how this is not a tap game

Every action is a real reading. Hatching is weather. Feeding is whatever that creature lives on. Sweeping is your block.

The library is closed. 80 species. No model in the loop. A new sensor is a new hole in the shelf, not a paid pack.

The draw is seeded by where you are, the hour, and the reading itself. Anyone can re-run it and get the same answer.

Hazard layers are not used. Fire, quake, tsunami, cyclone, flood, volcano, radiation, alerts, and smoke never spawn a blip. Fire weather as a dryness index is allowed. A wildfire pin is not.

Playable layers: weather, air, tide, grid, energy, lightning, spacewx, geomag, jamming, gnss, adsb, ais. Weather is global. Pins are local. Empty pin ≠ empty world.

It does not die. It sleeps. No points with a price. No token. The forge next door is free and optional — a picture you already hatched, not a shop.