diff --git a/BuildController.gd b/BuildController.gd
index 6a45e1e..c9bc7d0 100644
--- a/BuildController.gd
+++ b/BuildController.gd
@@ -195,7 +195,56 @@ var pending_time: float = 0.0
 var context_actions_expanded: bool = false
 
 
+# Gap between the last resource row and the first row of HUD buttons.
+const HUD_COLUMN_MARGIN: float = 18.0
+
+
+# Seats the top-anchored HUD button columns below the resource readout instead
+# of at the fixed y the scene authored.
+#
+# ResourceReadout builds one row per resource type AT RUNTIME, so how far down
+# it reaches is not knowable when the scene is laid out - the scene's guess
+# was 154, and four resources actually reach 270, straight over the build
+# button sitting at a hardcoded 160. Every resource type added since made it
+# worse. Deriving the column top from the readout's real bottom makes the
+# overlap impossible rather than merely fixed for today's resource count.
+#
+# This TRANSLATES the block rather than re-flowing it, so the rows keep their
+# spacing relative to one another - BuildingActionButton and HangarButton
+# deliberately share a row, being mutually exclusive, and a flow layout would
+# pull them apart.
+func _seat_hud_columns() -> void:
+	var readout: ResourceReadout = get_node_or_null("../UI/ResourceReadout")
+	if readout == null:
+		return
+	# Both columns, not just the left one: the readout spans the full width
+	# (the fleet hold column sits at x 356), so the second column of buttons
+	# collides with it exactly as the first does.
+	var buttons: Array = [
+		build_button, transfer_button,
+		action_button, landing_button,
+		building_action_button, hangar_button,
+	]
+	var highest: float = INF
+	for button in buttons:
+		if button != null:
+			highest = minf(highest, button.position.y)
+	if is_inf(highest):
+		return
+
+	var shift: float = readout.content_bottom() + HUD_COLUMN_MARGIN - highest
+	# Only ever pushed down, never pulled up: with few enough resources the
+	# authored layout already clears the readout, and there is no reason to
+	# drag the HUD away from where the scene deliberately put it.
+	if shift <= 0.0:
+		return
+	for button in buttons:
+		if button != null:
+			button.position.y += shift
+
+
 func _ready() -> void:
+	_seat_hud_columns()
 	build_button.pressed.connect(_on_build_pressed)
 	build_close_button.pressed.connect(_close_build_menu)
 	_configure_build_menu_entries()
diff --git a/ResourceReadout.gd b/ResourceReadout.gd
index c88433f..a2f6d97 100644
--- a/ResourceReadout.gd
+++ b/ResourceReadout.gd
@@ -61,6 +61,26 @@ func _ready() -> void:
 
 		y += ROW_HEIGHT
 
+	# Stop understating our own extent. The rows are drawn by child nodes,
+	# which happily paint outside this Control's rect, so the scene-authored
+	# height stayed at its original guess no matter how many rows appeared.
+	size.y = rows_height()
+
+
+# How tall the rows are, derived from the live resource list rather than from
+# whatever _ready() happened to have built. That matters: _ready() runs in
+# scene-tree order, so a sibling laying itself out relative to this readout
+# (BuildController._seat_hud_columns) can legitimately ask BEFORE this node
+# has built anything, and a cached height would answer zero.
+func rows_height() -> float:
+	return float(GameState.resource_types().size()) * ROW_HEIGHT
+
+
+# Bottom edge of the rows in this Control's parent space - the line anything
+# stacked below the readout has to clear.
+func content_bottom() -> float:
+	return position.y + rows_height()
+
 
 func _add_glyph(resource_type: String, at: Vector2) -> void:
 	var glyph: ResourceGlyph = ResourceGlyph.new()
diff --git a/tests/_setup_editor_load_panel_preview.gd.uid b/tests/_setup_editor_load_panel_preview.gd.uid
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f81e4d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/_setup_editor_load_panel_preview.gd.uid
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://ckltesr471lqy
diff --git a/tests/test_enemy_detection_range.gd.uid b/tests/test_enemy_detection_range.gd.uid
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2500c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_enemy_detection_range.gd.uid
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://dekjmrvv0baqy
diff --git a/tests/test_research_lab_extractor_gate.gd.uid b/tests/test_research_lab_extractor_gate.gd.uid
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b5f117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_research_lab_extractor_gate.gd.uid
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+uid://1ynm1v0c1qfk