Patch Notes

Season 7 — Endless — 1 May 2026

Season 7 is built around one idea: there is no single correct answer to where you spend your next 100,000 wins. Last season the top players cracked a near-optimal Bonus Power to Win Power ratio, and everyone else copying that recipe meant the season played out as a single-strategy race. Season 7 breaks the meta by adding four new infinite upgrade axes, a parallel fish economy with its own infinite path, a class system that skews your value curve from the moment you equip it, and a meaningful rebalance to Bonus Power's scaling curve so the old recipe stops being dominant.

The season also has no scheduled end date - seasons will be advanced manually when the time is right. Don't worry, you'll get fair warning.

Server-Side Auto-Spin & AFK Auto-Fish

The biggest structural change in Season 7 is that the wheel now spins itself — automatically, server-side, every 3 seconds, for every player. You no longer need to sit at your keyboard clicking a spin button, and you no longer gain any advantage by doing so. Everyone earns at the same base rate of 20 spins per minute, around the clock, whether the tab is open or not.

How it works

When you first play in Season 7 your auto-spin clock starts. Every time you open the game (or keep it open), your browser sends a lightweight tick to the server every 3 seconds. The server calculates every spin outcome you were owed since your last tick — including all streak bonuses, proc effects, and upgrade modifiers — and returns the results in one go. If you've been away for hours or even days, the server catches up instantly: you'll receive a summary of everything that happened while you were offline, and your wins, streak, and balances will all reflect the full catch-up.

Catch-up is capped at a full season week (100,800 spins) to keep things sane, but in practice you'll never come close to that ceiling in normal play.

Auto-Fish AFK

Auto-Fish now runs on the same server-tick model. If you have an Auto-Fisher upgrade and Auto-Fish is enabled, fish catches are computed and awarded server-side every 6 seconds — regardless of whether the page is open. Fish Bucks, species discoveries, and Encyclopaedia progress all accumulate while you're away, applying the same Lure, Earth Class, and Lure Mastery multipliers you have equipped.

Spin Speed and Auto Speed upgrades removed

Because spin rate is now fixed server-side at 3 seconds per spin, the following upgrades have been retired and removed from the shop:

Spin Speed — Speed Boost, Turbo Spin, Hyper Spin, Ultra Spin, Max Spin

Auto Speed — Quick Auto, Rapid Auto, Instant Auto

These upgrades only ever changed the visual animation duration and the delay between client-triggered spins. With the server now driving all spin timing, they have no effect and no meaningful role. Removing them keeps the shop focused on choices that actually matter, and ensures no player can buy a spin-rate advantage over another.

New Infinite Upgrade Paths

Four new infinite upgrade tracks have been added. Each competes for resources against Win Power and Bonus Power, giving several different defensible spending strategies depending on your current build.

🎣 Lure Mastery (costs Fish Bucks — no cap)

Extends lure power past the Master Lure ceiling. Where Master Lure locks the value multiplier at 20×, Lure Mastery stacks an additional +10% per level on top of every catch — both manual reels and Auto-Fish ticks. This is the only infinite upgrade priced in Fish Bucks rather than Wins, making it the first expansion of the fish economy into genuine late-game scaling.

Level range	Cost per level (Fish Bucks)	Fish value multiplier
Lv 1	5,000	+10%
Lv 2	25,000	+20%
Lv 3	100,000	+30%
Lv 4	400,000	+40%
Lv 5+	1,500,000 × 1.25^(n)	+10% per level, no cap

Players who have been accumulating Fish Bucks with nowhere to spend them now have a direct path to convert fishing activity into a sustained income advantage.

🎰 Jackpot Resonance (costs Wins — capped at level 10)

Raises the Jackpot proc rate above the default 1%. Each level adds +0.2 percentage points, hard-capped at 3% at level 10. Requires Jackpot to be owned.

Level	Cost (Wins)	Jackpot proc rate
1	5,000,000	1.2%
2	10,000,000	1.4%
3	20,000,000	1.6%
4–9	40,000,000 × 1.50^(n)	+0.2% per level
10 (MAX)	—	3.0%

A Jackpot-heavy build pairs most naturally with Win Power (Jackpot triggers at 25× the current win value, not bonus). This creates a build where Win Power outperforms the old 3:5 recipe — a genuinely different optimum.

🔊 Echo Amplification (costs Wins — capped at level 10)

Raises the Win Echo proc rate above the default 20%. Each level adds +2 percentage points, hard-capped at 40% at level 10. Requires Win Echo to be owned.

Level	Cost (Wins)	Win Echo proc rate
1	2,000,000	22%
2	5,000,000	24%
3	12,000,000	26%
4–9	25,000,000 × 1.40^(n)	+2% per level
10 (MAX)	—	40%

Echo Amplification benefits both Win Power and Bonus Power proportionally — investing here is a "both" multiplier that competes for the same win budget as the other paths, adding a genuine opportunity cost to every spending decision.

⚡ Proc Streak (costs Wins — capped at level 15)

Amplifies proc'd payouts when consecutive procs happen. Every time a Jackpot, Win Echo, or Fortune Charm fires on consecutive wins, a hidden counter increments. The counter resets on any win without a proc (losses leave it unchanged). The bonus multiplier applied to all proc'd payouts is:

multiplier = 1.0 + (streak_count × level × 0.005)

So at level 5 with a proc streak of 10, every proc fires at ×1.25 on top of its normal effect. Requires at least one proc upgrade to be owned (Jackpot, Win Echo, Fortune Charm, or Resilience).

