HENCEFORTH PRIVATE ALPHA TESTER BUILD v0.20.1.83
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HOW TO START
1. Extract the ZIP to its own folder.
2. Double-click START_HENCEFORTH.bat, or open index.html in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox.
3. Create a character or continue with an existing character.

CHARACTERS AND BACKUPS
- The game stores one browser record for each character in the profile used to open it.
- Use Characters > Export All Characters to download a JSON backup file.
- Store the backup in Documents, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, or another safe folder.
- Use Import Character File to restore the downloaded JSON later.
- Do not edit the JSON backup manually; altered files may fail to restore or produce invalid test results.

WHAT TO TEST
- Quest acceptance, prerequisites, item turn-ins, and rewards.
- Gathering, quarrying, angling, forgecraft, leatherworking, foraging, harvesting, and offline progress.
- Gathering tools, harvested flowers/roots/special ingredients, and potion crafting queues.
- Healing spells, Mage/Cleric/Paladin classes, combat victory audio, and potion effects.
- Combat, enemy special attacks, loot choices, inventory, bank, and equipment.
- v0.15.1 boss encounters: fight through minions before the boss, inspect encounter loot odds, and use the Combat World Space body-plan prototype for bipeds, quadrupeds, six-legged creatures, and spiders.
- v0.15.4 adds animated approach-and-return combat actions, distinct melee/ranged/magic/healing feedback, and a healing turn that skips the next attack phase. v0.15.5 keeps the attack-damage notifier visible longer and clears actor animations when combat completes. v0.15.6 adds combat action tooltips, two potion hotbar slots in Equipment & Gear, potion references in Combat World Space, and a live combat log directly beneath the animation. v0.15.7 establishes the supplied flame emblem as the shared browser-tab identity. v0.15.8 replaces the abstract landing-page panel with a cinematic Greyhaven watchfire scene from Act I and lore-led flavor text. v0.15.9 adds acknowledgement popups for trade-skill levels and lore-driven Ironveil Shelf and Mistglass Coast art on the public site. v0.16.0 adds a stable three-scene above-the-fold world carousel, flicker-resistant tooltips, interaction coverage, styled combat events, and small/medium/large immediate and regrowth potion tiers with recipes and enemy drops. v0.16.1 adds the full free-to-craft potion families, local combat-log export scopes, font-size and soundtrack preferences, top-bar hero progression, craftable gathering tools, durability, and a Level 2 repair quest. v0.16.2 adds custom trade-skill quantities, rotating normalized MP3 soundtracks, live combat-world HP bars, one-action-per-turn combat resolution, out-of-combat healing, and hover/focus inventory item facts. v0.17.00 adds capped combat-loot stacks, one-per-stack gear and tools, title-triggered item detail popovers with stack limits, mathematically correct level-up growth, and more prominent hero name/class display. The startup acknowledgement recommends creating a new character for v0.17.00; crafting cards show clean output names with rarity-colored hover/focus attributes.
- v0.17.1 keeps soundtrack playback persistent across navigation with a 9-second inter-track pause. v0.17.2 preserves custom craft quantities through refreshes and shows a floating crafted-item notification with quantity and destination. v0.17.3 adds an interactive feedback form and celebrates the new soundtrack rotation at startup.
- Character creation and selection, automatic progress storage, backup/import, death rules, audio, and themes.

REPORTING A PROBLEM
Please include:
- What you were trying to do.
- What happened instead.
- The exact steps that reproduce it.
- Browser and Windows version.
- A screenshot when useful.
- Whether the issue still occurs after reopening the game.

PRIVATE TESTING NOTICE
This preview is provided only for invited testing. Please do not redistribute the game files, post screenshots or video publicly, publish story/content details, or attempt to extract unpublished materials. No roadmap, development editor, internal test plan, source-control files, company documents, or private business information are included in this package.

IMPORTANT LIMITATION
This is a browser-based local build. The JavaScript and game content needed to run it are delivered to the tester's computer and cannot be made truly secret. The package removes internal tools and documents, but it cannot prevent a technically skilled recipient from inspecting the client-side code or altering local character records. Public or untrusted distribution will require a server-authoritative build.