Every world
goes deeper.

CD05-T01 — Identity, authority, and the work now in scope#

SUBSTELLAR is a Minecraft survival adventure about a home worth returning to and worlds worth exploring. Familiar survival, ordinary building, and a useful community establish the beginning. Underground exploration reveals a second geography of water, living habitats, mineral country, routes, refuges, and unfinished work. Space extends that same adventure: arrive prepared, learn a place, make a dependable foothold, discover something useful, and bring its benefits into the wider network of homes.

The name joins what lies beneath with what lies among the stars. “Every world goes deeper” therefore has a practical consequence: another sky is the beginning of another landscape, including substantial underground experiences. Progression should be remembered through places and actions—the repaired crossing, the first useful workshop, a forest beneath stone, a marked route through darkness, and a warm room beside a lunar lander. Equipment and industry help the player understand and inhabit those places.

This chapter is a consolidated current reading layer. It covers every subject in the seven baseline text sources, whose 45 chapters contain 90,735 words under the edition's established counting method. It does not replace those chapters or claim to reproduce their complete detail. The source map identifies every original chapter by its source key, exact title, filename, and existing HTML anchor. The original writing and 50 baseline visuals remain the preserved record; this edition adds an account of how their current meanings fit together.

The existing sources have several kinds of authority. Their differences matter when judging a picture, a proposed recipe, or the readiness of a feature.

The present work is authorized documentation, creative development, worked examples, and a bounded set of new images and diagrams. It makes the next content update concrete for the separate Website agent. Actual mod development still requires a scoped BUILD instruction. The available documentation workspace did not establish the mod's current code, loader, version, saves, or performance; that finding is about this workspace and does not assert that no implementation exists elsewhere.

The audience remains solo players and cooperative groups. Exploring, building, preparing machinery, and supplying companions are all useful contributions. The standalone-first direction preserves a coherent game without mandatory gameplay-mod integrations. Guided chapters supply reliable invitations and satisfying changes while free building, independent exploration, and quiet domestic play remain valid uses of an evening. The long vision is larger than an initial release, and the generation-first foundation still precedes claims that its later systems work.

Full-source details: approved — The creative foundation; The complete player journey; Source records and terminology. Planning authority: first-playable — First Playable — Old Valley, the Quarry, and the First Workshop / FP-PLAN-01 and FP-PLAN-22; tier1-models — Tier 1 — Model and Implementation Specifications / T1-SPEC-01. Preservation and counts: edition-manifest.json.

CD05-T02 — The player journey and the precise opening endpoint#

The five journey families remain First Descent, Pale Horizon, Red Frontier, Outer Worlds, and Beyond Sol. They describe the widening adventure. Industrial bands describe workshop capabilities; rocket tiers describe the supplied spacecraft design families; spacecraft classes describe travel capabilities. These systems relate to one another, but their numbers are not interchangeable. A player does not need to finish every machine in an earlier industrial band before taking a supported expedition.

First Descent contains Old Valley and the extended Earth adventure. Pale Horizon develops orbital and lunar travel. Red Frontier makes longer planetary work practical. Outer Worlds separates the demands of pressure, cold, weather, isolation, and specialist equipment. Beyond Sol opens the proposed Afterlight continuation. The recommended principal destination route remains Earth, Moon, Mars, Europa, Titan, and Pluto. Ceres and Io offer substantial optional branches. Pluto supplies a satisfying Solar System conclusion; Cairn and Morrow form a further proposed journey.

The most consequential progression clarification is the early Tier 1 branch. A practical Explorer mission can become possible before the player exhausts Earth's seven realms. Core completion, Heartglass, titanium-grade industry, nuclear power, lunar materials, and rare creature drops are not first-flight requirements. Earth remains the source of the workshop, preparation, people, and supplies behind the first mission. Its deeper routes continue alongside lunar exploration and gain useful improvements from it. The broad Earth-to-space narrative never overrides a mission's actual accessible prerequisites.

Old Valley retains its complete five-chapter spine. Its inhabitants are recorded through established roles where names are unavailable, preserving rather than replacing any cast found in the actual project.

The bounded First Playable includes the first three essential chapter outcomes, one Copperwash Channels expedition, and a returned-find improvement to the existing quarry hoist. Its three canonical machine functions are IND-M01 Carpenter and repair bench, IND-M07 Alloy hearth, and IND-M53 Hoist and lift installation. The hoist is cargo-only, between fixed landings. The quarry's ordinary stone recipe service is not the ore crusher, and the grain mill remains a food-processing service in the later chapter.

The proposed bronze demonstration makes four fittings from three copper ingots, one tin ingot, and one hearth fuel item. With four planks, those fittings improve the existing cradle from one occupied cargo slot to two while preserving its route and cycle time. A four-iron-and-four-plank alternative produces the same basic cargo improvement without demonstrating the alloy method. These remain planning recipes. Their value is clear in play: the returned discovery lets the player move two real occupied stacks in one trip. The baseline quarry already works before this upgrade.

The opening's shared restoration budget is separately recorded from personal tools, lighting, fuel, food, and the stone-service demonstration. That accounting prevents the same material from being charged twice. Its 90–150-minute directed-play target is a proposed observation range, not a deadline or evidence of measured gameplay. No new user decision is required to finish this planning. Its ending is a usable valley, a known underground route, and a workshop improvement with a natural next invitation. New worked examples begin beyond that boundary and do not retroactively claim the whole settlement is complete.

Full-source details: approved — The complete player journey; Old Valley; Space exploration. Current progression clarification: industry — Industry and progression / Three kinds of progression, IP03 and IP06. Exact opening plans, costs, alternatives, and acceptance: first-playable — First Playable — Old Valley, the Quarry, and the First Workshop / FP-PLAN-02 through FP-PLAN-20; first_playable_register.json.

CD05-T03 — Earth's second geography and world-generation contract#

The documented working envelope is 512 total block levels, with valid Y values from -192 through 319 and an exclusive upper boundary at 320. From a reference surface around Y 63, that is about 255 blocks down to the floor. It is not 512 blocks of underground depth. The earlier three prototype design bands are experiments in generation, not approved final allocations for seven finished realms. The creative atlas assigns no permanent universal Y range to a realm.

Depth is a strong tendency combined with lateral geography. Regions overlap through shelves, basins, cliffs, watersheds, root systems, and thermal margins. Deepwilds and Underreach can occupy comparable local elevations while differing in moisture, life, structure, and routes. The Abyss can form large basins and exposed spaces within a connected network. Mantle and Core are fictional progression environments; the Core's Heart region is a deep-crustal adventure destination, not the literal center of Earth.

Generation works at several scales. Broad districts create reasons to travel horizontally. Chambers and landforms provide terraces, pillars, river trenches, roof openings, ledges, and meaningful empty space. Routes supply local choices: a dry rim or a shorter wet crossing, a long safe climb or an exposed ledge, a resource detour or a return before reserves become tight. Detail then reinforces those choices through host rock, runoff, roots, deposits, and habitat. A large smooth room with no internal geography does not meet the creative aim simply by being large.

Required expedition routes need an intelligible outward and return path using the capability available when they first matter. Optional isolated pockets and demanding branches can exist, but the main route cannot require a single invisible crack, an untelegraphed lethal jump, or equipment found only beyond its own barrier. Player tunneling, bridges, stairs, boats, and personal markers remain useful. Authored routes earn attention through comfortable staging points, landmarks, services, and discoveries. They rarely rely on an unexplained indestructible door to make a buildable world obey a story flag.

Natural terrain supplies variation; authored places supply dependable relationships and services. Supported foundations, limited rotations, short paths, and a small family of suitable layouts connect the two. Generation reserves critical anchors before dressing their surroundings and verifies reachability with the relevant equipment. Old Valley and the intended Heart destination must have a supported reachable campaign placement. An optional site may be omitted when it cannot fit. A required one cannot disappear from an unlucky seed or be forced into place by erasing a large unrelated landscape.

Water, heat, air effects, and ecology follow local readable rules. Stable generated water gives a region identity; special floods and pumping problems occupy finite declared areas. Heat comes from a signaled vent, channel, or apparatus with a response and a usable safe interval. Mist, dust, spores, and living light have recognizable sources. A dark cave should retain sufficient form for navigation without relying on a shader. Ordinary mining leaves persistent excavation; an ore body does not secretly refill after a chunk unloads. Renewable supplies come from explicitly renewable cultivation or processing.

Every realm retains a lateral life beyond its first route. A Shallows mine can become a convenient supply stop, a Conservatory can export useful cultivation stock, a Junction can connect working districts, and an Abyss refuge can become a quiet personal home. Later mobility or equipment opens side routes while established transport reduces repetition. The world becomes more familiar through the player's work without becoming entirely solved.

Fitting this atlas into a durable world envelope remains a future engineering gate. Representative cross-sections and actual routes must demonstrate sufficient room, transition quality, structure access, and a familiar surface before permanent save expectations are fixed. A larger continuous envelope or another deliberate arrangement may be evaluated if needed. Separate deep dimensions have not been silently selected. This current consolidation preserves the working specification and the full creative ambition while keeping that untested fit visible.

Full-source details: approved — The vertical world specification; World generation and the Earth atlas; Overworld; Shallows; Deepwilds; Underreach; Abyss; Mantle; Core. First local placement graph: first-playable / FP-PLAN-11 and FP-PLAN-12. Overview explanation: illustrated / ILL-S04.

CD05-T04 — Settlements, authored adventures, and living regional activity#

A settlement is a place whose usefulness the player can see. Its buildings have accessible interiors, recognizable silhouettes, working services, material storage, and room for ordinary movement. Residents occupy a few understandable roles and respond to actual milestones. The innkeeper has guests because the crossing and lodging work; a workshop specialist has useful work because the player returned with a discovery. Bounded routines and forgiving interactions supply continuity without requiring an uncontrolled simulation of every character's life.

Each managed project has an in-world controller suited to its setting: a board, marker, workshop control, or outpost terminal. Its ordinary view explains purpose, next stage, materials, current condition, and the next useful action. A preview exposes the occupied footprint, access, intended terrain changes, and conflicts before the player commits. The material-fed authored build preserves the local aesthetic while giving the player the satisfaction of contributing to its visible construction.

Discovered, Preview, Claimed or assigned, Awaiting requirements, Ready, Building, Paused, Blocked, Complete, and Upgrade available remain the canonical product states. They do not require ten separate screens. A finished service continues working while an optional extension waits. A chest placed inside a proposed deck produces a marked obstruction and preserved stock. A person standing in the next placement volume stops the action. Neither situation authorizes the project to delete belongings, push through an occupant, or tunnel arbitrarily to find another solution.

Construction has real custody. A contribution leaves an authorized inventory once. Uncommitted supplies remain distinguishable from material committed to a stage and material already built into the world. Cancellation returns recoverable stock according to its stated stage; it cannot produce both a completed wall and a refund for that wall. A stopped batch retains its ingredients or product in a coherent owned state. An interrupted hoist or freight order preserves the same cargo and delivers it once. This trust is central to the experience because players build long-lived places from those quantities.

Managed regional activity depends on eligible participants within the region's dimension, horizontal boundary, and explicit vertical bounds. The last eligible participant leaving pauses authored construction, production, visits, consumption, and encounters coherently. Return resumes the saved situation without absence debt or a catch-up stockpile. A passerby does not secretly activate a private project. One participating friend can keep an occupied refuge working while its owner travels. Ordinary Minecraft systems outside these managed services retain their own behavior; the pause promise does not freeze the whole world.

