🛠️ Update: Hotfixes & Feature Overhaul
🖥️ Window & Focus Management

Fixed Background Slipping: The game no longer drops to the background when launching or focusing on other full-screen or borderless titles like Ark Raiders.

Absolute Foreground Layer: Enforced a permanent "Always on Top" system that keeps your game visible as a true second-screen overlay at all times without ever stealing your active mouse clicks or keyboard input focus.
🎡 Lucky Wheel Adjustments

Calendar Midnight Reset: Free daily spins now reset precisely at midnight local calendar time instead of relying on a rigid 24-hour cooldown timer.

Time-Travel Protection: Added a security layer that detects and blocks manual Windows time or date rollback exploits.

Startup Delay: Implemented a 20-second initialization delay upon game launch to let the map and splash screen finish loading completely before the wheel checks for activation.

🌱 Farming & Tracker Improvements

Strict Watering Can Targeting: Dragging your watering can—or using the Alt+W hotkey—over locked or unpurchased planters will no longer trigger unintended watering actions or animations. The can now strictly interacts only with your active, purchased plant spots.

Dynamic Layout Scaling: Split the tracking container into independent Header Egg and Header Bird components to ensure clean, automated visual scaling within your layout groups.

Background Auto-Resize: Fully resolved the layout bug where toggling the Core or Water trackers failed to adjust the left background image height properly during the egg phase.

Smarter Settings Toggle: Turning off the countdown in the settings menu now exclusively hides tracking elements post-hatch, keeping the egg countdown permanently visible so you can always track your hatching progress.
💀 Skeleton Minigame Redesign

Forgiving Early Clicks: Pressing spacebar too early no longer triggers an instant failure; your character plays the deflect animation while the magic projectile continues flying safely until it reaches the true timing window.

3-Lives System & Infinite Loop Fail-Safe: Protected your runs with visual UI hearts. Missing a timing window completely costs a life and triggers an automatic deflect to keep the ball in play while temporarily freezing your current Bonemeal tier reward for that hit. Additionally, we implemented a bulletproof physics fail-safe: the magic projectile can no longer infinitely fly past the player. The game now flawlessly calculates when the ball has passed you, guaranteeing the miss is registered properly.

Clearer Instructions: Rewrote the onboarding prompt to explicitly guide players through the rhythm mechanics right from the very start.

⚔️ Combat, Grimoires & Word Persistence

Anti-Repetition Word Deck: Combat typing just got a lot less repetitive! We completely replaced the purely random word generation with a smart "deck" system. The game now draws words from a hidden pool and guarantees that every single word of a specific rarity is used exactly once before any word is allowed to repeat.

Automated Book Equipping: Unlocked books now automatically equip themselves and refresh HUD button visuals right after the loot burst concludes, completely patching a race condition where new books accidentally converted into regular seed drops.

Instant Event Hook: The very first goblin to spawn immediately after a book unlock is now guaranteed to carry the legendary event word "bones" to instantly introduce the minigame mechanics.

Global Manual Availability: The "bones" word now appears across all manual difficulty levels every 20 kills, remaining completely blocked during Auto Mode to exclusively reward active typing.

Persistent Event Spawning: If you fail an event goblin or miss the word, "bones" will stubbornly continue spawning on consecutive enemies until you successfully type it and trigger the sequence.

Best-Book Catch-Up: Upon launching, the game automatically checks your save data and equips your highest unlocked book, greeting you with a temporary overlay notification to bring older save files up to speed.