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	The '''newest updates''' are listed first. Amber is the valley's currency.		The '''newest updates''' are listed first. Amber is the valley's currency.

			== v0.36.93 — Sagebind Salve Earns Its Place ==
			* '''Sagebind salve now heals your whole party.''' Both it and the Fern Poultice healed exactly one dino, so an [[Alchemy]] 48 recipe with honey and marshmelon in it bought you nothing a level 10 poultice could not do. The salve ladder now widens as it climbs: Fern Poultice patches one dino, Sagebind Salve patches everyone marching with you, and Primal Balm still heals the entire [[Stable]]. The Stable page gets its own button for it, next to the balm.
			* '''Items now tell you what they do.''' Salves and [[Dino Gear\|dino gear]] showed nothing in the [[Bank]] but flavour text — food, potions, weapons and [[Blueprints\|blueprints]] all spelled out their effect, salves and saddles did not. Both now state it plainly: a salve says exactly who it heals, and a saddle, barding or trinket lists its stats and bonuses. The [[Field Guide]] badge names the reach too.
			* '''The heal button now spends your cheapest salve.''' It always claimed to, but it actually grabbed whichever one sat earliest in the bank — so a pricier salve could be burned while a cheaper one sat two slots away.

			== v0.36.92 — Three From The Field ==
			* Auto-eat no longer waits for the killing blow. Your keeper now reaches for food whenever they drop below half health, on hunts, expeditions and raids alike — the old rule (eat when the next hit would drop you) still applies on top, so a single huge spike is still answered. It stops the moment you are back over half, so a full larder is never drained to patch a scratch.
			* The [[Rivals]] count in the sidebar now shows how many tribes you can actually call out right now. Tribes cooling off after a win, and tribes still locked behind the ladder, drop out of the tally — so it reads 0/15 when nobody will face you and fills back up as they come off cooldown.
			* Your tribe’s Stockpile tells you when it is about to overflow. The Stockpile card now says how long the camp has before its first good caps out, warns under an hour, and turns red once it is full and throwing work away. The "while you were away" summary counts the goods that spilled, so an overnight stall is something you can see instead of something you have to notice.

			== v0.36.91 — Fold Away Finished Areas ==
			* QoL: the area sections on the [[Expeditions]] and [[Hunting]] pages now fold — tap an area’s header to tuck its cards away (the header stays, with a count of what’s hidden), tap again to reopen. Your folds are remembered on this device, and the area jump bar reopens a folded area it takes you to. Much less thumb-scrolling on phones.

	== v0.36.90 — The Hunting Page Joins The SVG Family ==		== v0.36.90 — The Hunting Page Joins The SVG Family ==

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			== v0.36.90 — The Hunting Page Joins The SVG Family ==
			* Every hunt on the [[Hunting]] page now shows a drawn portrait of its prey instead of an emoji — thirteen new silhouettes (Gallimimus, Kentrosaurus, Daeodon, Deinosuchus, the pale Cave Crocodile, Arthropleura, Xiphactinus, Woolly Bison, Cave Hyena, Acrocanthosaurus, Teratornis, the Vale Stalker and Purussaurus), the Titanis wearing the Scarred One’s silhouette without its crown, and the wild Compy, Raptor, Utahraptor and Pachy wearing the same species portraits you know from the taming page. Emoji stay on only as hidden fallbacks.

			== v0.36.89 — Skill Pages Get Scenic Banners ==
			* Every skill page now opens on a hand-drawn daytime scene of that skill — a banner across the top with the skill name on it, drawn in the same flat style and palette as the game’s icons. The level bar and [[Mastery]] Pool sit in a tighter header beneath it, and on phones the action cards stack in a single column so nothing squeezes.
			* The scenes now run deeper: on skill pages the art flows behind the title, level bar and potions, fading out right at the potion shelf instead of stopping in a box. And every other page joins in — Player, [[Bank]], [[Shop]], [[Trading Post]], [[Museum]], [[Contracts]], [[Stable]], [[Tribe]], [[Homestead]], Map, [[Quests]], [[Rivals]] and the Log each open on their own scene, with the Map riding on open sea.
			* Polish: the bonus chips at the top of skill pages — the daily sky boost, your hired hand’s buff and its recent gathers — now sit on solid dark pills so they stay readable over the bright scenes, and the sky-boost pill hugs its text instead of stretching across the page.

