Alpha 2.9 34 changes July 25, 2026
The Whole Game in View Added Life in Motion as a progressive-disclosure home for the connected life loop. Generated a daily agenda from needs, work, projects, relationship pressure, and World openings. Let existing NPC relationships initiate invitations, check-ins, and repair conversations without waiting for the player. Made clear response, brief response, engagement, and refusal change trust, tension, affinity, time, memory, and story. Connected active employment and professional tracks to the daily rhythm and personal chronicle. Added multi-step life projects with dependent stages, effort, time, budget, spending, evidence, progress, and completion. Added public institutional paths where service earns trust, roles, explicit permissions, and bounded authority. Generated expiring character-specific opportunities from employment, purpose, relationships, institutions, plans, and regional pressure. Applied opportunity time, money, need, and skill consequences to persistent character state. Compiled meaningful actions, career choices, project progress, relationship turns, and institutional service into age-aware life chapters. Added the living-population initiative pulse to the staged World simulation. Added a repeat-safe installation command across every active life and World. Added focused regression coverage for the connected daily loop, projects, relationships, institutions, opportunity effects, stories, and authenticated page. Adopted the Claude design direction across the shared application shell. Introduced Fraunces, Space Grotesk, and IBM Plex Mono as the editorial, interface, and status voices. Rebuilt the fixed navigation around the warm inhabited-light marker while preserving every existing destination. Applied archival plates, cartographic corner marks, live-system color, consequence color, and restrained motion to existing feature surfaces. Reframed the system menu around Who am I, Where am I, What is moving, and What will remain without removing any existing system. Restyled the landing page around one life altering a continuing history. Preserved four rich flagship Continuum cards with live Reality, value-system, and spacefaring data. Kept the real cross-Reality Epoch matrix and filters instead of copying the prototype’s one-dimensional Epoch list. Restyled World charters as living civic bodies while preserving their real rules, content collections, archives, regions, admissions, and lifecycles. Carried the same language through login, registration, character creation, responsive layouts, reduced-motion support, and every specialized gameplay page. Kept all twenty-one Worlds, their records, player controls, conditional systems, and World isolation unchanged. Added route-specific theme hooks so future pages inherit the redesign without separate visual forks. Added a dedicated long-form Menu built from current character, World, clock, population, and route data. Kept the compact global system menu as the fast navigator on every authenticated game page. Established one shared navigation source so the compact and long-form menus cannot drift apart. Organized the complete system atlas around Who am I, Where am I, What is moving, and What will remain. Added persistent Who I am, Where I am, and What is moving context across active-life pages. Recomposed Today, Career, Place, People, Market, Politics, My Worlds, Chronicle, Commons, Compass, Generations, Opportunities, Property, Travel, Trust, Underworld, Wellness, Parallax, and Beyond around the Claude design vision. Preserved existing routes, records, permissions, consequences, World rules, conditional systems, and working controls. Adapted prototype concepts to the actual multi-Reality World and Epoch model instead of replacing game truth with mock data. Added authenticated route and canonical-menu regression coverage for the new structure. Alpha 2.8 15 changes July 25, 2026
Books, Bodies, and the Sea Kept the 240-title circulating library, rotating shelves, loans, and persistent reader collections in every World. Added secret book magic woven into ordinary society without publicly exposing magical titles. Made Parallax: Emergence books more numerous and more powerful as evidence in the disclosure crisis. Added recognized sentient and walking books to Parallax: Open Civilization. Added persistent reader-book resonance, discovery, relationships, consent, conversations, effects, and risks. Kept ordinary books socially powerful without falsely assigning supernatural effects. Expanded Parallax: Cyberpunk into a full augmentation and network civilization. Added a bounded cybernetic subset to compatible near-future, far-future, posthuman, and future-science Worlds. Added implant condition, diagnostics, repair, calibration, cost, and maintenance provenance. Added revocable network credentials with trust, control, openness, security, and exposure. Added Epoch-gated vessel classes from dugout canoes and reed traders through merchant cogs, caravels, clippers, steam freighters, ferries, container carriers, and future habitat ships. Added vessel purchase, naming, registry, inspection, insurance, manifests, crew, cargo, range, speed, condition, readiness, upkeep, maintenance, and overhaul. Added passage, trade, fishing, exploration, and research voyages with provisions, weather, distance, duration, wear, location, and ship logs. Preserved one shared engine with Reality and Epoch adapters instead of World-specific application forks. Added focused regression coverage for every new vertical slice. Alpha 2.7 316 changes July 21, 2026
Playable Systems Rewrote homepage language around concrete play instead of stock slogans. Removed repetitive access-price marketing from public pages. Expanded the homepage feature catalog with the newest connected systems. Expanded the homepage Alpha history through the current work. Kept accounts signed in automatically until explicit logout. Set the normal browser session to thirty days. Issued long-lived remember tokens on login and registration. Rebuilt the public changelog as chronological Alpha releases. Combined historical work into one detail entry per Alpha release. Removed internal rollout ranges and implementation labels from public release details. Added release dates and direct links from the Alpha index to each release. Recorded same-day changelog additions inside one dated Alpha entry. Separated logging out from leaving a World. Showed the current World in the global header. Added an explicit Exit World action beside the current World. Removed VPS ongoing simulation labels from player navigation. Prevented entry into another World until the current World is exited. Kept World observatories visible while entry remains locked. Removed World-directory and World-Story links from the in-World systems menu. Kept player context empty while the account is between Worlds. Explained unmet career requirements inside the career page. Showed current and required career capability before an application. Normalized Places and Trust around the shared domain page shell. Documented earned agency, causal power, regional variation, and one-engine architecture. Documented that owner feedback is evaluated rather than followed blindly. Documented mandatory same-day changelog maintenance. Added explicit regression coverage for World entry and exit. Removed the redundant My Life link from desktop and mobile navigation. Added a direct Worlds-directory prompt to My Worlds. Moved account actions clear of the Alpha Feedback control. Updated the Player Guide to use the Current World navigation language. Reordered the public release history from newest to oldest. Distributed historical Alpha dates evenly across the preceding three months. Audited every authenticated gameplay page against World context, earned agency, depth, immersion, and consequence. Rebuilt Environment around practical restoration, investigation, organizing, and accountable funding. Added distinct skill, reputation, time, and money requirements to environmental action. Kept failed environmental attempts on the page and confirmed that nothing was spent. Bounded individual environmental effects so one player cannot directly control regional ecology. Recorded every environmental action in personal history and the regional causal record. Exposed resource renewal, consumption, waste, and availability on Environment. Exposed hazard probability, severity, confidence, uncertainty, disasters, and emergency response. Connected environmental conditions to health capacity and migration pressure. Reframed Civilization as a World of autonomous people rather than a population control panel. Put local residents before distant residents and showed where each person lives. Allowed direct interaction with nearby residents from Civilization. Required travel before direct interaction with residents in another region. Added personal paths from relationships, work, organizations, information, and earned power into civilization-scale influence. Explained that population observation does not grant authority or private omniscience. Expanded Research into analysis, fieldwork, and sponsorship paths. Gave each research path different capability, money, and time requirements. Attributed research progress and preserved personal contribution history. Clarified the difference between ordinary journey planning and regional relocation. Recorded regional moves with named origins, destinations, cost, time, and downstream consequence. Added a permanent page-by-page gameplay matrix and processing order. Turned Library resources into purpose-driven study, reference, creation, and reflection sessions. Made Library use consume declared character time. Recorded Library sessions in both access history and personal life history. Kept Library use from granting unexplained money, status, skill, or authority. Added Library search, collection filters, ownership state, use counts, private notes, and recent activity. Returned unavailable and uncollected Library actions to the originating page without mutation. Expanded Archive search across personal actions, personal milestones, and public World snapshots. Separated private actions, shared World milestones, read-only snapshots, and protective continuity instructions. Added a causal trail that preserves origin, time, summary, privacy, and event weight. Kept account exports structured, integrity-checked, time-limited, and free of authentication secrets. Connected Legacy to lived consequences, relationships, institutions, property, authored information, distinctions, and reputation. Made Legacy scores summarize attributable evidence instead of fame or moral worth. Separated character-attributed milestones from unowned World history. Made legacy reflection consume time and preserve a personal perspective without ending the character. Prevented repeated saves of the same reflection from duplicating its World milestone. Kept different people and future generations free to remember a character differently. Added responsive layouts for all three Create and Records pages. Recomputed opportunity fit on the server from the current character and region. Added opportunity filters for type, minimum fit, and pursuit state. Added research, preparation, application, interview, negotiation, and follow-up steps. Made every pursuit step spend its declared amount of character time. Preserved pursuit notes, fit evidence, place, World, and occurrence time. Required real pursuit work before an opportunity can be marked complete. Kept closed openings and ownership refusals on the Opportunity page without mutation. Limited Community discovery and correspondence to players currently living in the same World. Added local organizations, active place projects, and civic proposals to Community. Added people and message search without exposing blocked accounts. Made private correspondence spend character time and preserve a personal action record. Preserved message consent, blocking, mute, and suspension boundaries with in-page explanations. Added cultural search, event types, attendance intent, duration, admission cost, and personal history. Prevented unreachable, closed, duplicate, and unaffordable cultural attendance from mutating the character. Added private or shared cultural responses including critical, excluded, curious, and unmoved perspectives. Kept cultural participation from forcing praise or universal agreement. Added service discovery by category, price, scope, and provider quality. Required player service listings to state both obligations and limits. Preserved the listing scope and quality evidence at the moment a service is hired. Kept player payment protected in escrow until delivery is accepted. Added pre-delivery cancellation with a full protected-payment refund. Added evidence-based reviews tied to completed agreements. Prevented duplicate reviews and bounded their effect on listing quality. Expanded information publishing with declared evidence, limitations, audience, provenance, time, and starting confidence. Separated support, challenge, and contextual assessment of public claims. Prevented authors from independently verifying their own work. Added visible author corrections without deleting or rewriting the original publication. Recorded information assessment and correction work in personal history. Added focused tests for time, ownership, World isolation, consent, escrow, refunds, independent review, corrections, and duplicate prevention. Added responsive page systems for all five ordinary-life surfaces. Kept Alpha Feedback available as the path for player feature requests. Created one persistent civic participation ledger shared by five institutional systems. Recorded World, region, character, action, target, intent, evidence, time, money, influence, risk, status, and occurrence time. Added campaigning beyond filing for office. Added canvassing, policy briefs, debates, coalitions, and fundraising with distinct costs and risks. Required a declared tradeoff before an officeholder can open policy debate. Kept enactment behind active office authority and recorded support. Expanded organization membership into volunteering, research, recruitment, and organizing. Made organizational standing grow through work rather than instant control. Added explicit citizen, candidate, officeholder, and public-record pathways. Required evidence for civic petitions and reasons for support or opposition. Required public projects to name beneficiaries and safeguards. Required appointment and diplomatic decisions to preserve rationale and purpose. Made public projects consume World time instead of resolving instantly. Required council proposals to preserve a safeguard. Required council ballots to preserve a reason. Kept council membership separate from moderation and administration authority. Made appeals consume character time and retain their procedural trail. Connected cultural work, claims, disputes, investigations, newsroom membership, programs, and norm votes to personal history. Added in-page explanations for authority limits, costs, risks, and next steps. Added responsive civic pathway and participation-history layouts. Created one shared ordinary-life action record across five personal systems. Recorded the character, World, region, action, target, purpose, requirements, effects, time, cost, visibility, and occurrence time. Connected every ordinary-life choice to the existing personal action history. Added portfolio work, professional networking, interview preparation, workplace negotiation, and workplace issue actions. Kept negotiation and workplace action behind real employment and experience requirements. Made professional steps change experience and performance without guaranteeing hiring or promotion. Added cleaning, organizing, hosting, minor repair, accessibility review, and emergency planning at home. Required a character to own or live in a property before changing its household life. Connected household routines to property condition, household stability, property events, money, and time. Added preventive routines, sleep and recovery, movement, peer support, and care navigation. Kept everyday wellbeing separate from diagnosis, treatment, prescriptions, accommodations, and recovery care. Connected wellbeing steps to health, wellbeing, energy, time, cost, and health history. Added explicit boundaries, offered favors, requested favors, and conflict repair to relationships. Required enough trust for favors and recorded tension before repair. Preserved room for refusal and prevented favors from becoming silent debt or control. Made relationship cost, effects, memory, and history update together or not at all. Added family check-ins, care planning, budget review, shared rest, relocation discussion, and traditions. Connected family planning to budget stress, prestige, family activities, purpose, money, and time. Kept family-wide action behind an established family relationship. Added a consistent action-and-history layer to all five pages. Displayed requirements, duration, cost, and likely effects before submission. Kept unmet requirements and affordability failures on the originating page without mutation. Added responsive layouts for actions, current state, principles, and personal history. Added focused regression coverage across all five systems and the full authenticated page set. Added local price comparison, substitution planning, labor research, and household-pressure tracing to Economy. Added security research, exchange limits, holding review, and shipment planning to Exchange. Added appraisals, ownership inspection, protection planning, and succession review to Assets. Added personal budgeting, tax-position review, benefit checks, and debt recovery to Finances and Taxes. Added customer research, supplier review, staffing plans, and risk audits to Enterprise. Added skill practice, vehicle inspection, commute review, and accessible travel planning to Mobility. Added travel documents, lodging research, companion coordination, and contingency planning to Journey Planner. Added neighborhood walks, local-business surveys, safety checks, and accessibility audits to Living Map. Made every action preserve the character’s stated purpose. Displayed duration, direct cash cost, requirements, and likely effects before commitment. Applied skill and need changes through one transactional action engine. Kept World time independent from personal action time. Kept action histories isolated by character and World. Prevented locked or unaffordable actions from spending resources or creating records. Added contact work, loyalty checks, pressure mapping, and exit planning to Underworld. Kept criminal play abstract, fictional, risky, and consequence-bearing. Added training, logistics, crew sessions, and habitat rehearsals to Beyond. Added institution study, transition analysis, family archives, and recorded testimony to Long Chronicle. Connected historical action to evidence, relationships, research, family continuity, and personal time. Connected existing attunement, veil watch, occult research, and ward maintenance to Hidden World. Kept Hidden World actions absent outside supernatural, mythic, alternate-history, and frontier rulesets. Preserved one shared engine instead of copying gameplay code into each World. Recorded player purpose and authoritative resolution for every frontier action. Kept expected requirements and refusals on the originating page. Expanded fictional chance play from three games to five distinct games. Published each chance game’s win band, bounded return, and fifteen-minute duration before play. Added private, friends, and community context to chance play. Connected chance play to energy, purpose, social need, money, and personal time. Added a same-day session summary for plays, fictional stake, and loss. Preserved immutable settled by the World evidence and safe to repeat resolution. Kept voluntary daily stake limits, loss limits, cool-off periods, and self-exclusion. Kept real funds, cash-out, checkout, and paid gameplay power absent. Added polite outcome announcements and immediate error announcements to the remaining action pages. Marked unavailable actions semantically as disabled while preserving their visible reasons. Added responsive layouts for action cards, history, odds, and session summaries. Verified active-World selection in supporting gameplay tests. Added a focused cross-system regression matrix for standard and ruleset-specific actions. Expanded the universal action catalog from eighty-six to one hundred ten actions. Added two new follow-up actions to each of twelve system pages. Added household purchase negotiation and economic-shock response. Added exchange order strategy and settlement verification. Added provenance resolution and shared-use agreements for assets. Added household filing preparation and debt-plan negotiation. Added product trials and accountable team recruitment. Added real practice routes and breakdown-response planning. Added provisional journey reservations and departure reviews. Added neighborhood improvement proposals and access reports. Added fictional crew mediation and a legitimate underworld exit step. Added mission-roster qualification and launch-readiness review. Added transition dossiers and multi-voice family testimony. Added hidden-exposure investigation and faction-boundary negotiation in supported rulesets. Required two relevant foundational actions before each follow-up unlocks. Kept prerequisite progress isolated to the same character and World. Displayed foundation and follow-up labels on every action. Added a World-scoped system progression meter to every expanded page. Showed completed and missing prerequisite actions before commitment. Kept repeatable actions available after first completion. Added category-specific next-step guidance to every universal resolution. Preserved cost, duration, intent, idempotency, memory, schedule, causal evidence, and World-time separation. Added automated validation for missing prerequisites, invalid references, cycles, and cross-system action counts. Rebuilt Today around the current character instead of a wall of disconnected prompts. Added a compact status bar for health, energy, hunger, social connection, and purpose. Renamed the World contract area as a World recap using the entered World name. Displayed the current Epoch, history contract, time ratio, ruleset, and mortality terms together. Removed the Open Alpha label from the in-World contract. Removed the generic next-step panel from Today. Removed unexplained opening and decision prompts that were not tied to player authority. Moved progression directly beneath the World recap. Placed the return briefing after progression and based it on actual time away. Included relevant personal and major public changes in the return briefing. Filtered repetitive anonymous resident work entries and simulation ticks from Today. Collapsed the full activity library until the player asks to browse it. Removed the duplicate Alpha report form from the bottom of Today. Opened action results by default with exact before-and-after changes. Preserved the player’s stated reason in outcomes, memory, history, and causal evidence. Repaired Shared Life relationship loading. Repaired Living Map visits by normalizing visit duration before World-time calculations. Removed account exports from the player Archive. Removed public World snapshots from the player Archive. Kept searchable personal actions and attributable milestones. Added bounded inactivity protection with a required return date. Paused discretionary negative consequences and irreversible autonomous choices during protected absence. Added irreversible account deletion with current-password and exact-phrase confirmation. Anonymized every former player life during account deletion. Transferred jobs, homes, property, organizations, influence, relationships, and history to NPC control instead of deleting them. Recorded every player-to-NPC continuity transfer for audit. Allowed converted lives to continue through the resident routine engine. Added regression coverage for route repairs, absence limits, deletion confirmation, anonymization, preservation, and NPC continuation. Added persistent regional government contracts to every active World. Varied government form, branches, executive selection, legislature selection, voting rules, terms, rights, and transparency by region. Created legitimacy and corruption-risk measures that change from institutional evidence. Assigned civic offices to actual residents instead of decorative names. Displayed the entered region’s government contract and current officials on Government. Explained exactly which civic powers require candidacy, office, membership, evidence, or public support. Added persistent weekly schedule blocks for high-detail residents. Connected resident work schedules to real employment and businesses. Connected civic-duty schedules to real institutional roles. Added ordinary sleep, care, meals, household work, relationships, learning, and rest. Resolved schedule events once per resident and World day. Applied bounded health, energy, hunger, social, purpose, and knowledge effects. Kept active player characters outside autonomous schedule resolution. Respected protected absence rules for NPC-controlled former player lives. Displayed residents’ latest completed routine and next visible commitment in Civilization. Added a repeat-safe regional-life installer for all active Worlds. Added a global assistive status announcer for action results and validation errors. Replaced obsolete account-export evidence with continuity, deletion, support, and consent checks. Updated regression fixtures to honor the explicit entered-World contract. Repaired historical expectations for the retired export and snapshot interfaces. Added focused tests for government variation, resident schedules, player-control boundaries, civic explanations, page rendering, continuity, and World isolation. Created Earth, Aurelia, and Parallax as ordered Reality records. Made Contemporary Earth, Aurelia, and Parallax the three flagship Continua. Defined Continuum, Epoch Eternal, and Chronicle as separate lifecycle contracts. Grouped every gameplay World under one Reality. Removed Test and Private Worlds, drafts, templates, access modes, and creation options. Kept automated tests, evidence rehearsals, backups, and restore checks as engineering controls. Turned Beyond into a shared spacefaring capability. Added time-bounded, licensed, integrity-checked geography imports for Earth and Parallax. Blocked unsourced Earth placeholders from presenting themselves as real geography. Added World and regional currencies instead of assuming every World uses Aurels. Added World, Epoch, and regional capability gates. Preserved old Earth and Parallax URLs through aliases. Rebuilt the directory around flagships, chronological Epoch rows, and Chronicles. Published the vocabulary and portfolio contract. Added complete integration coverage. Added signed forward transition paths for Continua. Connected The Long Chronicle to its declared Epoch sequence. Kept all sixteen Epoch Eternal Worlds permanently inside their chosen material bands. Added regional adoption and readiness for twenty major capabilities. Prevented technology from unlocking everywhere at once. Applied Epoch and regional capability checks to player and resident actions. Added institutional, material, content, rights, and review gates. Required named evidence for technical, owner, historical, cultural, and supernatural-overlay reviews where applicable. Prevented the software from approving human review on its own. Added atomic conversion for work, property, organizations, law, knowledge, transport, archives, obligations, and currency. Preserved character identity, families, relationships, balances, ownership, and World history. Added immutable before-and-after evidence and protected rollback snapshots. Blocked execution when a reviewed path or integrity check has changed. Added operator assessment and audit tools. Split Phase 5 verification into contract, diffusion, transition, regression, and slow-test waves. Gave Earth, Aurelia, and Parallax distinct Beyond identities and rules. Derived spacefaring stages from Epoch, regional technology, institutions, material capacity, research, routes, and validated World content. Connected Beyond to fifteen ordinary-life and institutional systems. Prevented menus and static labels from unlocking spaceflight. Blocked launches, vehicles, settlements, logistics, and government until their capabilities exist. Kept Beyond Commonwealth as an Aurelia future World. Used each World and region currency in Beyond instead of assuming Aurels. Displayed readiness evidence and blockers before a player commits. Preserved World isolation and normalized compatible legacy Worlds into the three-Reality contract. Recorded full Epoch, jurisdiction, location, institution, status, resources, relationships, and authority context for universal actions. Kept historical accuracy claims blocked until real sources and qualified review exist. Added separated verification waves for the World Directory, simulation platform, flagships, historical gates, and Beyond. Resolved currency names, codes, and symbols from the active World and region. Updated shared economy, housing, work, health, travel, government, relationships, culture, crime, and family interfaces. Kept Aurelia’s Aurel inside Aurelia while Earth and Parallax use their own configured value systems. Recorded each universal attempt’s Epoch, jurisdiction, location, institution, status, resources, relationships, and authority. Preserved affordances, pressures, secondary consequences, deterministic evidence, and server authority. Enforced versioned World content, population tiers, resident fidelity, capability contracts, and derived Beyond state as one auditable platform contract. Measured all thirteen flagship life domains from World-scoped records rather than schema presence alone. Kept historical accuracy unavailable until sourced period geography and qualified review actually exist. Verified migration rehearsal, World isolation, lifecycle behavior, anachronism blocking, transition continuity, support-World removal, public pages, player pages, and production assets in separate release waves. Aligned the lifecycle guide with Continuum, Epoch Eternal, and Chronicle Worlds. Removed obsolete Test-only and invite-only World wording from active player guidance. Kept engineering rehearsals separate from gameplay Worlds. Made regional content foundations resolve currency by World, region, and date. Corrected existing regional profiles without changing balances or ownership. Kept Aurelia’s Aurel inside Aurelia-specific records. Described Earth Atlas records as sourced and time-bounded rather than fictional. Described Aurelia as authored and Parallax as an Earth-derived overlay. Preserved qualified historical, cultural, regional, and translation review gates. Verified the reconciliation through isolated migrations and bounded test waves. Alpha 2.6 46 changes July 16, 2026
Living Places Introduced the Living Map. Preserved the cultural and provenance Atlas as a separate system. Built region, settlement, neighborhood, and landmark hierarchies. Installed playable geography across every active World. Added population, services, transport, environment, safety, civic, culture, and accessibility layers. Derive layers from regional indicators, institutions, venues, routes, and environment state. Made available evidence and observation time for each layer. Introduced local alerts from strained conditions. Introduced private place bookmarks. Introduced durable place-visit history. Spend explicit personal time on visits. Recorded purpose and conditions encountered. Introduced community place projects. Declare effort and funding targets independently. Declare accessibility practices and expected local effects. Added support for time, expertise, and funding contributions. Make contributions transactional and safe to repeat. Rejected unaffordable funding without partial mutation. Tracked unique supporters. Completed projects only when both targets are met. Allowed player-proposed local projects. Kept proposals scoped to the selected World and region. Added local alerts and projects to Today. Added living Map to canonical navigation. Introduced a repeat-safe all-World installer. Added three-world live read and contribution QA. Added hierarchy, layer, time, finance, ownership, and idempotency tests. Kept all project participation open to all current players. Replace the permanent six-link strip. Remove the always-visible four-column catalog. Introduced four top-level menu categories. Kept every category closed on page load. Mark the current category without forcing it open. Opened only one category at a time. Overlay destinations instead of pushing page content downward. Close the menu when clicking outside. Close the menu with Escape. Moved today and Life into Everyday Life. Moved worlds into World & Economy. Moved power into Power & Frontier. Moved build and Legacy into Create & Records. Preserved all forty-two destinations. Preserved the supernatural-only Hidden World destination. Kept unread Community status visible. Added two-column tablet and one-column flyout layouts. Verified the canonical menu across every authenticated system page. Alpha 2.5 34 changes July 12, 2026
Shared Life Introduced the Shared Life center. Project existing relationships into durable social bonds. Preserved affinity, trust, tension, boundary health, and shared history. Introduced explicit promises, boundaries, care commitments, and collaborations. Required declared consent scope. Added support for revocable and mutual-resolution commitments. Preserved original wording after fulfillment or revocation. Introduced favors, requests, gifts, repair, and mutual aid. Declare effort and reciprocity before an exchange. Never turn a favor into silent debt. Allowed fulfillment, refusal, and repair. Spend personal time on fulfilled work. Applied bounded trust and tension consequences. Introduced gatherings in authoritative World time. Added support for meals, celebrations, study, care, ritual, meetings, and leisure. Declare visibility, capacity, accessibility, and safety notes. Invite known regional people only. Gave nPCs accepted, pending, or declined responses from established context. Introduced offline-safe schedule commitments. Preserved invitations after completion or cancellation. Introduced household responsibility boards. Added support for care, food, cleaning, maintenance, finance, education, coordination, and rest. Kept responsibilities unassigned until explicitly assigned. Recorded cadence, effort, due time, completion time, and evidence. Spend personal time on completed household work. Improved household stability without exceeding its boundary. Introduced weekly Shared Life check-ins. Made available promises, exchanges, gatherings, and responsibilities on Today. Counted shared-life changes in return-from-absence summaries. Added shared Life to canonical navigation. Introduced a repeat-safe all-character installer. Preserved owner and World isolation. Added consent, refusal, scheduling, ownership, time, and evidence tests. Kept all social systems open to all current players. Alpha 2.4 38 changes July 8, 2026
Lives in Motion Introduced life Compass. Introduced plans across week, month, year, and life-chapter horizons. Generated measurable milestones from selected life domains. Preserved plan evidence when paused or retired. Introduced flexible daily and weekly routines. Kept routines asynchronous and attendance-safe. Introduced private character journals. Preserved mood, tags, region, and World time. Introduced durable shared World storylines. Gave each story bounded stakes and uncertainty. Introduced multiple declared responses per story. Made available cash, need, social, and risk effects before choice. Make story decisions safe to repeat. Preserved before and after state. Introduced readable consequence explanations. Introduced private actor memories from decisions. Introduced causal domain events for story participation. Introduced the Journey Planner. Search actual open transport routes. Added support for fastest, lowest-fare, and most-reliable priorities. Preserved stops, routes, duration, fare, and accessibility. Kept journey plans separate from completed travel. Introduced the Opportunity Board. Match jobs from skills and local openings. Match ventures from viability and competition. Match homes from finances and condition. Match public organizations from legitimacy and location. Explain every fit score. Introduced private opportunity bookmarks and progression states. Introduced the unified Today progression radar. Made available routines, stories, opportunities, and journeys together. Added four systems to grouped navigation. Installed story foundations repeat-safely across every active World. Disable automatic daily backups by owner direction. Kept manual backup tooling available only for explicit use. Added authorization, isolation, idempotency, route, and persistence tests. Kept every World economy isolated. Kept the game open to all current players. Alpha 2.1 43 changes July 5, 2026
Review Ready Introduced the internal preparation program. Kept final review preparation repeat-safe. Prepare regional readiness packets. Prepare regional scholarship source-map packets. Prepare regional community perspective packets. Prepare regional language localization packets. Prepare regional accessibility comprehension packets. Prepare regional safety and rights packets. Prepare era source-map packets. Prepare era law and institution packets. Prepare era material-life packets. Prepare era health and safety packets. Prepare era audiovisual-review packets. Prepare era transition-mapping packets. Prepared packets for every regional content profile. Prepared packets for every Epoch foundation. Introduced candidate source records for material life. Introduced candidate source records for institutions and law. Introduced candidate source records for ordinary life. Introduced candidate source records for critical perspectives. Introduced candidate source records for regional and community voice. Introduced candidate source records for language and terminology. Introduced candidate source records for health and disability. Introduced candidate source records for visual and audio reference. Preserved candidate slots as unreviewed until real sources are attached. Expanded the translation preparation across target locales. Kept queued localization values as English source placeholders. Made available review-ready packet totals on the Epoch catalog. Made available candidate source slot totals on the Epoch catalog. Made available translation preparation totals on the Epoch catalog. Recorded machine-closure evidence for regionalization. Recorded machine-closure evidence for the Epoch SDK. Recorded machine-closure evidence for external-review packaging. Harden era catalog repeat runs across all active worlds. Kept all twenty-two worlds operational. Kept test and Private access restricted by contract. Kept every economy isolated. Kept real money, checkout, cash-out, and paid power absent. Kept completed human-review count at zero. Added repeat-safety tests for final packet preparation. Added regression coverage for the closure command. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.9. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 2801. Alpha 2.0 60 changes July 1, 2026
Content Atlas Introduced the deep-content program. Kept deep content repeat-safe. Introduced a durable era-catalog registry. Introduced a durable regional-content-profile registry. Deepen all twenty-three Epoch foundations. Deepen all sixty-three operational regions. Introduced ordinary-goods catalogs. Introduced property-form catalogs. Introduced era-bounded transport catalogs. Introduced illness and population-health pressures. Introduced treatment and care-response catalogs. Introduced safety-bounded conflict abstractions. Introduced additional regional careers. Introduced accountable institution catalogs. Introduced rights, property, labor, family, mobility, and public-power laws. Introduced era-bounded technology catalogs. Introduced disaster and recovery catalogs. Introduced explicit demographic profiles. Introduced named regional organizations. Introduced region-specific opening states. Introduced material and palette art direction. Introduced people and ordinary-life art direction. Introduced built-environment art direction. Introduced evidence and uncertainty visual language. Introduced regional ambient sound direction. Introduced household and work sound direction. Introduced captioned institution and alert language. Introduced sacred-sound review boundaries. Introduced era-specific UI vocabulary. Gave uI terms plain-language fallbacks. Introduced private-use language identifiers within the production schema. Introduced household, trade, civic, and ceremonial language registers. Introduced naming policies without fabricating cultural authenticity. Introduced plural belief and non-observance structures. Introduced legal domains, due process, appeals, and oppression pressures. Introduced class, status, mobility, and access structures. Introduced plural family and chosen-kin household structures. Introduced health, disability, care, and caregiver representation. Introduced climate, ecology, restoration, and disaster pressure. Introduced trade, labor, material life, and anti-extraction rules. Normalize synthetic demographic age bands to one hundred percent. Introduced per-region population, household, urbanization, migration, and access-need baselines. Introduced food, water, shelter, care, trust, route, inequality, and ecological opening indicators. Introduced source-confidence matrices. Kept historical-specificity confidence low until scholarship review. Kept language-authenticity confidence low until translation review. Kept community-acceptance confidence zero until community review. Carry regional variants into every era catalog entry. Added catalog depth to versioned content collection manifests. Made available catalog totals on the public Epoch catalog. Made available regional depth in every live world observatory. Made available source-confidence status publicly. Preserved open, Controlled, Test, and Private admission contracts. Kept human review incomplete. Kept every world economy isolated. Kept real money, checkout, cash-out, and paid power absent. Added 939 focused content assertions. Added repeat-safety and public-surface coverage. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.8. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 2701. Alpha 1.9 41 changes June 27, 2026
Living Portfolio Introduced the portfolio operations program. Kept operationalization repeat-safe. Ensure the City One flagship exists in clean installations. Activate all twenty-two world simulations. Preserved nineteen Eternal, one Chronicle, one Test, and one Private contract. Kept all world economies and assets isolated. Gave every world continuous simulation mode. Gave every world an active primary era. Activate versioned simulation content. Gave every region persistent NPC residents. Gave every region persistent households. Gave every region essential NPC services. Gave every region a foundational institution. Gave every region a working business and housing baseline. Gave every region environmental state. Gave every world a continuity organization. Gave every world a dignity and no-surprise-loss charter. Introduced a permanent operational-entry event. Seed world-specific atlas records. Remove Aurelia-specific language from non-Aurelia atlas records. Seed plural culture and public-memory systems. Seed journalism and cultural governance. Seed responsible fictional-currency chance systems. Seed world-specific securities and resource trusts. Scope shipment delivery to its owning world. Scope dividends to securities in the current world. Kept real funds, checkout, cash-out, and paid power absent. Introduced steady world scheduling. Advanced one world per minute instead of twenty-two at once. Gave every world a persisted simulation tick. Gave every world a persisted simulation-health record. Added queryable live observatories for every world. Show operational and registered counts separately. Added contract links beside live-observatory links. Allowed character admission only under public or controlled Alpha contracts. Kept test admission restricted. Kept private admission invite-only. Preserved incomplete human-review state honestly. Added full-portfolio pulse regression coverage. Update homepage, Guide, Roadmap, Changelog, and Patch Notes to Alpha 1.7. Updated the public release record through Wave 2501. Alpha 1.8 48 changes June 23, 2026
Complete Horizons Introduced the complete-world portfolio program. Kept portfolio creation repeat-safe. Introduced prehistoric & Neolithic. Introduced late Antiquity & Migration Age. Introduced age of Revolutions. Introduced world Wars & Interwar. Introduced postwar & Cold War. Introduced post-Collapse Reconstruction. Introduced far Future & Posthuman. Introduced alternate History Laboratory. Introduced mythic Realms. Introduced hidden Supernatural World. Introduced frontier & Settlement World. Gave every new world three distinct regional foundations. Translate City One systems into every new world. Translate Enterprise systems into every new world. Translate Underworld systems into every new world. Translate Dominion systems into every new world. Translate Beyond systems into every new world. Introduced an isolated versioned world content collection for each. Introduced a technically Epoch foundation for each. Introduced professions, resources, recipes, institutions, technologies, norms, overlap rules, and compatibility findings. Prepared eight interface locales per Epoch foundation. Introduced scholarship, cultural, and localization assignments. Introduced regional source and community-review dossiers. Ran zero-player validation. Ran few-player validation. Ran synthetic-population validation. Ran decade endurance validation. Ran capacity-boundary validation. Ran century endurance validation. Ran regional-capacity stress validation. Preserved exactly one active world. Kept all new character admissions closed. Kept every world economy isolated. Kept real funds and paid power absent. Turn /world into the complete World Hub. Show every world contract on /world. Show Eternal, Chronicle, Test, and Private totals. Kept aurelia Observatory on the same hub. Fix contract filtering to use authoritative world type. Remove the public completion route. Remove completion from global navigation. Remove completion from the footer. Remove public completion calls to action. Retain restricted operational evidence for administrators. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.6. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 2401. Alpha 1.7 44 changes June 19, 2026
Owner Ready Define authored readiness separately from full-vision completion. Introduced a durable handoff-content collection registry. Introduced eight integrity-checked handoff content collections. Prepare the qualified historical and cultural review packet. Prepare reviewer qualification and conflict-of-interest requirements. Prepare the human localization workbench. Preserved eight locale queues without calling placeholders translations. Prepare regional scholarship and citation-map instructions. Required ordinary-life, institutional, critical, and regional-voice sources. Required uncertainty, dissent, omission, and revision records. Prepare a deliberately varied closed-Alpha cohort protocol. Cover onboarding, ordinary life, economy, social play, governance, eras, safety, and recovery. Required consent, participant matrices, session notes, severity, and retesting. Prepare world-specific admission packets for every closed world. Required technical, human, cohort, capacity, localization, and rollback evidence before opening. Prepare the flagship Chronicle acceptance program. Required independent review of both adjacent transitions. Required player comprehension and pacing evidence. Prepare the thirty-day production observation program. Prepare recurring restore, RTO, and RPO evidence requirements. Prepare disposable-database restoration acceptance. Prepare the VPS and multi-node acceptance harness. Preserved aPP_KEY and one-authoritative-database rules. Required redis worker restart evidence. Required authenticated socket authorization evidence. Required polling fallback. Required replica lag, failover, load, PITR, and rollback reports. Introduced a restricted final handoff console. Show prerequisites, instructions, acceptance evidence, blocked claims, and next actor. Added a complete JSON handoff export. Kept the handoff admin-only. Added builder readiness to the public completion ledger. Reached 100% authored readiness. Kept shared-host and full-vision scores independent. Kept qualified review incomplete until people perform it. Kept real-player evidence incomplete until invited players participate. Kept vPS evidence incomplete until the upgraded host exists. Kept every staged world closed. Kept the product open to all current players. Kept real USD, checkout, cash-out, and paid power absent. Added repeat-safe handoff preparation. Added handoff ownership and export tests. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.5. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 2201. Alpha 1.6 89 changes June 15, 2026
Closure Evidence Introduced completion methodology v3. Separated closure evidence from human acceptance. Introduced durable requirement-evidence runs. Gave every evidence run a stable key. Store named checks, scale, evidence, duration, integrity check, and completion time. Kept failed probes visible instead of silently counting them. Introduced six account and accessibility journey probes. Verified the complete character-to-life route contract. Verified keyboard focus and skip navigation. Verified reduced-motion support. Verified high-contrast and interface scaling support. Verified polite screen-reader live regions. Verified privacy, consent, support, and archive routes. Introduced four five-year City One continuity probes. Model fifty thousand households without production mutation. Verified treasury continuity. Verified housing and household safety routes. Verified education, work, and mobility continuity. Verified institutions, markets, voting, and information correction. Introduced five expansion specialization probes. Verified city One specialization independently. Verified enterprise specialization independently. Verified underworld specialization independently. Verified dominion specialization independently. Verified beyond specialization independently. Introduced four World Foundry contract lifecycle probes. Verified eternal contract staging. Verified chronicle contract staging. Verified test contract staging. Verified private contract staging. Introduced the Systems Validation Laboratory. Stage a real resettable Test world. Introduced the Invited World Studio. Stage a real invite-only Private world. Kept both support worlds closed. Prohibit production asset transfer. Gave each support world an isolated content collection and profile. Translate all five expansion contracts into each support world. Represent all four world contract types in production. Introduced century-zero-player validation. Simulate 36,500 unattended world days. Introduced regional-capacity stress validation. Represent one hundred thousand synthetic players through bounded aggregation. Ran deep endurance evidence across every closed staged world. Introduced ten-million-resident aggregate civilization evidence. Introduced one-hundred-million-resident aggregate civilization evidence. Introduced one-billion-resident boundary evidence. Preserved the synthetic-not-live-concurrency distinction. Recorded six phase benchmarks for every aggregate scale run. Kept production residents unchanged during scale evidence. Expanded chronicle from two baseline rehearsals to six stress rehearsals. Added rights-floor and occupancy stress. Added archive rollback catastrophe stress. Model forty-year transition pressure. Model seventy-five-year catastrophe recovery. Represent up to 250,000 synthetic households per transition. Verified non-regressive rights floors. Block forced displacement in transition projections. Verified archive recovery. Verified catastrophic rollback boundaries. Kept human and localization gates false. Introduced regional readiness dossiers. Prepare material-life coverage requirements. Prepare plural-institution requirements. Prepare mobility and exchange requirements. Prepare rights, coercion, and safety requirements. Prepare human language workflows. Required citation maps and uncertainty notes. Introduced region-level scholarship assignments. Introduced region-level community-review assignments. Introduced region-level language assignments. Expanded the qualified review queue without self-certifying completion. Introduced automated isolated artifact restore verification. Match application and database integrity checks. Verified environment secrets are excluded. Extract the application archive into an isolated temporary target. Read the restored dependency manifest. Verified sQL schema statements are readable. Remove the temporary restore target after evidence capture. Never overwrite production data during a restore rehearsal. Recognize isolated artifact restoration as a shared-host outcome. Kept disposable-database import and point-in-time recovery for the upgraded host. Raise shared-host completion only from passing evidence. Kept human scholarship and real-player testing visibly unresolved. Kept every staged world inaccessible to character creation. Kept the entire system free. Kept checkout, cash-out, real USD, and paid power absent. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.4. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 2101. Alpha 1.5 136 changes June 11, 2026
