Constructor - calls parent Stuff constructor.
Protected Optional_Protected Optional_The slice's primary owner — singular, conceptually primary. The
'owner' role in this group can transfer ownership, grant or
revoke secondary access, and destruct the slice. Other roles in
this group still get content access via the can() flat-union
walk. The field is inheritable through Zone.lookupField; the
AccessApi.can walk collects the closest stamped ownerGroup
plus every accessGroups entry up to root.
ProtectednameHuman-readable zone name ("Narnia Castle", "The Caves", "Animalia", …).
ReadonlystuffRuntime ID for this object (generated using nanoid). This is NOT the MongoDB _id - it's a runtime identifier.
StaticpersistentStaticsubscribableUniversal live-query subscribable fields — fields every Stuff
exposes regardless of mixin composition. Currently just
displayName, a derived render that delegates to
Stuff.getPresentation (Named's name or Visible's
shortDescription, falling through to the baked-in 'something').
Declared here rather than in a substrate-private synthetic
table because every Stuff genuinely owns the concept — there is
no "what if this Stuff has no displayable identity?" case. The
descriptor uses dependsOnFields to declare the leaf source
fields it depends on (name, shortDescription); the substrate
installs precise (FieldChangedEvent, 'field', dep) index
entries automatically. Shadow lifecycle support rides on
ShadowChangedEvent in changes (declared-but-unfired until
the shadow subsystem wires it).
Mixin layers above Stuff add their own subscribableFields for
mixin-owned state; the substrate's prototype-chain walk
hasOwnProperty-checks at every level and unions the
descriptors.
Future universal renders (pronoun, articleName, etc.) land
here too. Mixin-gated renders go on the mixin that owns the
gate.
Consent seam for the residency (self-eviction) sweep. The sweep
asks each idle object whether it may be culled; the object decides,
reading its own knowledge. Default is cull ({ ok: true }) — a
fresh backing class is reclaimable by default and only becomes
sticky when its author deliberately vetoes, the correct bias for a
leak-plugger. Return { ok: false, reason } to veto.
Vetoes layer on the mixin/class that owns the relevant
relationship, composed via super.canEvict(context) — base Stuff
stays permissive and does not reach into Container/Shadow/Avatar/
Exit knowledge. The relational vetoes derive from the R2.x
ref-cleanup rules: an object in an owned/symmetric live-ref
relationship vetoes while its anchor is alive (see
docs/subsystems/residency.md).
Distinct from canDestruct: an object that permits eviction can
still canDestruct-veto, so the sweep's enforce path tolerates a
DestructError (logs + continues). The sweep calls this on the
raw target (via RAW_TARGET) so asking never counts as a touch.
Destroy this object.
Locked down by @CallSecurity(ApiOnly) — only callers under
mud/api/ (in practice, StuffApi.destruct) may invoke it.
@Unshadowable because the unregistration path must always run;
a shadow that intercepts and skips it would leak the object into
the registry forever. @Final because subclass overrides would
defeat the same invariant — the loader hook throws
FinalViolationError at import time on any subclass redefinition.
Subclass cleanup belongs on the optional onDestruct() witness
(consulted by StuffApi.destruct while the target is still live);
refusal logic belongs on canDestruct(). This terminal destroy()
is the unshadowable mark-and-unregister step only.
Read the recency timestamp. Read by the residency sweep — which
calls it on the raw target (via RAW_TARGET) so the sweep's own
introspection never counts as a touch.
Self-presentation — the casual-register render string for this object, the answer to "what does this Stuff call itself?" Three- step resolution:
Named.name if present and non-empty — the object's
proper name ("Alice", "Excalibur", "Town Square").Visible.shortDescription if present and non-empty —
the object's visual identity ("a heavy oak door").For a Globbable stack (quantity !== 1) the count folds in as
an affix — "30 coins" — pluralized via GrammarApi.pluralize
(which honors host-side getPluralForm() overrides for
irregulars). Named takes precedence over Visible so a
Named-with-description renders by its proper name; code that
needs the formal register calls getFullName() when typed as
Named.
Viewer-blind by design. This is the shared baseline every
Stuff exposes; the viewer-aware naming step (recognition /
identification — see
docs/subsystems/belief.md) composes on top
of it. Left shadowable (NOT @Final) so masking / disguise
effects can override the rendered identity via a method shadow.
Build the composable Mml fragment for this object's display name —
the Mml sibling of getPresentation. Mml.ref (and so every
<item> / <name> / … identity tag) renders this, not a raw
string, so a name joins the compose chain as a fragment like
everything else. The label is the already-resolved, viewer-aware
name (recognition runs in the render layer and hands it in).
Return null for the plain default — Mml.ref then wraps the label
in Mml.text, which escapes it exactly once, so player-authored
names / status decoration are safe by construction and the fragment
is never re-escaped downstream. Override to build a richer fragment
(a TPA terminal wraps its name in <color> to tint by state). The
plain-string getPresentation stays the surface for non-prose
consumers (logs, context.note, MQL scalars).
