From 3f32bfda7c638dd0e4208ae7379243847f4a2640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Orkuncakilkaya <orkuncakilkaya@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:00:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ludic.wildlife: the table a guest draws the host's animals
 into is made once and emptied per join, not new each time

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 packages/ludic.wildlife/guest.ludic   | 10 +++++++++-
 packages/ludic.wildlife/species.ludic |  1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/ludic.wildlife/guest.ludic b/packages/ludic.wildlife/guest.ludic
index e1664892..bed127f0 100644
--- a/packages/ludic.wildlife/guest.ludic
+++ b/packages/ludic.wildlife/guest.ludic
@@ -4,13 +4,21 @@
 export function wildlife_put_away(wildlife_st: mut WildlifeState) -> void {
   if wildlife_st.wl_own != null { return }
   wildlife_st.wl_own = wildlife_st.wl
-  wildlife_st.wl = wl__new()
+  wl__empty(wildlife_st.wl_host)
+  wildlife_st.wl = wildlife_st.wl_host
 }
 
 export function wildlife_bring_back(wildlife_st: mut WildlifeState) -> void {
   if wildlife_st.wl_own == null { return }
+  wildlife_st.wl_host = wildlife_st.wl
   wildlife_st.wl = wildlife_st.wl_own
   wildlife_st.wl_own = null
 }
 
 export function wildlife_away(wildlife_st: WildlifeState) -> bool { return wildlife_st.wl_own != null }
+
+# every animal gone from a table, keeping its rows' room for the next party
+function wl__empty(w: WildTable) -> void {
+  tb_clear(w.tab)
+  imap_clear(w.nids)
+}
diff --git a/packages/ludic.wildlife/species.ludic b/packages/ludic.wildlife/species.ludic
index c563dfd3..f6abc9de 100644
--- a/packages/ludic.wildlife/species.ludic
+++ b/packages/ludic.wildlife/species.ludic
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export state WildlifeState {
   wl_ffree: []WildFact = new []WildFact   # of those, the ones free at the last look
   wl_fnext: []int = words(1)              # the next of them to hand out
   wl_own: WildTable = null   # a guest's own animals, put away whole while it draws the host's
+  wl_host: WildTable = wl__new()   # the table the host's are drawn into: made once, cleared per join
   wl_px: float = 0.0
   wl_pz: float = 0.0
   wl_ask: WildLure = new WildLure