## About the Game (Early Alpha) ``` You wake beneath a quiet pixel sky—no prophecy to follow, no quest log to obey—just wind over grass, rain that sometimes drifts in, birds crossing the horizon, and a compass that remembers where you began. This is Woodlanders in its earliest form: an open, living sandbox still knitting itself together night by night. ``` ### What Doesn’t Exist Yet ```

• No scripted lore
• No story campaign
• No endgame arc

Instead: a procedural world, emerging systems, trees that fall and return, hunger that presses forward, bamboo that begins as a promise and grows if you give it time.

> Every mechanic you touch is a foundation stone. Every small imperfection is an invitation. ``` ### How Builds Work ```

• 🧩 Minimal installer: one download
• 🔍 Auto-checks for new versions
• 🌒 Evening + daily pushes: sometimes subtle tuning, sometimes new possibilities
• 🧭 You’re ahead of the map — your feedback carves the path

``` ### What to Expect ``` | Don’t Expect | Do Expect | |------------------|------------| | Polish | Potential | | Finished loops | Change | | Full narrative | Emergence | | Packed world | Quiet moments |

Moments where the world feels sparse—and others where sudden rain or a line of birds makes it feel briefly alive. That contrast is the frontier. ``` ### Your Impact ``` If you explore, plant, test, nudge the edges, and tell us what you felt—you help shape what comes next:

• 🔨 Crafting
• 🏗️ Building
• 🌅 Day/Night cycle
• 🐾 Creatures
• 🔊 Sound & ambience
• 📖 Future story arcs

Woodlanders isn’t finished — it’s becoming.

> Join early. Wander freely. Grow it with us.

Tagline: Woodlanders — not a story yet, just the dawn before one.

> 🐦 Optional share: “I’m playing Woodlanders in its alpha dawn—no story yet, just systems waking up. Exploring while it learns to become a world.”

> 💬 Status: Earliest Alpha Phase
> 🔁 Updates: Daily / Evening incremental builds
> 📥 Installer: Single download – auto-update enabled
> 🗺️ Story Mode: Not yet implemented
> 🧪 Your Role: Explorer, tester, trail maker

Woodlanders Launcher is a JavaFX desktop app for the [Woodlanders](https://gcclinux.github.io/Woodlanders/) game. It automatically checks for updates, downloads the latest client from GitHub releases, caches it locally, and launches the game with a single click. ``` ## Features ```

• ✅ Automatic Updates — checks GitHub for the latest game version
• ✅ Smart Caching — downloads and caches game files to ${HOME}/.config/woodlanders/
• ✅ Version Detection — compares local and remote versions with SHA-256
• ✅ One-Click Launch — simple, intuitive interface to play
• ✅ Cross-Platform — Windows and Linux (Snap/TAR.GZ)

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