diff --git a/packages/ludic.render3d/bake_parts.ludic b/packages/ludic.render3d/bake_parts.ludic
index 75967b4d..1e501c63 100644
--- a/packages/ludic.render3d/bake_parts.ludic
+++ b/packages/ludic.render3d/bake_parts.ludic
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ function sky_ibl_from_bytes(render3d_st: mut Render3dState, data: []byte) -> boo
 
 # ---- reading a bake's file (ludic.base's format; render3d cannot import ludic.base) ----
 # "LBAK" | u32 format 1 | u32 version | u32 payload offset | u64 inputs hash | u64 payload length | key
-const BAKE_MAGIC: int = 1262567756     # "LBAK", little-endian
+const BAKE_MAGIC: int = 1262568012     # "LBAK" read as a little-endian u32: 0x4B41424C
 
 # the payload of the bake at `path` when its key and version are these, else null (missing, stale, torn)
 @alloc_ok("a bake read once at load")
diff --git a/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_ltt2_write.ludic b/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_ltt2_write.ludic
index 75dca194..3409753a 100644
--- a/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_ltt2_write.ludic
+++ b/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_ltt2_write.ludic
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # by the cut; either way the whole copy is put back to the quantized values, so the build's own
 # queries, the physics, the placements' bake and every machine read the same numbers.
 
-const LT_MAGIC: int = 844383308        # "LTT2"
+const LT_MAGIC: int = 844387404        # "LTT2" read as a little-endian u32: 0x3254544C
 const LT_VERSION: int = 1
 const LT_HEAD: int = 128               # 32 words
 
diff --git a/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_tiles_cut.ludic b/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_tiles_cut.ludic
index 3a099a5c..51a49894 100644
--- a/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_tiles_cut.ludic
+++ b/packages/ludic.render3d/terrain_tiles_cut.ludic
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # start, so no older generator's tiles are ever read; its header goes in last, so a start that died
 # writing it leaves a file whose magic is not there rather than one that looks whole.
 
-const TT_MAGIC: int = 1415074892          # "LTTT"
 const TT_VERSION: int = 1
 const TT_HEAD: int = 64                    # bytes: 16 words