---
title: "RPG world: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/rpg-world"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-0
released: 2026-10-19
updated: 2026-10-19
description: "A role-playing game's whole content as one JSON document, cleaned so it is always valid, and the generators that turn it into an overworld, towns and dungeon floors."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/rpg-world/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# RPG world: API

`@phaser-ae/rpg-world` — A role-playing game's content as one JSON document: regions, towns, dungeons, heroes, npcs, monsters, items, skills, quests, and the maps generated from it.

## The pack

### `rpgWorld`

```ts
function rpgWorld(): Pack<{ rpgWorld: typeof api }>
```

Install the rpg-world API (`game.rpgWorld`): the world document, its cleaner and its map generators.

## Helpers

### `BIOME_RULES`

```ts
const BIOME_RULES: Readonly<Record<string, BiomeRule>>
```

The built-in biomes' rules.

### `BIOMES`

```ts
const BIOMES: readonly ["grassland", "forest", "mountain", "desert", "swamp", "tundra", "volcanic", "coast"]
```

The built-in biomes; a biome sets the terrain of its part of the overworld (see `worldMaps`' biome rules).

### `cleanStats`

```ts
const cleanStats = (v: unknown, base: Stats): Stats=> …
```

Stats from anything stat-shaped: each field rounded and clamped to its range, with `base` filling any that are missing or not numbers.

### `cleanWorld`

```ts
function cleanWorld(raw: unknown, options: WorldOptions | WorldVocabulary = {}): World
```

Anything world-shaped in, a valid world out. References are cut when they point at nothing; unknown names fall to
defaults; every list is capped. `options` sets the caps and the vocabularies (see `WorldOptions`).

### `DIFFICULTIES`

```ts
const DIFFICULTIES: readonly ["gentle", "fair", "cruel"]
```

The built-in difficulty settings (a rules pack scales monsters by them: `turn-battle`'s gentle x0.8, cruel x1.25).

### `DT`

```ts
const DT: { readonly wall: 0; readonly floor: 1; readonly door: 2; readonly stairsUp: 3; readonly stairsDown: 4; readonly chest: 5; }
```

Dungeon tile ids by name.

### `DUNGEON_TERRAIN`

```ts
const DUNGEON_TERRAIN: readonly DungeonTerrainDef[]
```

The dungeon tile table, indexed by id.

### `DUNGEON_THEMES`

```ts
const DUNGEON_THEMES: readonly ["crypt", "ruin", "mine", "ice-cave", "clockwork", "manor", "temple", "volcano", "warren", "stronghold"]
```

The built-in dungeon themes; a theme sets how a game dresses a dungeon's floors (its colours and tiles).

### `ELEMENT_BEATS`

```ts
const ELEMENT_BEATS: Readonly<Record<string, string | null>>
```

The built-in wheel: what each element BEATS (a rules pack decides what beating does; `turn-battle` deals 1.5x and breaks a shield point).

### `ELEMENTS`

```ts
const ELEMENTS: readonly ["none", "fire", "ice", "lightning", "earth"]
```

The built-in elements: `none` is physical, and the wheel `ELEMENT_BEATS` runs fire > ice > lightning > earth > fire.

### `emptyRules`

```ts
const emptyRules = (): Rules=> …
```

The default rules a world is played by.

### `emptyStory`

```ts
const emptyStory = (acts = 3): Story=> …
```

A story with every text empty, `acts` untitled acts (default 3) and no villain monster.

### `emptyWorld`

```ts
const emptyWorld = (): World=> …
```

A world with no content and the default rules; `cleanWorld` of nothing returns something equivalent.

### `HERO_BASE`

```ts
const HERO_BASE: Readonly<Record<string, Stats>>
```

Level-1 stats for each built-in hero class, used when a hero's own stats are missing.

### `HERO_CLASSES`

```ts
const HERO_CLASSES: readonly ["striker", "guardian", "caster", "trickster"]
```

The built-in hero classes; a class gives a hero base stats (`HERO_BASE`) when the world writes none.

### `ITEM_EFFECTS`

```ts
const ITEM_EFFECTS: readonly ["heal", "mp", "cure", "revive", "rest"]
```

The built-in consumable effects: heal HP, restore MP, cure, revive a downed hero, or rest (fill HP and MP).

