Торговцы-призраки: настоящая прозрачность тела, матовость, консоль

Прозрачность у торговцев управляла только бородой. Причина была напечатана зондом ещё при первом заходе: у шейдера тела (Game/Character) нет НИ цвета с альфой, НИ режима смешивания - оба рычага ApplyTransparency существуют только у шейдера волос (Game/Autodesk). Никакое значение альфы тело бы не тронуло. Сначала добавлен третий рычаг - _Fade, собственный рычаг игры: EntityModel.SetFade пишет ровно это свойство и отбирает материалы проверкой HasProperty("_Fade") && shader.name.Contains("Game/Character"), а стоящий рядом SetVisible(renderFade > 0.01f) закрывает направление: 1 = сплошной, 0 = исчез. В игре выяснилось, что шейдер реализует его screen-door дизерингом - "тело гаснет, но идёт мелкой сеточкой". Рычаг рабочий, но пиксели не смешиваются, а выбрасываются, и никакое число этого не исправит. Оставлен как режим dither. РАБОЧЕЕ РЕШЕНИЕ - перешивка тела на шейдер волос, у которого есть прозрачный проход. Доказательство лежало на той же модели в том же кадре: борода всё это время гасла плавно. Шейдер берётся С МОДЕЛИ - первый материал, умеющий смешивать (есть цвет с альфой И режим смешивания); Shader.Find оставлен запасным путём, потому что мод уже дважды получал null/негатив от семейства Unlit. Решение принимается по способностям материала, имя шейдера нигде не зашито. Переносятся только альбедо и нормаль: _RMOE - упакованная roughness/metallic/occlusion/emission, а _MetallicGlossMap ждёт металл в R и гладкость в A, каналы не совпадают, и связывание "на авось" даёт мокрый пластик или негатив. Цена названа прямо: тело теряет собственную световую модель шейдера персонажа и получает стандартную. МАТОВОСТЬ по просьбе пользователя - три рычага, ломаются по-разному: _Glossiness в 0 (чистая математика шейдера, работает всегда - несущая половина); _SpecularHighlights и _GlossyReflections в 0 ВМЕСТЕ с ключевыми словами _SPECULARHIGHLIGHTS_OFF / _GLOSSYREFLECTIONS_OFF, потому что это [ToggleOff]-пара и запись одного флоата не делает ничего; карты глянца очищаются, если непусты, - карта побеждает флоат. Оба keyword'а - shader_feature, Unity вырезает такие на сборке, если их не выставляет ни один материал игры, поэтому шершавость сделана основным рычагом, а не запасным. Применяется ко всем призрачным материалам: волосы нарисованы тем же шейдером и сохраняли свой блеск, а матовое тело под глянцевой бородой читалось бы хуже. КОНСОЛЬНАЯ КОМАНДА necroghost (алиас necrotrader): проценты прозрачности, blend/dither, reset. Балансировать рендер можно только глядя на него, а шаг без команды стоил пересборки, перезапуска и ~4 минут пешком до торговца. Проценты, а не альфа: это единица, в которой просьба формулировалась, и они идут в разные стороны. Регистрации нет и не требуется - SdtdConsole.RegisterCommands ищет через ReflectionHelpers.FindTypesImplementingBase, который обходит ModManager.GetLoadedAssemblies(), а LoadMods() стоит на три строки раньше RegisterCommands(). IsExecuteOnClient = true: команда меняет пиксели. Две мины, обе реальные. Повторное применение не должно умножать: материалы кэшируются, и sharedMaterials после первого прохода возвращает наши же клоны, так что наивный повторный свип дал бы 0.9, потом 0.8 = 0.72; запоминается базовое значение, живое всегда base * GhostAlpha. Запятая: StringParsers не зависит от локали, но читает "," как разделитель ТЫСЯЧ, и "necroghost 12,5" молча стало бы 125 - запятая заменяется на точку до парсинга. DefaultGhostAlpha 0.9 -> 0.3: 70% прозрачности, найденные в игре. Путь был 1% -> 10% -> 70%, и последний скачок не смена вкуса - на 10% тело ещё дизерилось, а дизеринг терпим лишь пока слаб. Поэтому же переписана заметка "ниже ~0.7 силуэт разваливается": предел принадлежал технике, а не глазу. --- Ghost traders: the body really blends, matte finish, console command The transparency only ever reached the beard. The probe had already printed why: the body's shader (Game/Character) has NEITHER a colour with an alpha NOR a blend mode - both of ApplyTransparency's levers exist only on the hair's shader (Game/Autodesk). No value of the alpha was ever going to touch it. A third lever was added first - _Fade, the game's own: EntityModel.SetFade writes exactly that property and guards it with HasProperty("_Fade") && shader.name.Contains("Game/Character"), and the SetVisible(renderFade > 0.01f) sitting next to it settles the direction: 1 = solid, 0 = gone. In game the shader turned out to implement it as screen-door dithering - "the body fades, but goes to a fine grid". The lever works, but pixels are thrown away rather than blended, and no number fixes that. It is kept as the dither mode. WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS is re-shading the body onto the hair's shader, which does have a transparent pass. The existence proof was on the same model in the same frame: the beard had been fading smoothly all along. The shader is taken OFF THE MODEL - the first material that can blend (a colour with an alpha AND a blend mode); Shader.Find is kept only as a fallback, because this mod has twice been handed null or a negative by the Unlit family. The decision is made on what a material can do; no shader name is hard-coded. Only albedo and normal are carried over: _RMOE is a packed roughness/metallic/occlusion/emission map while _MetallicGlossMap wants metallic in R and smoothness in A - the channels do not line up, and wiring them by hope is how a character ends up looking like wet plastic or a negative. The trade is stated plainly: the body loses the character shader's own lighting response and gets standard lighting instead. MATTE, as requested - three levers that fail differently: _Glossiness to 0 (plain shader maths, always works - the load-bearing half); _SpecularHighlights and _GlossyReflections to 0 TOGETHER WITH the _SPECULARHIGHLIGHTS_OFF / _GLOSSYREFLECTIONS_OFF keywords, because they are a [ToggleOff] pair and setting the float alone does nothing; and the gloss maps cleared if anything is in them, since a map beats the float. Both keywords are shader_feature, which Unity strips at build time if no material in the game sets them - which is why roughness is the main lever and not the fallback. Applied to every ghost material: the hair uses the same shader and kept its own shine, and a matte body under a glossy beard would have read worse than either. CONSOLE COMMAND necroghost (alias necrotrader): transparency in percent, blend/dither, reset. A rendering balance can only be judged by looking at it, and without the command each step cost a rebuild, a restart and a four-minute walk to a trader. Percent rather than alpha: percent is the unit the request was made in, and the two run in opposite directions. No registration is needed - SdtdConsole.RegisterCommands goes through ReflectionHelpers.FindTypesImplementingBase, which walks ModManager.GetLoadedAssemblies(), and LoadMods() runs three lines before RegisterCommands(). IsExecuteOnClient = true: the command changes pixels. Two real traps. Re-applying must not compound: materials are cached and sharedMaterials hands back our own clones after the first pass, so a naive second sweep would give 0.9, then 0.8 = 0.72; the base value is remembered and the live one is always base * GhostAlpha. The comma: StringParsers is culture-independent but reads "," as a THOUSANDS separator, so "necroghost 12,5" would silently have become 125 - the comma is turned into a point first. DefaultGhostAlpha 0.9 -> 0.3: the 70% transparency settled on in game. The road was 1% -> 10% -> 70%, and the last jump was not a change of taste - at 10% the body was still dithering, and a dither is bearable only while it is faint. For the same reason the old "below ~0.7 the silhouette falls apart" note was rewritten: that limit belonged to the technique, not to the eye. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XN8J75vnum2qAVrtRUMKf7
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@@ -122,3 +122,4 @@ necroFinalStayText,XUi,Menu,,,,"You took the army of the dead under your command
 necroFinalReturnTitle,XUi,Menu,,,,The Quiet Harbour,,Der stille Hafen,El puerto tranquilo,Le havre tranquille,Il porto tranquillo,静かな港,고요한 항구,Cicha przystań,O porto tranquilo,Тихая гавань,Sessiz Liman,静港,靜港
 necroFinalReturnText,XUi,Menu,,,,"You ordered the lich to lead the dead away into the forests, so that people could come out of their shelters and start surviving on their own, the way you once survived. If they manage, good. If they do not... then such is their fate. And you went back: to the world where you had already settled in and found your quiet harbour.",,"Du hast dem Lich befohlen, die Toten fort in die Wälder zu führen – damit die Menschen aus ihren Verstecken treten und selbst zu überleben beginnen können, so wie du einst überlebt hast. Schaffen sie es, gut. Schaffen sie es nicht ... dann ist das eben ihr Schicksal. Und du bist zurückgegangen: in die Welt, in der du dich bereits eingerichtet und deinen stillen Hafen gefunden hast.","Ordenaste al liche que se llevara a los muertos a los bosques, para que la gente pudiera salir de sus refugios y empezar a sobrevivir por su cuenta, igual que sobreviviste tú en su día. Si lo consiguen, bien. Si no... será su destino. Y tú regresaste: al mundo donde ya te habías asentado y habías encontrado tu puerto tranquilo.","Tu as ordonné à la liche d'emmener les morts au loin dans les forêts – pour que les gens puissent sortir de leurs abris et commencer à survivre seuls, comme tu as survécu autrefois. S'ils y parviennent, tant mieux. Sinon... c'est leur destin. Et toi, tu es reparti : vers le monde où tu t'étais déjà installé et où tu avais trouvé ton havre tranquille.","Hai ordinato al lich di condurre i morti via nelle foreste, perché la gente potesse uscire dai rifugi e iniziare a sopravvivere da sé, come un tempo sei sopravvissuto tu. Se ce la fanno, bene. Se non ce la fanno... allora è il loro destino. E tu sei tornato indietro: nel mondo dove ti eri già sistemato e avevi trovato il tuo porto tranquillo.",あなたはリッチに命じ、不死者をすべて森へ連れ去らせた。人々が避難所から出て、かつてのあなたと同じように、自らの力で生き延び始められるように。やり遂げるならそれでいい。できなければ……それが彼らの定めというだけだ。そしてあなたは戻っていった。すでに身を落ち着け、静かな港を見つけたあの世界へ。,"당신은 리치에게 명하여 언데드를 모두 숲으로 데려가게 했다. 사람들이 피난처에서 나와, 한때 당신이 그랬듯 스스로 살아남기 시작할 수 있도록. 해낸다면 좋은 일이다. 해내지 못한다면... 그것이 그들의 운명일 뿐이다. 그리고 당신은 돌아갔다. 이미 자리를 잡고 자신만의 고요한 항구를 찾아낸 그 세계로.","Rozkazałeś liczowi wyprowadzić umarłych w lasy – żeby ludzie mogli wyjść ze schronów i zacząć przetrwać o własnych siłach, tak jak kiedyś przetrwałeś ty. Poradzą sobie – dobrze. Nie poradzą... cóż, taki ich los. A ty wróciłeś: do świata, w którym zdążyłeś się urządzić i znaleźć swoją cichą przystań.","Você ordenou ao lich que levasse os mortos embora para as florestas - para que as pessoas pudessem sair dos abrigos e começar a sobreviver por conta própria, como você mesmo sobreviveu um dia. Se conseguirem, ótimo. Se não... então é o destino delas. E você voltou: para o mundo onde já havia se estabelecido e encontrado o seu porto tranquilo.","Вы приказали личу увести нежить в леса — чтобы люди вышли из убежищ и начали выживать сами, как когда-то выживали вы. Справятся — хорошо. Не справятся... значит, такова их судьба. А вы вернулись обратно: в мир, где успели обустроиться и найти свою тихую гавань.","Liche, ölüleri alıp ormanlara götürmesini emrettin - insanlar sığınaklarından çıkıp, bir zamanlar senin hayatta kaldığın gibi kendi başlarına hayatta kalmaya başlayabilsinler diye. Başarırlarsa ne âlâ. Başaramazlarsa... demek ki kaderleri buymuş. Sen ise geri döndün: çoktan yerleşip kendi sessiz limanını bulduğun o dünyaya.",你命令巫妖将亡灵尽数带往森林深处——好让人们走出避难所，像你当年那样，靠自己活下去。若他们撑得住，那很好；若撑不住……那便是他们的命。而你回去了：回到那个你早已安顿下来、寻得自己静港的世界。,你命令巫妖將亡靈盡數帶往森林深處——好讓人們走出避難所，像你當年那樣，靠自己活下去。若他們撐得住，那很好；若撐不住……那便是他們的命。而你回去了：回到那個你早已安頓下來、尋得自己靜港的世界。
 necroFinalBtnTheEnd,XUi,Menu,,,,The End,,Ende,Fin,Fin,Fine,おわり,끝,Koniec,Fim,Конец,Son,全剧终,全劇終
+txName_NecroAsh,painting,Texture,,,,Necrotic Ash,,Nekrotische Asche,Ceniza necrótica,Cendre nécrotique,Cenere necrotica,,,,,Некротический прах,,,
@@ -66,10 +66,103 @@
 				<property class="TEFeaturePyramidWard" />
 			</property>
 			<property name="Material" value="Msteel_shapes" />
+			<!-- ВЕРНУТО НА Shape="New" 2026-09-10 по решению пользователя: «пока верни пирамиду,
+			     которая была у нас изначально».
+			
+			     Своя модель со своей текстурой требует Shape="ModelEntity", и на этом пути осталось
+			     два невылеченных дефекта - разбор и все замеры в BACKLOG.md, раздел про пирамиду:
+			       - нет столкновений: при "New" их считает воксельная система блока, а "ModelEntity"
+			         берёт от модели, и одного BoxCollider на корне в слое 16 не хватило;
+			       - дальние экземпляры рисуются фиолетовым (маджента = не найден шейдер), ближние
+			         при этом верны; добавленный LODGroup положения не исправил.
+			
+			     Всё, что сделано для того пути, сохранено и работает: генератор текстуры
+			     _private/tools/make_pyramid_textures.py, сборка _private/Extracted/ShapesUnityProject,
+			     бандл Resources/necropyramid. Чтобы вернуться к нему, достаточно заменить Shape на
+			     ModelEntity и раскомментировать строку Model ниже. -->
 			<property name="Shape" value="New" />
+			<!-- Своя модель отключена вместе с возвратом на Shape="New" (см. комментарий выше).
+			     Строка сохранена: она рабочая, ею подключается наш бандл. -->
 			<property name="Model" value="@:Shapes/pyramid.fbx" />
-			<property name="Texture" value="356" />
-			<property name="TintColor" value="8A4142" />
+			<!-- <property name="Model" value="#@modfolder(NecromancerTome):Resources/necropyramid?necroPyramidPrefab.prefab" /> -->
+			<!-- ModelOffset - ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ МОДЕЛИ, и задавать его надо именно здесь.
+			
+			     Меш формы из shapes-бандла сделан под воксельную систему: его границы лежат не вокруг
+			     начала координат, а в углу (центр -0.50, 0.13, -0.50 при размере 0.51 x 0.26 x 0.50).
+			     Как ModelEntity такая модель вылезает из своего куба - что и наблюдалось: «поднялась,
+			     вершиной упирается в верхний угол».
+			
+			     Сначала это лечили сдвигом детей ВНУТРИ префаба. Модель встала верно, но по блоку
+			     по-прежнему нельзя было попасть и не работало наведение по E: о сдвиге знал только
+			     префаб, а игра держала свой объём для попаданий там, где модель была бы без сдвига.
+			     Игрок целился в одно, а попадал мимо.
+			
+			     Ваниль двигает модель именно этим свойством (у верстака стоит "0,.5,0"), и его игра
+			     учитывает целиком - и в отрисовке, и в попаданиях. Значение посчитано скриптом сборки
+			     по фактическим границам меша: по X и Z в центр куба, по Y основанием на нижнюю грань.
+			     Если меш заменят, скрипт напечатает новое значение в лог. -->
+			<!-- ModelOffset нужен только при ModelEntity; при "New" положение задаёт сама форма.
+			     Значение верное, посчитано скриптом сборки - сохранено для возврата.
+			<property name="ModelOffset" value="0.5,-0.495,0.5" /> -->
+			<!-- ПОКРАСКА ВМЕСТО СВОЕЙ ТЕКСТУРЫ, 2026-09-10. Мысль пользователя: «в игре есть
+			     кисточка, позволяющая перекрашивать блоки, можем ли мы наложить текстуру через
+			     покраску, только заранее?» Можем - именно это свойство Texture и делает.
+			
+			     Data/Config/painting.xml сопоставляет краски из кисточки с номерами текстур атласа
+			     (поле TextureId), а Texture у блока задаёт краску заранее. Доступно 156 красок;
+			     выписаны с названиями в _private/Extracted/paints.txt.
+			
+			     Было 356 (txName_Steel_wall, «оцинкованная стальная стена») - выбор достался от
+			     steelShapes вместе с парой Material/Texture и к праху отношения не имел.
+			     Пробовали 11 (txName_Gravel, «гравий») - в игре прочиталось как земля.
+			     Сейчас 552 (txName_GraniteBlack, «гранит чёрный»): тёмный камень ближе к
+			     спрессованному праху, чем крупная осыпь гравия.
+
+			     СВОЮ текстуру сюда подставить НЕЛЬЗЯ, проверено по коду игры: у записи краски есть
+			     только TextureId, PaintCost, Group, SortIndex - поля с путём к своей картинке нет.
+			     TextureId это индекс в уже собранном атласе, а сам атлас лежит в
+			     blocktextureatlases_assets_all.bundle среди Addressables игры (рядом с
+			     TerrainTextures), и крючка для подмены его модом не нашлось. Своя текстура
+			     возможна только через путь ModelEntity со своим бандлом - см. BACKLOG.md.
+
+			     Подбирать краску удобнее всего кисточкой прямо в игре: доступны все 156, перезапуск
+			     не нужен. Найденный номер прописывается сюда.
+
+			     СЕЙЧАС ЭТИ ДВА СВОЙСТВА НЕ РАБОТАЮТ. Блок снова на Shape="ModelEntity" со своей
+			     моделью (2026-09-10, после того как префаб довели до вида ванильного): при
+			     ModelEntity поверхность даёт материал префаба, а не атлас, и Texture с TintColor
+			     не участвуют. Оставлены нетронутыми, чтобы возврат к покраске был ровно двумя
+			     правками - Shape на "New" и переключить строку Model ниже.
+			
+			     TintColor - множитель поверх краски. Взят пепельно-серый с уходом в фиолет, в тон
+			     остальному мод-набору. Прежний 8A4142 давал ржаво-красный.
+			
+			     Texture принимает и ШЕСТЬ значений через запятую - по одному на грань (в ванили есть
+			     например value="195,570,570,570,570,570"). Если захочется основание отличать от
+			     скатов - делается здесь же, без всякого бандла.
+			
+			     Хорошие запасные варианты из того же списка: 606 concrete_broken (потрескавшийся
+			     бетон), 552 GraniteBlack (чёрный гранит), 443 Rust_black (чёрная ржавчина),
+			     385 Green_rusty_metal (зелёная ржавчина, в тон вкраплениям). -->
+			<!-- СВОЯ КРАСКА, 2026-09-10. Это уже НЕ ванильная краска из атласа: текстуру пирамиды
+			     добавляет в атлас наш собственный Harmony-патч, HarmonySrc/CustomBlockPaintPatch.cs.
+			     Блок при этом остаётся обычным Shape="New" - со всеми работающими столкновениями,
+			     наведением по E и правильной посадкой, - а поверхность у него своя.
+			
+			     608 - это НОМЕР ЗАПИСИ В uvMapping, а не номер краски. Патч печатает его в лог при
+			     каждом запуске: «uvMapping entry 608 points at slice 407». Краска дополнительно
+			     регистрируется под именем txName_NecroAsh («Некротический прах») и занимает слот 13,
+			     но блоку нужен именно номер записи.
+			
+			     ХРУПКОЕ МЕСТО: 608 - это длина uvMapping ванильной игры, то есть наша запись просто
+			     дописывается в конец. Число верно, пока атлас игры не изменился; после обновления игры
+			     оно может сдвинуться. Патч печатает фактический номер в лог, поэтому расхождение видно
+			     сразу - сверяться при обновлениях.
+			
+			     TintColor убран намеренно: цвет несёт сама текстура, а тинт - множитель, он бы её
+			     исказил. Тот же вывод, что уже сделан по ножу и по банке крови.
+			<property name="TintColor" value="C8BCD2" /> -->
+			<property name="Texture" value="608" />
 			<!-- Real generated art (exch/pyramidOfSpirit.png, copied to
 			     UIAtlases/ItemIconAtlas/) added 2026-09-02, per direct instruction - no
 			     CustomIconTint alongside it (same lesson as every other real icon in this mod,
@@ -131,11 +131,21 @@
 		     Найденные параметры - HypothermalResist (холод) и HyperthermalResist (жара). Живой
 		     ванильный образец: modArmorInsulatedLinerT1/T2/T3 (Data/Config/item_modifiers.xml
 		     ~1873), они ставят ровно эту пару. Величина у них по тирам: T1 1->2.5, T2 2.8->4.3,
-		     T3 4.6->6 на ОДИН элемент брони, а элементов четыре. Взято 5 - примерно уровень
-		     одной детали брони с T3-подкладкой, и ровно то число, которое ваниль использовала во
-		     вкомментированных modArmorInsulatedLiner/modArmorCoolingMesh (там 5 на холод и 5 на
-		     жару, но двумя РАЗНЫМИ модами; здесь оба в одном, что щедрее - но это стоит слота из
-		     четырёх и работает только с ножом в руках, см. ниже). Крутить это число - одна правка.
+		     T3 4.6->6 на ОДИН элемент брони, а элементов четыре.
+
+		     ЗНАЧЕНИЕ 5 -> 50, 2026-09-13, прямое указание пользователя ("по факту она поднимает
+		     сопротивление всего на 5, а надо на 50"). Изначально стояло 5 - примерно уровень одной
+		     детали брони с T3-подкладкой, и ровно то число, которым ваниль пользуется во
+		     вкомментированных modArmorInsulatedLiner/modArmorCoolingMesh. Это было осознанно
+		     скромно; пользователь хочет иначе, и его решение тут главнее моей балансной оценки.
+
+		     ЧТО 50 ОЗНАЧАЕТ НА САМОМ ДЕЛЕ, раз единица - градусы, а не проценты (формула ниже):
+		     любая уличная температура в пределах 50 градусов от комфортных 70 подтягивается К 70
+		     ЦЕЛИКОМ, потому что там стоит min/max-ограничение. То есть от 20 до 120 по шкале игры
+		     это не "сильная защита", а полный иммунитет: и снежная вершина, и пустынный полдень
+		     перестают быть угрозой. Это примерно в 10 раз больше, чем даёт набор брони с
+		     T3-подкладками на всех четырёх деталях. Записано не в укор, а чтобы через месяц не
+		     пришлось гадать, почему термометр перестал что-либо значить.