	== v0.36.88 — Toast Icons Join The SVG Family ==		== v0.36.88 — Toast Icons Join The SVG Family ==

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			== v0.36.55 — Under The Hood: The Save-sync Rules, Written Down ==
			* Groundwork, with nothing to see in game. The rules that decide when your save is written, when it is sent to the cloud, and what happens when you switch devices were spread across the code as a set of flags. They are now one place with tests around them — including a test for each of the five save-sync problems reported in the past, so none of them can come back unnoticed.
			* No change to gameplay, progress, balance or your save.
			* The sync journal in Settings now stamps each line with the game version that wrote it — so if you ever send a screenshot of it, it says which build produced what.
			* Part 2: the game now actually uses those rules. The eight scattered flags that used to coordinate saving and syncing are gone, replaced by the single tested component. Behaviour is deliberately unchanged — this is groundwork so the next fix in this area lands somewhere provable.

			== v0.36.54 — Smoother Skill Pages, And A Bank That Scales ==
			* Opening a skill page rebuilt its whole action list from scratch, several times a second. It is now worked out once and reused — the skill pages should feel noticeably smoother, especially on a phone.
			* [[Bank]] lookups no longer slow down as your bank grows. At a small bank you will not notice; with hundreds of slots filled it is dramatically faster.
			* No change to progress, loot, balance or saves.

			== v0.36.53 — The Away Screen Learned 44 New Jokes ==
			* "While you were away…" now rotates through 45 different headings — "Look who remembered they own a valley.", "Nobody was eaten. Great success.", "A complaint was filed. By a dino." — so coming back is a little less samey. The original line is still in the mix.
			* A line will not come round again for at least 12 returns, so you should get a good few weeks of play before one repeats.
			* Cosmetic only: nothing about your progress, your loot or your dinos changes.

			== v0.36.52 — The Loading Screen Tells You It Is Catching Up ==
			* Coming back after a long time away, the game has to replay everything that happened while you were gone — and on a phone that can take a good few seconds. The loading screen used to just say "Loading Primal Idle…" the whole time, which looks like it has hung.
			* It now names the wait: "Catching up on 18h away…". Short absences are unchanged — the notice only appears when there is actually a wait worth explaining.

			== v0.36.51 — Fixed: A Full Bank Could Silently Stop Your Action ==
			* With a full bank, a laid egg (or a returning dispatch squad) could push your bank one slot past its limit. Once over, the game considered EVERY action unable to store its output — so whatever you were doing quietly stopped and would not restart until you freed a slot by hand, with nothing on screen explaining why. Leaving the game running about six hours on a full bank was enough to trigger it.
			* Those deposits now respect your bank limit the way every other passive source already did. A full bank still means some drops are missed — but your action keeps running, and the bank can never end up over its own cap.
			* The "While you were away" screen now tells you what a full bank cost you, with a row per item — so a missed drop is something you can see and act on, not something that quietly disappears.

			== v0.36.50 — A Much Lighter Game Loop ==
			* The game now rebuilds its screens about eight times a second instead of sixty — roughly 90% less background work every second you have it open. Phones and laptops should run cooler, hold framerate better, and drain noticeably less battery on long idle sessions.
			* Nothing you touch got slower: progress bars, hunt timers and duel bars still move at full smoothness, and anything you click still updates the instant you click it.

	== v0.36.49 — Heal Your Dinos From The Player Page ==		== v0.36.49 — Heal Your Dinos From The Player Page ==

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			== v0.36.49 — Heal Your Dinos From The Player Page ==
			* '''Heal dinos from the player page.''' An injured dino's card on your Player page now has a green Heal button — one tap patches it up with a salve from your bank, no trip to the [[Stable]] to hunt it down. It's greyed with a hint when you have no salve to spend.

