diff --git a/docs/plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md b/docs/plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md
index fb0e1baa..a3aaa37e 100644
--- a/docs/plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/plans/2026-04-11-roadmap.md
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ behavior. Estimated 17–26 days focused work, 3–5 weeks calendar.
 - **✓ SHIPPED — Wave 4.4d toolbar launchers + Use/Examine.** All seven authored launchers are discovered through their DAT panel-id attribute; mounted Inventory/Character panels toggle through the registry and the other five buttons are ghosted. Typed window-visibility events own Highlight/Normal state. Use and Examine act on selection or enter their one-shot retail target modes, with exact Appraise wire dispatch and retail cursors. Warning-free App build and 4,747-pass / 5-skip Release suite are green; the connected live gate passed 2026-07-11. AP-101 is narrowed to the remaining ammo-number display.
 - **Wave 4.4e implemented — exact missile ammo number (live gate pending).** Pure Core reproduces retail's thrown-weapon-vs-separate-ammo resolution over the ordered player equipment list and its zero-to-one count normalization. Relevant equipment/stack events update authored missile indicator `0x10000194` with the DAT font. Warning-free Release build and 4,754-pass / 5-skip suite are green; AP-101 is retired.
 - **Wave 4.5 implemented — retail primary-weapon switching (corrective live gate pending).** Inventory double-click now routes through a focused `AutoWieldController`: the occupied `0x03500000` weapon-ready group is returned to the player container, followed when necessary by an incompatible shield or mismatched ammo; each blocker waits for authoritative `InventoryPutObjInContainer` before the next step, then `GetAndWieldItem` equips the requested bow/sword/caster/two-hander. The transaction remains inventory-busy through the exact authoritative `WieldObject` acknowledgement, independent of the object table's rollback counter, matching retail's waiting state and preventing rapid switches from overlapping or remaining stuck. `CreateObject` retains exact `AmmoType` for compatibility. The same transaction runs in peace and war; ACE owns the latter's old-stance → peace → new-stance motion chain. Player PropertyInt 40 updates `CombatState`, keeping toolbar/combat UI synchronized with ACE's selected Melee/Missile/Magic stance. Research: `docs/research/2026-07-12-retail-weapon-switch-pseudocode.md`.
-- **Wave 4 inventory drag visuals implemented — live visual gate pending.** `IconComposer` now preserves retail's separate underlay-free `m_pDragIcon` for cursor tracking across inventory, paperdoll, and toolbar bindings. Physical source cells keep their full icon in place and reveal authored ghost mesh `0x0600109A` from drag begin through every release/cancel path; shortcut aliases remain unghosted. AP-47 retired. Research: `docs/research/2026-07-13-retail-item-drag-visuals-pseudocode.md`.
+- **Wave 4 inventory drag visuals implemented — corrective live visual gate pending.** `IconComposer` now preserves retail's separate underlay-free `m_pDragIcon` for cursor tracking across inventory, paperdoll, and toolbar bindings. Physical source cells keep their full icon in place and reveal authored ghost mesh `0x0600109A` from drag begin through every release/cancel path, with the persistent selection square above the mesh; shortcut aliases remain unghosted. `ItemList_DragOver` destination states are split exactly: contents-grid placement uses the green accept circle `0x060011F9`, while side-bag/main-pack container drop-in uses the green arrow `0x060011F7`. AP-47 retired. Research: `docs/research/2026-07-13-retail-item-drag-visuals-pseudocode.md`.
 - **M2 held-object parenting shipped and live-gated 2026-07-11.** The combat toggle now ports `GetDefaultCombatMode` over ordered equipped contents, so a bow requests Missile instead of the old hardcoded Melee. CreateObject preserves parent/placement/timestamp fields, `0xF749` ParentEvent is handled, and `EquippedChildRenderController` renders the weapon as a separate child composed from the animated hand part + holding frame + child placement frame. Live gate passed: bow selected missile stance, rendered in-hand, followed animation, unequipped cleanly, and melee remained correct. App Release builds with zero warnings; the full 4,765-pass / 5-skip suite is green. AP-111 is retired; research: `docs/research/2026-07-11-combat-default-and-parent-event-pseudocode.md`.
 - **M2 local attack receive funnel implemented 2026-07-11; live gate pending.** Retail `ExecuteAttack` only sends the request; ACE chooses the concrete melee/missile action and returns it in a non-autonomous mt-0 `UpdateMotion`. The local branch now runs that state through the same constructor-defaulted `MoveToInterpretedState` funnel and 15-bit action-stamp gate as remotes, then applies sticky/long-jump tails. The old local-only direct `Commands[]` replay is deleted. Shared conversion lives in `InboundInterpretedMotionFactory`; research: `docs/research/2026-07-11-local-combat-motion-pseudocode.md`.
 - **M2 basic retail combat bar implemented 2026-07-11; corrective live visual gate pending.** Production mounts authored `gmCombatUI` LayoutDesc `0x21000073`, shows it only for Melee/Missile, and routes mouse plus keyboard through one `CombatAttackController`. Corrections include the authored wider centered dark-red child range (accepted IA-20), full-width left-to-right bright live attack-charge feedback, exact Speed-left/Power-right justification, silent control-only `AttackDone(ActionCancelled)`, target-frame Keep in View with manual orbit, and persistent corpse motion: the AP-80 velocity-only NPC adaptation can now replace only Ready/Walk/Run, never authoritative Dead/actions. `CombatTargetController` ports the selection-cleared AutoTarget consumer, so a selected creature's authoritative Dead motion clears it and selects the nearest eligible creature when enabled. The 2026-07-12 replacement-corpse correction unifies both multi-frame and static/reactive spawns behind retail's CreateObject lifecycle: apply the wire's Dead state while detached, then `MotionTableManager::HandleEnterWorld` strips Ready→Dead links before the first in-world tick; multiple corpses remaining fallen passed the live user gate that day. Follow-up #205 makes the toolbar read the final canonical selection after a reentrant Auto Target notice and restricts automatic candidates to hostile non-player monsters (intentional PK-edge divergence IA-19); that live gate also passed 2026-07-12. Research: `docs/research/2026-07-11-retail-combat-bar-pseudocode.md`, `docs/research/2026-07-11-combat-target-camera-pseudocode.md`, `docs/research/2026-07-12-death-and-auto-target-pseudocode.md`; AP-24/AP-95 retired, AP-80 narrowed, AP-110 narrowed, AP-112 records the remaining attack-start and exact trained-Recklessness seams.
diff --git a/docs/research/2026-07-13-retail-item-drag-visuals-pseudocode.md b/docs/research/2026-07-13-retail-item-drag-visuals-pseudocode.md
index 478849e4..b3474783 100644
--- a/docs/research/2026-07-13-retail-item-drag-visuals-pseudocode.md
+++ b/docs/research/2026-07-13-retail-item-drag-visuals-pseudocode.md
@@ -65,6 +65,30 @@ on drag release/cancel:
     hide m_elem_Icon_Ghosted
 ```
 
+## Destination feedback and source overlay order
+
+`UIElement_ItemList::ItemList_DragOver @ 0x004e3400` distinguishes an ordinary
+slot insertion from dropping into a container:
+
+```text
+if target list is a container selector
+   and target cell is occupied by a container
+   and that container has an empty item slot:
+    target.SetDragAcceptState(0x10000046)  # ItemSlot_DragOver_DropIn
+                                           # 0x060011F7 green arrow
+else if target accepts an ordinary item-list placement:
+    target.SetDragAcceptState(0x10000041)  # ItemSlot_DragOver_Accept
+                                           # 0x060011F9 green circle
+else:
+    target.SetDragAcceptState(0x10000040)  # 0x060011F8 reject
+```
+
+Therefore the backpack contents grid uses the green circle; the side-bag column
+and main-pack container cell use the green drop-in arrow. The selected/open
+indicators remain visible while `m_elem_Icon_Ghosted` is active, so the
+procedural leaf draws the waiting mesh before those persistent indicators and
+keeps drag-accept feedback topmost.
