InfoBeacon

# InfoBeacon – Advanced HUD Suite

Comprehensive HUD system for Stranded Alien Dawn providing real-time information about colony status.

## **Features**

### 1. **Power HUD**
– Real-time power production, consumption, and battery status
– Detailed tooltip with breakdown by building type (producers, consumers, batteries)
– Color-coded alerts for power deficits
– Shows available power and battery charge level

### 2. **Wind Status**
– Real-time wind strength percentage
– Wind direction indicators
– Status classification (Strong wind / Light wind)

### 3. **Solar Output**
– Current solar panel efficiency percentage
– Output display (current/maximum)
– Auto-hides when no solar panels are built
– Corrected tooltip values with automatic internal unit conversion (÷1000)

### 4. **Hostile Health Bars**
– Health bars displayed above enemy units during combat
– Auto-hides for friendly units and allies
– Visual combat feedback

### 5. **Draggable Popups**
– Drag-and-drop repositioning for pop-up windows
– Per-window position persistence

### 6. **Field Crop Overlay**
– Toggle button in the overlay bar (alongside portraits, animals, work zones)
– Displays crop icons directly on fields in the 3D view
– Automatically updates when fields are added or removed
– Uses each crop’s own icon for easy identification
– Fully integrated with the native overlay system

### 7. **Field Stats HUD**
– Advanced per-field statistics table in the HUD
– Shows crop type icon, growth progress, assigned workers, and harvest state
– Detailed tooltip with aligned columns (up to 10 fields)
– Filters out empty fields by default; auto-refreshes every 3 seconds

### 8. **Field Harvest Copy/Paste**
– Copy and paste harvest limit values between fields directly from the infopanel
– Single-click Copy / Paste buttons added to the field infopanel
– Clipboard persists until overwritten by a new copy operation

### 9. **Insect Nest Overlay**
– Overlay button (insect icon) in the overlay bar
– Displays icon markers above every insect nest

### 10. **Bed Owner Portraits**
– Toggle button (portrait icon) in the overlay bar
– Floating survivor portrait above each assigned bed
– Full refresh every 3 seconds; updates automatically when assignments change

### 11. **Building Damage Colorization**
– Buildings keep their original color at 100% integrity
– Damage visualized with a gradual yellow → red tint by 10% steps
– Fully automatic updates on damage/repair and on game load

### 12. **Survivor Vitals Dashboard**
– Compact HUD panel showing vitals for every survivor
– Tabular display: HP, Food, Rest, Morale, Recreation, Temperature
– Dynamic color coding per stat (green / orange / red)
– Detailed tooltip with aligned columns
– Full multilingual support

### 13. **Equipment HUD**
– Per-survivor equipment summary (weapon, ranged, tools, clothing)
– Weapon charge level shown with low-charge alerts (<20%) and critical alerts (<5%)
– Destroyed-equipment event notifications cached for 45 seconds
– Full equipment tooltip with all gear slots listed

### 14. **Survivor Relations HUD**
– Tracks inter-survivor opinion values and highlights active conflicts
– Conflict threshold: opinion ≤ −30; positive relation threshold: ≥ +30
– Cache rebuilt lazily only when relationships change — zero cost between events
– HUD badge shows conflict count

## **Localization**
Fully supported in 10 languages:
**English** | **French** | **German** | **Spanish** | **Japanese** | **Korean** | **Polish** | **Brazilian Portuguese** | **Russian** | **Chinese Simplified**

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Version: 0.00-019