Quest rewards & spellbar polish

New

• Quest rewards arrive as stacking slide-in notifications.
• Spellbar pulses purple when a VIP summon is available.
• L3/R3 toggle the left and right HUD panels.

Changes

• Footsteps go quiet while sliding.
• Reward sound plays once, on the banner.
• Room panel shows the room name and per-room totals.
• Enki’s summoning shake lasts longer and starts earlier.

Fixes

• Clearer quest hints for puke and laughter ordering.
• Vomit puddles last longer; Chain Puke text is clearer.
• Night spawner stops re-spawning dismissed undertakers.
• Hidden achievements stay masked in Bureau Bingo.

Carnival accessories & menu polish

New

• Dressing Room got a VIP dropdown and an Enki preview slot.
• New carnival accessory pack for the Dressing Room.
• Backspace snaps a screenshot. Filenames end in .png.

Changes

• Main menu title glows blood red.
• Item descriptions live on each item, with more breathing room.

Fixes

• Hidden achievements stay hidden in Bureau Bingo.
• Jock is out of the auto-spawn pool for now.

The Dressing Room opens

New

• Dressing Room scene for previewing undertaker outfits and accessories. Patron and guest dropdowns, camera zoom, split front/iso panes, per-undertaker recolors.
• Wellshrieker’s crystal ball, Barnaby Bones’ procedural pieces, Therewolf’s outfits, and the Count’s hat are all toggleable now.
• New texture-swap outfits for Gutterboy and a Wishing Well outfit for Wellshrieker.
• Recruitment is a slide-in notification under the resource bar.
• An EXIT sign floats over guests who are leaving.
• Steam achievements wired up, with Bureau Bingo content to chase.

Changes

• Demolished rooms stay sealed. Neighbour doors get blocked.
• Blocked doors are passable barriers so guests reroute.
• Dead-end doorways get filled with solid wall.
• Recruit dialogue replaces the old modal flow.

Fixes

• Night spawner stops re-spawning dismissed undertakers.
• Grave Five recruitment no longer breaks on name mismatch.
• Ghost slide and stale laugh cylinders reset on new game.

Room demolition & Grave Five Alive

New

• Demolish a room; guests evacuate. Doorways seal cleanly.
• Per-doorway blocking persists across saves.
• Full Moon Therewolf portrait shows when Hunt is selected.
• Grave Five Alive is now a distinct undertaker.

Changes

• Each guest has a per-guest max for physical health.
• Cyclenaut VIP starts with 1 physical health.
• Machine row focus auto-shows the produced item’s tooltip.
• “Obfuscated Meat” renamed to Mystery Meat.

Fixes

• find_the_clown completes when you greet the clown via recruit dialogue.
• Sparkly Bloodsucker’s walk and idle animations no longer crossed.

Dialogue locks & ghost-slide fixes

Changes

• Controller dialogue choices block movement until you answer.
• Patron actions open the milestone modal directly.

Fixes

• Ghosts no longer slide through Shadow Lounge walls.
• Repaired items stop rendering bright white.
• Investigators handle corpse evidence and vomit correctly.
• Undertakers stop clipping on placed furniture.
• Organ variant survives save/load.
• Wynn and Chester block the player properly.

Milestones, music, and a new digger

New

• Grave Five Alive: new mobile undertaker with his own portrait and save state.
• Barnaby’s Dig ability with animation. Grave Five gets Operate.
• Milestone events fire deity reputation notifications.
• All-Eye redesigned: pinched, player-tracking eye with fresh sclera fill. Proper icon in the radial wheel.

Changes

• Milestone modal redesign. Cost sits in a bordered box between Unlock and Track.
• Hovering Unlock shows the full stacked cost tooltip.
• Item removal prompts appear on hover and float over placed items.
• Inside and outside music resume instead of restarting.
• Crafting jobs run on a persistent processor.
• Patron milestones rebalanced.
• Gravetide clones render via MultiMesh; default is double spiral.
• Gravetide horror/disgust applies by room.

Fixes

• Wellshrieker scares guests again.
• upgrade_room quest no longer completes with items in other rooms.
• Joystick recenter deselects the active radial spell.
• Milestone objectives increment for item costs.
• Grave Five’s portrait stays hidden until recruitment.
• Survey button no longer has a stuck purple glow.

Enki’s All-Eye lands

New

• All-Eye spell wired to slot 4 and Enki’s tier 4.

Cha Cha Slide & spell audio polish

New

• Cha Cha Slide achievement: drag a corpse through a wall via Ghost Slide.
• DIG audio audition panels wire spell sounds and tune Gravetide variations.
• A demonic chant drone plays while Umbral Maw is active.
• Guest Screams volume slider in settings.

