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+# Balancing Documentation
+
+Everything about balancing Dota Factory, separated by role:
+
+- **[rules.md](rules.md)** — the design rules and principles. Timeless;
+  changes only when the design changes.
+- **[targets.md](targets.md)** — the base numbers (roots/anchors) chosen
+  by design. Change these first; everything else re-derives.
+- **[derived.md](derived.md)** — the current tuned state of all derived
+  numbers, mirroring the configs. Updated whenever configs change.
+- **[process.md](process.md)** — how balancing is done: the pass order,
+  tuning discipline, tools, and the checklist for the next round.
+- **[history.md](history.md)** — chronological record of decisions,
+  findings, bugs, and arena rounds.
+
+Related: game content (hull grids, footprint gating, tree design and
+fiction) in [../content_design.md](../content_design.md); rules with
+REQ-* ids in [../requirements.md](../requirements.md).
+
+## Status
+
+First full balancing round complete (2026-07-06): targets → tree →
+numbers → threat-calculator parity → combat stats (arena-converged) →
+pacing. Next step: full-game playtests against the run-shape targets in
+`targets.md`.
+
+## Open action items
+
+Agreed changes that require edits to `requirements.md`, the code, or the
+configs. Completed items are removed (their outcomes live in
+`requirements.md`, `history.md`, and the git history).
+
+1. **Fill unfillable schematic slots with artifacts.** With duplicates
+   removed, the schematic drop pool can run dry — previously unreachable.
+   Decision: every slot in the choice dialog that cannot be filled with a
+   schematic because the eligible pool is exhausted is filled with an
+   artifact option instead (in addition to any artifact option granted by
+   the regular artifact roll). A push therefore always awards a full
+   dialog. Update REQ-DEF-SCHEMATIC-DROP.
+2. **Confirm wave scaling in playtests.** `threat_rate_formula` is the
+   only time-scaling axis; verify the tuned curve (see `derived.md`)
+   produces the intended difficulty race in real runs.
+3. **Gate shortcut-recipe drops on their inputs.** Extend the assembler
+   recipe schematic pool eligibility in REQ-DEF-SCHEMATIC-DROP: in
+   addition to the existing station-level and output-item checks, all of
+   the recipe's input item types must be implicitly unlocked as well.
+4. **Resource deposits.** Add a terrain deposit layer per the Resource
+   deposits rules (`rules.md`): deposit patches generated in expansion
+   columns (deterministic content per expansion, randomized placement
+   within the new columns), deposit rendering, and a miner condition (a
+   resource recipe is selectable only if the miner's footprint overlaps
+   at least one matching deposit tile). Touches REQ-BLD-MINER ("every
+   asteroid tile is equivalent" no longer holds),
+   REQ-GW-ASTEROID-EXPAND / REQ-EXP-*, `world.toml`, and `visuals.toml`.
+   Until this lands, quartz mines anywhere and the mid-game is
+   knowledge-gated only.