Entry 150

Level 6's boxes are carried up the steps by play

2026-10-1659mplay

Filescrates/rugrats/src/actors/player.rscrates/rugrats/src/world/game/things.rscrates/rugrats/tests/play.rs

Level 6's win put four Reptar boxes in a column by hand. It is now played: box_route fetches five boxes, carries each up the steps laid so far with the stick, and puts it down (Circle) at the foot of the next step: the -2048 step from the floor, the -3072 block, the -3584 block, the -4608 ledge, and on that ledge against the -6144 block. A box is 506 high and a climb while carrying is at most 521, so each step of 1024 needs a box at its foot to be taken in two climbs with the next box in the arms; the last box lets Tommy onto the -6144 block (1030 from its top), from which he drops onto the switch platform (-4736). Throwing a box up a 1024 step does not work: it peaks 133 short and bounces off the face. The boxes used (LP 197, 198, 97, 94, 151) are the five reached from the start on foot; the other three sit on shelves 1536 above their floor (a box under them is the way up).

A port fix found on the way: the carry's climb limit applied to whatever was carried. 0x80058da4 limits it only for an object without bit 0x1000000 (class 13, Thing::keep: level 5's remote). Player::carry_climbs is set at the grab.

The reachability check (worklog 149) grew to judge this:

• Each put is judged by the floor the body comes down on there, not any floor under it (a shelf over a reached floor no longer passes).
• Carrying (not a kept thing), no jump and climbs under 522; the body's own climb_max.
• Running jumps: 8 directions from cells at an edge, with a run-up of two cells, along jump_shape, the port's air (crouch frame, moving_jump's launch, gravity 14 less 5 rising with Cross held, drag 32/4096). Tommy's matches the port's run to the crouch's root keys (54 higher at the first air frame): 849 up at 1288 along, level again at 2142. A landing needs the feet over the floor at that frame (in a wall the port puts the body back over the floor it came from).
• Objects within half a cell of a cell's middle count as its floor: level 11's stands are narrower than a cell.

The check then caught two test placements: win_4 put Spike at Cynthia's y, under the floor for Spike's body (now on the floor there), and the old level 6 column.