Add a second dungeon: the Proving Grounds, a test harness you walk into
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Two labelled portals now stand side by side in the hub. The Proving Grounds
runs the same generator, the same rooms, the same enemies and the same
four-phase Warden -- enemies at a fifth health, the boss at 288 instead of
3600, and trash dropping potions 80% of the time instead of 8%. A manual pass
over loot, the inventory, dropping and every boss phase takes a couple of
minutes rather than a quarter of an hour.

It is multipliers over the shared content rather than a parallel copy: a
duplicated Content would drift the first time anything was tuned, and
"identical but easier" would quietly stop being true. And it is a portal
rather than a launch flag, so the two can be compared back to back without
restarting the server -- which is most of the point.

Which dungeon you enter is resolved from the player's server-side position,
and PORTAL_USED carries the answer. There is deliberately no client message
that names a dungeon: one would let any client ask for the generous loot table
and bring the results back to the hub. Instance matching compares dungeon ids
too, so walking into one entrance can never drop you into the other's run on
timing alone.

SimWorld.portals replaces portal_pos/portal_enabled, enter_instance carries
the portal list and the dungeon id (the client needs the latter to scale the
boss bar's ceiling the way the server scaled the boss), and Protocol.VERSION
goes to 7.

Also pins what happens when two players reach for one item on the same tick:
exactly one gets it -- the loop is sequential and the pickup erases the entity
before the next player looks. The tie-break is join order rather than distance,
which is arbitrary rather than designed, so it is recorded as such.

Stale doc fixed while here: MapGen.build() still claimed the client rebuilds
the map from the seed, which has not been true since map streaming landed and
is the opposite of the rule.

check.sh clean, 288 tests, SMOKE PASS (18 assertions, both dungeon kinds
opened over a real socket), all three diagnostics green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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oldest evicted.** Dungeons close and take their litter with them, so only the
hub — which never closes and where players can drop things — can realistically
reach the cap.
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## More than one dungeon
**A second dungeon is a set of multipliers over the shared content, not a
parallel copy of it.** `DungeonDef` scales enemy health, boss health and loot
chance; the generator, the rooms, the enemy mix and the boss are the same
objects the real run uses. A duplicated `Content` would drift from the original
the first time anything was tuned, and the whole value of the Proving Grounds is
that it is *identical apart from the numbers*.
**It is reachable from the hub rather than hidden behind a launch flag.** A flag
would need a server restart to switch, which makes comparing the two a chore
and makes "does this behave the same in the real run?" a question nobody
bothers to ask. Two portals a few metres apart makes it a five-second check.
**Which dungeon you enter is decided by where you are standing.** The portal is
resolved server-side from the player's own position, and the `PORTAL_USED` event
carries the answer. There is deliberately no client message that names a
dungeon: one would let any client ask for the Proving Grounds' loot rate and
walk out with it.
**The instance matcher compares dungeon ids.** A forming run only accepts party
members who asked for that kind. Without it, walking into one entrance could
drop you into the other's run purely on timing.
**Scaling clamps at both ends.** Health never scales below 1 — a creature with
zero health is a crash waiting for a divide — and a boosted drop chance never
exceeds certain, or the roll becomes dead code and "chance" stops meaning
anything.