Version 0.8 Alpha Released

Living Aquarium

• Added a dedicated Aquarium screen with a purchasable and upgradeable animated tank.
• Added fish feeding, water cleanliness, filter equipment, plants, snails, food, eggs and a rotating Aquarium Shop.
• Added 20 fish species, eight inherited color genes and six inherited pattern genes.
• Added vitality, fin and size genes, parent inheritance, mutation, generations, breeding history, health and market value.
• Added offline Aquarium simulation, breeding cooldowns, ten-minute egg hatching and safe save migration.
• Added a 960-entry Fish Binder covering every species/color/pattern phenotype. Shop previews and unhatched eggs no longer register false discoveries.
• Added Aquarium bonuses to Magic Find, Gold Find, Item Quantity and Experience Gain.
• Added fish selling and value scaling from rarity, genetics, generation, health and supporting systems.
• Added the Master of Living Color Achievement. Completing all 960 phenotypes awards the locked Unique Rusty Fish Blade.
• Added Village Fish Hatchery support and corrected the independent Aquarium-supply timer so offline food delivery accumulates correctly.

Procedural Labyrinth

• Added six themed procedural Labyrinth expeditions with increasing level recommendations.
• Added generated maze layouts, fog of war, local reveal radius, visited-room tracking and a live party marker.
• Added manual chamber advancement and automatic exploration.
• Added random combat encounters, treasure rooms and final guardian encounters.
• Labyrinth battles use the standard automatic combat system and preserve the expedition state across screen changes.
• Every completed Labyrinth guarantees a locked, theme-specific Unique item.
• Added Labyrinth clear, failure, encounter and history tracking.
• Added Village Cartographers' Lodge bonuses to reveal range and Monster Card discovery.

Monster Cards and equipment

• Added 24 rare Monster Cards that can drop from matching enemy families.
• Added a Monster Card Vault to the Socket Forge. Monster Cards share equipment sockets with Gems and are permanently inserted.
• Added stronger stats and unique signature effects unavailable on ordinary Gems, including barriers, burns, conditional regeneration, cooldown reduction, boss rewards and Aquarium value bonuses.

• Added eight equipment sets: Aquarist's Regalia, Maze-Walker Harness, Deep Current Vestments, Monster Scholar's Field Kit, Crystal Maze Sovereignty, Tideglass Covenant, Hunter's Codex and Fellowship Oath.
• Added eight fixed Unique items, including Rusty Fish Blade, Compass That Refuses North, Glass-Gill Cuirass, Codex of Living Ink and Crown of a Thousand Bubbles.

• Corrected Monster Card matching to use the enemy icon family and corrected combat-log effect text.
• Chat, friends and simulated activity
• Expanded the simulated online population and visible adventurer roster.
• Added longer NPC-to-NPC conversations about builds, party composition, hard quests, raid phases, overpowered classes, patches, Aquarium genetics, Labyrinth strategy and Monster Cards.
• Added contextual answers to player questions about the strongest class, skills, party composition, specific progression problems and current content.
• Chat advice now considers owned cards, active Job and current campaign region when appropriate.
• Added direct player item offers to friends. Friends simulate acceptance or rejection based on price, item value and friend level.
• Declined items are returned safely; if storage is full they are converted using the vendor fallback.
• Added animated live NPC raid companies with parties, boss health, phase status and changing progress above the raid interface.

Combat, Jobs and progression

• Added animated impact, elemental, healing, barrier and spell effects to automatic battles.
• Rebuilt Job Card portraits with role-appropriate swords, shields, daggers, bows, spears, staves, firearms, gauntlets and instruments.
• Party cards are always sorted before reserve cards in the Card Holder; the active card is first.
• Increased account XP rewards by 32% and softened the account XP curve to reduce the gap between equipment requirements and player level.
• Added 12 Pets with new Stamina, combat, treasure, resistance and utility bonuses.
• Added 21 Achievements for Aquarium, Labyrinth, Monster Cards and friend commerce, increasing the total to 107.
• Interface, migration and bug fixes
• Added Aquarium and Labyrinth navigation while preserving responsive behavior on desktop, tablet and mobile layouts.
• Aligned Home feature-tile icon and title blocks so Chronicle and neighboring tiles use consistent vertical positioning.
• Added schema-8 save normalization while retaining the original browser-storage key for Alpha 0.1-0.7 compatibility.
• Added safe defaults for Aquarium, Labyrinth, Monster Cards, friend offers and new Village buildings.
• Fixed Aquarium Shop previews and unhatched fry incorrectly completing Binder entries.
• Fixed Aquarium Village-food supply sharing the normal tick timestamp and therefore failing to accumulate offline.
• Fixed a chat response path that referenced an unavailable card-power helper.
• Fixed Monster Card drop-property mismatches.
• Normalized stale raw-save schema metadata to version 8 during import.
• Rechecked all 17 main screens for horizontal overflow at phone, tablet and desktop sizes.