DriftEngine

Chemistry · const

MAX_SHELLS

The most shells a parcel may have.

Explained in Chemistry.

const MAX_SHELLS = 16
import { MAX_SHELLS } from '@driftengine/chemistry';

In depth

Sixteen because that is the design's Hero tier in §14, and because a parcel's enthalpy column is strided by this constant: every parcel pays sixteen doubles whether it uses them or not, which is 128 bytes and is the price of not needing a per-parcel offset table.