Why it is gated
The v2.6 beta keeps the public game focused on Home Field, Rolling Hills, and Open Country. Newsheepdogland exists to test larger scene scale, homestead routing, day/night pressure, and experimental flock behavior without making those systems a public launch promise.
Directed testers may receive specific lab links or instructions. Public players should use the three public scenes while this work is tuned, profiled, and validated.
Scene shape
- Boot-shaped island, roughly 3.2 square kilometres.
- A 120-metre mountain in the northern leg, a wide grazing foot to the south.
- A homestead with a real pen fence and a single day-cycled gate.
- Forest, tall-grass shore bands, and a coastline the sim and the render share.
The large-scene read
Newsheepdogland is the large-scene read for the desktop WebGPU path: the Hosek-Wilkie sky, shoreline water, homestead props, and GPU compute-culled grass and trees. Mobile still keeps conservative fallback paths where device budgets require them.
Public scenes
Newsheepdogland is not part of the public v2.6 beta scene set.