Starwell

Starwell is a side-on street at the east end of Threadway. It is a transit and staging hub, not housing. Its astrocyte residents keep the district's support running, and its iris hatch is the gate to Vessel Margins expeditions.

Description#

The approved art is S13, a violet-dusk street laid out west to east:

There is no glass dome. The older top-down courtyard with a conservatory (starwell/ S01–S03) is no longer Starwell; it became a Practice Grove candidate. A planned Starwell interior was cancelled.

The works state#

Starwell has one persistent change, approved by the user on 1 November:

• Before: until Aster's support arrangement in Act II, the Star Well plaza is a stalled works site behind hoarding, with cabins and scaffolding. Only Aster waits there. The street stays walkable.
• After ("works cleared"): S13 as approved, with six astrocytes and two neurons. Residents stand staggered off the walk line, mostly on the vessel conduit behind the plaza.

Residents#

• Aster and Vessa are anchored near the Exchange in the alpha (365,222).
• Bram appears after story scene ii4.

Services#

• Exchange: provisions and Supply drop before the Vessel gate.
• The Star Well: a quiet landmark ("Pause a moment by the well").
• No rest: the user moved resting from Starwell to the Apothecary on 1 November.

Connections#

The west arch leads back into Threadway. Press E at the east hatch to enter a Vessel Margins encounter.

Development#

• Art: S13 was approved on 31 October, after an independent critique and a user request to brighten the sky. The works states are on claude/environment-art 4b3c0d40. A later staggered-placement commit, 234c8103, is marked work in progress in its chat.
• Story: in the alpha, scene II1 ends when you visit a Threadway building and then reach Starwell. Scene II2 ("Starwell doesn't run on gratitude") waits for an authored playable scene; the journal says the chapter ends here.
• Alpha: S13 and the Threadway road are installed in Placeholder 69c7b5470. The works-state overlays and extra residents are not connected yet.
• Live preview: the published site still shows the older S11 background and an "under construction" Threadway notice.

Gallery#

See also#

Exchange · Vessel Margins · Aster · Threadway · Astrocyte

Sources#

1. 5ed726064:art/environment/blender-study/starwell-street/README.mdcopy
2. 5ed726064:docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-01-environment-art-starwell-states-handoff.mdcopy
3. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/overworld/public/maps.jscopy
4. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/campaign.jscopy
5. 69c7b5470:src/main-game/game/residents.jscopy
6. b89f778c2:docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-02-lead-reconciled-game-integration.mdcopy
7. docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-11-02-lead-full-project-reconciliation-audit.md (working copy, not in Git)
8. docs/ops/agent-messages/2026-10-31-claude-codex-todo.md, section C4 (working copy, not in Git)
9. .GAME_PLAN/ARBORWAKE_THE_LONG_WAKE_COMPLETE_GAME_PLAN_v0.5.md, §5 and Scenes II1–II3 (working copy, not in Git)