--- title: "Cave flyer: API" package: "@phaser-ae/cave-flyer" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "The session of a cave-flying thrust game, with a ship that shoots, shields and beams up fuel, defences that shoot back, doors, bombs, lives, and objectives written as rules." url: https://phaser.io/packs/cave-flyer/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Cave flyer: API `@phaser-ae/cave-flyer` — The session of a cave-flying thrust game: ship, gun, shield, beam, bases that shoot back, flyers, doors, bombs and lives, with objectives as rules. ## The pack ### `caveFlyer` ```ts function caveFlyer(): Pack<{ caveFlyer: typeof api }> ``` Install the cave flyer API. ## Helpers ### `clearBasesOf` ```ts function clearBasesOf(state: CaveState): ClearBasesState | undefined ``` `clearBasesRule`'s state in a session. ### `clearBasesRule` ```ts function clearBasesRule(o: ClearBasesOptions = {}): CaveRule ``` Gravitar's objective: destroy every bunker, then leave through the orbit line for the bonus. Leaving early flies the planet again. Pair it with cells the beam lifts whole (`take: 'collect'`) and a beam with no pod. ### `createCaveFlyer` ```ts function createCaveFlyer(def: CaveFlyerDef): CaveFlyer ``` Build a cave-flyer game. ### `SHIP` ```ts const SHIP: "ship" ``` The ship's id in the thrust-craft world. ## Types ### `BaseDef` ```ts interface BaseDef ``` A placed ground installation. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Kind name, a key of the definition's kinds. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `dir?: number` — Centre direction of a `cone` gun, radians (y down: -PI/2 is up). Default straight up. - `spread?: number` — Half-width of the `cone`, radians. Default 0.4. - `data?: Record` — Free data for a presenter. ### `BaseKind` ```ts interface BaseKind ``` A ground installation kind: a limpet gun, a fuel base, a launcher, a gravity station, a home base... - `w: number` — Box size (centred on the base). - `h: number` — Box height. - `hp?: number` — Pellet hits to destroy it. Default 1. Infinity: indestructible. - `hardened?: boolean` — Only a bomb blast destroys it. Default false. - `score?: number` — Score when destroyed. Default 0. - `solid?: boolean` — Touching it destroys the ship (unless the shield protects from enemies). Default true. - `fire?: FireDef` — Its gun. - `fires?: FireDef[]` — Several guns (a home base fires photons and missiles). - `gated?: boolean` — Fire stops while a rule gates the guns (Thrust's reactor, stunned or counting down). Default false. - `launch?: { flyer: string; every: number; max: number; range?: number }` — Launches flyers. - `well?: { mass: number; range: number; G?: number }` — Gravity (positive mass attracts, negative repels) out to `range`. - `popUp?: { range: number; shot?: number; time?: number }` — Hidden until the ship comes within `range` or a bullet lands within `shot`; rises over `time` seconds. - `refuel?: { range: number; rate: number }` — Refuels a ship landed within `range` at `rate` units/s. - `hanging?: boolean` — Hangs from a ceiling (a Thrust gun facing down). Presentation hint. - `look?: string` — Look hint for a presenter. ### `BaseState` ```ts interface BaseState ``` A ground installation's live state. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Kind name, a key of the definition's kinds. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `hp: number` — Hit points left (Infinity: unshootable). - `alive: boolean` — Still standing. - `risen: number` — How far a pop-up base has risen, 0..1. - `triggered: boolean` — A pop-up base has been woken. - `timers: number[]` — Seconds to each gun's next shot. - `launched: number` — Flyers launched so far. - `launchT: number` — Seconds to the next launch. ### `BlastState` ```ts interface BlastState ``` A bomb's fireball. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `t: number` — Seconds in this state. - `r: number` — Current radius. ### `BombDef` ```ts interface BombDef ``` Nova bombs (Oids). - `count: number` — Bombs carried. - `restock?: boolean` — Restocked to `count` on docking with the mothership. Default true. - `radius: number` — Blast radius at its largest. - `time: number` — Seconds the fireball lasts. - `gravity?: number` — Bombs fall under the planet's gravity (multiplier). Default 1. - `manual?: boolean` — Holding the bomb key after the drop detonates it on release. Default true. ### `BombState` ```ts interface BombState ``` A falling nova bomb. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `vx: number` — Velocity x, units/s. - `vy: number` — Velocity y, units/s. - `held: number` — Seconds the bomb key has been held since the drop. - `holding: boolean` — The bomb key is still held since the drop. ### `BulletState` ```ts interface BulletState ``` A player bullet. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `vx: number` — Velocity x, units/s. - `vy: number` — Velocity y, units/s. - `life: number` — Seconds left. ### `CaveContext` ```ts interface CaveContext ``` What a rule may read and do: the session's state and world, and the moves the session itself makes. - `readonly def: CaveFlyerDef` — The definition. - `readonly state: CaveState` — The live state. - `readonly world: ThrustWorld` — The current planet's thrust-craft world. - `readonly dt: number` — The fixed step, seconds. - `readonly ship: CaveShipDef` — The ship's definition. - `planet(): CavePlanetDef` — The current planet. - `craft(): CraftState` — The ship's flight state. - `rng(): Rng` — The session's seeded stream (saved with the state). - `emit(e: CaveEvent): void` — Queue an event. - `addScore(n: number): void` — Add points (and any extra lives they earn). - `awardLife(): void` — Award one extra ship. - `die(cause: string, at?: Vec2): void` — Destroy the ship. - `loseLife(): boolean` — Spend a ship; false (and the game over) when there were none. - `gameOver(): void` — End the game. - `complete(): void` — The last planet is done. - `nextPlanet(): void` — On to the next planet (or complete). - `following(): { index: number; loop: number } | null` — The planet and pass after this one, or null when the game would be complete. - `enterPlanet(index: number, newMission: boolean): void` — Begin a planet. - `respawn(top?: boolean): void` — Put the ship back on the planet (`top`: at its start, ignoring checkpoints). - `setPhase(phase: CavePhase): void` — Set the phase (and restart its clock). - `say(message: string): void` — Show a banner. - `snapView(): void` — Jump the view onto the followed point. - `fuelOut(): boolean` — Fuel is out and the definition ends the game for it. - `delta(a: Vec2, b: Vec2): Vec2` — Shortest `b - a` across a wrapping planet's seam. - `dist(a: Vec2, b: Vec2): number` — Distance across the seam. - `wrapX(x: number): number` — Wrap an x onto the planet. - `near(x: number, ref: number): number` — The image of `x` nearest `ref`. - `inBox(p: Vec2, c: Vec2, w: number, h: number, pad?: number): boolean` — `p` inside the box of centre `c`, size `w` by `h`, grown by `pad`. - `hullHits(x: number, y: number, w: number, h: number): boolean` — The ship's hull overlaps this box. - `groundAt(x: number, y: number): number | null` — The ground under (x, y), or null. - `onScreen(p: Vec2, pad?: number): boolean` — On screen, with `pad` to spare. - `nid(prefix: string): string` — A fresh id with this prefix. - `protectedBy(what: "bullets" | "ground" | "enemies"): boolean` — The shield is up and stops this. - `destroyBase(b: BaseState, score: boolean): void` — Destroy a base (scoring it or not). - `removeCell(id: string, score: number): void` — Remove a fuel cell (scoring it or not). - `rule(id: string): T | undefined` — Another rule's state, or undefined when that rule is not composed. ### `CaveDifficulty` ```ts type CaveDifficulty = "easy" | "normal" | "arcade" ``` Easy / Normal / Arcade. Arcade is the original's tables; each preset documents what the other two change. ### `CaveEvent` ```ts type CaveEvent = { [K in keyof CaveEvents]: { type: K } & CaveEvents[K] }[keyof CaveEvents] ``` What happened this step (for sounds and effects): one of `CaveEvents`, with its `type`. ### `CaveEvents` ```ts interface CaveEvents ``` The events a session emits, by type. Rule packs add theirs by augmenting this interface (`declare module "@phaser-ae/cave-flyer" { interface CaveEvents { ... } }`), so `CaveEvent` covers every rule composed. - `planet: { planet: number; name: string; loop: number; mission: number }` — A planet began. - `loop: { loop: number; message: string }` — A new modifier pass began, with its first-time message. - `fire: { x: number; y: number }` — The ship fired. - `"enemy-fire": { x: number; y: number; kind: string }` — An installation or flyer fired. - `destroyed: { what: "base" | "flyer" | "shot" | "cell" | (string & {}); kind: string; id: string; x: number; y: number; score: number }` — Something was destroyed, for the score shown. - `spark: { x: number; y: number }` — A shot struck something without destroying it. - `crash: { x: number; y: number; cause: string }` — The ship was destroyed. - `beam: { cell: string }` — The beam is on a cell. - `cell: { id: string; fuel: number; score: number }` — A fuel cell was taken. - `door: { id: string; opening: boolean }` — A door started to open or to close. - `switch: { id: string }` — A switch was shot. - `escape: { outcome: "complete" | "incomplete" | "destroyed"; bonus: number }` — The ship left through the orbit line. - `"extra-life": { lives: number }` — An extra ship was awarded. - `respawn: { x: number; y: number }` — The ship was put back on the planet. - `landed: { x: number; y: number }` — The ship touched down. - `"took-off": Record` — The ship lifted off. - `bomb: { x: number; y: number }` — A bomb was dropped. - `blast: { x: number; y: number }` — A bomb went off. - `"shield-hit": { charge: number }` — The shield took a hit. - `recharge: { on: boolean }` — The shield recharger started or stopped. - `refuel: { units: number }` — Fuel taken on at a fuel base. - `teleport: { from: string; to: string }` — The ship went through a teleporter. - `launch: { base: string; flyer: string }` — A base launched a flyer. - `tower: { id: string }` — A pop-up tower rose. - `over: { score: number }` — The game is over. - `complete: { score: number }` — The last planet is done. ### `CaveFlyer` ```ts interface CaveFlyer ``` A running cave-flyer game. - `readonly def: CaveFlyerDef` — The definition it was built from. - `readonly state: CaveState` — The live state (plain data). - `readonly world: ThrustWorld` — The current planet's thrust-craft world (ship, loads, cells, terrain, doors). - `planet(): CavePlanetDef` — The current planet. - `ship(): CraftState` — The ship's flight state. - `hull(): Vec2[]` — The ship's hull in world space. - `focus(): Vec2` — The point the view follows (the ship, or what a rule says: the middle of the ship and its pod). - `start(opts?: { planet?: number; loop?: number }): void` — Start a game (optionally on another planet or loop). - `attract(): void` — Back to the attract state. - `step(input?: CaveInput): void` — Advance one fixed step. - `drain(): CaveEvent[]` — Take queued events. - `baseKind(kind: string): BaseKind` — A base kind by name. - `flyerKind(kind: string): FlyerKind` — A flyer kind by name. - `projectileKind(kind: string): ProjectileKind` — A projectile kind by name. - `near(x: number, ref: number): number` — The image of `x` nearest `ref` on a wrapping planet (for drawing across the seam). - `doorOutline(id: string): Vec2[]` — The live outline of a door. - `snapshot(): CaveSnapshot` — Capture everything. - `restore(s: CaveSnapshot): void` — Restore a capture. ### `CaveFlyerDef` ```ts interface CaveFlyerDef ``` Everything a cave-flyer game is built from. - `step?: number` — Fixed step, seconds. Default 1/60. - `seed?: number` — Seed for the game's random rolls (gun aim, reactor damage, launches). - `ship: CaveShipDef` — The ship. - `planets: CavePlanetDef[]` — Planets in play order. - `loops?: LoopDef[]` — Modifier passes: after the last planet the list restarts with the next loop (Thrust: normal, reverse gravity, invisible, both). Default one plain loop, then the game is complete. - `endless?: boolean` — Repeat the loops forever (Thrust). Default false: after