Deposition now spreads over the same cone brush as carving, and the per-cell
erosion ledger becomes a signed NET displacement ledger, so both caps are
measured from the height the pass found. Brush-spreading alone cut the spike
15.49 -> 6.12 m at task-17 dials, but NOT at hierarchy dials (long paths carry
far more sediment; a loaded droplet meeting a rise dumps min(rise, load) at
once -> 25.5 m). So deposition also gets governor 4, ErosionDepositCap
(default 6 m, <= 0 = unbounded), asserted on exit like the carve cap.
Dial defaults retuned for a drainage HIERARCHY: 250k droplets x 384 steps at
inertia 0.35 / evaporation 0.004, erode 0.12, carve cap 15 m. Diagnosis was
that lifetime 48 let a droplet travel at most 48 px on a ~3000 px island
radius, so paths could not overlap into trunks: the deepest task-17 features
were 43x36 px patches. Now 177 channel systems of 200+ cells at the 3 m
threshold, top one 204x279 px with 14 tributary tips; cells past 5 m up 8.6x
(4,948 -> 42,385) while the fine rills are retained. Verified descending, not
contour-locked: 0/155 components have drop/extent < 0.12 (median 1.13).
EROS body version -> 2 (deposit cap inserted after the carve cap); v1 payloads
are skipped whole by the existing rule. HydraulicErosion.VERSION now reads
BlueprintFormat.EROS_VERSION instead of restating it — the local copy had
already drifted and stamped a v2 body as v1, which readers decode with every
float shifted by one field.
Oracle green on both seeds (1280587109, 1512575962): 1_biomes/0_water
md5-identical erosion-ON vs OFF, BIOM/WBID bitwise equal. Flood guard 0 new
water px, 0 below-sea cells touched, crater zone untouched, island top
unchanged, carve field isotropic to 1.4% across the folded 45deg period.
Erosion pass 34 s at these dials.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
