The Chronology

Overland Hexcrawl Maps: Lay a hex grid over any map for overland travel, snap tokens to hexes and use fog of war to reveal the wilds as your party explores.

Meet Cif, Your Built-in Guide: Ask questions about Codex Cryptica and get answers that fit the screen you are on, with quick prompts to get you started. Cif is also aware of what you have open, from the Explorer to the Shelf.

Multiple Calendar Eras: Give your calendar several eras and number years from any starting point, with clearer year suffix settings.

A Livelier Graph: Groups of related entities now sit together on soft backgrounds, images appear faster and the layout spreads out more clearly. You can also hide individual connections from the graph and diagram.

Smarter Generators: AI-generated names now reflect the culture they come from, and every theme grounds its results in the right genre.

Share Your Templates: Browse and share entity templates through the community directory, straight from the Explorer and Settings.

Better on Phones: Larger touch targets, readable text and map controls that fit small screens, with a button to maximise the map or tuck its controls away.

Maps That Recover: If a map's image cannot be loaded, you now see a clear error with a retry, and can choose a new image. Campaign Label rename and delete now work across the whole vault.

Session Journal: Keep a running record of your game from anywhere in the app. Write notes with formatting and a live preview, edit and reorder entries, and let rolls, card draws and table results log themselves. Turn what happened into characters, places and lore when you're ready.

Entity Reports: Pick some entities on the canvas, graph or table and generate a report from them, with locations, connections and their sources included. Save it as an ordinary note you can edit and read in Zen mode.

Entity Templates in Settings: See every starting layout for new notes in one place, duplicate a built-in one, and edit it as plain markdown. Choose your own default for each type of entity, and import or export templates to share. New characters start from your choice, and asking the Oracle to revise a note now keeps to it. Includes a compact Table Card for improvised NPCs.

See the Dice: Open up any resolved roll to see the individual dice behind it, in roll tables, the journal, stat sheets and solo adventures. Roll tables now also handle multi-dice formulas such as keep highest and keep lowest.

Richer Canvases: Give entity cards different looks, show a faction's roster right on its card, and browse a member image gallery.

Saved Views Keep Your Layout: Return to a saved graph view and find its arrangement exactly as you left it.

Faster Cloud Backup: Backups now send only what changed, so they finish sooner and use less of your connection. You can also attach a vault to an existing backup.

Session Prep Builder: Answer a few guided questions and get AI-assisted prep for your next session.

A Bigger Generator Library: Create rumours, heists, constellations, personalities, holidays and festivals, and superhero stories, with more ways to bring your setting to life.

A Better Way to Find Generators: Browse clearer categories, favourite the tools you use most, and search quickly from your campaign workspace.

My Stuff: Keep generated creations in a personal library, then share them with a link or remix a shared result for your own campaign.

Cloud Save Sync: When Cloud Save is enabled, changes to your vault sync automatically, helping keep your backup up to date.

New Worlds to Explore: Build pirate adventures and starship campaigns with dedicated content packs, or use the Superhero theme and generators for comic-book worlds.

AI RPG Idea Developer: Turn a rough campaign premise into a more developed adventure direction while keeping your original idea at the centre.

Partner Generator Handoffs: Send characters, creatures, and other creations to compatible tools, so you can keep building without starting over.

More Table-Ready Guidance: Explore new practical RPG guides for campaign roles, investigation, political intrigue, character advancement, and choosing a game system, alongside faster search across Explore.

Solo Adventure Mode: Play a full campaign with no other players — the Oracle runs the GM side, tracks your session, and keeps a live transcript with a streamlined dice and tools drawer.

Opt-In Cloud Backup: Securely back up your vault to Codex Cryptica Cloud with one toggle. Off by default, fully reversible, and never used for anything but keeping your copy safe.

Vector Silhouette Library: Every character, creature, location, and faction now gets a fitting vector token automatically when it has no portrait yet, matched to your world's genre and theme.