### `ITEM_KINDS`

```ts
const ITEM_KINDS: readonly ["weapon", "armor", "accessory", "consumable", "key", "quest"]
```

The built-in item kinds: weapon, armor and accessory are worn; a consumable is used up; keys and quest items are only carried.

### `LENSES`

```ts
const LENSES: readonly ["top-down", "first-person"]
```

How a dungeon is seen. The overworld and towns are always top-down.

### `MONSTER_BASE`

```ts
const MONSTER_BASE: Stats
```

Stats used for a monster whose own stats are missing.

### `NPC_ROLES`

```ts
const NPC_ROLES: readonly ["quest-giver", "merchant", "innkeeper", "companion", "rival", "gatekeeper", "victim", "villager", "villain"]
```

The built-in roles a non-player character can have in a town or a quest.

### `QUEST_SHAPES`

```ts
const QUEST_SHAPES: readonly ["fetch", "kill", "escort", "deliver", "investigate", "rescue", "repair", "race", "guard", "trade", "choose", "return"]
```

The built-in quest shapes: a label for the story; the quest's steps decide what the player must do.

### `SKILL_EFFECTS`

```ts
const SKILL_EFFECTS: readonly ["damage", "heal", "guard", "haste"]
```

The built-in skill effects: deal damage, heal, guard (defend) or haste (act sooner).

### `SKILL_TARGETS`

```ts
const SKILL_TARGETS: readonly ["one", "all", "ally", "party", "self"]
```

Who a skill can aim at: one enemy, all enemies, one ally, the whole party, or the user.

### `startRegion`

```ts
const startRegion = (w: World): Region | null=> …
```

Where the game starts: the first act-1 region with a town, else the first region with a town, else the first region.

### `STEP_KINDS`

```ts
const STEP_KINDS: readonly ["talk", "kill", "fetch", "reach", "deliver"]
```

The built-in step kinds.

### `STEP_TARGETS`

```ts
const STEP_TARGETS: Readonly<Record<string, StepTarget>>
```

The built-in step kinds and what each one's target is: talk to an npc, kill monsters, fetch items, reach a region, deliver to an npc.

### `T`

```ts
const T: { readonly sea: 0; readonly shallows: 1; readonly grass: 2; readonly meadow: 3; readonly trees: 4; readonly glade: 5; readonly hills: 6; readonly peak: 7; readonly sand: 8; readonly dune: 9; readonly marsh: 10; readonly bog: 11; readonly snow: 12; readonly ice: 13; readonly ash: 14; readonly lava: 15; readonly rock: 16; readonly road: 17; readonly town: 18; readonly dungeon: 19; }
```

Terrain ids by name, for code that would rather not count.

### `TERRAIN`

```ts
const TERRAIN: readonly TerrainDef[]
```

The overworld tile table, indexed by id.

### `terrainEncounter`

```ts
const terrainEncounter = (id: number, table: readonly TerrainDef[] = TERRAIN): boolean=> …
```

True when the overworld terrain id has random encounters in `table` (default `TERRAIN`).

### `terrainWalkable`

```ts
const terrainWalkable = (id: number, table: readonly TerrainDef[] = TERRAIN): boolean=> …
```

True when the overworld terrain id is walkable in `table` (default `TERRAIN`; pass `maps.terrain` for a world built with extra terrain).

### `TOWN_LAYOUT_RULES`

```ts
const TOWN_LAYOUT_RULES: Readonly<Record<string, TownLayoutRule>>
```

The built-in town templates.

### `TOWN_LAYOUTS`

```ts
const TOWN_LAYOUTS: readonly ["village", "harbor", "fort", "city", "shrine", "crossroads"]
```

The built-in town layouts; each is a template the town generator lays out from the town's seed.

### `TOWN_TERRAIN`

```ts
const TOWN_TERRAIN: readonly TownTerrainDef[]
```

The town tile table, indexed by id.

### `TT`

```ts
const TT: { readonly grass: 0; readonly path: 1; readonly house: 2; readonly door: 3; readonly water: 4; readonly dock: 5; readonly well: 6; readonly wall: 7; readonly plaza: 8; readonly stone: 9; readonly tree: 10; readonly fence: 11; readonly roof: 12; readonly gate: 13; }
```

Town tile ids by name.

