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Add a player-facing, tabbed Wiki (How to play / Crops / Animals / Pets / Recipes / Workshops / Unlocks / Strawb's story) that is auto-derived from the live game catalogues so reference content stays accurate and discoverable from Settings → Wiki.

Introduce Loom, Butter churn, Lavender still and Smokehouse workshops plus their output items (Yarn, Butter, Lavender oil, Smoked cheese) so you can craft new goods from farm inputs.

Allow workshops to be upgraded to levels 2 and 3 (increasing daily output), show L2/L3 badges above upgraded workshops in the world, and let players tap a workshop to open a Workshop sheet that shows current tier, daily output, upgrade cost, and a sell-back option.

Back-compat migration now grants the four new workshop unlocks to pre-redesign saves so existing players see the expanded workshop catalogue without manual steps.

Switch the shared audio session to .playback (still mixing with other apps) and ensure SFX preloading configures the session so music and the very first SFX play even when the phone is on silent.

Change Strawb's opening lines to explicitly tell players that a hoe is in their bag and to tap grass to dig soil, then tap soil to plant a strawberry so new players aren't left confused on a fresh save.

When nothing else is nearby, the player has a hoe, and the farm has fewer than three plots, surface a bottom-screen dig hint so fresh saves show a clear next action.

While on the opening strawberry chapter with no plots, Strawb's idle dialogue now more frequently suggests digging so the common stuck state ('I have a hoe but nothing told me to tap grass') is avoided.

Draw a soft, pulsing yellow rounded-outline around the tile the player stands on when the dig hint is shown so players can see exactly where a tap will dig; the effect hides on non-diggable tiles and respects Reduce Motion.

After the very first successful dig on a fresh save, Strawb shows a short two-line nudge that points out the fresh soil and tells the player to tap it again to pick a seed, bridging dig → plant in onboarding.

Fix visual jitter between the SwiftUI overlay and the SpriteView by locking the game to 60 fps and removing the in-settings FPS picker so menus and HUD animations render smoothly together.

Adjust joystick positioning and make the top HUD pill strip horizontally scrollable with shortcut buttons pinned, preventing controls and HUD items from clipping or overflowing on smaller phones.

Keep the decoration palette tidy by hiding workshop placement tiles until the matching workshop unlock has been bought, avoiding confusion when tapping a workshop tile would otherwise do nothing.

Add small L2/L3 plates above upgraded workshop sprites and refresh them when a workshop is upgraded so the new tier is visible at a glance in the world.

Introduce a purchasable unlock chain (buildings, animals, crops, workshops, tools) and a new UnlocksSheet UI that shows Buy / Save up / Soon states, prerequisites, and costs; purchases rebuild the farm map, spawn starter animals, or deposit starter seed packets as appropriate, and fresh saves start with a small starter pack (30¢, a hoe, seeds, hay) with only the shop counter unlocked.

Add compact HUD icon buttons (hammer → Unlocks, book → Journal) to the top-right of the farm screen so the UnlocksSheet and Journal are directly accessible without digging through Settings.

Begin an automatic background save on session start that runs every 180 seconds; the Save-now button remains in Settings for manual control.

Let players choose a character preset (five bundled walk-sheet presets) on new-farm setup or from Settings → How you look, and apply the selection immediately in-scene without restarting.

Add a "Daily nudge" toggle in Settings that requests permission and schedules a single repeating local notification at the chosen hour with gentle, tone-appropriate copy; toggling off cancels scheduled reminders.

Allow players to pinch to zoom the camera (clamped to a practical range) so they can zoom out to see more of the expanded map or zoom in for detail.

Populate the farm with ambient critters: butterflies and bees during warm daytime near crops, and fireflies at night; a WildlifeSpawner manages populations and resyncs them on phase changes.

Add a soft moon disk with layered additive halo and a slow breathing animation that fades in at evening and fuller at night to improve night-time atmosphere.

Expand cooking with several new recipes across the café stove and bakery oven (pumpkin pie, carrot cake, lavender shortbread, tomato soup, plus cheese, flour, and strawberry jam), and add matching sell prices so the bakery/café menus have more goals.

Introduce a shared pink/peach gradient sheet background and soft white FarmCard / FarmPillButton primitives so shop, cafe, oven, inventory and trading screens share a consistent, friendlier visual language.

Add a field of small twinkling sparkles behind the title logo (static when reduce-motion is enabled) to give the title screen a little ambient magic.

If the player returns after more than an hour (but less than a full multi-day gap), respawn them on a random walkable spot in the cosy band and surface a short Strawb wander-hello line so long absences feel noticed rather than punitive.

Replace confusing SF Symbol stand-ins with per-item and per-species emoji glyphs across the HUD, Journal, Shop, Inventory, Café and Oven so lists are instantly scannable by icon and colour.

