Declared address path in the namespace, or null. Sparse —
null is the common case and the resolve-walk falls through it
to a containment ancestor or the spatial zone.
Per-Detail Material overrides — flat map from detailKey to the
Material's templatePath. Stored as a plain Record (not a
Map) so default JSON serialization handles it without a
marshaller.
Protected_Persistent declarative-content field. _focus holds the YAML-
shape input {rho, theta, phi, radius}; the runtime tuple lives
on SphericalCoordinatesMixin.coordinates ([rho, theta, phi])
and radius (number). The setter bridges them — see setFocus.
Parallel to CartesianLocation.coords per declarative-content-
slate § coords on CartesianLocation (Spherical note).
Path to the bulk default Material singleton. Resolved lazily on
each getMaterial() call so HMR replacement is observed
immediately.
ProtectedcontentsThe contained items. Read access goes through getContents();
mutation goes through addContainable / removeContainable,
which only Containable.setContainer may legitimately invoke.
Protectedcoordinates[rho, theta, phi] — radial distance + two angles.
ProtectedexitsExplicit exit map. Derived exits (cartesian adjacency, vessel 'out')
are NOT stored here — they are synthesized lazily by the zone and by
ExitableVessel.getExit() respectively.
Host-internal storage; external callers use getExits() /
getExit(direction).
ProtectedfixtureFixtures keyed by slot name. Single source of truth — the
Slotted base's slots Map stays empty for Adornable hosts
because occupy / vacate on Adornable are routed through
addFixture / removeFixture.
Runtime-only — fixtures are reconstructed by seed clone hooks
(BoundaryApi.attachExistingBoundary).
ProtectedillustrationProtectedlongProtectednextCounter for synthetic slot names. Instance-local, runtime-only.
ProtectedradiusSphere radius. Default 1.0 makes a unit sphere.
ProtectedshortReadonlystuffRuntime ID for this object (generated using nanoid). This is NOT the MongoDB _id - it's a runtime identifier.
Static_StaticcommandVisible is target-shape only — no verb contributions. See the
mixin docstring for why look.yaml belongs on Perceiver's
self bucket, not on Visible's target-side buckets.
StaticfieldField-marshaller bindings for the five Quantity-typed bulk
fields. The per-detail maps round-trip via standard JSON
(Quantity.toJSON / fromJSON) — Record<string, Quantity<U>>
serializes natively without a map marshaller.
Staticinstructionexits is the canonical instruction field shape for declarative
content. applyExits consumes a Record<string, ExitInstruction> and
installs the runtime entries — no paired getter for the spec
(the runtime exits: Map<string, Exit> has its own API). See
applyExits and feedback_property_vs_instruction_fields.
StaticmarkupMarkup-augmenter contribution. senseStripAugmenter reads the
per-call filter from AugmentOpts and the viewer's sensorium
(derived from BodyPlan.getModalities()), and drops
<sense channel="X">…</sense> regions and <detail sense="X">
wrappings whose channel isn't in filter ∩ sensorium.
Lives on VisibleMixin (not DetailedMixin) because <sense>
regions can appear in any Visible-mixed long, with or without
detail authoring. Ordering: VisibleMixin sits above Detailed
in the typical composition chain, so the parent-first walker
runs senseStripAugmenter BEFORE wrapDetailKeysAugmenter —
strip-then-wrap is correct because wrapping inside a region
destined for the strip is wasted work.
StaticpersistentStaticsubscribableProjection field for live subscriptions. Reads
getObviousExits() (explicit ∪ zone-derived, !hidden) and
shapes each entry as { direction } for the wire. Destination
paths are deliberately NOT shipped — the pane renders a "go
No dependsOnFields plumbing today: rooms with explicit exits
settle at hydration and cartesian-derived exits are positional.
If runtime exit add/remove ever becomes a hot path (door
sealing, dynamic walls), wire addExit / removeExit to fire
FieldChangedEvent { field: 'exits' } the same way Container's
addContainable / removeContainable do for contents.
Install a forward/back exit pair in one call. Both sides share the
same Door reference when one is supplied, so opening from either
side flips a single state.
Reciprocity: the opposite direction is inferred from
NavigationApi.invertDirection(direction) for cardinal directions.
For non-cardinal labels ('office', 'portal', vessel-specific
names) the caller MUST supply opts.opposite — there is no
structural inverse to infer. Passing opts.opposite for a cardinal
direction overrides the inferred inverse.
State-mutation primitive. Locked down — only callable from
Containable.setContainer. Use ContainmentApi.move(item, container) from application code.
Fires FieldChangedEvent { field: 'contents' } after a real
addition so the MQL subscription substrate's dependency index
picks up containment-shape changes for the contents descriptor.
The substrate matches on (KIND, 'field', 'contents') only —
oldValue / newValue are inspected by the diff pass via
re-projection of the host, not by the index, so the count
delta carried here is informational (debugging / future
coarse-grain optimizations) rather than load-bearing.
Phase 2 applier — clone each adornment template and attach it as a
fixture. Mirrors applyPopulates, minus the singleton dispatch:
fixtures are per-instance, so every entry is cloned fresh. A
template that doesn't compose AdornmentMixin is a configuration
error (it can't be a fixture) and throws, naming the path.