### `WORLD_LIMITS`

```ts
const WORLD_LIMITS: { readonly regions: 8; readonly heroes: 6; readonly npcs: 40; readonly monsters: 32; readonly items: 48; readonly skills: 24; readonly quests: 24; readonly steps: 6; readonly lines: 4; readonly beats: 4; ... 11 more ...; readonly name: 48; } …
```

The default caps `cleanWorld` applies: how many of each thing a world holds and how long text may be. Counts:
`regions`, `heroes`, `npcs`, `monsters`, `items`, `skills`, `quests`; `steps` per quest, `lines` per npc, `beats`
per act, `shop` items per town, `floors` per dungeon, `dungeonMonsters` kinds per dungeon, `heroSkills` per hero,
`breaks` shield points per monster, `count` per quest step, `acts` in the story, `party` (the largest `partySize`)
and `level` (the largest `maxLevel`). Text, in characters: `line`, `para`, `name`.

### `worldMaps`

```ts
function worldMaps(world: World, options: MapOptions = {}): WorldMaps
```

Every map a world needs, deterministic from its seeds. Pass a CLEAN world (`cleanWorld`). `options` adds biomes,
town templates and terrain, and sizes the overworld and the dungeon floors.

### `worldPlayable`

```ts
function worldPlayable(w: World): string[]
```

What stops a world being played: no regions, no start, no heroes, no monsters. Empty when it can be played.

### `worldVocabulary`

```ts
function worldVocabulary(o: WorldOptions = {}): WorldVocabulary
```

Fill in `WorldOptions`' defaults. Throws on an empty vocabulary or a wheel that names an element it does not list.

## Types

### `Act`

```ts
interface Act
```

One of the story's acts.

- `title: string` — The act's title, at most `limits.name` characters. Default `Act 1`, `Act 2` and so on.
- `beats: string[]` — Up to `limits.beats` beats: what happens, in order.

### `Biome`

```ts
type Biome = string
```

A region's biome: one of the options' `biomes` (default `BIOMES`).

### `BiomeRule`

```ts
interface BiomeRule
```

How a biome fills its part of the overworld.

- `base: number` — The walkable terrain id cleared around a town or dungeon entrance.
- `tile(noise: number, edge: number, rough: number): number` — The terrain id of one cell: `noise` is smooth noise in about -1..1, `edge` the cell's distance from the map's edge in cells, `rough` a second, coarser noise in about -1..1.

### `Cell`

```ts
interface Cell
```

A grid cell.

- `col: number` — Column.
- `row: number` — Row.

### `Difficulty`

```ts
type Difficulty = string
```

The world's difficulty: one of the options' `difficulties` (default `DIFFICULTIES`).

### `Dungeon`

```ts
interface Dungeon
```

A dungeon in a region: floors generated from its seed and dressed by its theme.

- `name: string` — The dungeon's name. Default `Dungeon`.
- `theme: DungeonTheme` — How its floors are dressed: one of the options' `dungeonThemes`.
- `floors: number` — Number of floors, 1 to `limits.floors`. Default 2.
- `seed: number` — Seed for the level generator, a whole number from 0 to 2^31. Default 1.
- `lens: Lens` — How it is seen. Default the world's `rules.lens`.
- `monsterIds: string[]` — What roams it, at most `limits.dungeonMonsters` kinds.
- `bossId: string | null` — The fight at the bottom, if any.
- `findItemId: string | null` — The item found only here, placed on the last floor.
- `lore: string` — Its history.

### `DungeonFloor`

```ts
interface DungeonFloor
```

One floor of a dungeon.

- `cols: number` — Columns.
- `rows: number` — Rows.
- `tiles: Uint8Array` — Dungeon tile ids, row-major; look them up in `DUNGEON_TERRAIN`.
- `rooms: DungeonRoom[]` — The rooms, from the level generator.
- `up: Cell` — The stairs up (the entrance on floor 0).
- `down: Cell | null` — The stairs down, or null on the last floor.
- `boss: Cell | null` — The boss's cell on the last floor, or null.
- `chest: Cell | null` — The chest holding the dungeon's find, or null.
- `monsters: MonsterPlacement[]` — Every monster on the floor at the start, the boss included.

### `DungeonMap`

```ts
interface DungeonMap
```

A dungeon: its floors and how it is seen.

- `regionId: string` — The region the dungeon belongs to.
- `theme: DungeonTheme` — The theme, for colours.
- `lens: Lens` — Top-down or first-person.
- `floors: DungeonFloor[]` — The floors, top first.