Switch entry to walking onto the door's welcome-glow (taps no longer trigger entry) and widen building collision rectangles to match the visible modular house textures so side walls no longer feel passable when they shouldn't be.

Rework the farm layout and expand the world so the farmhouse, café, bakery, pond and crop patch are spread across a larger, more walkable map with reflowed paths and tree/bush placement for clearer landmarks.

Remove the legacy pen layout so animals free-roam across the walkable map, widen their wander bounds, choose nearby amble targets and pause longer between hops for a calmer pace; included migration scatters stale pen positions to sensible defaults.

Replace procedural building shapes and rectangle NPCs with modular house textures and proper walk-sheet sprites, use a clean tiling grass and dirt path, add crisp trees and rework customers/Wren to animate from sprite sheets for a more polished visual identity.

Replace flat coloured interior floors and painted seams with tiled floor and wall textures and a matching wall trim so interiors read as real rooms rather than painted slabs.

Show today's weather in a new HUD weather pill, add weather-aware Strawb idle lines and append a short weather line to the welcome-back toast on wet/foggy/snowy days so the world feels noticed.

Add four new Strawb idle hints that surface pinch-zoom, Decorate, the character picker, and placing workshops, and add two new Journal chapters (decorate the farm, adopt a pet) to the chapter checklist.

Rework several UI sheets to use the FarmCard / FarmPillButton styles (so buy/cook/sell buttons and lists read consistently and feel friendlier), and make Inventory/Shop rows show glyphs and clearer affordances.

Switch Strawb dialogue, speaker label, tap hint and ActionHintBubble text to system text styles with Dynamic Type clamps so large accessibility text sizes are handled without layout breakage.

Remove the Creative mode toggle and all creative-mode pricing overrides so items and decorations now cost their real prices; the Creative toggle has been removed from Settings and Design/Shop UI, and starter/creative free overrides were deleted.

The outdoor map now has a dense ring of trees around the edges (a mix of large and small trees with gentle jitter and a southern spawn gap) and seven pastel butterflies that drift and flap during daytime, making the farm feel like a clearing inside a wood.

Starting a new farm now opens a full-screen setup where you enter your player name and farm name (with a dice button to shuffle cosy suggested names); both fields are validated before the farm is created.

Tappable doors now open dedicated indoor scenes: a farmhouse interior (with a fireplace, bed, dresser and Marmalade the cat) and a café interior (with counter, stove and Ivy the baker); you can walk into and interact inside these rooms.

A small new villager (Wren) wanders a short east–west loop south of the crops and offers one of several warm lines when tapped.

Introduce a skippable four-card intro (Grandad's farm → welcome) and Strawb chapters that award XP; level-ups now show a full-screen celebration card and Strawb can queue chapter completion lines.

Support up to three parallel farm saves with per-slot preview cards on the title screen, a naming sheet for new farms, and a cosy delete confirmation; existing single-slot saves continue to work as slot 1.

Add a bakery oven entity, an oven-only Bakery sheet, and two new recipes (strawberry tart and strawberry scone) that can be baked and sold from the bakery.

Introduce a bottom‑right Till toggle (HoeToggleButton); when active, tapping a nearby empty grass tile digs a new soil plot so you can plant anywhere (protected areas remain untillable).

Add a Design Mode palette and bar so players can place decorative items (paths, benches, lamps, workshops), move the farmhouse/café/bakery, and place production workshops that run while away.

Players can adopt cats and sheepdogs from the shop; pets wander the farm, show happiness, and produce a small pet effect + Strawb dialogue when petted, with a soft cap of 5 per species.

Add a Trading UI where three fictional neighbour farms offer swap deals (give/get bundles); accepting a trade swaps inventory items and rerolls that offer.

Add a Journal sheet with three rotating missions (plant/water/harvest/sell/feed/cook/bake/dig/pet), progress bars, and claim buttons for coins and XP; missions persist in the save and reroll when claimed.

The HUD's day/phase pill now uses the device's real local weekday together with the in‑game phase so it reads like "Tue · Evening", keeping the HUD compact while surfacing the weekday.

Seed rows for crops that can't be planted this month are dimmed, disabled and show a small hint such as “Out of season — next: Aug”, so you can see when a seed will become plantable again.

Tapping an animal that is already fed and has no produce now triggers a small bounce effect and shows a one-line, species-specific greeting (for example a goat, cow or chicken line) instead of doing nothing.

The title/settings sheets were reworked to a painted-card aesthetic (sunset gradient, cream cards, peach borders) and the title screen now opens the setup flow for new farms; the title settings sheet also exposes music controls and credits in the new visual style.

A new AudioService cross-fades and loops title / phase (morning/afternoon/evening/night) tracks and exposes a volume control; tracks will play if matching audio files are bundled in the app bundle.

