wl_fact made a new WildFact per fact, about one a frame, and Ludic never gives one back. ludic.base's q_unheld(q, pool, out) lists the records a queue no longer holds: neither waiting nor handed out by its last drain, which is good until the next drain. ludic.wildlife and ludic.npc now keep a pool, hand out a free record, and make a new one only when every record is held. Taking a record writes the state, so wl_fact / np_fact and the few callers holding their state read-only take it mut. Tests: q_unheld's rules (an empty drain holds on, the safe side); 3000 prints drained frame by frame use at most 4 records; 500 arrivals drained turn by turn use at most 4. base 37, wildlife 27, npc 17; all packages 420.
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npc_set_crowd hands a person to a crowd. Its walk no longer steps or asks the way: its want is goal_x / goal_z / goal_speed (0 when it is not walking). npc_moved hands back the crowd's place: position, ground, heading from velocity, gait. Arrival, the act and the give-up after twenty seconds without progress are unchanged. Nothing allocates. npc 16/16.
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A step round what is in the way, a target planned again after twenty seconds without progress, and a target given up are each pushed as NPC_F_STUCK (how, x, z), so the game can see where the way failed a person. The lake test expects one when a walker turns back from the water; the way test expects none when the world gives the way.
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