Backrooms Power Crawl v0.5.1

https://github.com/aebrer/backrooms_power_crawl/releases/tag/v0.5.1

What’s New

🚪 Chunk Border Hallways

• Adjacent chunks now have border hallways cut between them, ensuring seamless connectivity across the infinite world
• 10-tile hallways on each side of border (20 tiles total) for reliable pathfinding
• Pathfinding graph updates in real-time as new hallways are cut

📦 Item Spawn Improvements

• Doubled spawn rates for all rarity tiers
• Pity timer: After 5 consecutive chunks without item spawns, the next chunk is guaranteed to have one
• First chunk guarantee: Player spawn chunk (0,0) always has at least one item

📋 Examination Panel Improvements

• Overflow expansion: Panel now grows upward when content exceeds available space
• Backrooms aesthetic: Muted yellow-brown border with sepia-tinted dark background
• Item rarity display: Items show “Rarity: [name]” with color coding

✨ Inventory [NEW!] Indicator

• Items with undiscovered XP display [NEW!] prefix
• Examining items in inventory now triggers first-look EXP bonus
• Indicator removes automatically after examining

⚖️ Bacteria Spreader Balance

• HP reduced from 300 → 200
• Can no longer heal other Bacteria Spreaders (prevents self-sustaining spreader blobs)
• Still heals other bacteria types within 3-tile radius

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Entity Pathfinding: Fixed entities falling back to greedy navigation instead of A* pathfinding from Turn 1
• Game Restart: Fixed clearance level and first-look EXP state not resetting on new run
• TileType Enum: Fixed CEILING constant and removed unused DOOR type

🔧 Code Quality

• Extracted hallway width magic numbers to named constants
• Added is_item_novel() public API to KnowledgeDB
• Cleaned up debug logging from pathfinding systems

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/aebrer/backrooms_power_crawl/compare/v0.5.0…v0.5.1