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+# ludic.things
+
+The things placed in a world - a tent, a fire ring, a branch on the ground, a snare - and the
+kinds they are. The game names the kinds and draws them; the package keeps every Thing, answers
+where they are, asks a kind what it does, reports what happened, and saves the ones worth
+keeping. Uses [`ludic.base`](../ludic.base/README.md) and nothing else.
+
+```ludic
+import "ludic.things"
+```
+
+## A Thing
+
+```ludic
+property Thing {
+  uid, kind, id          # unique for the run; its place in ThingKinds; what the kind says it means
+  look                   # how the game draws it ("" is not drawn)
+  x, y, z, yaw
+  owner                  # whoever put it down, -1 the world's own
+  active                 # false: taken, hidden, used up for now
+  reach                  # how close it is used from (0: its kind's)
+  timer, used, n         # state the kind decides the meaning of
+  sx, sz, syaw           # where using it puts the user, and which way that faces
+  shared                 # the game copies it to others (a party)
+}
+```
+
+## The kinds
+
+`ThingKinds` is an `open registry`, filled by the game - usually one `def` per kind in one file,
+so `TH_<KEY>` is the order they are written in. A kind's behaviour is function values; a null one
+is a question the kind ignores.
+
+```ludic
+def ThingKinds fire { name: "The campfire", prompt: fn fire_prompt, use: fn fire_use }
+def ThingKinds lure { name_of: fn bait_name, tick: fn bait_wear, put_down: true, saved: true }
+```
+
+| field | |
+| --- | --- |
+| `name`, `name_of: fn(Thing) -> string` | what it is called (`name_of` answering "" falls back to `name`) |
+| `prompt: fn(Thing) -> string`, `use: fn(Thing)` | what using it would do, and doing it |
+| `tick: fn(Thing, float)` | hours of the world's clock, for every active one |
+| `reach`, `reach_of: fn(Thing) -> float` | how close it is used from |
+| `personal` | one belongs to whoever put it down |
+| `saved` | the save section keeps a placed one (the port has the last word) |
+| `put_down` | set down by someone rather than grown by the world: a restock leaves it (the port has the last word) |
+| `keeps` | keeps its `used` through a restock |
+
+## The port
+
+Every member has a default, so any may be left out of the `bind`:
+
+```ludic
+export port ThingsWorld {
+  ground: fn(float, float) -> float   # the height a Thing stands at (unbound: 0)
+  placed: fn(Thing)                   # it exists now: draw it
+  removed: fn(Thing)                  # gone for good: stop drawing it
+  shown: fn(Thing)                    # its `active` changed
+  moved: fn(Thing)                    # it stands somewhere else
+  keeps: fn(Thing) -> bool            # the save carries it (unbound: its kind's `saved`)
+  put_down: fn(Thing) -> bool         # a restock leaves it be (unbound: its kind's `put_down`)
+  restored: fn(Thing)                 # a load put it back, after `placed`
+}
+```
+
+`placed`, `removed`, `shown` and `moved` are called at once, inside the verb, so the game can make
+the actor the moment the Thing exists (a caller often scales or tints it on the next line).
