diff --git a/game/dev/probe_levels.gd b/game/dev/probe_levels.gd
index 511e50e..b1c9bb6 100644
--- a/game/dev/probe_levels.gd
+++ b/game/dev/probe_levels.gd
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ func _initialize() -> void:
 			motion += v
 			if v > worst_v:
 				worst_v = v
-				worst = "%s at %s" % [b.name, b.global_position.snappedf(0.1)]
+				var scr := b.get_script() as Script
+				var cls := scr.get_global_name() if scr != null else StringName(b.get_class())
+				worst = "%s [%s, parent %s] at %s" % [
+					b.name, cls, b.get_parent().name, b.global_position.snappedf(0.1)]
 		print("\n=== %-14s %s" % [id, plan.level_name()])
 		print("    smashables=%-4d  static bodies=%-4d" % [bodies, statics])
 		print("    residual motion after 1s = %.2f m/s   worst: %s" % [
diff --git a/game/scripts/Main.gd b/game/scripts/Main.gd
index a7c76ff..ef19d91 100644
--- a/game/scripts/Main.gd
+++ b/game/scripts/Main.gd
@@ -395,6 +395,35 @@ func _build_scale(at: Vector3) -> void:
 	joint.node_a = joint.get_path_to(head)
 	joint.node_b = joint.get_path_to(pan)
 
+	# The pan's origin sits AT the pivot, so it hangs near-neutral: no restoring torque
+	# ever kills the tiny kick the joint solve gives it at spawn, angular_damp is
+	# deliberately low (the long swing after a hit IS the feature), and plain .sleeping
+	# doesn't stick — the pin joint re-wakes its island every frame. So: once the joint
+	# has resolved, PARK the pan frozen (a pendulum at rest plumb is genuinely static),
+	# and unfreeze it the first time the player comes within reach. The swing feel is
+	# untouched — you can't see a pan swing from further than the wake radius anyway.
+	# Without this the grocer fails probe_levels at 0.15-0.48 m/s forever.
+	get_tree().create_timer(0.6, false, true).timeout.connect(func() -> void:
+		if is_instance_valid(pan) and not pan.is_broken() and not pan._released:
+			pan.linear_velocity = Vector3.ZERO
+			pan.angular_velocity = Vector3.ZERO
+			pan.freeze_mode = RigidBody3D.FREEZE_MODE_STATIC
+			pan.freeze = true)
+	var wake := Area3D.new()
+	wake.name = "scale-wake"
+	var wshape := CollisionShape3D.new()
+	var wsphere := SphereShape3D.new()
+	wsphere.radius = 1.7
+	wshape.shape = wsphere
+	wake.add_child(wshape)
+	_world.add_child(wake)
+	wake.global_position = pivot
+	wake.body_entered.connect(func(b: Node3D) -> void:
+		if b is CharacterBody3D and is_instance_valid(pan):
+			pan.freeze = false
+			pan.sleeping = false
+			wake.queue_free())
+
 ## Four low timber walls on the table top, framing one pyramid. Static — you can't smash
 ## the tray, you smash what's in it, and what's in it goes over the edge.
 func _stack_tray(at: Vector3, half: float, h: float) -> void:
@@ -619,6 +648,9 @@ func _physics_process(dt: float) -> void:
 	if _spawn_guard <= 0.0:
 		return
 	_spawn_guard -= dt
+	if _spawn_guard <= 0.0:
+		_settle_sweep()   # the window just closed — put residual drift to bed, once
+		return
 	for n in get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("smashable"):
 		var b := n as RigidBody3D
 		if b == null or b.freeze:
@@ -637,6 +669,23 @@ func _physics_process(dt: float) -> void:
 		if b.angular_velocity.length() > SPAWN_MAX_SPIN:
 			b.angular_velocity = b.angular_velocity.normalized() * SPAWN_MAX_SPIN
 
+## One pass, the frame the spawn-guard window closes: anything still DRIFTING —
+## slower than you could ever have pushed it — is put to bed. 310 packed bodies
+## (bottles touching bottles, fruit nested on fruit) trade micro-jitter through their
+## contacts for many seconds otherwise, and a site should START at rest: the gate is
+## probe_levels reading 0.00 m/s. A genuinely mis-spawned launcher is NOT masked —
+## anything over the drift threshold is left alone for the guard warning to name.
+const SETTLE_MAX_DRIFT := 0.5
+func _settle_sweep() -> void:
+	for n in get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("smashable"):
+		var b := n as RigidBody3D
+		if b == null or b.freeze:
+			continue
+		if b.linear_velocity.length() < SETTLE_MAX_DRIFT and b.angular_velocity.length() < 2.0:
+			b.linear_velocity = Vector3.ZERO
+			b.angular_velocity = Vector3.ZERO
+			b.sleeping = true
+
 func _on_smashed(kind: String, at: Vector3, shards: int) -> void:
 	_smash_count += 1
 	_tally[kind] = int(_tally.get(kind, 0)) + 1