 		     ЕДИНИЦА ИЗМЕРЕНИЯ - градусы, на которые сдвигается уличная температура в сторону
 		     комфортной, а не проценты (PlayerEntityStats, декомпиляция):
@@ -173,8 +183,8 @@
 			<property name="SellableToTrader" value="false"/>

 			<effect_group tiered="false">
-				<passive_effect name="HypothermalResist" operation="base_add" value="5"/>
-				<passive_effect name="HyperthermalResist" operation="base_add" value="5"/>
+				<passive_effect name="HypothermalResist" operation="base_add" value="50"/>
+				<passive_effect name="HyperthermalResist" operation="base_add" value="50"/>
 			</effect_group>
 		</item_modifier>

@@ -214,7 +214,31 @@
 				<triggered_effect trigger="onProjectileImpact" action="AddBuff" target="positionAOE" range="2" buff="buffNecroDeviatorCharm">
 					<requirement name="EntityTagCompare" target="other" tags="zombie"/>
 				</triggered_effect>
+				<!-- Generic stone-on-flesh thud, deliberately left UNCONDITIONAL: it fires on every
+				     impact (ground, wall, zombie) so a miss still sounds like something landed. -->
 				<triggered_effect trigger="onProjectileImpact" action="PlaySound" sound="stonehitorganic"/>
+				<!-- The charm's OWN cue - fires only on a hit that actually charms, gated by the exact
+				     same "other is a zombie" requirement the AddBuff above uses, so it can never fire on
+				     a miss. Requirements on a PlaySound effect are the vanilla stun baton pattern
+				     (Data/Config/items.xml:4005 - IsAlive/EntityTagCompare on target="other"), not
+				     invented here; onProjectileImpact populating "other" with the hit entity is proven
+				     by the AddBuff right above, which already works in game.
+
+				     target="other" is meant to play the clip FROM the zombie, i.e. positional at the
+				     point of impact instead of at the thrower's head (the attribute itself is vanilla -
+				     items.xml:5514 uses target="self"). If it turns out silent in game, drop just the
+				     attribute: the effect then plays on self and the gating still holds.
+
+				     THE MOD'S OWN SOUND, the first one in the whole mod that is not a borrowed vanilla
+				     id: "necroSpiritStoneHit" is defined in this mod's Config/sounds.xml and its clip
+				     lives in Resources/necrosounds, built from the Unity project (see that file's header
+				     for why a plain wav next to the XML cannot work). If the sound is missing in game,
+				     the failure is SILENT - look for "AudioManager LoadAudio failed to load audio clip"
+				     in the game log, and note that the generic stonehitorganic above will still play, so
+				     "I heard something" is not proof this one fired. -->
+				<triggered_effect trigger="onProjectileImpact" action="PlaySound" target="other" sound="necroSpiritStoneHit">
+					<requirement name="EntityTagCompare" target="other" tags="zombie"/>
+				</triggered_effect>
 			</effect_group>
 		</item>
 	</append>
@@ -893,8 +917,61 @@
 			     whether melee weapons with ShowQuality="true" (inherited from the base knife)
 			     render TintColor the same way. If it's still not black after this deploy, that's
 			     the next thing to dig into (possibly needs ShowQuality or a cosmetic-slot
-			     workaround), not a guess to make blind right now. -->
-			<property name="TintColor" value="0, 0, 0"/>
+			     workaround), not a guess to make blind right now.
+
+			     СОМНЕНИЕ СНЯТО 2026-09-10 по самой ванили: meleeWpnBladeT0BoneKnife задаёт себе
+			     TintColor 107, 107, 71 (Data/Config/items.xml:2419) на том же самом
+			     boneShivPrefab, то есть слот тинта у этого меша рабочий и на оружии с
+			     ShowQuality тоже применяется. Копать тут больше нечего; осталось только
+			     посмотреть глазами, достаточно ли чёрный получается клинок. -->
+			<!-- TintColor ОТКЛЮЧЁН 2026-09-10 вместе с переходом на свою текстуру.
+			
+			     TintColor - это МНОЖИТЕЛЬ цвета меша, а 0,0,0 множит в чистый чёрный. Он был нужен,
+			     пока нож носил ванильную бежевую кость: другого способа затемнить клинок не было.
+			     Теперь цвет несёт своя текстура necroKnife_d.png, и тот же множитель погасил бы
+			     всё нарисованное в ноль - вместе с пурпурным свечением в альбедо.
+			
+			     Иконка от этого не зависит: она отдельный арт (CustomIcon выше), CustomIconTint
+			     здесь никогда не стоял. И на иконке клинок именно КОСТЯНОЙ, а не чёрный, так что
+			     чёрный множитель ей вдобавок противоречил.
+			
+			     Побочно это снимает неоднозначность теста трубы: красный клинок мог быть виден
+			     только за счёт эмиссии, если тинт всё-таки давил альбедо нашего меша. Без тинта
+			     вопроса больше нет.
+			<property name="TintColor" value="0, 0, 0"/> -->
+
+			<!-- СВОЯ МОДЕЛЬ. ВКЛЮЧЕНА 2026-09-10 вместе с бандлом Resources/necroknife (2.19 МБ,
+			     собран Unity 2022.3.62f2 в batch-режиме; внутри necroKnifePrefab.prefab, три меша
+			     boneShiv_LOD0/1/2, текстуры boneShiv_d/_n и материал necroKnife.mat - бандл
+			     самодостаточный, проверено по составу).
+			
+			     ВНИМАНИЕ: в бандле сейчас ТЕСТОВЫЙ вид - ярко-красный материал с эмиссией. Это
+			     проверка трубы, а не финальная модель. Красный выбран потому, что ванильный нож
+			     бежевый и по нему не отличить, загрузился наш бандл или подставилась ваниль;
+			     эмиссия - потому что TintColor ниже стоит 0,0,0, и если игра множит тинт на
+			     материал нашего меша, красный альбедо ушёл бы в чёрный и тест ничего бы не показал.
+			     Настоящая текстура рисуется поверх _private/Extracted/boneShiv_d.png после того,
+			     как труба подтвердится.
+			
+			     Синтаксис: "#" - грузить из бандла, "@modfolder(NecromancerTome):" - путь от
+			     корня этого мода, "?" отделяет путь к префабу ВНУТРИ бандла. Форма собрана из
+			     двух подтверждённых кусков: ваниль пишет "#Entities/Trees?SnakeweedPrefab.prefab"
+			     (Data/Config/blocks.xml), а поддержка "@modfolder:" лежит в Assembly-CSharp.
+			     ФОРМА ПОДТВЕРЖДЕНА ЖИВЫМ ПРИМЕРОМ 2026-09-10: с этой строкой тестовый красный
+			     нож появился в руке. Значит и запись работает, и бандл из папки мода читается,
+			     и Standard-шейдер из Unity 2022.3.62f2 игра отрисовывает. Больше не гипотеза -
+			     этой же формой можно подключать любые следующие свои модели.
+			
+			     necroknife - имя AssetBundle, заданное префабу в Unity; necroKnifePrefab.prefab -
+			     имя префаба ВНУТРИ бандла. Оба должны совпасть с тем, что реально собралось, иначе
+			     предмет останется без модели молча. Пересборка - меню NecromancerTome -> Ctrl+Shift+B
+			     либо batch: Unity.exe -batchmode -nographics -quit -projectPath <проект>
+			     -executeMethod NecroKnifeSetup.SetupAndBuild. Игру после каждой пересборки
+			     перезапускать: моды и их бандлы читаются только при старте.
+			
+			     Геометрия остаётся ванильной, меняются материал и текстура, поэтому HoldType,
+			     посадка в руке и анимации от базового ножа продолжают подходить без правок. -->
+			<property name="Meshfile" value="#@modfolder(NecromancerTome):Resources/necroknife?necroKnifePrefab.prefab"/>

