The MODELBEAST station lane finished — 14 hero props, all local, all
free — and the single-instance vessels are now wired into the benches
that were still cooking in grey primitives:
- the deep fryer: a steel pot with handles, a wire basket that rides the
lift animation, and a proper drain rack stage left
- the poach: a perforated slotted spoon the egg actually sits IN
- pasta night: a real stockpot, with the salt visibly clouding the water
Per-piece food (wings, chips) stays procedural on purpose: their colour
IS the gameplay read — raw to golden to regret — and a textured mesh
tinted per-frame reads as mud. Fidelity loses to legibility.
Three fixes the screenshots forced, none of which guessing would have
found:
- The oil disc was sized to the understudy cylinder, so it poked out
past the real pot's narrower rim like a yellow skirt. Refitted.
- The basket sat below the oil line — invisible, and a basket you
cannot see is a basket you cannot judge. Raised proud, handle kept.
- The spoon is 1.9 long in Z with its bowl at one END, so centring the
model parked the bowl a full half-length away from the egg. Measured
the bounding box in-browser and shifted by half the length; the egg
rides the bowl now.
And one prop rejected: the generated egg carton ships with six eggs
baked into the mesh, and that bench is entirely about which eggs are
YOURS — draggable, float-tested, state-coloured. A carton that already
has eggs in it is a lie the player has to see past. An empty tray is
queued instead.
Verified after: chips 10.0, poach 9.9, pasta 10.0.
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Pasta night, and the kitchen's first genuinely irreversible verb. Salt is
a HELD pour, not a click: hold S and it falls, you stop it and nothing
else will, and `salt` is a number that only ever goes up. The words walk
you to the edge and then stop helping — 'shy of it, more while you still
can' becomes 'seasoned like the sea. stop.' becomes 'heavy handed. there
is no going back.' Salt thrown in after the pasta counts a quarter: it
seasons the water you are about to pour down the sink.
The rest is the atlas's pasta doctrine: pasta wants a ROLLING boil, and
a lazy simmer glues the strands into one brick because they sit in their
own starch instead of tumbling. Al dente is a window in immersion
seconds that never appears on screen. And the last verb is restraint —
RESERVE a cup of the starchy water before you drain, or the sauce has
nothing to hold onto.
Two things the adversarial pass caught, both about stakes being fake:
- Brine scored 8.6. An inedible plate cannot be averaged away by good
timing elsewhere, so ruin now falls off a cliff (not a ramp) and a
brined pot is CAPPED at 3.0 — the one verb you could not take back
gets the one score you cannot climb out of.
- The sourdough starter was buttering up chip day. Her 'is this a toast
day' test was a blocklist of stations that existed when she shipped,
so air fryer, fryer and pot all silently qualified as toast. Replaced
with stationOf()/isToastDay() in orders.ts — every station flag listed
in exactly one place, where the next station cannot slip past it.
Verified: honest pot 10.0; brine 3.0 at the cap; the lazy cook (simmer,
salt after the drop, drained every drop) 4.8 with all three rows naming
the exact sin.
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- button_mushroom / portobello / king_oyster in the ingredient cast:
slippery skins (0.55-0.8, the tomato treatment), soft flesh, portobello
gills layered and weeping; new 'mushroom' cap-and-stem silhouette.
- Verified via harness: dinner knife pressed on a button skates (1 slip,
cut lands 0.157 off-aim; tomato baseline 2 slips / 0.218), The Best
Thing bites clean through under the same press, sawing properly cuts
center with zero slips.
- gen-assets.sh: find MODELBEAST at ~/MODELBEAST, token from
backnforth/.env, MB_HOST to the m3ultra queue; every mb stage retries
10x with 60s pause because m4pro's venvs are gone (ponytail-marked,
remove when m4pro is healed).
- launch.json: port 5273 (5173 taken by another session's server).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Played end-to-end via the extended harness (t.start/day/pick/slice):
- Day 9 knife trip: bread_knife dragged above the rim, 0.45s dwell commits.
- Clean doorstop (bread knife, 0.05 u/frame): 5 strokes, wedge 0, squash 0.