Level	Cost (Wins)	Bonus at streak 10	Bonus at streak 20
1	3,000,000	×1.05	×1.10
3	8,000,000	×1.15	×1.30
5	20,000,000	×1.25	×1.50
10	50,000,000 × 1.50^(n)	×1.50	×2.00
15 (MAX)	—	×1.75	×2.50

This upgrade rewards players who build around proc rate (Jackpot Resonance + Echo Amplification + Moon Class) and sustain long proc chains. Resilience saves also contribute to the chain — a successful save on a loss increments your proc streak counter just like a win proc does, letting defensive play fuel offensive multipliers.

Proc Streak Counter

When Proc Streak is owned (level ≥ 1), a ⚡ counter appears in the left sidebar showing the current consecutive proc streak — displayed the same way the Lucky Seven spin counter is shown. It updates live on every spin result and disappears when the streak resets to zero.

🌌 Class System

Three equippable classes have been added to the top of the shop, each priced at 10,000,000 Wins and gated behind Tier 3 (5,000 total wins). All three can be purchased and owned simultaneously — only one can be equipped at a time. Equipping a new class automatically replaces the previous one. Clicking an already equipped class in the shop unequips it (returning to no class). Classes are functional, not cosmetic and their effects apply immediately on equip.

Class	Cost	Effect
🌍 Earth	10,000,000 wins	+25% to all fish income (manual reels and Auto-Fish)
🌙 Moon	10,000,000 wins	+5% added to every proc rate (Jackpot, Win Echo, Fortune Charm, Resilience)
⭐ Star	10,000,000 wins	+20% applied to win multiplier payouts

Earth compounds with Lure Mastery — both stack multiplicatively on catch value, making Earth + Lure Mastery the natural anchor for a fish-economy build.

Moon stacks directly on top of Jackpot Resonance and Echo Amplification proc rates, and also affects the base Fortune Charm rate and Resilience save chance (raising the effective ceiling from 60% to 65%). It is the natural class for a proc-chain build.

Star is a flat boost to all winning spins regardless of streak, making it the cleanest cross-build option for players who haven't committed to a proc or fish path.

Classes are equipped via the new /api/equip-class endpoint.

🔄 Fish Exchange

A new Fish Exchange panel has been added to the shop's functional tab (visible when you have a Fish Bucks balance above zero). It converts Fish Bucks into Wins at a 1:1 ratio with gentle diminishing returns — the more total Fish Bucks you have ever exchanged, the slightly worse your conversion rate becomes.

Rate formula:

rate = 1.0 / (1 + total_exchanged / 50,000,000)

At zero total exchanged, the rate is 1:1. At 50 million total exchanged (ever), the rate halves to 0.5:1. At 150 million total exchanged, the rate is 0.25:1. The rate never reaches zero and is personal — it doesn't interact with other players.

Two buttons are available:

10% — converts 10% of your current Fish Bucks balance.
ALL — converts your entire Fish Bucks balance.

The current effective rate is shown before confirming so there are no surprises. This gives players with large fishing surpluses (particularly those who have unlocked Master Lure + Lure Mastery) a meaningful outlet for excess Fish Bucks, and introduces genuine cross-economy competition: fish income can now feed the wins economy.

Balance: Bonus Power Rebalance

The Bonus Power multiplier curve has been adjusted at two points to reduce the dominance of the ~3:5 Win:Bonus ratio that defined last season's top builds.

What changed:

The fixed tier cap at level 6 has been reduced from ×100 to ×70. Beyond level 6, the per-level increment has been reduced from +10 to +8 for levels 7–30, and then to +5 per level past level 30.

Level	Old multiplier	New multiplier
1	×2	×2
2	×4	×4
3	×8	×8
4	×15	×15
5	×35	×35
6	×100	×70
10	×140	×102
20	×240	×182
30	×340	×262
40	×440	×312

The early curve (levels 1–5) is completely unchanged. The reduction only bites at level 6 and beyond — players who stopped investing in Bonus Power early won't notice a difference. The change is forward-looking: new levels bought in Season 7 return less than they would have last season, which opens the field for Jackpot Resonance, Echo Amplification, and Proc Streak to compete credibly for the same win budget.

Database

Migration 025_season7_upgrades.sql adds seven new columns to game_state:

Column	Type	Purpose
`lure_mastery_level`	INTEGER	Lure Mastery infinite level
`jackpot_resonance_level`	INTEGER	Jackpot Resonance infinite level
`echo_amp_level`	INTEGER	Echo Amplification infinite level
`proc_streak_level`	INTEGER	Proc Streak infinite level
`proc_streak`	INTEGER	Current consecutive proc streak count
`fish_exchange_total`	BIGINT	Lifetime Fish Bucks exchanged (feeds the rate formula)
`equipped_class`	VARCHAR(10)	Currently equipped class (`earth`, `moon`, `star`, or NULL)

All new columns reset to their defaults at season rollover.

Season 6 — Night Ocean — 17 Apr 2026

Season 6 overhauls fishing, balance, and the UI theme. The passive fish-clicking mechanic is replaced with an active Cast & Reel minigame; ability costs are significantly repriced to match the new economy; and the entire colour system is now driven by a CSS palette that carries forward cleanly into future seasons.

