What changes

This is LexiMint's biggest update so far. Submitting words remains the center of the game, but the world around it is now much fuller: reworked ECHO, rebalanced progression, a huge achievement expansion, more substantial missions, ticket cosmetics, Shop, LexiPass, showcase, albums, referrals, community suggestions and a clearer guide.

New

• ECHO rework: ECHO windows move from 6h, 24h, 7d and 30d to 24h, 3d, 7d, 14d and 30d. Words now matter more when they return after a real silence period, tiny micro-ECHO moments matter less, and resonant progression has more room.
• Expanded MASTERY TRACKS: WAYFARER, VERIFIER, SENTINEL, RECRUITER, GARDENER, ANTHOLOGIST, SEEKER and CRUSADER enter the game. PHILOLOGIST leaves the active track set. The new tracks cover exploration, community verification, referrals, collection and profile depth more cleanly.
• Many more LATENT achievements: the secret achievement catalog grows from 23 to 120. No spoilers, but expect a lot more strange things to discover.
• Ticket cosmetics: tickets can now receive borders, particles, recolors, shaders and stamps. Compatible effects can stack on the same ticket and the result is visible across the game, from Gallery to profile to shared images.
• Cosmetic ownership: each cosmetic is a player-owned instance, not a permanent modification to the ticket. A cosmetic can be applied to one ticket at a time, removed whenever you want and moved to another ticket under the ownership rules. Multiple instances of the same cosmetic can exist.
• Cosmetic Inventory: profile now includes a dedicated section for owned cosmetics, applied/unapplied state, previews and items currently in use.
• Cosmetic Shop: the Shop is a new LexiMint section with cosmetic catalog, filters, wishlist, discounted featured items, purchases in INK, FOIL and co-pay, and kits designed to give a coherent style through multiple discounted cosmetics.
• Stamp corner: stamps can be placed in different ticket corners when applied. The preview shows placement before confirmation.
• FOIL packs: Slant, Edge, Slab and Caps packs are available during alpha, with euro price, readable FOIL quantity and explicit bonuses on larger packs.
• Founder bundles: the Shop supports purchasable bundles containing extras beyond FOIL, profile badges and LexiPass integration when active in configuration. The format is ready for different future bundles.
• LexiPass: a 50-level pass arrives with free and premium tracks, per-level rewards, premium purchase, controlled tier skips and progression tied to main XP. It does not create a separate level bar; it follows the progress you already earn by playing.
• LexiPass premium: purchasing premium also unlocks premium rewards for levels you already reached. After level 50, the pass can keep recording prestige progress without changing the user level cap.
• Profile showcase: your profile can display a public showcase of manually chosen tickets. Base slots let you show key pieces immediately, while extra slots can be unlocked for larger showcases.
• Album binder: public and private albums arrive, organized as 3x3 ticket pages. The first album is free, more albums and pages can be unlocked, and selected albums can appear on your public profile.
• Album export: an album page can be exported as a 3x3 binder image, useful for sharing a themed mini-collection rather than one isolated ticket.
• Richer public profiles: /u/[username] pages can show identity, showcase, featured albums and social previews aligned with LexiMint's visual style.
• UNVERIFIED suggestion box: the dashboard shows a compact rail of DISCOVERY words still UNVERIFIED that the community can help verify through valid submissions. Each suggestion starts from a word discovered by the proposing player and disappears when the DISCOVERY is verified.
• Referrals: invite links, invited/onboarded/active tracking and RECRUITER mastery progress arrive. The system rewards social contribution without making invites a direct currency shortcut.
• Guided tutorial: new accounts are introduced inside the real dashboard through a spotlight tour, skippable steps, some action-based progression and a clear pointer to the full guide.
• Reworked Game guide: /how-it-works now explains essentials first, then ticket kinds, tiers, verification, rehabilitation, Bounty Hour, missions, XP, LexiPass, Shop, albums and FAQ.
• More playable mobile UI: mobile gets a bottom nav for Home, Gallery, Stats, Shop and Menu. Navigation was also reviewed for narrow viewports, tablets and half-width desktop.
• More complete account management: ToS/16+ declaration, email correction before verification, data export, account deletion with restore window and more stable cookie consent.