+
+## API
+
+| | |
+| --- | --- |
+| `thing_spawn(kind, look, x, y, z, yaw, id) -> Thing`, `thing_put(kind, look, x, z, yaw, sink, reach, id) -> Thing` | a new Thing, at a height or on the ground set into it by `sink` |
+| `thing_remove(t)`, `things_drop(gone: fn(Thing) -> bool)`, `things_clear()` | gone for good (told to the port); a new world, quietly |
+| `thing_move(t, x, z, yaw)`, `thing_move_to(t, x, y, z, yaw)` | on the ground there, or at a height |
+| `thing_hide(t)`, `thing_show(t)`, `thing_set_active(t, on)` | `active`, told to the port |
+| `things_all()`, `things_count()`, `things_ready()`, `thing_by_uid(uid)` | every Thing, in the order placed; whether a world was ever set out |
+| `thing_find(kind, id)`, `thing_nearest(kind, x, z)`, `things_within(x, z, r)`, `things_each(kind)`, `things_each_all(kind)`, `thing_dist2(t, x, z)` | where they are: only active ones answer except the `_all`; a kind below 0 is any; `within` is nearest first |
+| `thing_name(t)`, `thing_prompt(t)`, `thing_use(t)`, `thing_can_use(t)`, `thing_reach(t)`, `thing_kind(t)`, `thing_is_personal(t)`, `thing_is_put_down(t)` | the dispatcher |
+| `things_tick(hours)`, `things_restock()` | every active kind that ticks; every Thing the world grew back and unused |
+| `things_facts() -> Queue<ThingFact>` | `{ what, uid, kind, id, owner, x, z }`: `THING_PLACED`, `THING_REMOVED`, `THING_USED` |
+| `thing_kind_ok(k)`, `thing_kind_by_key(key)` | the kinds |
+| `things_system() -> System` | `"things"`, `PH_COMMIT`: its save section - every active Thing the port keeps, its kind by KEY, so the game may reorder its kinds - and a reset that removes the kept ones for the load to put back |
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+ludic test packages/ludic.things
+```
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/dispatch.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/dispatch.ludic
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+# dispatch.ludic - asking a Thing its kind's questions: what it is called, what using it would do,
+# doing it, how close it is used from, and a tick for the kinds that have one
+export function thing_kind(t: Thing) -> ThingKind { return ThingKinds[t.kind] }
+
+# its own name, else its kind's, else ""
+export function thing_name(t: Thing) -> string {
+  if t == null or not thing_kind_ok(t.kind) { return "" }
+  let k = ThingKinds[t.kind]
+  if k.name_of != null {
+    let s = k.name_of(t)
+    if s != "" { return s }
+  }
+  return k.name
+}
+
+export function thing_prompt(t: Thing) -> string {
+  if t == null or not thing_kind_ok(t.kind) { return "" }
+  let k = ThingKinds[t.kind]
+  if k.prompt == null { return "" }
+  return k.prompt(t)
+}
+
+# the kind does what using it does; the use is a fact whatever the kind made of it
+export function thing_use(t: Thing) -> void {
+  if t == null or not thing_kind_ok(t.kind) { return }
+  let k = ThingKinds[t.kind]
+  th_fact(THING_USED, t)
+  if k.use != null { k.use(t) }
+}
+
+export function thing_can_use(t: Thing) -> bool {
+  return t != null and thing_kind_ok(t.kind) and ThingKinds[t.kind].use != null
+}
+
+# the kind's own reach question, else the Thing's reach, else the kind's
+export function thing_reach(t: Thing) -> float {
+  if t == null or not thing_kind_ok(t.kind) { return 0.0 }
+  let k = ThingKinds[t.kind]
+  if k.reach_of != null { return k.reach_of(t) }
+  if t.reach > 0.0 { return t.reach }
+  return k.reach
+}
+
+export function thing_is_personal(t: Thing) -> bool { return thing_kind_ok(t.kind) and ThingKinds[t.kind].personal }
+# set down by someone rather than grown by the world: the kind says, and the port has the last word
+export function thing_is_put_down(t: Thing) -> bool { return ThingsWorld.put_down(t) }
+
+# every active Thing whose kind ticks, `hours` of the world's clock on
+export function things_tick(hours: float) -> void {
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if not t.active or not thing_kind_ok(t.kind) { continue }
+    let k = ThingKinds[t.kind]
+    if k.tick != null { k.tick(t, hours) }
+  }
+}
+
+# a restock: every Thing the world grew is back, and loses its `used` unless its kind keeps it;
+# what was put down is left as it is
+export function things_restock() -> void {
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if thing_is_put_down(t) { continue }
+    if not ThingKinds[t.kind].keeps { t.used = 0 }
+    if not t.active { thing_show(t) }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/index.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/index.ludic
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+# ludic.things - things placed in a world (a tent, a fire ring, a branch on the ground): the game
+# names the kinds and draws them; the package keeps them, answers where they are, and saves them
+module ludic_things uses ludic_base
+numbers float
+import "ludic.base"
+import "kinds.ludic"
+import "port.ludic"
+import "store.ludic"
+import "queries.ludic"
+import "dispatch.ludic"
+import "system.ludic"
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/kinds.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/kinds.ludic
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+# kinds.ludic - a Thing, and what a kind of Thing is: plain facts about the kind, and its
+# behaviour as function values the dispatcher calls (a null one is a question the kind ignores)
+export property Thing {
+  uid: int = 0            # unique for the run, never reused
+  kind: int = 0           # its place in ThingKinds
+  id: int = 0             # what the kind says it means (which sign, which item, which site)
+  look: string = ""       # how the game draws it; "" is not drawn
+  x: float = 0.0
+  y: float = 0.0
+  z: float = 0.0
+  yaw: float = 0.0
+  owner: int = -1         # whoever put it down; -1 the world's own
+  active: bool = true     # false: taken, hidden, used up for now
+  reach: float = 0.0      # how close it is used from; 0 is its kind's
+  timer: float = 0.0      # a clock the kind decides the meaning of
+  used: int = 0           # the kind's own state (split for today, which sign, ...)
