## Summary
About 114 tests skipped on CI because they needed the official client files (`tiledata.mul`, map and multi files). They gave CI no signal, and locally they ran against whichever client a developer had installed. The test hosts now build their own world instead, so every test runs on CI and runs the same on every machine. CI simulation: Server.Tests 837 passed, UOContent.Tests 1131 passed, **0 skipped**.
- **Generated tile data.** The fixtures write a pre-HS `tiledata.mul` from a small invented tile kit (`Server.Tests/Terrain/TestTiles`) and load it through the real `TileData.Load()`. The test hosts no longer read any client directory (`MODERNUO_CLIENT_PATH`, `MODERNUO_TEST_DATA_DIR` and `C:\Ultima Online Classic` are gone from test code). The file is written to `SyntheticData` in each test project's output, overwritten every run and removed by `dotnet clean`.
- **Injected terrain.** `TestTerrain` stamps land and statics into Felucca and Trammel, which share one terrain. Writes after startup must go in a `TestTerrain.Scope()`, which puts back every block it touched and keeps the step cache fresh.
- **Prefab scenes.** Seven named scenes (town, causeway, sewer walkway, coastline, deep sea, map-edge sea, an upstairs room with an L-shaped counter) replace the Britain coordinates the pathing, AI and fishing tests relied on. Each scene-based test asserts its scene is present first, so a missing scene fails instead of passing on flat ground. Stamping all seven takes 3-5 ms.
- **Multi footprints.** Contrived footprints for the three multi IDs content looks up (0x74, 0x7A, 0x0) are seeded through a new internal `MultiData.SetComponents`.
- **Fingerprint.** `StepCacheFile.HashTileDataFile` is extracted so a test can show that a one-flag change to the file changes the fingerprint, while runtime table mutation does not.
### Engine changes
- `TileMatrix.GetLandBlock`/`GetStaticBlock`: on a map without its files, return the block injected with `SetLandBlock`/`SetStaticBlock`, or the default when nothing was injected. Maps with files take the same path as before.
- `MultiData.SetComponents` (internal): registers a footprint without multi files.
### Test changes worth a look
- Values that were properties of real Britain terrain (probes at Z 10, a pinned plain walk mask of 0xC1) are re-pinned to the synthetic plain (Z 0, 0xFF).
- No tests were deleted. The multi walkability and boat-deck tests assert movement behaviour over a footprint, not what a real multi looks like, so they run on the contrived footprints.
- Maps 0 and 1 keep file indexes 0 and 1, and every stamp writes both, rather than sharing one file index. On a map without files the getters never consult the shared-file cache, and its patch bits would hide one facet's injection from the other.
## Test plan
- [x] `dotnet test -p:SolutionDir=... --filter "Category!=Manual"` with the client env vars pointed at an empty directory: 837 + 1131 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed
- [x] Mutation check: removing the step-cache clear from `TestTerrain` makes the stale-cache tests fail
- [x] CI green on all platforms
## Summary
Adds two pieces of pathfinding tooling on top of PR #2448's lazy `.swb` infrastructure:
- **`PathfindRecorder`** — admin-toggled JSONL telemetry capture; one record per `BitmapAStarAlgorithm.Find` call. Output format matches the BDN harness corpus, so production traffic can be captured and replayed in benchmarks without an adapter.
- **Public bake helpers on `StepCache`** — `ComputeLiveTileDataHash`, `TryReadTileDataHashFromFile`, `BakeMap`, `ClearResidentChunks`. Lets the benchmark project (and any future bake utility) drive cache fill + persist without exposing internal types.
The companion BDN harness update lives in [ModernUO-Benchmarks#kb/pathfinding-pr4-bench](https://github.com/modernuo/ModernUO-Benchmarks/tree/kb/pathfinding-pr4-bench): porting `Benchmarks/PathfindInGame/` from the `kb/ai_pathfinding` branch to the API shipped in #2446–#2448.
## What's in this PR
### `PathfindRecorder` (`PathfindRecorder.cs`)
- Holds a single `StreamWriter` open while recording; its internal buffer absorbs per-record writes without per-call `File.AppendAllText`.
- Single `bool` check on the hot path; cheap when disabled.
- Disabling flushes + disposes; an IO failure during write also disables the recorder.
