power.ron

The power grid and room lights. Read by the game’s rules: a change here changes how the game plays, and a world remembers the content it was made with.

File: assets/data/power.ron

About this file

Electricity and room lights (zombye_sim::power). Every field is optional.

Fields

The file is one PowerDef.

assets/data/power.ron: the grid and the lights. Every field is optional (these defaults).

Field	Type	What it is
grid	GridDef
lights_on_at_start	f32	The share of rooms (not halls, porches or garages) with a light left on when the world begins.
lit_room_seen	f32	How well zombies see a player standing in a lit room at night, as daylight (0 dark, 1 full day).

GridDef

The grid as power.ron describes it.

Field	Type	What it is
on	bool	On when the world begins.
fails_after_hours	Option<f32>	Game hours after the world began when the grid fails for good (None: it never does).

The file

The whole file as shipped

// Electricity and room lights (`zombye_sim::power`). Every field is optional.
(
    grid: (
        // The town's grid is on when the world begins.
        on: true,
        // Game hours after the world began when the grid fails for good: None, it never does
        // (Some(72.0): three days of power).
        fails_after_hours: None,
    ),
    // The share of rooms (not halls, porches or garages) with a light left on at the start.
    lights_on_at_start: 0.22,
    // How well zombies, and other survivors, see you in a lit room at night, as daylight
    // (0 dark, 1 broad day): a light left on gives you away through the windows.
    lit_room_seen: 0.8,
)