mollycool/test/firebreak.test.mjs

import {
  makeWorld, sim, tick, check, section, report,
  CFG, Radicals, Input,
} from './harness.mjs';

const { bond } = await import('../src/particle.js');
const { isTinder } = await import('../src/radicals.js');
const { Arena } = await import('../src/arena.js');

// ============================================================
// SATURATION IS THE FIREBREAK.
//
// This is the rule that makes the bond wrestle load-bearing in the arena
// instead of decorative. Before it, a 116-atom arena ran for ten seconds
// and formed exactly ZERO bonds, because building something had no effect
// on anything. Every check in this file is guarding that.
// ============================================================

section('FIREBREAK — a closed molecule stops the wound');
{
  const w = makeWorld(5);
  w.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 60, y: 660 }, particles: [] });

  // two hydrogens bonded to each other: 1 slot apiece, both spent.
  const a = w.spawn({ x: 600, y: 360, el: 'H' });
  const b = w.spawn({ x: 613, y: 360, el: 'H' });
  bond(a, b);
  check('bonded H2 has no open slot', a.freeSlots === 0 && b.freeSlots === 0);
  check('a closed molecule is not tinder', !isTinder(a) && !isTinder(b));

  // a lone carbon has four
  const c = w.spawn({ x: 900, y: 360, el: 'C' });
  check('an unbonded carbon is tinder', isTinder(c), `${c.freeSlots} open slots`);
  check('a noble is never tinder', !isTinder(w.spawn({ x: 300, y: 360, el: 'Ne' })));
}

section('FIREBREAK — the wound cannot cross it');
{
  // A radical parked next to a sealed molecule and NOTHING else. If saturation
  // did not block abstraction, the H2 would be taken within one 0.32s tick.
  const w = makeWorld(6);
  w.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 60, y: 660 }, particles: [] });
  const a = w.spawn({ x: 600, y: 300, el: 'H' });
  const b = w.spawn({ x: 613, y: 300, el: 'H' });
  bond(a, b);
  const seed = w.spawn({ x: 645, y: 300, el: 'O' });
  Radicals.make(seed);

  sim(w, 2.5);
  check('a sealed molecule is never taken', !a.radical && !b.radical);
  check('the outbreak made no hops at all', w.radicals.chain === 0,
        `hops=${w.radicals.chain}`);

  // ...and the same radical next to OPEN matter takes it immediately
  const w2 = makeWorld(6);
  w2.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 60, y: 660 }, particles: [] });
  const open = w2.spawn({ x: 600, y: 300, el: 'H' });
  const seed2 = w2.spawn({ x: 645, y: 300, el: 'O' });
  Radicals.make(seed2);
  sim(w2, 1.0);
  check('open matter IS taken, so the wall is the cause', open.radical || w2.radicals.chain > 0,
        `hops=${w2.radicals.chain}`);
}

section('FIREBREAK — walling one in kills it, and it scores');
{
  // ringed by sealed H2 pairs: matter in reach, none of it available.
  const w = makeWorld(8);
  w.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 60, y: 660 }, particles: [] });
  const seed = w.spawn({ x: 640, y: 360, el: 'O' });
  for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
    const ang = (i / 6) * Math.PI * 2;
    const x = 640 + Math.cos(ang) * 52, y = 360 + Math.sin(ang) * 52;
    const p = w.spawn({ x, y, el: 'H' });
    const q = w.spawn({ x: x + 12, y, el: 'H' });
    bond(p, q);
  }
  Radicals.make(seed);
  tick(w);
  check('it starts alive', w.radicals.count === 1);

  let died = null;
  for (let i = 0; i < 120 * 10 && died === null; i++) {
    tick(w);
    if (w.radicals.count === 0) died = i / 120;
  }
  check('a walled-in radical starves out', died !== null,
        died ? `at ${died.toFixed(1)}s` : 'never');
  check('starving is FASTER than drifting in open water',
        died !== null && died < CFG.RAD_DRIFT_TIME,
        `${died?.toFixed(1)}s vs ${CFG.RAD_DRIFT_TIME}s adrift`);
  check('the player is credited for the cage', w.radicals.kills === 1,
        `kills=${w.radicals.kills}`);
}

section('FIREBREAK — the wall is breakable');
{
  // ...or one good build would win the arena forever. A blast has to be able
  // to snap a bond and let the fire back through.
  const w = makeWorld(9);
  w.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 60, y: 60 }, particles: [] });
  const a = w.spawn({ x: 640, y: 360, el: 'H' });
  const b = w.spawn({ x: 653, y: 360, el: 'H' });
  bond(a, b);
  const bomb = w.spawn({ x: 660, y: 360, el: 'C' });

  w.overload.detonate(w, bomb);
  check('the blast snapped the bond', a.bonds.length === 0 && b.bonds.length === 0);
  check('both fragments came away radical (homolysis)', a.radical && b.radical);
  check('and they are tinder again', a.freeSlots > 0 && b.freeSlots > 0);
}

