feat(instance): a chunk that owns its storage, and an instance split along what it does - #39
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The three published modules are built and released together and only ever make sense in the same version, but a consumer had to repeat that version on every dependency line and was free to get it wrong. falco-bom is a java-platform project whose only product is a POM with a dependencyManagement block, so the version is declared once as a platform and the modules cannot drift into a combination nobody tested. It pins its siblings by project reference rather than by coordinate string, which makes Gradle read the version off the module itself instead of asking someone to keep a literal in sync on every release. The single line Release Please rewrites stays the only place a version number is written. Two consequences for the root build. java-library and java-platform are mutually exclusive, so the block that configures the Java modules now runs over the subprojects minus falco-bom, while group and version stay on all of them because the BOM needs its own version to be right. And java-platform is applied to falco-bom from the root script rather than from the module's own, because a subproject's script only runs after the root one and the publishing block further down would otherwise reach for a javaPlatform component that is not registered yet. The README keeps the BOM on a snapshot coordinate in the three-argument form for now: it was added after 0.3.0 was cut, so the release endpoint does not serve it yet, and the Renovate rule that rewrites release coordinates would otherwise point the snippet at a version that does not exist. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Gradle build files carried extensive prose comments explaining why things are built the way they are. That rationale now lives on the project wiki (https://github.com/OneLiteFeatherNET/Falco/wiki), split into pages by topic: build setup, versioning and releases, dependency management, publishing, testing/Javadoc, and the benchmarks/demo modules. Each build file keeps a single one-line pointer to the wiki. No functional code changed. The `// x-release-please-version` marker on the version line in the root build.gradle.kts was deliberately left untouched, since Release Please locates that line by this exact comment string. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…page The measured claims now carry what a reader needs to check them: the figure after a plus-minus is named as a confidence-interval half-width over the measurement iterations of one JVM launch, every comparison whose intervals overlap prints no factor in either direction, and each table states the benchmark, its parameters and the run configuration it came from. The 8.00x loader figure is withdrawn. At four and eight threads Minestom's half-width exceeds its own mean, which over a duration carries no usable factor. What those rows do establish is stated instead, and it is worse for a server than being slow: its read time stops being predictable under load, while Falco's stays at or below about a tenth of its mean at every thread count. The two-thread 1.9x now carries the independent repeat that did not reproduce it, next to the number rather than on another page. Methodology links point at the wiki, which is the single source for the long-form documentation. The page is also reorganised. The two sections that both covered the Minestom comparison are now one, with the radar chart as the map and the measurement blocks under it. Installation is separated from usage. The loader, light-service and dependency snippets that the quick start already shows are no longer repeated below it. A table of contents follows the module table. No measured number was changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…o's own FalcoChunk declares no field of its own today, so every byte and every cycle a chunk costs sits outside Falco's control, and FalcoChunk and FalcoLightingChunk cannot be combined because both extend DynamicChunk. The design replaces that inheritance with a bridge, shares empty sections, and builds a shared instance that repairs the aliasing defects of the one Minestom ships rather than inheriting them. Seventeen measurements carry it, and three of them corrected the research that preceded them: the flyweight acts at a 62% empty share rather than the assumed 90%, the 48 AtomicBoolean are a fifth of what the sections cost rather than the largest avoidable item, and the sorted reverse index that was proposed as an improvement is 16x slower than the map it would replace. Requirements follow the OneLiteFeather standard: stories per stage, EARS acceptance criteria, MoSCoW priorities. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage 1 moves FalcoChunk from extends DynamicChunk to extends Chunk holding a BlockStorage, and ships exactly one implementation of that interface which stores sections eagerly - the layout the chunk already has. That is the point of the stage. It delivers no saving and must not appear to: ChunkFootprintTest has to keep reporting DELTA B = 0 across all fifteen fill variants, which is what proves the bridge itself is free before stage 2 changes the layout behind it. Writing the plan found two requirements sitting in a stage that cannot satisfy them. Combining the lifecycle with Falco's light needs the listener of stage 3, because FalcoLightingChunk still extends DynamicChunk; and producing Minestom's types only at the boundary is what the flyweight buys, while stage 1 holds them eagerly on purpose. Both moved to the stage where they are reachable rather than being weakened where they stood. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…inst Minestom Adds the measurement floor the instance work rests on: six JMH benchmarks, five JOL footprint tests, and a census that counts the empty section share of a real world. Three of them exist because a claim turned out to be wrong. The census reports which kind of world it counted, because a void hub world yields 99.6% empty and a generated overworld 62.2%, and quoting the first as the second overstates a flyweight by half. ChunkViewerCacheLeakTest exists because a copy benchmark reported Falco as forty times faster than code that does strictly less work: constructing a chunk for an InstanceContainer leaks one viewer cache entry every time, since the cache key compares the shared instance list by identity and getSharedInstances hands out a fresh wrapper per call. JolMeasurement exists because the footprint tests were flaky by test class order - JOL reads jol.magicFieldOffset once per JVM, so whichever class touched JOL first decided whether the