 			<!-- MOD SLOTS ADDED 2026-09-07 (user request: "добавь в нож слоты для
 			     модификаций... модификации там будут особые, именно для ножа
@@ -1235,7 +1312,39 @@
 			     same reasoning as every other hand-drawn icon in this mod (Dog/Insect summon
 			     books, etc.) - don't recolor finished art. -->
 			<property name="CustomIcon" value="NecromantsBlood"/>
-			<property name="TintColor" value="60, 0, 10"/>
+
+			<!-- СВОЯ БАНКА С КРОВЬЮ, 2026-09-10 (указание: «берём чай из золотарника, и жёлтое
+			     заменяем на кровавый цвет, с фиолетовыми оттенками»).
+			
+			     Заодно чинится расхождение текста и модели: описание предмета
+			     (resourceNecromancerBloodDesc) с самого начала говорит «Банка, наполненная кровью
+			     самого некроманта», а наследуемый medicalBloodBag показывает
+			     @:Other/Items/Misc/sackPrefab.prefab - обычный мешок. Банка вернее и по механике:
+			     рецепт и так требует пустую банку (recipes.xml, NecromancerBloodPatch.cs).
+			
+			     ПОЧЕМУ НЕ ХВАТИЛО ТИНТА - ПРОВЕРЕНО В ИГРЕ. Сначала пробовали дёшево, без бандла:
+			     ванильный префаб чая плюс TintColor. Проверка 2026-09-10 показала, что банка
+			     осталась чаем из золотарника - тинт предмета на этот меш НЕ ПОДЕЙСТВОВАЛ ВООБЩЕ.
+			     У шейдера Game_EntityTintMaskSSS выигрывает собственный _Color материала (у чая
+			     жёлтый, 166,133,37), и свойство предмета его не перебивает. Поэтому TintColor здесь
+			     не задаётся совсем: он ничего не даёт и только вводил бы в заблуждение.
+			
+			     И по сути: кровь отличается от чая не цветом, а тем, что она непрозрачная, тёмная и
+			     густая, с плёнкой на стекле. Поэтому жидкость ПЕРЕРИСОВАНА по яркости, а не
+			     перекрашена множителем - генератор _private/tools/make_necroblood_textures.py.
+			
+			     HoldType 3 - хват банки вместо 45 (мешок), Material Mglass - стекло вместо ткани
+			     (звук удара и осколки при разбитии). Без них банка держалась бы как мешок.
+			
+			     ЧТО СМОТРЕТЬ ГЛАЗАМИ. Материал собран на встроенном Standard в режиме Fade: родной
+			     шейдер переиспользовать нельзя, AssetRipper выгрузил шейдеры заглушками. У Standard
+			     альфа текстуры - это прозрачность, поэтому она задана осознанно: стекло
+			     полупрозрачное, жидкость плотная. Банка должна читаться как стекло с густой кровью,
+			     а не как матовый сосуд. -->
+			<property name="Meshfile" value="#@modfolder(NecromancerTome):Resources/necroblood?necroBloodPrefab.prefab"/>
+			<property name="HoldType" value="3"/>
+			<property name="Material" value="Mglass"/>
+			
 			<property name="EconomicValue" value="0"/>
 		</item>
 	</append>
@@ -1288,7 +1397,29 @@
 	     rest of the mod's hand-drawn icons). -->
 	<append xpath="/items">
 		<item name="braceletSpatialVault">
-			<property name="Tags" value="T0,weapon,attPerception"/>
+			<!-- MOD SLOTS ADDED 2026-09-13 ("добавь хранилищу 4 слота под модификации. Сами
+			     модификации реализуем потом"). Two tags, exactly the scheme necroWpnBladeNecroKnife
+			     already proved on 2026-09-07 - see that item's own comment for the full
+			     decompiled reasoning:
+
+			       noMods         - blocks every vanilla mod. All 87 vanilla item_modifiers that
+			                        declare blocked_tags at all list noMods among them; the
+			                        remaining 24 cannot reach this item anyway (10 dyes and 7 drone
+			                        mods need a cosmetic slot or the drone tag, 2 are quest items,
+			                        1 needs perkArchery, 3 are CreativeMode Test/Dev). "noMods"
+			                        means nothing in code - it is purely a naming convention used
+			                        inside other items' blocked_tags.
+			       necroBracelet  - the positive half, reserved for the mods that come later. Every
+			                        future bracelet mod MUST declare
+			                        installable_tags="necroBracelet": a modifier with no
+			                        installable_tags at all fits ANYTHING (XUiM_AssembleItem short-
+			                        circuits on InstallableTags.IsEmpty), so forgetting it produces
+			                        the exact opposite of what is wanted.
+
+			     Deliberately NOT adding canHaveCosmetic: that tag alone is what creates the paint
+			     slot (ItemValue's constructor sizes CosmeticMods by it), and the knife had to have
+			     it removed for precisely this reason. No tag, no slot, no dyes. -->
+			<property name="Tags" value="T0,weapon,attPerception,noMods,necroBracelet"/>
 			<!-- ItemTypeIcon="melee" REMOVED 2026-09-07 (user report: "поверх пиктограмм некоторых
 			     рецептов стоят странные пиктограммы... то ли факел, то ли спичка"). This was the
 			     small badge drawn in the TOP-LEFT corner over the item's own icon in the recipe
@@ -1316,19 +1447,64 @@
 			     (bundle, computer, forge, explosion, campfire, gunsmithing, book). -->
 			<property name="DescriptionKey" value="braceletSpatialVaultDesc"/>
 			<property name="CustomIcon" value="ProstranstvennoeHranilische"/>
-			<!-- Same "seed"-style grip as braceletThiefLoop originally had (see that item's own
-			     comment for the full history) - foodCropYuccaFruit's own HoldType="31" +
-			     parcelGenericPrefab.prefab. Unlike Thief's Loop, this item never touches
-			     Class="Zoom" (both its actions are Class="Eat"), so it never hit the
-			     "Attachments" transform error that forced Thief's Loop onto a real weapon mesh -
-			     no reason to change this one's mesh too. TintColor changed to green 2026-08-30
-			     per direct request. -->
+			<!-- МЕШ И ХВАТ, 2026-09-13. Просьба в два захода: сперва "пусть будет камень, а
+			     хват давай сделаем как когда пытаешься ставить какой-нибудь блок", затем
+			     уточнение - "браслет это браслет... в идеале меш камня вообще убрать". Было:
+			     свёрток-«семечко» parcelGenericPrefab.prefab (коробочка, перевязанная бечёвкой -
+			     для браслета нелепо) + HoldType="31", и то и другое унаследовано от Петли вора.
+
+			     ИТОГ: в руке НЕТ НИЧЕГО, только кулак. Пустой префаб собирать не пришлось - в
+			     движке есть готовое свойство, и вся связка целиком списана с ванильного
+			     vehicleMinibikePlaceable (items.xml:13385), у которого стоят ровно те же две
+			     строки подряд: HoldType="7" + HoldingItemHidden="true".
+
+			     HoldType="7" - это и есть блочный хват ("кулак вниз, как будто держишь руль"),
+			     не угаданный номер. Декомпилировано Mono.Cecil'ом из Assembly-CSharp 3.2.0
+			     (сам Mono.Cecil.dll лежит в Mods/0_TFP_Harmony, отдельный декомпилятор не нужен):
+
+			       ItemClassBlock..ctor -> HoldType = new DataItem<int>(7)
+			       AnimationDelayData.AnimationDelay[7] =
+			           new AnimationDelays(0, 0f, 0f, .31f, .31f, true)   <- последний флаг TwoHanded
+
+			     В blocks.xml свойства HoldType нет ни разу (0 вхождений), то есть КАЖДЫЙ блок в
+			     игре держится именно семёркой из этого конструктора. Костет
+			     (meleeWpnKnucklesT0LeatherKnuckles) - это HoldType="70", запасной вариант не
+			     понадобился.
+
+			     HoldingItemHidden="true" - штатное свойство ItemClass, а не трюк:
+			     ItemClass..cctor заводит PropHoldingItemHidden = "HoldingItemHidden",
+			     ItemClass.Init читает его через StringParsers.ParseBool, а
+			     Inventory.setHoldingItemTransform в самом конце делает
+			     holdingItemTransform.gameObject.SetActive(!HoldingItemHidden). Гасится ТОЛЬКО
+			     модель в руке: иконка в инвентаре (своя рисованная ProstranstvennoeHranilische)
+			     и мешок на земле не трогаются, действия предмета живут в ItemActionEat и от
+			     этого GameObject не зависят.
+
+			     Пустой меш поставить было НЕЛЬЗЯ, и это проверено, а не предположено:
+			     ItemClass.CloneModel, если имя меша пустое и ассет не загрузился, подставляет
+			     заглушку "@:Other/Items/Crafting/leather.fbx" - в руке оказался бы кусок кожи.
+			     Единственный ванильный предмет вообще без Meshfile - meleeHandMaster (голые
+			     руки), и он выкручивается через Canhold="false", что нам не подходит: браслет
+			     надо держать, чтобы им пользоваться.
+
+			     Meshfile оставлен камнем как безобидная затычка (в руке он скрыт, а для
+			     MeshPurpose World/Local/Preview что-то иметь надо), DropMeshfile - ванильный
+			     мешок sack_droppedPrefab, ровно тем же приёмом и по той же причине, что у
+			     vehicleMinibikePlaceable: выброшенный предмет должно быть видно на земле, а
+			     своей модели у него нет. HandMeshfile убран за ненадобностью.
+
+			     Про HoldType и действия: единственное место, где ItemActionEat вообще читает
+			     HoldType, - AnimationDelay[HoldType].RayCast (в PercentDone и IsActionRunning),
+			     и он равен 0f и у старого 31, и у нового 7 (InitStatic заполняет все 100 слотов
+			     нулями, ItemClassBlock переписывает слот 7, оставляя RayCast нулём).
+			     ExecuteAction, за которую держится SpatialVaultPatch.cs, HoldType не читает
+			     вовсе - проверено сканом IL по всей сборке. -->
 			<property name="Material" value="Morganic"/>
-			<property name="Meshfile" value="@:Other/Items/Food/parcelGenericPrefab.prefab"/>
-			<property name="HandMeshfile" value="@:Other/Items/Food/parcelGenericPrefab.prefab"/>
-			<property name="DropMeshfile" value="@:Other/Items/Food/parcelGenericPrefab.prefab"/>
+			<property name="Meshfile" value="@:Other/Items/Crafting/rock_smallPrefab.prefab"/>
+			<property name="DropMeshfile" value="@:Other/Items/Misc/sack_droppedPrefab.prefab"/>
 			<property name="TintColor" value="30, 200, 60"/>
-			<property name="HoldType" value="31"/>
+			<property name="HoldType" value="7"/>
+			<property name="HoldingItemHidden" value="true"/>
 			<property name="Weight" value="0"/>
 			<property name="Stacknumber" value="1"/>
 			<property name="EconomicValue" value="0"/>
@@ -1341,6 +1517,34 @@
 				<property name="Class" value="Eat"/>
 				<property name="Delay" value="0.3"/>
 			</property>
+
+			<!-- FOUR MOD SLOTS. The count is a passive_effect, not an item property - same shape
+			     the knife uses, and flat rather than a per-quality list because quality means
+			     nothing on this item.
+
+			     NOTE THE MISSING ATTRIBUTE: this effect_group has NO tiered="false", and that is
+			     the entire point. ItemClass.HasQuality is literally Effects.IsOwnerTiered(), and
+			     ItemValue.FireEvent bails out with `if (!HasQuality) return;` BEFORE it walks
+			     Modifications[] - so on an untiered item the slots still appear and still accept
+			     mods, and not one triggered_effect inside them ever fires. That silent failure
+			     cost a whole debugging session on the knife on 2026-09-07; it is not repeated
+			     here. The slots themselves would work either way (Modifications is allocated
+			     unconditionally, earlier), which is exactly what makes the failure so quiet.
+
+			     Quality is not SHOWN, though: ShowQuality is a separate property that defaults to
+			     false (vanilla sets it to true explicitly on the ~80 items that want a quality
+			     bar), and it is deliberately left unset here. The item behaves as tiered for the
+			     mod system and still reads as a plain bracelet in the UI.
+
+			     FOR THE MODS THEMSELVES, WHEN THEY GET WRITTEN: give each one its OWN
+			     modifier_tags. XUiC_ItemPartStack.CanSwap counts already-installed mods whose
+			     modifier_tags intersect the one being installed and refuses at
+			     num >= ItemClass.MaxModsAllowed, which defaults to 1 - so a shared tag like
+			     "necroBraceletMod" across all four would leave exactly one of these four slots
+			     usable. -->
+			<effect_group name="braceletSpatialVault">
+				<passive_effect name="ModSlots" operation="base_set" value="4"/>
+			</effect_group>
 		</item>
 	</append>
 </config>
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+using System;
+using System.Text;
+using HarmonyLib;
+using UnityEngine;
+
+namespace NecromancerTome
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// DIAGNOSTIC - measures the game's opaque block texture atlas and logs what it finds. Adds
+	/// nothing and changes nothing.
+	///
+	/// KEPT ON PURPOSE, though it started as throwaway reconnaissance for CustomBlockPaintPatch.
+	/// That patch appends our paint to the end of the atlas, so the block's Texture number in
+	/// blocks.xml (608 today) is simply "however many entries vanilla had". A game update that
+	/// grows the atlas moves it. This probe prints the real numbers on every load, which is what
+	/// turns that drift from a silent wrong texture into one line in the log.
+	///
+	/// WHY THIS EXISTS. The Pyramid of Spirits should ship with its own surface, but vanilla has
+	/// no way to add one: a block's Texture property is an INDEX into a prebuilt atlas, and the
+	/// atlas itself lives in blocktextureatlases_assets_all.bundle. Confirmed by reading the
+	/// game's own strings - a paint entry carries only TextureId/PaintCost/Group/SortIndex, never
+	/// a path to an image. So the only way in is to extend the atlas at runtime from a Harmony
+	/// patch.
+	///
+	/// Extending it means building a bigger Texture2DArray, copying every existing slice across
+	/// and appending ours. That REQUIRES knowing the array's exact width, height, format and
+	/// mipmap count - a slice that disagrees on any of those cannot be copied in. None of it can
+	/// be known statically, hence this probe: measure first, write the real patch second.
+	///
+	/// TWO LESSONS FROM THE FIRST ATTEMPT, both paid for in a broken load:
+	///
+	/// 1. A THROWING POSTFIX BREAKS THE GAME'S LOADING. The first version dereferenced
+	///    BlockTextureData.list without checking it, threw, and the log answered with
+	///    "XML loader: Executing post load step on 'materials.xml' failed". A probe must be
+	///    incapable of harm, so everything here is wrapped and nothing is allowed to escape.
+	///
+	/// 2. THIS RUNS BEFORE THE PAINT TABLE EXISTS. ReloadTextureArrays fires during
+	///    MeshDescription.Init, and the log shows painting.xml loading well after it - so
+	///    BlockTextureData.list is still null at that point. Hence the probe reports several
+	///    times instead of once: the early call shows the atlas as loaded, later calls show it
+	///    once the rest of the game has caught up.
+	///
+	/// </summary>
+	[HarmonyPatch(typeof(MeshDescription), "ReloadTextureArrays")]
+	public static class BlockAtlasProbePatch
+	{
+		const int MaxReports = 4;
+		static int reports;
+
+		static void Postfix()
+		{
+			if (reports >= MaxReports) return;
+			reports++;
+			// Never let a measurement break a load: the game calls this from inside its own
+			// XML post-load step, and an escaping exception aborts that step.
+			try
+			{
+				LogOpaqueAtlas(reports);
+			}
+			catch (Exception e)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] BlockAtlasProbe: measurement #" + reports +
+					" failed harmlessly: " + e.Message);
+			}
+		}
+
+		public static void LogOpaqueAtlas(int report)
+		{
+			var sb = new StringBuilder();
+			sb.AppendLine("[NecromancerTome] BlockAtlasProbe #" + report + ": opaque block atlas");
+
+			if (MeshDescription.meshes == null)
+			{
+				sb.AppendLine("  MeshDescription.meshes is null - too early");
+				Debug.Log(sb.ToString());
+				return;
+			}
+
+			MeshDescription mesh = MeshDescription.meshes[MeshDescription.MESH_OPAQUE];
+			if (mesh == null)
+			{
+				sb.AppendLine("  MESH_OPAQUE is null - too early");
+				Debug.Log(sb.ToString());
+				return;
+			}
+
+			var atlas = mesh.textureAtlas as TextureAtlasBlocks;
+			if (atlas == null)
+			{
+				sb.AppendLine("  textureAtlas is " + (mesh.textureAtlas == null
+					? "null" : mesh.textureAtlas.GetType().Name) + ", expected TextureAtlasBlocks");
+				Debug.Log(sb.ToString());
+				return;
+			}
+
+			sb.AppendLine("  uvMapping entries: " +
+				(atlas.uvMapping == null ? "null" : atlas.uvMapping.Length.ToString()));
+			Describe(sb, "diffuse ", atlas.diffuseTexture);
+			Describe(sb, "normal  ", atlas.normalTexture);
+			Describe(sb, "specular", atlas.specularTexture);
+
+			// A new paint needs an unused index in BlockTextureData.list. The table is filled
+			// from painting.xml, which loads AFTER the textures - so on the early call this is
+			// still null, and that is expected rather than a fault.
+			if (BlockTextureData.list == null)
+			{
+				sb.AppendLine("  paint table: not built yet (painting.xml loads later)");
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				int used = 0, free = 0;
+				for (int i = 0; i < BlockTextureData.list.Length; i++)
+				{
+					if (BlockTextureData.list[i] == null) free++; else used++;
+				}
+				sb.AppendLine("  paint slots: " + used + " used, " + free + " free, " +
+					BlockTextureData.list.Length + " total");
+			}
+
+			Debug.Log(sb.ToString());
+		}
+
+		static void Describe(StringBuilder sb, string label, Texture texture)
+		{
+			if (texture == null)
+			{
+				sb.AppendLine("  " + label + ": null");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			var arr = texture as Texture2DArray;
+			if (arr == null)
+			{
+				sb.AppendLine("  " + label + ": " + texture.GetType().Name +
+					" (expected Texture2DArray) " + texture.width + "x" + texture.height);
+				return;
+			}
+
+			// depth = how many slices are already in the array; ours would become index `depth`,
+			// and every number below has to be matched exactly by our own texture.
+			sb.AppendLine("  " + label + ": " + arr.width + "x" + arr.height +
+				" slices=" + arr.depth +
+				" format=" + arr.format +
+				" graphicsFormat=" + arr.graphicsFormat +
+				" mips=" + arr.mipmapCount +
+				" readable=" + arr.isReadable);
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,321 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Reflection;
+using HarmonyLib;
+using UnityEngine;
+
+namespace NecromancerTome
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Adds the mod's own paint to the game's opaque block texture atlas, so the Pyramid of
+	/// Spirits can ship with a surface that does not exist in vanilla.
+	///
+	/// WHY A PATCH IS THE ONLY WAY. A block's Texture property is an INDEX into a prebuilt
+	/// atlas; a paint entry in painting.xml carries TextureId/PaintCost/Group/SortIndex and
+	/// never a path to an image, and the atlas itself is compiled into
+	/// blocktextureatlases_assets_all.bundle. Nothing in the XML layer can introduce new image
+	/// data, so the array has to be extended at runtime.
+	///
+	/// WHY THIS HOOK. CreateBlockTextures is the coroutine that reads painting.xml. Hooking its
+	/// completion is deliberate and was learned the hard way: an earlier probe ran from
+	/// MeshDescription.ReloadTextureArrays and found BlockTextureData.list still null, because
+	/// the texture arrays load BEFORE painting.xml. By the time this coroutine finishes, both the
+	/// arrays and the paint table exist.
+	///
+	/// THE NUMBERS THIS RELIES ON were measured in-game rather than assumed (BlockAtlasProbe,
+	/// 2026-09-10): the opaque atlas holds 407 slices of 512x512 with a full 10-level mip chain,
+	/// diffuse as DXT1 and normal/specular as DXT5, and all three arrays are non-readable. Two
+	/// consequences drive the code below - our textures must match those numbers exactly, and
+	/// every copy must go through the GPU, since a non-readable array cannot be read back.
+	///
+	/// SAFETY. Everything is wrapped: this runs inside the game's own XML loading, and an
+	/// escaping exception aborts that step - which is exactly how a careless earlier version
+	/// produced "XML loader: Executing post load step on 'materials.xml' failed". If anything
+	/// here fails, the mod logs it and leaves the game exactly as it was.
+	/// </summary>
+	public static class CustomBlockPaintPatch
+	{
+		/// <summary>Bundle we ship the paint textures in, relative to the mod folder.</summary>
+		const string BundlePath = "Resources/necroatlas";
+
+		const string DiffuseAsset = "Assets/NecroAtlas/atlas_necroPyramid_d.png";
+		const string NormalAsset = "Assets/NecroAtlas/atlas_necroPyramid_n.png";
+		const string SpecularAsset = "Assets/NecroAtlas/atlas_necroPyramid_m.png";
+
+		/// <summary>Name the paint is registered under; blocks.xml refers to the resulting id.</summary>
+		public const string PaintName = "txName_NecroAsh";
+
+		/// <summary>Paint id handed out by the game once registration succeeds, -1 while unset.
+		/// Logged on success so it can be written into blocks.xml.</summary>
+		public static int AssignedPaintId = -1;
+
+		static bool alreadyRan;
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Patch the coroutine's MoveNext. A coroutine compiles into a hidden state-machine
+		/// class, so the method that actually runs is MoveNext, not CreateBlockTextures itself -
+		/// AccessTools.EnumeratorMoveNext resolves it for us.
+		/// </summary>
+		[HarmonyPatch]
+		static class CreateBlockTexturesHook
+		{
+			static IEnumerable<MethodBase> TargetMethods()
+			{
+				MethodBase coroutine = AccessTools.Method(
+					typeof(BlockTexturesFromXML), "CreateBlockTextures");
+				if (coroutine == null)
+				{
+					Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " +
+						"BlockTexturesFromXML.CreateBlockTextures not found - paint not added");
+					yield break;
+				}
+				MethodBase moveNext = AccessTools.EnumeratorMoveNext(coroutine);
+				if (moveNext == null)
+				{
+					Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " +
+						"could not resolve the coroutine's MoveNext - paint not added");
+					yield break;
+				}
+				yield return moveNext;
+			}
+
+			// __result == false means the enumerator is done: the XML has been read in full.
+			static void Postfix(bool __result)
+			{
+				if (__result || alreadyRan) return;
+				alreadyRan = true;
+				try
+				{
+					AddPaint();
+				}
+				catch (Exception e)
+				{
+					Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: failed, game left " +
+						"untouched: " + e);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		static void AddPaint()
+		{
+			if (GameManager.IsDedicatedServer)
+			{
+				Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: dedicated server, textures skipped");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			MeshDescription mesh = MeshDescription.meshes[MeshDescription.MESH_OPAQUE];
+			var atlas = mesh == null ? null : mesh.textureAtlas as TextureAtlasBlocks;
+			if (atlas == null)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: opaque atlas unavailable");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			AssetBundle bundle = LoadBundle();
+			if (bundle == null) return;
+
+			try
+			{
+				var diffuse = bundle.LoadAsset<Texture2D>(DiffuseAsset);
+				var normal = bundle.LoadAsset<Texture2D>(NormalAsset);
+				var specular = bundle.LoadAsset<Texture2D>(SpecularAsset);
+				if (diffuse == null || normal == null || specular == null)
+				{
+					Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: bundle is missing one " +
+						"of the three textures - nothing added");
+					return;
+				}
+
+				Describe("our diffuse ", diffuse);
+				Describe("our normal  ", normal);
+				Describe("our specular", specular);
+
+				int slice = Append(ref atlas.diffuseTexture, diffuse, "diffuse");
+				Append(ref atlas.normalTexture, normal, "normal");
+				Append(ref atlas.specularTexture, specular, "specular");
+				if (slice < 0) return;
+
+				mesh.TexDiffuse = atlas.diffuseTexture;
+				mesh.TexNormal = atlas.normalTexture;
+				mesh.TexSpecular = atlas.specularTexture;
+				mesh.ReloadTextureArrays(false);
+
+				int textureId = RegisterUvMapping(atlas, slice);
+				RegisterPaint(textureId);
+			}
+			finally
+			{
+				// Keep the loaded textures alive: only the bundle wrapper is released.
+				bundle.Unload(false);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Give the new slice an entry in uvMapping and return its index - that index is what a
+		/// block's Texture property in blocks.xml actually refers to.
+		///
+		/// The entry is CLONED from an existing plain opaque paint rather than built field by
+		/// field. UVRectTiling carries more than a slice number (tiling, block size, material
+		/// flags), and copying a known-good neighbour keeps every one of those correct without
+		/// guessing at fields we have never inspected. Only the slice index is changed.
+		/// </summary>
+		static int RegisterUvMapping(TextureAtlasBlocks atlas, int slice)
+		{
+			// 356 is txName_Steel_wall - an ordinary full-block opaque paint, which is exactly
+			// the shape of entry we want.
+			const int TemplateTextureId = 356;
+			if (atlas.uvMapping == null || atlas.uvMapping.Length <= TemplateTextureId)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: uvMapping too small to " +
+					"clone a template from - paint not registered");
+				return -1;
+			}
+
+			int textureId = atlas.uvMapping.Length;
+			Array.Resize(ref atlas.uvMapping, textureId + 1);
+			UVRectTiling tile = atlas.uvMapping[TemplateTextureId];
+			// Только индекс слоя: имени у UVRectTiling нет, оно живёт в BlockTextureData.
+			tile.index = slice;
+			atlas.uvMapping[textureId] = tile;
+
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: uvMapping entry " + textureId +
+				" points at slice " + slice + " (cloned from " + TemplateTextureId + ")");
+			return textureId;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Register the paint itself, so it has a name, shows up in the paint brush, and can be
+		/// referred to by name. The block only needs the texture id, but a nameless texture with
+		/// no paint entry would be invisible to the rest of the game.
+		/// </summary>
+		static void RegisterPaint(int textureId)
+		{
+			if (textureId < 0) return;
+			if (BlockTextureData.list == null)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: paint table missing - " +
+					"texture added but not named");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			int free = -1;
+			for (int i = 0; i < BlockTextureData.list.Length; i++)
+			{
+				if (BlockTextureData.list[i] == null) { free = i; break; }
+			}
+			if (free < 0)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: no free paint slot - " +
+					"texture added but not named");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			var data = new BlockTextureData
+			{
+				ID = free,
+				Name = PaintName,
+				LocalizedName = Localization.Get(PaintName),
+				TextureID = (ushort)textureId,
+				Group = "txGroupMasonry",
+				PaintCost = 1,
+				SortIndex = 0,
+				Hidden = false,
+			};
+			data.Init();
+
+			AssignedPaintId = free;
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: paint registered, slot " + free +
+				", texture id " + textureId + " -> put Texture=\"" + textureId +
+				"\" on the block in blocks.xml");
+		}
+
+		static AssetBundle LoadBundle()
+		{
+			if (ModEntry.Instance == null)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: mod path unknown");
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			string path = Path.Combine(ModEntry.Instance.Path, BundlePath);
+			if (!File.Exists(path))
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: bundle not found at " + path);
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			AssetBundle bundle = AssetBundle.LoadFromFile(path);
+			if (bundle == null)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: bundle failed to load: " + path);
+			}
+			return bundle;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Rebuild a texture array one slice larger and put our texture in the new last slot.
+		/// Returns the new slice index, or -1 if the arrays disagree on anything that makes a
+		/// copy impossible.
+		/// </summary>
+		static int Append(ref Texture target, Texture2D ours, string label)
+		{
+			var src = target as Texture2DArray;
+			if (src == null)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " + label +
+					" is not a Texture2DArray - skipped");
+				return -1;
+			}
+
+			if (ours.width != src.width || ours.height != src.height)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " + label + " size mismatch, " +
+					"atlas is " + src.width + "x" + src.height + " but ours is " +
+					ours.width + "x" + ours.height + " - skipped");
+				return -1;
+			}
+			if (ours.graphicsFormat != src.graphicsFormat)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " + label + " format mismatch, " +
+					"atlas is " + src.graphicsFormat + " but ours is " + ours.graphicsFormat +
+					" - skipped");
+				return -1;
+			}
+			if (ours.mipmapCount != src.mipmapCount)
+			{
+				Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " + label + " mip mismatch, " +
+					"atlas has " + src.mipmapCount + " but ours has " + ours.mipmapCount +
+					" - skipped");
+				return -1;
+			}
+
+			int slice = src.depth;
+			var grown = new Texture2DArray(src.width, src.height, slice + 1,
+				src.graphicsFormat, UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.TextureCreationFlags.MipChain,
+				src.mipmapCount);
+			grown.name = src.name + "+necro";
+			grown.wrapMode = src.wrapMode;
+			grown.filterMode = src.filterMode;
+			grown.anisoLevel = src.anisoLevel;
+
+			// GPU-side copy: the game's arrays are non-readable, so nothing can be pulled back
+			// to the CPU. CopyTexture moves whole slices with their mip chains.
+			for (int i = 0; i < slice; i++) Graphics.CopyTexture(src, i, grown, i);
+			Graphics.CopyTexture(ours, 0, grown, slice);
+
+			target = grown;
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " + label + " grown from " + slice +
+				" to " + (slice + 1) + " slices");
+			return slice;
+		}
+
+		static void Describe(string label, Texture2D tex)
+		{
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] CustomBlockPaint: " + label + " " +
+				tex.width + "x" + tex.height + " format=" + tex.format +
+				" graphicsFormat=" + tex.graphicsFormat + " mips=" + tex.mipmapCount);
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	/// ПАУЗА. Begin ставит GameManager.Instance.Pause(true) один раз на всю сцену и больше её не
 	/// трогает: снимать паузу незачем, потому что любой выход отсюда ведёт в главное меню, а
 	/// GameManager.Disconnect() зовёт Pause(false) внутри себя (см. комментарий в
-	/// PortalStonePatch.ActivateBlackPortal). Как и вся остальная UI-часть этого мода, сцена
+	/// FinishEnding). Как и вся остальная UI-часть этого мода, сцена
 	/// рассчитана на локального игрока - Pause вообще работает только в одиночной игре, это
 	/// ограничение самой ванили, а не мода.
 	/// </summary>
@@ -258,14 +258,12 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 		/// "Конец".
 		///
 		/// ВИДЕО ОТСЮДА УБРАНО 2026-09-09 по прямому указанию ("временно, убираем вообще видосы
-		/// из финала"). Сам вызов XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo целиком сохранён в
-		/// PortalStonePatch.PlayBlackPortalVideoLegacy - вернуть видео можно, не восстанавливая
-		/// код по кускам.
-		///
-		/// Файлы Video/FinalStay.webm, FinalReturn.webm и BlackPortal.webm УДАЛЕНЫ ИЗ МОДА
-		/// 2026-09-09 перед публикацией: все три были побайтовой копией ванильного
+		/// из финала"). Файлы Video/FinalStay.webm, FinalReturn.webm и BlackPortal.webm тогда же
+		/// удалены из мода перед публикацией: все три были побайтовой копией ванильного
 		/// TFP_Intro.webm (заглушка для тестов), а раздавать чужой ассет игры в релизе нельзя.
-		/// Настоящее видео класть под тем же именем.
+		/// Мёртвый код проигрывания видео (PortalStonePatch.PlayBlackPortalVideoLegacy и
+		/// константа с путём) убран 2026-09-10 - живой пример того же вызова, если видео
+		/// понадобится вернуть, остался в NoteFlashbackPatch.cs.
 		///
 		/// Задержки и наезда здесь нет намеренно: смотреть на чёрный экран пять секунд незачем,
 		/// текст показывается сразу.</summary>
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+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using UnityEngine.Scripting;
+
+namespace NecromancerTome
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// `necroghost [percent|reset]` - turns the traders' transparency live, without a rebuild
+	/// (user request 2026-09-14, right after the alpha went from 1% to 10%: "Сделай консольную
+	/// команду на альфу, чтобы крутить в игре"). The number being hunted - "a ghost, not a broken
+	/// model" - can only be judged by looking at him, and every step of that hunt otherwise costs
+	/// an edit, a `dotnet build`, a restart and the four-minute walk back to a trader, because
+	/// traders are streamed in on approach. This collapses the loop to one line in the console.
+	///
+	/// IT TAKES PERCENT OF TRANSPARENCY, NOT ALPHA, and that is deliberate: percent is the unit
+	/// the request has been made in twice ("буквально 1%", "пусть будет 10%"), while alpha is the
+	/// unit the renderer wants, and they run in opposite directions - 10% transparent is alpha
+	/// 0.9. Guessing which one a typed "10" meant would be a coin flip, so the command fixes the
+	/// unit and prints both back every time.
+	///
+	/// NOTHING IS PERSISTED. The value lives for the session; the one that turns out to be right
+	/// gets written into GhostTraderPatch.DefaultGhostAlpha, which is the line a release ships.
+	/// A settings file would just be a second place for the answer to hide.
+	///
+	/// WHY THE GAME FINDS THIS CLASS WITHOUT ANY REGISTRATION. SdtdConsole.RegisterCommands goes
+	/// through ReflectionHelpers.FindTypesImplementingBase(typeof(IConsoleCommand)), and that
+	/// walks ModManager.GetLoadedAssemblies() alongside the game's own - so a ConsoleCmdAbstract
+	/// in a mod DLL is picked up like any vanilla one. Ordering is not a gamble either:
+	/// GameManager calls ModManager.LoadMods() three lines before RegisterCommands().
+	///
+	/// IsExecuteOnClient IS true BECAUSE THIS CHANGES PIXELS. On a server the command would
+	/// otherwise run where there is nothing to look at; the flag makes the server bounce it back
+	/// to the client that typed it (ConnectionManager.ServerConsoleCommand), which is where the
+	/// materials and the eyes are. In single player it changes nothing.
+	/// </summary>
+	[Preserve]
+	public class ConsoleCmdNecroGhost : ConsoleCmdAbstract
+	{
+		public override bool IsExecuteOnClient => true;
+
+		public override bool AllowedInMainMenu => false;
+
+		public override string[] getCommands()
+		{
+			return new string[] { "necroghost", "necrotrader" };
+		}
+
+		public override string getDescription()
+		{
+			return "Necromancer's Tome: how transparent the ghost traders are, in percent.";
+		}
+
+		public override string getHelp()
+		{
+			return "necroghost              - show the current value and mode\n" +
+			       "necroghost <0-100>      - set transparency in percent (10 = the default, barely there;\n" +
+			       "                          30 = clearly a ghost; past ~30 he stops reading as a body)\n" +
+			       "necroghost blend        - fade the body by blending  (re-shades it; smooth)\n" +
+			       "necroghost dither       - fade the body by dithering (the game's own _Fade; grainy)\n" +
+			       "necroghost reset        - back to the built-in default value and mode\n" +
+			       "\n" +
+			       "Applies to traders already in the world, immediately - walk up to one first and\n" +
+			       "watch him while you type. Not saved: tell the mod author what you settled on.\n" +
+			       "\n" +
+			       "THE MODES ARE NOT DEGREES OF ONE THING. The body's own shader cannot blend, so the\n" +
+			       "game fades it by throwing pixels away in a pattern - that is the fine grid. Blend\n" +
+			       "re-shades the body onto the hair's shader, which has a transparent pass, at the\n" +
+			       "cost of the character shader's own lighting. The hair fades the same way either\n" +
+			       "way, so it is the body you compare.\n" +
+			       "\n" +
+			       "If he comes apart instead of fading - teeth through the cheek, an arm through the\n" +
+			       "chest - that is not this number, that is depth writing, and no value here will fix it.";
+		}
+
+		public override void Execute(List<string> _params, CommandSenderInfo _senderInfo)
+		{
+			if (_params.Count == 0)
+			{
+				Report("Ghost traders");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			string argument = _params[0].Trim();
+			if (argument.EqualsCaseInsensitive("reset"))
+			{
+				GhostTraderPatch.GhostAlpha = GhostTraderPatch.DefaultGhostAlpha;
+				SetMode(GhostTraderPatch.BodyOpacityMode.Blend, "Reset");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			if (argument.EqualsCaseInsensitive("blend"))
+			{
+				SetMode(GhostTraderPatch.BodyOpacityMode.Blend, "Body mode");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			if (argument.EqualsCaseInsensitive("dither"))
+			{
+				SetMode(GhostTraderPatch.BodyOpacityMode.Dither, "Body mode");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			if (!TryParsePercent(argument, out float percent))
+			{
+				SingletonMonoBehaviour<SdtdConsole>.Instance.Output(
+					"necroghost: '" + argument + "' is neither a percentage nor blend/dither/reset. " +
+					"Try 'necroghost 10', or 'help necroghost'.");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			if (percent < 0f || percent > 100f)
+			{
+				SingletonMonoBehaviour<SdtdConsole>.Instance.Output(
+					"necroghost: " + percent.ToString("0.#") + "% is outside 0-100. 0 = solid, 100 = invisible.");
+				return;
+			}
+
+			GhostTraderPatch.GhostAlpha = 1f - percent / 100f;
+			Report("Set");
+
+			// Said only when asked for, and only once the value is actually past the point where
+			// the two failure modes stop looking different - see GhostTraderPatch.GhostAlpha.
+			if (GhostTraderPatch.GhostAlpha < 0.7f)
+			{
+				SingletonMonoBehaviour<SdtdConsole>.Instance.Output(
+					"  (past ~30% the silhouette stops reading as a solid body at all, which looks like " +
+					"a broken model for a different reason than depth writing does)");
+			}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Switches how the body is faded and rebuilds the traders already standing, which
+		/// is the expensive path - the materials have to be built again from the originals, since
+		/// a re-shaded material cannot be un-re-shaded. Changing only the number never comes here.
+		/// Saying so out loud matters: this is the one thing in the command that is not free, and
+		/// flipping modes back and forth while hunting a value is the obvious way to use it.</summary>
+		public static void SetMode(GhostTraderPatch.BodyOpacityMode _mode, string _prefix)
+		{
+			bool changed = GhostTraderPatch.BodyMode != _mode;
+			GhostTraderPatch.BodyMode = _mode;
+			int rebuilt = changed ? GhostTraderPatch.Reapply() : 0;
+			Report(_prefix);
+			if (changed && rebuilt > 0)
+			{
+				SingletonMonoBehaviour<SdtdConsole>.Instance.Output(
+					"  (" + rebuilt + " renderer(s) rebuilt from their original materials)");
+			}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Current value plus what it actually reached, in both units, and which way the
+		/// body is being faded. The count is the half that answers "did it do anything": 0
+		/// materials means no trader has been converted yet - they stream in on approach - not
+		/// that the number was refused.</summary>
+		public static void Report(string _prefix)
+		{
+			float alpha = GhostTraderPatch.GhostAlpha;
+			int applied = GhostTraderPatch.Retint();
+			SingletonMonoBehaviour<SdtdConsole>.Instance.Output(
+				_prefix + ": " + ((1f - alpha) * 100f).ToString("0.#") + "% transparent (alpha " +
+				alpha.ToString("0.###") + "), body mode " + GhostTraderPatch.BodyMode +
+				", applied to " + applied + " live material(s) across " +
+				GhostTraderPatch.Ghosted.Count + " trader(s) converted this session.");
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Percent out of what the user typed. StringParsers is the game's own parser and
+		/// is culture-independent, which matters here - but it reads ',' as a THOUSANDS separator,
+		/// so on a keyboard where the decimal key produces a comma "12,5" would silently parse as
+		/// 125 and the trader would vanish. The comma is turned into a point before it gets there.
+		/// A trailing '%' is accepted because it is the obvious thing to type.</summary>
+		public static bool TryParsePercent(string _argument, out float _percent)
+		{
+			string text = _argument.Replace(',', '.').TrimEnd('%').Trim();
+			return StringParsers.TryParseFloat(text, out _percent);
+		}
+	}
+}
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+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using UnityEngine;
+using UnityEngine.Rendering;
+
+namespace NecromancerTome
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Renders every trader in black and white (user request 2026-09-13: "сделать модельки всех
+	/// торговцев полупрозрачными и чёрнобелыми", then after two in-game looks: "прозрачность у
+	/// торговцев убираем совсем"). Fits the mod - the necromancer deals with the dead, and the
+	/// only people still trading are not quite alive.
+	///
+	/// TRANSPARENCY WAS DROPPED, THEN ASKED BACK FOR AT A SLIVER, THEN RAISED TO 10%. The user
+	/// first said "убираем совсем", confirmed the result ("торговец стал непрозрачным и
+	/// полностью чёрно-белым, как и требовалось"), then asked for "лёгкую прозрачность,
+	/// буквально 1%", and on 2026-09-14 for 10% - "чтобы он выглядел как призрак, а не как
+	/// сломанная модель". Dropping it was still the release this effect needed, because it
+	/// is what allowed the shader to stay put - see below; the alpha is a separate, optional layer
+	/// on top (ApplyTransparency) that cannot break the greyscale if the shaders refuse it.
+	///
+	/// The two failed attempts are worth keeping written down, because neither could have been
+	/// predicted from the decompiler and each was settled by one log line:
+	///
+	///   1. "Unlit/Transparent Greyscale" (what GameManager uses for greyed-out item icons) has
+	///      NO _Color - nowhere to put an alpha. Traders came out opaque, and because that shader
+	///      is built for NGUI atlases rather than skinned meshes, the user saw them "в негативе".
+	///   2. "Unlit/Transparent Colored" has no _Color either: `has _Color: False` in the log.
+	///      NGUI tints through VERTEX colours, not a material property, and a character mesh has
+	///      none - so that whole family of shaders was always a dead end here.
+	///
+	/// WITHOUT THE ALPHA REQUIREMENT THE SHADER DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REPLACED AT ALL, and that is
+	/// strictly better than anything above: the material is cloned with its own shader intact and
+	/// only its albedo texture is swapped for a desaturated copy. Lighting, normal maps, specular,
+	/// skinning - all still the game's own. The trader looks exactly like himself, in black and
+	/// white. Nothing can go "negative", because nothing but the pixels changes.
+	///
+	/// THE ALBEDO IS FOUND, NOT ASSUMED - this is what the earlier runs bought us. The first
+	/// attempt reached for _MainTex and produced an untextured silhouette, because traders are
+	/// drawn by TWO different shaders and only one of them uses that name. The probe below walks
+	/// the shader's declared properties instead, and the log then said exactly what they are:
+	///
+	///     shader 'Game/Character' texture properties: _Albedo=set, _Normal=set, _RMOE=set,
+	///         _texcoord=empty; chosen albedo: HD_Rekt 4096x4096
+	///     shader 'Game/Autodesk'  texture properties: _MainTex=set, _BumpMap=set, ...;
+	///         chosen albedo: HD_Rekt_Hair 2048x2048
+	///
+	/// So the body uses _Albedo and the hair uses _MainTex - which is precisely why the name is
+	/// discovered rather than hard-coded, and why the probe stays in: Jen is assembled by a
