Glossary
- World
One running Ishtaria server instance with its own planet, players, economy and rules configuration.
- Portal
In-game structure that connects two federated worlds. Allowed by an agreement, built by players.
- Federation agreement
Bilateral, per-side configuration that defines what may cross between two worlds. See Federation agreement.
- Travel ticket
Signed, short-lived, single-use document that carries a player across a portal. See Travel ticket and handover.
- Home server
The world that issued a player’s identity (
@user:home) and keeps the player’s master record.- Provenance
Signed record of which world minted an item.
- Ruleset
Versioned set of item kinds, categories, recipes and fallbacks (
core-rules@1.0). Federating worlds must share its major version.- Cell
Hexagonal H3 cell on the planet surface; the unit of simulation, sharding and storage.
- Delta
A stored change to the procedurally generated base world.
- Catch-up
Materialising concrete entities from aggregate state when a region becomes observed again.
- Wayfarer
A generated character that walks the footpath between two towns (
MovementKind::Travel). It pockets dropped items and sells them to the nearest merchant at a markup. See Trading, ground loot and wayfarers.- Ground pile
An unequipped inventory stack thrown at a character’s feet (
ground_items). It stays until a player picks it up or an NPC scoops it.