STROKE_GAIN 0.16 -> 0.10 to hit the 4-6 deliberate-stroke feel.
- The Best Thing: 3 strokes, and the same wobble input that wedges the bread
knife to 0.299 only reaches 0.044 — nearly wobble-proof, as specced.
- Coupling: wobbled cut toasts at browning stdev 0.088 vs 0.071 clean, same
mean — 'a bit wedged' band (>0.18) confirmed in the Cut criterion.
- Slam cut (0.4 u/frame): squash 1.0, arrives pre-damaged (damage 0.02 pre-toast).
- Soup spoon siege: 17 strokes / 166 frames, miserable but possible.
- Brands: quality now drives heat-noise amp (0.12+0.42*(1-q)) AND blotch
frequency (3+3*(1-q)); WONDERSLICE visibly patchier than Crustworthy at 10s.
- Slicer visuals: cut seam deepens with progress; freed slice tips off the
loaf and lands crumb-up (doneTimer 0.7 -> 1.05 for the fall).
- gen-assets.sh: retry-once per stage (rsync flakes), bakery seeds bumped,
prep-bench cast queued ($1 prep).
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M10 (code-complete, verification pending — see OPUS-BUILD-BRIEF-2.md §2):
- Brands with mechanical quality (WONDERSLICE 0.25 vs Crustworthy 0.8 etc.):
quality scales heat-map patchiness and crumb fragility. Bakery sourdough is
loaf-only.
- Slicing minigame: aim thickness, saw with vertical strokes; progress/wobble/
squash; wedge slices brown unevenly in the toaster (the bad cut follows you);
squash arrives as pre-existing damage.
- Bread Knife + THE BEST THING (heavy, soft-scalloped, saw eff 1.65) join the
drawer; on loaf days the drawer trip happens BEFORE toasting ("they are
waiting") and whatever you fish out is what you slice with.
- Day 9 handwritten (the inspector wants a doorstop with parallel faces),
procedural brands/loaf days from day 10, The Cut criterion (band + wedge +
squash, TBT signature bonus), cut line bank.
- Verified so far: day-9 ticket chips, knife-trip drawer with bread_knife AND
the_best_thing present, timer label, typecheck + build. Slicer end-to-end
play, tuning, and couplings assertions are itemised in the brief.
OPUS-BUILD-BRIEF-2.md — the prep bench: generalized ingredients + cutting
(slip, juice, piece-evenness CV), the judged mess field, oranges + ribbed
pyramid juicer (halve evenness caps yield, seeds by juicer tier, the
Juicernaut), the grater (zest/pith line, cheese needs cold, knuckles), onions
(sting that blurs REAL vision, the stop-short-of-the-stem criss-cross dice),
and bruschetta as the capstone (temperature planning, roast tomatoes on the
browning field, topping Clark-Evans, the sog clock vs doorstop slices).
Bakery asset batch partially failed (flux errors + one lost GLB) — regen
instructions with retries are in the brief §8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bread slice is the whole game's canvas, so it's built first and properly:
- Field: a 128x128 scalar field with bilinear sample, a mass-conserving brush,
self-levelling relax, and the masked statistics the judge will read.
- Slice: extruded loaf silhouette (domed top), planar-projected UVs so the sim
grid lines up with the bread, per-texel silhouette mask, and four fields
(browning/dryness/spread/damage) packed into one RGBA8 texture per frame.
- Custom shader: browning ramp with blotchy char, crumb/crust/inclusions,
spread wetting + opacity + thickness relief, gloss, gouge exposure, and
flat data views for the judge screen.
- bread.ts / spreads.ts: the archetypes and the rheology the difficulty
curve will live in.
- scripts/gen-assets.sh: reproducible fixed-seed asset generation through
MODELBEAST (flux_local -> bg_remove_local -> hunyuan3d_mlx). All on-device.
Legibility work that mattered: butter rendered invisible at first. Fixes were
a gamma-style wetting darkening (a multiply *brightens* pale crumb), a normal
perturbation taken in UV units rather than raw texel deltas (~30x too small),
and pulling the lighting back under 1.0 so ACES stops desaturating yellow to
cream.
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