+	/// different character system than Rekt (AvatarSDCSController vs AvatarNpcController in
+	/// entityclasses.xml) and may well introduce a third shader.
+	///
+	/// GREYSCALE IS DONE TO THE TEXTURE, via a RenderTexture round trip. The round trip is the
+	/// point: game textures are compressed with isReadable=false, so GetPixels on the original
+	/// throws - blitting into an ARGB32 RenderTexture and reading THAT back is the standard way to
+	/// reach pixels the CPU was never handed. Luma weights 0.299/0.587/0.114 rather than a flat
+	/// average, so it reads like a black-and-white photograph instead of a muddy one. Cached per
+	/// source texture: these are 4096x4096, and a readback per renderer per sweep would be
+	/// indefensible.
+	///
+	/// THE ALPHA IS TURNED FROM THE CONSOLE, not from this file: `necroghost <percent>`, in
+	/// GhostTraderCommand.cs. A rendering balance can only be judged by looking at it, and a
+	/// rebuild-restart-walk-to-a-trader cycle per step is not a way to look at anything.
+	///
+	/// WHY A TICK AND NOT A SPAWN HOOK. Traders are streamed in on approach ("force spawning
+	/// pending entity npcTraderRekt" appeared ~4 minutes after the world loaded), and Jen is built
+	/// at runtime, so her renderers do not all exist when the entity is added to the world.
+	/// Polling with ModEvents.UnityUpdate - the same approach PetFollowPatch.cs already uses here -
+	/// avoids guessing at the right moment inside someone else's character pipeline. A trader with
+	/// no renderers yet is simply not marked done and is picked up on the next sweep.
+	/// </summary>
+	public static class GhostTraderPatch
+	{
+		/// <summary>Seconds between sweeps.</summary>
+		public const float SweepInterval = 2f;
+
+		/// <summary>What a fresh game boots with. 1 = solid; 0.3 is what the hunt actually landed
+		/// on - the user set 70% transparency in game on 2026-09-14 once the body was blending
+		/// instead of dithering, and kept it. THE VALUE FOUND IN GAME BELONGS HERE: the console
+		/// command turns GhostAlpha for the session only and deliberately persists nothing, so a
+		/// number worth keeping has to be written into this line.
+		///
+		/// The road here was 1% -> 10% -> 70%, and the last jump was not a change of taste: at 10%
+		/// the body was still being dithered, and a dither is only bearable while it is faint. Once
+		/// it became real blending, far more of it turned out to look right.</summary>
+		public const float DefaultGhostAlpha = 0.3f;
+
+		/// <summary>The opacity actually in use. THIS IS THE ONE NUMBER TO TURN when hunting the
+		/// balance between "ghost" and "broken model" - everything else in this file is about
+		/// making the number mean what it says - and `necroghost &lt;percent&gt;` turns it live
+		/// (GhostTraderCommand.cs), because every step of that hunt otherwise costs a rebuild, a
+		/// restart and the four-minute walk to a trader.
+		///
+		/// Which way to turn it is decided by WHICH failure you are looking at, and the two look
+		/// nothing alike:
+		///   - reads as a solid person, no ghost at all -> lower it (0.85, 0.8).
+		///   - the world shows through him but he still reads as one body -> this is the target.
+		///   - you can see his teeth through his cheek, eyes through eyelids, an arm through the
+		///     chest -> that is the "broken model", and it is NOT this number's fault. It means
+		///     depth writing came off somewhere; see _ZWrite in ApplyTransparency. Dropping the
+		///     alpha further only makes it worse.
+		/// THE OLD "nothing below ~0.7" NOTE WAS WRONG, and it is worth saying why rather than
+		/// quietly deleting: it was written while the body was still dithering, where a low value
+		/// means a coarse pattern and the silhouette falls apart early. With the body blending,
+		/// 0.3 reads as a ghost and holds together - the limit belonged to the technique, not to
+		/// the eye. Depth writing is what keeps him one body, and it does not care how low the
+		/// number goes.</summary>
+		public static float GhostAlpha = DefaultGhostAlpha;
+
+		/// <summary>One opacity lever this patch installed on a trader, remembered so the alpha
+		/// can be turned again WITHOUT rebuilding anything. Keeping the base value is the whole
+		/// point: the live value is always base * GhostAlpha, never "multiply what is there now by
+		/// the new number" - that would compound (0.9 then 0.8 would land on 0.72) and the second
+		/// turn of the dial would lie about where it put you.
+		///
+		/// IsColour says which of the two kinds this is - the alpha channel of a colour, or a
+		/// plain float - because a trader needs BOTH and they are not interchangeable: the body
+		/// only has the float (_Fade) and the hair only has the colour (_Color). One material can
+		/// therefore contribute one entry, and one trader contributes several of both kinds.</summary>
+		public struct GhostMaterial
+		{
+			public Material Material;
+			public string Property;
+			public bool IsColour;
+			public float BaseValue;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>A renderer this patch has taken over, with the materials it had before. The
+		/// originals are the reason a mode can be switched at all: after the first pass
+		/// renderer.sharedMaterials hands back OUR clones, so rebuilding from what is currently
+		/// on the renderer would re-shade an already re-shaded material and there would be no way
+		/// back to the body's real one. Rebuilding always starts here instead.</summary>
+		public struct GhostRenderer
+		{
+			public Renderer Renderer;
+			public Material[] Originals;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Every renderer taken over, in the order it was found. Pruned of destroyed
+		/// renderers as they are walked; dropped wholesale when the world unloads.</summary>
+		public static readonly List<GhostRenderer> Converted = new List<GhostRenderer>();
+
+		/// <summary>Every material installed on a live trader that has somewhere to put an alpha.
+		/// Retint walks this instead of redoing the work: re-running the sweep would re-clone the
+		/// materials and, far worse, hand the 4096x4096 desaturation another readback per trader.
+		/// Entries go stale when the game destroys the material with its trader - Retint prunes
+		/// those, and WorldShuttingDown drops the lot.</summary>
+		public static readonly List<GhostMaterial> TintedMaterials = new List<GhostMaterial>();
+
+		/// <summary>Colour properties that might carry an alpha, best first. Confirmed in game:
+		/// the hair/beard shader "Game/Autodesk" has _Color; the BODY shader "Game/Character" has
+		/// no colour property at all - see FadeNameHints.</summary>
+		public static readonly string[] TintNameHints = { "_Color", "_BaseColor", "_TintColor", "_Tint" };
+
+		/// <summary>How the BODY is made see-through. The two are not two settings of one thing,
+		/// they are two different renderers' worth of behaviour, and only a look in game can pick
+		/// between them - which is why both stay reachable from the console.
+		///
+		/// Dither is the game's own _Fade, and on 2026-09-14 the user reported what it actually
+		/// looks like: "тело гаснет, но идёт мелкой сеточкой". That is screen-door transparency -
+		/// the shader is not blending anything, it is THROWING PIXELS AWAY in a fixed pattern.
+		/// It is what an opaque-queue character shader can do without a transparent pass, and no
+		/// value of GhostAlpha turns a dropped pixel into a translucent one.
+		///
+		/// Blend re-shades the body onto the shader the HAIR is already drawn with, which does
+		/// have a transparent pass. The existence proof is on the same model in the same frame:
+		/// the beard has been fading smoothly this whole time while the body was dithering.</summary>
+		public enum BodyOpacityMode
+		{
+			Dither,
+			Blend
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Blend by default: dither has been looked at and rejected. `necroghost blend`
+		/// and `necroghost dither` switch it live - see GhostTraderCommand.cs.</summary>
+		public static BodyOpacityMode BodyMode = BodyOpacityMode.Blend;
+
+		/// <summary>The hair's shader, kept once it is found on a real trader. Taken off the model
+		/// rather than through Shader.Find so it is the exact shader already proven to work in
+		/// this scene - name lookups can miss a stripped or renamed shader and hand back null,
+		/// and the mod has been down that road twice already with the Unlit family.</summary>
+		public static Shader BlendShader;
+
+		/// <summary>Normal-map properties, best first. "Game/Character" calls it _Normal, the hair
+		/// shader wants _BumpMap - the same disagreement the albedo has.</summary>
+		public static readonly string[] NormalNameHints = { "_BumpMap", "_Normal", "_NormalMap", "_NormalTex" };
+
+		/// <summary>Float properties that fade the whole material out, best first. This is the
+		/// body's only lever and the game's own: EntityModel.SetFade writes exactly "_Fade", and
+		/// guards it with `material.HasProperty("_Fade") && shader.name.Contains("Game/Character")`
+		/// - the same shader our traders' bodies are drawn with. EntityAlive.Update drives it from
+		/// renderFade, and SetVisible(renderFade > 0.01f) right next to it settles the direction
+		/// beyond doubt: 1 = solid, 0 = gone, exactly like an alpha.</summary>
+		public static readonly string[] FadeNameHints = { "_Fade" };
+
+		/// <summary>Entity ids already converted. Cleared when the world unloads.</summary>
+		public static readonly HashSet<int> Ghosted = new HashSet<int>();
+
+		/// <summary>Source shader names already described in the log, so the probe says each
+		/// distinct thing once rather than once per trader per part.</summary>
+		public static readonly HashSet<string> ProbedShaders = new HashSet<string>();
+
+		/// <summary>Desaturated copies, keyed by the texture they came from.</summary>
+		public static readonly Dictionary<Texture, Texture2D> GreyTextures = new Dictionary<Texture, Texture2D>();
+
+		/// <summary>Property names that look like an albedo, best first. Confirmed in game:
+		/// "Game/Character" uses _Albedo, "Game/Autodesk" uses _MainTex. Anything else falls
+		/// through to "the first texture property that has something in it".</summary>
+		public static readonly string[] AlbedoNameHints =
+		{
+			"_MainTex", "_Albedo", "_BaseMap", "_BaseColorMap", "_AlbedoMap", "_DiffuseMap",
+			"_Diffuse", "_ColorMap", "_MainTexture", "_Texture"
+		};
+
+		public static float timer;
+
+		/// <summary>Called from ModEntry.InitMod.</summary>
+		public static void Init()
+		{
+			ModEvents.UnityUpdate.RegisterHandler(OnUnityUpdate);
+			ModEvents.WorldShuttingDown.RegisterHandler(OnWorldShuttingDown);
+		}
+
+		public static void OnWorldShuttingDown(ref ModEvents.SWorldShuttingDownData _data)
+		{
+			Ghosted.Clear();
+			GreyTextures.Clear();
+			TintedMaterials.Clear();
+			Converted.Clear();
+			BlendShader = null;
+			timer = 0f;
+		}
+
+		public static void OnUnityUpdate(ref ModEvents.SUnityUpdateData _data)
+		{
+			timer += Time.deltaTime;
+			if (timer < SweepInterval)
+			{
+				return;
+			}
+			timer = 0f;
+
+			World world = GameManager.Instance != null ? GameManager.Instance.World : null;
+			if (world == null || world.EntityAlives == null)
+			{
+				return;
+			}
+
+			for (int i = 0; i < world.EntityAlives.Count; i++)
+			{
+				EntityAlive entity = world.EntityAlives[i];
+				if (!(entity is EntityTrader trader) || trader.IsDead())
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (Ghosted.Contains(trader.entityId))
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (ApplyGreyscale(trader))
+				{
+					Ghosted.Add(trader.entityId);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>False when there is nothing to work on yet (model not built), so the caller
+		/// leaves this trader unmarked and tries again on the next sweep.</summary>
+		public static bool ApplyGreyscale(EntityTrader _trader)
+		{
+			Renderer[] renderers = _trader.GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>(true);
+			if (renderers == null || renderers.Length == 0)
+			{
+				return false;
+			}
+
+			// Before anything is touched, because the body's replacement shader is found on the
+			// trader's OWN hair and the hair is not guaranteed to come first in this array.
+			FindBlendShader(renderers);
+
+			int converted = 0;
+			int leversBefore = TintedMaterials.Count;
+			foreach (Renderer renderer in renderers)
+			{
+				if (renderer == null || renderer is ParticleSystemRenderer)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+
+				Material[] sources = renderer.sharedMaterials;
+				if (sources == null || sources.Length == 0)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+
+				Converted.Add(new GhostRenderer { Renderer = renderer, Originals = sources });
+				if (Convert(renderer, sources))
+				{
+					converted++;
+				}
+			}
+
+			// The lever count is the half that answers "will the console command reach him":
+			// desaturation and opacity come from different properties, and the body had the first
+			// without the second until 2026-09-14. Fewer levers than converted renderers means
+			// some part of this trader can only ever be black-and-white, never transparent.
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] GhostTraderPatch: " + _trader.EntityClass.entityClassName +
+			          " (entity " + _trader.entityId + ") - " + converted + " of " + renderers.Length +
+			          " renderer(s) desaturated, " + (TintedMaterials.Count - leversBefore) + " opacity lever(s) installed");
+			return true;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Builds and installs this renderer's ghost materials from the ORIGINALS it was
+		/// handed. True when anything was actually changed - a renderer nothing could be done to
+		/// keeps the materials it has rather than being handed a half-built array.</summary>
+		public static bool Convert(Renderer _renderer, Material[] _sources)
+		{
+			Material[] ghosts = new Material[_sources.Length];
+			bool anyChanged = false;
+			for (int i = 0; i < _sources.Length; i++)
+			{
+				ghosts[i] = MakeGreyMaterial(_sources[i], ref anyChanged);
+			}
+			if (anyChanged)
+			{
+				_renderer.materials = ghosts;
+			}
+			return anyChanged;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Rebuilds every trader already converted, from their original materials, under
+		/// whatever BodyMode is set now. This is the expensive path and exists only for the mode
+		/// switch; changing the alpha alone goes through Retint, which touches no materials at
+		/// all. Even here the 4096x4096 desaturation is not redone - GreyTextures is keyed by the
+		/// source texture, and the source is the same original every time.</summary>
+		public static int Reapply()
+		{
+			TintedMaterials.Clear();
+			int rebuilt = 0;
+			for (int i = Converted.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+			{
+				GhostRenderer entry = Converted[i];
+				if (entry.Renderer == null)
+				{
+					Converted.RemoveAt(i);
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (Convert(entry.Renderer, entry.Originals))
+				{
+					rebuilt++;
+				}
+			}
+			return rebuilt;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Remembers the first shader on this model that can actually blend - it needs
+		/// both a colour to put an alpha in and a blend mode to honour it. On a trader that is the
+		/// hair's shader. Falls back to looking the name up only if the model somehow has no such
+		/// material, and says so either way, because a null here silently disables the whole Blend
+		/// mode and leaves the body dithering with no explanation.</summary>
+		public static Shader FindBlendShader(Renderer[] _renderers)
+		{
+			if (BlendShader != null)
+			{
+				return BlendShader;
+			}
+
+			foreach (Renderer renderer in _renderers)
+			{
+				if (renderer == null || renderer is ParticleSystemRenderer)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				Material[] materials = renderer.sharedMaterials;
+				if (materials == null)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				foreach (Material material in materials)
+				{
+					if (material == null || material.shader == null || !CanBlendInPlace(material))
+					{
+						continue;
+					}
+					BlendShader = material.shader;
+					Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] GhostTraderPatch: blend shader taken off the model: '" +
+					          BlendShader.name + "'");
+					return BlendShader;
+				}
+			}
+
+			BlendShader = Shader.Find("Game/Autodesk");
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] GhostTraderPatch: no blend-capable material on this model; " +
+			          "the shader was looked up by name instead and came back " +
+			          (BlendShader != null ? BlendShader.name : "NULL - the body stays dithered"));
+			return BlendShader;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Whether this material can be made see-through where it stands: somewhere to
+		/// put an alpha, and a blend mode to make the alpha mean something. The body fails both
+		/// halves and the hair passes both - which is the whole difference between them, and the
+		/// reason this is a capability test rather than a check on the shader's name.</summary>
+		public static bool CanBlendInPlace(Material _material)
+		{
+			if (!_material.HasProperty("_SrcBlend") || !_material.HasProperty("_DstBlend"))
+			{
+				return false;
+			}
+			foreach (string hint in TintNameHints)
+			{
+				if (_material.HasProperty(hint))
+				{
+					return true;
+				}
+			}
+			return false;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// The body, re-shaded onto the hair's shader so it can blend the way the hair does, with
+		/// the black-and-white albedo it would have had anyway.
+		///
+		/// ONLY WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD IS CARRIED OVER - albedo and normal map. The body's third map,
+		/// _RMOE, is a packed roughness/metallic/occlusion/emission texture, and the destination
+		/// shader's _MetallicGlossMap expects metallic in R and smoothness in A: the channels do
+		/// not line up, and wiring them by hope is exactly how a character comes out looking like
+		/// wet plastic or a negative. It is left empty and the two floats are set by hand instead
+		/// - no metal, barely any gloss, which is what a dead man in black and white should be.
+		///
+		/// This is a real trade and worth stating plainly: the body loses the character shader's
+		/// own lighting response and gets standard lighting instead. In exchange it can actually
+		/// be translucent rather than dithered. If it reads wrong in game, `necroghost dither` is
+		/// one line away and nothing has to be rebuilt.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static Material MakeBlendMaterial(Material _source, Texture2D _albedo)
+		{
+			Material blend = new Material(BlendShader);
+			blend.SetTexture("_MainTex", _albedo);
+
+			Texture normal = FindTexture(_source, NormalNameHints);
+			if (normal != null && blend.HasProperty("_BumpMap"))
+			{
+				blend.SetTexture("_BumpMap", normal);
+			}
+			MakeMatte(blend);
+			// Standard's own "Fade" setting. The shader branches on keywords rather than on this
+			// float, and ApplyTransparency sets those - but a material inspected later with its
+			// mode still reading "Opaque" is a trap for whoever looks next.
+			if (blend.HasProperty("_Mode"))
+			{
+				blend.SetFloat("_Mode", 2f);
+			}
+
+			ApplyTransparency(blend);
+			return blend;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Takes the shine off (user request 2026-09-14, once the body was blending properly:
+		/// "слишком оно бликует, я бы вообще сделал матовым"). Applied to EVERY ghost material, not just the
+		/// re-shaded body: the hair is drawn by the same shader and was keeping its own shine, and
+		/// a matte body under a glossy beard would have read worse than either.
+		///
+		/// THREE THINGS, BECAUSE THEY FAIL DIFFERENTLY:
+		///
+		///   - _Glossiness (smoothness) to 0. This one is plain shader maths and always works -
+		///     the surface becomes maximally rough, and a rough surface has no tight highlight.
+		///     It is the load-bearing half of this method.
+		///   - _SpecularHighlights / _GlossyReflections to 0 WITH their keywords. These are the
+		///     Standard shader's [ToggleOff] pair: the float is only what the inspector shows, the
+		///     shader branches on _SPECULARHIGHLIGHTS_OFF / _GLOSSYREFLECTIONS_OFF, so setting the
+		///     float alone does nothing at all. They kill the direct highlight and the reflection
+		///     probe contribution outright.
+		///   - The gloss MAPS, cleared if anything is in them. A map wins over the float: leave
+		///     one in place and _Glossiness is ignored, which is the silent way for all of this to
+		///     appear to do nothing. They are empty on these traders today - this is for the next
+		///     model that is not.
+		///
+		/// HONEST LIMIT: those two keywords are `shader_feature`, which Unity strips at build time
+		/// if no material in the game ships with them set. If they were stripped, EnableKeyword is
+		/// a no-op and only the roughness half lands. That is why the roughness half is not
+		/// treated as a fallback but as the main lever - and why this is not attempted at all on
+		/// the body's own "Game/Character" shader, which has none of these properties: its shine
+		/// lives inside the packed _RMOE texture and would have to be repainted, not switched off.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static void MakeMatte(Material _material)
+		{
+			if (_material.HasProperty("_Glossiness"))
+			{
+				_material.SetFloat("_Glossiness", 0f);
+			}
+			if (_material.HasProperty("_GlossMapScale"))
+			{
+				_material.SetFloat("_GlossMapScale", 0f);
+			}
+			if (_material.HasProperty("_Metallic"))
+			{
+				_material.SetFloat("_Metallic", 0f);
+			}
+			if (_material.HasProperty("_SpecularHighlights"))
+			{
+				_material.SetFloat("_SpecularHighlights", 0f);
+				_material.EnableKeyword("_SPECULARHIGHLIGHTS_OFF");
+			}
+			if (_material.HasProperty("_GlossyReflections"))
+			{
+				_material.SetFloat("_GlossyReflections", 0f);
+				_material.EnableKeyword("_GLOSSYREFLECTIONS_OFF");
+			}
+			ClearTexture(_material, "_SpecGlossMap");
+			ClearTexture(_material, "_MetallicGlossMap");
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Empties a texture slot if this material has one and it is not already empty.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static void ClearTexture(Material _material, string _property)
+		{
+			if (_material.HasProperty(_property) && _material.GetTexture(_property) != null)
+			{
+				_material.SetTexture(_property, null);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>First texture among these property names that this material actually has
+		/// something in.</summary>
+		public static Texture FindTexture(Material _source, string[] _hints)
+		{
+			foreach (string hint in _hints)
+			{
+				if (_source.HasProperty(hint))
+				{
+					Texture texture = _source.GetTexture(hint);
+					if (texture != null)
+					{
+						return texture;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			return null;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// This material's ghost version. Two shapes, and which one it takes is decided by what
+		/// the material can do rather than by what it is called:
+		///
+		///   - CAN be made see-through where it stands (the hair) -> a clone with the SAME shader
+		///     and only its albedo swapped for a black-and-white copy. Lighting, normal maps,
+		///     specular, skinning - all still the game's own.
+		///   - CANNOT (the body: no colour, no blend mode) -> under BodyMode.Blend it is re-shaded
+		///     onto the shader the hair uses, which can. Under BodyMode.Dither it takes the clone
+		///     path anyway and gets the _Fade lever, which works but throws pixels away.
+		///
+		/// The albedo is desaturated first either way, because both shapes need it and the result
+		/// is cached per source texture - the re-shaded body is not paying for a second readback.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static Material MakeGreyMaterial(Material _source, ref bool _changed)
+		{
+			if (_source == null)
+			{
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			ProbeShaderOnce(_source);
+
+			string albedoProperty = FindAlbedoProperty(_source);
+			Texture2D desaturated = albedoProperty != null
+				? Desaturate(_source.GetTexture(albedoProperty))
+				: null;
+
+			// Re-shading without an albedo to hand over would produce an untextured silhouette -
+			// the exact failure this patch already shipped once, on 2026-09-13. If the texture
+			// could not be read, the body keeps its own shader and stays dithered instead, and
+			// the lever count in the log is what says so.
+			if (BodyMode == BodyOpacityMode.Blend && BlendShader != null && desaturated != null &&
+			    !CanBlendInPlace(_source))
+			{
+				_changed = true;
+				return MakeBlendMaterial(_source, desaturated);
+			}
+
+			Material grey = new Material(_source);
+			MakeMatte(grey);
+			if (ApplyTransparency(grey))
+			{
+				_changed = true;
+			}
+			if (desaturated == null)
+			{
+				// Nothing to desaturate on this material; hand back the clone unchanged rather
+				// than dropping the renderer's material entirely.
+				return grey;
+			}
+
+			grey.SetTexture(albedoProperty, desaturated);
+			_changed = true;
+			return grey;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Dials this material's opacity down to GhostAlpha. THREE levers, each conditional,
+		/// because a trader is drawn by two different shaders that have almost nothing in common -
+		/// and the first version of this method only had the levers the hair happens to own, which
+		/// is why the user reported on 2026-09-14 that the console command "управляет только
+		/// прозрачностью бороды". The probe had already printed the reason, one line each:
+		///
+		///     shader 'Game/Character' - albedo: _Albedo -> HD_Rekt 4096x4096;
+		///         tint property: <none>; blend-mode properties present: False
+		///     shader 'Game/Autodesk'  - albedo: _MainTex -> HD_Rekt_Hair 2048x2048;
+		///         tint property: _Color (alpha 1); blend-mode properties present: True
+		///
+		/// The BODY has no colour property and no blend mode at all. Two of the three levers below
+		/// simply do not exist on it, and no value of GhostAlpha was ever going to reach it.
+		///
+		///   - A COLOUR with an alpha channel (_Color and friends). The hair's lever; the body
+		///     does not have one.
+		///   - THE FADE FLOAT (_Fade). The body's lever, and the game's own: EntityModel.SetFade
+		///     writes this exact property and guards it with a check for the "Game/Character"
+		///     shader by name, so this is not a property we found and hoped about - it is the one
+		///     the engine itself fades these very models with. Nothing else in the body's property
+		///     list can carry an opacity: the rest is _Albedo/_Normal/_RMOE, an alpha-CUTOUT
+		///     cluster (_AlphaCut, _AlphaCutoff, _SoftAlphaCutoff, _AlphaSoftness - a dissolve,
+		///     which punches holes rather than making glass), _EmissiveColor, and flags.
+		///   - THE BLEND MODE (_SrcBlend/_DstBlend). An opaque shader ignores any alpha it is
+		///     handed, so without this the COLOUR lever does nothing visible - the same wall the
+		///     mod's first transparency attempt hit back on 2026-08-28 with the summoned pets.
+		///     The recipe is the game's own: MeshDescription.SetupMaterialWithBlendMode writes
+		///     exactly these properties plus _ZWrite and the _ALPHABLEND_ON keyword. The _Fade
+		///     lever needs none of it - the shader does its own fading internally, which is
+		///     exactly why it exists.
+		///
+		/// _ZWrite IS LEFT ALONE ON PURPOSE, AND AT 10% THAT IS THE WHOLE BALANCE. The usual
+		/// transparency recipe switches depth writing off, which is right for glass and wrong for
+		/// a person: without it every surface of the model blends over every other one, and the
+		/// trader becomes teeth through cheeks, eyeballs through eyelids, the far arm through the
+		/// chest - exactly the "сломанная модель" the user does not want. With it on, the depth
+		/// test keeps only the nearest surface and that one surface blends with the WORLD behind
+		/// him. So he goes see-through without coming apart: a ghost, not a mess.
+		///
+		/// At 99% this cost nothing because there was nothing to see through; at 90% it is the
+		/// reason the effect is usable at all. Note that it is not set here either way - these
+		/// shaders write depth by default, and leaving the property untouched is what keeps it.
+		///
+		/// Whatever is missing is reported by the probe rather than silently skipped - if neither
+		/// lever exists on these shaders, the traders stay solid black-and-white and the log says
+		/// why.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static bool ApplyTransparency(Material _material)
+		{
+			bool touched = false;
+
+			foreach (string hint in TintNameHints)
+			{
+				if (!_material.HasProperty(hint))
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				Color tint = _material.GetColor(hint);
+				float baseAlpha = tint.a;
+				tint.a = baseAlpha * GhostAlpha;
+				_material.SetColor(hint, tint);
+				TintedMaterials.Add(new GhostMaterial
+				{
+					Material = _material,
+					Property = hint,
+					IsColour = true,
+					BaseValue = baseAlpha
+				});
+				touched = true;
+				break;
+			}
+
+			foreach (string hint in FadeNameHints)
+			{
+				if (!_material.HasProperty(hint))
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				// A base of 0 would mean the material is already fully faded out, which no
+				// standing trader is - it means the property is sitting at a default nobody set.
+				// Multiplying by it would make him vanish outright and no value of GhostAlpha
+				// could bring him back, so it is read as "solid" instead.
+				float baseFade = _material.GetFloat(hint);
+				if (baseFade <= 0f)
+				{
+					baseFade = 1f;
+				}
+				_material.SetFloat(hint, baseFade * GhostAlpha);
+				TintedMaterials.Add(new GhostMaterial
+				{
+					Material = _material,
+					Property = hint,
+					IsColour = false,
+					BaseValue = baseFade
+				});
+				touched = true;
+				break;
+			}
+
+			if (_material.HasProperty("_SrcBlend") && _material.HasProperty("_DstBlend"))
+			{
+				_material.SetFloat("_SrcBlend", (float)BlendMode.SrcAlpha);
+				_material.SetFloat("_DstBlend", (float)BlendMode.OneMinusSrcAlpha);
+				_material.EnableKeyword("_ALPHABLEND_ON");
+				_material.renderQueue = (int)RenderQueue.Transparent;
+				touched = true;
+			}
+
+			return touched;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Pushes the current GhostAlpha onto every trader already standing in the world,
+		/// and returns how many materials took it. Traders that spawn later need nothing from this
+		/// - ApplyTransparency reads the same field on the way past.
+		///
+		/// Unity's fake null is the reason for the rebuild-in-place rather than a simple loop: a
+		/// destroyed Material compares equal to null but is still a live list entry, and touching
+		/// it throws. Walking backwards and dropping those as we go keeps the list from growing
+		/// across a session of traders streaming in and out.</summary>
+		public static int Retint()
+		{
+			int applied = 0;
+			for (int i = TintedMaterials.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+			{
+				GhostMaterial entry = TintedMaterials[i];
+				if (entry.Material == null)
+				{
+					TintedMaterials.RemoveAt(i);
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (entry.IsColour)
+				{
+					Color tint = entry.Material.GetColor(entry.Property);
+					tint.a = entry.BaseValue * GhostAlpha;
+					entry.Material.SetColor(entry.Property, tint);
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					entry.Material.SetFloat(entry.Property, entry.BaseValue * GhostAlpha);
+				}
+				applied++;
+			}
+			return applied;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Name of the texture property holding this material's albedo, or null. Walks
+		/// the shader's declared properties rather than assuming a name - the body and the hair of
+		/// the same trader disagree about it.</summary>
+		public static string FindAlbedoProperty(Material _source)
+		{
+			Shader shader = _source.shader;
+			if (shader == null)
+			{
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			foreach (string hint in AlbedoNameHints)
+			{
+				if (_source.HasProperty(hint) && _source.GetTexture(hint) != null)
+				{
+					return hint;
+				}
+			}
+
+			int count = shader.GetPropertyCount();
+			for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
+			{
+				if (shader.GetPropertyType(i) != ShaderPropertyType.Texture)
+				{
+					continue;
+				}
+				string name = shader.GetPropertyName(i);
+				if (_source.GetTexture(name) != null)
+				{
+					return name;
+				}
+			}
+			return null;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Black-and-white copy of a texture. See the class comment for why this goes
+		/// through a RenderTexture instead of reading the source directly.</summary>
+		public static Texture2D Desaturate(Texture _source)
+		{
+			if (_source == null)
+			{
+				return null;
+			}
+			if (GreyTextures.TryGetValue(_source, out Texture2D cached))
+			{
+				return cached;
+			}
+
+			Texture2D grey = null;
+			RenderTexture rt = null;
+			RenderTexture previous = RenderTexture.active;
+			try
+			{
+				rt = RenderTexture.GetTemporary(_source.width, _source.height, 0,
+					RenderTextureFormat.ARGB32, RenderTextureReadWrite.sRGB);
+				Graphics.Blit(_source, rt);
+				RenderTexture.active = rt;
+
+				grey = new Texture2D(_source.width, _source.height, TextureFormat.RGBA32, false);
+				grey.ReadPixels(new Rect(0f, 0f, _source.width, _source.height), 0, 0);
+
+				Color32[] pixels = grey.GetPixels32();
+				for (int i = 0; i < pixels.Length; i++)
+				{
+					Color32 p = pixels[i];
+					byte luma = (byte)((p.r * 299 + p.g * 587 + p.b * 114) / 1000);
+					p.r = luma;
+					p.g = luma;
+					p.b = luma;
+					pixels[i] = p;
+				}
+				grey.SetPixels32(pixels);
+				grey.Apply(false, false);
+			}
+			catch (System.Exception e)
+			{
+				Debug.LogError("[NecromancerTome] GhostTraderPatch: could not desaturate '" + _source.name + "': " + e.Message);
+				grey = null;
+			}
+			finally
+			{
+				RenderTexture.active = previous;
+				if (rt != null)
+				{
+					RenderTexture.ReleaseTemporary(rt);
+				}
+			}
+
+			// Cached even on failure (as null) so an unreadable texture is not retried per trader.
+			GreyTextures[_source] = grey;
+			return grey;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Says, once per distinct source shader, which texture properties it has and
+		/// which carry anything. This is what told us the body uses _Albedo and the hair _MainTex;
+		/// it stays in because the next trader built by a different character system will announce
+		/// itself the same way.</summary>
+		public static void ProbeShaderOnce(Material _source)
+		{
+			Shader shader = _source.shader;
+			string shaderName = shader != null ? shader.name : "<null shader>";
+			if (!ProbedShaders.Add(shaderName) || shader == null)
+			{
+				return;
+			}
+
+			// EVERY property, not just the textures. The texture-only version answered the
+			// "where is the albedo" question; this one has to answer "is there anything here that
+			// can make it transparent at all", and that lives among the floats and colours.
+			System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
+			int count = shader.GetPropertyCount();
+			for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
+			{
+				string name = shader.GetPropertyName(i);
+				ShaderPropertyType type = shader.GetPropertyType(i);
+				sb.Append(sb.Length > 0 ? ", " : "").Append(name).Append(':').Append(type);
+				if (type == ShaderPropertyType.Texture)
+				{
+					sb.Append(_source.GetTexture(name) != null ? "=set" : "=empty");
+				}
+			}
+
+			string chosen = FindAlbedoProperty(_source);
+			Texture chosenTexture = chosen != null ? _source.GetTexture(chosen) : null;
+			string tint = "<none>";
+			foreach (string hint in TintNameHints)
+			{
+				if (_source.HasProperty(hint))
+				{
+					tint = hint + " (alpha " + _source.GetColor(hint).a.ToString("0.###") + ")";
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+			string fade = "<none>";
+			foreach (string hint in FadeNameHints)
+			{
+				if (_source.HasProperty(hint))
+				{
+					fade = hint + " (" + _source.GetFloat(hint).ToString("0.###") + ")";
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+			bool canBlend = _source.HasProperty("_SrcBlend") && _source.HasProperty("_DstBlend");
+
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] GhostTraderPatch: shader '" + shaderName + "' properties: " +
+			          (sb.Length > 0 ? sb.ToString() : "<none>"));
+			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] GhostTraderPatch: shader '" + shaderName + "' - albedo: " + (chosen ?? "<none>") +
+			          " -> " + (chosenTexture != null ? chosenTexture.name + " " + chosenTexture.width + "x" + chosenTexture.height : "<none>") +
+			          "; tint property: " + tint + "; fade property: " + fade +
+			          "; blend-mode properties present: " + canBlend);
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -10,11 +10,26 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	/// </summary>
 	public class ModEntry : IModApi
 	{
+		/// <summary>The mod's own folder, kept from InitMod so patches can find files we ship
+		/// (currently Resources/necroatlas for the custom block paint). Nothing else knows where
+		/// the mod lives - the game hands it over exactly once, right here.</summary>
+		public static Mod Instance;
+
 		public void InitMod(Mod _modInstance)
 		{
+			Instance = _modInstance;
 			var harmony = new Harmony("necromancertome.harmony");
 			harmony.PatchAll(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
 			PetFollowPatch.Init();
+			// SpatialVaultPersistence needs NO Init(): it is four Harmony postfixes that PatchAll
+			// above already attached. It used to register a WorldShuttingDown handler to clear its
+			// cache - that handler is exactly what wiped the vault on every clean exit, because
+			// that event fires BEFORE the final player save (GameManager.SaveAndCleanupWorld:
+			// event at IL_0026, SaveLocalPlayerData at IL_00c4). Freshness is decided by what was
+			// read instead; see that file.
+			// Traders rendered as washed-out ghosts (request 2026-09-13). Polls rather than
+			// hooks a spawn event - see that file for why the SDCS-built trader forces it.
+			GhostTraderPatch.Init();
 			// PyramidWardPatch.cs's TEFeaturePyramidWard needs no Init() call - it's discovered
 			// automatically by the engine's own TileEntityCompositeData reflection scan (see that
 			// file's class doc comment), not registered here like PetFollowPatch's UnityUpdate hook.
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@
      <HintPath>..\..\..\7DaysToDie_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.AnimationModule.dll</HintPath>
      <Private>false</Private>
    </Reference>
+    <!-- AssetBundle.LoadFromFile for CustomBlockPaintPatch.cs (2026-09-10) - the mod ships its
+         own block paint textures in Resources/necroatlas, and Unity keeps bundle loading in its
+         own module rather than CoreModule. -->
+    <Reference Include="UnityEngine.AssetBundleModule">
+      <HintPath>..\..\..\7DaysToDie_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.AssetBundleModule.dll</HintPath>
+      <Private>false</Private>
+    </Reference>
    <!-- PlayerActionsLocal.Secondary (PlayerAction) for PortalStonePatch.cs's power-attack
         channel-cancel (2026-08-29) - the game's own input layer, not something this mod
         previously needed to touch directly. -->
@@ -7,10 +7,21 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Duke's note ("Записка от Дюка", item noteDuke01) - user request 2026-08-30: "в момент
 	/// открытия записки, ставить игру на паузу и проигрывать флэшбек" (at the moment the note is
-	/// opened, pause the game and play a flashback). Reuses the exact pause+video pipeline
-	/// already built and tested for the Black Portal Stone (see PortalStonePatch.cs's
-	/// ActivateBlackPortal - GameManager.Instance.Pause/XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo, both APIs
-	/// decompiled there already, same reasoning applies unchanged here).
+	/// opened, pause the game and play a flashback). Built on the pause+video pipeline first
+	/// written for the Black Portal Stone; since the finale switched to text slides
+	/// (FinalSlides) and its dead video code was removed 2026-09-10, this patch is the only
+	/// place in the mod that still calls either API, so both write-ups live here now:
+	///   - GameManager.Instance.Pause(bool) - decompiled GameManager.updatePauseState: sets
+	///     Time.timeScale=0 for real, but ONLY takes effect in singleplayer (an SP-only check
+	///     baked into vanilla itself, not a limitation added by this mod) - a deliberate,
+	///     documented no-op in multiplayer rather than something silently broken.
+	///   - XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo(xui, VideoData, skippable, onFinished) - opens the same
+	///     fullscreen "VideoPlayer" window vanilla's own TFP intro/menu-background videos use.
+	///     Decompiled XUiV_Video confirms video playback isn't gated by Time.timeScale, so it
+	///     keeps playing correctly while paused. skippable=true (Cancel key) so a broken/
+	///     missing video file can't soft-lock the player - XUiV_Video.OnVideoErrorReceived
+	///     already auto-closes on a bad file on its own, this is just a second, player-facing
+	///     way out.
 	///
 	/// FINDING THE RIGHT PATCH POINT: noteDuke01 has no custom C# class of its own - it's a
 	/// plain Class="Eat" item (items.xml) whose entire "reading" experience is a vanilla trick:
@@ -42,8 +53,9 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	/// flashback -> read text -> confirm", rather than overlapping the video with the text box.
 	///
 	/// VIDEO FILE: Video/DukeNoteFlashback.mp4 - the user's real flashback clip (delivered
-	/// 2026-08-30 as exch/flashbback.mp4), kept as .mp4 rather than renamed to .webm like the
-	/// Black Portal placeholder: Unity's VideoPlayer component (confirmed by decompiling
+	/// 2026-08-30 as exch/flashbback.mp4), and the only video the mod still ships. Kept as
+	/// .mp4 rather than renamed to .webm like the since-deleted Black Portal placeholder:
+	/// Unity's VideoPlayer component (confirmed by decompiling
 	/// XUiV_Video - it wraps a plain UnityEngine.Video.VideoPlayer) natively decodes MP4/H.264 on
 	/// Windows via Media Foundation, and re-labeling an actual MP4 container as .webm would just
 	/// make it fail to decode (VP8/VP9 container expected, not H.264) - not decompiled/proven
@@ -54,6 +66,11 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	[HarmonyPatch(typeof(XUiC_MessageBoxWindowGroup), "ShowOkCancel")]
 	public static class Patch_XUiC_MessageBoxWindowGroup_ShowOkCancel_NoteFlashback
 	{
+		/// <summary>"@modfolder(NecromancerTome):..." is the exact mod-relative path syntax
+		/// XUiV_Video.startVideo resolves via ModManager.TryPatchModPathString (decompiled to
+		/// confirm - looks for "@modfolder(&lt;mod name&gt;):" and substitutes the mod's real
+		/// install path; "NecromancerTome" here is this mod's own ModInfo.xml Name, not its
+		/// DisplayName).</summary>
 		public const string NoteFlashbackVideoPath = "@modfolder(NecromancerTome):Video/DukeNoteFlashback.mp4";