Freight moves already-produced, authorized, reserved goods between established endpoints. Its receiving process can advance when the destination is active while the source remains parked. Both endpoints need not be occupied together. This permission does not restart the remote factory or consume an absent habitat's reserve. Remote inspection can show recorded stock and status without granting remote production. These rules let several settlements become useful homes rather than a growing collection of obligations demanding simultaneous attendance.

Free building remains a complete form of participation. Personal homes and added paths can coexist with supported projects, using the same material families. A later bounded commissioning system may recognize generic shelter, cultivation, or a supported workshop in a player's building. Physical usefulness, civic-service recognition, and completion of a particular authored chapter remain separate facts. A homemade cottage is useful without completing the guesthouse. An alternate crossing can satisfy a particular optional encounter only when that encounter explicitly supports it.

The connected episodes develop existing anchors. The sheltered water belongs to the Deepwilds Conservatory and Canopy-to-River Circuit. Freight through the dark develops Underreach Junction's Three-Landing Supply Route. A light across the gap develops the Abyss Beacon Refuge and Far-Shelf Survey. Their titles do not add three new mandatory towns. Earth and planetary episodes share an expedition rhythm while giving each refuge a different meaning: a productive garden, a handling hub, a beacon across exposed water, a sealed room under a new sky, or a remote return-support installation.

Full-source details: approved — Settlements and authored adventures; Old Valley; Residents and settlement systems; Connected adventures and player experience; Production transport and settlement technology; Power fuel and the cost of travel. Detailed opening behavior: first-playable / FP-PLAN-13 through FP-PLAN-17. Regional industry and freight: industry — Production chains, balance, and machine progression / Regional pause and coherent custody.

CD05-T05 — Industry, materials, and progression through useful work#

The industrial ambition combines substantial machinery with a broad set of useful functions. A player should understand a plant by walking through it: receiving area, preparation, recognizable processing, finishing, storage, and dispatch. Timber, masonry, iron, copper, ceramic insulation, glass, marked housings, and accessible service paths connect early machinery to later sealed planetary installations. Size earns its place when it creates a meaningful material path, service aisle, loading position, or vehicle berth. Compact benches and field machines retain value beside large plants.

TEC01–TEC14 remain installation families, from the carpenter's bench to the launch and recovery complex. IND-M01–IND-M66 describe functions within them, rather than 66 compulsory separate machine blocks. Related functions can share a clear host. Distinct processes keep distinct working identities: a mill makes food, a crusher prepares material, a fabricator makes components, and an assembly station controls a vehicle build. Industrial breadth is the set of useful possibilities a player can select from, not a requirement to install the whole catalogue before an expedition.

These bands are an explanatory order. IP06 does not demand completion of every IP04 or IP05 system. A mission's capability record identifies its own required products and services. Optional fission, fusion, advanced field apparatus, route terminals, and powered equipment preserve a substantial engineering horizon. Their full resource paths, local limits, and environmental roles need later detailed work; they do not quietly enter the early rocket recipe.

Materials are organized by useful properties and first reachable sources. Familiar iron, copper, fuel, redstone, glass, quartz, and ordinary construction resources remain important. MAT01–MAT19 cover nineteen Earth resource families, including metals, clay, salts, crystals, resin, fiber, soil, and living culture. They are not nineteen mining permissions. The ten processed families—bronze fittings, steel, sealed cloth, technical ceramics, lightweight plates, reinforced alloy, titanium frame stock, optical assemblies, resonant components, and Heartglass assemblies—provide a reusable manufacturing vocabulary.

The first version of a capability uses earlier accessible inputs. A copper-and-redstone power supply can run the first electrical material process before that process produces aluminum. Ordinary clay and fuel can establish the early kiln. Accessible cloth and supported seals make the first filters before the player needs to enter a dangerous spore patch. Ceramics, metalwork, cloth, and an available cooling supply support the first thermal-margin visit before thermal salt improves it. Later recipes can reward richer deposits, better equipment, or selected local materials without erasing the shorter first route.

An upgrade should improve a specific measure. More yield per deposit, faster throughput, lower energy use, smaller footprint, easier service, greater cargo capacity, and a stronger environmental envelope are different advantages. A larger line pays for its extra equipment and services. A chemical recovery loop reduces a real recurring cost within a finite material budget. Repacking stock, reclaiming scrap, filling a tank, or changing storage phase cannot grant repeated bonuses to the same material. Shared intermediate families avoid a separate mandatory inventory item for every screw.

Electrical power uses a common understandable accounting language: available supply, stored reserve, demand, supported delivery rate, and priority. A small cell can run a field device without becoming an adapter for a whole refinery. Heat, fluids, gases, items, and control retain distinct roles and connections. A plant can use simple supported duties and process categories without simulating every real voltage, temperature, or pressure. Shape, direction, symbols, and labels complement color, so a connection remains understandable under ordinary lighting and accessibility settings.

Automation removes repeated work the player already understands. An order names its source, recipe, quantity or reserve target, destination, permission scope, and stop condition. It pauses safely for missing input, full output, a blocked route, or insufficient discretionary power. Essential occupied-habitat and mission reserves have priority over optional manufacturing. Service follows meaningful use, such as dust exposure, filter work, or excavation; frequent unexplained random failure does not make a workshop richer. The successful industrial loop ends with a useful object, a changed route, a prepared expedition, or a more capable home.

Full-source details: approved — Materials and the crafting economy; Production transport and settlement technology; Power fuel and the cost of travel; Planetary materials and reference catalogue. Detailed functions and chain directions: industry — Industry and progression; Machinery and industrial systems; Production chains, balance, and machine progression. Stable catalogue: industry_progression_register.json. Visual context: ILL03-02 through ILL03-06.

CD05-T06 — The Explorer and the complete Tier 1 expedition#

The current Tier 1 vehicle is the Explorer Rocket, with Tier 1 Rocket as its compact item label. One prepared Explorer supports the first orbital and lunar missions and a dependable return. The earlier Keel and Pilgrim remain preserved proposed hull concepts; they are not two additional compulsory spacecraft. Their useful intentions—readable launch body, real cabin, accessible equipment, and a homeward refuge—inform the current Explorer experience. Orbital and Lunar remain capability classes that one vehicle can span. Mars access is not inferred from that overlap.

The confirmed visual family is pale white and gray casing, restrained orange bands, dark machinery, navy glass, focused blue screens, a stepped nose, square forward window, low hatch, four fins, and a four-nozzle underside. REF11 anchors the detailed vehicle; REF12 anchors the suit; REF09 and REF10 distinguish manufacturing roles; REF15 gathers the named system. REF03 gives the first lunar foothold its visual context. Original sheet brands and approximate figures remain visible as source evidence without becoming production branding or final measurements.

The named component family contains Rocket Part, Rocket Engine or Engine Module, Fuel Tank, Navigation Chip or Guidance Chip, and Launch Key. The two chip names refer to one current role. The key and navigation hardware are reusable and recoverable through authorized services. The suit, helmet, and Oxygen Tank implement EQ23 and EQ24 with actual SUPPLY02. A four-nozzle appearance can use one managed engine-cluster responsibility. A labelled drawing part is not automatically a new mandatory item or independently simulated subsystem.

Vehicle assembly and expedition preparation run together. The player makes components and erects a recognizable craft while preparing Earth-produced propellant, breathing supplies, charged field cells, protection, tools, navigation, repair stock, and a complete return allocation. For the default lunar mission, EQ25 starter shelter and its commissioning supplies accompany the working airlocked cabin. The conservative arrival and first committed descent must be supportable by that complete manifest. An optional orbital rehearsal has its own valid smaller manifest and does not require the lunar shelter.

The edition 05 worked example recommends candidate starter supply routes: prepared renewable carbon feedstock, process water, and electricity for propellant; a powered Earth atmosphere-processing mode for breathing supply. These are proposed game recipe families, not confirmed chemistry or completed bills. Coefficients, service demand, and byproduct handling remain explicit unresolved recipe work. Its numerical supply examples demonstrate custody and arithmetic, not measured balance. The first lunar mission assumes no local manufacture of either supply.

The first lunar landing uses surveyed natural ground. It does not require a prebuilt lunar Launch Pad, an external local console, or a lunar refinery. The Explorer's cabin is the immediate retreat while the player deploys and commissions the separate starter refuge. The refuge must work before the first committed underground descent. Later permanent rooms, observatory work, gallery enclosures, and local production expand a foothold that was independently viable from the beginning.

The model specification proposes a nine-block total vehicle height, three-by-three main body, and five-by-five fin envelope. It proposes separate vestibule and upper cabin spaces with two pressure boundaries, one pilot position, real access, and declared supply housings. Those dimensions are not approved production geometry. The six-, nine-, and twelve-block source treatments disagree. T1-DEC01 requires a measured fit review before final model production. The correct response to a failed fit is a deliberate revision, not an impossible hidden interior or the removal of required refuge capability.

T1-DEC02 concerns the station forms: the recommended two-by-two smaller fabricator and three-by-three broader assembly station remain proposed. The assembly station is a controller and jig whose linked berth holds the full vehicle; its small work surface does not contain a nine-block rocket. Pad, hatch, fin, coupler, player, and service clearances must be measured together. The reference's example six-slot cargo display indicates compactness but cannot exclude the full safe starter loadout. Additional crew require designed seats and supplies rather than treating another player as cargo.

The completed Tier 1 experience includes a first meaningful lunar walk and descent, useful samples home, and an improvement to an existing service. One authoritative vehicle identity persists through assembly, travel, landing, refit, recovery, and return. Protected reserves remain actual stock. A blocked home pad, lost key, or interrupted flight has a supported recoverable outcome. A rendered launch or a rocket on a pad is progress toward that experience, not evidence that the complete expedition is implemented.

Full-source details: tier1 — Tier 1 space systems — complete first expedition / T1-OV01 through T1-A02. Proposed fit, ports, stages, and acceptance: tier1-models — Tier 1 — Model and Implementation Specifications / T1-SPEC-02 through T1-SPEC-20; tier1_model_register.json. Confirmed appearance: REF01–REF15, especially REF03, REF09–REF12, and REF15.

Edition 05 candidate supply routes and illustrative accounting: progression_worked_example_05.txt / WP05-PLAN-05 through WP05-PLAN-07.

CD05-T07 — The Moon as a sustained campaign#

The Moon's initial power comes from absence. The cabin is warm, the terrain is spare, Earth is visible, and ordinary fieldwork suddenly depends on supplies the expedition brought. Sound emphasizes suit breathing, transmitted contact, radio, and connected machinery. The intended landscape is predominantly lifeless. Route preparation, dust service, geological observation, construction, and restraint already provide meaningful activity without adding a routine population of lunar enemies.

Its five regional experiences retain their distinct jobs. MO-S1 Earthrise Rim offers long silhouettes, safe construction shelves, arrival inspection, and the first homeward view. MO-S2 Shadow Basin turns darkness into a choice of marker chains, anchors, sheltered margins, and longer conservative routes. MO-L1 Regolith Hollows uses cramped fractured spaces, dust shelves, bounded unstable features, and careful braced sampling. MO-L2 Basalt Galleries opens into sweeping tubes, choke points, roof light, alternate exits, and attractive sites for deliberately enclosed habitats. MO-L3 Glassfall Vaults adds impact-glass seams, reflective fractures, ledges, and careful instrument movement.

The first campaign region guarantees an attainable landing, walking loop, shallow descent, Basalt Gallery reveal, common regolith, an obtainable initial glass sample, and a viable return using pre-lunar equipment. These are opportunity guarantees, not one fixed map. Critical access avoids precision-jump-only solutions. A roofed gallery remains exposed unless a supported sealed habitat actually operates inside it. A visually sheltered alcove does not manufacture air or charge a cell.

