{
  "kind": "building",
  "id": "brine-processor",
  "role": "provision-maker",
  "name": "Brine Processor",
  "footprint": "2×1.67 tiles",
  "function": "Workers clarify seep brine into sealed daily rations for Serravane's homes and workshops.",
  "shape_and_silhouette": "Two low circular processing pods of unequal diameter form a horizontal dumbbell plan joined by a narrow central service neck, with one short hooked condenser lying almost level above the neck rather than rising as a tower.",
  "visual_description": "Cloudy pale bone-glass vats and chalk ceramic shells supply most of the visible surface, while a few bold black clamps grip each pod and concentrate into one dense off-center manifold whose hairline branches taper across the glass.",
  "production_notes": "Both round pods and their connecting neck fit the fixed rectangle, the +Z main entry opens into the middle neck, each vat sits on a short supported basalt ring, a low condenser joins the pods to a rear collection trough, and both sides show the same distinct twin-pod plan rather than a tall framed tank.",
  "departure": "This pale, squat utilitarian plant uses the tattoo's black gestures sparingly as functional clamps and a single manifold, separating it from Serravane's taller civic instruments.",
  "shared_traits": [
    "Black structural ribs vary from heavy roots at junctions to needle-thin tips, with finer secondary filament lines.",
    "Several ribs converge into dense asymmetric knots, then splay into long crossing sweeps with sharp hooked terminals.",
    "Pale glass and ceramic dominate this utility building, while concentrated black clamps provide sharp structural accents."
  ],
  "constraints": [
    "Keep geometry inside the fixed 48×40 world-unit footprint and the +Z front service opening.",
    "Make the two circular pods and narrow middle neck unmistakable in the top view, with a low broad silhouette in all elevations.",
    "Support the short condenser and show both vessel levels and rear intake; avoid towers, concentric monument rings, copper steampunk pipes and ornamental foliage."
  ],
  "idle_animation": "A dark meniscus descends slowly in one cylinder as it rises in the other, with occasional droplets inside the condenser.",
  "day_night": "By day the vessels mirror the basin; at night a dim teal inspection line outlines only the liquid levels and the filling bench."
}