🌲 Forest Map Minigame

The forest is a visual map divided into 33 clickable areas, drawn as a Voronoi patchwork over a hand-made forest texture. At game start, the server secretly places each of the 3 SuperElf Bow parts (string, shaft, arrowhead) in a different area. Only the server knows where.

How the search works

1. A player selects the Search Forest action.
2. The map appears. The player clicks areas to queue them for searching this turn.
3. When the turn resolves, the server reveals the queued areas and reports what (if anything) was found.
4. Already-searched areas stay marked as visited for that player — the search space visibly shrinks each turn.
5. Every player's search history is tracked separately. You only see your own visited map.

Clicks per turn

The base allowance is 1 click per turn. Each follower (children for a peasant) adds +1 click. A peasant with 5 children can sweep 6 areas per turn — enough to map the whole forest in 6 turns.

Unique parts & competition

Bow parts are unique across the entire game. Only one bow string, one bow shaft, one arrowhead exist. Every part claimed is one less for everyone else, forever. This creates three new dynamics not present in any other weapon path:

1. Race — multiple peasants competing to find the same parts.
2. Negotiation — a player with 2 parts needs cooperation from whoever holds the 3rd.
3. Leverage — holding a bow part gives leverage over the entire kingdom.

Contested discovery

If two players click the same area on the same turn and a part is there, the stronger peasant wins. Strength = number of followers + gold held. On a tie, coinflip.

• The winner gets the part normally.
• The loser sees a bitter message: "You found the bow string, but a stronger rival wrestled it from your hands."
• Both players now know they're in direct competition — creating tension for every future turn.

Dying in the forest

As of v0.10.2, searching the forest no longer has a flat death chance. The old dice-roll forest rewarded rare attempts and punished repeats; the map minigame invites repeated searching, and a coin flip per turn stopped being fair.

You can still die in the forest — but only from:

• Dragon attacks — if the dragon is hungry this turn and you're among the lowest declarers, you're on the menu. Followers shield one hit each.
• Thieves, assassins, vampires, werewolves — special functions target players regardless of location, and a forest-searching peasant hoarding bow parts is a prime target.
• Van Helsing — if you're secretly a vampire or werewolf, you carry a 5% per-turn risk of being found and slain by an unseen witch-hunter while in the forest.

Part ownership rules

Parts never return to the forest once claimed. Once all 3 are found, the forest still exists as a corpse-maker but holds no more treasure.

Information visibility

• Public: count of parts found so far ("2 of 3 bow parts have been claimed")
• Private: who holds which parts, who is currently searching, individual map progress
• Chat is unmoderated — players can freely lie about holding parts. Only the Thief can verify by attempting a steal.

See also

• Pawn Shop — where dropped parts end up
• Dragon-Slay Paths — what to do with a complete bow
• Deep analysis report — game design, player psychology, balance math