The Slice 2 outdoor readiness gate queried IsLandblockLoaded(destCell &
0xFFFF0000) = e.g. 0x7D640000, but streaming stores landblocks under the
EncodeLandblockId form (low 16 = 0xFFFF), e.g. 0x7D64FFFF. The raw
ContainsKey never matched, so the outdoor teleport gate could NEVER flip
Ready and every outdoor arrival ran to the 600-frame (~10 s) timeout and
force-placed. The cascade was still prevented (the timeout force-place lands
cleanly), but the gate did no work — the 10 s freeze the apparatus showed
was this bug, NOT the #138 streaming stall I first suspected.
Root cause found via the apparatus re-test (3-agent investigation
wf_8b67a9d1-35c, all high-confidence) + verified against StreamingRegion.cs:99
(EncodeLandblockId | 0xFFFF), PhysicsEngine.cs:79 (stores as-is),
GameWindow.cs:5530 (queries & 0xFFFF0000).
Fix: IsLandblockLoaded normalizes its arg to the canonical 0xFFFF landblock
key, so the prefix form, any contained cell id, and the dat-id form all
resolve. Added the regression test the original Slice 2 test missed (it had
checked the same 0xFFFF form it added; the real caller passes the 0x..0000
form). Red on the prefix/cell forms before the fix, green after. 9/9.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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