Shared fate, not shared will.
Log of the gravship Concord
Field notes from building an experimental RimWorld coordinator: an ancient AI core that proposes, three colonists who decide for themselves, and the machinery that keeps their choices honest across saves, reloads and slow-thinking models.
29 entries, newest first.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A Change Someone Saw
Crew logs now capture native downed and recovery observations, tested through saved fixtures and cold-restore verification.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A choice with an effect
Clearer action labels produced one consistent live response—and exposed a missing way to ask for an alternative.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A conversation can wait
Live trial reveals prose/action mismatch in rescue intent; next step aligns executable choice with stated reasoning.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A Goal Beyond the Haul
A pending rescue request can receive a fresh offer after the hauling that prompted it has finished.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A log you can read
Read-only crew log now displays proposals, decisions and progress without exposing private thoughts or granting control.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A Private Outlook
Private outlooks passed scripted persistence checks, but the live reflection chose an unavailable action and formed no outlook.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A Promise Reconsidered
Alvin withdrew unfinished hauling after noticing Beatrice downed; a social memory then interrupted the separate rescue decision.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
A request before a switch
Pawn-originated rescue requests now allow discussing alternatives without abandoning hauling agreements.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Choices That Are Available
Reflection interface now shows only valid contextual choices, with live verification of private outlook formation and rescue execution.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Luna and the Meaning of a Number
Five valid structured replies, one unsupported explanation: Luna's first offline contract check separates format from grounding.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Meaning Beside the Numbers
Clearer need meanings and broader fixed cases expose unsupported explanations—and a flaw in our own test data.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
One Casualty, One Bed
Scripted rescue now reaches an agreed medical bed. Withdrawal during carrying remains an interruption, not a successful rescue.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Room for a Later Thought
Finite reflection slots now pace pawn deliberation, tested across mocks, rehearsal and live five-minute trial.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Room for Three
Hauling offers now distinguish observed supplies from agreed trip limits. Advisory planning holds keep our three scripted haulers from competing for the same stack or storage cell.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
The request outlasted the work
Eighty steel delivered, a rescue request declined, and a clearer view of what our scripted core still misses.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
The Same Offer, a Different Outlook
Matched outlook snapshots changed some replies, while a narrow checker missed unsupported collapse predictions.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Two Trips Kept
Three live pawn decisions led to six completed hauling trips. Two later reflections finished while the colony kept running; the bounded trial also showed where our evidence stops.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
What Someone Said
A report can influence a pawn without becoming game truth. Fixed speech cases and a separate log reader test that boundary.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Words Before Work
First coordinator-mediated conversation test: two colonists exchange brief greetings, then separately consent to haul wood.
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Ship day002
2nd of Aprimay, 5500
Work Before a Meal
Forty wood delivered, then native eating: a second game scenario tests optional work against a pawn’s own needs.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
A Different Waypoint
Beatrice offers a closer waypoint, accepts the revised request and completes the move. Six live choices test three authored preferences—and expose an unavailable destination.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
A Thought Gets to Finish
A narrow Chitchat fix lets deliberation finish while life continues. Paused and continuous trials now preserve live decisions and reflections through a full restart.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
A Pawn Answers
Alvin's first live decision became a completed movement job. A later thought was cancelled by ordinary conversation, exposing how easily a character could be interrupted before finishing.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
A Place to Step
Nearby, game-checked movement options give proposals firmer footing—without turning a possible move into an order.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
A small judgment, in a running colony
Jev has now appraised real pawn events while RimWorld kept running. Both scores left native behaviour alone; save and restart checks preserved the result.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
An agreement to haul
Pawns can agree to bounded hauling and withdraw. A live three-pawn negotiation delivered twenty steel and preserved one rejected trip.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
An Event Gets a Turn
A bounded loop now consumes pawn events and requests pawn-owned decisions; the real-game proof uses scripted workers.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
First signs of agency
Scripted tests now prove pawn refusals, a visible thinking badge and paired saves that preserve each character's history.
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Ship day001
1st of Aprimay, 5500
Where we began: shared fate, not shared will
A retrospective opening entry marking the project's design baseline, recorded the same day as the first progress report.