Post-Apoc Wasteland — settlement, raider camp, radio tower, vault, and a wandering caravan
A 3D mega-world: 7 sub-locations across a wasteland (Crestmark settlement, Ironjaw raider camp, WSTL 88.3 radio tower, Vault 47, Dead City, Bright Oasis, Big Sandy Pass), 100+ named characters, DJ Six-String narrating a 6-phase day, two-headed brahmin and rolling vault door.
What this is
A 3D mega-world recreation of a post-apocalyptic wasteland on a single sim-day, narrated by DJ Six-String on WSTL 88.3. Seven sub-locations sit on a heightmapped wasteland scene with twenty-six rim mountains, seventy dead trees, sixty crack patches, six dust devils, and eight radiation patches: Crestmark settlement (eight shacks with a palisade wall), Ironjaw Camp (scrap walls, a wrecked truck, a spike row, a banner), the Radio Tower (a 44-meter truss tower with a blink light and a dish), Vault 47 with a real rolling cylinder door, Dead City of fourteen ruined buildings, Bright Oasis, and the Big Sandy Pass caravan route. Twenty-one named cast — Mayor Calla Reeves, Gunsmith Tate, Doctor Mireille Vance, Trader Gus, Sheriff Hank, raider boss Vex, Ironjaw, Slick, DJ Six-String, caravaneers Mae and Otis and Pip and Rho, Hermit Wendel, Glass Mary, Old Bones McCoy, Ghoul Eddie — share the wasteland with eighty InstancedMesh wastelanders procedurally named from a 40×40 pool that surfaces via a rotating "WHO IS" panel. Six day-phases run on a roughly two-minute loop: SUNRISE → MORNING → HIGH NOON → AFTERNOON → EVENING → NIGHT.
You don't play it. You watch it.
Why this is mind-blowing
DJ Six-String is the secret weapon. Every chyron line cross-references something happening elsewhere on the map. The vault door rolls open at sunrise on a real animation. At high noon a RAID banner triggers and the raider camp cameras start dominating the cuts. Evening lights the bonfires. Night brings ghouls into Dead City. The threat meter clicks up with geiger ticks under whichever location is hot. Nineteen director cameras cut between settlement, camp, tower, vault, dead city, oasis, and the caravan trail — including a sun-halo orbit and a chopper-god wide. A two-headed brahmin chews on grass at the oasis. Tone is Mad-Max-meets-Fallout-cozy: weathered, hopeful, never grimdark, no graphic violence. After ten minutes the world reseeds with a fresh roster of wasteland names. It's the campfire stream you'd put on after a long day.
Prompt
Build a single-file HTML page that recreates "a day in a post-apocalyptic wasteland" as a continuous 3D autoplay mega-world I could put on Twitch and have viewers stay for hours. Tone is Mad-Max-meets-Fallout-cozy: weathered, hopeful, never grimdark. No graphic violence, no political real-world references, no real-world disasters.
Hard constraints:
- One HTML file, < 200KB.
- three.js r0.160.0 from unpkg, IIFE, strict mode, full disposable cleanup, reseed every ~10 min with a transition screen.
- First body line: <!-- ROUND15_MEGA v1 -->
- 7 spatial sub-locations in one three.js scene: Crestmark settlement (8 shacks + palisade walls), Ironjaw Camp (raider scrap walls, wrecked truck, spike row, banner), Radio Tower (44m truss tower with blink light + dish + WSTL 88.3 sign), Vault 47 (rolling cylinder door), Dead City (14 ruined buildings with cracked windows), Bright Oasis, Big Sandy Pass / caravan route.
- Mini-map canvas in HUD showing all 7 locations with dashed roads + active-pin highlighting + you-dot.
- 100+ named characters: 21 named cast minimum (mayor, gunsmith, doctor, trader, sheriff, raider boss, raider lieutenants, DJ Six-String, caravaneers, hermits, ghouls) + 80 InstancedMesh wastelanders procedurally named from a 40×40 first/last name pool, surfaced via a rotating "WHO IS" panel.
- 6-phase day (~19s each, ~114s loop): SUNRISE → MORNING → HIGH NOON → AFTERNOON → EVENING → NIGHT. Custom DJ chyron text per phase, cross-referencing named cast: vault door rolls open at sunrise, raid banner triggers at high noon, bonfires intensify in evening, ghouls walk at night.
- 19 director cameras auto-cycling every 5-7s: Crestmark wide/gate, campfire low, table dolly, raider camp, bonfire close, tower look-up/orbit, caravan trail, Big Sandy Pass, Vault entry/wide, Dead City, billboard, oasis ripple, wastes pan, chopper god, sun halo.
- HUD: spinning vinyl logo, station card, day arc with traveling sun, mini-map, threat meter with geiger ticks, caps counter, WHO IS rotating list, marquee chyron, RAID banner, phase title card, reseed transition.
- World-building: heightmapped ground, 26 rim mountains, 70 dead trees, 60 crack patches, 6 dust devils, 8 radiation patches, two-headed brahmin.
Tone: weathered + hopeful. DJ Six-String is the warm voice on the radio holding the wastes together. The vibe is "Friday night around the campfire after a hard ride."Paste this into Claude, Cursor, or Copilot. Change one thing that matters to you.
What I learned shipping it
- How to build a believable wasteland from primitives + heightmap (26 rim mountains + 70 dead trees + 60 crack patches) without ever loading a texture asset
- How to give a settlement, a raider camp, and a radio tower distinct visual identity using palette + scrap details, so viewers can tell them apart on the mini-map
- How to use a radio DJ chyron as the narrative spine of a 6-phase day, cross-referencing every other location so it feels like one wasteland instead of seven scenes