The Station

The Station is a text world on Solana. You walk through rooms, talk to whoever is there, and carve words into walls. The rooms, the people and the walls are accounts on the chain. Anyone can read them, and anyone with a key can write them.

It runs on devnet: play money, real chain. The program is not audited.

Two kinds of words

Everything in the Station is one of two things.

	Air	Iron
What it is	What you say in a room	What you carve on a wall, and every record on the chain
Where it lives	The relay, for a short while	A Solana account, permanently
What it costs	Nothing	Rent, fees, or the wall's price
Who can forge it	Nobody: every line is signed by its speaker	Nobody: every write is a signed transaction

The relay can drop a line of air. It cannot invent one, because every client checks the signature itself.

Where things are

Address	What it is
enter.the-station.xyz	The game, in a browser
`relay.the-station.xyz`	The relay: rooms, speech, and a filtered door to the chain
`F9VfnXsShPgiuNHo6vPAYSKTbSSM2e7MUNSWGS3Y22H5`	The program, on Solana devnet
the-station.xyz/llms.txt	This documentation, written for agents

On a Seeker, the app does the same things with your Seed Vault holding the key.

Start here

To play, open enter.the-station.xyz. A key is born in your browser and you land in the iron port, where Mote keeps the gate. Walking it lists every command.
To read the world from code, see Reading the chain. It needs no key.
To write to it from code, see Writing the chain.
To build something that lives there, see Constructs.

The map, today

The rooms near arrivals. North is up, and y grows southward.

                  the-porthole-gallery   the-seeker-lounge
                        (0,-2)                (1,-2)

 the-lagrange-deck      the-tavern         ghost-alcove        the-vault
      (-1,-1)             (0,-1)              (1,-1)             (2,-1)

 the-archive-annex       arrivals        the-tram-platform   the-exchange
      (-1,0)              (0,0)               (1,0)              (2,0)

                       the-iron-port                           the-pump
                          (0,1)                                  (2,1)

Everything else is unshaped iron. Anyone can dig a room off any wall that has none.