Pressing a hotbar key ran hotkey.action(state), which for an equipment
binding calls an itemActions entry's onActivation directly -- Wield,
Drink, Switch on, Pack away. None of those reach console.print or a
popup; most only play a sound. So the whole hotbar was silent: no item
name, no verb, no confirmation the key had registered at all.
patches/hotbar.lua wraps the hotbar VIEW factory, not models/hotkey:
models/hotbar.lua captures newHotkey as a file-local at require time,
and models/world.lua captures newHotbar the same way, both long before
our entry point. views/hotbar.lua is required only by the three states,
which load lazily -- the same ordering argument as patches/slider.lua.
The verb is computed BEFORE the action runs. The itemAction conditions
key off item.isEquipped, which the action itself flips, so asked
afterwards they return the opposite verb and a press that wielded would
announce "Unwield".
Also narrates the empty slot, the silent no-applicable-action branch,
binding and unbinding (sound-only in game), and action-type slots. Says
nothing when the item is missing from the inventory -- the game prints
that itself and patches/console.lua speaks it.
78 testbed checks, 0 failures. The prologue gives the player no items,
so the live path is exercised by planting a torch, binding it to slot 1,
pressing 1 twice and putting the world back.
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Pressing enter/z on an inventory item plays a click and, until now, said
nothing. The click is sound.select: the menu WAS opening every time.
inventory.keypressed -> inventoryWindow.enableItemMenu() builds a second,
nested selection over the grid (modules/item/itemMenu.lua) listing the
actions that item currently allows, filtered from itemActions.lua by
per-action conditions: Activate, Wield/Unwield, Wear/Take off, Switch
on/off, Drink, Eat, Apply, Read, Open, Prepare for throwing/Pack away.
Up/down move in it, enter activates, any other key cancels. None of it
goes through console.print or the cursor popup, so it was silent -- and
since the game has no separate equipment screen, this menu is the only
way to equip anything. Reported by Talon: the torch quest was unplayable.
_itemgrid.lua now checks window.itemMenu first and keeps the grid cell
quiet underneath, since the menu is modal over it. The menu is a closure
with no getters, so lines and currentSelectedAction are read as upvalues
of its own draw(). The item name leads only when the menu opens, and the
"just opened" memory is the menu table itself rather than a flag, which
keeps read() idempotent -- a flag would be consumed by the focus poll and
the real announcement would come out headless.
Items also now read "equipped", which is part of the focus key on
purpose: after Switch on the menu closes with the cursor unmoved, so
otherwise the re-read is suppressed as unchanged and the action still
feels silent. Now: "Switch on" -> "a torch, equipped, slot 3".
New patch (the 6th) wraps the inventoryWindow factory for the dead case:
when getActionsList returns nil -- an item with no applicable actions --
the game does literally nothing, not even the click, which by ear is
indistinguishable from a dropped keypress. Says "<item>, no actions".
The prologue inventory is empty, so the live path is unverified; the
testbed instead builds an itemMenu from a synthetic item and asserts the
two upvalue names still resolve. That is the version-bump canary for this
descriptor, not proof of the wording. 38 checks, 0 failures.
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Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.
All 23 states now have descriptors; 5 patches applied.
Final two descriptors:
- keybindings_menu has two panels (commands and keys) with independent
selection, so it reads currentlyActiveWindow to decide which one has focus.
Announcing the wrong panel's row would be actively misleading, since the two
lists are unrelated.
- research is a 2D node graph rather than a list, and its nodes are drawn as
icons with no text label, so the id is the only identifier available. What
actually matters is researched / locked / cannot afford / available: without
the affordability part the screen is unusable by ear, because pressing enter
on an unaffordable node silently does nothing.
status.lua adds two pull keys -- ' for health and active effects, , for the
current action -- plus unprompted damage alerts.
Damage is polled from actor.hp rather than hooked. ingame.checkInterruptions
exists but only fires for interruptions during queued movement, so damage taken
on your own turn never reaches it. Polling catches every source (combat, poison,
fire, falling) with no game edit. Damage speaks immediately and interrupts;
healing queues, since it is worth knowing but never urgent.
patches/popupstack.lua wraps popupStack.add, the single entry point for loot,
recipe, lore, map, quest, tutorial and bestiary popups. None of these go through
console.print, so they were entirely silent before.
speech.immediate now logs to the console like queued speech does. It bypasses
the frame queue and so also bypassed the flush-time logger, which meant damage
alerts fired correctly but were invisible in the testbed transcript. Prefixes
are now: ! interrupt, * immediate, space queued.
26/26 testbed checks, history unit tests passing.
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Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.
The slider turned out to be genuinely generic: modules/slider.lua is a factory,
so one wrapper on it narrates all four users -- craft, refine, trade and
ingame_wait (the wait-N-turns screen). Same leverage as the console.print and
inventoryCursorPopup patches.