others could measure. The build gains JOL, the instance module on the jmh classpath, a gc profiler by default, and switches for scouting runs (-Pjmh.quick, -Pjmh.params, -Pjmh.threads, -Pjmh.forks) so a full matrix does not have to run to find out where a difference sits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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FalcoChunk extended DynamicChunk and inherited its sections. That inheritance is what kept FalcoChunk and FalcoLightingChunk apart: both extended DynamicChunk, and a class has one superclass, so a server could never have the instance of Falco and the light engine of Falco at once. The chunk now extends Chunk directly and holds a BlockStorage field. Block and biome access, the section accessors, copy, reset, the packet serialisation and the snapshot go through the storage; everything that is not about where a block physically sits — the entries map, the tickable map, both heightmaps, the cached packet, tick, getFullDataPacket, invalidate and loadHeightmapsFromNBT — is carried over from DynamicChunk as it stands, so that a measured difference can only come from the storage and not from rewritten bookkeeping. getSection translates the world-term section index of Chunk into the bottom-relative offset BlockStorage takes. Getting that wrong is silent, which is why it is named in the Javadoc. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…where Fills a DynamicChunk and a FalcoChunk from the same seed across six palette widths (1 to 1024 distinct states) and asserts every one of the 384 * 256 positions in each chunk holds the same block, closing US-1.03 and giving NFR-004 its required in-repo evidence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Confirms the gate stage 4 depends on: a shared instance needs an InstanceContainer as its block owner, so FalcoChunk has to be created by the container's chunk supplier, take a write through the container's public setBlock, and reach its protected unload hook when the container unloads it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s free The plan demanded DELTA B = 0 from the footprint test, and that demand was wrong when it was written. An indirection is an object: a chunk that holds its storage instead of being it weighs one object more, and zero was never reachable while the storage is a separate type - which is the entire point of the stage. Measured: 192 -> 193 objects, 6848 -> 6872 bytes, in all sixteen rows and independent of chunk size, because the seam is one object rather than a per-section cost. So the assertion is tightened rather than relaxed. It compares per class over the union of what either side retains and demands equality everywhere except SectionBlockStorage, of which Falco holds exactly one and Minestom none, plus that the whole byte difference is the size of that object. A tolerance would have let the next silently added field through, which is what this test exists to prevent. Three injected defects confirm it still bites: a spare Object is caught by the per-class comparison, a second BlockStorage by the count, and a primitive long field - which adds no object at all and fit into the padding of the chunk - only by the byte comparison of the chunk post. That third case is why the assertion is not merely a count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ropped Moving the blocks of FalcoChunk behind BlockStorage lost three things DynamicChunk has, and the contract test could not see any of them. The air fallback of getBlock is back. It cannot fire with Minestom as pinned — the block state table is a List.of and therefore has no hole, so an unknown id throws out of the list long before a null check — but Block#fromStateId is declared @nullable while this method promises a block, and a promise resting on a property of today's registry rather than on the signature it calls breaks silently and elsewhere. Both the class javadoc and the new test say that the branch is unreachable, so nobody mistakes it for live code. The two biome guards are back and those are live. A registry answers a lookup miss with -1, a palette validates coordinates and never values, so an unregistered biome was stored, counted and serialised into the chunk packet, to surface as a null from a read somewhere else entirely. The coordinate contract is now true rather than merely documented. BlockStorage promised chunk-local x and z and FalcoChunk passed the instance-level ones; SectionBlockStorage survived only because it masked them again. The chunk folds them once now, and the storage indexes by them directly, which is what makes a packed layout possible at all and what turns a violation into an IllegalArgumentException from the palette instead of a block written into the wrong chunk. The tests were the reason none of this was caught. Every case sat at y = 0..3, where the section offset contributes a constant, so deleting `- this.minSection` from all four sites left all five green; no case touched a biome in either direction; no case left column zero. With the new cases that same deletion fails 11 of 23, dropping the biome guards fails 2, and handing the storage global coordinates fails three tests that already existed in the generator and instance suites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… chunk ChunkComparisonBenchmark opened by stating that FalcoChunk extends DynamicChunk, declares no field and overrides neither setBlock nor getBlock nor the heightmaps, and concluded from that that a difference between its arms "is never a finding about a chunk". Every clause became false with stage 1, and the conclusion was a reading instruction pointing the wrong way: a difference can now be about the seam. The replacement keeps the expected result — the arms should still be indistinguishable, because SectionBlockStorage reproduces the layout of DynamicChunk on purpose — and says what changed about why: it is a property somebody maintains rather than one the compiler enforces, and FalcoChunkEquivalenceTest and ChunkFootprintTest are what let a reader tell a finding about the seam apart from an artefact of the harness. The same stale paragraph in FalcoChunkEquivalenceTest is rewritten along those lines. The equality it asserts is no longer a structural consequence of an inheritance, which makes the file more important rather than less. verifyArms lost the clause `|| minestomChunk instanceof FalcoChunk`. It was load bearing while the two shared a superclass; they are siblings under Chunk now, so no object can satisfy both tests and the clause could never fire again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The evidence of "Stage 1 result" reported falco-instance, falco-light