Update Log

27 July 2026 — Phase 17 evidence closure and Steam publication package

• Promoted the guide to v1.2.0 while retaining Patch 1.15.00 as the verified game baseline.
• Added corroborated operational guidance for Ethereal Pathway, Vault of Vengeance, Face the Inner Self, Jijeong Temple in Chaos, The Mysterious Pot, Reunion and the Chapter 3 Abyss Gear tutorial.
• Added six new Completion Companion milestones and reduced the controlled Research Queue from 40 to 33 records.
• Added per-record preparation, checkpoints, recovery steps and explicit unresolved boundaries to the Quest & Encounter Encyclopaedia.
• Recorded the conflicting Reunion disc-order report instead of hiding it; the published route follows the order independently corroborated by PowerPyx and Method.
• Separated the Chapter 3 tutorial from later Witch vendor unlocks so conflicting community timing cannot become a false prerequisite.
• Added a versioned Steam owner package with numbered BBCode sections, checksums, a manifest and a publication runbook for the existing public guide.

27 July 2026 — Phase 16.2 complete boss imagery

• Completed source-verified image coverage for all 17 canonical boss dossiers.
• Retained official Pearl Abyss Fan Kit portraits for White Horn, Staglord, Reed Devil and Queen Stoneback Crab.
• Added 13 attributable community gameplay captures where no exact official boss portrait was available.
• Recorded the original creator, creator page, source page, upstream image, identity evidence, dimensions, derivative notes, alt text and credit for every community asset.
• Added an explicit Awakened-versus-Corrupted Caliburn cross-check so the two dossiers remain separate despite conflicting community naming.
• Updated Boss Intelligence, Command Centre, readiness metrics and release smoke tests to require 17-of-17 production coverage.
• Strengthened the media gate to reject anonymous search-result images, unidentified lookalikes, missing creator credits and broken local WebP assets.

27 July 2026 — Phase 16.1 official boss media

• Added clean 2560px official portraits for White Horn, Staglord, Reed Devil and Queen Stoneback Crab from Pearl Abyss’s Fan Kit.
• Added per-dossier image provenance, exact Fan Kit archive paths, dimensions, credits, alt text and fan-content rights records.
• Added spoiler-safe responsive boss imagery with lazy loading and dark/light theme support.
• Added an explicit media-research state for the 13 bosses that did not yet have a subject-verified official image.
• Added coverage metrics showing verified portraits against all 17 canonical boss dossiers.
• Strengthened the Boss Intelligence audit to reject lookalikes, unapproved hosts, duplicate mappings, missing local assets, invalid WebP files and provenance drift.

27 July 2026 — Phase 15 Boss Intelligence Centre

• Added a spoiler-controlled Boss Intelligence Centre covering all 17 canonical boss records.
• Consolidated five verified Memory Fragment locations and first-defeat activation rules into dedicated rematch dossiers.
• Added an official-rematch classification for Titan while keeping its unknown Memory Fragment location explicit.
• Added direct official mechanic evidence for Queen Spider, Dreadnought, Storm Crusher, Thunder Crusher, Awakened Caliburn and Myurdin, the Avatar of Umbra.
• Added work-in-progress evidence caveats for White Horn, Staglord, Reed Devil and Queen Stoneback Crab.
• Preserved Injured Ludvig as an official searchable alias for One-Armed Ludvig.
• Added reciprocal identity-separation rules for White Horn versus Clockwork White Horn and Awakened versus Corrupted Caliburn.
• Added per-dossier patch history, unresolved evidence fields, controlled research priorities and official source links.
• Added Boss Intelligence to the Command Centre, Steam Guide export, readiness programme and protected audit suite.