The Lunar Shelter Controller grows through stable support, a protected sleeping cell and powered airlock, dust porch and stores, workshop, and optional expanded rooms or gallery enclosure. Each commissioned service works while later extensions remain unfinished. The Rim Observatory Controller is a separate purposeful landmark. Its observations improve known local survey information rather than exposing every underground chamber. Original plans remain the authority for the working boundary of each room and service.

A Light Across the Basin gives repeat visits a visible purpose. The player identifies two natural viewpoints, surveys candidate relay positions, prepares a working route, carries instruments, corrects readable connection or alignment problems, and deliberately completes the observation. The project uses bounded alignment and participant-present viewing conditions. Its reward is a maintained route, better local knowledge, and an observatory worth visiting. A failed alignment explains its cause without consuming the whole instrument or erasing earlier success.

PM01 Regolith Ceramic and PM02 Lunar Glass Filament first reward a survivable expedition. Regolith becomes useful panels, insulating pieces, and building forms; glass-bearing feedstock becomes light guides and instrument parts. A first batch can be processed at home. Local machinery later reduces bulky transport and improves outpost convenience, using imported equipment and explicit inputs. A powered lunar workshop is not automatically a breathing-refill or propellant service. Each capability names the supply route it actually supports.

The three existing expeditions progress from the first tube and view home, to the basin relay route, to a deeper glass route and optional gallery workshop. They retain shorter successful stopping points, clear return allocations, and reasons to revisit after Mars opens. New interior art illustrates the occupied refuge and its service threshold; it does not certify exact fit or silently pressurize the surrounding cave.

Full-source details: approved — Moon; moon-mars — Moon — complete destination planning expansion / MO-PLAN-01 through MO-PLAN-11 and MO-EXP-01 through MO-EXP-03. Current Tier 1 relation: tier1 / T1-X02 through T1-X04 and T1-S02. Visual context: OV-MOON, REF03, and the existing Moon layer and expedition diagrams.

CD05-T08 — Mars, field competence, and the regional home#

Mars extends an expedition from a radius around one refuge into a connected regional journey. Distant escarpments, old drainage, weather, rover routes, and sheltered camps turn the horizon into a practical question. The arriving expedition brings protection, filtration, insulation, supplies, repairs, sample handling, a weather reader, refuge capability, and a rover or its supported assembly materials from previously available production. Nearby useful surveying remains possible while rover assembly is postponed.

MA-S1 Windcut Tablelands provides terraces, saddles, gullies, service shelves, and viewpoints from which a route can be judged. MA-S2 Buried Delta supplies branching dry channels, cross-sections, concealed continuations, and decisions about where to leave the rover. MA-L1 Ochre Galleries offers sheltered layered passages and supported sealed camp sites. MA-L2 Brine Scarps concentrates isolated fictional brine pockets, protected sampling positions, and equipment handling. MA-L3 Rootstone Chambers changes the exploration language to tracing connected geological ribs through several spaces.

Walking access and vehicle access are different surveyed facts. A narrow slot may connect two rooms without carrying a rover or bulky instrument. A useful cargo route needs clearance, turning and stopping places, and a workable connection to shelter. The player can choose a longer drivable channel, a foot route with a cache, or a later constructed crossing. Required progression must retain a viable solution without insisting that an unsuitable generated route somehow accommodates the vehicle.

Weather changes a known landscape without destroying its continuity. Dust fronts have visible approach, forecast information, and sufficient response time. Shelter, postponement, and protected channels are useful answers. The first weather change is observable from safety. A camp can support service, sample work, or another modest activity while exposure is unattractive. Parked destinations do not secretly ruin filters, bury every doorway, or consume the greenhouse during real-world absence.

The Frontier Yard grows incrementally: service pad and shelter; rover bay and repair gantry; weather mast and map station; materials workshop; greenhouse; regional supply depot. Clear cargo lanes, pedestrian access, protected stock, sample work, and repair positions give the yard a readable shape. The player can stop with a modest useful refuge and bay, specialize in field industry, or develop a comfortable second home. Not every route needs an identical full settlement.

The River That Isn't There connects surface pattern, candidate continuations, field camp, protected brine evidence, and a Rootstone instrument site. Each outing narrows the explanation and opens a usable route. Bad readings have identifiable local causes and alternative measurement positions. Partial observations survive weather interruptions and returns. A solo player can stage the same tasks that a group divides among driving, surveying, carrying, sampling, and construction.

PM03 Ferric Lattice improves repairable frames, rover components, and field machinery after arrival. It cannot be necessary to build the first rover that reaches its source. PM04 Brine Catalyst supports selected compact processes and habitat improvements, with imported sampling protection available first. CEC01 optional brine mats remain conditional: their absence must leave survival, recipes, clues, and progression intact. Rootstone remains predominantly geological. Current new scenes should omit unselected mats rather than accidentally deciding the unresolved life proposal through attractive scenery.

Full-source details: approved — Mars; moon-mars — Mars — complete destination planning expansion / MA-PLAN-01 through MA-PLAN-11 and MA-EXP-01 through MA-EXP-03. Conditional ecology: CEC01 in the approved visual register and illustrated_03_scope_data.json. Visual context: OV-MARS and the existing Mars layer and expedition diagrams.

CD05-T09 — Outer Worlds, Afterlight, and spacecraft breadth#

Each farther destination changes the work of exploration and gives the player's earlier network another use. The nine documented celestial destinations contain 38 named regional experiences and eighteen planetary material entries. Those entries include processed products and research media; they are not eighteen new conventional ores. The full source catalogue preserves every named region, controller, mission, and material. The comparison below keeps the relationship between place, expedition, and reward visible without substituting a row for its complete chapter.

All first-arrival equipment and an independent return come from already reachable sources. Europa's imported pressure-rated equipment reaches its initial useful sampling zone; improved local products extend later work. Io's high-energy branch remains optional for the principal outward route. Titan supports a useful first landing without a locally built aircraft. Pluto's expedition arrives with known long-duration services rather than depending on a mysterious new material to stay alive.

Pluto completes a real campaign, with a constructed observatory, interpreted observations, and a return worth celebrating. Its route evidence does not conjure an Interstellar vessel. The first Afterlight voyage combines previously reachable components, conventional independent survival, calibrated navigation, and a bounded fictional transit assembly. Cairn products improve subsequent local investigation and are not prerequisites for reaching Cairn. Cairn's observations chart the safe local approach to Morrow while preserving an independent route back to the Solar System.

Afterlight remains a proposed working system name. Cairn's memory and interpretation lead to Morrow's living frontier, where a capstone can involve observation, a chosen restoration plan, and a useful community rather than one final stronger ore. Conventional shelter still makes first contact manageable. Bounded extraordinary mechanisms have limited jobs; they do not supply infinite energy, arbitrary terrain rewriting, or universal solutions to every system. Completing the story leaves the world inhabited and available for continued play.

The six spacecraft capability classes remain Atmospheric, Orbital, Lunar, Interplanetary, Deep-Space, and Interstellar. Lark, Keel, Pilgrim, Peregrine, Hearth, and Far Lantern are preserved representative hull proposals. The current Explorer supersedes the assumption of separate mandatory Keel and Pilgrim vehicles for Tier 1. REF06 and REF07 preserve the supplied later-tier appearance references, but size and printed concept labels alone do not assign their final destination capability. Detailed Tier 2 and Tier 3 systems remain to be developed deliberately.

Ships and stations use recognizable authored configurations with cockpit, cabin, cargo, service, laboratory, and workshop choices appropriate to their actual size. Parked vessels are useful explorable places. The recommended travel model combines authored launches and landings, supported local movement, bounded docking, and destination travel with an optional shorter presentation for familiar journeys. Home Orbit Anchorage, Transfer Yard, and their shared modules support already established routes. Survey Rover, Cargo Crawler, Ice Submersible, and Atmospheric Survey Skiff are support-vehicle families, not four more spacecraft classes.

The illustrated atlas also represents bodies without full landing campaigns. Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Neptune retain further-design status. Jupiter and Saturn supply orbital and sky context for the documented moons. Their presence in a solar-system view does not claim finished surface content. A new destination would need its own distinctive experience, arrival and return chain, regional geography, and lasting home benefit before being treated as another documented campaign.

Full-source details: approved — Space exploration; Ceres; Europa; Io; Titan; Pluto; Afterlight; Cairn; Morrow; Spacecraft and orbital places; Planetary materials and reference catalogue. Current scope: illustrated / ILL-S06 and ILL-S10; illustrated_03_scope_data.json. Current Explorer reconciliation: tier1 / T1-OV01. Visual context: OV-OUTER, OV-FRONTIERS, REF06, and REF07.

CD05-T10 — Equipment, ecology, encounters, and sensory identity#

Equipment follows tasks rather than a universal gear score. The 32 EQ families cover hand tools, controlled excavation, traversal, carrying, lighting, navigation, samples, cultivation, pumping, field power, protection, shelter, communication, repair, aquatic work, shielding, and specialist sensing. A useful first version teaches an action; an improvement extends duration, range, cargo comfort, precision, or a supported environmental duty. One late suit should not erase every meaningful route problem or make all familiar equipment obsolete.

Prepared loadouts remain legible. The player chooses a destination or known route and sees relevant equipment, supplies, cargo, reserves, and any essential omission. Serious exposure belongs to suitable protection and actual operating supply. Ordinary food can support travel while regional cooking supplies variety and convenience. The design avoids independent nutrition or service meters for every local ingredient. Saved preparation orders eventually make familiar trips easier without silently borrowing private storage or consuming protected reserves.

The twelve Earth creature families are Pebbleback, Wickmoth, Tunneltuft, Mossback, Canopy Skimmer, Fenpaddle, Slateback, Rillfin, Veilray, Shelfstalker, Emberback, and Stillhorn. Their identities connect habitat, posture, movement, readable warning, and player response. Watching an animal can reveal a shallow margin, an existing material exposure, a crossing, or a vent cycle. Territorial behavior can invite a detour, a barrier, patience, distraction, or combat. No unique progression ingredient requires repeated killing of a rare specimen.

The ten plant and fungal families are Tideleaf, Springfern, Lanternroot, Breadcap, Threadmoss, Ironbark, Loamweave, Glowcup, Emberreed, and Glassleaf. They connect habitat to food, resin, fiber, soil, cultivation, light, and optional display. Their source, harvestable growth, carried sample, and managed cultivated form need consistent visual relationships. A giant natural root column can have a modest cultivable form. A bounded bed uses one or two understandable conditions, retains a renewable base where appropriate, and does not spread indefinitely into unrelated blocks.

Living content supplies quiet activity as well as danger. Familiar surface farming remains dependable. Fishing rewards reading shore shape, depth, and visible activity. Cultivation gives a returned sample a place in a home. A natural refuge, a garden, or a peaceful Stillhorn encounter can complete a worthwhile outing without combat. Moon, Ceres, Io, Pluto, and Cairn retain environmental encounters without invented indigenous creature populations. Europa, Titan, and Morrow contain specific fictional family proposals; conditional CEC01 is treated separately.

The four Earth encounter proposals remain The Canopy Crossing, Slateback at the Landing, The Far Beacon Recovery, and The Thermal Relay. Each resolves a local situation through learned capabilities. The canopy route can support an explicitly commissioned optional alternate crossing. The Slateback encounter can end with a bypass, redirection, or combat. The beacon expedition combines navigation and bounded water work with a dry alternative. The thermal relay uses signaled phases, shielding, service, and safe staging. These choices preserve the wider construction and recovery rules rather than inventing encounter-only exceptions.