Changes

• Ghost Slide becomes a passive ability, with a corrected milestone preview.
• Guest rank moves to the RankProgressBar and gates on summon_vip, alongside VIPPhone.
• “Organ?” reveals its mystery in placement previews and milestone previews.
• All resource icons show from game start.
• ResourceBar widens, centers on viewport anchors, and gets tweak sliders.
• Bureau report graphs anchor at day 0 with per-point value labels.
• Resource rank label restored on the resource bar, with split rank/satisfaction tooltips.
• Build a Room quest dialogue explains the room/guest-capacity link.
• Guest rank tooltip rewords to explain the stat boost.
• Ghost Train camera shake intensity halves.
• VIP-summoning quests route through Wynn.
• Dialogue text always left-aligns regardless of portrait side.
• Milestone LB/RB icons hide when no controller is connected.
• Modal and survey button purple glow shadow halves in size.
• Demo mode labels the main menu phase as “demo”.

Fixes

• Gravetide wail no longer fires when spawned from a fear hole, and fear-hole spawns floor-gate properly with a 2.5s stall.
• Mind Glass resource and item totals stay in sync.
• E key responsiveness in exploration dialogue restored.
• Exploration dialogues tag, so callers can cancel them by tag.
• Silent Steam Cloud sync failures now surface.
• Cloud meta drift auto-heals on download.
• GuestsPanel max drives from HouseCapacityManager signal.

Lamplighter trap, Room Boons, and bureau history

New

• Lamplighter trap quest, with a summon_another_vip follow-up; trap_lamplighter folds into the follow-up.
• C-C-C-Combo and Make-a-Guest-Puke quests; C-C-C-Combo lands after Triple Chain Scare.
• A Room Boons panel listing material and upgrade bonuses for the current room.
• A Roaming deployment for Roamstone-holding undertakers, with their live room shown as (Roaming) <room> in the side panel.
• Sanctioned and vindicated investigation outcomes.
• Demo Mode cheat; CheatsModal splits into three columns.
• Show Logs cheat that ships logs to Sentry from the Logs modal.
• Bureau report grows history graphs in each section, with a two-column layout and a satisfaction cap of 20.
• SITE button and survey glow on the main menu.
• Ghostly tether between a ghost and its unprocessed corpse.

Changes

• Bureau report fires every 15 nights instead of 30.
• Summon_vip now requires you to collect a Mind Glass.
• Early access mode gates the VIP button after the final VIP.
• Cheats and Logs modals restyle to match PauseModal.
• Hellspikes milestone cost rises to 5 mind shards.
• Resource collection sound gets a cooldown.
• Laugh cylinders juiced up with pulse, spin, trail, and bouncier physics.
• Cemetery gate Build interaction area widens.
• Undertaker behavior description scales with UI scale.
• Wall B shows the full room number; “Entrance Hall” stays unnumbered in the side panel.
• Fetch quest rewards stack in their own padded panels.
• Enki post-downstairs and gate-piece dialogue tightened.
• Steam authenticates up front using a cached password file.
• MilestoneModal shrinks on Steam Deck so it clears the sidebars.

Fixes

• Room Boons panel fades in with its background instead of without.
• Therewolf Sneak deals damage again.
• Guard Goyle blueprint unlock fires.
• Danse Macabre Barnaby actually amuses guests.
• Wynn portrait framing corrected.
• Nav pause flag sets even when the guest isn’t moving.
• Gutterboy default absurdity zeroes out.
• Behavior stat modifiers align with the actual code constants.
• Sentry skips nav_path_fail reports for PlayerCharacter.
• Freed source_guest read guarded in bile trail spawning.
• Several singleton refs cached in OperateBehavior, GuestsPanel, MovementInterpolator, and the vampire hot path for performance.
• Furnace payback aside trimmed from unlock_milestone quest dialogue.
• Per-frame room update dropped in FearResponseComponent.
• Excludes Secrets, Urn, Pipe, and Wardrobe from “all items” cheats.

Therewolf mid-jump transformation & camera shake

New

• Therewolf’s transformation is now a continuous mid-jump swap, and the howl drops two octaves; the scare lands one second after the transformation starts.
• Camera shake added to spell casts, slide, and player fall, with a delayed slide shake 0.25s in.
• Guests now bleed when they take physical damage or while being dragged.
• DIG main menu gets a scenario loader; autosave defaults off in the editor and on in exported builds.