section('FIREBREAK — Q is the igniter, not a crowbar');
{
  const w = makeWorld(2);
  w.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 640, y: 360 }, particles: [] });
  let broken = 0, madeRadicals = 0;
  // 40% homolytic is a coin-flip per bond, so this samples it
  for (let trial = 0; trial < 40; trial++) {
    w.particles.length = 0;
    w.radicals.reset();
    const a = w.spawn({ x: 640, y: 340, el: 'H' });
    const b = w.spawn({ x: 653, y: 340, el: 'H' });
    bond(a, b);
    w.molly.heatCool = 0;
    w.molly.aim.x = 640; w.molly.aim.y = 340;
    Input.heat = true;
    w.handleVerbs();
    Input.heat = false;
    if (a.bonds.length === 0) broken++;
    if (a.radical || b.radical) madeRadicals++;
  }
  check('heat breaks every bond it catches', broken === 40, `${broken}/40`);
  check('some of those splits go homolytic', madeRadicals > 0, `${madeRadicals}/40 lit a fire`);
  check('but not all of them — it stays a gamble', madeRadicals < 40, `${madeRadicals}/40`);
}

section('SCORE — the big number belongs to the player');
{
  const w = makeWorld(4);
  w.load({ id: 'lab', molly: { x: 60, y: 660 }, particles: [] });
  const a = w.spawn({ x: 600, y: 300, el: 'O' });
  const b = w.spawn({ x: 640, y: 300, el: 'O' });
  Radicals.make(a); Radicals.make(b);
  check('score starts at zero', w.radicals.kills === 0);

  w.radicals.terminate(w, a, b);
  check('a termination scores', w.radicals.kills === 2, `kills=${w.radicals.kills}`);
  check('and opens a streak window', w.radicals.streakT > 0 && w.radicals.streak === 2,
        `streak=${w.radicals.streak}`);

  // land another inside the window and it stacks
  const c = w.spawn({ x: 200, y: 600, el: 'O' });
  const d = w.spawn({ x: 240, y: 600, el: 'O' });
  Radicals.make(c); Radicals.make(d);
  w.radicals.terminate(w, c, d);
  check('back-to-back kills stack the streak', w.radicals.streak === 4,
        `streak=${w.radicals.streak}`);

  // let the window lapse
  sim(w, CFG.STREAK_WINDOW + 0.5);
  check('the streak lapses on its own', w.radicals.streak === 0);
  check('but the score does not', w.radicals.kills === 4, `kills=${w.radicals.kills}`);
}

section('NEON — a free firebreak, so it cannot be left to the shuffle');
{
  const { ARENAS } = await import('../src/arena.js');
  // rolled from the spice table, the densest arena drew anywhere from 3 to 9
  // neon, and on a 9 roll it stopped melting down at all. Fixed counts now.
  const counts = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map(seed => {
    makeWorld(seed);                       // reseeds the shared RNG
    const a = new Arena();
    return a.room(7).particles.filter(p => p.el === 'Ne').length;
  });
  check('neon count does not depend on the seed',
        new Set(counts).size === 1, `saw ${counts.join(',')}`);
  check('and it matches the arena dial', counts[0] === ARENAS[7].ne,
        `${counts[0]} vs spec ${ARENAS[7].ne}`);

  makeWorld(1);
  const early = new Arena().room(0).particles.filter(p => p.el === 'Ne').length;
  check('the first arena hands out no free walls', early === 0, `ne=${early}`);

  // the lose state must survive every shuffle, not most of them
  const melts = [1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11].map(seed => {
    const w = makeWorld(seed); const a = new Arena();
    w.load(a.room(7)); a.enter(w, 7);
    for (let i = 0; i < 120 * 75; i++) { tick(w); if (a.meltdown) return i / 120; }
    return null;
  });
  check('the densest arena melts down on EVERY seed', melts.every(m => m !== null),
        melts.map(m => (m ? m.toFixed(0) + 's' : 'NEVER')).join(' '));
}

section('REGRESSION — the arena still has both ends');
{
  // building must not make the arena unlosable, and the new sinks must not
  // make it unwinnable. Both directions, on the real arena definitions.
  const w = makeWorld(3);
  const a = new Arena();
  w.load(a.room(7)); a.enter(w, 7);
  let melted = null;
  for (let i = 0; i < 120 * 60 && melted === null; i++) { tick(w); if (a.meltdown) melted = i / 120; }
  check('neglecting the densest arena still melts it down', melted !== null,
        melted ? `at ${melted.toFixed(1)}s` : 'never');

  // a competent player terminating pairs clears the first arena
  const w2 = makeWorld(11);
  const a2 = new Arena();
  w2.load(a2.room(0)); a2.enter(w2, 0);
  let cleared = null;
  for (let i = 0; i < 120 * 120 && cleared === null; i++) {
    tick(w2);
    if (i % 90 === 0) {
      const rs = w2.particles.filter(p => p.radical);
      if (rs.length >= 2) w2.radicals.terminate(w2, rs[0], rs[1]);
      else if (rs.length === 1) w2.radicals.quench(w2, rs[0]);
    }
    if (a2.cleared) cleared = i / 120;
  }
  check('and a player who keeps up still clears arena 0', cleared !== null,
        cleared ? `at ${cleared.toFixed(1)}s` : 'never');
}

process.exit(report() ? 0 : 1);