fix(passages): land mouths where a BODY fits -- and the cause is now cornered

VF_SuggestLandingPoint aimed at open AIR. Air is not where a body fits: a
mouth could sit in a perfectly open pocket no capsule can stand in. It now
requires a legal capsule pose -- clearance (r 1.36, half-height 3.52),
support within a 1.8-voxel / 45 cm step height, a walkable support PATCH
(4 of 5 columns, centre required, slope <= 44.8 deg), positive density
throughout the capsule, strict 2x seal interior, bounded lateral snap.

It stays a PURE free function, which was the hard constraint --
GeneratePassages runs inside Initialize while the layout is half-built. So
it cannot flood-fill, and Codex correctly did not pretend otherwise: it
aims at deterministic guaranteed features instead (room centre/floor, slab
floor, horizontal maze edge, shaft feature-core ledge pose, island top).
Both mouths query their own strate independently; no passage chaining, so
LayoutOrderIndependence stays green.

Placement measurably improved:
  Maze            comps 309 -> 82,  largest 176 -> 1217, gap 206 -> 122
  VerticalShafts  comps 112 -> 36,  largest  96 ->  619
  CrystalChamber  gap 47.5 -> 19.1, departure mouth now in a 717-cell comp
  Underwater      comps  86 -> 13

⚠️ AND THE LAW IS STILL 1/8. Reported honestly rather than tuned. Mouths
now land on legal body-sized poses; the poses just are not connected to
each other.

⇒ BY ELIMINATION, THE CAUSE IS GENERATION. Four candidates, three dead:
  size        DEAD -- Jahni walked it; bore measures 3.62 m vs 3.677 m spec
  the stencil FIXED -- fragmentation was 3x overstated by an exact-Z-1 floor
  placement   FIXED -- mouths now sit on legal poses, several in large comps
  GENERATION  STANDS -- body-sized space exists in big components that do
              not reach each other

⭐ AND THE MAZE TIES TWO OF JAHNI'S COMPLAINTS TOGETHER. Its arrival mouth
lands in a 30-cell pocket while the main network holds 1217. Edge selection
is INDEPENDENT HASH GATING per +X/+Y/+Z edge
(VoxelDensityOpStack.cpp:582/584/586) -- so the corridor graph is a random
subgraph with no connectivity guarantee, exactly the percolation failure
VerticalShafts had before its drainage tree. That is the same root cause as
"mostly a cube full of straight pathway along the edges": a spanning tree
would make it BOTH feel like a maze (dead ends, uneven runs) AND be
connected by construction. One fix, two complaints.

Codex found a real error in my spec: an infinite shaft cylinder has no
support surface AT its axis, so the old exact-axis assertion was
unsatisfiable. It now requires a deterministic feature core and audits tree
connectivity from the resolved axis.

Build clean, 29 succeeded / 0 failed / 2 known deliberate warnings.
Box audits 0 violations. Shaft refinement 16/16. Order-independence green
across 10 slots, 31 passages, 3 pool orders.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K8V9my1PL68pmQb2gutZZV

CODEMAP.md

@@ -406,11 +406,14 @@ Header is rich with inline docs. Two namespaces + a per-chunk cache system.
 
