Cinderwild/data/hints.json

{
  "guide": "Old Tam",
  "_doc": "T4 (docs/TUTORIAL_DESIGN.md §5): one-off tips in normal worlds, each shown once per player (user://hints.json), in list order when several are due. 'when' is kind:value, with | for alternatives: status (a survival status, by prefix), weather (a state), has (an item in your bag), event (howl, died), worldlet (where you are on the journey), or a plain check (night, stamina_low, wolf_moon, hard_winter, seam: holding the antler pickaxe with the cliff tunnel's seam still to dig). 'hold' is how long it must stay true first (seconds, default 1).",
  "hints": [
    {"id": "died", "when": "event:died", "title": "Back on your feet",
     "text": "Dying's not the end out here, don't you fret. Whatever you were carrying is waiting where you fell, so go back for it first. Sleep in a bed once, and that's where you'll wake."},
    {"id": "freezing", "when": "status:Freezing", "title": "Freezing",
     "text": "You're freezing, and that'll eat away at your health! Get to a fire or under a roof, now. A cloak helps too."},
    {"id": "cold", "when": "status:Cold", "hold": 3, "title": "Getting cold",
     "text": "Feel that chill? A fire warms you up, a roof and walls keep the wind off, and a hide cloak buys you a bit of time."},
    {"id": "sick", "when": "status:Food poisoning", "title": "Bad food",
     "text": "Ooh, your belly's turned. Raw meat, or something past its best, I'd wager. It'll pass. Rest a while, don't eat for a bit, and cook your meat next time."},
    {"id": "rotten", "when": "has:rotten_food", "title": "Food goes off",
     "text": "Food doesn't keep forever, you know. Eat the fresh stuff first, smoke your meat and fish on a rack, or salt it. Rotten food's no good to anyone, so throw it out."},
    {"id": "wet", "when": "status:Wet", "hold": 2, "title": "Soaked",
     "text": "You're soaked through! Wet clothes steal your warmth. Stand under a roof or by a fire and you'll dry off."},
    {"id": "hungry", "when": "status:Hungry", "hold": 2, "title": "Hungry",
     "text": "Your belly's empty. Berries and mushrooms will tide you over, but cooked meat and fish fill you up for longer."},
    {"id": "diet", "when": "status:Poor diet|Malnourished", "hold": 2, "title": "Mix it up",
     "text": "Eat the same thing every day and your body notices, it does. Watch them three diet bars: meat, fish and greens. Keep them all topped up and you'll be stronger for it."},
    {"id": "howl", "when": "event:howl", "title": "Wolves",
     "text": "Hear that? Wolves have moved into the hills. They'll come hunting soon after dark. Walls, a door and a fire are your friends."},
    {"id": "wolf_moon", "when": "wolf_moon", "title": "The red moon",
     "text": "A red moon, look. The pack's bolder tonight, and the big one leads them. Stay behind a good door, or stand by a fire with a weapon ready."},
    {"id": "night", "when": "night", "hold": 5, "title": "Nightfall",
     "text": "Dark and cold till morning, now. Keep near a fire or carry a torch. A bed under a roof lets you sleep right through it."},
    {"id": "hard_winter", "when": "hard_winter", "hold": 3, "title": "Hard winter",
     "text": "A hard winter's come in. A few days of bitter cold, and blizzards that'll freeze you even by day. Stock up on wood and food, and stay close to home."},
    {"id": "snow", "when": "weather:snow|blizzard", "hold": 3, "title": "Snow",
     "text": "Snow's falling. It's colder out in it, and heavy snow piles up on your roofs. Keep your fire fed."},
    {"id": "storm", "when": "weather:storm", "hold": 3, "title": "Storm",
     "text": "A storm's coming in. Lightning goes for the trees, so don't you go sheltering under one. Your buildings are safe enough."},
    {"id": "stamina", "when": "stamina_low", "title": "Out of breath",
     "text": "You're all puffed out. Stop swinging and running a moment, and your stamina comes back. Rested by a fire, it comes back faster."},
    {"id": "sheltered", "when": "status:Sheltered", "hold": 3, "title": "A proper shelter",
     "text": "Roof and walls, that's the way. The weather can't touch you in here. Sit by a fire inside a little while and you'll be Rested."},
    {"id": "seam", "when": "seam", "hold": 3, "title": "The cracked seam",
     "text": "That antler pick bites rock that iron only scratches. Out on the clifftop, near the edge, there's a seam of cracked rock, and a way down to the sea behind it if you dig. Take wood to prop it as you go, and lights. It's black as pitch down there."},
    {"id": "cove", "when": "worldlet:cove", "hold": 3, "title": "The Cove",
     "text": "Well, you made it down! Sand, salt and sea fish. Fish off the end of the pier: mackerel bite close in, and cod further out where it's deep. The sea cave takes you back up the tunnel to home. Watch out for the gulls: they'll have any food you leave on the sand, and fish off a smoking rack. And at dusk the crabs come up the beach, so give them room, or they'll pinch."},
    {"id": "crab", "when": "has:crab_meat", "hold": 2, "title": "Crab",
     "text": "Two lots of crab meat cook up into a good crab supper at a campfire. Raw, it's as risky as raw fish."}
  ]
}