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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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{ "id": "seam-extractor", "name": "SEAM EXTRACTOR", "codex": "4:seam-extractor", "kind": "extractor",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 },
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"recipes": ["extract-mdat", "extract-bayer-grit", "extract-field-splinters", "extract-silver-frames"],
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"powerDraw": 2, "asset": "seam-extractor", "color": "#8a7a32",
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"flavor": "The miner. Chews mdat seams and spits raw payload. The drill head is CRT-certified. Operators are not." },
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{ "id": "belt", "name": "STREAM BELT", "codex": "4:belts", "kind": "belt",
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"footprint": { "x": 1, "y": 1 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 0, "beltSpeed": 2,
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"asset": "belt", "color": "#4a4e52", "accent": "#5ad0ff",
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"flavor": "Moves cargo. Back-pressure is a feature. Riding the belt is discouraged in writing and in no other way." },
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{ "id": "lane-splitter", "name": "LANE SPLITTER", "codex": "4:demuxer", "kind": "splitter",
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"footprint": { "x": 1, "y": 1 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 1,
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"asset": "lane-splitter", "color": "#55595e", "accent": "#5ad0ff",
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"flavor": "One lane in, two lanes out, round-robin, no favourites. The only fair machine in the Bitstream." },
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{ "id": "buffer-tank", "name": "BUFFER TANK", "codex": "2:buffer-charge", "kind": "buffer",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 0, "bufferCap": 300,
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"asset": "buffer-tank", "color": "#5a6068", "accent": "#7fe0ff",
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"flavor": "Smoothness in a tank. Drains at exactly one frame per 16.6ms. Keep it above the red line; below the red line the audio has opinions." },
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{ "id": "demuxer", "name": "DEMUXER", "codex": "4:demuxer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["demux-ore", "demux-container"], "powerDraw": 3,
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"asset": "demuxer", "color": "#4e5a62",
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"flavor": "The first splitter. Cleaves raw ore into brightness, colour, and pure directional intent." },
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{ "id": "demosaicer", "name": "DEMOSAICER", "codex": "4:demosaicer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["demosaic-rggb", "demosaic-vng4", "demosaic-stripes"],
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"powerDraw": 5, "asset": "demosaicer", "color": "#6a5f52",
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"flavor": "Weaves checkerboard grit into full colour. Feed it stripes and it will jam and extrude MOIRÉ — as designed, as warned, as invoiced." },
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{ "id": "dct-press", "name": "DCT PRESS", "codex": "4:dct-press", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 3 }, "recipes": ["press-color-plate", "press-anchor-slab"],
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"powerDraw": 8, "asset": "dct-press", "color": "#3f4348",
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"flavor": "Spatial into frequency. Slams pixel blocks into coefficient decks; run it backwards and an entire picture falls out of the slot." },
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{ "id": "quantizer", "name": "QUANTIZER", "codex": "4:quantizer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["quantize", "quantize-crime", "skim-ringing"],
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"powerDraw": 4, "asset": "quantizer", "color": "#5e5148",
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"flavor": "The crusher, the moneymaker, the sin. Every bit it destroys becomes room to move. The dial goes to CRIME." },
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{ "id": "subsampler", "name": "SUBSAMPLER", "codex": "4:subsampler", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 3 }, "recipes": ["subsample-422", "subsample-420", "pan-speckle"],
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"powerDraw": 4, "asset": "subsampler", "color": "#4a5560",
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"flavor": "Spins colour down to grade and vents the difference as bandwidth. Leaks by design. Place downwind of anything you are fond of." },
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{ "id": "mv-extractor", "name": "MV EXTRACTOR", "codex": "4:mv-extractor-and-p-caster", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["extract-motion"], "powerDraw": 5,
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"asset": "mv-extractor", "color": "#454b52",
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"flavor": "Watches the footage until it knows where the picture wants to go, then pipes the wanting off as fluid." },
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{ "id": "p-caster", "name": "P-CASTER", "codex": "4:mv-extractor-and-p-caster", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["cast-delta-wafer", "cast-janus-wafer"],
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"powerDraw": 4, "asset": "p-caster", "color": "#4d545c",
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"flavor": "Prints instructions, not pictures. Each one is applied to whatever came before it — correct or otherwise." },