Sound and visual treatment preserve each realm's emotional range. Familiar weather and open air give way to nearby water, living activity, working spaces, distance, thermal movement, and deep stillness. Music accompanies discoveries and returns while leaving useful environmental listening possible. Warnings depend on actual events and have clear endings. Essential information uses more than one channel: text, shape, placement, motion, contrast, and optional sound. Reduced particles, motion, bloom, or stereo hearing must leave a route and its dangers understandable.

Full-source details: approved — Tools equipment and preparation; Life ecology and encounters; Materials and the crafting economy; Connected adventures and player experience; Visual direction and the illustrated edition. Stable families: EQ01–EQ32, BIO01–BIO12, FL01–FL10, ENC01–ENC04, CEC01–CEC11. Representative visual context: ILL03-06 through ILL03-08.

CD05-T11 — Visual direction, reference evidence, and honest coverage#

The accepted quarry and shoreline direction remains the surface visual target: rich blue water, visible underwater growth, expressive trees, warm sunlight, shaded rock, and depth that makes the landscape inviting to explore. It must be translated into two kinds of work. New ledges, cave entrances, plant forms, tree silhouettes, materials, and structures require actual content. Soft shadows, reflections, atmospheric haze, bloom, and grading are presentation. A shader can enrich existing shape; it cannot be credited with generating the extra geography invented by a concept image.

Minecraft-compatible forms, material boundaries, human-scale access, and modifiable space are the base. Dark regions use readable foregrounds and selected landmarks. Living light comes from recognizable growth rather than universal colored illumination. Mantle heat has visible sources and cooler usable pockets. Core scenes use restraint around unusual formations. Warm maintained interiors give the player a reason to value shelter in all of those places. The same copper fitting, suit, crate, or processed panel should remain identifiable under a new world's light.

The preserved baseline contains fifteen confirmed reference sheets, sixteen raster concepts, and nineteen editable diagrams or interface sheets: fifty distinct visuals. The original and display raster copies produce more files without creating more distinct designs. The ten illustrated guides complete the agreed overview coverage. Their representative family boards do not complete every regional activity image, machine turnaround, creature pose, growth state, or production asset requested by the much larger commissioning register.

The current visual-status overlay resolves specific historical wording. UX01–UX12 are supplied as illustrative editable layouts across four interface sheets. FP-ART01 and FP-ART02 are supplied by ILL03-01 Old Valley and ILL03-02 First workshop. Earlier source sentences saying that those images are planned, or that a historical planning slice generated no images, remain accurate records of their time. The overlay supplies current delivery state without changing those originals. A record with no matching delivered view retains its existing status.

New occupied-space concepts should answer the next concrete questions: where a person enters, stands, rests, stores equipment, passes a service threshold, and sees the change produced by restoration or commissioning. The guesthouse and starter lunar refuge are selected because their exterior role is already established while their use benefits from a closer look. A selected machine or expedition scene can extend that explanation. Each actual new asset receives its own ID, source references, purpose, status, and limits in the new delivery record.

Precise information belongs in editable diagrams: dimensions, room relationships, typed ports, material flows, chapter links, route alternatives, and state transitions. Generated scenes illustrate atmosphere, occupation, and material character. They do not certify a cabin fit, count an inventory, or decide the disputed station form. The current edition should label the documented proposed dimensions beside an exact layout, while the source reference remains accessible for comparison. Text and diagrams govern when an attractive generated detail conflicts with the plan.

A complete object study eventually needs a silhouette, attachment or grip, access, and the states that affect use. A material needs source, sample, processed appearance where relevant, and an application. A creature needs a normal pose, relevant warning or response, scale, and habitat. A structure needs prior condition, meaningful construction stage, working result, and a connected interior. These are useful production questions. They remain individual work items until corresponding views exist, and a new broad board cannot close them by implication.

Full-source details: approved — Visual direction and the illustrated edition; illustrated — Illustrated overview — ten reading guides. Current specific completions: current_visual_coverage.json, illustrated_coverage.json, illustrated_visual_catalogue.json. Preserved source references: reference_catalogue.json. Complete historical commission register: artwork_backlog.json. New delivery counts belong to the edition 05 asset manifest.

CD05-T12 — The short decision review and editorial reconciliations#

Only three material creative choices belong in the present decision review. T1-DEC01 is the Explorer scale and usable cabin. The recommendation is to test the nine-block, three-by-three body and five-by-five fin arrangement with real access, two pressure boundaries, suit clearance, pilot position, cargo, and service volumes. A larger shell remains a legitimate alternative if the actual fit fails. Approval to illustrate this proposal does not approve its dimensions for final production.

T1-DEC02 is the manufacturing-station form. The recommendation is a visibly smaller Part Fabrication Table based on REF10 and a broader Rocket Assembly Station based on REF09 controlling construction in its linked berth. The lower bench variants remain preserved alternatives. Selecting a form changes footprint and presentation; it does not introduce a third mandatory manufacturing role. Final station models should follow the specific reviewed distinction.

CEC01 is optional Mars brine-mat life. The current recommendation is to retain it as a conditional future option and omit it from unselected current scenes. If enabled later, sparse colonies add observation and local response without becoming survival, recipe, or mission dependencies. If declined, Brine Scarps remains a complete geological and protected-sampling experience. Nothing else in the current documentation waits on this choice.

Other issues are resolved editorially or left with their existing evidence gate. Early Tier 1 does not require Core. Explorer consolidates the current orbital/lunar vehicle. Navigation and Guidance Chip remain one role; Rocket Assembly Table is an assembly-station alias; the recovery beacon is EQ26's mode. A grain mill, ordinary quarry stone service, and ore crusher have different functions. Surface Expedition House is a later optional depot rather than the opening guesthouse. Proposed values remain proposed, and reference brands do not rename SUBSTELLAR.

The reconciliation ledger records the source passages and the current resolution for these relationships. It also distinguishes historical “next image” language from delivered views and the bounded First Playable from later Chapter 4 and market work. World-envelope feasibility, native recipes, engine integration, performance, detailed balance, and measured fit remain future investigation or validation tasks. Their existence is not a request to answer a long questionnaire before this documentation can be complete.

Full-source details: decisions_05.json and direction_map_05.json / reconciliations; tier1_model_register.json / decisions; first_playable_register.json / user_decisions_required_to_finish_planning; moon-mars / MA-PLAN-03, MA-PLAN-10, and MA-PLAN-11.

CD05-T13 — Further detail with a concrete stopping point#

The remaining expansion register turns the larger vision into defined content work without calling every illustrative or implementation task complete. Each entry names an existing family, the useful further detail, its source references, a completion criterion, and the evidence still required. A complete scene-level example can be delivered for one expedition while other expeditions retain their existing overview. New writing broadens the plan; only matching delivered art closes a visual requirement.

The next useful level for Earth's regions is a full route through one selected experience: arrival, landmarks, choices, useful work, shelter, interruption, return, and a lasting change. That pattern applies to all thirty-five named experiences while preserving their different purposes. Old Valley's remaining chapter work needs the grain mill, connected workshop and market preparations, then an occupied first market with arrivals and a durable result. The guesthouse interior study enriches the first chapter without completing those later events.

Moon and Mars already have detailed campaigns and three expeditions each. Further work should make selected rooms, service actions, route segments, weather interruptions, vehicle uses, and regional variants concrete. Their documents do not need another introductory rewrite. Farther destinations need the same scene-level depth: a complete arrival-to-return expedition, a locally distinctive working refuge, a first useful product, and an optional continuation. A new regional view should show an activity and a way home as clearly as its distant atmosphere.

Machine work proceeds by related function or production chain. A finished detail slice identifies first accessible inputs, useful output, physical flow, connection types, working and service access, blocked and parked states, and the property an upgrade improves. Material work connects a natural source or collection process to its handled form and installed use. Equipment work adds grip, attachment, carrying, warnings, and field operation. Life work adds behavior, posture, propagation, habitat, and encounter response. These related treatments keep objects consistent when they appear in an expedition scene.

Spacecraft expansion retains the same discipline. A later hull needs an explicit capability, configuration, interior, cargo plan, service chain, boarding relationship, independent first-arrival survival, and return before its larger silhouette means a complete feature. The supplied Tier 2 and Tier 3 concepts remain the appearance starting point. Orbital hubs and support vehicles need their own occupied working scenes and docking or terrain relationships. New planet concepts beyond the documented campaigns must first earn a distinctive gameplay purpose.

The authorized four-slice update brings together the current-direction account, worked industry and expedition chains, selected occupied-space imagery and exact diagrams, and a complete scene-level experience. Its concrete deliverables can be handed to the Website agent through a bounded content update with source IDs and clear asset metadata. Existing website implementation and the preserved source history remain available to that agent. This is a finished documentation increment, with the full remaining families visible and future mod implementation still governed by an explicit BUILD scope.

The selected scene-level experience is MO-EXP-01, The first tube and the view home, expanded through LE05-PLAN-01–15. The selected concepts are the guesthouse restoration, starter lunar refuge, and IND-M04 forming press. Six exact diagrams accompany their source, workflow, reserve, room, decision, and route relationships. Shadow Basin, Glassfall Vaults, and other dedicated views keep their separate remaining scope.

Full-source details: remaining_expansion_05.json; approved — Turning the creative direction into a future roadmap; source-specific artwork sections; illustrated_coverage.json / dedicated_views_remaining. Exact edition 05 delivery scope and newly supplied image IDs are recorded in the package manifest rather than inferred from this family register.

WP05-PLAN-01 — The question this example answers#

A completed Explorer should be the visible outcome of a workshop the player understands. A successful Moon expedition should then give that workshop something useful to do. This worked example follows that complete relationship: existing mechanical competence, the first useful electrical service, a finite Tier 1 production order, a prepared round trip, and two possible uses for the returned material. The end is a better light or habitat component installed somewhere the player already cares about.

The starting point is after the bounded First Playable's repaired guesthouse, crossing, quarry, first alloy demonstration and useful hoist improvement. Their construction costs are already documented under FP-C01–FP-C06 and FP-R01–FP-R04. They are not charged again. Old Valley can host the next work, but an independently built workshop with equivalent reachable services is equally valid. Chapters 4 and 5 remain part of Old Valley's continuing story; they do not become unstated permission checks for every Tier 1 component.

This is a complete design walk-through at the level of obtainable resource families, machine roles, supply custody and player consequences. Final machine bills, numerical recipes, route costs and cargo capacities remain proposals. The small numerical ledgers below are expressly illustrative accounting examples. They show whether one proposed allocation can be followed without duplication; they do not establish measured gameplay balance or claim that a six-slot illustration already fits the manifest. No mod implementation has been inspected or authorized by this document.

Source basis: IP02, IP03; T1-OV01–T1-OV03; FP-PLAN-02, FP-PLAN-09–FP-PLAN-10; T1-SPEC-01–T1-SPEC-02. Machine aliases retain their source identity throughout: IND-M02 is T1-M01; IND-M46 is T1-M02; IND-M45 is T1-M03; IND-M40 is T1-M05.

WP05-PLAN-02 — What enters the workshop#

The player begins with known ordinary sources and opens only the branches that answer a real project. Iron supports frames and replaceable fittings. Copper supports electrical conductors and familiar service connections. Glass provides windows and early optical parts. Redstone supplies the control vocabulary. Clay, fuel, ordinary fibers and supported sealing materials complete the first preparation family. Stone and timber continue to give machinery a place to stand.

