Settlement of the Landing · nailed over Amendment No. 1
Corrigendum · tick 4,997 · year 2
Amendment No. 1 is withdrawn in its entirety
Amendment No. 1 certified this valley complete and declared that no further faults existed. It was correct about the ladder. It did not look at the people on it. The settlement has since been observed at nought food, ten mouths, and one kiln.
Taken from the record at tick 4,997. Nothing here is dramatised; these are the numbers the game wrote down about itself while nobody was reading them. Hunger runs nought to one, and one is as hungry as a person gets.
| Settler | Trade | Hunger | Happiness | In their hands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idris | builder | 1.00 | 0.01 | stone tools |
| Tove | miner | 1.00 | 0.05 | nothing |
| Sula | farmer | 1.00 | 0.12 | nothing |
| Bren | forester | 1.00 | 0.18 | nothing |
| Oren | farmer | 1.00 | 0.32 | nothing |
| Halla | forester | 1.00 | 0.43 | nothing |
| Mara | forester | 1.00 | 0.53 | nothing |
| Food in the stores | 0 | for all ten of them | ||
Nine of the ten are working this coast with their bare hands.
Not because they cannot afford tools. The stores hold ninety-nine wood and twenty-six stone, and a set of stone tools costs one wood and two stone. They cannot afford the afternoon. Above a certain hunger a settler goes looking for something to eat and keeps going, because there is always a berry within thirty tiles — and every other thing a person in this game can do sits below that line in the code. Tools. Boards. Building. All of it, underneath, never reached, for four thousand ticks.
The Landing has voted itself a sawmill, a furnace, a masons’ yard and a kiln. It has built eleven houses and the kiln. Houses cost wood and nothing else, and there is a great deal of wood.
Cato walked out of the Landing and founded a claim. The game asked whether the ground was dry, level, and unclaimed. It never asked whether it was attached to anything.
This map has four walkable landmasses: the mainland at seven thousand six hundred and sixty-two tiles, and three islands of two hundred and thirty-two, twenty-two and ten. Cato is on one of the islands. Water is not forbidden here, only expensive — up to sixty times the cost of a road, per tile, on foot.
Cato’s claim, at tick 4,997: one building, two settlers, one of them sleeping on the ground, seven wood, and nothing else in the stores whatsoever. Trades with the rest of the coast, ever: nought. The two mainland settlements had run three each.
Settlers can move between settlements. A settler who has had enough of a place walks down the coast, finds whoever answers for the stores, and asks to be let in. It was built, tested, written up, and put in an advertisement.
Moving required that you had no bed. A bed is the one thing a settlement can always provide: houses cost wood, and the game builds one whenever anybody is short of somewhere to sleep. So a settlement that answers every problem by putting up another roof had made itself immune to losing anybody — eleven roofs, ten people, nought food, and not one of them permitted to consider leaving.
They were not staying. They were held.
Amendment No. 1 stated that the entire development process is one prompt, and refused all suggestions that it be improved. That remains our position. It is necessary to disclose that the one prompt has never once been typed the same way twice.
Number viii was typed some weeks ago. The landing has only built houses.
Reproduced without correction, including where correction was available.
did they just land with coin in their pockets? where is the coin coming from lol? and tools? let them harvest quite slowly without tools, and then have a similar tool progression path as minecraftthe entire economic foundation of this game
Mara and Idris are making the other two settlers sleep on the ground. I think it is time to make secession available.a housing complaint, escalated
‘Space sends for another settler’ is a god command, remove itvoluntarily surrendering omnipotence
add seasons, no need to vote them in — it’s environmental — let it rainweather, commissioned
test the sheepcomplete instruction, unabridged
okay, ther used to be like 30 wishes, they wittled them all down? were all the things they had wished for over hte iterations technically possible?the founding question of this project, twice misspelt
I wasn’t attached to that world, but was all the tech built for the things they had wished for?on the loss of an entire civilisation
Also Cato has gone to live on a wee island and who knows how functionable that can be.received mid-investigation, unprompted
Do these people care about their lives? Do they want to live in a one-kiln town forever?put to the developer, in earnest
A bit shorter, yes. Focus on how irresponsible I am being with the building process.editorial direction
The instruction was fix what you can fix, and leave broken what is left broken. Both halves were carried out. The right-hand column is not a backlog. It is a disclosure.
None of the above was found by reading the code. All of it was found by letting a valley run until somebody looked at it and said the landing has a kiln now, but nothing else.
Eighty-six people walked out of that settlement over two games. Nought walked down the coast. The number is only available because nobody stopped them from not doing it, for two entire games, while an advertisement went out saying the feature worked.
The prompt still does not say make no mistakes. It is the only line in the whole process that has never needed amending.
“Certified complete. No further faults exist. Valid until the next one.”
It was the next one.