 		/// <summary>Guards the re-entrant call this patch makes to the very method it patches
@@ -159,45 +159,23 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 			TeleportToBedroll(player);
 		}

-		/// <summary>Black portal confirmation + fullscreen video, user request 2026-08-30
-		/// ("диалоговое окно... вы уверены... Если Да, то игра останавливается и проигрывается
-		/// видео"). Real APIs, both decompiled directly:
-		///   - XUiC_MessageBoxWindowGroup.ShowCustom(xui, title, text, icon, setupCallback, ...) -
-		///     the same generic Yes/No popup vanilla itself uses (its own delete-item/disconnect
-		///     confirmations, etc). ShowOkCancel/ShowConfirmCancel exist too but hardcode their
-		///     button caption keys ("xuiOk"/"xuiCancel"/"btnConfirm") - ShowCustom's
-		///     _setupCallback is the only variant that lets the two buttons be captioned
-		///     "xuiYes"/"xuiNo" directly (both are real, already-localized vanilla keys, confirmed
-		///     against Data/Config/Localization.csv), matching the user's literal "да/нет"
-		///     wording. Buttons[0]/[2] (not [1]) is the same slot pairing ShowOkCancel/
-		///     ShowConfirmCancel themselves use internally - Buttons[1] is left unused, same as
-		///     vanilla's own 2-button dialogs.
-		///   - GameManager.Instance.Pause(bool) - decompiled GameManager.updatePauseState: sets
-		///     Time.timeScale=0 for real, but ONLY takes effect in singleplayer (an SP-only check
-		///     baked into vanilla itself, not a limitation added by this mod) - a deliberate,
-		///     documented no-op in multiplayer rather than something silently broken.
-		///   - XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo(xui, VideoData, skippable, onFinished) - opens the same
-		///     fullscreen "VideoPlayer" window vanilla's own TFP intro/menu-background videos use.
-		///     Decompiled XUiV_Video confirms video playback isn't gated by Time.timeScale, so it
-		///     keeps playing correctly while paused. skippable=true (Cancel key) so a broken/
-		///     missing video file can't soft-lock the player - XUiV_Video.OnVideoErrorReceived
-		///     already auto-closes on a bad file on its own, this is just a second, player-facing
-		///     way out.
+		/// <summary>Black portal confirmation dialog, user request 2026-08-30
+		/// ("диалоговое окно... вы уверены"). XUiC_MessageBoxWindowGroup.ShowCustom(xui, title,
+		/// text, icon, setupCallback, ...) - the same generic Yes/No popup vanilla itself uses (its
+		/// own delete-item/disconnect confirmations, etc), decompiled directly. ShowOkCancel/
+		/// ShowConfirmCancel exist too but hardcode their button caption keys ("xuiOk"/"xuiCancel"/
+		/// "btnConfirm") - ShowCustom's _setupCallback is the only variant that lets the two buttons
+		/// be captioned "xuiYes"/"xuiNo" directly (both are real, already-localized vanilla keys,
+		/// confirmed against Data/Config/Localization.csv), matching the user's literal "да/нет"
+		/// wording. Buttons[0]/[2] (not [1]) is the same slot pairing ShowOkCancel/ShowConfirmCancel
+		/// themselves use internally - Buttons[1] is left unused, same as vanilla's own 2-button
+		/// dialogs.
 		///
-		/// VIDEO FILE: Video/BlackPortal.webm NO LONGER SHIPS WITH THE MOD. It used to be a
-		/// byte-for-byte copy of vanilla's own TFP_Intro.webm (from
-		/// 7DaysToDie_Data/StreamingAssets/Video/), placed there 2026-08-30 as a test stand-in
-		/// ("Пока файл видео замени заглушкой") - deleted 2026-09-09 before the public release,
-		/// since redistributing a game asset is not ours to do. This path is dead until a real
-		/// video is dropped in under the same name; the method below is legacy anyway (the
-		/// finale plays text epilogues now, see FinalSlides).
-		/// "@modfolder(NecromancerTome):..." is the exact mod-relative path syntax
-		/// XUiV_Video.startVideo resolves via ModManager.TryPatchModPathString (decompiled to
-		/// confirm - looks for "@modfolder(&lt;mod name&gt;):" and substitutes the mod's real
-		/// install path; "NecromancerTome" here is this mod's own ModInfo.xml Name, not its
-		/// DisplayName).</summary>
-		public const string BlackPortalVideoPath = "@modfolder(NecromancerTome):Video/BlackPortal.webm";
-
+		/// Второй половины прежнего сценария - паузы и полноэкранного видео - здесь больше нет:
+		/// после "Да" управление уходит в FinalSlides (см. ActivateBlackPortal ниже), пауза живёт
+		/// там, а видео из финала убрано 2026-09-09. Разбор GameManager.Instance.Pause и
+		/// XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo переехал в NoteFlashbackPatch.cs - единственное место в моде,
+		/// где обе эти ванильные API ещё вызываются.</summary>
 		public static void ShowBlackPortalConfirmation(EntityPlayerLocal player)
 		{
 			LocalPlayerUI playerUI = LocalPlayerUI.GetUIForPlayer(player);
@@ -220,55 +198,18 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 		}