the last loop the game is complete. - `bases?: Record` — Base kinds by name. - `flyers?: Record` — Flyer kinds. - `projectiles?: Record` — Projectile kinds. - `lives: number` — Lives at the start. - `scoring: CaveScoring` — Scores. - `rules?: CaveRule[]` — What each planet asks of the player and everything that goes with it: thrust-rules' `reactorRule` and `podRule` (Thrust), oids-rescue's `rescueRule` and `treesRule` (Oids), this pack's `clearBasesRule` (Gravitar), or a game's own. With none, leaving through a planet's orbit line completes it. Default none. - `gunLevel?: { start: number; from: number; cap: number; destroyed: number }` — Thrust's gun level per mission, multiplying every `scaled` gun's rate: `start` for missions before `from`, then one more per mission up to `cap`; a destroyed planet adds `destroyed` to the next mission only. - `fuelEndsGame?: boolean` — Running out of fuel ends the game when the ship next dies or leaves (Thrust). Default false. - `respawnFuel?: "keep" | "refill"` — Fuel after a lost life: kept (Thrust) or refilled (Oids). Default `keep`. - `view: { /** View width, world units. */ w: number; /** View height, world units. */ h: number; /** The dead zone the followed point may roam before the view scrolls, as fractions of the view. */ dead: { x0: number; x1: number; y0: number; y1: number }; /** Scroll speed per unit of overshoot, 1/s. Default 8. */ catchUp?: number; /** Look ahead along the ship's velocity by this many seconds (at most a quarter of the view). Default 0. */ lead?: number; }` — The view: size and the dead zone the followed point may roam before it scrolls (fractions of the view). - `timing: CaveTiming` — Timings. - `difficulty?: CaveDifficulty` — Difficulty this was built for (informational). - `name?: string` — Name of the planet set (Oids: the galaxy), for the journey screen. ### `CaveInput` ```ts interface CaveInput ``` One step's controls. - `turn?: number` — -1 counter-clockwise .. 1 clockwise. - `thrust?: boolean` — Thrust. - `fire?: boolean` — Fire held. - `shield?: boolean` — Shield (and tractor) held. - `bomb?: boolean` — Bomb key held. - `recharge?: boolean` — Recharge key held (Oids' spacebar). ### `CavePhase` ```ts type CavePhase = "attract" | "intro" | "play" | "dying" | "result" | "over" | "complete" | (string & {}) ``` Session phases: the session's own, and any a rule adds (oids-rescue's `docked`, `departing` and `warp`). ### `CavePlanetDef` ```ts interface CavePlanetDef ``` One planet (Thrust) or planetoid (Oids). - `id: string` — Stable id. - `name: string` — Name shown on arrival. - `width: number` — World size. - `height: number` — World height. - `wrap?: boolean` — Wrap left to right. Default true. - `gravity: number` — Gravity, units/s^2 down the screen. - `terrain: TerrainDef[]` — Terrain (thrust-craft chains). Mark landable ground with `surface.landable`. - `start: Vec2` — Where the ship enters (its centre). - `checkpoints?: Vec2[]` — Respawn points below the start, top to bottom (Thrust's checkpoints). - `orbit?: number` — Flying above this y leaves the planet (Thrust's orbit). Omit: the top is a wall and leaving is by docking. - `bases?: BaseDef[]` — Ground installations. - `flyers?: FlyerDef[]` — Flyers in the air at the start. - `cells?: CellDef[]` — Fuel cells (Thrust). - `reactor?: ReactorDef` — The reactor (Thrust). - `pod?: PodDef` — The pod on its stand (Thrust). - `doors?: DoorDef[]` — Doors. - `switches?: SwitchDef[]` — Switches that open doors. - `factories?: FactoryDef[]` — Factories of Oids. - `teleporters?: TeleporterDef[]` — Teleporter pairs. - `mothership?: Vec2` — Where the mothership hovers to take the Oids aboard (its probe hangs below). Default above the start. - `trees?: TreeDef[]` — Trees and bushes: shot, they catch fire, burn and leave stumps. - `data?: Record` — Free data for a presenter (colours, scenery). ### `CaveRule` ```ts interface CaveRule ``` A rule: the objectives and the objects that go with them. Every hook is optional; the session calls them in the order the rules are listed. - `readonly id: string` — Unique id: the key of its state in `state.rules`. - `readonly reads?: readonly (keyof CavePlanetDef)[]` — Fields of a planet this rule reads (`pod`, `factories`…): a planet with one of them and no rule reading it fails validation. - `validate?