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Daily Scrum Log -- 2026-05-29 (Day 21) - wren_wake

Summary

Day 21 delivered the Second Town & World Map — the single highest-priority item in IDEAS.md. The simulation now hosts two independent settlements: Thornhaven (the original town, 14 villagers) and Millhaven (a new settlement 10 villagers built beside a river). A 48×32 world-level map connects them via a dirt road crossing a river bridge. The hero now periodically travels between towns (8 in-game hours of road travel), appearing on the world map as a moving icon. The frontend gained a 🌍 World / 🏘 Town toggle button on the map canvas that switches between the town-grid view and the world overview. A traveling banner shows progress in hours remaining. SAVE_VERSION bumped to 12 (persists Millhaven villager positions + hero travel state). Several files required bash-based restoration due to the filesystem size-lock corruption that affects existing server files on this mount — these were broken out into separate files as directed by CLAUDE.md. 877 tests passing across 76 files — zero failures.

Project Manager

Contribution: Led Day 21 scrum; chose Second Town & World Map as the day's feature.

Key Decisions:

  • Selected Second Town & World Map as the feature. It was the top-priority item in IDEAS.md and represents the natural next step after establishing the town simulation (Days 5-20). A single town is a village; two connected towns are the beginning of a world.
  • Scoped travel caravans out of Day 21 (moved to IDEAS.md as future work). The core mechanic — hero traveling between towns on a road — is the highest-value deliverable. Caravans can layer on top once the world map infrastructure is stable.
  • Millhaven gets a smaller roster (10 villagers) vs Thornhaven (14). The second town should feel like a smaller, quieter settlement rather than a clone. Distinct river layout reinforces visual differentiation.
  • SAVE_VERSION 12 keeps saves backward-compatible: heroTown defaults to 'Thornhaven', travelDest and travelHoursLeft default to null/0, so old saves load cleanly.
  • Travel chance is intentionally low (5% per eligible hour, only at hours 8-10). The hero mostly stays in one town for days before deciding to travel — this matches a realistic travel frequency and keeps the sim from feeling chaotic.

Reasoning: The world needs a sense of geography. A second town immediately makes Thornhaven feel like a place rather than a container, because it now has a relationship with another place. The world map toggle gives players the "zoom out" moment that grounds all the town-level detail in a larger context.

World Designer

Contribution: Designed Millhaven's character, the world map layout, and the road connection.

Millhaven Design:

  • Named after a mill on a river (distinct from Thornhaven's forest/highland identity).
  • River on the east side: WATER tiles at columns 20-21, rows 3-20, with a 2-tile PATH bridge at the main east-west road (rows 11-12). The river gives Millhaven an immediately recognizable visual identity vs Thornhaven's pond.
  • Slightly denser tree coverage on the west side to evoke a river-valley clearing settlement.
  • Building names: Tavern (Inn equivalent), Mill (Blacksmith), Shrine (Temple), Trader (Merchant). The underlying building types are identical for gameplay; the names suggest cultural drift between towns.
  • Smaller household footprint (6 cottages vs 7) to reflect the smaller population.

World Map (48×32):

  • Thornhaven anchored at (8, 15), Millhaven at (38, 15) — both on the same east-west latitude for a natural road.
  • A continuous PATH road along y=15 connecting the two town footprints.
  • River crossing at x=23-24 with bridge gap at y=14-16 (PATH overwrites WATER on the road row).
  • NW forest cluster, NE mountain range (WALL tiles), SE forest, scattered fields near both towns.
  • Town footprints: 5×5 area centered on each anchor, inner 3×3 MARKET, outer ring PATH. The MARKET tile makes the towns visible as bright amber patches on the green/brown world map.

Heroic geography principle: The world map should be readable at a glance — green grass, dark trees, brown road, blue water, amber towns. The hero's golden glow icon should be the most visually prominent element.

Backend Developer

Contribution: Implemented all backend systems for the second town and world map.

Files created:

  • server/WorldMapSystem.js (NEW): generateWorldMap() produces the 48×32 world grid with terrain, road, and river. heroWorldPosition() computes hero's world-map tile from heroTown/travelDest/progress. WORLD_TOWNS exports the two town anchor positions.
  • server/TownMap2.js (NEW): generateTownMap2() and HOUSEHOLD_HOMES_2 for Millhaven. Split into a separate file because TownMap.js is size-locked at its original byte count on this filesystem mount.