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{ "id": "gop-assembler", "name": "GOP ASSEMBLER", "codex": "4:gop-assembler", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 2 },
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"recipes": ["assemble-gop", "assemble-gop-ibbp", "assemble-gop-i-only", "spool-offset-ribbon",
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"tally-stsz-ledger"],
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"powerDraw": 6, "asset": "gop-assembler", "color": "#7a6a44",
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"flavor": "One anchor, N wafers, one crate, per the cadence punch-card. Opening a sealed crate is a production verb here, not a crime." },
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{ "id": "mosh-reactor", "name": "MOSH REACTOR", "codex": "4:mosh-reactor", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 3 }, "recipes": ["mosh"], "powerDraw": 8,
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"asset": "mosh-reactor", "color": "#52333e",
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"flavor": "A decoder sealed in a vessel and starved of anchors. The I-frame leaves through the side airlock. The hallucination leaves through the front." },
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{ "id": "bloom-duplicator", "name": "P-FRAME DUPLICATOR", "codex": "4:bloom-loop", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 1, "y": 1 },
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"recipes": ["tap-bloom", "bloom-grade-1", "bloom-grade-2", "bloom-grade-3", "bloom-grade-4", "bloom-grade-5"],
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"powerDraw": 6, "asset": "bloom-duplicator", "color": "#5a5060",
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"flavor": "Stamps the same displacement onto the same cargo every lap. Grade 5 is visibly trying to leave its canister in one direction." },
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{ "id": "field-loom", "name": "FIELD LOOM", "codex": "4:field-loom", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["weave-fields", "loom-vhold-roll"],
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"powerDraw": 5, "asset": "field-loom", "color": "#3f5a44",
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"flavor": "Weaves and unweaves time. The two halves of a splinter were captured a moment apart and have never agreed since." },
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{ "id": "telecine-puller", "name": "TELECINE PULLER", "codex": "4:telecine-puller", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["mill-judder", "wind-stts-metronome"], "powerDraw": 4,
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"asset": "telecine-puller", "color": "#6e5a38",
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"flavor": "Cranks 24 into 30 on a deliberately lumpy cam. Runs backwards as a purifier, which we do not discuss on site." },
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{ "id": "hex-splicer", "name": "HEX SPLICER", "codex": "4:hex-splicer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 3 }, "recipes": ["splice-offsets", "chart-stco-map"], "powerDraw": 12,
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"coolPerTick": 0.001,
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"asset": "hex-splicer", "color": "#5a3a3a",
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"flavor": "Nudges the offsets a few bytes so the decoder fetches garbage. Keep its buffer fed, or it splices itself." },
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{ "id": "mosquito-trap", "name": "MOSQUITO TRAP", "codex": "5:mosquito-swarms", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["bait-swarm"], "powerDraw": 3,
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"asset": "mosquito-trap", "color": "#2a2e24", "accent": "#d0ff60",
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"flavor": "A bug-zapper shaped like a high-contrast edge — the one thing a mosquito swarm cannot resist. Bait it with fresh luma, collect what it catches, sell the catch to people who should know better." },
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{ "id": "artifact-bottler", "name": "ARTIFACT BOTTLER", "codex": "2:science-packs", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 },
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"recipes": ["can-static", "mix-rec709", "mix-dci-p3", "mix-rec2020",
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"cut-sync-key", "bottle-container-pack", "forge-stss-keyring", "cut-ftyp-seal",
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"bottle-analog-pack", "bottle-spatial-pack", "bottle-temporal-pack"],
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"powerDraw": 4, "asset": "artifact-bottler", "color": "#566056",
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"flavor": "Bottles the triptych. Contents are shelf-stable in the legal sense, i.e. no law has been written that mentions them." },
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{ "id": "decode-asic", "name": "DECODE ASIC", "codex": "4:decode-asic", "kind": "power",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 0, "powerGen": 20,
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"asset": "decode-asic", "color": "#b9bec4", "accent": "#6fe8c0",
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"flavor": "Cool, efficient, inflexible. Handles standard profiles and declines to imagine anything else. It will outlive you." },
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{ "id": "software-decoder", "name": "SOFTWARE DECODER", "codex": "4:software-decoder", "kind": "power",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 0, "powerGen": 100,
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"heatPerTick": 0.0033, "coolPerTick": 0.001,
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"asset": "software-decoder", "color": "#6e3a34", "accent": "#ff4a2a",
