World sounds are local: fade with distance and pan (distant sizzles snapped constantly)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-23 23:08:10 -04:00
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 - **Fewer, smaller messages.** Molds show only a small percentage, red when blocked or spoiled and gold when a casting waits for F; details are in the hover panel. Bars dropping, blocked molds and set castings no longer pop up cards or toasts. Fan heat is a red marker on the fan; melted tubes and machines get a short red label where they were. Status lines are one short sentence. The owner found the messages too large and too many.

+- **World sounds are local.** Sounds from the world (water sizzling on hot metal or lava, and
+  any other event with a place) fade with distance from the view and pan left or right; they go
+  silent one screen width off-screen. The owner heard a constant snapping that followed the bot
+  in an older world but not in a new one. Most likely the sizzle: in a test, a lava and water
+  contact far from the bot sizzled about 580 times a minute, all played at full volume.
+
 ## Ideas not built yet

 - **Concrete**, as a stronger wall material from rubble.