Cast & Reel Fishing Minigame

The passive fish-clicking mechanic has been replaced with an active, timing-based Cast & Reel minigame. Active players now clearly outpace AFK/bot play at every upgrade tier.

Loop:

Click 🎣 CAST to drop your line. Shadow fish appear in the water as you wait.
A bobber animates in the water. When the fish bites, it flashes and a bite bar begins depleting.
Click to reel before the bar empties to catch the fish. Click too early (before the bite) and it's an instant miss.
The server holds all timing — bite window, catch validation, and value calculation are anti-cheat authoritative.

Fish Catalog — 13 Species

Each catch awards Fish Bucks (formerly "Fish Clicks" — DB column unchanged):

Tier	Species	Value
Common	🐟 Minnow, 🦐 Shrimp, 🐠 Clownfish, 🐡 Pufferfish	1–3 🐟
Uncommon	🦀 Crab, 🦑 Squid, 🐙 Octopus	8–12 🐟
Rare	🦞 Lobster, 🐬 Dolphin, 🦈 Shark	20–40 🐟
Legendary	🐋 Blue Whale, 🧜 Mermaid, ⭐ Lucky Fish	75–120 🐟

Lucky Fish — catching a ⭐ sets a flag that doubles the value of your next successful catch.

Fish Encyclopaedia:

New 📖 Fish Encyclopaedia button (top-left). Shows all 13 species.
Undiscovered entries appear as silhouettes with ??? name, value, and rarity.
Entries unlock permanently on first catch. Progress counter shown.
Completing the Encyclopaedia (all 13 species) unlocks the Master Lure and Master Auto-Fisher upgrades.

🎣 Fishing Gear — New Shop Section

All items cost Wins. Lure and Auto-Fisher chains replace the retired Click Frenzy items.

Lure Upgrades — reduce bite wait time and multiply catch value:

Upgrade	Cost	Bite Speed	Value Multiplier
Lure I	100	10% faster	1.5×
Lure II	500	20% faster	2×
Lure III	2,500	35% faster	5×
Lure IV	15,000	50% faster	10×
⭐ Master Lure	500,000	65% faster	20× + +1% legendary chance each

Master Lure requires completing the Encyclopaedia. It also increases each legendary species' catch weight by +1 percentage point (Whale: 0.5% → 1.5%, Mermaid: 0.2% → 1.2%, Lucky: 0.3% → 1.3%).

Auto-Cast (1,000 wins) — automatically re-casts when idle. You still tap the bite window manually.

Auto-Fisher Upgrades — unlock the Auto-Fish tickbox; handle cast and reel automatically:

Upgrade	Cost	Catch Rate	Pool
Auto-Fisher I	300	45%	Common + Uncommon
Auto-Fisher II	2,000	55%	Common + Uncommon
Auto-Fisher III	12,000	65%	Common + Uncommon
🤖 Master Auto-Fisher	500,000	75%	Common + Uncommon + Rare

Master Auto-Fisher requires the Encyclopaedia. Auto-Fish never catches Whale, Mermaid, or Lucky Fish at any level. Auto-Fish fires every 6 seconds; rate-limited server-side.

Precise Angler Upgrades — reward fast reflexes with a catch value multiplier. Tier 2 (1,000 wins) required. Multipliers are exclusive — the highest gate hit wins:

Upgrade	Cost	Threshold	Multiplier
Precise Angler	50,000	≤ 50% through bar	1.2×
Precise Angler II	100,000	≤ 20% through bar	1.5×
🎯 Master Angler	500,000	≤ 15% through bar	2×

Master Angler requires the Encyclopaedia. All Precise Angler multipliers stack independently with Lure and Lucky Fish multipliers.

The catch popup and last-caught line both show the precise multiplier and percentage when a bonus triggers (e.g. 🎯 1.5x @ 17.2%).

Stats: Fastest Catch — the Stats panel now shows a Fastest Catch row (under Season Fish Bucks) tracking the player's best (lowest) precise percentage from manual fishing.

Balance Changes

Streak Bonus: Buffed Mid/High Range + Hard Cap

High streaks now pay significantly more. The soft-cap introduced in Season 5 was too aggressive — the mid and late curve segments have been boosted, and a hard cap replaces the old unbounded slow linear tail.

Streak	S5 Bonus	S6 Bonus	Change
15	4,096	4,096	unchanged
35	12,096	20,096	+66%
50	19,596	38,096	+94%
75	32,096	68,096	+112%
100	37,096	83,096	+124%
150	47,096	113,096 (cap)	+140%

These are raw bonus values before Win Multiplier, Bonus Multiplier, Win Echo, and Fortune Charm.

Tier 3 Gate Lowered: 10,000 → 5,000 Wins

Tier 3 upgrades (Win Echo, Jackpot, Fortune Charm, Lucky Seven, Resilience, Dice upgrades) now unlock at 5,000 wins instead of 10,000.

Upgrade Pacing: Cheaper Infinite Scaling

Win Power and Bonus Power infinite levels now scale more gently:

Upgrade	Old Base	Old Scale	New Base	New Scale
Win Power (inf)	500,000	×1.25/lvl	400,000	×1.18/lvl
Bonus Power (inf)	250,000	×1.25/lvl	200,000	×1.18/lvl

Ability Repricing

Bonus ability costs have been significantly raised to match the richer Season 6 economy. These are now late-game investments rather than early purchases:

Ability	Old Cost	New Cost
Fortune Charm	50,000	1,000,000
Lucky Seven	100,000	7,000,000
Win Echo	75,000	1,000,000
Resilience	5,000,000	10,000,000
Jackpot	300,000	3,000,000

Streak Armor Infinite tier costs have also been raised substantially (Lv 1: 500 → 500,000, scaling to Lv 10: 50,000 → 2,750,000) to reflect its defensive power at high streaks.

New Dice Upgrades

Two new Tier 3 dice upgrades:

🎲 Overcharge (100,000 wins) — raises max dice charges from 3 → 4.
🎲 Extra Die (1,000,000 wins) — roll 3 dice instead of 2. Range expands to 3–18. When 3 dice are in play they arrange in a triangle layout. New triple outcomes:
- Triple 6s (6,6,6): streak ×3 (Blessed Triple!)
- Triple 1s (1,1,1): streak ÷3 (Cursed Triple!)
- Pair of 6s: streak ×2 (unchanged) / Pair of 1s: streak ÷2 (unchanged)

Extra Die requires Dice Charge III. Both upgrades are Tier 3 (5,000 wins gate).

Community Pot: Slower Cap Growth

The pot target now grows by ×1.25 per fill instead of ×1.5. After 10 fills the target is ~9,300 instead of ~57,700.

Night Ocean Theme

Season 6 ships with a new CSS palette variable system. Every colour in the UI — buttons, glows, borders, progress bars, season countdown, active ability highlights — is now driven by a small set of CSS custom properties (--p, --p-lt, --p-md, etc.) set in :root. Future seasons override the palette in a single body.page-seasonN {} block with no manual per-element changes needed.

Season 6 palette — Night Ocean:

Primary: deep violet-indigo (#7766FF) — readable against the dark background (≥4.5:1 contrast)
Primary light: periwinkle (#9988FF) — used for UI text, glows, and active highlights
Secondary: coral-red (#CC2244) — loss accents and the season countdown badge
Background: near-black navy (#020810)

The season countdown timer now uses the secondary (coral) colour across all seasons that don't override it, replacing the leftover orange from Season 4. The community pot label and count text now track the primary palette instead of a hardcoded dark grey. Active ability buttons in the shop now use a palette-driven indigo gradient instead of a hardcoded green.

🌙 Season 6 Theme is available in the shop (Cosmetics → Page Themes, 1,000 losses) and is auto-granted to all players on rollover.

Chat Window Improvements

The chat panel is now resizable from the bottom-right corner (drag handle shown). Size persists across sessions via localStorage.
A small ✕ close button added to the top-right of the chat panel. Re-open via the 💬 button in the top-left user bar.

Balance Hotfix — 11 Apr 2026

Click Power Rebalanced

The Click Power infinite upgrade formula has been changed to grow more gradually, preventing compounding click/frenzy income from scaling out of control at higher levels.

New formula: each level adds +0.25× multiplier (was +1× per level).
- Lv 1: ×1.25 (was ×2), Lv 4: ×2.0 (was ×5), Lv 8: ×3.0 (was ×9)
Tier costs lowered to reflect the reduced per-level value:
- Lv 1–5: 75 / 250 / 600 / 1,400 / 3,000 wins (was 100 / 400 / 900 / 2,000 / 4,500)
Infinite levels beyond Lv 5 are unchanged (10,000 × 1.5^n). The upgrade still scales without limit.
Frenzy passive ticks continue to scale with Click Power.

Win Power & Bonus Power: Post-Tier Costs Reduced

The infinite levels beyond the fixed tier ladders were prohibitively expensive relative to their gains following the Season 5 streak bonus soft-cap. Both have been brought down:

Win Power (levels 8+):

Base cost: 1,000,000 → 500,000 wins
Scaling: ×1.4 → ×1.25 per level

Bonus Power (levels 7+):

Base cost: 500,000 → 250,000 wins
Scaling: ×1.4 → ×1.25 per level

Fixed tier ladders and multiplier values are unchanged.

Season 5 — 10 Apr 2026

Streak Bonus: Soft Cap

The streak bonus formula has been soft-capped to keep late-game streaks rewarding without becoming infinite.

Streaks 1–15: identical to before — exponential growth (×2 per step, up to 4,096 at streak 15).
Streaks 16–35: cubic growth — still large but tapering off (up to ~12,096 at streak 35).
Streaks 36–75: linear growth at +500 per streak step.
Streak 76+: slow linear growth at +200 per streak step.

Existing strategies are unchanged for the majority of players; the cap only affects streaks beyond 15.

Dice Roll Rework: Charge System

The Dice Roll mechanic has been overhauled. It no longer costs Losses — instead it uses a charge-based system.

Charges: you start with 1 maximum charge. Each charge replenishes every 10 minutes automatically. A countdown timer shows when the next charge arrives.
Requirement: you must have a win streak of 3 or more to roll. The dice can no longer be used on a loss streak.
Effect: the sum of both dice (2–12) is added directly to your win streak.
Snake Eyes (1+1): cursed roll — your win streak is halved. High risk at high streaks!
New upgrades in the shop let you increase your maximum charge capacity (see below).

