The concentrated region is the ore rule, under-removing at a non-default field

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A diagnostic on the one lead #404 left, and it lands: the concentrated residual is the ore rule under-removing at a non-default field. No engine source changed and engine.wasm is byte-identical.

The question

Out of sample, [-2200,-1500] at frequency 0.5 carried 74 of that arm's 138 errors, 47 of them surplus. Surplus is a cell the port places and the game does not, and the only cliff-removing mechanism in this port's model is the ore rule (cliff_removal_probability at the destroy stage). So the same region and slider were captured with all four Vulcanus resource controls off, the lever oracle-vulcanus-cliff-ore-direction pulls, and scored with the port's ore rejection on and off. Two runs at 2 seconds each. The ON arm reproduces the out-of-sample capture cell for cell.

The answer

arm	matched / wrong / surplus / missing	errors
resources ON, port with ore rejection	768 / 24 / 47 / 3	74
resources ON, port without ore rejection	767 / 27 / 84 / 1	112
resources OFF, port with ore rejection	848 / 11 / 19 / 1	31

Sets rather than counts attribute it. Between the game's two arms, its ore rule removed 65 cliffs in this region and added none. The port's ore rule removed 39. Of the port's 47 surplus cells at resources ON, 28 are cells the game's ore rule removed and the port's did not. Switching the ore off on both sides takes the region from 74 errors to 31, and takes wrong from 24 to 11, which is the destroy cascade re-orienting neighbours and being missed wherever the destroy is missed.

What it means, and what it does not

The ore regions read vulcanus_mountains_resource_favorability and vulcanus_ashlands_resource_favorability (planet-vulcanus-map-gen.lua lines 768 to 814 at 2.1.17), which sit on the biome and elevation chain. So the game's ore is expected to move with volcanism, and this is the port's ore field, or its removal roll, diverging from the game's at a field no ore fixture was captured at. At the default the ore lever was already scored on [1500,1500] and the port tracked the game to within a few cells.

It does not say which of the two diverges. The next capture that separates them already has a shape in this repo: the game's ore entities in this region at frequency 0.5, against the port's ore field directly, before anything is concluded about the roll. The 31 errors left with resources off are this region's share of the diffuse residual.

Also here

• The runner's ore mode merges a resources-off override with the volcanism one, reads all four resource controls back off the surface, and refuses an arm whose read-back disagrees.
• the_concentrated_residual_against_the_ore_lever intersects the cell sets rather than counting, and freezes both the rows and the attribution.

Full record: the last section of docs/noise/vulcanus-cliffs-NOTES.md.

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• Documentation

  • Documented discrepancies in Vulcanus cliff removal when resource generation is enabled, including measured error and orientation differences.
  • Recorded remaining investigation areas for resource placement and cliff-removal behavior.

• Tests

  • Added coverage comparing Vulcanus cliff generation with resources enabled and disabled.
  • Added deterministic capture provenance and validation for resource-control settings and surface read-backs.
  • Added checks for concentrated residuals and differences between game and port cliff removal.

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The probe now captures Vulcanus cliff outputs with resources enabled and disabled. The fixture oracle compares game and port cliff removal sets. Documentation and provenance record the measured residual and capture metadata.

Changes

Vulcanus ore analysis

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resource-control capture flow scripts/probes/vulcanus-cliff-volcanism/capture.ts	Adds the ore capture, resource-control overrides, Factorio read-back validation, and persisted resource settings.
Residual regression analysis crates/fmw-noise/src/fixtures.rs, docs/noise/vulcanus-cliffs-NOTES.md, test/fixtures/PROVENANCE.json	Adds cliff-map comparison helpers and an oracle test for ore-driven residuals. Documents the measured removals and records fixture provenance.

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This change adds diagnostic capture and regression coverage without changing runtime behavior. It is mergeable with follow-up to consolidate duplicated fixture-scoring logic so future model edits cannot make the frozen comparisons diverge.

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  participant Fixture
  Probe->>Factorio: Apply frequency and resource controls
  Factorio-->>Probe: Return cliffs and control read-backs
  Probe->>Fixture: Persist captured arms
  Fixture->>Fixture: Compare game and port cliff maps
  Fixture-->>Probe: Report residual counts

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crates/fmw-noise/src/fixtures.rs (1)

4777-4825: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider expressing sweep_score in terms of sweep_cells.

sweep_cells repeats the whole body of sweep_score (lines 4336-4388): the same stack construction, the same CliffBands, the same in-bounds game map, and the same port map. The tally closure at lines 4929-4940 also repeats sweep_score's counting loop verbatim.

Both paths must stay bit-identical for the frozen rows in the_volcanism_contrast_out_of_sample and the_concentrated_residual_against_the_ore_lever to remain comparable. A future edit to one band or one filter in only one copy would move one set of frozen numbers and not the other, and the divergence would read as a model change.

sweep_score can become sweep_cells(region, cliffs, ctx, true) plus the shared tally, with unscored counted where the orientation lookup or the bounds check rejects a game entity.

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In `@crates/fmw-noise/src/fixtures.rs` around lines 4777 - 4825, Refactor
sweep_score and the tally closure to reuse sweep_cells as the single source of
truth for stack construction, CliffBands, filtering, and port generation. Have
sweep_score call sweep_cells with ore enabled, then share the cell-counting
logic while counting unscored game entities when orientation lookup or bounds
validation rejects them; preserve bit-identical results for the existing frozen
rows.

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In `@crates/fmw-noise/src/fixtures.rs`:
- Around line 4777-4825: Refactor sweep_score and the tally closure to reuse
sweep_cells as the single source of truth for stack construction, CliffBands,
filtering, and port generation. Have sweep_score call sweep_cells with ore
enabled, then share the cell-counting logic while counting unscored game
entities when orientation lookup or bounds validation rejects them; preserve
bit-identical results for the existing frozen rows.

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