Root cause of the homeless East: FoundOwnShelter searched all buildings by
proximity (within 30 units), so a lone selfish builder who wandered off to
gather wood for the walls came back, missed their own foundation, and
founded a NEW one - 5,900+ abandoned foundations per run, none finished.
Fix (per the exploration architecture): structures are known like resource
nodes. NPCs gain a KnownStructures set; a builder registers the home they
lay and returns to it via known-structures memory however far they roamed,
instead of re-founding. Children inherit their family's known buildings.
Result: 5,953 -> 31 founding events, East now houses itself with COMPLETED
homes and is the best-fed town (0.84), still lowest-knowledge/highest-debris
as selfishness should be.
Also expanded the world 768 -> 1152 with towns pushed to wider cardinal
points and resources scaled to area, giving the four cultures more room and
less accidental center overlap. Full 240-day four-town run in 189s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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