(def: CaveFlyerDef): void` — Throw if the definition cannot be played with this rule. - `init?(): unknown` — The rule's state at the start of a game. Default `{}`. - `build?(ctx: CaveContext): void` — The world was built for a planet (on entering it, in attract mode, before a restore): add loads or items. - `enter?(ctx: CaveContext): void` — A planet begins: set up its part of the state. - `intro?(ctx: CaveContext): void` — The planet's banner is done and play begins. - `step?(ctx: CaveContext, input: CaveInput): void` — Early in each step of play, after the ship's bullets fly (Thrust's reactor). - `late?(ctx: CaveContext, input: CaveInput): void` — Late in each step of play, after teleporters (Oids' rescue, trees). - `dying?(ctx: CaveContext): void` — Each step while the wreck burns. - `bullet?(ctx: CaveContext, at: Vec2): boolean` — A player bullet at `at`: true when this rule's object took it. - `blast?(ctx: CaveContext, blast: { x: number; y: number; r: number }): void` — A bomb's fireball this step. - `collide?(ctx: CaveContext): string | null` — The cause, when the hull touches one of this rule's solid objects (checked unless the shield stops enemies). - `died?(ctx: CaveContext): void` — The ship was destroyed. - `afterDeath?(ctx: CaveContext): boolean` — The wreck burnt out: return true when this rule decides what happens next (Thrust: a critical reactor). - `respawnPoint?(ctx: CaveContext, top: boolean): number | null` — Which respawn point to use: an index into the planet's `[start, ...checkpoints]`. - `respawned?(ctx: CaveContext, at: Vec2, top: boolean): void` — The ship was put back at `at`. - `orbit?(ctx: CaveContext): OrbitResult | null` — The followed point crossed the orbit line: how the planet ends, or null to leave it to the next rule. - `world?(ctx: CaveContext, e: ThrustEvent): void` — A thrust-craft world event. - `focus?(ctx: CaveContext): Vec2 | null` — The point the view follows, or null for the ship. - `gated?(ctx: CaveContext): boolean` — True while bases marked `gated` hold fire. - `tractor?(ctx: CaveContext): boolean` — False while the beam may not be used (Thrust: while towing). - `phases?: Record void>` — Phases this rule runs, by name, each step while the session is in one. ### `CaveScoring` ```ts interface CaveScoring ``` Scores. - `cellCollected?: number` — A fuel cell taken by the beam. - `cellShot?: number` — A fuel cell shot. - `extraLifeEvery?: number` — Extra life every this many points. ### `CaveShipDef` ```ts interface CaveShipDef ``` The player's craft and everything it carries. - `hull: Vec2[]` — Local hull outline, nose along +x (use thrust-craft's `fromUpright`). - `feet?: number[]` — Hull indices that are landing feet. - `mass?: number` — Mass (the pod is tethered by mass ratio). Default 1. - `turnRate: number` — Turn rate, rad/s. - `steps?: number` — Quantised headings (Thrust and Oids: 32). - `thrust: number` — Main engine acceleration along the nose, units/s^2. - `drag?: Drag` — Linear drag per second, scalar or per axis. - `maxSpeed?: number` — Speed cap. - `fuel: { start: number; capacity: number; burn: number }` — Fuel. - `landing?: LandingDef` — Landing rules. Omit: every touch of the ground is a crash (Thrust). - `gun: GunDef` — Gun. - `shield: ShieldDef` — Shield. - `tractor?: { /** Item reach below the ship. */ range: number; /** Half-angle of the item cone around straight down. */ halfAngle: number; /** Fuel per second drained from a cell. */ drain: number; /** Pod: arm the beam closer than \`near\`, tether it by pulling \`far\` away, on a rod of \`length\`. Omit for a beam * that only takes cells (Gravitar's). */ pod?: { near: number; far: number; length: number; kind?: "rod" | "rope" }; }` — Tractor beam (Thrust: fuel cells drained from below, the pod pulled up on a rod). - `bombs?: BombDef` — Nova bombs. - `capacity?: number` — Passengers carried (Oids: 8). Default 