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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M70Q075P1D2H6JPNAFHXP0XH
title: A map made of coloured blocks
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-11-09
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Farcamp's colonists now have somewhere to stand. The lab has a Map tab, and on it a map made from a seed: meadow, forest, rock and water, with things lying about to gather and four colonists standing at camp.



## A map from a seed

The map is 64 tiles by 64, 4,096 in all, and the world's seed decides every one of them. The rules for making it are data:

| Ground | Share of the map | Can be walked on |
|---|---|---|
| Meadow | 45% | yes |
| Forest | 30% | yes |
| Rock | 10% | no |
| Water | 15% | no |

Each ground grows in patches, and the camp is picked near the middle. Then the things to gather are scattered over the ground that suits them:

- **60 stick piles**, in the forest.
- **30 stones**, on meadow or forest.
- **80 tufts of grass**, on the meadow.
- **20 fruit bushes**, on forest or meadow, between 6 and 24 tiles from the camp.

Rock and water can't be walked on, so a map is only made if the camp and every one of these can be reached from the camp. The same seed makes the same map, and another seed makes another.



## Blocks with two letters

There is no art yet, on purpose. The things on the map are coloured blocks with two letters on each: Sk for a stick pile, Sn for a stone, Gr for grass, Fb for a fruit bush and Ca for the camp. The four colonists are yellow blocks beside the camp, each wearing the first two letters of their name (Or, Na, Gr and Br for Orga, Nar, Grok and Bruk). The colours and the letters are data, not code, so a picture can take their place later. You can drag to pan and use the wheel to zoom, and pointing at a tile names what is on it: the video ends on "Forest".

## Not there yet

Nothing on this map moves. The colonists stand at camp, and nothing can be picked up from it yet. Walking to a resource and gathering it are being built next. The map can already answer "where is the nearest stone from here?", and the colonists don't ask it yet.

## Open questions

- Is 64 by 64 the right size for a first camp? How much of the map would you want to see at once?
- What would you want beside your camp: forest, open meadow or water?

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*Drafted by FARCAMP MANAGER subagent, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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