Connected Epochs Introduced completion methodology v2. Measured infrastructure outcomes instead of vendor-specific technology names. Kept full-vision and shared-host scores separate. Preserved historical checkpoints under their original methodology. Introduced an infrastructure-capability registry. Recorded eight infrastructure outcomes. Recognize the bounded minute runner as continuous world work. Recognize short-lived database workers as durable queue execution. Recognize private authenticated polling as near-live delivery. Recognize capacity gates as host protection. Recognize verified application and database archives as recovery capability. Recognize public and restricted ledgers as operational observability. Recognize backup-first maintenance releases as release safety. Preserved a documented horizontal-scale path. Kept redis optional until scale evidence justifies it. Kept webSockets optional while polling satisfies the product outcome. Kept resident workers optional while bounded workers satisfy the product outcome. Preserved sQL operational evidence after any future transport migration. Kept multi-node concurrency as an unproven future claim. Kept failover and replication as future evidence. Introduced epoch-transition rehearsal records. Gave transition rehearsals deterministic integrity checks. Preserved transition before-state. Preserved transition after-state. Model twenty-five transition years. Model twenty-five thousand synthetic households. Verified lineage continuity. Verified archive immutability. Verified zero currency export. Verified restricted-item isolation. Verified occupancy protection. Required supervised profession recognition. Applied the stronger rights floor during overlap. Verified rollback snapshots. Kept qualified review false until a human records it. Kept localization review false until a human records it. Advanced technically rehearsed transition readiness to 88%. Prevented technical rehearsal from reaching production-ready 100%. Introduced decade-zero-player world validation. Simulate 3,650 unattended world days. Introduced five-thousand-player capacity-boundary validation. Preserved non-destructive validation state. Ran both endurance scenarios across eight staged worlds. Kept the original Chronicle launch scenarios failed. Allowed technical Chronicle endurance validation at the 80% transition threshold. Kept public admission dependent on 100%-ready transitions. Ensure Aurelia retains two playable isolated Epoch foundations. Introduced the Networked Present content collection. Introduced the Industrial Century content collection. Introduced connected Crowns. Introduced classical Exchange Worlds. Introduced sail and Exchange. Introduced first Cities and River States. Introduced independent Beyond Commonwealths. Introduced chronicle I: First Cities. Introduced chronicle II: Connected Worlds. Introduced chronicle III: Beyond Commonwealth. Reached twelve complete Epoch foundations. Gave every new content collection eight professions. Gave every new content collection six material resources. Gave every new content collection five transformation recipes. Gave every new content collection four accountable institutions. Gave every new content collection six technology paths. Gave every new content collection four plural social norms. Gave every new content collection five transition-overlap rules. Gave every new content collection three open compatibility findings. Introduced provision Steward roles. Introduced maker and Repairer roles. Introduced carekeeper roles. Introduced route Keeper roles. Introduced record Witness roles. Introduced commons Steward roles. Introduced builder roles. Introduced mediator roles. Represent food, construction, energy, tools, records, and care materials. Introduced preserved-provision transformations. Introduced repair-kit transformations. Introduced safe-household-system transformations. Introduced public-record transformations. Introduced community-care-cache transformations. Introduced provision councils. Introduced works assemblies. Introduced witness and archive circles. Introduced care compacts. Introduced water and sanitation practices. Introduced measured storage. Introduced route and measure standards. Introduced public record practices. Introduced energy stewardship paths. Kept allocation advisers optional and retireable. Protected minimums before prestige. Required visible records for power. Required consent in care. Preserved plural memory. Block cross-era currency conversion. Protected occupancy across property transitions. Supervise professional recognition. Applied common rights floors. Preserved health history without unsafe equivalence. Label technical content collections as non-production foundations. Kept real-money use false. Kept cross-world asset transfer false. Introduced 240 multilingual review assignments. Prepared spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and Chinese coverage. Store source-language placeholders without calling them translations. Kept every queued localization unreviewed. Introduced thirty qualified human-review assignments. Separated scholarship review from cultural-sensitivity review. Separated localization review from scholarship. Required a named reviewer. Required relevant qualification or lived expertise. Required substantive findings and corrections. Required explicit review limitations. Required human attestation. Preserved the account recording review evidence. Never open a world automatically after a review. Mark an Epoch foundation human-reviewed only after all three assignments complete. Kept world activation as a separate gate. Introduced a restricted human-review program interface. Show queued and completed review counts. Made available assignment acceptance requirements. Link World Foundry to the review program. Make completion evidence render strings and numbers safely. Added repeat-safe completion advancement. Prevented duplicate content collections, localization assignments, review tasks, rehearsals, and endurance runs. Added complete portfolio-structure regression tests. Added chronicle technical-versus-human gate tests. Added infrastructure-equivalence tests. Added review-attestation tests. Kept staged worlds inactive. Kept inactive regions out of character creation. Kept the Alpha free. Kept checkout and cash-out absent. Kept paid gameplay power absent. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.3. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 1901. Alpha 1.4 86 changes June 7, 2026
Measured Horizons Introduced twelve authoritative requirement milestones. Separated shared-host completion from the full original vision. Weight every requirement area explicitly. Store measured percentages independently by area. Preserved evidence and blockers as structured data. Introduced immutable completion snapshots. Version the scoring methodology. Published a public completion ledger. Show completion history over time. Made available an administrator checkpoint action. Added completion to canonical navigation. Added completion to the footer record. Drive homepage completion figures from measured evidence. Remove the unsupported static 100% homepage claim. Introduced a validated-draft promotion service. Introduced a real world from a ready Foundry draft. Kept promoted worlds inactive by default. Set promoted world access to closed. Set promoted simulation to staged validation. Generated a permanent world profile and contract. Generated the first staged epoch. Generated regional records from Foundry configuration. Generated accessible arrival-center location nodes. Generated an isolated versioned World content collection. Generated content definitions with provenance. Preserved a integrity-checked launch manifest. Declare real-money transfer false. Declare production-asset transfer false. Required zero-player simulation evidence. Required few-player simulation evidence. Required synthetic-population simulation evidence. Store every validation run with before-and-after state. Store validation checks and deterministic integrity checks. Model 365 zero-player days. Model 180 days with twelve synthetic players. Model 90 days with one thousand synthetic players. Kept validation non-destructive to authoritative world state. Test population continuity. Test treasury solvency. Test regional depth. Test content collection presence. Test employment viability. Test political stability. Block Chronicles without ready transitions. Introduced a qualified-human-review attestation flow. Preserved reviewer identity, qualification, notes, recorder, and time. Never let code self-certify human scholarship. Required all validation scenarios before Alpha access. Required human review before Alpha access. Opened only reviewed and validated worlds. Kept closed worlds out of character creation. Kept the server-side inactive-world admission rejection. Label inactive directory entries as closed staged validation. Introduced the Modern World foundation. Introduced the Age of Industry foundation. Introduced the Age of Crowns foundation. Introduced the Classical Worlds foundation. Introduced the Age of Sail and Exchange foundation. Introduced the First Civilizations foundation. Introduced the independent Beyond Commonwealth foundation. Introduced the Long Chronicle foundation. Gave each portfolio world three full-depth technical regions. Gave every region explicit localization and rights-review obligations. Translate all five expansion pillars into each staged world. Kept all eight foundations isolated and closed. Introduced three explicit Chronicle era foundations. Introduced two explicit Chronicle transition plans. Preserved lineage, memory, public history, and archives across planned transitions. Block currency, technology advantage, and restricted-item transfer. Kept chronicle transition readiness below launch threshold. Make repeated portfolio initialization safe to repeat. Prevented duplicate failed validation evidence on repeat runs. Added operator commands for portfolio initialization. Added operator commands for completion capture. Document what counts toward completion. Document what can never be auto-completed. Added feature tests for completion scope separation. Added feature tests for snapshot persistence. Added feature tests for all eight staged worlds. Added feature tests for Chronicle transition blocking. Added feature tests for review-gated activation. Added feature tests for active-world-only character admission. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.2. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 1701. Kept the entire current system free. Kept real USD, checkout, cash-out, and paid gameplay power absent. Alpha 1.3 97 changes June 3, 2026
Shared Continuum Introduced a minute-keyed shared-host ongoing simulation ledger. Make ongoing simulation cycles safe to repeat by default. Allowed intentional forced verification cycles. Recorded stage durations and outcomes. Recover stale operational job locks. Bound each operational processing batch. Cap operational backlog before overload. Retried failed operational work with delayed backoff. Stop retrying terminal failures after three attempts. Ran short-lived database queue workers every minute. Limited queue work by job count and wall time. Prevented overlapping runner and worker cycles. Enqueue world pulses on a fifteen-minute cadence. Enqueue service health on a five-minute cadence. Expired protected trades automatically. Refund trade escrow exactly once. Age player presence from online to away to offline. Retain completed evidence for declared periods. Added automatic accessibility audit scheduling. Introduced daily application and database backups. Exclude environment secrets from archives. Used consistent database snapshots. Opened and verify every application archive. Rejected empty database backups. Recorded sHA-256 integrity checks and byte counts. Rotate only backups inside the protected backup root. Added support for an optional mounted off-host backup destination. Made available manual dry-run and verified backup actions. Introduced a permanent backup manifest ledger. Added runner freshness to service health. Added backup freshness to service health. Added terminal job failures to service health. Treat the current runner as healthy during its own first scan. Made available shared-host ongoing simulation evidence publicly. Made available detailed ongoing simulation ledgers to administrators. Made available backup manifests to administrators. Made available capacity events to administrators. Introduced world character admission limits. Respect both host and world-declared capacity. Preserved rejected admissions as capacity evidence. Introduced an online-player soft boundary. Introduced a hard operational backlog boundary. Kept capacity boundaries configurable. Added an authenticated private live-poll endpoint. Refresh presence from active authenticated play. Returned unread notification snapshots privately. Returned server and world time snapshots. Returned capacity evidence privately. Pause polling in background tabs. Degrade quietly during connectivity loss. Update unread badges without navigation. Show shared-host live state in the canonical header. Throttle private polling requests. Published the shared-host operating contract. Document exact cron and environment requirements. Document operator commands and evidence surfaces. Document restore drills and incident handling. Document safe shared-host release procedure. Document the boundary between Alpha operation and VPS infrastructure. Introduced a one-place VPS migration playbook. Preserved open to all current players rules through infrastructure migration. Define evidence-based VPS readiness triggers. Define the target VPS service topology. Define secret, key, and encrypted-data continuity. Define immutable release deployment. Define Redis queue, cache, and session migration. Preserved sQL operational ledgers after Redis adoption. Define managed worker process groups. Define authenticated WebSocket rollout. Retain polling as a real-time fallback. Define off-host encrypted backups and restore drills. Define staging acceptance gates. Define DNS and certificate cutover. Define one-authoritative-database rules. Define rollback with player-write reconciliation. Define post-cutover observation and scale-out. Added shared-host ongoing simulation migration tables. Added backup manifest migration tables. Added capacity event migration tables. Added shared-host ongoing simulation feature tests. Test minute idempotency and stage bounds. Test abandoned-lock recovery. Test exactly-once escrow refunds. Test socket-free presence aging. Test private polling and notification snapshots. Test character capacity refusal evidence. Test backup dry-run evidence. Test scheduler and admin operations surfaces. Ran a real local verified application backup. Ran a real local verified database backup. Kept real USD and funds outside the game. Kept aurels explicitly fictional. Kept checkout and cash-out absent. Kept paid gameplay power absent. Advanced the public record to Alpha 1.1. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 1601. Prepare the shared-host Alpha for verified live deployment. Alpha 1.2 101 changes May 31, 2026
Shared Horizon Introduced a consent-scoped public interest registry. Encrypt contact addresses at rest. Hash contact addresses for repeat-safe matching. Kept interest registration separate from entitlement. Introduced durable support requests with public references. Separated support categories for access, safety, privacy, and technical help. Never request account secrets in support evidence. Published city One as a complete product pillar. Published enterprise depth, connections, and long-term outcomes. Published underworld depth without teaching real wrongdoing. Published dominion governance and accountability promises. Published beyond civilization and settlement promises. Published the Epoch catalog independently from login. Published world contracts before character entry. Published founder and community information. Published a comprehensive public FAQ. Published legal and open to all current players terms. Published a privacy and data-portability statement. Published an accessibility commitment. Published community conduct expectations. Published safety and consent boundaries. Link every public information surface from stable navigation. Introduced eternal, Chronicle, Test, and Private world templates. Introduced isolated world drafts with stable public identifiers. Declare lifecycle, mortality, progression, access, and risk before launch. Introduced region-depth configuration with language and rights context. Required authored government, currency, and mobility context. Introduced versioned world-content entries. Introduced city One regional translations. Introduced enterprise regional translations. Introduced underworld regional translations. Introduced dominion regional translations. Introduced beyond regional translations. Preserved safety review and confidence on every content entry. Preserved transition mappings between compatible institutions. Validate world contract completeness. Validate required full-depth regions. Validate five core system translations. Validate cross-world asset isolation. Validate content safety review. Calculated evidence-backed Foundry readiness. Introduced integrity-checked World content collection exports. Introduced signed content artifacts. Introduced content collection-to-content collection diffs. Preserved human-readable artifact changes. Introduced snapshot-bound world branch plans. Kept source worlds active during branch planning. Block money, office, and property transfer across branches. Introduced dry-run retention reports. Protected historical ledgers from retention deletion. Expired only eligible export artifacts. Introduced inactive-player continuity delegation. Let players declare an ordinary absence state. Delegate home, business, care, contracts, travel, and communications independently. Required warnings and preparation for hostile high-impact actions. Prevented continuity delegation from exporting production authority. Introduced three bounded fictional games of chance. Resolved every chance result on the server. Gave every chance play an duplicate-prevention record. Returned the original result for repeated submissions. Published minimum and maximum fictional stakes. Published bounded house-edge evidence. Introduced daily fictional stake ceilings. Introduced daily fictional loss ceilings. Introduced voluntary cool-off periods. Introduced voluntary self-exclusion periods. Block new play while a pause is active. Introduced immutable chance wager references. Preserved seed commitments and resolution evidence. State real-money false on every wager. State cash-out false on every wager. Remove dollar symbols from in-world financial interfaces. Named aurels as fictional world currency. Preserved open access with no checkout. Preserved zero paid gameplay power. Added lifecycle filtering to the public world directory. Added epoch filtering to the public world directory. Added language filtering to the public world directory. Added access-model filtering to the public world directory. Added mortality-contract filtering to the public world directory. Show an honest empty state for unmatched world promises. Made available language and mortality in every world card. Added responsive World Foundry presentation. Added responsive responsible-play presentation. Added responsive directory-filter presentation. Test public legal, safety, support, and access surfaces. Test encrypted noncommercial interest registration. Test Foundry authorization and four templates. Test full draft readiness from real evidence. Test signed export and diff artifacts. Test branch separation guarantees. Test retention history protection. Test continuity delegation boundaries. Test responsible chance idempotency. Test fictional-currency and no-cash-out evidence. Test voluntary play pauses. Test world contract filters. Updated changelog and Patch Notes through Wave 1501. Advanced the public release record to Alpha 1.0. Document shared-host completion separately from VPS infrastructure. Preserved future authored content as an ongoing editorial program rather than a false completion claim. Alpha 1.1 110 changes May 27, 2026