Improved

• Missions and spam: missions requiring valid words or lexical attributes no longer advance by repeating the same word many times. When an objective requires different words, progress counts different words.
• Missions no longer finish too fast: the daily pool is no longer a two-minute checklist. EASY remains a warm-up, NORMAL asks for a real short session, HARD represents a full daily session.
• Less repetitive missions: the system avoids recent repetition of objectives, letters and very similar mission families.
• Daily mission selection: the daily set no longer depends on the first player opening the dashboard, but on active season rotation.
• XP rebalance: base submit XP is lower, bonuses are controlled, and progression is calibrated around an average 60-day season. Early levels should no longer explode after a few lucky submissions.
• Level 50 curve: max level remains reachable by consistent, committed players, not by casual micro-sessions or one lucky opening burst.
• User level and LexiPass: user level and LexiPass progress at the same rhythm, reducing duplication and making progression clearer.
• Clearer XP bonuses: first-of-day, streak, missions, Bounty Hour, DISCOVERY certification and MASTERY have more separate roles and are explained in the guide.
• DISCOVERY certification: certification XP is daily-capped, while word verification and INK rewards continue to work.
• Stamina rework: regeneration grows with level up to double rate at level 50. Maximum cap becomes dynamic over 48 hours of regen, with +1 stamina every 10 levels.
• INK economy: rewards and costs better match Shop, cosmetics, showcase upgrades, albums and stamina purchases. These values still need real alpha data and feedback.
• LexiPass celebrations: buying LexiPass premium shows a cinematic full-screen sequence.
• Achievements page: MASTERY tracks and LATENTS are separated more clearly, with more readable groups, more coherent icons and less compressed descriptions.
• Personal Lexicon: profile keeps a cross-season history of encountered words, separate from the seasonal ticket table.
• Bounty Hour: guide and game surfaces explain DAILY PLATINUM, clues, anti-spoiler behavior and the Bounty role in the daily loop more clearly.
• Social sharing: tickets, albums, profiles and changelogs have more coherent social previews, while dialogs use native share, copy link or download when the browser allows it.
• Fast submit: the form preserves focus better and avoids interrupting typing with full-screen celebrations when the next word has already started.
• Compact navbar: user menu, currency indicators and primary links take less room on narrow viewports.

Fixed

• Mission progress after fast submits: missions, events and dashboard state update with higher priority after submit, without arriving late behind the next word.
• Season leakage: DAILY, WEEKLY, missions, Bounty Hour, personal Lexicon and season levels are isolated across seasons.
• Cross-season levels: season level resets correctly on a new season and total level continues representing lifetime progress.
• Simultaneous ECHO: words revived during close submissions handle concurrent cases and duplicate assignment better.
• Public Gallery and logged-out teaser: logged-out previews, Gallery, Lexicon and Stats follow more coherent rules for DISCOVERY UNVERIFIED and visible tickets.
• Ticket stats: public stats avoid misleading counts based on DISCOVERY UNVERIFIED.
• Word links: global Lexicon and personal words link to the corresponding DISCOVERY only when the ticket is verified or when the viewer owns that UNVERIFIED DISCOVERY.
• Bounty Hour cross-season: Bounty words and progress no longer inherit state from the previous season.
• Mobile Safari: top and bottom nav better respect iOS safe areas and are not dragged by page scroll.
• Ticket OG images: shared ticket images now use colors, layout and cosmetics aligned with the ticket shown in app.

Notes

• v0.6.0 is designed for a clean alpha restart: old tickets, words, submissions, wallets, levels, albums, showcases and test progress are not carried into the new start. This wipe is necessary at this testing stage, but it is not the long-term plan once invasive changes are behind us.
• Card purchases remain in TEST mode during alpha, even though FOIL, LexiPass, bundle and refund flows are already prepared for a future LIVE switch. To test purchases, use 4242 4242 4242 4242 with any future expiry date and any CVC.
• Some economy content is already prepared to change season to season, even though the first public catalog starts with an initial configuration.

Thanks again for supporting the first alpha month. I hope this release makes LexiMint richer, more fun and more engaging. Please invite friends, share favorite tickets, discuss the new mechanics, send feedback, test edge cases, discover the new achievements, explore mastery tracks and play with cosmetics. Have fun with v0.6.0!