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PERSISTENCE
Plants are saved and keep growing in real time while you're offline
Water is the fuel: full tank = ~3 min of offline growth, then the plant freezes (stase)
No offline deaths ever. A dry plant goes dormant and waits for you
Welcome back recap on login + floating beacons over pots that need you (harvest / collect / water / dead)
AUTOMATION (Equipment Shop)
Drip Irrigation ($8k, L12): auto-water online AND offline, no more stase
Harvest Drone ($25k, L18): harvests mature females, flips photoperiods, collects cured buds. Never touches males
Auto-Planter ($60k, L28): replants the same strain when a pot frees up
All three = true AFK farming: full grow cycles run while you're away, only selling is manual
BREEDING
Press B on a pot: BREED HOLD, automation leaves it alone

full sfx bank + radio shuffle (playlist is at 19 tracks now, streamed)
every shop is level-gated now. no more buying god seeds with your starting cash, the game is a climb
examine hud: aim at a pot, full plant details on screen
lineage rework: strains show their 2 real parents like an actual pedigree

tutorial fixes: your first plant is always female, no more getting stuck on a male at the harvest step