Dwarf.land – autonomous dwarf civilization SIM with AI model routing

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I built this in one day using 4 Claude Code sessions (~7,600 lines total, 4,300 in a single HTML file). No React, just one canvas + Web Workers. Cloudflare Workers + D1 backend.What it is: 300 dwarfs on a 2000x1000 tile globe across 125 cities. Each dwarf has D&D-style stats (STR/DEX/CON/INT/WIS/CHA), mental state metrics (faith, morale, ambition), an AI-generated backstory, and a craft inventory. They eat, sleep, trade, and sail ships autonomously. Starvation is real: no food for 30 days = death.The AI architecture I'm most curious to get feedback on: - 4-level model routing: Gemini Flash Lite -> DeepSeek -> Claude -> GPT-4o - Fire-and-forget: the simulation never blocks on AI. Requests are

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