███████╗██████╗  █████╗  ██████╗████████╗██╗   ██╗██████╗ ███████╗
       ██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝╚══██╔══╝██║   ██║██╔══██╗██╔════╝
       █████╗  ██████╔╝███████║██║        ██║   ██║   ██║██████╔╝█████╗
       ██╔══╝  ██╔══██╗██╔══██║██║        ██║   ██║   ██║██╔══██╗██╔══╝
       ██║     ██║  ██║██║  ██║╚██████╗   ██║   ╚██████╔╝██║  ██║███████╗
       ╚═╝     ╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═╝ ╚═════╝   ╚═╝    ╚═════╝ ╚═╝  ╚═╝╚══════╝

A living world rebuilt every day. Compete to leave your mark before it vanishes.

A persistent, multiplayer exploration and survival-strategy door game for The Major BBS v10.

By Sysop Network — https://github.com/SysopNetwork/Fracture

📋 See what's new in v1.0.0 → · 🛠️ Technical reference →

---

Players log in daily, spend a limited pool of Action Points to explore a tile map, build and upgrade a camp, gather resources, research technology, and compete to become the most famous explorer on the server — in a world that changes a little every midnight. Sessions are short (5–10 minutes), fun solo, and better with a crowd.

✨ Features

	Feature	Description
⏳	Daily Action Points	Every meaningful action (travel, search, build, research, raid) spends Action Points, so sessions stay quick
🌍	A World That Evolves	At midnight a configurable share of unexplored tiles is regenerated; charted ground and player camps are always preserved
🧭	First Discoveries	Charting a tile first earns Fame and a permanent entry in the server chronicle
🏕️	Camp Building	Grow your home base from a Tent to a Citadel; each tier raises storage and houses a larger crew
👷	Workers & Production	Recruit NPC workers who gather resources on their own each day, fed on Food and scaled by the weather
🔬	Research Track	A five-tier knowledge ladder that permanently raises gather yields and cheapens travel
💱	Trading Post	A server-wide exchange: sell resources for Fame and buy them back, with scarcity-weighted prices
⚔️	Player Raiding	Challenge a rival's camp and carry off a share of their stores; newcomers still in a Tent are protected
🏆	Fame Leaderboard	Ranking is driven by what you discover and build, not by grinding combat
📰	Daily News	The chronicle of discoveries and builds greets every player on entry
🌦️	Weather & Seasons	Daily weather and a rotating season cycle that affect production
🖥️	ANSI Interface	80×24, keyboard-driven, shaded block-art screens that run well over Telnet
📝	Editable Text	Every dynamic value is a named text variable, so sysops can reword any screen freely
🛡️	Sysop Tools	Hidden in-game player editor, Action Point control, and full game reset (SYSOP key only)
⚙️	Highly Configurable	27 options cover world size, Action Points, regeneration, weather, workers, prices and raiding — every major system has an on/off switch

---

🚀 Installation

Requirements

• The Major BBS v10
• A free slot in the Menu Tree to add the module

Install a release

1. Download the latest release zip and extract it.
2. With the BBS shut down (the host locks module DLLs while running), copy FRACTURE.DLL, FRACTURE.MDF and FRACTURE.MSG into your Major BBS v10 directory.
3. Run the Menu Tree Editor and add Fracture to your menu.
4. Start the system and enter the module.

No data files ship with the release — Fracture creates its Btrieve files on first run, and the host compiles FRACTURE.MSG to FRACTURE.MCV at startup.

Upgrading

Shut the BBS down and copy the new FRACTURE.DLL, FRACTURE.MDF and FRACTURE.MSG over the old ones. Your players, world and chronicle live in the FRAC*.DAT files and are kept. If you have customized option values or message text, re-apply them after replacing FRACTURE.MSG.

---

⚙️ Configuration

Every option lives in the standard MBBS configuration editor under Fracture: configurable options. Full details are in TECHNICAL.MD.

🌍 World & Action Points

Option	Description	Default	Range
WELCOPT	Greet players at logon	YES	Y/N
DAYAP	Action Points granted per player per day	20	1–200
APFREE	Refill Action Points on every entry (casual/test mode)	NO	Y/N
WLDSIZ	World size, tiles per edge	40	8–64
REGENPCT	Unexplored tiles regenerated each midnight (%) — 0 freezes the world	5	0–100
TRAVAP	Base Action Points to travel one tile	1	1–20
SRCHAP	Action Points to search a tile	1	1–20
FAMEDISC	Greatest Fame for a first discovery (the roll's floor is 40% of it)	20	1–500
FAMEBLD	Fame per camp tier reached when building	10	0–500

🌦️ Weather & Seasons

Option	Description	Default	Range
WXOPT	Enable weather and seasons	YES	Y/N
SEASLEN	Days per season	7	1–90

