--- title: "Grid bombs and blasts: API" package: "@phaser-ae/grid-bombs" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "Bombs on a tile grid and the bomb-maze games built from them, with chain blasts, soft blocks, power-ups, monsters, bots, a fifty-stage campaign and battle matches." url: https://phaser.io/packs/grid-bombs/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Grid bombs and blasts: API `@phaser-ae/grid-bombs` — Bombs on a tile grid: fuses, chain blasts, soft blocks, power-ups, kick/punch/remote, monsters, bots, a stage campaign and battle rounds, as in Bomberman. ## The pack ### `gridBombs` ```ts function gridBombs(): Pack<{ gridBombs: GridBombsApi }> ``` Install the renderer-independent grid bombs API. Movement comes from grid-walker's continuous walker. ## Helpers ### `BATTLE_ARENAS` ```ts const BATTLE_ARENAS: Readonly> ``` Battle arena layouts shipped with the pack (authored maps; `?` cells are soft at the match density). ### `battleItems` ```ts function battleItems(): ItemDef[] ``` Super Bomberman-style battle power-ups (ids are what the arena hides). ### `battlePreset` ```ts function battlePreset(o: BattleOptions = {}): BomberGameConfig ``` A Super Bomberman-style battle as a configuration. ### `bombermanPreset` ```ts function bombermanPreset(o: BombermanOptions = {}): BomberGameConfig ``` The 1985 NES Bomberman stage game as a configuration (any field can then be replaced). ### `botProfile` ```ts function botProfile(level: BotLevel): BotProfile ``` A named bot profile. ### `createBomberBot` ```ts function createBomberBot(profile: BotProfile | BotLevel = "normal", seed = 1): BomberBot ``` Create a bot with a named level or a custom profile. `seed` drives its few random choices. ### `createBomberGame` ```ts function createBomberGame(config: BomberGameConfig): BomberGame ``` Create a rules owner from a configuration (see `bombermanPreset` and `battlePreset`). ### `createBombField` ```ts function createBombField(arena: Arena, rules: Partial = {}, traits: Record = {}): BombField ``` Create the bomb mechanic for an arena (from {@link resolveArena }). `traits` say how flames treat each item kind. ### `dangerMap` ```ts function dangerMap(field: BombField, o: DangerOptions = {}): DangerMap ``` Build the danger map of a field now, resolving chain reactions in fuse order. ### `enemyDecide` ```ts function enemyDecide(brain: EnemyBrain, sense: EnemySense, rng: Rng): Dir ``` Pick a monster's direction at a tile centre. Uses `rng` in a fixed order, so it is deterministic. ### `firstStep` ```ts function firstStep(from: Cell, to: Cell, blocked: (x: number, y: number) => boolean, limit = 4096): Dir | null ``` First step of a shortest path (breadth first, up/left/down/right order) or null when unreachable within `limit` tiles. ### `nesBomberRules` ```ts function nesBomberRules(): BomberRules ``` NES bomber rules. ### `nesBombRules` ```ts function nesBombRules(): BombRules ``` NES bomb timings. ### `nesEnemies` ```ts function nesEnemies(): EnemyKind[] ``` The eight NES monsters. Scores, the slow/normal/fast classes, soft-block passing and intelligence come from the sources in the docs; tile speeds are estimates on a 16-pixel tile at 60 frames per second. ### `nesItems` ```ts function nesItems(): ItemDef[] ``` The eight NES power-ups and the monster each releases when it (or the exit, while it is the stage's item) is bombed. ### `nesStages` ```ts function nesStages(bonus = true): StageDef[] ``` The NES stage list: fifty stages from the table, with the ten bonus stages in their places when `bonus`. ### `pillarArena` ```ts function pillarArena(options: PillarArenaOptions = {}): string[] ``` The classic Bomberman arena as a map template: a hard border, a hard pillar on every cell with both coordinates even, `?` on every other floor cell (resolve it with a density) and digit starts. ### `pressureSpiral` ```ts function pressureSpiral(cols: number, rows: number): Cell[] ``` Clockwise spiral of the arena interior from the top-left, the order pressure blocks fall in. ### `resolveArena` ```ts function resolveArena(map: readonly string[], options: ResolveOptions = {}): Arena ``` Parse an authored string map into an {@link Arena}. Rows must all be the same width. `?` cells become soft blocks with probability `density` (seeded); `keepClear` cells and cells next to a bomber start (an L of three) are forced clear so nobody starts boxed in. ### `safeDuring` ```ts function safeDuring(map: DangerMap, x: number, y: number, from: number, to: number, margin = 0): boolean ``` Is a tile free of lethal flame for the whole interval [from, to] seconds from now (with a safety margin)? ### `stageDifficulty` ```ts function stageDifficulty(level: DifficultyLevel): StageDifficulty ``` Campaign difficulty scaling for a level. ### `stageIndex` ```ts function stageIndex(stages: readonly StageDef[], n: number): number ``` Index in a stage list of the stage labelled `n` (bonus stages are skipped). ### `steer` ```ts function steer( walker: GridWalker, held: Dir | null, speed: number, dt: number, walls: (x: number, y: number) => boolean, reach = 0.7, ): boolean ``` Move a walker for `dt` seconds while `held` is pressed. `walls(x, y)` is true for tiles this actor may not enter. `reach` is how far (in tiles, 0.5..1) past the midpoint between two lanes the actor still slides onto the far lane when the near one is blocked. Returns true when it moved. ### `untouched` ```ts function untouched(map: DangerMap, x: number, y: number): boolean ``` Is a tile under no known threat at all? ### `validateBomberGame` ```ts function validateBomberGame(c: BomberGameConfig): BomberGameConfig ``` Validate a configuration; throws with the reason for anything unsupported. ## Functions ### `validateBombRules` ```ts function validateBombRules(r: BombRules): BombRules ``` Validate a full rule set (throws with the field name). ### `validateBotProfile` ```ts function validateBotProfile(p: BotProfile): BotProfile ``` Validate a profile (throws with the field name). ### `validateEnemyKind` ```ts function validateEnemyKind(k: EnemyKind): EnemyKind ``` Validate a monster kind. ## Classes ### `BomberBot` ```ts class BomberBot ``` A Bomberman bot. Create with {@link createBomberBot}; call {@link BomberBot.think} once per frame. - `readonly profile: BotProfile` — The skill profile in use. - `constructor(profile: BotProfile | BotLevel = "normal", seed = 1)` - `get state(): BotState` — The bot's memory, for debugging or display. - `think(view: BotView, dt: number): BomberIntent` — Decide this frame's intent. `dt` is the frame length in seconds. - `snapshot(): BotState` — Snapshot of the bot's memory. - `restore(s: BotState)` — Return to a snapshot. ### `BomberGame` ```ts class BomberGame ``` The rules owner. Create with {@link createBomberGame}. - `readonly config: BomberGameConfig` — The validated configuration. - `constructor(config: BomberGameConfig)` - `reset(stage = 0)` — Start again from the first stage (or round). `stage` picks a campaign start stage (0-based). - `get state(): BomberGameState` — A copy of the state. - `get field(): BombField` — The bomb field (read it; do not change it from outside a step). - `get arena(): Arena` — The resolved arena of the current stage or round. - `botState(id: string): BotState | null` — A bot's memory (null for players). - `enemyKind(id: string): EnemyKind` — Monster kind definition. - `item(id: string): ItemDef | undefined` — Item definition. - `get stageDef(): StageDef | null` — The campaign stage definition in play (null in a match). - `speedOf(id: string): number` — A bomber's current speed in tiles per second (with speed-ups and disease). - `control(id: string, intent: Partial)` — Set a player bomber's intent for the next frames. `bomb` and `action` are presses (consumed once). - `tick(dt: number)` — Advance by `dt` seconds in whole 60 Hz frames (at most eight per call; the rest is dropped). - `drain(): BomberEvent[]` — Events since the last drain. - `snapshot(): BomberGameSnapshot` — Everything needed to return to this moment. - `restore(snap: BomberGameSnapshot)` — Return to a snapshot. - `scaledCounts(counts: Record): Record` — Monster counts after difficulty scaling: the total is scaled and rounded, then shared out over the kinds by largest remainder (ties go to the kind listed first), and at least one monster stays. ### `BombField` ```ts class BombField ``` The bomb mechanic on one arena. Create with {@link createBombField}. - `readonly rules: BombRules` — The rules in force. - `constructor(arena: Arena, rules: Partial = {}, traits: Record = {})` - `get state(): BombFieldState` — A copy of the whole state. - `get cols()` — Width in tiles. - `get rows()` — Height in tiles. - `get bombs(): readonly Bomb[]` — Live bombs (read-only view; do not mutate). - `get flames(): readonly Flame[]` — Live flames (read-only view). - `get items(): readonly FieldItem[]` — Exposed items (read-only view). - `get burning(): readonly Burning[]` — Burning soft blocks (read-only view). - `inside(x: number, y: number)` — Is the cell inside the arena? - `tile(x: number, y: number): Tile` — The tile at a cell (`hard` outside the arena). - `setTile(x: number, y: number, t: Tile)` — Replace a tile (for authored edits, pressure blocks or rebuilt walls). - `hide(x: number, y: number, kind: string | null)` — Hide an item kind under a soft block (revealed when the block burns away). - `hiddenAt(x: number, y: number): string | null` — What a soft block hides, or null. - `bombAt(x: number, y: number): Bomb | undefined` — The bomb resting or sliding on a cell (airborne bombs are on no cell). - `flameAt(x: number, y: number): Flame | undefined` — The flame on a cell, if any. - `itemAt(x: number, y: number): FieldItem | undefined` — The exposed item on a cell, if any. - `isBurning(x: number, y: number)` — Is the cell a soft block that is burning away? - `countOwned(owner: string)` — Bombs an owner has on the board (including airborne ones). - `blocked(x: number, y: number, mover: Mover = {}): boolean` — Can a mover enter this cell? Hard blocks and the outside always block; soft blocks (including burning ones) unless `wallpass`; bombs unless `bombpass` or the mover is still standing on that bomb. - `place( owner: string, x: number, y: number, o: { range: number; remote?: boolean; pierce?: boolean; fuse?: number; passers?: readonly string[] }, ): Bomb | null` — Place a bomb on a floor tile. Returns null (and changes nothing) when the tile is not floor or already holds a bomb. `passers` are the actors overlapping the tile now; they may walk off it. - `detonate(owner: string, mode: "oldest" | "all" = "oldest"): number[]` — Trigger remote bombs of an owner: `oldest` sets off only the oldest one (the NES Detonator), `all` sets off every one. They explode on the next tick. Returns the ids triggered. - `defuseRemote(owner: string)` — Turn an owner's waiting remote bombs back into fused bombs (e.g. when the owner loses the remote). - `kick(x: number, y: number, dir: Dir, by: string): boolean` — Kick the bomb on a cell: it slides `dir` until something blocks it. Returns false when it cannot move at all. - `stop(bombId: number)` — Stop a sliding bomb on its nearest tile centre (a "kick stop"). - `punch(x: number, y: number, dir: Dir, by: string, distance = this.rules.punchDistance): boolean` — Punch (or throw) the bomb on a cell `distance` tiles in `dir`; it flies over everything and bounces on one tile at a time while its landing tile is blocked. Its fuse waits while it flies. - `dropItem(kind: string, x: number, y: number): number | null` — Put an exposed item on a floor tile (a dropped or scattered power-up). Returns its id, or null if the tile is taken. - `takeItem(x: number, y: number): FieldItem | null` — Remove and return the exposed item on a cell (a pickup). - `removeBomb(id: number)` — Remove a bomb without exploding it (an owner leaving the game). - `crush(x: number, y: number)` — A falling block lands on a cell: the tile becomes hard, and the bomb, item, flame and hidden item there are removed (Super Bomberman's sudden-death pressure block). Actors on it are the caller's to crush. - `blastFrom(x: number, y: number, range: number, pierce = false): { cells: Cell[]; bombs: number[] }` — The tiles a blast from (x, y) would reach now, without changing anything: the centre, then each arm in up/left/down/right order. `stops` lists the bombs (by id) the arms would set off. - `tick(dt: number, ctx: FieldActors = {})` — Advance the field by `dt` seconds (call once per fixed frame). - `drain(): BombEvent[]` — Events since the last drain, oldest first. - `snapshot(): BombFieldState` — Copy of the state for later {@link restore}. - `restore(state: BombFieldState)` — Return to a snapshot. ## Constants ### `DEFAULT_BOMB_RULES` ```ts const DEFAULT_BOMB_RULES: Readonly ``` Default bomb rules (the NES timings, see the docs for their sources). ### `DIRS` ```ts const DIRS: readonly Dir[] ``` The four directions in the fixed order every scan uses (deterministic tie-breaking). ### `FRAME` ```ts const FRAME: number ``` The simulation runs in whole 60 Hz frames. ### `MAX_ARENA_CELLS` ```ts const MAX_ARENA_CELLS: 16384 ``` Largest arena accepted: a resource bound for the per-step flood fills, not a game limit. ### `OPPOSITE` ```ts const OPPOSITE: Readonly> ``` The direction that undoes each direction. ### `STEP` ```ts const STEP: Readonly>> ``` Unit step for each direction. ## Types ### `Arena` ```ts interface Arena ``` A parsed arena. Legend for string maps: `#` hard (indestructible) block, `%` soft (destructible) block, `.` or space floor, `?` soft with the resolver's probability (floor otherwise), `x` floor that is always kept clear, `1`..`9` bomber start N (floor, kept clear), `e` an enemy start hint (floor), `D` a soft block hiding the exit door, `P` a soft block hiding the stage power-up. - `cols: number` — Width in tiles. - `rows: number` — Height in tiles. - `tiles: Tile[]` — Row-major tiles, `rows * cols` long. - `starts: Cell[]` — Bomber starts by index (map digits 1..9 are indexes 0..8). - `enemyStarts: Cell[]` — Authored enemy start hints (`e`). - `door: Cell | null` — Soft blocks that must hide the exit door (`D`), if authored. - `powerUp: Cell | null` — Soft block that must hide the stage power-up (`P`), if authored. ### `BattleOptions` ```ts interface BattleOptions ``` Options for {@link battlePreset}. - `players?: number` — Bombers, 2..4 on the shipped arenas (more with an authored map that has more starts). Default 4. - `humans?: number` — How many of them are humans (the rest are bots). Default 1. - `difficulty?: BotLevel` — Bot skill: a level for all bots. Default `normal`. - `bots?: (BotLevel | BotProfile)[]` — Per-bot skill overrides (index 0 is the first bot). - `arena?: keyof typeof BATTLE_ARENAS | string[]` — A shipped arena name or an authored map. Default `classic`. - `density?: number` — Soft block density. Default 0.7. - `wins?: number` — Round wins needed. Default 3. - `time?: number` — Seconds per round. Default 180. - `suddenDeathAt?: number | null` — Sudden death from this many seconds remaining (null = off). Default 60. - `items?: Record` — Item counts hidden per round (merged over the defaults; 0 removes one). - `startKick?: boolean` — Everyone starts with kick. Default false. - `startRemote?: boolean` — Everyone starts with remote bombs. Default false. - `chainDelay?: number` — Seconds between a flame reaching a bomb and that bomb going off. Default 0.1 (a visible ripple). - `seed?: number` — Seed. Default 1993. - `teams?: "ffa" | "pairs"` — Teams (`ffa` free-for-all, or `pairs`: 1+3 against 2+4). Default `ffa`. ### `Bomb` ```ts interface Bomb ``` A bomb on the board. - `id: number` — Stable id (stable rendering key). - `owner: string` — Owner id (whatever the caller uses for actors). - `x: number` — Centre x in tiles (continuous while it slides or flies). - `y: number` — Centre y in tiles. - `fuse: number` — Seconds to go; Infinity for a remote bomb waiting for its trigger. - `age: number` — Seconds the bomb has existed (for pulsing art). - `remote: boolean` — Remote-controlled: no fuse until detonated. - `range: number` — Blast arm length in tiles. - `pierce: boolean` — Blast arms burn through soft blocks instead of stopping at the first. - `seq: number` — Placement order (oldest first); the remote trigger and same-frame explosions use it. - `passers: string[]` — Actors still overlapping the bomb since it was placed: they may