pearmain
1 · What I want to see here
The orchard at Pearmain is older than the lane that goes past it. A stone wall runs right round it - battlemented, which is more wall than apples need - with one gateway in the south side where a track turns in off the lane. Inside, the trees stand in rows, because somebody planted them and somebody still prunes them: round green crowns in the west half, and in the east half the old pink-blossoming ones that came with the place. The track goes from the gate straight up the middle, between the two halves, to the keeper's hut under the north wall. Tubs of fruit have been left along it for collecting. Outside the wall nothing is in rows at all.
2 · How to show it
- Walled: a closed rectangle of stone with exactly one opening in it. The opening is where the track is and nowhere else.
- Planted: the trees inside are on a grid, same kind, same spacing. Rows are the one thing the other maps are told to avoid, which is why they mean something here.
- Still worked: fruit in tubs on the track, a hut with the track ending at its door.
- Two ages: green west half, pink east half, and one big old three-crowned blossom tree in the north-east corner that fits no row.
- Inside is not outside: beyond the wall the trees are wild kinds at no spacing.
3 · What it needs
- a stone wall as pieces: run, corner, end, and the wall seen end-on
- a small tidy tree, many times
- a blossom tree, many times
- a hut
- tubs of fruit
- a track and a lane of bare earth
- a barrel by the hut
- a clay well
- wild trees outside
- a boulder
- Not in the pack: A gate. The opening is a gap: the wall kit has no gate leaf and no arch. On its west side the wall steps down to a finished end; on its east side it starts with a post. The kit has no mirrored end piece, so the two jambs do not match.
- Not in the pack: A tidy top corner. The corner pieces are drawn for the BOTTOM of an enclosure, with the post running on upward into the next square. Used at the top there is no next square, and the post stops flat with no cap. Four pixels, and it is on both top corners.
- Not in the pack: Fruit on the trees. The round tree is plain green; "orchard" is said by the rows and by the tubs.
- Not in the pack: Ladders, hives, a cider press, windfalls in the grass.
4 · The arrangement
A box with a spine. The wall is the box. The track is the spine, from the gate in the middle of the south side to the hut in the middle of the north side, and it splits the inside into two equal blocks of trees. The lane runs along outside the south wall and the track is a branch off it. Outside the box the arrangement is deliberately none.
5 · What that means in (x, y)
40 x 30 squares. The wall is the rectangle cols 5-34, rows 4-23: thirty squares by twenty. Its north and south sides are runs of wall squares between two corner pieces; its east and west sides are columns of the end-on piece. The gateway is cols 18-21 of the south side. The track is cols 19-20, rows 8-25, and the lane is rows 26-27 across the whole map. The hut is at cols 19-20, rows 5-7, so its door row meets the top of the track. Orchard trees are two squares wide and stand on rows 8, 11, 14, 17 and 20 - three rows apart, a crown being two rows tall - at cols 7, 10, 13, 16 in the west block and 23, 26, 29, 32 in the east. The north-east corner of the east block is given to one big blossom tree instead of two small ones.
7 · What it looks like
Read this against the paragraph at the top. That comparison is the only check that catches a map which is perfectly valid and is of nowhere.
6 · What was actually written
The same two grids as flat colour — earth, grass, and a block for every footprint. Anything in the render that is not here, the translation invented.
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What is in it
| 50 | wall | prop wall stone |
| 36 | wall_post | prop wall stone |
| 20 | tree_round | tree living orchard |
| 18 | tree_blossom | tree living blossom |
| 8 | tree_small | tree living small |
| 7 | tree_pine | tree living conifer large |
| 6 | tree_green | tree living broadleaf large |
| 5 | tree_small_dark | tree living small conifer |
| 4 | basket_apples | prop goods market fruit |
| 3 | wall_corner_w | prop wall stone |
| 2 | wall_corner_e | prop wall stone |
| 1 | hut_clay | building ruin clay doorway |
| 1 | well_clay | prop well clay landmark |
| 1 | barrel | prop goods barrel |
| 1 | trees_blossom | tree living blossom pair |
| 1 | boulder | prop rock large |
| 1 | wall_end | prop wall stone |