Random Tables & Card Decks: Build your own roll tables and card decks — loot, omens, NPC quirks, whatever your table needs — roll them inline in chat, and import or export a deck to share.

Virtual Tabletop Overhaul: A restocked tile deck, inline note editing, an adjustable pinned sidebar, and Token Vision so each player's fog of war follows their own character.

Expanded Generator Library: New dedicated generators for campaign villains, star systems, artifacts, minor magic items, creatures, encounters, and social hubs — all working fully offline, no AI connection required.

Reusable Stat Sheet Presentations: Design a custom character or NPC sheet layout once, then share it across your whole roster.

Rich Table Editing: Paste a Markdown table straight into any entity's notes, or build one from scratch with the new table toolbar.

Guided Mode Assistance: Toggleable workflow assistant that dynamically analyzes your campaign vault to suggest structural next steps and lore connections.

Quick Start Wizard: Onboard new campaigns in seconds with theme selection, genre styling, and pre-seeded starter constellations.

Intent-Driven Entity Creation: Draft new characters, factions, locations, and lore based on narrative intent rather than bare category forms.

Starter Constellation Seeds: Pre-connected lore networks that give new worlds immediate depth and relationship links out of the box.

Contextual Structural Banners: Non-intrusive workspace banners highlighting missing connections and logical next steps for your active setting.

Dungeon / Delve Generator: Generate a fully realized explorable location — a haunted crypt, a corporate blacksite, a pirate hideout, whatever fits your world's theme — complete with history, current conflict, factions, hazards, a central secret, and adventure hooks.

Dungeon & Delve Structural Builder: Turn a generated delve into a room-by-room map with connected areas, loops, and hidden routes you can explore and edit on an interactive canvas.

Layered Art Direction: Character portraits and scene art now pick up a faction's visual identity automatically, respect a subject's stature and scale, and keep canon details intact even when a description gets compressed.

Smoother First Run: A redesigned onboarding tour and Getting Started hub walk new worldbuilders through their first steps, with better tablet support.

Import From Other Tools, Phase 2: Bring in a full exported world package — images included, not just the text.

Thread Weaver Import: Import directly from Thread Weaver and Scabard exports with wiki links and cell relationships preserved, backed by a new in-app migration guide.

Mobile Image Uploads: Attach or replace an entity's image straight from your phone.

Session Voice Chat: Talk with your players without leaving the app. Start a voice channel from the header while hosting a live session — players join with one click, can mute themselves, and everyone sees who's in the channel.

Family Trees & Lineages: Open a full family tree for any character, then zoom out to a multi-generation lineage view. Siblings and relatives are linked up automatically as you record parents and partners.

Language Generator: Give your world its own tongues. Generate languages grounded in your existing lore, with naming styles that follow your world's genre.

Entity Table View: See your whole vault as a sortable, filterable table — perfect for quick audits, label cleanups, and finding what's missing.

Entity Timeline: A new Timeline tab on every entity shows the events it took part in, and you can link events from either side.

Creature Packs: Fill your bestiary in a couple of clicks with ready-made creature packs themed to your world's setting.

Import Worlds from Other Tools: Bring an exported world file into your vault with a guided review step — you decide what gets added or updated, and re-importing a newer export later is safe.

Discover & Share Fairly: Browse the searchable directory of public worlds, and shared worlds now carry fan-content notices with a simple way to report copyright concerns.

Share Your World: Create a read-only link so players can explore the parts of your campaign you choose to share, even when you are offline.

Keep GM Notes Private: GM-only notes, art direction, and links to hidden content are automatically excluded from shared worlds.

Publish Without Pausing: Publishing shows its progress in the background, so you can close Settings and keep worldbuilding.

Manage Shared Worlds: Copy a public link, update what guests can see, or unpublish a world from one place in Settings.

Find Worlds Again: Guest views remember recently visited worlds on the device for quick access.

Calendar & Agenda View: Explore your world's chronology in a full calendar and agenda layout, with mobile swipe-to-navigate, a year-wheel picker, and double-click a date cell to create a pre-filled event.