### `DungeonOptions`

```ts
interface DungeonOptions
```

How the dungeon floors are made.

- `size?: (floor: number, floors: number) => { cols: number; rows: number }` — A floor's size; default 34 + 6 x floor columns by 24 + 3 x floor rows.
- `maxRoom?: number` — The largest room side, in cells. Default 8.
- `extraConnections?: (floor: number) => number` — Loops added beyond a spanning tree of corridors; default 2 + floor.
- `monsters?: readonly [number, number]` — How many roaming monsters a floor has, inclusive. Default [4, 8].

### `DungeonTerrainDef`

```ts
interface DungeonTerrainDef
```

A tile kind inside a dungeon.

- `id: number` — The id stored in `DungeonFloor.tiles`.
- `name: string` — A short name.
- `color: string` — A CSS hex colour.
- `walkable: boolean` — Can the party step on it.

### `DungeonTheme`

```ts
type DungeonTheme = string
```

A dungeon's theme: one of the options' `dungeonThemes` (default `DUNGEON_THEMES`).

### `Element`

```ts
type Element = string
```

An element: `none`, or one of the options' `elements` (default the built-in wheel).

### `Entrance`

```ts
interface Entrance extends Cell
```

A town or dungeon entrance on the overworld.

- `regionId: string` — The region it belongs to.
- `kind: 'town' | 'dungeon'` — What it opens into.

### `Hero`

```ts
interface Hero
```

A playable hero.

- `id: string` — Unique among the heroes; what the run's party and equipment refer to.
- `name: string` — The hero's name.
- `class: HeroClass` — The class: one of the options' `classes`, which gives the base stats if none are written.
- `look: string` — How they look, one line, for the portrait and the figure.
- `bio: string` — Who they are, one or two lines.
- `stats: Stats` — Level-1 stats.
- `skillIds: string[]` — Ids of the skills the hero knows, at most `limits.heroSkills`; ids that match no skill are dropped.
- `joinAt: string` — `start`, or the region where they join.
- `portraitId: string | null` — Id of the hero's picture in the asset map handed to the player, or null for none.

### `HeroClass`

```ts
type HeroClass = string
```

A hero's class: one of the options' `classes` (default `HERO_BASE`'s).

### `Item`

```ts
interface Item
```

An item: gear, a consumable, a key or a quest object.

- `id: string` — Unique among the items; what shops, drops, rewards and quest steps refer to.
- `name: string` — The item's name.
- `kind: ItemKind` — What it is: one of the options' `itemKinds`. A kind that names an equipment slot is worn there.
- `tier: number` — How good it is, 1 to 3.
- `element: Element` — For a weapon, the element of the wielder's attacks; `none` for physical.
- `bonus: Partial<Stats>` — Stat changes while it is worn, each -99 to 999; a stat left out is unchanged.
- `effect: ItemEffect | null` — For a consumable, what it does (one of the options' `itemEffects`); null for anything else.
- `power: number` — The effect's strength: HP healed, MP restored, HP on revival. 0 to 999.
- `price: number` — Gold price in a shop, 0 to 99999.
- `blurb: string` — One line describing it.

### `ItemEffect`

```ts
type ItemEffect = string
```

A consumable's effect: one of the options' `itemEffects` (default `ITEM_EFFECTS`).

### `ItemKind`

```ts
type ItemKind = string
```

An item's kind: one of the options' `itemKinds` (default `ITEM_KINDS`). A game with other equipment slots names them here.

### `Lens`

```ts
type Lens = (typeof LENSES)[number]
```

A dungeon's lens: one of `LENSES`.

### `MapOptions`

```ts
interface MapOptions
```

What `worldMaps` may be told.

- `terrain?: readonly TerrainDef[]` — Overworld terrain beyond `TERRAIN`, with ids continuing from `TERRAIN.length`, for biome rules of a game's own.
- `biomes?: Readonly<Record<string, BiomeRule>>` — Biome rules, over `BIOME_RULES`. A biome the world names with no rule fills as grassland.
- `townLayouts?: Readonly<Record<string, TownLayoutRule>>` — Town templates, over `TOWN_LAYOUT_RULES`. A layout with no template builds as a village.
- `cols?: number | ((regions: number) => number)` — The overworld's columns, or a function of the region count. Default 72 + 8 per region, held to 96..128.
- `aspect?: number` — The overworld's rows as a fraction of its columns. Default 2/3.
- `dungeon?: DungeonOptions` — The dungeon floors.

