Your Stream Deck becomes one patch of ground, watched for 4.5 billion years compressed into a working day. It never pans away from that spot, and your machine is the weather.
Watch it
This is the plugin's own simulation running in your browser, sliced across a deck exactly the way it is sliced across real keys — the whole arc in about forty-five seconds.
Press a key to disturb the world.
Two registers
The deck reads as sky above and ground below. This is why the grid is used rather than fought.
Sky
upper rowsSun, moon and stars, cloud, aurora, bombardment, flying life, and eventually contrails. Most of the deck, most of the time — it is the part worth looking up at.
Surface
bottom rowThe shoreline, the terrain, whatever is alive right now, and the weather passing over it. The horizon runs unbroken across every key.
Your machine is the weather
Nothing in it is decoration. Every force in the world is a reading off your computer.
- CPU load
- Heat in the mantle — lava, drought, plumes. It erupts above 85%.
- Memory
- Biomass. Forest density, herd size, and later the number of city blocks.
- Audio
- Wind and swell. Transients throw lightning.
- Local sunrise
- The world's sunrise, and therefore the entire glow layer.
When a signal is unavailable the force it drives goes calm — never zero, never broken. A world with no wind still looks like a world.
Deep time, on your hours
The arc runs on time the plugin is actually running, not the wall clock, so the Cretaceous waits while your laptop is shut. Nobody else's deck is at the same minute of the same epoch. Turn on the daily reset and a new world starts at an hour you choose — a fresh seed, and one of eight landscapes: a coast, a tropical island, an archipelago, cliffs, a basin, a plain, a fjord or an atoll. Press a key and the world answers in the idiom of its era. Purely visual; the ground forgets.
It ends somewhere
The final epoch reads how you have been working. Sustained load and little idle gives you one ending; long quiet stretches give you another; a mix gives you a third. You are not told which one is coming.
Requirements
- Stream Deck app
- 7.1 or newer
- Devices
- Any Stream Deck with keys. The world is sized to the grid you fill.
- Platforms
- macOS 12+ and Windows 10+
- Keys needed
- The whole deck, or at least a page of it
What it doesn't do
No account, no sign-in, no network calls, no analytics. It reads your own machine's load and nothing else, and the world lives in Stream Deck's settings on that machine.
Support
Something wrong, or an idea for the next epoch? Write to us and a human will answer.
Email support- •Your Stream Deck app version and operating system
- •Which device, and how much of it you filled
- •What the world was doing when it went wrong
- •The plugin log from the de.7bp.terrarium.sdPlugin folder
Version
First release. Fifteen epochs from Hadean to Anthropocene, eight seeded landscapes, gutter-aware slicing across any grid, CPU and memory signals, and an optional daily reset.
de.7bp.terrarium