Themed Generator Hubs: Dedicated generator landing pages and content packs for Western, Steampunk, Lancer, Space Opera, Optimistic Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, and Vampire settings, reachable via nested /generators/[theme] routes.

Entity Explorer Workspace: A dedicated desktop explorer workspace with entity navigation history and keyboard shortcuts for fast back-and-forth movement through your vault.

Entity Revision via Oracle: Revise existing entities through the Oracle Interactions API, keeping edits grounded in your established lore.

Theme Polish: New and enhanced world textures plus an authentic Pip-Boy CRT theme with scanlines, phosphor glow, and vignette.

Smoother Graph Loading: Re-engineered the graph load pipeline for more reliable layout and fixed graph controls overlapping the footer.

Campaign Generators: Generate NPCs, factions, settlements, and magic items directly inside your vault using the new Generate button in the toolbar.

Review Before Save: Every generated draft is fully editable before it touches your vault — nothing is written until you confirm.

Theme-Aware Defaults: Generator options automatically bias toward your active world theme (gothic, cyberpunk, sci-fi, etc.) so results feel native to your setting.

AI + Local Fallback: Generation works with the Lore Oracle when connected, and falls back to local offline generation when AI is unavailable or disabled.

Contextual Launch: Open the generator from any entity to prefill relationship context and optionally link the result back to the source entity.

Context-Aware Related Entity Creator: Branch your setting organically using a new 'Generate Related' action that gathers the active entity and its first-degree graph neighbors to draft grounded entities.

Outline Template Injection: Integrates your vault's active theme templates to pre-structure the generated entity's markdown outline headings.

Adaptive Relationship Suggestions: The configuration dialog dynamically suggests relationships tailored to the source and target entity types (e.g. character to item suggests 'signature item').

Directed Connections: Persisting the drafted entity automatically registers a directed relationship link (Source → New Entity) in the campaign vault graph.

Silent Permission Checks: Verification of directory permissions is now fully silent at startup, preventing annoying browser picker prompts when you open the app.

Clear Access Grants: A prominent 'GRANT ACCESS' button appears in the sidebar when a vault folder handle needs permission, making recovery simple and clear.

Instant Save Confirmation: The status indicator displays a clear 3-second 'SAVED' checkmark before returning to idle, with immediate keypress interruption if you start editing again.

Interrupt-Safe Vault Switching: A 5-second timeout during vault switching prevents the app from hanging if background saves get stuck, proceeding with the vault switch safely.

Deep Campaign Hierarchy: Nest folders and campaign notes up to 8 levels deep (previously 5) to organize massive campaign settings visually.

Re-engineered Drag-and-Drop: Rebuilt browser-native drag-and-drop to offer completely smooth, flicker-free moves with automatic parent-child cycle checking and a dedicated drop zone to promote folders back to the root level.

Inline Folder Creation: Hover over any explorer item and click '+' to instantly spawn and name nested child entities without opening full configuration dialogs.

HTML & ARIA Semantics: Rewrote explorer item rows as standard list items (role='listitem') containing a single interactive button, ensuring screen readers and keyboard navigation follow standard accessibility behavior.

Reload Persistence: Resolved a cache hydration issue, ensuring custom campaign folder nesting structures and visibility states correctly survive hard browser page reloads.

Interactive Sound Bites: Bring your campaign characters to life with fully voiced quotes, customizable transcripts, and a beautiful floating player controls bar.

Live Audio Broadcasting: Play vocal performances directly on your players' devices in real-time, synchronized perfectly across all connected devices during a live session.

Instant Image Sharing: Project key illustrations, maps, and reference scenes instantly to all players' screens in full screen with elegant, immersive visual transitions.

Tactile Date Picker: A sleek, physical-feeling scroll-wheel calendar dial that makes setting dates and timelines a satisfying, fluid experience.

Prominent Entity Highlights: Easily mark key campaign figures and focal locations as 'important' to make them stand out on your network relationship graph.