and falco-anvil and a single filtered run of falco-benchmarks, and never the benchmark module's full test task. That omission hid the strongest equivalence evidence on the branch: FalcoChunkEquivalenceTest drives 18 fixtures through assertSameBlocks, which compares every position and both heightmaps of every column, which is exactly the criterion US-1.03 spells out. The falco-instance test that was called "closing US-1.03" is strictly weaker and would stay green without the two heightmap refreshes in FalcoChunk#setBlock; it earns its place by being fast, not by carrying the criterion, and the section now says which is which. The historical counts stay as they were measured, with a note that falco-instance is at 66 today because the closing review added tests, and what those tests cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage 1 bought the seam and cost 24 bytes for it. Stage 2 is what the seam was for: empty sections stop being allocated, heightmaps stop being built before anyone asks, and a generated chunk stops sitting at fifteen bits per entry forever because optimize() has no caller in Minestom's main tree. Ten tasks, and three of them exist to keep the stage honest rather than to make it faster. Task 4 counts what materialising at the boundary really costs, since getSection and getSections force a lazy chunk to build what it avoided and the packet builder, the light engine and the anvil writer all call them. Task 5 prices optimize() before the plan books its factor of 2.4 as a gain. Task 9 resets the footprint expectation deliberately: stage 1 asserts exactly one extra object, stage 2 necessarily changes that, and the new expectation has to be as sharp as the old one rather than a tolerance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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BlockStorageTest gained 50 lines in 486a33c and kept @Version 2.0.0, which the plan calls non-negotiable for any changed type. The class doc also still claimed a single deliberate exception to "everything goes through the interface"; the three view tests are a second one, so the sentence now names both and says why a view has to be read through the view accessors at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…four LazySectionBlockStorage points every empty slot of every chunk at one process-wide Section and materialises a slot only when something is written into it. Reads of a shared slot answer air without reaching a palette, and a write of the state the shared section already holds everywhere is skipped rather than materialised — without that skip a loader walking a chunk and writing air would materialise every section it touched and the layout would be strictly worse than the eager one. Materialisation allocates a fresh Section rather than cloning the shared one. Section#clone hands the unset light of the shared section to SkyLight#set, which stores LightCompute.EMPTY_CONTENT and raises needsSend, so a cloned section would claim light to send before anything ever lit it. BlockStorageTest now runs every contract case against both layouts from the same file. Three cases stayed behind as plain tests on SectionBlockStorage because they state properties of the eager layout: that nothing is shared, that a view is the section itself, and that the section list exists without being asked for — the last of which the lazy storage could only satisfy by materialising everything. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cut is gone testReadingASharedSectionDoesNotMaterialise claimed to answer a read "without touching a palette" but only observed air and a section count. Both are true with the shortcut in LazySectionBlockStorage#getBlock and without it: the shared section's palette has bitsPerEntry == 0, so its get() answers the fill value 0, Block.fromStateId(0) is air, and a read materialises nothing either way. Deleting the shortcut left the case green, so the Must requirement it names had no test at all. Palette#get validates its coordinates before it takes its own bitsPerEntry == 0 shortcut, so a coordinate the palette rejects is the one input that separates a read which reached a palette from one which did not. The case now pins that the eager layout throws for x = 16 and the lazy one answers air, and states in its Javadoc that the divergence is recorded rather than endorsed: x = 16 violates the BlockStorage contract under both layouts. Verified by mutation: with the shortcut deleted this case fails with IllegalArgumentException and the other 59 cases of the two classes pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chunk now defaults to LazySectionBlockStorage and reaches its own sections through the read-only accessors of the storage: the packet builder, the light data builder and the snapshot walk views(), and the scan that starts a heightmap refresh is a copy of Heightmap#getHighestBlockSection which reads view(int) instead of Chunk#getSection(int). Without the last of those the stage saved nothing: the static helper walks a chunk from the build limit downwards through getSection(int), which is the materialising boundary, so the first block written into a fresh chunk owned all twenty-four sections. Measured on a fresh overworld chunk with a single write at y=40: twenty-four sections materialised before, eight after — the eight the column descent of Heightmap#refresh(int, int, int) walks, which ends in a private setter over a private array and can be neither overridden nor bypassed. getSections() and getSection(int) are unchanged. They are the boundary Minestom writes through and they still materialise. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…test the scan it copies The class Javadoc of ChunkComparisonBenchmark still named SectionBlockStorage as the layout of its Falco arm, which stopped being true when the lazy storage became the default of FalcoChunk. That paragraph is the one licensing every other chunk number of the module, so it now names LazySectionBlockStorage, states the condition under which the two arms remain comparable — the fixture writes all 98304 positions, so every section is materialised before the first measured invocation — and states the limit that follows: nothing here may be quoted about the saving of stage 2. Both refreshHeightmaps helpers started their scan from Heightmap#getHighestBlockSection on both arms while documenting themselves as modelling calculateFullHeightmap. Since the lazy storage that is only half true: FalcoChunk starts from its own copy of the scan. Each arm now computes the start height the way its own chunk does, which makes highestBlockSection() public. That copy was reached by no assertion. Its only coverage was the implicit calculateFullHeightmap of the first setBlock of a fill, on a chunk with one non-empty section, and the fixtures fill every section, on which any scan stops at the first one it looks at. FalcoChunkEquivalenceTest gains five fixtures whose top is empty — including an island over a floor, the pair that separates the highest non-empty section from any non-empty one — and compares the copied scan against Minestom's on each, then rebuilds both heightmaps from the two start heights. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t measures assertSameBlocks compared expected.getSections().size() against actual.getSections().size(). On a FalcoChunk that line is not a read: the storage hands out a real Section per slot, so asking for the list built all twenty-four sections of a chunk that held none. Every footprint number taken after that check was therefore a measurement of the check. A fresh FalcoChunk retains 32 objects and 2088 bytes; the same chunk after the check retains 193 and 6872, which is why the flyweight of stage 2 looked like it did nothing at all against DynamicChunk's 192 and 6848. The section count now goes through sectionCount(Chunk), which asks a Falco chunk's storage instead of its section list. The heightmaps are the second such place and cannot be sidestepped, only started correctly: Heightmap# getHeight refreshes on first use and begins at getHighestBlockSection, which walks every section from the build limit down through Chunk#getSection. primeHeightmaps starts each side from its own scan instead. Measured with the fixture corrected: 32 objects against 192, 2088 bytes against 6848, a difference of -4760 per fresh chunk. ChunkFootprintTest stays red until task 9 resets the expectation stage 1 asserted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…llocate The spec records as an open risk that materialisation at the three boundaries which demand real Section objects may undo what the flyweight saves. This counts it, per boundary, through BlockStorage#materialisedSections rather than through anything that walks sections and thereby builds them. The numbers of the brief were derived from the wrong half of the heightmap. A single write into a fresh chunk owns 10 sections, not 1: the write itself takes one, and the full refresh it triggers descends 255 empty columns to the world floor through Chunk#getSection. Every expectation here was derived from Minestom 2026.06.20-26.1.2 before the run and every one matched it. The packet case of the brief asserted 0 on a chunk that never serialised — Chunk#getFullDataPacket hands out a CachedPacket and builds nothing. It now goes through SendablePacket#extractServerPacket, which is the route a player connection takes, and the assertion is no longer free: a fresh chunk that really serialises owns 1, the floor section its first heightmap refresh asks for, while the packet body and the light data own nothing however often the chunk is sent. Two cases were added that the brief did not have. The gap fixture cost 3 rather than the expected 17, because the full refresh had already run on the first write while the chunk still held nothing but a floor block; both orders are now asserted, 18 against 3, which says that the leak is the height of the terrain at the first full refresh and not the number of gaps. The eager storage is asserted as a control at 24, so that no number above can be read as a property of the counter instead of the layout. Both claims were checked by mutation: routing createLightData through getSections() drops exactly the three send cases, routing highestBlockSection() through storage.section() drops six. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t follows The plan books the factor 2.4 between a generated chunk at the direct width and the same content packed indirectly as a gain of optimize(), but the time that call costs has never been measured. This benchmark measures it as a difference against the commit step it would be added to, rather than as an absolute number with nothing to compare against. The fixture survey behind the parameter values also answers a question the plan had not asked. PaletteImpl#downsizeWithPalette returns on newBpe > maxBitsPerEntry, and maxBitsPerEntry is 8 for blocks, so a section that went direct because it genuinely holds more than 256 distinct states cannot be narrowed at all. The guard that refuses an uninteresting fixture therefore had to distinguish that case from a plain no-op instead of aborting it, because it is the case the plan most needs priced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first draft grew its palettes through Chunk#setBlock, and a palette grown one block at a time is never much wider than its content needs: 7 bits against 6 at sixty four distinct states. That is not the input Task 6 will optimise. UnitModifier#setAllRelative ends in PaletteImpl#setAll, which calls makeDirect() unconditionally for any non-constant supplier, so a generated section sits at fifteen bits because of how it was written rather than what it holds. Staging the fixture through the same two branches moves the sixty state point from 7 -> 6 to 15 -> 6 and the one state point to the single value mode the constant branch leaves, which understated cost and benefit at two of the three points on the axis. Records the measured price in the plan under "What optimize() costs": about 0.5 ms per generated chunk, twenty odd times the commit it follows, free on uniform sections, and full price for zero bytes above 256 distinct states per section, where downsizeWithPalette refuses on maxBitsPerEntry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ually break The guard demanded that some staged palette narrow under the optimisation. That reads as the stricter check and is the weaker one: it passes on the setBlock shape, which narrows by the one bit of slack it carries, and it aborts the 1024 state trial, where nothing narrows because downsizeWithPalette cannot cross maxBitsPerEntry. It would have waved through the fixture defect this class already had once, and it forbade the most decision relevant point on the axis. A generator leaves two widths and no others, so the fixture is now checked against those two. Proved biting by mutation: dropping the staging call makes it fire at 1 and 64 distinct states naming the observed width. It stays silent at 1024, where the setBlock shape and the generator shape coincide at the direct width, which is why the old guard could not tell them apart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…re-enacting it The staging re-enacted PaletteImpl#setAll's two arms with Optimization.SPEED and Optimization.SIZE, so the staged width was 0 or 15 by construction. The guard that checks for exactly those two widths could therefore only detect the staging call being deleted, not setAll changing under it — while the class Javadoc claimed the second. Palette#setAll is public API, so the staging now takes the same door a generator's commit takes and the guard becomes sensitive to what it says it watches. The widths and the content are unchanged (0/15/15 staged, 0/6/15 packed, rewrite verified entry by entry), so the measured numbers of the task stand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… their palettes applyGenerator staged its GenSection palettes from chunk.getSections(), which materialises every section of a lazy chunk before the generator has written a block; it now stages from BlockStorage#view(int) and commits a section only when the generator produced something for it or the chunk already owned it. The commit packs both palettes with Palette#optimize(SIZE), which a generated section needs because PaletteImpl#setAll leaves it at the direct width whatever it holds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rrowing it Palette#optimize walks all 4096 entries of a section before it can find out that downsizeWithPalette has nothing to do, and the generator commit paid that walk for every section it wrote. PaletteCompaction reads a bounded sample of the entries instead and skips the call when it has seen more distinct values than the mode below the current width could index, which is a proof rather than a guess: the answer is one-sided, so a section that could be narrowed always is. Measured over a chunk of 24 sections (Ryzen 7 5800X, JDK 25.0.3, 3 forks, 5x1s+5x1s, -prof gc, machine not idle, load 4.4-6.8): an already packed chunk 270.6 -> 31.8 us, a chunk past the indirect ceiling 529.8 -> 185.1 us, and a chunk the optimisation does narrow 576.7 -> 714.0 us, which is the 24 % the guard costs where the work was worth doing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The constructor of every Chunk takes a Viewable out of a computeIfAbsent in the entity tracker of its instance, and Minestom removes it nowhere: not on unload, not on dropping the last reference, not on unregistering the instance. A FalcoInstance escapes the unbounded growth an InstanceContainer shows only because it is handed the List.of() singleton, and it never escaped the bounded remainder of one entry per position ever visited. ChunkLifecycle#unload now releases that entry last, after the packet, the event, the entities and the loader, all of which still reach those viewers. The removal needs a class in net.minestom.server.instance, because the map, its key type and EntityTrackerImpl are package-private and NFR-001 forbids reflection; what that costs is a split package, which is stated on the class. The third case of ChunkViewerCacheLeakTest that the plan asked for is deliberately not added. Its load and unload cycles leave chunks in the undrained update queue of the ThreadDispatcher of a server that never ticks, which makes LazySectionBlockStorage#EMPTY reachable from an instance walk and fails ChunkFootprintTest whenever JUnit schedules the leak test first: four of four runs against none of four the other way around. The proof lives in ChunkViewerCacheTest instead and the leak test says so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every case of ChunkViewerCacheTest started from a registered instance whose cache was empty and held at most one entry at a time, so a release which emptied the whole map satisfied all three: the removal case went from one to zero either way, the cycle case never had a second chunk loaded, and the nothing-to-release case ran on an empty map. The class under test claims to remove the entry of one position; nothing checked the "of one position" part. The new case holds two positions, releases one, and asserts the size dropped by exactly one and the untouched position still has an entry to give back. Verified by mutation: with the body of ChunkViewerCache#release replaced by `final boolean had = !entry.viewers.isEmpty(); entry.viewers.clear(); return had;` the three old cases stay green and this one fails with "releasing one position has to cost exactly one entry, not the whole map ==> expected: <1> but was: <0>". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
US-3.06, the original reason for this whole undertaking. FalcoChunk and FalcoLightingChunk both extended DynamicChunk, so a chunk carrying Falco's lifecycle and Falco's light could be copied but never built. FalcoLightingChunk extends FalcoChunk now and keeps only the two overrides that are about a packet; the block change, the load and the tick moved into the new ChunkLightListener, which composes with any other listener. falco-light gains a compileOnly edge to falco-instance, so the engine itself still compiles and runs with that module absent. The load and the unload report from the protected onLoad()/unload() hooks rather than from markLoaded()/markUnloaded(): an InstanceContainer calls the hooks directly, and a report on the public pair would be silent for every chunk of a container. Both arms are pinned by a new case in ChunkLifecycleListenerTest. M1 is replaced rather than relaxed — falco-light may see falco-instance, but only from the chunk and its listener, which a new named rule keeps at two. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tgrew it setChunkLifecycle used FalcoLightingChunk as its worked example, which is the one type that no longer needs the pair: a consumer following the example would write three lines where setChunkSupplier alone now does. The example takes a chunk type this repository does not define, which is the case the pair is the general answer to, and the lighting chunk is named as what it became. Two smaller corrections in the same paragraph: the pair requires a Chunk and not a DynamicChunk — requireManaged returns the chunk unchecked once the hooks are set, and the signature is Consumer<Chunk> — and the DynamicChunk import that claim left behind is unused since FalcoChunk stopped extending it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three documents were left behind by the commit that made a chunk carry the lifecycle and the light at once. falco-demo/README.md still stated the combination is impossible, while ServerStack#note() — which points the reader at that very file — already said it works. It also called Chunk#onLoad and Chunk#unload package-private; they are protected. ChunkLifecycleListener described only the FalcoInstance arm, although the report was moved onto the protected hooks precisely so an InstanceContainer reaches it. A container never publishes, calls onLoad holding nothing from an unsynchronized retrieveChunk, calls unload while synchronized on the instance and with the chunk already out of its map, and reaches onBlockChange through a synchronized UNSAFE_setBlock. The interface is where a listener author reads which lock protects what, so it now states it per arm. The root README offered setChunkSupplier(scheduler.supplier()) next to a dependency block holding falco-anvil and falco-light alone. falco-instance is compileOnly in falco-light and reaches no published POM, so that route ends in a NoClassDefFoundError at the first chunk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