+  n: int = 0              # a counter the kind decides the meaning of
+  sx: float = 0.0         # where using it puts the user, and which way that faces
+  sz: float = 0.0
+  syaw: float = 0.0
+  shared: bool = false    # the game copies it to others (a party)
+}
+
+export property ThingKind {
+  key: string = ""        # the entry's own name: what the save calls the kind
+  name: string = ""       # what it is called when nothing about the one in front of you changes it
+  reach: float = 2.2      # how close it is used from, when the Thing does not say
+  personal: bool = false  # one belongs to whoever put it down
+  saved: bool = false     # the save's section keeps a placed one (the port has the last word)
+  put_down: bool = false  # set down by someone rather than grown by the world
+  keeps: bool = false     # keeps its `used` through a restock
+  name_of: fn(Thing) -> string = null   # "" falls back to `name`
+  prompt: fn(Thing) -> string = null    # what using it would do, "" nothing
+  use: fn(Thing) -> void = null
+  tick: fn(Thing, float) -> void = null # hours of the world's clock
+  reach_of: fn(Thing) -> float = null   # a reach that depends on the one in front of you
+}
+
+# the game fills it: `def ThingKinds tent { name: "The tent", use: fn tent_use }`
+export open registry ThingKinds of ThingKind as TH
+
+export const THING_PLACED: int = 0
+export const THING_REMOVED: int = 1
+export const THING_USED: int = 2
+
+# something happened to a Thing: placed, removed for good, or used
+export property ThingFact {
+  what: int = 0
+  uid: int = 0
+  kind: int = 0
+  id: int = 0
+  owner: int = -1
+  x: float = 0.0
+  z: float = 0.0
+}
+
+export function thing_kind_ok(k: int) -> bool { return k >= 0 and k < TH_COUNT }
+
+# the kind the save calls `key`, or -1
+export function thing_kind_by_key(key: string) -> int {
+  for k in 0 .. TH_COUNT { if ThingKinds[k].key == key { return k } }
+  return -1
+}
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/package.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/package.ludic
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+# ludic.things - the placed things of a world: a record per thing, an open registry of kinds
+# whose behaviour is function values, spatial queries, facts and a save section. See README.md.
+package "ludic.things"
+version "0.1.0"
+kind source
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/port.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/port.ludic
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+# port.ludic - what the things ask the game. Every member has a default: unbound, the ground is at
+# 0, nothing is drawn, and the save keeps what its kind says to keep.
+export port ThingsWorld {
+  ground: fn(float, float) -> float = fn th_flat      # the height a moved Thing stands at
+  placed: fn(Thing) -> void = fn th_nothing           # a Thing exists now: draw it
+  removed: fn(Thing) -> void = fn th_nothing          # it is gone for good: stop drawing it
+  shown: fn(Thing) -> void = fn th_nothing            # its `active` changed: show or hide it
+  moved: fn(Thing) -> void = fn th_nothing            # it stands somewhere else now
+  keeps: fn(Thing) -> bool = fn th_kind_saves         # the save's section carries it
+  put_down: fn(Thing) -> bool = fn th_kind_put_down   # set down by someone: a restock leaves it be
+  restored: fn(Thing) -> void = fn th_nothing         # a load put it back (after `placed`)
+}
+function th_flat(x: float, z: float) -> float { return 0.0 }
+function th_nothing(t: Thing) -> void { }
+function th_kind_saves(t: Thing) -> bool { return thing_kind_ok(t.kind) and ThingKinds[t.kind].saved }
+function th_kind_put_down(t: Thing) -> bool { return thing_kind_ok(t.kind) and ThingKinds[t.kind].put_down }
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/queries.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/queries.ludic
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+# queries.ludic - where the Things are. Only active Things answer, except thing_by_uid and
+# things_each_all, which ask about everything that exists. A kind below 0 is any kind.
