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The Setting leaves the plane: mithril now sets a stone at the crown with 1/2/3 tilted orbits threaded through the ring. Fixes: the whorl no longer stamps two links on one spot; the Crucible chamber sits clear of the clock.

The Setting leaves the plane: mithril now sets a stone at the crown with 1/2/3 tilted orbits threaded through the ring. Fixes: the whorl no longer stamps two links on one spot; the Crucible chamber sits clear of the clock and no longer eats taps on the exit.

• The Vein now waits for you: a banked session ends on its receipt, and the strikes it earned pool at the Vein's own chamber - save them up across sits and swing whenever you like
• A molten pill on Today shows how many strikes are banked; the wardrobe keeps a door to the Vein even at zero (it explains how strikes are earned)
• The strike ceremony's status line no longer overlaps the swing button

• The Vein now waits for you: a banked session ends on its receipt, and the strikes it earned pool at the Vein's own chamber - save them up across sits and swing whenever you like
• A molten pill on the home screen shows how many strikes are banked; Spoils keeps a door to the Vein even at zero (it explains how strikes are earned)
• The strike ceremony's status line no longer overlaps the swing button

• The Crucible now names the ring on the anvil - and offers a one-tap swap when you walk in wearing a different face.
• Every pour lands as a real strike: anvil voice, gold sparks, a quake through the chamber. The wardrobe marks the pourable ring, molten when the next stage is affordable.
• The updater says when it is installing (Chain closes and reopens itself - that is the installer, not a crash) and speaks up if an install silently failed.
• Removed the one-time career assay reveal.

• The Crucible now names the ring on the anvil - and offers a one-tap swap when you walk in wearing a different face.
• Every pour lands as a real strike: anvil voice, gold sparks, haptics, a quake through the chamber. The wardrobe marks the pourable ring.
• Removed the one-time career assay reveal - it also fixes the strike panel getting cut off at the right edge.

• The Career Assay: existing smiths meet their whole banked history revealed as one ceremony — every 20-minute block you ever forged was a strike on the vein; the rock kept the count, and now it pours. Once per device, band by band, rarest last.
• Fixed: the Crucible's Gilding preview now renders under a living face (the anvil wears the recipient).

• The Career Assay: your whole banked history revealed as one ceremony — every 20-minute block you ever forged was a strike on the vein; the rock kept the count, and now it pours. Once per device, band by band, rarest last.
• Fixed: the Crucible's Gilding preview now renders under a living face.

The Vein: strike grains from every sit - six metals, locked odds. Pour them in the new Crucible chamber: the Gilding ladder, the mithril Setting, the ring transformed while you watch.

The Vein: strike grains from every sit - six metals, locked odds. Pour them in the new Crucible chamber: the Gilding ladder, the mithril Setting, the ring transformed while you watch.

Discord Rich Presence: your live forge now shows on your Discord profile while you work, with a Get Chain button your friends can click. Also new: per-project colors, shareable forge cards, and two guild medals (Shared Spark and Forgebond).

The Long Watch: the temper multiplier is visible on every bank, the level ladder is filled in from 25 to 100 and keeps going past it, and the focus face goes quiet while you work.

The Long Watch: the temper multiplier is visible on every bank, the level ladder is filled in from 25 to 100 and keeps going past it, the live face goes quiet while you work, and the pocket opens on Today with real foil on the board.

The day is a furnace.

Your day now has a heat grade of its own, stacked from every session you sit: Warm (1h), Glowing (2h30), Forgehot (4h), Whitehot (6h). It shows as a live line on Today and the timer, a lit edge on every guild card, and it re-inks the whole heatmap — one accent hue, brightness stepped by how hot the day ran.

• Three new medals: Full Furnace, Ever Burning, Sunforger.
• The chain multiplier no longer flatlines at day 100 — it keeps climbing, asymptotically, toward x2.
• Crossing a furnace mark mid-session now gets its own beat.

The day is a furnace.

Your day now has a heat grade of its own, stacked from every session you sit: Warm (1h), Glowing (2h30), Forgehot (4h), Whitehot (6h). It shows as a live line above the ring, a lit edge on every guild card, and it re-inks your whole heatmap — one accent hue, brightness stepped by how hot the day ran.

• Three new medals: Full Furnace, Ever Burning, Sunforger.
• The chain multiplier no longer flatlines at day 100 — it keeps climbing, asymptotically, toward x2.
• Crossing a furnace mark mid-session now gets its own beat, with haptics.

