Crash Landing tutorial, enhancement step, and combat refinements
New players now have a guided start: the Crash Landing tutorial walks you through 24 sequential tasks covering every core system — Mining, Smelting, Forging, Fishing, Cooking, equipping gear, gathering in the wilderness, killing in AFK and live combat, Signal Arrays, Combat Protocols, Pyrecraft, Rune inscription, and Gem Resonance. Each task unlocks only after the previous completes, so there's always exactly one clear thing to do. Every completed task pays out scrap, and finishing all 24 grants a completion bonus including a Crude Static Staff to get you started with signal magic.
The enhancement step is now part of the tutorial. After forging and equipping a Tin Sword, the tutorial asks you to enhance it. A new in-game modal after that step explains the full enhancement system — the risk of downgrade on failure, Protection Shards, and why pushing high-enhancement gear is the main long-term power path.
Each major system introduction is paired with a context modal that fires after the relevant task completes. The Protocols modal explains the full automation system. The Signal Arrays modal covers all three ways to gather signal data. The Wilderness vs AFK modal explains the tradeoff between active and passive combat. The Signal Combat modal covers staves, rune costs, and how magic builds work. These fire once and don't repeat — new players get context at the moment they first touch a system, returning players are never interrupted.
Under the hood, all 24 tutorial tasks are wired directly into the relevant game systems: gathering cycles, wilderness kills, AFK kills, crafting completions, equipping, enhancement, rune inscription, pyrecraft firing, and screen visits all fire events that the tutorial listens to. No manual "mark complete" buttons — progress tracks automatically as you play.