A place to mend should feel like someone has made room for you. We have been working on two healer buildings: a canvas tent for the first tier, followed by a small thatched cottage for the second.

The tent has tied-back flaps, hanging herbs and a sheltered place inside. The cottage grows into a sturdier home, with stonework, timber, a rounded roof and a warm window after dark. Both are still art prototypes under review.

Building in the sun

Here are the two tiers taking shape side by side. The construction is sped up, and the sun moves from low morning light towards evening so you can see how the same surfaces catch it from different directions.

The tier-one healer tent and tier-two cottage assemble piece by piece as the sun moves across the sky. Scripted, accelerated preview.

The building’s pieces arrive in their authored construction order. The moving light brings out the canvas folds, the roof and the small objects around each doorway. The same building responds as the light changes.

Building under the moon

Moonlight gives those shapes a quieter edge. The cottage window and the tent’s small lights come into their own after sunset, spilling warmth onto nearby surfaces and into the river below.

The same two prototype buildings assemble under changing moon positions, with their lamps and window lighting visible.

Building through a change in weather

Finally, the work carries on through rain and snow. Rain wets exposed surfaces and drips from their edges. Snow leaves pale caps above and changes the ground around the finished buildings.

The tent and cottage assemble during rain and snowfall, with wet surfaces, roof runoff and settling snow. Scripted, accelerated preview.

These are isolated construction and lighting studies, with workers and interface overlays hidden. They let us judge the new art in the same world, under several kinds of light and weather, before installing it into normal play.

See the weather in more detail, or watch the world reflected in the river.