Cube Foundry — v1.7.0 — The End?

CubeFoundry — v1.7.0 — The END ?

Five weeks (-Ish) of work since 1.6.11. The headline is performance — the game now uses every core your CPU has — but on top of that there's nearly a New game.

Highlights

• True multi-core. Late-game stutter is gone. FPS went from ~7 to 30-50 average; main-thread blocking dropped 87%.

• Garden minigame. Grow plants, brew potions, spend them on time-skips, tick boosts, and CPS surges.

• Card system. Each NG+ run draws cards that shake up the rules. OP cards retuned and NG+ scaling now visible at draw time.

• Cosmic Codex prestige page. Full glass-morphism rewrite, with a cooldown timer, affordable-count badge, and trimmed tooltip animation.

• Prestige is strategic again. 5-minute cooldown, refunds on reset, and a new power-based award system reward growth, not spam.

Performance — True Multi-Core

The four-phase worker-pool rebuild that gives this update its name.

• Phase 1 — async/await fix. Workers now actually process tasks (the old fire-and-forget left them idle). FPS jumped immediately.

• Phase 2 — observability. Per-task-type metrics, queue depth, wait time, 30-second health reports, slow-task detection.

• Phase 3 — cached automation prep. Upgrade payload now cached and invalidated by purchase count. Prep time dropped from 30-50ms to under 1ms.

• Phase 4 — backpressure. Queue grew from 100 to 300 tasks; low-priority tasks drop adaptively above 70% pressure; CPS, CPC, and prestige tasks never drop.

On top of the worker pool:

• GPU transform feedback particles (WebGL2) with a SIMD CPU fallback for older hardware

• FrameBudgetManager enforcing a 60 FPS budget per frame

• Eight-phase late-game lag fix addressing render and compute bottlenecks at extreme generator counts

• Cube counter throttled to ~20 Hz, viewport-gated affordability checks, structured DOM counters

• Autobuyer: lower purchase frequency, bulk cap, stronger diminishing returns, cooldown

• Prestige page dropped its multi-LOD card system and locked to the "mid" variant

• Three.js startup optimized; DOM cleanup batched; noisy performance warnings disabled

New Content

• Garden minigame — modular system with plot management, plant growing, direct potion brewing, save/load

• Potions — four tiers (Minor, Common, Rare, Epic); enlarged inventory; polished HUD tooltip; previously-unwired effects fixed; magnitudes rebalanced

• Card system — drawn cards, OP card tuning, NG+ scaling shown at draw time

• Slot machine minigame — slot spins now show why a spin didn't match

• Tutorial / FTUE overhaul — welcome cinematic with crossfade, letterbox, and a WebGL shader; page-specific walkthroughs for prestige and NG+; return-from-prestige tutorials; typewriter text; condition-based pacing; smooth animations; always-visible skip

UI / UX

• Cosmic Codex prestige page — full glass-morphism rewrite, summary modal and tooltip restyled, cooldown surfaced in the tooltip, affordable-count badge, breathing animation pauses on hover

• Top bar — Rajdhani font, glow effects, suffix separation; de-boxed CPS; prominent cube counter with ambient pulse and hover lift; NG+ palette swapped to amber; Orbitron for CPS/CPC; responsive font-size via clamp(); centered count during the letterbox welcome

• Generator cards — tier color palette, tier-based grouping with jump-nav, expand/collapse-all, tier labels

• Upgrade cards — tag-driven layout, tighter typography, localized tag chips, sharpened tooltips, tag/description mismatches fixed across 14 locales

• Mastery cards — buff badge tiered by multiplier magnitude; MAX and Apply buttons stay inside the card on narrow layouts

• Settings — sections regrouped, dead UI Quality and DLC theme block dropped, UI scale decoupled from graphics quality

• Garden UI — full-wrapper canvas, per-plant sell mastery, X-close, shop scroll, responsive canvas

• Removed — prestige and NG+ confirmation dialogs (no more pop-ups in