Household Years Introduced a persistent lineage-season registry. Bind every season to one owned lineage. Number seasons independently from world time. Group four seasons into one household year. Declare a seasonal climate condition. Declare a material household pressure. Declare an ordinary household opportunity. Preserved structured seasonal effects. Preserved a household snapshot after each season. Generated a deterministic seasonal integrity check. Prevented duplicate lineage-season records. Introduced a persistent member-vocation registry. Bind one active vocation to one member. Kept vocation identity revisable. Required a member to be at least fourteen. Introduced the Carekeeper vocation. Introduced the Maker and repairer vocation. Introduced the Commons steward vocation. Introduced the Chronicler and teacher vocation. Introduced the Provisioner vocation. Introduced the Mediator vocation. Derive aptitude from existing member capabilities. Tracked mastery independently from aptitude. Advanced mastery through completed seasons. Preserved vocation contributions as structured evidence. Kept vocation output isolated from production work. Introduced persistent lineage bonds. Required two different active lineage members. Canonicalize member ordering for repeat safety. Represent partnerships with an adult gate. Represent siblinghood without biological privilege. Represent mentorship as a revisable relationship. Represent household pacts. Preserved explicit bond agreements. Tracked closeness independently. Tracked strain independently. Let shared seasons deepen active bonds. Introduced persistent household branches. Gave each branch a public UUID. Required an active adult branch leader. Prevented one member from leading duplicate branches. Named related hearths independently. Preserved the founding generation. Preserved a structured household charter. Preserved the founding season. Allocate bounded common reserves. Protected a ten-unit lineage reserve floor. Kept branch assets isolated from production property. Introduced branch membership records. Designated the founding branch steward. Introduced a permanent lineage resource ledger. Attribute resource entries to members when applicable. Preserved season, resource, delta, and resulting balance. Preserved a human-readable material reason. Recorded branch allocations as negative common entries. Recorded each seasonal reserve change. Attach production-isolation evidence to every entry. Introduced persistent lineage milestones. Recorded household-branch founding as a milestone. Recorded coming of age as an agency milestone. Avoid assigning permanent class at adulthood. Avoid assigning automatic inheritance at adulthood. Preserved milestone significance and evidence. Introduced persistent household-year reviews. Score material resilience. Score care continuity. Score household belonging. Score practiced capability. Score lineage continuity. Preserved annual highlights. Preserved material and care pressures. Published bounded recommendations. Generated deterministic review integrity checks. Introduced persistent household-year runs. Gave every run a public UUID. Gave every run an duplicate-prevention record. Returned the original run for a repeated key. Generated a deterministic run seed. Preserved before and after household state. Resolved exactly four seasons per run. Advanced member age only across completed year boundaries. Advanced vocation mastery season by season. Advanced bond closeness season by season. Calculated adult labor and dependent care load. Applied bounded pressure costs. Applied bounded opportunity gains. Bound reserves and dwelling integrity. Bound member wellbeing. Warn when common reserves cross the protection floor. Preserved the complete run integrity check. Kept production export false in every run snapshot. Enforced ownership on every new mutation. Rejected members from another lineage. Added four new authenticated Lineage routes. Made available household Years in Epochs. Made available vocation assignment controls. Made available bond and agreement controls. Made available household-branch controls. Made available one-year resolution controls. Made available vocation, bond, and branch ledgers. Made available the resolved-season timeline. Made available annual review scorecards. Made available life milestones. Added responsive Household Years presentation. Test vocation, bond, branch, year, age, provenance, ownership, isolation, and interface contracts. Update the homepage to 1201 documented waves. Update the Player Guide for seasonal lineages. Update the Roadmap around Alpha 0.11. Updated changelog and Patch Notes. Preserved open access and zero paid gameplay power. Alpha 1.0 105 changes May 23, 2026
Lineages Introduced a persistent era-lineage registry. Required a completed Long Life before lineage founding. Required a private integrity-checked campaign archive. Prevented one campaign from founding duplicate lineages. Bind every lineage to its originating campaign. Bind every lineage to its owning character. Gave every lineage a public UUID. Named lineages independently from campaigns. Preserved the originating Epoch foundation. Preserved the originating place and household. Carry campaign state into bounded common assets. Kept lineage assets isolated from production balances. Recorded production export as false. Introduced a persistent lineage-member registry. Introduced the completed-life protagonist as founder. Carry household cast into the lineage. Preserved each member relationship. Preserved each member role. Preserved each member age. Tracked member generation explicitly. Tracked member wellbeing independently. Tracked member trust independently. Tracked member capabilities as structured evidence. Distinguished active, elder, and departed membership. Designated one current steward. Represent biological children without privileging inheritance. Represent adopted children equally. Represent apprentices as legitimate continuity paths. Represent chosen kin as legitimate continuity paths. Introduced persistent lineage commitments. Seed care as a founding commitment. Seed knowledge continuity as a founding commitment. Assign responsible members without erasing shared duty. Tracked commitment progress from resolved action evidence. Introduced persistent lineage conflicts. Seed one continuity conflict at founding. Published conflict stakes and repair requirements. Tracked open and reconciled conflict states. Required reconciliation before generation transition. Introduced five settled by the World seasonal actions. Mentor another lineage member. Care for another lineage member. Built shared lineage reserves. Updated an open conflict. Prepare a commitment for continuity. Required actors to belong to the lineage. Required targets to belong to the lineage. Rejected cross-lineage action targets. Gave every action an duplicate-prevention record. Returned prior evidence for repeated keys. Preserved action before-state. Preserved action after-state. Preserved actor and target identities. Advanced exactly one season per resolved action. Advanced ages after every four seasons. Bound wellbeing, trust, and capabilities. Preserved a permanent lineage action ledger. Introduced a permanent lineage event stream. Recorded founding in the lineage chronicle. Recorded member welcomes in the chronicle. Recorded seasonal work in the chronicle. Recorded conflict repair in the chronicle. Recorded succession planning in the chronicle. Recorded generation transitions in the chronicle. Welcome new dependents without treating people as assets. Introduced persistent succession plans. Required successor membership in the same lineage. Required a successor to be at least sixteen. Prevented the current steward from succeeding themselves. Preserved designation rationale. Allowed a plan to be revised before transition. Required at least five evidenced seasonal actions. Required all conflicts to be reconciled. Introduced persistent generation transitions. Moved the prior steward into an elder role. Promote the designated successor to steward. Increment the lineage generation atomically. Preserved a continuity snapshot. Generated a deterministic transition integrity check. Introduced persistent generation reports. Score care continuity. Score intermember trust. Score shared resilience. Score knowledge continuity. Preserved report strengths and pressures. Bind reports to their exact transition. Kept prior-generation evidence readable. Made available lineage founding in Epochs. Made available lineage cast and generations. Made available commitments with progress meters. Made available conflicts and repair controls. Made available all five seasonal action controls. Made available member-welcome controls. Made available succession designation controls. Made available gated generation-transition controls. Made available generation reports and transition history. Made available the complete lineage event stream. Kept all lineage surfaces authenticated. Enforced lineage ownership on every mutation. Test founding, kinship, action, succession, transition, isolation, and interface contracts. Update the homepage to 1111 documented waves. Update the Player Guide for multigeneration era lives. Update the Roadmap around Alpha 0.10. Updated changelog and Patch Notes. Preserved open access and zero paid gameplay power. Alpha 0.9 142 changes May 19, 2026
Long Lives Introduced a persistent era-place registry. Bind every era place to one Epoch foundation. Gave places stable content collection-local keys. Distinguished wards, commons, ports, habitats, stations, and settlements. Describe material place conditions. Tracked represented place capacity. Declare amenities as structured data. Declare hazards as structured data. Measured place stability independently. Introduced reedbank Quarter. Introduced north Gate Fields. Introduced copper Landing. Introduced lattice One. Introduced terminus Yard. Introduced selene Ward. Introduced a persistent era-household registry. Bind household structures to one Epoch foundation. Gave household archetypes stable keys. Describe household composition explicitly. Describe household livelihood explicitly. Declare recurring obligations. Declare isolated starting resources. Declare household pressures. Introduced courtyard Kin Household. Introduced barge Crew Household. Introduced granary Steward Household. Introduced maintenance Cluster. Introduced cycler Family. Introduced founding Cohort Home. Represent multigenerational care. Represent working partnerships. Represent apprentices and sponsored residents. Represent dependent children. Represent elder care without erasing agency. Introduced persistent era dilemmas. Bind every dilemma to one life chapter. Gave dilemmas stable content collection-local keys. Classify household, livelihood, governance, and legacy domains. Published dilemma prompts and stakes. Gave every dilemma three declared responses. Gave every response a stable key. Published response costs before choice. Published narrative consequences before choice. Declare metric effects as structured data. Preserved protected essentials separately. Introduced four historical dilemmas. Introduced four future dilemmas. Introduced the household-minimum water dilemma. Introduced the guild-debt dilemma. Introduced the disputed-gate dilemma. Introduced the contested-ledger dilemma. Introduced the protected-air dilemma. Introduced the uncovered-shift dilemma. Introduced the independence-charter dilemma. Introduced the allocation-model dilemma. Introduced persistent Long Life campaigns. Required a completed era rehearsal first. Required passing rollback evidence first. Prevented one rehearsal from spawning duplicate campaigns. Required place and household from the rehearsed content collection. Gave every campaign a public UUID. Generated deterministic campaign seeds. Preserved a private campaign state. Tracked security independently. Tracked belonging independently. Tracked purpose independently. Tracked knowledge independently. Tracked reserves independently. Tracked household trust independently. Tracked place stability independently. Recorded that production export remained false. Introduced four named life chapters. Locked future chapters before their turn. Opened making a Home first. Opened obligations Arrive second. Opened the Public Choice third. Opened what Endures fourth. Preserved chapter opening state. Preserved chapter closing state. Preserved chapter summaries. Introduced a deterministic household cast. Gave cast members era-appropriate names. Gave cast members roles and ages. Gave cast members relationship context. Gave cast members explicit needs. Tracked trust per cast member. Introduced settled by the World campaign decisions. Required the active chapter dilemma. Rejected foreign-content collection dilemmas. Rejected future-chapter dilemmas. Gave every decision an duplicate-prevention record. Returned prior evidence for repeated decisions. Preserved decision before-state. Preserved decision after-state. Bound all life metrics from zero to one hundred. Preserved chosen response labels. Preserved structured costs and effects. Introduced permanent campaign outcomes. Bind outcomes to evidence and chapter. Advanced exactly one chapter per valid decision. Advanced campaign time by thirty days per chapter. Completed a Long Life after four decisions. Introduced private era campaign archives. Preserved campaign chronology. Preserved every choice in the archive. Preserved every outcome in the archive. Generated deterministic SHA-256 archive integrity checks. Kept campaign archives private by default. Introduced cross-era campaign comparisons. Required two completed lives from different eras. Required both lives to belong to one character. Compare seven material and social dimensions. Preserved left, right, and difference values. Explain differences without ranking societies. Generated comparison integrity checks. Make repeated comparisons safe to repeat. Introduced era-content collection promotion reviews. Restrict promotion review to administrators. Required human approval in every review. Count completed rehearsals as evidence. Count passing rollbacks as evidence. Count completed Long Lives as evidence. Count unresolved critical findings. Published unmet readiness checks. Distinguished evidence hold from evidence ready. Never auto-transition production history. Never change content collection status during evidence review. Preserved reviewer and review time. Generated promotion-review integrity checks. Added places and households to the Epochs interface. Added long Life launch controls. Added chapter and cast visualization. Added branching dilemma controls. Added private archive dossiers. Added cross-era comparison panels. Added promotion evidence panels. Published the no-auto-transition contract to every player. Update the homepage to 1021 documented waves. Update the Player Guide for sustained era lives. Update the Roadmap around Alpha 0.9. Updated changelog and Patch Notes. Preserved open access and zero paid gameplay power. Alpha 0.8 143 changes May 15, 2026
Deep Time Introduced a dedicated era-content collection registry. Bind every Epoch foundation to one persistent world. Bind content collections to declared historical or future epochs. Bind Epoch foundations to validated World content collections. Gave every Epoch foundation a stable unique key. Version Epoch foundations independently from engine code. Distinguished historical and future content collection categories. Preserved a human-readable chronology label. Published an explicit era summary. Published a player-facing era contract. Declare era rules as structured data. Declare isolated starting state as structured data. Preserved engine and world compatibility metadata. Generated deterministic SHA-256 era integrity checks. Required validated status before rehearsal entry. Introduced the River Covenant historical content collection. Place the River Covenant in Aurelia’s fictional documented past. Model a riverine-mechanical technology baseline. Model courier communication delay. Model human, animal, water, and wind energy. Model foot, barge, and cart transport. Model covenant marks without conversion to production currency. Model ledger and oral-witness recordkeeping. Introduced the Orbital Commonwealth future content collection. Bind the Orbital Commonwealth to the existing Orbital Threshold epoch. Model closed-loop orbital settlement constraints. Model solar, storage, and recovered thermal energy. Model shuttle, tug, and cycler transport. Model habitat credits without production conversion. Model distributed civic recordkeeping. Declare that future content is rehearsal rather than prediction. Declare that Epoch foundations never require AI. Declare that Epoch foundations contain no real-money access. Introduced sixteen era-specific professions. Gave every profession a stable content collection-local key. Gave professions explicit sectors and descriptions. Bind professions to capability evidence instead of permanent classes. Gave professions era-specific entry thresholds. Gave professions structured material and social outputs. Made available professional risks instead of hiding them. Introduced canal keeping, reed craft, grain stewardship, courier, healing, scribal, barge, and assembly work. Introduced life-support, fabrication, systems ecology, piloting, civic audit, radiation medicine, planning, and settlement diplomacy work. Introduced twelve era-specific resources. Distinguished renewable and finite era resources. Gave every resource an explicit scarcity score. Declare practical uses for every resource. Preserved regional resource notes. Introduced ten explicit resource-transformation recipes. Required declared inputs before output creation. Consume inputs atomically. Introduced traceable recipe outputs. Gave recipes explicit energy costs. Gate recipes by rehearsal knowledge. Connected recipes with accountable institutions. Introduced eight era institutions. Gave institutions explicit mandates. Gave institutions bounded powers. Published accountability mechanisms for every institution. Tracked baseline legitimacy independently. Introduced eight era-specific social norms. Named groups supported by each norm. Named groups pressured by each norm. Score pluralism without presenting consensus as universal. Represent historical structural exclusion as pressure instead of a locked player role. Represent essential future