WorldTile.health is not terrain height

❌ Failed approach TerraForge 0.0.5

WorldTile.health is not terrain height

During an early TerraForge height-storage search, automatic reflection matching selected WorldTile.health as a candidate.

It looked plausible enough to test.

It was wrong.

What happened

TerraForge wrote generated values into WorldTile.health.

The values changed, but terrain height did not.

This is a useful example of a dangerous reflection pattern:

“numeric field with a plausible name” is not evidence of semantic meaning.

What replaced it

A dedicated height-storage probe later confirmed:

WorldTile.Height
WorldTile.data.height

as the real terrain-height storage in the tested build.

Rule extracted from the failure

When discovering unknown game internals with reflection:

1. find candidates;
2. do not promote the first match to a fact;
3. write a minimal reversible probe;
4. verify a visible or measurable behavioral effect;
5. log the exact tested member;
6. only then document it as Verified.

This graveyard entry exists because the incorrect route is exactly the kind of mistake another modder — or an AI assistant — could repeat.