Round 4 orders, all five.
The headline is a bug I authored: the v4 gating rule (any id in a
TechDef.unlocks is locked until that tech completes) turned three rounds of
tech authoring into a total bootstrap deadlock. Measured: melt not producible
at tick 0 (first-taste impossible), 0 of 24 techs reachable — every pack chain
gated behind packs you cannot make. disc-artifact-bottling cost 10 analog packs
and unlocked the only machine that bottles analog packs.
Fixed as a shape, not a patch, and both rules are now tests:
- the M1 melt chain is starting equipment (so first-taste is possible, and
RENDER's era derivation correctly reads it as starting equipment)
- one pack is craftable at tick 0 — SPATIAL, made from the quantizer's own
sins, so your first research is a study of your own damage
23/23 nodes now reachable; six emptied disc nodes deleted (no lane references
tech ids).
Also:
- §10 THE COMPOSITE SEAM transcribed: alpha/hard-matte/blue-hole/fringe-lace/
green-spill/mixed-pixel/roto-chatter/ghost-feather/sodium-light (forward
canon), matte bath, optical printer, chroma keyer, roto bench, neural keyer
(powerDraw 240 — the codex's "appetite that dwarfs everything").
- ARCHAEOLOGY LAB canonized (kind: lab), ungated — a lab behind research is a
lab you can never build.
- ASIC cooler live: the round-3 spec of 0.02 would have meant "never heats,
free 100/s". Retuned to 0.0018, sane under both readings of the contract.
- accents where output-derivation can't work; CODEX_REF regex widened for §10.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 3 orders, all six. The validator move landed in 4803b6a (swept into
LANE-SCREEN's commit by the shared index); this is the rest.
- heat retune: round 2's numbers were below the sim's always-on cooling, so
nothing could ever warm up. Decoder now 100 gen at 0.0033 heat / 0.001 cool
-> throttles 10.2s, scrams 14.5s, 23.9s cycle, 25.8/s average (1.29x the
ASIC). Verified against LANE-SIM's real sim, not just arithmetic.
- powerGen had to move: the scram/restart hysteresis forces ~30% duty, so at
55 gen the decoder averaged worse than a steady ASIC and nobody would build
one.
- two new tests refuse decorative heat (per-tick and per-craft). They caught a
fresh instance of the same bug in chart-stco-map before it shipped.
- bufferCap 240 -> 300: one tank now covers exactly one decoder scram.
- ASIC COOLER spec'd (aura deferred to M4, no contract field requested yet);
THE MUXER + moov brain sub-lines; reel + broadcast era tech.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round 2 orders, all seven.
- data/CANON-DELTA.md: ledger of every invention beyond the codex, with the
rationale and the arithmetic behind the numbers.
- colour + flavor on all 21 machines (kills UI's hardcoded lookup and RENDER's
black-on-black); desaturated industrial per style guide §8.
- heat: software decoder 45->55 gen at 0.0025/tick (throttles 9.3s, scrams
13.3s) so it's a burst generator, not a better ASIC; a pinch on the splicer.
- bufferCap 240 = 10s of the reference chain's one-decoder-down deficit.
- commission queue reordered into a ramp + 3 standing orders, incl. THE
CORRECTION BUYBACK (the sellout loop: anchors clean THE SCREEN).
- container line (moov-shard/offset-ribbon/sync-key) unblocks the hex splicer;
bloom grades 1-5. bloom-concentrate kept — LANE-SCREEN hardcodes it.
- validator 28 -> 36 tests, covering every v2 field; FORWARD_CANON pruned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Transcribe the §2-§6 codex into machine-readable canon and add the validator
that keeps five parallel lanes from drowning in dangling ids.
- validator (28 tests): recipes point back at their machine, every item/tech/
commission reference resolves, ids unique + kebab-case, colors hex, footprints
>=1x1, plus a reachability pass proving MELT is craftable from raw ore.
- items 9->36, machines 7->21, recipes 4->35, tech 0->17, commissions 1->10.
- mosh rewired to canon (gop-crate -> melt + reclaimed anchor slab); all seed
recipe ids preserved so nothing dangles mid-round.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