services as protected common systems. Introduced twelve era technology paths. Gave technologies prerequisites, effects, and research costs. Distinguished retireable technologies. Kept automated allocation optional and replaceable. Prevented historical care from being presented as modern clinical equivalence. Introduced ten cross-era overlap rules. Compare legacy and incoming behavior per system. Declare transition resolutions explicitly. Gave every overlap a bounded duration. Declare reversibility per overlap. Protected occupancy during property-system transition. Prevented cross-era currency arbitrage. Required supervised professional recognition across eras. Preserved a common rights floor across governance transitions. Prevented rehearsal mortality from exporting to production. Introduced content collection compatibility findings. Gave findings severity, system, mitigation, and lifecycle status. Flag lineage exclusion as a historical identity risk. Flag historical treatment equivalence as a critical health risk. Flag essential-service coercion as a future life-support risk. Flag small-settlement governance capture. Flag automated allocation as a dependency risk. Introduced private player-owned era scenarios. Gave every scenario a public UUID. Choose an era profession before rehearsal. Generated deterministic scenario seeds. Preserved structured scenario state. Tracked scenario days independently from world time. Tracked energy, wellbeing, knowledge, influence, and era tokens. Tracked isolated inventory by resource key. Tracked technology progress independently. Tracked institution trust independently. Introduced six settled by the World rehearsal actions. Practice era professions without changing production finances. Gather content collection-scoped resources. Craft through declared transformation recipes. Participate in era institutions. Research declared technology paths. Make rest a material ordinary-life action. Advanced one rehearsal day per resolved action. Bound energy, wellbeing, influence, and knowledge. Introduced immutable before-and-after action evidence. Gave every action an duplicate-prevention record. Returned prior outcomes for repeated duplicate-prevention records. Preserved action target type and identity. Introduced a permanent scenario event stream. Gave events category, description, significance, effects, and day. Rejected resources, recipes, institutions, and technologies from another content collection. Rejected actions against another player’s scenario. Block new actions after scenario completion. Required five actions before balance generation. Introduced multidomain era balance reports. Score survival, agency, economy, knowledge, trust, and reversibility. Identify material pressure points from actual rehearsal state. Published bounded balance recommendations. Scale confidence with accumulated evidence. Generated deterministic report integrity checks. Introduced automatic rollback rehearsals at completion. Checksum the restored starting snapshot. Verified scenario isolation explicitly. Verified the production character remained unchanged. Verified currency was not exported. Verified content collection integrity check continuity. Verified event preservation. Recorded rollback duration. Introduced findings from rehearsal pressure evidence. Kept new balance findings open for later review. Added epochs as the thirty-seventh canonical life chamber. Kept the Epochs surface authenticated. Published full content collection contracts in the interface. Published profession, resource, recipe, institution, technology, norm, overlap, and compatibility dossiers. Made available scenario vitals and isolated inventory. Made available recent event history. Made available completed balance and rollback evidence. Update the Player Guide for era rehearsal boundaries. Update the Roadmap around the completed Alpha 0.8 program. Update the public homepage to 931 documented waves. Preserved permanent open access and zero paid gameplay power. Alpha 0.7 70 changes May 11, 2026
Becoming Reframe the homepage around the current playable Alpha instead of the original five-system promise. Published twelve current-capability domains spanning self, home, work, economy, belonging, society, power, shadow, movement, frontier, creation, and continuity. Published an explicit consequence chain from person to household, region, institution, and history. Published documented build-wave, system, arrival, and world-continuity signals. State open access and the absence of real-money mechanics in the hero. Remove dollar-denominated language from character origin choices. Published the open to all current players, consent-first, and evidence-first product contract. Added a seven-era Alpha history to the public homepage. Introduced a dedicated public player guide. Document a practical first-hour path. Explain authoritative world time and safe to repeat simulation. Document all canonical life chambers in one public systems map. Document trust, blocking, consent, moderation, and protected mortality. Document saved accessibility preferences and private character support. Published honest current-Alpha limitations. Introduced a dedicated public roadmap. Separated shipped systems from active depth work. Separated always-on capabilities from VPS and dedicated-server gates. Kept monetization explicitly unresolved and deferred. Added player Guide, Roadmap, and Changelog to consistent global navigation. Added social sharing metadata to public pages. Expanded the footer into a complete public information index. Introduced layered persistent character profiles. Make pronouns a first-class revisable identity field. Added support for optional gender identity and presentation. Added support for body frame, height, skin tone, hair, and distinguishing features. Added support for player-authored style tags. Preserved formative place and household context. Preserved education and economic context. Preserved worldview tags, formative events, strengths, and pressures. Kept character access needs private by default. Separated identity disclosure from access disclosure. Added support for private, trusted, community, and public identity boundaries. Introduced a permanent profile-revision ledger. Recorded the account responsible for every profile revision. Introduced persistent eight-chapter arrival journeys. Make Arrival a canonical system visible from every life page. Seed arrival steps safe to repeatly. Verified identity progress from a real character profile. Verified shelter from the character’s actual housing state. Verified aspiration progress from persistent aspirations. Verified livelihood from real education or employment. Verified connection from relationships or organization membership. Verified agency from the life-action ledger. Verified planning from an active life plan. Calculated arrival completion from evidence rather than page visits. Completed arrival without making it a gate to ordinary play. Introduced an explicit world-contract acknowledgement. Preserved optional private world-contract reflections. Introduced revisable private life plans. Added support for next-season, one-year, five-year, and lifetime horizons. Let plans span self, home, learning, work, relationships, community, craft, public life, and exploration. Preserved concrete next actions separately from intention. Added support for plan review dates. Introduced regional orientation-guide assignments. Prefer high-agency living regional residents as guides. Provide a civic orientation fallback when no guide exists. Prevented guides from spending, deciding, or exposing private records for a player. Recorded voluntary orientation check-ins. Introduced private access-support requests. Added support for mobility, vision, hearing, cognition, communication, sensory, chronic-health, and other needs. Scope accommodations to interface, home, work, education, travel, or social participation. Preserved known accommodations as structured records. Expanded first-life creation before world entry. Introduced identity, origin, district, formative-history, access, and disclosure stages. Redirect every new life into Arrival instead of a generic dashboard. Kept all starting resources denominated in fictional Aurels. Added a public Alpha 0.7 status across the product. Increase the canonical system menu from thirty-five to thirty-six chambers. Preserved open access with zero checkout and zero paid gameplay power. Alpha 0.6 152 changes May 7, 2026
Open World Declare the entire current product free to access. Remove active checkout routes. Remove active refund routes. Remove active fraud-review routes. Remove the commerce controller from the ongoing simulation. Remove the commerce engine from the ongoing simulation. Remove the commerce view from the product. Retired store from canonical navigation. Redirect the retired Store path to Library. Archive every legacy catalog product. Introduced a dedicated free-resource library. Gave library resources stable keys. Gave library resources explicit open access policies. Kept price metadata null. Kept currency metadata null. Declare payment required false. Declare competitive advantage false. Introduced persistent open access grants. Make each account-resource grant unique. Make repeated free claims safe to repeat. Introduced immutable free-access events. Preserved the granting account. Preserved the granting source. Preserved the grant time. Made available already-claimed state. Refuse non-free resources through the free claim path. Added library to canonical navigation. State that no payment system is active. Guarantee no paid gameplay power. Added automated no-financial-record coverage. Introduced hierarchical geographic areas. Bind atlas areas to persistent worlds. Bind atlas areas to existing regions. Preserved area population. Preserved stylized geometry references. Mark baseline geography explicitly fictional. Introduced time-bounded jurisdiction profiles. Describe governance models structurally. Preserved enumerated civil rights. Preserved explicit jurisdiction restrictions. Introduced regional language profiles. Added support for official and vernacular languages. Tracked writing systems. Tracked prevalence independently from literacy. Introduced living cultural profiles. Preserved values, norms, etiquette, and heritage. Mark cultural descriptions explicitly fictional. Introduced source provenance records. Preserved author and publisher provenance. Preserved source type. Preserved publication year. Preserved reliability estimates. Preserved bounded scope notes. Prepared player-submitted sources for review. Prevented submissions from crossing worlds. Kept pending sources out of accepted evidence. Seed approved in-world institutional references. Introduced human sensitivity reviews. Preserved communities considered during review. Preserved risks, recommendations, and remediation. Introduced persistent traditions per place. Preserved tradition origin stories and practices. Tracked adoption independently from institutional support. Introduced plural belief communities. Preserved community values and membership. Tracked public trust independently from pluralism. Introduced authored cultural media. Added support for journals, performance, broadcast, visual art, and oral history. Preserved cultural authorship. Preserved cultural themes. Prevented cultural works from crossing worlds. Introduced cross-region cultural diffusion. Tracked influence independently from resistance. Advanced diffusion through authoritative world time. Distinguished emerging, circulating, and adopted states. Introduced public claims with stable identifiers. Mark new claims unverified. Added support for public and restricted classifications. Attach provenance-reviewed citations. Describe citations as support, dispute, or context. Prevented citations from crossing worlds. Introduced claim-confidence calculations. Introduced permanent claim disputes. Preserved original statements during disputes. Prevented disputes from crossing worlds. Added support for human dispute resolution. Introduced auditable corrections. Introduced auditable declassification. Score public interest independently from harm risk. Introduced safe to repeat cultural snapshots. Connected culture and information into every world pulse. Added atlas and Zeitgeist to canonical navigation. Map existing location nodes into the world atlas. Represent civic districts as persistent places. Represent neighborhoods as persistent places. Represent buildings and stations as persistent places. Connect every local place to a regional parent. Preserved estimated local population. Preserved stylized coordinate provenance. Introduced community-proposed atlas revisions. Preserved the current atlas value. Preserved the proposed replacement value. Required an evidence-based revision rationale. Named communities affected by a revision. Kept revisions pending human review. Added support for approved, rejected, and revision-required decisions. Applied approved revisions to the authoritative atlas. Kept rejected proposals in the permanent ledger. Introduced formal source-review records. Preserved the reviewer’s method. Preserved known source limitations. Update reliability only through a recorded review. Introduced regional media organizations. Gave every newsroom a public-interest charter. Measured editorial independence explicitly. Tracked newsroom public trust. Tracked newsroom audience independently. Published newsroom funding disclosures. Declare advertising absent from the baseline newsrooms. Introduced public editorial policies. Required evidence before certainty. Required visible corrections. Required dignity-preserving source protection. Let characters join a newsroom. Preserved each contributor’s reporting beats. Required active membership before investigation. Gave investigations stable public identifiers. Required a testable investigation hypothesis. Score public interest independently. Score vulnerable-source risk independently. Attach reviewed atlas evidence. Preserved source-protection instructions. Kept new evidence pending verification. Added support for verified and rejected evidence review. Required two verified records before publication. Introduced an administrator editorial-review gate. Preserved editorial rationale. Preserved disclosed conflicts. Added support for publish, revise, and reject decisions. Preserved publication time. Issue corrections without deleting the original statement. Introduced accountable cultural institutions. Tracked mandate, capacity, legitimacy, and independence. Introduced accessible cultural programs. Tracked program accessibility and reach. Accepted supportive, critical, curious, and unmoved participation. Prevented duplicate participation without forcing consensus. Introduced persistent cultural tensions with named groups. Advanced dialogue and intensity through world time. Introduced reasoned norm proposals and unique ballots. Required participation, support, and dialogue before norm acceptance. Published pulse-driven transparency counts with zero real-world funds and zero automated editorial decisions. Alpha 0.5 120 changes May 4, 2026
Institutions Introduced a persistent securities registry per world. Added support for index, equity, bond, and community instruments. Gave every security a stable world-unique symbol. Tracked total issuance, price, distribution rate, and risk independently. Introduced durable character security holdings. Preserved units, average cost, and lifetime distributions. Introduced globally identifiable limit orders. Funded buy orders before market entry. Reserve sell units before market entry. Prevented unfunded or uncovered order placement. Added support for explicit buy and sell limits. Expired stale orders after seven days. Returned cash when buy orders expire. Returned units when sell orders expire. Allowed players to cancel open orders. Returned every reserved asset on cancellation. Cleared eligible orders settled by the Worldly. Locked orders before settlement. Prevented already-settled orders from executing twice. Calculated weighted holding cost after settlement. Settle sale proceeds into persistent in-world bank balances. Moved security prices through bounded clearing pressure. Paid evidence-backed periodic distributions. Introduced persistent interregional freight bookings. Price cargo and distance freight separately. Preserved origin, destination, cargo, value, and route provenance. Deliver shipments through authoritative world time. Published daily inflation and target-rate evidence. Published base rate, money-supply index, and wealth concentration. Applied a bounded treasury-funded liquidity floor without resetting wealth. Gave enforcement actions a formal appeal right. Limited each account to one appeal per enforcement action. Preserved appeal grounds independently from the original report. Kept immediate safety protections active during appeal. Introduced an administrator appeal-review queue. Recorded reviewer, recommendation, rationale, and reviewed evidence. Added support for upheld, modified, and overturned decisions. Cleared account restrictions when an action is overturned. Preserved appeal decisions in the moderation audit stream. Moved unreviewed appeals into an explicit review state. Expired timed enforcement automatically. Introduced persistent citizen governance councils. Gave councils explicit scope, quorum, and lifecycle. Added support for voluntary council membership. Required membership before proposing policy. Introduced safety, trade, accessibility, and community proposals. Gave proposals stable public identifiers. Preserved title, rationale, proposer, and closing time. Opened every proposal for a seven-day deliberation. Required council membership before voting. Added support for reasoned support and opposition ballots. Enforced one ballot per member per proposal. Gave every ballot submission an duplicate-prevention record. Introduced durable interaction receipts. Returned completed receipts without duplicating votes. Locked proposals while tallying concurrent ballots. Resolved proposals against explicit quorum. Distinguished adopted, rejected, and no-quorum outcomes. Added trust and Exchange to the canonical authenticated navigation. Added automated settlement, freight, policy, appeal, council, concurrency, and access coverage. Introduced a persistent population-fidelity registry per world. Define individual-life fidelity for the most material residents. Define household-cohort fidelity for growing populations. Define district aggregation for metropolitan scale. Define