[dmccoystephenson]

Home showed the same rented room whatever the player lived in, so buying up the housing ladder never changed the picture. Home now shows the player's own home: one still per rung of the housing ladder that has a roof, each bigger, better built and better furnished than the last, with the fishing gear growing with it.

Rung	Key	Drawn as
Homeless	-	no picture (unchanged)
Rented Room	home-rented	a small plastered room upstairs over the tavern (its sign and lit window below): narrow bunk, rickety table, washstand, one cheap cane pole
Driftwood Shack	home-shack	grey board walls on the shingle, the harbour water to the east, an upturned dinghy: pallet bed, little stove, crate table, net and floats, two poles (one reeled)
Cozy Cottage	home-cottage	whitewashed walls, flagged floor, a garden with flowers and a picket fence: patchwork-quilt bed, dresser of plates, hearth, rack of three poles
Sturdy Cabin	home-cabin	log walls, a fire in a stone chimney, a woodpile and pines: double bed, bookshelf, table for four, trophy fish, rack of five poles, tackle chest
Waterfront Manor	home-manor	on the harbour wall with water east and south, its own jetty and boat: parquet, panelling, tall windows, four-poster, marble fireplace, dining table for six under a chandelier, glass cabinet of seven brass-reeled poles under a marlin

Code. src/stills/stills.py picks the key by rung, in housing.HOUSING_TIERS order (HOME_STILLS), not by tier name. The test pins each rung's name to its still, so a renamed, added or reordered rung fails the test instead of showing the wrong house. Only player.homeTier is read, so the save format, reader and writer are not changed.

Art. art/gen_homes.py writes art/home-*.scene, and a test fails if a committed scene is stale. The stills were rendered with art/render.py and the Strata v0.6.0 strata-golden (headless llvmpipe), then rendered a second time to confirm the output is byte-identical. The single home still and art/home.scene were removed. pictures/ now uses 384,268 of 524,288 bytes. Everything is still marked provisional in art/stills.json, alt text included.

Tests.

• Every rung maps to a still in the manifest and to a PNG.
• The five home pictures are distinct.
• A scripted game loop moves rented → shack → (docks) → cottage → cabin → manor → homeless, and each next visit home shows the new home, ending with no picture.
• Homeless clears the picture.
• The bundle test and the docker CI job now check every still the manifest names, and the docker job also requires home-rented and home-manor.

./test.sh passes locally (1060 tests). The README was updated, docs/images/stills/contact-sheet.png was regenerated with all nine stills, and docs/images/stills/homes.png was added.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01S6kaEL7kt5Fverjb6didBH

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson