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Dirt, and the things that naturally occur in an Area

building-the-game/007 · created 2026-09-03 · updated 2026-09-03

What was heard

Kris, by voice, 2026-09-03 — the recording hit its limit mid-sentence:

I would like the item dirt to be created. That’s gonna be earth over earth. And I would like you to set up a mechanic so that in places where there is grass, where this is a new thing that needs to be added, where the area itself has the little flag of things that naturally occur in there…

Done so far

Hexagram 2 (Earth over Earth) is named Dirt with origin: terrain in game/shell/elements.js (synced to the two derived JSONs).

Waiting on Kris

The rest of the sentence: how the “naturally occurs here” flag on an Area works, and what happens on a grass cell in such an Area (dirt collectable? spawning? the ground changing?). The likely landing place is an Area property naturallyOccurring: [kw…] in the world file and the area editor, with the rule itself in the Area server — but that waits on the words.

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