r/alife

Quick recap for anyone following: the last run with three avatars held steady for 11,557 ticks without collapsing (logs, statistics, etc in repo). Since then I’ve pushed things further. Now six avatars are running at the same time, already past 5,000 continuous ticks and still stable. I added five zones, home bonding, and social memory. Still no hardcoded, no LLMs, just hormones, fatigue, trauma, and memory driving the system.

Reading the logs in plain text is hilarious. The avatars’ intentions shift with their mood. One moment they’re social, then they hit a stress threshold and retreat home. The behavior is getting more interesting. They avoid zones that hurt them and remember other avatars. One developed chronic high cortisol after too many conflicts, so it’s constantly on edge. Another seeks sanctuary whenever fatigue builds up.

The map is small at 100x100, so movement looks tight. If I scale it up they’ll explore further, but the underlying logic stays the same.

repo:

https://github.com/eionic/eionic-garden/

PS: I'm a solo dev, building all of this on a half‑broken laptop. So if anyone thinks the experiment is hardcore, trust me… it's not just the simulation, it's the hardware too 😂