			== v0.36.48 — Potion Shelf — Drink Potions Where You Use Them ==
			* '''Drink potions on their own skill page.''' Each skill now has a little POTIONS shelf at the top with that skill's own potions as tap-to-drink bottles — Lumber Tonic on [[Logging]], Miner's Brew on [[Mining]], crop tonics on the Farm, and so on — so you no longer have to open the [[Bank]] to buff the thing you're doing. The bottle shows how many you have; drinking one flips it to a live countdown; a potion you haven't brewed yet sits greyed with a “Brew in [[Alchemy]]” hint.

	== v0.36.47 — Expeditions — How To Open The Next Area ==		== v0.36.47 — Expeditions — How To Open The Next Area ==
	* s clear you need to defeat the previous area		* '''Expeditions tell you how to unlock the next area.''' A locked region used to just say “Unlock Coral Shallows” without saying how; it now names the boss that opens it — e.g. “Unlock Coral Shallows — beat the Scorched King” — so it's clear you need to defeat the previous area's guardian.
			* '''And the zone boss shows both of its gates.''' A guardian card now lists the full path up front — “Unlock Murkwater Swamp — beat the Old Growth Tyrant” AND “Beat 0/25 patrols to unlock” — so you can see you must open the zone and then win 25 patrols there before the boss appears. (The patrol line used to hide until the zone was already open, and read “Clear … (0/25 patrols won)”.)

	== v0.36.46 — Steadier Start — A Loading And Recovery Screen ==		== v0.36.46 — Steadier Start — A Loading And Recovery Screen ==
	* s own portrait instead of a generic flame — so you can tell at a glance who		* '''A steadier start.''' The game now shows a brief “Loading Primal Idle…” screen while it boots instead of a blank page, and if it ever fails to start — a corrupted save, a misbehaving browser extension — you now get a readable recovery screen (your save left untouched) instead of a white screen. Browsers with JavaScript turned off get a clear note explaining the game needs it.
			* '''The campfire alert shows who arrived.''' When a wanderer is waiting at your fire, the little badge on the [[Tribe]] menu is now that person's own portrait instead of a generic flame — so you can tell at a glance who's come to camp.

	== v0.36.45 — Wake In Order — Device Switching, Fixed ==		== v0.36.45 — Wake In Order — Device Switching, Fixed ==
	* ~~DEVICE SWITCHING NO LONGER PICKS THE WRONG SAVE~~. When a phone woke from sleep after a long gap, the game replayed your away-time into the sleeping save BEFORE it had checked the cloud — so the "two saves found" screen compared an inflated copy and could crown the older one "furthest along". The cloud check now runs FIRST: the game briefly pauses ("Checking your other devices…") until it knows the truth, then credits your away-time onto whichever save actually wins. The comparison you see is always honest.		* '''Device switching no longer picks the wrong save.''' When a phone woke from sleep after a long gap, the game replayed your away-time into the sleeping save BEFORE it had checked the cloud — so the "two saves found" screen compared an inflated copy and could crown the older one "furthest along". The cloud check now runs FIRST: the game briefly pauses ("Checking your other devices…") until it knows the truth, then credits your away-time onto whichever save actually wins. The comparison you see is always honest.
	* ~~THE ROUTINE SWITCH IS NOW INVISIBLE~~. If a device has no unsaved progress of its own (you synced, then played elsewhere), opening it silently continues from your latest cloud save — with a small "Caught up — continued from your other device" note — instead of interrupting you with a choice. The "two saves found" screen now appears only when there is a genuine fork: real progress on BOTH sides.		* '''The routine switch is now invisible.''' If a device has no unsaved progress of its own (you synced, then played elsewhere), opening it silently continues from your latest cloud save — with a small "Caught up — continued from your other device" note — instead of interrupting you with a choice. The "two saves found" screen now appears only when there is a genuine fork: real progress on BOTH sides.
	* ~~USE THE CLOUD SAVE~~		* '''‘Use the cloud save’ re-checks first.''' If the choice screen sat open while another device saved again, picking the cloud copy now re-fetches the latest first, so you never adopt a copy that's already been superseded.
	* s already been superseded.",		* '''Sync journal records the activity.''' Each entry in the Settings sync journal now notes what the save was doing (which action) — so a "right time, wrong activity" report is provable from one screenshot.
	* ,		* '''Hardened (pre-release review).''' The silent "caught up" now only ever moves you FORWARD — if the cloud copy is actually behind yours (an old restore, or another device that kept a stale save), you get the choice screen instead of a silent downgrade. Also fixed a brief morning freeze on a flaky connection, and two rare timing windows on iOS that could have re-shown the wrong comparison.
	* ,		* '''The master vault price stops dropping.''' The broker's bank vault used to rise to 450k, then fall to a flat 100k and stay there — so buying the next rank got cheaper. It now climbs every rank like the other two vault lines, +5k a rank from 455k to 680k at the top.
	* s bank vault used to rise to 450k, then fall to a flat 100k and stay there — so buying the next rank got cheaper. It now climbs every rank like the other two vault lines, +5k a rank from 455k to 680k at the top.		* '''The “two saves found” screen uses the real icons.''' The "working on…" line for each save showed a plain emoji for the action instead of the same drawn icon you see in-game. It now renders each action's own SVG.
	* ~~THE "TWO SAVES FOUND" SCREEN USES THE REAL ICONS:~~ the "working on…" line for each save showed a plain emoji for the action instead of the same drawn icon you see in-game. It now renders each action's own SVG.