 		/// <summary>ЗАМЕНЕНО 2026-09-09: раньше отсюда сразу стартовало полноэкранное видео
-		/// (BlackPortalVideoPath), теперь запускается финальная сцена из шести слайдов с текстом
+		/// (Video/BlackPortal.webm), теперь запускается финальная сцена из шести слайдов с текстом
 		/// - FinalSlides.Begin. Причина в BACKLOG.md ("концовка серией диалоговых окон вместо
 		/// видео"): видео не локализуется, а текст слайдов идёт обычной строкой через
 		/// Localization.csv. Пауза и выход в главное меню никуда не делись - и то и другое
-		/// теперь живёт внутри FinalSlides, а видео осталось финальным аккордом ПОСЛЕ выбора
-		/// концовки на последнем слайде.
-		///
-		/// Всё, что описано в комментарии к BlackPortalVideoPath выше, по-прежнему верно и
-		/// применяется - просто к двум новым файлам (FinalSlides.StayVideoPath /
-		/// ReturnVideoPath) вместо одного. Сама константа BlackPortalVideoPath больше не
-		/// используется и оставлена только как документация к разбору "@modfolder(...)" и
-		/// XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo, на который FinalSlides ссылается.</summary>
+		/// теперь живёт внутри FinalSlides. Видео из концовки убрано целиком 2026-09-09 -
+		/// ни здесь, ни в FinalSlides его больше нет.</summary>
 		public static void ActivateBlackPortal(EntityPlayerLocal player)
 		{
 			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] PortalStonePatch: black portal confirmed by owner=" + player.entityId + ", handing over to FinalSlides");
 			FinalSlides.Begin(player);
 		}

