This Windows Playtest update adds a gate guard introduction, improves equipment dragging and compact-window restoration, and updates the literary room skins for special-shaped keys.
Gate Guard Visits and Starter Gifts
- At 30 total coins earned, the gate guard visits your office. Finish his conversation to unlock the black market, then follow the red highlight to your free five-draw gift.
- This moves the existing one-time gift earlier. Your ten discounted single draws remain available, and finishing them will not award a second gift.
- At 2,000 total coins earned, a second visit introduces decoration, grants the three starter room skins, and guides you through applying one.
- Conversations support history, skipping, returning later, and resuming after a restart. Progress and rewards are confirmed only after saving succeeds.
- Existing saves keep already-unlocked features and do not have to replay these introductions. Unclaimed gifts on existing saves retain their previous eligibility rules.
Equipment Dragging
- Dragging into an upgraded room now fills an empty equipment slot first.
- When both slots are occupied, dropping onto an equipment icon replaces that slot directly. Dropping onto the room background or upgrade-kit icon still opens the slot chooser.
- For room-to-room swaps, the displaced item returns to the original source slot. Inventory replacements return the displaced item to inventory.
Room Art and Window Improvements
- Reworked special-shaped rooms for all four literary room skins, with dedicated wide and tall architectural pieces and continuous Space-bar layouts.
- Reduced redundant keyboard reconstruction when restoring the expanded view from compact mode, with bounded cache reuse.
- Fixed key-label alignment during compact-view floating and bounce animations.
- Reduced repeated room-tooltip, daily-challenge, and friend-visitor updates, and made speech occlusion under popups more efficient.
- Limited overlapping coin-shower visuals while preserving the full payout, and kept compact reward icons whole.
Reliability and Diagnostics
- Fixed friend-history counting so only actual admissions contribute, and corrected copied recruitment equipment acting on its host room.
- Improved save-worker initialization for friend-letter data and the creation of element-effect textures.
- Crash reports now preserve the Windows access type and target address, making future crashes easier to investigate.
Known issue: The reported rendering crash on an RTX 5080 has not been confirmed fixed. This update improves the evidence available for investigating it; it does not include the separate diagnostic engine.
Windows Playtest default build: 26385401. The macOS build is unchanged. The original three chests retain their normal progression unlocks; the Underground Factory chest remains locked.