+
 ## Port mapping
 
 - `IconComposer` caches the underlay-free composite separately and exposes
@@ -85,6 +109,6 @@ on drag release/cancel:
 - `DragDropSpineTests.InventoryDrag_ghostsSourceUntilRelease`
 - `DragDropSpineTests.ShortcutDrag_doesNotGhostSource`
 - `UiItemSlotTests.DefaultWaitingSprite_isRetailGhostMesh`
+- `InventoryControllerTests.Empty_sprites_and_drop_feedback_are_applied_per_list_role`
 - Existing `IconComposerTests.TwoStageWithEffect_copiesTilePixelBeforeUnderlay`
   locks the two-stage composition order.
-
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/InventoryController.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/InventoryController.cs
index bb30d5d6..5db48f7a 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/InventoryController.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/Layout/InventoryController.cs
@@ -365,8 +365,7 @@ public sealed class InventoryController : IItemListDragHandler, IRetainedPanelCo
         var cell = new UiItemSlot { SpriteResolve = list.SpriteResolve };
         cell.SetItem(guid, tex, dragIconTexture: dragTex);
         cell.SlotIndex = list.GetNumUIItems();                 // index it will occupy (== its slot in a packed list)
-        cell.DragAcceptSprite = 0x060011F7u;                   // green insert arrow (export-confirmed)
-        cell.DragRejectSprite = 0x060011F8u;                   // red circle
+        ConfigureDropFeedback(list, cell);
         cell.DoubleClicked = () => _itemInteraction?.ActivateItem(guid);
         if (isContainer)
         {
@@ -388,14 +387,27 @@ public sealed class InventoryController : IItemListDragHandler, IRetainedPanelCo
         fallback();
     }
 
-    private static void AddEmptyCell(UiItemList list)
+    private void AddEmptyCell(UiItemList list)
     {
         var cell = new UiItemSlot { SpriteResolve = list.SpriteResolve, SlotIndex = list.GetNumUIItems() };
-        cell.DragAcceptSprite = 0x060011F7u;
-        cell.DragRejectSprite = 0x060011F8u;
+        ConfigureDropFeedback(list, cell);
         list.AddItem(cell);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Bind the exact ItemList_DragOver state for this destination. A normal contents-grid
+    /// insertion uses ItemSlot_DragOver_Accept (0x10000041 → green circle 0x060011F9).
+    /// An occupied container selector uses ItemSlot_DragOver_DropIn
+    /// (0x10000046 → green arrow 0x060011F7). Retail: 0x004e3400.
+    /// </summary>
+    private void ConfigureDropFeedback(UiItemList list, UiItemSlot cell)
+    {
+        cell.DragAcceptSprite = ReferenceEquals(list, _contentsGrid)
+            ? 0x060011F9u
+            : 0x060011F7u;
+        cell.DragRejectSprite = 0x060011F8u;
+    }
+
     /// <summary>Set the per-cell container capacity bar — retail UIElement_UIItem::UpdateCapacityDisplay
     /// (0x004e16e0): visible only for a container with itemsCapacity &gt; 0; fill =
     /// GetNumContainedItems / itemsCapacity, clamped [0,1]. -1 hides the bar (non-container / unknown
diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiItemSlot.cs b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiItemSlot.cs
index 013698b5..c7db762b 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiItemSlot.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/UI/UiItemSlot.cs
@@ -338,10 +338,22 @@ public sealed class UiItemSlot : UiElement
             }
         }
 
+        // Pending/drag-source mesh — retail UIElement_UIItem::SetWaitingState (0x004e11b0)
+        // reveals m_elem_Icon_Ghosted (0x10000349). ItemList_BeginDrag (0x004e32d0)
+        // sets it for physical inventory/equipment cells while leaving their icon in place.
+        // Draw it before the persistent selected/open indicators: retail keeps selection visible
+        // while the source is waiting, so the grey mesh must not erase the selected square.
