Featured Experiment

Ecosystem

Guide a living grid of plants, herbivores, and carnivores through changing seasons. The page now focuses on controls that are fully connected to the simulation engine.

How To Read It

  • Start with a curated scenario instead of a raw empty grid.
  • Use rain and species injections as light interventions, not permanent balancing tools.
  • Watch the population chart for delayed collapse after overgrazing or predator spikes.

Curated Scenarios

Each preset only adjusts behavior that is wired into the current engine.

MVP surface

Simulation View

Terrain, water, shadow, and entities update directly from the live engine.

Balanced Basin

Population Trends

Recent shifts in plants, herbivores, and carnivores.

Plants Herbivores Carnivores
Run a scenario to start building a chart.

Controls

Resetting keeps you on the active scenario.

Balanced Basin
10 ticks/sec

Seasons now influence rain, sunlight, and soil fertility.

420 ticks

Quick Interventions

Use small nudges to keep a run alive or to stress-test a scenario.

Snapshot

Current readout for the Balanced Basin run.

spring
Elapsed ticks 0
Plants 0
Herbivores 0
Carnivores 0
Average generation 0.0
Top generation 0

Ecosystem Health

Empty
Plant to herbivore ratio 0.0

Healthy runs keep plant pressure above warning bands before starvation and predator crashes begin.

Balance Signals

Early warnings from the new ratio-based balance model.

0 animals
Food ratio 0.00
Prey ratio 0.00
Herbivores per carnivore 0.0
Environment quality 0.00
Recovery pressure 0.00

What Is Wired Today

  • Plants use crowding, environment quality, and recovery pressure instead of mostly linear growth.
  • Season settings drift water, sunlight, and fertility more gradually instead of using hard cliffs.
  • Herbivore and carnivore reproduction now follow food and prey ratios before overshoot gets extreme.
  • The summary panel exposes early warning metrics so collapse can be seen before extinction.