• The Alloy: switch projects mid-session and the bank now splits the minutes truthfully - the receipt shows an alloy chip with where the time really went
• Faster first strike: your first project is forged right from onboarding, the ritual is opt-in, and day one nudges you to "Make it 2"
• Richer rewards: reward numbers stay on screen, the next-tier countdown keeps counting past the tier you secured, ordinary banks tidy themselves away, and celebration bursts scale with tier
• Molten Temper: reaching level 50 pours the crucible - a white-hot burst that cools and sets into your tier's metal
• Living faces now loop seamlessly - no more seam at 12 o'clock on Molten and friends
• Today view: dropped the redundant mini timer chip

• The Alloy: switch projects mid-session and the bank now splits the minutes truthfully - Stats shows the split with where the time really went
• Richer rewards: reward numbers stay on screen, the next-tier countdown keeps counting past the tier you secured, and milestone banks hit harder on the phone
• Living faces now loop seamlessly - no more seam at 12 o'clock on Molten and friends
• Reliability: tuned on-device database settings for smoother pocket forging

The Finery - all five chainwork skins reforged. Each finish is now applied to your history instead of painting over it: your era stratigraphy survives underneath, heavy days read heavier, and every skin re-voices the bank and flick.

• Embervein: era-metal quenched near-black with molten seams that breathe in the crevices; heavy days burn hotter, sparks pop off the veins.
• Constellation: a star inside every link, its brightness that day's minutes; 8-hour days earn diffraction spikes, master links pulse, and a starline threads the streak.
• Dichroic: chrome under a rolling iridescent film - the hue shifts with every sway while a light-blade sweeps the strand.
• Summit: clear glacier ice over your era bedrock beneath a standing aurora; peaks scale with the hours you put in.
• Aegis: gold woven over-and-under through oiled black steel, a knot at each hallmark, the vow reaching one link further each day you bank.

The Finery - all five chainwork skins reforged. Each finish is now applied to your history instead of painting over it: your era stratigraphy survives underneath, heavy days read heavier, and every skin re-voices the bank and flick.

• Embervein: era-metal quenched near-black with molten seams that breathe in the crevices; heavy days burn hotter, sparks pop off the veins.
• Constellation: a star inside every link, its brightness that day's minutes; 8-hour days earn diffraction spikes, master links pulse, and a starline threads the streak.
• Dichroic: chrome under a rolling iridescent film - the hue shifts with every sway while a light-blade sweeps the strand.
• Summit: clear glacier ice over your era bedrock beneath a standing aurora; peaks scale with the hours you put in.
• Aegis: gold woven over-and-under through oiled black steel, a knot at each hallmark, the vow reaching one link further each day you bank.

The chain, made of metal. The fourteen grey pills under your streak are gone — in their place, every link you've forged, rendered as real interlocked metal that drapes and then winds into a whorl: tree-rings of every era you've passed through, day one at the heart.

• The chain now shows your whole current streak, uncapped — it changes shape as it grows, never truncates
• Each link is cast in the metal of the era you were in the day you forged it
• A real weight line: every era has a density, so your chain's mass is truly yours
• Hover any link to read that day back; click to flick the chain and hear it
• Master links forge at every 100 days and each anniversary — gold-rimmed, hot on the spot
• All six chain skins reborn as real materials: Verdigris weathers green, Constellation burns a galaxy of stars, Summit keeps its snow peaks, Aegis threads a golden filament, Argent mirrors
• The wardrobe finally shows what it sells — tap any chain, even locked ones, for a live preview

Wardrobe clarity: locked cosmetics now clearly differ from unlocked ones - dashed muted tiles with a padlock badge, owned pieces stay full-colour and lit.

The Quiet Courier: Chain now updates itself in-app. Tap Get it - the update downloads, verifies, and installs without the browser hop. First in-app update asks for one confirm (and the 'install unknown apps' flip for Chain); after that, updates are silent.

Finish Pass Phase 5 - the last 10 percent. Guild board rows now lead with name and metric, the rarest reward foils show off at rest, overlays fade out instead of vanishing, and a thought typed into the parking strip is never lost on dismiss.

Finish Pass Phase 5 - the last 10 percent. Guild board rows now lead with name and metric, tap a row to reveal its hallmark and mastery, hold-to-light builds with a haptic crescendo, and teach lines fade out instead of vanishing.

The map release. Spoils now has its own door in the rail, Friends became the Guild, and the living ring materials run hotter as a session climbs. Sign-in, onboarding, and dark-mode neutrals polished across the app.

The map release. Spoils and Guild stand on their own, Settings moves into the thumb zone in the tab bar, and wayfinding hints point desktop-only actions where they live. Living-heat and dark-mode polish throughout.

The Finish Pass (part one) — a polish pass across the whole app.