 `MakeStrateSeed` (h:~477) is the shared pure world-seed/strate-index salt used by both
 `BuildChunkCache` and the TunnelNetwork/Underwater destination landing queries.
-`VF_SuggestLandingPoint` (h:~550, implemented in `VoxelCaveMorphology.cpp`) is the pure landing-site
+`VF_SuggestLandingPoint` (h:~550, implemented in `VoxelCaveMorphology.cpp`) is the pure player-fit
-query: nearest hash-room height at the requested XY for TunnelNetwork/Underwater, slab void midpoint
+landing-site query: it evaluates the local archetype source through the same capsule/support
-for FlatPlain/CrystalChamber, and bounded lateral searches for a horizontal lattice corridor (one
+contract as the measurement pass — support within step height, walkable slope, and full capsule
-Maze cell), the exact axis of a lower-seal/ledge-safe VerticalShafts tree shaft (up to two local
+clearance. Room queries use a room-floor core, slabs keep their requested XY, and the sparse
-shaft spacings at the 0.6 site density), or a validated blob top (one IslandSpacing). The
+ sources use bounded feature cores: a horizontal lattice corridor (one Maze cell), a selected
+ VerticalShafts tree shaft plus deterministic ledge-side offsets (up to two local shaft spacings at the 0.6
+site density), or a validated blob top (one IslandSpacing). It is intentionally not a flood fill:
+the pure query can prove a local pose, not a large component. The
 VerticalShafts result is therefore on the drainage tree, not merely in an open roughness disk.
 It returns `false` when those feature-bearing conditions cannot be proven inside the supplied budget;
 SurfaceWorld remains refused because its production height can depend on manager-owned biome/per-column
@@ -452,7 +455,7 @@ Maps depth→strate at runtime; owns passages.
 | Method | .cpp line | Role |
 |--------|-----------|------|
 | `Initialize` | 10 | Keeps the existing sequencing through `GeneratePassages`, but selects one slot source: a validated cooked season (exact ordered bounds/vector/recipe) or the unchanged authored fixed+sorted/shuffled pool. Assigned-invalid seasons fail closed. Authored source definitions are duplicated as content bags; generated slots use deterministic C++ defaults and zero auto-passages because schema 2 does not store passage configuration. |
-| `GeneratePassages` | 247 | Deterministic passages between consecutive strates (per-strate `PassageConfig::Style` control points; auto passages retain the existing `EVoxelPassageType` default); placement and shape values are independently salted hashes of seed + boundary slot + connection index. After XY placement, the destination's pure `VF_SuggestLandingPoint` may move the lower mouth within an archetype-specific lattice budget, then the result is clamped outside the destination seal bands and interpolated through the control points; unsupported/no-footing answers warn and preserve the old random reach. |
+| `GeneratePassages` | 247 | Deterministic passages between consecutive strates (per-strate `PassageConfig::Style` control points; auto passages retain the existing `EVoxelPassageType` default); placement and shape values are independently salted hashes of seed + boundary slot + connection index. Each mouth independently queries its own strate's pure player-fit `VF_SuggestLandingPoint` with its contract seed (cave room salt, otherwise world seed), may move within its archetype-specific budget, then is clamped outside the destination seal bands and interpolated through the control points; unsupported/no-fit answers preserve the old random reach. |
 | `EvaluateModifierSDF` | 357 | SDF of passages at a point (for carving). Per-chunk `thread_local` shortlist (`PassagesVersion`-stamped) → far chunks return `FLT_MAX` without walking `Passages`. §8.10. |
 | `AnyPassageNearBox` | — | Conservative sphere-vs-AABB test of every passage's bound against a voxel box (+carve blend pad). Per TILE (ClassifyTile guard), never per voxel. |
 | `FindSlotIndexForChunkZ` | 427 | Z → layout index. |
@@ -666,8 +669,8 @@ The plugin's first tests (`OPSTACK-PLAN.md` Phase 0.5). Run them from the editor
 | `VoxelForgeComposerSeasonTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Composer.Season` | Existing compose/review/393,216-sample round trip plus schema hash tamper rejection, two independent runtime manager/generator instances, season-authoritative seed/spine/radius, unset-season regression, and brute-force verification of every sampled non-Mixed recipe tile verdict (up to 64). |
 | `VoxelForgeComposerCorpusFreeTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Composer.CorpusFree` | Shares each structure recipe across today's corpus blend, naive independent uniform rolls, and constraint-sampled rolls. The completed equal-arm world-scale run uses **16 candidates per arm**, step 4 / radius 256 / `MaxCells=8,000,000`, fixed passage-law mouths, and 40 box probes per candidate. Result: **10/16, 9/16, 8/16** survival; survivor feature-scale ranges are **8..268**, **8..60**, **8..92** voxels. Box checks: **185/246,235**, **260/346,060**, **299/397,969** proved/voxels, **0 violations** in every arm; constraint parameter and box-stop violations were also 0. |
 | `VoxelForgeLayoutOrderIndependenceTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Determinism.LayoutOrderIndependence` | Builds a known transient soft-pointer pool, then rebuilds it in original, reversed, and swapped orders. Requires a non-empty layout and passage set, and compares every slot's definition/Z/height plus passage endpoints, radius, type, control geometry, and bounds bit-for-bit. |
-| `VoxelForgePassageOpenSpaceTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Determinism.PassageLandsInOpenSpace` | Uses the real fixture density path to check every generated inter-strate passage whose destination query answers: a 16-point ring outside the mouth's carve/blend band has at least half its samples in destination air, and the endpoint matches the pure open-point result within the mouth's float envelope. This is a connectivity proxy, not a flood-fill proof. Reports checked passages and false/unanswerable archetypes; fails if it inspects zero passages. |
+| `VoxelForgePassageOpenSpaceTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Determinism.PassageLandsInOpenSpace` | Uses the real fixture density path to check both generated mouths against independent source queries. Answered mouths must match the pure player-fit point within the float envelope; the lower mouth also keeps the 16-point ring and source-footing assertions outside the carve/blend band. This is a local-fit/open-space proxy, not a flood-fill proof. Reports answered/refused mouths and archetypes; fails if either side is vacuous. |
-| `VoxelForgeStrateConnectivityTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Generation.StrateConnectivity` / `VoxelForge.Generation.StrateConnectivityRefinement` / `VoxelForge.Generation.VerticalShaftSeamFreedom` | Bounded strate metrics with density-polarity and solid-gap controls, deterministic route rechecks, and refinement sweeps. The refinement test uses the bounded 4-chunk density fixture, fits each measurement AABB to the arrival/departure mouth pair plus three shaft spacings (the prescribed local tree fallback), and caps the fitted control at 120,000,000 cells. It reports exact before/after seed-6 cell counts, reruns every negative with the fitted margin doubled, measures tree orphan candidates/path reachability and roughness-bubble proxies, asserts axis landings, checks source/mirror physical paths, and requires 16/16 effective arrival→departure results across the 16 VerticalShafts seeds. Margin-binding negatives are reported as measurement limits, never as gap findings. The seam test re-evaluates cell-boundary positions after warming distinct neighbouring chunk contexts in both legacy and operator-stack paths. |
+| `VoxelForgeStrateConnectivityTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Generation.StrateConnectivity` / `VoxelForge.Generation.StrateConnectivityRefinement` / `VoxelForge.Generation.VerticalShaftSeamFreedom` | Bounded strate metrics with density-polarity and solid-gap controls, deterministic route rechecks, and refinement sweeps. The refinement test uses the bounded 4-chunk density fixture, fits each measurement AABB to the arrival/departure mouth pair plus three shaft spacings (the prescribed local tree fallback), and caps the fitted control at 120,000,000 cells. It reports exact before/after seed-6 cell counts, reruns every negative with the fitted margin doubled, measures tree orphan candidates/path reachability and roughness-bubble proxies, asserts mouths remain inside the deterministic shaft feature core (the exact axis is an unsupported open cylinder), checks source/mirror physical paths, and requires 16/16 effective arrival→departure results across the 16 VerticalShafts seeds. Margin-binding negatives are reported as measurement limits, never as gap findings. The seam test re-evaluates cell-boundary positions after warming distinct neighbouring chunk contexts in both legacy and operator-stack paths. |
 | `VoxelForgeWorldEdgeSealTest.cpp` | `VoxelForge.Generation.WorldEdgeSeal` | Positive samples outside the radius across every fixture strate, bit-identical interior negative control against radius 0, monotonic smooth-ramp check, radius-0 no-op, radial `ClassifyBox`/T1.d proofs brute-forced for every reported voxel, and synthetic plus generated near-rim passage coverage. Emits one aggregate summary with proved-box and voxel counts. |
 
 ## 4. The density pipeline (most-edited hot path)

COMPOSER-NOTES.md

@@ -1549,19 +1549,27 @@ law has a design-level fix.
 
 ---
 
-## 11. Tier 1 status — passages aim at real open space (bounded full-point query; build not run)
+## 11. Tier 1 status — passages aim at player-fit source space (pure local stencil)
 
-**Updated 2026-08-29.** `VF_SuggestLandingPoint` (in `VoxelCaveMorphology`) is a **pure free function**
+**Updated 2026-09-06.** `VF_SuggestLandingPoint` (in `VoxelCaveMorphology`) is a **pure free function**
 of (archetype, params, seed, desired XY, lateral budget) — it touches no operator stack, no
 `UVoxelStrateManager`, no cache. That matters: `GeneratePassages` runs inside `Initialize`, when the
 layout is half-built and `LayoutVersion` is mid-flight, so constructing anything holding a manager
 pointer there is a re-entrancy trap.
 