	== v0.36.44 — Beta Patch — Seeds & Full Banks ==		== v0.36.44 — Beta Patch — Seeds & Full Banks ==

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			== v0.36.47 — Expeditions — How To Open The Next Area ==
			* s clear you need to defeat the previous area

			== v0.36.46 — Steadier Start — A Loading And Recovery Screen ==
			* s own portrait instead of a generic flame — so you can tell at a glance who

			== v0.36.45 — Wake In Order — Device Switching, Fixed ==
			* DEVICE SWITCHING NO LONGER PICKS THE WRONG SAVE. When a phone woke from sleep after a long gap, the game replayed your away-time into the sleeping save BEFORE it had checked the cloud — so the "two saves found" screen compared an inflated copy and could crown the older one "furthest along". The cloud check now runs FIRST: the game briefly pauses ("Checking your other devices…") until it knows the truth, then credits your away-time onto whichever save actually wins. The comparison you see is always honest.
			* THE ROUTINE SWITCH IS NOW INVISIBLE. If a device has no unsaved progress of its own (you synced, then played elsewhere), opening it silently continues from your latest cloud save — with a small "Caught up — continued from your other device" note — instead of interrupting you with a choice. The "two saves found" screen now appears only when there is a genuine fork: real progress on BOTH sides.
			* USE THE CLOUD SAVE
			* s already been superseded.",
			* ,
			* ,
			* s bank vault used to rise to 450k, then fall to a flat 100k and stay there — so buying the next rank got cheaper. It now climbs every rank like the other two vault lines, +5k a rank from 455k to 680k at the top.
			* THE "TWO SAVES FOUND" SCREEN USES THE REAL ICONS: the "working on…" line for each save showed a plain emoji for the action instead of the same drawn icon you see in-game. It now renders each action's own SVG.

			== v0.36.44 — Beta Patch — Seeds & Full Banks ==
			* [[Foraging]] seeds no longer vanish on a full bank. Every crop seed was already wired to a working foraging drop — but if your bank was full, a seed you didn't already own had nowhere to land and was silently turned into amber, so you could never obtain it. Now a gathering action stops with the bank-full banner instead: clear a slot and the seed drops as intended. (Expedition relic drops are unchanged — they still convert to amber rather than halting a run.)

	== v0.36.43 — Beta Patch — A Real Fang ==		== v0.36.43 — Beta Patch — A Real Fang ==