- Server config:
- `pathfinding.recorder.enable` — bool, default `false`. Read on boot via `GetOrUpdateSetting`.
- `pathfinding.recorder.path` — default `<basedir>/Data/Pathfinding/recordings/pathfinds.jsonl`.
- Hooked into `BitmapAStarAlgorithm.Find` — runs once per call, does nothing when disabled.
- Admin command: `[PathRecord [on|off|flush|status]` (default `status`).
### Public cache helpers
- `static ulong StepCache.ComputeLiveTileDataHash()` — wraps the file module's hash function for staleness checks.
- `static bool StepCache.TryReadTileDataHashFromFile(string, out ulong)` — peeks at a `.swb` file's hash field (20 bytes).
- `int StepCache.BakeMap(int, string)` — walks every chunk in the map, populates resident set, saves. Offline / fixture use; blocks for many seconds on a full-map walk.
- `void StepCache.ClearResidentChunks()` — drops chunks + zeros counters but keeps lazy readers open. Lets benchmark loops measure "first query after boot" cost across iterations without the lazy-reader reopen overhead.
### Summary
* Bumps to .NET 9 with updated dependencies
* Comparing a value type against null is no longer allowed
* CI/CD now uses the version specified in global.json
* Serialization generator updated to .NET 9 with bug fixes, fixes to turkish language, and parallelization
### Summary
* Unifies reading UOP File indexes
* Adds ArtData file reader to get graphic bounds
* Automatically generates Bounds.bin from art file if missing
* Adds [GenBounds command to regenerate the bounds.bin file. Useful for when the art file changes.
### Summary
* Refactors getting static/multi tiles to not use allocations.
* `TileList` is now only used during bootstrapping and uses rented buffers to eliminate extra allocations.
* Replaces `StaticTile[] GetStaticTiles` with:
```cs
Map.StaticTileEnumerable GetStaticTiles(int x, int y);
Map.StaticTileEnumerable GetStaticAndMultiTiles(int x, int y);
Map.StaticTileEnumerable GetMultiTiles(int x, int y);
```
* Removes `Synchronized` and `lock` from TileMatrix. It is no longer considered a multi-thread safe system.
### Summary
Eliminates `IPooledEnumerable<BaseMulti>` and `eable.Free()` from `Map` for multis. This drastically simplifies code that iterates in range, for example:
```cs
foreach (var m in m.GetMultisInRange(5))
{
}
```
The code above no longer requires an eable and calling `Free()`.
### Bug Fixes
- [X] Fixes an issue with searching through nested empty containers.
**Only one functional change**
* Fixes a bug in LogFactory where `Warning` is being logged as `Information`
Non-functional changes:
* Updates/Fixes copyright headers
* Removes namespace scopes for core files.
View with [whitespace off](https://github.com/modernuo/ModernUO/pull/1187/files?w=1).
.NET 6 introduced a breaking change where lseek and sys-calls are not used for reading and file streams. This effectively broke out native reader. Since the file reading is fairly optimized, and honestly we don't need it to be "fast" in this case, I have removed the native reader.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/file-io-improvements-in-dotnet-6/
- Adds `[ManualDirtyChecking]` for anyone that adds it themselves.
- Adds detection of `[Serializable]` and `[ManualDirtyChecking]` at startup to help identify scripts that need migration.
- [X] Caches DateTime.NowUtc on the game loop (not other threads)
- [X] Replaces all locations where it makes sense
- [X] Adds Min/Max for `IComparable` (TimeSpan, DateTimes, etc)
Closes#261
- [X] Fixes map issues at New Haven by turning off static diffs
- [X] Some code cleanup and reformatting of tile matrix, tile matrix patch, and tile data
- [X] Adds NetState.Flush for generating spawners so it doesn't feel like the server is frozen
- [X] Reverts NativeReader changes from a while back.
- [X] Adds more string reading for BufferReader.
Notes:
BufferReader is still `little endian` compared to `SpanReader` which is `big endian` (for packets). To that end, the RunUO deserialization `ReadString()` was made obsolete since it is ambiguous, and contains extra fields other than simply reading a string. Furthermore, we shouldn't be using UTF8 (for now) since it is slow.
- [X] Moves map definitions to a `map-definitions.json` file.
- [X] Creates a TileMatrixLoader.
- [X] Moves tile matrix and multi data configurations closer to their classes.