Changes

• Corpses and ghosts persist across save/load.
• Undertaker deployment behavior persists across save/load.
• Furniture set assignments restore during load bootstrap.
• Max zoom-out lifts to 3.5 both inside and outside the house.
• Knock Knock gets heavier wood impacts, a 19% pitch drop, and a 3-second cooldown.
• Umbral Maw duration halves from 9s to 4.5s.
• Toot leaves smaller fog puffs behind the player while active.
• Hellspikes damage radius lands at 3.0, decoupled from the 2.5 visual radius.
• Player fall and slide camera shake intensities tone down.
• Boo sound pitch drops 5%.

Fixes

• A* short-circuits unreachable rooms so the navigator doesn’t hang.
• DialogueSequencePlayer guards against null current_scene lookups.
• Galaxy particles guard against null current_scene.
• Guest rank manager detected by script path, not group membership.

Changes

• Barnaby’s Danse Macabre swaps to a single floorcombo loop.

Changes

• Vomit pools get a hemisphere mound on top of the decal.
• Gravetide’s gore stat now feeds the disgust system.

Ghost Train scares & dialogue polish

New

• Ghost Train actually scares guests as it passes.
• Toggleable vomit pool visual experiments, with noisy circular splat decals.
• Branching post-downstairs Enki dialogue.
• Demo mode restricted to the intro quests, but save/load still works.

Changes

• Patron milestones restructure with Gate Pieces in the mid tier.
• Bureau report tab gates on meeting Jeff.
• Hide the Body quest reassigns to Enki.
• Endgame Enki quest chain linearized; All We Know Is Up moves to Act 1.
• Room upgrades retuned: Blood Bank dropped, quest targets swapped.
• Dialogue highlights revised; emphasized words tint yellow.
• Dialogue choice buttons pad and wrap; branching choices color by advance vs loop semantics.
• Yellow noise-border overlay replaces the dark-fantasy hover frame.
• Enki and Amun-Maw milestone tiers shift up by one.
• Guests play their walk animation while exiting the haunt.
• Guest barks shorten from 5s to 3s and pace better.
• Autosave throttles to once per 5 minutes, with a settings toggle.
• The False Parade is no longer a player spell.

Fixes

• Flee-to-laugh slide hands nav pause off to laugh, so animation and nav residue clear.
• Guests stop being disgusted by their own vomit trail.
• Post-laugh stand-up blends, so guests stop sliding and sinking.
• In-progress dialogue stops when loading or starting a new game.
• InvisiBill footprints render as Decals to fix zoom-out aliasing, and the sprite swaps when stored in the Shadow Lounge.
• InvisiBill tantrum alternates pull and push on each stop.
• DIG next quest quick actually skips dialogue.

Build the gate & Early Access modal

New

• Build the gate quest, with Gate Pieces granted from the corresponding patron milestones.
• Ghost Brisket is craftable as an Amun-Maw tier 3 unlock.
• An Early Access modal stacks with the demo end modal; the cemetery gate routes to Early Access.
• Demo mode can be enabled locally via the --demo CLI flag.

Changes

• Player occlusion outline skips when you’re outside.
• ImGui experimental section reorganized.

Fixes

• Post-load sidebar, redeploy location, and upgrade_room quest all behave correctly.
• Gutterboy sequence no longer bricks the lights if you descend mid-cutscene.
• Mind shard generates when 3 reactions overlap in the same window.

Tur Moyle and the cemetery gate

New

• Tur Moyle, a gargoyle undertaker with Operate behavior, hatches when you feed a Guard Goyle a Ghost Brisket and walks-and-bartends on deploy.
• Gate Pieces drop as a final-tier reward from every patron, and you assemble them into a cemetery gate via a Build interaction; walking through the finished gate triggers the demo end modal.
• Pipe is a new item that attaches atop a Compressor, Conflater, or Storage Tank.
• Storage Tank is interactable with a deposit/withdraw inventory.
• Haunted Elevator prices in as an end-game craft.
• VIP walked trail renders as a floor-pinned dotted line.
• Player gets a yellow occlusion outline when a wall hides them.

Changes

• Crafting modal layout and cost rendering reworked; held item counts show in the Compressor modal.
• Compressor and conflater outputs go straight to your inventory.
• Cleaveland’s Debone behavior gates on a chopping table being present.
• Guest barks expand for vomit, disgust, laugh, flee-end, entry, room, scare, and end-of-tour.
• Speech bubbles stack to avoid overlap and hide under modals.
• Patron milestones restructure with Gate Pieces in the mid tier.
• Storage Tank moves to Enki Tier 1 at 20 Screams.
• Costs lowered for Ghost Slide, Amun-Maw Tier 1, and Conflater.
• Tin Man’s Desire heartbeat audio tightened; Knock Knock spell gets knock sounds.
• Item stats adjusted: Gate Piece, Mouth Feel, Haunted Elevator.
• Cemetery gate phases animate as you build it.
• VIP Satisfied modal fires when a coffin intercepts a Rogue Bloodsucker.
• Undertaker behavior stat modifiers retuned.
• Furnace ignition splits from player drag, so NPCs can light it.