The options screens do NOT share it, though: config_menu changes values through
config.increase/config.decrease, so it needed its own descriptor. It reports tab,
option name and value, and its focus key includes the value so left/right
re-announce even though the focused option has not moved.
states/_itemgrid.lua is now shared by inventory, craft, refine and trade, all of
which build a views/inventoryWindow. It stays silent while
confirmationWindowEnabled is set so the slider owns speech during quantity
selection instead of the two fighting.
testbed gains walkTo(), which navigates using the game's own pathfinder rather
than hardcoded direction sequences -- those drift as soon as anything moves the
player. The config test only adjusts a value when the focused option is
demonstrably safe, and puts it straight back.
The slider patch is applied and confirmed by the self-test but not exercised
live: ingame_wait is unreachable in the prologue because tutorial_bed overrides
bed's tryInteractFunction with an empty function by design, and the crafting
screens need an alchemy table and real items. Recorded as a NOTE rather than a
failing check, since it is a property of the game and not of the mod.
25/25 testbed checks, history unit tests passing.
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Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.
Adds descriptors for actions_menu, worldmap, alchemy_table, journal, character,
inventory, and a shared one for the full-screen prose states (menu_text,
ingame_message, menu_message). The prose states also push their text into the
console history, so the existing review keys walk the manual paragraph by
paragraph rather than delivering it as one unusable utterance.
Two driver improvements, both prompted by real failures the self-test caught:
- menus.getAnyUpvalue finds a file-local across all of a state's functions and
one level into inner closures. Safe because a Lua file-local is a single
shared upvalue. Needed because actions_menu and worldmap build their lists in
open() and never reference them in keypressed, so the named probe function
found nothing. The generic probe path now falls back to this.
- menus.hasUpvalue checks that a local exists rather than that it holds a value.
getUpvalue cannot distinguish 'no such local' from 'declared but currently
nil', which made the self-test report PROBE BROKEN for worldmap, whose
'local options' is nil until the screen is first opened.
patches/popups.lua now stands down for any state that has a descriptor.
inventoryCursorPopup.set only fires when an item is under the cursor, so empty
slots and empty tabs were silent and you could not tell the cursor had moved.
The inventory descriptor reports item-or-empty plus slot and tab instead.
21/21 testbed checks, history unit tests passing.
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Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.
- describe.lua: shared spatial formatting. 8-point compass and Chebyshev
distance, since the game moves 8-directionally and Euclidean would overstate
diagonal travel. Verbosity setting, because sweeping eight neighbours and
inspecting a single tile want different amounts of detail.
- states/ingame_observe.lua: narrates the game's existing examine cursor.
- surroundings.lua: probe one direction, scan all eight, or report location,
without moving anything or touching game state.
- patches/popups.lua: wraps inventoryCursorPopup.set, covering inventory, craft,
refine and trade in a single patch.
Q3 resolved as augment rather than relay: the game's descriptions carry no
position, which is fine on screen and useless by ear, so distance and direction
are appended.
Examine mode is polled rather than driven by levelCursorPopup. That popup is set
from an animation-completion callback, so unless the player has enabled the
game's quickExaminationPopup option the text arrives a full keypress late -- in
testing you heard the previous tile while standing on the next. Polling
level.cursorX/Y is same-frame and setting-independent.
hotkeys.isCtrlDown/isShiftDown are now overridable fields rather than direct
love.keyboard calls: real hardware state cannot be faked by love.event.push, so
without that seam every modifier-gated hotkey would be untestable.
11/11 testbed checks, history unit tests passing.
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Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.
Console (Q4: speak everything queued, cancelled by explicit action):
- history.lua keeps our own unbounded history, since the game's console buffer
expires entries after 3s. Mirrors the game's (xN) coalescing so what is heard
matches what is on screen. The review cursor holds position while new lines
arrive rather than being yanked to the tail mid-read.
- patches/console.lua wraps console.print, calling the real one first so a bug
on our side cannot swallow a message the player would otherwise see.
- Any keypress reaching the game silences the pending speech backlog.
Hotkeys: [ and ] review, Shift+[/] jump to ends, \ repeat, Shift+\ copy.
Chosen from scancodes the game does not bind. Note keybindings.getCommand()
ignores modifiers, so Ctrl+Up would read to the game as a movement -- our keys
are consumed and never overlay a game-claimed scancode.
Wall tones (Q5: on step, 3D-positioned, radius 5):
- Direction and distance are deliberately decoupled. The listener sits at the
camera 4 units above the plane under an inverse distance model, so placing a
tone at the wall's real position would make distant walls quieter (the
opposite of the request) and collapse the stereo pan. Instead the source sits
at a fixed radius in the wall's direction at listener height, and volume is
computed explicitly from distance.
- Step detection polls player coordinates rather than hooking movement, so it
covers walking, pathing, portals and pushes for free.
- Respects FoV/rememberedFoV; never leaks unseen geometry.
tests/test_history.lua: 16 assertions, all passing, pure Lua.
Not yet verified in actual play -- needs a human at the keyboard.
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