Shelters now wear their town's culture color on the map (North cool-blue,
South green, West gold, East red), dimmed by wear; granaries stay green,
ruins dark. And bonds can now cross town lines: usually you pair within
your own people (that's who you're near), but a wanderer who warms to
someone from another town shacks up across cultures - the first quiet
thread of contact between two peoples. When two towns share a roof, the
house is drawn split diagonally, half each culture, visible across the map.
Mechanics: buildings track their top-two resident home-towns (recomputed
with occupancy, throttled to every 30 ticks since it's map-only); the
bonding rule dropped its same-town requirement. A 240-day run produced
126 bonds, 40 of them cross-town (East+North, West+South, all combos),
with populations still balanced - inter-cultural contact without
destabilizing the towns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Exploration addendum stage 1: per-NPC known-nodes. NPCs gather only from
resources they've personally sensed (radius 22) or been told about;
founders seed with home ground, children inherit parents' maps, node
knowledge diffuses between neighbors like skills. Starving NPCs venture
outward and sense as they go - non-random needs-driven exploration, the
seed of first contact. Repopulation preserved (seeding + survival food
fallback): all towns fed, population stable 86-109 over 240 days.
Debug screen rebuilt: the ~68-row per-villager roster (overflowing at
four-town scale) replaced with a per-town summary - pop, fed%, knowledge,
debris, state breakdown, buildings, culture-colored, plus world
births/deaths. Scales to any population.
Performance: added phase timers and measured instead of guessing - npc.Tick
was 94% of cost, O(n^2) via TickResting calling RestingOccupancy (full
population scan) per building per resting NPC. Fixed with a once-per-tick
occupancy cache on Building. npc phase ~4x faster and now linear; full
240-day four-town run in 180s, faster than the pre-exploration baseline.
Profiling scaffolding removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SPEC §5 built: three skill domains (forage/woodcraft/masonry) that pay
off and grow by practice; proximity diffusion soul-calibrated by
absorption x teaching-drive; and mortality - the piece that makes
knowledge generational. Elders die (~150-230 days), everything unshared
dies with them, a youth comes of age near knowing nothing. North soul
(absorption 1.6, teaching 0.9) vs South (1.0, 0.3); East teaches no one.
Two findings: (1) headless soaks were contaminated by orphaned child
processes writing later runs' CSVs - fixed with StopAfterDays clean
self-terminate; (2) passive diffusion barely helped - the North's real
culture is the young seeking elders on purpose, so added deliberate
teacher-seeking and youths now cradle beside the wisest elder. North
now leads knowledge at every checkpoint, but a stable town approaches
the ceiling regardless, so teaching is a recovery advantage not an
equilibrium one. The crisis-recovery experiment is the real test, noted
in FINDINGS as next.
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Removes every predetermined construction trigger (shelters-per-capita
cap, granary-at-five-shelters milestone). Buildings now emerge from
lived need:
- Shelters have real bed capacity (3 + modules). A full house turns you
away; three nights sleeping outside and a person gathers stone and
raises a roof where they actually live. When nobody sleeps outside,
nobody builds. Ruined shelters spill their sleepers, so settlements
can migrate over time.
- The first granary is founded by memory: someone who has truly starved
stockpiles food once the land gives again and builds storage where the
harvest is. A second granary appears only when the first fills.
- Emergent consequence: freeriders compete for beds but never build,
so scarce housing squeezes them into the open. The village never
decides to punish them; the housing supply does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runs 5-6 logged in FINDINGS.md (soul layer validated: nature debris
0.000 vs selfish 0.225 after two years; the ledger works).
Towns are now real spatial structure: TownDef seeds (South at the
bottom of the map, North at the top), NPCs affiliate with a home town,
communal duty serves your own settlement (buildings are town-tagged,
founding uses the town centroid and per-town shelter caps), and each
town raises its own shelters and granary. Generational (North) soul
profile added — temperament only until the knowledge system lands.
Map shows town labels; rosters and CSVs carry town columns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Godot 4.7 C# world simulation per SPEC.md (with 2026-07-21 amendments).
15 NPCs, 5-state machine, demand-driven work, soul-imprint triad data
model, seasons with winter frost, granary, need-based gift economy,
selfish-soul contrast wiring, daily/per-villager/gift CSV logging.
FINDINGS.md documents the four soak experiments: the dead paradise,
the buffers winning, the emergent hungry gap, and the contrast test
proving the four-town thesis (and that selfishness wins until the
soul-consequence layer exists).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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