Closing the shopfront.
Two small gaps, a better pilaster foot, and the first repair in a longer building session.
The first stop in this development session was the shopfront. Two known gaps were still visible: above and below the signboard, and beside a pilaster foot where the lower panel met a brick wall.
I rebuilt both faults in the test world and kept the camera positions. Close views make the difference easier to judge than a flattering street photograph.
A signboard that meets its neighbours
The fascia had a good central face and projecting beads, but it stopped short of the brickwork above and the flush glazing below. Recessed painted rails now close those strips. The corner return uses the same profile.
I like that the repair keeps the depth of the original moulding. Filling the joint does not need to flatten the whole frontage.
The right foot for a solid panel
The other gap needed a choice. Our narrow pilaster base can hold glass beside its stem, which is useful. A solid lower panel needs painted timber in that space instead.
The existing Painted Shopfront Panel now has a solid pilaster base setting. Wrench its top or bottom to switch shape; wrench a side to rotate it. It keeps the four existing paints and uses the same item. The separate narrow base still accepts glass.
Seven feet have been replaced in a separate Lantern & Gear example. Its windows, doors and sign data are retained. The earlier example and original town remain separate.
Teaching the small change
The corner-shopfront Ponder now demonstrates the solid base. Its first caption was too long and crowded the bottom controls; a native screenshot caught that, and the shorter version leaves both the model and controls clear.
This is the sort of polish I want from the session: a builder can repeat a useful detail without having to understand why the original joint failed.
What is checked
The accepted development candidate passed the Workbench checks, native visual review and all sixteen Ponder lessons. The full pack also checked wrench controls, Survival dye and pane accounting, twelve rotated or mirrored Create copies, resource reload and a real save-and-reopen cycle.
Eleven complete building examples survived that reopen. The repaired pub retained all 7,194 authored blocks, including the seven solid bases, with no unexpected changes. This still is not multiplayer evidence; the separate two-client test is being prepared.
This is a development candidate. The installed local release remains 0.12.0, and there is no public mod download. The next system is the rear yard's working iron gates, with enough room to walk through them and sensible contacts to the existing railings.