+function th_of(t: Thing, kind: int) -> bool { return kind < 0 or t.kind == kind }
+
+# the first active one of a kind (and of that id, unless id < 0), in the order placed
+export function thing_find(kind: int, id: int) -> Thing {
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if t.active and th_of(t, kind) and (id < 0 or t.id == id) { return t }
+  }
+  return null
+}
+
+export function thing_by_uid(uid: int) -> Thing {
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) { if all[i].uid == uid { return all[i] } }
+  return null
+}
+
+# the nearest active one of a kind to (x, z), or null
+export function thing_nearest(kind: int, x: float, z: float) -> Thing {
+  var best: Thing = null
+  var bd = 0.0
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if not t.active or not th_of(t, kind) { continue }
+    let d = thing_dist2(t, x, z)
+    if best == null or d < bd {
+      best = t
+      bd = d
+    }
+  }
+  return best
+}
+
+# the squared ground distance from a Thing to (x, z)
+export function thing_dist2(t: Thing, x: float, z: float) -> float {
+  let dx = t.x - x
+  let dz = t.z - z
+  return dx * dx + dz * dz
+}
+
+# every active one within r of (x, z), nearest first
+export function things_within(x: float, z: float, r: float) -> []Thing {
+  let out = new []Thing
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if t.active and thing_dist2(t, x, z) <= r * r { th_insert(out, t, x, z) }
+  }
+  return out
+}
+
+function th_insert(out: []Thing, t: Thing, x: float, z: float) -> void {
+  push(out, t)
+  var j = len(out) - 1
+  while j > 0 and thing_dist2(out[j - 1], x, z) > thing_dist2(t, x, z) {
+    out[j] = out[j - 1]
+    j -= 1
+  }
+  out[j] = t
+}
+
+# every active one of a kind, in the order placed
+export function things_each(kind: int) -> []Thing {
+  let out = new []Thing
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) { if all[i].active and th_of(all[i], kind) { push(out, all[i]) } }
+  return out
+}
+
+# every one of a kind, active or not
+export function things_each_all(kind: int) -> []Thing {
+  let out = new []Thing
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) { if th_of(all[i], kind) { push(out, all[i]) } }
+  return out
+}
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/store.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/store.ludic
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+# store.ludic - the Things, and the only verbs that make, remove, move, show and hide one; each
+# placing and removing is a fact, and the port is told at once so the game can draw it
+var th_list: []Thing = null
+var th_uid: int = 0
+var th_facts: Queue<ThingFact> = null
+
+export function things_facts() -> Queue<ThingFact> {
+  if th_facts == null { th_facts = queue_new("things.facts") }
+  return th_facts
+}
+
+function th_fact(what: int, t: Thing) -> void {
+  let f = new ThingFact
+  f.what = what
+  f.uid = t.uid
+  f.kind = t.kind
+  f.id = t.id
+  f.owner = t.owner
+  f.x = t.x
+  f.z = t.z
+  q_push(things_facts(), f)
+}
+
+# whether a world has been set out (things_clear) since the program began
+export function things_ready() -> bool { return th_list != null }
+
+# every Thing, in the order placed; the list is the package's, never to be pushed to
+export function things_all() -> []Thing {
+  if th_list == null { th_list = new []Thing }
+  return th_list
+}
+
+export function things_count() -> int { return len(things_all()) }
+
