v0.36.0 21 October 2026

The tavern as a building, a working fishing shack

• The world
• Fishing

• The tavern, rebuilt.
  • In the Cursed Forest it's now a timber-framed building:
  • a stone footing, and walls of daub between dark posts, rails and braces
  • leaded windows lit warm from within (night-dark from inside), with shutters folded back
  • a shingled roof with barge boards, gable timbers and a smoke louvre over the hearth
  • a wide front door with both leaves swung open, and stone steps
  • A back door by the bar's end, ajar under its own lantern, so you can get in whichever side you come on it.
  • Facing: forest taverns now open toward the path from the start. They used to face whichever clearing came first and could stand with their back to you.
  • Underground: the same room without the shell (the tier's walls stand in), under a timber frame and a striped awning.
  • The hearth is the new campfire (logs, flames, sparks and smoke, and it warms you), set in a ring of flagstones, with a spit and a pot hanging over it.
  • Inside:
  • a plank floor, and a layered rug before the bar
  • the bar: panelled, with a brass foot rail, a keg on a cradle, tankards, a bell and a ledger
  • shelves of bottles, jugs and tankards, with a horned skull mounted above
  • casks racked on their sides, crates and sacks
  • four trestle tables with benches, tankards, bread, candles and dice
  • an iron chandelier, and herbs, hams and sausages hung from the beams
  • the innkeeper wears an apron and has a rag over his shoulder
  • Outside: lantern posts by the door, a hanging sign on an iron bracket, the name painted over the door, barrels, a bench and a woodpile.
  • Cost: the static pieces are merged into a few meshes (StaticMerge), so the whole building is about 20 mesh nodes.
  • Forest clearing: the tavern clearing is larger, and nothing grows under its floor.
• The fishing shack, rebuilt.
  • The hut: a weatherboard hut on a deck on piles, with a gabled shingle roof and a pike weathervane on the ridge.
  • Nets: made of cords, with cork floats, hung to dry.
  • On the walls: crossed oars, a lobster pot, a rack of rods and a great pike mounted on a plaque.
  • On the counter: a crate of the day's catch on salt, scales, a slate of prices and a pail for heads and tails.
  • Outside: a carved sign board, and a smoking rack over glowing embers with a thread of smoke.
  • It uses the new fish everywhere. The mere's shack shows its own blood fish.
  • The fishmonger cuts the catch into steaks.
  • He raises the cleaver and brings it down. The first cut takes the tail, then each chop takes another steak off.
  • Each steak (meat in a ring of skin, a white bone) slides onto a pile by his hand. The cut face of the fish shows its meat and spine.
  • When only the head is left, it goes in the pail and a new fish comes onto the block.
  • The fishmonger's look: a knitted scarf, rubber gloves to the elbow, a belt and gutting knife, wader braces, the smock's skirt, ember eyes, and the cleaver in his fist.

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