Gifts from friends (2026-10-29)

Why

• A gift came once a day after the yard had been open 20 to 40 minutes. Leaving the app open was enough; no one had to play.
• Yards in the games this one draws on give things for being together, not for time passing.
• So a gift now follows what the person and a friend did together, and growing closer brings one too.

Rules

What	Rule	Why
Everyday gift	At most one every other local day for the whole yard (GIFT_EVERY_DAYS 2)	Fewer, so each one counts; more friends do not multiply them
Who brings it	A friend the person did something with that day: points other than time together on that date (Bonds::together_on, bond.rs)	Time alone in the yard brings nothing
The wait	Once one may come and the person has done something with a friend that day: 5 minutes for the first, then 10 to 20 (growth.js); a wait from an earlier day starts again	Comes soon after playing, still not at once
Where the wait lives	giftWait in the garden (after: the last gift's day, dueAt ms), set by waitForGift	A restart keeps it, with no browser storage; a wait set before another gift came no longer counts
Closer	One gift for each new level from 2 to 5 (thanksGift, thanked per friend), a little after the level is reached, on a day the person did something with that friend (together_on); a level reached while the yard and box were full comes later, one level at a time	Growing closer is felt in the yard, not only on the name tag
Memento	At level 4, or the first level after it, the friend's own gift: one kind picked from the friend's id (memento_kind), marked with a heart. Not "keepsake", which names the dug treasures	Each friend gives something of its own
Gift box	When the yard holds 12, a new gift waits in the box (boxed, BOX_MAX 12) in the album's gift book; it is set out from there once there is room	No gift is lost to a full yard
Putting away	Any gift is removed as before; a memento goes back into the box, or with the box full is removed too	A friend's own gift is never thrown away by accident
A friend that leaves	Its thanked entry goes; what it brought stays	The yard keeps its things

Limits

• No new art: the memento is one of the 16 everyday gift kinds, so the album has no new entries for it. Two friends can share a keepsake kind.
• A friend already at level 2 or more when this ships brings one gift for its current level, not one for each level it passed.
• The backend checks every rule; the page only decides the moment and the friend.

Data

• garden in state.json gains boxed, thanked and giftWait; decor items gain from and memento. Older files read as empty.
• limits() sends giftBox and giftEveryDays; src/core/limits.js keeps the same values (tests/limits.test.mjs).
• The old per-profile browser record (gift-progress:<folder>) is no longer read.

Follow-up: closeness and the album follow what is done (2026-10-29)

Level gifts made the speed of closeness matter: a yard left open for a day grew a friend faster than playing with it, and so brought gifts for time alone.

What	Rule	Why
Time together	2 points every 10 minutes the yard is seen, up to 12 a day (TIME_DAILY, an hour)	A window left open no longer outruns play
Pats	Up to 10 of the day's 40 points (PAT_DAILY)	A minute of clicking does not fill the day; treats, talk, watering and catching do the rest
A day	Every reason, time included, counts toward a date that has come (has_come)	One day's counters for all reasons
Fishing alone	A friend at level 3 still goes on its own, but a bite waits 4 seconds for the person to press the float and gets away otherwise	The album and closeness fill only from what the person does

Days to each level for one friend, before → after:

Play	Points a day	Levels 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Yard open 8 hours, no play	96 → 12	1 / 3 / 6 / 11 → 5 / 17 / 42 / 84
Day's worth of play, 2 hours seen	64 → 52	1 / 4 / 8 / 16 → 2 / 4 / 10 / 20
Some play (25), 1 hour seen	37 → 37	2 / 6 / 14 / 28 (same)

• Points already earned stay; no friend's level goes down.
• Flowers and trees still reach the album as they grow: the person planted them.