⚙️ Legacy of the Ark — v1.9.1 "Core Imprints Hotfix 1"

Your progress is safe — no reset, and nothing you already own is taken away.

🐞 FIXED
• Newly unlocked exploration crews were stuck. A fresh crew could never clear its first zone, so it cycled forever and paid out nothing until you funded its first upgrade from elsewhere. (thanks Xeen Dread)

• Permanent Token Store boosts could be lost. After a cloud load the game held a stale copy of your permanent boost levels and wrote it back over the restored ones on your next purchase. Any levels lost this way are restored automatically from your purchase history.

• Max-boost rewards now stack. Objective and daily rewards no longer overwrite each other's duration.

• Permanent Automation Unlock only revealed the Systems/Drones/Fabricator tabs and never unlocked the automation behind them. It now does what the card says, and switches everything on when bought. (thanks Xekz)

• Permanent Memories Unlock never did anything at all — it was looking for a tab under the wrong name.

• Preserve Legacy Upgrades could walk your progress backwards. It now only ever raises it.

• Deep Salvage no longer runs off the bottom of the screen, and the exploration page no longer shows a scrollbar when everything fits.

✨ NEW
• Automation Pause Control (150 ARK Cores) — PAUSE ALL / RESUME ALL per automation category.
• Maximum Automation Spend (100 ARK Cores) — automation only buys items under a ceiling you set. The opposite of the Energy Reserve.

🔧 CHANGED
• Five Legacy Inheritance upgrades that had no real effect are no longer sold. If you already own one, you keep it.

💅 POLISH
• ARK Operations has a new look, and Signal Watch now flashes each tap so repeating a colour reads as two presses.
• The Crew Deck is far more compact — duty posts fit one row, exploration stats sit in two even rows.