walk off it, nobody may walk on. - `motion: BombMotion | null` — Movement, or null when resting on a tile centre. - `group: number` — Blast group this bomb will explode in (set when a flame chains it), 0 for its own new group. ### `BomberDef` ```ts interface BomberDef ``` A bomber taking part. - `id: string` — Id (also bomb owner id). - `team?: string` — Team; bombers on a team never hurt each other unless `teamHarm`. Default: its own id (free-for-all). - `control: "player" | "bot"` — `player` reads {@link BomberGame.control}; `bot` is driven by a BomberBot. - `bot?: BotLevel | BotProfile` — Bot skill (a level or a profile). Default `normal`. - `start?: number` — Arena start index. Default: its position in the list. ### `BomberEvent` ```ts type BomberEvent = | BombEvent | { /** A stage or round began. */ kind: "begin"; label: string; bonus: boolean } | { /** Play started after the banner. */ kind: "go" } | { /** A bomber died. */ kind: "bomber-died"; id: string; by: string | null; cause: "flame" | "enemy" | "crushed"; x: number; y: number } | { /** A monster died. */ kind: "enemy-died"; id: string; enemy: string; by: string | null; points: number; x: number; y: number } | { /** A bomber took an item. */ kind: "picked"; id: string; item: string; effect: ItemEffect; disease?: Disease } | { /** Monsters were released. */ kind: "released"; enemy: string; count: number; from: "door" | "item" | "timeout" } | { /** The exit door opened (every monster gone). */ kind: "door-open" } | { /** A bomber reached the open exit. */ kind: "stage-clear"; id: string; stage: number } | { /** Lives were added. */ kind: "extra-life"; lives: number } | { /** A campaign ran out of lives. */ kind: "game-over" } | { /** Sudden death began. */ kind: "hurry" } | { /** A pressure block fell. */ kind: "pressure"; x: number; y: number } | { /** A round was decided. */ kind: "round-over"; winner: string | null } | { /** The match was won. */ kind: "match-over"; winner: string } | { /** A disease passed between bombers. */ kind: "infected"; from: string; to: string; disease: Disease } ``` Things that happened (drain them with {@link BomberGame.drain}). ### `BomberGameConfig` ```ts interface BomberGameConfig ``` A whole game definition: rules, bombers, items, monster kinds, and a campaign or a match. - `seed: number` — Seed for maps, item placement, monsters and bots. - `bombs: Partial` — Bomb timings and options. - `rules: BomberRules` — Bomber rules. - `bombers: BomberDef[]` — The bombers. - `items: ItemDef[]` — Power-up kinds. - `enemies: EnemyKind[]` — Monster kinds. - `campaign?: Campaign` — Stage structure (exactly one of `campaign` and `match`). - `match?: Match` — Battle structure (exactly one of `campaign` and `match`). ### `BomberGameSnapshot` ```ts interface BomberGameSnapshot ``` A snapshot of a whole game. - `state: BomberGameState` — Game state. - `field: BombFieldState` — Bomb field state. - `arena: Arena` — Resolved arena. - `bots: Record` — Bot memories by bomber id. - `inputs: Record` — Pending inputs. - `acc: number` — Frame accumulator. ### `BomberGameState` ```ts interface BomberGameState ``` The game's whole state; plain data. - `mode: "campaign" | "match"` — `campaign` or `match`. - `status: "intro" | "playing" | "dying" | "clear" | "round-over" | "match-over" | "game-over"` — Phase of play. - `statusTime: number` — Seconds in this status. - `stage: number` — Campaign: stage index (0-based) in the table. - `loop: number` — Campaign: completed loops of the table. - `bonus: boolean` — Campaign: this stage is a bonus stage. - `label: string` — Banner label for the stage or round. - `round: number` — Match: round number (1-based). - `roundWinner: string | null` — Match: winning team of the last round, `draw`, or null. - `matchWinner: string | null` — Match: winning team of the match, or null. - `clock: number` — Seconds left on the clock (Infinity with no clock). - `lives: number` — Campaign lives left. - `bombers: BomberState[]` — Bombers. - `enemies: EnemyState[]` — Monsters (dying ones stay a moment for their animation). - `door: Cell | null` — The exit door tile (campaign), or null. - `doorShown: boolean` — The door has been uncovered. - `doorOpen: boolean` — The door works (uncovered and no monsters left). - `powerUp: string | null` — The stage's power-up id, or null. - `flooded: boolean` — The time-out flood has happened. - `hurry: boolean` — Sudden death has begun. - `pressure: number` — Pressure blocks dropped so far. - `pressureWait: number` — Seconds to the next pressure block. - `decide: number` — Seconds left before a decided round is scored (match), or -1. - `nextEnemy: number` — Next monster id number. - `pending: { x: number; y: number; kind: string; count: number; wait: number }[]` — Monster releases waiting for a door's flames to die down. - `groupKills: Record` — Kills per blast group (for multi-kill scores). - `released: number[]` — Blast groups that have already released monsters from a door or item. - `rng: number[]` — The seeded random stream's state (four words, from the kernel's `rng.snapshot()`); it advances in place, so a snapshot saves it. - `frame: number` — Frames simulated. ### `BomberIntent` ```ts interface BomberIntent ``` What a bomber (player or bot) asks for this frame. - `move: Dir | null` — Direction held, or null to stand still. - `bomb: boolean` — Bomb button pressed this frame. - `action: boolean` — Action button pressed this frame (remote detonate, or punch). ### `BombermanOptions` ```ts