🌿 The Neeblarium — Build 1102 Update

A cozy update focused on lineage clarity, better naming, and cleaner colony browsing—helping Keepers follow the lives (and families!) of their Neeblies with more heart and less clutter.

🌿 Family Lineage Highlighting

You can now see a Neeblie’s entire living family at a glance.

Click a Neeblie’s family name in the detail panel to illuminate every relative with a glowing, generation-coded halo:

• White — the selected Neeblie

• Gold / Amber — older generations

• Cyan / Blue — younger generations

• Purple — same generation

This shows generational relationships within a family line (not full ancestry trees), giving your biome an immediate sense of history and depth. Click again to hide the highlights; click a third time to show them again. Switching Neeblies resets the view automatically.

📚 Collection Sidebar Improvements

A handful of polish changes make colony browsing cleaner and easier:

• Simplified count labels (now simply 3/50)

• Deceased Neeblies are now visibly inactive: no hover glow, no cursor changes, no click sounds

• Removed raw lineage IDs from family names

• Fixed layout quirks in the 128px preview grid

Small touches that add up to a more peaceful, readable interface.

🧬 Name System Overhaul

Fallback names like Blee89 and Glip25 are now a thing of the past.

This update:

• Introduces a curated database of 10,947 hand-filtered names

• Removes the old “neutral name” bucket that caused fallback generation

• Ensures children correctly inherit family lineage every time

• Refreshes the name cache so all new Neeblies get proper names

• Cleans out earlier classification artifacts

Result: Neeblie names now feel consistent, intentional, and much more “alive.”

🔧 Bug Fixes & Stability

• Fixed rare crashes from freed-instance neighbor lookups

• Corrected lineage inheritance for newborn Neeblies

• Sidebar now updates cleanly when Neeblies die or are renamed

• More robust UI behavior for deceased Neeblies

🔮 Up Next

This update lays the groundwork for several major features landing very soon:

• Bed detail panel (resource history, florin state, regeneration metrics)

• Biome detail panel (global colony health)

• Neeblie detail panel expansions (stats, traits, relationships)

• Lineage visualization refinements ( clearer generational spread )

• Continued Hybridizer & Archivist evolution (still alpha!)

And… we’ve begun working with an artist to elevate the Neeblarium’s visual identity. Big glow-ups ahead! 🌱✨