Eric WagonerandClaude Opus 5.5
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The keeper's hall-announce writes one file on the shared host; the site serves it at /hall/announcement.json, and the banner shows it with the time in the reader's own clock, dismissable one notice at a time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Deploying Wiz-War
The game runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet: one Node process serves the built client and the websocket on port 8787; Caddy in front terminates TLS with automatic certificates. Room files persist in /var/lib/wizwar/rooms and survive deploys and reboots.
Current production
- Host:
hall(nyc3, tagkestrels-hall), IP 159.203.115.252, shared with the other games of Kestrel's Hall since 2026-09-29; Wiz-War keeps its own service user, port 8787, site file and access log there. - URLs: https://wizwar.kestrelsnest.social and https://wizwar.159.203.115.252.sslip.io (always works, zero DNS). Caddy serves both; NOTE: kestrelsnest.social's authoritative DNS is at HOVER (ns1/ns2.hover.com), not DigitalOcean — records must be added there. A matching record also sits in the DO zone in case nameservers ever move.
Everyday deploys
deploy/deploy.sh 159.203.115.252
Builds the client locally, rsyncs the repo (minus node_modules, data/, .git, research), installs dependencies on the droplet, and restarts the service. Games in progress survive: state lives in room files, and clients reconnect automatically.
Before any deploy that touches the engine, run the determinism gate:
deploy/verify-ledgers.sh 159.203.115.252
It fetches every production ledger and strictly replays it against the local engine; a single refused command fails the check. A room whose ledger no longer replays becomes unreachable after restart, so this is not optional.
New droplet from scratch
doctl compute droplet create wizwar --region nyc3 --size s-1vcpu-1gb \ --image ubuntu-24-04-x64 --ssh-keys <your-key-ids> --tag-name wizwar --waitscp deploy/setup-droplet.sh deploy/Caddyfile.tmpl root@<ip>:/root/ && ssh root@<ip> \ "bash /root/setup-droplet.sh 'wizwar.<ip>.sslip.io'"(the host's Caddyfile gathers each game's site from /etc/caddy/sites/, so the host can be shared)deploy/deploy.sh <ip>
Operations
- Logs:
ssh root@<ip> journalctl -u wizwar -f - Restart:
ssh root@<ip> systemctl restart wizwar - Nightly backups:
wizwar-backup.shruns from root's crontab at 07:17 UTC, pushing /var/lib/wizwar to thekestrel-wizwar-backupsSpace (nyc3) via rclone. It is installed at /usr/local/bin/wizwar-backup.sh on the droplet;setup-droplet.shdoes NOT install it — on a fresh droplet, copy the script, configure rclone (the script refuses to run while the config still holds its CHANGE_ME placeholder), and add the cron entry by hand. - One-off backup:
scp -r root@<ip>:/var/lib/wizwar/rooms ./rooms-backup