Smart Historical Tagging: Entities representing historical characters, fallen factions, or past eras are now automatically marked as 'past' to streamline timeline filtering.

Fluid Tag Search: Selecting suggestions from the search box automatically transitions them into active sidebar filters, keeping your search bar clean and intuitive.

Snappy Search Autocomplete: The search suggestion menu is smarter and re-evaluates instantly as you type, making it effortless to build multi-tag queries.

Default Art Prompts: Image generation now resolves consistent Art Direction before drawing, so visuals stay grounded in your world instead of starting from a generic prompt.

Category Defaults: Characters, creatures, locations, items, factions, events, notes, and world covers now receive composition guidance tailored to what you are drawing.

Theme-Aware Visual Style: Active world themes now contribute Default Art Style guidance for generated images while preserving stronger entity and note-based art direction.

World Cover Direction: Front page cover generation now combines world-cover composition with the active theme's visual style for more coherent campaign covers.

Lore-Native Customization: Add sections such as Art Direction, Default Art Style, or Visual Direction to normal notes/entities to guide image generation without a separate settings form.

Smarter Draw Commands: Commands like /draw character Almos can use category hints when no matched entity metadata is available, while real entity categories still take precedence.

Dual-Layer Appearance: App chrome and world genre themes are now separated, keeping navigation, settings, and workspace controls stable while vault themes change.

Neutral App Chrome: Headers, sidebars, panels, and status indicators now use consistent neutral light/dark styling instead of inheriting campaign texture and genre colors.

System Appearance Support: The workspace can follow the device's light or dark preference while preserving the active world theme for campaign content.

Theme Counterparts: Selectable world themes now resolve matching light and dark counterparts so campaign mood survives appearance changes.

Settings Clarity: Appearance controls now distinguish app-level display mode from vault-level world themes.

Tactile Panel Opening: The entity detail panel now dynamically expands and scales directly from the node, button, or search result you clicked.

Mobile Bottom Sheet: The detail panel slides up smoothly as a clean bottom drawer on mobile displays to optimize reading space.

Navigational Cross-Fade: Moving between connected entities within the panel smoothly fades the inner text without jarring frame movements.

Canvas Visual Feedback: Selecting nodes on the relationship graph triggers a soft, glowing ripple underlay animation.

Workspace State Persistence: Restores your workspace exactly as you left it. Sidebar toggles, active tools, selected entities, and detailed Zen mode writing progress are now safely remembered per vault.

Smart Proposal Throttle: Auto-scan triggers are now paused when an entity already has 5 or more connections, preventing AI generation clutter. Includes an optional manual scan trigger and an increased 5-second buffer when navigating.

QuickNote Scratchpad: A lightning-fast overlay (Ctrl+I / Cmd+I) to dump ideas instantly without losing your flow.

Make Entity: Instantly convert fleeting note scraps into fully structured Codex Cryptica entities (Characters, Locations, Items, Factions, or Events) using the Oracle AI engine.

Mobile Graph Controls: A compact toggle menu for graph actions, maximizing screen space for lore exploration on small devices.

Real-time Vault Stats: The vault selector now correctly displays the actual number of entities stored in every campaign.

Performance Boost: Smoother vault loading and snappier search indexing, especially for large knowledge bases.

Keyless AI Node Merging: Core AI-powered organization features now work without requiring a personal API key.

Themed Graph Nodes: High-contrast, category-tinted nodes for better visual grouping and hierarchy at a glance.

Intelligent Graph Clustering: Improved layout logic that creates tighter, more intuitive connectivity clouds.

Unified Image Lightbox: A powerful new popout viewer for all character and location art across the application.

Compact Zen Mode: A more streamlined writing interface that prioritizes screen space for your content.

Entity Alias Support: Add multiple names to your characters and locations for more flexible search and cross-referencing.

Adjustable Workspace: Resizable sidebars allow you to customize the interface for your specific editing workflow.

Interactive Label Filtering: Easily discover related entities using advanced multi-label filtering in the explorer.

