Pit.
- Added and adjusted prestige upgrades.
- Added permanence-style retention behavior.
- Fixed blood tool reset ordering.
- Refined prestige wording:
- Frontier growth
- Cycle growth
- Row unlocks
- Better Wings
- Total point requirements
- Demo-locked upgrades
- Standardized geothermal naming across:
- Quests
- Reminder messages
- Buy page
- Placed labels
- Biomass Generator no longer starts with free Gatherers.
- Fixed progression softlocks involving:
- Portals
- Tumor growth
- Chitin requirements
- Courage requirements
- Fixed Pupa Web starter battle worm count (now starts at 1 instead of 6–7).
- Tuned Pupa Web projectile costs.
- Tuned Pupa Web synergy sounds.

# UI, Panels & Input

- Added unit count strips to building panels.
- Fixed missing Omni Gatherer counts.
- Reworked Adventure Portal panel layouts.
- Narrowed and reflowed portal panels.
- Centered Adventures and Next Expedition panels.
- Reduced unnecessary line breaks.
- Improved panel close/reopen behavior.
- Prevented panels from sticking open over empty space.
- Blocked world hover and click detection through UI panels.
- Prevented adventure CTA click-through.
- Prevented portal clicks from falling through into the world.
- Fixed top-row panel background overlap.
- Fixed training panel text wrapping, including the split "speed" label issue.
- Fixed localized UI overflow issues.
- Added broader layout and localization regression checks.
- Fixed prestige tooltip overlap and text bleed.
- Applied tooltip safety rules consistently.
- Achievement toasts no longer close UI panels.
- Disabled manual boost clicking and speed cursor behavior for:
- Spawning Pit
- Bladder
- Expanded Discord toolbar messaging to better explain:
- Joining the community
- Following development

# Audio

- Fixed music cycling so tracks no longer loop indefinitely.
- Added Pupa Web audio:
- Combat unlock
- Pupae spawn pop
- Blob touch
- Projectile sounds
- Combat sounds
- Deferred music startup after web hard resets to reduce audio contention.

# Art, Animation & Anchors

- Applied updated Omni Gatherer sprite.
- Anchored Biomass Gatherers and Mushrooms to Ground Layer 1.
- Added a Windows application icon.
- Updated executable name to:
- Into the Planet's Flesh.exe

# Performance & Stability

- Optimized web Blood Fragments.
- Improved web stress profiling.
- Improved native stress profiling.
- Stabilized late-game stress behavior and representation.
- Improved web draw queue performance.
- Reduced Firefox Omni Gatherer rope rendering cost.
- Optimized Firefox amoeba blob rendering.
- Reduced Pupa Web blob and worm render costs.
- Deferred heavy milestone checkpoint saves for:
- Hard Reset
- New Game
- Tumor Growth completion
- Expedition completion
- Eliminated 2–5 second save spikes and browser-tab flickering during those events.
- Fixed controller disconnect handling.
- Prevented controller state changes from affecting or crashing the game.
- Fixed bubble overlay shader drift during camera rotation.
Zone Idle
Zone Idle
13 days ago

0.26.6

Fixes Fixed equipped gear being lost when you unequip it in a raid by double-clicking or right-clicking it. Fixed a case where moving an item from your pockets to the stash could duplicate it. Thanks...

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