Changelog

All notable changes to Crownfall: An Incremental Defense are documented here. Format loosely follows Keep a Changelog.

[Unreleased]

Massive feature batch transforming the prototype into a full incremental.

Renamed game to Crownfall: An Incremental Defense (title screen + browser tab).
5 wall material upgrades — Stone → Reinforced → Iron → Steel → Obsidian (visual + damage reduction).
5 field hazards in a new Defenses research chapter — Wooden Spikes, Caltrops, Tar Pits, Watchfire Braziers, Bear Traps; placed automatically every run, upgradeable.
Persistent Commanders per slot (Crown-cost) that automate hero hiring, upgrading, imbuing, and skin selection between runs.
5 special event waves — Blood Moon, Night of the Restless, Goblin Horde, Champion's Challenge, Plague Wave (each with tint, banner, SFX, and unique modifiers).
Mid-run random events — Wandering Merchant, Dark Pact, Royal Decree, Hermit's Blessing, with a temporary buff system.
Hall of Records stats page + 15 achievements with center-screen splash popups.
12 hero skin variants (palette swaps) bought with Crowns.
7 starting-wave research tiers going from wave 3 up to wave 40.
4 repeatable gold nodes in Coffers (Greater Vault, Greater Tithe, War Treasury, Boss Mint).
Wall visually deteriorates as HP drops — cracks, scorch, missing chunks, broken merlons, side chips, blood streaks, and ambient smoke wisps when critical. Damage restricted to the front-facing merlon strip.

RP economy rebalanced — 0 RP at run start, gentler curve tuned for 100+ runs to fully unlock the tree.
Many node costs increased (slot unlocks, hero guilds, keystones).
Achievement notification upgraded from a small toast to a center-screen splash card with sparkles, fanfare SFX, and a queue for back-to-back unlocks.

Skill bar hover flicker — DOM was being rebuilt every 100 ms; now only cooldown text mutates in place.
Stats modal scroll bug — columns overflowed past the Close button.
Achievement toast was permanently visible due to a duplicate display rule.
Title screen showed \u00b7 literals instead of middle-dot characters.
Settings overlay binding leak after the top-right Settings button was removed.
Several syntax / comma issues in research-node arrays during the hazard rollout.

Settings button in the top-right corner — Settings now reachable only through the Pause menu.
Bundled starting-gold from the start-at-wave nodes (replaced with separate repeatable gold research).

Initial commit. Working prototype with: