Day one: engineer (Dominion), strict mode, 2026-10-24

A headless client created a new character through the real protocol and played it from its starting zone towards level 15: quests, combat with the class's abilities, loot, equipment, public events and path missions. Every server packet was checked by the game client's own message parser. Synthetic data from a test run; see docs/research/2026-10-11-day-one.md for the method.

Commit fd69f22f
Race human
Start veteran
Result stopped, level 12 of 15
Runtime 14439.7 s (budget 14400 s)
Quests 119 completed of 122 attempted
Deaths 11

Reproduce

DAY_ONE_CLASSES=engineer DAY_ONE_FACTION=dominion DAY_ONE_MODES=strict DAY_ONE_TIME_BUDGET=14400 DAY_ONE_TARGET_LEVEL=15 mix test test/e2e/day_one_test.exs --include day_one

Levels over time

Level At (s)
3 8.6
4 913.2
5 2762.7
6 4344.4
7 5464.8
8 6612.4
9 8420.5
10 10250.1
11 11513.0
12 14247.7

Quests

Quest Title Level State Accepted (s) Completed (s) Took (s)
6780 Lighting the Way 3 completed 12.9 158.2 145.3
5856 Find Artemis Zin 3 completed 158.7 319.4 160.7
5857 Eldan Insecurity 3 completed 319.9 424.1 104.2
5867 Rerouting Power 3 completed 424.7 565.2 140.5
5868 Enter the Station 3 completed 565.8 622.9 57.1
6789 Introduction to the Caretaker 3 completed 623.5 624.9 1.4
6142 What Is Dead May Never Spy 3 completed 626.0 656.8 30.8
6171 Stand and Deliver 3 completed 683.0 708.0 25.0
8963 Eldan Transmitter 3 completed 744.1 744.7 0.6
10140 The Cube of Knowledge 3 completed 792.2 792.7 0.6
5858 Eldan Excavation 3 completed 810.3 913.0 102.8
8967 The Wealthy Bones 3 completed 914.5 915.1 0.6
5859 Seizing Control 4 completed 916.2 1207.2 291.0
5860 Automated Repairs 4 completed 1208.0 1361.5 153.5
5959 The Key to Power 4 completed 1362.0 1691.0 329.0
5861 Unlocking Knowledge 4 completed 1691.6 1692.4 0.8
8826 The Elder Cube 4 completed 1693.0 1694.6 1.7
5960 Skeech Incursion 4 completed 1695.7 1932.2 236.5
5865 Lost in the Fog 5 accepted 1933.6
5864 Unwelcome Guests 5 completed 2136.0 2350.6 214.5
8964 Girrok Ate My Status Report 5 completed 2367.8 2387.4 19.6
9165 The Amenities of Lightreach 5 completed 3483.4 3617.6 134.2
6602 First Impressions 6 completed 3625.5 3644.7 19.2
6603 Lightreach Mission 6 completed 3645.3 4251.0 605.7
6607 Heightened Security 6 completed 3659.9 3840.7 180.8
6608 Building Up the Mission 6 completed 3852.3 4182.1 329.8
6609 Mysteries from the Lake 6 completed 4194.6 4240.8 46.2
6604 Vigilance 6 completed 4256.0 4344.4 88.4
6605 Against All Odds 6 completed 4345.0 4454.9 109.9
6606 Recognition of Faith 6 completed 4469.7 4580.1 110.3
10069 Support Training: Tanking 6 completed 4625.8 4656.3 30.5
6785 Boon of Hydris 6 completed 4683.1 4705.4 22.3
6610 Glitterfur Assistance 6 completed 4706.6 4928.7 222.1
6611 Hunter and Shiny Gatherer 6 completed 4948.1 5008.7 60.7
9453 Venture into Deradune! 6 completed 5009.9 5011.3 1.3
3165 Bloodrush 6 completed 5011.9 5207.4 195.5
3167 Scent of Blood 6 completed 5229.4 5347.6 118.2
3170 Blood for Blood 6 completed 5348.2 5380.4 32.1
9875 Bloodfire Village Amenities 6 completed 5406.9 5464.8 57.9
3395 A Skull Without a Home 6 completed 5468.9 5476.9 8.0
3320 The Bloodfeast 6 completed 5477.6 5482.6 5.1
5796 Enhanced Interrogation 6 completed 5489.8 5497.7 7.8
5600 The Watchers of Deradune 6 completed 5513.2 5538.3 25.1
10126 Expedition: They Came from Fragment Zero! 6 completed 5557.1 5559.7 2.6
3295 Survival of the Fittest 6 completed 5583.0 5614.6 31.6
5420 Fights of Passage 6 completed 5651.0 5653.8 2.8
3177 Garr Wrestler 6 completed 5672.1 5868.9 196.8
3297 Eaten! 7 completed 5875.6 5949.7 74.2
3316 Blasphemous Moodies 7 completed 5975.7 6018.0 42.4
3302 Mojo Moodies 7 completed 6018.6 6293.4 274.8
3304 Tamolo's Necromojo 7 completed 6294.0 6406.4 112.4
5799 The Staff and the Shaman 7 completed 6407.2 6449.9 42.7
5444 Explosive Mammodin 7 completed 6494.3 6557.1 62.8
3179 Totem Raider 7 completed 6566.2 6612.4 46.2
6334 Surface-to-Air 7 completed 6669.9 6722.5 52.6
6485 Unstable Accelerite 7 completed 6796.7 6866.9 70.2
6593 Spirits To Tend 7 completed 6903.3 6956.1 52.7
6592 Mouths To Feed 7 completed 6961.7 7156.6 194.8
6594 Hearts To Grow 7 completed 7170.3 7202.8 32.5
6779 No Refunds 7 completed 7237.5 7251.7 14.2
6601 Veggie Launcher 7 completed 7252.3 7297.6 45.3
6807 Before the Storm 7 completed 7348.3 7360.6 12.3
6587 All In Good Faith 7 completed 7361.2 7453.9 92.7
6588 Fair Trade 7 completed 7454.6 7627.4 172.8
6589 Treacherous Territory 7 completed 7683.2 7685.1 2.0
6590 The Cruel and the Credulous 7 completed 7685.8 7784.5 98.7
6591 The Face of Justice 7 completed 7785.1 7864.1 79.1
6600 The Weight of Victory 7 completed 7888.1 7888.7 0.6
6584 Tracking Mistclaw 8 completed 7905.0 7989.4 84.4
6582 Dangerous Highlands 8 completed 7990.2 8260.5 270.3
6583 The Tooth that Bites Last 8 completed 8262.1 8341.1 79.0
6581 Better Than This 8 completed 8343.1 8420.2 77.1
6599 Shrine of the Masters 8 completed 8452.2 8452.8 0.6
6575 A Healing Hand 8 completed 8454.0 8575.7 121.8
6577 Unfortunate Force 8 accepted 8577.2
6576 The Storm's Power 8 completed 8577.8 8766.2 188.4
6580 More than Clay Jars 8 completed 8768.5 8882.9 114.3
6579 Fragments are Better than Nothing 8 completed 8885.8 9034.9 149.1
5501 Dark Moodie Magic 8 completed 9036.1 9043.7 7.6
3369 Clanlord Makaza 8 completed 9054.7 9072.8 18.1
5943 Scout Jagged Rock 8 completed 9073.5 9136.7 63.3
5606 Soften Them Up 8 completed 9137.3 9383.8 246.5
5607 Capture the Mercenary 8 completed 9384.5 9433.9 49.5
5608 What's Mine is Mine 8 completed 9459.9 9548.4 88.5
3163 A Captive Audience 8 completed 9574.6 9579.6 5.1
3347 Arrival of the Luminai 8 completed 9580.2 9591.5 11.2
3162 Communications Blackout 8 completed 9602.6 9606.3 3.7
3160 Cornered Prey 8 completed 9606.9 9676.7 69.8
3507 Chua Troubles 9 completed 9711.6 9712.8 1.2
5692 Terminite Containment 9 completed 9716.1 9744.2 28.1
5714 Turn Up the Heat 9 completed 9744.8 10017.2 272.4
5758 Mitey Infestation 9 completed 10018.6 10250.1 231.5
5752 Breaking Eggs 9 completed 10252.8 10329.7 76.9
5751 Venom Sacs 9 completed 10330.3 10563.9 233.6
5697 When the Gooing Gets Tough 9 completed 10578.7 10634.4 55.6
5693 Into the Lab Below 9 completed 10660.1 10713.7 53.6
5698 Terminite Tissue Trial 9 completed 10714.4 10930.8 216.3
5694 Fragments of the Past 9 completed 10957.3 11029.8 72.6
5695 Powering the Fail-Safe 9 completed 11030.4 11116.6 86.1
5696 Terminated! 9 completed 11117.2 11188.0 70.8
5625 Small Modifications 9 completed 11189.4 11344.2 154.8
5626 The Carnivorizor 9 completed 11344.9 11390.2 45.3
5627 Rogue Razortails 9 completed 11391.0 11425.6 34.6
5628 Huge Success! 9 completed 11426.2 11512.8 86.7
7016 9 completed 11570.2 11606.6 36.4
6890 Lost In The Woods 9 completed 11607.8 11685.9 78.0
6887 Out For Lunch 9 completed 11686.5 11737.9 51.4
6888 Kill Them All... for Science 9 completed 11747.3 12146.3 399.0
6891 Bug Zapper 9 completed 12147.2 12167.1 19.9
6892 Pincer Business 9 completed 12167.9 12191.1 23.3
6889 Better, Faster, Stronger 9 completed 12191.7 12292.9 101.1
6597 Raving Ravenok 9 completed 12306.0 12388.7 82.7
6598 A Bad Snog 9 completed 12408.9 12916.7 507.8
6893 Egg-Septional Coordination 9 completed 12959.2 13028.7 69.6
6908 Exciting Discoveries 10 completed 13058.8 13105.3 46.5
6910 The Datacube Tells All 10 completed 13106.0 13462.4 356.4
6911 Creepy Origins 10 completed 13463.0 13547.3 84.3
6912 Lost in Translation 10 completed 13547.9 13702.1 154.1
6913 Seeing is Believing 10 completed 13702.7 13910.2 207.5
6916 Ultrasonic Barriers 10 completed 13916.0 14160.5 244.5
6914 Security Protocol 10 completed 14161.2 14330.3 169.1
6915 Antiquities Below the Soil 10 achieved 14332.7

Blockers

Kind Times Quest Cause Detail Issue
objective_stuck 1 5865 Lost in the Fog the objective didn't advance in three tries activate [26417]; objective text: "Sabotage Exile Drop Pod Landing Beacons"; progress 1/3 after 3 attempts (0 s last)
event_not_started 1 a public event didn't start on arrival public event 163 (The Iron Sentry (Levian Bay, Greyshore)) didn't start on arrival: its units alive within the radius [25992] (of [25992]); events in the zone %{}
path_mission_stuck 1 a path mission wasn't completed path mission 1261 (type 0, object 183) not completed
path_mission_stuck 1 a path mission wasn't completed path mission 1356 (type 0, object 207) not completed
path_mission_stuck 1 a path mission wasn't completed path mission 1361 (type 0, object 208) not completed
equip_refused 1 an equipment move was refused item 16572 (bag 6) to equipped slot 17: ServerItemError 720000000000000023000000
objective_stuck 1 6577 Unfortunate Force the objective didn't advance in three tries kill []; objective text: "Kill Stormseeker Pell"; progress 0/1000 after 3 attempts (0 s last)

Counters

  • action_set_dead_retry: 1
  • action_set_in_combat: 1
  • action_set_updates: 7
  • activations: 245
  • amps_taken: 9
  • bags_equipped: 2
  • bags_full: 30
  • cast_refused_0x33: 63
  • cast_refused_0xD: 79
  • casts: 2422
  • client_packets_received: 285309
  • combat_log_entries: 10707
  • csi_answered: 31
  • deaths: 11
  • doors: 42
  • equipped_upgrades: 13
  • events_not_started: 1
  • fight_notes: 5
  • fight_seconds: 2813
  • fight_secs_futile: 20
  • fight_secs_goal: 13
  • fight_secs_killed: 2600
  • fight_secs_timeout: 180
  • fights_futile: 2
  • fights_goal: 2
  • fights_killed: 311
  • fights_timeout: 3
  • fights_unfinished: 7
  • group_quests_skipped: 9
  • holdouts_ended: 9
  • holocrypt_wakes: 6
  • items_discarded: 160
  • items_sold: 58
  • junk_deleted: 114
  • kills: 311
  • loot_granted: 612
  • loot_offered: 616
  • objective_attempts: 202
  • path_missions_tried: 3
  • position_resyncs: 1
  • quest_abilities_granted: 3
  • quest_abilities_removed: 3
  • quest_ability_casts: 8
  • quests_completed: 119
  • repairs: 1
  • repairs_refused: 1
  • retreats: 5
  • server_warnings_by_tag: {'Ability': 2, 'Repair': 1, 'Terrain': 2, 'ZoneMap': 2}
  • spells_started: 12740
  • teleports: 45
  • time_combat_s: 2960
  • time_dialog_s: 82
  • time_housekeeping_s: 45
  • time_loot_s: 264
  • time_overhead_s: 335
  • time_pump_s: 14261
  • time_recover_s: 642
  • time_side_s: 126
  • time_stuck_s: 36
  • time_travel_s: 9318
  • time_using_s: 667
  • training_room_entries: 1
  • turn_in_room_made: 0
  • vacuums: 304
  • xp_kill: 11066
  • xp_kill_events: 318
  • xp_other: 76
  • xp_quest: 31526
  • xp_rest_bonus: 0
  • zone_changes: 246

Follow-up findings (bot revision 9 follow-up, commit 9)

  • Rests stopped at cap_90_s: 0; of them under 5% health gained: 0. "rest stalled:" notes: 0.
  • Quests watched for this batch: 3777 not taken, 4982 not taken, 4944 not taken, 4743 not taken, 4951 not taken, 3769 not taken.
  • Holdouts (attempt results, in order): 1261: {:failed, 6} / {:failed, 5} / {:failed, 6}; 1356: {:failed, 6} / {:failed, 5} / {:failed, 6}; 1361: {:failed, 6} / {:failed, 5} / {:failed, 6}.
  • Final level 12, deaths 11, time_recover_s 642.
  • Blockers: objective_stuck q5865 o8995; event_not_started qNone oNone; path_mission_stuck qNone oNone; path_mission_stuck qNone oNone; path_mission_stuck qNone oNone; equip_refused qNone oNone; objective_stuck q6577 o10262.