Goblin Cave

A moss-cloaked rock mound with a torch-lit archway cut into the face. Scatter of bones around the entrance, a smell you can taste, and something shuffling just out of sight in the dark. Whatever lives here pays rent in muscle and mischief.

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Goblin Cave

A mossy rock mound hiding a torch-lit archway. Feed it food and it spits out more goblins.

Type: building
Kind: goblin cave

🏛️ Structure Stats

Footprint: 1 × 1
Max Health: 350 HP
Construction Time: 30s
Walkable: ✗ No
Blocks Placement: ✓ Yes

Build Costs:

timber : 1
stone block : 5

ID: 01KPTS5CHAHVG40ZKW3CK7ZSD7

Ref: goblin-cave

Rendering: Layer: Foreground, PPU: 64

Game Role

Unit spawning — cadence-based Looter spawn (1 turn). Consumes 50 Food per goblin from a local cache (CaveFoodStatus). No food in the cache, no new goblins.
Food upkeep — haulers drop food into the cave’s internal buffer (capacity 200). The cave pulls from this buffer, not the Capital directly.
Ledger — GoblinCaveLedger tracks what’s stored inside; separate bank from the empire stockpile.
Footprint — single hex. Must be placed inside Player territory.
Durability — 350 HP. Builders can repair it like any other structure.

Lore

Goblins predate the empire. The caves were here first; the kings just learned to feed them. Nobody admits to being the first to throw turnips into the dark and count the soldiers that came back out, but every kingdom’s military tradition has a quiet chapter about the arrangement, and every treasury line item for “livestock feed” hides an asterisk.