chore(meta): update changelog

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

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+- **Step-canvas serving — the map's new data pipe** (D-255, T-1181) — the server now answers "what is at this world coordinate at this zoom step" as a single tagged message per step: all six Atlas ladder rungs (the whole-body Global opener down to 64 m Chunk) served through one StepCanvasRequest/StepCanvasResponse envelope, with dense terrain fields shipped as compact per-field PNGs and river courses/cliffs as native lists (the encoding the workshop measured smallest-and-fastest). Backed by a keep-always whole-body tier (~9 MB for all ~267 bodies) plus a per-rung cache with honest freshness rules (terrain never goes stale — only storage evicts it; seasonal/tidal planes carry real clocks). Byte-identical cache-hit-vs-miss is enforced by a dedicated acceptance test on every rung — the guarantee that a player walking somewhere without ever opening the map gets the identical world. River detail at deep zoom is capped at the density that already reads well one rung up, eliminating a measured 38-87% derive-cost penalty with no visible loss. Server side only — the client map component that draws these canvases is the next ticket (T-1182)
 - **Lakes from settled hydrology** (D-227, T-1184) — depressions in a body's terrain now hold water: an equilibrium hydrology solve (the T-1177 solver, ~24 ms per body) runs once per body and fills every basin to its settled water level, and the map's terrain classification reads it directly — a spot is a lake when the settled water surface sits above the ground there. Lake edges refine with zoom exactly like coastlines (continuous surface comparison, never a blocky cell lookup), a lake's existence never flickers (static classification, distinct from tidal/seasonal flooding), and bodies without a solve fall back to the old ocean-fraction heuristic byte-identically. Whether a lake drains via an exit river or sits closed (endorheic) becomes readable when the outlet wiring lands (T-1185)
 - **3D locomotion sandbox + in-house wardrobe engine — Fable-5 character sidequest** (D-248–D-252, T-1088, T-1089) — a sanctioned cascade exception delivered a walking 3D character ahead of Phase 5: a locomotion sandbox (SR_LIVE, greybox tiles derived from live server snapshots, no hand-built map) with per-leg constant-velocity interpolation cadence-synced to gait clips, mouse-driven move-here pathing with a walk/sprint/take-cover gesture vocabulary, and a client-side wall-cutaway camera kept decoupled from fog-of-perception. The server protocol's `Facing` is now view-only — movement direction is derived client-side from position deltas, and NPC gaze relocates to path-follow intent (D-252). Alongside it, a full in-house wardrobe engine: offset-shell garment authoring from our own body meshes (per-body mode, weights inherited by construction), a 24-garment catalogue — everyday casual through a hand-authored suit and colorable uniform — fitted across all 11 body types, RGBA multi-region tinting with per-character brand logos, a creation-screen try-on UI, 12 named outfit presets, and a chromakey QA harness gating every garment for clip-through before release. The character asset route (Quaternius rig, in-house wardrobe) was re-confirmed after a hands-on vendor evaluation (D-251 — Synty proved technically viable but was rejected on cost, modularity, and style), and the purchased UAL1/UAL2 animation tiers are wired in. Five of the eleven body types, found broken bare mid-sidequest (T-1090), were repaired — all eleven now render and fit correctly
 - **Layer 2 — inter-settlement road & rail graph** (D-211, T-1038) — the generation cascade now draws the transport network *between* a body's settlements: a minimum-spanning backbone connects every city, extra direct links are added where that backbone would force a long detour, and each route is pathed across the real terrain — hugging river valleys (preferred), skirting steep ground, never crossing open water. Every road carries a *maintenance authority* you'll be able to read in its condition (Administrative government highway, Corporate access road, Communal local lane, long-haul Trade route, or Abandoned), and long routes gain waypoint stops at their midpoints. Deterministic and held in the per-body world cache (re-derived from seed, never saved); the Atlas overlay and downstream layers (road-entry directions, territory road-coverage) consume it next. Corp HQs are kept out of the city pool so they don't spawn duplicate roadside towns (D-242)