A cozy update focused on lineage clarity, better naming, and cleaner colony browsing—helping Keepers follow the lives (and families!) of their Neeblies with more heart and less clutter.
🌿 Family Lineage Highlighting
You can now see a Neeblie’s entire living family at a glance.
Click a Neeblie’s family name in the detail panel to illuminate every relative with a glowing, generation-coded halo:
White — the selected Neeblie
Gold / Amber — older generations
Cyan / Blue — younger generations
Purple — same generation
This shows generational relationships within a family line (not full ancestry trees), giving your biome an immediate sense of history and depth.
Click again to hide the highlights; click a third time to show them again. Switching Neeblies resets the view automatically.
📚 Collection Sidebar Improvements
A handful of polish changes make colony browsing cleaner and easier:
Simplified count labels (now simply 3/50)
Deceased Neeblies are now visibly inactive: no hover glow, no cursor changes, no click sounds
Removed raw lineage IDs from family names
Fixed layout quirks in the 128px preview grid
Small touches that add up to a more peaceful, readable interface.
🧬 Name System Overhaul
Fallback names like Blee89 and Glip25 are now a thing of the past.
This update:
Introduces a curated database of 10,947 hand-filtered names
Removes the old “neutral name” bucket that caused fallback generation
Ensures children correctly inherit family lineage every time
Refreshes the name cache so all new Neeblies get proper names
Cleans out earlier classification artifacts
Result: Neeblie names now feel consistent, intentional, and much more “alive.”
🔧 Bug Fixes & Stability
Fixed rare crashes from freed-instance neighbor lookups
Corrected lineage inheritance for newborn Neeblies
Sidebar now updates cleanly when Neeblies die or are renamed
More robust UI behavior for deceased Neeblies
🔮 Up Next
This update lays the groundwork for several major features landing very soon:
Bed detail panel (resource history, florin state, regeneration metrics)
Biome detail panel (global colony health)
Neeblie detail panel expansions (stats, traits, relationships)
Lineage visualization refinements ( clearer generational spread )
Continued Hybridizer & Archivist evolution (still alpha!)
And… we’ve begun working with an artist to elevate the Neeblarium’s visual identity. Big glow-ups ahead! 🌱✨