26 July 2026 — Guide v1.1.0 production release

• Released the Pywel Expedition Command Centre with full-guide search, recent-guide continuation, private session planning and unified local progress summaries.
• Added persistent safe, minor and full spoiler profiles across compatible guide tools.
• Added a validated five-source Guide Vault for exporting and restoring Completion, Atlas, Collectibles, Build Laboratory and Research Queue state together.
• Added a provenance-controlled official Pearl Abyss media registry for characters, bosses, weapons, mounts and world imagery.
• Added the global “Hymn for the Unsung Blade” player with non-looping playback, one-time visitor autoplay and persistent pause preference.
• Added the Research Queue Centre for controlled evidence gaps, in-game verification protocols and private local research notes.
• Promoted the guide package and readiness report to v1.1.0 while retaining Patch 1.15.00 as the verified game baseline.
• Preserved root and /crimsondesert/ deployment validation for the future TKB Gaming domain migration.

26 July 2026 — Character mastery, Build Laboratory and v1.0 evidence closure

• Added current-patch capability profiles for Kliff, Oongka and Damiane from official Steam and Patch 1.03–1.15 records.
• Added eight transparent build archetypes covering field balance, defence, aerial mobility, ranged pressure, heavy impact, unarmed chains, boss reliability and exploration utility.
• Added a browser-local Build Laboratory with controlled conditions, seven personal observation dimensions, confidence ratings and strict JSON backup/restore.
• Linked current Greymane faction and Damiane Shield Toss issues directly into character and build guidance.
• Added audits that prohibit unsupported tier lists, best-build claims, exact DPS, hidden scaling and unrecorded frame data.
• Added a repository-generated v1.0 readiness report covering 12 guide programmes, every structured dataset, interactive tool and publication path.
• Classified remaining partial game records as an explicit research queue rather than filling unknown routes, totals, rewards or mechanics with guesses.
• Promoted the package and Steam Guide to evidence-safe v1.0.0 for Patch 1.15.00.

26 July 2026 — Collectibles, knowledge and challenge catalogue

• Expanded the canonical content database from 67 to 85 evidence-safe records.
• Added a generated catalogue containing 48 records: 31 category goals and 17 individually named entries or challenges.
• Added the official 51-entry Collectibles — Contract total without inventing the unpublished individual checklist.
• Added verified individual knowledge milestones for Irkyn, Hexe Earthen Exploding Spider and Pailune Militiamen.
• Added officially named research records for restored or previously blocked knowledge entries and two weapon challenges.
• Added Completion Companion status, personal discovery counts, private notes, research flags and strict JSON backup/restore.
• Added catalogue generation, cross-dataset validation and local-state tests to the protected Quality Gate.
• Added a Collectibles, Knowledge & Challenges section to the Steam Guide export.

25 July 2026 — Quest walkthrough and encounter encyclopaedia

• Added generated operational detail for 32 canonical quest, Abyss, boss and stronghold records.
• Added supported, limited and research states so partial records cannot become invented walkthroughs.
• Added preparation, supported checkpoints, blocker history, safe recovery order and explicit unresolved fields.
• Added private browser-only notes and preparation checklists with strict JSON backup and restore.
• Added guide-detail consistency audits and local-state tests to the protected Quality Gate.
• Added a Deep Quest & Encounter Guidance section to the Steam Guide export.

25 July 2026 — Pywel Atlas and route intelligence

• Added a cinematic topological atlas for verified settlements, services, travel systems and world progress.
• Added 12 evidence-labelled location and system records with 16 service definitions.
• Added official special-mount saddlery intelligence for eight cities.
• Added the verified Pailune Nexus link to the abstract Abyss Nexus network without inventing coordinates or road connections.
• Added local visited-location, activated-node and service-check progress with validated JSON backup and restore.
• Added explicit no-route handling, atlas data audits and route/persistence tests.
• Added the Pywel Atlas to site navigation and the Steam Guide export.

25 July 2026 — Quest, boss and content database

• Added a canonical searchable database containing 67 evidence-safe quests, bosses, strongholds, Abysses, challenges and knowledge records.
• Added all 34 official Steam achievement conditions as stable completion milestones.
• Added 17 named boss records, including five verified Memory Fragment rematches with official locations.
• Added 14 quest records, two named Abysses and two stronghold or liberation systems.
• Kept partial identities searchable while excluding them from completion percentages until their route or completion condition is verified.
• Generated Completion Companion entries from canonical records while preserving all existing local progress IDs.
• Added cross-dataset validation, source provenance notes and two new Steam Guide sections.