Fixes

• Two crashes squashed: missing Vomit icon and balloon explosion ordering.
• Already-picked-up fetch stick hides on game load.
• Ghost panel rows key by Ghost actor, not the dead Guest.
• Mouse stops warping during controller item placement.
• Undertaker location modal centers on Steam Deck.
• Player occlusion outline tightens up and now detects doors.

Chester joins the roster

New

• Chester becomes a recruitable undertaker via his tier 4 milestone, and he carries his held item right into the deploy modal.
• Roamstone rewarded for completing Spread Our Roots, with a milestone preview.
• New quests: unlock_milestone, find_the_clown, find_wellshrieker, creative_rocket.
• A Killed By modal opens from ghost rows and ghost actors.
• Chevron paging on side panels lifts the quest tracking cap.

Changes

• Spell radial menu restyled to match the SpellBar visuals.
• Mean Girl entourage protection no longer locks in immunity.
• Quest objectives can be OR-grouped, and body decay shows a countdown in the guest interaction modal.
• Chester’s Consume ability renamed to Slurp; milestone shows both organ icons.
• InvisiBill’s Gather ability renamed to Drag.
• Triple Chain Scare excludes Entrance Hall and Shadow Lounge from its room count.
• Behavior-switch quest now completes on any undertaker.
• Auto-offer Chester’s chain_puke quest after stick turn-in.
• Milestone costs halve across the board; Chester tier 1 gets an Organ? reward.
• Tin Man’s Desire costs 3 Vomit now.
• Amun-Maw collapses to 4 tiers; Enki tier 1 gets a Fear Hole.
• Find the Clown moves to right after Recruit.
• VIP stats line up with spawn order and starting health normalizes to 3.
• Item and spell hover tooltips format as aligned stat tables.
• Crafting cost labels go red when you can’t afford them.
• Jeff parents to Outdoors, with a “Find the Liaison” objective.
• SmileDoor renders with live particle smile, toggled in DIG Tweak.
• Body decay countdown moves into the interaction modal.

Fixes

• Gutterboy balloon damage is attributed to the balloon, not Gutterboy.
• Rogue bloodsucker bites blocked on patrons, undertakers, and when a coffin is placed.
• FearHole only triggers for actual Guests.
• Stale ext_resource UIDs refreshed across scenes, with a pre-commit guard.
• Arizona walk animation lookup fixed.
• UndertakerPanel row gradients stop accumulating on refresh.
• “the Enki” / “The Enchiridion” naming cleaned up.
• Room-center nav targets snap to walkable cells.

Haunted Elevator, hitstop, and Jeff becomes a patron

New

• Haunted Elevator lands as a recolored GLB prop with a lantern, sigil, skulls, and cobwebs in the cab.
• Bureau Liaison Jeff is now a patron; choosing the bureau report opens the Enki report directly, and he barks “Thanks Jeff.” once his name is revealed.
• Hitstop on player-spell scares, gated behind a feature flag with DIG tuning.
• An Enki glow rises with the book and turns red on summon.
• 9 new resource-tree items, and Devaporator doubles in scale.
• Giggle Juice gets an inventory icon and color tint.

Changes

• VIP invite modal shows a mainline plus flavor explainer at larger font sizes.
• Enki resource tree drops unused tabs and rebuilds stats as a comparison table.
• Tutorial modals and dialogues are suppressed in robot mode.
• Volumetric fog forces on while the Toot effect is active.
• Speech bubbles scale with camera zoom.
• Mean Girl complaint bark waits until her shield fades out.
• Mean Girl PROTECTED label becomes a shield icon with a follower count.
• VIP phone position raises; inline controller-prompt icons in dialogue go to 64x64.
• Milestone tier buttons styled as interlocking flags.
• Autosave moves from settings menu to a DIG feature flag, and fires on quest completion with a 5-minute idle fallback.
• Backyard process_mode toggles by player area; inside always processes.
• HUD panels stay locked open on Steam Deck.
• Wynn and Chester rewards retuned; Triple Chain Scare gates by room.