These are availability obligations for the eventual content plan. A seed must offer a practical earlier source or a deliberately supported substitute for each required family. A rare tree, unique ruin chest, scarce creature drop or distant mandatory biome cannot become a hidden bottleneck because a placeholder recipe happened to use it. Where a substitute changes performance, the interface should explain that property; it should not quietly make the accessible option incapable of the advertised mission.

Source basis: original “Familiar resources that remain useful,” “Biological gathering and cultivation” and “Processed products”; MAT01, MAT09–MAT11; industry “Chain A” and “Chain B”; T1-OV01; T1-M01; T1-M05.

WP05-PLAN-03 — Electricity earns its place#

The first powered installation should answer a small visible need. The player mounts a workshop dynamo and source assembly, links it to a modest stationary bank through the switchboard, and connects a field-cell charging position. The first output is an existing EQ19 battery with usable SUPPLY03 charge. A work light and survey instrument can now leave the bench ready for an expedition. This result matters even if the rocket project is postponed.

A suitable existing mechanical source can drive the dynamo. A small fueled source supplies an alternative where water or wind is inconvenient. The construction of that first source uses earlier common stock; refined aluminum, high-duty alloy and the output of an electrical materials cell are excluded from its bootstrap bill. Furnace fuel used to make charcoal, raw logs consumed by that preparation, and active generator fuel are separate costs. A prepared fuel allowance never proves that producing the allowance was free.

The switchboard initially has an essential service branch and a workshop branch. The player can read current supply, stored charge, permitted delivery and connected demand. When a fabrication order exceeds delivery, it waits or uses an explicitly supported slower mode. It does not extinguish an occupied test enclosure to keep producing fins. Stored energy and maximum delivery are separate constraints: a well-charged field cell is not automatically an acceptable refinery supply.

An expanded forming press, rolling stand or powered handling line is attractive when repeated shaping becomes the inconvenience. It remains an IP04 capacity investment rather than a compulsory machine between every common ingot and the first rocket. Simple shaping, hand loading and small batches retain useful places. This is the same machine family becoming more convenient through selected tooling and power, without turning an early bench into a universal factory.

Source basis: IND-M04, IND-M05, IND-M32, IND-M37–IND-M39; EQ19; TEC07; IP02; industry “Power as a set of visible decisions.”

WP05-PLAN-04 — A selected workshop, with distinct jobs#

The first space program uses compact functions within recognizable installation families. The player need not construct a separate building for each line below. Related tests and services can share an appropriately equipped work surface, while the actual material transformation remains visible and inspectable.

The simple fabrication route prepares a small structural family, an Engine Module, a Fuel Tank, Navigation Chip and Launch Key. Decorative details such as individual rivets, every nozzle, each bracket silhouette and each screw do not automatically become independent inventory requirements. The assembly record explains which prepared parts become the body, cockpit, service supports and installed propulsion. The four visible nozzles remain one managed engine cluster under T1-SPEC-13.

The complete order includes functioning cabin and cargo services. A hull without them is a visibly incomplete vehicle, even if its silhouette resembles the finished reference. The player can commission the pad while the assembly station waits with a completed craft; that delay cannot create a second rocket bill. T1-I01–T1-I05, REF10, REF09, REF11 and REF15 govern the relevant identities and source appearances.

WP05-PLAN-05 — Supply production without a circular recipe#

For further review, this example recommends a compact Earth propellant recipe family based on prepared renewable carbon feedstock, process water and electricity. It deliberately names game input categories rather than asserting an actual rocket chemistry. The final accepted feedstock, quantities, batch output, service use and bounded residue destination still require recipe design. An advanced chemical train may improve throughput or flexibility later; it cannot be silently inserted into this first route.

Write the candidate batch as C units of accepted carbon feedstock plus W units of accepted process water plus E_P units of workshop energy, with any declared service consumption, producing Y_P units of SUPPLY01 and R units of identified residue. C, W, E_P and Y_P are positive defined recipe values before implementation. R may be zero only if that is an explicit design decision. When residue exists, it occupies a supported buffer or named destination and cannot yield more inputs on reprocessing than the process consumed. These letters are ledger parameters, not collectible items.

For the first Oxygen Generator, the recommended default is a powered Earth atmosphere-processing mode with a valid local intake, defined service media and a compatible breathing receiver. The environment supplies the allowed intake; electricity and service stock pay the process cost. Rejected intake exits through the declared Earth exhaust behavior, without creating a new mandatory industrial gas item. The eventual recipe defines output per supported operation and service interval. A water-processing alternative can be added once its whole input and byproduct chain is specified. Neither option claims real gas chemistry.

On the Moon the Earth intake mode is unavailable. The first shelter provides stored-supply transfer, equipment checks and service using what was brought. A machine mesh does not establish local production. If later local processing is offered, its location-specific recipe, energy demand, service stock and actual feedstock become a separate commissioned capability. The first trip's reserve calculation assumes zero local manufacture of fuel or breathing supply.

Both candidate processes must expose a complete production order before the player spends the build cost. At this planning stage, the dependency graph closes at obtainable Earth categories; it does not yet yield a final whole-project bill of materials. That is a concrete remaining numerical design task, not a reason to invent definitive recipes from an illustrative grid.

Source basis: T1-M03, T1-M05, T1-S01; IND-M16–IND-M17, IND-M40–IND-M45; industry “Chain D,” “Chain E,” and “Fluids, gases, and heat.”

WP05-PLAN-06 — The complete order and its accounting#

The manufacturing ledger has three different kinds of cost. Infrastructure is installed once: the required workshop functions, launch services and assembly equipment. Reusable mission hardware includes the Explorer, suit, tanks, field equipment and shelter structure. Active use consumes defined propellant, breathing supply, energy and actual service stock. A second visit normally pays replenishment and chosen upgrades, not a new hull, another key and an entire duplicate factory.

For every recipe j, record an integer batch count n_j, input vector a_j, output vector b_j, permitted machine and available earlier sources. Gross demand for input i is the sum of n_j × a_ij plus direct construction and mission consumption. Existing unreserved stock and legitimate outputs reduce new gathering demand. A reusable pattern is counted once as installed tooling; a component committed to the Explorer is counted as part of that craft and is unavailable for a simultaneous shelter order. Uncommitted queued stock remains in its actual source inventory.

The companion progression_ledger_05.json records these distinctions, supply allocations, dependency edges, assumptions and acceptance conditions. It is a design ledger with deliberately unresolved parameters; empty numerical recipe fields must not be interpreted as zero-cost crafting.

WP05-PLAN-07 — An illustrative round-trip supply ledger#

The following numbers are a closed arithmetic illustration, identified WP05-EX01. “PU,” “BU,” and “EU” mean illustrative propellant, breathing and electrical accounting units respectively. They have no prescribed relationship to liters, seconds, real energy or future inventory capacity. They are different quantities and cannot be exchanged. Their purpose is to make allocation, consumption and remaining custody inspectable.

The propellant example begins with 150 PU already produced in an Earth reservoir. Loading 120 leaves 30 there. After the round trip, the system therefore holds 30 PU at home plus 20 in the returned vehicle, with 100 consumed. Refilling the craft changes location, not total supply. The example does not specify how many refinery batches produce 150; that follows only when Y_P and its input costs are defined.

The breathing example assigns 40 BU to the cabin, 60 to the fitted field vessel, 60 to a spare and 80 to the refuge's imported storage. The fitted vessel supports 40 BU of surface use and the first 20 of the descent allocation. The spare provides the remaining 20 of descent use while preserving 40 emergency BU. The refuge consumes 60 and retains 20. A transfer between these vessels must debit one and credit the other once. Its displayed mission labels never create a second stockpile.

The electrical example assigns 90 EU to vehicle storage, 70 to supported suit storage, 60 to field-device storage and 100 to the refuge. Ten EU in each of the first three locations remains reserved, for a total 30 EU emergency allowance. Device compatibility and delivery limits still apply. The returned 30 EU is not one universal cell that can power any machine. Charging input is at least delivered charge divided by a defined efficiency, with conversion loss and workshop process energy charged separately.

Actual values must eventually come from a route's measured active demand, protection settings, transfer losses where supported, and a fair return margin. Required storage must fit the selected physical configuration with all other essential cargo present. If the example cannot fit, change the configuration or rebalance the complete mission; do not remove its refuge, repair means or protected return simply to preserve a reference screen's slot count.

WP05-PLAN-08 — Cargo is a player choice after essentials fit#

The default illustration assumes one pilot, matching the current Explorer recommendation. Additional travelers require supported seats, per-person suit and breathing allowances, appropriate cabin service and actual carrying space. A second participant does not fit by sharing the pilot's oxygen figure or becoming a cargo icon. Co-op can also use independently prepared craft and shared local projects.

The required pack includes the suit system, reusable field and spare breathing vessels, charged portable equipment, EQ25 with its complete first-stage contents, EQ06 rope/anchors, EQ07 harness, EQ11 lamp, EQ13 markers, EQ14 survey instrument, EQ15 journal, EQ16 sample kit, EQ26 beacon mode, EQ27 repair stock and ordinary food. A working cabin, route hardware and installed supply are checked as vehicle configuration, not automatically charged again as loose cargo. Ordinary tools already owned remain usable; a powered drill, rover, bulk refinery and observatory shipment are optional.

For a representative first loadout, reserve six marker placements, two usable anchor placements and one compatible repair/patch action. These are proposed route-service allowances inside existing equipment families, not six new marker species or an automatically consumed kit. The eventual route must be navigable within the supported allowance or offer a fair earlier alternative. Unused markers and repair stock return; installed anchors remain at their recorded positions unless recovered after everyone has passed.

Reserve room for eight regolith feedstock units and four glass-bearing sample units as a proposed collection target. These count actual accepted sample inventory units once the item's stack rules are defined, not kilograms. The player may bring fewer and still complete the observation outing. One preserved unit from each family is withheld from processing; six regolith and two glass units are provisionally assigned to first product work; one unit of each remains unprocessed reserve. Product yields stay symbolic until recipes are chosen. A small collection should support a useful first application at the final balance, rather than forcing a second trip merely because its first batch threshold was never checked.

WP05-PLAN-09 — Commissioning and the first expedition#

Before launch, the player completes a ground service rehearsal: fill an actual empty breathing tank, fit it, check the suit, commission the cabin, load and access the full cargo, verify return records, and inspect the three separate supply services. The console combines vehicle completion and mission preparation into one current answer. Missing seal stock is a different action from missing oxygen; a filled Fuel Tank is not a breathing reserve. A valid Launch Key requests the authorized sequence after checks, with a cancellable interval.

The lunar activity follows MO-EXP-01, expanded in LE05-PLAN-01–LE05-PLAN-15. The player lands on Earthrise Rim, makes a short inspection loop and returns, commissions the independent starter refuge, then descends through Regolith Hollows to an accessible Basalt Gallery overlook. They collect common regolith and reachable glass-bearing feedstock, record the chamber and observe Earth through a roof opening under supported viewing conditions. The dark branch is optional. Shadow Basin, the reflector mission and Glassfall Vaults remain further reasons to visit.

The protected return allocation remains in the Explorer while local activity uses its own supplies. An instrument can recommend retreat using known route demand and uncertainty, but a machine may not silently cancel the return reservation to permit another optional sample. If the player deliberately revises the plan, the consequence must be visible before transfer. Pausing the managed surface project while the participant is underground does not pause that participant's active suit demand or turn the cave breathable.

Source basis: T1-X01–T1-X04; T1-SPEC-15–T1-SPEC-18; MO-PLAN-01, MO-PLAN-04, MO-EXP-01.

