Recovery blocker was material, not motivational. Two fixes: (1) harvest
floors and commons debris apply only to living, regenerating resources -
stone does not regrow, so "leave half" merely stranded the world supply
and kept the homeless homeless forever; minerals now quarry to depletion
for every soul equally. (2) Matter conservation: idle variety-gathering
touches only renewables, and packs may only shed what the land replaces
- lossy make-room had milled 900+ stone to dust during demand flapping.
Verified over 260 headless days: year-1 winter still wrecks the naive
town, it rebuilds in 20 days, famine survivors found the first granaries
from hunger memory, and year-2 winter passes with zero ruins on stored
reserves. The town has a history now: naive youth, catastrophe,
learning, resilient maturity.
Remaining tuning in FINDINGS.md: granary sprawl, post-famine nourishment.
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Run 5 findings: justice arrived (selfish health 31-64 vs nature 100, all
108 refusals theirs) but two pathologies emerged: the whole village maxed
others-regard debris because the commons penalty line (50%) sat above the
nature harvest floor (45%) and debris had no clearing path; and warmth-
weighted asking + near-total gift transfers produced a 2,501-gift winter
food-swapping loop.
Fixes: commons line lowered to 40% (respectful harvesting never grazes
it; strip-harvesting lives deep inside it); gifts capped at 3 with a
kept reserve of 5; asking gated on genuine hunger; and giving now heals
the giver slightly (-0.003 others-regard vs +0.02 per refusal) — harm
stays an order of magnitude easier than healing.
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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>
mmcghen