- Adaptive welcome message based on progression (50/200/500 boxes thresholds)
- Raw inventory display before InventoryPanel unlock (plain text list)
- Terminal.Gui as default mode (--classic flag for old sequential renderer)
- Early-game box counter before StatsPanel unlock
- Encouraging messages in empty ResourcePanel and locked panel placeholders
- Wider inventory name column (28 chars), cookie detail/consume, box teaser
- Richer StatsPanel with items discovered and play time
- Reorder meta unlocks for better early-game pacing (visual panels first)
- Portrait always visible, cosmetics shown only when panel unlocked
- Auto-equip first cosmetic of each slot
- Transform ChatPanel into event log with localized title
- Compact UI feature announcements (Panel instead of FigletText)
- FullLayout-only screen clearing, inline resource summary pre-unlock
- Lore fragment named keys for inventory display
- Interactive inventory with ↑↓ selection, detail panel, and Enter to act
- Consumable items usable via UseItemAction pipeline
- Lore fragments readable in dedicated display panel
- Add InventoryRenderCapture test and document render capture workflow
