Dev Changelog

15 new quest definitions across Darlene, Frank, Silas, Ellen, Carl, Rose, June, and CVBA. CHAINS dictionary for ordered progression. Counter system for tracking attendance and sightings. Auto side-quest activation when conditions are met. Full save/load support.

5 new 128x128 NPC portraits. All 8 NPCs placed in world scenes with quest-aware dialogue. Unified NPC interaction loop in player.gd scans all groups and picks the closest within 64px. Honey House ruin examination for Silas quest chain.

Market sale, queen spotted, bee package collected, honey delivery, and bulletin board events now fire to QuestManager. Rose's dialogue-based item delivery and Darlene's 8-line hive observation and queen marking sequences wired up.

Grange Hall CVBA meeting system with 3 rotating meetings and attendance tracking. Saturday Regulars compound tracking (4 consecutive visits + 2 product types + $50 earnings). Ellen colony comparison and health monitoring milestone flags.

4 holidays: Quickening Morn (spring renewal), Founder's Beam (midsummer festival with market premium), Reaping Fire (harvest bonfire), Long Table (winter feast). Unique multi-line NPC dialogue, standing and XP rewards, attendance tracking, save/load support.

New is_transition_month() and get_season_phase() helpers in TimeManager. Season notifications now distinguish "Early [Season]" from "true [Season]" months. GDD updated with Phase column and design note.

Silas Q1-Q3 deprecated. Honey House is functional from Day 1 with expanded 16x12 layout. Five new stations: Workbench, Craft Table, Mead Corner, Goods Shelf, Goal Board. Harvest Yard removed; extraction moves inside.

Energy bar hidden. Replaced with qualitative descriptions ("Feeling good" / "Getting tired"). Five speed tiers from 1.0x to 0.5x. Idle animations: stretch, yawn, rub eyes, sit down. "How am I feeling?" button in pause menu.

7 winterization components with 4 craftable workbench recipes. New winterization overlay UI with 7-component checklist. Spring damage check assesses mouse (60%), moisture (40%), and starvation (50%) risks. Winter loss probability from missing components.

Dr. Harwick research nuc offered if 0-1 colonized hives in early spring. Carl's tab auto-offers $150 credit when cash drops below $50. Equipment condition floor of 5 prevents total loss. Harwick periodic visits after nuc accepted.

June delivers a yearly catalogue in Kindlemonth with 7 items (package bees through motorized uncapper). Year-gated filtering, early-order queen quality bonus. Orders delivered Quickening Day 1. Full browsing UI with keyboard navigation.

Equipment condition ranges (100-80 through 19-5) with production, pest risk, winter survival, and repair impacts. Furniture polish item added to Tanner's catalogue ($6). Condition floor of 5 prevents complete destruction.

Dev bypass starts at day 43 (Greening 15). Empty starting hotbar; all tools via Bob's onboarding. Updated Uncle Bob 8-quest chain: Q0 Meet Uncle Bob through Q7 Spring Count. Feeding now taught in Fall (Q5). Frame tracking for inspection quests.

Constant, string values, group references, sprite map, registry key, and display name all updated. Script and sprite filenames remain unchanged for backwards compatibility.

J key now works during inspection. Smoker is a separate pre-inspection action. New sting probability system: base 7%/15%/22% per step with bee suit, smoker, evening, and weather modifiers. Sting count displayed color-coded in header.

Player starts with empty inventory. All tools and hive components in storage chest. Onboarding teaches drag-from-chest-to-toolbar flow. Every item needed for Year 1 is in the starting chest.

Restored truncated QuestManager file (cut off at line 167). Added _suppress_notifications flag so daily quests and first_light auto-start silently. Quest notifications now only appear for quests started during gameplay.

Fixed dev bypass to day 1 spring start. Rewrote Uncle Bob onboarding with actionable instructions. Added Quest Log as third journal tab showing active and completed quests with status tags and detail view.

Replaced 6-toast guidance with single "Go talk to Uncle Bob" toast. Full Uncle Bob rebuild: 10-line first-visit walkthrough, 5-priority dialogue system, quest-aware lines for all Year 1 quests, seasonal pools, XP awards.

Full visual rewrite matching PauseMenu warm palette. Proper root Control node, solid background, title bar with tab bar, category tags, detail panel, scroll position indicator, and footer hint bar. Layer 25 for correct z-ordering.