-		/// <summary>Прежняя концовка "сразу видео, потом главное меню". Больше ниоткуда не
-		/// вызывается (см. ActivateBlackPortal выше) - оставлена целиком, потому что весь разбор
-		/// Pause/PlayVideo/Disconnect в её комментариях остаётся актуальным и на неё ссылается
-		/// FinalSlides. Удалять при следующей уборке, если так и не понадобится.</summary>
-		public static void PlayBlackPortalVideoLegacy(EntityPlayerLocal player)
-		{
-			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] PortalStonePatch: black portal confirmed by owner=" + player.entityId + ", pausing + playing video");
-			GameManager.Instance.Pause(true);
-			LocalPlayerUI playerUI = LocalPlayerUI.GetUIForPlayer(player);
-			VideoData videoData = new VideoData { url = BlackPortalVideoPath };
-			XUiC_VideoPlayer.PlayVideo(playerUI.xui, videoData, true, delegate(bool skipped)
-			{
-				// EXIT TO MAIN MENU after the video, user request 2026-08-30 ("После видео нужно
-				// выходить из игры в главное меню") - fires whether the video played to the end
-				// or was skipped (Cancel key / a bad file), same as any other "the video is over"
-				// outcome. GameManager.Instance.Disconnect() is not a guess - it's the EXACT same
-				// call the real in-game ESC menu's own "Exit to Main Menu" button uses
-				// (decompiled XUiC_InGameMenuWindow.exitGame/BtnExit_OnPressed to confirm: it's a
-				// thin wrapper straight to this method). Handles everything a clean exit needs by
-				// itself - closes modal windows, un-pauses (calls Pause(false) internally, so no
-				// separate unpause call needed here), saves/shuts down the local server, and
-				// returns to XUiC_MainMenu - not reinventing any of that by hand. Replaces the
-				// earlier "thrownStonePortalBlackNotBound" tooltip placeholder entirely: with a
-				// real exit-to-menu ending, staying in-game and showing a tooltip no longer makes
-				// sense (BACKLOG.md item 6's "destination not decided" placeholder is now this
-				// exit itself, not a tooltip).
-				Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] PortalStonePatch: black portal video finished (skipped=" + skipped + "), exiting to main menu");
-				GameManager.Instance.Disconnect();
-			});
-		}
-
 		/// <summary>BedrollPos comes from EntityPlayer.PersistentPlayerData (decompiled - reads
 		/// GameManager.Instance.persistentPlayers.GetPlayerDataFromEntityID(entityId)), the same
 		/// field the game's own respawn-at-bedroll flow reads (PersistentPlayerData.BedrollPos /
@@ -30,19 +30,15 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 	///     this rounds to 0 - deliberately left as-is, not special-cased away, matching the
 	///     Knife's own "0 at 0 kills is a feature, not a bug" precedent - a tooltip explains it
 	///     instead of silently opening a useless empty window.
-	///   - PERSISTENCE - the one thing NOT fully solved here, flagged rather than silently
-	///     assumed: the Bag backing each player's vault lives in a plain in-memory
-	///     Dictionary&lt;int, Bag&gt; in this file (PlayerVaults below), keyed by entityId. This
-	///     is reliable for as long as the game process keeps running (survives death/respawn/
-	///     relogging within one play session, confirmed by how a static field behaves) but has
-	///     NOT been wired into any save/load system - closing the game entirely and reloading the
-	///     save later will NOT bring the vault's contents back (no persistence file, no hook into
-	///     PersistentPlayerData or a world-save event). Building real cross-session persistence
-	///     (a custom save file + ModEvents.GameSave/Load hooks, or piggybacking on an owned
-	///     world entity the way the summoned pets do - unconfirmed whether THOSE actually survive
-	///     a full restart either) is real, separate follow-up work, not attempted here. Treat
-	///     this like a session-scoped stash until that's built and confirmed - don't rely on it
-	///     across game restarts yet.
+	///   - PERSISTENCE - solved 2026-09-13, see SpatialVaultPersistence.cs. It was NOT solved
+	///     when this item shipped, and that shortfall is exactly what became the mod's first
+	///     Nexus bug report (youkia96581, 11 Sep 2026: "Items stored in the space bracelet will
+	///     disappear after leaving the game and going online again"). PlayerVaults below is still
+	///     the in-memory, entityId-keyed Dictionary it always was, but it is now only the session
+	///     cache: the durable copy is written into the player's own PlayerDataFile, alongside the
+	///     backpack, by four postfixes on FromPlayer/ToPlayer/Write/Read. Read that file's comment
+	///     for why there ("почему не сделать принцип как у ящика?" - because a chest's items live
+	///     in a chunk, and the bracelet's closest equivalent home is its owner's save data).
 	///
 	/// REGULAR ATTACK (index 0) - knock back + slow whatever zombie the crosshair is aimed at:
 	///   - Same raycast mechanism HarmonySrc/ThiefLoopPatch.cs already established for
@@ -71,8 +67,9 @@ namespace NecromancerTome
 		public const float MaxRange = 50f;
 		public const float ShoveDistance = 6f;

-		/// <summary>See the class-level comment above for exactly what this does and doesn't
-		/// guarantee - session-scoped only, not yet saved/loaded across game restarts.</summary>
+		/// <summary>Session cache only - the durable copy lives on disk, see
+		/// SpatialVaultPersistence.cs. Cleared on WorldShuttingDown so a different save loaded
+		/// afterwards cannot inherit this world's vault through a recycled entityId.</summary>
 		public static readonly Dictionary<int, Bag> PlayerVaults = new Dictionary<int, Bag>();

 		public static bool Prefix(ItemActionData _actionData, bool _bReleased)
@@ -118,7 +115,17 @@ namespace NecromancerTome

 			if (!PlayerVaults.TryGetValue(player.entityId, out Bag bag))
 			{
-				bag = new Bag(slotCount);
+				// Normally a restored vault is already here - the ToPlayer postfix puts it in
+				// when the game applies the save file to the spawning player. LastLoadedVault is
+				// the safety net for when that chain does not complete: opening the bracelet must
+				// never be what silently starts an empty vault over a saved one. Only then is a
+				// genuinely new bag created.
+				bag = SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault ?? new Bag(slotCount);
+				if (bag == SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault)
+				{
+					Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPatch: session cache was empty, adopted the last loaded vault (" +
+					          bag.SlotCount + " slots, " + bag.GetUsedSlotCount() + " used)");
+				}
 				PlayerVaults[player.entityId] = bag;
 			}
 			else if (bag.SlotCount < slotCount)
@@ -134,7 +141,21 @@ namespace NecromancerTome

 			Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPatch: owner=" + player.entityId + " opened vault, " + slotCount + " slots (Necromancy level " + level + ")");
 			LocalPlayerUI playerUI = LocalPlayerUI.GetUIForPlayer(player);
-			XUiC_BagStorageWindowGroup.Open(playerUI.xui, player, bag, LootContainer.GetLootContainer("roboticDrone"), Localization.Get("braceletSpatialVaultWindowTitle"));
+			// The trailing callbacks are vanilla's own optional parameters (_onModified, _onClose).
+			// _onModified is not needed: the vault lives in PlayerVaults, and PlayerDataFile's
+			// FromPlayer postfix reads it fresh every time the game saves the player, so there is
+			// nothing to flush per item move. _onClose asks for a player-data save right away, so
+			// closing the window is a commit point rather than waiting for the next autosave -
+			// SaveLocalPlayerData is the game's own routine call and no-ops when saving is not
+			// active (which is the correct behaviour on a client, where the server owns the file).
+			XUiC_BagStorageWindowGroup.Open(
+				playerUI.xui,
+				player,
+				bag,
+				LootContainer.GetLootContainer("roboticDrone"),
+				Localization.Get("braceletSpatialVaultWindowTitle"),
+				null,
+				() => GameManager.Instance.SaveLocalPlayerData());
 		}