Fixes

• Release-build startup crash from ImGui debug scripts now lazy-loads them.
• Door cells and clearance stay walkable, so guests stop getting stuck.
• Dialogue portrait clamps at 240px with centered choices.
• Recruit modal button text centers in keyboard/mouse mode.
• Mind shard generation no longer breaks when 3 reactions overlap on the same tick.

Fixes

• upgrade_room quest auto-completes if you’ve already discovered the Blood Drawing Room.

Mouth Feel, Organ?, and a milestone reshuffle

New

• Mouth Feel placeable carnival entrance lands as a Wynn T3 reward, with placement requiring a connected door.
• Tin Man’s Desire placeable heart, beating with a pulse animation.
• Organ? mystery placeable that randomly spawns a pipe organ or a guts bucket on placement.
• Triple Chain Scare quest, awarded after Find Chester, drops a Fear Hole.
• From Downtown achievement; Full Roster bumped to 7 undertakers.
• Mean Girl’s entourage is now Summer Girl and Hipster Girl by name.

Changes

• Patron milestones restructure around the new resource chains; Generators tab wires up Organ, Mouth Feel, and Tin Man’s Desire.
• Enchiridion renamed to Enki.
• Rogue Vampire VIP renamed to Rogue Bloodsucker.
• Tanya and Dameon drop Mind Glass instead of Mind Shards.
• Fresh Blood drops from hellspike hits; Ghost Goo from guest deaths.
• Sign-Your-Name routes through the quest dialogue overlay; the old PatronQuestModal is gone.
• Guest spawning pulls from a shuffled deck instead of independent random picks.
• Recent interactions cap at 7 with a + N more overflow line.
• Item tooltip stats render one per line.
• Speaker and patron names show uppercase in the UI; “the” moves out of VIP names into the invite prompt.
• Discovery and recruit modals restyled; controller button icons shift 50px right.
• Confirmation modal buttons double in size with centered text.
• SpellBar collapses until you unlock your first spell on keyboard, and stays collapsed on controller.
• Behavior descriptions inline under each undertaker radio button.
• Controls modal restyles to match PauseModal with refreshed bindings.
• Boot splash UID points at the right logo file.
• Cloud saves toggle moves from settings to DIG feature flag.
• HUD panel collapsed state persists across save/load.

Fixes

• Bookcase / Wynn auto-resolution leftover removed.
• GuestsPanel portrait refreshes when a guest is bitten into a rogue vampire.
• Flinch walk-back tween skips guests with no Root Node3D.
• GuestsPanel row clicks guard against freed guests during fade-out.
• Confirmation modal button text centers in keyboard mode.

Knock Knock, VIPPhone, and noise-border chrome

New

• Knock Knock spell lands as Amun-Maw Tier 1, with tooltips and yellow icons; Mirror Dance moves to the experimental bar.
• VIPPhone replaces LevelCircle: a phone icon with a ringing animation, swappable position via DIG.
• A scream-driven ResourceOrb behind a feature flag.
• Investigation badge persists across save/load and joins the HUD eye toggle.

Changes

• Modals unify on a SCREAMS-color noise border with black backgrounds.
• SpellBar wraps in a bordered panel, key badges replaced with named, bordered spell rectangles, and icons tint via the noise shader.
• Notoriety caps at 3 with a 1:1 star UI; investigations escalate Tanya then Dameon.
• Game over now shows Load / Main Menu / Quit instead of a soft-restart, with the full death message shared via a constant.
• Demo end modal turns into a small dismissible “end of demo” prompt.
• VIP Enchiridion dialogue shows only on the first Mean Girl summon.
• Settings dropdowns and toggle ON states pick up the green-in-noise-border treatment.
• ResourceBar layout flattens with uniform 32px gaps.
• Mean Girl shows fangs (with fade) instead of a “BITING!” label.
• GuardGoyle is no longer unique.
• Compact, color-coded resource tree; Enchiridion modal expands.
• Pause modal playtime label font size up; PauseModal background drops to match QuitConfirmation.
• HUD eye toggle moves to the UI layer and hides the whole HUD.
• Loading screen background goes black with a DIG color picker.
• Main menu loading bar matches the rest of the noise-border chrome.

Fixes

• Investigation badge collapse and HUD eye toggle inclusion.
• TextMesh depth disabled on evidence indicators to avoid convex decomp errors.
• Sparkly Bloodsucker registers properly with the save-state spawner.
• Navigation Vector3 state serializes as arrays so saves round-trip.
• Loaded quests no longer get their wrapped objectives clipped.
• Undertaker panel deploy-signal hookup moves to _ready so it always fires.