Community Pot: 30-Minute Win Rate Windows

The Community Pot has been completely reworked for Season 5.

30-minute win rate boost: filling the pot activates a 30-minute server-wide win rate boost for all players. The boosted rate is shown in the Community Pot panel during the window, along with a countdown timer.
Stacking rate: each fill permanently increases the boost rate by +0.5% (50.0% → 50.5% → 51.0% → …), capped at 75%. The accumulated rate carries forward between fills, so each window is stronger than the last.
Between fills: win rate returns to the standard 50/50 until the pot is filled again. The pot display shows what rate the next fill will grant.
Target scaling: the target now scales by 50% per fill (instead of the old ×10 Fibonacci escalation). There is no ceiling — targets grow as long as the community keeps filling.
Season reset: the pot target resets to 1,000 at the start of Season 5.
12-hour decay: if the pot goes unfilled for 12 hours, the target shrinks by 20% (floored at 500) — pulling it back when community activity drops.
Window expiry: once the 30-minute window closes, the pot advances to the next (50% larger) target and resets for the next round.

Upgrade Tier Gating

Functional upgrades are now gated behind total win milestones to create a clearer early/mid/late-game progression.

Tier	Unlocks at	Items unlocked
Tier 1	Always	Speed upgrades, Guard, basic Frenzy, Win/Bonus/Click Power, etc.
Tier 2	1,000 wins	Regenerating Shield, Auto-Guard, Final Frenzy, Extra Dice Charge
Tier 3	10,000 wins	Fortune Charm, Lucky Seven, Win Echo, Jackpot, Resilience, Max Dice Charge

Locked items appear in the shop as greyed-out entries showing the required win count.

New Upgrades

🎲 Dice Charges

Two new upgrades extend your maximum dice charge capacity:

Upgrade	Cost	Effect
Extra Charge	2,000 wins (Tier 2)	Max charges: 1 → 2
Max Charge	15,000 wins (Tier 3, requires Extra Charge)	Max charges: 2 → 3

🛡️ Streak Armor (Infinite Upgrade)

Requires Resilience. Each level adds +1% to the Resilience save chance, which starts at 50% and is hard-capped at 60% (10 levels max).

Level	Cost	Save Chance
1	500 wins	51%
2	2,000 wins	52%
3	4,500 wins	53%
…	…	…
10	50,000 wins	60% (MAX)

Jackpot Rebalanced

Multiplier reduced: ×50 → ×25.
Trigger chance reduced: 2% → 1% per win.
New — Jackpot Echo: after a Jackpot hit there is a 5% chance the next spin also triggers a Jackpot (×25). The echo can only chain once per spin.

Season 5 Bioluminescence Theme

A new page theme — Bioluminescence — is the default look for Season 5. Cyan and coral accents replace the previous season's palette, covering the wheel, chat, leaderboard, and all UI chrome. It is also available as a purchasable cosmetic (1,000 Losses) for players who switch to another theme and want to return.

The Season 4 Theme (deep violet) is now available in the Page Theme shop for 1,000 Losses.

Dice Roll: Blessed Roll & Spin Gate

Two additional dice mechanics added:

Double Sixes (6+6): blessed roll — your win streak is doubled. The rarest outcome and the highest reward.
Spin gate: you must spin at least once between dice rolls. Rolling twice in a row without spinning in between is blocked. This prevents using the dice to repeatedly stack the streak without playing.

Mobile: Dice Panel on Main Page

The Dice Roll panel is now visible on the main page on mobile, matching the desktop layout. It was previously not shown on small screens.

Ocean Casino: Default Background & Animated Seabed

Ocean Casino is now the default background for all players — no purchase required to see it. Players who buy and equip a different background will override it as before.

The Ocean Casino background now features an animated seabed scene rendered behind the main UI. A static fallback is used automatically in Low-Spec Mode.

Latest — 4 Apr 2026

Mobile Responsiveness

The game is now fully playable on phones and tablets. Desktop layout is completely unchanged.

Bottom toolbar — a fixed tab bar appears on screens ≤ 768 px with five buttons: Shop 🏪, Leaderboard 🏆, Fish 🐟, Season Winners 🏅, and Stats 📊.
Shop drawer — the right-side panel (shop + sidebar) slides in from the right edge when tapped, and dismisses via the backdrop or a second tap on the toolbar button.
Fish & Community Pot — the fish mascot and Community Pot are combined into a single overlay card, opened with the 🐟 toolbar button. The Community Pot is hidden from the crowded top bar on mobile.
Leaderboard & Season Winners — both panels are hidden by default and toggled via the toolbar. The leaderboard docks above the toolbar; season winners appear as a full-width overlay below the top bar.
Backdrop dismiss — tapping outside any open panel closes it.
Wheel scaling — the wheel adapts to fill the available screen width/height on small viewports.
Compact top bar — username hidden, community pot moved to the fish panel, reduced height to maximise vertical space.

4 Apr 2026

Season 4 Balancing: Economy Overhaul

Functional upgrade chains repriced with ~10× per tier scaling. Late-game functional items now cost millions of Wins — Max Spin (1M), Instant Auto (1M), Final Frenzy (30M). Cosmetic item prices are unchanged.
Special Upgrades repriced ×100. Fortune Charm, Lucky Seven, Win Echo, and Jackpot are now 100× their previous cost. Resilience is ×10, now costing 5,000,000 Wins.