-`GeneratePassages` now asks the **destination** strate for a full open/footing point near the chosen XY.
+`GeneratePassages` now asks **each mouth's own strate**, independently, for a player-fit pose near
-Maze, VerticalShafts, and FloatingIslands may snap to a nearby lattice site, shaft, or island top;
+the chosen XY. The pure query reconstructs the exact default capsule stencil used by
-the lower mouth uses the returned X/Y/Z, clamped strictly inside the interior (never into a seal band).
+`VoxelStrateMeasure`: support coverage within max step height, a walkable support patch, and a clear
-Where the archetype cannot prove footing inside its bound, **today's random reach and original XY are
+capsule volume, with positive density meaning air and non-positive density meaning solid. It samples
-preserved unchanged**.
+only a stateless source evaluator — no manager pointer, live layout, operator stack, cache, or
+measurement flood fill enters the query.
+
+The candidate is deliberately a feature core rather than arbitrary air: a room floor core,
+requested XY in a slab, a horizontal Maze edge, a VerticalShafts shaft core with a deterministic
+ledge-side offset above its lower seal, or a FloatingIslands top surface. The local stencil proves a legal pose, not that the pose belongs to a
+large connected component; that question remains in the measurement pass. When no legal local pose
+exists inside the bounded source neighbourhood, **the random reach and original XY are preserved
+unchanged**.
 
 ### ⚠️ Coverage is source-dependent and the number is the point
 The failing pre-fix measurement was:
@@ -1569,11 +1577,15 @@ The failing pre-fix measurement was:
 > *7 inter-strate passages, 3 checked, 0 footing checks, 38/48 room/slab ring samples air, 4
 > query-false (4 unique archetypes; 1 unsupported, 3 supported-but-no-point).*
 
-The Tier 1 query now searches laterally for `Maze`, `VerticalShafts`, and `FloatingIslands` landing
+The Tier 1 query now searches laterally for `Maze`, `VerticalShafts`, and `FloatingIslands` feature
-sites within one configured placement period. `SurfaceWorld` remains intentionally refused.
+cores within one configured placement period, and for cave rooms within one `RoomSpacing`.
+`SurfaceWorld` remains intentionally refused.
 The extended test uses vertical source footing brackets for those three instead of applying the
-room/slab circumference ring to thin or void-dominated geometry. The post-fix measurement is deliberately
+room/slab circumference ring to thin or void-dominated geometry. The post-fix measurement is not
-not claimed here because this change does not build or run the Unreal automation test.
+claimed as a connectivity proof: the focused fixture now reports 7 passages, 3 upper and 3 lower
+player-fit queries answered, 8/14 mouths falling back, 0/0 room/slab ring samples air, and all 3
+answered thin-source footing checks valid. The eight-card step-1 measurement is recorded in §12.1;
+it is the source of truth for the remaining component gaps.
 
 ### Seed contracts, do not mix them
 - **TunnelNetwork / Underwater** → `VoxelCaveMorphology::MakeStrateSeed` (the strate's own room seed).
@@ -1593,7 +1605,9 @@ construction*. It passed whether the aiming worked or not. Replaced with a **16-
 destinations. A mouth in a real room has open space around it; a mouth in bedrock has only the tube it
 dug itself. Maze, VerticalShafts, and FloatingIslands use a manager-free source density bracket:
 air at the landing and solid below it. A large void ring is not evidence of island footing.
-⚠️ **It is a proxy for connectivity, not a proof.** The proof is a flood fill — Tier 2.
+⚠️ **It is a proxy for connectivity, not a proof.** The pure query itself is even narrower: it can
+prove a local capsule pose but cannot prove a large component without reading generated layout
+state. The proof is a flood fill — Tier 2.
 
 ### ⚠️ A forked placement envelope, guarded by that test
 `VF_FindNearestHashRoomLandingPoint` re-derives the room vertical placement envelope that `BuildChunkCache` also
@@ -1603,9 +1617,57 @@ is the only thing standing between a placement change and silent bedrock passage
 
 ---
 
-## 12. Tier 1 FINAL — and the 92.8% defect a green suite hid
+## 12. Tier 1 checkpoint — and the 92.8% defect a green suite hid
 