Guests panel, 3D room labels, EKG hearts

New

• A right-side Guests panel appears once you walk through the gate, with 3D-baked portraits, guest counts, and per-row dead/alive state.
• An EKG pulse readout drives each guest’s heart color and BPM from their emotional state.
• Speech bubbles bark guest emotions over their heads.
• Room names get 3D labels on Wall A instead of a top-of-screen banner.
• A Ghosts panel alongside the Guests panel.
• Toggleable upgrades panel on the right, sitting below the Guests panel.

Changes

• HUD chrome unifies across RankProgressBar, LevelCircle, and roster rows, with a shared noise-overlay shader and inverted corners.
• Top-right HUD buttons tint purple and shift right; panel headers go gold; all-caps Nunito display text everywhere.
• Resource bar widens to fit currency icons, then slims down to just currencies and notoriety.
• Inventory and Enki modals re-sized; inventory frame skull graphic shrinks.
• Objectives and Undertakers panels collapse and auto-size to content.
• Guests panel header shows the live guest count.
• Guest rows fade and slide on enter/leave, with a transparent-to-black gradient background.
• Guest names cap at 13 chars; dead guests render flatlined.
• Humor and disgust bars drain during laugh and vomit.
• House opening re-enables guest spawning correctly.
• Inside music resumes shuffled when loading a save inside the house.

Fixes

• Missing 3D room labels on shared-wall rooms, plus room-number consistency.
• T-posed and orphaned portrait bakes.
• Production crashes from broken release builds.
• Recruits panel signal duplicate-connect guard.
• Recruit row crash when refreshing after a PortraitStudio swap.
• Quest panel slide-out and slot undersizing; completed progress text.
• Cloud save deletion follows local save deletion.

Cloud save conflict modal

New

• Cloud save conflict modal now puts your local and remote saves side by side for comparison.

Changes

• New item icons: compressor, refenestrator, mind shards, mind diamond, furnace, plus a coffin_lorc for the Coffin and dodging_lorc for Ghost Slide.
• InvisiBill’s portrait switches to the Invisible icon.

Amun-Maw & scream variety

New

• Patron formerly known as Amun is now Amun-Maw.
• 11 new female scream variants and a new inside-music track (ablpsh2).
• Cheats menu gets a next-track music cheat, satisfaction reset, and achievement reset, laid out in two columns.

Changes

• VIP rank-up ties to Mind Glass; the VIP button stays gated until the current VIP leaves.
• VIP explanation dialogue refreshed for the re-invite flow.

Fixes

• Wandering undertakers stop leaving their deployed room.
• Undertaker stat display refreshes when you switch behaviors.
• Full Roster achievement catches save-loaded recruits.
• Recruited-undertaker registration is skipped if the node frees mid-await.

Discovery modals & Thoth into the bookcase

New

• First-time discovery modals for items and room upgrades.
• Thoth folds into the bookcase as the Amun patron, showing his reputation in the action modal.

Changes

• Room material modal widens to fit longer room names.
• Sparkly Bloodsucker can be deployed after coffin recruitment.
• Crafting via gamepad A now validates item_costs.

Fixes

• Ghost Slide radial wheel uses the right icon, drops its cooldown, and highlights when active.
• Bookcase crash on Thoth interaction.
• Controller undertaker item assign works again.
• hide_the_body resolves cleanly and spread_our_roots seeds from existing rooms.
• Discovery modal OK button pinned to a fixed bottom offset.
• Meathead break-radius debug cylinder gone.

Fixes

• Release builds no longer skip dialogue validation.

Dialogue choices & Bureau Liaison Jeff

New

• Bureau Liaison Jeff joins as a guest; Dameon moves to the no-auto-spawn list.
• Dialogue choices with id-based branching, 2x2 grid, and quest/item effects.
• All we know is up quest from This Ol’ Wood.
• Ceiling fans animate and cast downward spotlights, with a DIG tweak panel.
• Sanctuary and Screamatorium are the new names for stone rooms; the Screamatorium upgrade is gone.
• Stone furniture sets get statues, cages, candelabra, and a chandelier.

Changes

• HUD tightens up: purple borders, smaller top-right buttons, white VIP fill that matches the rank bar.
• Resource bar enlarges 25% with a purple border.
• LeftPanel splits 40/60 between Objectives and Undertakers.
• Base furniture-set names become the default room name, and each set is consumed at most once per save.
• Build material modal previews named base furniture-set rooms.
• Dark fantasy framed buttons drop their hover tint.
• PauseModal grows 30px when cheats are unlocked, with DIG controls for tuning.

Fixes

• Resource notification stops flashing at (0,0).
• This Ol’ Wood quest indicator offsets dialed in.

