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Just Another Idle — v0.30: Notification Center

Hey all! v0.30 is a quality-of-life update centred around two things: making the notification experience actually pleasant especially on mobile, and rounding out the early bronze equipment tier.

💬 Notification Center

The game has always had a lot of notifications — level-ups, mastery milestones, action rewards, task completions, gem drops — and after a while they turn into a constant stream of floating cards all over the screen. On mobile in particular, that becomes a real problem.

Starting with this version, silent mode is on by default. All those floating toasts and action reward cards are gone. Instead, there’s a new chat bubble button in the top bar. When new notifications come in, a red dot appears on it. Click it to open the notification panel and see what happened.

Inside the panel you can:

Read everything that came in since you last checked
Dismiss notifications one by one with the × button
Hit “Clear all” to wipe the slate clean
Toggle silent mode off if you prefer the old floating behaviour

Action reward notifications behave the same as before in terms of merging — if the same action completes multiple times, they stack into a single entry showing the cumulative XP, resources, and an ×N count. The difference is they just don’t float anymore by default.

The preference (silent or not) is saved, so you only have to choose once.

📱 Mobile Layout

Small improvement: the skill panel and action grid now sit side by side starting at 768px (tablet width), instead of waiting until 1024px. Previously tablets were getting a long single-column scroll that didn’t make good use of the screen space.

🦺 Bronze Platebody

The bronze equipment tier was missing a body slot piece, which made the “Wear Bronze” achievement a bit confusing. That’s fixed — the Bronze Platebody is now craftable at Smithing level 18 using 4 bronze bars. It grants +5% XP gain on all skills while equipped.

With all 5 bronze pieces (pickaxe, hatchet, helmet, platelegs, platebody), the full set bonus now also gives +5% mastery XP in addition to the existing speed and action bonuses.

🐛 Bug Fixes

The “Wear Bronze” achievement was bugged and required 50 items instead of 1 — it now correctly triggers the moment you equip any single bronze piece.
Play time statistics were not actually accumulating during play sessions. That tracking is now fixed.

What’s Next

Still working through the platform checklist and general QoL improvements. Longer-term, more Agility actions and some gem-focused achievements are on the list.

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