-**Built clean, suite green: 17 succeeded, 0 warnings, 0 failed (2026-08-30).**
+**Historical checkpoint: built clean, suite green: 17 succeeded, 0 warnings, 0 failed
+(2026-08-30).** The room-centre correction below remains useful history, but it did not prove a
+player-sized landing or a large connected component.
+
+### 12.1 2026-09-06 player-fit landing pass
+
+The next correction keeps the pure/re-entrant boundary intact and replaces the query's open-air
+claim with a local player-pose claim. Both the upper and lower mouths query their own source
+independently. The query mirrors the measurement stencil (capsule volume, support patch, step
+height, and walkable normal) against a stateless archetype source evaluator. It does not run a
+flood fill, so it cannot honestly promise that the two mouths share a large fit component.
+
+The final eight-archetype before/after table below records the measured arrival/departure component
+sizes and voxel gaps. A remaining gap is a generation-connectivity finding, not a reason to widen
+the landing budget.
+
+| Archetype | Before: fit / components / largest / arrival / departure / gap / law | After: fit / components / largest / arrival / departure / gap / law |
+|---|---|---|
+| CrystalChamber | 655 / 197 / 24 / 1 / 1 / 47.529 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 1,360 / 62 / 717 / 270 / 717 / 19.131 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution |
+| FlatPlain | 1,116 / 45 / 259 / 1 / 1 / 48.104 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 2,136 / 2 / 2,135 / 2,135 / 2,135 / 0.000 / Connected |
+| FloatingIslands | 4 / 2 / 3 / 1 / 1 / 0.000 / Connected | 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / -1.000 / StartCellNotPlayerFit |
+| Maze | 2,801 / 309 / 176 / 43 / 81 / 206.630 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 5,759 / 82 / 1,217 / 30 / 1,217 / 121.598 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution |
+| SurfaceWorld | 713 / 520 / 6 / 1 / 1 / 110.648 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 355 / 223 / 9 / 3 / 1 / 96.073 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution |
+| TunnelNetwork | 2,748 / 467 / 1,292 / 2 / 1 / 164.405 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 100 / 1 / 100 / 100 / 100 / 0.000 / CoarseLiedBudgetExhausted |
+| Underwater | 337 / 86 / 35 / 3 / 11 / 142.499 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 342 / 13 / 194 / 95 / 194 / 115.265 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution |
+| VerticalShafts | 1,156 / 112 / 96 / 3 / 36 / 94.000 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution | 4,669 / 36 / 619 / 14 / 81 / 104.890 / NotConnectedAtThisResolution |
+
+The restricted law tally is **1/8 connected before and 1/8 after**; no after result is a connected
+component of four cells or fewer. The FloatingIslands `StartCellNotPlayerFit` result is the live
+world after the mouth carve: the pure source query found a top pose, but the structural passage
+carve removes the support at that exact endpoint. That is a generation/carve integration issue,
+not evidence that the query should accept open air. TunnelNetwork's single 100-cell component is
+the coarse retry budget being exhausted, not a connected-law pass.
+
+The query-answer fixture still intentionally refuses `SurfaceWorld`. In this seed, the sparse room
+and slab sources can also decline when no room/core passes the local stencil inside their lateral
+budget; that preserves the original placement rather than inventing a point. The pure query has
+no component-size oracle, so its honest large-space substitute is a guaranteed feature core:
+room centre, slab floor at requested XY, horizontal Maze edge, shaft ledge-side pose, or island
+top interior. A generation-side connection/room-mouth guarantee is the smallest alternative if
+the measured law must become connected.
+
+The old VerticalShafts refinement assertion that every mouth sit on the exact shaft axis was too
+strong for this task: an infinite open cylinder has no support surface at its axis. It is now an
+executable **feature-core** invariant (with the drainage-tree path still audited from the resolved
+axis), while the landing query proves the actual ledge-side capsule pose. The required UE 5.7 build
+passed; the full `VoxelForge` namespace finished with **29 successes, 2 known warnings, 0 failures,
+0 not-run** in 2,388.35 s. The warnings remain the gated lateral-region 9/16 law and the known
+TunnelNetwork op-stack outside-gate sample count; box violations stayed zero.
 
 ### ⚠️ Correct the record: commit `1ab8c0c` overstated what worked
 It reported *"3 checked, 48/48 ring samples air"* and read as Tier 1 working. A million-seed sweep later

Source/VoxelForge/Private/Tests/VoxelForgePassageOpenSpaceTest.cpp

@@ -54,10 +54,13 @@ namespace
         case ECaveGeneratorType::VerticalShafts:
             // A 0.6 shaft density does not guarantee an occupied immediate cell. The production
             // query therefore permits a bounded two-cell local search and still returns the
-            // selected site's exact axis.
+            // selected site's deterministic feature core/ledge-side pose.
             return FMath::Max(2.0f * Definition.VerticalShaftParams.ShaftSpacing, 1.0f);
         case ECaveGeneratorType::FloatingIslands:
             return FMath::Max(Definition.FloatingIslandParams.IslandSpacing, 1.0f);
+        case ECaveGeneratorType::TunnelNetwork:
+        case ECaveGeneratorType::Underwater:
+            return FMath::Max(Definition.GenerationParams.RoomSpacing, 1.0f);
         default:
             return 0.0f;
         }
@@ -85,6 +88,8 @@ bool FVoxelForgePassageLandsInOpenSpaceTest::RunTest(const FString& Parameters)
 
     int32 NumInterStratePassages = 0;
     int32 NumChecked = 0;
+    int32 NumUpperChecked = 0;
+    int32 NumUpperQueryFalse = 0;
     int32 NumQueryFalse = 0;
     int32 NumUnsupported = 0;
     int32 NumSupportedWithoutPoint = 0;
@@ -144,6 +149,74 @@ bool FVoxelForgePassageLandsInOpenSpaceTest::RunTest(const FString& Parameters)
             continue;
         }
 
+        // The upper mouth has its own source query too. This is deliberately evaluated from the
+        // upper strate's definition, seed, bounds, and requested XY; it must never inherit the
+        // lower mouth's answer or become an implicit passage chain.
+        const float SourceTopZ = (float)(Source.TopChunkZ + 1) * CHUNK_SIZE;
+        const float SourceBottomZ = (float)Source.BottomChunkZ * CHUNK_SIZE;
+        const int32 SourceQuerySeed = OpenPointSeedFor(
+            *SourceDefinition, Source, WorldSeed);
+        const float SourceMaxLateralSnap = MaxLateralSnapFor(*SourceDefinition);
+        FVector SuggestedUpperPoint = FVector::ZeroVector;
+        const bool bCanAnswerUpper = VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
+            SourceDefinition->GeneratorType,
+            SourceDefinition->GenerationParams,
+            SourceDefinition->SlabParams,
+            SourceDefinition->MazeParams,
+            SourceDefinition->VerticalShaftParams,
+            SourceDefinition->FloatingIslandParams,
+            SourceQuerySeed,
+            SourceTopZ,
+            SourceBottomZ,
+            Passage.RequestedUpperPoint.X,
+            Passage.RequestedUpperPoint.Y,
+            SourceMaxLateralSnap,
+            SuggestedUpperPoint);
+        if (!bCanAnswerUpper)
+        {
+            ++NumUpperQueryFalse;
+            FalseArchetypes.Add(static_cast<uint8>(SourceDefinition->GeneratorType));
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            ++NumUpperChecked;
+            const float UpperSnapDX = Passage.UpperPoint.X
+                - Passage.RequestedUpperPoint.X;
+            const float UpperSnapDY = Passage.UpperPoint.Y
+                - Passage.RequestedUpperPoint.Y;
+            const float UpperSnapDistance = FMath::Sqrt(
+                UpperSnapDX * UpperSnapDX + UpperSnapDY * UpperSnapDY);
+            if (!FMath::IsNearlyEqual(Passage.UpperPoint.X, SuggestedUpperPoint.X, 0.01f)
+                || !FMath::IsNearlyEqual(Passage.UpperPoint.Y, SuggestedUpperPoint.Y, 0.01f)
+                || !FMath::IsNearlyEqual(Passage.UpperPoint.Z, SuggestedUpperPoint.Z, 0.01f))
+            {
+                bAllAnswerableEndpointsMatchQuery = false;
+                AddError(FString::Printf(
+                    TEXT("Passage from strate %d (%s) missed its upper player-fit landing point: endpoint (%.9g, %.9g, %.9g), query (%.9g, %.9g, %.9g)."),
+                    Source.StrateIndex,
+                    *ArchetypeName(SourceDefinition->GeneratorType),
+                    Passage.UpperPoint.X,
+                    Passage.UpperPoint.Y,
+                    Passage.UpperPoint.Z,
+                    SuggestedUpperPoint.X,
+                    SuggestedUpperPoint.Y,
+                    SuggestedUpperPoint.Z));
+            }
+            if (!FMath::IsFinite(UpperSnapDistance)
+                || UpperSnapDistance > SourceMaxLateralSnap + 0.01f)
+            {
+                bAllAnswerableEndpointsMatchQuery = false;
+                AddError(FString::Printf(
+                    TEXT("Passage from strate %d (%s) exceeded its upper lateral snap bound: %.6f > %.6f from requested (%.3f, %.3f)."),
+                    Source.StrateIndex,
+                    *ArchetypeName(SourceDefinition->GeneratorType),
+                    UpperSnapDistance,
+                    SourceMaxLateralSnap,
+                    Passage.RequestedUpperPoint.X,
+                    Passage.RequestedUpperPoint.Y));
+            }
+        }
+
         const FStratePassageConfig& PassageConfig = SourceDefinition->PassageConfig;
         if (!FMath::IsFinite(PassageConfig.MouthRadius) || PassageConfig.MouthRadius <= 0.0f)
         {
@@ -377,8 +450,10 @@ bool FVoxelForgePassageLandsInOpenSpaceTest::RunTest(const FString& Parameters)
     }
 
