Delving
Mining analogue
Extract ore from rock nodes in Rustfall Quarry, then feed bars into Forging upgrades.
Rust / Ratatui / Idle MMORPG
Glyphbound runs in a terminal pane.
Train skills, queue work, bank loot. Close the pane and it catches up when you return. Glyphbound is a keyboard-first idle RPG built for people who want the OSRS grind without another launcher stealing a workspace tile.
7
trainable skills
6
authored zones
6h
offline cap
TOML
content layer
Chapter I / Input Model
Everything important is a typed command.
The palette is the control surface. Start an action, append to the queue, move inventory through shops and banks, or save the run without leaving the keyboard.
Command referencepress / in game
start <action> [qty]Begin a skilling or combat action.
queue <action> [qty]Append work after the current action finishes.
stopCancel the active action immediately.
cancelAlias for stop.
shopBrowse the shop at the current location.
buy <item> [qty]Purchase from the nearest shop.
sell <item> [qty]Sell inventory to the nearest shop.
deposit <item>Deposit every matching item into the bank.
withdraw <item> [qty]Pull supplies from the bank before the next run.
bankList full bank contents.
equip <item>Equip an item from inventory.
unequip <slot>Remove gear from a named slot.
quest start <id>Begin a quest chain.
questsList quests and current status.
focusToggle minimal UI mode.
saveForce a disk save.
helpList every command.
Chapter II / Progression
Seven skills with a long tail.
Glyphbound keeps the recognizable MMO rhythm: unlock nodes, refine materials, equip better gear, and let the XP curve stretch across weeks instead of minutes.
Timbercraft
Woodcutting analogue
Harvest mossbark and ashwood in Mosswold. Logs fuel Hearthwork fires and early crafting loops.
Forging
Smithing analogue
Smelt ore into bars and forge weapons or armour at a zone forge.
Hearthwork
Cooking analogue
Cook raw food at fires or hearths so Bladework runs can last longer.
Bladework
Melee accuracy
Fight monsters, collect drops, and keep permanent collection log credit. Improves your chance to land a hit.
Ferocity
Strength analogue
Raw striking power. Higher Ferocity increases the damage you deal per hit.
Warding
Defence analogue
Endurance and resilience. Raises your maximum HP and reduces incoming damage.
Chapter III / World State
A small map that behaves like a system.
Each tile carries resource, shop, bank, monster, and exit tags. Movement uses WASD and cancels the active action, so route choice matters.
Hearthmere
Mosswold
Rustfall Quarry
unassigned edge
Hearthmere
The starter village. Bank inventory, restock from the general shop, and cook safely before leaving town.
Mosswold
Forest north of Hearthmere with mossbark and ashwood nodes. The outer tiles introduce early combat pressure and useful loot.
Rustfall Quarry
Eastern ore pit with copper, tin, iron, and coal nodes, a forge route, and deeper enemies around the best veins.
Thornfen
Black water and standing reeds south of the village. Bogwood and ironbough grow here, alongside boar and marsh eel to cook up.
Emberdeep
Cavern galleries east of the quarry where the rock never finished cooling. Emberstone ore, a trader, and hostile ember wisps.
The Ashvault
Below Emberdeep. Something was sealed in here, and it is still keeping watch.
Chapter IV / Resource Loop
Every skill feeds the next one.
Nothing trains in isolation. Logs become fuel, fuel becomes food, food buys you more time fighting, and the loot you drag home turns back into a sharper axe.
Timbercraft → Hearthwork
Logs keep the fires lit. No fuel, no cooked food, no long Bladework runs.
Delving + Bladework → Forging
Ore from the quarry and drops from combat both land on the forge. Bars in, gear out.
Forging → Timbercraft + Delving
Better axes and picks come back out of the forge, so the loop tightens every time you upgrade.
Chapter V / Engine Notes
Idle-first simulation, terminal-first interface.
The game loop and TUI are separate. Tokio advances the simulation, Ratatui renders the current state, and save files stay recoverable.
Offline progression
Close mid-action. On reopen, elapsed ticks are calculated and applied up to the configured offline cap.
game/offline.rs
Action queue
Queue multiple jobs in sequence. The engine resolves the next action as soon as the current one completes.
game/action_queue.rs
TOML content
Items, actions, maps, zones, drops, and quests live in TOML data files loaded into the content store.
data/loader.rs
Atomic saves
Player state persists on quit or Ctrl-C. Writes are atomic and auto-save every 300 ticks.
saves/player.json
Collection log
Every unique item looted is recorded permanently, separate from the inventory that gets sold or banked.
game/collection_log.rs
Dev mode
Fast ticks, boosted XP, and higher drops make quest chains and balance passes testable without grinding.
config.rs / dev_mode.rs
Dev mode
cargo run -- --dev --xp-multiplier 25 --action-speed 50 --drop-multiplier 5
50msrender frame interval, independent of the simulation tick.
25xXP multiplier used while checking progression paths.
5xdrop multiplier for validating inventory and collection log states.
The terminal is the world.
Glyphbound is still private and early, but the shape is clear: a small, persistent RPG that belongs in the same workspace as your editor.