+# a new world: every Thing forgotten, quietly (the game has already dropped its drawings)
+export function things_clear() -> void { th_list = new []Thing }
+
+export function thing_spawn(kind: int, look: string, x: float, y: float, z: float, yaw: float, id: int) -> Thing {
+  return th_place(new Thing, kind, look, x, y, z, yaw, id)
+}
+
+function th_place(t: Thing, kind: int, look: string, x: float, y: float, z: float, yaw: float, id: int) -> Thing {
+  t.kind = kind
+  t.look = look
+  t.x = x
+  t.y = y
+  t.z = z
+  t.yaw = yaw
+  t.id = id
+  th_uid += 1
+  t.uid = th_uid
+  push(things_all(), t)
+  ThingsWorld.placed(t)
+  th_fact(THING_PLACED, t)
+  return t
+}
+
+# a Thing on the ground (the port's), set into it by `sink`, used from `reach`
+export function thing_put(kind: int, look: string, x: float, z: float, yaw: float, sink: float, reach: float, id: int) -> Thing {
+  let t = new Thing
+  t.reach = reach
+  return th_place(t, kind, look, x, ThingsWorld.ground(x, z) - sink, z, yaw, id)
+}
+
+# gone for good
+export function thing_remove(t: Thing) -> void {
+  if t == null { return }
+  th_marked = t.uid
+  things_drop(fn th_is_marked)
+  th_marked = -1
+}
+
+var th_marked: int = -1
+function th_is_marked(t: Thing) -> bool { return t.uid == th_marked }
+
+# every Thing `gone` says so is removed for good
+export function things_drop(gone: fn(Thing) -> bool) -> void {
+  let keep = new []Thing
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if gone(t) {
+      ThingsWorld.removed(t)
+      th_fact(THING_REMOVED, t)
+    } else {
+      push(keep, t)
+    }
+  }
+  th_list = keep
+}
+
+export function thing_move(t: Thing, x: float, z: float, yaw: float) -> void {
+  thing_move_to(t, x, ThingsWorld.ground(x, z), z, yaw)
+}
+
+export function thing_move_to(t: Thing, x: float, y: float, z: float, yaw: float) -> void {
+  t.x = x
+  t.y = y
+  t.z = z
+  t.yaw = yaw
+  ThingsWorld.moved(t)
+}
+
+export function thing_set_active(t: Thing, on: bool) -> void {
+  if t == null { return }
+  t.active = on
+  ThingsWorld.shown(t)
+}
+export function thing_hide(t: Thing) -> void { thing_set_active(t, false) }
+export function thing_show(t: Thing) -> void { thing_set_active(t, true) }
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/system.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/system.ludic
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+# system.ludic - the things as a system: its save section carries every active Thing the port
+# keeps, by its kind's KEY (so the game may reorder its kinds), and a load puts each back
+export function things_save() -> Val {
+  let l = Value.list()
+  let all = things_all()
+  for i in 0 .. len(all) {
+    let t = all[i]
+    if t.active and thing_kind_ok(t.kind) and ThingsWorld.keeps(t) { Value.add(l, th_to_json(t)) }
+  }
+  let v = Value.object()
+  Value.put(v, "placed", l)
+  return v
+}
+
+function th_to_json(t: Thing) -> Val {
+  let o = Value.object()
+  sv_put_str(o, "kind", ThingKinds[t.kind].key)
+  sv_put_str(o, "look", t.look)
+  sv_put_int(o, "id", t.id)
+  sv_put_int(o, "owner", t.owner)
+  sv_put_float(o, "x", t.x)
+  sv_put_float(o, "y", t.y)
+  sv_put_float(o, "z", t.z)
+  sv_put_float(o, "yaw", t.yaw)
+  sv_put_float(o, "reach", t.reach)
+  sv_put_float(o, "timer", t.timer)
+  sv_put_int(o, "used", t.used)
+  sv_put_int(o, "n", t.n)
+  sv_put_float(o, "sx", t.sx)
+  sv_put_float(o, "sz", t.sz)
+  sv_put_float(o, "syaw", t.syaw)
+  return o
+}
+
