The Dead Forest

The starting point. Ash underfoot, bone gray trees overhead, and a silence that is not quite empty.

Five kinds of dead tree stand here, over fallen logs, dry brush, pale mushrooms and grass that gave up long ago. The ground is cold ash and cracked dry earth.

What you do here: find your feet, learn your controls, and gather your first raw material from the nodes scattered between the trees. This is where the economy starts, and the forest is where it flows.

Four exits, one per edge. Pick a direction. Each one changes what the world feels like.