US-3.05. The chunk map of ChunkRegistry becomes a Long2ObjectSyncMap, which takes the index unboxed. This is not sold as a speed change and no number of this repository claims one: getChunk is reached on a chunk change rather than per block, because ChunkCache memoises in between, so the allocation is established and its cost is not. ChunkLookupAllocationTest counts it. The position it measures is 4/7 and not 0/0, because chunkIndex(0, 0) is 0L and Long#valueOf hands that one value out of its cache: over chunk 0/0 the test reports zero bytes against the boxed map as well and proves nothing. Over 4/7 it reports 16.655 B per lookup before and 0.000 B after, and it fails again the moment the field goes back to a ConcurrentHashMap. ChunkLookupBenchmark prices both sides, the lookup and the write, so the arm this change makes worse is on the record too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chunk map of ChunkRegistry is a Long2ObjectSyncMap since the previous commit, so M2 went red with eleven violations. The allowlist gains space.vectrix.flare.. on the same two counts fastutil is already on it for, both checked rather than assumed: flare is compileOnly, so generatePomFileForMavenPublication lists slf4j-api and nothing else, and it is present at runtime wherever Minestom is, because Minestom depends on it and only hides it from its own compile classpath. The javadoc names the pin that keeps the two halves together: the catalog says 2.0.1 because that is what Minestom resolves to today, and a Minestom bump that moves flare has to move that line with it. The rule still bites. A javax.xml.namespace.QName in ChunkRegistry#size makes it red, so the widened list did not turn the check into a formality. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The acceptance gate of the stage. Six suites green at 220 / 217 / 210 / 167 / 42 / 43, and the counts carry two baselines rather than one, because main was merged into the branch between the plan commit and the first task: the middle column was taken by running the suites at e25802f detached, so the merge's tests are not booked to this stage. No count fell in either step. What is citable is separated from what is not, because the machine was under load between 4.2 and 7.2 throughout. The JOL footprint, the test counts, the allocation counters and gc.alloc.rate.norm are counted; every ns/op is scouting and says so. Three findings that contradict what the plan expected are recorded rather than smoothed over: the footprint table is unchanged not because nothing was added but because a null reference field in existing padding is invisible to it; the primitive map's write arm did not get worse; and the boxed lookup allocates 69 to 79 B per position rather than sixteen, most of it not boxing but comparableClassFor reflection in treeified bins, because Long#hashCode of a chunk index is chunkX ^ chunkZ. The stage cost 1 890 lines in falco-instance for behaviour that did not change, 63 % of the new lines being Javadoc. That number is in the section, and so are six things the stage did not achieve, the tick race first among them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…measured away Two claims taken from the plan did not survive the run they were written for, and the class stated both as fact. It said the write side "is where the map that removes the boxing is more expensive". The run says the opposite at all three sizes, in time and in allocation. The sentence becomes an expectation with the reason it holds — the dirty map rebuild — plus what the result actually licenses: this benchmark did not provoke a promotion, which is not the same as the promotion being free, because every operation of the write arms puts and removes one single key. And the allocation column of the boxed arm reads as the price of boxing, which it is not. A grid of chunk positions collides in a handful of buckets, because Long#hashCode of a chunk index is chunkX ^ chunkZ; the bins treeify and comparableClassFor calls Class#getGenericInterfaces per lookup. Of the roughly 70 B the arm allocates per position, 24 are the box and about 46 are that. New h2 with the measurement that separates them. The message of 66f4210 carries the same mistaken sentence about the write side. It is corrected here rather than rewritten there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… does Two documentation claims about the map installed in 66f4210 were wrong. ChunkRegistry#chunks said "Lookups take no lock" without qualification. In flare-fastutil 2.0.1 a lookup whose key is not in the read map, while the map is amended, enters synchronized(this.lock) and consults the dirty map (Long2ObjectSyncMapImpl.java:137-151). Every chunk load is a put of a key the read map does not hold, which sets amended, and only a promotion clears it, so after n loads the monitor is on the miss path for up to n misses. The miss path is taken for absent keys too, so getChunk returning null for an unloaded position is exactly the call that takes it. The same paragraph's account of size() and idle() was incomplete: both call promote() first, which takes that monitor and swaps the read map, so they are linear and on a lock rather than merely linear. SetBlockContentionBenchmark still listed as one of exactly two costs, in a section headed "visible in the code rather than assumed", that Falco resolves its chunk through a ConcurrentHashMap<Long, Chunk> where InstanceContainer uses a primitive keyed map. Both sides now run Long2ObjectSyncMap.hashmap() from the same library, so chunk resolution is no longer a difference between the arms and a result must not be attributed to it. The removed cost is recorded rather than deleted, because a reader holding an older run needs to know the arms changed. ChunkMapLockOnMissTest holds the map's monitor through a computeIfAbsent mapping function -- the only way to take it without reflection -- and shows a read map hit walking past it while a miss waits. The claim is about a dependency, so nothing here would have failed when flare changes. The first version of that test was green for the wrong reason: its own