Entry 217

The World off the executable image

2026-09-27volumes

Filescrates/piney-battle/src/blocks.rscrates/piney-battle/src/entry.rscrates/piney-world/src/npc.rscrates/piney-world/src/rtownpc.rscrates/piney-world/src/grunty.rscrates/piney-world/src/mapcrates/piney-world/src/lib.rscrates/piney-gen/src/manifest.rscrates/piney-game/src/start.rs

Mutation's boot reached the desktop (0216) but stopped entering The World. Every reader named in 0216's list used Infection's addresses in GCMN.PRG, and on Mutation those addresses hold other data. For example, the spawn tables read ccEnemyListInfo there and followed a pointer to 0x28820050.

Nothing in piney-world builds an image any more. load_exe, World::exe and FieldWorld::exe are gone.

The spawn tables and the enemies' blocks

• SpawnTables::of(volume) comes from battle::of(volume):

  • the gimmick rows and the npcTbl rows, each a SpawnRow of its base, its constructor and its esize;
  • the enemy lists.

  The constructor is entry.func as a generated enum, EntryFunc (GimBox, RtownMerchant and the others). The generator names it from the symbol.

• The HUD names. A generated base has no name pointer, so Base.label carries the text, and the HUD shows an enemy's, gimmick's or NPC's name from it.

• The gimmick looks (the portal, the boxes, the idols, the spring) take their file, palette and size from the gimmick rows.

• The races' weapon trails and dust. races.rs held 503 pointers into 156 blocks (e1x1WpInfo, ezc1DustInfo...), each a named global at offset 0.

  • They are now names: blocks::InfoRef { table, row }.
  • The breaths' ehkBreathInfo, elBrInfo, ehkBrParam and elBrParam are names too, with a row.
  • The turtles' footsteps use eet1DustInfo rows 8 to 11.
  • The combat group generates every block by name. named_blocks finds them by their Infection symbols and places them per volume. It also generates footObjTbl.
  • The world takes typed rows (WpInfo::of, blocks::br_info), no longer reading bytes at an address.
  • The battle probe prints each block's own address (InfoRef::va), so the harnesses compare the same numbers.

• The generator's write() lost the outer offset of an array within an array: an inner k shadowed the outer one. It now names each loop's variables by depth.

The towns and the maps

The world group has grown by these tables, all four volumes':

The readers that use them:

• NpcRow::of(volume, row) reads the battle's npcs.
• The walking PCs (rtownpc::Tables::of), the Grunties, the dogs, the merchants and the field NPCs take the volume.
• breeder_view(volume, server) gives None outside servers 1-4, where the game reads the words beside the tables. Only servers 1-4 have Grunt Shops.
• The field, town and dungeon maps.

A walking PC's chat is PcEvent::Chat(text). The world harness now records the text the game's OpenChat got, not its address.

Dead reads removed

These read main from an empty image and could never succeed:

• item::category_order is now fieldui::category_order.
• The desktop's unused Assets.elf, prg and image, and content::separated.
• Tables::game_image.

The generated tables/mod.rs allows approx_constant and identity_op: the numbers are the game's.

Mutation's story starts

start::story(volume) is Infection's 1-31, or Mutation's M201 to its ending (101-116). --mode story:N takes Mutation's events 102-116:

• each event's first located block puts M204 and M205 on the board, M215 in Carmina Gade (in_town 2, start::log_in_town), and the rest on the desktop;
• mutation_story_survey runs them as story_survey runs Infection's.

Checks

• piney-game: 125 passed, 1 failed, 60 ignored. The failure is mutation_story_starts_open_their_event: 102-114 open where they should, and 115 stops at "town 2: only Mac Anu (0) and Dun Loireag (1) are ported".

• mutation_the_world_and_into_the_town enters the town with no reader failing.

• The harnesses pass against the game:

  harness	cases
  spawn	6
  enemy motion	5
  dust	1
  breath	1 (24 subtests)
  weapon	1
  foe	4
  map	6
  merchant camera	3
  grunty	2 (15 subtests)
  world	18
  items	5

• The spawn and enemy motion harnesses had failed since 0210. The port keeps an enemy's anmTbl as its row plus one, and the harnesses now translate the game's pointer to that.