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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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.
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Ports the Unity POC soul systems into the sim:
- Warmth echoes: villagers remember who fed them (+0.15) and who turned
them away (-0.25). Ask-for-food targeting runs on memory, not
omniscience; the remembered-cold are not asked. Echoes fade daily.
- Refusing the hungry while holding food marks the refuser (others-regard
debris) and is logged; empty-handed is not refusal.
- Harvesting below the 50% commons line marks the taker per unit taken.
- Soul-to-soul atmospheric pressure (SoulFieldSystem port): encased souls
darken nearby atmospheres, clear souls lighten them.
- Debris costs biologically: nourishment drains faster and meals restore
less as the soul encases.
- Instrumentation: avg_debris + refusals in daily stats; per-villager
nourish/health/debris; refusals in the contact log; map dots dim with
encasement.
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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