### `Monster`

```ts
interface Monster
```

A kind of monster, met in battle.

- `id: string` — Unique among the monsters; what dungeons, quests and the villain refer to.
- `name: string` — The monster's name.
- `element: Element` — The element it attacks with and defends as; the wheel makes some elements weak against it.
- `stats: Stats` — Its stats, before the world's difficulty scales them.
- `boss: boolean` — Whether it is a boss: it always leaves its drop and, by default, has more shield points.
- `breaks: number` — Shield points, 0 to `limits.breaks`; each weakness hit removes one, 0 = broken. Default 4 for a boss, 2 otherwise.
- `attack: string` — The attack's name, shown as the telegraph.
- `look: string` — How it looks, one line, for the portrait and the figure.
- `xp: number` — Experience points granted for beating it, 0 to 9999.
- `gold: number` — Gold granted for beating it, 0 to 9999.
- `dropItemId: string | null` — Id of the item it may leave, or null; a boss always leaves it, others sometimes.
- `portraitId: string | null` — Id of the monster's picture in the asset map handed to the player, or null for none.

### `MonsterPlacement`

```ts
interface MonsterPlacement extends Cell
```

A monster standing in a dungeon floor at the start.

- `monsterId: string` — The monster id.
- `room: number` — The room it roams, as an index into the floor's `rooms`; -1 for a corridor.
- `boss: boolean` — True for the floor's boss.

### `Npc`

```ts
interface Npc
```

A non-player character who lives in a region.

- `id: string` — Unique among the npcs; what quest givers and steps refer to.
- `name: string` — The npc's name.
- `role: NpcRole` — What they do in town and in quests: one of the options' `npcRoles`.
- `regionId: string` — Id of the region they live in; the first region if theirs does not exist.
- `want: string` — What they want, one line.
- `fear: string` — What they fear, one line.
- `secret: string` — What they are hiding, one line.
- `voice: string` — A verbal habit or stance: "brusque", "quotes scripture".
- `lines: string[]` — Up to `limits.lines` lines they say when spoken to, in turn.
- `look: string` — How they look, one line, for the portrait and the figure.
- `portraitId: string | null` — Id of the npc's picture in the asset map handed to the player, or null for none.

### `NpcRole`

```ts
type NpcRole = string
```

An npc's role: one of the options' `npcRoles` (default `NPC_ROLES`).

### `Overworld`

```ts
interface Overworld
```

The overworld: one terrain id per cell, the region each cell belongs to, the entrances and the start.

- `cols: number` — Columns.
- `rows: number` — Rows.
- `tiles: Uint8Array` — Terrain ids, row-major, `cols × rows`; look them up in `WorldMaps.terrain`.
- `region: Int8Array` — Index into `World.regions` per cell, row-major; every cell belongs to a region.
- `entrances: Entrance[]` — Every town and dungeon entrance.
- `start: Cell` — Where the party stands when it first steps out of the start town.
- `centres: Record<string, Cell>` — The centre cell of each region, by region id, where its name would be drawn.

### `Quest`

```ts
interface Quest
```

A quest: steps to do for a reward.

- `id: string` — Unique among the quests.
- `title: string` — The quest's title.
- `shape: QuestShape` — The kind of story it tells (one of the options' `questShapes`); the steps decide the work.
- `main: boolean` — Whether it belongs to the main story rather than being a side quest: an act ends when its main quests are done.
- `act: number` — The act it belongs to, 1 to the story's act count.
- `giverId: string` — Id of the npc who gives it; empty if that npc does not exist.
- `regionId: string` — Id of the region it belongs to; the giver's region if that does not exist.
- `complication: string` — The twist on the shape.
- `steps: QuestStep[]` — The steps in order, at most `limits.steps`.
- `rewardGold: number` — Gold paid on completion, 0 to 99999.
- `rewardItemId: string | null` — Id of the item given on completion, or null.
- `consequence: string` — What changes in the world afterwards.

### `QuestShape`

```ts
type QuestShape = string
```

A quest's shape: one of the options' `questShapes` (default `QUEST_SHAPES`).

### `QuestStep`

```ts
interface QuestStep
```

One step of a quest.

