Village panel now shows daily consumption rates alongside stockpiles (e.g. Food: 15 (-2/d), Wood: 7 (-1/d)). Rates are computed over a rolling 200-tick (~1 day) window by summing item_consumed economic events. The rate display only appears when non-zero, keeping the panel clean until actual consumption occurs. Closes the feedback loop: events show individual transfers, rates show aggregate trends.
Press [ to slow down, ] to speed up through 6 levels: 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 4x, 10x. Clock delta is multiplied by the current speed, so time_of_day advances proportionally and the visual day-night cycle stays synced. Current speed shown in the village panel header. 10x makes a full day cycle watchable in ~24 seconds. Speed changes are non-destructive to simulation determinism.
When an NPC dies from starvation, their highest-familiarity companion enters mourning for 100 ticks (~half a day). Mourning NPCs skip work: they rest if energy is low, otherwise wander near home. Mourning_ticks counts down each tick through ActionExecutionSystem and is serialized for save/load continuity with backward-compatible default of 0. This gives the familiarity graph its first behavioral consequence.
ProfessionDefinition gains schedule_offset (-0.12 to +0.12 fraction of day). ActionSelectionSystem shifts each NPC's effective time_of_day by their profession offset before determining sleep/meal/work periods. Farmers wake earliest (-0.04h = ~2:38am), woodcutters slightly early (-0.02h), guards slightly late (+0.02h), scholars latest (+0.05h = ~5:45am). Wanderers have no offset. The village now has naturally staggered rhythms instead of everyone doing the same thing at the same time.
Patrol and study now consume 1 wood from the village woodpile on completion, recording an item_consumed economic event. This gives wood a purpose and creates resource pressure between gathering and work-support activities. Familiarity serialization switched from raw Dictionary to sorted Array of {id, score} pairs for deterministic JSON checksum output across save/load.
NPCs who target the same resource or site concurrently gain mutual familiarity +0.1 per encounter, capped at 1.0. Action selection now receives the full NPC array and adds a +0.3 utility bonus for actions that familiar NPCs are currently performing - NPCs gravitate toward their housemates' professions. Inspector shows the highest-familiarity NPC with a percentage score under the resource lines.
NPCs whose home positions are within 4m of each other gain mutual familiarity at baseline 0.5. Stored per NPC as a Dictionary keyed by other npc_id, serialized through NPCStateRecord with backward-compatible fallback for old saves. Household pairs form naturally from the home_positions configuration in main.tscn. Includes save/load round-trip test verifying familiarity persists.
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