     AddInfo(FString::Printf(
-        TEXT("Passage open-space check: %d inter-strate passages, %d checked, %d footing checks, %d/%d room/slab ring samples air, %d query-false (%d unique archetypes; %d unsupported, %d supported-but-no-point)."),
+        TEXT("Passage player-fit check: %d inter-strate passages, upper %d checked (%d false), lower %d checked (%d footing checks), %d/%d room/slab ring samples air, lower %d query-false (%d unique archetypes; %d unsupported, %d supported-but-no-point)."),
         NumInterStratePassages,
+        NumUpperChecked,
+        NumUpperQueryFalse,
         NumChecked,
         NumFootingChecked,
         NumRingAirSamples,
@@ -398,6 +473,10 @@ bool FVoxelForgePassageLandsInOpenSpaceTest::RunTest(const FString& Parameters)
     {
         AddError(TEXT("VACUOUS: zero answerable passage mouths were checked; the passage invariant was not exercised."));
     }
+    if (NumUpperChecked == 0)
+    {
+        AddError(TEXT("VACUOUS: zero answerable upper passage mouths were checked; independent upper-mouth aiming was not exercised."));
+    }
     if (NumFootingChecked == 0)
     {
         AddError(TEXT("VACUOUS: no Maze/VerticalShafts/FloatingIslands footing was checked."));
@@ -461,6 +540,7 @@ bool FVoxelForgePassageLandsInOpenSpaceTest::RunTest(const FString& Parameters)
 
     return NumInterStratePassages > 0
         && NumChecked > 0
+        && NumUpperChecked > 0
         && NumFootingChecked > 0
         && bAllNewFootingArchetypesAnswered
         // (fixture coverage of the room/slab archetypes is reported, not asserted — see above)

Source/VoxelForge/Private/Tests/VoxelForgeStrateConnectivityTest.cpp

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include "VoxelForgeTestFixture.h"
 #include "VoxelCaveMorphology.h"
 #include "VoxelStrateMeasure.h"
+#include "VoxelTypes.h"
 
 IMPLEMENT_SIMPLE_AUTOMATION_TEST(
     FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityTest,
@@ -327,6 +328,7 @@ namespace
     {
         float X = 0.0f;
         float Y = 0.0f;
+        float Radius = 0.0f;
         int32 CellX = 0;
         int32 CellY = 0;
     };
@@ -350,6 +352,10 @@ namespace
             + VoxelHash::ToFloat01(VoxelHash::Mix(Hash ^ 0x12345678u)) * 0.7f) * Spacing;
         OutShaft.Y = (CellY + 0.15f
             + VoxelHash::ToFloat01(VoxelHash::Mix(Hash ^ 0x9ABCDEF0u)) * 0.7f) * Spacing;
+        OutShaft.Radius = FMath::Lerp(
+            Params.ShaftMinRadius,
+            Params.ShaftMaxRadius,
+            VoxelHash::ToFloat01(VoxelHash::Mix(Hash ^ 0xBEEFu)));
         OutShaft.CellX = CellX;
         OutShaft.CellY = CellY;
         return true;
@@ -788,14 +794,27 @@ namespace
         return Out;
     }
 
-    bool IsVerticalShaftAxis(
+    bool FindVerticalShaftFeatureCore(
         const FVerticalShaftParams& Params,
         int32 Seed,
-        const FVector& Point)
+        const FVector& Point,
+        FVector& OutAxisPoint)
     {
         const float Spacing = FMath::Max(Params.ShaftSpacing, 1.0f);
+        const float InteriorMargin = FMath::Max(Params.SurfaceRoughness, 0.0f)
+            * VOXEL_NOISE_SCALE + 0.25f;
+        if (!FMath::IsFinite(InteriorMargin) || InteriorMargin < 0.0f)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
         const int32 BaseCellX = FMath::FloorToInt(Point.X / Spacing);
         const int32 BaseCellY = FMath::FloorToInt(Point.Y / Spacing);
+        float BestDistanceSq = FLT_MAX;
+        int32 BestCellX = INT32_MAX;
+        int32 BestCellY = INT32_MAX;
+        FAuditShaft BestShaft;
+        bool bFound = false;
         for (int32 DY = -1; DY <= 1; ++DY)
         {
             for (int32 DX = -1; DX <= 1; ++DX)
@@ -806,14 +825,50 @@ namespace
                 {
                     continue;
                 }
-                if (FMath::IsNearlyEqual(Point.X, Shaft.X, 0.001f)
+                const float SafeRadius = Shaft.Radius - InteriorMargin;
-                    && FMath::IsNearlyEqual(Point.Y, Shaft.Y, 0.001f))
+                if (!FMath::IsFinite(SafeRadius) || SafeRadius <= 0.0f)
                 {
-                    return true;
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                const float DistanceSq = FMath::Square(Point.X - Shaft.X)
+                    + FMath::Square(Point.Y - Shaft.Y);
+                if (DistanceSq > FMath::Square(SafeRadius) + 1.0e-4f)
+                {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                const bool bCloser = DistanceSq < BestDistanceSq;
+                const bool bTie = DistanceSq == BestDistanceSq
+                    && (Shaft.CellX < BestCellX
+                        || (Shaft.CellX == BestCellX && Shaft.CellY < BestCellY));
+                if (bCloser || bTie)
+                {
+                    BestDistanceSq = DistanceSq;
+                    BestCellX = Shaft.CellX;
+                    BestCellY = Shaft.CellY;
+                    BestShaft = Shaft;
+                    bFound = true;
                 }
             }
         }
-        return false;
+
+        if (!bFound)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        OutAxisPoint = FVector(BestShaft.X, BestShaft.Y, Point.Z);
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    bool IsVerticalShaftFeatureCore(
+        const FVerticalShaftParams& Params,
+        int32 Seed,
+        const FVector& Point)
+    {
+        FVector AxisPoint = FVector::ZeroVector;
+        return FindVerticalShaftFeatureCore(Params, Seed, Point, AxisPoint);
     }
 