Read seam. Instance method, but unwraps via ProxyApi.unwrap
before reaching the # slot — this inside an instance method
called through the proxy is the proxy, and the # slot lives
on the raw target.
Get the spatial zone. Unwraps via RAW_TARGET because the
# slot lives on the raw target only and this inside an
instance method called through the proxy is the proxy.
Check if this object has been destroyed.
@Unshadowable: the destroyed-state read is a framework invariant —
any shadow that lied about it would let consumers touch a torn-down
Stuff. @Final: subclasses overriding this would defeat the same
invariant; the loader hook throws FinalViolationError at import
time on any subclass that redefines it.
Override point for ancestor-walking behavior. Default: delegate
to the nearest enclosing Zone's lookupField, letting the
recursion carry the walk upward.
Subclasses can intercept here to alter or root the walk:
class RootedZone extends Zone {
// Inheritance barrier: this zone's own defaults are
// authoritative; ancestor values do not flow through.
override async lookupAncestorField<T>(_field: string): Promise<T | null> {
return null;
}
}
Or to consult a custom ancestor (e.g., a zone that inherits from a sibling template rather than its template parent).
The default impl delegates to ZoneApi.getEnclosingZone(this) —
that's the orchestration step (template-path walk, folder-class
predicate, singleton resolution) and it lives in api. The
polymorphic decision (what counts as "ancestor" for this zone)
lives here.
Effective value of fieldName for this zone. Reads own value
first; if absent, delegates to lookupAncestorField (which by
default consults the nearest enclosing Zone, which then performs
its own lookupField — the recursion handles the deep walk).
Returns the nearest non-null/non-undefined value, or null when
nothing in the chain defines the field. Callers compose a
settings-style fallback on top:
const profile =
(await zone.lookupField<CelestialProfile>('celestialProfile'))
?? ShellApi.resolveSetting(host, 'world.zone.celestialProfile.default');
Field-read mechanism: prefer get<PascalCase>() (the inter-Stuff
contract surface), fall back to direct property access. A
non-existent property reads as undefined and is treated as
"not defined here, walk further."
Per zone-architecture-slate § Inheritance walk for zone-carried fields.
Terminal onDestruct no-op. Exists so subclasses and mixins
overriding onDestruct can call super.onDestruct() without
the cast-to-optional-callable dance — the chain is guaranteed
to bottom out here. StuffApi.destruct invokes the hook via
the optional-method dispatcher in api/stuff.ts; that path
still works (always finds a function on the prototype).
Override (not extend with super) at any layer that wants
cleanup; chain to super.onDestruct() from the override so
intermediate layers in a mixin chain run too.
Invoked by StuffApi.destruct (and forceDestruct) while
the target is still live, after canDestruct passes and before
shadow-detach + destroy(). Witness — the return value is
ignored (it cannot veto; canDestruct is the veto seam). Override
to release resources/listeners and chain super.onDestruct()
so mixin layers run.
Stamp this Stuff's templatePath and re-key the
byTemplatePath index so future findByTemplatePath lookups
see the new path. No-op when path matches the current value.
Locked down by @CallSecurity(ApiOnly) because flipping a
Stuff's identity post-clone would break FromTemplate
policies and any caller-side caching of template-path
identity. @Final @Unshadowable because the index update has
to run for every successful set — a subclass override that
forgot the index call (or a shadow that intercepted) would
silently desync byTemplatePath.
Unwraps via ProxyApi.unwrap so the #-slot access lands on
the raw target (see comment on #templatePath above).
Set the spatial zone. Gated by FromSpatialZone — only the
SpatialZone class and its subclasses (CartesianZone,
SphericalZone) may call this through the proxy. The
addLocation / removeLocation chokepoints on the zone side
are the legitimate callers; everyone else is rejected.
Clone-time seeding from StuffApi.#cloneInner doesn't go
through this method — it uses the caller-allowlisted
_stampZone seam below.
@Final @Unshadowable because the index of substrate
invariants that consult getZone() (containment's
cross-zone gate, Mobile.traverse, MQL scope walks) trusts
the slot's value; a subclass override or shadow that lied
about it could break those invariants. No legitimate
subclass needs to extend this anyway — the only legitimate
write paths are the SpatialZone chokepoints and clone-time.
Get a string representation of this idea (for debugging). Subclasses should override to provide more specific information.
Refresh the recency timestamp to now. Timestamp-fixed (no caller-supplied value). Called on the raw target by the security gate on every successful dispatch (Phase 2) and by the residency presence walk.
Abstract base for all Zone flavors. Holds the name, the folder-of-templates contract (structural —
ZoneApi.isFolderClasschecksprototype instanceof Zone), and the field-inheritance walk (lookupFieldand its overridable sub-methodlookupAncestorField).