+# every kept Thing removed for good: what a load or a new trip is about to put back
+export function things_reset() -> void { things_drop(fn th_kept) }
+function th_kept(t: Thing) -> bool { return ThingsWorld.keeps(t) }
+
+# a kind this build does not know is dropped
+export function things_load(v: Val, version: int) -> void {
+  things_reset()
+  if v == null or Value.kind(v) != 6 or Value.has(v, "placed") == 0 { return }
+  let l = Value.get(v, "placed")
+  for i in 0 .. Value.count(l) { th_from_json(Value.at(l, i)) }
+}
+
+function th_from_json(o: Val) -> void {
+  let k = thing_kind_by_key(sv_str(o, "kind", ""))
+  if k < 0 { return }
+  let t = new Thing
+  t.owner = sv_int(o, "owner", -1)
+  t.reach = sv_float(o, "reach", 0.0)
+  t.timer = sv_float(o, "timer", 0.0)
+  t.used = sv_int(o, "used", 0)
+  t.n = sv_int(o, "n", 0)
+  t.sx = sv_float(o, "sx", 0.0)
+  t.sz = sv_float(o, "sz", 0.0)
+  t.syaw = sv_float(o, "syaw", 0.0)
+  let x = sv_float(o, "x", 0.0)
+  let z = sv_float(o, "z", 0.0)
+  let y = sv_float(o, "y", ThingsWorld.ground(x, z))
+  th_place(t, k, sv_str(o, "look", ""), x, y, z, sv_float(o, "yaw", 0.0), sv_int(o, "id", 0))
+  ThingsWorld.restored(t)
+}
+
+export function things_system() -> System {
+  let s = system_new("things", PH_COMMIT)
+  s.reset = fn things_reset
+  s.save = fn things_save
+  s.load = fn things_load
+  return s
+}
diff --git a/packages/ludic.things/tests/things_test.ludic b/packages/ludic.things/tests/things_test.ludic
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/packages/ludic.things/tests/things_test.ludic
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# things_test.ludic - a toy camp: kinds as data with their behaviour as function values, the
+# verbs and what the port hears of them, the spatial questions, the facts, and the save by key
+import "ludic.things"
+import "ludic.base"
+program ThingsTest {
+  numbers float
+  var drawn: int = 0
+  var gone: int = 0
+  var shows: int = 0
+  var back: int = 0
+  var wood: int = 0
+
+  function lit_prompt(t: Thing) -> string {
+    if t.used != 0 { return "Add wood" }
+    return "Light it"
+  }
+  function lit_use(t: Thing) -> void { t.used = 1 }
+  function tent_name(t: Thing) -> string {
+    if t.owner == 0 { return "Your tent" }
+    return ""
+  }
+  function branch_use(t: Thing) -> void {
+    wood += 1
+    thing_hide(t)
+  }
+  function lure_tick(t: Thing, hours: float) -> void {
+    t.timer -= hours
+    if t.timer < 0.0 { thing_hide(t) }
+  }
+  function far_reach(t: Thing) -> float { return 9.0 }
+
+  def ThingKinds tent { name: "A tent", name_of: fn tent_name }
+  def ThingKinds fire { name: "The fire", prompt: fn lit_prompt, use: fn lit_use, keeps: true }
+  def ThingKinds branch { name: "Firewood", reach: 1.5, use: fn branch_use }
+  def ThingKinds lure { name: "A lure", tick: fn lure_tick, put_down: true, saved: true }
+  def ThingKinds sign { name: "A sign", reach_of: fn far_reach }
+
+  function hill(x: float, z: float) -> float { return x * 0.5 }
+  function on_placed(t: Thing) -> void { drawn += 1 }
+  function on_removed(t: Thing) -> void { gone += 1 }
+  function on_shown(t: Thing) -> void { shows += 1 }
+  function on_restored(t: Thing) -> void { back += 1 }
+  bind ThingsWorld { ground: fn hill, placed: fn on_placed, removed: fn on_removed, shown: fn on_shown, restored: fn on_restored }
+
+  function put(kind: int, x: float, z: float) -> Thing { return thing_spawn(kind, "m", x, 0.0, z, 0.0, 0) }