• Banking a session is calmer and harder to mis-dismiss, and the "you did it" beat now lands on the receipt itself.
• The home shows what you're climbing toward: the next era named under your streak, a progress arc at rest, and a cleaner first-day screen.
• Secured days keep a clearly visible "Go again".
• Stats and the Forge label themselves at rest — furnace thresholds and locked-tile requirements no longer hide on hover.
• The focus clock is now the app's largest numeral; the break face gets its ring back as a slow draining arc.

The Finish Pass (part one) - polish across the whole app: a calmer bank celebration that is harder to mis-dismiss; a home that names the next era under your streak with an at-rest progress arc and a cleaner first-day screen; tappable Stats now that touch has no hover (tap a calendar day, tap the record pin); at-rest labels on the furnace gauge and locked tiles; and the focus clock as the largest numeral. Sideload build - enable install unknown apps and open the APK.

Account switch, done safely: sign in with a different account on a device that already holds a chain and Chain now lets you start fresh here (wipe this device, pull the new account) or cancel and sign back into the original — no more silently blocked sync.

The Hand - the app answers touch. Press-and-hold to light the forge (the ring blooms under your thumb), pull-to-refresh on Guild and Stats, pressed states on every control, entry-only tab transitions, and a completed haptic vocabulary (tier climbs, breather warnings, refresh). Reduced-motion honored throughout.

Phase 35 - The First Hour. A three-beat welcome greets a fresh install (what the chain is, how a session seals the phone, sign in or forge first), shown once. New once-ever teach lines surface the breather, the one-active-forge lock, and the 20-minute floor the moment each first appears. Empty Stats and Spoils screens are now invitations to your first sit instead of walls of zeros.

The Living Ring - the pocket ring wears your equipped face (WebGL living materials, gated by Cosmetic motion); a legible ember die shows held heat beside the clock and cools when the seal breaks; the first heat-catch ever teaches the mechanic once. Foil-pool hardening: motion-off releases GL immediately and the loop parks when idle.

Phase 33 - The Ceremony. The bank becomes the climax: a staged reveal (tier glyph blooms, minutes forged, XP rolls up, the held-heat 'forged hot +N' as its own warm beat, day-chain +1, a full-bleed era-promotion band, medal strikes rarest-last), a firm haptic thunk on bank and a double-tick on level-up, and the sub-floor receipt + undo toast dressed to the same family. Honors Reduce motion / cosmetic-motion off with a clean instant card.

Phase 32 - The Night Watch, Whole. Tomorrow-horizon alarm planner (one open today covers tomorrow evening), a WorkManager belt that re-arms alarms Doze/OEMs silently drop, a timezone-honesty receiver (drops alarms that would ring at the wrong wall time after a flight), an evening-nudge hour picker in Settings, and a dressed live notification: native chronometer clock, tier-tinted accent, and a 'next tier in Xm' countdown.

More dependable sync and banking, safer account switching, and stronger recovery when Android closes the app.

Phase 30 - The Road Out: in-app updater (checks for new APKs + one-tap install), anonymous crash/error telemetry (opt-out in Settings), and release-pipeline hardening.

Phase 29 - The Spoils Case. The pocket depth surfaces: the Case (weighed mastery seal, animated calling-card foils, the loot wardrobe, the twelve-drawer medal cabinet), Stats depth (furnace gauge + record pin, the 30-day month chart, records), richer bank ceremonies, and every tab now open - nothing left gated. New: Settings - Cosmetic motion (auto/full/off). Install: enable 'install unknown apps' and open the APK; uninstall any older DEBUG build of Chain first (different signing key).

Phase 28 - The Guild in Your Pocket. The guild board comes to the pocket forge: friends and the live leaderboard with the full era/level/rank/mastery insignia, friend codes (redeem + share), friends' heat rendered live as they forge, and the new opt-in Social heat channel (a smith lights the forge, someone passes you this week). Sign in, add a friend, and watch each other's forges burn.

Phase 27 — The Night Watch. The sacred notifications that guard the chain while the app is closed: the break-deadline warning (~60s before a breather auto-banks), the evening streak-danger nudge (silenced the moment any device secures the day), and the planned first-link reminder. Two toggleable channels, timezone re-derive on foreground, boot re-arm. Sideload build — enable 'install unknown apps' and open the APK. (A phone still on a debug build must uninstall it first — different signing key.)

Phase 26 - The Second Forge. The phone now forges: start, break, and bank real sessions through the same engine as desktop. THE SEAL - a phone session seals the phone: lock it and the forge burns on; switch to another app and the seal breaks (your work stays safe, only the momentum cools). Foreground-service live timer, exact break-return alarm, crash-resume, one-active-forge lock across devices. Sideload build - enable 'install unknown apps' and open the APK.

Your phone can now mirror your live desktop session and join your cross-device history. Focusing on the phone arrives in a later update.