The app's UILaunchScreen now uses a named LaunchBackground colour (soft strawberry-pink) so the first frame matches the game's cosy palette.

Introduce a HapticService and play soft/gentle/notification haptics for watering, planting, feeding, buying/selling and successful actions (harvest/collect/cook/level-up), respecting reduce-motion as a proxy for quieter feedback.

Add a decorative pond with pulsing ripple and lily pads, a wooden bench near the path, and three drifting cloud silhouettes across the sky to make the farm feel richer.

Add a farm Day counter in the HUD (real calendar days since farm creation, with graceful migration for old saves) and make several idle/pulse animations (Strawb sway, stove/oven pulse, pond ripple, drifting clouds) skip when the user has Reduce Motion enabled.

Welcome-back toast now lists what progressed while the player was away (how many crops advanced, which animals produced) and grants a small +5 coin daily bonus on first open of a new calendar day.

When returning after >= 1 real day, the player drops at one of several cosy spots around the farmhouse door so the start location varies between sessions.

Bundle alternate music tracks per phase (morning/afternoon/evening/night) and rotate between the two variants per phase so farm music alternates instead of repeating the same loop.

Add a creative mode toggle (free placement / bypass buy checks) and a preferred FPS picker (15/30/60) exposed in Settings to control render smoothness and enable a free design mode.

Add bright flower clusters next to the bakery, scattered mushrooms and fallen logs, a garden gnome near the farmhouse, a bench north of the pond, a small plank bridge, and a lantern post so the world reads as more lived-in.

Spawn occasional visiting customers from the south that walk to a building door, pause, and leave — capped at a few concurrent visitors so the farm feels gently visited.

Introduce short SFX for water, harvest, tap, chapter chime and coins, and play them on the corresponding actions (watering, harvesting/collecting, chapter/dialogue, and selling).

Mature crops now have a gentle scale pulse and occasional additive sparkles so harvestable plots stand out across the farm.

Add soft elliptical shadows under the player, animals and Strawb and emit small dust puffs while walking to ground characters visually in the scene.

Transition into interior scenes when the player walks close to a building door (still tappable to enter), making building entry feel seamless.

On first scene mount the player drifts north for ~1.8s so arrival reads as a gentle 'you just arrived' moment.

Place a tappable pond frog that has short, dignified lines and add cross-referenced idle/tap lines across NPCs so the village reads socially connected.

HUD flashes a brief ✓ Saved pill on successful saves, Settings gets a Save Now capsule in the farm context that calls save and briefly shows a Saved state; saves also set a persistent failure flag surfaced as a toast if write fails.

HUD shows a small seasonal glyph (🌸/☀️/🍂/❄️) and Strawb's hat ribbon colour changes by real-world season for extra seasonal atmosphere.

Corrected the walk-sheet row mapping so the player sprite now faces the expected direction when moving left/right/up/down (fixes mis‑facing during movement).

The joystick was reworked to a fixed 112pt circular control in the bottom-left with a circular hit area so the rest of the screen receives taps and you can walk with one finger while tapping with another.

Tilling now checks for reserved/building tiles and existing plots so the player cannot create new plots on pen, coop, café, farmhouse footprints or on Strawb's tile.

GameState decodes a new startedAt field with a fallback to lastSeenAt for older saves so the HUD day counter migrates gracefully without requiring a schema version bump.

Introduce a SpriteKit title screen that puts a new strawberry-on-sunset logo front-and-centre and repositions the game title and subtitle beneath it, replacing the placeholder layout players previously saw on launch.

Boot players to a title screen with Continue (disabled when no save exists) and New Farm buttons, including a gentle confirmation dialog when starting a new farm over an existing save.

Introduce a JSON-backed GameState, a SaveService to load/save the active slot, and an AppRouter/FarmSession flow so players can create, continue, and persist their farm across launches.

Show a small, tappable toast on farm load that gives one warm line plus a concise summary of recent events (for example, crops that grew or produce made) when the player returns after a day or more.

Provide a pause button in the HUD that opens a Settings sheet where players can rename their farm, adjust music volume, and view in-game credits.

Ship a new strawberry-on-sunset 1024×1024 App Icon that will be used for the app and App Store tooling instead of the prior placeholder.

Introduce a floating joystick control that appears in the lower half of the screen for comfortable touch movement on iPhone devices.

Adjust the in-game camera zoom to show a wider, cozier area and render the player sprite at a larger scale so the character remains visually prominent.

Switch to a single master walk sprite sheet for the player and update the animation loader to slice the 4×4 image into directional frames, changing the visible player art and animation behaviour.

Apply a full-screen tint that changes with morning/afternoon/evening/night and cross-fades smoothly when the device's real-time phase changes to give the farm a richer lighting atmosphere.

Keep the camera constrained to the world bounds so players no longer see empty space beyond the farm when panning or moving near the edges of the map.