Upcoming in 0.4.5

Depth is now hard-capped at 1,000,000m, with a 100x max quantum multiplier.

• Added a soft slowdown near the cap:

  • 900,000m+: gains reduced to 50%

  • 950,000m+: gains reduced to 10%

• All five depth gain paths now respect the new clamp and slowdown rules.

• On load, save data is validated for depth, resources, and multipliers to catch corrupt or invalid values (NaN/Infinity, etc.).

Boss Encounters & Localization

• Fixed boss names not translating correctly in 14 languages (previously bosses 2–4 were stuck in English).

• Corrected mismatched boss IDs in the UI:

  • crystal_leviathan → Crystal Titan

  • uranium_colossus → Magma Beast

  • quantum_overlord → Core Sentinel

• Removed unused boss entries from 11 locale files.

• All four bosses (Granite Guardian, Crystal Titan, Magma Beast, Core Sentinel) now show properly localized names in every supported language.

• UI tweaks:

  • Attack button font size increased for readability.

  • Health bar text moved below the bar and switched to a clear monospace font with consistent styling.

Worker Movement – Collision Jitter Fix

• Workers no longer “vibrate” or jitter when moving near each other.

• Reworked collision avoidance:

  • Reduced avoidance strength for smoother blending with the target direction.

  • Switched to a quadratic falloff for more natural force transitions.

  • Added a movement threshold to filter out tiny micro-movements.

  • Clamped maximum avoidance forces and increased minimum distance between workers to avoid extreme values.

• Added adaptive visual smoothing: movement is smoothed differently depending on how far a worker is moving.

• Result: workers now move smoothly even in dense groups without visual jitter.

Production Panels – New Standalone Window

• The Production Panels now live in their own dedicated window instead of being crammed into the Workers tab.

• Press P to toggle the Production Panels window.

• Layout: three side-by-side panels in the new window:

  1. Real-Time Production Display

  2. Production Breakdown

  3. Efficiency Comparison

• The window:

  • Can be moved, resized, collapsed, and remembers its state.

  • Defaults to 1000×500px and appears roughly at 20% screen width / 30% screen height.

  • Follows the same window pattern as Random Events, Boss Status, and Generation Rates.

• The Workers tab is now much cleaner and easier to read.

Performance – Production Display Caching

• Optimized production and efficiency UI so it no longer recalculates every frame.

• Real-Time Production and Efficiency Comparison panels now only update when relevant data changes (WorkerState, GameStats, PrestigeSystem).

• Introduced a cached production display in UIState, updated by a dedicated system.

• Removed an older per-frame calculation function.

• This reduces unnecessary CPU usage, especially on scenes with many workers.

Worker UI – Production & Efficiency Panels

• Workers tab now includes:

  • Real-Time Production Display: shows each job’s per-second output with job icon and worker count.

  • Production Breakdown: totals grouped by resource type (Blocks/sec, Data/sec, Depth/sec, Energy/sec, Qbits/sec, Dark Matter/sec) to quickly spot bottlenecks.

  • Efficiency Comparison: ranks jobs by output per worker with a simple star-style efficiency indicator.

• Implemented using three side-by-side panels in the UI.

• Production numbers are computed via a helper to stay within engine system limits and keep the UI code cleaner.

Worker Animation & Visual Overhaul

Smoother Movement & Easing

• Replaced random jitter with a proper animation easing system.

• Added dedicated easing functions (ease-in/out cubic, etc.) and separate visual_x / visual_y fields for interpolated positions.

• Tool durability “shake” is now a smooth sine wave instead of noisy random movement.

• Result: workers glide smoothly instead of shaking.

Distinct Visuals for Each Job

• New visual configuration for all 8 worker job types via a dedicated worker_visuals module.

• Each job has a unique geometric look and color scheme, for example:

  • Digger: brown circle miner look.

  • Hacker: cyan core with orbiting dots.

  • Builder: orange circle with a helmet-like square.

  • Engineer: dark orange with energy spikes.

  • Researcher: light blue with orbit ring.

  • QuantumTech: layered indigo circles with phase animation.

  • Explorer: green-teal with directional arrow.

  • DarkMiner: white core with dark purple aura.

• The goal is instant recognition of job type at a glance.

Improved Mining & Movement Animations

• Mining is now a 4-stage animation with easing:

  • Wind-up (ease-in), strike (ease-out), impact squash/stretch, and smooth recovery.

• Walking and running use sine-based bobbing with subtle scale changes.

• Idle workers have a light “breathing” animation so the scene never looks static.

Worker Lifecycle & Pooling

• Added a full worker lifecycle system for future boss interactions and effects:

  • States: Active, Dead, Pooled, Respawning.

  • Workers have health, max health, death time, and respawn delay.

• Implemented a worker pool to reuse worker instances instead of constantly allocating and destroying them:

  • Functions to kill, damage, recycle, and respawn workers.

  • Dead/respawning workers skip AI logic but still play animations (death, etc.).

• All new fields are backward compatible with existing save files.

Visual Effects & Particles

• Job specific movement trails:

  • Digger dust, Explorer dotted trails, QuantumTech quantum circles, Engineer sparks, Hacker “binary” trail, DarkMiner energy trails, and more.

• Interaction effects:

  • Engineers generate animated electric arcs between nearby engineers, forming visible power networks.

  • Researchers trigger “eureka” bursts (particle explosions and glow rings) when they hit high combo counts.

• Overall effect: the mine feels much more alive, readable, and satisfying to watch.