interface BombermanOptions ``` Options for {@link bombermanPreset}. - `stage?: number` — First stage (1-based, counting stages only, not bonus stages). Default 1. - `lives?: number` — Lives. Default 3. - `seed?: number` — Seed. Default 1985. - `difficulty?: DifficultyLevel | StageDifficulty` — Difficulty level or explicit scaling. Default `arcade`. - `cols?: number` — Arena width including the border. Default 31 (the NES stage). - `rows?: number` — Arena height including the border. Default 13. - `density?: number` — Soft block density. Default 0.3. - `bonus?: boolean` — Include the bonus stages. Default true. - `time?: number` — Seconds per stage. Default 200. - `coop?: number` — Extra bots playing co-op alongside the player (0 = classic single player). - `coopBot?: BotLevel | BotProfile` — Skill of co-op bots. Default `normal`. ### `BomberRules` ```ts interface BomberRules ``` Rules for bombers. - `speed: number` — Base speed, tiles per second. - `speedStep: number` — Speed added per speed-up. - `maxSpeedSteps: number` — Most speed-ups that count. - `maxBombs: number` — Most bombs at once. - `maxRange: number` — Longest blast range. - `start: Loadout` — Starting loadout (and what a campaign bomber returns to after a death, plus its kept items). - `remoteMode: "oldest" | "all"` — The remote trigger sets off the `oldest` bomb (NES) or `all` of them. - `touch: number` — Contact distance (tiles, per axis) at which a monster kills a bomber. - `selfHarm: boolean` — Do a bomber's own flames hurt it? - `teamHarm: boolean` — Do teammates' flames hurt? - `cornerReach: number` — Corner sliding reach in tiles (0.5..1), see `steer`. - `deathSeconds: number` — Seconds a death takes to play out. - `diseaseSeconds: number` — Seconds a skull disease lasts. - `diseases: Disease[]` — Diseases a skull can give. - `spreadDisease: boolean` — A diseased bomber passes the disease to bombers it touches. - `scatterOnDeath: boolean` — A dead bomber's collected power-ups scatter over the arena (battle). ### `BomberState` ```ts interface BomberState extends Loadout ``` A bomber now. - `id: string` — Id. - `team: string` — Team. - `control: "player" | "bot"` — Who drives it. - `alive: boolean` — Alive. - `deadTime: number` — Seconds since it died (for the death animation). - `cause: "flame" | "enemy" | "crushed" | null` — How it died. - `x: number` — Centre x in tiles. - `y: number` — Centre y in tiles. - `facing: Dir` — Facing. - `moving: boolean` — Moved this frame. - `invincible: number` — Seconds of invincibility left. - `disease: { kind: Disease; time: number } | null` — Current disease and seconds left, or null. - `score: number` — Score. - `wins: number` — Round wins (match). - `kills: number` — Opponents and monsters killed. - `picked: string[]` — Items picked up this life (scattered on death in a match). - `walk: GridWalkerState` — Walker state (position, heading). ### `BombEvent` ```ts type BombEvent = | { /** A bomb was placed. */ kind: "placed"; bomb: number; owner: string; x: number; y: number } | { /** A bomb exploded: its centre and every tile its arms reached, in order. */ kind: "exploded"; bomb: number; owner: string; x: number; y: number; group: number; cells: Cell[]; /** True when another blast set it off. */ chained: boolean; } | { /** A soft block was hit and starts burning. */ kind: "soft-hit"; x: number; y: number; group: number; owner: string; hidden: string | null } | { /** A burnt soft block disappeared; `item` is what it revealed. */ kind: "revealed"; x: number; y: number; item: string | null } | { /** A blast arm reached an exposed item. */ kind: "item-hit"; item: string; id: number; x: number; y: number; group: number; owner: string; destroyed: boolean } | { /** A bomb started sliding. */ kind: "kicked"; bomb: number; by: string; dir: Dir } | { /** A sliding bomb stopped. */ kind: "stopped"; bomb: number; x: number; y: number } | { /** A bomb was punched into the air. */ kind: "punched"; bomb: number; by: string; dir: Dir } | { /** A flying bomb left one side and re-entered at the other (a discontinuity: snap art). */ kind: "wrapped"; bomb: number } | { /** A flying bomb landed on a blocked tile and bounces on. */ kind: "bounced"; bomb: number; x: number; y: number } | { /** A flying bomb landed. */ kind: "landed"; bomb: number; x: number; y: number } | { /** A tile was crushed by a falling block. */ kind: "crushed"; x: number; y: number; bomb: number | null; item: string | null } ``` What happened during a tick (drain them with {@link BombField.drain}). ### `BombFieldState` ```ts interface BombFieldState ``` Everything the field owns; plain data. - `cols: number` — Width in tiles. - `rows: number` — Height in tiles. - `tiles: Tile[]` — Row-major tiles. - `hidden: (string | null)[]` — Row-major: what each soft block hides (an item kind) or null. - `items: FieldItem[]` — Exposed items. - `bombs: Bomb[]` — Bombs, in placement order. - `flames: Flame[]` — Lethal flames. - `burning: Burning[]` — Soft blocks burning away. - `nextId: number` — Next id for bombs and items. - `seq: number` — Placement counter. - `group: number` — Last blast group number. - `time: number` — Seconds simulated. ### `BombMotion` ```ts type BombMotion = | { /** Sliding after a kick, one tile at a time, until something blocks it. */ kind: "slide"; /** Slide direction. */ dir: Dir; /** Tiles per second. */ speed: number; /** Who kicked it. */ by: string; } | { /** Flying after a punch or throw; it cannot explode or be hit