     bool FindChainMouths(
@@ -3344,18 +3399,20 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
 
         const FVerticalShaftParams& ShaftParams =
             Layout[VerticalShaftsIndex].Definition->VerticalShaftParams;
-        if (!IsVerticalShaftAxis(
+        const bool bArrivalFeatureCore = IsVerticalShaftFeatureCore(
-                ShaftParams, Seed, ResolutionArrivalPoint)
+            ShaftParams, Seed, ResolutionArrivalPoint);
-            || !IsVerticalShaftAxis(ShaftParams, Seed, ResolutionDeparturePoint))
+        const bool bDepartureFeatureCore = IsVerticalShaftFeatureCore(
+            ShaftParams, Seed, ResolutionDeparturePoint);
+        if (!bArrivalFeatureCore || !bDepartureFeatureCore)
         {
             AddError(FString::Printf(
-                TEXT("HARD FAILURE: fitted-window seed %d has a VerticalShafts mouth not on a "
+                TEXT("HARD FAILURE: fitted-window seed %d has a VerticalShafts mouth outside "
-                     "shaft axis (arrival axis=%s, departure axis=%s; arrival=(%.3f,%.3f,%.3f); "
+                     "the shaft feature core (arrival core=%s, departure core=%s; arrival=(%.3f,%.3f,%.3f); "
                      "departure=(%.3f,%.3f,%.3f); spacing=%.3f; density=%.3f)."),
                 Seed,
-                IsVerticalShaftAxis(ShaftParams, Seed, ResolutionArrivalPoint)
+                bArrivalFeatureCore
                     ? TEXT("yes") : TEXT("no"),
-                IsVerticalShaftAxis(ShaftParams, Seed, ResolutionDeparturePoint)
+                bDepartureFeatureCore
                     ? TEXT("yes") : TEXT("no"),
                 ResolutionArrivalPoint.X,
                 ResolutionArrivalPoint.Y,
@@ -3515,7 +3572,7 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
         "mean-radius shaft volume.\n");
     Summary += TEXT(
         "  seed | fitted verdict | cells | components | small non-largest/total | strict minima/shafts "
-        "| neighbour fallback | path orphans | axis mouths | doubled fitted-margin verdict/cells | "
+        "| neighbour fallback | path orphans | shaft feature-core mouths | doubled fitted-margin verdict/cells | "
         "tree path XY bounds\n");
 
     static constexpr int32 FittedSeedCases[] = {
@@ -3577,8 +3634,12 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
         const FVerticalShaftParams RuntimeShaftParams =
             SeedWorld.StrateManager->GetVerticalShaftParamsForChunk(
                 FIntVector(0, 0, ShaftMidChunkZ));
-        const bool bAxisMouths = IsVerticalShaftAxis(ShaftParams, Seed, SeedArrivalPoint)
+        FVector ArrivalShaftAxis = SeedArrivalPoint;
-            && IsVerticalShaftAxis(ShaftParams, Seed, SeedDeparturePoint);
+        FVector DepartureShaftAxis = SeedDeparturePoint;
+        const bool bShaftFeatureMouths = FindVerticalShaftFeatureCore(
+            ShaftParams, Seed, SeedArrivalPoint, ArrivalShaftAxis)
+            && FindVerticalShaftFeatureCore(
+                ShaftParams, Seed, SeedDeparturePoint, DepartureShaftAxis);
         const FVoxelStrateMeasureSettings FittedSettings = MakeFittedSettings(
             2,
             SeedArrivalPoint,
@@ -3649,7 +3710,7 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
             && Diagnostics.Result == EVoxelConnectivityResult::Connected
             && !Diagnostics.bStartSnapped
             && !Diagnostics.bGoalSnapped
-            && bAxisMouths;
+            && bShaftFeatureMouths;
         bool bCountsAsPass = bCountsAsDirectPass;
         FString DoubledSweepText = TEXT("not-run");
         FString TreePathText = TEXT("not-needed");
@@ -3682,14 +3743,14 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
             FVector2D PathMax = FVector2D::ZeroVector;
             int32 PathHops = 0;
             const bool bArrivalPath = AuditVerticalShaftPathBounds(
-                ShaftParams, Seed, SeedArrivalPoint, PathMin, PathMax, PathHops);
+                ShaftParams, Seed, ArrivalShaftAxis, PathMin, PathMax, PathHops);
             FVector2D DeparturePathMin = FVector2D::ZeroVector;
             FVector2D DeparturePathMax = FVector2D::ZeroVector;
             int32 DeparturePathHops = 0;
             const bool bDeparturePath = AuditVerticalShaftPathBounds(
                 ShaftParams,
                 Seed,
-                SeedDeparturePoint,
+                DepartureShaftAxis,
                 DeparturePathMin,
                 DeparturePathMax,
                 DeparturePathHops);
@@ -3778,7 +3839,7 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
             Audit.NumShafts,
             Audit.NumNeighbourFallbacks,
             Audit.NumUnreachable,
-            bAxisMouths ? TEXT("YES") : TEXT("NO"),
+            bShaftFeatureMouths ? TEXT("YES") : TEXT("NO"),
                 *DoubledSweepText,
                 *TreePathText);
 
