Mycelia — Idle Merge Grove

Under the leaf litter, something is thinking. Mycelia is an idle-merge hybrid: your spores buy sprouts, sprouts merge into brighter caps, and WHERE you place things matters. Every cap grows faster next to caps its own size or bigger — so the grove rewards tending, sorting, and the quiet satisfaction of a well-arranged board. • A living hex board, 19 cells growing to 61 • Drag matching caps together to merge — twelve levels, lime-glow to white-hot • Adjacency bonuses turn placement into strategy • Merging two Mother Caps releases an hour of spores in one burst • Fairy Rings: complete the circle, reset the board, keep the essence (+10% each, forever) and spend it at the Fairy Court • Auto-sprouting, deep roots, Heartwood and more court gifts • Turn the seasons: every Fairy Ring chooses one boon for the coming ring — spring's cheap sprouts, summer's stronger filaments, autumn's gilded essence, or winter's fast dark growth • Rare lumen caps sprout gold and burn three times as bright — the glow survives every merge • The Spore Almanac: reach a landmark and you discover a real mushroom species — fourteen to collect, each with its own boon. Keep a handful equipped; your loadout slots grow with every Fairy Ring, so which boons you carry is a choice that changes with your grove • Errands of the Fairy Court: three small dares post at dawn — merge, weave, grow — each worth essence, and a full court day earns the court's favor • The grove grows while you're away — deeper loam jars stretch the night to 8 or 24 hours • Morning dew: a daily gift that grows with your streak (a missed day pauses it, never resets it) • Entirely on-device: no account, no internet, nothing collected Tend it for a minute or an hour. The mycelium doesn't mind. It remembers.