regional macro cohorts for world-scale populations. Gave every tier explicit population boundaries. Gave every tier an independent fidelity target. Gave every tier an update cadence. Gave every tier a hard entity-processing budget. Introduced persistent regional population segments. Preserved represented population separately from sampled entities. Preserved demographic composition per segment. Preserved employment and wealth signals per segment. Preserved housing, care, and mobility pressure per segment. Advanced segments only at their declared cadence. Introduced subsystem processing budgets. Budget civilization, economy, relationships, health, and governance independently. Declare a graceful-degradation policy for every budget. Introduced persistent synthetic scale scenarios. Gave every scenario a public identifier. Declare target population, duration, pulse size, and deterministic seed. Preserved production-mutation constraints explicitly. Benchmark allocation, economy, households, relationships, governance, and reconciliation. Recorded represented and sampled entities per benchmark phase. Recorded duration, throughput, memory estimate, and warnings. Kept synthetic benchmarks distinct from production capacity claims. Ran million-resident scenarios without duplicating production people. Preserved scenario status, result, start, and completion times. Connected tiered representation statistics into every world pulse. Made available a restricted Population Scale Lab. Introduced a versioned commerce catalog. Limited the catalog to cosmetic expression and optional content access. Declare the no-pay-to-win contract in product rules and UI. Introduced regional prices for USD, GBP, CAD, and AUD. Preserved subtotal, tax, total, country, and currency. Introduced globally identifiable purchase intents. Required duplicate-prevention records for purchase creation. Prevented duplicate receipts and entitlements. Introduced explicit sandbox-provider metadata. State that no real payment was captured. Introduced durable sandbox receipts. Gave every receipt a stable receipt number. Introduced persistent account entitlements. Preserved entitlement source, status, grant time, and metadata. Introduced immutable entitlement event history. Grant entitlements only after a completed sandbox intent. Introduced velocity-based fraud risk signals. Hold elevated-risk intents for human review. Prevented held intents from silently granting ownership. Introduced administrator fraud-review decisions. Introduced user-owned refund requests. Prevented refunds against another account’s receipt. Introduced administrator refund decisions. Revoke entitlements after approved refunds. Preserved refunded amount and resolution evidence. Kept denied refunds in the permanent record. Added store to the canonical authenticated navigation. Kept all commerce and refund operations settled by the World. Made available an ownership ledger, receipt history, and sandbox warning. Added automated pricing, idempotency, receipt, entitlement, refund, fraud, and authorization coverage. Alpha 0.4 179 changes April 30, 2026
Living History Introduced persistent food, energy, housing, care, materials, and transport markets in every region. Gave each commodity an independent reference price. Measured regional supply from active productive capacity. Measured demand from represented regional population. Applied resource-specific demand pressure. Cleared market prices once per world day. Prevented repeated same-day market clearing. Tracked rising, falling, and stable price trends. Calculated commodity volatility from price pressure. Preserved supply, demand, price, trend, and clearing time. Introduced persistent buy and sell limit orders. Restrict player orders to their current region. Tracked order quantity, limit price, fill, and settlement. Fill eligible orders during a later clearing cycle. Preserved unfilled orders instead of silently discarding them. Added labor-pressure signals to every operating business. Connect labor scarcity to employment conditions. Gave businesses a persistent supply-resilience measure. Degrade resilience during regional shortages. Recover resilience when circulation stabilizes. Introduced household food-security state. Introduced household utility-security state. Introduced configurable automatic household savings rates. Introduced explicit consumer-debt state for future credit consequences. Allowed players to purchase food, energy, care, and transport at regional clearing prices. Charged household consumption from persistent in-world bank balances. Recorded quantity, price, need before, and need after for consumption. Introduced an auditable player wealth ledger. Settle NPC household consumption once per world day. Tracked nPC household food security, care capacity, savings, debt, and wealth. Introduced persistent personal goals for autonomous residents. Select resident goals from security, belonging, purpose, age, and agency. Added support for economic, community, learning, care, and legacy goals. Gave each goal priority, criteria, progress, and status. Advanced resident goals no more than once per world day. Increase progress through agency and stable employment. Completed goals without deleting their developmental history. Published goal completion as a permanent life event. Introduced ongoing household and family obligations. Assign beneficiaries, monthly cost, and moral importance to obligations. Fulfill obligations from actual resident cash. Applied security pressure when residents cannot meet obligations. Introduced persistent roles inside public institutions. Select stewards and coordinators from high-agency residents. Tracked authority, performance, appointment, status, and end time. Introduced explicit one-year resident strategies. Preserved strategy reason, confidence, horizon, and planned actions. Review and replace strategies on a three-month cadence. Connect strategies to current personal-goal domains. Introduced economic, safety, and family-strain incidents. Derive crisis category from resident needs and risk orientation. Gave incidents explicit severity and material effects. Select self-managed or organized responses from agency. Preserved open crises instead of resolving them invisibly. Resolved aged incidents through recorded regional follow-through. Made available goals and progress inside the resident ledger. Made available obligations and institutional roles per resident. Made available long-horizon strategy and confidence per resident. Added a dedicated pressure-and-response observatory. Connected circulation and NPC-continuity statistics into every simulation tick. Added explicit engine-version constraints to every World content collection. Gave content collections a declared default locale. Generated deterministic SHA-256 content collection integrity checks. Tracked pending, valid, and invalid content collection states. Recorded content collection validation time independently from release time. Required every content collection manifest to declare functional systems. Validate content collection schema versions. Rejected incompatible engine-major constraints. Read declared content collection dependencies from manifests. Store dependency keys and version constraints independently. Distinguished required from future optional dependencies. Resolved installed dependencies against the registry. Preserved missing-dependency failures instead of hiding them. Introduced an immutable validation-result ledger. Gave validation results check name, severity, message, and context. Revalidate content collections when content collection data changes. Connected city One definitions with their owning core content collection. Generated deterministic integrity checks for content definitions. Gave definitions explicit schema descriptions. Gave definitions stable localization keys. Introduced reviewed source-language localization entries. Tracked localization locale, source locale, status, notes, and review time. Introduced durable content-migration plans between content collection versions. Preserved migration operations and integrity checks before application. Made available installed-content collection validation directly in the Chronicle interface. Show dependency resolution counts per installed content collection. Show content collection validation-check counts. Show content collection and definition integrity check fragments for operational inspection. Added content collection-validation statistics to the autonomous world pulse. Kept content collection validation settled by the World. Added explicit rules to epoch records. Gave epochs readiness percentages. Declare gated transition policy per epoch. Declare archive retirement policy per epoch. Introduced persistent Chronicle arcs tied to worlds and epochs. Gave chronicles a premise, target, progress, lifecycle, and completion policy. Introduced knowledge, infrastructure, civilization, and provenance objectives. Weight Chronicle objectives independently. Calculated objective progress from actual world state. Counted completed research in Chronicle knowledge progress. Counted completed public works in infrastructure progress. Counted completed resident goals in civilization progress. Counted approved sources in provenance progress. Accepted player contributions with documented evidence. Charged contributions from persistent in-world bank balances. Preserved contribution method, amount, character, evidence, and world time. Prevented contributions to completed or foreign-world objectives. Completed objectives without deleting contributions. Completed a Chronicle only when all weighted objectives are satisfied. Recorded chronicle completion as a permanent historical milestone. Retired completed Chronicles into read-only history. Introduced formal epoch transition plans between adjacent epochs. Measured content collection, research, provenance, and Chronicle transition gates. Generated compatibility reports for each transition. Generated ordered migration sequences before execution. Kept under-ready transitions explicitly gated. Restrict epoch execution to administrators. Required exactly 100% readiness before execution. Preserved executed transition plans and historical milestones. Added chronicle as the twenty-ninth canonical authenticated system. Introduced a durable operational-job ledger. Gave every job a globally unique duplicate-prevention record. Prevented duplicate enqueueing for the same operational intent. Tracked queued, running, completed, and failed job states. Recorded scheduled, locked, and completed times. Count every execution attempt. Measured job duration in milliseconds. Preserved bounded failure messages for diagnosis. Rejected unsupported operational job types safely. Added support for health-scan jobs. Added support for chronicle-advancement jobs. Added support for queued world-pulse jobs. Processed due work in bounded batches. Retried failed jobs without duplicating completed work. Scheduled the durable job worker every minute. Scheduled health probes every five minutes. Protected scheduled workers against overlap. Checked database connectivity. Checked storage writability. Checked simulation telemetry continuity. Checked content-registry validity. Checked durable-job failure pressure. Recorded service status and latency independently. Preserved structured details from every service probe. Opened operational incidents automatically on degradation. Distinguished warning and critical incident severity. Prevented duplicate open incidents for one failing service. Required root cause and resolution before incident closure. Introduced non-destructive restore-drill records. Preserved restore stages, backup reference, integrity check, duration, operator, and notes. Published a public system-status surface. Displayed the latest result for each operational service. Published current incident state and resolved history. Made available world-clock continuity on the status page. Added system Status to the global footer. Expanded the administrator surface into an operations center. Prepared jobs through restricted administrator controls. Processed due jobs through restricted controls. Ran combined service and accessibility scans. Made available failed job errors without leaking secrets. Introduced automated accessibility evidence records. Audited seven representative application surfaces. Measured eleven WCAG-oriented criteria per surface. Separated automated passes from manual review requirements. Preserved severity, evidence, and remediation per criterion. Added a keyboard-accessible skip link to every page. Added globally visible focus indicators. Applied reduced-motion preferences across the whole application. Applied high-contrast tokens across the whole application. Applied larger text across the whole application. Added a reduced-decoration focus mode. Added a dyslexia-friendly font mode. Added spacious minimum control targets. Applied saved preferences outside the Social Hub. Set the document language from account locale. Expanded locale choices to English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Japanese. Added date-format, number-format, and color-scheme preferences. Measured reviewed translation coverage per locale. Published missing translation keys instead of claiming false completeness. Alpha 0.3 143 changes April 26, 2026
Material Life Introduced a versioned catalog of electric, hybrid, cargo, accessible, and specialist vehicles. Allowed players to purchase vehicles from persistent in-world bank balances with permanent ownership provenance. Separated purchase from registration and baseline insurance. Tracked vehicle condition, energy, mileage, seats, cargo, range, efficiency, and safety. Restore energy through priced local consumption. Perform maintenance with before-and-after condition records. Block unsafe or under-fueled private journeys. Introduced directional rail, air, and coach routes across every active region. Tracked route fare, time, distance, capacity, reliability, and operating status. Book settled by the World public transportation. Drive registered private vehicles across the same regional network. Consume fuel, add mileage, reduce condition, and advance world time during travel. Preserved every public and private journey in a durable ledger. Introduced hierarchical district, neighborhood, building, and station location nodes. Render a responsive stylized map without requiring a walkable 3D world. Provide a complete text directory as a non-map alternative. Added mobility to the canonical twenty-six-system authenticated navigation. Version career, business-category, and crime-action content independently from engine code. Registered twenty civilian careers and ten business categories for City One. Registered thirty settled by the World crime-operation definitions. Measured regions, careers, businesses, crimes, vehicles, routes, locations, firms, and organizations against launch gates. Made available a restricted administrator City One launch-readiness contract. Introduced twelve reusable professional tracks spanning health, engineering, education, law, government, research, finance, journalism, logistics, trades, safety, and enterprise. Define capability-based entry requirements instead of permanent character classes. Gave every track apprentice, practitioner, senior, lead, and master levels. Tracked independent experience, performance, specialization, mentor, level, and status. Allowed multiple professional identities without erasing earlier work. Added paid professional-development sessions with material time and energy costs. Increase development value when a qualified mentor is recorded. Select mentors from persistent high-agency regional residents. Advanced active careers autonomously once per world day. Prevented repeated same-day background progression. Used level-scaled experience thresholds for advancement. Promote careers without requiring a page visit. Introduced deterministic professional assessments grounded in skill, performance, experience, and mentorship. Preserved the evidence used to calculate every assessment score. Separated developmental failure from punitive lockout. Introduced visible developmental incidents after an unsuccessful assessment. Kept failed candidates eligible to train and reassess. Issue professional licenses only after a passing assessment. Gave credentials explicit level, score, status, issue date, and expiration. Added support for license renewal through current evidence. Charged licensing and assessment costs through persistent in-world bank balances. Introduced profession-scoped reputation independent from regional standing. Introduced industry-scoped standing when credentials are issued. Introduced community standing through trusted peer endorsements. Tracked reputation visibility separately from score. Translate scores into unknown, known, trusted, exemplary, distrusted, and notorious tiers. Preserved the last twenty auditable reputation signals per context. Decay old low-visibility reputation slowly toward neutral. Never let one respected role automatically create universal trust. Added career to the canonical twenty-seven-system authenticated navigation. Separated stackable consumables from individually serialized durable objects. Assign every durable object a globally unique serial. Recorded market purchase provenance and acquisition world time. Tracked item quality independently from current condition. Added legal, regulated, restricted, and contraband-ready legality states. Gave item definitions weight, durability, stackability, equipment slot, and provenance requirements. Introduced carried, stored, equipped, broken, and transferred object states. Applied consumable effects through settled by the World character updates. Consume stack quantities atomically and remove empty stacks. Used durable objects without destroying their unique identity. Reduce durability according to item quality. Automatically mark zero-condition objects broken. Automatically unequip objects when they break. Introduced tool, travel, and future expandable equipment slots. Prevented one unique object from occupying multiple slots. Introduced home locker, bank vault, workshop, and warehouse storage. Tracked storage capacity, security, access, and contents. Rejected storage moves that exceed weight capacity. Unequip an object before secured storage. Repair objects through priced registered workshops. Preserved before condition, after condition, method, cost, and repair time. Transfer unique ownership only inside the same world. Remove equipment and storage bindings