diff --git a/fifa17-recon/tools/fut_clubitems.py b/fifa17-recon/tools/fut_clubitems.py
index 91f9233..1d03124 100644
--- a/fifa17-recon/tools/fut_clubitems.py
+++ b/fifa17-recon/tools/fut_clubitems.py
@@ -92,21 +92,34 @@ def _item(item_id, carddbid, cardassetid, subtype, extra=None):
     return it
 
 
-def shelf(next_id=CLUBITEM_ID_BASE):
-    """The starter club-item shelf, {family: [item]}."""
+def shelf(next_id=CLUBITEM_ID_BASE, families=None):
+    """The starter club-item shelf, {family: [item]}.
+
+    `families` limits which are built. The combined `equippables` view is what
+    crashed the client: 30 items across FIVE unverified subtypes in one response is
+    the widest possible blast radius for a wrong shape. One family at a time is the
+    only way to learn which subtype is wrong.
+    """
     out, nid = {}, next_id
     for name, table, art, _sid, _sname, subtype in FAMILIES:
+        if families is not None and name not in families:
+            out[name] = []
+            continue
         rows = _rows(table)
         picked = []
         for r in rows[:STARTER_N.get(name, 4)]:
             cid = r.get("carddbid")
             if not cid:
                 continue
-            extra = {}
-            for k in ("teamid", "leagueid", "value"):
-                if r.get(k):
-                    extra[k] = r[k]
-            picked.append(_item(nid, cid, r.get("cardassetid", art), subtype, extra))
+            # NO EXTRAS. An earlier version copied teamid/leagueid/value straight
+            # out of the fcc row and the game hung and then CRASHED on the first
+            # equippables fetch (2026-08-05). `value` is the prime suspect: it
+            # appears elsewhere as an OBJECT member (displayGroup {"value": ...}),
+            # and a scalar where an object is expected is the type-desync busy loop
+            # at 0x1801c7f1a, which reads exactly like "the game is taking its time"
+            # and then dies. Omission is safe; an unestablished field is not. None of
+            # the three was needed to draw a card.
+            picked.append(_item(nid, cid, r.get("cardassetid", art), subtype))
             nid += 1
         out[name] = picked
     return out
diff --git a/fifa17-recon/tools/utas_server.py b/fifa17-recon/tools/utas_server.py
index 80bd2aa..13e156d 100755
--- a/fifa17-recon/tools/utas_server.py
+++ b/fifa17-recon/tools/utas_server.py
@@ -1204,7 +1204,10 @@ CONSUM_UNTRADEABLE = os.environ.get("FUT_CONSUM_UNTRADEABLE", "0") == "1"
 #
 # Default OFF: nothing here has ever been requested by the client, so unlike the
 # consumables stat fix this is not correcting a demonstrably wrong answer.
-CLUBITEMS = os.environ.get("FUT_CLUBITEMS", "0") == "1"
+# "1" serves each family on its own type= arm and serves NOTHING for equippables.
+# "probe:<family>" serves one item per candidate cardsubtypeid for that family only.
+_CLUBITEMS_MODE = os.environ.get("FUT_CLUBITEMS", "")
+CLUBITEMS = bool(_CLUBITEMS_MODE) and _CLUBITEMS_MODE != "0"
 
 
 def _consumable_stat_rows():
@@ -1809,13 +1812,23 @@ def club_route(h):
     if CLUBITEMS and kind in ("stadium", "ball", "badge", "kit", "leaguelogos",
                               "equippables"):
         import fut_clubitems
-        sh = fut_clubitems.shelf()
         fam = {"stadium": "stadia", "ball": "balls", "badge": "badges",
                "kit": "kits", "leaguelogos": "leaguelogos"}.get(kind)
-        if fam:
-            got = sh.get(fam, [])
-        else:
-            got = [i for fam_items in sh.values() for i in fam_items]
+        if _CLUBITEMS_MODE.startswith("probe:"):
+            want = _CLUBITEMS_MODE.split(":", 1)[1]
+            got = fut_clubitems.probe_shelf(want) if fam == want else []
+            log("    CLUBITEMS: PROBE %s on type=%s -> %d item(s), one per candidate "
+                "subtype" % (want, kind, len(got)))
+            return 200, {"itemData": got}
+        if fam is None:
+            # equippables is the COMBINED view and it is what crashed the client on
+            # 2026-08-05: 30 items across five unverified subtypes in one response.
+            # Until the subtypes are confirmed one family at a time, answer it empty.
+            # An empty itemData is a shape the client already accepts everywhere.
+            log("    CLUBITEMS: type=equippables -> [] (combined view withheld until "
+                "the subtypes are verified; it crashed the client once)")
+            return 200, {"itemData": []}
+        got = fut_clubitems.shelf(families={fam}).get(fam, [])
         log("    CLUBITEMS: type=%s -> %d item(s)" % (kind, len(got)))
         return 200, {"itemData": got}