CinderPylon

One survey pylon on the crown. Six instances, one per pylon_N entity, each carrying its own index.

While the local player stands inside cinder.CFG.pylonRadius of the pylon's site — and within verticalReach of its height, so somebody on the flank directly below it does not count — the survey charges. At full charge the pylon arms itself for good, swaps to cinder.MATERIALS.pylonArmed, and emits pylon.armed once.

Committing

Stepping out does not throw the survey away immediately. holdSeconds of grace run first, so ducking a lava bomb and coming straight back costs almost nothing. Past that the charge bleeds at bleedRate of the fill rate, so walking away costs everything. Committing to a pylon is what it pays for.

What it reports

pylon.charging fires every tick the charge MOVES, with { index, charge, rising } — rising = true while filling, false while bleeding — so a charge indicator both fills and drains without polling. pylon.armed fires once, with { index, x, y, z }.

cinder.state.pylonCharge[index] carries the same number for anything that would rather read state than subscribe.

Fields

Resetting

Nothing here listens for a new run. CinderDirector.beginRun() resets every pylon directly — charge, armed flag and material — so a restart has one owner and cannot half-happen.