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The template shipped the declared-version release engine the reference module has just abandoned: publish when a push to `main` leaves `module.json` at a version with no release yet. Both flavours of the workflow move to the engine `link`, `installer` and now Module-uo run - feat!/BREAKING CHANGE -> major, feat -> minor, fix|perf -> patch - with `module.json` kept as a floor and a `workflow_dispatch` backdoor for a manifest change with no releasable code behind it. The tag is the number that ships, and the job writes it into the `module.json` inside the bundle. The chapter keeps the declared model in view rather than deleting it, because the reason it was abandoned is the part a reader needs: its cost is paid on every release, and the drift it prevents is something review catches anyway. A week of merged work in the reference module produced no bundle at all. Also carried over from the same pass: a tag pushed without a release behind it is recovered instead of standing down forever, and the changelog moved into the plan step (so assemble clears `$OUT`, not `dist/`). Kept: the `# CHANGE THESE` banner, the exclusion list from the acceptance run's F4, and the GitHub twin's `MODULE_SOURCE_HOSTS` note. checkLinks, checkRenameSites and checkChapterPaths pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The book
Four chapters, in the order the work happens.
Read the dry run before any of them — a complete module designed on paper for a second game, and the shortest honest picture of the whole job.
| # | Chapter | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your first module in twenty minutes | Copy the template, rename it, build it, install it, see a page. No theory. |
| 2 | The website module | The bulk of the work: module.json, register(ctx, api), the schema fragment, the client chunk, packaging, and what a module must never do. |
| 3 | The sidecar | Why the website never talks to a game server, what "persist before you forward" means, and what a thin sidecar is. |
| 4 | The game-side plugin | The least code and the highest stakes: never block the game thread. |
Chapters 1 and 2 quote template/, which CI builds against a pinned core, so their
code is a tree that is proved rather than prose that looks like one. Chapters 3 and
4 cite uo-link and servuo-plugins by file and identifier rather than by line, on
purpose: those repositories move for their own reasons and a line number in a book
is wrong the moment they do.
What is normative, and what is here
Nothing in these chapters is. Where a chapter and one of these disagree, the document is right and the chapter has a bug — say so:
| Authority | For |
|---|---|
MODULE_API.md |
Everything a module may do. |
MODULE_SYSTEM.md |
Why the module system is shaped this way, and how a module is installed and removed. |
link/PLAN.md + INTEGRATION.md |
The game↔sidecar wire protocol, as one real sidecar implements it. |
The chapters teach: the order to do things in, the reasoning, and the mistakes that cost this project time.