Outbreak conditions and the director

Explanatory diagram based on the cited report; not an in-game interface or a spatial construction plan.

Regional eligibility

The October 23 source adds outbreak systems absent from the older October 5 JAR inventory. Default system seeding chance is 12% excluding Hearth, with additional planet/settlement eligibility and origin rolls. Regions are 32×32 chunks. Burden and clocks advance only while a player is present; pending exposure can activate later. The server spreads the work across updates; a region’s progress is tied to active player presence.

Six conditions

Blackwire and Foldscar do not create player biological infection records. Six conditions therefore mean four infections. Compounds and specialists do not add extra disease types.

Burden phases are Trace below 10, Emerging at 10, Established at 30, Severe at 60 and Critical at 90. Host/environment factors and source growth/decay/spread vary by condition.

Director and false signals

The director cycles quiet → warning → assault → recovery. Default budgets allow 20 enemies for one participant, eight more for each additional participant, with regional cap 60 and global cap 160. Presence, noise, sources and spawn rules affect an assault; a budget is not a guaranteed wave size.

Signal Mimics and the Foreman can produce false service signs. Approach or scan to expose them; diagnosis and exposed signals persist per player. The 33 roster entries share 26 entity IDs, including afflicted variants, infected wildlife, compounds and rare bosses. Weight zero can mean a special entry path rather than missing content; the enemy roster preserves those distinctions (discovery spoilers).

Meridian Quarantine is an authored scenario requiring explicit application or the server’s scenario settings, not an active default world state. Continue with health and treatment and S1–S6 recovery.