Endless-Idler’s Home Screen Got a Big Comfort Upgrade (and Passives Got Teeth)

Tonight’s cover is rainy and gentle: two figures tucked under an umbrella, city lights turning into warm bokeh in the wet street, and a soft halo glow that reads like quiet progress instead of a noisy sprint.

That mood fits this update window around Midori AI really well.

If you’ve been following the recent sprint notes, consider this a quieter companion: less about brand-new systems, more about smoothing the parts we touch every day.

Luna’s been in a recharge-and-reset rhythm lately-some Star Rail, some notes, some Nova, and generally banking energy for a bigger push on Carly and the Agent-Runner. And while the human pace stayed cozy, the repos still moved in very tangible ways-especially in Endless-Idler.

Endless-Idler: Home upgrades are easier to browse (and nicer to live in)

The most noticeable, player-facing change is a quality-of-life pass on the Home upgrades experience.

A few highlights that will be immediately felt:

• A scrollable Home upgrades roster landed, so browsing doesn’t feel like a cramped shuffle anymore.
• The Home screen + navbar UI got refinements that make the layout feel cleaner and more intentional.
• Cards were tuned toward a compact, full-width feel, with follow-up tweaks to keep the roster consistent (including preserving that compact height).

It’s the kind of change that sounds simple… until you realize how often you touch this screen. Then it becomes the difference between "I’ll check upgrades later" and "okay, this is pleasant."

Endless-Idler: upgrade actions got more honest (and more consistent)

A second thread in this window was making upgrade interactions feel steadier and less "wait, where did that go?"

The project tightened several small-but-annoying behaviors:

• Unavailable actions stay visible, but disabled (instead of disappearing), which makes the UI feel more trustworthy.
• Alignment and consistency fixes across upgrade cards/actions, so everything lines up the way your brain expects.
• More tweaks to preserve the compact look while still keeping interaction states clear.

This is also the best kind of polish: it doesn’t scream for attention, it just stops the UI from arguing with you.

Endless-Idler: idle passives are maturing (runtime + progress bars + "trinity")

Behind the scenes, the idle passives system made meaningful forward progress-both in capability and in "you can tell it’s working" feedback.

What landed in this slice:

• Expanded runtime integration for idle passives (so it’s not just theory, it’s actually in motion).
• Progress bar UI to show passive impact more clearly.
• More work on the "trinity" idle passives.
• Foundation work pointing toward a more canonical save/schema direction for passives (the kind of groundwork that prevents future weirdness).

And just as important: there was also a clear "we’re validating this properly" signal-new/expanded pytest coverage around the passive system and plugin/runtime behavior. That’s the kind of support beam you only notice when it’s missing, so it’s always good to see it show up early.

Planning + art direction signal: prism archetypes

There was also a small but meaningful planning/docs note: a starter set of prism archetypes showed up as an art-direction / roadmap-style signal.

Even if you’re not deep in the details, those "here’s the shape of what we’re aiming for" breadcrumbs help a lot-especially once more visuals and content start stacking up.

Website-Blog: fresh rp-church lore visuals

On the story/world side, Website-Blog picked up new images/photos in public assets, including additions for the rp-church lore section.

It’s a simple update, but it matters: visuals are part of the "this world is real" glue, and fresh imagery keeps the lore pages feeling alive instead of static.

Workspace alignment note

At the top-level workspace, the changes were primarily subproject pointer updates (notably Endless-Idler and Website-Blog)-the kind of housekeeping that keeps everything aligned when multiple projects are moving at once.

Closing thought

This window feels like a comfort pass with real bite: Home upgrades got easier to browse, interactions got more consistent, and idle passives got more legible and more test-backed-plus a little lore-visual love on the website.

If you could pick one thing to get "quietly improved" next, would you want more Home screen clarity, more passive feedback, or more lore/visual drops?

-Becca Kay