25 July 2026 — Site-wide cinematic theme

• Extended the approved Crimson Desert homepage design across every guide and tool route.
• Added section-aware cinematic article heroes for updates, beginner guidance, combat, gear, world, mounts, completion, technical guidance and standards.
• Added official promotional backgrounds from Pearl Abyss-controlled Steam media with documented source provenance.
• Rebuilt the global header, sidebar, mobile navigation, reading canvas, tables, callouts, code blocks, contents navigation and pagination in the black, iron, crimson and antique-gold visual system.
• Restyled Completion Companion and Technical Centre surfaces without changing their behaviour or stored progress.
• Rebuilt the article footer around the project crest, guide navigation and Pearl Abyss fan-content disclaimer.
• Added a parchment-and-ink light-mode interpretation for every new component.
• Added a site-theme coverage audit to prevent future routes or major components from falling outside the design system.

25 July 2026 — Cinematic Crimson Desert portal redesign

• Rebuilt the homepage as a real responsive game-guide portal based on the approved desktop and mobile design direction.
• Added an original dark fantasy navigation bar, cinematic hero, live patch badge and direct guide entry points.
• Added official public Crimson Desert screenshots from the Steam media feed to the hero and major guide cards.
• Added real quick links for search, completion, patch notes, world services, known issues and the Update Log.
• Added live dashboard panels driven by repository patch, completion and technical-issue datasets rather than invented figures.
• Added recent-update cards, project trust principles and a GitHub contribution call to action.
• Preserved keyboard focus, reduced-motion support, mobile navigation and the existing light-mode accessibility protections.

25 July 2026 — Light-mode contrast remediation

• Added a dedicated light-theme stylesheet without changing the established dark-theme design.
• Strengthened secondary text, metadata and small-label colours to meet readable contrast targets.
• Reworked the cinematic homepage hero, intelligence card, controls and metrics for pale surfaces.
• Corrected light-theme evidence, warning, success, error and official-issue colours.
• Improved light-theme completion controls, spoiler panels and technical troubleshooting cards.
• Added an automated contrast audit covering canonical palette pairs and required premium component scopes.

25 July 2026 — Technical and performance centre

• Replaced the provisional Technical page with a filterable platform and symptom troubleshooting centre.
• Structured the official Known Issues notice revised on 24 July 2026 into 11 stable records.
• Added safe-first diagnostic paths for crashes, white screens, save conflicts, cross-save, input, performance and console display modes.
• Added explicit save-preservation and destructive-escalation warnings.
• Added platform, symptom, record-type, severity and text-search filters.
• Added technical-data validation for patch alignment, stale records, sources, enums and duplicate IDs.
• Added a six-hour official Known Issues watcher with revision fingerprints and deduplicated GitHub issues.
• Added a Technical & Performance section to the generated Steam BBCode guide.

25 July 2026 — Interactive completion companion

• Replaced the static completion roadmap with a local-first interactive tracker.
• Added 18 supported starter milestones across activities, settlements, travel, mounts, equipment and knowledge.
• Added category, progress, spoiler and text-search filters with overall and per-category totals.
• Added browser-only persistence with no account, cookies, telemetry or remote database.
• Added validated JSON export/import, confirmation-based reset and strict rejection of unknown IDs or foreign backup formats.
• Added stable-ID migrations for renamed and retired records so dataset updates do not silently erase valid progress.
• Added spoiler-safe checklist cards with explicit reveal state stored separately from completion state.
• Added completion-data and state-engine tests to the protected Quality Gate.
• Added a static Completion Companion section to the generated Steam BBCode guide.

25 July 2026 — Mobile stylesheet delivery fix

• Investigated an iOS Brave production report where the guide rendered as unstyled raw HTML.
• Removed the runtime dependency on external screen stylesheets by embedding the complete Astro/Starlight visual system in every generated HTML page.
• Added a deployment smoke test that rejects missing mobile viewport metadata, insufficient inline CSS, external screen-stylesheet dependencies and missing local asset references.
• Made Cloudflare Workers static-site trailing-slash and 404 handling explicit.
• Added immutable caching for fingerprinted /_astro/ assets while retaining content-hashed filenames.

