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derived Established — fromMapTemplate of game build 23882143, read generator by generator; source corpus local reopened 2026-09-07 — 340 archives JSON, archive fingerprint 8cc33f9c7d706e0a6d86cff99152dd6f1f5205e2628c3cb80c104e369837be22

Original artwork for City — ⛔ an illustration made for this site, not a screenshot of the game
Original artwork made for this site — not a screenshot of the game

What it is

The extracted MapTemplate records contain no official description or localised map name. The label above is the internal name read from the build. ⛔ These records alone do not establish how a complete battle plays on the map.

The records describe terrain generators: which object generators are listed, whether each is enabled, their density and their placement caps. They also contain other settings, including fog volumes and placed objects. These are properties of the extracted templates, not an exhaustive description of the final battlefield.

Where it comes from

Five generators, every one of them running, and none capped. Buildings at 0.59, smalls at 0.88, pipes at 0.16, minerals at 0.5 — and a fifth entry the other eight templates do not have at all: a second buildings pass, named “buildings - H”, running at density 1.0.

Active generators: buildings at density 0.59, smalls at density 0.88, pipes at density 0.16, buildings - H at density 1.0, minerals at density 0.5.

For scale, across the 9 templates in the demo: 7 run at least one generator, 2 carry fog volumes, and 5 include a minerals generator at all. Those three counts are the frame for every figure above.

How it is actually used

That fifth generator is the reason this page exists. Density 1.0 is the highest figure anywhere in the nine templates, and it belongs to a buildings pass that runs on top of the normal one. No other map in the demo stacks two building generators.

The practical consequence needs care: the template adds another buildings pass, but does not establish the exact battlefield layout. Where buildings break line of sight, artillery may need Spotters; the artillery page explains why that becomes a two-unit problem.

How to beat it

⛔ What we cannot tell you, and will not guess: the size of the playing area, where the starting positions sit, how the mineral fields are distributed, or which map favours which faction. None of it is in the template we can read.

⚠️ One reading is worth stating plainly because it shapes everything above. A maximum count of −1 appears alongside real caps of 5, 8, 45, 65, 100 and 250 in the same field on other maps, so we read −1 as “no limit”. That is our reading of a convention, not a documented value — and if it is wrong, the sentences about uncapped generators above are the ones to distrust.

The template data on this page are extracted from build 23882143 and are tied to that version. Data from another build must be extracted and compared before this description is updated.

Values read from game files · version 23882143

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