The garden plot
Live from your browserLittle rings locate heads on the full map. Choose a caterpillar for a closer look. Artwork extends beyond its cells; the dark head square marks the true collision cell.
Notes from this round
Three clans, finding their own way.
Current round · complete statistics
| Group | Launched / alive | Deaths: other / self / starve / wall | Cap survivors | Food total / mean per launch | Pickups / 1k live ticks; live ticks | Encounter takes / seen (%) | Safe takes / opportunities (%) | Mean lifespan / ended | Mean death length / deaths |
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Local totals, not global statistics. Only completed rounds join your journal. Resetting or skipping a seed leaves an unfinished round uncounted. A round ends at all deaths or the 5,000-tick cap.
Browser totals · complete statistics
| Group | Launched / alive | Deaths: other / self / starve / wall | Cap survivors | Food total / mean per launch | Pickups / 1k live ticks; live ticks | Encounter takes / seen (%) | Safe takes / opportunities (%) | Mean lifespan / ended | Mean death length / deaths |
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Completed-round sums stay in this browser in bounded-size storage, with no per-round history.
How to read the numbers
Food encounters are newly visible food cells per caterpillar in its 5 × 5 view; continuous visibility is one encounter. Safe opportunities are live pre-ticks with at least one adjacent food action clear of pre-tick bodies; simultaneous conflicts can still prevent pickup. Empty denominators show zero.
Lifespan averages include ended caterpillars and cap survivors; death length excludes caps. Current lifespan means use only ended lives. Detailed tables retain every launch, tick, encounter, opportunity and death denominator. Tomato = red elite 0; Cornflower = blue elite 1; Leaf = green elite 2.
A growing field journal
Preparing local archive…
Population through time
Bloodlines · every animal is retained
Parent → selected animal → children
| Animal | Parent / root | Depth / children | Lifetime | Living branch / ticks | Genome SHA-256 |
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Autosave at least 5 seconds apart while playing (adapts to full-history snapshot cost), and on pause, extinction or switching runs. Closing a tab is best-effort only: the last committed tick above is the durable boundary. Full JSON includes all networks, hashes, events, configuration, population samples, metrics and the entire tree. No historical bloodlines are pruned.