+  function facts() -> []ThingFact { return q_drain(things_facts()) }
+
+  test "a spawn is drawn, numbered and said" {
+    things_clear()
+    let a = put(TH_TENT, 1.0, 1.0)
+    let b = put(TH_FIRE, 2.0, 2.0)
+    expect_eq(drawn, 2)
+    expect(a.uid != b.uid)
+    expect_eq(things_count(), 2)
+    let fs = facts()
+    expect_eq(len(fs), 2)
+    expect_eq(fs[1].what, THING_PLACED)
+    expect_eq(fs[1].kind, TH_FIRE)
+    expect(thing_by_uid(b.uid) == b)
+  }
+
+  test "the spatial questions see only what is active" {
+    things_clear()
+    let near = put(TH_BRANCH, 1.0, 0.0)
+    let far = put(TH_BRANCH, 5.0, 0.0)
+    put(TH_FIRE, 3.0, 0.0)
+    expect(thing_nearest(TH_BRANCH, 0.0, 0.0) == near)
+    expect(thing_nearest(-1, 3.2, 0.0).kind == TH_FIRE)
+    expect_eq(len(things_within(0.0, 0.0, 3.5)), 2)
+    expect(things_within(6.0, 0.0, 10.0)[0] == far)
+    thing_hide(near)
+    expect(thing_nearest(TH_BRANCH, 0.0, 0.0) == far)
+    expect_eq(len(things_each(TH_BRANCH)), 1)
+    expect_eq(len(things_each_all(TH_BRANCH)), 2)
+    expect(thing_find(TH_BRANCH, -1) == far)
+    expect(thing_find(TH_TENT, -1) == null)
+    expect_eq(shows, 1)
+  }
+
+  test "remove and move tell the port" {
+    things_clear()
+    let a = put(TH_TENT, 1.0, 1.0)
+    put(TH_TENT, 2.0, 2.0)
+    facts()
+    thing_remove(a)
+    expect_eq(gone, 1)
+    expect_eq(things_count(), 1)
+    expect_eq(facts()[0].what, THING_REMOVED)
+    let b = thing_find(TH_TENT, -1)
+    thing_move(b, 4.0, 0.0, 1.0)
+    expect_near(b.y, 2.0, 0.001)
+    let c = thing_put(TH_BRANCH, "stick", 2.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.25, 1.9, 7)
+    expect_near(c.y, 0.75, 0.001)
+    expect_near(thing_reach(c), 1.9, 0.001)
+    expect_eq(c.id, 7)
+  }
+
+  test "the kind answers: name, prompt, use, reach" {
+    things_clear()
+    let t = put(TH_TENT, 0.0, 0.0)
+    expect(thing_name(t) == "A tent")
+    t.owner = 0
+    expect(thing_name(t) == "Your tent")
+    let f = put(TH_FIRE, 0.0, 0.0)
+    expect(thing_prompt(f) == "Light it")
+    thing_use(f)
+    expect(thing_prompt(f) == "Add wood")
+    expect(thing_prompt(t) == "")
+    expect(not thing_can_use(t))
+    expect_near(thing_reach(f), 2.2, 0.001)
+    expect_near(thing_reach(put(TH_BRANCH, 0.0, 0.0)), 1.5, 0.001)
+    expect_near(thing_reach(put(TH_SIGN, 0.0, 0.0)), 9.0, 0.001)
+    let fs = facts()
+    expect_eq(fs[len(fs) - 3].what, THING_USED)
+  }
+
+  test "ticks and a restock" {
+    things_clear()
+    let l = put(TH_LURE, 0.0, 0.0)
+    l.timer = 1.0
+    let b = put(TH_BRANCH, 0.0, 0.0)
+    let f = put(TH_FIRE, 0.0, 0.0)
+    thing_use(b)
+    thing_use(f)
+    expect_eq(wood, 1)
+    things_tick(0.6)
+    expect(l.active)
+    things_tick(0.6)
+    expect(not l.active)
+    things_restock()
+    expect(b.active)
+    expect(not l.active)
+    expect_eq(f.used, 1)
+  }
+
+  test "the save keeps what the port keeps, by the kind's key" {
+    things_clear()
+    let l = put(TH_LURE, 3.0, 4.0)
+    l.owner = 0
+    l.timer = 2.5
+    put(TH_TENT, 0.0, 0.0)
+    let root = save_tree()
+    save_section(root, "things", 1, things_save())
+    let text = save_encode(root)
+    things_clear()
+    put(TH_LURE, 9.0, 9.0)
+    let n = load_section(save_decode(text), "things")
+    things_load(n.data, n.version)
+    expect_eq(things_count(), 1)
+    let t = thing_find(TH_LURE, -1)
+    expect_near(t.x, 3.0, 0.001)
+    expect_near(t.timer, 2.5, 0.001)
+    expect_eq(t.owner, 0)
+    expect_eq(back, 1)
+  }
+}