New Fish Skins (Season 4)

Five new cosmetic fish skins added, continuing the existing loss-cost chain from Whale (2,000):

Skin	Cost	Emoji
Seal	3,500	🦭
Shrimp	6,000	🦐
Coral	10,000	🪸
Mermaid	17,500	🧜
Crocodile	30,000	🐊

Season 3 Page Theme

A new Season 3 Theme cosmetic is now available in the Page Theme section of the shop (5,000 Losses).
Applies the purple & orange colour scheme from Season 3 — useful if you're running a different page theme and want to switch back.
Also fixes a pre-existing bug where the Season 2 page theme could not actually be equipped (it was missing from the server-side cosmetic slot registry).

🎲 Dice Roll

A new high-risk mechanic has been added between the wheel and the shop panel.

Cost: spending all your current Losses (zeroed out on roll).
Effect: two dice are rolled (each 1–6). The sum (2–12) amplifies your current streak — it extends a win streak further, or deepens a loss streak further.
Win streak: roll adds to your streak (e.g. streak 5 + roll 9 → streak 14).
Loss streak: roll subtracts from your streak (e.g. streak −3 + roll 7 → streak −10).
Zero streak: the Roll button is disabled — there is no streak to amplify.
Reward: streak bonuses are exponential (×2 per step from streak 3+), so boosting a win streak can unlock massive multipliers immediately.
Risk: your entire loss balance is consumed, and rolling on a loss streak makes it worse. The dice do not guarantee a win on your next spin.
The Roll button shows the exact loss cost before you commit. It is disabled if you have 0 losses, streak is zero, or a spin is in progress.

Leaderboard: Hide Zero-Win Players

Players with 0 wins are now hidden from the public leaderboard. Only players who have earned at least one win appear in the top 10.

28 Mar 2026

Quality of Life

Shop prices now use the same abbreviated format as win/loss counters (e.g. 10K, 1M, 70K) instead of raw numbers.
Community Pot: the flat +10k contribution button has been replaced with a +10% button that contributes 10% of the current pot target. The amount scales as the pot grows (100M target → +10M, 1B target → +100M, etc.).
Community Pot: the "All in" button now correctly caps at whatever is remaining to fill the pot, rather than donating the player's full click balance.
Win counter: wins are now capped at 9.99e99 to prevent the score displaying as Infinity at extreme multiplier values.

27 Mar 2026

Season 3: Community Pot & Win Rate Boost

Introduced the Community Pot, a global objective where all players can contribute their Fish Clicks.
When the pot reaches its target, a 1-hour 75% Win Rate Boost is activated for everyone on the server.
The pot target starts at 100 million and multiplies by 10 each time it is completed.
New /api/community-pot/state and /api/community-pot/contribute endpoints added.
Current pot progress and active boost status are visible to all players.

Multi-Currency Shop System

The shop has been refactored to use a logical multi-currency system to balance progression:
- Functional Upgrades (Speed, Multipliers, Click Frenzy, Protection, Special Upgrades) now cost Wins.
- Cosmetic Items (Skins, Fish Size, Trails, Themes, Backgrounds, Page Themes) now cost Losses.
- The Singularity remains the ultimate goal, costing 1 Billion Fish Clicks.
Existing players' balances are preserved, and item costs have been adjusted to suit the new currencies.
Auto-Guard now costs 500 Wins to trigger (was 500 Fish Clicks).

New Cosmetic Content

Season 2 Page Theme: A new premium theme added to the shop for those who want to relive the glory of the previous season.

Enhanced Stats & Season History

The Stats panel (📊) now includes a Season History section.
Track your finishing position and final win count for all completed seasons.

Technical Improvements

The /api/spin response now returns wins_delta and losses_delta instead of absolute totals, improving client-side animation sync and preventing race conditions.
Database schema updated (Migration 008) to support the Community Pot and history tracking.

24 Mar 2026

Community Leaderboard Panel

Leaderboard redesigned from a horizontal scrolling ticker to a vertical panel at the bottom-left, styled to match the Season Winners box.
Expanded from top 5 to top 10 players.
Now tracks and displays each player's all-time highest win streak (persisted in the database).
Current active win streak shown per player — hidden if none.
Active win streaks glow with an escalating fire effect: colour shifts from warm orange at streak 1 through to bright red with a multi-layer glow at streak 10+.
Fish click balance counter moved above the leaderboard in the same bottom-left stack.
Leaderboard refreshes every 5 seconds.

Shop Collapse Toggle

A › button in the top-right of the shop panel slides the shop fully off-screen.
The button stays pinned in place — clicking ‹ brings the shop back. Smooth 0.3s transition.

Rising Fire Effect

A full-viewport fire effect now rises behind all game UI, scaling with your win streak.
Built with HTML5 Canvas — no external libraries.
Embers mode: rising particle sparks, visible from streak 3.
Inferno mode: classic cellular automaton heat buffer with upward propagation, visible from streak 10.
Mix mode (default): embers and inferno layered together with additive blending for the most dramatic look.
Fire height scales linearly with streak — the screen is filled around streak 30, reaching a full inferno at 50+.
Intensity lerps smoothly toward the current streak value each frame: wins cause the fire to grow gradually, and a loss causes it to fall gracefully rather than cut out abruptly.
Low-Spec Mode and OS prefers-reduced-motion suppress the effect entirely.