👷 Workers

Option	Description	Default	Range
WRKOPT	Enable workers and production	YES	Y/N
WRKPROD	Resource units produced per worker per day	2	0–50
WRKFOOD	Food eaten per worker per day	1	0–50
WRKCWOOD	Wood cost to recruit a worker	8	0–200
WRKCFOOD	Food cost to recruit a worker	4	0–200

💱 Trading Post & Research

Option	Description	Default	Range
MKTOPT	Enable the trading post	YES	Y/N
MKTSELL	Fame earned per resource unit sold	2	0–100
MKTBUY	Fame charged per resource unit bought	3	0–100
RSCHOPT	Enable the research track	YES	Y/N

⚔️ Raiding

Option	Description	Default	Range
RADOPT	Enable player raiding	YES	Y/N
RADCOST	Action Points per raid	5	0–200
RADLOOT	Percent of resources looted on a winning raid	25	0–100
RADFAME	Fame for winning a raid	5	0–100
RADMIN	Camp tier required to raid or be raided (0 Tent … 5 Citadel)	1	0–5

📰 News & Leaderboard

Option	Description	Default	Range
NEWSMAX	Chronicle entries the news view shows	12	1–20
BRDMAX	Rows on the Fame leaderboard	15	3–20

📝 Message text

The screens live in FRACTURE.MSG under Fracture: module text and can be reworded in the configuration editor. Dynamic values appear as named text variables (FRA_FAME, FRA_TARGET, FRA_WX, …) that may be moved, repeated or dropped freely — the module never depends on their order.

---

🛡️ Sysop Tools

A hidden ! command at the main prompt is available only to users holding the BBS SYSOP key, and is invisible to everyone else:

Command	Action
! find <name>	Inspect a player record
! set <name> <field> <value>	Edit a player's fields
! ap <name|ALL> <n>	Set Action Points for one player or everyone
! wipe <name> YES	Delete a player
! reset CONFIRM	Wipe all players, regenerate the world and clear the news

Destructive commands require their literal confirmation token.

---

🔨 Building from Source

Fracture is a Win32 (x86) C DLL built with Visual Studio 2022 (toolset v143) against The Major BBS v10 Module SDK. Copy MBBSSDK.props.example to MBBSSDK.props, point it at your SDK, then:

MSBuild.exe Fracture.sln -p:Configuration=Release -p:Platform=Win32

x86 only — never x64. The Major BBS v10 host is 32-bit and will not load a 64-bit module.

See BUILDING.MD for prerequisites, packaging and deployment.

---

📁 Architecture

Fracture/
├── SRC/FRACTURE/
│   ├── FRACTURE.C/.H      # Module lifecycle, menu dispatch, command parsing, options
│   ├── PLAYER.C/.H        # Player records, daily Action Point reset, leaderboard
│   ├── WORLD.C/.H         # Tile world: generation, travel, charting, minimap, regeneration
│   ├── RESOURCE.C/.H      # The five materials and per-terrain gather yields
│   ├── CAMP.C/.H          # Camp tiers, storage caps, upgrades
│   ├── HISTORY.C/.H       # Server chronicle and the daily news view
│   ├── WEATHER.C/.H       # Weather conditions and the season cycle
│   ├── WORKER.C/.H        # NPC worker crews and passive production
│   ├── MARKET.C/.H        # Trading post (resources <-> Fame)
│   ├── RESEARCH.C/.H      # Five-tier research track
│   ├── RAID.C/.H          # Player raiding
│   ├── SYSOP.C/.H         # Hidden in-game sysop tools
│   ├── TVARS.C/.H         # Named text variables (FRA_*)
│   ├── FRACTURE.MSG       # Message/option source (generated by TOOLS/GENMSG.PY)
│   ├── FRACTURE.MDF       # Module definition file
│   └── FRACTURE.rc        # Windows version resource
├── TOOLS/
│   ├── GENMSG.PY          # Generates FRACTURE.MSG (block-art screens, CP437)
│   ├── BBSTEST.PY         # Telnet smoke test against a running BBS
│   ├── BBSFUZZ.PY         # Parser fuzzing and multi-account raid test
│   ├── STAT.PY            # Read-only status dump for the test accounts
│   └── BBSTEST.INI.EXAMPLE
├── DIST/1.0.0/            # Deployable release files
├── TECHNICAL.MD           # Technical reference
├── BUILDING.MD            # Build, package and deploy guide
├── CHANGELOG.MD           # Release notes
├── MBBSSDK.props.example  # SDK path template
└── Fracture.sln

Game state is stored in Btrieve files through the DFA API, one per system: FRACTURE.DAT (players), FRACWLD.DAT (world tiles), FRACHIST.DAT (chronicle), FRACWX.DAT (weather) and FRACWRK.DAT (workers).

---

🏆 Credits

Fracture is developed and maintained by Mark Laudenbach at Sysop Network.

---

💖 Tips / Donations

• Cash App: $laudenbachm
• Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/laudenbachm

---

📄 License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Sysop Network