0. - `exhaust?: { length: number; halfAngle: number }` — The engine flame: kills walkers caught in it (Oids). ### `CaveSnapshot` ```ts interface CaveSnapshot ``` A session capture. - `state: CaveState` — The session state. - `world: ThrustSnapshot` — The planet's thrust-craft world. ### `CaveState` ```ts interface CaveState ``` The whole session state (plain data, snapshotted). - `phase: CavePhase` — Session phase. - `t: number` — Seconds in this state. - `planet: number` — Index into the planet list. - `loop: number` — Modifier pass index. - `mission: number` — Missions flown (Thrust's mission number, 1-based). - `score: number` — Score. - `lives: number` — Spare ships. - `livesAwarded: number` — Extra ships awarded so far. - `reverse: boolean` — Reverse gravity and invisible landscape for this pass. - `invisible: boolean` — The landscape is invisible this pass. - `landscapeVisible: boolean` — The landscape is visible this step (false on invisible passes unless the shield is held). - `gunLevel: number` — Thrust's gun level this mission, and the punishment carried to the next. - `gunPenalty: number` — Extra gun level carried to the next mission. - `shieldCharge: number` — Shield charge 0..1 (Oids). - `shieldUp: boolean` — The shield is up this step. - `recharging: boolean` — The shield recharger is running. - `quick: boolean` — A recharge started with the shield up (the costly quick charge). - `rechargeLatch: boolean` — The recharge key was held last step. - `beamCell: string | null` — The fuel cell the beam is draining this step (Thrust), for the beam drawing. - `refuelling: boolean` — Refuelling at a fuel base this step (Oids). - `teleT: number` — Seconds before a teleporter works again. - `bombs: number` — Bombs left. - `checkpoint: number` — Checkpoint index the ship last respawned at (0 is the planet's start). - `bases: BaseState[]` — Ground installations. - `flyers: FlyerState[]` — Flyers in the air at the start. - `shots: ShotState[]` — Enemy projectiles. - `bullets: BulletState[]` — The ship's bullets in flight. - `bombsLive: BombState[]` — Falling bombs. - `blasts: BlastState[]` — Bomb fireballs. - `doors: DoorState[]` — Doors. - `cells: string[]` — Fuel cells (Thrust). - `view: CaveView` — The followed view. - `result: { kind: "complete" | "incomplete" | "destroyed" | (string & {}); bonus: number; planetDestroyed: boolean } | null` — The last planet's result, for the banner: how it ended, the bonus paid, and whether the planet blew up. - `rules: Record` — Each rule's own state, by rule id (plain data, saved with the session). Read it with the rule pack's accessor. - `shown: string[]` — First-time loop messages already shown. - `fireT: number` — Seconds since the last fire / press latches. - `fireLatch: boolean` — Fire was held (one shot per press). - `bombLatch: boolean` — The bomb key was held last step. - `deathY: number` — Where the followed point was when the ship died (for the respawn choice). - `message: string` — Banner text and its age. - `messageT: number` — Seconds since the banner changed. - `nextId: number` — Next id suffix. - `rng: number[]` — The seeded random stream's state: four words, from the kernel's `rng.snapshot()`. It advances in place and is saved with the state. ### `CaveTiming` ```ts interface CaveTiming ``` Timings, seconds. - `intro: number` — Planet name banner before play. - `respawn: number` — From a crash to the respawn. - `result: number` — Mission result screen. ### `CaveView` ```ts interface CaveView ``` The followed view. `x` is continuous across a wrapping planet's seam (it may leave 0..width). - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `w: number` — Box width. - `h: number` — Box height. - `vx: number` — Velocity x, units/s. - `vy: number` — Velocity y, units/s. ### `CellDef` ```ts interface CellDef ``` Thrust's fuel cell: drained by the tractor beam, or shot. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `fuel: number` — Fuel it holds. - `take?: "drain" | "collect"` — How the beam takes it: drained over time (Thrust) or lifted whole (Gravitar). Default 'drain'. - `w?: number` — Box. Default 16 x 20. - `h?: number` — Box height. ### `ClearBasesOptions` ```ts interface ClearBasesOptions ``` Options for `clearBasesRule`. - `kinds?: string[]` — Base kinds that must all be destroyed. Default every kind with hit points (not hardened). - `bonus?: number` — Points for leaving a cleared planet. Default 0. - `loseLife?: boolean` — Leaving before the planet is cleared costs a ship. Default false: fly it again from the top. ### `ClearBasesState` ```ts interface ClearBasesState ``` `clearBasesRule`'s state. - `cleared: boolean` — Every base it counts is destroyed. ### `DoorDef` ```ts interface DoorDef ``` A door: terrain whose outline moves from `closed` to `open` while a switch holds it open. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `closed: Vec2[]` — Closed outline (a closed polygon). - `open: Vec2[]` — Open outline, same vertex count. - `hold?: number` — Seconds a switch holds it open. Default 7.65 (Thrust's 255 ticks). - `move?: number` — Seconds to slide fully open or closed. Default 0.5. ### `DoorState` ```ts interface DoorState ``` A door's live state. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `open: number` — Open (factory) or open fraction 0..1 (door). - `hold: number` — Seconds a switch holds it open. - `timer: number` — Seconds left open. - `shown: number` — Openness last written to the terrain. ### `FactoryDef` ```ts interface FactoryDef ``` Oids' factory: holds Oids until a pellet blasts it open. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `oids: number` — Oids inside. - `w?: number` — Box. Default 32 x 14. - `h?: number` — Box height. ### `FireDef` ```ts interface FireDef ``` How a ground installation or a flyer shoots. - `aim: "cone" | "aimed"` — `cone`: at random within `spread` of the base's own direction, never aimed (Thrust's limpet guns); `aimed`: at the ship. - `rate: number` — Mean shots per second. - `timing?: "chance" | "timer"` — `chance`: each step fires with probability rate x dt (Thrust's per-tick roll); `timer`: every 1/rate seconds with jitter. Default `timer`. - `projectile: string` — Projectile kind. - `range?: number` — Fires only while the ship is within this distance. Default unlimited. - `onScreen?: boolean` — Fires only while it is inside the view (Thrust's guns fire only on screen). Default false. - `lead?: number` — Aimed shots lead the ship by this fraction of its velocity x flight time. Default 0. - `error?: number` — Random aim error, radians. Default 0. - `scaled?: boolean` — The rate is multiplied by the mission's gun level (Thrust's probability that rises with each mission). Default false. ### `FlyerDef` ```ts interface FlyerDef ``` A flyer already in the air at the start of a planet. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Kind name, a key of the definition's kinds. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). ### `FlyerKind` ```ts interface FlyerKind ``` A flyer kind (Oids' Biocrete ships). - `speed: number` — Cruise speed cap, units/s. - `accel: number` — Acceleration toward the ship, units/s^2. - `radius: number` — Collision radius. - `hp?: number` — Pellet hits to destroy it. Default 1. - `hardened?: boolean` — Only a bomb destroys it (a shielded mothership). Default false. - `score?: number` — Score. Default 0. - `fires?: FireDef[]` — Its guns. - `standoff?: number` — Keeps at least this far from the ship (stand-off attackers). Default 0. - `look?: string` — Look hint for a presenter. ### `FlyerState` ```ts interface FlyerState ``` A flyer's live state. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Kind name, a key of the definition's kinds. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `vx: number` — Velocity x, units/s. - `vy: number` — Velocity y, units/s. - `hp: number` — Hit points left (Infinity: unshootable). - `timers: number[]` — Seconds to each gun's next shot. ### `GunDef` ```ts interface GunDef ``` The ship's gun. - `speed: number` — Bullet speed along the nose, units/s. - `life: number` — Bullet life, seconds. - `max: number` — Most bullets in flight at once (Thrust: 4). - `auto?: boolean` — Hold to fire repeatedly (Oids' machine gun); false: one shot per press (Thrust). Default false. - `interval?: number` — Shortest time between shots, seconds. Default 0. - `inherit?: number` — Fraction of the ship's velocity a bullet inherits. Default 1. - `muzzle?: number` — Distance ahead of the ship's centre where a bullet starts. Default 8. - `blockedByShield?: boolean` — The gun cannot fire while the shield is up (Thrust). Default false. ### `LoopDef` ```ts interface LoopDef ``` A modifier pass over the planet list (Thrust's later loops). - `reverse?: boolean` — Gravity pulls up. - `invisible?: boolean` — The landscape is invisible except while the shield is held. - `message?: string` — Banner shown the first time this loop starts. ### `OrbitResult` ```ts interface OrbitResult ``` How leaving through the orbit line ends a planet. - `outcome: "complete" | "incomplete" | "destroyed"` — Complete (on to the next planet), incomplete (fly it again from the top) or destroyed (the planet blew up). - `bonus: number` — Points paid. - `loseLife?: boolean` — Leaving like this costs a ship (Thrust, without the pod). - `planetDestroyed?: boolean` — The planet was destroyed on the way out. ### `PodDef` ```ts interface PodDef ``` Thrust's pod on its pedestal. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `radius?: number` — Pod radius. Default 5. - `mass?: number` — Mass (relative to the ship). Default 1. - `stand?: { w: number; h: number }` — Pedestal box (indestructible, absorbs bullets, deadly to touch). Default 20 x 8 under the pod. ### `ProjectileKind` ```ts interface ProjectileKind ``` A projectile kind (enemy fire). - `speed: number` — Speed, units/s. - `life: number` — Life, seconds. - `radius?: number` — Collision radius. Default 1.5. - `homing?: number` — Turns toward the ship at this rate, rad/s (Oids' hunting spheres and heat-seeking missiles). - `hp?: number` — Pellet hits to destroy it; omit for unshootable. - `score?: number` — Score for shooting it down. Default 0. - `look?: string` — Look hint for a presenter. ### `ReactorDef` ```ts interface ReactorDef ``` Thrust's reactor: shooting it stuns the guns; enough damage starts the countdown. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `w?: number` — Box. Default 20 x 20. - `h?: number` — Box height. ### `ShieldDef` ```ts interface ShieldDef ``` The shield (and, in Thrust, the tractor on the same key). - `burn?: number` — Fuel per second while held (Thrust). Default 0. - `charge?: { /** Charge lost per second while up (full charge is 1). */ drain: number; /** Extra charge lost per enemy hit absorbed. */ hit: number; /** Charge regained per second while recharging. */ recharge: number; /** Fuel per unit of charge regained. */ fuel: number; /** Fuel multiplier for a quick charge (recharging with the shield up). */ quick: number; }` — A charge that drains while up and is recharged with fuel (Oids). Omit: the shield lasts while there is fuel. - `blocks: { bullets: boolean; ground: boolean; enemies: boolean }` — What it protects against. - `tractor?: boolean` — The shield key also works the tractor beam (Thrust). Default false. - `bounce?: { restitution: number; friction?: number }` — How the ship rebounds off the ground while the shield protects it. Default restitution 0.5, friction 0.3. ### `ShotState` ```ts interface ShotState ``` A projectile (enemy fire). - `id: string` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Kind name, a key of the definition's kinds. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `vx: number` — Velocity x, units/s. - `vy: number` — Velocity y, units/s. - `life: number` — Seconds left. - `hp: number` — Hit points left (Infinity: unshootable). ### `SwitchDef` ```ts interface SwitchDef ``` A switch: shooting it opens doors for a while. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `x: number` — Centre x, world units. - `y: number` — Centre y, world units (y down). - `w?: number` — Box. Default 8 x 16. - `h?: number` — Box height. - `doors?: string[]` — Doors it opens. 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