@@ -3786,10 +3847,10 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
         {
             const FVerticalShaftPhysicalAudit ArrivalPhysical =
                 AuditVerticalShaftPathDensity(
-                    *SeedWorld.Generator, RuntimeShaftParams, Seed, SeedArrivalPoint);
+                    *SeedWorld.Generator, RuntimeShaftParams, Seed, ArrivalShaftAxis);
             const FVerticalShaftPhysicalAudit DeparturePhysical =
                 AuditVerticalShaftPathDensity(
-                    *SeedWorld.Generator, RuntimeShaftParams, Seed, SeedDeparturePoint);
+                    *SeedWorld.Generator, RuntimeShaftParams, Seed, DepartureShaftAxis);
             const FVerticalShaftPhysicalAudit& FirstBadPhysical =
                 ArrivalPhysical.NumNonAirSamples > 0 ? ArrivalPhysical : DeparturePhysical;
             Summary += FString::Printf(
@@ -3827,15 +3888,15 @@ bool FVoxelForgeStrateConnectivityRefinementTest::RunTest(const FString& Paramet
                 FirstBadPhysical.FirstBadFraction);
         }
 
-        if (Audit.NumUnreachable != 0 || !Audit.bOrderIndependent || !bAxisMouths)
+        if (Audit.NumUnreachable != 0 || !Audit.bOrderIndependent || !bShaftFeatureMouths)
         {
             AddError(FString::Printf(
                 TEXT("HARD FAILURE: fitted audit seed %d violated the shaft-tree/landing "
-                     "invariant (unreachable=%d, order-independent=%s, axis-mouths=%s)."),
+                     "invariant (unreachable=%d, order-independent=%s, feature-core-mouths=%s)."),
                 Seed,
                 Audit.NumUnreachable,
                 Audit.bOrderIndependent ? TEXT("yes") : TEXT("no"),
-                bAxisMouths ? TEXT("yes") : TEXT("no")));
+                bShaftFeatureMouths ? TEXT("yes") : TEXT("no")));
             bAllChecksPassed = false;
         }
     }

Source/VoxelForge/Private/VoxelStrateManager.cpp

@@ -603,8 +603,8 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
     constexpr uint32 PassageSaltBendFreq   = 0xA110000Au;
 
     int32 TotalPassages = 0;
-    int32 NumAimedAtUpperOpenPoint = 0;
+    int32 NumAimedAtUpperPlayerFit = 0;
-    int32 NumAimedAtLowerOpenPoint = 0;
+    int32 NumAimedAtLowerPlayerFit = 0;
     TSet<FString> NoQueryArchetypes;
 
     const auto ArchetypeName = [](ECaveGeneratorType Archetype)
@@ -629,8 +629,9 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
         case ECaveGeneratorType::VerticalShafts:
             // A density of 0.6 does not guarantee an occupied cell in the immediate grid
             // neighbourhood. Allow the nearest occupied shaft to be two grid cells away while
-            // remaining a bounded local query; the landing query still returns that shaft's
+            // remaining a bounded local query; the landing query still returns a pose inside
-            // exact axis, so this cannot create a non-topological mouth.
+            // that shaft's deterministic feature core, so this cannot create a non-topological
+            // mouth.
             return FMath::Max(2.0f * Definition.VerticalShaftParams.ShaftSpacing, 1.0f);
 
         case ECaveGeneratorType::FloatingIslands:
@@ -749,20 +750,18 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
             // their source. The two queries are deliberately independent: a passage never reads
             // another passage's endpoint or any live layout state.
             FVector SuggestedUpperPoint = FVector::ZeroVector;
-            bool bAimedUpperAtOpenPoint = false;
+            bool bAimedUpperAtPlayerFitPoint = false;
             if (UpperDef)
             {
                 const bool bUsesRoomSeed =
                     UpperDef->GeneratorType == ECaveGeneratorType::TunnelNetwork
                     || UpperDef->GeneratorType == ECaveGeneratorType::Underwater;
-                const int32 UpperQuerySeed = SeasonStrates.IsValidIndex(i)
+                const int32 UpperQuerySeed = bUsesRoomSeed
-                    ? SeasonStrates[i].Seed
+                    ? static_cast<int32>(VoxelCaveMorphology::MakeStrateSeed(
-                    : (bUsesRoomSeed
+                        static_cast<uint32>(CachedSeed), Upper.StrateIndex))
-                        ? static_cast<int32>(VoxelCaveMorphology::MakeStrateSeed(
+                    : CachedSeed;
-                            static_cast<uint32>(CachedSeed), Upper.StrateIndex))
-                        : CachedSeed);
 
-                bAimedUpperAtOpenPoint = VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
+                bAimedUpperAtPlayerFitPoint = VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
                     UpperDef->GeneratorType,
                     UpperDef->GenerationParams,
                     UpperDef->SlabParams,
@@ -777,9 +776,9 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
                     MaxLateralSnapFor(*UpperDef),
                     SuggestedUpperPoint);
 
-                if (bAimedUpperAtOpenPoint)
+                if (bAimedUpperAtPlayerFitPoint)
                 {
-                    ++NumAimedAtUpperOpenPoint;
+                    ++NumAimedAtUpperPlayerFit;
                 }
                 else
                 {
@@ -788,22 +787,20 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
             }
 
             FVector SuggestedLowerPoint = FVector::ZeroVector;
-            bool bAimedLowerAtOpenPoint = false;
+            bool bAimedLowerAtPlayerFitPoint = false;
             const UVoxelStrateDefinition* LowerDef = Lower.Definition;
             if (LowerDef)
             {
                 const bool bUsesRoomSeed =
                     LowerDef->GeneratorType == ECaveGeneratorType::TunnelNetwork
                     || LowerDef->GeneratorType == ECaveGeneratorType::Underwater;
-                const int32 LowerQuerySeed = SeasonStrates.IsValidIndex(i + 1)
+                const int32 LowerQuerySeed = bUsesRoomSeed
-                    ? SeasonStrates[i + 1].Seed
+                    ? static_cast<int32>(VoxelCaveMorphology::MakeStrateSeed(
-                    : (bUsesRoomSeed
+                        static_cast<uint32>(CachedSeed), Lower.StrateIndex))
-                        ? static_cast<int32>(VoxelCaveMorphology::MakeStrateSeed(
+                    : CachedSeed;
-                            static_cast<uint32>(CachedSeed), Lower.StrateIndex))
-                        : CachedSeed);
 
                 const float MaxLateralSnap = MaxLateralSnapFor(*LowerDef);
-                bAimedLowerAtOpenPoint = VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
+                bAimedLowerAtPlayerFitPoint = VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
                     LowerDef->GeneratorType,
                     LowerDef->GenerationParams,
                     LowerDef->SlabParams,
@@ -818,9 +815,9 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
                     MaxLateralSnap,
                     SuggestedLowerPoint);
 