25 July 2026 — World and traversal compendium

• Added validated structured records for settlements, services, special-mount species and saddlery inventories.
• Added an automated world-data audit that checks patch alignment, evidence grades, official sources, unique records and saddlery cross-references.
• Added a world-navigation guide covering regional arrival procedure, map discovery, Mysterious Energy and Abyss Nexus travel.
• Replaced the Hernand placeholder with a generated service register and practical settlement circuit.
• Added a complete mounts guide covering trust, taming, feeding, registration, quickslots, equipment and terrain-based selection.
• Expanded Blackstar behind the existing major-spoiler gate using official patch history without publishing an unverified unlock sequence.
• Expanded the generated Steam BBCode guide with World Navigation and Mounts sections.

25 July 2026 — Combat and gear systems

• Replaced the provisional Combat page with a complete fight-control guide covering camera, positioning, defence, stamina, Spirit, stun pressure, groups, large targets and healing windows.
• Added a weapon and skill evaluation framework based on reach, recovery, resource cost, crowd control, mobility, defensive fit and terrain tolerance.
• Added a boss and encounter diagnostic that separates visibility, positioning, recognition, defence, resources, gear and known defects.
• Rebuilt the Gear page with keep, sell, store, refine and extract decisions.
• Documented official extraction behaviour, including 100% special-material recovery and approximately 70% common-material recovery.
• Added refinement stopping rules, identical-equipment gates, sockets, Abyss Gear and character-specific loadout checks.
• Expanded the generated Steam BBCode guide with four combat and gear sections.

25 July 2026 — Patch 1.15.00 baseline

• Verified the official Patch 1.15.00 notice published on 24 July 2026.
• Updated the global guide baseline, homepage intelligence and page metadata from 1.14.00 to 1.15.00.
• Reviewed current pages against the patch’s narrow combat, camera, mount and equipment-lock changes.
• Added current known-issue warnings for remapped Hold evasion and Damiane’s Shield Toss failure state.
• Confirmed that the core beginner route, storage guidance, refinement rules and extraction model remain valid.
• Recorded the Mac App Store rollout as still in progress at the time of verification.

25 July 2026 — Beginner guide expansion

• Replaced the provisional beginner roadmap with a complete low-spoiler opening route.
• Added platform-specific readability, accessibility, controller and performance guidance.
• Added a dedicated save, cross-save, Private Storage and inventory-safety guide.
• Added the first systems circuit covering travel, smithies, refinement, extraction, vendors, mounts and camp progression.
• Re-verified all precise beginner claims against Patch 1.14.00, official support notices and current known issues.
• Expanded the generated Steam BBCode guide from two beginner sections to four.

25 July 2026 — Premium guide experience

• Replaced the documentation-style homepage with a purpose-built cinematic guide interface.
• Added direct routes into beginner, combat, gear, world, mounts, completion and technical guidance.
• Added patch status, verification date, evidence grade and spoiler metadata to article headers.
• Added accessible spoiler-reveal controls for major discoveries.
• Rebuilt the global visual system for desktop, tablet and mobile layouts.
• Added an independent project footer and stronger accessibility focus states.

25 July 2026 — Production launch

• Deployed the guide through Cloudflare Workers Builds.
• Published the production site at crimson-desert-guide.dannyconroy.workers.dev.
• Added static-assets deployment configuration through Wrangler.
• Updated canonical URLs, sitemap discovery and repository documentation.

25 July 2026 — Platform foundation

• Created the canonical public GitHub repository.
• Established the Astro and Starlight guide framework.
• Added patch-aware frontmatter and automated content validation.
• Added scheduled official patch monitoring.
• Added GitHub issue forms, security scanning and contribution policy.
• Established Cloudflare Workers deployment instructions.
• Set the verified guide baseline to official Patch 1.14.00.

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