Declarative-content applier. The instruction field is consumed
here: each ExitInstruction is translated into an explicit Exit (or
addBidirectionalExit for cardinal / explicit-bidirectional
entries). Destinations and doors lazy-clone via
StuffApi.singleton, so a depended-on Location is materialized
on first need; further singleton(x) calls during a cascade
hit the registered proxy and short-circuit cycle scenarios.
Per-direction idempotency: a matching existing exit (same destination, same door) is a no-op; a mismatch throws with a diagnostic naming both seed paths.
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.
The host's declared address, or null when none is declared.
OptionaldetailKey: stringResolve the host's authored biome, or null when no override.
Usable ceiling height — the side of the cube inscribed in the
sphere, 2r/√3. The cube's space diagonal equals the sphere's
diameter; the cube's side is the practical floor-to-ceiling
extent of the room.
Snapshot of contained items as an array.
Walk the containment tree depth-first pre-order, starting
from this Container's immediate contents, and return every
Containable encountered. Used by MQL's :I transform and
any controller that wants the full nested inventory.
Merged lookup:
ExitableVessel overrides for 'out')CartesianZone returns anything)All non-null doors on this location's obvious exits.
Explicit exits only. For tooling / persistence.
OptionaldetailKey: stringOptionaldetailKey: stringRead 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.
Get the long description with fallback to short, then default.
Affordance-annotated long description — see the interface
docstring for the augmenter pipeline contract. Calls
Mml.augment with the host (this), the supplied viewer,
and the per-call opts (the senses build threads
opts.filter through here for verb-specific sense filtering).
Every contributing mixin's augmenters run in
parent-first → child-last order.
Optionalopts: AugmentOptsOptionaldetailKey: stringExits displayed by look — explicit ∪ derived, filtered by !hidden.
Zones that synthesize cardinal-derived exits (CartesianZone) opt in
via Zone.hasDerivedAdjacency(); zones without adjacency derivation
(SphericalZone) skip the iteration entirely so we don't waste 10
always-undefined deriveExit calls per query.
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).
OptionaldetailKey: stringGet the short description with fallback.
Effective receiving-surface area used by VisionModality.lightAt to
convert accumulated lumens to lux. v1 commits to the room's own
radius (interpreted as m²) — bigger spheres read dimmer for the
same total flux. The exact-physics version (full surface area
4πr² or a cross-section) is deferred until content needs the
fidelity; a single scalar keeps the propagation walk simple.
Slot universe (Pattern C from slot.md). Derives from the live fixture keying.
Resolve the temperature at this scope (optionally narrowed by a
detailKey). Routes through BiomeApi.resolveTemperatureFor,
which walks innermost-container-outward then biome / zone /
universe.
OptionaldetailKey: stringRead 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.
Full-sphere volume (4/3)πr³. The reservation that adjacent
spheres can't overlap; also what gas-law math (n = PV/RT)
operates against. Returns null when radius is unset.
OptionaldetailKey: stringNarrowed override: a SphericalLocation lives in a SphericalZone
by SphericalZone.addLocation's rejection of non-Spherical
locations. The cast happens once here, at the boundary; callers
with a typed SphericalLocation reference get the narrowed type
for free. Symmetric with CartesianLocation.getZone.
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.
Mutual-exit verification — same as CartesianLocation. The verifier
skips non-cardinal directions, so spherical exits authored with
semantic labels ('office', 'plaza') are no-ops here; they rely
on addBidirectionalExit for inverse wiring at construction time.
Optional_context: unknownRemove primitive. Same lockdown as addContainable. Fires the
matching FieldChangedEvent { field: 'contents' } on a real
removal.
Declare (or, with null, clear) the host's address.
OptionaldetailKey: stringSetter with side effect. Stamps the runtime coordinate tuple
and radius via the existing
SphericalCoordinatesMixin.setCoordinates / setRadius, then
registers this location with the resolved SphericalZone via
addLocation(this) (Spherical's addLocation reads the
coordinates that we just stamped — no per-arg coordinate
delivery).
Idempotent on the happy path (same focus → no-op). The
idempotency check uses SphericalZone.hasLocationAtFocus.
OptionaldetailKey: stringOptionaldetailKey: stringStrict on Quantity<'kg'>. Callers holding a raw number wrap
via Quantity.of(n, 'kg') at the call site; tag / alt-unit
authoring is the marshaller's job, not a runtime API concern.
OptionaldetailKey: stringOptionaldetailKey: stringOverride the temperature at the room/vessel scope or at a
specific detailKey. null clears the override (the next read
falls through to the chain).
OptionaldetailKey: stringStamp 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).
OptionaldetailKey: stringSet 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 object (for debugging).
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.
Mutual-exit invariant check, run at Location load (via
postRegister) and on traversal as a fallback. Walks ONLY the
_pendingVerify set — exits the addExit-time triage flagged as
"could be wired but isn't yet."
For each pending exit:
blocked = true with a logged warning. Either way,
evict.Idempotent. Zone-derived cartesian exits are synthesized per-call and inherently mutual by grid adjacency — they aren't tracked.
Staticcleanup
Constructor - generates unique runtime ID.
Subclass constructors should call super() and then initialize their fields. Use field initializers for default values where possible.
IMPORTANT: Direct
new SomeStuff()is rejected — every Stuff must be created viaStuffApi.create(() => new YourClass())orStuffApi.clone(...). The construction sentinel above guarantees this; rawnewoutside the Api layer throws here.Constructor-body method calls bypass the Proxy (the Proxy is installed AFTER the constructor returns). Initialize fields here; do NOT invoke methods that carry