-                if (bAimedLowerAtOpenPoint)
+                if (bAimedLowerAtPlayerFitPoint)
                 {
-                    ++NumAimedAtLowerOpenPoint;
+                    ++NumAimedAtLowerPlayerFit;
                 }
                 else
                 {
@@ -842,7 +839,7 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
             Passage.RequestedUpperPoint = FVector(PX, PY, TopZ);
             Passage.RequestedLowerPoint = FVector(PX, PY, BottomZ);
 
-            if (bAimedUpperAtOpenPoint)
+            if (bAimedUpperAtPlayerFitPoint)
             {
                 const float UpperSealThickness = BoundarySealThicknessFor(*UpperDef);
                 const float InnerBottomZ = UpperBottomZ + UpperSealThickness;
@@ -868,7 +865,7 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
                 }
             }
 
-            if (bAimedLowerAtOpenPoint)
+            if (bAimedLowerAtPlayerFitPoint)
             {
                 const float LowerSealThickness = BoundarySealThicknessFor(*LowerDef);
                 const float LowerBottomZ = (float)(Lower.BottomChunkZ) * CHUNK_SIZE;
@@ -1031,12 +1028,12 @@ void UVoxelStrateManager::GeneratePassages()
     }
 
     UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log,
-        TEXT("[StrateManager] Passage landing sites: upper %d/%d and lower %d/%d aimed at generator-confirmed open space, %d/%d mouth queries fell back to random reach (archetypes with no query: %s)."),
+        TEXT("[StrateManager] Passage landing sites: upper %d/%d and lower %d/%d aimed at player-fit source space, %d/%d mouth queries fell back to random reach (archetypes with no query: %s)."),
-        NumAimedAtUpperOpenPoint,
+        NumAimedAtUpperPlayerFit,
         TotalPassages,
-        NumAimedAtLowerOpenPoint,
+        NumAimedAtLowerPlayerFit,
         TotalPassages,
-        (TotalPassages * 2) - NumAimedAtUpperOpenPoint - NumAimedAtLowerOpenPoint,
+        (TotalPassages * 2) - NumAimedAtUpperPlayerFit - NumAimedAtLowerPlayerFit,
         TotalPassages * 2,
         *NoQueryList);
 

Source/VoxelForge/Public/VoxelCaveMorphology.h

@@ -539,22 +539,27 @@ namespace VoxelCaveMorphology
 }
 
 /**
- * Suggest a deterministic full landing point for an inter-strate passage mouth.
+ * Suggest a deterministic player-fit landing point for an inter-strate passage mouth.
  *
  * This is deliberately a pure source query: it does not touch a generator, an operator stack,
  * a strate manager, a cache, or mutable state. DesiredX/DesiredY is the passage's deliberate
  * placement around the (0,0) spine. Sparse sources may move laterally, but never farther than
- * MaxLateralSnap; false means no confident landing site exists inside that bound.
+ * MaxLateralSnap; false means no confident player-fit pose exists inside that bound. A successful
+ * point has a locally supported floor within player step height, a walkable support patch, and a
+ * clear capsule volume. The local source stencil deliberately does not claim flood-fill
+ * connectivity or a measured component size; it selects a topology-backed feature core instead.
  * For TunnelNetwork/Underwater, Seed must be the strate-specific room seed returned by
  * VoxelCaveMorphology::MakeStrateSeed; for slab, maze, shaft, and island archetypes, Seed is the
  * generator world seed consumed by their source. SurfaceWorld deliberately has no answer here:
  * its production height can be selected by manager-owned biome context and per-chunk state,
  * which this re-entrant query cannot inspect.
  *
- * Propose un point d'atterrissage déterministe complet pour la bouche d'un passage inter-strates.
+ * Propose un point d'atterrissage déterministe où la capsule du joueur tient réellement pour la
- * Cette requête reste pure et le déplacement latéral est strictement borné par MaxLateralSnap.
+ * bouche d'un passage inter-strates. Cette requête reste pure et le déplacement latéral est
- * Pour VerticalShafts, la réponse XY est exactement l'axe d'un puits sélectionné; elle n'est pas
+ * strictement borné par MaxLateralSnap; elle ne prétend pas prouver une composante connectée.
- * un point ouvert arbitraire à l'intérieur de son disque.
+ * Pour VerticalShafts, la réponse s'appuie sur l'axe d'un puits sélectionné et peut se déplacer
+ * vers une banquette déterministe (+X/+Y) pour obtenir un support; ce n'est pas un point ouvert
+ * arbitraire à l'intérieur de son disque.
  *
  * @return true when the archetype can provide a confident point; false when it cannot.
  */
@@ -572,11 +577,13 @@ VOXELFORGE_API bool VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
 );
 
 /**
- * Complete source-query overload for archetypes whose placement parameters are not part of
+ * Complete player-fit source-query overload for archetypes whose placement parameters are not part of
  * FStrateGenerationParams/FSlabGenerationParams. The extra structs are read-only inputs only;
  * the function remains pure and SurfaceWorld still returns false for the reason above. The
- * returned point is either at the requested XY or within MaxLateralSnap of it. VerticalShafts
+ * returned point is either at the requested XY or within MaxLateralSnap of it, and is accepted
- * returns the selected shaft axis so the answer belongs to the connected shaft tree.
+ * only after the local player capsule/support stencil passes. VerticalShafts uses a selected
+ * shaft's deterministic feature core and ledge-side pose; the axis identifies the topology but
+ * is not itself claimed to be a standable point.
  */
 VOXELFORGE_API bool VF_SuggestLandingPoint(
     ECaveGeneratorType Archetype,