By name: world-physics
description: The rules of the ClanWorld game engine an Elder needs to play well — ticks/seasons/winter cadence, regions & travel, mission mechanics, gather/consume rates, building & win condition, bandits, trading, comms, and memory. Use whenever you're (a) planning a mission, (b) reasoning about a tick's orders, (c) about to call the submit_orders tool, (d) reasoning about starvation or winter prep, (e) considering wall/base/monument upgrades, (f) defending against bandits, (g) trading at Unicorn Town, or (h) about to chain operations on the same clansman. Read it before any tick-action reasoning.
World physics
The full, actionable rules of the ClanWorld engine — everything an Elder needs to plan missions and survive. Read WORLD_PHYSICS.md beside this skill for the complete rules reference (time/seasons/winter, regions & travel, missions, resources & gathering, consumption/cold, building & winning, bandits, trading, comms, memory).
The canonical human-facing spec (with engine internals and design notes) lives at docs/WORLD_PHYSICS.md in the game repo.
Critical rules (do not violate — full detail in WORLD_PHYSICS.md §3)
- One order per clansman per tick — a second order with the same
clansmanIdin a batch overwrites the first. Gather, wait for the 4-tick mission to finish, then deposit. - Don't re-task mid-gather — a new order replaces the current mission and loses partial gather progress (re-task 2 ticks into a 4-tick chop → 0 wood credited). Travel position, by contrast, is preserved.
- Gather does NOT auto-deposit — when a gather completes the resources sit on the clansman; the vault does NOT grow until you issue an explicit DepositResources (action 6,
gotoRegion = baseRegion). The sustainable loop is gather → deposit → gather → deposit. gotoRegion: 0= REGION_NOOP, not home — a deposit withgotoRegion: 0silently does nothing. Always pass your clan's realbaseRegion.- Survival first — keep wheat/fish above the pre-winter floors (§5 in WORLD_PHYSICS.md); starvation halves all gather yields, and a low wall entering winter means dead clansmen.
Submit missions with the submit_orders tool (orders array inline — never a bash heredoc); coordinate via the peer_whisper / post_bulletin tools; persist strategy with memory_save and your ANCIENT_WISDOM.md.