while airborne. */ kind: "flight"; /** Flight direction. */ dir: Dir; /** Launch position. */ from: Cell; /** Landing cell. */ to: Cell; /** Seconds flown on this leg. */ t: number; /** Seconds this leg takes. */ duration: number; /** Who punched it. */ by: string; } ``` How a bomb is moving, if it is. ### `BombRules` ```ts interface BombRules ``` Timings and options for bombs and blasts. - `fuse: number` — Seconds from placing to exploding. - `flameSeconds: number` — Seconds a flame stays lethal on its cell. - `burnSeconds?: number` — Seconds a soft block burns before it disappears and reveals what it hid. Default `flameSeconds`. - `chainDelay: number` — Seconds between a flame reaching a bomb and that bomb exploding; 0 chains in the same frame. - `flameStopsAtItems: boolean` — Do flames stop at the first exposed item they destroy? (Super Bomberman: yes.) - `slideSpeed: number` — Kicked bombs slide at this many tiles per second. - `punchDistance: number` — Tiles a punched (or thrown) bomb flies before it tries to land. - `punchSeconds: number` — Seconds a punched bomb spends in the air over `punchDistance` tiles (bounces take a share of it per tile). - `wrapPunch: boolean` — Do punched bombs that leave the arena come back in on the opposite side? Otherwise they bounce back. - `itemsStopSlides: boolean` — Do sliding bombs stop in front of exposed items (true) or slide over them (false)? ### `BotActor` ```ts interface BotActor ``` Another actor as a bot sees it. - `id: string` — Actor id. - `x: number` — Continuous centre x in tiles. - `y: number` — Continuous centre y in tiles. - `kind: "bomber" | "enemy"` — `bomber` (another player or bot) or `enemy` (a monster that kills by touch). - `team: string` — Team id; bombers on the bot's team are allies. Monsters are always hostile. - `speed: number` — Tiles per second. - `wallpass?: boolean` — Can it cross soft blocks (for judging its escape routes). - `bombpass?: boolean` — Can it cross bombs. ### `BotLevel` ```ts type BotLevel = "easy" | "normal" | "arcade" ``` Named bot levels. `arcade` is the strongest. ### `BotProfile` ```ts interface BotProfile ``` Bot difficulty: one profile per skill level, or your own. - `think: number` — Seconds between full re-plans (reaction time). The flame guard still runs every frame. - `margin: number` — Safety margin in seconds when judging whether a tile will be clear. - `aggression: number` — Chance of bombing when an opponent stands in the blast it would make. - `trap: boolean` — Looks for bombs that leave an opponent no escape and always takes them. - `hunt: boolean` — Walks towards opponents when nothing better is on. - `items: boolean` — Collects power-ups. - `mistakes: number` — Chance per plan of misjudging danger (an imperfect bot); 0 never errs. - `enemyClearance: number` — Tiles to keep between itself and monsters. - `dig: number` — Weight on blowing up soft blocks. - `commit: number` — Seconds a planned target is kept before looking for a better one (stops dithering). - `refuges: number` — Safe tiles that must stay reachable after placing a bomb (more = harder to trap). ### `BotSelf` ```ts interface BotSelf ``` The bot itself. - `id: string` — Its id (also the owner id of its bombs). - `x: number` — Continuous centre x in tiles. - `y: number` — Continuous centre y in tiles. - `team: string` — Its team. - `speed: number` — Tiles per second. - `bombsLeft: number` — Bombs it may still place now. - `range: number` — Its blast range. - `pierce: boolean` — Its bombs pierce soft blocks. - `remote: boolean` — Its bombs are remote-controlled. - `wallpass: boolean` — Walks through soft blocks. - `bombpass: boolean` — Walks through bombs. - `flamepass: boolean` — Immune to flames. - `invincible: number` — Seconds of invincibility left. - `fuse: number` — Fuse its new bombs will have (seconds). - `reversed?: boolean` — Its controls are reversed (a skull disease); the bot steers through it. ### `BotState` ```ts interface BotState ``` A bot's own memory (snapshot-able). - `rng: number[]` — The seeded random stream's state (four words, from the kernel's `rng.snapshot()`); it advances in place. - `wait: number` — Seconds until the next full plan. - `target: Cell | null` — Current target tile, if any. - `reason: "escape" | "item" | "goal" | "hunt" | "dig" | "idle"` — Why it is going there. - `held: number` — Seconds the target has been held. - `move: Dir | null` — The intent being repeated between plans. - `path: Cell[]` — The planned path (tiles from the bot's tile to the target) followed between plans. ### `BotView` ```ts interface BotView ``` Everything a bot reads. A game builds one per frame; a different grid game can build its own. - `field: BombField` — The bomb field. - `self: BotSelf` — The bot. - `actors: readonly BotActor[]` — Every other live actor. - `goal?: Cell | null` — A tile to walk to when there is nothing better to do (an open exit door), or null. - `itemValue?: (kind: string) => number` — How much the bot wants an exposed item kind (0 ignore, negative avoid and never bomb). Default: 1 for everything but `exit`. - `hazards?: readonly { x: number; y: number; at: number }[]` — Tiles that become deadly for good at a known time (falling pressure blocks): seconds from now. ### `Burning` ```ts interface Burning ``` A soft block in the middle of burning away. - `x: number` — Tile x. - `y: number` — Tile y. - `time: number` — Seconds left. - `group: number` — Blast group that burned it. - `owner: string` — Owner of the bomb that burned it. ### `Campaign` ```ts interface Campaign ``` The single-player (or co-op) stage structure. - `stages: StageDef[]` — The stages in order; the campaign loops back to the first after the last when `loop`. - `map: string[]` — Map template for stages without their own (`?