23 Mar 2026

Bug Fix: Fish Clicks Appearing to Drop After Each Spin

Fixed a race condition where frenzy tick responses and spin responses could arrive out of order at the client.
With high Click Power (e.g. ×20), each frenzy tick grants +10,000 fish clicks. If the spin response (carrying a stale pre-frenzy balance) arrived after the frenzy response, it would overwrite the display — making it look like ~10k clicks were removed per spin.
The spin endpoint now sends a fish_clicks_delta (0 normally, −500 when Auto-Guard fires) instead of an absolute balance. The client applies it as a delta, so response ordering no longer matters.

Bug Fix: Auto-Guard Guard State Not Reflected in UI

After Auto-Guard restored a broken Guard, the "🛡️ Guard ready" indicator and shop state never updated to show Guard as owned — even though the backend had correctly re-added it.
Fixed: the spin response now properly syncs Guard ownership in the frontend.

Bug Fix: Auto-Guard Description Clarified

Description now reads "500 fish clicks" instead of "500 clicks" to make clear the cost is in the in-game currency (flat, not scaled by Click Power).

Anti-Click-Farming: DB-Level Click Budget

The /api/fish-click endpoint now enforces a 75 raw clicks per 5-second rolling window per user, tracked atomically in PostgreSQL with FOR UPDATE.
Previously, the per-worker Flask-Limiter (memory:// storage) could be bypassed in a 4-worker setup, giving up to 40× the intended click rate via scripted requests.
Requests exceeding the budget still return 200 but award 0 clicks — no error shown, no disruption for normal play.
Flask-Limiter on fish-click tightened from 10/s to 5/s as a first-pass filter.
/api/click-frenzy now has a 2-second server-side cooldown (enforced in the DB) and a 1/s Flask-Limiter.

Bug Fix: Guard No Longer Hidden in Shop

Guard now stays visible in the shop permanently, even after purchasing Auto-Guard. Previously it was incorrectly treated as a superseded tier and hidden.

Auto-Guard

New upgrade in the Protection section (costs 10,000 clicks, requires Guard).
Toggle it on/off like Final Frenzy.
When enabled and your Guard breaks, a new Guard is automatically purchased for 500 clicks immediately before your next spin.
If you have fewer than 500 clicks when it tries to trigger, Auto-Guard disables itself and shows a "Not enough clicks" warning.

Low-Spec Mode Persists Per User

Low-Spec Mode preference is now saved to your account in the database.
Toggling it on one device/session will be remembered when you log in elsewhere.
The ⚡ toggle in the top bar works the same as before.

Infinite Upgrades — Win Power, Bonus Power & Click Power

The fixed upgrade chains for Win Power, Bonus Power, and Click Power have been replaced with a single upgradeable item per category that can be purchased unlimited times.

Win Power

Levels 1–7 match the old tier costs and multipliers exactly (x2 → x128).
Level 8+ continues at +16 multiplier per level (x144, x160, …), with costs scaling at ×1.4 per level starting from 1,000,000.

Bonus Power

Levels 1–6 match the old tier costs and multipliers exactly (x2 → x100).
Level 7+ continues at +10 per level, costs scale at ×1.4 per level from 500,000.

Click Power

Levels 1–5 match the old tier costs and multipliers exactly (x2 → x6).
Level 6+ continues at +1 per level, costs scale at ×1.5 per level from 10,000.
Click multiplier applies to both manual fish clicks and all Frenzy tiers.

Existing users are automatically migrated — no power is lost. Your highest owned tier becomes your starting level.

Shop items now display current level and multiplier: Lv3 · x8 → x16.

22 Mar 2026

Frenzy Scales with Click Power

Passive click Frenzy ticks are now multiplied by your Click Power tier.
Example: Frenzy I + Click Power level 2 (Triple Click) = 2 passive clicks per 5s instead of 1.
Applies to all Frenzy tiers including Final Frenzy.
Shop descriptions updated to reflect scaling.

Rate Limiter Fixed for Shared Networks

The API rate limiter now tracks limits per user account instead of per IP address.
Previously, all users on the same network shared one rate limit bucket — one user hitting the limit would cause 429 errors for everyone else.
Unauthenticated requests still fall back to IP-based limiting.

Fish-Click API Capped at 10 Per Request

The /api/fish-click endpoint now accepts a maximum of 10 clicks per request.
Prevents exploits that manually send inflated click counts (e.g. count=1000).

21 Mar 2026

Final Frenzy is Now Toggleable

Final Frenzy now works as a toggle (like cosmetics) rather than a permanent owned state.
Active: 500 auto-clicks every 5s, manual fish clicking disabled.
Inactive: falls back to Frenzy V behaviour (100 clicks/5s), manual clicking re-enabled.
Toggle in the shop using the Active/Equip button.

Performance & Low-Spec Mode

Added Low-Spec Mode toggle (⚡ button in the top bar, saved to localStorage):
- Disables all infinite CSS animations.
- Removes GPU-heavy drop-shadow filters, fish aura, wheel glow, and ambient border pulse.
- Blocks confetti particles.
Automatic respect for the OS prefers-reduced-motion setting.
Fish aura blur capped at 120px (was 600px).
Thunder aura animation slowed from 0.3s → 0.8s (was causing excessive repaints).
Added will-change hints to wheel canvas and bulbs.
Confetti auto-clears after 3.5s so DOM elements don't persist.

