Conventions used for the Deck component

Types

Age cards

Age cards have type fields comprised between 101 and 415. The first digit represents the Age the card belongs to. The remaining digits identify a specific card in the Age.

The type_arg field is set according the following table:

Card type	type_arg value
Science	1
Engineering	2
Culture	3

Knowledge tokens

Knowledge tokens have type fields comprised between 1100 and 1103. The type_arg field isn’t used.

Age tokens

Age tokens have type fiels comprised between 1002 and 1005, the last digit representing the Age of the token. The type_arg field is not used for Age tokens.

Locations

location name	Usage	location_arg usage	Public location
deck	Not used	Not used	N/A
discard	Not used	Not used	N/A
deck_age_{number}	Age {number} deck	Card position in the pile, highest will be next picked, as per the documentation	❌
discard_age_{number}	Age {number} discard	Card position in the pile, highest will be next picked, as per the documentation	Only first card
hand	Player hands	player_id of the owning player, as per the documentation	❌
research_{player_id}	Player research cards	Number of remaining research cubes on the card max 4, min 0	✅
activecards_{player_id}	Player active cards	Not used	✅
tokens_{player_id}	Player tokens	0 if token hasn’t been used during the turn, 1 otherwise	✅
token_reserve	All tokens that can be obtained during the game depending on the number of players	Specifically for age tokens (type_id between 1002 and 1005) 0 if the token hasn’t been drawn by a player, player_id otherwise	Only age tokens
discover	Card being discovered	Not used	✅
discover_discard	Cards being discarded to pay for the card being discovered	Order of the cards being discarded, 1 being the first, 2 the second and so on	✅
discover_tokens	Tokens being used to pay for the card being discovered	Not used	✅