WP05-PLAN-10 — Interruption, alternatives and honest recovery#

Manual alternatives apply to sensible work: ordinary smelting, simple shaping, sample collection, hand loading and small construction. They reduce dependence on bulk machinery. They do not bypass the specific process that produces propellant or invent oxygen through handcrafting. The first dedicated refinery and preparation service remain meaningful machines with obtainable construction and inputs.

Region parking preserves committed input, partial work, installed construction and real stored supply without absence production or consumption. Active teammates continue to receive the region's real services. A departing owner cannot freeze someone else's occupied refuge. Already reserved freight obeys its established receiving-region rule and does not run a remote factory. These rules are requirements for a future implementation, not verified runtime behavior.

WP05-PLAN-11 — The discovery becomes something useful at home#

On the return pad, the player unloads sample containers, inspects the suit and sees the same Explorer that departed. The journal already holds verified observations; processing an actual specimen has a separate material cost. A preserved glass fragment belongs on a shelf if the player chooses, while a different accepted unit enters the refinement order. Samples are neither infinitely copied by scanning nor destroyed merely to remember the route.

The regolith route uses screening/preparation, forming and firing through TEC02 with its TEC08 procedure. The first PM01 Regolith Ceramic output should support a limited habitat or thermal component. That can improve a supported panel in the lunar refuge or a relevant Earth workshop enclosure. Its benefit is a specific service or construction property, not an unexplained universal armor increase. Imported common frames, seals and energy still pay their part of the finished component.

The glass route uses sorted feedstock, controlled refinement and forming through established materials and optical work. PM02 Lunar Glass Filament can support a compact light guide or an improved survey housing. The recommended first display is an existing work light at Old Valley's quarry, or an equivalent lamp in the player's own workshop, fitted with the new component. A familiar location makes its change easy to judge. It should improve a stated property such as compact routing or useful instrument integration; brightness, power demand and range remain tuning choices.

The player chooses one application first. The other route remains known and the retained sample stock remains available. A future lunar line can process bulky material near its source, but this outing already paid off without one. The next preparation order reuses hardware, replenishes consumed supplies, checks service and adds a chosen upgrade. That shorter cycle is the practical reward for the workshop investment.

Source basis: PM01, PM02; MO-PLAN-05, MO-PLAN-09; industry “Chain F”; T1-X04; IND-M09, IND-M50–IND-M51.

WP05-PLAN-12 — What this pass establishes and what must be tuned#

This example establishes an acyclic capability route at the design-family level. Every first-launch input originates on Earth, a first lunar sample rewards arrival rather than enabling survival, and ordinary workshop services remain valuable after the expedition. The ledger separates construction, reusable hardware, active consumables, protected reserves and optional production. The scenario has a conservative success path and recoverable optional failure.

The recommended next numerical work is therefore concrete: choose the two starter supply recipes, fill the relevant common-material component bills, pack the complete manifest against the resolved cabin/cargo proposal, and measure the first route once implementation is explicitly authorized. The present edition supplies the connected design and honest accounting structure needed to do that work without undoing the existing creative direction.

OS05-01 — What these views need to explain#

The next visual detail pass follows the player into three places where useful work has a visible result: the Old Valley guesthouse, the starter lunar refuge, and an early forming press. The existing opening and machinery boards establish their broader setting. These views concentrate on occupation, access, service and change. Their purpose is to help a reader judge the experience before production models or a complete terrain template are commissioned.

The guesthouse should communicate that restoration has made an existing room genuinely useful. The lunar refuge should communicate that a protected interior is the result of a commissioned structure and supported supplies. The press should communicate a physical process with a deliberate input, a recognisable operation and a usable output. Together they connect the familiar work of making a home with the less familiar work of sustaining an expedition.

CD05-A01, CD05-A02 and CD05-A03 are concept boards. Their drawn details suggest appearance and occupation; they do not approve dimensions, recipes, inventory limits or material consumption. The accompanying CD05-D04 relationship diagram and CD05-D05 decision comparison establish precise stated relationships separately. Existing full specifications remain available through FP-PLAN-03, MO-PLAN-06, T1-SPEC-15, T1-DEC01, T1-DEC02 and IND-M04.

Each visual has one finite question. For the guesthouse: can the player recognise their room and the shared place around it? For the refuge: can the player understand how to enter, service equipment, occupy the room and prepare to leave? For the press: can the player see what is being shaped and where to act when work stops? A successful picture makes those questions easier to discuss. It does not need to display every possible object or interface simultaneously.

OS05-02 — Guesthouse: essential restoration before optional embellishment#

Old Valley is already inhabited when the player arrives. The public doorway, dry awning, stored timber and maintained parts of the building establish a place with existing occupants. The required restoration should belong to that building. It must not appear that the player has purchased an entirely new inn with a small repair order.

The essential project retains a recognisable entrance, sleeping place, storage and common area. FP-C01 already supplies the proposed restoration bill and FP-PLAN-03 already defines the two short stages. This visual review adds no third compulsory stage. The first stage restores the needed enclosure and approach. The second commissions the room, storage assignment and common-space access. Retained walls, furniture and fittings remain visible across the sequence so the change is legible.

The before view should show a repairable space rather than a completely erased interior. A bed or its repairable furnishing belongs to the original site. The repair does not secretly require a newly crafted bed, a particular sheep, a specialist machine or stock beyond the river. A room that appears accessible before commissioning can still show its actual broken approach or incomplete fittings. The illustration should not suggest that an invisible quest wall is the only problem.

The occupied view should communicate personal and shared space through arrangement. The sleeping position and assigned container form an understandable personal corner. A modest common table or ordinary crafting corner remains approachable by other occupants. The public route does not pass through a player's private storage, and the innkeeper remains available without forcing a precise appointment. NPC01 and NPC02 identify existing planning roles; the board does not invent replacement names or personalities.

Warm light, timber, familiar stone, stored supplies and a restrained amount of lived-in detail continue the existing Old Valley atmosphere. The object density should let the player read the doorway and circulation. A crowded decorative market, a powered fabrication hall or a new guild system would change the brief and are outside this particular room view.

A cooperative version may add supported sleeping positions or a clear local recovery alternative. It should preserve one shared construction bill for the project. Each player's personal claim and equipment remain separate. The concept does not establish actual respawn behaviour; the real game's supported bed and recovery rules must eventually be checked. In the document, the promised outcome is explicit enough that this cannot be mistaken for a decorative bed alone.

OS05-03 — Reading the restoration sequence#

The visual sequence should preserve a consistent architectural identity. A repair view may expose an unfinished edge, blocked opening or temporarily placed material, while the occupied view restores it. The camera can show a different useful angle if necessary, but it should not imply that a different building has replaced the original.

Construction is an authored, bounded operation. Its site preview distinguishes retained structure, intended repair and player obstruction. If a chest occupies a placement cell, the explanation identifies that conflict before the affected stage consumes its stock. A player standing in the work area causes a temporary wait. These are documented behaviours to show in the exact state explanation, not reasons to fill the concept board with warning text.

The commissioning moment should have a practical demonstration. The player enters through the repaired approach, identifies the sleeping place, claims storage and uses the common corner. The innkeeper's response acknowledges the changed space. The next invitation can point toward the crossing while the guesthouse chapter remains responsible for its complete essential outcome.

Optional free building remains available. A personal cabin elsewhere can be a useful home without automatically completing the authored guesthouse project. That distinction should appear in the chapter description and controller explanation. The project recognises the intended restored site, while the wider game respects the player's independent construction.

The visual review is complete when the before/repair/occupied relationship is clear, the required functions can be located, and the depiction does not introduce a hidden additional bill or station. It does not require a final block-by-block structure manifest. That later production document should account for retained, repaired and added geometry explicitly.

OS05-04 — Lunar refuge: protection that the player can read#

The first lunar refuge develops the compact white-and-orange habitat direction in REF03. The clean exterior panels, warm contained light, dark utilities and readable service area connect it to the Explorer family. The Moon around it remains exposed and lifeless. A lamp, an open cave or a picturesque doorway does not establish breathable conditions.

The first complete refuge is supplied from Earth. Its initial cell, commissioning resources and supported services cannot require the lunar material that the first underground expedition is supposed to obtain. The functioning Explorer remains the retreat while construction proceeds. The refuge is commissioned before the first committed descent into Regolith Hollows and the accessible Basalt Gallery overlook.

T1-SPEC-15 records a proposed seven-by-nine footprint and related approach allowances for T1-S02. This is a design candidate, not a measured plan supplied by REF03. The concept board should be labelled as a layout concept and should avoid printed measurements. CD05-D04 records adjacency and access relationships; final cabin and shelter clearance still need their appropriate fit review.

The refuge is useful as a small set of connected functions: a dust-aware entry, an occupied protected cell, a defined equipment service point, recognised storage, and a place to inspect the next journey. Those functions should not disappear beneath decorative consoles. The suit, backpack and portable supply arrangement should remain visually compatible with the confirmed Tier 1 references.

The dust porch provides a place to manage exposed equipment before entering the clean area. It is not automatically a second fully equipped workshop, a limitless decontamination machine or a source of atmosphere. Entry state and service state must be understandable separately. A completed enclosure without adequate supported supplies remains an incomplete service outcome, even if its appearance looks finished.

The first commissioned airlock and sleeping/service cell already support the initial expedition. MO-PLAN-06 places the larger dust porch and organised stores in a later convenience stage. A board that shows that addition illustrates a useful expanded arrangement, not a new prerequisite for the first descent. The working layout should label that distinction so an attractive complete room does not silently enlarge the initial construction bill.

The interior can be warm and modestly personal. A seat, clear work surface, bedding arrangement where supported, a view toward the approach and a few carefully placed containers can make it feel occupied. Those details do not imply unlimited comfort systems or a self-sufficient settlement. The first lunar foothold is deliberately small enough that the player can understand its requirements.

OS05-05 — A refuge used before and after the expedition#

Before departure, the refuge is a preparation place. The player checks their equipped supplies, the planned route, the service inventory and the protected return arrangement. Equipment taken into the field is identified as field equipment. Materials retained for refuge operation or spacecraft return remain accounted for at their actual location. An interface can explain the allocation without pretending every service is one interchangeable energy number.

After the expedition, the room makes the outcome visible. Dusty equipment returns to its service position. Samples move into recognised storage. The route record gains the measured or observed landmarks described in the mission. A small recovered ceramic feedstock and glass-bearing sample can be brought home for a useful first batch; the player does not need to install a lunar factory before the trip counts as worthwhile.

The quiet contrast matters. The Regolith Hollows descent asks the player to watch footing, markers and reserves. The larger gallery introduces scale and a view toward light. Returning to a contained room lets the player inspect what changed and choose a next action without a constant emergency. Warmth in the image expresses that relief; the document supplies the actual conditions that make it dependable.

An interruption should produce a comprehensible state. If a service input is missing, the relevant action waits and identifies the missing supply. If storage is full, the player chooses what to retain or move. If the outward route no longer fits the available reserve, the plan points toward a shorter objective, the refuge or the return craft. A recovery beacon remains an explicitly bounded recovery service; it does not conjure fuel or provide the normal solution to an impossible mission budget.

The refuge may later gain stores, a work bay, an observation mast or a larger settlement role under the existing lunar plan. These are visible future opportunities. The starter board should keep the current first-expedition functions distinct from that later growth, so the reader can judge the cost and character of the foothold itself.

OS05-06 — A forming press that belongs in the workshop#

IND-M04 combines a forming press and rolling stand role within TEC03. It shapes ordinary or refined metal stock into recognised plates, brackets, beams and other supported forms. Its value is reliable repeated shaping at a useful scale. Earlier simple shaping remains available, so the installation does not become a hidden compulsory factory gate for the first rocket.

