Progress bar and steps while generating, loading, opening claims and travelling; saving chip (t30)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-24 18:54:06 -04:00
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    career and come along; buildings stay on their claim and wait (they don't run) until you
    travel back from the notebook's Claims page.

+- **Long waits show what's happening (t30, 2026-10-24).** Generating, loading, opening a claim
+  and travelling show the loading overlay with a title, a moving bar and the current step
+  ("Laying rock and ore", "Unpacking", "Building the world"...). Generation runs as steps that
+  give the browser a frame every 30 ms, producing exactly the same world as before. A small
+  "Saving…" chip shows bottom right only when a save takes longer than 150 ms. The owner found big
+  worlds froze on a 0% bar with no sign of progress.
+
 - **Clay bricks come from a Brick press (t28, 2026-10-24).** A hopper block like the Saw: every
  8 clay lumps on top become a Green brick below, and a Green brick fires into a Brick above about
  900°C (any fire). 2 Bricks build a brick wall block; builders order them. The owner found it odd