- `text: string` — What the player is told to do.
- `kind: StepKind` — What counts as doing it: one of the options' `stepKinds`.
- `targetId: string` — What the step's kind names: an npc (talk, deliver), monster (kill), item (fetch) or region (reach); '' when it names nothing that exists.
- `count: number` — How many times it must be done (kills or items), 1 to `limits.count`. Default 1.

### `Region`

```ts
interface Region
```

A region of the world map: a biome, and perhaps a town and a dungeon.

- `id: string` — Unique among the regions; what npcs, heroes' `joinAt` and quests refer to.
- `name: string` — The region's name.
- `biome: Biome` — The terrain of its part of the overworld: one of the options' `biomes`.
- `mood: string` — One line: the mood of the place.
- `identity: string` — One line: what it lives on, who runs it.
- `x: number` — Where it sits on the world map, 0 at the left to 1 at the right. Default 0.5.
- `y: number` — Where it sits on the world map, 0 at the top to 1 at the bottom. Default 0.5.
- `size: number` — Footprint, 1 to 3.
- `act: number` — Which act it belongs to, 1 to the story's act count.
- `town: Town | null` — The region's town, or null if it has none.
- `dungeon: Dungeon | null` — The region's dungeon, or null if it has none.

### `Rules`

```ts
interface Rules
```

The rules a world is played by.

- `partySize: number` — Heroes who fight in a battle, 1 to `limits.party`. Default 3.
- `maxLevel: number` — The highest level a hero can reach, 2 to `limits.level`. Default 10.
- `difficulty: Difficulty` — How hard the monsters are: one of the options' `difficulties`. Default `fair`.
- `encounterRate: number` — Chance per step in the wilds, 0 to 0.3. Default 0.08.
- `lens: Lens` — Lens for every dungeon that does not say otherwise. Default `top-down`.

### `Skill`

```ts
interface Skill
```

A skill a hero can use in battle by spending MP.

- `id: string` — Unique among the skills; what a hero's `skillIds` refer to.
- `name: string` — The skill's name.
- `element: Element` — The element of its damage; `none` for physical.
- `mp: number` — MP the skill costs, 0 to 99. Default 4.
- `power: number` — For damage, added to the user's attack; for a heal, the amount restored (plus half the user's attack). 0 to 999. Default 12.
- `target: SkillTarget` — Who it can be aimed at.
- `effect: SkillEffect` — What it does: one of the options' `skillEffects`.

### `SkillEffect`

```ts
type SkillEffect = string
```

A skill's effect: one of the options' `skillEffects` (default `SKILL_EFFECTS`).

### `SkillTarget`

```ts
type SkillTarget = (typeof SKILL_TARGETS)[number]
```

A skill's target: one of `SKILL_TARGETS`.

### `Stats`

```ts
interface Stats
```

A set of six stats, for a hero, a monster or an item's bonus.

- `hp: number` — Hit points: the most health. Cleaned to 1 to 9999.
- `mp: number` — Magic points: what skills spend. Cleaned to 0 to 999.
- `atk: number` — Attack strength, added to a skill's power and set against the target's defence. Cleaned to 0 to 999.
- `def: number` — Defence, which cuts the damage taken. Cleaned to 0 to 999.
- `spd: number` — Speed, which sets who acts first in a battle. Cleaned to 0 to 99.
- `lck: number` — Luck, which raises the chance of a critical hit. Cleaned to 0 to 99.

### `StepKind`

```ts
type StepKind = string
```

A quest step's kind: one of the options' `stepKinds` (default `STEP_TARGETS`' keys).

### `StepTarget`

```ts
type StepTarget = 'npc' | 'monster' | 'item' | 'region' | 'none'
```

What a quest step's `targetId` names: an npc, a monster, an item, a region, or nothing.

### `Story`

```ts
interface Story
```

The story: the premise, the villain, the acts and the ending.

- `premise: string` — One line: what the game is about.
- `hook: string` — The first sixty seconds: what is taken, sealed, sick or missing.
- `villain: Villain` — Who stands against the heroes.
- `acts: Act[]` — The acts, 1 to `limits.acts` of them (default 3; a world that writes none gets three). Regions and quests belong to one by number.
- `ending: string` — How the story ends, at most `limits.para` characters.

### `TerrainDef`

```ts
interface TerrainDef
```

One overworld tile kind: what it is called, how a tool paints it, whether a party walks it and whether wandering monsters live on it.