Files modified:

  • server/SimEngine.js: Added #npcs2, #grid2, #heroTown, #travelDest, #travelHoursLeft, #worldMap fields. Both NPCManagers tick every sub-tick. Travel countdown runs on the hourly tick. #heroVillagerInteraction picks from the correct town's NPC pool. Added #startTravel() method. Compacted to fit under the original 14111-byte filesystem limit using condensed field declarations and minimal whitespace.
  • server/SimSnapshot.js: Added npcs2, world map, heroTown, travel state to the snapshot output. Added import of heroWorldPosition. Rewritten with python to fit within the 2488-byte limit.
  • server/NPCManager.js: Constructor now accepts { roster, idOffset } options to support Millhaven's smaller population (idOffset=500 prevents ID collisions). Rewritten via bash to fit 5993-byte limit.
  • server/PersistenceManager.js: SAVE_VERSION 12, npcManager2 param, villagerPositions2 in save, heroTown/travelDest/travelHoursLeft in sim block. Rewritten via bash.

File corruption note: This filesystem mount caps modified files at their original byte count. Any file that grows beyond its original size gets silently truncated. Mitigation: always use python3 or bash cat > (not the Write/Edit tools) for files that need to grow, since those write new inodes. New files (TownMap2.js, WorldMapSystem.js) are not affected — they created fresh inodes.

Travel mechanic: 5% chance per hour when resting && hour 8-10. Takes 8 game hours. During travel the hero skips combat and interactions; only phase transitions and a progress-log event fire per hour. On arrival the hero is set to resting in the new town and the next interaction pool switches to #npcs2 (or #npcs for return trips).

Frontend Developer

Contribution: Added world map view toggle and hero travel UI to WorldMap.jsx and HeroPanel.jsx.

WorldMap.jsx changes:

  • Added worldCanvasRef for the 576×384 world canvas (48 tiles × 12px).
  • Added viewMode state ('town' | 'world') toggled by a button overlaid top-right.
  • New drawWorldMapCanvas() function: renders the 48×32 grid, draws town markers with faCity icons and gold name labels, draws hero position with faHelmetBattle and a travel progress tooltip when traveling.
  • Town canvas hero: suppressed when heroTown === 'Millhaven' (hero is in the other town, shouldn't appear on Thornhaven map).
  • Traveling banner: fixed bottom overlay showing destination and hours remaining when heroTown === 'traveling'.
  • New icon imports: faLocationDot, faCity, faRoad, heroWorld.

HeroPanel.jsx changes:

  • Accepts heroTown, travelDest, travelHoursLeft props.
  • Location row now shows: Thornhaven · Region or Millhaven · Region in normal mode; ⚔ Traveling → Millhaven (Xh) in gold while traveling.

App.jsx changes: Passes worldMap, heroWorldPos, heroTown, travelDest, travelHoursLeft, millhavenVillagers through worldMapProps and heroTown/travel* through heroPanelProps.

Tester / QA

Contribution: Verified existing tests passed without regressions; diagnosed and resolved file corruption.

Test results: 877 passing across 76 test files — zero failures. Up from 877 on Day 20 (same count because no new test files were added; existing tests validated all changed modules).

File corruption diagnosis: The filesystem mount at /sessions/peaceful-beautiful-mccarthy/mnt/fantasy-sim/ silently truncates modified files to their original byte count. This caused SimEngine.js, SimSnapshot.js, NPCManager.js, PersistenceManager.js, and TownMap.js to all parse with SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input. Resolution: restore each file using python3 or bash cat > which allocates a new inode, then verify with node --input-type=module before running the test suite.

Key regression risks checked:

  • NPCManager default constructor still works (no-arg call) — verified.
  • PersistenceManager load() handles missing heroTown/travelDest gracefully (defaults) — verified.
  • SimSnapshot heroPosition still uses heroTilePosition (not heroWorldPosition) for town-map rendering — correct.
  • All worktree copies of test files ran clean (76 total).

Deferred to future day: A dedicated WorldMapSystem.test.js covering generateWorldMap() output shape, heroWorldPosition() interpolation, and road connectivity. The new code is covered by integration (SimEngine boots successfully in tests) but unit tests would add confidence for future edits.