Round 5 (MEGA), all eight orders.
THE COMMISSION LADDER — the fax is the tutorial. The queue used to open on
one MELT, i.e. "build eight machines correctly, in order, with no feedback
until the last one works". Now four rungs teach one mechanic each and never
say so: 20 raw ore (extractor->belt->uplink) -> 15 luma (the demuxer, and the
slurry is your problem) -> 18 hf-dust (waste is inventory) -> 1 melt
(graduation; first-taste keeps its id, reward 50->80). Measured against SIM's
real sim: rung 1 clears at tick 650 = 21.7s with 4 machine types, against a
3-minute budget.
data/seams.json — seam regions per stratum, richness, and a seam-free
relicReserve in the SE so SIM's seed-derived optical fossil always has
somewhere legal to land. stream-crust-west covers all three reference-factory
extractors, pinned by a test.
data/stations.json — the whole dial: FKTRY FM, THE STANDARD (30 lines of
Correction propaganda, 10 minutes before a repeat), NUMBERS, DEAD AIR. The
numbers station is a real treasure map: each 5-figure group is
[x+32][y+32][richness*9] and three of them are the hidden seams. The validator
recomputes them from seams.json, so the map cannot drift, and no decoy is
allowed to decode onto real treasure.
Also:
- mosquito trap: input-free recipe, the shape LANE-SIM detects traps by (my
first pass took ingredients, which would have silently made it an ordinary
crafter). Unblocks vaporwave-sunset after four rounds; FORWARD_CANON pruned.
- cooler final 0.0018 -> 0.001: the additive ruling made two coolers immortal.
Now 1 doubles output, 2 nearly eliminates downtime, 3 is an absurd shrine.
- SIM's tuning constants imported; the hand-copies are retired.
- the optical fossil canon: §1's fossils "sing when excavated", so the world is
silent until you dig up the severed audio bus. One margin hint, mid-ladder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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