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== v0.51.0 — THE WHOLE JOURNEY — The Staircase's Last Step ==
* '''The valley keeps your score.''' For everyone past the [[Caves#The Amber Door|Amber Door]], the Completion Log now opens with THE WHOLE JOURNEY: one honest percent for everything you have ever done — the plain average of five bars for SKILLS, MASTERY, COLLECTION, BESTIARY and FEATS, recomputed live from your save and never stored. The log counts everything the Census ignores, and gates nothing.
* FIVE RANKS wait along it: WAYFINDER at 25%, CHRONICLER at 50% (+1% all skill XP), VALLEY ELDER at 75% (+2%, replacing), PRIMAL SCHOLAR at 90% (+3%, replacing), and THE COMPLEAT PRIMALIST at 100%. Only your best rank counts, and it is remembered FOREVER — ascending resets your skills, never your rank.
* '''The rewards show their face.''' Primal Scholar GILDS the whole panel in amber. The summit grants the BANNER OF THE VALE — +15 expedition score from the bank, a Trophy Case heirloom that survives every ascension. Two lifetime titles ride the ladder: Wayfinder at rank 1 and The Compleat Primalist at the top.
* '''The xp ledger comes clean.''' The skill-page buff drawer now itemizes every XP source by name — potions, Ascension perks & tiers, and your Log rank — and the total is exactly their sum. (Ascension XP was always paid correctly; the drawer just never quoted it. Now it does.)
* Below one ascension nothing changes — same numbers, same odds, byte for byte. With this, all three rungs of the first staircase are open: Rift Ranks, the Bounty Board, and the Completion Log.