The visual should make the process readable from player height. Incoming stock has an identifiable staging position. A supported forming or rolling area explains where the transformation occurs. The output position is reachable without walking through moving machinery. Reusable patterns are organised as meaningful choices, rather than a separate unique mould for every trivial component. Feed, operation and collection have distinct places.

The press can have the substantial physical presence requested for SUBSTELLAR industry: a stable frame, visible working elements, a practical control surface, power access and a serviceable mechanical arrangement. The picture should fit the existing early-machinery family. It should not introduce glowing late-tier exotic materials, a universal processing cube or unexplained output streams.

A stopped machine should still be understandable. The player can see the stock waiting, the relevant output lane and the control that explains the next action. The operating image should reserve a plausible human interaction area. Protective enclosure, supports and mechanical proportion are design intentions; exact collision, reach and renderer behaviour remain future implementation checks.

The state explanation should distinguish a missing input from a full output or an unavailable power supply. A single red lamp cannot communicate all three reliably. Labels and shapes carry the meaning; colour reinforces it. A close-up of a service hatch or control surface can help a reader compare the proposed operation with the full industrial catalogue.

OS05-07 — Connections and access before decorative detail#

Physical connections have a declared purpose. Power provides the selected energy abstraction. Process input accepts the recipe's actual stock. Output holds the resulting recognised item family. Control exposes orders and state; it does not silently transfer material. A human interaction position is not a machine port merely because the drawing places both near a front panel.

The same discipline applies to the nearby Tier 1 stations. The Part Fabrication Table prepares the confirmed component families. The Rocket Assembly Station accepts those components and controls the visible assembly sequence in its linked berth. The optional forming press can improve stock preparation without becoming a third compulsory interpretation of those two stations. Existing labels and aliases stay traceable to REF09, REF10 and the Tier 1 reconciliation.

CD05-D05 should help the reader separate two questions: what the stations do, and which of the preserved appearance variants best serves those roles. The proposed smaller fabrication surface and broader assembly station remain the recommended distinction. Displaying their candidate footprints is useful for review, but does not constitute final model approval.

Likewise, the Explorer's proposed envelope is only a candidate until the cabin, access, airlock, supplies and silhouette can be reconciled. A concept image may suggest occupation while being geometrically inconsistent. The decision comparison should therefore show the evidence and identify the unresolved fit, rather than select a final interior by visual confidence alone.

OS05-08 — Figure review and completion criteria#

Review the guesthouse for continuity of retained architecture, the complete essential room functions, and clear personal/shared use. Review the refuge for a recognisable entry sequence, supported protected occupation, reachable service areas, sample storage and a believable relationship to the exterior. Review the press for its input/process/output relationship, operator access and states that explain interruption.

The three new boards provide additional context for specific documented places and machinery. They do not complete every resident portrait, every shelter stage, every machine state or every regional variation in the historical artwork register. Their captions and current coverage records identify exactly what each board contributes. Original confirmed artwork remains available at full quality and keeps its authority over appearance.

Precise figure checks are separate from concept review. Diagram labels must resolve to the correct source roles. Route arrows must not imply an unavailable resource or mandatory later expedition. Service lines must remain typed. A conceptual floor plan must identify its lack of measured production approval. These relationships can be checked in the document now, while actual model fit and in-game behaviour remain future work.

This slice is complete when all three concept boards and the relevant editable diagrams are present, legible, linked to their source context and accurately described; when the two Tier 1 form questions remain visible; and when the reader can state what the player does in each place. The Website agent receives original assets, display copies, figure metadata and source IDs so these views can be used in the appropriate pages without losing their status or context.

LE05-PLAN-01 — An expedition worth remembering#

The first lunar expedition begins with a room the player made on Earth and ends with a light improved by something found beneath the Moon. Between those two familiar objects lies an immense, quiet landscape. The player learns that the same habits which made Old Valley workable—prepare a route, give supplies a place, make a useful repair, bring a discovery home—can create a foothold far beyond it.

This treatment deepens the existing MO-EXP-01, “The first tube and the view home.” It belongs to DST01 and the Pale Horizon journey. Its required geography is Earthrise Rim, MO-S1; a shallow Regolith Hollow, MO-L1; and the approachable edge of a Basalt Gallery, MO-L2. It deliberately stops before a deep vault campaign. Shadow Basin, MO-S2, appears as a future route; Glassfall Vaults, MO-L3, and the full “A Light Across the Basin” mission retain their later purposes.

The default expedition is solo in the currently proposed one-pilot Explorer configuration. Cooperative play uses supported seats and full per-person supplies if that configuration is eventually designed, or separately prepared craft. No second person is required to hold a switch, keep a distant region running or perform a mandatory simultaneous action. A group can share surveying, construction and cargo work without changing the essential sequence.

All dimensions, capacities, route budgets and active timings remain design proposals. The supplied spacecraft and suit references govern visual identity; new interior and activity boards are concept development. The Moon's geology, working materials, viewing conditions and environmental systems are authored game fiction. This treatment does not establish a physical lunar simulator, new lunar life, or implemented functionality. Source basis: MO-PLAN-01–MO-PLAN-10; T1-X01–T1-X04; T1-SPEC-15–T1-SPEC-18.

LE05-PLAN-02 — The route has a shape before it has coordinates#

The selected starter variant uses a broad landing shelf inside a broken rim. The Explorer's hatch faces a clear approach. A shallow bedrock pocket nearby can support the starter refuge. A low saddle leads toward a collapsed shoulder whose fractured material hints at a hollow. Beneath that shoulder, a short, braced passage opens onto a stable ledge overlooking a larger basalt tube and its roof opening. The return retraces a route the player has actually inspected.

This is a relationship between places, not a single copied map. The saddle can be broad or stepped, the hollow can bend left or right, and the gallery can contain a central wall, a boulder group or a second roof shaft. Each generated variant must preserve the same achievable opportunities. Decorative changes cannot make the first usable anchor inaccessible, move the only glass sample onto an advanced ledge, or put the refuge approach in the launch clearance.

A useful route estimate accounts for walking both ways, construction, service, looking around and one recoverable interruption. The journal need not display a countdown at every doorway. It should communicate whether the proposed outing fits the current supplies and which uncertainty deserves attention. Final block distances and consumption values follow later measured play, rather than being inferred from the dramatic scale of a concept image.

LE05-PLAN-03 — Departure begins in a familiar workshop#

Moment LE05-01 starts with the Explorer standing where the player assembled and inspected it. The workshop can still be modest. The Part Fabrication Table has a reason to remain beside the assembly area, and the service rack has the worn comfort of equipment used on Earth expeditions. The lunar manifest makes these objects feel connected: the sealed cloth, prepared ceramics, circuit work and charged cells are all becoming part of one journey.

The selected mission is the conservative Earthrise Rim landing and return. The console distinguishes installed hardware, loose cargo and stored supplies. The pilot sees a complete suit, a filled fitted vessel and spare, field charge, lamp, rope/anchors, harness, markers, ordinary tools, sample kit, repair stock, food and the Earth-made EQ25 refuge. The cabin and protected return allocation are verified separately. A crate label can show an actual manifest, but it cannot conceal unlimited contents behind the phrase “mission kit.”

The player chooses what to put in the remaining discretionary space. More sample capacity supports collection. An extra work light makes the future refuge approach more comfortable. Optional furnishings express attachment before arrival. Each choice comes after the safe manifest fits. A rover, complete lunar refinery and reflector installation are unnecessary for this trip. WP05-PLAN-06–WP05-PLAN-08 supply the supporting ledger and explicit illustrative budgets.

The last check is useful even for someone who has read every page: fill a real tank, fit it, inspect the current protection state, and see the cabin's independent supply. The reusable Launch Key then requests departure. During the short cancellable sequence, the player still understands where they are going and what would stop the launch. The passage gives time to notice Earth receding; an established route can later use a shorter presentation. Repetition should preserve meaningful preparation without requiring the same long spectacle.

LE05-PLAN-04 — Landing and the first small promise#

At LE05-02, the craft settles into its recognized landed state. The first view from the cabin is spare: a shelf, a broken rim, a dark edge and the broad unfamiliar light beyond them. The player's next action is to verify the parked craft and open its service view, not to rush toward the distant cave. The cabin display identifies its breathing reserve, equipment condition, protected return and known Earth destination. The vessel that arrived is the same registered Explorer that departed.

The hatch opens onto a usable approach. Contact, breathing, radio and connected machinery carry the sound. There is no invented lunar wind moving the dust across the landing area. Small disturbance at a boot or tool is local activity. The white-and-orange suit and vehicle remain recognizable against muted rock; the scene's scale comes from space between the few objects the player brought.

The first promise is modest: walk a short circuit and come back. In LE05-03, the player marks the hatch direction, checks the nearby refuge pocket, walks to the survey saddle and identifies a route toward the fractured shoulder. A sample of ordinary regolith is within that short circuit. The journal records what has been seen rather than opening a complete subterranean map. A distant dark basin can attract curiosity while the player's current task remains understandable.

Returning once before construction or descent makes the cabin a known place. The player has used its entrance, recognized it from the saddle and seen the supply cost of a small walk. If the suit indicates a problem, this is the fair time to service it or return to Earth. A first arrival and modest recorded survey are retained as real progress even when the full tube expedition is postponed.

LE05-PLAN-05 — A room established by deliberate work#

LE05-04 turns the refuge pocket into the expedition's second dependable place. The Lunar Shelter Controller previews its actual supported plot, access and first operational stage. The first stage includes an airlock and protected sleeping/service cell with real imported breathing and power. A partly built white shell does not advertise breathable conditions. The Explorer remains available throughout construction.

The pilot contributes the packed construction contents, inspects any obstruction and starts the bounded stage. Ground support, enclosure and services appear in an understandable sequence. Uncommitted materials remain recoverable when placement fails or the player changes the location. Installed stages remain installed. A small native rock, a player crate or the Explorer's hatch clearance is never silently overwritten to make the picture look clean.

Inside, the early room is simple. There is a place to rest, a place to set down samples, a compact service face and enough clear circulation to use them. The entry threshold separates dusty handling from the protected occupied cell. The first required clean-up interaction can be compact; the larger dedicated dust porch and store arrangement belong to the next useful stage. Its illustrative interior board may show that extension, with the basic and expanded states labelled separately.

The first occupied view matters. When the helmet can be removed in a genuinely supported breathable cell, the landscape outside is still enormous, but there is now a boundary the player understands and helped make. Light communicates warmth and occupancy. The service state, rather than the mere presence of a lamp, determines protection.

LE05-PLAN-06 — Preparing the descent as a separate outing#

LE05-05 begins at the service face. Samples from the inspection circuit are unloaded, the suit receives its supported dust check, the fitted tank is refilled or exchanged from actual unreserved stock, and the next route is selected. The refill interface names its source and the refuge reserve it will leave. Optional tool charging cannot take the last allocation assigned to occupied service.

The descent objective has three parts the player can remember: find a dependable route into the tube, record the gallery and bring a small useful sample back. Looking at Earth through the roof opening provides the experience's visual reward. The participant can finish a smaller observation without collecting the maximum sample target. The planned glass-bearing sample lies on the conservative route and does not require committing to the darkest branch.

The rope/anchor kit, harness, lamp, markers, survey instrument and ordinary sampling tools are appropriate to the first route. Two anchor placements and six marker placements are representative planning allowances, not final item capacities or an instruction to spend everything. A route preview explains whether the supported variant requires a brace and where it can be established. Any needed common brace material is included in the existing route kit or declared separately in the manifest; it cannot appear free during an animation.