Bug Fixes

Shop snap-back: items bought between spins (e.g. buying a guard mid-result) are no longer wiped when the spin result is applied.
Streak counter animation: fixed a bug where the streak animation replayed on every increment, making updates appear invisible.
Shield indicator: repositioned above the streak panel so it no longer jumps when the streak panel appears/disappears.

New Upgrade: Final Frenzy

Costs 100,000 clicks, requires Frenzy V.
Grants 500 auto-clicks every 5 seconds.
Disables manual fish clicking while active.

20 Mar 2026

Shop: Special Upgrade Popups & Stacking Display

Special upgrades (Fortune Charm, Lucky Seven, Win Echo, Jackpot, Resilience) now show a popup notification when they trigger during a spin.
Shop now collapses owned upgrade tiers — only the most recent tier and the next available tier are shown, keeping the list clean.
Loss streak tracking added to the database (loss_count column) for future use.

Staging Environment & Deploy Tooling

New staging environment at port 5001 (wheeldb_staging database, staging git branch).
Database migration system: numbered SQL files in migrations/, run with python3 migrate.py.
deploy.sh script to merge staging → master, run migrations, rebuild JSX, and reload gunicorn.
--yes flag added to deploy.sh for unattended/automated deploys.

Major Gameplay Expansion

New upgrades and cosmetics added:

Functional Upgrades

Fortune Charm (500) — 25% chance to boost streak bonus payouts by 25%.
Lucky Seven (1,000) — every 7th spin is guaranteed a win.
Win Echo (750) — 20% chance to double wins earned on any win.
Resilience (500,000) — 50% chance that a loss on a win streak only drops the streak by 1 instead of resetting it.
Jackpot (3,000) — 1% chance per win to multiply gains by 50×.

New Cosmetics

Fish size upgrades: Big Fish, Giant Fish, Colossal (scales the fish sprite).
Fish trail effects: Sparkle, Fire, Rainbow, Frost, Thunder, Galaxy.
Wheel themes: Fire, Ice, Neon, Void, Gold.
Background atmospheres: Ocean, Royal, Inferno, Enchanted Forest, The Abyss, Cosmic Casino.
Page theme: Season 1 (classic gold & orange).
Golden Wheel glow ring.
Confetti upgrades: Confetti+, Confetti++, Confetti MAX.
Party Mode: confetti on every spin.

Legendary

The Singularity (1,000,000,000) — every spin is a win.

Wins Column: Arbitrary Precision

wins column migrated from BIGINT to NUMERIC — supports arbitrarily large win totals.
Removed the previous 100 billion win bonus cap.

19 Mar 2026

Major Refactor & UI Overhaul

Backend split into modules: game.py, models.py, db.py, seasons.py, security.py.
Full roulette-style green/red colour theme.
Shop split into Cosmetics and Upgrades tabs.
Leaderboard bar pinned to the bottom of the screen.
Layout and spacing improvements across all screen sizes.

Seasons System

Season 1 launched. Seasons track per-user win/loss history and freeze a top-5 leaderboard snapshot at the end of each season.
Season info shown in the UI; season transitions announce in a toast.

Click Frenzy Upgrades (Frenzy I–V)

Passive auto-click upgrades, each triggered every 5 seconds:

Frenzy I (150) — +1 click/5s
Frenzy II (600) — +5 clicks/5s
Frenzy III (2,400) — +20 clicks/5s
Frenzy IV (9,600) — +50 clicks/5s
Frenzy V (38,400) — +100 clicks/5s

Spin Speed Upgrades

Speed Boost (50) — 4.5s → 3s
Turbo Spin (200) — 3s → 1.5s
Hyper Spin (600) — 1.5s → 1s
Ultra Spin (2,000) — 1s → 0.75s
Max Spin (6,000) — 0.75s → 0.5s

Auto-Speed Upgrades

Quick Auto (75) — auto-spin delay 1.5s → 1s
Rapid Auto (300) — 1s → 0.5s
Instant Auto (1,200) — 0.5s → 0 (no delay)

Click Power Upgrades

Double Click through Hexa Click — multiplies fish clicks per tap from ×2 up to ×6.

Guard

Guard (300) — 50% chance to block any loss. Breaks on a successful block, survives on failure.
Regenerating Shield (800) — blocks any loss when charged; recharges after 5 wins, never breaks.
Animated shield feedback shown in the result banner when a shield activates or breaks.

Authentication & Accounts

Full account system: register/login with username and password.
Single active session enforced — logging in elsewhere signs out your previous session.
Device-ID cookie tracking (1-year cookie) instead of IP-based account limits.
Rate-limited login attempts with escalating lockouts: 5 fails → 1 min, 10 fails → 5 min, 20 fails → 1 hour.
Username comparison is case-insensitive.
Fixed mobile login autocapitalisation.

Leaderboard

Top 5 players by wins shown in a pinned bottom bar.
Auto-refreshes every 60 seconds.

Mobile & Layout

Fully responsive layout scaling across all screen sizes.
Fixed auto-spin not triggering on the first spin when checking the auto-spin box.