world.ptah.location

A place inside a world. Where things happen. Locations nest infinitely — a room inside a building inside a city inside a territory.

Repository @ptah.world did:plc:l45z35sxxjuobp5q65a5vu22 namespace authority
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Kindrecord
Record keytid
Authorityptah.world
Indexed

Record

record · key tid

Properties

The canonical standing of this location

  • knownValues: world.ptah.defs#canonicalStatusOfficial | world.ptah.defs#canonicalStatusCommunity | world.ptah.defs#canonicalStatusApocryphal

createdAt

requiredstring · datetime

Timestamp when this location was created

creatorDID

requiredstring · did

The permanent identity of the location's creator

depthIndex

integer

Nesting depth — 0 for top-level, incrementing for each level down

  • minimum: 0

What this location is like

  • maxLength: 10240
  • maxGraphemes: 1024

Additional structured properties for this location

The type of location

  • knownValues: territory | city | building | room | landmark | wilderness | vessel | virtual

name

requiredstring

The name of the location

  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64

parentLocation

string · at-uri

Reference to the parent location (if nested)

worldReference

requiredstring · at-uri

Reference to the world this location exists in

#locationProperties

object

Structured metadata for locations

Properties

climate

string
  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64
  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64
  • maxLength: 2560
  • maxGraphemes: 256
  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64

Similar lexicons

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Lexicons whose schemas describe something close to this one. Check them before publishing a new one that overlaps.

  • A location record in The Ptah Protocol. A place inside a world — what gives events and actions an address. Without it, things happen in the world but they happen nowhere specific. With it, history accumulates in places and places develop gravity over time.

  • A Location in a Stuff Trove: a place Things are kept, in a tree of Locations, or the inside of a container Thing.

  • The foundational record. Everything else references it. A world must exist before characters, events, or logs can exist inside it.

  • A world record in The Ptah Protocol. The foundational record — everything else references it. A world must exist before characters, events, or lore can exist inside it.

  • A location reference