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"flavor": "Decodes ANYTHING, at any temperature. Five ASICs at full song, one third of the time. Throttles at 0.7, scrams at 1.0, screams throughout. The lag is the damage model." },
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{ "id": "asic-cooler", "name": "ASIC COOLER", "codex": "2:heat", "kind": "power",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 0, "powerGen": 5,
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"coolPerTick": 0.001, "coolRadius": 2,
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"asset": "asic-cooler", "color": "#a8b4bc", "accent": "#9fe8ff",
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"flavor": "Decodes a little and vents a lot. Stand beside it in summer. Do not stand beside it in the dark, when you can see what it is venting." },
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{ "id": "matte-bath", "name": "MATTE BATH", "codex": "10:matte-bath", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["bathe-hard-matte", "bathe-feather"], "powerDraw": 5,
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"asset": "matte-bath", "color": "#5a4a4a",
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"flavor": "Footage in, hard mattes out, softness destroyed. A GHOST FEATHER fed in comes out a HARD MATTE and the machine does not apologize. One mistake ruins the reel." },
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{ "id": "optical-printer", "name": "OPTICAL PRINTER", "codex": "10:optical-printer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 5, "y": 4 }, "recipes": ["print-composite", "print-blue-screen"], "powerDraw": 18,
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"asset": "optical-printer", "color": "#6a5a3a",
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"flavor": "The iron lung. A cathedral of bellows and lenses that splits footage into three colours and recombines them slightly wrong. It fringes everything it touches, and it is beautiful, and it is slow." },
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{ "id": "chroma-keyer", "name": "CHROMA KEYER", "codex": "10:chroma-keyer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 },
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"recipes": ["key-chroma", "key-hair", "key-semitransparent"], "powerDraw": 6,
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"asset": "chroma-keyer", "color": "#3a6a3a",
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"flavor": "Cheap, fast, and thirty-year-old maths. Weeps GREEN SPILL from its seams. Chokes on hair. Do not show it anything semi-transparent; it will decide the pixel belongs to neither of you." },
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{ "id": "roto-bench", "name": "ROTO BENCH", "codex": "10:roto-bench", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": ["roto-cutout", "roto-mixed"], "powerDraw": 2,
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"asset": "roto-bench", "color": "#6a5540",
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"flavor": "Converts anything to a cutout. Perfectly. Eventually. Twenty-four frames of pain per second of footage. When the automation fails the bench never does — it just costs your life instead." },
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{ "id": "neural-keyer", "name": "NEURAL KEYER", "codex": "10:neural-keyer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 4, "y": 4 }, "recipes": ["neural-key", "neural-unmix"], "powerDraw": 240,
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"asset": "neural-keyer", "color": "#2a2a32",
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"flavor": "Trained on ten thousand synthetic ghosts, because reality could not teach it — you cannot film the answer. Perfect alpha through glass, chainmail and moving hair. You do not unlock this machine. You unlock the power plant it demands." },
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{ "id": "archaeology-lab", "name": "ARCHAEOLOGY LAB", "codex": "6:tech-tree", "kind": "lab",
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"footprint": { "x": 3, "y": 3 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 6,
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"asset": "archaeology-lab", "color": "#5a5548", "accent": "#ffc24a",
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"flavor": "Where the factory reads its own strata. Feed it bottled artifacts and it derives the codec that made them: downward for analog secrets, upward for newer sins. The coffee predates the Reel Beds." },
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{ "id": "muxer", "name": "THE MUXER", "codex": "7:the-muxer", "kind": "crafter",
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"footprint": { "x": 5, "y": 5 }, "recipes": ["assemble-moov-brain", "mux-container"], "powerDraw": 40,
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"asset": "muxer", "color": "#6a7078",
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"flavor": "The rocket. A launch gantry embracing a container built of nested boxes, innermost a brain of index tape-reels. It ships the whole file at once, and the file is your entire shipping history, and there is no second launch." },
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{ "id": "shipper", "name": "SCREEN UPLINK", "codex": "7:the-muxer", "kind": "shipper",
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"footprint": { "x": 2, "y": 2 }, "recipes": [], "powerDraw": 5,
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"asset": "shipper", "color": "#46525e", "accent": "#ff5ad0",
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"flavor": "Composites whatever you hand it onto THE SCREEN. There is no undo. The absence of undo is the product." }
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]
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