### What’s New

**Weapon artifacts**

- Melt spare equipment into a **Forged Artifact** that stores a slice of the sacrificed piece’s combat power.
- Socket the artifact onto a **weapon** — one artifact slot per weapon.
- Artifact bonuses feed into your live combat stats (ATK, DEF, HP, MP, crit, haste, block).
- Produce cost to forge scales with the rarity of the gear you sacrifice.
- New Misc / shop icon art for forged artifacts.

**Pierce system — armor sockets**

- Unlock pierce slots on **armor** (up to 4) with **Block Cubes** and gold.
- Socket elemental **Pierce Cards** into those slots for flat and percent combat bonuses.
- Card elements in this pass: **Volcano**, **Water**, **Storm**, **Frost**, **Earth**, **Nature**, and **Solar**.
- Pierce bonuses stack from equipped armor and show clearly on item tooltips.
- Cards and Block Cubes live in Misc / shop inventory with dedicated icons.

**Farm buff potion crafting**

- Craft combat tonics from farm harvest produce at **Elara Liquidheart**’s buff craft bench.
- Basic tonics: **Might**, **Vitality**, and **Ward** (short timed ATK / HP / DEF buffs).
- Concentrated primes: stronger Might / Vitality / Ward with longer duration.
- Hybrid cordials: **Bloodroot**, **Stonebloom**, and **Concord** for mixed-stat buffs.
- Drink tonics from inventory — active farm buffs track duration and apply to battle stats.
- Recipe list shows ingredient stock, readiness, and craft costs before you commit.

### Improvements

- Craft / pierce / artifact / rarity mobile item pickers for cleaner phone / tablet inventory flows.
- Battle and world character HUD push clear of the iOS status bar / notch on mobile builds.
- Mobile battle skill dock, monster HUD, and combatant lanes tuned for portrait screens.

### How to try it

1. Gather farm produce (might / vitality / ward affinities) and visit Elara Liquidheart to craft a tonic.
2. Drink a farm buff and enter a battle — watch the timed bonuses on your stats.
3. Spend Block Cubes (and gold) to unlock pierce slots on armor, then socket Pierce Cards from Misc.
4. Sacrifice spare gear plus produce to forge an artifact, then socket it onto your weapon.