+        if (_waiting && SpriteResolve is not null && WaitingSprite != 0)
+        {
+            var (tex, _, _) = SpriteResolve(WaitingSprite);
+            if (tex != 0)
+                ctx.DrawSprite(tex, 0f, 0f, Width, Height, 0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, Vector4.One);
+        }
+
         // Open-container triangle (retail SetOpenContainerState 0x004e1200) + selected-item square
         // (retail SetSelectedState 0x004e1240). Drawn procedurally like the digit/drag overlays;
         // guard id != 0 BEFORE resolving (feedback_ui_resolve_zero_magenta). Triangle under the
-        // square; both under the transient drag overlay below.
+        // square; both remain above the transient waiting mesh and below drag-accept feedback.
         if (IsOpenContainer && SpriteResolve is not null && OpenContainerSprite != 0)
         {
             var (tex, _, _) = SpriteResolve(OpenContainerSprite);
@@ -355,16 +367,6 @@ public sealed class UiItemSlot : UiElement
                 ctx.DrawSprite(tex, 0f, 0f, Width, Height, 0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, Vector4.One);
         }
 
-        // Pending/drag-source mesh — retail UIElement_UIItem::SetWaitingState (0x004e11b0)
-        // reveals m_elem_Icon_Ghosted (0x10000349). ItemList_BeginDrag (0x004e32d0)
-        // sets it for physical inventory/equipment cells while leaving their icon in place.
-        if (_waiting && SpriteResolve is not null && WaitingSprite != 0)
-        {
-            var (tex, _, _) = SpriteResolve(WaitingSprite);
-            if (tex != 0)
-                ctx.DrawSprite(tex, 0f, 0f, Width, Height, 0f, 0f, 1f, 1f, Vector4.One);
-        }
-
         // Drag-rollover accept/reject frame (retail SetDragAcceptState 0x10000041/40).
         // Guard id != 0 BEFORE resolving — resolve(0) returns the 1×1 magenta placeholder
         // with a non-zero GL handle (feedback_ui_resolve_zero_magenta).
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/DragDropSpineTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/DragDropSpineTests.cs
index cf0ea3bf..45374536 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/DragDropSpineTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/DragDropSpineTests.cs
@@ -202,13 +202,16 @@ public class DragDropSpineTests
     {
         var (root, _, cell) = RootWithBoundSlot(0x5001u);
         cell.SourceKind = ItemDragSource.Inventory;
+        cell.Selected = true;
 
         root.OnMouseDown(UiMouseButton.Left, 10, 10);
         root.OnMouseMove(20, 10);
         Assert.True(cell.WaitingVisual);
+        Assert.True(cell.Selected); // selected indicator remains active above the waiting mesh
 
         root.OnMouseUp(UiMouseButton.Left, 600, 500);
         Assert.False(cell.WaitingVisual);
+        Assert.True(cell.Selected);
     }
 
     [Fact]
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/InventoryControllerTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/InventoryControllerTests.cs
index a4c1fdcd..f771017f 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/InventoryControllerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/Layout/InventoryControllerTests.cs
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ public class InventoryControllerTests
     }
 
     [Fact]
-    public void Empty_sprites_are_applied_to_the_three_lists()
+    public void Empty_sprites_and_drop_feedback_are_applied_per_list_role()
     {
         var (layout, grid, containers, top, _, _, _, _) = BuildLayout();
         InventoryController.Bind(layout, new ClientObjectTable(), () => Player,
@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ public class InventoryControllerTests
         Assert.Equal(0x06004D20u, grid.GetItem(0)!.EmptySprite);        // a padded empty contents cell
         Assert.Equal(0x06005D9Cu, containers.GetItem(0)!.EmptySprite);  // a padded empty side-bag cell
         Assert.Equal(0x06005D9Cu, top.GetItem(0)!.EmptySprite);         // the main-pack cell
+        Assert.Equal(0x060011F9u, grid.GetItem(0)!.DragAcceptSprite);   // normal slot accept = green circle
+        Assert.Equal(0x060011F7u, containers.GetItem(0)!.DragAcceptSprite); // container drop-in = green arrow
+        Assert.Equal(0x060011F7u, top.GetItem(0)!.DragAcceptSprite);    // main container drop-in = green arrow
     }
 
     [Fact]