- FOG: sceneFromGameState only emits exit/entrance/treasure/items once their cell is EXPLORED,
and the monster only while IN VIEW — no more exit stairs leaking through the fog.
- DESCEND FEEDBACK: reaching a non-final exit descends (multi-level) and used to silently dump the
player at a new entrance (read as a bug). Server now sends depth/maxDepth on game_event; the
client shows "Stairs down! Level N of M — keep going". Also lowered level counts (WOW 4->2,
BTC 8->3, XMR 2->1) — clearing 4-8 levels in one block was unwinnable; kept modest until proper
multi-level calibration + UX.
- CAMERA: the host filled the very-tall #game-display so centering put the player low; it's now a
bounded viewport (min(100%,78vh)) centered in #game-display, so the player stays on-screen-centered.
Suite 62/435 green.
The fair, on-theme edge lever for slow chains (from the calibration work): a run
now descends `maxDepth` levels instead of one map, so cumulative run length makes
the block-timer bite WITHOUT a giant single dungeon or a cheating-fast monster.
Engine (game.js):
- depth/maxDepth; _generateLevel(depth) builds each level (fresh dungeon + monster
+ FOV), _descend() steps down. Reaching a non-final exit descends (event
"descend", stays active); only the final exit escapes (event "escaped").
- Treasure lives only in the vault (final level) — intermediate levels race to the
stairs. Single-level (maxDepth=1) is byte-identical to before.
- Provably fair per level: levelSeed(masterSeed, depth) (provablyFair.js) — level 1
= master seed, deeper levels salted; the whole descent regenerates from the one
committed seed. Verified: game levels == regenerateFromSeed(levelSeed(seed,d)).
Pacing (difficultyConfig.js): NETWORK_TUNING now sets LEVELS ∝ block time (GRIN 1,
XMR 2, LTC 2, WOW 4, BTC 8) — replacing the size-scale hack; size + monster stay at
the fair preset. DUNGEON_LEVELS operator override; NETWORK_TUNING_DISABLED → 1 level.
Wiring: socketHandlers afterPlayerMove gets a "descend" branch (no game-over, no
monster move on arrival). Client gameState.js clears the accumulated map/explored/
visible tiles on a depth change so the old level does not ghost through the new one.
Sim: explorer bot resets fog-of-war on descent so multi-level sims stay honest
(full re-calibration of the level counts is the pending follow-up).
Tests: multiLevel_ultra (descent, vault-only treasure, per-level provably-fair,
single-level default, DUNGEON_LEVELS) + networkTuning rewritten for the levels model.
Suite 61 suites / 432 green; end-to-end 4-level WOW run descends 3x then escapes.
WOW meanBlockTimeMs 120000 -> 300000. Measured 5.01 min/block over 1000 blocks on
the live daemon; the code comment claiming it was "corrected to 2 min" was backwards.
WOW is a SLOW chain, closer to BTC than XMR for calibration.
Per user feedback ("fast monster feels like cheating") + what the sim then proved:
a supernaturally fast monster doesnt even WORK on slow chains — WOW (5-min) caps
~64% house-win even at a 2.2x monster on a 111x55 map, because a single dungeon
clears in ~1 min << the block so the timer (the fair, on-theme edge) barely bites.
So NETWORK_TUNING drops the monster-speed lever entirely and keeps size∝√blockTime
only (monster stays at its fair preset speed). WOW sizeScale 1.0->1.6 for 5-min blocks.
Consequence: slow chains (WOW/BTC) run honest-but-under-target on the timer until
MULTI-LEVEL DEPTH lands — the real edge lever (cumulative run length across levels
without any single map being an unplayable slog). Deb (WOW/normal) now gets a bigger,
more block-appropriate dungeon (45x22 -> 72x35) with a fair monster.
meanBlockTimeMs has no runtime consumer yet (metadata) so the WOW fix is behavior-safe
today; it corrects the sim + future block-bounded features. Suite 60/428 green.
Solves the two gaps the sim measured (edge undershot targets AND swung ~15pts
across chains from identical dungeons because cryptoType was a dead parameter).
Data-driven design (src/sim/calibrate.js, rewritten): the size-probe showed
dungeon SIZE self-cancels as a house-edge lever — bigger map lengthens the run
(timer edge up) but gives more room to dodge (monster edge down), flat ~60% until
monstrous. So split the concerns:
• SIZE ∝ √blockTime → PACING only (consistent run-length fraction of the block;
GRIN sprint .. BTC epic), applied to every preset. Bot-robust.
• MONSTER speed → the house EDGE lever (monotonic), solved per network for
the casino/70% target only.
difficultyConfig.js: NETWORK_TUNING table + applyNetworkTuning(), folded into
getDifficultyConfig with precedence preset → tuning → env → customOverrides (so
operator DUNGEON_*/MONSTER_* still win; NETWORK_TUNING_DISABLED kills it).
Wired verification (explorer bot, 160 runs, 320ms): WOW/XMR/LTC/BTC/GRIN all land
in a ~66-76% band around target (was 48-65%). BTC 48%->73% via 112x56 + 2.2x
monster — on 10-min blocks the timer barely bites a 30s run, so the monster carries
the edge (caps ~64% maxed: a real property of block-timed play).
CAVEAT baked into the config comment: sim bots do not evade, so monsterSpeed is a
STARTING POINT to retune with live telemetry; the sizeScale half is bot-robust.
Deb is unaffected (WOW=reference scale 1.0; normal preset gets no monster tuning).
test/networkTuning_ultra.test.js: size scaling, casino-only monster, block-time
ordering, env-override-wins, kill-switch. Suite 60 suites / 428 tests green.
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