Voice: dust piles read as nurseries rather than mess ("SOMETHING WILL HATCH IN
IT"), swarms announce and disperse differently, and SIM's new 'no seam' jam
finally gets the line it deserves — "THERE IS NOTHING DOWN THERE. MOVE."
The inspector grows a MOSQUITO EXPOSURE row, read from snap.wildlife by target,
so a machine that is mysteriously slow says why where the player is already
looking. It shows the swarm's severity, not a throughput promise — SIM owns the
real penalty and doesn't expose a number.
Toasts gain pushMessage for lines that aren't raw sim events. First among them:
once per session, on the very first brownout, "NOTHING IS GENERATING. THE
COMMITTEE SUGGESTS: POWER." The alarm alone taught nothing; this is the one
hint the opening needs, and it is emphatically not a nag — hatch warnings are
deduped per pile for the same reason.
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The five M1 surfaces, replacing the stub:
- buildbar.ts: one button per machine, hotkeys 1-9, R rotates, Esc or
right-click clears. LANE-DATA shipped 21 machines, so the bar wraps
rather than running off both edges of the viewport; slots 10-21 are
click-only for now (paging proposed in NOTES).
- topstrip.ts: bandwidth meter going amber at 85% and red + flashing
BROWNOUT over 100%, buffer, shipped ticker + per-item chips, tick or
HALTED. The brownout is legible from this panel alone, which is the
one failure the player has to read across the room.
- inspector.ts: name, codex flavor, intake/output chips with live
buffers, process bar, heat, jam reason. Holds an entity id and
re-looks-up each frame, so a removed unit closes itself.
- fax.ts: the commission card with wants-as-chips and a FAX SENT stamp
on commissionDone.
- toasts.ts: max 4, 6s TTL, colored per event kind.
Click-to-inspect is not wired: the UI cannot reach renderer.pickTile
(UIBus exposes only dispatch/selectedBuild, and ui.init never sees the
Renderer). TAB cycles the unit manifest as a stopgap so the inspector is
reachable without a console. Contract request filed in NOTES.
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