 		public static void ShoveZombieAtCrosshair(EntityPlayerLocal player)
@@ -0,0 +1,366 @@
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using System.Text;
+using HarmonyLib;
+using UnityEngine;
+
+namespace NecromancerTome
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Cross-restart persistence for the Spatial Bracelet's vault - the fix for the first bug
+	/// report the mod ever got on Nexus (youkia96581, 11 Sep 2026: "Items stored in the space
+	/// bracelet will disappear after leaving the game and going online again").
+	///
+	/// WHY IT LIVES IN THE PLAYER'S SAVE FILE - "почему не сделать принцип как у ящика?" (user,
+	/// 13.09.2026). Right question, and it decided the design. A chest keeps its items because
+	/// they live in a TileEntity, and a TileEntity belongs to a CHUNK: decompiled, `TileEntity`
+	/// has chunkPos and chunk fields and its ONLY constructor is TileEntity(Chunk). The game saves
+	/// and syncs the chunk; the container rides along. That is the whole trick - not a "storage
+	/// system" one can call, but a home in something the engine already persists. The bracelet has
+	/// no position and no chunk, so it got the closest equivalent for something personal: the
+	/// player's own save data, written right after everything vanilla writes, in the same file and
+	/// the same moment as the backpack.
+	///
+	/// THAT ALSO ANSWERS THE ID QUESTION ("у браслета, как и у ящика, наверняка есть id"). A
+	/// chest's id IS its position. An item has no per-instance id by default - ItemValue.type is
+	/// the item CLASS, identical on every bracelet - but ItemValue.Metadata would hold one and
+	/// genuinely round-trips through saves (ItemValue.Write writes it, ItemValue.ReadData reads it
+	/// back; both checked). Per-bracelet vaults are therefore buildable and deliberately not built:
+	/// keying by the item means losing the bracelet locks the items away forever even though they
+	/// are still in the save file, and it would let ten bracelets be ten warehouses. Keying by the
+	/// player - which storing them IN the player's file does for free - has neither problem.
+	///
+	/// THE FOUR HOOKS:
+	///   FromPlayer  - live player -> file object: attach that player's vault to the file.
+	///   Write       - file object -> bytes (Save to disk, or WriteNetwork to the wire, which is
+	///                 literally Write + PlayerMetaInfo): append the vault blob.
+	///   Read        - bytes -> file object: pull the vault back off the stream.
+	///   ToPlayer    - file object -> live player: hand the vault back.
+	/// FromPlayer always reads the CURRENT vault, so there is no dirty flag and no save scheduling
+	/// to get wrong: whenever the game saves the player, it saves the vault.
+	///
+	/// ================================================================================
+	/// THE BUG THAT COST TWO TEST RUNS, AND WHY IT IS WORTH A BIG COMMENT
+	/// ================================================================================
+	/// Earlier versions cleared the session cache from a ModEvents.WorldShuttingDown handler, to
+	/// stop one save's vault leaking into the next. The user reported the vault kept losing its
+	/// contents, and the diagnostics printed the murder weapon in order:
+	///
+	///     INF SaveAndCleanupWorld
+	///     [NecromancerTome] world shutting down, dropped 1 in-memory vault(s)
+	///     [NecromancerTome] FromPlayer entity 171 - vault NONE
+	///     [NecromancerTome] Write - no vault attached (writes an EMPTY marker)
+	///
+	/// **WorldShuttingDown fires BEFORE the final player save, not after.** Confirmed in
+	/// GameManager.SaveAndCleanupWorld by decompilation rather than inferred from the log: the
+	/// event is invoked at IL_0026 and SaveLocalPlayerData() is called at IL_00c4, a hundred-odd
+	/// instructions later. So the handler emptied the cache, and the save that followed
+	/// faithfully recorded "this player has no vault" over the real one. Every clean exit wiped
+	/// the vault - which is exactly the symptom the Nexus report described, reintroduced by the
+	/// fix for it.
+	///
+	/// There is no documentation to have checked first: the community consensus is that the
+	/// official ModAPI is barebones and has no reference for event ordering, so the decompiler is
+	/// the only authority. Treat every ModEvent's position in the shutdown sequence as unknown
+	/// until read out of the method that invokes it.
+	///
+	/// TWO RULES CAME OUT OF IT, and both are load-bearing here:
+	///
+	///   1. A RESTORE PATH MAY FAIL; IT MAY NEVER DELETE. An empty session cache is not evidence
+	///      that the player has no vault - it is the absence of evidence. LastLoadedVault below is
+	///      the safety net, so a broken restore chain costs a restore, not the data.
+	///   2. FRESHNESS IS DECIDED BY WHAT WAS READ, NOT BY A TIMER. Cross-save leaking is now
+	///      prevented by ToPlayer being authoritative: a player file that was read and explicitly
+	///      carried no vault CLEARS the cache. Nothing has to be cleared "at the right moment"
+	///      any more, which is what made the old approach fragile in the first place.
+	/// </summary>
+	public static class SpatialVaultPersistence
+	{
+		/// <summary>Payload layout version, independent of the blob framing in
+		/// SpatialVaultBlobIO. An unknown version is skipped, not guessed at - the framing's
+		/// explicit length means we can always step over a payload we do not understand.</summary>
+		public const byte PayloadVersion = 1;
+
+		/// <summary>What a PlayerDataFile carries. A class rather than a bare Bag because its mere
+		/// PRESENCE is information: "this file has been read/filled, and the answer - including a
+		/// null Bag - is authoritative". ConditionalWeakTable cannot store null, so a null Bag
+		/// needs a wrapper to be expressible at all.</summary>
+		public class VaultSlot
+		{
+			public Bag Bag;
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Vault attached to a PlayerDataFile while it is being written, read or
+		/// converted. Weak, because PlayerDataFile objects are created fresh for every save and
+		/// every network packet and nothing here should keep one alive.</summary>
+		public static readonly ConditionalWeakTable<PlayerDataFile, VaultSlot> AttachedVaults =
+			new ConditionalWeakTable<PlayerDataFile, VaultSlot>();
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Last vault seen this session, kept outside the weak table. This is rule 1 above made
+		/// concrete: if the Read -> ToPlayer -> PlayerVaults chain ever fails to complete, the bag
+		/// is still here, so the next save writes the real contents instead of an empty marker.
+		///
+		/// SINGLE LOCAL PLAYER ONLY. There is one of these per process, so on a dedicated server
+		/// it would be one player's vault handed to whoever asked next. Every use is gated on the
+		/// player being an EntityPlayerLocal - which a dedicated server does not have, and a host
+		/// or single-player game has exactly one of.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static Bag LastLoadedVault;
+
+		/// <summary>Last line printed by the save path, so an unchanged vault saved over and over
+		/// does not repeat itself in the log. Kept 2026-09-13 when the fix was confirmed: the
+		/// save pair fires on every autosave, and a player's log should not carry two lines of
+		/// inventory listing every few minutes - but the moment anything CHANGES it still says so,
+		/// which is the part that had diagnostic value.</summary>
+		public static string lastSaveLogged;
+
+		/// <summary>Builds the opaque payload SpatialVaultBlobIO wraps. Uses netstandard's own
+		/// BinaryWriter over a MemoryStream, which is why Bag serialization can stay in this
+		/// project instead of the satellite assembly.</summary>
+		public static byte[] BuildPayload(Bag _bag)
+		{
+			using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
+			using (BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(ms))
+			{
+				bw.Write(PayloadVersion);
+				bool hasBag = _bag != null;
+				bw.Write(hasBag);
+				if (hasBag)
+				{
+					// Plain BinaryWriter is enough: Bag.Write only demands a PooledBinaryWriter
+					// when bag.preferences != null, and vault bags come from `new Bag(int)`, whose
+					// constructor sets nothing but the item array.
+					_bag.Write(bw);
+				}
+				bw.Flush();
+				return ms.ToArray();
+			}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Null when the payload holds no vault or is a version we do not know.</summary>
+		public static Bag ParsePayload(byte[] _payload)
+		{
+			if (_payload == null || _payload.Length == 0)
+			{
+				return null;
+			}
+			using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(_payload, false))
+			using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(ms))
+			{
+				byte version = br.ReadByte();
+				if (version != PayloadVersion)
+				{
+					Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: vault payload version " + version + ", expected " + PayloadVersion + " - skipped");
+					return null;
+				}
+				if (!br.ReadBoolean())
+				{
+					return null;
+				}
+				// Bag.Read is the STATIC one and returns a new Bag; ReadInto is the instance
+				// version. Symmetric with BuildPayload: preferences were written as absent, so no
+				// PooledBinaryReader is needed here either.
+				return Bag.Read(br);
+			}
+		}
+
+		public static void Attach(PlayerDataFile _file, Bag _bag)
+		{
+			AttachedVaults.Remove(_file);
+			AttachedVaults.Add(_file, new VaultSlot { Bag = _bag });
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Contents of a bag, for the log. Item names rather than just a count, because
+		/// "2 slots, 0 used" was true and useless three test runs in a row - what was needed was
+		/// whether the items the user put in had actually reached this object.</summary>
+		public static string Describe(Bag _bag)
+		{
+			if (_bag == null)
+			{
+				return "NONE";
+			}
+			ItemStack[] slots = _bag.GetSlots();
+			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+			sb.Append(_bag.SlotCount).Append(" slots, ").Append(_bag.GetUsedSlotCount()).Append(" used");
+			if (slots != null)
+			{
+				for (int i = 0; i < slots.Length; i++)
+				{
+					ItemStack stack = slots[i];
+					if (stack == null || stack.IsEmpty())
+					{
+						continue;
+					}
+					string name = stack.itemValue != null && stack.itemValue.ItemClass != null
+						? stack.itemValue.ItemClass.GetItemName()
+						: "?";
+					sb.Append(" [").Append(i).Append("]=").Append(name).Append("x").Append(stack.count);
+				}
+			}
+			return sb.ToString();
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>Live player -> save file: take the vault along.</summary>
+	[HarmonyPatch(typeof(PlayerDataFile), "FromPlayer")]
+	public static class Patch_PlayerDataFile_FromPlayer_SpatialVault
+	{
+		public static void Postfix(PlayerDataFile __instance, EntityPlayer _player)
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				if (_player == null)
+				{
+					return;
+				}
+				Patch_ItemActionEat_ExecuteAction_SpatialVault.PlayerVaults.TryGetValue(_player.entityId, out Bag bag);
+				string source = bag != null ? "session cache" : null;
+				if (bag == null && _player is EntityPlayerLocal && SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault != null)
+				{
+					// Rule 1: never write "no vault" over a vault we know exists.
+					bag = SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault;
+					source = "last loaded (session cache was empty)";
+				}
+				SpatialVaultPersistence.Attach(__instance, bag);
+				string line = "FromPlayer entity " + _player.entityId + " - " + SpatialVaultPersistence.Describe(bag) +
+				              (source != null ? ", from " + source : "");
+				if (line != SpatialVaultPersistence.lastSaveLogged)
+				{
+					SpatialVaultPersistence.lastSaveLogged = line;
+					Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: " + line);
+				}
+			}
+			catch (Exception e)
+			{
+				Debug.LogError("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: FromPlayer postfix failed: " + e);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Save file -> live player: hand the vault back. This is also where freshness is decided
+	/// (rule 2): a file that WAS read and explicitly carried no vault clears the cache, so loading
+	/// a different save cannot inherit the previous world's vault. Only a file that was never read
+	/// at all falls back to LastLoadedVault, which is the broken-chain safety net.
+	/// </summary>
+	[HarmonyPatch(typeof(PlayerDataFile), "ToPlayer")]
+	public static class Patch_PlayerDataFile_ToPlayer_SpatialVault
+	{
+		public static void Postfix(PlayerDataFile __instance, EntityPlayer _player)
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				if (_player == null)
+				{
+					return;
+				}
+				bool isLocal = _player is EntityPlayerLocal;
+				string note;
+				Bag bag;
+
+				if (SpatialVaultPersistence.AttachedVaults.TryGetValue(__instance, out SpatialVaultPersistence.VaultSlot slot))
+				{
+					bag = slot.Bag;
+					note = bag != null ? "from this player file" : "this player file says there is no vault";
+				}
+				else if (isLocal && SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault != null)
+				{
+					bag = SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault;
+					note = "nothing attached to this file - fell back to the last loaded vault";
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					bag = null;
+					note = "nothing attached and nothing loaded";
+				}
+
+				if (bag != null)
+				{
+					Patch_ItemActionEat_ExecuteAction_SpatialVault.PlayerVaults[_player.entityId] = bag;
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					Patch_ItemActionEat_ExecuteAction_SpatialVault.PlayerVaults.Remove(_player.entityId);
+				}
+				if (isLocal)
+				{
+					SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault = bag;
+				}
+
+				Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: ToPlayer entity " + _player.entityId +
+				          " - " + SpatialVaultPersistence.Describe(bag) + " (" + note + ")");
+			}
+			catch (Exception e)
+			{
+				Debug.LogError("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: ToPlayer postfix failed: " + e);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>Appends the vault after everything vanilla wrote - to disk via Save, or to the
+	/// wire via WriteNetwork.</summary>
+	[HarmonyPatch(typeof(PlayerDataFile), "Write")]
+	public static class Patch_PlayerDataFile_Write_SpatialVault
+	{
+		public static void Postfix(PlayerDataFile __instance, PooledBinaryWriter _bw)
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				SpatialVaultPersistence.AttachedVaults.TryGetValue(__instance, out SpatialVaultPersistence.VaultSlot slot);
+				Bag bag = slot != null ? slot.Bag : null;
+				SpatialVaultBlobIO.Write(_bw, SpatialVaultPersistence.BuildPayload(bag));
+				if (bag == null)
+				{
+					// Always shouted: writing an empty marker is how the vault got destroyed twice,
+					// so it must never again scroll past unnoticed.
+					Debug.LogWarning("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: Write - no vault attached (writes an EMPTY marker)");
+				}
+			}
+			catch (Exception e)
+			{
+				Debug.LogError("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: Write postfix failed: " + e);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>Reads the vault back off the stream. Must never throw: PlayerDataFile.Load treats
+	/// any exception out of Read as "this save is broken, fall back to the .bak".</summary>
+	[HarmonyPatch(typeof(PlayerDataFile), "Read")]
+	public static class Patch_PlayerDataFile_Read_SpatialVault
+	{
+		public static void Postfix(PlayerDataFile __instance, PooledBinaryReader _br)
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				byte[] payload = SpatialVaultBlobIO.TryRead(_br);
+				if (payload == null)
+				{
+					// No vault block: a save from before this feature existed, or player data from
+					// somebody without the mod. Deliberately NOT recorded as an authoritative
+					// "no vault" - an absent block is silence, not a denial, and ToPlayer's
+					// fallback is what should handle it. SpatialVaultBlobIO has already put the
+					// stream position back.
+					Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: Read - no vault block on this stream");
+					return;
+				}
+
+				Bag bag = SpatialVaultPersistence.ParsePayload(payload);
+				// Attached even when null: a blob that says "no vault" IS an answer, and ToPlayer
+				// uses it to clear a stale cache when a different save is loaded.
+				SpatialVaultPersistence.Attach(__instance, bag);
+				if (bag != null)
+				{
+					SpatialVaultPersistence.LastLoadedVault = bag;
+				}
+				Debug.Log("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: Read - blob of " + payload.Length +
+				          " byte(s), " + SpatialVaultPersistence.Describe(bag));
+			}
+			catch (Exception e)
+			{
+				Debug.LogError("[NecromancerTome] SpatialVaultPersistence: Read postfix failed: " + e);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 	<DisplayName value="Necromancer's Tome" />
 	<Description value="A dark necromancy progression for 7 Days to Die 3.2: a kill-count-driven skill tree with cursed weapons, charm/deviation magic, summonable undead pets, base-defence wards, and a story-ending Black Portal ritual. Fully localized into 13 languages. Single-player; requires EAC off." />
 	<Author value="Alex Cube" />
-	<Version value="1.0.0" />
+	<Version value="1.0.1" />
 	<Website value="https://www.alexcube.ru/7-days-to-die-moi-mody/kniga-nekromanta-necromancer-s-tome/" />
 </xml>
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+[size=5][b]Necromancer's Tome 1.0.1[/b][/size]
+
+A bug-fix release on top of 1.0. Same content, one real fix and a few refinements. Drop-in replacement: delete the old [b]NecromancerTome[/b] folder, unpack this one in its place. Your save is fine.
+
+[size=5][b]Fixed[/b][/size]
+
+[b]The Spatial Bracelet no longer loses what you put in it.[/b] Reported by [b]youkia96581[/b] - thank you, this was a real hole and a fair catch. The storage rift was only ever held in memory: it survived death, respawn and relogging, but quitting the game threw it away.
+
+It is now saved the way the game saves your backpack - inside your own player data, written and read in the same moment and the same file. Put things in, quit, come back days later: they are still there. Verified end to end, including a clean exit to the main menu, which was the exact moment things used to disappear.
+
+[b]One honest caveat:[/b] this cannot bring back items lost in 1.0. There was no data on disk to recover - the vault simply was never written anywhere. Anything already lost is gone, and I am sorry about that.
+
+[size=5][b]Changed[/b][/size]
+
+[list]
+[*][b]Traders are drawn in black and white.[/b] The necromancer deals with the dead, and the people still willing to trade with him have clearly seen too much. Their own shaders and lighting are untouched - only the colour is gone, plus a sliver of transparency.
+[*][b]The Spatial Bracelet has four mod slots.[/b] Empty for now: the mods that fit them come in a later version. Ordinary weapon mods will not go in, and nothing else will take these.
+[*][b]The Spatial Bracelet is no longer a parcel in your hand.[/b] It used to borrow a food-crop prefab and looked like a boxed lunch tied with string. Now nothing is drawn at all - just your fist, held the way you hold a block you are about to place.
+[*][b]Grave's Repose is much stronger[/b] - cold and heat resistance raised from 5 to 50. With the knife in hand, weather stops being a problem rather than merely being survivable.
+[/list]
+
+[size=5][b]Note for existing saves[/b][/size]
+
+A Spatial Bracelet you already own will not gain the four mod slots. The game fixes an item's slot count when the item is created, so an old one keeps the zero it was made with. [b]Craft a new bracelet[/b] and it will have them. Everything else in this release applies to your existing save immediately.
+
+[size=5][b]Requirements[/b][/size]
+
+Unchanged from 1.0: [b]7 Days to Die 3.2[/b], [b]EasyAntiCheat off[/b] (the mod uses Harmony patches), no other mods needed, built and tested single-player, installed per client.
+
+[size=5][b]Shout outs[/b][/size]
+
+[b]The Fun Pimps[/b] - for 7 Days to Die itself, and for the vanilla models, icons and UI templates this mod reuses (the thrown-stone prefab, the book icon behind the summoning tomes, the video player and confirmation dialog the finale is built on).
+
+[b]Andreas Pardeike[/b] - for Harmony. Every runtime mechanic in this mod, this release's storage fix included, is a Harmony patch.
+
+[b]The 7 Days to Die modding community[/b] - for forum posts and open-source mods that answer the questions the XML documentation does not. The official modding API has no reference for the order its events fire in; this release's fix came down to reading that order out of the game's own code, and knowing that was the only way to find out is community knowledge.
+
+[b]youkia96581[/b] - for the bug report that made this version exist.
+
+[b]AI disclosure:[/b] the item icons and the finale artwork are AI-generated. Everything else - the code, the design, the mechanics and the writing - is my own.
+
+Source code and full change history: [url=https://git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2]git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2[/url]
+Mod page on my site: [url=https://www.alexcube.ru/7-days-to-die-moi-mody/kniga-nekromanta-necromancer-s-tome/]alexcube.ru[/url]
+My YouTube channel: [url=https://www.youtube.com/@alexcube]@alexcube[/url]
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Книга некроманта / Necromancer's Tome (NecromancerTome)

-**Версия 1.0** — для 7 Days to Die 3.2. Автор: Alex Cube.
+**Версия 1.0.1** — для 7 Days to Die 3.2. Автор: Alex Cube.

 - Страница мода: https://www.alexcube.ru/7-days-to-die-moi-mody/kniga-nekromanta-necromancer-s-tome/
+- Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/12547
 - Репозиторий: https://git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2
 - YouTube-канал автора: https://www.youtube.com/@alexcube

@@ -120,7 +121,9 @@

 ## Статус

-Версия 1.0 — весь заявленный контент реализован и проходит тесты в игре. Из запланированного не
+Версия 1.0.1 — исправление по первому баг-репорту с Nexus: содержимое Пространственного
+браслета больше не пропадает после выхода из игры (хранилище теперь сохраняется в файле
+игрока, рядом с рюкзаком). Весь заявленный контент реализован и проходит тесты в игре. Из запланированного не
 сделана только часть фирменных звуков. Текст описания для сайта (RU + EN) — в
 `SITE_DESCRIPTION.html` (разметка блоков WordPress). Полная техническая история разработки и текст финала лежат рядом с модом
 в `BACKLOG.md` и `FINAL_TEXT.md` — в репозиторий они не входят (спойлеры и внутренняя кухня).
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@
 <h2>Ссылки</h2>

 <ul>
-<li>Исходники и загрузка: <a href="https://git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2</a></li>
+<li>Скачать на Nexus Mods: <a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/12547" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/12547</a></li>
+<li>Исходники: <a href="https://git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2</a></li>
 <li>YouTube-канал автора: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@alexcube" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@alexcube</a></li>
 </ul>

@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ Built for single-player. In multiplayer the vanilla pause does not apply, so the
 <h3>Links</h3>

 <ul>
-<li>Source and download: <a href="https://git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2</a></li>
+<li>Download on Nexus Mods: <a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/12547" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/12547</a></li>
+<li>Source: <a href="https://git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">git.08h.ru/alex/necromants-tome-7d2d-3-2</a></li>
 <li>The author's YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@alexcube" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@alexcube</a></li>
 </ul>
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+using System.IO;
+
+namespace NecromancerTome
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Raw byte-level half of the Spatial Bracelet's vault persistence. Lives in this satellite
+	/// assembly for exactly the reason PyramidWardWriteHelper.cs documents: PooledBinaryWriter's
+	/// Write overload set cannot be resolved from the main project at all (CS7069), so anything
+	/// that actually touches a PooledBinaryWriter/PooledBinaryReader has to be compiled here,
+	/// against the game's own mscorlib.
+	///
+	/// The split is deliberately drawn so that ONLY primitives cross it: this file knows about
+	/// byte arrays and stream positions, nothing else. Bag/ItemStack serialization stays in the
+	/// main project, where `Bag.Write(BinaryWriter)` against netstandard's own BinaryWriter
+	/// already compiles fine (proven - that is how the vault blob is built). Keeping Bag out of
+	/// here also keeps UnityEngine out of here, which this project's reference setup (NoStdLib +
+	/// the game's mscorlib, no UnityEngine at all) cannot tolerate.
+	///
+	/// BLOB LAYOUT, appended after everything vanilla PlayerDataFile.Write produces:
+	///
+	///     int64  Magic          "NECROVLT"
+	///     int32  payloadLength
+	///     byte[] payload        (opaque here; the main project builds and parses it)
+	///
+	/// The magic plus the explicit length is what makes this safe to append to somebody else's
+	/// format. On read we remember the stream position first: if the magic is not there (an old
+	/// save written before this feature, or a player-data packet from a party that does not have
+	/// the mod) the position is put back exactly where it was and the caller is told "no vault" -
+	/// so whatever the game reads next still reads the right bytes. That matters concretely:
+	/// PlayerDataFile.ReadNetwork calls Read and then goes on to read PlayerMetaInfo from the
+	/// same stream, and PlayerDataFile.Load treats ANY exception out of Read as "file is broken,
+	/// roll back to the .bak". Neither may be disturbed, so nothing here throws.
+	/// </summary>
+	public static class SpatialVaultBlobIO
+	{
+		/// <summary>ASCII "NECROVLT" as one int64 - distinctive enough that stray bytes will not
+		/// be mistaken for our block.</summary>
+		public const long Magic = 0x4E4543524F564C54L;
+
+		/// <summary>Magic (8) + length (4).</summary>
+		public const int HeaderSize = 12;
+
+		public static void Write(PooledBinaryWriter _bw, byte[] _payload)
+		{
+			if (_bw == null || _payload == null)
+			{
+				return;
+			}
+			_bw.Write(Magic);
+			_bw.Write(_payload.Length);
+			_bw.Write(_payload);
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>Returns the payload, or null when this stream carries no vault block. Never
+		/// throws, and never leaves the stream anywhere the caller did not expect: either just
+		/// past our whole block, or exactly back where it started.</summary>
+		public static byte[] TryRead(PooledBinaryReader _br)
+		{
+			if (_br == null)
+			{
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			Stream stream = _br.BaseStream;
+			if (stream == null || !stream.CanSeek)
+			{
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			long startPosition = stream.Position;
+			try
+			{
+				if (stream.Length - startPosition < HeaderSize)
+				{
+					return null;
+				}
+				if (_br.ReadInt64() != Magic)
+				{
+					stream.Position = startPosition;
+					return null;
+				}
+
+				int length = _br.ReadInt32();
+				if (length < 0 || stream.Length - stream.Position < length)
+				{
+					stream.Position = startPosition;
+					return null;
+				}
+
+				return _br.ReadBytes(length);
+			}
+			catch
+			{
+				stream.Position = startPosition;
+				return null;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}