PATCH 3.3: THE LEVIATHAN'S BROOD

🥚 PATCH 3.3: "THE LEVIATHAN'S BROOD" (Companions & Crafting)

Theme: Hatching digital companions to aid your deep dives and automating your resource generation.

🟢 LOCKED IN: The Abyssal Forge

• • A massive new crafting UI. Requires 1 Artifact Shard + 6 Midnight Pearls and a strict 24-hour real-time countdown to forge a Companion Egg.
    
    

🟢 LOCKED IN: The Companion System

• • Hatched pets that grant passive buffs (e.g., "The Neon Ray: Upgrades your Decompression Allowance from 10 mins/hr to 15 mins/hr").
    
    

🟡 BLUEPRINT: Idle "Expeditions"

• • Send your idle companions out on 8-hour background missions to passively mine Neon Scraps or Blue Dust while you are logged off.
    
    

🔴 SCRAPPED: Companion Trading

• • Companions are soul-bound to the Surfer who forged them to preserve the rarity of Artifact Shards.