Responsive AI Oracle: A faster, more responsive AI chat experience that stays out of your way while you work.

Label-Grouped Explorer: Organize your vault by labels with collapsible sections and persisted view preferences.

VTT Entity List: Access your entire vault directly from the VTT sidebar to streamline encounter management.

Token Drag-and-Drop: Seamlessly place tokens on tactical maps by dragging entities from the sidebar.

Zen Popout Refinements: Enhanced reliability and error handling for detached entity view windows.

Data-Native VTT: Turn your maps into playable, tactical encounters directly linked to your lore.

Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer: Host zero-setup sessions and invite players directly to your maps with real-time sync.

Fantasy Theme Refresh: A massive visual overhaul with deep fantasy aesthetics, cohesive typography (Alegreya), and rich styling.

In-App Changelog: Automatic notifications to keep you up to date on new features.

Vault Front Page: A completely redesigned dashboard offering a living briefing room, pinned notes, and recent activity.

Traditional Entity Explorer: A powerful new sidebar and focus mode for deep, distraction-free entity editing.

Free Oracle Tier: Everyone now gets access to the Lore Oracle's core features out of the box.

Infinite Spatial Canvas: A massive new way to visually organize, group, and connect your entities outside the strict graph constraints.

Integrated Die Roller: Fully featured, fair 3D die rolling directly in your workspace.

Pop-out Help & Guides: A comprehensive, dockable help system to guide you through mastering Codex Cryptica.

OPFS & Dexie Integration: A total rewrite of the local storage engine for lightning-fast performance and metadata caching.

Multi-Campaign Switching: Seamlessly jump between different isolated vaults and campaigns.

Robust Local & Cloud Sync: Bulletproof Google Drive synchronization paired with local-first file system mirroring.

Chat Commands & Proposer: Ask the AI to propose new connections, generate images, or analyze plot holes directly from the chat.

Image Generation: Distill your entity descriptions into stunning, AI-generated character and location art.

Smart PDF Import: Drop lore bibles or PDFs onto the screen to have them automatically parsed and mapped into your graph.

World Timeline: A chronological view of your world's events, eras, and history.

Node Merging: Combine duplicate or related entities into a single, cohesive node.

Rich Text Formatting: Enhanced markdown support for more expressive and readable notes.

Fog of War for Graph: Hide unrevealed nodes from players during shared sessions or exports.

Central Node Orbit: Focus on a single entity and see its immediate connections orbit around it.

Connection Labels: Add descriptive text to the lines connecting your entities.

Styling Templates: Apply custom visual themes to specific nodes or categories.

Entity Labeling: Tag and organize entities with custom, color-coded labels.

Node Read Mode: A clean, distraction-free view for reading long-form entity content.

Lore Oracle Intelligence: The AI assistant can now answer complex questions about your specific world lore.

Oracle RAG Improvements: Vastly improved retrieval accuracy ensures the AI pulls exactly the right context.

Oracle Data Parsing: The AI can extract structured data directly from your text notes.

Share Campaigns: Generate read-only links to share your world with players.

Campaign Date Picker: Set and track the current in-world date for your sessions.

Flexible Categories: Create custom entity types beyond the default schema.

Minimap Navigation: Quickly pan around massive knowledge graphs using the new minimap.

Graph Focus Mode: Isolate sub-graphs and filter out noise for deep-dive worldbuilding.

Delete Nodes: Safely remove entities and automatically clean up orphaned connections.

Fuzzy Search: Instantly find any entity, connection, or text snippet across your entire vault.

Mobile UX Refinements: Improved touch targets, sidebar navigation, and sync feedback for mobile devices.

Performance Improvements: Large graph rendering and search indexing optimizations.

Core Entity Schema: Established the foundational Markdown and YAML structure for all data.

Svelte Sync Engine: The first iteration of local-first reactivity across the graph and editor.

Google Drive Mirroring: Automatic, silent backups of your local vault to the cloud.