during ownership transfer. Append transfers to immutable object provenance. Recorded purchase, use, wear, equip, storage, repair, and transfer events. Applied daily equipped wear through the autonomous world pulse. Prevented repeated same-day equipment wear. Made available an equipment rack, serialized possessions, storage registry, and provenance ledger. Published /patch-notes as a first-class alias of the complete public changelog. Updated footer terminology, current wave history, internal development ledger, and automated patch-note checks. Classify injury, chronic, mental-health, addiction, and infectious conditions. Recorded diagnosis severity at authoritative world time. Distinguished chronic conditions from temporary illness. Mark infectious conditions for future transmission rules. Calculated functional impact separately from clinical severity. Gave conditions positive, neutral, or restorative progression rates. Tracked treatment adherence as its own health signal. Preserved diagnoses in a permanent health-event chronology. Introduced measurable care plans against individual conditions. Added support for self-managed, weekly, intensive, and residential care. Supersede care plans without deleting prior treatment history. Set formal review dates for active plans. Issue prescriptions with finite dose inventories. Tracked medication purpose, effectiveness, and side-effect risk. Charged fictional carried Aurels for prescribed treatment. Recorded no more than one dose per world day. Improved condition severity according to medication effectiveness. Improved adherence through recorded dosing. Completed prescriptions when the final dose is consumed. Introduced home, work, travel, and education accommodations. Reduce functional barriers without erasing the underlying condition. Start persistent addiction, injury, burnout, and behavioral recovery programs. Tracked recovery risk, progress, support, and completion independently. Charged and record accountable recovery sessions. Prevented repeated same-day recovery sessions. Improved wellbeing through sustained recovery participation. Advanced active conditions through the autonomous world pulse. Let active care offset natural condition progression. Resolved conditions through time and care with a permanent resolution event. Made available a readable health continuum, care ledger, recovery registry, and event history. Introduced a dedicated Home system in the canonical navigation. Unify owned and occupied property into one private dossier. Gave every property zoning, land envelope, security, utility capacity, and development level. Introduced named rooms with purpose, area, condition, comfort, and use state. Added support for bedrooms, kitchens, workshops, offices, clinics, storage, common rooms, and accessible rooms. Prevented room plans from exceeding the property development envelope. Charged construction costs from persistent in-world bank balances. Connect power, water, network, waste, and climate utilities. Gave utilities capacity, usage, recurring cost, and active or limited service states. Settle utility obligations once per world day. Limited service when the responsible character cannot cover daily cost. Required permits before regulated property projects. Added support for renovation, expansion, rezoning, security, efficiency, and accessibility permits. Resolved permit decisions against zoning constraints. Preserved permit fees, decisions, application time, and decision time. Funded construction projects before autonomous work begins. Tracked project budget, quality, progress, status, and completion time. Advanced construction no more than once per world day. Translate completed projects into lasting property effects. Increase development envelopes through completed expansions. Improved security through completed defensive projects. Improved utility capacity through completed efficiency work. Improved property condition through renovation and accessibility work. Calculated maintenance liability through registered inspection. Restore property and room condition through paid maintenance. Cap restored room condition at full integrity. Accrue maintenance pressure autonomously on occupied property. Degrade neglected properties gradually instead of instantly. Upgrade layered security without making homes invulnerable. Preserved room, inspection, maintenance, security, and construction events in property history. Added automated longitudinal-health, recovery, property, permit, utility, construction, navigation, privacy, and daily-idempotency coverage. Alpha 0.2 106 changes April 22, 2026
Persistent World Made it possible to browse worlds by lifecycle, access, capacity, simulation mode, status, and installed content. Published permanent-history, mortality, inheritance, PvP, economy, and inactive-continuity guarantees before entry. Registered city One, Dominion, and Underworld as versioned content collections with schema and dependency manifests. Captured integrity check-verified world snapshots and optionally publish them as read-only archive records. Generated authenticated structured account exports without exposing passwords or authentication secrets. Extend the canonical authenticated menu with Worlds and Archive while preserving every prior system. Charter and fund accountable space programs with technical-readiness and safety records. Construct orbital shuttles, cargo tugs, and colony transports with persistent capacity, integrity, fuel, and systems. Plan missions separately from launch, declare objectives and manifests, and resolve travel against destination distance and risk. Opened orbital, lunar, and deep-space locations with gravity, atmosphere, radiation, resources, and habitability conditions. Found chartered outposts from arrived missions while preserving founder roles and resident rights. Dispatch food, water, and energy through costly world-time logistics chains. Govern rationing, expansion, and life-support investment as material colony policy. Recorded mission hazards, mitigation, vehicle damage, launch time, arrival, and permanent outcomes. Added beyond to the canonical twenty-two-system authenticated navigation. Introduced persistent NPC employment with businesses, wages, hours, satisfaction, career changes, income, and living costs. Allowed players to form independent households with income, wealth, housing security, membership, merging, and relocation. Built nPC-to-NPC relationships with affinity, trust, tension, partnership formation, and shared homes. Let residents join real regional organizations when belonging needs drive civic participation. Relocate pressured households toward lower-pressure regions while preserving origin, destination, and material effects. Recorded employment, household, civic, family, and migration transitions in an auditable life-event stream. Published regional cohort snapshots for population, median age, employment, wellbeing, and pressure. Added a Living Civilization observatory and extend canonical navigation to twenty-three authenticated systems. Counted civilization statistics inside every simulation tick for operational inspection. Published explicit online, away, or focused presence with activity and visibility controls. Separated directory, presence, trade, party, message, and competitive-contact consent instead of treating access as universal. Save reduced-motion, higher-contrast, large-text, language, and timezone preferences at account scope. Introduced invite-code parties with capacity, roles, readiness, voluntary departure, closure, and automatic leadership succession. Funded direct player trade offers in escrow before delivery. Accepted trades atomically so both ledgers settle in one database transaction. Decline or cancel offers with automatic escrow return and persistent final status. Block accounts immediately in both interaction directions across discovery, messages, trades, and parties. Submit categorized, severity-ranked safety reports with captured evidence metadata. Convert reports into prioritized moderation cases with permanent status and resolution. Applied warnings, timed mutes, timed suspensions, clearances, or dismissals through restricted administrator tools. Recorded enforcement type, duration, target, moderator, reason, evidence context, and expiration. Preserved social and moderation audit logs with privacy-safe network fingerprints. Filter blocked accounts and messages from community discovery. Enforced message consent plus mute and suspension state at delivery time. Throttle report, trade, presence, and party-join endpoints against abuse. Show personal report status and block management in the Social Hub. Provide a restricted moderation queue, enforcement ledger, and audit stream. Kept trust and safety controls authenticated while exposing no private evidence publicly. Extend canonical navigation to twenty-four authenticated systems. Added automated escrow, blocking, party, consent, reporting, and enforcement tests. Document the multiplayer trust contract directly in the interface. Recorded marriage only from a trusted partnership with explicit property, care, parenthood, and exit agreements. Added support for no-fault separation while preserving family history. Plan pregnancy separately from marriage and resolve birth only after the world-time due date. Introduced persistent child identities, family membership, and guardianship chains. Age children through the autonomous simulation and close guardianship at legal adulthood. Grant independent status, occupation, and agency through a permanent adulthood event. Sign or revise wills with an executor, heir distribution, charitable share, asset directives, and funeral preference. Required age 70, explicit consent, a full world-day reflection period, and expired starter protection before life conclusion. Never trigger player death automatically or through an ordinary world pulse. Introduced permanent death records, funerals, memorials, attendance, epitaphs, and public visits. Opened itemized estates with liquid, property, and enterprise valuations. Applied transparent estate tax above the protected threshold and preserve charitable distributions. Pause settlement during inheritance disputes and record administrator findings. Settle an undisputed estate into a new successor life with inherited assets, responsibilities, reputation, and history. Added the Generations chamber to the canonical twenty-five-system navigation. Added autonomous generation statistics to every simulation tick. Finalize regional adoptions with permanent equal family standing. Introduced adoption records distinct from biological birth history. Opened full guardianship automatically when adoption is finalized. Enroll children in age-appropriate early, primary, or secondary education. Choose general, arts, science, civic, or practical educational focus. Tracked persistent progress, attendance, support, enrollment, and completion. Advanced education once per world day instead of once per page visit. Recorded graduation as a permanent civilization life event. Translate completed schooling into durable educational capability. Arranged family, community, private, or after-school care. Recorded care schedule, quality, weekly cost, status, and history. Supersede prior care arrangements without deleting them. Spend family time through conversation, outings, study, celebrations, and traditions. Turn shared activities into permanent family memories. Improved child belonging, purpose, and agency through attentive care. Transfer allowances, education, health, housing, or adult-launch support. Preserved the purpose and provenance of every family support transfer. Show each child’s school stage and progress inside Generations. Added a family chronicle of recent meaningful experiences. Made available eligible adoption placements without duplicating existing family membership. Connected education and graduation metrics into simulation operations. Added automated adoption, school, care, activity, support, and graduation coverage. Introduced a weekly household budget across housing, food, care, education, and savings. Set reserve targets and expose a legible family resilience score. Processed recurring family obligations once per world day. Tracked budget shortfalls as persistent household stress. Moved successful savings allocations into shared family wealth. Introduced reserve, education, home, care, and reunion goals. Funded shared goals from persistent in-world bank balances. Completed goals atomically and reward durable family prestige. Named family conflict across money, care, boundaries, education, inheritance, and time. Recorded conflict context, intensity, participants, and open status. Resolved disputes through direct conversation, family council, or professional mediation. Preserved the written agreement and mediation method. Designated prioritized medical, childcare, financial, and household emergency contacts. Recorded temporary decision permissions without granting universal authority. Applied for childcare, education, caregiver, housing, or scholarship assistance. Resolved eligibility from documented family pressure during the world pulse. Funded approved benefits from the public treasury with visible decisions. Arranged check-ins, home support, daily care, or residential eldercare. Tracked eldercare cost, quality, continuity, and caregiver strain. Improved supported elder health while preserving the caregiver wellbeing tradeoff. Connected budget, benefit, and eldercare metrics into simulation operations. Added automated resilience, goal, mediation, safety-network, benefit, and eldercare coverage. Alpha 0.1 60 changes April 18, 2026
First Light Launched the cinematic public identity and World Observatory. Established aurelia, its regions, districts, institutions, and population. Introduced the simulation clock, treasury, and economic indicators. Published dispatches and autonomous world status. Gave the new world a dependable home so its clock, population, and public record can keep moving between visits. Registered securely and create a regional character origin. Manage needs, skills, decisions, consequences, and personal chronology. Allowed players to study through institutions and qualify for skill-gated careers. Allowed players to work paid shifts and build employment performance. Allowed players to rent or purchase homes while autonomous households and businesses operate. Generated dynamic regional prices, vacancy, and market dispatches. Allowed players to join organizations, contribute resources, vote, and take underground risks. Opened travel between regions with persistent journey records. Funded shared infrastructure and long-horizon research. Connected economic activity back into regional conditions. Allowed players to campaign for public office and resolve elections. Allowed players to write proposals and enact supported policy into active law. Introduced player enterprises with staffing, capital, distress, and failure. Recorded court, police, milestone, epoch, and legacy histories. Established the Eternal world contract and generational permanence. Built affinity, trust, tension, and remembered interactions. Allowed players to form partnerships, families, and designate heirs. Retired a character and continue through a successor. Transfer cash, property, enterprises, reputation, and legacy. Monitor world health through restricted simulation operations. Tracked health, wellbeing, medical conditions, and private treatment history. Access preventive, clinical, therapeutic, and emergency care. Made it possible to browse stocked regional goods and build a persistent personal inventory. Transfer money between carried cash and civic bank accounts. Applied through credit underwriting for funded personal loans. Introduced measurable ambitions across wealth, life, social, collection, and civic paths. Automatically synchronize goal progress against the living character record. Unlock permanent achievements and prestige distinctions. Opened region-specific venues, festivals, exhibitions, performances, and civic gatherings. Allowed players to purchase admission and preserve attendance in personal social history. List player-created professional services with skill-derived quality. Hire guaranteed NPC alternatives or fund enforceable player contracts. Tracked obligations, payment, jurisdiction, deadlines, collateral, and evidence. Simulate regional weather, air, water, ecological health, resource depletion, and disaster risk. Published attributed intelligence whose credibility and visibility change through verification. Generated and archive need-driven NPC work, social, learning, stability, and migration decisions. Made available a privacy-aware citizen directory with persistent player messaging. Deliver lifecycle and contract notifications through a unified inbox. Protected player service payments in escrow through delivery, acceptance, release, and dispute states. Anchor characters to birth dates, simulate birthdays, and establish explicit mortality-protection windows. Consume business inputs and automatically create location-sensitive procurement orders. Accrue business and citizen tax obligations into persistent accounts and the public treasury. Bind health, property, income, and business insurance with premiums, deductibles, limits, and claims. Restructure qualifying liabilities through supervised insolvency without erasing essential assets. Preserved viable re-entry paths so old worlds do not become permanently closed economies. Replace seventeen divergent page menus with one shared, automatically active navigation component. Found or join persistent crews with ranks, permissions, treasuries, influence, heat, and succession-ready ownership. Plan abstract operations whose outcomes resolve server-side against skill, risk, stake, and world time. Generated evidence with provenance and strength plus witnesses with credibility, fear, loyalty, and status. Kept incarceration playable through work, education, exercise, appeals, rehabilitation, sentence progress, and release. Introduced persistent fiscal-period budgets with revenue, available funds, and departmental appropriations. Operate regional agencies with mandates, staff, capacity, legitimacy, leadership, and accountable terms. Funded infrastructure projects that consume budgets and advance through simulation time into permanent regional effects. Negotiate trade, transit, research, and environmental agreements that alter diplomatic relations and access. Opened civic petitions, record support or opposition, trigger formal review, and preserve government responses.