Before leaving, the player checks their association with EQ26's Expedition Recovery Beacon mode. Its destination, availability and possible cargo consequence are plain. That check supports recovery from a mistake; it does not allow the manifest to omit the return supplies. The player then leaves the refuge by the same door they have already used and follows the saddle toward the marked shoulder.

LE05-PLAN-07 — The Regolith Hollow rewards care#

At LE05-06 the route tightens. Compressed shelves, broken impact material and a low ceiling make each movement feel more deliberate than the surface walk. The lamp finds the next standing position before the player moves into it. A short drop has a sound anchor position and a usable return arrangement. The first tether is an understandable connection between where the player stands now and where they will need to stand again.

The hollow presents a designated working face with cracks and small falling particles. These are a specific warning associated with that face, not a claim that every block in the Moon is running a hidden collapse simulation. A probe or survey interaction identifies the supported brace position. The player braces before sampling or uses the conservative adjacent path if their loadout or confidence favors it. Neither route requires a precision jump with no alternative.

One specimen can be preserved with the geological hammer and sample kit. Bulk regolith gathering is a different action and does not grant the same intact display object automatically. The player's observations connect texture, location and result: loose surface material, compressed shelf material and exposed basalt each have a reason to look different. The place need not be filled with luminous ore to offer something worth noticing.

On the conservative path, a return marker faces the direction of emergence, not merely the direction in which it was placed. A two-way landmark matters because the lamp and body face different ways on the return. The journal can note a crouched passage, tethered step or cargo restriction without pretending that a walkable opening is already a route for a large machine. That distinction makes a later construction visit useful.

Any bounded slump is confined to an explicitly designated optional face. It can interrupt an extra collection attempt or demonstrate why bracing matters. It cannot remove the only starter exit, destroy the required observation ledge or damage the refuge at a distance. The first experience is about understanding terrain well enough to act, rather than guessing which ordinary-looking block will end the campaign.

LE05-PLAN-08 — The gallery opens, and the objective becomes a place#

LE05-07 begins as the hollow's walls gradually change. The passage widens, its floor becomes more continuous and the lamp no longer reaches the far side. The last cramped turn opens onto a stable overlook. Across it lies the sweeping tube: a broad dark chamber, a boulder shoulder, a natural junction and a roof opening through which light reaches the floor. The contrast should be legible before a title appears.

The player can stop here. The ledge supports the actual suited stance, a placed light and the survey interaction. The view is not balanced on a single unsafe block designed solely for a screenshot. A deliberate step back remains possible without losing the instrument interaction. The chamber stays vacuum; the larger volume and rock cover do not produce oxygen or replace thermal equipment.

The survey record names what was observed: the overlook, the visible walking floor, the roof opening and the two visible branch directions. Hidden passages stay hidden. An apparent secondary exit can be recorded as a candidate until approached and verified. The player has discovered a useful map fragment and a future construction opportunity, not unlocked an omniscient cave scanner.

The eye can imagine a warm enclosed workshop on a stable shelf in that darkness. That is a future option. This first visit needs no pressurization of the whole gallery, immense bridge or remote factory. A supported enclosed habitat might later use a surveyed site without erasing the natural scale that made the reveal memorable. The current refuge remains up on Earthrise Rim, with a route the player has already secured.

LE05-PLAN-09 — A sample, an observation and a choice#

In LE05-08, an accessible fracture near the overlook contains glass-bearing material. Its appearance follows the established geological glass family: dark or translucent fragments in rock, with restrained reflections when the lamp moves. It is not a field of glowing crystals. The careful sample action preserves the selected specimen; other accepted material can enter a processing container. The interface explains the prospective light-guide or instrument use without requiring a full lunar workshop before leaving.

The roof opening supports the expedition's Earth observation under authored viewing conditions. The player positions the instrument or camera and records the supported sightline. The scene should allow looking around, re-framing and a quiet pause. It must not require waiting through a real astronomical cycle. If the chosen geometry uses a different valid framing, the observation should match that actual view rather than placing Earth through a solid ceiling for the sake of a fixed composition.

The record joins a place, an observation and a material. The user-facing result is understandable: a verified tube approach, a view home and a promising glass sample. The journal can now identify two further interests—the dark branch within the current gallery and a more distant regional route—without claiming that either is required to make today's trip count.

The optional side shelf is an extension of the same gallery, not an accidental entrance into a compulsory Glassfall Vault. Its maximum scope is readable before commitment. If the loadout no longer supports it, the warning states the limiting service and the consequence. Returning with the core work complete is presented as a confident expedition decision.

LE05-PLAN-10 — A recoverable interruption#

One authored variant can introduce dust-related instrument service on the optional side survey. Fine material from a designated working face has settled around an exposed instrument cover or suit service surface. The warning identifies the affected function. A map reading can be less convenient or a service action may be advised, but an unexplained fault does not instantly empty the breathing tank or consume the protected return fuel.

The player has three reasonable responses. They can use the one compatible service action carried in EQ27, stop the additional collection and return to the refuge, or leave a marked nonessential equipment cache for a later retrieval. Each response is a successful handling of the interruption. A repair uses a named available part or patch once. A brush animation can remove supported dust contamination; it cannot repair every component or replenish supply.

This event is a variant, not an obligatory first-trip disaster. The calm route may complete without a fault. Other supported variants can use a visible blocked side path, a tool running low or an output container becoming full. Only one clear problem should carry the introductory interruption. Combining an unexpected collapse, failing suit, lost map and empty tank would obscure the lesson and make the plan's contingency impossible to judge.

If the player falls, loses the route or experiences a larger supported failure, the recovery interface distinguishes the situation. A last verified marker helps with navigation. A reserve supports retreat. The established beacon association can return the participant to a valid supported safe point or service under the selected difficulty, with the consequence shown. A disabled Explorer may require the return service and later salvage. The system preserves discoveries and completed project states, records the location of recoverable cargo and offers a concrete next action.

Recovery does not claim to create a spare rocket, refill every vessel or transport arbitrary valuable loads for free. It must also remain available enough to prevent one failed optional sortie from permanently ending the campaign. Exact cost, active interval and dropped-cargo rules belong to the future recovery configuration; this document specifies the experience and conservation requirements.

LE05-PLAN-11 — The route home is the second half of discovery#

The core outing is not finished at the photograph. LE05-10 follows the known route back through the hollow. The gallery light is now behind the player, making their own physical markers valuable. A tether that first felt cautious now feels like infrastructure. The return junction has a familiar shape, and the saddle eventually brings the refuge and Explorer back into view. The same landscape reads differently because the player knows how it connects.

Installed anchors remain until they are no longer needed by any participant. A solo player may recover an unneeded marker after passing it; a group cannot dismantle the only shared descent while another person remains below. These are ordinary ownership and route-use concerns with visible consequences, not a demand for a new complex rope simulation. Equipment left intentionally in a cache has a recorded location and contents.

At the refuge threshold, the sequence is useful and brief: unload sample containers, perform the supported dust service, check seals, reconnect or exchange the actual breathing vessel, charge from available power and review the outing. In the basic refuge this uses the compact service position. In the optional porch extension it takes place across a clearer dirty/clean flow. Animation and layout communicate the same actions that the underlying stock records perform.

The record shows what changed: a commissioned shelter, a verified return route, gallery observations, a preserved image, collected material and any deliberately deferred work. A lost optional container does not erase the observation. A saved photograph does not create an extra physical specimen. The player can rest in the working cell, enjoy the scene and choose whether the next action is another small outing or return preparation.

LE05-PLAN-12 — Leaving a foothold and bringing a result home#

LE05-11 begins with the return plan while the player is still at a refuge. The console confirms the same supported Earth destination, actual pilot, working cabin, protected return propellant and breathing allowance, current service and loaded sample cargo. The player's desire to add one more crate cannot silently discard required equipment or make the departure readiness stale.

The shelter may keep intentionally left stock, spare furnishings and installed route equipment. Its close-out record states what remains, where it is and which services are currently commissioned. If the last eligible participant leaves the managed region, its authored consumption, production and events enter the parked state with exact stored quantities. The cell does not consume a month's supplies while nobody is present. If a teammate stays, that occupied region continues under its real service budget. Departure by the owner does not freeze the teammate's needs or world.

The illustrative ledger in WP05-EX01 leaves 20 BU of breathing and 20 EU of electrical charge at the parked refuge, with unused emergency stores returning in real portable storage. These numbers demonstrate custody only. They do not promise a fixed future stay duration or that an empty uncommissioned shelter becomes a safe point. A returning player sees the actual remaining capability before relying on it.

LE05-12 takes the Explorer back to the existing launch and recovery site. The player unloads, services what actually needs attention and retains the vehicle for another mission. The first product can use PM02 Lunar Glass Filament in a compact light-guide or relevant survey component; PM01 Regolith Ceramic provides another habitat or thermal application. The returned material pays its recipe cost and ordinary Earth fittings still contribute. The observation record explains why the material was useful.

The recommended final scene is familiar: a work light at the quarry or the player's own bench has a new component, and a preserved lunar fragment sits nearby. The room is still part of Earth. What changed is the player's relationship to the distant gray place that supplied it. The journal offers a better-equipped return, the Shadow Basin route and the future reflector mission as concrete possibilities.

LE05-PLAN-13 — Lasting rewards and the next visit#

“A Light Across the Basin” remains the larger signature observation mission. This expedition can reveal a promising viewpoint or record a question about a connection, but it does not automatically complete the mission's two viewpoints, route preparation, relay installation, alignment and observation. Those stages deserve their own later outing. Similarly, a visible glass-bearing fracture gives a basic sample without claiming that the player has explored Glassfall Vaults.

The second visit can therefore change the shape of activity. An explorer might bring better light and compare another tube. A builder might improve the dust porch and stores. A survey-oriented player can prepare the Shadow Basin crossing and reflector components. An industrial player might investigate a bounded local ceramic line after importing the machinery and proving its inputs. The original refuge supports these choices without becoming a recurring upkeep obligation while absent.

LE05-PLAN-14 — Presentation, interaction and art direction#

The experience needs a few strong compositions: cabin against empty landscape, first refuge light, the hollow's close working posture, the gallery opening and the view home. The player should retain movement, instrument use and a readable retreat during these moments. A forced camera sequence is unnecessary for most of them. Reduced motion and restrained effects can preserve the emotional sequence without obscuring warnings or making a precise standing position difficult to use.

CD05-D06 provides the exact route-and-choice diagram. CD05-D03 explains real supplies and protected allocations. CD05-D02 connects the expedition to Earth production and returned material uses. Their arrows and labels carry dependencies that concept art cannot prove. Interior and activity imagery should refer to the same craft, suit, refuge and geological identities, with proposed dimensions and operation states distinguished from approved references.

The Moon's visual emptiness is deliberate. Ordinary creature combat, trees, pools of free water, atmospheric dust storms and glowing biological cave growth do not belong in this first expedition. Geological interest, environmental preparation, equipment contact and player-created light supply activity. Optional unusual deep traces remain restrained later content and are not used to manufacture a new lunar civilization around the first glass sample.

LE05-PLAN-15 — Completion criteria#

Completion of this writing slice means the expedition's preparation, geography, actions, choices, interruption, return and durable result are defined and cross-referenced. Future implementation completion requires the acceptance scenes to run in the actual inspected project after explicit BUILD authorization. The present treatment supplies the coherent experience that those scenes should demonstrate.