` cells become soft blocks at `density`). - `density: number` — Soft block density for `?` cells. - `time: number` — Seconds on the clock per stage (0 = no clock). - `bonusTime: number` — Seconds a bonus stage lasts. - `bonusPopulation: number` — Monsters kept on the board during a bonus stage. - `timeout: { kind: string; count: number } | null` — When the clock runs out: every monster is removed and `count` of `kind` released (null: nothing happens). - `release: number` — Monsters released when the exposed exit door or the stage item is bombed. - `releaseKind: string` — Monster kind released when no item names one. - `exit: string` — Item id used for the exit door. - `lives: number` — Lives at the start. - `extraLifePerStage: number` — Lives added on clearing a stage. - `loop: boolean` — Loop back to stage 1 after the last, keeping power-ups. - `enemyDistance: number` — Monsters start at least this far (Manhattan tiles) from every bomber start. - `introSeconds: number` — Seconds a stage's banner shows before play. - `clearSeconds: number` — Seconds between reaching the exit and the next stage. - `chainScore: "double" | "none"` — Multi-kill scoring in one blast group: `double` doubles each further monster, `none` scores each at face value. - `difficulty: StageDifficulty` — Difficulty scaling. ### `Cell` ```ts interface Cell ``` A tile coordinate; tile centres are integers and one tile is one model unit. - `x: number` — Column, 0 at the left. - `y: number` — Row, 0 at the top. ### `DangerMap` ```ts interface DangerMap ``` Seconds-until-lethal and seconds-until-safe for every tile. - `cols: number` — Width in tiles. - `rows: number` — Height in tiles. - `start: Float64Array` — Row-major seconds until the tile is next lethal (0 = burning now, Infinity = no known threat). - `end: Float64Array` — Row-major seconds until that threat has passed (0 when there is none). ### `DangerOptions` ```ts interface DangerOptions ``` Options for {@link dangerMap}. - `self?: string` — Seconds to assume before a remote bomb (no fuse) goes off. Default: Infinity for `self`'s own remote bombs (it decides when) and `remoteGuess` for everyone else's. - `remoteGuess?: number` — Seconds to assume for other owners' remote bombs. Default 0.6. - `selfRemoteGuess?: number` — Seconds to assume for `self`'s own remote bombs. Default Infinity (it decides when they go off). - `extra?: readonly HypotheticalBomb[]` — Extra bombs to imagine on the board. ### `DifficultyLevel` ```ts type DifficultyLevel = "easy" | "normal" | "arcade" ``` Named campaign difficulty. `arcade` is the original tables. ### `Dir` ```ts type Dir = GridDirection ``` One of the four grid directions (the same names grid-walker uses). ### `Disease` ```ts type Disease = "slow" | "fast" | "reverse" | "diarrhea" | "constipation" | "short-fuse" | "low-power" ``` A Super Bomberman skull disease. ### `EnemyBrain` ```ts interface EnemyBrain ``` How a monster decides where to go at each tile centre. - `turn: number` — Chance per tile centre of taking a random open turn even though the way ahead is open. - `chase: number` — Chance per tile centre of heading for a bomber that is within `range`. - `range: number` — How near (Manhattan tiles) a bomber must be to be chased. - `path: boolean` — Chase along the shortest path (true) or just towards the bomber (false; it gets stuck behind walls). - `evade: boolean` — Never steps onto a tile a bomb is about to burn. - `axis?: "x" | "y"` — Prefers this axis when it picks a direction at random (the NES Dahl drifts left and right). ### `EnemyKind` ```ts interface EnemyKind ``` A monster kind: plain data, so a game can add its own. - `id: string` — Kind id (`ballom`, `onil` ...). - `score: number` — Points for killing one. - `speed: number` — Tiles per second. - `wallpass: boolean` — Walks through soft blocks (and dies if one it is inside is blasted). - `bombpass?: boolean` — Walks through bombs. Default false. - `brain: EnemyBrain` — Its decision making. ### `EnemySense` ```ts interface EnemySense ``` What a monster's brain can see at a decision point. - `at: Cell` — The tile centre it has reached. - `dir: Dir` — Its heading. - `blocked: (x: number, y: number) => boolean` — Tiles this monster may not enter. - `targets: readonly Cell[]` — Bombers it can chase (nearest is used). - `danger: DangerMap | null` — The danger map, needed when `brain.evade` is set. - `speed: number` — Its speed in tiles per second (for danger timing). - `chaseScale: number` — Scale on `chase` (difficulty). - `rangeScale: number` — Scale on `range` (difficulty). ### `EnemyState` ```ts interface EnemyState ``` A monster now. - `id: string` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Kind id. - `x: number` — Centre x in tiles. - `y: number` — Centre y in tiles. - `dir: Dir` — Heading. - `alive: boolean` — Alive (dying monsters are not). - `dying: number` — Seconds since it died, or -1 while alive. - `points: number` — Points it scored when it died (0 alive). - `shield: number` — Seconds of immunity to flames left (fresh from a door). - `walk: GridWalkerState` — Walker state. ### `FieldActors` ```ts interface FieldActors ``` Where actors stand, so bombs know who overlaps