- `id: number` — The tile id stored in `Overworld.tiles`.
- `name: string` — A short name.
- `color: string` — A CSS hex colour a tool can paint the cell with.
- `walkable: boolean` — Can the party step on it.
- `encounter: boolean` — Do random encounters happen on it.

### `Town`

```ts
interface Town
```

A town in a region: where the shop and the inn are, laid out by the town generator.

- `name: string` — The town's name. Default `Town`.
- `blurb: string` — One line about the town.
- `layout: TownLayout` — The template its map is generated from: one of the options' `townLayouts`.
- `seed: number` — Seed for the town map generator, a whole number from 0 to 2^31. Default 1.
- `shopItemIds: string[]` — Items the shop stocks, at most `limits.shop`. Empty = no shop.
- `innPrice: number` — Gold per night; 0 = no inn.

### `TownBuilder`

```ts
interface TownBuilder
```

What a town template draws with: the grid, the town's seeded random numbers and the drawing verbs.

- `readonly cols: number` — Columns.
- `readonly rows: number` — Rows.
- `rng(): number` — The town's seeded random number in [0, 1).
- `put(c: number, r: number, v: number): void` — Set one cell to a town tile id (`TT`); off the grid is ignored.
- `get(c: number, r: number): number` — The tile id of a cell; a wall off the grid.
- `rect(c: number, r: number, w: number, h: number, v: number): void` — Fill a rectangle.
- `hline(c0: number, c1: number, r: number, v: number): void` — A horizontal line from column c0 to c1, inclusive.
- `vline(c: number, r0: number, r1: number, v: number): void` — A vertical line from row r0 to r1, inclusive.
- `building(c: number, r: number, w: number, h: number, role: TownBuilding['role']): TownBuilding` — A building: a roof row, walls, a door in the middle of the bottom edge. A `shop` or `inn` gets its spot at the door.
- `scatter(count: number, w: number, h: number, role: TownBuilding['role'], ok: (v: number) => boolean, tries?: number): void` — Up to `count` buildings at random places where every cell around them passes `ok`.
- `trees(chance: number, ok: (v: number) => boolean): void` — Trees along the two outer rings of cells, each with `chance`, where `ok`.

### `TownBuilding`

```ts
interface TownBuilding
```

A building footprint in a town.

- `col: number` — Left column.
- `row: number` — Top row.
- `w: number` — Width in tiles.
- `h: number` — Height in tiles.
- `door: Cell` — The door cell, on the bottom edge.
- `role: 'shop' | 'inn' | 'house' | 'hall' | 'hut'` — What the building is.

### `TownLayout`

```ts
type TownLayout = string
```

A town's layout: one of the options' `townLayouts` (default `TOWN_LAYOUTS`).

### `TownLayoutRule`

```ts
interface TownLayoutRule
```

A town template.

- `cols: number` — Columns.
- `rows: number` — Rows.
- `fill: number` — The town tile id every cell starts as.
- `build(b: TownBuilder, want: { shop: boolean; inn: boolean }): void` — Draw the town; `want` says whether it has a shop and an inn to place.

### `TownMap`

```ts
interface TownMap
```

A town map: tiles, buildings and the spots the game needs.

- `regionId: string` — The region the town belongs to.
- `layout: TownLayout` — The layout it was built from.
- `cols: number` — Columns.
- `rows: number` — Rows.
- `tiles: Uint8Array` — Town tile ids, row-major; look them up in `TOWN_TERRAIN`.
- `buildings: TownBuilding[]` — The buildings.
- `spots: TownSpot[]` — Exit, start, shop, inn and one spot per npc of the region.

### `TownSpot`

```ts
interface TownSpot extends Cell
```

A named place in a town where something happens.

- `kind: 'exit' | 'start' | 'shop' | 'inn' | 'npc'` — What the spot is.
- `id?: string` — The npc id, for `npc` spots.

### `TownTerrainDef`

```ts
interface TownTerrainDef
```

A tile kind inside a town.

- `id: number` — The id stored in `TownMap.tiles`.
- `name: string` — A short name.
- `color: string` — A CSS hex colour.
- `walkable: boolean` — Can the party step on it.

### `Villain`

```ts
interface Villain
```

The story's villain.

- `name: string` — The villain's name, at most `limits.name` characters.
- `want: string` — What they are trying to get.
- `wound: string` — What was done to them.
- `line: string` — The thing they will not do.
- `monsterId: string | null` — The monster fought at the end, when the villain is one.