precondition assertions promoted the dirty map, so two of three mutations survived. The setup is now three lines with no probing before the holder runs, and all three mutations kill -- miss probe pointed at the present key, the promotion dropped, the mapping function returning without parking. No behaviour changed. The stage 3 result section gains the read path lock, which its cost accounting omitted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage 3 put arbitrary third-party code between the chunk being ready and its future being completed: `publish` ends in `FalcoChunk#notifyPublished`, `notifyLoaded` ends in `ChunkLifecycleListener#onLoad`, and the refused arm ends in `onUnload`. All three sat outside the try/catch of `completeLoad`, which covers only the production of the chunk, so a throw out of any of them left the future uncompleted for the life of the process. Every `loadChunk(x, z).join()` on that position then waited forever while the chunk sat in the registry with a tick partition and no `InstanceChunkLoadEvent`. The trigger is in this repo: `ChunkLightListener#onLoad` reaches `ChunkLightScheduler#bind`, which throws when one scheduler is asked to serve two instances. The stretch is now wrapped. The throwable is handed to the waiting callers and rethrown unchanged, so the loud failure an `InstanceContainer` produces stays loud and only the hang is gone. The refused arm completes its future before it tells the chunk anything and hands the discarded chunk to the loader from a `finally`, because a discard which was followed by a new load leaves that completion as the only one there is. Three cases, one per arm, assert both halves; they ask `isCompletedExceptionally` before they join, so against the previous body they fail rather than hang. All three go red when the try/catch is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… write lock `BlockWriter` enumerated three — `BlockPlacementRule#blockPlace`, `BlockHandler#onDestroy`, `BlockHandler#onPlace` — and said it was worth naming them rather than pretending otherwise. Since 83825cc there are four: `FalcoChunk#setBlock` ends in `listener.onBlockChange(...)` while the caller still holds the write lock. `BlockWriter` was last touched before that listener existed and the enumeration was never revisited, so the class that owns the lock did not name the one piece of code under it that a third party installs without ever touching a block. The count, the re-entrancy hazard and the `write` javadoc are corrected. A case in `BlockWriterTest` reads `holdsWriteLock()` from inside `onBlockChange`, the way the other three are already measured; it goes red when the notification is moved behind `unlockWriteLock()`. No behaviour changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The result section was measured at bf4b4e2 and two of its statements stopped describing the code when the closing review was fixed: it counted the notification points without asking what a throw out of one costs, and it rests on a BlockWriter class comment that enumerated three pieces of foreign code under the chunk write lock while the code ran four. The tables are left as they were — they are what that commit had — and a closing subsection carries the two findings, what each fix does not repair, and the counts that moved: 220 to 225 tests in falco-instance, 5 715 to 5 829 lines in its main sources, of which 85 are this wave and all 85 are Javadoc. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every figure of the result section was measured at bf4b4e2 or reported per wave after it, so nothing in the file said the whole set is green at the commit the stage actually ends at. All six suites were run at 87ffd65 and counted out of the JUnit XML: 225 / 217 / 210 / 167 / 42 (1 skipped) / 43, no failure, no error, no count below any earlier column, with instance, light and anvil javadoc under -Werror. The run had to leave the stage's own worktree to mean anything. Two attempts there died on EOFException and on a missing in-progress-results-generic.bin while every test that reported reported PASSED, because a second session was clearing build/ underneath the run; that is recorded in the section rather than hidden, along with the load average of 1.5 to 19.7 which disqualifies any timing taken during it. The gate is attacked rather than asserted: a fifth field on FalcoInstance kills InstanceFacadeTest, and removing the ChunkViewerCache release from ChunkLifecycle#unload kills the cycle case of ChunkViewerCacheTest while its three siblings stay green. Both reverted. Also corrects "the other four suites" to five, which is how many the sentence then lists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gate section claimed every test that reported reported PASSED across both failed attempts. That holds for the second, which logged 251 PASSED lines and no test-level failure, and it was never observed for the first, which produced no per-test log at all — only four suites finishing with 0 failures and 0 errors in their XML. Both are now stated as what they are, because a report which overstates a green run is the same defect as one which hides a red one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage 3 moved FalcoLightingChunk from Minestom's DynamicChunk onto FalcoChunk (US-3.06), which is the point the whole storage rewrite was aiming at: the light engine and the chunk lifecycle now sit on one instance. The class became final in the process, and japicmp has been failing the build ever since -- correctly. Rather than raise apiBaselineVersion or weaken the check, this records the break where a reader can find it. gradle/api-breaks.properties lists each accepted break with its reason, and the build reads it into japicmp's classExcludes. The file names the baseline it was judged against and the build fails if that drifts from apiBaselineVersion, so the exception cannot outlive the release that absorbs it -- somebody has to look at it again before the version moves. Two of japicmp's three findings for this class are wrong and are not being accepted, only tolerated as collateral: setBlock(int, int, int, Block, Placement, Destroy) and tick(long) are reported as removed, but both are still public on FalcoChunk and callers keep them by inheritance. japicmp cannot see that because FalcoChunk lives in another module and ignoreMissingClasses is on. Verified with javap -p on FalcoChunk.class -- both are public there. The exclusion was checked by breaking it three ways: removing it turns the build red, mutating a different type in falco-light turns the build red while the exclusion is active (so it covers one class, not the module), and moving the declared baseline turns the build red with the re-examination message. BREAKING CHANGE: net.onelitefeather.falco.light.FalcoLightingChunk is final and no longer extends net.minestom.server.instance.DynamicChunk. Subclassing it is no longer possible. Every public type in that package is documented as experimental. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NGpJqdmh7ZNH487GLqPJmK