Detectives, vampires, and Count bite

New

• Detective Dameon joins the cast as the notoriety-2 escalation, with a DIG detectives section.
• Sparkly Bloodsucker undertaker, with a rogue-vampire fix to go with it.
• Hide the body quest fires the first time a guest dies.
• The Count’s bite is fully fleshed out: animations, approach, same-room gate, infection, once-per-room, stat sync.

Changes

• Quests in the side panel now look like undertaker rows, with an inline untrack button.
• Guest fear bars drain gradually during flee.
• Coffins can only be placed in the Shadow Lounge, with an error message everywhere else.
• Postal VIP retired; orphaned Slayer milestone reward cleaned up.

Fixes

• Sparkly Bloodsucker’s idle animation in the Shadow Lounge.
• Cyclenaut animations stop dragging the root bone around.
• Count’s hat and hair properly attach to the head bone.
• Blank-white meshes in archived Props.tscn replaced with scene instances.

New quests, Ghost Slide, and patron rework

New

• Ghost Slide is a toggleable spell unlocked at This Ol’ Wood tier 1.
• Safety Mittens is a holdable, unlocked on Chester’s tier 1 milestone, and holdables now surface in the inventory.
• Creative Ceiling quest from Wynn.
• Spread Our Roots 9-room quest from This Ol’ Wood.
• Chester’s chain puke quest joins the lineup.
• Cyclenaut added to the VIP button sequence, and dedicated characters now back each VIP.
• A live slot-machine reel animates the resource bar counters.

Changes

• Lamplighter aura grants +1 to all stats, with a breakdown shown in her modal.
• Wellshrieker’s Haunt ability becomes Ritual Sacrifice.
• Late-game quest gating reworked; tracked objectives cap at 3.
• Meathead break chance buffed; SLAYER VIP removed.
• Patron action modal restyled on ModalDialog and now states the patron’s reputation.
• Patron milestone rewards and costs rebalanced.
• Stick pickup and fetch turn-in adjust patron reputation, with a notification.
• Talk and Tithe hotkeys swap places in the action modal.
• Enki resource tree shows item tooltips and icons on hover.
• Slip Between spell removed; Soulstrom moves from Conflater to Scream Catcher with a 0.1s effect.
• Slide steering rate doubles to 6.0.
• Mailbox intro modal animates “dead” and the final “scare”.
• Horror stat stripped from non-scarer items.
• Refenestrator gets a real prop scene in place of the bingo machine.

Fixes

• Meathead rushes break items reliably; guests stop stalling on arrival.
• Chester stick turn-in line now addresses you directly.
• Barnaby’s Danse Macabre transitions smooth out and auto-restart.
• Stick pickup is gated on the fetch quest being active.
• VIP button shifts further left and down.

Chester’s real fetch quest

New

• Chester’s stick quest is a real fetch now: pick up the stick, turn it in.
• Guard Goyle is a unique, uncraftable item.
• DIG section for per-actor quest indicator offsets.

Changes

• VIP button gets bigger and slides left, sitting beside the rank bar; rank numeral lands in the bar center.
• Any unaccepted patron offer lights up the quest indicator.
• Material modal hides its frame; each material panel gets its own colored border, with a tinted V banner and red unaffordable cost.
• Show/hide toggles use Lucide eye icons.
• SpellBar drops its background panel; left panel highlights with yellow borders and a balanced quest/recruit split.
• Undertaker rows color by highest stat and rebalance behavior modifiers.
• Navigation pauses during vomit instead of stopping outright.
• find_undertakers lists each undertaker by name.

Fixes

• Chester’s quest indicator floats above his seated pose.
• Loaded games stop darkening when the saved house was already open.
• Placed items now play impact sounds.
• Double-clicking Load only fires once.
• UndertakerLocationModal falls back to a portrait icon when needed.
• Keyboard key labels hide on inventory, Enki, and gear buttons.
• Chester stick-quest MilestoneModal blocker resolved.

This Ol’ Wood, Tanya’s death, and a real Enki quest log

New

• This Ol’ Wood gets a Whispy Woods face, a portrait, and Great Deku as an alternate variant.
• BasementHatch wired into the Return Wardrobe, with a Wall B backyard wardrobe teleporter door in the Shadow Lounge.
• Enki gets a Quest Log tab with tracked and untracked quest state.
• Hellspikes unlock via Enki tier 1, dealing 1 physical damage.
• Blood Drawing Room upgrade lands, and one-per-room items are enforced.
• Roamstone shows up in the crafting modal under a new Held category.
• Officer Tanya has a death animation, ghost scene, and the missing Mixamo anims.

