Glossary

Terms used across the mods, defined once.

Every term here is also available in any page as a hover definition: write [[quest]].

Canvascanvas#: The pannable, zoomable surface quests are drawn on. A quest's x/y are its position on it, in canvas units rather than pixels, so the layout survives a window resize.
Chapterchapter#: A row of related quests on the canvas, with its own icon and its own progression rules. Belongs to exactly one chapter group.
Chapter groupchapter-group#: A named set of chapters — usually a technology or a tier. The outermost grouping in a quest file, and the only one a file may contain several of.
Declared pathdeclared-path#: A folder whose contents the mod reads by name rather than by scanning, so a stray file cannot be mistaken for content. A path segment beginning with an underscore is skipped by convention.
Exclusive groupexclusive-group#: A name shared by quests that are mutually exclusive. Completing one locks the others, permanently. Used for branching paths where the player chooses.
Frameframe#: A chapter's bounding rectangle on the canvas, computed from the quests inside it plus padding. Never authored — the book works it out.
Progression modeprogression-mode#: How a chapter or a quest group unlocks: LINEAR unlocks one at a time in order, FLEXIBLE unlocks everything available.
Questquest#: One objective with a title, an icon, a position on the canvas, and the tasks that complete it. The unit a player sees and ticks off.
Rewardreward#: What a quest gives on completion: items, experience, a command, or a loot crate. Separate from tasks, and evaluated only once.See alsoTask
Tasktask#: One thing a quest asks for — items, a kill count, a dimension reached. A quest has several; all of them must be done unless minRequired says otherwise.See alsoReward
Validatorvalidator#: The pass that reads a quest file before anything tries to decode it. It reports file, line and column, and a file that fails is skipped rather than fatal — the other files still load.