Update 0.1.5 Grand Tailor World Mastery System

Current Version: v0.1.5 Requires new download

World Mastery System (Major Feature)

• Grand Tailor Mastery - A new endgame progression system tied to World Essence!
  • Each world (except World 6) has 5 mastery tiers to unlock by earning WE
  • Each tier requires earning 2,000 WE and grants 2 Mastery Points (10 MP per world, 160 MP total across 16 worlds)
  • Crown System - Complete all 5 tiers in a world group to earn crowns:
    • Bronze Crown: Worlds 1-5 → +3% WE earning bonus + 10 OWE
    • Silver Crown: Worlds 7-11 → +6% WE earning bonus + 10 OWE
    • Gold Crown: Worlds 12-16 → +9% WE earning bonus + 10 OWE

  • Mastery badges shown on the World Picker for at-a-glance progress

Mastery Point Upgrades

• Spend your earned Mastery Points on permanent upgrades:
  • Essence Attunement - +1% WE earning per purchase (unlimited)
  • Tailor's Bargain - 10% discount on Tailor's Chest purchases per level (max 3, up to 30% off)
  • Warp Efficiency - 50% discount on Prestige Warp diamond cost (max 1)
  • Essence Harmonics - Reduce transmutation tax by 10% (70%→60%) (50 MP)
  • Essence Mastery - Reduce transmutation tax by another 10% (60%→50%) (80 MP)

Tailor's Chest

• New chest type purchasable with World Essence (5,000 WE base cost, discountable via Tailor's Bargain)
• Contains: Celestial Gear (100%), Celestial Gear (90%), Super Celestial Gear (50%), Super Celestial Gear (10%), plus scaled Gear Essence and Animal Food
• Gear Essence and Animal Food drops scale with your highest gear rarity

World Essence Transmutation

• Convert World Essence from one world to another
• Requires Tier 3+ mastery in the target world
• Base tax rate of 70% (heavy incentive to farm directly), reducible to 50% via MP upgrades
• Transmutation log tracked for economy monitoring

Resonance Chain

• Earn bonus WE by prestiging across different worlds!
• Each consecutive unique prestige world in your last 3 runs adds +10% WE (max +30%)
• Running the same world twice in a row breaks the chain
• Chain history displayed on the World Picker

World Spotlight

• 3 worlds are spotlit each day (rotates daily, MT-based)
• Spotlit worlds grant +30% bonus WE on prestige
• World 6 excluded from spotlight rotation
• Spotlight info shown on the World Picker sidebar

Grand Tailor Tutorial

• 7-step guided tutorial that triggers when you first open the Mastery tab
• Walks you through the WE earning formula, mastery tiers, crowns, transmutation, and the Tailor's Chest

World Essence Inventory Tab

• New dedicated tab in the inventory screen showing all your World Essence balances
• World number tooltips for quick identification

Mission Roster Improvements

• Added roster filtering on the mission select screen
• Heroes auto-sort by contribution to the selected mission

Idle Pets Warning Banner

• New warning banner when pets are sitting idle (not assigned to heroes, or farming)

Performance Improvements

• Merged wave rewards into save_user_state - Eliminated a separate API call every 3 seconds. Wave rewards are now processed inline during the 30-second save heartbeat
• Increased save interval to 30 seconds (from 10s) - Reduces server load significantly

Bug Fixes

• Strixia - Now correctly grants buff per female hero in column, not just the first one
• WE gain formula - Now properly accounts for enemy compression in World Essence calculations
• Max wave display - Stores level compression with max wave to fix display after speed mine upgrades
• Mine detail UI - Time and yield labels now update correctly after adding miners
• Miner slot count - Recalculated on UI rebuild to stay accurate
• Offline rewards crash - Added guards for missing gold_gained and waves_cleared keys
• Mission hero selection - Fixed race condition on high-latency connections
• Mission selection state - Properly cleared on close and before refresh
• Window management - Dynamic CanvasLayer z-order; Escape key closes most recently opened window (LIFO stack)
• Mount combat tooltips - Standardized reward tooltip formatting
• Removed all emoji from player-facing UI for cross-platform compatibility
• Stable chest open-all cap - Increased from 1,000 to 1,000,000
• Talent descriptions - Standardized wording across all talents for consistency
• Steam login - Hidden login form for Steam users, showing centered status text instead
• Mine state query - Explicitly selects item_id and inventory_item_type_id to prevent ambiguous column issues