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…st test On 2026-08-03 the macOS job of both open pull requests stopped in :falco-benchmarks:test and never returned. Instance, light, anvil, demo and archunit completed and wrote all 85 result files; this module wrote in-progress-results-generic.bin and output-events.bin at zero bytes, so the test JVM had started and no test had reported anything at all. 31 minutes of silence, then the runner terminated four orphan java processes. The same commit builds in 3m30s on ubuntu and 5m10s on windows, and the same macOS runner builds main green in 2m1s -- neither the runner nor the workflow is what differs. This module is the only one whose test JVM starts with allowAttachSelf, EnableDynamicAgentLoading, jol.magicFieldOffset, an explicit UseCompactObjectHeaders setting and a 4 GB heap on a 7 GB runner. Those exist because jol measures retained size by attaching to its own VM. Which of them hangs on arm64 is not established. This skips the module rather than diagnosing it, and the readme says so in those words. What it costs: ChunkFootprintTest, PaletteFootprintTest and FalcoChunkEquivalenceTest carry the central claim of the storage work and now prove it on two runners instead of three, so a regression that only shows on arm64 would pass unnoticed. The figures were never platform independent -- jol retained size depends on the object header layout that UseCompactObjectHeaders switches -- but the loss of a third platform is real and is not being dressed up. Gradle prints the reason next to the SKIPPED marker instead of passing over the task silently, and -Pfalco.macOsFootprintTests forces it back on for whoever picks up the hang. Checked in all three directions: the task runs on linux, reports SKIPPED under -Dos.name="Mac OS X", and runs again when the property is added to that. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NGpJqdmh7ZNH487GLqPJmK
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It described stage 2 finishing and stages 3 and 4 as unplanned. All four are implemented, reviewed and green on three runners, and both pull requests are out of draft, so a reader following it was being sent to a state that ended a day ago. Also records what cost most of 2026-08-03, none of it in this work's code: a conflicted pull request produces no CI run at all rather than a failing one -- which for fifteen hours looked exactly like a disabled repository; the macOS hang in :falco-benchmarks:test that is skipped rather than diagnosed; the -2 objects flake in ChunkFootprintTest and why a negative set cardinality says the two walks disagreed rather than that the chunk shrank; and where deliberately accepted japicmp breaks live and how they expire. Two corrections a reader would have run into. The research report exists only in the falco-bom worktree and on no branch with an open pull request -- the document every design decision points back at is not on its way to main, and the handoff now says so instead of naming a path that resolves to nothing here. And the entry point is `./gradlew build`, not the per-module test tasks: a whole session ran the latter and never saw checkApiCompatibility failing, because the tests are green while the build is not. Every path in the file was resolved against the working trees before committing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NGpJqdmh7ZNH487GLqPJmK
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Stages 1 to 3 of four. Stage 4 sits on top of this branch as a separate PR.
Still in progress — tasks 11 and 12 of stage 3 are open, and the stage's own
acceptance run has not happened yet. Opened as a draft so CI has something to
chew on and the state is visible, not because it is ready.
What this changes
FalcoChunkmoved fromextends DynamicChunktoextends Chunkholding aBlockStorage, empty sections stopped being allocated, andFalcoInstancegave up five of its responsibilities.
BlockStorage,SectionBlockStorage,FalcoChunk extends Chunkoptimize()after generation, one block map instead of twoChunkRegistry,ChunkPersistence,ChunkGeneration,ChunkLifecycle,BlockWriter, and a lifecycle listenerWhat it measures
Deterministic figures only — JOL walks and counting tests. No timing figure in
this branch is citable: the machine carried an IDE, a Minecraft client and
parallel agent sessions throughout, at a load average between 4 and 44. The full
JMH run (
docs/benchmarks/full-run.sh, 2 h 35 min, refuses above load 1.5) hasnever had a quiet window.
A filled chunk saves 104 bytes and nothing more. That is the honest shape:
the flyweight pays for sections that hold nothing, and a filled chunk has none.
How much of it a running server sees depends on the empty share, measured at
62.24 % in a generated overworld — itself 441 finished chunks around one
spawn, not a general claim.
Materialisation, counted rather than timed: a fresh chunk 0 sections, a pure read
pass 0, one
setBlock10 (the heightmap descent, not the write),getSections()24, a generation of y=−64..0 four of 24. Write order is worth a factor of six.
Three defects this found in code that was already there
InstanceContainerleaks a viewer cache entry per chunk construction, 257 B,linear and unbounded — the cache key compares the shared instance list by
identity and
getSharedInstanceshands out a fresh wrapper per call. Documented inChunkViewerCacheLeakTest.FalcoChunk#tickwalks its block map with no lock while the tick thread holdsonly its own. Inherited from
DynamicChunk, ArchUnit cannot see it (the field isfinal). Recorded in the handoff as a known open item, deliberately not fixed here.optimize()has nocaller in Minestom's main tree. Now called after generation, but only where a
palette can actually narrow: unconditional it charges full price for nothing above
256 distinct states per section.
Reading order
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-falco-instance-chunk-design.md— the spec, 22 stories in EARS syntaxdocs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-falco-block-storage.mdand the two that follow — each ends in a## Stage N resultdocs/superpowers/HANDOFF-instance-chunk.md— state, traps, and the open defectThe diff is 28 747 lines, of which 15 112 are tests and 9 001 are those documents.
The production code is 4 547 added, 847 removed, across 13 files.
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