Version 0.7 Alpha Released

Knights of Crystalis — Changelog

## Alpha 0.7 — Forge & Fellowship

### Job Tier and Card Grade

• Clarified that every job has a fixed **Job Tier**, while each individual copy has an independent **Card Grade**.
• Vanguard remains a Normal-tier starting job, but an Epic-grade Vanguard is a valid premium copy with stronger grade scaling.
• Added separate Job Tier and Card Grade labels to the card detail, collection tiles, draw result and Job Box explanation.
• Added independent Card Holder filters for Job Tier and Card Grade.
• Removed `Unique` from the Job Card draw-grade table. Unique is an equipment rarity, not a card grade.
• Migrates legacy cards with an invalid `Unique` grade to Legendary.
• Fixed evolution replacing a card's earned grade with the evolved job's base tier. Evolution now preserves whichever grade is higher.

### Socket Forge

• Rebuilt Gem Vault & Socket Forge as a visible three-step workflow:
•   1. select equipment from a touch-friendly list;
•   2. add an empty socket with a Socket Catalyst;
•   3. insert an owned gem permanently.

• Added Forge filters for all equipment, equipped items, items with an empty socket and items that can accept a Catalyst.
• Added a persistent selected-item highlight, socket-capacity meter and contextual explanations for disabled controls.
• Added explicit error messages when no item, no Catalyst, no empty socket or no gem is available.
• Preserved support for up to three sockets on ordinary, Set, Ancient and Unique equipment.

### Responsive interface

• Fixed a root-width overflow caused by top-bar and navigation min-content sizing. This was the main reason Gear appeared enlarged on mobile browsers.
• Reworked the main menu into stable grid cells so incomplete rows no longer stretch individual buttons unnaturally.
• Added `min-width: 0` and maximum-width constraints to all major panels, grids, forms and media.
• Reflowed resources, filters, inventory, Forge, Job filters and Village missions at phone and tablet widths.
• Kept the Stamina timer readable at narrow widths.
• Added a CSS fallback for browsers without polygon `clip-path` support.

### Simulated chat

• Expanded Global, Trade, Raid and Guild channel libraries with multi-part conversations.
• Added conversations about Alpha 0.7 changes, card grades, mobile fixes, the Forge, Village strategy, builds, raids and trading.
• Added context-sensitive discussions based on the active job and current Village state.
• Added a **Patch Talk** button for an immediate NPC conversation about the current update.
• Added a one-time Patch Herald announcement for migrated saves.
• Retained keyword reactions and longer NPC-to-NPC follow-up threads.
• Increased persistent chat history to 500 messages.

### Village utility expansion

• Every building now contributes directly to the main game:

•   Terrace Farm: maximum Stamina;
•   Storehouse: equipment capacity;
•   River Dock: Gold Find;
•   Settler Hut: Item Quantity;
•   Village level: Experience Gain;
•   Crystal Quarry: Socket Catalyst discovery chance;
•   Lumber Yard: Estate upgrade discount.
•    Added three real-time expeditions:
•   Merchant Supply Run for Gold and account XP;
•   Crystal Prospecting for gems and Socket Catalysts;
•   Founder Relic Hunt for high-grade equipment with Set/Unique potential.

• Expedition timers and rewards continue while the game is closed.
• Fixed the starvation warning claiming reduced production without applying it. Starvation now correctly lowers all gathering to 35% efficiency.
• Prevented repeated low-food log spam with a warning cooldown.
• Fixed multiple copies of the same Village building overlapping at exactly one position.
• Corrected Village expedition reward tracking for Daily Contracts and account statistics.

### Additional fixes

• Corrected Gold-earned and Daily Contract accounting for individual sales, bulk sales, NPC trader sales, player auction sales and full-inventory loot conversion.
• Corrected sold-item statistics for NPC and player-market transactions.
• Updated migration to schema 7 while retaining the original local-storage key for Alpha 0.1–0.6 compatibility.
• Updated home-screen and save-compatibility version text.