them and where slides must stop. - `actors?: readonly { id: string; x: number; y: number }[]` — Live actors' continuous centres. ### `FieldItem` ```ts interface FieldItem ``` An exposed item lying on a floor tile (a power-up panel, an exit door, a skull ...). - `id: number` — Stable id. - `kind: string` — Item kind (the caller's vocabulary; `exit` is not special here). - `x: number` — Tile x. - `y: number` — Tile y. ### `Flame` ```ts interface Flame ``` A lethal flame on one tile. - `x: number` — Tile x. - `y: number` — Tile y. - `time: number` — Seconds left. - `total: number` — Seconds it lasts in total. - `group: number` — Blast group: one bomb plus every bomb it chained. Used for kill attribution and multi-kill scores. - `owner: string` — Owner of the bomb whose arm laid this flame. - `shape: "centre" | "arm" | "end"` — For art: the bomb's tile, a middle piece of an arm, or the tip of an arm. - `dir: Dir | null` — Arm direction (null for the centre). ### `GridBombsApi` ```ts type GridBombsApi = typeof api ``` `game.gridBombs`: the bomb field, bots, monsters, the rules owner and the Bomberman presets. ### `HypotheticalBomb` ```ts interface HypotheticalBomb ``` A bomb that does not exist yet, for "what if I place one here?" questions. - `x: number` — Tile x. - `y: number` — Tile y. - `range: number` — Blast arm length. - `pierce?: boolean` — Burns through soft blocks. - `fuse: number` — Seconds until it explodes. ### `ItemDef` ```ts interface ItemDef ``` A power-up kind. - `id: string` — Item id (also the kind the bomb field reports). - `effect: ItemEffect` — Its effect. - `amount?: number` — Steps added by `bomb`, `fire` and `speed`. Default 1. - `seconds?: number` — Seconds for timed effects (`invincible`). Default 30. - `keepOnDeath?: boolean` — Campaign: kept when the bomber loses a life. Default true for bomb/fire/speed/life, false otherwise. - `burnable?: boolean` — Destroyed by blasts. Default true. - `spawns?: string` — Campaign: the monster kind released when this item, or the exit while this is the stage's item, is bombed. ### `ItemEffect` ```ts type ItemEffect = | "bomb" | "fire" | "full-fire" | "speed" | "wallpass" | "remote" | "bombpass" | "flamepass" | "invincible" | "kick" | "punch" | "pierce" | "skull" | "life" ``` What a power-up does when picked up. ### `ItemTrait` ```ts interface ItemTrait ``` Per-kind behaviour of exposed items under flames. - `burnable?: boolean` — Destroyed by a blast arm. Default true. - `blocksFlame?: boolean` — Stops a blast arm (in addition to `flameStopsAtItems`). Default: `flameStopsAtItems` for burnable items, false otherwise. ### `Loadout` ```ts interface Loadout ``` A bomber's abilities (also used as the starting loadout). - `bombs: number` — Bombs at once. - `range: number` — Blast range in tiles. - `speedSteps: number` — Speed-up steps collected. - `wallpass: boolean` — Walks through soft blocks. - `bombpass: boolean` — Walks through bombs. - `flamepass: boolean` — Immune to flames. - `remote: boolean` — Bombs wait for the action button. - `kick: boolean` — Walking into a bomb kicks it. - `punch: boolean` — The action button punches the bomb in front. - `pierce: boolean` — Blasts burn through soft blocks. ### `Match` ```ts interface Match ``` The battle structure. - `map: string[]` — Map template (`?` cells become soft blocks at `density`); digits are bomber starts. - `density: number` — Soft block density. - `items: Record` — Items hidden under soft blocks each round, by item id. - `time: number` — Seconds per round (0 = no clock). - `suddenDeath: { at: number; interval: number } | null` — Pressure blocks spiral in from the edge from `at` seconds remaining, one every `interval` seconds; null = off. - `wins: number` — Round wins needed to take the match. - `drawWindow: number` — Seconds to wait after a round is decided before scoring it (both last bombers dying = a draw). - `resultSeconds: number` — Seconds the round result shows. - `introSeconds: number` — Seconds the round banner shows before play. - `enemies?: Record` — Optional monsters in battle too, by kind id. ### `Mover` ```ts interface Mover ``` Who is asking whether a tile is blocked. - `id?: string` — Actor id (for the bomb-passer rule). - `wallpass?: boolean` — Walks through soft blocks. - `bombpass?: boolean` — Walks through bombs. ### `PillarArenaOptions` ```ts interface PillarArenaOptions ``` Options for {@link pillarArena}. - `cols?: number` — Width in tiles including the border; odd keeps the pillar grid symmetric. Default 15. - `rows?: number` — Height in tiles including the border. Default 13. - `starts?: readonly Cell[] | "corners" | "top-left"` — Bomber starts, or `corners` for up to four corner starts, `top-left` for the stage-mode start. Default `corners`. - `players?: number` — How many corner starts when `starts` is `corners` (1..4). Default 4. - `pillars?: boolean` — Indestructible pillar every second cell (the classic grid). Default true. ### `ResolveOptions` ```ts interface ResolveOptions ``` Options for {@link resolveArena}: how `?` cells are decided. - `density?: number` — Probability that a `?` cell becomes a soft block. Default 0.6. - `seed?: number` — Seed for the decisions. Default 1. - `keepClear?: readonly Cell[]` — Extra cells to force to floor (e.g. bomber starts and the cells beside them). ### `StageDef` ```ts interface StageDef ``` One stage of a campaign. - `label?: string` — Label shown in the stage banner. 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