Added set_input_as_handled() after creating journal overlay. Prevents the same J keypress from creating and destroying the overlay in the same frame.

Added missing _on_inspection_closed() method that was causing the entire player script to fail. Fixed harvestable_tree.gd crash with is_instance_valid() check on scene unload.

Rewrote controls panel with font_size 4, row height 7px, and 190x176 panel. All 4 sections plus back button fit the viewport. Added M (Map) keybind to Menus section.

6 timed notification toasts on new game covering movement, interaction, journal, and pause. New Controls button in pause menu with full keybinding reference in 4 sections. Persistent flag ensures hints fire only once per save.

Winter pre-order items added to Feed Supply: Bee Package ($165) and Nuc ($220) with discounted pricing, delivered Quickening 1. Colony installation now emits quest events and unlocks journal entries.

New passive hive observation system for Deepcold/Kindlemonth: weight, sound, and entrance activity readings with color-coded thresholds and contextual advice. Auto-logs to Knowledge Journal and unlocks winter_prep entry. Inspections route to observation panel during winter months.

Uncle Bob: quest-aware dialogue matching active Year 1 quests with seasonal pools. Ellen Harwick: seasonal health/disease dialogue covering varroa, DWV, and oxalic timing with notebook entry unlocks. Frank Fischbach: seasonal market advice on pricing and product diversification.

Hives can now be given custom names via editable field. New two-tab Knowledge Journal: Notebook (16 unlockable entries) and Hive Records (per-hive day/action/details/player_note). Keen Observer tracking (80%+ notes = bonus). J key to open. Full save/load support.

American Foulbrood now models sub-clinical spores progressing to clinical (visible) infection. Strong colonies (15k+ adults) clear sub-clinical at ~15%/week; weak colonies progress in ~40 days. Rope test diagnosis, foul smell notification, and hive destruction mechanics for clinical cases.

Oxalic acid (90% mite reduction, best broodless/winter) and formic acid (70% reduction, temperature-dependent) treatment buttons added to inspection overlay. Item-gated: consumes treatment from inventory. Shows before/after mite count and emits quest events.

Five-step interactive process: Select Frame, Queen Check, Scoop, Shake, Count. Scripted first-wash tutorial with queen-on-frame moment and Ellen's warning. Color-coded mite threshold display. Reports to QuestManager for Battening Down check. Wash Kit available at Feed Supply ($15).

New feed_stores field consumed before honey_stores daily. Barrel feeder injects into feed_stores (not sellable honey). Refill mechanic: player uses sugar syrup on empty feeder. Empty feeder notifications via NotificationManager. Quest event emission on feeder placement.

Five Year 1 quests: First Light, Sugar Water Days, Girls Are Building, First Pull, Battening Down. Each auto-starts the next on completion. Month-gated deferred starts. notify_event() bus for game systems. Compound winter-ready check (60+ lbs honey + mite wash).

Increased SETTINGS_H from 120 to 134 so Mute Music checkbox and Back button no longer overlap.

Fixed references to nonexistent vars (_slider_music, _slider_sfx, etc.) to correct member names. Promoted local master slider var to member var for proper cleanup.

init_as_fall_harvest() now creates 2 deeps + 2 supers filled with capped honey. Honey stores bumped to 32 lbs, pollen to 220. Fixed integer division bug. Starting inventory reorganized: tools in player inventory, hive parts in chest.

Player inventory now holds 5 tools (axe, gloves, hammer, hive tool, bucket grip). Storage chest auto-stocked with 5 deep bodies, 5 supers, 20 frames, 1 queen excluder on fresh games. Guard flag prevents re-stocking on scene changes.

Added 5 deep bodies, 20 frames, 1 honey bucket, and 1 queen excluder to starting inventory. Both player defaults and dev bypass updated to match.

Frame overlay z_index lowered so later-added supers draw correctly over deep frame overlays. Fixed visible artifact/gap between deep and first super caused by z-order bleed-through.

Added BOX_CAVITY constant (11.0 display px = 22 source rows * 0.5 scale). Stacking loop now tracks prev_cavity so each box overlaps into the cavity below, hiding dark interior gaps. Verified math for 1D/3S and 2D/3S configurations.