STATUS.md

Status, system by system

What is synced today, how it is owned, what a peer who joins mid-way receives, and how far each row is. This is a count view, never a percentage: the number of facets a system has is not enumerable, so a single "N% done" would hide which systems are solid and which are untouched.

State says how far the row is: works (established in play), tested (exercised by a scripted run), built (the lane exists and has not been exercised), with the known breaks counted where there are any; the breaks themselves are on the system's page. Most mechanic-level facets sit at built; that majority is the honest state. Owner: host (the host writes, clients mirror), peer (each peer authors its own slice and streams it), presser (whoever performs the action authors it, the host relays), arbiter (the host validates and commits contested writes), local (never shared).

The visible loop

System	Synced	Owner	Late join	State
Session, join, roster	admission with a mutual key challenge and an optional password, slot assignment, the version gate, the roster and nicknames	host	the join itself, behind a world-ready barrier	works
Save transfer	the host's live world streamed to the joiner, then the connect snapshot of every synced element	host	this is the join	works
Remote player body	pose stream, ragdoll and faint display, the held item, footsteps	peer	the spawn is the seed	works
Nameplates, colours, skins	nickname, ping, health bar, visibility preference, colour, the body skin	peer, arbitrated by the host for uniqueness	at join	works
Chat and the event feed	text lines, join and leave lines, a retained history shown to late joiners	presser; host relays	seeded from the host's retained log	works
Voice	Opus frames, 3D positional	peer	state replay	works
Player damage and hazards	enemy hits delivered to the hit peer; vitals as fractions	host delivers, peer computes	none needed	works
Death	the native death runs to its end; the level travel is refused and a revive written in its place	peer	none needed	tested
Teleport (dev)	host pushes a placement	host	the join placement	works

The world

System	Synced	Owner	Late join	State
Physics props	spawn, pose, grab, carry, throw, drop, destroy; identity across saves and rejoins; client-born props	presser while held, host at rest	snapshot	works
Chip piles and clumps	the grab, carry, throw and re-pile cycle	host with client intents	snapshot plus a spawn-time bind	works
Trash-bits piles	the counter pair	presser and host	snapshot	built
Containers	open and close, contents (a slice of the host's object stack)	presser; host for contents	snapshot	works, two known breaks
NPCs	spawn, despawn, pose, state for the generic creatures	host	snapshot	works
Kerfur	the prop-to-NPC conversion cycle, per-kerfur skins	host	snapshot plus adoption	works
Owner-entity creatures	a creature whose AI reads the local player is owned per peer and mirrored to the rest	peer	keepalive	built
Roaches	the paged infestation state	host	snapshot	built
Wisp	the killer wisp's hunt, grab, tear	host	none (transient)	works
Pyramid	the walking-pyramid choreography	host	world-actor snapshot and replay	works
World actors	the event-spawned non-character actors	host	replay or seed	works
Drone	the delivery drone's flight and state	host	snapshot	built
Sky and time	sky rotation, moon phase, the clock (clients never free-run)	host	seed at connect	built
Weather	rain, snow, fog, wind, lightning, red sky, the event-born weathers	host	snapshot	tested, one known break
Fireflies, ambient spawners	cosmetic spawns and the flora and forage spawners (host only)	peer for cosmetics, host for spawners	none or parked at join	built
Story and scheduled events	host-observed fires replayed on clients by a per-event policy; the active-events registry mirrored for late joiners	host	replay and snapshot	built
Alarm	the base klaxon	presser	snapshot	built
Balance	the shared points total	host	replay at connect	built
Email, daily task	host-appended emails, peer-symmetric delete; the host's task state	host	save transfer plus a prime	built
Lamp posts	not synced: lockstep from the shared day and night cycle	local	none, by design	built

Devices and the workstation

System	Synced	Owner	Late join	State
Doors, keypads, locks	door state and lock state; keypad digits mirrored, accept and deny replayed	host and presser	snapshot	works
Lights and light groups	switch state; the group's live state	presser; host for the group	snapshot	built
Power panels, turbine, grime, windows, appliances	the mask, the float, the decrease-only cleanliness, the one-bit states	presser or host	snapshot	built; windows tested
Device occupancy	who is using a device	arbiter	snapshot of the table	works
Desk input and console	field-granular input deltas, cooldown charges, the console text	presser; host relays	seed	works, five known breaks
Dish	the dish pose, the client's own simulation parked	host	snapshot	works, one known break
Signal catch	the catch as an intent the host replays	presser and host	seed	tested
Download and decode simulation	the host-run simulation's outputs	host	adopt	works, one known break
Playback deck	the play and stop edges	presser	none	tested
Drives and racks, physical modules, tapes, floppy box	slot and payload lanes with compare-and-swap at the host	arbiter	seed from the host's canon	built
Laptop	power, floppies and discs, the shared file buffer	presser; the buffer is arbitrated	seed	built; the buffer tested
Meadow database, saved signals	the signal database as a merge of both peers' saves	presser and host	seed	tested
Server boxes	the signal-server simulation state and its notices	host	snapshot	built
Shop orders	the client names a row, the host performs and prices it	arbiter	primed by a watermark	built
ATV	the driver authors the pose; a non-driving peer runs the rig natively and is corrected; condition (tyres, fuel, health) travels	driver, host for the rest	snapshot	tested; eject and configuration intents not built
Sleep	the sleep tally	arbiter	joins awake	built
Player inventory	per-peer, persisted by the host per player identity; the contents never cross the wire	local; host stores	seeded before the world	tested

Enforced without a packet

Moderation (kick and ban are a connection close plus a host-local list), save suppression (clients never write a save), spawn authority (client-side shared-world spawners are parked), the no-pause rule (a paused world is un-paused every tick while connected). They hold host authority by construction; a census of wire lanes does not see them.

What the table says at a glance

The solid core is the visible loop and the prop economy. The signal workstation is the opposite: most of its lanes are only built, and the ones that have been played carry the most known breaks. True arbiters are rare and listed by name (occupancy, the racks, modules, floppy box, the laptop buffer, orders, sleep, containers); everywhere else authority is host-authored one way or presser-authored with a host relay.