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Sets Amt of Digitalis at coordinates. An Amt of 1 means full health Digitalis, -1 means killed or not-yet-grown, and 0 means no Digitalis will grow until further modification.

This is based on experiment and observation, not source knowledge.

Using this command to set the Digitalis level to zero results in never-regrowing Digitalis, even if there is Digitalis “growth” (pathway) present. Setting to -1 causes (seemingly) normal behaviour. Pressing “Delete Digitalis” in the editor returns cells to normal.

• Emulating the in game weapons
  
  Note: blasters will not injure digitalis that is uphill ever.
  
  

  #This function takes four arguments, a centre, then a range, then an amount.
  :damageDigitalis
    #Load up the arguments.
    ->amount ->r ->y0 ->x0
    #Optimization: precalculate r^2.
    <-r dup mul ->r2
    #Consider a radius shaped box about the origin.
    <-r 1 add 0 <-r sub do
      <-r 1 add 0 <-r sub do
        #Cull squares in the box not in the circle.
        I dup mul j dup mul add <-r2 lte if
          #Translate to our site of action.
          I <-x0 add J <-y0 add dup2
              #Make sure to not inadvertently set digitalis to 0, making it never regrow
              GetDigitalis ->DigiPresent
              <-DigiPresent <-amount gt if
                  <-DigiPresent <-amount sub SetDigitalis
              else
                  <-DigiPresent -1 SetDigitalis
              endif
        endif
      Loop
    Loop

• Lay down Digitalis on 3×3 grid under a unit
  
  The reason for the 2 is that the limit is one more than the loop iterates through. So, “3 0 do loop” goes through the values 0,1,2… but not three. Using these limits will make your walker lay down a 3×3 grid of Digitalis.
  
  

  CurrentY 2 add CurrentY 1 sub do
    CurrentX 2 add CurrentX 1 sub do
      I J true SetDigitalisGrowth
      I J 1 SetDigitalis
    Loop
  Loop