Changes

• Confirmation modals all share the purple-glow style.
• Find Chester boils down to just stepping into the backyard.
• Furnace interaction radius doubles.
• Thoth Tier 1 unlock now wants 25 screams alongside the 10 vomit.
• Furnace, Chopping Table, and Fear Hole milestone costs retuned.
• Tutorial and recruitment copy polished; Shadow Lounge banner tweaked.
• Window resizing is disabled; settings menu still resizes itself.
• Chain Scare quest now requires a still-fleeing guest.

Fixes

• Crashes and double-connects during save-load bootstrap.
• TOW stick-quest dialogue no longer cut off by premature objective completion.
• Mind Shards inventory icon matches the rest of the UI.
• Chester portrait framing and InvisiBill icon orientation fixed.
• InvisiBill blank portrait swapped for a clean 2D icon; 3D footprints retired.
• Dead guests no longer count against spawner capacity.
• Spell BadgeGem hides on controller regardless of label nesting.
• Quest untrack button is sized so the Blinded icon actually renders.
• Wall B doorway clears so Chester tier 1 objective resolves.
• Pause modal grows taller when cheats unlock.
• Navigation pauses during laugh instead of stopping outright.

Bureau Report quest & dialogue overhaul

New

• A Bureau Report quest unlocks on night 30, rewarding Knowledge.
• New dark_fantasy_hud icon set is baked in and on by default.
• find_patrons and find_undertakers split out of Explore the Grounds, each listing names you still need to meet.
• TOW stick quest reply is now a multi-step exploration dialogue.

Changes

• Exploration dialogue panel reworked: new layout, portraits, framing, and copy.
• One shared dialogue panel fades between speakers instead of swapping.
• You can click the panel to advance, and a bobbing indicator points the way.
• Hold-to-move works alongside click-to-move, with tighter arrival.
• Mean Girl VIP_spawned holds off until her explanation dialogue finishes.
• Grave Five fear tutorial re-splits across spawner and scream catcher.
• Inventory modal framing, positioning, and typography all get a pass.
• Pause modal buttons jump to 32pt; spell badge gems rotate by slot in the SpellBar.
• Quest entries indent in the left side panel; Gutterboy Surprise Party shows +1 Damage.
• Material modal shows the controller A-icon only on the focused column.
• LevelCircle shifts 25px left; exploration dialogue panel rises 50px.
• Ghost train whistle now waits 2 seconds.
• Menu chrome: hover-only tint, save-list sizing, pause border.

Fixes

• Save/load no longer locks up if you save between quests.
• Tutorial text reads as proper speaker/text dialogue steps.
• Button Y icon path typo corrected.
• Cross-room pathfinding failures are logged for diagnosis.
• Held Item and Assign Item labels center over their slots.

Room upgrades simplified

Changes

• Material modal drops the upgrade list and shows static bonuses instead, with a Cost label above the row.
• Every room upgrade is now available on every floor type.
• Save list and settings buttons get the dark fantasy hover frame.
• Room badge upgrades panel restyled.
• Sign-Your-Name objectives tick the moment you start signing, not after.
• Dropping a scream catcher auto-opens the house, with the OPEN notification deferred.
• House lighting stays constant when the house opens.
• Game window centers on screen at launch.

Fixes

• Guestbook quest indicator sits above the book itself.

Explore the Grounds & menu glow-up

New

• Explore the Grounds quest gets you out into the yard to meet patrons and undertakers by proximity.
• Resource Tree moves into the Enki modal as its own tab.
• Wardrobe reward panel shows up for the upgrade_room quest.

Changes

• Pause menu gets a dark fantasy frame, dimmed background, and a purple glow behind the panel.
• Settings modal buttons match the new pause-menu hover treatment.
• Resource bar shrinks; side-panel headers use the Julius display font.
• Title screen layout and font scaling are kinder to small windows.
• Modals scale their width with your font setting.
• Recruit modal centers; bureau report sticks to the middle third.
• Tutorial input hints catch up with the new movement controls; Switch A icon points the right way.
• Resource tree flows left to right with cleaner arrows and routing.
• Guest screams auto-load with the right gender.
• Enki tabs group under section headers.
• Outside ambient gets darker; landing rumble hits harder.
• InvisiBill flavor text rewritten.

Fixes

• VIP summon on dpad-left is blocked while you’re outside.
• Talked-to patrons get credit in Explore the Grounds, and Grave Five is skipped.
• Undertakers stop trying to navigate to negative floors.
• All-items cheat skips uniques you already own.
• Assign picker shows an empty slot when there’s nothing to assign, and held-slot position holds steady.
• Undertakers can only carry one held item at a time.