🧹 Dead code & unused asset sweep

[marceld23]

What this is

A dead code & unused asset sweep — find things the project carries but never uses. Great first contribution: clearly scoped, objectively verifiable, and every removal makes the repo lighter.

Where to look

• C# dead code — unused classes/methods in the server projects and client/Assets/BlocksBeyondTheStars/Scripts/ (an IDE like Rider/VS "find usages", or Roslyn analyzers, gets you far)
• Locale keys — entries in data/locales/en.json / de.json that no code references
• Assets — textures, audio clips, prefabs in client/Assets/ nothing points at
• Docs — stale developer docs describing behavior that no longer exists

⚠️ Known traps (things that look dead but aren't)

• Shaders loaded via Shader.Find() have no asset reference and look unused — they are load-bearing and listed in m_AlwaysIncludedShaders. Don't report shaders without checking for Shader.Find calls.
• Locale keys built dynamically — some keys are constructed from prefixes at runtime; grep for the key's prefix before declaring it dead.
• Unity references are by GUID — scenes/prefabs reference assets invisibly to a filename grep; use Unity's own dependency tooling or check .meta GUID references.
• Anything reached via reflection or config strings (mission/content type names).

Process

1. Report first: post your candidate list here as a comment, grouped by category, each with the evidence ("0 references, checked Shader.Find / dynamic keys").
2. After a thumbs-up, removal PRs — small and per-category, so CI and a client build can vet each one separately.