Phase 25 The Living Mirror. The phone joins the sync mesh (read-only): sign in and your real chain, level, and live desktop session mirror to your pocket. When a forge is lit on another device it shows here as lit. Restore your whole chain onto a fresh install from Settings. Phone forging + the Seal arrive next.

Phase 24 The Pocket Shell - the first pocket build. A read-only Chain: full-screen timer face, the stats ledger (streak flame, chain calendar, level/era), email sign-in, and light/dark mode. Enable 'install unknown apps' and open the APK. Forging on the phone lands in a later fire.

Banking, sync and profiles gain a common foundation ahead of the mobile app. This release did not add visible changes.

A fit-and-finish pass across the app (Phase 21). Dark mode reads cleanly in every chainwork skin, the keyboard reaches every control (focus-trapped dialogs, an operable volume slider, Enter to begin a session), breaks and celebrations tell the truth (honest break countdown, no beat collisions, audio kept under reduced motion), and a copy sweep gives the whole app one voice.

Phase 20 — Cool Forge, True Carrot. The guild board runs cooler with a full roster (pooled GPU contexts), short sessions now get an honest receipt, the anvil ranks what's truly closest to earned, silent guild/ward medals finally get their moment, and the late levels fill in with three ring faces and the Anvil sound pack. Plus a returning-user sign-in path and a cosmetic-honesty sweep.

Weatherproof - friends, the board, and sync now tell the truth when you're offline; nothing looks deleted. Closing to quit no longer leaves a stuck background process, the window remembers its size and place, and you can now delete your account. Plus security hardening under the hood.

The Honest Ledger - your hours are safe with us. Sleep, a locked screen, or time away from your desk no longer count as focus. A crashed session can bank exactly the work you did, and discard is undoable. The updater now waits for your session to finish, and backups hold your whole forge and can be restored.

The Assay - the badge case is now weighed, not counted. Every medal weighs by rarity; eight metal seal ranks (Novice to Grandmaster) strike from total weight, and On the Anvil surfaces your three nearest medals. Seal insignia on the friend board, rank-up ceremonies, and drawer seals for a completed set.

Clear Glass begins — a cleaner, calmer Chain. A new Satoshi typeface across the whole app and a unified type scale, plus a redesigned Today: the home screen sheds its card clutter for a calm well of quiet lines, plain recent rows, and hover-to-reveal detail. Same features, far less noise. First release of the Clear Glass polish series.

The Craft: Forgemark era-sigils replace avatars, animated calling cards, and The Spoils — the full cosmetic ladder to L100 (accents, timer faces, celebration bursts, the Anvil sound pack).

The Regalia - your standing now shows on the Guild Board. Every friend row carries a Forge era ring, level, and lifetime hour-rank title; the rarest medals light a calling card behind your row; a mastery mark tracks how much of the Case you've cleared. The era ladder was reforged and now climbs to level 100.

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Your Forge look now follows you across devices. The weekly-hours bar reads true. Recent sessions show which day. And a session running on another device is watch-only here - no accidental double sessions.

The Living Chain: see a session running on your other device, right from Today - and backup + sync is now automatic the moment you sign in, no switch to find.

Phase 13 - The Second Anvil: multi-device sync and cloud backup (opt-in). Enable it in Settings > Sync & Backup after signing in. Your chain now backs up and restores onto a fresh install. Sync is off by default.

The Guild Board - sign in, add friends by code, race weekly hours and chains, and see who's focusing live. Join a friend's session in one tap.

The Bellows — a second axis alongside the chain. Momentum: back-to-back sessions the same day bank bonus XP (x1.2 to x2), shown as a live flame. Weekly ladder: this week's focused hours climb named rungs and reset every Monday. Hour-rank titles for lifetime hours. The chain stays sacred — none of this can secure, extend, or endanger a day.

Phase 10 - The Ward: a gentle glass overlay catches mid-session drift when a guarded app pulls you away. Opt-in, never touches your chain.

Beta plumbing: anonymous usage stats + in-app feedback

Phase 8 - The Striker. Schedule tomorrow's first link, an evening nudge that only speaks when the chain's at risk, a 30-second warm-up ritual before you start, and a global hotkey to park stray thoughts mid-session so nothing's lost. Every nudge is calm, capped, and fully toggleable in Settings.

Achievements: 42 collectible medals across 9 categories, a badge gallery (The Case), mint celebrations at the bank moment, and a next-medal teaser on Today that flips to a resilience nudge when your chain is at risk.

Phase 5: dark mode (warm graphite), Settings, first-run onboarding, global start/bank hotkey, export backup

First self-updating release: stats, year heatmap, and the in-app updater.