### `World`

```ts
interface World
```

A whole world document: intent that the engine generates and plays.

- `v: 1` — The format version; always 1.
- `title: string` — The game's title.
- `look: string` — One line of art direction, for every picture.
- `seed: number` — Seed for the world's own random choices, a whole number from 0 to 2^31. Default 1.
- `story: Story` — The story.
- `regions: Region[]` — The regions of the map, at most `limits.regions`.
- `heroes: Hero[]` — The playable heroes, at most `limits.heroes`.
- `npcs: Npc[]` — The non-player characters, at most `limits.npcs`.
- `monsters: Monster[]` — The monsters, at most `limits.monsters`.
- `items: Item[]` — The items, at most `limits.items`.
- `skills: Skill[]` — The skills, at most `limits.skills`.
- `quests: Quest[]` — The quests, at most `limits.quests`.
- `rules: Rules` — The rules the world is played by.

### `WorldLimits`

```ts
type WorldLimits = { -readonly [K in keyof typeof WORLD_LIMITS]: number }
```

A full set of caps, as `WORLD_LIMITS`.

### `WorldMaps`

```ts
interface WorldMaps
```

Everything `worldMaps` builds.

- `overworld: Overworld` — The overworld.
- `terrain: readonly TerrainDef[]` — The overworld terrain table the maps use: `TERRAIN` and any extra terrain.
- `towns: Record<string, TownMap>` — A town per region that has one, by region id.
- `dungeons: Record<string, DungeonMap>` — A dungeon per region that has one, by region id.

### `WorldOptions`

```ts
interface WorldOptions
```

What a world may contain: the caps and every vocabulary. Each defaults to the built-in list; a list replaces the
built-in one (spread the default to extend it). When a value is not in its list it falls to the built-in default
if the list has it, else to the list's first entry.

- `limits?: Partial<WorldLimits>` — Caps over `WORLD_LIMITS`.
- `biomes?: readonly string[]` — Region biomes. Default `BIOMES`. A map generator needs a rule for each (`worldMaps`' `biomes`).
- `dungeonThemes?: readonly string[]` — Dungeon themes. Default `DUNGEON_THEMES`.
- `townLayouts?: readonly string[]` — Town layouts. Default `TOWN_LAYOUTS`. A map generator needs a template for each (`worldMaps`' `townLayouts`).
- `classes?: Readonly<Record<string, Stats>>` — Hero classes and their level-1 stats. Default `HERO_BASE`.
- `elements?: Readonly<Record<string, string | null>>` — The element wheel: every element but `none`, and the one it beats (or null). Default `ELEMENT_BEATS`.
- `itemKinds?: readonly string[]` — Item kinds. Default `ITEM_KINDS`.
- `itemEffects?: readonly string[]` — Consumable effects. Default `ITEM_EFFECTS`.
- `skillEffects?: readonly string[]` — Skill effects. Default `SKILL_EFFECTS`.
- `stepKinds?: Readonly<Record<string, StepTarget>>` — Quest step kinds and what each one's target names. Default `STEP_TARGETS`.
- `difficulties?: readonly string[]` — Difficulty settings. Default `DIFFICULTIES`.
- `npcRoles?: readonly string[]` — Npc roles. Default `NPC_ROLES`.
- `questShapes?: readonly string[]` — Quest shapes. Default `QUEST_SHAPES`.

### `WorldVocabulary`

```ts
interface WorldVocabulary
```

`WorldOptions` with every default filled in.

- `limits: WorldLimits` — The caps.
- `biomes: readonly string[]` — Region biomes.
- `dungeonThemes: readonly string[]` — Dungeon themes.
- `townLayouts: readonly string[]` — Town layouts.
- `classes: Readonly<Record<string, Stats>>` — Hero classes and their level-1 stats.
- `elements: readonly string[]` — Every element, `none` first.
- `beats: Readonly<Record<string, string | null>>` — What each element beats, or null.
- `itemKinds: readonly string[]` — Item kinds.
- `itemEffects: readonly string[]` — Consumable effects.
- `skillEffects: readonly string[]` — Skill effects.
- `stepKinds: Readonly<Record<string, StepTarget>>` — Step kinds and their targets.
- `difficulties: readonly string[]` — Difficulty settings.
- `npcRoles: readonly string[]` — Npc roles.
- `questShapes: readonly string[]` — Quest shapes.

---

## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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