What's new in Phase 1 — Foundations

designed · Phase 1 · This page collects the Phase 1 rows from every page's History table. It flips to built increment by increment; the design record is phases/phase-01-foundations.md.

Phase 1 is the first thing you can watch. It promises one story in every village and three in most: the village survives ten days; on cold nights people gather at the campfire; when a building burns, the cautious flee and the brave fight; and more brave people than buckets produces a race. And it promises that for any of it you can ask how did this happen and get an answer.

New in the world

	What	Page
	Riverside Village: eight places, fifty people, one faction that knows its home	Riverside Village
	Village time: days and nights, 25 ° at noon and 5 ° at midnight, every sentence in village time	Time
	Fire that spreads by heat through walls, dies by water or fuel, and is felt as danger	Fire and heat
	Berry bushes that hold meals and regrow	Food
	Buckets, with the water in the bucket	Water and buckets
	The campfire, fed with forest wood	The campfire

New about people

	What	Page
	Villagers who sense two places away and decide by scored options	Villager
	Five needs: hunger, warmth, safety, rest, curiosity	Needs
	Four rolled traits; caution splits flee from fight	Personality
	Memory that fades by kind, and the village's shared knowledge	What villagers know
	Death by starvation or heat; belongings dropped; the story kept	Death

New ways to play

	What	Page
	Watching: village view, prose feed, cards with "why", interesting moments	Watching
	Tinkering: light a fire, spawn, edit, switch the rules	Tinkering
	Explain this, on everything	Explain this
	The timeline: the last day, replayed exactly	The timeline

Try it

When Phase 1 is built, this is the ten-minute tour:

1. Open the village. Speed the clock to the first evening and watch the fire pit fill. Click a figure at the fire: the card says warming up (it beat wandering and eating).
2. Let a night pass. Watch someone leave the warmth for the forest and come back with wood. Ask Explain this on Erik added wood to the campfire.
3. Turn the dial to Tinkerer. Light the inn at noon on day 3. Watch who runs where. Count the buckets.
4. Click the first person who fled. Explain this: the chain should end with …was set alight by you.
5. Drag the timeline back to the moment the inn caught and watch it again, slowly.

Not in Phase 1

Talking and sharing knowledge (Phase 2) · writing your own rules and forking the world (Phase 3) · beliefs and reputations (Phase 4) · the narrator and the LLM (Phase 5) · the illustrated village and portraits (Phase 5b) · seasons, aging and birth (Phase 6).