✳ the deep chronicle · entry the first ✳

a sandbox where the world thinks

LLMCRAFT

A world that remembers what you did to it.

A sandbox in the Dwarf Fortress lineage, except every settler and creature is played by a language model. They remember what happened to them, and they are not always gracious about it.

worldgen.gif ▶ 16 colors · ∞ loop
Worldgen complete. One settler, one homestead, one gem nobody has found yet.

Dispatches from below

Scenes from development builds, replayed in ASCII — the settlers involved have been informed. Click any panel to pause it.

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Somewhere below, a dwarf negotiates with the mountain. The mountain is losing.
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A wall-born LLM garrison holds the gate while the dragon model argues in fire.
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Every settler is a language model — lore, grudges, and song rising over the ale.
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The sluice holds, the wheel turns, and somewhere below a fish tests its luck.

What is being built

They remember.

Every settler keeps their own account of events. Drop a bridge on someone's cousin and the whole family hears about it by evening. Apologies are accepted at the settler's discretion.

The world writes itself down.

Sieges, feasts, and mining accidents all land in a chronicle you can sit and read. The in-game historians get some details wrong. That is working as intended.

Dig, build, automate.

Carve out a fortress, send water where it should not go, wire up machines that run while you sleep. The classic loop. The residents have opinions about your floor plan.

The deep has its own ideas.

The things below the third layer are played by models too. Some of them can be reasoned with. Negotiation is a valid tactic, and occasionally a fatal one.

Where the world lives

LLMCraft is being built to run on Cloudflare: simulation state lives in Durable Objects, settlers think through Workers AI and AI Gateway, and world saves rest in R2. This page is itself served by a Cloudflare Worker, and the waitlist keeps its emails in Workers KV. The whole thing runs closer to you than most fortresses sit to the surface.

Workers Durable Objects Workers AI AI Gateway R2 KV · live on this page

The first embark will be small.

An embark is being prepared.

Leave an email and we will send exactly one when the first closed playtest opens. No digests, no nudges, no news of our fundraising.

One email when the first embark opens, then silence. Stored in Cloudflare Workers KV. Shared with no one.